About the day » Sunday June 11, 1939Calender converter

• Deliana Maria Plomp, Rotterdam († 1945)
• Anthonia Pieternella van der Valk, Rotterdam († 2020)
• Loma Lapriel LOVELL († 2017)
• Johannes Antonius Hulst, Nibbixwoud († 1939)
• Elisabeth Jacoba Hollebrandse, Middelburg, Zeeland, Nederland († 2001)
• Laurin Trowbridge, Kendallville, IN († 1939)
• N.N. Analbers, Borne, 7620, Nederland († 1939)
• Carl Theodoor Koch, Haarlem († 1995)
• Hendrikus Herman Hubert Bijlsma, Brunssum, Limburg, Nederland († 2005)
• F.X. Schilthuizen, Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Nederland († 1989)

• Christiaan Kemper (63), Exloermond, Odoorn, Drenthe (NL)
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Daamen (73), Wessem
• Bernardina Beekman (83), Utrecht, Netherlands
• Castle Count Lothar of Dohna-Schlobitten (57), Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Germany
• Aafje Brouwer (65), Texel
• Antoon Bouw (61), Gemert
• Anna Maria Gertrudis Daamen (73), Wessem
• Albert Dekker (80), Doetinchem
• Anna Katharina DRENKER (68), Odenkirchen, Mönchengladbach, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
• Anje Dorenbos (97), Fulton (Whiteside, Illinois, USA)

• 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

• 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)
• 1963 » Thích Quảng Đức, Vietnamese monk and martyr (b. 1897)

• 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.
• In The Netherlands , there was from July 25, 1939 to August 10, 1939 the cabinet Colijn V, with Dr. H. Colijn (ARP) as prime minister.
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 10, 1939 to September 3, 1940 the cabinet De Geer II, with Jonkheer mr. D.J. de Geer (CHU) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 8.7 million citizens.
• April 9 » African-American singer Marian Anderson gives a concert at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied the use of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution.
• April 30 » The 1939–40 New York World's Fair opens.
• September 10 » World War II: The submarine HMSOxley is mistakenly sunk by the submarine HMSTriton near Norway and becomes the Royal Navy's first loss of a submarine in the war.
• September 21 » Romanian Prime Minister Armand Călinescu is assassinated by the Iron Guard.
• September 28 » World War II: Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union agree on a division of Poland.
• December 12 » HMSDuchess sinks after a collision with HMSBarham off the coast of Scotland with the loss of 124 men.

The temperature on June 11, 1939 was between 8.5 °C and 16.1 °C and averaged 11.9 °C. There was 3.9 mm of rain during 3.9 hours. There was 0.7 hours of sunshine (4%). The average windspeed was 2 Bft (weak wind) and was prevailing from the west.