About the day » Monday June 11, 1979Calender converter

• Eduard Constantijn Rijpsma, Vlaardingen, Zuid-Holland, Nederland
• Gerald Essers

• Antonio De Hoyos (53), Poth, Wilson, Texas, Verenigde Staten
• Albertdina Franken (16), Doornspijk (Oosterwolde), Nederland
• Cornelis van Haperen (82), Zevenbergen
• Actor Marion Robert (John Wayne) "The Duke" Morrison DNA6 tbc (72), Victoria de Durango, Estado de Durango, Mexico
• Bernard Linnemann (84), Haren (Ems)
• Anna Ravensbergen (73), Waddinxveen ( Z-H )
• Aaltje Verbeek (79)
• Charles Hamilton MAITLAND (93), Maryborough, Queensland, Australia
• Cornelia Susanna Marie van Daal (71), Utrecht,Utrecht,Utrecht,Nederland
• Djoerd de Vries (67), -

• 1976 » Reiko Tosa, Japanese runner
• 1977 » Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
• 1978 » Daryl Tuffey, New Zealand cricketer
• 1978 » Joshua Jackson, Canadian-American actor
• 1979 » Ali Boussaboun, Moroccan-Dutch footballer
• 1979 » Amy Duggan, Australian footballer and sportscaster
• 1980 » Yhency Brazoban, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 » Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
• 1981 » Kristo Tohver, Estonian footballer and referee
• 1982 » Vanessa Boslak, French pole vaulter

• 1970 » Frank Laubach, American missionary and mystic (b. 1884)
• 1974 » Eurico Gaspar Dutra, Brazilian general and politician, 16th President of Brazil (b. 1883)
• 1974 » Julius Evola, Italian philosopher and author (b. 1898)
• 1976 » Jim Konstanty, American baseball player (b. 1917)
• 1979 » Alice Dalgliesh, Trinidadian-American author and publisher (b. 1893)
• 1979 » John Wayne, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1907)
• 1983 » Ghanshyam Das Birla, Indian businessman and politician (b. 1894)
• 1984 » Enrico Berlinguer, Italian politician (b. 1922)
• 1986 » Chesley Bonestell, American painter and illustrator (b. 1888)
• 1991 » Cromwell Everson, South African composer (b. 1925)

• Koningin Juliana (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from September 4, 1948 till April 30, 1980 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from Monday, December 19, 1977 to Friday, September 11, 1981 the cabinet Van Agt I, with Mr. A.A.M. van Agt (CDA/KVP) as prime minister.
• The Netherlands had about 14.0 million citizens.
• May 9 » Iranian Jewish businessman Habib Elghanian is executed by firing squad in Tehran, prompting the mass exodus of the once 100,000-strong Jewish community of Iran.
• June 18 » SALT II is signed by the United States and the Soviet Union.
• July 16 » Iraqi President Ahmed Hassan al-Bakr resigns and is replaced by Saddam Hussein.
• July 17 » Nicaraguan dictator General Anastasio Somoza Debayle resigns and flees to Miami, Florida, United States.
• September 7 » The Chrysler Corporation asks the United States government for US$1.5billion to avoid bankruptcy.
• October 1 » The MTR, the rapid transit railway system in Hong Kong, opens.

The temperature on June 11, 1979 was between 10.1 °C and 18.6 °C and averaged 13.5 °C. There was 5.5 mm of rain during 5.7 hours. There was 0.1 hours of sunshine (1%). The almost completely overcast was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the south-southwest.