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Births On This Day,
June, 11

  • 1956 Joe Montana

    . American football player

  • 1933 Gene Wilder

    American actor

  • 1910 Jacques Cousteau

    French biologist, author, inventor, co-developed the aqua-lung

  • 1864 Richard Strauss

    German composer, conductor

  • 1572 Ben Jonson

    English writer

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 11

  • 1979 John Wayne

    American actor, director, producer

  • 1974 Julius Evola

    Italian philosopher

  • 1936 Robert E. Howard

    American author

  • 1934 Lev Vygotsky

    Russian psychologist

  • 1859 Klemens von Metternich

    German/Austrian politician, 1st State Chancellor of the Austrian Empire

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