June Birthdays Through History

June Birthdays

6/1/1637 :Jacques Marquette, French explorer of the Mississippi River and Jesuit priest.
6/1/1801 :Brigham Young, Mormon leader.
6/1/1878 :John Masefield, English poet.
6/1/1926 :Andy Griffith, actor.
6/1/1926 :Marilyn Monroe (Norma Jean Mortenson), actress.
6/1/1929 :James Hadley Billington, Librarian of Congress.
6/1/1930 :Edward Woodward, actor (“Breaker Morant”).
6/1/1934 :Pat Boone, singer-actor.
6/1/1937 :Morgan Freeman, actor.
6/1/1939 :Cleavon Little, comedian.
6/1/1940 :Rene Auberjonois, actor.
6/1/1942 :Tom Mankiewicz, screenwriter.
6/1/1945 :Frederica von Stade, opera singer.
6/1/1947 :Ron Wood, musician.
6/1/1956 :Lisa Hartman-Black, actress.
6/1/1961 :Paul Coffey.
6/2/1732 :Martha Washington. (1731?) (6/21?)
6/2/1740 :Marquis de Sade, French author of erotic novels.
6/2/1835 :St. Pius X (Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto), 257th Roman Catholic Pope.
6/2/1840 :Thomas Hardy, English novelist.
6/2/1857 :Sir Edward Elgar, composer (“Pomp and Circumstance”).
6/2/1890 :Hedda Hopper, Hollywood columnist.
6/2/1904 :Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic swimmer and actor.
6/2/1913 :Barbara Pym.
6/2/1929 :Chuck Barris, TV producer. (6/3?)
6/2/1937 :Sally Kellerman, actress.
6/2/1941 :Charlie Watts, Rolling Stones drummer.
6/2/1941 :Stacy Keach Jr, actor.
6/2/1944 :Marvin Hamlisch, composer.
6/2/1948 :Jerry Mathers, actor.
6/2/1953 :Diana Canova, actress.
6/2/1955 :Dana Carvey, comic.
6/3/1761 :Henry Shrapnel, English inventor of the shrapnel shell.
6/3/1780 :William Hone, English author and bookseller.
6/3/1808 :Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy.
6/3/1811 :Henry James Sr, theological writer and lecturer.
6/3/1844 :Garret Augustus Hobart, 24th US Vice president.
6/3/1864 :Ransom Eli Olds, automaker.
6/3/1901 :Maurice Evans, actor.
6/3/1911 :Paulette Goddard, actress.
6/3/1925 :Tony Curtis (Bernard Schwartz), actor.
6/3/1926 :Allen Ginsberg, poet.
6/3/1926 :Colleen Dewhurst, actress.
6/3/1929 :Chuck Barris, producer and TV host. (6/2?)
6/3/1942 :Curtis Mayfield, singer and songwriter.
6/3/1951 :Deniece Williams, singer.
6/3/1958 :Scott Valentine, actor. (1959?)
6/3/1961 :Charles Hart, lyricist and composer.
6/4/1738 :King George III, king during American Revolution.
6/4/1867 :Carl Gustaf Mannerheim.
6/4/1917 :Howard M. Metzenbaum, Ohio Senator.
6/4/1919 :Robert Merrill, opera singer.
6/4/1922 :Gene Barry (Eugene Klass), actor.
6/4/1924 :Dennis Weaver, actor.
6/4/1936 :Bruce Dern, actor.
6/4/1937 :Freddie Fender, singer.
6/4/1946 :Bettina Gregory, journalist.
6/4/1952 :Parker Stevenson, actor.
6/4/1957 :Tony Pena, baseball player.
6/4/1961 :Eldra DeBarge, singer and musician.
6/4/1963 :Xavier Maurice McDaniel, basketball player.
6/4/1965 :Andrea Jaeger, tennis player.
6/5/1723 :Adam Smith, Scottish economist.
6/5/1878 :Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary.
6/5/1883 :John Maynard Keynes, English economist.
6/5/1884 :Ivy Compton-Burnett.
6/5/1898 :Federico Garica Lorca.
6/5/1898 :William Boyd, actor (played Hopalong Cassidy).
6/5/1921 :Bosin Blackbear, artist.
6/5/1928 :Tony Richardson, director.
6/5/1929 :Robert Lansing, actor.
6/5/1931 :Jacques Demy, director.
6/5/1934 :Bill Moyers, journalist and commentator.
6/5/1939 :Charles Joseph (Joe) Clark, 16th Canadian Prime Minister.
6/5/1939 :Margaret Drabble, English novelist. (5/6?)
6/5/1949 :Ken Follett, Welsh author.
6/5/1956 :Kenny G., musician.
6/5/1971 :Marky Mark (Mark Wahlberg), singer.
6/6/1599 :Diego Velasquez, Spanish painter.
6/6/1606 :Pierre Corneille.
6/6/1755 :Nathan Hale, US patriot.
6/6/1856 :John Turnbull, artist (depicted the American Revolution).
6/6/1875 :Thomas Mann, German novelist.
6/6/1891 :Ted Lewis, vaudeville bandleader.
6/6/1901 :Ahmed Sukarno, Indonesian dictator.
6/6/1903 :Aram (Ilich) Khachaturian, Armenian musician and composer.
6/6/1907 :Bill Dickey, baseball “Hall of Famer.”
6/6/1925 :Maxine Kumin.
6/6/1928 :George Deukmejian, former California Governor.
6/6/1932 :Billie Whitelaw, actress.
6/6/1934 :Roy Innis, civil rights activist.
6/6/1939 :Gary “U.S.” Bonds (Gary Anderson), singer and songwriter.
6/6/1939 :Marian Wright-Edelman, president of Children’s Defense Fund.
6/6/1954 :Harvey Fierstein, playwright and actor.
6/6/1955 :Sandra Bernhard, comedian.
6/6/1956 :Bjorn Borg, tennis player.
6/6/1963 :Ruben Mayes, football player.
6/6/1976 :Lukas Haas, actor.
6/7/1325 :R.D. Blackmore, English novelist (“Lorna Doone”).
6/7/1778 :George Bryan “Beau” Brummell, British fashion plate.
6/7/1848 :(Eugene Henri) Paul Gauguin, French post-impressionist painter.
6/7/1896 :Vivien Kellems, industrialist.
6/7/1899 :Elizabeth Bowen.
6/7/1909 :Jessica Tandy, actress.
6/7/1909 :Peter Rodino, former New Jersey Congressman.
6/7/1917 :Gwendolyn Brooks, first black woman Pulitzer Prize winner for
:poetry.
6/7/1922 :Rocky Graziano (Thomas Rocco Barbella), heavyweight boxing champ.
6/7/1924 :Delores Gray, actress and singer.
6/7/1929 :John Napier Turner, 17th Canadian prime minister.
6/7/1940 :Tom Jones (Thomas Woodward), singer.
6/7/1946 :Bill Kreutzmann, singer and musician. (4/7?)
6/7/1958 :”Prince” Rogers Nelson, funk-rock star.
6/8/1790 :US government repaid its first loan.
6/8/1810 :Robert Schumann, German composer.
6/8/1847 :Ida Saxton McKinley, wife of William McKinley.
6/8/1869 :Frank Lloyd Wright, architect. (1867?)
6/8/1893 :Ernest B. Schoedsack, director (“King Kong”).
6/8/1903 :Marguerite Yourcenor.
6/8/1916 :Francis Crick, British geneticist (co-discoverer of the DNA
:”double helix”).
6/8/1917 :Byron Raymond White, Supreme Court Justice.
6/8/1918 :Robert Preston, actor.
6/8/1921 :Alexis Smith, actress.
6/8/1921 :President Suharto, of Indonesia.
6/8/1925 :Barbara Pierce Bush, wife of George Bush.
6/8/1929 :Jerry Stiller, actor.
6/8/1930 :Dana Wynter, actress.
6/8/1933 :Joan Rivers (Joan Molinsky), comedienne.
6/8/1936 :James Darren, actor.
6/8/1940 :Nancy Sinatra, singer and actress.
6/8/1944 :Boz Scaggs, singer and musician.
6/8/1944 :Don Grady, actor.
6/8/1950 :Kathy Baker.
6/8/1953 :Bonnie Tyler, singer.
6/8/1955 :Griffin Dunne, actor and producer.
6/8/1965 :Rob Pilatus.
6/9/1672 :Peter the Great, Russian Czar.
6/9/1781 :George Stephenson, developer of steam locomotive.
6/9/1791 :John Howard Payne, actor-playwright.
6/9/1865 :Carl Nielsen, Danish composer.
6/9/1892 :Cole Porter, composer.
6/9/1901 :George Price, cartoonist.
6/9/1910 :Robert Cummings, actor.
6/9/1916 :Les Paul, musician and inventor.
6/9/1916 :Robert Strange McNamara, former World Bank president.
6/9/1922 :George Axelrod, writer.
6/9/1923 :Les Paul (Lester Polfus).
6/9/1930 :Marvin Kalb, educator and journalist.
6/9/1934 :Jackie Mason (Yacov Moshe Maza), comedian., (1930?)
6/9/1939 :Letty Cottin Pogrebin, author.
6/9/1951 :David Gene Parker, baseball player.
6/9/1958 :Wayne Geiser, originator of “On This Day.”
6/9/1961 :Michael Andrew Fox (a.k.a. Michael J. Fox), actor.
6/9/1963 :Johnny Depp, actor.
6/9/1964 :Wayman Tisdale, basketball player.
6/10/1741:Joseph Warren.
6/10/1889:Hattie McDaniel, actress.
6/10/1910:Howlin’ Wolf (Chester Burnett).
6/10/1921:Prince Philip, husband of Queen Elizabeth II.
6/10/1922:Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), actress-singer.
6/10/1922:Rose Moffard, Arizona acting Governor.
6/10/1925:Nat Hentoff, columnist.
6/10/1928:Maurice Sendak, children’s book author.
6/10/1932:J. Bennett Johnston, Louisiana Senator.
6/10/1933:F. Lee Bailey, lawyer.
6/10/1938:Samuel Knox Skinner, US Secretary of Transportation.
6/10/1941:Shirley Owens Alston, singer (lead of Shirelles).
6/10/1943:Jeff Greenfield, media commentator.
6/10/1947:Ken Singleton.
6/10/1951:Dan Fouts.
6/10/1955:Andrew Stevens, actor.
6/10/1966:Doug McKeon, actor.
6/11/1572:Ben Jonson, English poet and dramatist.
6/11/1776:John Constable, English landscape painter.
6/11/1864:Richard Georg Strauss, German composer.
6/11/1880:Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to US House of
:Representatives.
6/11/1899:Yasunari Kawabata.
6/11/1900:Lawrence Spivak, broadcast journalist.
6/11/1910:Jacques Cousteau, undersea explorer.
6/11/1913:Rise Stevens, opera singer.
6/11/1913:Vince Lombardi, football coach.
6/11/1925:William Styron, author.
6/11/1935:Gene Wilder, actor.
6/11/1936:Chad Everett (Raymond Cramton), actor.
6/11/1937:Johnny Brown, comedian.
6/11/1939:Jackie Stewart, auto racer.
6/11/1945:Adrienne Barbeau, actress.
6/11/1947:Henry Cisneros, former mayor of San Antonio.
6/11/1954:Gary Fencik, football player.
6/11/1956:Joe Montana, football player.
6/12/1802:Harriet Martineau.
6/12/1806:John Augustus Roebling, designer of the Brooklyn Bridge.
6/12/1819:Charles Kingsley, English novelist (“The Water Babies”).
6/12/1827:Johanna Spyri, Swiss author (“Heidi”).
6/12/1892:Djuna Barnes.
6/12/1894:Edward Albert Christian George Andrew Patrick David (a.k.a. King
:Edward VIII).
6/12/1914:William Lundigan, actor.
6/12/1915:David Rockefeller, banker.
6/12/1916:Irwin Allen, movie producer.
6/12/1919:Uta Hagen, actress.
6/12/1921:James Houston, author-illustrator.
6/12/1924:George Herbert Walker Bush, 41st US president.
6/12/1928:Vic Damone (Vito Farinola), singer.
6/12/1929:Anne Frank, diarist.
6/12/1932:Rona Jaffe, author.
6/12/1932:Jim Nabors, comic actor.
6/12/1941:Chick Corea, musician.
6/12/1943:Marv Albert, TV station director and sportscaster.
6/12/1957:Timothy Busfield, actor.
6/12/1958:Rory Sparrow, basketball player.
6/13/1752:Fanny Burney.
6/13/1786:General Winfield Scott, negotiator of Indian peace treaties.
6/13/1865:William Butler Yeats, Irish poet-dramatist.
6/13/1892:Basil Rathbone, actor.
6/13/1893:Dorothy Sayers.
6/13/1899:Carlos Chavez, Mexican composer.
6/13/1903:Harold “Red” Grange, football great.
6/13/1911:Luis Alverez, inventor and nuclear physicist.
6/13/1913:Ralph Edwards, TV host. (1/13?)
6/13/1935:Christo (Christo Javacheff), artist.
6/13/1943:Malcolm McDowell, actor.
6/13/1951:Richard Thomas, actor.
6/13/1953:Tim Allen, comedian.
6/13/1962:Ally (Alexandra Elizabeth) Sheedy, actress.
6/13/1963:Bettina Bunge, tennis player.
6/13/1963:Caterina Lindqvist.
6/13/1964:Sarunas Marciulionis, basketball player.
6/14/1811:Harriett Beecher Stowe, author (“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”).
6/14/1820:John Bartlett, compiler of Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations.
6/14/1855:Robert La Follette, Wisconsin Governor.
6/14/1864:Alois Alzheimer, German psychiatrist.
6/14/1909:Burl Ives (Burl Icle Ivanhoe Ives), actor and folksinger.
6/14/1918:Dorothy McGuire, actress.
6/14/1919:Sam Wanamaker, actor-director.
6/14/1925:Pierre Salinger, journalist and author.
6/14/1928:Ernesto “Che” Guevara, Cuban revolutionary.
6/14/1933:Jerzy Kosinski, author (“Being There”).
6/14/1946:Donald Trump, real estate developer.
6/14/1946:Marla Gibbs, actress.
6/14/1952:Eddie Mekka, actor.
6/14/1958:Eric Heiden, speed skater.
6/14/1961:Boy George (B. George Alan O’Dowd), singer.
6/14/1961:Samuel Bruce Perkins, basketball player.
6/14/1969:Steffi Graf, tennis player.
6/15/1330:Prince Edward (“The Black Prince”) of Wales.
6/15/1767:Rachel Donelson Robards Jackson, wife of Andrew Jackson.
6/15/1843:Edward (Edvard Hagerup) Grieg, Norwegian composer.
6/15/1884:Harry Langdon, silent film comedian.
6/15/1902:Erik Erikson, psychoanalyst.
6/15/1910:David Rose, composer-conductor.
6/15/1914:Saul Steinberg, artist.
6/15/1922:Morris K. Udall, former Arizona Congressman.
6/15/1932:Mario M. Cuomo, New York Governor.
6/15/1937:Waylon Jennings, singer.
6/15/1941:Harry Nilsson, songwriter.
6/15/1954:Jim Belushi, actor.
6/15/1957:Brett Morgan Butler, baseball player.
6/15/1957:Polly Draper, actress.
6/15/1958:Wade Boggs, baseball player.
6/15/1963:Helen Hunt, actress.
6/15/1973:Neil Patrick Harris, actor.
6/16/1829:Geronimo (Goyathlay).
6/16/1890:Stan Laurel, film comedian.
6/16/1917:Irving Penn, photographer.
6/16/1917:Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher.
6/16/1920:John Howard Griffin, US author and photographer.
6/16/1937:Eric Segal, author.
6/16/1938:Joyce Carol Oates, author.
6/16/1939:Billy “Crash” Craddock, singer.
6/16/1940:Neil Goldschmidt, former Oregon Governor.
6/16/1943:Joan Van Ark, actress.
6/16/1951:Roberto Duran, boxer.
6/16/1955:Wayne Rollins, basketball player.
6/16/1967:Eric Schweig.
6/17/1703:John Wesley, founder of Methodism. (6/28?)
6/17/1742:William Hooper, signer of the US Declaration of Independence.
6/17/1858:Eben Sumner Draper, former Massachusetts Governor.
6/17/1882:Igor Fedorovich Stravinsky, Russian-born composer.
6/17/1904:Ralph Bellamy, actor.
6/17/1914:John Hersey, author. (1917?)
6/17/1917:Dean Martin (Dino Crocetti), actor-singer.
6/17/1923:Elroy “Crazylegs” Hirsch, football player.
6/17/1933:Guy Hunt, former Alabama Governor.
6/17/1946:Barry Manilow, singer.
6/17/1951:Joe Piscopo, comedian.
6/17/1953:Mark Linn-Baker, actor.
6/17/1963:Greg Kinnear.
6/17/1966:Jason Patric.
6/18/1850:Cyrus Curtis, founder and publisher of the Ladies’ Home Journal.
6/18/1854:Edward Scripps, journalist and publisher.
6/18/1857:Henry Clay Folger Jr, US businessman and industrialist.
6/18/1886:George Leigh Mallory, English explorer and mountain climber.
6/18/1898:M.C. Escher.
6/18/1906:Kay Kyser (James King Kern Kyser), US bandleader.
6/18/1910:E.G. Marshall, actor.
6/18/1913:Sammy Cahn, songwriter.
6/18/1913:Sylvia Porter, journalist.
6/18/1922:Donald Keene, literary critic.
6/18/1926:Tom Wicker, journalist.
6/18/1937:Gail Godwin, American novelist (“The Odd Woman”).
6/18/1937:John D. (Jay) Rockefeller IV, West Virginia Senator.
6/18/1939:Lou Brock, baseball player.
6/18/1942:Paul McCartney, singer and songwriter.
6/18/1942:Roger Joseph Ebert, critic.
6/18/1952:Barry Champagne, stunt coordinator and engineer.
6/18/1952:Carol Kane, actress.
6/18/1952:Isabella Rossellini, actress (“White Nights”).
6/19/1566:James VI of Scotland (later James I of England).
6/19/1623:Blaise Pascal, French Philosopher and Mathematician.
6/19/1856:Elbert Hubbard, aspiring US author and craftsman.
6/19/1896:Duchess of Windsor (Bessie Wallis Warfield).
6/19/1902:Guy Lombardo, bandleader.
6/19/1903:Henry Louis “Lou” Gehrig, baseball player.
6/19/1908:Mildred Natwick, actress.
6/19/1908:Quentin N. Burdick, North Dakota Senator.
6/19/1914:Alan Cranston, former California Senator.
6/19/1919:Abe Fortas, first US Supreme Court Justice to be forced to resign.
6/19/1919:Pauline Kael, movie critic.
6/19/1921:Howell Thomas Heflin, Alabama Senator.
6/19/1921:Louis Jourdan, actor. (1919?) [1920?]
6/19/1928:Nancy Marchand, actress.
6/19/1932:Marisa Pavan, actress.
6/19/1936:Gena Rowlands, actress.
6/19/1938:Charles Gwathmey, architect.
6/19/1941:Ann Wilson, rock singer. (1951?)
6/19/1942:Robert W. (Bob) Kasten Jr, Wisconsin Senator.
6/19/1947:Salmon Rushdie, author.
6/19/1949:Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad, actress.
6/19/1954:Kathleen Turner, actress.
6/19/1962:Paula Abdul, singer and dancer.
6/19/1978:Garfield, cartoon cat.
6/20/1819:Jacques Offenbach, German composer.
6/20/1858:Charles W. Chestnutt.
6/20/1907:Lillian Hellman, author-playwright. (1905?)
6/20/1909:Errol Flynn, actor.
6/20/1915:Terence Young, film director.
6/20/1924:Audie Murphy, World War II hero-actor.
6/20/1924:Chet Atkins, guitarist.
6/20/1928:Jean-Marie LePen, French politician.
6/20/1931:Olympia Dukakis, actress.
6/20/1933:Danny Aiello, actor.
6/20/1942:Brian Wilson, singer and songwriter.
6/20/1945:Anne Murray, singer.
6/20/1946:Andre Watts, concert pianist.
6/20/1947:Candy Clark, actress.
6/20/1949:Lionel Richie, singer.
6/20/1952:John Goodman, actor.
6/20/1953:Cindy Lauper, singer.
6/20/1960:John Taylor, rock musician.
6/21/1731:Martha Dandridge Custis Washington, first lady. (6/2?)
6/21/1774:Daniel D. Tompkins, 6th US vice president.
6/21/1859:Henry Ossawa Tanner, black artist.
6/21/1903:Al Hirschfeld, cartoonist.
6/21/1905:Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher and author.
6/21/1912:Mary McCarthy, author.
6/21/1921:Jane Russell, actress.
6/21/1925:Maureen Stapleton, actress.
6/21/1931:Lawrence K. Grossman, former NBC News president.
6/21/1933:Bernie Kopell, actor.
6/21/1935:Francoise Sagan.
6/21/1935:Monte Markham, actor.
6/21/1938:Ron Ely, actor.
6/21/1940:Joe Flaherty, writer and actor.
6/21/1940:Mariette Hartley, actress.
6/21/1944:Ray Davies, rock singer.
6/21/1946:Steve Merrill, New Hampshire governor.
6/21/1947:Meredith Baxter, actress.
6/21/1947:Michael Gross, actor.
6/21/1951:Nils Lofgren, musician and singer.
6/21/1953:Benazir Bhutto, Pakistani political leader.
6/21/1956:Rick Sutcliffe, baseball player.
6/21/1959:Tom Chambers, basketball player.
6/21/1967:Derrick Coleman, basketball player.
6/21/1973:Juliette Lewis, actress (“Cape Fear”).
6/21/1982:Prince William of England (William Arthur Philip Louis).
6/22/1844:Margaret Sidney.
6/22/1856:H. Rider Haggard, English adventure novelist (“King Solomon’s
:Mines”).
6/22/1898:Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (“All Quiet on the Western
:Front”).
6/22/1903:Carl Hubbell.
6/22/1906:Anne Morrow Lindbergh, author and wife of Charles Lindbergh.
6/22/1906:Billy Wilder, author and movie director.
6/22/1907:Michael Todd, movie director.
6/22/1910:Katherine Dunham, dancer-choreographer.
6/22/1921:Joseph Papp, producer and director.
6/22/1922:Bill Blass, fashion designer.
6/22/1928:Ralph Waite, actor.
6/22/1930:Charles August Lindbergh III, “The Lindbergh Baby.”
6/22/1933:Dianne Feinstein, California Senator.
6/22/1936:Kris Kristofferson, actor.
6/22/1941:Edward Bradley, newscaster.
6/22/1944:Klaus Maria Brandauer, actor.
6/22/1948:Todd Rundgren, singer and producer.
6/22/1949:Lindsay Wagner, actress.
6/22/1949:Meryl Streep, actress.
6/22/1960:Tracy Pollan, actress.
6/22/1962:Clyde Drexler, basketball player.
6/23/1876:Irvin S. Cobb, US writer and humorist.
6/23/1894:Alfred Kinsey, pioneer sex researcher.
6/23/1894:Duke of Windsor, Britain’s former King Edward VIII.
6/23/1907:Jean Anouilh, playwright.
6/23/1911:David Ogilvy, advertising executive.
6/23/1912:Alan M. Turing.
6/23/1913:William P. Rogers, former US Secretary of State.
6/23/1916:Irene Worth, actress.
6/23/1927:Bob Fosse, director-choreographer.
6/23/1929:June Carter Cash, singer.
6/23/1933:Bert Convy, actor. (7/23?)
6/23/1940:Wilma Rudolph, US Olympic gold medalist (track).
6/23/1943:James Levine, conductor.
6/23/1946:Ted Shackelford, actor.
6/23/1948:Clarence Thomas, US Supreme Court justice.
6/23/1958:Marty Barrett, baseball player.
6/24/1763:Josephine, French Empress and Napoleon’s wife.
6/24/1813:Henry Ward Beecher, clergyman.
6/24/1842:Ambrose Bierce, writer and satirist.
6/24/1895:Jack Dempsey, heavyweight boxing champion.
6/24/1906:Phil Harris, bandleader.
6/24/1912:Norman Cousins, Saturday Review author-editor.
6/24/1916:John Ciardi, US poet and critic.
6/24/1919:Al Molinaro, actor.
6/24/1923:Jack Carter, comedian.
6/24/1930:Claude Chabrol, director.
6/24/1942:Michele Lee, actress-dancer.
6/24/1942:Mick Fleetwood, drummer.
6/24/1944:Jeff Beck.
6/24/1946:Ellison S. Onizuka, astronaut.
6/24/1946:Robert B. Reich, US Labor Secretary.
6/24/1947:Peter Weller, actor (“Robocop”).
6/24/1950:Nancy Allen, actress.
6/24/1970:Glenn Medeiros.
6/25/1860:Gustave Charpentier, French composer.
6/25/1874:Rose Cecil O’Neill, illustrator and Kewpie doll designer.
6/25/1878:Charles Stephen Brooks, essayist and author of travel books.
6/25/1886:Henry H. “Hap” Arnold, US Army Air Force General.
6/25/1887:George Abbott, Broadway playwright-director-producer.
6/25/1894:H. Oberth.
6/25/1900:Lord (Louis Francis Albert Victor Nicholas) Mountbatten.
6/25/1903:Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell), British author (“1984”).
6/25/1923:Dorothy Gilman, author.
6/25/1924:Sidney Lumet, movie director.
6/25/1925:June Lockhart, actress.
6/25/1933:James Howard Meredith, first black admitted to University of
:Mississippi.
6/25/1942:James C. Miller III, Director of the Office of Management and
:Budget.
6/25/1942:Willis Reed, basketball player.
6/25/1945:Carly Simon, singer.
6/25/1949:Jimmie Walker, actor and comedian.
6/25/1949:Phyllis George, former Miss America.
6/25/1963:George Michael, rock singer.
6/26/1730:C. Messier.
6/26/1742:Arthur Middleton, American Revolutionary leader.
6/26/1819:Abner Doubleday, baseball pioneer.
6/26/1824:William Thomson Kelvin, British physicist and inventor.
6/26/1892:Pearl Sydenstricker Buck, novelist.
6/26/1898:Willi Messerschmitt, German aircraft designer.
6/26/1902:William Lear, developer of the Lear Jet.
6/26/1904:Peter Lorre, actor.
6/26/1910:Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley’s manager.
6/26/1915:Charlotte Zolotow, children’s author.
6/26/1922:Eleanor Parker, actress.
6/26/1932:Claudio Abbado, conductor.
6/26/1939:Charles “Chuck” Robb, Virginia Senator.
6/26/1940:Billy Davis Jr, singer.
6/26/1951:Pamela Bellwood, actress.
6/26/1961:Greg LeMond, cyclist.
6/26/1962:Jerome Kersey, basketball player.
6/27/1682:King Charles XII (Charles the Great) of Sweden.
6/27/1846:Charles Stewart Parnell, Irish patriot.
6/27/1850:Lafcadio Hearn, multinational author.
6/27/1859:Mildred J. Hill, composer (“Happy Birthday to You”).
6/27/1869:”Red” Emma Goldman, US anarchist.
6/27/1872:Paul Laurence Dunbar, US poet.
6/27/1880:Helen Keller, deaf and blind author.
6/27/1907:John McIntire, actor.
6/27/1926:Frank O’Hara, US poet.
6/27/1927:Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), TV personality.
6/27/1927:Peter Bayliss, actor.
6/27/1928:Rudy Perpich, former governor of Minnesota.
6/27/1930:H. Ross Perot, business executive.
6/27/1934:Anna Moffo, opera singer.
6/27/1938:Bruce E. Babbitt, US Interior Secretary.
6/27/1943:Rico Petrocelli, baseball player.
6/27/1945:Norma Kamali, fashion designer.
6/27/1951:Julia Duffy, TV actress.
6/27/1959:Brereton Jones, Kentucky governor.
6/27/1960:Craig Anthony Hodges, basketball player.
6/27/1964:Chuck Connors Person, basketball player.
6/28/1491:Henry VIII, English King.
6/28/1577:Peter Paul Rubens, Flemish painter.
6/28/1703:John Wesley, English clergyman and founder of Methodism. (6/17?)
6/28/1712:Jean-Jacques Rousseau, French philosopher.
6/28/1867:Luigi Pirandello.
6/28/1876:Clara Louise Maass, nurse who gave her life in yellow fever
:experiments.
6/28/1902:John Dillinger, bank robber.
6/28/1902:Richard Rodgers, composer. (7/28?)
6/28/1909:Eric Ambler, spy novelist.
6/28/1914:Lester Flatt, musician and singer.
6/28/1926:Mel Brooks (Melvyn Kaminsky), movie director.
6/28/1930:Maureen Howard.
6/28/1933:Noriyuki “Pat” Morita, actor.
6/28/1934:Carl Levin, Michigan Senator. (6/29?)
6/28/1938:Leon Panetta, US Budget Director.
6/28/1946:Gilda Radner, comedienne.
6/28/1947:Laura D’Andrea, US Chief Economic Advisor.
6/28/1948:Kathy Bates, actress.
6/28/1949:Don Baylor, baseball player.
6/28/1960:John Elway, football player.
6/28/1961:Jay Schroeder, football player.
6/28/1961:Jeff Malone.
6/28/1964:Mark Eugene Grace, baseball player.
6/28/1966:John Cusack, actor.
6/28/1966:Mary Stuart Masterson, actress.
6/28/1969:Danielle Brisebois, actress.
6/29/1858:George Washington Goethals, US engineer and army officer.
6/29/1861:William James Mayo, founder of the Mayo Clinic.
6/29/1868:George Ellery Hale, founder of Yerkes and Mt. Palomar observatory.
6/29/1900:Antoine de Saint-Exupery.
6/29/1901:Nelson Eddy, actor-singer.
6/29/1915:Ruth Warrick, actress.
6/29/1918:Richard E. Lyng, US Secretary of Agriculture.
6/29/1919:Slim Pickens (Louis Bert Lindley), actor.
6/29/1930:Robert Evans.
6/29/1934:Carl Levin, Michigan Senator. (6/28?)
6/29/1936:Harmon Killebrew, baseball player.
6/29/1941:Kwame Toure (Stokley Carmichael), civil rights leader.
6/29/1944:Gary Busey, actor and musician.
6/29/1947:Richard Lewis, comedian.
6/29/1948:Fred Grandy, Iowa Congressman.
6/29/1956:Pedro Guerrero, baseball player.
6/29/1962:Amanda Donohoe, actress.
6/30/1768:Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, wife of James Monroe.
6/30/1819:William Almon Wheeler, 19th US vice president.
6/30/1893:Harold Laski, English socialist leader.
6/30/1893:Walter Ulbricht, East German leader.
6/30/1896:Howard Hawks, film director.
6/30/1911:Czeslow Milowsz.
6/30/1916:David Wayne, actor.
6/30/1917:Buddy Rich, drummer.
6/30/1917:Lena Horne, singer.
6/30/1917:Susan Hayward, actress.
6/30/1920:Ben Bagdikian, author.
6/30/1936:Nancy Dussault, actress.
6/30/1936:Tony Musante, actor.
6/30/1965:Mitch (Mitchell James) Richmond, basketball player.
6/30/1966:Mike Tyson, boxer.