About the day » Sunday August 13, 1911Calender converter

• Anske Johannesz Siebenga
• Albertus de Munnik, Lünnen, Unna, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany († 1990)
• Agatha Maria Margaretha Haver, Beverwijk († 1932)
• Antonnetta Catharina Elisabeth Vos, Roosendaal, Nederland († 1988)
• Armand Dehennin, Borgerhout, 2140, België († 2004)
• Alfrieda Anspach, Long Beach, Verenigde Staten
• ANGELINA PEETERS, Merksem († 1967)
• Aaltje Poelman, Emmen
• Adriana Geertruida van Kooten, Utrecht (UT, NLD)
• Alida Catharina Kramer, Oterleek

• Piek (88), Gemeente Aengwirden
• Ann Meenagh (76), Granagh, Carrickmore, Omagh, Co. Tyrone, N. Ireland
• Akke Bouwes Römer (39), Bussum
• Astrid Bjerck (29)
• Akke Römer (39), Bussum, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Anna Maria Massen (0), Aalten, Gelderland, Nederland
• Adriana Gerarda Van Kuijk (31), Semarang, Java, Ned. Indie
• Amelia Beeckman (86), Hulst
• Adrianus Willem van Baak (0), Ingen
• Antonia Stoeffe (52)

• 1906 » Chuck Carroll, American football player and lawyer († 2003)
• 1907 » Basil Spence, Scottish architect, designed Coventry Cathedral († 1976)
• 1908 » Gene Raymond, American actor and pilot († 1998)
• 1911 » William Bernbach, American advertiser, co-founded DDB Worldwide († 1982)
• 1912 » Ben Hogan, American golfer and sportscaster († 1997)
• 1912 » Claire Cribbs, American basketball player and coach († 1985)
• 1912 » Salvador Luria, Italian-American microbiologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate († 1991)
• 1913 » Fred Davis, English snooker player († 1998)
• 1913 » Makarios III, Greek archbishop and politician, 1st President of Cyprus († 1977)
• 1914 » Grace Bates, American mathematician and academic († 1996)

• 1863 » Eugène Delacroix, French painter and lithographer (b. 1798)
• 1865 » Ignaz Semmelweis, Hungarian physician and obstetrician (b. 1818)
• 1910 » Florence Nightingale, Italian-English nurse and theologian (b. 1820)
• 1912 » Jules Massenet, French composer (b. 1842)
• 1917 » Eduard Buchner, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1860)
• 1934 » Mary Hunter Austin, American author and playwright (b. 1868)
• 1937 » Sigizmund Levanevsky, Soviet aircraft pilot of Polish origin (b. 1902)
• 1946 » H. G. Wells, English novelist, historian, and critic (b. 1866)
• 1954 » Demetrius Constantine Dounis, Greek violinist and mandolin player (b. 1886)
• 1958 » Francis J. McCormick, American football, basketball player, and coach (b. 1903)

1. Johannes
2. Jan
3. Cornelis
4. Hendrik
5. Willem
6. Pieter
7. Gerrit
8. Petrus
9. Adrianus
10. Jacob
11. Jacobus
12. Wilhelmus
13. Gerardus
14. Arie
15. Dirk
16. Hendrikus

1. Maria
2. Johanna
3. Anna
4. Cornelia
5. Wilhelmina
6. Elisabeth
7. Hendrika
8. Catharina
9. Adriana
10. Petronella
11. Jacoba
12. Geertruida
13. Grietje
14. Aaltje
15. Helena
16. Neeltje

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from February 12, 1908 to August 29, 1913 the cabinet Heemskerk, with Mr. Th. Heemskerk (AR) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 6.0 million citizens.
• January 30 » The destroyer USSTerry makes the first airplane rescue at sea saving the life of Douglas McCurdy ten miles from Havana, Cuba.
• July 1 » Germany despatches the gunship SMSPanther to Morocco, sparking the Agadir Crisis.
• September 23 » Pilot Earle Ovington makes the first official airmail delivery in America under the authority of the United States Post Office Department
• September 25 » An explosion of badly degraded propellant charges on board the French battleship Liberté detonates the forward ammunition magazines and destroys the ship.
• December 24 » Lackawanna Cut-Off railway line opens in New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
• December 29 » Sun Yat-sen becomes the provisional President of the Republic of China; he formally takes office on January 1, 1912.

The temperature on August 13, 1911 was between 15.4 °C and 30.6 °C and averaged 23.8 °C. There was 12.7 hours of sunshine (86%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast.