Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/February 11

Births

• 1657 – Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (d. 1757) (pictured)
• 1800 – William Henry Fox Talbot, English photographer (d. 1877)
• 1847 – Thomas Edison, American inventor (d. 1931)
• 1919 – Eva Gabor, Hungarian-born actress (d. 1995)
• 1926 – Leslie Nielsen, Canadian actor (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Gene Vincent, American musician (d. 1971)
• 1962 – Sheryl Crow, American musician
• 1969 – Jennifer Aniston, American actress

Deaths

• 1650 – René Descartes, French philosopher (b. 1596)
• 1797 – Antoine Dauvergne, French composer (b. 1713)
• 1868 – Léon Foucault, French astronomer (b. 1819)
• 1963 – Sylvia Plath, American writer (b. 1932)