June 7th
Holidays and Festivals
First day of the Vestalia (Norway)
Union Dissolution Day (Malta)
Flag Day (Peru) * CLICK HERE
(Daniel) Boone Day (USA)
National Cancer Survivors Day
Children's Awareness Memorial Day
VCR Day
Write To Your Father Day
National Chocolate Ice Cream Day
First day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta (Roman Empire)
Feast of Sette Giugno (Catholicism)
Feast of Colman of Dromore
Feast of Robert of Newminster
* Common Ridings Hawick, Scotland - First weekend in June - (2-3)
Toast of The Day
"Starkle starkle little twink, who the hell you are I think,
I’m not under what you call, the alcofluence of incohol,
I’m just a little slort of sheep, I’m not drunk like tinkle peep,
I don’t know who is me yet, but the drunker I stand here the longer I get,
Just give me one more drink to fill me cup,
‘cuz I got all day sober to Sunday up."
- Traditional
Drink of The Day
Midori Sour
1 Part Midori
1 Part Sweet And Sour Mix
Garnish With A Cherry
Wine of The Day
Ferrari-Carano (2008) Chardonnay
Style - Chardonnay
Sonoma County
$25
Beer of The Day
Green Flash Stout
Brewer - Green Flash Brewing Co. Vista, CA
Style - Strong Beer
Joke of The Day
The boy takes his girlfriend back home after being out together. They
reach the front door. He leans with one hand on the wall and says,
"Sweetie, how about some oral?"
"What?? You're crazy!"
"Don't worry, hon, no one'll see!"
"Yeah they will! We're on the front door step for crying out loud!
Someone will see!"
"Not at this time of night, babe, c'mon, no one'll show up!"
"No, no, no! I don't want someone to see!"
"Baby, you'll love it, too, c'mon, I know you will."
"No, no!"
"Cmon, love, don't be like that, c'mon."
At that moment, the door opens and the girl's younger sister shows up at
the door in her nightgown. Her hair's totally in disorder. She's rubbing
her eyes.
She yawns and says, "Dad told me to tell you to do it, or I've got to
do it, or he's gonna come down and do it himself, but, for God's sake,
tell your boyfriend to get his hand off of the damn intercom button!"
Quote of The Day
"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
- Dean Martin (June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995), born Dino Paul Crocetti, an American singer and actor.
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
International Clothesline Week First Saturday through Second Saturday
Historical Events on June 7th
421 Eudocia A Athenais marries Oostromeins emperor Theodosius II
555 Vigilius ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1099 The First Crusadeers arrive in Jerusalem, The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
1340 Rotterdam Netherlands founded
1413 King Ladislaw of Naples occupies Rome
1420 Troops of the Republic of Venice capture Udine, ending the independence of the Patriarchate of Aquileia.
1494 Spain and Portugal sign the Treaty of Tordesillas which divides the New World between the two countries.
1527 Pope Clement VII surrenders to emperor Charles V's armies
1546 England signs Peace of Andres with Scotland/Ireland
1557 England declares war on France
1601 Louis Gunther of Nassau weds countess Anna Margaretha of Manderscheid
1614 2nd parliament of King James I, dissolves passing no legislation
1628 The Petition of Right, a major English constitutional document, is granted the Royal Assent by Charles I and becomes law.
1654 Louis XIV is crowned King of France.
1672 Battle by Solebay, Dutch adm M de Ruyter beats French/English fleet
1692 Port Royale, Jamaica, is hit by a catastrophic earthquake; in just three minutes, 1,600 people are killed and 3,000 are seriously injured.
1694 English invasion army under Thomas Talmash reaches Brest
1769 Daniel Boone begins exploring Bluegrass State of Kentucky
1775 United Colonies change name to United States
1776 Richard Henry Lee (VA) presents the "Lee Resolution" to the Continental Congress. The motion is seconded by John Adams and leads to the United States Declaration of Independence.
1780 Anti-Catholic riot in London, 100s die
1788 Masses stone French government army at Grenoble
1798 Jews of Pesaro Italy fast commemorating murder of Jews
1800 David Thompson reaches the mouth of the Saskatchewan River in Manitoba.
1832 Asian cholera reaches Quebec, brought by Irish immigrants, and kills about 6,000 people in Lower Canada.
1839 Hawaiian Declaration of Rights is signed
1860 Workmen start laying track for Market Street Railroad, SF
1862 Gen B Butler orders William Mumford hanged after he removed & destroyed US flag on display over New Orleans Mint
1862 Skirmish at Union Church, VA (Peninsular)
1862 The United States and Britain agree to suppress the slave trade.
1863 Battle of Milliken's Bend, LA-Jefferson Davis' home burnt
1863 During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops.
1864 Abe Lincoln renominated for Pres by Republican Party
1866 1,800 Irish Fenian raiders are repelled back to the United States after they loot and plunder around Saint-Armand and Frelighsburg, Quebec.
1873 7th Belmont, James Roe aboard Springbok wins in 3:01.75
1880 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Arica, assault and capture of Morro de Arica (Arica Cape), that ended the Campaña del Desierto (Desert Campaign).
1881 15th Belmont: T Costello aboard Saunterer wins in 2:47
1887 Monotype type-casting machine patented by Tolbert Lanston, Wash DC
1892 Benjamin Harrison becomes the first President of the United States to attend a baseball game.
1892 John J Doyle of Clev Spiders is 1st to pinch hit in a baseball game
1892 Republican convention in Minneapolis begins
1893 Gandhi's first act of civil disobedience.
1896 G Harpo & F Samuelson leave NY to row the Atlantic (takes 54 days)
1898 Social Democracy of America party holds 1st national convention, Chic
1900 Boer general Christian de Law occupiers British train depot Roodewal
1905 Norway's parliament dissolves its union with Sweden (in effect since 1814), a vote that is confirmed by a national plebiscite on August 13 of that year.
1906 Chicago Cubs score 11 in 1st inning, beating NY Giants 19-0
1906 Cunard Line's RMS Lusitania is launched at the John Brown Shipyard, Glasgow (Clydebank), Scotland.
1906 Famous Cunard passenger liner Lusitania launches
1909 Cleveland Industrial Exposition opens
1909 Mary Pickford made her screen debut at the age of 16.
1912 St Pius X encyclical "On Indians of South America"
1912 US army tests 1st machine gun mounted on a plane
1916 Germany troop march into Fort Faux, Verdun
1917 Battle of Messines Allied ammonal mines underneath German trenches at Messines Ridge are detonated, killing 10,000 German troops, World War I.
1919 Sette giugno, Riot in Malta; four are killed.
1924 56th Belmont, Earl Sande aboard Mad Play wins in 2:18.8
1924 George Leigh-Mallory disappears 775' from Everest's summit
1926 Swedish government of Ekman forms
1929 Margaret Bondfield becomes 1st Dutch female minister (of Labor)
1929 Vatican City becomes a sovereign state
1930 62nd Belmont, Earl Sande aboard Gallant Fox wins in 2:31.6
1930 NY Times agrees to capitalize the n in "Negro"
1932 Pitcher John Quinn, 47, is oldest player to have an extra-base hit (a double) & bat in a run, as the Dodgers beat the Cubs 9-2
1933 George Balanchine and Kurt Weills "7 Deadly Sins," premiers in Paris
1936 The Steel Workers Organizing Committee, a trade union, is founded in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Philip Murray is elected its first president.
1936 Yanks beat Indians 5-4 in 16; longest game without a strikeout
1938 1st play telecast with original Broadway cast, "Susan & God"
1938 Boeing 314 Clipper flying boat 1st flown (Eddie Allen)
1938 The Douglas DC-4E makes its first test flight.
1939 1st king & queen of England to visit US, George VI & Elizabeth
1939 Cleve Indians sets AL record of 16 inning game without striking out, however lose game 5-4 to NY Yankees
1940 British and French troops evacuate Narvik
1940 King Haakon VII of Norway, Crown Prince Olav and the Norwegian government leave Tromsø and go into exile in London.
1941 45th US Golf Open, Craig Wood shoots a 284 at Colonial Club Fort Worth
1941 73rd Belmont, Eddie Arcaro aboard Whirlaway win in 2:31 (triple crown)
1942 Battle of Midway ends, Adm Nimitz wins 1st World War II naval defeat of Japan
1942 Germany Armys march into Sebastopol
1942 Japanese soldiers occupy the American islands of Attu and Kiska, in the Aleutian Islands off Alaska, World War II.
1944 Achilles Veen soccer team forms in Veen
1944 Canadian 50th division occupies Bayeux
1944 Claus von Stauffenberg meets Hitler
1944 Battle of Normandy At Abbey Ardennes members of the SS Division Hitlerjugend massacre 23 Canadian prisoners of war, World War II.
1945 King Haakon VII of Norway returns with his family to Oslo after five years in exile.
1946 Pirates players vote 20-16 to walkout rather than play the Giants
1946 US Supreme Court bans discrimination in interstate travel
1948 Communist complete takeover of Czechoslovakia, Edvard Beneš resigns as President of Czechoslovakia rather than signing a Constitution making his nation a Communist state.
1948 KVP wins Dutch Second-Parliamentary election
1952 "3 Wishes after Jamie" closes at Mark Hellinger NYC after 94 perfs
1952 7th Curtis Cup, British Isles, 5-4
1952 84th Belmont, Eddie Arcaro aboard One Count wins in 2:30.2
1953 1st color network telecast in compatible color, (Boston Mass)
1953 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Eastern Golf Open
1953 Mary Terrell wins struggle to end segregation in Wash DC restaurants
1953 WDAU (now WYOU) TV chan 22 in Scranton Wilkes-Barre, PA (CBS) begins
1954 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated (New Brunswick NJ)
1955 "$64,000 Question" premieres on CBS TV
1955 1st President to appear on color TV (Eisenhower)
1955 India premier Nehru visit USSR
1955 Lux Radio Theater signs off the air permanently. The show launched in New York in 1934, and featured radio adaptations of Broadway shows and popular films.
1956 Singapore government of Marshall resigns
1957 Mickey Stewart holds 7 cricket catches for Surrey v Northants
1958 90th Belmont, Pete Anderson aboard Cavan wins in 2:30.2
1958 Battles between Turkish & Greeks Cypriots break out
1959 Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1959 KLX-AM in Oakland California changes call letters to KEWB (now KNEW)
1962 NASA civilian test pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 to 31,580 m
1963 1st Rolling Stones TV appearance (Thank Your Lucky Stars) & release 1st single, "Come on"
1964 Beatles travel canals of Amsterdam
1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits
1965 Morocco King Hassan suspends constitution, grabs power
1965 Sony Corp introduced its home video tape recorder, priced at $995
1965 The Supreme Court of the United States decides on Griswold v. Connecticut, rules 1879 Ct law ban of contraceptives unconstitutional effectively legalizing the use of contraception by married couples.
1966 NY Mets pass up Reggie Jackson to draft Steve Chilcott #1
1967 2 Moby Grape members arrested for contributing to deliquency of minors
1967 Israel captures Wailing Wall in East Jerusalem, Jericho & Bethlehem
1967 NY Yankees draft Ron Blomberg #1
1967 The Israeli forces enter Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1968 Sirhan Sirhan indicted for Bobby Kennedy assassination
1968 The body of assassinated U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy lies in state at St. Patrick's Cathedral, New York.
1969 "Johnny Cash Show," debuts on ABC-TV
1969 101st Belmont, Braulio Baeza aboard Arts & Letters wins in 2:28.8
1969 Bob Dylan & Johnny Cash combine on a Grand Ole Opry TV special
1969 Tommy James & Shondells release "Crystal Blue Persuasion"
1969 Washington Senators draft Jeff Burroughs #1
1970 22nd Emmy Awards, Marcus Welby, Robert Young & Susan Hampshire
1970 Jockey Willie Shoemaker passes Johnny Longden with his 6,033 win
1970 Shirley Englehorn wins LPGA Lady Carling Golf Open
1970 The Who's "Tommy" is performed at NY's Lincoln Center
1971 Soviet Soyuz 11 crew completes 1st transfer to orbiting Salyut
1971 The United States Supreme Court overturns the conviction of Paul Cohen for disturbing the peace, setting the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment.
1972 "Grease" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 3,388 performances
1972 German Chancellor Willy Brandt visits Israel
1972 Hsan Hua, Zen teacher, conducted 1st ordination ceremony in America
1972 Pirate's Gene Alley bases-loaded walk, beats Padres 1-0 in 18th
1973 Rangers draft Texas high school pitcher David Clyde #1
1974 Padres draft Brown University shortstop Bill Almon #1
1975 "Thank God I'm a Country Boy," by John Denver hits #1
1975 Dennis Lillee takes 1st one-day 5WI, 5-34 v Pakistan World Cup
1975 Sony introduces the Betamax videocassette recorder for sale to the public.
1975 Spain's Manuel Orantes wins US Open, beating Jimmy Connors in 3 sets
1975 Sri Lanka's 1st one-day international, v WI Cricket World Cup
1976 NBC Nightly News with John Chancellor & David Brinkley, premieres
1977 500 million people watch on television as the high day of Jubilee gets underway for Queen Elizabeth II.
1977 Anita Bryant leads successful crusade against Miami gay rights law
1977 White Sox draft Harold Baines #1
1978 32nd NBA Championship, Wash Bullets beat Sea Supersonics, 4 games to 3
1978 Emmy 5th Daytime Award presentation
1979 52nd National Spelling Bee, Katie Kerwin wins spelling maculature
1979 Bhaskara 1, Indian Earth resources/meteorology satellite, launched
1979 Portugal government of Mota Pinto resigns
1979 Rocker Chuck Berry is charged with tax evasion
1980 "Billy Bishop Goes to War" closes at Morosco NYC after 12 perfs
1980 "Cars," by Gary Numan hits #9
1980 50th French Mens Tennis, Bjorn Borg beats Vitas Gerulaitis (64 61 62)
1980 112th Belmont, Eddie Maple aboard Temperence Hill wins in 2:29.8
1980 Jeff Norman runs world record 50k (2:48:06)
1980 Tommy John wins his 200th, 3-0 on a 2-hitter
1981 35th Tony Awards, Amadeus & 42nd Street win
1981 51st French Mens Tennis, Bjorn Borg beats I. Lendl (61 46 62 36 61)
1981 Sandra Post wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Classic
1981 The Israeli Air Force F-15/F-16 destroys Iraq's Osiraq nuclear reactor (alleged Iraqi plutonium production facility) during Operation Opera. The facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1982 16th Music City News Country Awards, Barbara Mandrell
1982 Habres rebel army occupies capital of Chad, N'djamena
1982 LA Dodger Steve Garvey is 5th to play in 1,000 consecutive games
1982 NY Mets draft Dwight Gooden, Roger McDowell & Randy Myers
1982 Pres Reagan meets Pope John Paul II & Queen Elizabeth
1982 Priscilla Presley opens Graceland to the public; the bathroom where Elvis Presley died five years earlier is kept off-limits.
1982 Steve Garvey plays in his 1,000th consecutive game & goes 0-for-4
1983 Steve Carlton temporarily passes Nolan Ryan with his 3,552 strike out
1986 56th French Womens Tennis, Chris Evert beats M Navratilova (26 63 63)
1986 118th Belmont, Chris McCarron aboard Danzig Connect wins in 2:29.8
1986 Air Supply guitarist Graham Russell weds Jodi Varble
1986 Madonna's "Live to Tell," single goes #1
1986 Pirates draft 3rd baseman Jeff King #1
1987 41st Tony Awards, Fences & Les Miserables win
1987 57th French Mens Tennis, Ivan Lendl beats Mats Wilander (75 62 36 76)
1987 Andy Van Slyke HRs off R McDowell in both ends of double header
1987 Betsy King wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1987 Washington Dulles International Airport and Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport are transferred to The Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority.
1988 Aluminum contaminates Cornish England's water supply
1989 1st Baseball game to start outdoors & end indoors, as Toronto Blue Jays stadium closes roof during game at 8:48, & beat Brewers 4-2
1989 23 year old olympic barefoot South African runner Zola Budd retires
1989 A Surinam Airways DC-8 Super 62 crashes near Paramaribo Airport, Suriname, killing 168.
1989 Atlanta Fulton County Comm approves $210M stadium for the Falcons
1989 For one second this morning, the time is 01:23:45, 6-7-89
1989 Suriname SLM-173 (DC-8) crashes near Paramaribo Airport killing 173
1989 Wayne Gretzky wins his 9th NHL Hart (MVP) Trophy in 10 years
1990 Michael Jackson hospitalized for chest pains
1990 South Africa president F W de Klerk lifts 4 year olf state of emergency
1991 Mount Pinatubo (Philippines) erupts for 1st time, generating an ash column 7 km (4.5 miles) high.
1991 Singer Jimmy Osmond weds Michelle Larson
1992 "Small Family Business" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 48 perfs
1992 62nd French Mens Tennis, Jim Courier beats Petr Korda (75 62 61)
1992 Ayako Okamoto wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1992 EUVE Launch
1993 27th Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson & Vince Gill
1993 Cleveland breaks ground for Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1993 Crickets Graham Gooch dismissed handled the ball v Aust, Old Trafford
1993 Prince celebrated his birthday by changing his name to a symbol
1993 The Holbeck Hall Hotel in Scarborough, UK, falls into the sea following a landslide.
1994 A's outfielder Rickey Henderson steals his 1,100th career base
1995 The long range Boeing 777 enters service with United Airlines.
1996 Julia & Noah wed on "All My Children"
1997 67th French Womens Tennis, Iva Majoli beats Martina Hingis (64 62)
1997 129th Belmont, Chris McCarron aboard Touch Gold wins in 2:28.8
1997 Cosmos 2344 Proton-K Launch (Russia), Failed
1997 Stanley Cup, Detroit Red Wings sweep the Phila Flyers
1998 68th French Open, Mens Tennis
1998 James Byrd, Jr. is dragged to death by Shawn Allen Berry, Lawrence Russel Brewer, and John William King in Jasper, Texas in a racially-motivated hate crime.
2001 Tony Blair's Labour Party wins another landslide victory in the General Election.
2006 British Houses of Parliament temporarily shut down due to anthrax alert.
2008 Hillary Clinton suspends her presidential campaign at the National Building Museum after winning more American presidential primaries than any other woman.
2012 16th century archaeology remains of the Curtain Theatre, where some of Shakespeare's plays were first performed, were found under a pub in London
2012 A bus falls into a ravine in La Paz, Bolivia, killing 16 and injuring 32 people
2012 Credit rating agency Fitch downgrades Spain's credit rating to BBB in the wake of international bailout speculation
2013 18 people are killed and 14 are injured after a bus plunges off a mountain road in Himachel Pradesh, India
2013 42 people are killed and 30 are injured after a bus catches fire in Xiamen, China
2013 Boston Bruins beat Pittsburgh Penguins, 4 games to 0 in the NHL Eastern Conference Finals
2014 Joel Rosario aboard Tonalist wins the 146th Belmont in 2:28.52
2014 Maria Sharapova wins the French Open women's tennis singles
2015 41st G7 summit held in Schloss Elmau, Bavaria
2015 Stan Wawrinka beats Novak Djokovic (4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4) at the 114th Men's French Open
2015 "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" and "Fun Home" win 5 awards at the 69th Tony Awards
2016 Car bomb attack on a police bus in central Istanbul kills 11
Born on June 7th
1529 Étienne Pasquier, French lawyer and man of letters (d. 1615)
1619 Paulus Voet, Dutch jurist/historian
1730 Georg von Pasterwiz, composer
1736 Karl Frieberth, composer
1761 John Rennie, Scottish engineer (d. 1821)
1770 Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1812-27) (d. 1828)
1778 George Bryan "Beau" Brummel, English fashion leader (d. 1840)
1811 James Young Simpson, Scottish obstetrician (used chloroform) (d. 1870)
1812 Theophilus Toulmin Garrard, Brig Gen (Union volunteers), (d. 1902)
1825 Richard D Blackmore, England, author (Norie, Lorna Doone)
1831 Amelia Edwards, English author and Egyptologist (d. 1892)
1833 Alexander Ritter, composer
1837 Alois Hitler, father of Adolf Hitler (d. 1903)
1840 Charlotte of Belgium, princess of Belgium, Empress of Mexico (1864-67) (d. 1927)
1843 Susan Elizabeth Blow, US, pioneered kindergarten education
1845 Leopold von Auer, Hungarian violinist and composer (d. 1930)
1846 Wladyslaw Gorski, composer
1848 Paul Gaugin (Eugene Henri), French post-impressionist painter (d. 1903)
1862 Philipp Lenard, Austrian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1947)
1863 Bones Ely, Professional Baseball Player (d.1952)
1865 Guido Gasperini, composer
1867 Luigi Maurizio Tedeschi, composer
1868 Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, and illustrator (d. 1928)
1873 Landon Ronald, composer
1874 Theodor Streicher, composer
1877 Charles Glover Barkla, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1944)
1879 Joan Voûte, Dutch astronomer (d. 1963)
1879 Knud J V Rasmussen, Danish Greenland and pole explorer (Thule) (d. 1933)
1880 Thorleif Lund, Norwegian actor (d. 1956)
1883 Sylvanus Morley, American archaeologist and spy (d. 1948)
1884 Julius P Hoste, Belgium minister/daily newspaper publisher (Last News)
1885 Percy Brier, composer
1886 Henri Coanda, Romanian aerodynamics pioneer (d. 1972)
1887 William Walraven, Dutch journalist/writer (Indian Daily)
1891 Athos Palma, composer
1891 Koos (Jacobus J) Vorrink, Dutch politician (SDAP/AJC/PvdA)
1894 Alexander de Seversky, Russian-born aviation pioneer (d. 1974)
1896 Douglas Campbell, American World War I flying ace (d. 1990)
1896 Imre Nagy, Hungarian politician (d. 1958)
1896 Robert S. Mulliken, American chemist (Nobel laureate 1966) (d. 1986)
1896 Vivien Kellems, TV hostess (Power of Women)
1897 George Szell, Hungarian conductor (Metropolitan 1942-45) (d. 1970)
1899 Elizabeth Bowen, Irish novelist (Death of the Heart, Encounters) (d. 1973)
1900 Glen Gray, American jazz musician and leader of the Casa Loma Orchestra (d. 1963)
1900 Jan (Johannes A A) Engelman, poet/translator/critic (Garden of Eros)
1902 Herman B Wells, American college president and chancellor of Indiana University (d. 2000)
1907 Prince Sigvard, Duke of Uppland (d. 2002)
1909 Jessica Tandy, English-born American actress (Birds, Cocoon, Batteries Not Included) (d. 1994)
1909 Peter W. Rodino, American politician (Rep-D-NJ, 1949), chaired Watergate council (d. 2005)
1909 Virginia Apgar, American physician and childbirth specialist (Apgar test) (d. 1974)
1910 Bradford Washburn, American explorer (d. 2007)
1910 Mike Sebastian, American football player (d. 1989)
1911 Brooks Stevens, American industrial designer, automotive designer (d. 1995)
1911 Franz Reizenstein, composer
1911 Silas Roy Crain, singer/arranger/songwriter
1913 Anthony David Machell Cox, medievalist
1917 Dean Martin, American actor (with Jerry Lewis) (d. 1995)
1917 Gwendolyn Brooks, American poet (Bean Eaters, Annie Allen) (Pulitzer 1950) (d. 2000)
1918 Irene Vorrink, Dutch minister (health & environment)
1920 Georges Marchais, French politician, political leader (French Communist Party) (d. 1997)
1921 Dorothy Ruth, American horse breeder; adopted daughter of Babe Ruth (d. 1989)
1921 Tal Farlow, American jazz guitarist (d. 1998)
1922 Hubert Du Plessis, composer
1922 Leo Reise, Canadian ice hockey player
1923 Giorgio Belladonna, bridge champion
1923 Jules Deschênes, Canadian jurist (d. 2000)
1924 Dolores Gray, Chic Ill, singer/actress (Designing Woman, Kismet)
1925 Camille Flammarion, French astronomer/writer (Thunder & Lightning)
1925 John Biddle, American yachting cinematographer and lecturer (d. 2008)
1925 Pieternella "Nel" van Arem, Dutch actress (Sea Gull)
1926 Dick Williams, Wall Lake Iowa, choral director (Andy Williams Show)
1927 Charles de Tornaco, Belgian racing driver (d. 1953)
1927 Martin Carter, poet/critic
1928 Anthony Nicholas Maria Wahl, historian
1928 Charles Louis Strouse, composer
1928 Dave Bowen, Welsh international football manager (d. 1995)
1928 David Malcolm Lewis, expert in Greek Epigraphy
1928 James Ivory, American film director (Howard's End, Remains of the Day)
1928 Reg Park, British bodybuilder (d. 2007)
1929 Ernie Roth, American wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1929 John Napier Turner, Canadian seventeenth Prime Minister of Canada (1984)
1929 The Grand Wizard of Wrestling, Wrestling manager (d. 1983)
1930 Ian Leggat, cricketer
1931 Henry Weinberg, composer
1931 Lang Jeffries, Ontario Canada, actor (Skip-Rescue 8)
1931 Malcolm Morley, English painter
1931 Virginia McKenna, actress (Born Free, Chosen, Lions are Free, Simba)
1933 Henk E Koning, Dutch sect of Finances (VVD)
1933 Herb Score, American baseball player, pitcher (Cleveland Indians) (d. 2008)
1934 Philippe Entremont, Rheims France, concert pianist
1934 Samuel Lipman, music critic
1935 Harry Crews, American author and actor (Indian Runner) (d. 2012)
1935 Thomas Kailath, American engineer
1937 Neeme Järvi, Estonian conductor
1938 Goose Gonsoulin, American football player
1938 Judy Ann Scott-Fox, agent
1940 Tom Jones (Sir Thomas John Woodward), Welsh singer (What's New Pussycat)
1941 Jaime Laredo, Bolivia, violinist (Qn Elisabeth of Belgium prize 1959)
1943 Ken Osmond, American actor (Eddie Haskel-Leave it To Beaver)
1943 Mel Levine, (Rep-D-CA, 1983)
1943 Nikki Giovanni, American poet (LHJ Woman of the Year 1973)
1944 Bill Rafferty, Queens NY, comedian (Laugh-In, Real People)
1944 Clarence White, guitarist (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 Wolfgang Schüssel, Chancellor of Austria
1946 Jenny Jones (Janina Stronski), Palestinian-born American talk show host (Jenny Jones Show)
1946 Terry Gale, Wyalkatchem WA, Australasia golfer
1947 Don Money, American baseball player and manager
1947 Thurman Munson, American baseball player, catcher and captain (NY Yankees) (d. 1979)
1949 Jack Ryland, rock vocalist (Three Dog Night)
1950 Gary Graham American actor
1951 Anne Twomey, Boston Ma, actress (Secret, Deadly Friend, Imagemaker)
1951 Terry O'Reilly Canadian ice hockey player
1952 Liam Neeson, Northern Irish actor (Schindler's List, Les Miserables)
1952 Orhan Pamuk, Turkish writer, Nobel laureate
1953 Colleen Camp, American actress
1953 Dougie Donnelly, Scottish television broadcaster
1953 Johnny Clegg, South African musician
1954 Louise Erdrich, American author
1954 Lui Passaglia, Vancouver BC, CFL place kicker (BC Lions)
1955 Joey Scarbury, Ontario California, singer (Greatest American Hero)
1955 Tim Richmond, American race car driver (d. 1989)
1955 William Forsythe, American actor
1955 William Koch, US skier (World Cup 1982)
1956 Antonio Reid, American music producer
1956 Robert Dover, equestrian dressage (Olympics-bronze-96)
1957 Juan Luis Guerra, Dominican musician
1957 Neal Radford, cricketer (Zambia Engld pace bowler in 3 Tests 1986-88)
1957 Paddy McAloon, English singer and songwriter (Prefab Sprout)
1957 Ruth Anderson, Welsh rug maker, famous for her folk rugs
1958 Christopher Marcantel, Smithtown NY, actor (Chip-Nurse, Loving)
1958 Francesca Thyssen, lugano Switz, baroness
1958 Prince (O+>) (Rogers Nelson), American Musician and actor (1999, Purple Rain)
1958 Phillipe Boccara, Le Mans France, US sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1958 Surakiart Sathirathai, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand
1960 Bill Prady, American television producer
1961 Dave Catching, American musician
1962 Janice Lawrence Braxton, WNBA center (Cleve Rockers, Olym-gold-1984)
1962 Michael Cartellone, American drummer (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
1962 Paddy McAloon, rocker (Prefab Sprout-2 Wheels Good)
1962 Takuya Kurosawa, Japanese racing driver
1962 Thierry Hazard, French singer and songwriter
1963 Roberto Alagna, French tenor
1963 Steven David Rintoul, Bowral Australia, PGA golfer (1994 Buick-2nd)
1964 Caroline Anne Hare, Lower hutt NZ, 5k/10k (Olympics-96)
1964 Gia Carides, Greek-Australian actress
1964 Graeme Labrooy, cricketer (Sri Lankan pace bowler in 9 Tests 1986-91)
1964 Judie Aronson, American actress
1965 Christine Roque, French singer
1965 Damien Hirst, English artist
1965 Jean-Pierre François, French footballer and singer
1965 Mick Foley (Mankind), American professional wrestler
1966 Dan Payne, CFL tackle (Toronto Argonauts)
1966 Eric Kretz, American musician (Stone Temple Pilots)
1966 Heathcliff Slocumb, Jamaica NY, pitcher (Boston Red Sox)
1966 Stéphane Richer, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL right wing (NJ Devils)
1967 Dave Navarro, American musician (Janes Addiction, Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1967 Sarah Malin, Greenwich Ct, actress (Stephane Prescott-Another World)
1967 Terance Mathis, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 Adam Walker, NFL running back (SF 49ers)
1968 Melissa Coombes, San Gabriel CA, female pitcher (Colo Silver Bullets)
1969 Adam Buxton, British TV presenter and DJ
1969 Kim Rhodes, American actress
1969 Lachlan Elmer, Australian field hockey halfback (Oly-silver-92, 96)
1969 Mark Sohn, Arlington Heights Ill, gymnast (Olympics-96)
1969 Prince Joachim of Denmark
1970 Andrei Kovalenko, Russian hockey player, NHL right wing (Mont Canadiens, Edmonton)
1970 Cafu, Brazilian footballer
1970 Chad Fann, NFL tight end (Arizona Cardinals, SF 49ers)
1970 Mike Modano, American ice hockey player, NHL forward (Team USA, Dallas Stars)
1971 Alex X. Mooney, American politician
1971 Terrell Buckley, American football player, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Jeff Burris, NFL cornerback/punt returner (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Karl Urban, New Zealand actor
1973 Napoleon Kaufman, NFL running back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 Robert Barr, NFL tackle (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Song Yun-ah, South Korean model and actress
1974 Bear Grylls, British adventurer and former soldier (Man Vs. Wild)
1974 Cassius Khan, Canadian musician
1974 Jason Caswell, Winnipeg Manitoba, Skeet shooter (Olympics-96)
1974 Mahesh Bhupathi, Indian tennis player
1975 Allen Iverson, American basketball player, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1975 Shane Bond, New Zealand cricket player
1976 Cassidy Rae, American actress (Sarah-Models Inc, Clarissa)
1976 David Diaz, Chicago Ill, light welterweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 Necro, Jewish-American rapper
1977 Joe Horgan, American baseball player
1977 Marcin Baszczynski, Polish footballer
1977 Odalis Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1977 Preston Campbell, Australian Rugby League Player
1978 Adrienne Frantz, American actress (Tiffany Thorne-Sunset Beach)
1978 Bill Hader, American comedian
1978 Tony An, Korean singer (H.O.T)
1979 Evelina Papantoniou, Greek fashion model and actress
1979 Kevin Hofland, Dutch footballer
1981 Amrita Rao, Indian model and actress
1981 Anna Kournikova, Russian tennis player
1981 Kevin Kyle, Scottish footballer
1981 Larisa Oleynik, American actress
1981 Stephen Bywater, British footballer
1981 Tyler Johnson, American baseball player
1982 Virgil Vasquez, American baseball player
1983 Mark Lowe, American baseball player
1983 Milan Jurcina, Slovakian hockey player
1985 Charlie Simpson, British pop singer
1985 Shannon Shorr, American poker player
1985 Simon Whaley, English footballer
1988 Michael Cera, Canadian actor (Arrested Development, Superbad)
1988 Milan Lucic, Canadian ice hockey player (Boston Bruins)
1989 Michael Joseph Tamboli, Eldesburg Md, born 01:23:45 PM on 6-7-89
1990 Allison Schmitt, American swimmer
1993 Jordan Fry, American actor
1996 Jasper Harris, British actor
Died on June 7th
555 Vigilius, Italian Pope (537-55)
1329 Robert Bruce, King of Scotland (1306-29) (b. 1274)
1337 Willem III the Good, earl of Holland/Zealand
1358 Ashikaga Takauji, Japanese shogun (b. 1305)
1394 Anne of Bohemia, wife of Richard II of England (plague) (b. 1367)
1492 Kazimierz IV, King of Poland (1447-92)
1549 Eelke Fouckens, Frisian anabaptist, beheaded
1555 Maarten van Rossum, Dutch army leader
1571 Pier Francesco Corteccia, composer
1572 August I (Sigismund II August), king of Poland (1548-72)
1618 Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, English Governor of Virginia (b. 1577)
1624 Anne of Saint Bartolomaeus, Flemish nun/monk/saint
1631 Mumtax Mahal, wife of Shah Jahan of India, her tomb (Taj Mahal)
1654 Giambattista Andreini, Italian playwright/actor
1667 Thomas de Keyser, Amsterdam master builder/painter
1672 Willem J van Gendt, admiral/governor of Breda
1676 Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (b. 1606)
1711 Henry Dodwell, Irish theologian (b. 1641)
1754 Nikolaj Eigtved, Danish, architect (Amalienborg Square)
1778 Johann Georg Zechner, composer
1779 William Warburton, English critic and Bishop of Gloucester (b. 1698)
1784 Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1789 Vaclav Jan Kopriva, composer
1800 Willem A Alting, governor-genl of Neth-Indies (1780-97)
1810 Luigi Schiavonetti, Italian engraver (b. 1765)
1814 Robert Jasper van der de Capellen, mister of Marsch
1821 Tudor Vladimirescu, Romanian rebellion leader (b. c. 1780)
1826 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (b. 1787)
1840 Frederik Willem III, King of Prussia (1797-1840) (b. 1770)
1854 Charles Baudin, French admiral (b. 1792)
1859 David Cox, English artist (b. 1783)
1862 William B Mumford, 1st US citizen hanged for treason
1863 Franz Xavier Gruber, composer
1866 Chief Seattle, Native American leader
1876 George Sand, writer
1877 Winand C H Staring, geologist (Bottom of Netherlands)
1893 Johann Schrammel, composer
1896 Pavlos Carrer, Greek composer (b. 1829)
1906 Johan P Van de Kellen, stamp cutter/lithographer
1911 Maurice Rouvier, French statesman (b. 1842)
1915 Benjamin Lambord, composer
1915 Charles Reed Bishop, American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1822)
1916 Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
1926 Henry Charles Tonking, composer
1927 Edmund James Flynn, Premier of Quebec (b. 1847)
1927 Voikov, Soviet ambassador to Warsaw, murdered
1928 Chiang Tsolin, Chinese warlord of North-China, murdered
1929 J E P McMaster, cricketer (Eng v S Af Test 1889 (out for 0)
1932 Emil Pauer, composer
1935 Ivan V Mitsjoerin, Russian botanist
1936 Stjepan Seljan, Croatian explorer (b. 1875)
1937 Jean Harlow, American actress (b. 1911)
1938 Norbert Fonteyne, Flemish writer (How Flemings Came Late)
1940 James Hall, writer/actor (Millie, Hell's Angels)
1942 Alan Blumlein, English electronics engineer (b. 1903)
1945 Nishida Kitaro, scholar/philosopher/Zen practitioner
1945 Ruben Marcos Campos, composer
1948 Georges Adolphe Hue, composer
1951 Bobel, Braune, Naumann, Ohlendorf, Pohl, Schallenmair & Otto Schmidt, Nazi war criminals, hanged
1951 Oswald Pohl, German SS officer (b. 1892)
1954 Alan M Turing, British mathematician and computer scientist (Turing), commits suicide (b. 1912)
1956 Julien Benda, Fren philosopher/writer (La trahison des clercs)
1957 Elizabeth S Kingsley, double-Crostic puzzle creator
1958 Roger Hartigan, cricketer (2 Tests for Aust in 1908)
1961 Robert Griffith, producer of Pajama Game
1963 Zasu Pitts, American actress (Wedding March, Life With Father) (b. 1894)
1964 Charlie Llewellyn, cricketer (544 runs in 15 Tests for South Africa), dies
1965 Judy Holliday, American actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib) (b. 1921)
1965 Pierre Cardevielle, Fren composer/conductor (L'ile Rouge)
1965 Richard Billinger, Austria poet/writer (Bauernpassion)
1966 (Hans) Jean Arp, German-born sculptor, painter, and poet (b. 1886)
1967 Anatoly Maltsev, Russian mathematician (b. 1909)
1967 Dorothy Parker, American writer (Enough Rope), (b. 1893)
1967 Pauline Brooks, actress (Make a Million)
1968 Dan Duryea, American actor (Pride of the Yankees) (b. 1907)
1969 Leo Gorcey, actor (Bowery Boys)
1970 E(dward) M. Forster, English author (Maurice, passage to India) (b. 1879)
1973 Lane Bradford, actor (Dead Man's Gold, Gun Hawk)
1976 Bobby Hackett, jazz cornetist/orchestra leader (Air time '57)
1978 Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1897)
1979 Forrest Carter, American author (b. 1925)
1980 Elizabeth Craig, British writer (b. 1883)
1980 Henry (Valentine) Miller, American writer (Tropic of Capricorn) (b. 1891)
1980 Richard Bonnelli, actor (Enter Madame)
1983 Charles von Saksen-Coburg-Gotha, Belgium prince
1983 Daniele Amfiteatrov, composer
1984 George Givot, actor (Versatile Vaudeville)
1987 John Blofeld, writer/translator/Zen practitioner
1988 Joe Partridge, cricketer (S Afr pace bowler 1963-65), commits suicide
1988 Vernon Washington, American actor (b. 1927)
1989 Chico Landi, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1907)
1989 Milton van Embricqs, Suriname/Dutch publicist
1989 Percy Stuart, Suriname/Dutch sports journalist
1990 Barbara Baxley, actress (Norma Rae)
1991 Eric Francis, actor (Shillingbury Blowers)
1992 Bill France, first president of NASCAR, NASCAR founder (b. 1909)
1992 Bob Sweeney, director/actor (Toby Tyler)
1992 William France, founder (Daytona 500)
1993 Dražen Petrovic, Croatian basketball player, NBA player (NJ Nets), dies in auto-accident (b. 1964)
1994 Barry Sullivan, actor (Streets of SF, Oh, God!)
1994 Dennis Potter, British TV writer (Pennies from Heaven)
1994 Joseph Ruzindana, Rwandian bishop of Bjumba, murdered
1994 Stuart Havelock Hollingdale, anthropologist
1994 Vincent Nsengijumva, Rwandan archbishop of Kigali, murdered
1995 Hsuan Hua, Chinese-born religious leader, influential Buddhist master in the United States (b. 1918)
1995 Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick)
1996 Jose Maria Valverde, philosopher poet/translator
1996 Max Factor, Jr., American businessman, makeup inventor (b. 1904)
1996 Noel Walton Bott, engineer
1999 Paco Stanley, Mexican TV entertainer (b. 1942)
2001 Betty Neels, English novelist (b. 1910)
2001 Carole Fredericks, American singer (Fredericks Goldman Jones) (b. 1952)
2001 Víctor Paz Estenssoro, President of Bolivia (b. 1907)
2002 Basappa Danappa Jatti, former Vice-President of India and Acting President (b. 1912)
2002 Mary Lilian Baels, Belgian princess (b. 1916)
2003 Trevor Goddard, English actor (b. 1962)
2006 Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Jordanian-born Mujahid (b. 1966)
2006 John Tenta, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1963)
2008 Jim McKay, American sportscaster (b. 1921)
2008 Rudy Fernandez, Filipino actor (b. 1953)
2009 Hugh Hopper, British musician (b. 1945)
2009 Kenny Rankin, American singer (b. 1940)
2010 Adriana Xenides, Australian TV personality (b. 1956)
2010 Omar Rayo, Colombian painter, sculptor, caricaturist and plastic artist. (b. 1928)
2010 Stuart Cable, Welsh musician (b. 1970)
2011 Nataraja Ramakrishna, Indian classical dancer and composer. (b. 1923)
2011 Paul Dickson, American football player and coach (b. 1937)
2012 Bob Welch, American musician, commits suicide by gunshot
2012 Phillip Tobias, South African palaeoanthropologist
2013 Pierre Mauroy, Prime Minister of France (1981–1984) (b. 1928)
2013 Richard Ramirez, American serial killer (b. 1960)
2015 Sir Christopher Lee, English actor (The Lord of the Rings, Dracula)
2015 Michael Oliver, British cardiologist (linked cholesterol with coronary artery disease)