June 11th, 1508

Born on June 11th, 1508

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 188,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 577 days, exactly on November 27th, 2025, people who were born on June 11th, 1508 will be 189,000 days old!

... in seconds, minutes and hours

What happened on June 11th?

June 11th, 2012

Two earthquakes struck northern Afghanistan, triggering a massive landslide that buried a village and killed 75 people.

June 11th, 2008

Canadian prime minister Stephen Harper apologised to the First Nations for past governments' policies of forced assimilation.

June 11th, 2007

Mudslides caused by heavy monsoon rainfall and exacerbated by hill cutting killed at least 128 people in Chittagong, Bangladesh.

June 11th, 2001

Robert Edward Dyer was sentenced to 16 years' imprisonment for conducting a six-month-long letter-bomb campaign against the British supermarket chain Tesco.

June 11th, 1989

In one of the most famous upsets in FA Cup history, Sutton United, a team in the fifth tier of English league football, defeated top-tier Coventry City.

June 11th, 1982

Steven Spielberg's E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial was released, and went on to set the record for the highest-grossing film of all time, which it held for 11 years.

June 11th, 1963

Vietnamese monk Thích Quảng Đức burned himself to death in Saigon to protest the persecution of Buddhists by Catholic South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem's administration.

June 11th, 1962

American criminals Clarence Anglin, John Anglin and Frank Morris escaped from Alcatraz Island, one of the United States' most famous prisons.

June 11th, 1923

Kitosh, an African labourer, died after having been flogged by his British employer, in a case that eventually led to reform of the legal system of the Kenya Colony.

June 11th, 1920

During their national convention in Chicago, Republican Party leaders gathered in negotiations at The Blackstone Hotel to select their presidential candidate, leading to the phrase "smoke-filled room".

June 11th, 1917

Alexander (pictured) was crowned King of Greece, succeeding his father Constantine I, who had abdicated.

June 11th, 1914

Around 2,000 members of European society attended a ball at Kenwood House, England, in one of the last major social events before the outbreak of the First World War.

June 11th, 1847

Prince Afonso (pictured) died at the age of two, leaving his father Pedro II, the last emperor of Brazil, without a male heir.

June 11th, 1837

Tensions between Yankees and Irish Americans in Boston, Massachusetts, erupted in the Broad Street Riot.

June 11th, 1775

The 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.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on June 11th

Same Day
Who's birthday is on June 11th?

28

Tems

Nigerian singer-songwriter

*June 11th, 1995, Lagos

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

65

Ben Jonson

English playwright, poet, and actor (1572–1637)

*June 11th, 1572, Westminster †August 6th, 1637, London

83

Gene Wilder

American actor (1933–2016)

*June 11th, 1933, Milwaukee †August 29th, 2016, Stamford

70

Barbara Minty

American writer

*June 11th, 1953, Seattle

78

Adrienne Barbeau

American actress

*June 11th, 1945, Sacramento

72

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist (1899–1972)

*June 11th, 1899, Osaka †April 16th, 1972, Zushi

58

Christian Streich

German association football player and manager

*June 11th, 1965, Weil am Rhein

54

Peter Dinklage

American actor (born 1969)

*June 11th, 1969, Morristown

37

Shia LaBeouf

American actor (born 1986)

*June 11th, 1986, Los Angeles

58

Otto von Münchhausen

German botanist (1716–1774)

*June 11th, 1716, Hamelin †July 13th, 1774, Pattensen

64

Hugh Laurie

English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer

*June 11th, 1959, Oxford

65

Jürgen Pföhler

German jurist and politician (CDU)

*June 11th, 1958, Wittlich

28

Anne Neville

Queen of England from 1483 to 1485

*June 11th, 1456, Warwick Castle †March 16th, 1485, Westminster

66

Roland Moreno

French inventor (1945-2012)

*June 11th, 1945, Cairo †April 29th, 2012, 6th arrondissement of Paris

87

Jacques Cousteau

French Naval Officer who co-invented open circuit demand scuba

*June 11th, 1910, Saint-André-de-Cubzac †June 25th, 1997, 17th arrondissement of Paris

82

Volkmar Sigusch

German sexologist

*June 11th, 1940, Bad Freienwalde †February 7th, 2023

63

Wilhelm von Grumbach

German adventurer

*June 11th, 1503, Rimpar †April 28th, 1567, Gotha

24

Kai Havertz

German association football player (born 1999)

*June 11th, 1999, Aachen

Same year
Born in 1508

71

Andrea Palladio

Italian architect (1508–1580)

*October 31st, 1508, Padua †August 19th, 1580, Vicenza

47

Humayun

Mughal Emperor from 1530 to 1540 and 1555 to 1556

*March 6th, 1508, Kabul †January 27th, 1556, Delhi

78

Primož Trubar

Carniolan writer, Protestant reformer (1508-1586)

*June 19th, 1508, Rašica †June 28th, 1586, Tübingen

58

Pietro Carnesecchi

Italian humanist (1509-1567)

*December 24th, 1508, Florence †October 1st, 1567, Rome

70

Alessandro Piccolomini

Italian writer and philosopher, titular archbishop of Patrae

*June 13th, 1508, Siena †March 12th, 1579, Siena

51

Ercole II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara

Italian noble (1508-1559)

*April 5th, 1508, Ferrara †October 3rd, 1559, Ferrara

51

Andreas von Barby

German university teacher (1508-1559)

*July 24th, 1508, Loburg †August 3rd, 1559, Roskilde

71

Franz Joe͏̈l

Hungarian pharmacologist

*September 1st, 1508, Sopron †October 20th, 1579, Greifswald

46

Gemma Frisius

Frisian physician, mathematician and cartographer (1508–1555)

*December 8th, 1508, Dokkum †May 25th, 1555, Leuven

47

Sebastian von Heusenstamm

Archbishop of Mainz

*March 16th, 1508, Frankfurt †March 18th, 1555, Eltville am Rhein

41

Francis, Duke of

German prince

*November 23rd, 1508, Uelzen †November 23rd, 1549, Gifhorn

55

Thomas Naogeorgus

Playwright

*December 21st, 1508, Straubing †December 29th, 1563, Wiesloch

76

Simon Sulzer

Swiss theologian (1508-1585)

*September 23rd, 1508, Schattenhalb †June 22nd, 1585, Basel

52

Georg Sabinus

German writer and diplomat (1508-1560)

*May 3rd, 1508, Brandenburg an der Havel †December 2nd, 1560, Frankfurt (Oder)

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Leap year

Yes: 1508 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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