Anniversaries 11 June

Birth

George Wither7

English poet 1588–1667

Tsunetomo Yamamoto65

Samurai 1659–1719

John Constable53

English Romantic painter 1776–1837

Alexander Bain7

Scottish philosopher and educationalist 1818–1903

Mary Augusta Ward4

British novelist 1851–1920

Richard Strauss31

German composer and orchestra director 1864–1949

Charles Fabry2

French physicist 1867–1945

Renée Vivien8

British poet who wrote in the French language 1877–1909

Bartolomeo Vanzetti4

Italian American anarchist executed by Massachusetts 1888–1927

Anna Akhmatova99

Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

Joseph Lewis15

American activist 1889–1968

Kiichiro Toyoda5

Japanese businessman 1894–1952

Ram Prasad Bismil2

revolutionary, poet & writer 1897–1927

Yasunari Kawabata44

Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner 1899–1972

Jacques-Yves Cousteau21

French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker,… 1910–1997

Norman Malcolm7

American philosopher 1911–1990

Josephine Miles2

American poet, academic 1911–1985

William Baziotes22

American painter 1912–1963

Veikko Vennamo4

Finnish politician 1913–1997

Vince Lombardi33

American football player, coach, and executive 1913–1970

Винс Ломбарди1

1913–1970

Nicholas Metropolis1

Greek American physicist 1915–1999

Abraham Kaplan8

American philosopher 1918–1993

Erving Goffman29

Sociologist, writer, academic 1922–1982

William Styron36

American novelist and essayist 1925–2006

Charles B. Rangel2

Recipient of the Purple Heart and politician 1930

Gene Wilder4

American actor 1933–2016

David Mumford5

American mathematician 1937

Henry Hill2

Mobster 1943–2012

Andrew Pettigrew1

University professor 1944

Marjorie Garber1

American academic 1944

Adrienne Barbeau2

actress from the United States 1945

Allan Gurganus1

American novelist and story writer 1947

Lalu Prasad Yadav12

Indian politician 1948

Ingrid Newkirk48

British-American activist 1949

Matthew Engel1

English writer and editor 1951

Mark Goyder2

British author 1953

Ray Nagin16

politician, businessman 1956

Paulo Lins4

Brazilian author 1958

Hugh Laurie36

British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director 1959

Robert P. Reed1

American auxiliary bishop and religious servant 1959

Richard H. Ebright1

American molecular biologist 1959

Clare B. Dunkle7

American writer 1964

Carl Barron7

Australian comedian 1964

Justina Robson11

British writer 1968

Peter Dinklage1

American actor 1969

Marvi Sirmed1

Pakistani human rights courtesan 1972

Joshua Jackson16

Canadian actor 1978

Robert Anthony3

professional wrestler 1982

Prito Reza12

Photographer 1984

Claire Holt3

Australian actress and model 1988

Dan Howell6

British video blogger and radio personality 1991

Death

William Robertson (historian)2

Scottish historian, minister of religion, and Principal of … 1721–1793

Dugald Stewart6

Scottish philosopher and mathematician 1753–1828

Klemens von Metternich4

Austrian diplomat 1773–1859

William Johnson Cory2

English educator and poet 1823–1892

George Walter Thornbury2

British writer 1828–1876

David I. Walsh1

U.S. Senator from Massachusetts (born 1872) 1872–1947

Jean Webster15

American novelist 1876–1916

John L. Lewis9

American labor leader 1880–1969

Wolfgang Köhler12

German-American psychologist and phenomenologist 1887–1967

Lev Vygotsky4

Soviet psychologist 1896–1934

Julius Evola10

Italian philosopher and esotericist 1898–1974

Robert E. Howard145

American author 1906–1936

John H. Manley1

American physicist, group leader during the Manhattan Proje… 1907–1990

John Wayne27

American film actor 1907–1979

David Brinkley4

American journalist 1920–2003

Ruby Dee3

American actress 1922–2014

Robert Fogel5

American economist, historian 1926–2013

Ornette Coleman4

American jazz musician 1930–2015

Frank J. Low1

American astronomer 1933–2009

Martin Feldstein9

American economist 1939–2019

Eliyahu M. Goldratt10

Israeli physicist and management guru 1947–2011

Timothy McVeigh32

American army soldier, security guard, terrorist 1968–2001