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June 11

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2017 French legislative election

9 years ago

Born this day

1899

Yasunari Kawabata

Would be 127

Oldest record

538th

James III of Scotland

death anniversary

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Famous births29

1572 · 454 yrs

Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson (c. 11 June 1572 – 6 or 18 August 1637) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1776 · 250 yrs

John Constable

John Constable (11 June 1776 – 31 March 1837) was an English landscape painter in the Romantic tradition.

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ArtDied aged 60

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1815 · 211 yrs

Julia Margaret Cameron

Julia Margaret Cameron (née Pattle; 11 June 1815 – 26 January 1879) was an English photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her portraits of famous Victorians and for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature.

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ArtDied aged 63

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1857 · 169 yrs

Antoni Grabowski

Antoni Grabowski (11 June 1857 – 4 July 1921) was a Polish chemical engineer, and an activist of the early Esperanto movement. His translations had an influential impact on the development of Esperanto into a language of literature.

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TechnologyDied aged 64

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1864 · 162 yrs

Richard Strauss

Richard Georg Strauss (German:; 11 June 1864 – 8 September 1949) was a German composer and conductor known for his tone poems and operas. He was a leading figure of the late Romantic and early Modern era.

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MusicDied aged 85

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1880 · 146 yrs

Jeannette Rankin

Jeannette Pickering Rankin (June 11, 1880 – May 18, 1973) was an American politician and women's rights advocate who became the first woman to hold federal office in the United States. She was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican from Montana in 1916 for one term, then was elected again in 1940.

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1884 · 142 yrs

Halide Edib Adıvar

Halide Edip Adıvar (Ottoman Turkish: خالده اديب, sometimes spelled Halidé Edib in English; 11 June 1884 – 9 January 1964) was a Turkish novelist, teacher, and a nationalist and feminist intellectual.

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1885 · 141 yrs

Nikolai Bulganin

Nikolai Alexandrovich Bulganin (Russian: Николай Александрович Булганин; 11 June 1895 – 24 February 1975) was a Soviet and Russian politician and the Premier of the Soviet Union from 1955 to 1958. He also served as Minister of Defense, following service in the Red Army during World War II.

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1899 · 127 yrs

Yasunari Kawabata

Yasunari Kawabata (川端康成, Kawabata Yasunari; Japanese pronunciation:, 11 June 1899 – 16 April 1972) was a Japanese novelist and short story writer whose spare, lyrical, subtly-shaded prose works won him the 1968 Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Japanese author to receive the award.

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1910 · 116 yrs

Jacques Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (also UK:; French:; 11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author.

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1922 · 104 yrs

Erving Goffman

Erving Goffman (11 June 1922 – 19 November 1982) was a Canadian-born American sociologist, social psychologist, and writer, considered by some "the most influential American sociologist of the twentieth century".

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1925 · 101 yrs

William Styron

William Clark Styron Jr. (June 11, 1925 – November 1, 2006) was an American novelist and essayist who won major literary awards for his work, including the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1968 for The Confessions of Nat Turner.

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Famous deaths17

1488 · 538 yrs

James III of Scotland

James III (10 July 1451/May 1452 – 11 June 1488) was King of Scots from 1460 until his death at the Battle of Sauchieburn in 1488. He inherited the throne as a child following the death of his father, King James II, at the siege of Roxburgh Castle.

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RoyaltyDied aged 36

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1557 · 469 yrs

John III of Portugal

John III (Portuguese: João III Portuguese pronunciation:; 6 June 1502 – 11 June 1557), nicknamed The Pious (Portuguese: o Piedoso), was the King of Portugal and the Algarve from 1521 until he died in 1557.

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RoyaltyDied aged 55

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1825 · 201 yrs

Daniel D. Tompkins

Daniel D. Tompkins (June 21, 1774 – June 11, 1825) was an American politician who served as the sixth vice president of the United States from 1817 to 1825. He previously served as the fourth governor of New York from 1807 to 1817.

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PoliticsDied aged 50

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1852 · 174 yrs

Karl Bryullov

Karl Pavlovich Bryullov (né Brüllo; Russian: Карл Па́влович Брюлло́в; 23 December 1799 – 23 June 1852) was a Russian painter and draughtsman during the Romantic period, remembered among the greatest visual artists in the history of Russian art.

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ArtDied aged 52

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1859 · 167 yrs

Klemens von Metternich

Klemens Wenzel Nepomuk Lothar, Prince of Metternich-Winneburg zu Beilstein (15 May 1773 – 11 June 1859), known as Klemens von Metternich ( MET-ər-nikh, German:) or Prince Metternich, was a German statesman and diplomat in the service of the Austrian Empire.

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PoliticsDied aged 86

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1936 · 90 yrs

Robert E. Howard

Robert Ervin Howard (January 22, 1906 – June 11, 1936) was an American author, known for writing pulp fiction in a diverse range of genres. He created the character Conan the Barbarian and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.

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1964 · 62 yrs

Plaek Phibunsongkhram

Plaek Phibunsongkhram (14 July 1897 – 11 June 1964), commonly known in English language sources as Phibun and as Chomphon Por in Thai, was a Thai military officer and politician who served as the third prime minister of Thailand from 1938 to 1944 and again from 1948 to 1957.

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1970 · 56 yrs

Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (4 May 1881 – 11 June 1970) was a Russian politician, lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.).

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1979 · 47 yrs

John Wayne

Marion Robert Morrison (May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), known professionally as John Wayne, was an American actor. Nicknamed "Duke", he became a popular icon through his starring roles in films which were produced during Hollywood's Golden Age, especially in Western and war movies.

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1988 · 38 yrs

Giuseppe Saragat

Giuseppe Saragat (Italian:; 19 September 1898 – 11 June 1988) was an Italian politician and statesman who served as President of Italy from 1964 to 1971.

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1992 · 34 yrs

Rafael Orozco Maestre

Rafael José Orozco Maestre (March 24, 1954 – June 11, 1992) was a Colombian singer of vallenato music.

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2006 · 20 yrs

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti (Hungarian:; 28 May 1923 – 12 June 2006) was a Hungarian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Events5

1898 · 128 yrs

Hundred Days' Reform

The Hundred Days' Reform (traditional Chinese: 百日維新; simplified Chinese: 百日维新; pinyin: Bǎirì Wéixīn; lit. '100 Days Reform') or Wuxu Reform (traditional Chinese: 戊戌變法; simplified Chinese: 戊戌变法; pinyin: Wùxū Biànfǎ; lit.

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Politics

1940 · 86 yrs

Siege of Malta

The Siege of Malta (or Battle of Malta) in World War II was a military campaign in the Mediterranean theatre.

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War

1955 · 71 yrs

1955 Le Mans disaster

On 11 June 1955, a multi-vehicle collision occurred during the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans in Sarthe, France, resulting in the deaths of an estimated 82 to 84 people.

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Disaster

2017 · 9 yrs

2017 French legislative election

Legislative elections were held in France on 11 and 18 June 2017 (with different dates for voters overseas) to elect the 577 members of the 15th National Assembly of the Fifth Republic. They followed the two-round presidential election won by Emmanuel Macron.

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Politics

2026 · 0 yrs

2026 FIFA World Cup knockout stage

The knockout stage of the 2026 FIFA World Cup was the second and final stage of the competition, following the group stage. Played from June 28 to July 19, 2026, the knockout stage ended with the final, held at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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