Today in History for August 1811
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Famous Birthdays
Birthdays 1 - 13 of 13
3rd - Elisha Graves Otis, inventor (safe elevator)
5th - Ambroise Thomas, French opera composer (d. 1896)
6th - Judah Philip Benjamin, Secy War/Secy State (Confederacy) [or Aug 11]
11th - Judah P Benjamin, US lawyer/minister of Confederacy navy [or Aug 6]
17th - Johannes H Scholten, Dutch theologist (Free Will)
20th - Gilman Marston, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
22nd - William Kelly, American inventor (d. 1888)
25th - Joseph Dana Webster, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
26th - Danville Leadbetter, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1866
29th - Henry Bergh, 1st president of SPCA
30th - Thomas Gautier, writer
31st - Goode Bryan, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1885
31st - Theophile Gautier, Tarbas France, writer/poet (Albertus)
Famous Weddings
Weddings 1 - 1 of 1
28th - English Romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley (19) elopes to Scotland with 1st wife Harriet Westbrook (16)
Famous Deaths
Deaths 1 - 5 of 5
2nd - William Williams, US merchant/signer (Decl of Indep), dies at 80
3rd - Sebastiaan C Nederburgh, Dutch dir-gen of East Indies Co, dies at 49
12th - John FE Acton, cruel premier of Naples, dies at 77
18th - Johann Heinrich Zang, composer, dies at 78
20th - Louis Antoine de Bougainville, French explorer (b. 1729)
