June 5th
Holidays and Festivals
Liberation Day (Seychelles)
President's Day (Equatorial Guinea)
Constitution Day & Father's Day (Denmark)
Indian Arrival Day (Suriname)
Khordad Movement Anniversary (Iran)
Arbor Day and World Environment Day (New Zealand) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Turkey) * CLICK HERE
Arbor Day (Yemen) * CLICK HERE
World Environment Day
Feast of Saint Boniface (d. 754)
Feast of Saint Valeria
* Mutek Festival - Montreal, Canada June 2 – 6 (4of5) (2010)
* Sand in the City - Omaha, Nebraska
Feast of Núr First day of the fifth month of the Bahá'í calendar. (Bahá'í Faith)
Fête de la Sureau Translation: Elderberry Day (French Republican) The 17th day of the Month of Prairial in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"God bless the corners of this house and all the lintel blessed.
And bless the hearth and bless the board
and bless each place of rest.
And bless each door that opens wide
to strangers as to kin.
And bless each crystal window pane that lets the starlight in
and bless the rooftree overhead.
And every sturdy wall.
The peace of man, the peace of God.
The peace or love on all."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Blow Job
1 Part Kahlua
1 Part Bailey's irish Cream
1 Part Peppermint Schnapps
Top with Whip Cream
Wine of The Day
Hunt Country Estate Bottled, Vidal Blanc Ice Wine
Style - Ice Wine
Finger Lakes
$45
Beer of The Day
Mikkeller Simcoe Single-hop IPA (Denmark)
Style - American-style IPA
Flavor - Citrusy, pine-scented variety of hybrid hops, grapefruity faintly sweet, biscuit-like aroma
Note - Created by “gypsy brewer” Mikkel Borg Bjergso, who has no commercial beer-making operation and instead travels to the world’s top craft breweries to make collaborative brews.
- In celebration of Grundlovsdag - Constitution Day (Denmark), June 5th, The signing of the Danish constitution in 1849.
Joke of The Day
A Russian, a Frenchman, and a Canadian walk into a bar. The Russian asks the bartender for vodka, so he gives him an entire bottle. The Russian pours out a shot, drinks it, and throws the rest of the bottle into the air and shoots it. The bartender asks, "What did you do that for?" and the Russian replies, "In my country, we have too much vodka."
The bartender shakes his head and turns to the Frenchman, who orders wine. The Frenchman pours a glass, drinks it, then throws the rest of the bottle in the air and shoots it to smithereens. "In my country," he says, "we have too much wine."
The bartender shakes his head again, and turns hesitantly to the Canadian to ask him what he would like.
The Canadian orders a beer, drinks the whole bottle in one go, then pulls out his gun and shoots the Frenchman. "In my country," he says, "we have too many Frenchmen."
Quote of The Day
“Booze is the greatest of all equalizers. Rich drunks and poor drunks both pass out the same way.”
- Chuck Klosterman (June 5, 1972), an American author.
Whisky of The Day
Distillery - Kaiapoi Distillery
Price: $90
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
Fishing Week First Week in June
National Headache Awareness Week First Week in June
National Business Etiquette Week First Full Week in June
National Headache Awareness Week First Full Week in June
National Sun Safety Week First Full Week in June
National Tire Safety Week First Full Week in June
Rip Current Awareness Week First Full Week in June
(World) Dystonia Awareness Week (DMRF) First Full Week in June
Superman Days First Thursday through Sunday in June
Historical Events on June 5th
70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
754 Friezen murders bishop Boniface & over 50 companions
1257 Kraków, Poland receives city rights.
1288 Battle of Woeringen: Reinald I vs Jan I
1305 Bordeaux's archbishop Bertrand the Got elected Pope Clement V
1507 England & Netherlands sign trade agreement
1625 Spanish troops under Spinola conquer Breda
1632 Prince Frederik Henry conquerors Roermond
1661 Isaac Newton admitted as a student to Trinity College, Cambridge
1716 England & Emperor Karel VI signs military treaty
1752 Prince Willem van Orange becomes Knight of Garter
1783 Joseph & Jacques Montgolfier make 1st public balloon flight
1794 Congress prohibits citizens from serving in foreign armed forces
1798 The Battle of New Ross: The attempt to spread United Irish Rebellion into Munster is defeated.
1805 1st recorded tornado in "Tornado Alley" (Southern Illinois)
1806 1st trotter to break 3 minute mile (Yankee)
1806 Batavian Republic becomes Kingdom of Holland
1808 Battle at Wagram, French army beats Austrians
1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1827 Turks capture Acropolis & takes Athens during Greek War of Independ
1829 The HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
1833 Ada Lovelace (future 1st computer programmer) meets Charles Babbage
1837 Houston, Texas is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1846 Telegraph line opens between Phila & Balt
1848 Statue of prince Willem the Silent unveiled
1849 Danish National Day-Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy
1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe's anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom's Cabin or, Life Among the Lowly starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1855 Anti-foreign anti-Roman Catholic Know-Nothing Party's 1st convention
1857 Walter Woodbury & James Page open photo studio in Batavia (Djakarta)
1861 Federal marshals seize arms & gunpower at Du Pont works DE
1863 Battle of Franklin's Crossing, VA (Deep Run)
1863 CSS "Alabama" captures "Tailsman" in Mid Atlantic
1864 Battle of Piedmont, Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia (Augusta City), taking nearly 1,000 prisoners, American Civil War.
1869 3rd Belmont, C Miller aboard Fenian wins in 3:04.25
1870 Constantinople in fire; 900 die
1872 Republican National Convention meets (Phila)
1873 Sultan Bargash closes slave market of Zanzibar
1875 Pacific Stock Exchange formally opens
1876 Bananas become popular in US, at Centennial Exposition in Phila
1879 13th Belmont: George Evans aboard Spendthrift wins in 2:42.75
1882 Storm & floods hits Bombay; about 100,000 die
1884 William Sherman refuses Republican presidential nomination saying "I will not accept if nominated & will not serve if elected"
1886 20th Belmont: Jim McLaughlin aboard Inspector B wins in 2:41
1888 Democrats nominate Grover Cleveland for president
1888 The Rio de la Plata Earthquake takes place.
1899 Alfred Dreyfus' acquitted
1900 Lord Roberts' army occupies Pretoria in the Second Boer War.
1907 Automatic washer & dryer are introduced
1911 Red Sox Joe Wood strikes out 3 pinch hitters in 9th for 5-4 win
1912 US marines invade Cuba (3nd time)
1913 Dutch Disability laws go into effect
1915 47th Belmont, George Byrne aboard The Finn wins in 2:18.6
1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women's suffrage.
1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
1917 Conscription begins in the United States as "Army registration day". 10 million US men begin registering for draft in WW I
1920 1st rivet driven on Bank of Italy headquarters at 1 Powell
1920 A's VP Thomas Shibe denies charges that baseballs are livelier
1925 29th US Golf Open, Willie Macfarlane shoots a 291 at Worcester CC Mass
1926 Indians triple-play Yankees & win 15-3
1927 3rd French Mens Tennis, R Lacoste beats B Tilden (64 46 57 63 11-9)
1927 Johnny Weissmuller sets 100-yard & 200-yard free-style swim record
1929 Ramsey MacDonald forms minority Labour government in Britain
1931 Jules Renkin becomes premier of Belgium
1933 The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States' use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1934 1st formal meeting of Baker Street Irregulars (NYC)
1937 69th Belmont, Charley Kurtsinger aboard War Admiral wins in 2:28.6
1937 Henry Ford initiates 32 hour work week
1940 1st synthetic rubber tire exhibited Akron Oh
1940 American Negro Theater organizes
1940 Battle of France begins in WW II
1940 Gen Von Bock starts German offensive in Somme
1940 General De Gaulle becomes under minister of Defense
1940 Gov of Suriname & Neth Antilles refuse entry to Jewish refugees
1940 Netherlands rations petroleum
1941 Four thousand Chongqing residents are asphyxiated in a bomb shelter during the Bombing of Chongqing.
1941 Sandor Szabo beats B Nagurski in St Louis, to become wrestling champ
1942 British offensive in North Africa under general Ritchie
1942 Elwood Ordnance Plant near Joliet Illinois kills 54
1942 United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania in World War II.
1943 75th Belmont, Johnny Longden aboard Count Fleet wins in 2:28.2
1943 German occupiers arrest Louvain University's chancellor
1944 1st B-29 bombing raid, 1 plane lost due to engine failure
1944 Allies march into Rome
1944 Fieldmarshal Rommel goes on vacation
1944 General Eisenhower decides invasion set for June 6
1944 King Victor Emmanuel abdicates the throne for his son Umberto
1944 1st British gliders touched down on French soil for D-Day, More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day, World War II.
1945 Opera "Peter Grimes of Benjamin Britten," premieres in London
1945 The Allied Control Council, the military occupation governing body of Germany, formally takes power.
1945 USA, UK, USSR, France declare supreme authority over Germany
1946 A fire in the LaSalle Hotel cocktail lounge in Chicago, Illinois kills 61 people.
1947 In a speech at Harvard University, United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe (The Marshall Plan).
1948 Phillies Richie Ashburn sets NL rookie consecut hitting streak at 23
1950 US Supreme Court undermines legal foundations of segregation
1952 1st sporting event televised nationally-Walcott vs Charles boxing, Jersey Joe Walcott beats Ezzard Charles in 15 for heavy weight boxing title
1952 Test Cricket debut of Freddie Trueman v India at Headingley
1953 Denmark adopts a new constitution
1953 US Senate rejects China PR membership to UN
1954 "Your Show Of Shows," last airs on NBC-TV
1954 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Ecclesiae fastos
1955 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1955 NY Yankee Mickey Mantle hits 550' HR off Chicago Billy Pierce
1956 "Milton Berle Show," last airs on NBC-TV. Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1956 Fed court rules racial segregation on Montgomery buses anti-Const
1957 NY narcotics investigator, Dr Herbert Berger, urges AMA to investigate use of stimulating drugs by athletes
1959 Bob Dylan graduates Hibbing HS in Minn
1959 The first government of the State of Singapore is sworn in.
1960 "George Gobel Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1960 Joyce Ziske wins LPGA Wolverine Golf Open
1963 British Secretary of State for War John Profumo resigns in a sex scandal known as the Profumo Affair.
1963 Movement of 15 Khordad, Protest against arrest of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini by Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. In several cities, masses of angry demonstrators are confronted by tanks and paratroopers.
1963 Princess Marijke changes her name to Christina
1964 DSV Alvin is commissioned.
1964 Davie Jones & King Bees debut "I Can't Help Thinking About Me," group disbands but Davie Jones goes on to success as David Bowie
1965 "Wooly Bully" by Sam the Sham & Pharaohs hits #2
1965 97th Belmont, John Sellers aboard Hail to All wins in 2:28.6
1965 Lopez Arellano becomes president of Honduras
1966 Cincinati Red Leo Cardenas hits 4 HRs in a doubleheader
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Clayton Federal Golf Invitational
1967 Murderer Richard Speck sentenced to death in electric chair
1967 Royal Canadian Mint ordered to start converting 10 cent & 25 cent coins to pure nickel as soon as possible
1967 Six-Day War between Israel & Arab neighbors begin begins, The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
1967 WSBE TV channel 36 in Providence, RI (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 U.S. presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles 12:16AM PST, California by Palestinian Sirhan Sirhan. Kennedy dies the next day.
1969 Dutch Antilles government of Kroon resigns
1969 Race riot in Hartford Connecticut
1969 The International communist conference begins in Moscow.
1970 Chile becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1970 KPAX TV channel 8 in Missoula, MT (CBS) begins broadcasting
1971 103rd Belmont, Walter Blum aboard Pass Catcher wins in 2:30.6
1972 "If You Had Wings" opens
1972 UN Conference on Human Environment opens in Stockholm
1972 Yugoslav president Tito visits USSR
1973 43rd French Mens Tennis, Ilse Nastase beats Nikki Pilic (63 63 60)
1974 A's Reggie Jackson & Bill North engage in clubhouse fight at Detroit
1975 48th National Spelling Bee, Hugh Tosteson wins spelling incisor
1975 Egypt president Sadat reopens Suez Canal, closed since 1967 (the Six-Day War)
1975 The United Kingdom holds its first and only country-wide referendum, on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
1976 "Bigfoot" by Bro Smith hits #57
1976 108th Belmont, Angel Cordero Jr aboard Bold Forbes wins in 2:29
1976 Teton Dam in Idaho, United States bursts causing $1 billion damage (14 die)
1977 31st NBA Championship, Port Trailblazers beat Phila 76er, 4 games to 2
1977 31st Tony Awards, Shadow Box & Annie win
1977 A Coup takes place in Seychelles (National Day).
1977 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Talk Tournament '77 Golf Tournament
1977 LA Dodgers retire Walt Alston's #24
1977 The Apple II, the first practical personal computer, goes on sale.
1979 Seychelles adopts constitution
1980 Soyuz T-2 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Astro's Nolan Ryan passes Early Wynn as all-time walk leader (1,777)
1981 Center of Disease Control reports of a pneumonia affecting gays (AIDS)
1981 George Harrison releases "Somewhere in England"
1981 TODAY/PC runs for 1st time
1981 The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report that five people in Los Angeles, California have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1982 "Murphy's Law" by Cheri hits #39
1982 52nd French Womens Tennis, M Navratilova beats Andrea Jaeger (76 61)
1982 114th Belmont, Laffit Pincay Jr aboard Conquistador Cielo wins in 2:28
1982 Waterfront streetcar begins operating in Seattle
1983 37th Tony Awards, Torch Song Trilogy & Cats win
1983 53rd French Mens Tennis, Yannick Noah beats Mats Wilander (62 75 76)
1983 Alice Miller wins West Virginia LPGA Golf Classic
1984 Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" becomes #1
1984 Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1986 SD Padre Steve Garvey ejected for 1st time
1987 "Nightline" presents it's 1st "Town Meeting" the subject is AIDS & the show runs until 3:47 AM
1987 Dwight Gooden returns from drug rehabilitation & wins game
1988 1st Children's Miracle Network Telethon raises $590,000
1988 58th French Mens Tennis, Mats Wilander beats Henri Leconte (75 62 61)
1988 Kay Cottee sails into Sydney as 1st woman to circle globe alone
1988 Laura Davies wins LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Golf Classic
1988 Longest champagne cork flight is 177'9 in NY
1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1989 23rd Music City News Country Awards, R Van Shelton & Randy Travis
1989 Billy Smith, last original NY Islander, retires
1989 Paul McCartney releases "Flowers in the Dirt"
1989 The Unknown Rebel halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1989 Toronto Blue Jays Skydome stadium opens, Milwaukee Brewers win 5-3
1990 South African troops plunder Mandela's dwelling
1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 Mikhail Gorbachev receives his 1990 Nobel Peace Prize
1991 Space Shuttle STS 40 (Columbia 12) launched
1993 "Livin' On The Edge" by Aerosmith hits #18
1993 63rd French Womens Tennis, Steffi Graf beats M J Fernandez (46 62 64)
1993 125th Belmont, Julie Krone aboard Colonial Affair wins in 2:29.8
1993 Liberian Charles Taylors rebellion kills 550 fugitives
1993 Singer Mariah Carey weds Tommy Mottola, CEO (Sony Music)
1993 Somali warlord Aidids murders 23 Pakistani
1994 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 8 performances
1994 7th Children's Miracle Network Telethon
1994 64th French Mens Tennis, S Bruguera beats A Berasategui (63 75 26 61)
1994 64th French Womens Tennis, A Sanchez Vicario beats M Pierce (64 64)
1994 Beth Daniel wins LPGA Oldsmobile Golf Classic
1995 29th Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson & Reba McEntire
1995 The Bose-Einstein condensate is first created.
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Memphis TN on WMFS 92.9 FM
1998 A strike begins at the General Motors parts factory in Flint, Michigan, that quickly spreads to five other assembly plants (the strike lasted seven weeks).
2001 Tropical Storm Allison makes landfall on the upper-Texas coastline as a strong tropical storm and dumps large amounts of rain over Houston. The storm caused $5.5 billion in damages, making Allison the costliest tropical storm in U.S. history
2001 U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords leaves the Republican Party, an act which shifts control of the United States Senate from the Republicans to the Democratic Party.
2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region
2006 Serbia declares independence from the State Union of Serbia and Montenegro
2009 Chileo officially enters recession, it is the first South American country to enter the global recession
2010 Mike Smith riding Drosselmeyer wins the 142nd Belmont in 2:31.57
2011 Rafael Nadal beats Roger Federer (7-5, 7-6, 5-7, 6-1) in the 110th Men's French Open
2011 Li Na beats Francesca Schiavone (6-4, 7-6) in the 110th Women's French Open
2012 American gubernatorial recall election is held in Wisconsin. Governor Scott Walker wins and becomes the first governor to survive a recall election
2013 44 people are killed by a lightning storm in Bihar, India
2013 Nawaz Sharif is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan
2013 Carrie Underwood, George Strait, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton win at the 47th Country Music Association Awards
2013 The first article based on NSA leaked documents by Edward Snowden are published by the Guardian Newspaper in the UK
2016 Swiss vote to reject referendum to give each citizen a guaranteed income of $2,500 Swiss francs per month
2016 Novak Djokovic beats Andy Murray (3-6, 6-1, 6-2, 6-4) to win his first French title at the 115th Men's French Open
Born on June 5th
1341 Edmund of Langley, 1st Duke of York, son of Edward III of England (d. 1402)
1493 Justus Jonas, German Protestant reformer (d. 1555)
1523 Margaret of France, Duchess of Berry (d. 1573)
1553 Bernardino Baldi, Italian mathematician (d. 1617)
1554 Elisabeth of Austria, queen consort of Charles IX of France (d. 1592)
1640 Pu Songling, Chinese writer (d. 1715)
1646 Elena Cornaro Piscopia, Italian mathematician (d. 1684)
1660 Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough (d. 1744)
1664 Mustafa II, sultan of Turkey (1695-1703)
1665 Nicolas Bernier, composer
1686 Cristoph Raupach, composer
1695 Johann Conrad Schlaun, German barok architect
1718 Thomas Chippendale, English furniture maker (d. 1779)
1723 Adam Smith, Scottish economist (Wealth of Nations) (d. 1790)
1736 Corneille F de Nelis, Flemish scholar/bishop of Antwerp
1757 Pierre Jean George Cabanis, French physiologist (d. 1808)
1759 Theodor Zwetler, composer
1760 Johan Gadolin, Finnish chemist (discovered yttrium) (d. 1852)
1771 Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Cumberland, King of Hanover (1837-51) (d. 1851)
1771 Willem F, count of Bylandt, Dutch military officer
1781 Christian August Lobeck, German scholar (d. 1860)
1798 Alexey Fyodorovich L'vov, composer
1813 Prosper Philippe Catherine Sainton, composer
1819 John Couch Adams, English mathematician and astronomer (co-discover Neptune) (d. 1892)
1823 George Thorndike Angell, Mass, lawyer (ASPCA)
1825 Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry, Georgia, educator (Rep-Ala, 1857-61)
1826 Ivar Christian Hallstrom, composer
1827 Beverly Holcombe Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1831 Marcus Joseph Wright, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1922
1850 Pat Garrett, American Western lawman (d. 1908)
1862 Allvar Gullstrand, Swedish ophthalmologist (recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1911) (d. 1930)
1863 Arthur Somervell, composer
1868 James Connolly, Irish socialist (d. 1916)
1874 Jack Chesbro, baseball pitcher (NY Yankees won 41 in 1904)
1876 Isaac Heinemann, German-born Israeli scholar and professor of classical literature (d. 1957)
1876 Tony Jackson, American musician (d. 1920)
1877 Johan W Albarda, 1st Dutch socialist minister (1939-45)
1878 Franklyn Farnum, actor (Cowboy & Bandit, Scarlet Car, Frontier Days)
1878 (Francisco) Pancho Villa, Mexican revolutionary, guerrilla leader (d. 1923)
1879 Adolf Wiklund, composer
1879 René Pottier, French cyclist (d. 1907)
1879 Robert Mayer, German-born philanthropist (d. 1985)
1882 Igor F Stravinsky, Oranienbaum Russia, composer (Rite of Spring)
1883 John Maynard Keynes, English economist (d. 1946)
1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett, novelist
1884 Ralph Benatzky, Czech composer (d. 1957)
1885 Georges Mandel (Louis Rothschild), French Foreign minister (-1940)
1887 Ruth Benedict, New York City, American anthropologist (Patterns of Culture)
1888 Raden Mas Nato Suroto, Indonesia, poet (Melatiknoppen)
1892 Alexander Loudon, diplomat (Washington)
1894 Roy Thomson, Lord Thomson of Fleet, English publisher (d. 1976)
1895 August Baeyens, Flemish composer (Coriolanus)
1895 William Boyd (actor), American actor, cowboy (Hopalong Cassidy) (d. 1972)
1898 Federico García Lorca, Spanish poet, lyricist and dramatist (Blood Wedding) (d. 1936)
1898 Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian shoemaker (d. 1960)
1899 Otis Barton, American deep-sea diver, inventor and actor (d. 1992)
1900 Barbara Gooden, novelist
1900 Dennis Gabor, Hungarian physicist, inventor (holography - 3D laser photography) (Nobel Prize laureate) (d. 1979)
1901 Anastasia N Romanova, great ruler of Russia/daughter of last tsar
1902 Hugo Huppert, writer
1905 Art Donovan, NFL defensive tackle (Balt, NY Yanks, Dallas)
1905 Jock Cameron, South African cricketer, Wisden COY 1936 (d. 1935)
1905 John Abbott, British actor (Smogasboard) (d. 1996)
1906 Kenneth Anderson, deputy comptroller (British GPO)
1906 Margaret Rawlings, actress (Roman Holiday)
1906 Viscount Rochdale, British CEO
1907 Rolf Bongs, writer
1907 Rudolf Peieris, physicist
1908 Jack Jacob, senior master (British Supreme Court)
1909 Alfred Uhl, composer
1911 Arthur Vick, vice chancelor (Queens University, Belfast)
1911 Charles Fletcher, physician/CEO (ASH)
1912 Dean Amadon, American ornithologist (d. 2003)
1912 Eric Hollies, cricketer (England leggie, bowled Bradman)
1912 Josef Neckermann, German FR, equestrian dressage (Olympic-gold-1968)
1913 Friedrich Wildgans, composer
1914 Beatrice de Cardi, archaeoligist
1914 Rose Hill, singer/actress (Nicholas Nickleby, Shot in the Dark)
1914 Stan Jones, Douglas Az, actor (Sheriff of Cochise)
1915 Alfred Kazin, US writer/literature critic (Inmost Leaf)
1915 Lancelot Ware, founder (MENSA)
1916 Eddie Joost, American baseball player and manager
1916 Jack Sutherland, journalist
1916 Syd Barnes, cricketer (Australian batsmen of 30's/40's)
1917 Carel van Dillen, resistance fighter
1918 Branimir Sakac, composer
1919 Akeo Watanabe, Tokyo Japan, conductor (Nippon Phil Orch 1956-68)
1919 Richard McClure Scarry, American children's author and illustrator (d. 1994)
1920 Cornelius Ryan, Irish-American author (Italians: Face of a Nation) (d. 1974)
1920 Kurt Edelhagen, West German jazz pianist (Klimbim)
1920 Marion Motley, AAFC, NFL fullback (Cleveland Browns, Pittsburgh)
1921 Lancelot Pierre, cricketer (1 Test WI v England 1948, 0-28)
1923 Daniel Rogers Pinkham, American composer, organist, and harpsichordist (Signs of Zodiac) (d. 2006)
1923 Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (d. 1963)
1924 Kenneth Burslam Gardner, librarian/orientalist
1925 Art Donovan, American football star
1925 Bill Hayes, Harvey Ill, actor (Your Show of Shows, Days of our Life)
1925 Dorothy Claire, LaPorte Ind, singer (Winchell & Mahoney)
1925 William L Dickinson, (Rep-R-AL, 1965)
1928 Otto V Walter, writer
1928 Robert Lansing, American actor (12 O'Clock High, Equalizer, Automan) (d. 1994)
1928 Tony Richardson, British film director (Delicate Balance, Hotel NH) (d. 1991)
1930 Alifa Rifaat, Egyptian writer (d. 1996)
1930 Nikolay Nikolayevich Sidel'nikov, composer
1930 Robert Buchanan, founder (Center for History of Tech Bath University)
1930 Roger W Suddards, solicitor
1931 Jacques Demy, French film director (Lola, Magic Donkey) (d. 1990)
1931 Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish philosopher, antroposopher
1931 John Dellow, commisioner (London Metropolitan Police)
1932 A R Dawson, rugby player
1932 Christy Brown, Irish author (My Left Foot, Down All the Days) (d. 1981)
1934 Bill D Moyers, American journalist, news commentator (Bill Moyers' Journal)
1934 F Curtis Michel, LaCrosse Wisconsin, astronaut
1934 Gwen Swire, British social worker
1934 Katherine Helmond, actress (Soap, Coach)
1935 Peter Schat, Dutch opera composer (Labyrint, Houdine, Symposion)
1936 Barry Wilson, deputy chief (British Defense Staff)
1936 Connie Hines, American actress
1936 M A "Kelly" Seymour, cricketer (S Afr off-spinner in 7 Tests 1963-70)
1937 Hélène Cixous, French writer, poet
1937 Stanley Lunetta, composer
1938 Karin Balzer, German hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1938 Marion Chapman, smallest known premature baby to survive (280 g)
1939 Joe Clark (Charles Joseph), (P-C) Prime Minister of Canada (1979-80)
1939 Margaret Drabble, British author (Needle's Eye)
1940 H R "Tiger" Lance, South African cricketer
1940 Moira Anderson, Scottish singer (Loch Lomond)
1941 Duane Duke Sims, baseball player
1941 Erasmo Carlos, Brazilian singer and songwriter
1941 Floyd Butler, rocker
1941 Jeffrey Rooker, MP (Labour)
1941 Martha Argerich, Argentine pianist (debut 1949)
1941 Robert Kraft, American owner of the New England Patriots
1941 Spalding Gray, American actor and writer (Beaches, Clara's Heart, Heavy Petting) (d. 2004)
1942 Charles Dodge, composer
1942 Nelson "Bo" Burton Jr, bowler/sportscaster (Pro Bowlers Tour)
1942 Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, President of Equatoriaal Guinee (1979)
1943 Ann Craft, researcher/writer
1943 Bill Hopkins, composer
1943 Matthew Lesko, American author
1944 Chris Finnegan, UK, middleweight boxing champ (Olympic-gold-1968)
1944 Colm Wilkinson, Irish singer
1944 Tommie Smith, US sprinter (Olympic-gold-1968) [or Jan 5]
1945 Ambar Roy, cricketer (nephew of Pankaj Batted in 4 Tests 1969-70)
1945 Don Reid, Va, country singer (Statler Bros-Flowers on the Wall)
1945 John Carlos, American athlete, track (Olympic bronze 1968), gave black power salute
1945 Klaus Wyborny, actor (Klammer auf Klammer Zu)
1945 Patrick Head, English F1 technical director and team co-owner (WilliamsF1)
1946 Freddie Stone, American guitarist (Sly & the Family Stone)
1946 Fuzzy Fuscaldo, rocker (Capt Beefheart)
1946 Gillian Hills, Cairo Egypt, actress (Blow-up, Clockwork Orange)
1946 John Bach, Welsh actor
1946 Michael Monarch, rocker (Steppenwolf)
1946 Stefania Sandrelli, Viareggio Italy, actress (Afredo, Key)
1947 David Hare, playwright (Strapless, Plenty, Wetherby, Fatale)
1947 Eric Molobi, South Africa, activist (ANC)
1947 Laurie Anderson, American performance artist (O Superman, Excellent Birds)
1947 Tom Evans, English musician, bassist and vocalist (Badfinger) (d. 1983)
1948 Frank Estersmith, Australia, rocker (Air Supply)
1949 Ken Follett, Welsh author (Eye of the Needle, Lie Down with Lions)
1950 Abraham Sarmiento, Jr., Filipino journalist & political activist (d. 1977)
1950 Adrian Cosma, Romania, team handball (Olympic-silver-1976)
1950 J. J. Bittenbinder, American television host and author
1950 Ronnie Dyson, American singer (Hair, All over your face) and actor (d. 1990)
1951 Jill Biden, American educator and wife of Vice President Joe Biden
1951 Suze Orman, American financial advisor, writer, and television personality.
1952 Carole Fredericks, American singer (d. 2001)
1952 Daniel Katzen, American classical musician
1952 Nicko McBrain, English drummer (Iron Maiden)
1953 Kathleen Kennedy, American film producer
1954 Haluk Bilginer, Turkish actor
1954 Michael "Nicko" McBain, Eng hard rock drummer (Iron Maiden-Powerslave)
1954 Peter Erskine, jazz drummer (Weather Report)
1954 Phil Neale, cricketer
1955 Edino Nazareth Filho, Brazilian football player
1955 Nancy Stafford, Fla, Miss Florida (1977)/actress (Joan-St Elsewhere)
1956 Kenny G, American saxophonist (Duotones)
1956 Richard A Searfoss, Mount Clemons Mich, Astronaut (STS 58, 76, sk 90)
1956 Richard Butler, English singer (The Psychedelic Furs)
1957 Jim Woodward, Wilmington DE, Nike golfer (1994 Miss Gulf Coast-50th)
1958 Ahmed Abdallah Mohamed Sambi, President of the Comoros
1959 Michael Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1959 Robert Lloyd, English musician (The Nightingales)
1960 Leslie Hendrix, American actress
1960 Margo Lanagan, Australian author
1961 Anthony Burger, American musician and singer (d. 2006)
1961 Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (d. 1999)
1961 Ramesh Krishnan, Indian tennis star
1961 Teri Nunn, California, rock vocalist (Berlin-You Take my Breathe Away)
1962 Astrid, Belgian princess, daughter of Albert II
1962 Jeff Garlin, American comedian
1963 Joe Rudán, Hungarian heavy metal singer
1964 Karl Sanders, American musician (Nile)
1964 Laura Charameda, Marshall Mich, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1964 Lisa Cholodenko, American filmmaker
1964 Mags, Musician (Fuzzbox)
1964 Rick Riordan, American author
1965 Bob Probert, Windsor, NHL right wing (Chicago Blackhawks)
1965 Edward Hartman, Skalica CZE, hockey goalie (Team Slovakia)
1965 Karen Sillas, Bkln NY, actress (Prime Suspect)
1965 Michael E. Brown, American astronomer
1965 Sandrine Piau, French soprano
1966 Bill Spiers, Orangeburg SC, infielder (Houston Astros)
1966 Tina Barrett, Balt, LPGA golfer (1989 Mitsubishi Motors Ocean State)
1967 Joe DeLoach, American athlete, 200m runner (Olympic-gold-1988)
1967 Matt Bullard, NBA forward (Houston Rockets, Atlanta Hawks)
1967 Ray Lankford, American baseball player, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1967 Ron Livingston, American actor
1969 Brian McKnight, American musician
1969 Ed Smith, WLAF tight end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 Keith Powe, WLAF/CFL defensive lineback (Win Blue Bombers, Claymores)
1970 Izabella Scorupco, Bialystok Poland, actress (Golden Eye)
1970 Martin Gelinas, Canadian hockey player, NHL left wing (Vancouver Canucks)
1970 Todd Burger, guard (Chicago Bears)
1971 Mark Wahlberg, American rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch) and actor (Boogie Nights, The Departed)
1971 Miyuki Komatsu, Japanese actress
1971 Pedro Garau, WLAF running back (Barcelona Dragons)
1971 Susan Lynch, Northern Irish actress
1971 Takaya Tsubobayashi, Japanese racing driver
1971 Vaughn Parker, NFL guard/tackle (San Diego Chargers)
1972 Chuck Klosterman, American journalist
1972 Mike Bucci, American professional wrestler
1972 Pavel Kotla, Polish conductor
1973 Brady Smith, defensive end (New Orleans Saints)
1973 Clay Williams, WLAF OL (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Daniel Gildenlöw, Swedish musician and songwriter
1973 Galilea Montijo, Mexican actress
1973 Gella Vandecaveye, Belgian judoka
1973 Jenn Rivell, American actress
1973 Lamon Brewster, American boxer
1973 Sean Moran, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1974 Chad Allen, American actor (David-Our House, St Elsewhere)
1974 Chassity Lazzari, Cerritos Cal, actress
1974 Russ Ortiz, American baseball player
1975 Sandra Stals, Belgian athlete
1975 Žydrunas Ilgauskas, Lithuanian basketball player, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1976 Aesop Rock, American hip-hop artist
1976 Giannis Giannoulis, Greek basketball player
1976 Jack Ross, Scottish footballer
1976 Ross Noble, British comedian
1976 Torry Holt, American football player
1977 Chantal Lefebvre, Ville LaSalle Que, ice dancer (1996 Canadians-2nd)
1977 Christian Martucci, American musician
1977 Kristin Gore, American author and screenwriter
1977 Liza Weil, American actress
1977 Navi Rawat, American actress
1977 Nourhanne, Lebanese singer
1978 Fernando Meira, Portuguese football player
1978 Korina Nikolaou, Miss Cyprus Universe (1997)
1978 Misha Ivetich, Miss Indiana Teen USA (1996)
1979 David Bisbal, Spanish singer
1979 Fraser Watts, Scottish cricketer
1979 Jason White, American NASCAR driver
1979 Pete Wentz, American musician (Fall Out Boy)
1980 Mike Fisher, Canadian ice hockey Player (Ottawa Senators)
1980 Sutee Suksomkit, Thai football player
1980 Yasser Latif Hamdani, Pakistani constitutional lawyer
1981 Jade Goody, British television personality (d. 2009)
1981 Sebastien Lefebvre, Canadian musician (Simple Plan)
1982 Baron Geisler, Filipino actor
1982 Dallas Cook, American musician (Suburban Legends)
1983 Bill Bray, American baseball player
1983 Marques Colston, American football player
1984 Cécilia Cara, French singer and actress
1985 Kenny De Ketele, Belgian cyclist
1987 Charlie Clements, English actor
1987 Lara Bingle, Australian model
1989 Megumi Nakajima, Filipina-Japanese voice actress & singer
1992 Emily Seebohm, Australian Swimmer
1995 Rebecca Flint, Manx singer/dancer known as Beckii Cruel
1995 Troye Sivan, Australian actor and singer
2005 Irene Urdangarín y de Borbón, granddaughter of King Juan Carlos I of Spain
Died on June 5th
535 Epiphanius of Constantinople, patriarch of Constantinople
754 Boniface (Winfrid), English saint/archbishop (Dokkum)
754 Eoda, English speaking bishop of Utrecht, murdered
1017 Emperor Sanjo of Japan (b. 976)
1118 Robert de Beaumont, 1st Earl of Leicester (b. 1049)
1288 Hendrik VI, earl of Luxembourg/Laroche (1281-88), dies in battle
1296 Edmund Crouchback, son of Henry III of England (b. 1245)
1316 King Louis X of France (b. 1289)
1383 Dmitry Konstantinovich, Russian prince (b. 1324)
1443 Ferdinand, Portuguese saint/slave to Fez
1568 Lamoraal, Count of Egmont, prince of Gavere, Flemish general and statesman, beheaded (b. 1522)
1568 Philips van Montmorency count of Horne, admiral/statesman, beheaded
1568 Willem Key, painter
1625 Orlando Gibbons, English composer (Silver Swan) (b. 1583)
1667 Pietro Sforza Pallavicino, Italian cardinal and theologist (Assertiones Theologicae) (b. 1607)
1688 Constantine Phaulkon, Greek adventurer (b. 1667)
1716 Roger Cotes, English mathematician (b. 1682)
1722 Johann Kuhnau, German composer, organist, and harpsichordist (b. 1660)
1738 Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (b. 1659)
1785 Gottfried August Homilius, composer, dies at 71
1791 Frederick Haldimand, Swiss-born British colonial governor (b. 1718)
1816 Giovanni Paisiello, Italian composer (Serva Padrona) (b. 1741)
1825 Odysseas Androutsos, hero in the Greek War of Independence (b. 1788)
1826 Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber, composer (Oberon) (b. 1786)
1852 Tomasz Napoleon Nidecki, composer
1861 John Garland, US Union colonel/brig-general, dies in battle
1861 Tomas Genoves y Lapetra, composer
1864 William Edmonson "Grumble" Jones, Confederate brigadier general, dies in battle
1866 John McDouall Stuart, Australian explorer (b. 1815)
1868 Anselm Huttenbrenner, composer
1880 Jacobus J Cremer, painter/author (Betuwsche Novellen)
1885 Julius Benedict, composer (Protoghesi)
1894 Immanuel Faisst, composer
1898 Salvatore Ferragamo, Italian Shoemaker
1900 Stephen Crane, American author (Red Badge of Courage) (b. 1871)
1902 Louis J. Weichmann, American chief witness in the trial of the assassins of Abraham Lincoln (b. 1842)
1906 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann, German philosopher (b. 1842)
1908 Luca Fumagalli, composer
1910 O. Henry, American author (b. 1862)
1913 Chris von der Ahe, German-born baseball pioneer (b. 1851)
1915 Brzeska, sculptor
1916 Horatio H Kitchener, British General (Sudan), drowns (b. 1850)
1920 Rhoda Broughton, Welsh author (b. 1840)
1921 Georges Feydeau, French playwright (Chat and Poche) (b. 1862)
1923 George H Breitner, impressionist painter
1927 Paul Lacombe, composer
1930 Jules Pascin (Julius Pincas), Bulgarian painter, cartoonist (b. 1885)
1932 Henry Taberer, cricket (bowl Trumper only Test wkt for South Africa)
1939 Elijah Beardsworth, world quick shaving champion
1939 Frank Van de Goes, writer/marxist theorist
1944 Riccardo Zandonai, composer
1953 Bill Tilden, tennis champ
1953 Roland Young, actor (David Copperfield, Irene, Dulcy)
1953 William Farnum, actor (Drifter, Scarlet Letter)
1966 Natacha Rambova, costume designer
1967 Arthur Biram, Israeli philosopher and educator, and Israel Prize recipient (b. 1878)
1967 Edna Park Edwards, entertainer
1970 "Jopie" Pengel (Johan A], premier Suriname (1963-69)
1970 Jay Irving, cartoonist (Draw Me a Laugh)
1973 Max Terhune, actor (Range Justice, Night Riders)
1975 Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (b. 1916)
1976 Violet Wilkey, American actress (b. 1903)
1976 Walter Field, entertainer
1977 "Sleepy" John Estes, rocker (Electric)
1978 John Meulenhoff, Dutch publisher
1979 Pauline Offner, Zen Theravadin nun
1980 Lauritz Lauritzen, German politician
1981 Philo McCullough, actor (Branded, Ridin' Thru)
1984 Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, Indies Sikh leader
1988 Clarence M Pendleton, chairman of comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1990 J Zeldenrust, pathology-anatomy
1990 Vasily V Kuznetsov, pres of USSR supreme soviet (1982-83, 85)
1992 Laurence Naismith, actor (Scrooge, Gypsy Girl)
1992 Max Lerner, US writer/columnist (NY Post)
1993 Conway Twitty, American country musician (Linda on My Mind) (b. 1933)
1994 Ish Kabbible (Merwyn A Bogue), cornetist (Kay Kyser)
1994 Thomas Millar, historian
1995 Bettina Vernon-Warren, dancer
1996 Baldev Singh Chahal, campaigner
1996 Vito Scotti, actor (Nude Bomb, Get Shorty, Big Bus)
1997 J Anthony Lukas, writer (Pulitizer, Common Ground), suicide
1998 Jeanette Nolan, American actress (b. 1911)
1998 Sam Yorty, American mayor of Los Angeles (b. 1909)
1999 Mel Tormé, American singer ("The Velvet Fog"), composer, and actor (b. 1925)
2000 Don Liddle, American baseball player (b. 1925)
2001 Pedro Laín Entralgo, Spanish medical researcher and humanist (b. 1908)
2002 Dee Dee Ramone, American bassist (The Ramones) (b. 1951)
2002 Gwen Plumb, Australian actress (b. 1912)
2003 Jürgen Möllemann, German politician (b. 1945)
2003 Manuel Rosenthal, French composer and conductor (b. 1904)
2004 Iona Brown, British violinist and conductor (b. 1941)
2004 Ronald Reagan (b. 1911)
2004 Ronald Reagan, 40th President of the United States, radio sports announcer, western film actor, governor of California (b. 1911)
2005 Adolfo Aguilar Zínser, Mexican politician (b. 1949)
2005 Susi Nicoletti, German actress (b. 1918)
2006 Frederick Franck, American artist and writer (b. 1909)
2007 Povel Ramel, Swedish entertainer (b. 1922)
2009 Boris Pokrovsky, Russian operatic stage director (b. 1912)
2009 Jeff Hanson, American singer-songwriter (b. 1978)
2012 Barry Unsworth, British novelist
2012 Ray Bradbury, American author
2013 Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, Irish politician
2015 Alan Bond, Australian tycoon/yachtsman (America's Cup)
2015 Richard Johnson, British stage and screen actor and producer
2015 Jerry Collins, Samoan-born New Zealand rugby player (All Blacks), dies in a car crash
2015 Tariq Aziz, Iraqi politician and close adviser to Saddam Hussein
2016 Phyllis Curtin, American soprano (NYC Opera)