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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
2021
June 11 is the 162nd day of the year (163rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
203 days remain until the end of the year. Contents · 1Events · 2Births · 3Deaths Events[edit] ·
1184 BC – Trojan War: Troy is
sacked and burned, according to calculations by Eratosthenes. ·
173 – Marcomannic Wars: The Roman army in Moravia is encircled by the Quadi, who have broken the peace treaty (171).
In a violent thunderstorm emperor Marcus Aurelius defeats and subdues
them in the so-called "miracle of the rain". ·
631 – Emperor Taizong
of Tang sends envoys to the Xueyantuo bearing gold and silk in
order to seek the release of Chinese prisoners captured during the transition
from Sui to Tang. ·
786 –
A Hasanid Alid uprising
in Mecca is crushed by the Abbasids at the Battle of Fakhkh. ·
980 – Vladimir the Great consolidates
the Kievan realm from Ukraine to the Baltic Sea. He is proclaimed ruler (knyaz) of all Kievan Rus'. ·
1011 – Lombard
Revolt: Greek citizens of Bari rise
up against the Lombard rebels led
by Melus and
deliver the city to Basil Mesardonites,
Byzantine governor (catepan) of
the Catepanate of Italy. ·
1118 – Roger of Salerno, Prince of Antioch,
captures Azaz from the Seljuk Turks. ·
1157 – Albert I of
Brandenburg, also called The Bear (Ger: Albrecht der Bär), becomes
the founder of the Margraviate of Brandenburg, Germany and the first margrave. ·
1345 –
The megas doux Alexios Apokaukos,
chief minister of the Byzantine Empire, is lynched by political
prisoners. ·
1429 – Hundred Years' War:
Start of the Battle of Jargeau. ·
1488 – Battle of
Sauchieburn: Fought between rebel Lords and James III of
Scotland, resulting in the death of the king. ·
1509 – Henry VIII of
England marries Catherine of Aragon. ·
1594 – Philip II recognizes
the rights and privileges of the local nobles and chieftains in the Philippines, which paved way to the
stabilization of the rule of the Principalía (an elite ruling class of
native nobility in Spanish Philippines). ·
1748 – Denmark adopts the characteristic Nordic Cross flag later
taken up by all other Scandinavian countries. ·
1770 –
British explorer Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef. ·
1775 –
The American
Revolutionary War's first naval engagement, the Battle of Machias,
results in the capture of a small British naval vessel. ·
1776 –
The Continental Congress appoints Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman, and Robert
R. Livingston to the Committee of Five to
draft a declaration
of independence. ·
1788 –
Russian explorer Gerasim Izmailov reaches
Alaska. ·
1805 –
A fire consumes
large portions of Detroit in
the Michigan Territory. ·
1825 –
The first cornerstone is
laid for Fort Hamilton in New York City. ·
1837 –
The Broad Street Riot occurs
in Boston, fueled by ethnic tensions
between Yankees and Irish. ·
1865 –
The Naval Battle of the
Riachuelo is fought on the rivulet Riachuelo (Argentina), between the Paraguayan Navy on one side and
the Brazilian Navy on
the other. The Brazilian victory was crucial for the later success of
the Triple
Alliance (Brazil, Uruguay, and Argentina) in the Paraguayan War. ·
1892 –
The Limelight Department,
one of the world's first film studios, is officially established
in Melbourne, Australia. ·
1895 – Paris–Bordeaux–Paris,
sometimes called the first automobile race in history or the "first
motor race", takes place. ·
1898 –
The Hundred Days' Reform,
a planned movement to reform social, political, and educational institutions
in China, is started by the Guangxu Emperor, but is suspended by Empress Dowager Cixi after
104 days. (The failed reform led to the abolition of the Imperial examination in 1905.) ·
1901 –
The boundaries of the Colony of New
Zealand are extended by the UK to include the Cook Islands. ·
1903 –
A group of Serbian officers stormed the royal
palace and assassinated King Alexander
Obrenović and his wife, Queen Draga. ·
1917 –
King Alexander assumes
the throne of Greece after
his father, Constantine I,
abdicates under pressure from allied armies occupying Athens. ·
1919 – Sir Barton wins the Belmont Stakes, becoming the first horse to
win the U.S.
Triple Crown. ·
1920 –
During the U.S.
Republican National Convention in Chicago, U.S.
Republican Party leaders gathered in a room at the Blackstone Hotel to come to a consensus
on their candidate for the U.S.
presidential election, leading the Associated Press to coin the political
phrase "smoke-filled room". ·
1935 –
Inventor Edwin Armstrong gives
the first public demonstration of FM broadcasting
in the United States at Alpine, New Jersey. ·
1936 –
The London
International Surrealist Exhibition opens. ·
1937 – Great Purge: The Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin executes eight army leaders. ·
1938 – Second
Sino-Japanese War: The Battle of Wuhan starts. ·
1940 – World War II: The Siege of
Malta begins with a series of Italian air raids.[1] ·
1942 –
World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union. ·
1942
– Free French Forces retreat from Bir Hakeim after having successfully
delayed the Axis advance. ·
1944 – USS Missouri,
the last battleship built
by the United States Navy and
future site of the signing of the Japanese
Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned. ·
1955 –
Eighty-three spectators are killed and at least 100 are injured after
an Austin-Healey and
a Mercedes-Benz collide at the 24
Hours of Le Mans, the deadliest ever accident in motorsports. ·
1956 –
Start of Gal Oya riots,
the first reported ethnic riots that target minority Sri Lankan Tamils in
the Eastern Province. The total number of deaths is reportedly 150. ·
1962 –
Frank Morris, John Anglin and Clarence Anglin allegedly become the only
prisoners to escape from
the prison on Alcatraz Island. ·
1963 – American
Civil Rights Movement: Governor of Alabama George Wallace defiantly stands at
the door of Foster Auditorium at
the University of
Alabama in an attempt to block two black students, Vivian Malone and James Hood, from attending that school.
Later in the day, accompanied by federalized National
Guard troops, they are able to register. ·
1963
– Buddhist monk Thích
Quảng Đức burns himself with gasoline in a busy Saigon intersection to protest the lack
of religious freedom in South Vietnam. ·
1963
– John F. Kennedy addresses
Americans from the Oval Office proposing the Civil Rights Act
of 1964, which would revolutionize American society by
guaranteeing equal access to public facilities, ending segregation in
education, and guaranteeing federal protection for voting rights. ·
1964 –
World War II veteran Walter Seifert attacks an elementary
school in Cologne, Germany, killing at least eight
children and two teachers and seriously injuring several more with a
home-made flamethrower and
a lance. ·
1968 – Lloyd J. Old identified the first cell surface antigens that could differentiate among
different cell types. ·
1970 –
After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P.
Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army Generals,
becoming the first women to do so. ·
1971 –
The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native
American Occupation of
Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control. ·
1978 – Altaf
Hussain founds the student political movement All
Pakistan Muhajir Students Organisation (APMSO) in Karachi University. ·
1981 –
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake at Golbaf, Iran, kills at least 2,000. ·
1987 – Diane Abbott, Paul Boateng and Bernie Grant are elected as the first
black MPs in Great Britain. ·
1998 – Compaq Computer pays US$9 billion
for Digital
Equipment Corporation in the largest high-tech acquisition. ·
2001 – Timothy McVeigh is executed for his
role in the Oklahoma City
bombing. ·
2002 – Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the
first inventor of the telephone by
the United States
Congress. ·
2004 – Cassini–Huygens makes
its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe. ·
2007 – Mudslides in Chittagong, Bangladesh, kill 130 people. ·
2008 – Canadian Prime
Minister Stephen Harper makes a historic
official apology to Canada's First Nations in regard to abuses at
a Canadian
Indian residential school. ·
2008
– The Fermi
Gamma-ray Space Telescope is launched into orbit. ·
2010 –
The first African FIFA World Cup kicks
off in South Africa. ·
2012 –
More than 80 people die in a landslide triggered by two
earthquakes in Afghanistan; an entire village is buried. ·
2013 –
Greece's public broadcaster ERT is
shut down by then-prime minister Antonis Samaras. It reopened exactly two
years later by then-prime minister Alexis Tsipras. ·
2018
– 3 World Trade Center officially
opens. Births[edit] ·
1403 – John IV, Duke of
Brabant (d. 1427) ·
1431 – Edmund
Tudor, 1st Earl of Richmond (d. 1456) ·
1456 – Anne Neville, Princess of Wales and Queen of
England (d. 1485)[2] ·
1540 – Barnabe Googe, English poet and translator
(d. 1594) ·
1555 – Lodovico Zacconi, Italian composer and
theorist (d. 1627) ·
1572 – Ben Jonson, English poet, playwright, and
critic (d. 1637) ·
1585 – Evert Horn, Swedish soldier (d. 1615) ·
1588 – George Wither, English poet (d. 1667) ·
1620 – John Moore,
English businessman and politician, Lord Mayor of London (d.
1702) ·
1655 – Antonio Cifrondi, Italian painter (d. 1730) ·
1662 – Tokugawa Ienobu, Japanese shōgun (d.
1712) ·
1672 – Francesco
Antonio Bonporti, Italian priest and composer (d. 1749) ·
1690 – Giovanni Antonio
Giay, Italian composer (d. 1764) ·
1696 – James Francis
Edward Keith, Scottish-Prussian field marshal (d. 1758) ·
1697 – Francesco
Antonio Vallotti, Italian organist and composer (d. 1780) ·
1704 – Carlos Seixas, Portuguese harpsichord player and composer (d.
1742) ·
1709 – Joachim Martin Falbe,
German painter (d. 1782) ·
1712 – Benjamin Ingham, American missionary (d.
1772) ·
1723 – Johann Georg
Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788) ·
1726 – Infanta
Maria Teresa Rafaela of Spain (d. 1746) ·
1741 – Joseph Warren, American physician and
general (d. 1775) ·
1776 – John Constable, English painter and academic
(d. 1837) ·
1797 – José Trinidad Reyes,
Honduran philosopher and theorist (d. 1855) ·
1807 – James F. Schenck, American admiral (d. 1882) ·
1815 – Julia Margaret
Cameron, Indian-Sri Lankan photographer (d. 1879) ·
1818 – Alexander Bain, Scottish philosopher and
academic (d. 1903) ·
1829 – Edward Braddon, English-Australian
politician, 18th Premier of Tasmania (d.
1904) ·
1832 – Lucy Pickens, American wife of Francis
Wilkinson Pickens (d. 1899) ·
1842 – Carl von Linde, German engineer and academic
(d. 1934) ·
1846 – William Louis
Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920) ·
1847 – Millicent Fawcett,
English academic and activist (d. 1929) ·
1861 – Alexander Peacock,
Australian politician, 20th Premier of Victoria (d.
1933) ·
1864 – Richard Strauss, German composer and
conductor (d. 1949) ·
1867 – Charles Fabry, French physicist and academic
(d. 1945) ·
1871 – Stjepan Radić, Croatian lawyer and
politician (d. 1928) ·
1876 – Alfred L. Kroeber,
American-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 1960) ·
1877 – Renée Vivien, English-French poet and author
(d. 1909) ·
1879 – Roger Bresnahan, American baseball player
and manager (d. 1944) ·
1880 – Jeannette Rankin, American social worker and
politician (d. 1973) ·
1881 – Spiros Xenos, Greek-Swedish painter (d.
1963) ·
1881
– Mordecai Kaplan,
Lithuanian rabbi, founded Reconstructionist
Judaism (d. 1983) ·
1888 – Bartolomeo Vanzetti,
Italian-American anarchist and convicted criminal (d. 1927) ·
1889 – Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (d.
1976) ·
1894 – Kiichiro Toyoda, Japanese businessman,
founded Toyota (d. 1952) ·
1895 – Nikolai Bulganin, Soviet politician (d.
1975) ·
1897 – Ram Prasad Bismil,
Indian activist, founded the Hindustan
Republican Association (d. 1927) ·
1897
– Reg Latta, Australian rugby league player
(d. 1970) ·
1899 – Yasunari Kawabata,
Japanese novelist and short story writer Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1972) ·
1901 – Cap Fear, Canadian football player and rower
(d. 1978) ·
1901
– Benny Wearing,
Australian rugby league player (d. 1968) ·
1902 – Eric Fraser,
British illustrator and graphic designer (d. 1983) ·
1903 – Ernie Nevers, American football player and
coach (d. 1976) ·
1908 – Karl Hein, German hammer thrower (d. 1982) ·
1908
– Francisco
Marto, Portuguese saint (d. 1919) ·
1909 – Natascha Artin
Brunswick, German-American mathematician and photographer (d.
2003) ·
1910 – Carmine Coppola, American flute player and
composer (d. 1991) ·
1910
– Jacques Cousteau,
French biologist, author, and inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung (d. 1997) ·
1912 – James Algar, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1998) ·
1912
– William Baziotes,
American painter and academic (d. 1963) ·
1912
– Mohammad Hassan
Ganji, Iranian meteorologist and academic (d. 2012) ·
1913 – Vince Lombardi, American football player,
coach, and manager (d. 1970)[3] ·
1913
– Risë Stevens,
American soprano and actress (d. 2013) ·
1914 – Jan Hendrik van
den Berg, Dutch psychiatrist and academic (d. 2012) ·
1915 – Magda Gabor, Hungarian-American actress (d.
1997) ·
1915
– Nicholas Metropolis,
American mathematician and physicist (d. 1999) ·
1917 – Joseph B. Wirthlin,
American businessman and religious leader (d. 2008) ·
1918 – Ruth Aarons, American table tennis player
and manager (d. 1980) ·
1919 – Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and
author (d. 2008) ·
1919
– Richard Todd,
Irish-English actor (d. 2009) ·
1920 – Shelly Manne, American drummer, composer,
and bandleader (d. 1984) ·
1920
– Hazel Scott, Trinidadian-American singer,
actress, and pianist (d. 1981) ·
1920
– Keith Seaman,
Australian lawyer and politician, 29th Governor of
South Australia (d. 2013) ·
1922 – Jean Sutherland
Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant
(d. 2014) ·
1922
– Michael Cacoyannis,
Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2011) ·
1925 – Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster (d. 2013) ·
1925
– William Styron,
American novelist and essayist (d. 2006) ·
1926 – Carlisle Floyd, American composer and
educator ·
1927 – Beryl Grey, English ballerina ·
1927
– John W. O'Malley,
American Catholic historian, academic and Jesuit priest ·
1927
– Kit Pedler, English parapsychologist and
author (d. 1981) ·
1928 – Queen Fabiola of
Belgium (d. 2014) ·
1929 – Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman (d.
2001) ·
1930 – Charles Rangel, American soldier, lawyer,
and politician ·
1932 – Athol Fugard, South African-American actor,
director, and playwright ·
1932
– Tim Sainsbury,
English businessman and politician, Minister of
State for Trade ·
1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1937 – Chad Everett, American actor and director
(d. 2012) ·
1937
– Robin Warren,
Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate ·
1939 – Rachael
Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and
journalist (d. 2017) ·
1939
– Jackie Stewart,
Scottish race car driver and sportscaster ·
1942 – Parris Glendening,
American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland ·
1943 – Henry Hill, American mobster (d. 2012) ·
1945 – Adrienne Barbeau, American actress ·
1947 – Richard Palmer-James,
English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1948 – Dave Cash,
American baseball player and coach ·
1948
– Lalu Prasad Yadav,
Indian politician, 20th Chief Minister of
Bihar ·
1949 – Frank Beard,
American drummer and songwriter ·
1950 – Lynsey de Paul, English singer-songwriter,
pianist, producer, cartoonist and actress (d. 2014) ·
1950
– Graham Russell,
English-Australian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1951 – Matthew Engel, English journalist and author ·
1951
– Yasumasa Morimura,
Japanese painter and photographer ·
1952 – Yekaterina
Podkopayeva, Russian runner ·
1952
– Donnie Van Zant,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1953 – Steve
Bassam, Baron Bassam of Brighton, English politician ·
1953
– José Bové, French
farmer and politician ·
1953
– Barbara Minty,
American model ·
1954 – John Dyson,
Australian cricketer ·
1954
– Johnny Neel, American singer-songwriter and
keyboard player ·
1955 – Yuriy Sedykh, Ukrainian hammer thrower ·
1955
– Duncan Steel,
English-Australian astronomer and author ·
1956 – Joe Montana, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1956
– Simon Plouffe,
Canadian mathematician and academic ·
1956
– Arthur Porter,
Canadian physician and academic (d. 2015) ·
1956
– Jamaaladeen Tacuma,
American bass player and bandleader ·
1958 – Barry Adamson, English singer and bass
player ·
1959 – Hugh Laurie, English actor and screenwriter ·
1960 – Mehmet Oz, American surgeon, author, and
television host ·
1962 – Mano Menezes, Brazilian footballer and coach ·
1963 – Gioia Bruno, American singer-songwriter ·
1963
– Sandra Schmirler,
Canadian curler and sportscaster (d. 2000) ·
1964 – Jean Alesi, French race car driver ·
1964
– Kim Gallagher,
American runner (d. 2002) ·
1965 – Georgios Bartzokas,
Greek former professional basketball player ·
1965
– Gavin Hill, New Zealand rugby player ·
1966 – Bruce Robison, American country music
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1967 – Graeme Bachop, New Zealand rugby player ·
1967
– João Garcia,
Portuguese mountaineer ·
1968 – Alois,
Hereditary Prince of Liechtenstein ·
1968
– Manoa Thompson,
Fijian rugby player ·
1969 – Peter Dinklage, American actor and producer ·
1969
– Bryan Fogarty,
Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2002) ·
1969
– Olaf Kapagiannidis,
German footballer ·
1971 – Vladimir
Gaidamașciuc, Moldovan footballer ·
1971
– Liz Kendall, British politician ·
1971
– Mark
Richardson, New Zealand cricketer ·
1971
– Kenjiro Tsuda,
Japanese voice actor ·
1972 – Stephen Kearney, New Zealand rugby league
player and coach ·
1973 – José Manuel Abundis,
Mexican footballer and coach ·
1974 – Fragiskos Alvertis,
Greek basketball player, coach, and manager ·
1976 – Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner ·
1977 – Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer ·
1978 – Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor ·
1978
– Daryl Tuffey, New
Zealand cricketer ·
1979 – Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer ·
1979
– Amy Duggan, Australian footballer and
sportscaster ·
1980 – Yhency Brazoban, Dominican baseball player ·
1981 – Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer ·
1981
– Kristo Tohver,
Estonian footballer and referee ·
1982 – Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter ·
1982
– Jacques Freitag,
South African high jumper ·
1982
– Joey Graham, American basketball player ·
1982
– Stephen
Graham, American basketball player ·
1982
– Reni Maitua, Australian rugby league player ·
1982
– Eldar Rønning,
Norwegian skier ·
1982
– Diana Taurasi,
American basketball player ·
1983 – Chuck Hayes, American basketball player ·
1983
– José Reyes,
Dominican baseball player ·
1984 – Andy Lee, Irish boxer ·
1984
– Vágner Love,
Brazilian footballer ·
1985 – Tim Hoogland, German footballer ·
1986 – Sebastian Bayer, German long jumper ·
1986
– Shia LaBeouf,
American actor ·
1987 – Marsel İlhan, Turkish tennis player ·
1987
– Didrik Solli-Tangen,
Norwegian singer ·
1988 – Jesús Fernández
Collado, Spanish footballer ·
1988
– Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress, voice
actress, singer-songwriter, model, radio host ·
1989 – Maya Moore, American basketball player ·
1990 – Christophe Lemaitre,
French sprinter ·
1991 – Daniel Howell, English internet celebrity ·
1993 – Brittany Boyd, American basketball player ·
1994 – Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress ·
1996 – Ayaka Sasaki, Japanese singer ·
1998 – Charlie Tahan, American actor ·
1999 – Eartha Cumings, Scottish footballer[4] Deaths[edit] ·
323 BC – Alexander the Great,
Macedonian king (b. 356 BC) ·
573 – Emilian of Cogolla, Iberic saint
(b. 472) ·
840 – Junna, emperor of Japan (b. 785) ·
884 – Shi Jingsi, general of the Tang Dynasty ·
888 – Rimbert, archbishop of Bremen (b.
830) ·
1183 – Henry the Young King of
England (b. 1155) ·
1216 – Henry of Flanders,
emperor of the Latin Empire (b.
c. 1174) ·
1248 – Adachi Kagemori, Japanese samurai ·
1253 – Amadeus IV,
count of Savoy (b. 1197)[5] ·
1298 – Yolanda of Poland (b.
1235) ·
1323 – Bérenger Fredoli,
French lawyer and bishop (b. 1250) ·
1345 – Alexios Apokaukos,
chief minister of the Byzantine Empire ·
1347 – Bartholomew
of San Concordio, Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters
(b. 1260) ·
1446 – Henry
de Beauchamp, 1st Duke of Warwick (b. 1425) ·
1479 – John of Sahagun, hermit and saint (b. 1419) ·
1488 – James III of
Scotland (b. 1451) ·
1557 – John III of Portugal (b.
1502) ·
1560 – Mary of Guise, queen of James V of Scotland (b.
1515)[6] ·
1683 – Nikita Pustosvyat,
a leader of the Russian Old Believers, beheaded[7] (b. unknown) ·
1695 – André Félibien,
French historian and author (b. 1619) ·
1712 – Louis
Joseph, Duke of Vendôme (b. 1654) ·
1727 – George I of
Great Britain (b. 1660) ·
1748 – Felice Torelli, Italian painter (b. 1667) ·
1796 – Samuel
Whitbread, English brewer and politician, founded the Whitbread Company (b. 1720) ·
1847 – John Franklin, English admiral and
politician (b. 1786) ·
1852 – Karl Bryullov, Russian painter (b. 1799) ·
1859 – Klemens von
Metternich, German-Austrian politician, 1st State
Chancellor of the Austrian Empire (b. 1773) ·
1879 – William, Prince
of Orange (b. 1840) ·
1882 – Louis Désiré Maigret,
French bishop (b. 1804) ·
1885 – Matías Ramos Mejía,
Argentinian colonel (b. 1810) ·
1897 – Henry Ayers, English-Australian politician,
8th Premier of
South Australia (b. 1821) ·
1903 – Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician and
philosopher (b. 1837) ·
1903
– Alexander I of
Serbia (b. 1876) ·
1903
– Draga Mašin,
Serbian wife of Alexander I of
Serbia (b. 1864) ·
1911 – James Curtis Hepburn,
American physician and missionary (b. 1815) ·
1913 – Mahmud Shevket Pasha,
Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1856) ·
1914 – Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of
Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848) ·
1920 – William F. Halsey,
Sr., American captain (b. 1853) ·
1924 – Théodore Dubois,
French organist, composer, and educator (b. 1837) ·
1927 – William Attewell, English cricketer (b.
1861) ·
1934 – Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian
psychologist and theorist (b. 1896) ·
1936 – Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (b.
1906) ·
1937 – R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed
the Supermarine Spitfire (b.
1895) ·
1941 – Daniel Carter Beard,
American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of
America (b. 1850) ·
1955 – Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b.
1905) ·
1962 – Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b.
1900) ·
1963 – Thích
Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897) ·
1965 – Paul B. Coremans, Belgian chemist and
academic (b. 1908) ·
1965
– José Mendes
Cabeçadas, Portuguese admiral and politician, 9th President of
Portugal (b. 1883) ·
1970 – Frank Laubach, American missionary and
mystic (b. 1884) ·
1974 – Eurico Gaspar Dutra,
Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b.
1883) ·
1974
– Julius Evola,
Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)[8] ·
1976 – Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b.
1917) ·
1979 – Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author
and publisher (b. 1893) ·
1979
– John Wayne, American actor, director, and
producer (b. 1907)[9] ·
1983 – Ghanshyam Das Birla,
Indian businessman and politician (b. 1894) ·
1984 – Enrico Berlinguer,
Italian politician (b. 1922) ·
1986 – Chesley Bonestell,
American painter and illustrator (b. 1888) ·
1991 – Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b.
1925) ·
1993 – Ray Sharkey, American actor (b. 1952) ·
1994 – A. Thurairajah, Sri Lankan engineer and
academic (b. 1934) ·
1995 – Rodel Naval, Filipino singer-songwriter and
actor (b. 1953) ·
1996 – George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910) ·
1996
– Brigitte Helm,
German-Swiss actress (b. 1908) ·
1998 – Catherine Cookson,
English author (b. 1906)[10] ·
1999 – DeForest Kelley, American actor and
screenwriter (b. 1920)[11] ·
2001 – Timothy McVeigh, American terrorist (b.
1968) ·
2001
– Amalia Mendoza,
Mexican singer and actress (b. 1923) ·
2003 – David Brinkley, American journalist and
author (b. 1920) ·
2004 – Egon von Fürstenberg,
Swiss fashion designer (b. 1946) ·
2005 – Vasco Gonçalves,
Portuguese general and politician, 103rd Prime Minister
of Portugal (b. 1922) ·
2005
– Anne-Marie Alonzo,
Canadian playwright, poet, novelist, critic and publisher (b. 1951) ·
2006 – Neroli Fairhall, New Zealand archer (b.
1944) ·
2006
– Bruce Shand, English soldier (b. 1917) ·
2007 – Imre Friedmann, American biologist and
academic (b. 1921) ·
2007
– Mala Powers, American actress (b. 1931) ·
2008 – Ove Andersson, Swedish race car driver (b.
1938) ·
2008
– Võ Văn
Kiệt, Vietnamese soldier and politician, 5th Prime Minister
of Vietnam (b. 1922) ·
2011 – Eliyahu M. Goldratt,
Israeli physicist and engineer (b. 1947) ·
2011
– Seth Putnam, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1968) ·
2012 – Ann Rutherford, Canadian-American actress
(b. 1917) ·
2012
– Teófilo Stevenson,
Cuban boxer and engineer (b. 1952) ·
2013 – Miller Barber, American golfer (b. 1931) ·
2013
– Carl W. Bauer,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1933) ·
2013
– Robert Fogel,
American economist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1926) ·
2013
– James Grimsley, Jr.,
American general (b. 1921) ·
2013
– Rory Morrison,
English journalist (b. 1964) ·
2013
– Kristiāns Pelšs,
Latvian ice hockey player (b. 1992) ·
2013
– Vidya Charan Shukla,
Indian politician, Indian
Minister of External Affairs (b. 1929) ·
2014 – Ruby Dee, American actress (b. 1922) ·
2014
– Rafael Frühbeck
de Burgos, Spanish conductor and composer (b. 1933) ·
2014
– Susan B. Horwitz,
American computer scientist, engineer, and academic (b. 1955) ·
2014
– Mipham Chokyi Lodro,
Tibetan lama and educator (b. 1952) ·
2014
– Benjamin Mophatlane,
South African businessman (b. 1973) ·
2014
– Carlton Sherwood,
American soldier and journalist (b. 1947) ·
2015 – Jim Ed Brown, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1934) ·
2015
– Ornette Coleman,
American saxophonist, violinist, trumpet player, and composer (b. 1930)[12] ·
2015
– Ian McKechnie,
Scottish footballer and manager (b. 1941) ·
2015
– Ron Moody, English actor and singer (b.
1924) ·
2015
– Dusty Rhodes,
American wrestler (b. 1945) ·
2016 – Rudi Altig, German track and road racing
cyclist (b. 1937) ·
2020 – Stella Pevsner, children's author (b. 1921)[13] Holidays and observances[edit] ·
American
Evacuation Day (Libya) ·
Brazilian Navy
commemorative day (Brazil) ·
Christian feast day: o Bartholomew the
Apostle (Eastern Christianity) o Blessed Ignatius Maloyan (Armenian
Catholic Church) o June
11 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Davis
Day (Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, Canada) ·
Kamehameha Day (Hawaii, United States) ·
Student Day (Honduras) |
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