On this day: 11 June
Events, births and deaths on 11 June. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Brian Wilson
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Rudi Altig
100 years ago1926
- Births · Carlisle Floyd
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 16
- 786Battle of Fakhkh — battle in June 786 between Abbasids and Al-Husayn ibn Ali (Sahib Fakhkh)
- 1488(Julian date)Battle of Sauchieburn — 1488 battle in Scotland
- 1775Battle of Machias — 1775 first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War
- 1775Coronation of Louis XVI — 1774coronation in France
- 1776Committee of Five — Committee that drafted the Declaration of Independence
- 1865Battle of Riachuelo — 1865 naval battle
- 1895Paris–Bordeaux–Paris race — city-to-city motoring competition in 1895
- 1898Hundred Days' Reform — reform movementin China in 1898
- 1936London International Surrealist Exhibition — 1936 exhibition
- 1940Siege of Malta — 1942 military campaign in the Mediterranean Theatre of the Second World War
- 19551955 Le Mans disaster — deadliest accident in competitive automobile racing history
- 1962June 1962 Alcatraz escape — attempt by John and Clarence Angelin, Allen West, and Frank Morris to escape Alcatraz
- 1964Cologne school massacre — June 1964 school massacre in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany
- 1978All Pakistan Muttahidda Students Organization — Pakistani student organization
- 20102010 FIFA World Cup — 19th FIFA World Cup, held in South Africa
- 2012June 2012 Afghanistan earthquakes — earthquakes in Afghanistan in 2012
Births · 60
- 1456(Julian date)Anne Neville — Queen of England from 1483 to 1485
- 1572(Julian date)Ben Jonson — English playwright, poet, and actor (1572-1637)
- 1726Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain — Dauphine of France (1726-1746)
- 1776John Constable — English painter (1776-1837)
- 1815Julia Margaret Cameron — British photographer (1815–1879)
- 1818Alexander Bain — Scottish philosopher and educationalist (1818–1903)
- 1842Carl von Linde — German engineer (1842-1934)
- 1847Millicent Garrett Fawcett — English politician, writer, and activist (1847–1929)
- 1864Richard Strauss — German composer and orchestra director (1864–1949)
- 1867Charles Fabry — French physicist
- 1871Stjepan Radić — Croatian politician (1871-1928)
- 1876Alfred L. Kroeber — American anthropologist (1876–1960)
- 1877Renée Vivien — British poet who wrote in French
- 1880Jeannette Rankin — American congresswoman for Montana (1880-1973)
- 1894Kiichirō Toyoda — Japanese businessman (1894–1952)
- 1899Yasunari Kawabata — Japanese novelist (1899–1972)
- 1910Jacques Cousteau — French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author (1910-1997)
- 1913Vince Lombardi — American football player, coach, and executive (1913-1970)
- 1919Richard Todd — Irish-British actor (1919-2009)
- 1922Erving Goffman — Canadian-American sociologist (1922–1982)
- 1925William Styron — American novelist and essayist (1925–2006)
- 1928Fabiola of Belgium — queen consort of Belgium (1928-2014)
- 1932Athol Fugard — South African playwright (1932–2025)
- 1933Gene Wilder — American actor (1933–2016)
- 1937Robin Warren — Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate (1937–2024)
Deaths · 60
- 840(Julian date)Emperor Junna — Emperor of Japan
- 888(Julian date)Rimbert — Archbishop of Bremen
- 1183(Julian date)Henry the Young King — second of five sons of King Henry II of England and Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 1216Henry of Flanders — Emperor of Constantinople
- 1298Yolanda of Poland — Princess of Hungary and Duchess of Poland, later abbess
- 1345(Julian date)Alexios Apokaukos — Byzantine politician and military leader
- 1488(Julian date)James III of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1460 to 1488 (1451–1488)
- 1557(Julian date)John III of Portugal — King of Portugal (r. 1521-1557)
- 1560(Julian date)Mary of Lorraine — Scottish Queen consort; (1515-1560)
- 1695André Félibien — French architecture writer (1619–1695)
- 1712Louis Joseph, Duke of Vendôme — French officer (1654-1712)
- 1847John Franklin — British naval officer and explorer (1786–1847)
- 1852Karl Bryullov — Russian painter (1799-1852)
- 1859Klemens von Metternich — Austrian diplomat, foreign minister and Chancellor (1773–1859)
- 1879William, Prince of Orange — Dutch and Luxembourger royal heir (1840–1879)
- 1885Amédée Courbet — French admiral (1827–1885)
- 1903Draga Mašin — Queen of Serbia (1861-1903)
- 1903Nikolai Bugaev — Russian mathematician (1837–1903)
- 1913Mahmud Shevket Pasha — 212nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (1856–1913)
- 1914Adolf Friedrich V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz — Grand duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1848-1914)
- 1924Théodore Dubois — French composer and Organist (1837-1924)
- 1936Robert E. Howard — American author (1906–1936)
- 1937R. J. Mitchell — aeronautical engineer; designer of the Spitfire
- 1955Pierre Levegh — French racing driver (1905-1955)
- 1963Thích Quảng Đức — Vietnamese monk who self-immolated in 1963
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