June 11th, 1689

Born on June 11th, 1689

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 122,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 688 days, exactly on March 17th, 2026, people who were born on June 11th, 1689 will be 123,000 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

58

Otto von Münchhausen

German botanist (1716–1774)

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

83

Gene Wilder

American actor (1933–2016)

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

72

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist (1899–1972)

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

70

Barbara Minty

American writer

*June 11th, 1953, Seattle

78

Adrienne Barbeau

American actress

*June 11th, 1945, Sacramento

58

Christian Streich

German association football player and manager

*June 11th, 1965, Weil am Rhein

74

Giovanni Antonio Giay

Italian composer

*June 11th, 1690, Turin †September 10th, 1764, Turin

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

Ben Jonson

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

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

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

Same year
Born in 1689

54

Nicolas Lancret

French painter (1690-1743)

*January 22nd, 1689, Paris †September 14th, 1743, Paris

66

Montesquieu

French social commentator and political thinker (1689-1755)

*January 18th, 1689, Château de la Brède †February 10th, 1755, Paris

54

Archduchess Maria Magdalena of Austria

Austrian Royal

*March 26th, 1689, Vienna †May 1st, 1743, Vienna

61

Jacques I, Prince of Monaco

Prince consort of Monaco

*November 21st, 1689, Torigni-sur-Vire †April 23rd, 1751, Hôtel Matignon

73

Mary Wortley Montagu

Noblewoman; writer and poet from England, editor (1689-1762)

*May 15th, 1689, Nottingham †August 21st, 1762, Nottingham

71

Samuel Richardson

English writer and printer (1689–1761)

*August 19th, 1689, Derbyshire †July 4th, 1761, London

52

Blas de Lezo

Spanish admiral (1689-1741)

*February 3rd, 1689, birth house of Blas de Lezo †September 7th, 1741, Cartagena de Indias

81

Pierre-Joseph Alary

French ecclesiastic and writer

*March 19th, 1689, Paris †December 15th, 1770

60

John V of Portugal

Portuguese king (1689-1750)

*October 22nd, 1689, Lisbon †July 31st, 1750, Lisbon

30

Marie Anne de Bourbon

French noble

*April 18th, 1689, Versailles †March 21st, 1720, Paris

75

Arthur Dobbs

Governor of North Carolina from 1754 to 1765

*April 2nd, 1689, Girvan †March 28th, 1765, Brunswick Town

62

Kilián Ignaz Dientzenhofer

Czech architect

*September 1st, 1689, Prague †December 18th, 1751, Prague

66

Christian, Landgrave of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

Landgrave of Hesse-Eschwege, later of Hesse-Wanfried-Rheinfels

*July 17th, 1689, Wanfried †October 21st, 1755, Eschwege

61

Johann Christoph Richter

German merchant and naturalist (1689-1751)

*October 29th, 1689, Leipzig †February 27th, 1751, Leipzig

66

Gebhard Christian Bastineller

German civil law notary

*May 15th, 1689, Halle (Saale) †October 19th, 1755, Lutherstadt Wittenberg

67

Josep Prades i Gallent

Organist and composer

*August 21st, 1689, Villahermosa del Río †August 11th, 1757, Villahermosa del Río

54

Wenzel Lorenz Reiner

Czech painter (1689-1743)

*August 8th, 1689, Prague †October 9th, 1743, Prague

63

Andreas Jakob von Dietrichstein

Archbishop of Salzburg

*May 27th, 1689, Jihlava †January 5th, 1753, Salzburg

82

Jan Klemens Branicki

Polish noble (1689-1771)

*September 21st, 1689, Białystok †October 9th, 1771, Białystok

78

Gaspare Diziani

Italian painter (1689-1767)

*January 24th, 1689, Belluno †August 17th, 1767, Venice

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1689 is a normal year and no leap year.

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