June 6th, 1211

Born on June 6th, 1211

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 296,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 55 days, exactly on August 2nd, 2024, people who were born on June 6th, 1211 will be 297,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on June 6th?

June 6th, 1912

The largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century began, forming the volcano Novarupta in the Alaska Peninsula.

June 6th, 1894

Governor Davis Hanson Waite ordered the Colorado state militia to protect and support miners engaged in a five-month strike in Cripple Creek.

June 6th, 1882

The Shewan army defeated Gojjame forces at the Battle of Embabo, an event that contributed to the supremacy of Shewa within the Ethiopian Empire.

June 6th, 1862

American Civil War: The Union Army's victory in the First Battle of Memphis virtually eradicated the Confederate naval presence on the Mississippi River.

June 6th, 1822

Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian voyageur, was accidentally shot in the stomach; medical investigations of his injury led to a greater understanding of the processes of digestion.

June 6th, 1813

War of 1812: The British ambushed an American encampment near present-day Stoney Creek, Ontario, capturing two senior officers.

June 6th, 1749

A plot by Muslim slaves in Malta to assassinate Manuel Pinto da Fonseca of the Knights Hospitaller was uncovered.

June 6th, 1674

Shivaji (pictured), who led a resistance to free the Maratha from the Bijapur Sultanate and the Mughal Empire, was crowned the first chhatrapati of the Maratha Empire.

June 6th, 1513

War of the League of Cambrai: Milanese forces with Swiss mercenaries defeated the French in Novara, forcing them to withdraw from the Duchy of Milan and Italy.

June 6th, 2021

A man rammed a pickup truck into Muslim Pakistani Canadian pedestrians in Ontario, Canada, killing 4 members of the same family and injuring the family's nine year old son.

June 6th, 2017

Syrian civil war: The Syrian Democratic Forces (soldiers pictured) opened the Second Battle of Raqqa, the final phase of the Raqqa campaign, capturing the de facto capital of the Islamic State four months later.

June 6th, 1985

The remains of Josef Mengele, a Nazi physician notorious for performing human experiments on Auschwitz inmates, were exhumed in Embu das Artes, Brazil.

June 6th, 1982

Falklands War: The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Cardiff engaged and destroyed a British Army helicopter in a friendly-fire incident.

June 6th, 1971

Vietnam War: Australian forces attacked a heavily fortified North Vietnamese base camp at the Battle of Long Khánh.

June 6th, 1944

World War II: Operation Overlord, the largest amphibious military operation in history, began with Allied troops landing on the beaches of Normandy in France.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 6th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 6th?

61

Diego Velázquez

Spanish painter (1599-1660)

*June 6th, 1599, Seville †August 6th, 1660, Madrid

64

Dag Erik Pedersen

Norwegian racing cyclist and cycling journalist

*June 6th, 1959, Skien †June 3rd, 2024, Helgeroa

80

Thomas Mann

German novelist and Nobel Prize laureate (1875–1955)

*June 6th, 1875, Lübeck †August 12th, 1955, Zürich

77

Robert Englund

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director

*June 6th, 1947, Glendale

79

Heinrich Rohrer

Swiss physicist (1933-2013)

*June 6th, 1933, Buchs †May 16th, 2013, Wollerau

72

Dwight Twilley

American singer

*June 6th, 1951, Tulsa †October 18th, 2023, Tulsa

69

Sukarno

1st President of the Republic of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967

*June 6th, 1901, Surabaya †June 21st, 1970, Jakarta

70

Harvey Fierstein

American actor and playwright

*June 6th, 1954, Brooklyn

65

Colin Quinn

American comedian and actor

*June 6th, 1959, Brooklyn

28

Alexander Rossipal

German association football player

*June 6th, 1996, Stuttgart

34

Gavin Hoyte

English-Trinidadian footballer (born 1990)

*June 6th, 1990, Leytonstone

90

Albert II of Belgium

Sixth king of the Belgians

*June 6th, 1934, Laeken

53

Erich Marcks

German general

*June 6th, 1891, Schöneberg †June 12th, 1944, Saint-Lô

68

Björn Borg

Swedish tennis player

*June 6th, 1956, Stockholm

89

George Deukmejian

Governor of California from 1983 to 1991

*June 6th, 1928, Menands †May 8th, 2018, Long Beach

55

Peter Friedrich Engstfeld

German organist (1793-1848)

*June 6th, 1793, Heiligenhaus †October 4th, 1848, Duisburg

71

Klaus Tennstedt

German conductor (1926-1998)

*June 6th, 1926, Merseburg †January 11th, 1998, Heikendorf

43

Robert Falcon Scott

Royal Navy officer and explorer

*June 6th, 1868, Plymouth †March 29th, 1912, Ross Ice Shelf

57

Max Casella

American actor

*June 6th, 1967, Washington, D.C.

30

Robert Costa

Spanish footballer

*June 6th, 1994, Girona

63

Michel Dernies

Belgian cyclist

*June 6th, 1961, Nivelles

47

Frédéric Chau

French actor and humorist

*June 6th, 1977, Ho Chi Minh City

92

David Scott

American engineer, retired U.S. Air Force officer, former test pilot, and former NASA astronaut

*June 6th, 1932, San Antonio

80

Tommie Smith

American track and field athlete

*June 6th, 1944, Clarksville

79

Ivan Goncharov

Russian novelist and official (1812–1891)

*June 6th, 1812, Ulyanovsk †September 15th, 1891, Saint Petersburg

88

Isaiah Berlin

Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philosopher and historian of ideas (1909-1997)

*June 6th, 1909, Riga †November 5th, 1997, Oxford

40

Regiomontanus

German mathematician and astronomer (1436–1476)

*June 6th, 1436, Königsberg in Bayern †July 6th, 1476, Rome

63

Carole Baskin

American animal rights activist

*June 6th, 1961, Bexar County

78

Pierre Corneille

French tragedian (1606–1684)

*June 6th, 1606, Rouen †October 1st, 1684, Paris

64

Steve Vai

American guitarist

*June 6th, 1960, Carle Place

44

Italo Balbo

Italian Marshal of the Air Force and minister

*June 6th, 1896, Quartesana †June 28th, 1940, Tobruk

32

Hyuna

South Korean singer-songwriter, rapper and model

*June 6th, 1992, Seoul

67

Ferdinand Braun

German inventor and physicist (1909 Nobel Prize)

*June 6th, 1850, Fulda †April 20th, 1918, New York City

62

Richard Smalley

American chemist

*June 6th, 1943, Akron †October 28th, 2005, Houston

61

Jason Isaacs

British actor (born 1963)

*June 6th, 1963, Liverpool

57

Paul Giamatti

American actor (born 1967)

*June 6th, 1967, New Haven

75

Sunil Dutt

Hindi film actor and politician

*June 6th, 1929, Jhelum †May 25th, 2005, Mumbai

36

Daniel Rodríguez Vázquez

Spanish footballer

*June 6th, 1988, Betanzos

74

Lester Matthews

English actor (1900-1975)

*June 6th, 1900, Nottingham †June 5th, 1975, Los Angeles

46

Wen Tianxiang

Chinese politician of the Song Dynasty

*June 6th, 1236, Ji'an †January 9th, 1283, Khanbaliq

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Public holidays on June 6th

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1211 is a normal year and no leap year.

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