June 19th
Holidays and Festivals
Juneteenth (USA) * (see below)
Laguna Day (Laguna)
Labour Day (Trinidad and Tobago) * CLICK HERE
Surigao del Sur Day (Surigao del Sur)
Feast of Forest (Palawan)
Asatru Alliance Founding Day (Germanic Neopaganism)
New Church Day (Swedenborgianism)
World Sauntering Day
Garfield the Cat Day
Work at Home Father's Day
Feast of Saint Romuald (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Juliana Falconieri (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Gervasius and Protasius (Roman Catholic)
Feast of Saint Zosimus
* Midsummer Celebrations of Finland (Finland) - June - (1-2)
* Suoni Per Il Popolo Festival Montreal, Quebec, Canada June 10 – 23 (10of14) (2010)
* Meltdown Festival London, UK June 11 - 20 (9of10) (2010)
* North by Northeast Music Festival Toronto, Canada June 16 - 20 (4of5) (2010)
* Sonar Festival Barcelona, Spain, Europe June 17 –19 (3of3) (2010)
* RC moon pie festival - bell buckle tenn. (2010)
* Juneteenth (USA) Juneteenth is an Official holiday in 14 states that commemorates the abolition of slavery in Texas (unofficial in 5 other US states)
Toast of The Day
"Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here’s to the widow of fifty;
Here’s to the flaunting extravagant queen;
And here’s to the housewife that’s thirty.
Let the toast pass...
Drink to the lass...
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass.
For let ‘em be clumsy, or let ‘em be slim,
Young or ancient, I care not a feather;
So fill a pint bumber quite up to the brim,
And let us e’en toast ‘em together.
Let the toast pass...
Drink to the lass...
I’ll warrant she’ll prove an excuse for the glass."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Lemon Lime and Bitters
1 part lime cordial
5 parts lemonade
few drops bitters
Splash a few drops of bitters on ice then add 5 parts lemonade 1 part lime cordial.
Wine of The Day
Viansa (2005) "Samuele"
Style - Cabernet Franc
Sonoma County
$60
Beer of The Day
Mission Street Pale
Brewer - Firestone Walker Brewing Co. Paso Robles, CA
Style - American-Style Pale Ale
Joke of The Day
BAD THINGS TO OVERHEAR DURING SURGERY
"I shouldn't of had that last drink"
"You know I can't stand the sight of blood."
"Damnit! Rewind the instructional tape again"
"Now, which one of these did you sterilize, again?"
"Let's see now... where's slot A?"
"Hey! I saw something just like this on The X-Files"
"Ok, think... You're back in med school, that test you failed... think....."
"Hand me that curvey thing"
"Now I'm sure I put his brain around here somewhere."
"What were we supposed to cut off again?"
"Now what does this thing do?"
"I don't know, it isn't in the manual!"
"Well, MAKE it fit!"
"Dammit, I hate it when I have parts left over."
"Wasn't I wearing my wedding ring?"
"Ahhh, nobody'll notice."
"No, your other Left"
Quote of The Day
"Those drinking to forget please pay in advance."
- Sign seen in a bar
June Observances
African-American Music Appreciation Month
Antiphospholipid Antibody Syndrome Awareness Month
Aquarium Month
Audio Book Appreciation Month
Beautiful in Your Skin Month
Black Music Month
Cancer From The Sun Month
Cataract Awareness Month
Celibacy Awareness Month
Child Vision Awareness Month
Children's Awareness Month
Corn and Cucumber Month
Country Cooking Month
Dairy Alternatives Month
Dairy Month
Effective Communications Month
Entrepreneurs "Do It Yourself" Marketing Month
Fight the Filthy Fly Month
Fireworks Safety Month
Gay and Lesbian Pride Month
Great Outdoors Month
Home Safety Month
International Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
International Men's Month
International Surf Music Month
Lane Courtesy Month
Lemon and Mango Month
National Accordion Awareness Month
National Adopt a Cat Month
National Aphasia Awareness Month
National Bathroom Reading Month
National Camping Month
National Candy Month
National Caribbean-American Heritage Month
National Family Month
National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month
National Fruit and Veggies Month (Also September)
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Awareness Month
National GLBT (Gay,Lesbian,Bisexual & Transgender) Book Month
National Ice Tea Month
National Lady Lawyers Month
National Migraine Awareness Month
National Myasthenia Gravis Awareness Month
National R.O.S.E. Month
National Rescue a Cat Month
National Rivers Month
National Safety Month
National Smile Month
National Soul Food Month
National Steakhouse Month
National Student Safety Month
National Tire Safety Month
National Week of The Ocean Festival Sea-son, Thursday before the Second Saturday in March through Second Saturday in June
Okra & Pluot and Aprium Month
Perennial Gardening Month
Pharmacists Declare War on Alcoholism Month
Potty Training Awareness Month
Professional Wellness Month
Rebuild Your Life Month
Skyscraper Month
Sports America Kids Month
Student Safety Month
Turkey Lovers' Month
Vision Research Month
Women's Golf Month
World Infertility Month
World Naked Bike Ride Month (Northern Hemisphere)
Observances this Week
Universal Father's Week, Third Full Week in June
Consumer Awareness Week, Third Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Third Full Week in June
National Health Care Risk Management Week, Third Work Week in June
Meet A Mate Week, Third Full Week in June
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Old Time Fiddlers Week (Weiser, Idaho), Third Full Week in June
Historical Events on June 19th
987 Louis IV, crowned king of France
1179 The Norwegian Battle of Kalvskinnet outside Nidaros. Earl Erling Skakke is killed, and the battle changes the tide of the civil wars.
1205 Pope Innocent III fires Adolf I as archbishop of Cologne
1269 King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
1286 Rabbenu Mir of Rothenbur imprisoned in fortress of Ensisheim
1306 The Earl of Pembroke's army defeats Bruce's Scottish army at the Battle of Methven.
1369 Duke Philip the Stout marries Margaretha van Male
1464 French King Louis XI forms postal service
1502 Emperor Maximilian I & England sign treaty of Antwerp
1572 Garrison under Adrian van Swieten occupy Oudewater
1586 English colonists leave Roanoke Island, N.C., after failing to establish England's first permanent settlement in America.
1588 Spanish Armada heavily destroyed in storm at Coruna
1621 Battle at Dragetsani, Turkish army beats Greece
1631 Peace of Cherasco, Charles de Gonzaga-Nevers becomes duke of Mantua
1669 Polish parliament selects Litouwer Michael Wisniopwiecki as king
1754 Albany Congress held by 7 British colonies & Iroquois indians
1770 Emanuel Swedenborg reports the completion of the Second Coming of Christ in his work True Christian Religion.
1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established
1778 Washington's troops finally leave Valley Forge
1807 Admiral Dmitry Senyavin destroys the Ottoman fleet in the Battle of Athos.
1816 Battle of Seven Oaks between North West Company and Hudson's Bay Company, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
1821 Decisive defeat of the Philikí Etaireía by the Ottomans at Dragasani (in Wallachia).
1825 Gioacchino Rossini's "Il viaggio a Reims," premieres
1829 Sir Robert Peel found London Metropolitan Police (Bobbies)
1835 New Orleans gives US government Jackson Square to be used as a mint
1846 The first officially recorded, organized baseball match was played under Alexander Joy Cartwright's rules on Hoboken's Elysian Fields with the New York Base Ball Club defeating the Knickerbockers 23-1. Cartwright umpired. Hoboken, New Jersey, United States.
1848 Elizabeth Stanton & Lucretia Mott open 1st women's rights convention
1850 Swedish-Norwegian crown prince Charles weds Dutch princess Wilhelmina
1861 Anaheim Post Office established
1861 Francis Pierpont is elected provisional governor of West Virginia
1862 The U.S. Congress prohibits slavery in United States territories, nullifying the Dred Scott Case.
1863 Battle at Middleburg Virginia (100+ casualties)
1864 CSS "Alabama" sunk by USS "Kearsarge" off Cherbourg, France
1864 Skirmish at Pine Knob Georgia
1865 Union General Granger declares slaves are free in Texas, Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are finally informed of their freedom. The anniversary is still officially celebrated in Texas and 13 other contiguous states as Juneteenth.
1865 Siege of Richmond, VA
1867 1st Belmont, J Gilpatrick aboard Ruthless wins in 3:05
1867 Maximilian I of the Mexican Empire is executed by a firing squad in Querétaro, Querétaro.
1868 Maj Gen E R S Canby removes mayor of Columbia SC
1870 After all of the Southern States are formally readmitted to the United States, the Confederate States of America ceases to exist.
1875 Formal opening of US Marine Hospital at Presidio
1875 The Herzegovinian rebellion against the Ottoman Empire begins.
1881 Muhammad Ahmad becomes Mahdi of Sudan
1889 Start of Sherlock Holmes adventure "Man with the Twisted Lip"
1893 Lizzie Bordon acquitted
1894 28th Belmont: Willie Simms aboard Henry of Navarre wins in 1:56.5
1897 Wee Willie Keeler's 44 game hitting streak ends
1910 1st airship in service "Germany"
1910 The first Father's Day is celebrated in Spokane, Washington.
1912 Tennessee University opened as Tennessee A & L State College
1914 54th British Golf Open, Harry Vardon shoots a 306 at Prestwick Club
1915 The USS Arizona (BB-39) is launched from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in New York.
1917 After WW I King George V ordered members of British royal family to dispense with German titles & surnames, they take the name Windsor
1921 Census in Great-Britain
1921 Turk & Christian of Palestine sign a friendship treaty against Jews
1922 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 5000m (14:28.2)
1923 "Moon Mullins," Comic Strip, debuts
1923 Baldwin-Mellon-agreement concerning Britain entering the war
1924 Paavo Nurmi runs world record 1500m (3:52.6)
1926 DeFord Bailey is 1st black to perform on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry
1931 1st photoelectric cell installed commercially West Haven Ct
1932 1st concert given in SF's Stern Grove
1932 Hailstones kill 200 in Hunan Province, China PR
1933 Austrian government-Dollfuss bans nazi-organizations
1934 The Communications Act of 1934 establishes the United States' Federal Communications Commission (FCC).
1936 Dutch Premier Colijn denies relation with German call-girl
1936 German boxer Max Schmeling World Champion KOs Joe Louis
1936 Joe McCarthy is named to manage AL All-Stars, rather than high-strung Mickey Cochrane, who is very close to a nervous breakdown
1937 Franco-troops conquer Bilbao Basques
1938 "Olympian Flyer" express train crashes in Montana, killing 47
1938 Italy beats Hungary 4-1 in soccer's 3rd World Cup at Paris
1938 Paul Waner (Pirates) homers off Pete Sivess (Phillies) in DH
1938 Reds Johnny Vander Meer extends his string of hitless baseball innings to 21 2/3 before Debs Garms singles for Boston in 4th
1940 "Brenda Starr," 1st cartoon strip by a woman, appears in Chicago
1940 German 7th Armour division under gen-maj Rommel occupies Cherbourg
1940 Goering orders seizure of Dutch horses, car, buses & ships
1941 Cheerios Cereal invents an O-shaped cereal
1941 Romania orders Jews to evacuate Darabani
1941 US president Franklin Roosevelt signs Two Ocean Navy Expansion Act
1942 Paul Waner, is 7th to get 3,000 baseball hits
1943 "Shiek Of Arahy" Spike Jones & City Slickers peaks at #19
1943 NFL's Philadelphia Eagles & Pittsburgh Steelers merge, (dissolves on Dec 5)
1943 Race riots occur in Beaumont, Texas.
1944 300 Japanese aircrafts shot down
1944 French troops free Elba
1944 Heavy air raid on US fleet at Guam "Turkey Shoot"
1944 Japanese troops conquer Changsha China
1944 First day of the Two day Battle of the Philippine Sea, World War II.
1946 1st TV sports/boxing spectacular-Joe Louis KOs Billy Conn
1947 1st plane (F-80) to exceed 600 mph (1004 kph)-Albert Boyd, Muroc Ca
1948 Panama & Costa Rica recognize Israel
1948 USSR blocks access road to West Berlin
1952 "I've Got A Secret" debuts on CBS-TV with Garry Moore as host
1952 Bkln Dodger Carl Erskine no-hits Chicago Cubs, 5-0
1953 Albert W Dent, elected president of Natl Health Council
1953 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are executed at Sing Sing, in New York.
1953 WCSC TV channel 5 in Charleston, SC (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WTPA (now WHTM) TV channel 27 in Harrisburg, PA (ABC) 1st broadcast
1954 54th US Golf Open, Ed Furgol shoots a 284 at Baltusrol GC in NJ
1954 Betty Jameson wins LPGA Western Golf Open
1954 Tasmanian Devil, debuts in "Devil May Hare" by Warner Bros
1955 55th US Golf Open, Jack Fleck shoots a 287 at Olympic CC in SF
1955 Mickey Mantle hits career HR # 100
1955 Phils beat Cubs 1-0 in 15, ties longest shut out in Phillies history
1956 Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin end partnership after 16 films
1959 Senate rejects Ike's appointment of Lewis Strauss for Sec of Comm
1960 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Cosmopolitan Golf Open
1960 Loretta Lynn records "Honky Tonk Girl"
1961 "Little Egypt (Ying-Yang)" by Coasters peaks at #23
1961 Charlie Finley, changes A's manager Joe Gordon (26-33) for Hank Bauer
1961 Kuwait declares independence from the United Kingdom.
1961 NY Yankee Roger Maris hits his 25th of 61 HRs
1961 US Supreme Court struck down a provision in Md's constitution requiring state office holders to believe in God
1963 2 Russian space missions return to Earth
1963 Charter members of Canadian Football Hall of Fame chosen
1963 Greek government of Pipinolis forms
1963 Valentina Tereshkova 1st woman in space returns to Earth
1964 Bob Dylan completes UK tour
1964 Cambuur Leeuwarden BVO soccer team forms in Leeuwarden
1964 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 passes 73-27 after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.
1965 Algerian coup under colonel Houari Boumedienne, pres Ben Bella fired
1965 KYW-AM in Cleveland Ohio returns call letters to Philadelphia
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Milwaukee Jaycee Golf Open
1966 Shiv Sena a political party in India is founded in Mumbai.
1967 Paul McCartney admits on TV that he took LSD
1968 50,000 participate in Solidarity Day March of Poor People's Campaign
1969 State troopers ordered to Cairo Ill, to quell racial disturbances
1970 A Nikolayev & V Sevastyanov return after 18 days in Soyuz 9
1970 Conservatives win British parliamentary election
1970 Jim Bouton's controversial "Ball Four" is published
1970 The Patent Cooperation Treaty is signed.
1970 Yanks Horace Clarke breaks up a no-hitter in the 9th for the 2nd of 3 times in 28 days
1971 Mayor declares state of emergency in Columbus Ga, racial disturbance
1972 Hurricane Agnes, kills 118 in NY & Florida
1972 40,000 pilots strike against naval officer
1973 "Rocky Horror Picture Show," stage production opens in London
1973 Pete Rose & Willie Davis both get career hit # 2,000
1974 KC Royal Steve Busby 2nd no-hitter beats Milwaukee Brewers, 2-0
1974 Yemen Arab Republic (North Yemen) suspends constitution
1976 King Charles XVI Gustaf of Sweden marries Dutchess Silvia Sommerlath
1976 US Viking 1 goes into Martian orbit after 10-month flight from Earth
1977 77th US Golf Open, Hubert Green shoots a 278 at Southern Hills Tulsa
1977 Indians fire manager Frank Robinson & replace him with Jeff Torborg
1977 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Mayflower Golf Classic
1977 Pope Paul VI makes 19th-cen bishop John Neumann 1st US male saint
1977 Red Sox set 3 game record of 16 HRs, all against Yanks
1978 "Best Little Whorehouse..." opens at 46th St NYC for 1577 perfs
1978 Garfield, created by Jim Davis, 1st appears as a comic strip
1978 Ian Botham takes 8-34 v Pakistan, his best Test cricket bowling
1979 In NY 36,211 show up to witness return of Billy Martin as Yank mgr
1979 Mali's constitution goes into effect
1980 Battle between police & demonstrators in Capetown, 34 killed
1981 Boeing commercial Chinook 2-rotor helicopter is certified
1981 European Space Agency's Ariane carries 2 satellites into orbit
1981 Heaviest known orange (2.5 kg) exhibited, Nelspruit, South Africa
1981 India's APPLE satellite, 1st to be stabilized on 3 axes, launched
1982 In one of the first militant attacks by Hezbollah, David S. Dodge, president of the American University in Beirut, is kidnapped.
1982 The body of God's Banker, Roberto Calvi is found hanging beneath Blackfriars Bridge in London.
1983 "Octopussy" premieres in US
1983 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1984 "Weird Al" Yankovic gives free live performance at Del Mar Fair
1984 1st live TV appearance by Chief Justice Warren Burger (Nightline)
1985 Reggie Jackson hits his 513th HR to move into 10th place
1986 Argentina beats West Germany 3-2 in soccer's 13th World Cup
1987 Basque separatist group ETA commits one of its most violent attacks, in which a bomb is set off in a supermarket, Hipercor, killing 21 and injuring 45.
1987 Ben & Jerry Ice Cream & Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia announce new Ice Cream flavor, Cherry Garcia
1987 ETA bomb attack in Barcelona, 15 killed
1987 Geffen records sign their 1st artist (Donna Summer)
1987 Supreme Court rules school teaching evolution need not teach creation
1988 32 divers finish cycling underwater on a standard tricycle,to complete 116.66 mi in 75 hrs 20 mins
1988 88th US Golf Open, Curtis Strange shoots a 278 at Country Club Mass
1988 Coup in Haiti
1988 Danny Spitz, heavy metal artist (Anthrax), weds Valerie
1988 Namphy takes control of Haitian government
1988 Shirley Furlong wins LPGA Lady Keystone Golf Open
1988 World's Largest Sausage completed at 13 1/8 miles long
1989 Mets Dwight Gooden wins his 100th game (100-37)
1990 Gary Carter catches his 1,862nd career game breaks Al Lopez's NL mark
1990 The current international law defending indigenous peoples, Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention, 1989, was ratified for the first time by Norway.
1991 2 of Mia Farrow's daughters arrested for shoplifting lingerie
1991 Colombian drug baron Pablo Escobar surrenders to police
1991 NY Yankee Steve Howe records his 1st major league save since 1987
1992 "Batman Returns," opens
1992 Evander Holyfield beats Larry Holmes in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1992 Guardian Angel Curtis Sliwa is shot twice in NYC
1992 Inkhata-blood bath in Boipatong South-Africa
1992 NY Yankees 1st game in Baltimore Oriole's Camden Yards
1993 Boon completes 15th Test cricket century, 164* v England at Lord's
1993 Mandy Smith (Bill Wyman's ex-wife) weds Pat van den Hauwe
1994 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 perfs
1994 "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
1994 "Twilight Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 perfs
1994 94th US Golf Open, Ernie Els shoots a 279 at Oakmont CC in Oakmont Pa
1994 Ernesto Samper elected president of Colombia
1994 Lisa Kiggens wins LPGA Rochester International Golf Tournament
1994 Tigers tie record of hitting HRs in 25th consecutive games
1995 NY Yankees announce agreement with Darryl Strawberry
1997 "Forever Tango!," opens at Walter Kerr Theater NYC
1998 Shukrachakra is established.
2000 Los Angeles Lakers beat Indiana Pacers 4-2 in NBA finals MVP: Shaquille O'Neal, L.A.
2000 Tiger Woods wins golf's US Open by 15 shots, a record for all majors, with a US Open to-par record score of -12
2005 Michael Schumacher wins controversial Formula 1 United States Grand Prix where only 6 of 20 cars complete the race amongst ridicule
2006 Prime ministers of several northern European nations participate in a ceremonial "laying of the first stone" at the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Spitsbergen, Norway.
2009 British troops begin Operation Panther's Claw, one of the largest air operations in modern times, when more than 350 troops made an aerial assault on Taliban positions and subsequently repelled Taliban counter-attacks.
2012 A man in Saudi Arabia is beheaded for witchcraft and sorcery
2012 Antonis Samaras, the leader of the New Democracy party in Greece, forms a coalition government
2013 48 people are killed by armed bandits in Zamfara State, Nigeria
2014 Orange Is the New Black wins Best Comedy Series, Breaking Bad wins Best Drama Series at the 4th Critics' Choice Television Awards
2015 The right-wing Venstre block wins the 2015 Danish general election
2016 Cleveland Cavaliers win their first NBA Finals title defeating Golden State Warriors 4–3 - 1st team to overcome 3–1 deficit
2016 Dustin Johnson wins The 116th US Golf Open with a one-under-par 69 by three shots, controversially penalised 1 stroke at Oakmont, Pennsylvania
Born on June 19th
1301 Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)
1507 Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)
1566 James I Stuart, King of Scotland (James VI) and England (1567/1603-25) (d. 1625)
1595 Guru Har Gobind, 6th sikh guru (d. 1644)
1595 Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)
1606 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)
1608 Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1613 Christian de Placker, composer
1623 Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (Pascal) (d. 1662)
1633 Philipp van Limborch, Dutch Protestant theologian (d. 1712)
1708 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)
1741 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1749 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1764 John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 José Gervasio Artigas, General, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)
1766 Edmund Weber, composer
1771 Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician (d. 1859)
1782 Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1782 John Bray, composer
1783 Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1790 John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)
1810 Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 Henry Prince, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1814 Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)
1815 John William Glover, composer
1816 William Henry Webb, American industrialist (d. 1899)
1834 Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)
1834 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1842 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1846 Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)
1850 David Jayne Hill, American diplomat (d. 1932)
1851 Billy Midwinter, Australian cricketer (d. 1890)
1854 Alfredo Catalani, Italian musician (d. 1893)
1856 Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 Charles Haddon George Alexander (George Samson), British actor
1858 Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1858 Sam Walter Foss, American librarian and poet (d. 1911)
1861 Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, British soldier, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I) (d. 1928)
1861 Jose Protasio Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)
1865 Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865 May Whitty, English entertainer, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion) (d. 1948)
1867 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1867 Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
1868 Heinrich Schenker (A Niloff), Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1874 Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer (d. 1941)
1877 Charles Coburn, American actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) (d. 1961)
1878 James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1880 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1884 Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, French Dadaist artist and writer (d. 1974)
1885 Stevan Hristic, composer
1886 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1886 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1889 Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
1890 Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
1893 Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
1896 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee (d. 1986)
1897 Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1967)
1897 Moe Howard (Moses Horowitz), American actor, comedian (3 Stooges) (d. 1975
1898 James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)
1898 Paul Muller-Zurich, composer
1899 George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
1900 Laura Hobson, American novelist , TV writerand panelist (I've Got a Secret) (d. 1986)
1901 Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1902 Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (Auld Lang Syne) (d. 1977)
1903 Hans Litten, German jurist (d. 1938)
1903 Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (d. 1941)
1903 Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)
1903 (Henry) Lou(is) Gehrig, "Iron Horse", 1st baseman (NY Yankees)
1904 Balis Dvarionas, composer
1905 George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905 Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)
1905 Taneli Kuusisto, composer
1906 Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1979)
1906 Walter Rauff, German colonel (d. 1984)
1907 Clarence Wiseman, 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)
1908 Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1908 Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91)
1909 Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1909 Midori Naka, Japanese actress (d. 1945)
1909 Osamu Dazai, Japanese author (Tsugaru, No Longer Human) (d. 1948)
1910 Abe Fortas, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1982)
1910 Frederick Harry Baines, painter
1910 Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1985)
1912 Don Gutteridge, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1912 Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
1912 Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring)
1912 Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1914 Alan Cranston, American politician (Sen-D-CA, 1969) (d. 2000)
1914 Anthony Bloom, Metropolitan of the Russian Orthodox Church (d. 2003)
1914 Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1914 Lester Flatt, American musician, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme) (d. 1979)
1914 Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1915 Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent (d. 2004)
1916 George Pravda, Prague, Austria-Hungary, actor (Thunderball, Firefox), (d. 1985)
1916 Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1917 Joshua Nkomo, Vice President of Zimbabwe, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA) (d. 1999)
1918 Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 Louis Jourdan, French actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1919 Pauline Kael, American movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps) (d. 2001)
1921 Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979)
1921 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1922 Aage Neals Bohr, Danish physicist, Study atomic nucleus (Nobel laureate 1975) (d. 2009)
1924 David Scott, priest
1924 Leo Nomellini, American football player (d. 2000), NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1924 Wassil Bykau, writer
1925 Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969)
1925 Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer (Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash) (d. 2006)
1927 Karel Kupka, composer
1928 Barry Took, English comedy writer (d. 2002)
1928 Nancy Marchand, American actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant) (d. 2000)
1928 Raymond Powell, British MP
1929 Thelma Barlow, English actress
1930 Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
1930 Gena Rowlands, American actress
1930 Jul Levi, composer
1931 "Against Iain" duke of Atholl, English large landowner
1932 Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress (Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo)
1932 Pier Angeli, Italian-born American actress (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge) (d. 1972)
1933 Thelma Barlow, English actress (Mavis-Coronation Street)
1933 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, Soviet cosmonaut (Soyuz 11) (d. 1971)
1934 Gena Rowlands, Cambria Wisc, actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job)
1934 Hammond Furlonge, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56)
1934 Terence Clark, British diplomat
1935 Tommy Devito, American musician and singer (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1936 Marisa Galvany, American soprano
1936 Shirley Goodman, American R&B singer (Shirley & Lee-Feels so Good) (d. 2005)
1938 Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects)
1938 Ian Smith, Australian actor
1938 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1938 Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)
1939 Al Wilson, American singer (d. 2008)
1939 Peter Duffell, Brits lt-general/minister of Defense
1940 Shirley "Cha Cha" Muldowney, Drag Racecar Driver (1st woman Top Fuel champ)
1941 Conchita Carpio-Morales, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1941 Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude)
1941 Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President
1942 Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, musician (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day)
1942 Jos Brink, Dutch actor and TV host (Op Zoek) (d. 2007)
1942 Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1942 Robert (Bob) W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981)
1944 Chico Buarque, Brazilian musician
1945 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel laureate)
1945 Radovan Karadžic, Serbian-Bosnian politician
1945 Tim Hovey, LA California, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid)
1945 Tobias Wolff, US writer (This Boy's Life)
1947 James T Walsh, (Rep-R-NY)
1947 Paula Koivuniemi, Finnish singer
1947 Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad, Houston, actress (Clair-Bill Cosby)
1947 Salman Rushdie, Indian author (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1948 Dervin Gordon, rocker
1948 Nick Drake, English musician (Back to Fruit Tree) (d. 1974)
1948 Phylicia Rashad, American actress
1950 Ann Wilson, American musician
1950 Constance Forslund, San Diego California, actress (Shining Season)
1951 Ann Wilson, San Diego California, rock vocalist (Heart-What About Love)
1951 Ayman al-Zawahiri, Egyptian terrorist
1951 Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress (Terror, Shock)
1951 Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1952 Robert Ainsworth, British Politician
1953 Larry Dunn (Dunhill), American musician, keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire)
1954 Jim Cooper, (Rep-D-TN, 1983)
1954 Kathleen Turner, American actress (Accidental Tourist, Jewel of Nile)
1954 Michael O'Brien, British MP
1956 Doug Stone, American singer
1957 Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)
1957 David Gleeson, Norfolk England, US, rower (Olympics-1996)
1958 Sergei Makarov, Russian hockey player
1959 Kimberley Leston, journalist
1959 Mark DeBarge, American singer, songwriter and trumpeter (DeBarge)
1960 Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut
1960 Johnny Lee Gray, Jr, LA California, 800m runner (Olympics-7th-1996)
1960 Luke Morley, British guitarist
1960 Patti Rizzo, Hollywood Fla, golfer (Mexican Amateur champion 1980)
1960 Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer (AC/DC)
1962 Jeremy Bates, English tennis player
1962 Ken Tohill, jockey
1962 Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer (Straight Up)
1962 Phillip Hatchett, Russellville Ky, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Quebec)
1962 Sid Fenech, jockey
1963 Rory Underwood, English rugby union footballer
1964 Boris Johnson, British politician
1964 Brian Vander Ark, American musician
1964 David Freedman, cricketer (NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990)
1964 Laura Ingraham, American radio host and political commentator
1965 Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One-6th)
1965 Luc Donckerwolke, Belgian car designer
1965 Sadie Frost, English actress
1966 Joichi Ito, Japanese entrepreneur
1967 Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier
1967 Eric Schweig, Inuvik Canada, actor (Dead Man's Walk)
1967 Mia Sara, American actress
1968 Alastair Lynch, Australian rules footballer
1968 Jud Buechler, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
1969 Lara Spencer, American TV personality
1969 Thomas Breitling, American entrepreneur
1970 Antonis Remos, Greek singer
1970 Brian 'Head' Welch, American guitarist (Korn) and vocalist (Head)
1970 Chris Gray, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1970 Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 Leonard Humphries, CFL cornerback (BC Lions)
1970 Quincy Dushawn Watts, Detroit Mich, 400m runner
1970 Quincy Watts, American athlete
1970 Rahul Gandhi, Indian politician
1970 Scott Brumfield, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 Andre Strode, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1972 Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 Brian McBride, American soccer player
1972 Dennis Lyxzén, Swedish musician
1972 Millard Coleman, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1972 Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress
1972 Robin Tunney, American actress
1973 Arne van de Berg, soccer player (Willem II)
1973 Jahine Arnold, American football player, wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge)
1973 Yasuhiko Yabuta, Japanese baseball player
1973 Yuko Nakazawa, Japanese singer
1974 Bumper Robinson, American actor and voice artist
1974 Doug Mientkiewicz, American baseball player
1975 Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy (1996)
1975 Anthony Parker, American basketball player, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1975 Brandon Mitchell, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1975 Hugh Dancy, English actor
1976 Bryan Hughes, English footballer
1976 Darnell Autry, running back (Chicago Bears)
1976 Patrick Surtain, American football player
1977 Peter Warrick, American football player
1977 Veronika Vareková, Czech supermodel
1978 Claudio Vargas, Dominican baseball player
1978 Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player (Dallas Mavericks)
1978 Garfield the Cat, animated character "Big fat hairy deal"
1978 Mía Maestro, Argentine actress
1978 Tyson Dux, Canadian wrestler
1978 Zoe Saldana, American actress (Avatar, Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl)
1979 John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer
1979 John Ford, American software engineer
1979 Quentin Jammer, American football player
1979 Soni Meduna, Omaha Neb, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 Adel Abdulaziz, Emiratie football player
1980 Amy Merrill, Miss Utah Teen USA (1997)
1980 Dante Robinson, American football player
1980 Lauren Lee Smith, Canadian actress
1981 Moss Burmester, New Zealand swimmer
1982 Alexander Frolov, Russian hockey player
1982 Chris Vermeulen, Australian motorcycle racer
1982 David Pollack, American football player
1982 Joe Cheng, Taiwanese actor
1982 May Andersen, Danish supermodel
1982 Michael Yarmush, American actor
1982 Trevor Hamilton, Northern Irish murderer
1983 Mark Selby, British snooker player
1984 Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party)
1984 Paul Dano, American actor
1985 José Ernesto Sosa, Argentine footballer
1986 Diego Hypólito, Brazilian gymnast.
1986 Marvin Williams, American basketball player
1987 Rashard Mendenhall, American football player
1991 Pontus Ekhem, Swedish hockey player
1995 Blake Woodruff, American actor
2008 Maddie Aldridge, daughter of Jamie Lynn Spears
Died on June 19th
1027 Romuald, Italian saint (b. 951)
1113 Odo/Odardus van Kamerijk, French writer/bishop of Kamerijk
1205 Roman the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1151)
1282 Eleanor de Montfort, Wife of Llywelyn the Last, daughter of Simon de Montfort, 6th Earl of Leicester and Eleanor of England (b. 1252)
1312 Piers Gaveston, French Earl of Cornwall, beheaded (b. 1284)
1341 Juliana van Falconieri, Italian saint/Swedish tenor
1542 Leo Jud(ae), Swiss pastor, church reformer (b. 1482)
1545 Abraomas Kulvietis Lithuanian reformer (b. 1509)
1554 Sixt(us) Birck (Xystus Betulius), German writer (Judith)
1584 François, Duke of Anjou (b. 1555)
1608 Alberico Gentili, Italian jurist (b. 1551)
1650 Matthäus Merian, Swiss engraver (b. 1593)
1652 Louis de Geer, Neth/Swedish industrialist/millionaire
1747 Alessandro Marcello, Italian composer (b. 1669)
1747 Nadir, shah of Persia (1736-47), murdered
1759 Charles-Joseph-Balthazar Sohier, composer
1762 Johann Ernst Eberlin, German composer (b. 1702)
1768 Benjamin Tasker, Governor of Maryland (b. 1690)
1786 Nathanael Greene, American Revolutionary general (b. 1742)
1794 Richard H Lee, US farmer (signed Decl of Independence)
1805 Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée, French painter (b. 1724)
1811 Samuel Chase, US judge (signed Declar of Independence)
1820 Joseph Banks, English naturalist, historian (Cook/Australia) and botanist (b. 1743)
1822 John Bray, composer, dies on 40th birthday
1837 Aleksander A Bestoezjev-Marlinsky, Russian writer, dies in battle
1840 John Cockerill, English/Belgian industrial/orangist
1844 Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire, French naturalist (b. 1772)
1864 George Lincoln Prescott, US Union brig-gen, dies of injuries
1867 Maximilian (F J) I, Austrian arch duke, Emperor of Mexico (b. 1832)
1902 Albert, King of Saxony (b. 1828)
1902 John E E Dalberg baron van Acton, English historian, dies at 69
1903 Herbert Vaughan, Roman Catholic Cardinal, Archbishop of Westminster (b. 1832)
1915 Sergey Ivanovich Taneyev, Russian composer (Oresteia)
1921 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota) (b. 1888)
1922 Johannes C Kapteyn, Dutch astronomer
1932 Solomon Tshkisho Platje, South African writer
1936 John Sharpe, cricketer (1-eyed fast bowler for England 1891-92)
1937 J(ames) M Barrie, Scottish writer (Dear Brutus, Peter Pan) (b. 1860)
1939 Grace Abbott, American social worker (US Children Bureau) and activist (b. 1878)
1940 Maurice Jaubert, composer
1944 Bill Bradley, cricketer (bowled for England in two Tests 1899)
1944 Han Yong-woon, Zen teache
1947 Willem H Fly, typographer/co-founder (SDAP)
1949 Syed Zafarul Hasan, Prominent Muslim philosopher (b. 1885)
1951 Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet (b. 1884)
1952 Heinrich Schlusnus, German baritone (b. 1888)
1953 Ethel Rosenberg, American spy, executed at Sing Sing (b. 1915)
1953 Julius Rosenberg, American spy, 1st US civilian executed for espionage (b. 1918)
1956 Lulu (Luise) Strauss und Torney, German poet/writer
1956 Thomas J. Watson, American businessman (IBM) (b. 1874)
1962 Frank Borzage, US, director (7th Heaven, Strange Cargo)
1965 James B Collip, Canadian bio-chemist (insulin)
1966 Ed Wynn, American actor (Ed Wynn Show) (b. 1886)
1966 Marjan Kozina, composer
1968 James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (b. 1898)
1973 Roger Delgado, actor (Adv's of Sir Francis Drake, Dr Who)
1975 Sam Giancana, American gangster (b. 1908)
1977 Ali Shariati, Iranian sociologist (b. 1933)
1977 Lady Olave Baden-Powell, English founder of the Girl Guide (b. 1889)
1979 Paul Popenoe, American eugenicist (b. 1888)
1982 John Cheever, US writer (Wapshot Chronicle, Pulitzer)
1984 Lee Krasner( Pollock), American painter (b. 1908)
1984 Wladimir Rudolfovich Vogel, composer
1986 Coluche (Michel Colucci), French comedian (b. 1944)
1986 Len Bias, American basketball player, 1st pick of Celtics, suffers fatal cocaine-induced seizure (b. 1963)
1986 Murray P Haydon, artificial heart recipient
1987 Teresa Cormack, New Zealand murder victim (b. 1981)
1988 Fernand Seguin, Canadian biologist (b. 1922)
1988 Gladys Spellman, American. Congresswoman (b. 1918)
1988 Zdenek Blazek, composer
1989 Hy Gardner, newspaper columnist
1989 Isidore Feinstein Stone, author (I F Stone's Weekly)
1991 Jean Arthur (Gladys Greene), American actress (Shane) (b. 1900)
1992 Kitty McKane Godfree, Tennis champ (Wimbledon 1924, 26)
1993 William Golding, English writer (Lord of the Flies, Nobel laureate 1983) (b. 1911)
1994 Christopher Clarkson, test Pilot
1994 Jocelyn Olaf Hambro, financier
1994 Ronald Batty, bookseller
1995 Al Hansen, artist
1995 Murray Dickie, opera singer/director
1995 Peter Townsend, RAF officer (b. 1914)
1995 Richard Bernard Pape, POW escaper/writer
1996 Alan Ande Anderson, opera director
1996 G. David Schine, American businessman (b. 1927)
1996 Harold William Woolhouse, plant scientist
1996 Henry Ralph Carr, soldie
1996 Vivian Ellis, composer
1997 Bobby Helms, American singer (Jingle Bell Rock) (b. 1933)
1997 Olga Georges-Picot, French actress (b. 1944)
2001 John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (b. 1916)
2001 Steve Broadie, American voice actor
2003 Laura Sadler, English actress (b. 1980)
2007 Antonio Aguilar, Mexican singer and actor (b. 1919)
2007 El Fary, Spanish singer (b. 1937)
2007 Terry Hoeppner, American football coach (b. 1947)
2007 Ze'ev Schiff, Israeli journalist (b. 1932)
2008 Barun Sengupta, Bengali journalist (b. 1934)
2008 Bennie Swain, American basketball player (b. 1930)
2008 Silvio Góes, Brazilian painter and comedian (b. 1943)
2009 Tomoji Tanabe, Japanese supercentenarian (b. 1895)
2010 Anthony Quinton, British philosopher (b. 1925)
2010 Manute Bol, Sudanese basketball player (b. 1962)
2011 Don Diamond, American actor (b. 1921)
2012 Richard Lynch, American actor (body found)
2013 James Gandolfini, American actor (b. 1961)
2013 Gyula Horn, Prime Minister of Hungary (1994–1998) (b. 1932)
2013 Slim Whitman, American country singer
2014 Gerry Goffin, American Hall of Fame lyricist
2016 Anton Yelchin, Russian-born American actor (Star Trek)