June 11
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June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 203 days remaining until the end of the year.
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Births [change]
- 1403 – John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
- 1456 – Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
- 1696 – Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
- 1697 – Francesco Antonio Vallotti, Italian composer, musical theorist and organist (d. 1780)
- 1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese composer (d. 1742)
- 1723 – Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
- 1741 – Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
- 1776 – John Constable, English painter (d. 1837)
- 1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
- 1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
- 1847 – Millicent Fawcett, British suffragette and feminist (d. 1929)
- 1857 – Antoni Grabowski, early supporter of Esperanto (d. 1921)
- 1867 – Richard Strauss, German composer (d. 1949)
- 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American politician, feminist and pacifist (d. 1973)
- 1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
- 1895 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d. 1975)
- 1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player (d. 1976)
- 1910 – Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French documentary movie maker and marine biologist (d. 1997)
- 1910 – Carmine Coppola, American composer, director and songwriter (d. 1991)
- 1910 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (d. 1980)
- 1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football coach (d. 1970)
- 1919 – Richard Todd, Irish-British actor (d. 2009)
- 1920 – King Mahendra of Nepal (d. 1972)
- 1920 – Hazel Scott, Trinidad and Tobago-born American singer (d. 1981)
- 1922 – Mihalis Kakogiannis, Cypriot movie director and producer (d. 2011)
- 1922 – Walter Seifert, German retired World War II veteran, ran amok in a Cologne school (d. 1964)
- 1925 – William Styron, American author (d. 2006)
- 1928 – Queen Fabiola, former Queen Consort of Belgium
- 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor
- 1934 – Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
- 1937 – Robin Warren, Australian pathologist
- 1939 – Jackie Stewart, Scottish racing driver
- 1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress
- 1949 – Frank Beard, American musician (ZZ Top)
- 1952 – Anote Tong, President of Kiribati
- 1952 – Donnie Van Zant, American rock musician and singer
- 1956 – Joe Montana, American football player
- 1959 – Hugh Laurie, British actor
- 1960 – Mehmet Oz, Turkish-American television host, surgeon and inventor
- 1962 – Jack Irons, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
- 1963 – Bruce Kimball, American diver
- 1965 – Joey Santiago, Filipino guitarist
- 1965 – Manuel Uribe, Mexican, one of the heaviest people on record.
- 1968 – Prince Alois, Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein
- 1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor
- 1977 – Ryan Dunn, American television star and stuntman (d. 2011)
- 1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian actor
- 1982 – Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
- 1982 – Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
- 1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
- 1986 – Shia LaBeouf, American actor.
- 1987 – TiA, Japanese singer
- 1987 – Didrik Solli-Tangen, Norwegian singer
- 1987 – Dappy, English rapper and actor (N-Dubz)
- 1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress
Deaths [change]
- 1183 – Henry the Young King, son of Henry II of England (b. 1155)
- 1216 – Henry of Flanders, Emperor of the Latin Empire
- 1488 – King James III of Scotland (b. 1451)
- 1557 – King John III of Portugal (b. 1502)
- 1727 – King George I of Great Britain (b. 1660)
- 1847 – John Franklin, British naval officer and Arctic explorer (b. 1786)
- 1852 – Karl Briullov, Russian painter (b. 1799)
- 1859 – Klemens Wenzel von Metternich, Austrian statesman (b. 1773)
- 1879 – William, Prince of Orange, heir to the throne of the Netherlands (b. 1840)
- 1903 – Nikolai Bulgaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
- 1903 – Alexander Obrenovich, King of Serbia (b. 1876)
- 1903 – Draga Lunjevica, Queen of Serbia (b. 1861)
- 1914 – Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
- 1941 – Daniel Carter Beard, founder of the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)
- 1955 – Pierre Levegh, French racing driver (b. 1905)
- 1963 – Thich Quang Duc, Vietnamese Buddhist monk (b. 1897)
- 1964 – Phibul Songkhram, Thai Prime Minister and military leader (b. 1897)
- 1965 – Jose Mendes Cabecades, Portuguese politician (b. 1883)
- 1970 – Frank Laubach, Christian missionary (b. 1884)
- 1979 – John Wayne, American actor (b. 1907)
- 1980 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player (b. 1910)
- 1984 – Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
- 1988 – Giuseppe Saragat, 5th President of Italy (b. 1898)
- 1998 – Catherine Cookson, British author (b. 1906).
- 1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor (b. 1920).
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b. 1968)
- 2004 – Mario Jeckle, German computer programmer (b. 1974)
- 2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish rally driver (b. 1939).
- 2008 – Vo Van Kiet, Vietnamese politician (b. 1922).
- 2010 – Zenani Mandela, great-granddaughter of Nelson Mandela (b. 1997).
- 2011 – Kurt Nielsen, Danish tennis player (b. 1930).
- 2011 – Seth Putnam, American musician (b. 1968).
- 2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt, Israeli physicist (b. 1947).
- 2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress (b. 1920).
- 2012 – Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (b. 1952).
Events [change]
- 1509 – Henry VIII of England marries Catherine of Aragon.
- 1770 – James Cook reaches the Great Barrier Reef, after his ship, the HMS Endeavour, ran aground there.
- 1776 – The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert Livingston to the committee of five, to draft the Declaration of Independence.
- 1881 – The current National Theatre of the Czech Republic, in Prague, is opened.
- 1901 – New Zealand annexes the Cook Islands.
- 1937 – Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders.
- 1938 – Second Sino-Japanese War: The Chinese nationalist government under Chiang Kai-shek orders the flooding of the Yellow River to halt Japanese forces, though more than 500,000 people are killed after not being warned before the flooding.
- 1947 – US Sugar rationing ends.
- 1955 – More than 80 people are killed in the Le Mans Disaster, the deadliest disaster in motorsport.
- 1962 – Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Anglin escape from Alcatraz prison, but are never seen again.
- 1963 – Buddhist monk Thich Quang Duc sets himself on fire with gasoline in Saigon, in protest at the lack of religious freedom in South Vietnam, under Ngo Dinh Diem.
- 1963 – Alabama Governor George Wallace refuses to let African American students Vivian Malone Jones and James Hood enroll at the University of Alabama, though he later gives in.
- 1964 – Retired World War II veteran Walter Seifert, on his 42nd birthday, runs amok in a Cologne school, killing at least 8 children and two teachers and injures many more with a flame thrower and a lance. He poisons himself and dies the next day.
- 1971 – The prison island of Alcatraz is cleared, and the prison is shut down.
- 1981 – A magnitude 6.9 earthquake hits Golbaf, in Iran, killing at least 2,000 people.
- 1987 – Margaret Thatcher is elected to a third term as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for the Oklahoma bombing.
- 2002 – United States Congress recognises Antonio Meucci as the inventor of the telephone.
- 2004 – The Cassini-Huygens probe makes its closest flyby of Saturn's moon Phoebe.
- 2008 – Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper makes a historic apology to the First Nations for abuse in the separation of children from their homes, families and cultures.
- 2010 – The 2010 FIFA World Cup begins in South Africa. It is the first FIFA World Cup to be held in Africa. The opening game ends in a 1-1 draw between the South Africa national football team and Mexico national football team.
Observances [change]
- Kamehameha Day, official state holiday in Hawaii
