About the day » Friday June 11, 1926Calender converter

• Donald Patterson, Lancaster, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 1996)
• Annie Marie Kellum, Weir, Choctaw County, Mississippi, United States († 2008)
• Bernadina Jacoba Lucassen, Amsterdam, Nederland
• Apolonia Kreuk, Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)
• Als dood geboren aangegeven zoon Hoogervorst, Leimuiden († 1926)
• Barbara Beth Launsberry, Herrin (Williamson County) (Illinois) († 2005)
• Corrie Bosmans van den, Geldrop († 2012)
• Cornelis Adrianus Weijtmans, Berkel-Enschot,, Noord-Brabant, Nederland († 1986)
• Debora Pos, 's Gravenhage († 1942)
• Anthonie KNOOP, Wijk bij Duurstede († 2010)

• Abraham Sabelis (70), Haarlem, Noord Holland, Nederland
• Alida Maria Binnekant (73), Vashon, Kent County, Washington
• Antonie Bernardus Schueler (0), Nijkerk
• Antje van der Lelij (72), Den Haag
• Albert Jarigs Van Der Meer (51), Hoogeveen, Drente
• Amos Shelly (68)
• Arnoldus Morsman (67), Enschede
• Anna Swaans (76), Tilburg, Noord-Brabant, Nederland
• anna swaans (76), tilburg
• Clara C. Merkel (57), Rochester, Monroe, New York, Verenigde Staten

• 1922 » Jean Sutherland Boggs, Peruvian-Canadian historian, academic, and civil servant († 2014)
• 1922 » Michael Cacoyannis, Greek Cypriot director, producer, and screenwriter († 2011)
• 1925 » Johnny Esaw, Canadian sportscaster († 2013)
• 1925 » William Styron, American novelist and essayist († 2006)
• 1926 » Carlisle Floyd, American composer and educator
• 1927 » Beryl Grey, English ballerina
• 1927 » John W. O'Malley, American Catholic historian, academic and Jesuit priest
• 1927 » Kit Pedler, English parapsychologist and author († 1981)
• 1928 » Queen Fabiola of Belgium († 2014)
• 1929 » Ayhan Şahenk, Turkish businessman († 2001)

• 1911 » James Curtis Hepburn, American physician and missionary (b. 1815)
• 1913 » Mahmud Shevket Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 279th Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1856)
• 1914 » Adolphus Frederick V, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (b. 1848)
• 1920 » William F. Halsey, Sr., American captain (b. 1853)
• 1924 » Théodore Dubois, French organist, composer, and educator (b. 1837)
• 1927 » William Attewell, English cricketer (b. 1861)
• 1934 » Lev Vygotsky, Belarusian-Russian psychologist and theorist (b. 1896)
• 1936 » Robert E. Howard, American author and poet (b. 1906)
• 1937 » R. J. Mitchell, English engineer, designed the Supermarine Spitfire (b. 1895)
• 1941 » Daniel Carter Beard, American author and illustrator, founded the Boy Scouts of America (b. 1850)

• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 4, 1925 to March 8, 1926 the cabinet Colijn I, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from March 8, 1926 to August 10, 1929 the cabinet De Geer I, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 7.4 million citizens.
• January 8 » Abdul-Aziz ibn Saud is crowned King of Hejaz.
• June 23 » The College Board administers the first SAT exam.
• July 23 » Fox Film buys the patents of the Movietone sound system for recording sound onto film.
• August 6 » Gertrude Ederle becomes the first woman to swim across the English Channel.
• August 20 » Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
• November 11 » The United States Numbered Highway System is established.

The temperature on June 11, 1926 was between 7.4 °C and 17.7 °C and averaged 12.5 °C. There was 2.8 mm of rain. There was 6.9 hours of sunshine (41%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.