births
February 11, 1915
Patrick Leigh Fermor, English soldier, author, and scholar (died 2011)
Patrick Leigh Fermor
Sir Patrick Michael Leigh Fermor was an English writer, scholar, soldier and polyglot. He played a prominent role in the Cretan resistance during the Second World War, and was widely seen as Britain's greatest living travel writer, on the basis of books such as A Time of Gifts (1977). A BBC journalist once termed him "a cross between Indiana Jones, James Bond and Graham Greene".
February 11
February 11 is the 42nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 323 days remain until the end of the year.