About the day » Wednesday July 11, 1928Calender converter

• Hoek, Spanbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1928)
• Antonetta Wilhelmina Deckers, 's-Hertogenbosch, Noord Brabant, Nederland († 1928)
• anna maria alberta (bertha) schers, helden-dorp († 1983)
• ? Hoeksma, Kerkrade, Limburg, Nederland († 1928)
• Catharina Agatha Maria Konijn, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland († 1983)
• Abraham Riemens, IJzendijke, Nederland († 1994)
• Audrey Ann Shope, Perry, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten († 2008)
• Arthur Julius Zevenbergen († 1985)
• Adriana Johanna Vreugdenhil, Klundert, Nederland († 2016)
• Albert Drent, Steenwijk († 2007)

• Alvah Mansur Tebbetts (59), San Bernardino (San Bernardino County) (California)
• Amandus Maria Vanneste (77), Rollegem-Kapelle,8880,West-Vlaanderen,België
• Arnoldus van Goch (71), ´s-Hertogenbosch, NL
• Aaltje de Roo (94), Ruinerwold
• Arnoldus Van Gogh (71), 's-Hertogenbosch
• Hoek (0), Spanbroek, Noord-Holland, Nederland
• Arthur Emmet Ellsworth (72), Albuquerque, Bernalillo, New Mexico, United States
• Bastiaan Rietveld (63), Rotterdam, ZH, Nederland
• Andrew Jackson Britt (85), Emory Gap, Roane County, Tennessee
• Aaltje Koobs de Roo (82)

• 1926 » Frederick Buechner, American minister, theologian, and author
• 1927 » Chris Leonard, English footballer
• 1927 » Theodore Maiman, American-Canadian physicist and engineer († 2007)
• 1928 » Andrea Veneracion, Filipina choirmaster († 2014)
• 1928 » Bobo Olson, American boxer († 2002)
• 1928 » Greville Janner, Baron Janner of Braunstone, Welsh-English lawyer and politician († 2015)
• 1929 » Danny Flores, American singer-songwriter and saxophonist († 2006)
• 1929 » David Kelly, Irish actor († 2012)
• 1930 » Harold Bloom, American literary critic († 2019)
• 1930 » Jack Alabaster, New Zealand cricketer

• 1897 » Patrick Jennings, Irish-Australian politician, 11th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1831)
• 1905 » Muhammad Abduh, Egyptian jurist and scholar (b. 1849)
• 1908 » Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis player (b. 1876)
• 1909 » Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (b. 1835)
• 1929 » Billy Mosforth, English footballer and engraver (b. 1857)
• 1937 » George Gershwin, American pianist, songwriter, and composer (b. 1898)
• 1959 » Charlie Parker, English cricketer, coach, and umpire (b. 1882)
• 1966 » Delmore Schwartz, American poet and short story writer (b. 1913)
• 1967 » Guy Favreau, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician, 28th Canadian Minister of Justice (b. 1917)
• 1971 » John W. Campbell, American journalist and author (b. 1910)

• 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 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 7.6 million citizens.
• January 1 » Boris Bazhanov defects through Iran. He is the only assistant of Joseph Stalin's secretariat to have defected from the Eastern Bloc.
• May 3 » The Jinan incident begins with the deaths of twelve Japanese civilians by Chinese forces in Jinan, China, which leads to Japanese retaliation and the deaths of over 2,000 Chinese civilians in the following days.
• August 27 » The Kellogg–Briand Pact outlawing war is signed by fifteen nations. Ultimately sixty-one nations will sign it.
• September 1 » Ahmet Zogu declares Albania to be a monarchy and proclaims himself king.
• October 28 » The "Indonesia Raya", now the national anthem, is first played during the Second Indonesian Youth Congress.
• December 6 » The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.

The temperature on July 11, 1928 was between 11.2 °C and 24.2 °C and averaged 17.8 °C. There was 10.9 hours of sunshine (66%). The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the southwest.