Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 11

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[edit] Births

• 1725 - Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807) (pictured)
• 1903 - Lawrence Welk, American musician (d. 1992)
• 1931 - Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur
• 1936 - Antonin Scalia, American Supreme Court Justice
• 1952 - Douglas Adams, English writer (d. 2001)

[edit] Deaths

• 1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
• 1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
• 1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
• 1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
• 1969 - John Wyndham, British author (b. 1903)
• 1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
• 2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)