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Jun 11 1403

John IV Duke of Brabant born in Arras France (d. 1427)

Jun 11 1430

Edmund Tudor 1st Earl of Richmond and patriarch of the Tudor Dynasty born in Much Hadham Palace Hertfordshire England (d. 1456)

Jun 11 1456

Anne Neville English queen wife of Richard III of England born in Warwick Castle Warwickshire (d. 1485)

Jun 11 1540

Barnabe Googe English poet born in Alvingham Lincolnshire (d. 1594)

Jun 11 1588

George Wither English writer (Abuses Stript and Whipt) born in Hampshire England (d. 1667)

Jun 11 1672

Francesco Antonio Bonporti Italian priest and amateur composer born in Padua Italy (d. 1749)

Jun 11 1696

Francis Edward James Keith Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal born in Inverugie Castle Scotland (d. 1758)

Jun 11 1697

Francesco Antonio Vallotti Italian organist composer and theorist born in Vercelli Piedmont Italy (d. 1780)

Jun 11 1704

Jos Antnio Carlos de Seixas Portuguese composer born in Coimbra Portugal (d. 1742)

Jun 11 1713

Edward Capell English critic born in Troston Hall Suffolk England (d. 1781)

Jun 11 1719

Franz K von Velbruck German free masonprince-bishop of Luik

Jun 11 1723

Johann Georg Palitzsch German astronomer 1st saw Halleys comet on return born in Prohlis Dresden Germany (d. 1788)

Jun 11 1740

Luigi Gatti Italian composer born in Lazise Verona (d. 1817)

Jun 11 1741

Joseph Warren American physician and soldier born in Roxbury Province of Massachusetts Bay (d. 1775)

Jun 11 1776

John Constable English landscape painter (Hay Wain) born in East Bergholt Suffolk England (d. 1837)

Jun 11 1807

James F. Schenck American rear admiral (Mexican-American War) born in Franklin Ohio (d. 1882)

Jun 11 1808

Charles Henry Poor U.S. Navy Officer born in Cambridge Massachusetts (d. 1882)

Jun 11 1815

Julia Margaret Cameron English photographer born in Calcutta India (d. 1879)

Jun 11 1816

Robert Huston Milroy American Major General (Union Army) born in Salem Indiana (d. 1890)

Jun 11 1822

Samuel Davis Sturgis American Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Shippensburg Pennsylvania (d. 1889)

Jun 11 1823

James Lawson Kemper Major General (Confederate Army) born in Madison County Virginia (d. 1895)

Jun 11 1829

Hendrik Gerhard Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic) born in Delft Netherlands (d. 1886)

Jun 11 1840

Henri Braekeleer Flemish painter born in Antwerp Belgium (d. 1888)

Jun 11 1842

Prince Alfred Liechtenstein noble and politician born in Prague Czech Republic (d. 1907)

Jun 11 1842

Carl von Linde German engineer and chemist who invented mechanical refrigeration born in Berndorf Germany (d. 1934)

Jun 11 1846

William Louis Marshall American general and engineer born in Washington Kentucky (d. 1920)

Jun 11 1847

Millicent Fawcett English leader of womens rights born in London (d. 1929)

Jun 11 1861

Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba Ukrainian-Russian composer born in Zhytomyr Ukraine (d. 1915)

Jun 11 1863

Eduard David German politician (constitution of Weimar) born in Ediger-Eller Germany (d. 1930)

Jun 11 1864

Richard Strauss German composer (Don Quixote) born in Munich Germany (d. 1949)

Jun 11 1865

J. H. Leopold Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam) born in s-Hertogenbosch Netherlands (d. 1925)

Jun 11 1867

Charles Fabry French physicist discoverer of ozone layer in upper atmosphere born in Marseille France (d. 1945)

Jun 11 1874

Richard Sthr Austrian composer born in Vienna Austria (d. 1967)

Jun 11 1184 BC Trojan War Troy is sacked and burned according to calculations by Eratosthenes

Jun 11 1144 Basilica of St Denis is dedicated near Paris the first fully Gothic church

Jun 11 1345 Alexios Apokaukos chief minister of the Byzantine Empire is lynched by political prisoners

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