June 11th, 1955

Born on June 11th, 1955

Age in days, weeks and months
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Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 853 days, exactly on August 17th, 2026, people who were born on June 11th, 1955 will be 26,000 days old!

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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, 1955

68

Duncan Steel

British astronomer

*June 11th, 1955, Midsomer Norton

68

Milan Novotny

Swiss composer and music educator

*June 11th, 1955, Czechoslovakia

66

Yuriy Sedykh

Soviet athletics competitor, hammer thrower

*June 11th, 1955, Novocherkassk †September 14th, 2021, Pontoise

68

Sylvie Flepp

French actress

*June 11th, 1955, Boulogne-Billancourt

20

Pierre Blaise

French actor

*June 11th, 1955, Moissac †August 31st, 1975, Moissac

68

Nick Dear

British writer for stage, screen and radio (born 1955)

*June 11th, 1955, Portsmouth

68

Alejandro Bracho

Mexican actor

*June 11th, 1955, Mexico City

62

Marie Gruber

German actress (1955-2018)

*June 11th, 1955, Wuppertal †February 8th, 2018, Berlin

61

Andreas Horlitz

German artist (1955-2016)

*June 11th, 1955, Bad Pyrmont †August 9th, 2016

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

74

Sherman Howard

American actor

*June 11th, 1949, Chicago

70

Barbara Minty

American writer

*June 11th, 1953, Seattle

28

Tems

Nigerian singer-songwriter

*June 11th, 1995, Lagos

46

Paul Kalkbrenner

German electronic musician

*June 11th, 1977, Leipzig

65

Jürgen Pföhler

German jurist and politician (CDU)

*June 11th, 1958, Wittlich

64

Hugh Laurie

English actor, comedian, director, musician and writer

*June 11th, 1959, Oxford

78

Adrienne Barbeau

American actress

*June 11th, 1945, Sacramento

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

83

Gene Wilder

American actor (1933–2016)

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

67

Joe Montana

American football player (born 1956)

*June 11th, 1956, New Eagle

66

Roland Moreno

French inventor (1945-2012)

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

37

Shia LaBeouf

American actor (born 1986)

*June 11th, 1986, Los Angeles

79

Barrie Stevens

Dutch actor, born in the United Kingdom

*June 11th, 1944, London

82

Volkmar Sigusch

German sexologist

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

72

Yasunari Kawabata

Japanese novelist (1899–1972)

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

69

Greta Van Susteren

American commentator, television personality, and lawyer

*June 11th, 1954, Appleton

71

Wolfgang Bosbach

German politician

*June 11th, 1952, Bergisch Gladbach

69

Johnny Neel

American vocalist, songwriter, and musician

*June 11th, 1954, Wilmington

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

Same year
Born in 1955

63

Pete Shelley

British singer-songwriter (1955–2018)

*April 17th, 1955, Leigh †December 6th, 2018, Tallinn

68

Bill Gates

American businessman, investor, and philanthropist (born 1955)

*October 28th, 1955, Seattle

68

Guillermo Lasso

47 president of Ecuador

*November 16th, 1955, Guayaquil

68

Tim Berners-Lee

English computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web (born 1955)

*June 8th, 1955, London

56

Steve Jobs

American entrepreneur; co-founder of Apple Inc. (1955–2011)

*February 24th, 1955, San Francisco †October 5th, 2011, Palo Alto

69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

68

Steve Jones

English guitarist

*September 3rd, 1955, Shepherd's Bush

69

Nicolas Sarkozy

President of France from 2007 to 2012

*January 28th, 1955, Paris

61

Bill Paxton

American actor and filmmaker (1955–2017)

*May 17th, 1955, Fort Worth †February 25th, 2017, Los Angeles

68

Caroline Loeb

French actress and singer

*October 5th, 1955, Neuilly-sur-Seine

68

Saw Swee Leong

Badminton player

*July 16th, 1955, Penang

69

Uwe Reinders

German association football player and manager

*January 19th, 1955, Essen

61

Jimmy LaFave

American musician

*July 12th, 1955, Wills Point †May 21st, 2017, Austin

69

Steve Mann

British chemist

*April 1st, 1955, Leeds

69

Jair Bolsonaro

President of Brazil from 2019 to 2022

*March 21st, 1955, Glicério

68

Adolf Sauerland

German politician

*June 4th, 1955, Duisburg

43

Gerhard Gundermann

German musician

*February 21st, 1955, Weimar †June 21st, 1998, Spreetal

69

Martin Jehne

German historian of classical antiquity

*January 27th, 1955, Hamburg

68

Isabelle Adjani

French actress

*June 27th, 1955, 17th arrondissement of Paris

68

Whoopi Goldberg

American actress, comedian, author and television personality

*November 13th, 1955, New York City

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Leap year

No: With 365 days 1955 is a normal year and no leap year.

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