Top 10 June 11 Birthdays
Dishonorable Mention: June 11, 1888: Bartolomeo Vanzetti. He and Nicola Sacco were almost certainly innocent of the murder that got them executed in 1927. But they were still terrorists. Dishonorable Mention: June 11, 1943: Henry Hill. The real guy behind the story of Goodfellas, he had no one to blame for what happened to him but himself. In the end, he chose not to "live the rest of his life like a schnook," and broke his witness-protection agreement, and went back to prison. Dishonorable Mention: June 11, 1960: Mehmet Oz. The heart surgeon left credibility to push pseudoscience, and he is now the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania, a Trump ally. 10. June 11, 1572: Ben Jonson. The author of Every Man In His Humour was regarded as the 2nd-greatest writer in the English language during the time of William Shakespeare. 9. June 11, 1880: Jeannette Rankin. The Republican from Montana served 2 terms in the U.S. Congress: 1917-18 and 1941-42. She was a suf...