June 11 birthdays, facts & history
Everything about being born on June 11, from your sign and birth stone to who shares your birthday.
Zodiac sign
♊︎ Gemini
May 21 – Jun 20
Birth stone
Pearl
Birth flower
Rose
How common
#176 of 366
by US birth counts
Famous June 11 birthdays
Vissarion Belinsky · Russian literary critic1811
Richard Strauss · German composer and orchestra director1864
Alfred Kroeber · American anthropologist1876
Jeannette Rankin · American congresswoman for Montana1880
Yasunari Kawabata · Japanese novelist1899
Jacques Cousteau · French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author1910
Erving Goffman · Canadian-American sociologist1922
William Styron · American novelist and essayist1925
Gene Wilder · American actor1933
David Mumford · British/American mathematician1937
Robin Warren · Australian microbiologist and Nobel Laureate1937
Jackie Stewart · Scottish racing driver1939
Adrienne Barbeau · American actress1945
Hugh Laurie · English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer1959
Peter Dinklage · American actor1969
Shia LaBeouf · American actor1986
Sébastien Lecornu · Prime Minister of France since 20251986
Claire Holt · Australian actress1988
Unai Simón · Spanish footballer1997
Kai Havertz · German association football player1999
On this day in history
1775The Battle of Machias, the first naval engagement of the American Revolutionary War, commenced in and around the port of Machias in what is now eastern Maine.
1971The U.S. Government forcibly removes the last holdouts to the Native American Occupation of Alcatraz, ending 19 months of control.
2002Antonio Meucci is acknowledged as the first inventor of the telephone by the United States Congress.
2008Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.
1942World War II: The United States agrees to send Lend-Lease aid to the Soviet Union.
1944USS Missouri, the last battleship built by the United States Navy and future site of the signing of the Japanese Instrument of Surrender, is commissioned.
1963The University of Alabama was desegregated as Governor George Wallace stepped aside after defiantly blocking the entrance to an auditorium.
1970After being appointed on May 15, Anna Mae Hays and Elizabeth P. Hoisington officially receive their ranks as U.S. Army general officers, becoming the first women to do so.
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