June 11th, 1579

Born on June 11th, 1579

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 162,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 510 days, exactly on September 20th, 2025, people who were born on June 11th, 1579 will be 163,000 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

Born on June 11th, 1579

72

Jan Cornelisz. Geelvinck

Dutch politician (1579-1651)

*June 11th, 1579, Amsterdam †November 9th, 1651, Amsterdam

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28

Tems

Nigerian singer-songwriter

*June 11th, 1995, Lagos

65

Ben Jonson

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

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

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

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

Otto von Münchhausen

German botanist (1716–1774)

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

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

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

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

66

Roland Moreno

French inventor (1945-2012)

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

82

Volkmar Sigusch

German sexologist

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

24

Kai Havertz

German association football player (born 1999)

*June 11th, 1999, Aachen

79

Barrie Stevens

Dutch actor, born in the United Kingdom

*June 11th, 1944, London

87

Douglas Campbell

Canadian actor (1922–2009)

*June 11th, 1922, Glasgow †October 6th, 2009, Montreal

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46

Thomas Dempster

British philologist, historian, poet and etruscologist

*August 23rd, 1579, Aberdeenshire †September 6th, 1625, Bologna

69

Tirso de Molina

Spanish writer c. 1583-c.1648

*March 24th, 1579, Madrid †February 20th, 1649, Almazán

60

Johannes Meursius

Dutch philologist and historian

*February 9th, 1579, Loosduinen district †September 20th, 1639, Sorø

52

Tokugawa Hidetada

Japanese shogun (1579–1632)

*May 2nd, 1579, Hamamatsu †March 14th, 1632, Edo Castle

45

John Fletcher

English Jacobean playwright (1579–1625)

*November 30th, 1579, Rye †August 1st, 1625, London

65

Luis Vélez de Guevara

Spanish writer

*August 1st, 1579, Écija †November 10th, 1644, Madrid

59

Martin de Porres

Dominican lay brother and saint

*December 9th, 1579, Lima †November 3rd, 1639, Lima

67

François de Bassompierre

French courtier and Marshal of France (1579-1646)

*April 12th, 1579, Haroué †October 12th, 1646, Provins

55

Levin Ludwig Hahn

German soldier

*December 3rd, 1579, Seeburg †May 18th, 1635, Seeburg

64

Hermann Samson

German-Baltic clergyman and pedagogue

*January 1st, 1579, Riga †December 16th, 1643, Riga

75

Elisabeth of Hesse-Darmstadt

German countess (1579-1655)

*November 29th, 1579, Darmstadt †July 17th, 1655, Wehen

70

Louis I, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen

German prince

*June 17th, 1579, Dessau †January 17th, 1650, Köthen

41

Janusz Radziwiłł

(1579-1620)

*July 2nd, 1579, Vilnius †December 3rd, 1620, Czarlin

77

Frans Snyders

Flemish painter (1579–1657)

*November 11th, 1579, Antwerp †August 19th, 1657, Antwerp

61

Friedrich Hortleder

German politician and historian (1579-1640)

*March 22nd, 1579, Ampfurth †June 5th, 1640, Jena

49

Jens Munk

Danish explorer

*June 3rd, 1579, Arendal †June 28th, 1628, Copenhagen

70

Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

Margrave of Brandenburg-Bayreuth

*January 23rd, 1579, Königsberg †February 11th, 1649, Bayreuth

73

Federico Baldissera Bartolomeo Cornaro

Catholic cardinal

*November 16th, 1579, Venice †June 5th, 1653, Rome

87

Augustus the Younger, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg

Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel (1579-1666)

*April 10th, 1579, Dannenberg (Elbe) †September 17th, 1666, Wolfenbüttel

72

Arthur Dee

English physician and alchemist (1579-1651)

*July 23rd, 1579, London Borough of Richmond upon Thames †August 31st, 1651, Norwich

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1579 is a normal year and no leap year.

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