About the day » Saturday June 11, 1938Calender converter

• Bennie Hageman, Didam († 1989)
• Anna Christine Guilbertha Frerejean, La Louvière, Hainaut, Belgium († 2017)
• Goebertus, 's-Gravenhage, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Jennifer Jane Oram († 1999)
• Anita Joanna Paula VANROOSE, Oostende, 35013, West-Vlaanderen, Belgique († 2017)
• Lowell Gene Roy [Wk Ob], Hickory Nut community, Pulaski County, Kentucky († 2011)
• Joanna Pieternella den Beer, Axel,Zeeland,Nederland († 1941)
• Antonius Gerardus Hermanus Wijtten, Terwolde († 2008)
• Albertus Keizer, Amsterdam († 1940)
• Leen Rodenberg, Schiedam, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

• Arie Sliedrecht (73), Jutphaas,, Utrecht, Nederland
• Aleijda Hendrina BOOMS (70), Silvolde
• Barbera van der Haar (79), Hengelo
• Aafje Maria Takken (57), Zwaag
• Adrianus van Kouteren (50), Ooltgensplaat, Oostflakkee, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands
• Aleijda Hendrina Booms (70), Silvolde
• Achille Camiel Corneel DEZEURE (18), Izenberge
• Albert Worst (69), Utrecht
• Aaltje Schaij (77), Kortenhoef
• Arend Kleinlugtenbeld (67), Ommen

• 1932 » Athol Fugard, South African-American actor, director, and playwright
• 1932 » Tim Sainsbury, English businessman and politician, Minister of State for Trade
• 1933 » Gene Wilder, American actor, director, and screenwriter († 2016)
• 1937 » Chad Everett, American actor and director († 2012)
• 1937 » Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1939 » Jackie Stewart, Scottish race car driver and sportscaster
• 1939 » Rachael Heyhoe Flint, Baroness Heyhoe Flint, English cricketer and journalist († 2017)
• 1942 » Parris Glendening, American politician, 59th Governor of Maryland
• 1943 » Henry Hill, American mobster († 2012)
• 1945 » Adrienne Barbeau, American actress

• 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)
• 1955 » Pierre Levegh, French race car driver (b. 1905)
• 1962 » Chhabi Biswas, Indian actor and director (b. 1900)

• 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 June 24, 1937 to July 25, 1939 the cabinet Colijn IV, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.6 million citizens.
• May 26 » In the United States, the House Un-American Activities Committee begins its first session.
• June 25 » Dr. Douglas Hyde is inaugurated as the first President of Ireland.
• July 20 » The United States Department of Justice files suit in New York City against the motion picture industry charging violations of the Sherman Antitrust Act in regards to the studio system. The case would eventually result in a break-up of the industry in 1948.
• August 20 » Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
• October 14 » The first flight of the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk fighter plane.
• December 17 » Otto Hahn discovers the nuclear fission of the heavy element uranium, the scientific and technological basis of nuclear energy.

The temperature on June 11, 1938 was between 5.3 °C and 18.4 °C and averaged 12.7 °C. There was 8.9 hours of sunshine (53%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west-northwest.