Portal:History of science/Selected anniversaries/June 11
- 1723 - Birth of Johann Georg Palitzsch, German astronomer (d. 1788)
- 1770 - Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
- 1817 - Death of William Gregor, English mineralogist (b. 1761)
- 1842 - Birth of Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
- 1867 - Birth of Charles Fabry, French physicist (d. 1945)
- 1903 - Death of Nikolai Bugaev, Russian mathematician (b. 1837)
- 1910 - Birth of Jacques-Yves Cousteau, French explorer and inventor (d. 1997)
- 1937 - Birth of Robin Warren, Australian pathologist and Nobel Prize laureate