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May 11
- 1722 - Birth of Petrus Camper, Dutch anatomist (d. 1789)
- 1752 - Birth of Johann Friedrich Blumenbach, German anthropologist (d. 1840)
- 1871 - Death of John Herschel, British mathematician and astronomer (b. 1792)
- 1881 - Birth of Theodore von Kármán, Hungarian physicist (d. 1963)
- 1887 - Death of Jean Baptiste Boussingault, French chemist (b. 1802)
- 1891 - Death of A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (b. 1820)
- 1916 - Death of Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
- 1918 - Birth of Richard Feynman, American physicist and Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1988)
- 1924 - Birth of Antony Hewish, English radio astronomer and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1930 - Birth of Edsger Dijkstra, Dutch computer scientists (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Death of Orest Khvolson, Russian physicist (b. 1852)
- 1960 - Death of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., American philanthropist and science patron (b. 1874)
- 1963 - Death of Herbert Spencer Gasser, American physiologist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
- 1981 - Death of Odd Hassel, Norwegian chemist and Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
- 1987 - The first heart-lung transplant takes place.
- 1995 - In New York City, more than 170 countries decide to extend the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty indefinitely and without conditions.
- 1997 - IBM's Deep Blue chess-playing supercomputer defeats Garry Kasparov in the last game of the rematch, becoming the first computer to beat a world-champion chess player.
- 1998 - Nuclear testing: In the Rajasthan Desert, India conducts its first underground nuclear tests and prompting its rival neighbor Pakistan to test its own nuclear weapons.
