Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/May 11

Births

• 1720 - Karl Friedrich Hieronymus Freiherr von Münchhausen, German adventurer (d. 1797) (pictured)
• 1875 - Harriet Quimby, American aviator (d. 1912)
• 1888 - Irving Berlin, American composer (d. 1989)
• 1904 - Salvador Dalí, Spanish painter (d. 1989)

Deaths

• 1778 - William Pitt, the Elder, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1708)
• 1812 - Spencer Perceval, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1762)
• 1981 - Bob Marley, Jamaican singer and musician (b. 1945)
• 2001 - Douglas Adams, English author (b. 1952)