June 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Portugal Day "Day of Camões", (Portugal, and Portuguese Communities")
Abolition Day (French Guiana)
Reconciliation Day (Republic of the Congo)
Fourth day of the Vestalia in honor of Vesta (Roman Empire)
Iced Tea Day
Ball Point Pen Day
Feast of Saint Anianus, bishop of Chartres (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Blessed Getulius, Amancius and Cerealus, martyrs (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Landericus, bishop of Paris (Landry), confessor (Roman Catholic Church)
Feast of Saint Olivia (Roman Catholic Church)
Toast of The Day
"May the saddest day of your future be no worse
Than the happiest day of your past."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Fluffy Duck
1 shot Advocaat
1 shot Cointreau
1 shot Cream
10 shots (add slowly) lemonade
Build and stir
Wine of The Day
Debonne Vineyards (2008) Vidal Blanc Ice Wine
Style - Ice Wine
Grand River Valley
$35
Beer of The Day
Stone Smoked Porter
Brewer - Stone Brewing
Style - American Porter
ABV - 5.9%
Joke of The Day
Guys,
I have never written asking for your help before, but I really need your advice. I have suspected for some time now that my wife has been cheating on me. The usual signs, phone rings but if I answer, the caller hangs up.
My wife has been going out with 'the girls' a lot recently although when I ask their names she always says, just some friends from work, you don't know them. I try to stay awake and look out for her when she comes home, but I usually fall asleep.
Anyway, I have never broached the subject with my wife. I think deep down I just did not want to know the truth, but last night she went out again and I decided to finally check on her. Around midnight, I hid in the garage behind my golf clubs so I could get a good view of the whole street when she arrived home from a night out with 'the girls. ' When she got out of the car she was buttoning up her blouse, which was open, and she took her panties out of her purse and slipped them on.
It was at that moment, crouching behind my golf clubs, that I noticed a hairline crack where the grip meets the graphite shaft on my 3-wood. Is this something I can fix myself or should I take it back to the pro-shop where I bought it?
Quote of The Day
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself rather than a second-rate version of somebody else.”
- Judy Garland (June 10th, 1922 – June 22nd, 1969), an American actress
Whiskey of The Day
Distiller: Heaven Hills Distillery (Bardstown, KY)
Age: 6 years
ABV: 51.5% (103 proof)
Price: $25 (750mL)
www.fightingcock.com
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
National Automotive Service Professionals Week, Second Week in June
Families in Business Week, Second Week in June
Email Week, Second Week of June
International Clothesline Week, First Saturday through Second Saturday
Jim Thorpe Native American Games, Second Sunday through Third Sunday in June
National Men's Health Week, 7 Days Ending with Father’s Day
National Automotive Service Professionals Week, Full Week of June 12th
National Flag Week, Week of June 14th * CLICK HERE
Dragaica fair (Buzau, Romania) June 10th through 24th
Historical Events on June 10th
1190 In the Third Crusade, Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1358 French boer leader Guillaume Cale captured
1538 Catholic German monarchy signs League of Neurenberg
1539 Paul III sends out letters to his bishops, delaying the Council of Trent due to war and the difficulty bishops had traveling to Venice.
1540 Thomas Cromwell arrested in Westminister
1605 Valse Dimitri crowned Russian tsar for 1st time
1610 1st Dutch settlers arrive (from NJ), to colonize Manhattan Island
1610 Thomas West, Baron de La Mar, is appointed governor of Virginia
1619 Battle of Záblatí, a turning point in the Bohemian Revolt in the Thirty Years' War.
1624 The Netherlands and France sign anti-Spanish Treaty of Compiègne
1627 Piet Heyn conquerors 38 ships at bay of Salvador
1639 1st American log cabin at Fort Christina (Wilmington Delaware)
1648 Moscow's people uprise against regent Boris Morozov
1652 In Boston, John Hull opens the 1st mint in America
1682 Tornado in Connecticut uproots a 3' diameter oak tree
1692 Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
1719 Jacobite Rising, Battle of Glen Shiel.
1720 Mrs Clements of England markets 1st paste-style mustard
1752 Ben Franklin's kite is struck by lightning-what a shock!
1760 NY passes 1st effective law regulating practice of medicine
1761 Puritan version of "Othello" opens in Newport Rhode Island
1770 Captain James Cook runs aground on the Great Barrier Reef.
1772 Burning of Gaspée, British revenue cutter, by Rhode Islanders
1776 Continental Congress appoints a committee to write a Decl of Ind
1786 A landslide dam on the Dadu River created by an earthquake ten days earlier collapses, killing 100,000 in the Sichuan province of China.
1793 1st public zoo opens in Paris
1793 Following the arrests of Girondin leaders the Jacobins gain control of the Committee of Public Safety installing the revolutionary dictatorship, French Revolution.
1793 The Jardin des Plantes museum opens in Paris. A year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1793 Washington replaced Philadelphia as US capital
1794 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Phila, forms
1794 France revolutionary regime begins trials
1801 Tripoli declares war on US for refusing tribute
1805 Yussif Karamanli signs a treaty ending hostilities with the United States, First Barbary War.
1809 1st US steamboat to a make an ocean voyage leaves NY for Phila
1818 Pesaro opera theater opens with Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
1826 Sultan Mahmud II rebellious elite corp, slaughter 20,000 in Turkey
1829 The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place.
1834 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin sails Pacific Ocean
1838 Myall Creek Massacre in Australia: 28 Aboriginal Australians are murdered.
1846 Robert Thomson obtains an English patent on a rubber tire
1847 Chicago Tribune begins publishing
1848 1st telegraph link between NYC & Chicago
1848 Battle at Vicenza, Austrians beat Sardinia-Piemonte
1854 Georg F B Reiman proposes that space is curved
1854 The first class of the United States Naval Academy students graduate.
1857 England passes an act putting Canada on the decimal currency system
1861 Battle of Big Bethel VA (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1864 Battle of Brice's Crossroads Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest with 3500 defeat a much larger Union force of 8000 led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi.
1864 Battle of Kellar's Bridge KY (Licking River)
1864 Battle of Waynesboro VA
1865 Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde" 1st performance Munich Germany
1868 2nd Belmont, Bobby Swim aboard General Duke wins in 3:02
1869 'Agnes'arrives in New Orleans with 1st ever shipment of frozen beef
1871 5th Belmont, W Miller aboard Harry Basset wins in 2:56
1871 Sinmiyangyo, Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea.
1876 10th Belmont, William Donohue aboard Algerine wins in 2:40.5
1880 Charlie Jones becomes 1st to hit 2 HRs in 1 inning
1882 Anti-colonization mass society of Alexandria Egypt kills 50 Europeans
1886 Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and destroying the famous Pink and White Terraces.
1890 24th Belmont, Pike Barnes aboard Burlington wins in 2:07.75
1892 Wilbert Robinson sets record by going 7-for-7 in a 9-inning game
1893 27th Belmont, Willie Simms aboard Commanche wins in 1:53.25
1898 U.S. Marines land on the island of Cuba during the Spanish-American War.
1899 Improved Benevolent & Protective Order of Elks forms in Cincinnati
1902 Patent for window envelope granted to H F Callahan
1905 1st forest fire lookout tower placed in operation, Greenville, Me
1908 1st flying club, Aeronautical Society of NY, opens
1911 Queen Wilhelmina opens Rembrandt house in Amsterdam
1915 British and French troops conquer German colony of Cameroon
1915 Girl Scouts founded
1916 48th Belmont, E Haynes aboard Friar Rock wins in 2:22
1916 Great Arab Revolt begin
1917 60,000 people of Petrograd welcome Prince Kropotkin (banned 41 years)
1917 Limburgse mine workers strike
1918 The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat.
1921 Babe Ruth becomes all time HR champ with #120 (Gavvy Cravath)
1922 54th Belmont, C H Miller aboard Pillory wins in 2:18.8
1924 1st political convention broadcast on radio-Republicans at Cleveland
1924 Fascists kidnap and kill Italian socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome.
1925 Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches, held in Toronto Arena.
1926 Phillies Russ Wrightstone hits for the cycle
1930 Winnipeg Rugby Football Club forms
1931 Norway occupies East-Greenland
1932 1st demonstration of artificial lightning Pittsfield Mass
1932 67th British Golf Open, Gene Sarazen shoots a 283 at Prince's England
1933 37th US Golf Open, Johnny Goodman shoots a 287 at North Shore Ill
1933 65th Belmont, Mack Garner aboard Hurryoff wins in 2:32.6
1934 Italy beats Czechoslovakia 2-1 (OT) in soccer's 2nd World Cup at Rome
1934 USSR & Romania regain diplomatic relations
1935 Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson.
1938 Charlie Barnett makes 98 by lunch v Australia at Trent Bridge
1939 Barney Bear, cartoon character, by MGM, debuts
1940 French government moves to Bordeaux
1940 German "Dutch Q-ship Atlantis" sinks Norwegian tanker
1940 German 5th Armour division occupies Rouen
1940 Italy declares war on France & Britain during WW II
1940 Norway surrenders to German forces during World War II.
1940 Canada declares war on Italy in World War II.
1940 German forces, under General Erwin Rommel, reach the English Channel, World War II.
1940 President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions with his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia, World War II.
1942 Massacre at Lidice (Czechoslovakia), Gestapo kills 173
1942 Nazis burn the Czech village of Lidice in reprisal for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, World War II.
1943 FDR becomes 1st US pres to visit a foreign country during wartime
1943 FDR signs withholding tax bill into law (this is W-2 Day!)
1944 In baseball, 15-year old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game.
1944 Nazi murders in Oradour-sur-Glane, France
1944 642 men, women and children are killed in the Oradour-sur-Glane Massacre by in France, World War II.
1944 In Distomo, Boeotia Prefecture, Greece 218 men, women and children are massacred by German troops, World War II.
1945 Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei.
1945 US destroyer William D Porter ("Willie Dee") sunk by kamikaze
1946 Italian Republic established
1946 Rear Admiral Sidney W Souers, USNR, ends term as 1st director of CIA Lieutenant General Hoyt S Vandenberg, USA, becomes 2nd director of CIA
1947 Saab produces its first automobile.
1949 Istvan Dobi becomes Hungarian premier
1950 50th US Golf Open, Ben Hogan shoots a 287 at Merion Golf Club PA
1950 82nd Belmont, William Boland aboard Middleground wins in 2:28.6
1950 Germany doesn't annex Oder-Neissegrens
1952 Chic White Sox Sam Mele is 6th to get 6 RBIs in an inning (4th)
1952 Pres Harry Truman desires nationalizing steel industry
1952 St Louis Browns fire manager Rogers Hornsby
1954 KQED TV channel 9 in SF, CA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1954 PBS reaches SF, KQED (Channel 9) starts broadcasting
1955 1st separation of virus into component parts reported
1955 KWEX TV channel 41 in San Antonio, TX (IND) begins broadcasting
1956 16th modern Olympiad equestrian events open in Stockholm
1956 Marlene Bauer Hagge wins LPGA Triangle Round Robin Golf Tournament
1957 3rd LPGA Championship won by Louise Suggs
1957 Harold MacMillan becomes British PM
1957 John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the Canadian federal election, 1957, ending 22 years of Liberal Party rule.
1959 Rocky Colovito hits 4 consecutive HRs in 1 game
1962 A record 54 home runs hit in baseball
1962 Igor Ter-Ovanesyan of USSR, sets then long jump record at 27' 3½"
1962 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Austin Civitan Golf Tournament
1963 JFK signs law for equal pay for equal work for men & women
1964 Rolling Stones record their 12x5 album at Chess Studios in Chicago
1964 Southern filibuster on civil rights bill ends, cloture invoked
1965 The Battle of Dong Xoai begins, Vietnam War.
1966 Beatles "Paperback Writer" is released in UK
1966 Beatles record "Rain," 1st to use reverse tapes
1966 Cleveland Indian Sonny Siebert no-hits Wash Senator, 2-0
1966 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in SF)
1966 Mamas & Papas win gold record for "Monday, Monday"
1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire & Magic Mountain Music Festival, Calif
1967 Argentina becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1967 Israel, Syria, Jordan, Iraq & Egypt end "6-Day War" with UN help
1967 Six-Day War ends, Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire.
1967 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Israel
1968 "Danny Thomas Hour," last airs on NBC-TV
1968 AL games at Balt & Chicago postponed honoring Robert Kennedy
1968 KCFW TV channel 9 in Kalispell, MT (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting
1968 WHTV (now WTZH) TV channel 24 in Meridian, MS (NBC/CBS) 1st broadcast
1971 11 die in a train crash in Salem Ill
1971 44th National Spelling Bee, Jonathan Knisely wins spelling shalloon
1972 104th Belmont, Ron Turcotte aboard Riva Ridge wins in 2:28
1972 Elvis Presley records a live album at NY's Madison Square Garden
1972 Hank Aaron's grandslammer (14) ties him for NL lead with Gil Hodges & moves him ahead of Willie Mays as #2 HR hitter (649)
1973 19th LPGA Championship won by Mary Mills
1973 John Paul Getty III, grandson of billionaire J. Paul Getty, is kidnapped in Rome, Italy.
1973 NASA launches Radio Astronomy Explorer 49 into lunar orbit
1974 Brandon Ramirez, noted visionary and graphics designer born in TJ, Mexico. Known as the father of Rambo the next generation.
1974 Mike Schmidt hits a ball off public address speaker on Astrodome roof
1974 Rumor's government in Italy resigns
1975 Rockefeller panel reports on 300,000 illegal CIA files on Americans
1975 Yanks sponsor Army Day at temporary home, Shea Stadium during 21-gun salute, part of fence is blown away, & another part is set afire
1976 49th National Spelling Bee, Tim Kneale wins spelling narcolepsy
1976 67,000 fans attends Wings concert at Seattle's Kingdome
1977 Apple Computer ships its 1st Apple II personal computer
1977 James Earl Ray (Martin Luther King's killer) escapes from Brushy Mountain State Prison in Petros, Tennessee, but is recaptured on June 13.
1978 110th Belmont, Steve Cauthen aboard Affirmed wins in 2:26.8
1978 Costa Rica becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
1978 Yankees trade Ken Holzman for Ron Davis
1979 25th LPGA Championship won by Donna Caponi Young
1979 49th French Mens Tennis, Bjorn Borg beats Victor Pecci (63 61 67 64)
1979 Balt Orioles pull their 8th triple play (5-4-3 vs Cleve)
1980 The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela.
1981 IRA's Joseph Doherty escapes from Crumlin Road Jail
1981 Pete Rose ties Stan Musial's NL record of 3,630 hits
1981 Sebastian Coe of England sets 800m record (1:41.73) in Florence
1981 Seven Brothers Square in Bronx named honoring 7 Santini Bro Moving Co
1982 "Taxi," last airs on ABC, moves to NBC in the fall
1982 Battle of Sultan Yakoub 3 IDF members captured
1982 Israeli troops reach outskirts of Beirut
1982 John N McMahon replaces Bobby R Inman becomes deputy director of CIA
1984 38th NBA Championship, Boston Celtics beat LA Lakers, 4 games to 3
1984 54th French Men Tennis, Ivan Lendl beats John McEnroe (36 26 64 75 75)
1984 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Kids Golf Classic
1984 US missile shot down an incoming missile in space for 1st time
1984 Zhu Jian Hua of China high jumps a record 7'10" (2.39m)
1985 19th Music City News Country Awards, Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
1985 Claus von Bulow acquitted on charges he tried to murder his wife
1985 Coca Cola announces they'd bring back their 99-year-old formula
1985 French agents blow up Greenpeace boat Rainbow Warrior near NZ
1986 A Bartlett Giamatti becomes president of baseball's NL
1987 Discovery's SRBs & External Tank are mated
1988 Greatest number of participants (31,678) on a bicycle tour (London)
1989 "Tales From The Crypt," TV Anthology, debuts on HBO
1989 59th French Womens Tennis, A Sanchez Vicario beats S Graf (76 36 75) favored Steffi Graf, also 1st Spaniard to win a grand slam title
1989 121st Belmont, Pat Day aboard Easy Goer wins in 2:26
1990 "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 perfs
1990 "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 perfs
1990 8th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Jack Nicklaus
1990 60th French Mens Tennis, Andres Gomez beats A Agassi (63 26 64 64)
1990 Burger King begins using Newman's Own Salad Dressing
1990 Detroit Pistons beat Trailblazers for 1st time since 1974 in Portland
1990 Patty Sheehan wins LPGA McDonald's Golf Championship
1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
1991 "Twin Peaks," on ABC-TV
1991 25th Music City News Country Awards, Ricky Van Shelton
1991 Mother of All Parades-NYC welcomes desert storm troops
1991 South Florida & Denver picked for 1993 NL franchises
1992 "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances
1992 Intelsat K launched
1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
1994 Biggest European clock ever (9100 kg/(237) 2.5 m) at Aarle-Rixtel
1994 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1994 Jennifer Capriati, tennis ace, checks out of drug abuse clinic
1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 perfs
1995 65th French Womens Tennis, Steffi Graff beats A.S. Vicario (76 46 60)
1995 127th Belmont, Gary Stevens aboard Thunder Gulch wins in 2:32
1995 Orioles Jeff Manto, hits his 4th consecutive homer
1996 30th Music City News Country Awards, Alan Jackson
1996 Stanley Cup, Colorado Avalanche sweeps Florida Panthers by winning 1-0 in 6 periods
1996 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Toledo OH on WBUZ 106.5 FM
1996 Intel releases 200 mhz pentium chip
1996 Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin.
1997 Before fleeing his northern stronghold Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members.
1997 Feng Yun-2B Long March 3 Launch (China), Successful
1997 Kevin Brown of Florida Marlins no hits SF Giants 9-0
1997 Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members before Pol Pot flees his northern stronghold.
1997 MTV Movie Awards
1999 NATO suspends its air strikes after Slobodan Miloševic agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo during the Kosovo War.
2001 Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint Saint Rafqa
2002 The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom.
2003 The Spirit Rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission
2008 The Gora Prai airstrike by the United States reportedly kills 11 Pakistani paramilitary troops
2012 A Helicopter crash near Nairobi, Kenya, kills five people, including George Saitoti, a Kenyan cabinet minister
2012 Once & Clybourne Park win at the 66th Tony Awards
2012 Shanshan Feng wins the 58th LPGA Championship
2013 70 people are killed as a series of bombs explode across Iraq
2013 The Big Bang Theory wins Best Comedy Series, Breaking Bad & Game of Thrones tie for the Best Drama Series at the 3rd Critics' Choice Television Awards
Born on June 10th
1213 Fakhruddin 'Iraqi, Persian philosopher (d. 1289)
1613 Johann Georg II, elect of Saxon (1656-80)
1630 Willem van Bemmel, Dutch painter/etcher
1632 Esprit Fléchier, French writer and bishop (d. 1710)
1637 Jacques Marquette, French Jesuit missionary (Chicago) and explorer (d. 1675)
1657 James Cragg the Elder, British politician (d. 1721)
1688 James Francis Edward Stuart, recognized as King of Britain by Pope (d. 1766)
1706 John Dollond, English optician, owner of 1st patent for achromatic lens (d. 1761)
1710 James Short, Scottish mathematician (d. 1768)
1735 John Morgan, American physician-in-chief of Continental Army
1753 William Eustis, 12th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1825)
1781 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
1782 Amable-G-P B de Barante, French politician/historian
1790 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1803 Henry Darcy, French scientist (d. 1858)
1804 Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist (d. 1884)
1808 Friedrich Kaiser, Dutch astronomer (Kaiser compass-card)
1819 Gustave Courbet, French painter (d. 1877)
1819 J D Gustave Courbet, French realist painter (Demoiselles the la Seine)
1825 Princess Hildegard of Bavaria (d. 1864)
1825 Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (d. 1897)
1831 W A Remy, composer
1832 Edwin Arnold, English writer (Light of India)
1832 Nikolaus A Otto, German technician (gas motor, otto motor)
1834 Hendrik Pierson, Dutch theologist (HP Foundation)
1835 Constant A Serrure, Flemish historian
1835 Ferdinand IV SMJJBFLGRRJ, ruler of Toscane
1835 Rebecca Latimer Felton, U.S. Senator (d. 1930)
1836 Yamaoka Tesshu, Japanese swordsman/master of kendo
1838 Meyer E van Beem, actor (Black Venus)
1839 Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Council President of Denmark (d. 1912)
1840 Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (d. 1920)
1840 Thomas Fentress Toon, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1902
1843 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1900)
1844 J Albert Neuhuys, Dutch painter (Haagse school)
1844 Karl Hagenbeck, German animal trainer (Von Tieren und Menschen)
1859 Jacques F H Perk, Dutch poet (Iris, Wood Song)
1861 Josephus T J Cuypers, Dutch architect (St Bavo, Haarlem)
1861 Pierre M M Duhem, French physicist, philosopher, and historian (d. 1916)
1862 Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (d. 1937)
1863 Louis M A Couperus, Dutch poet and writer (Eline Vere) (d. 1923)
1865 Frederick A Cook, US, explorer (claimed falsely to be at North Pole)
1869 Gustave Vanzype, Belgian literary/headed La Gazette
1879 Benjamin Lambord, composer
1880 André Derain, French painter (d. 1954)
1880 Margit Kaffka, writer
1882 Neville Henderson, British diplomat
1886 Baron Josse Emile van Dievoet, Flemish lawyer
1888 Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse)
1889 Cliff Clark, actor (Kid Glove Killer, Golden Hoofs, Vigilante Hideout)
1889 Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor (d. 1973)
1890 Paul J M Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author
1890 Powell Weaver, composer
1890 Sessue Hayakawa, Japan, actor (Bridge on River Kwai, Hell to Eternity)
1891 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips) (d. 1945)
1893 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
1894 Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
1895 Hattie McDaniel, American actress, 1st African American actress to win an Oscar (Gone With The Wind) (d. 1952)
1895 Immanuel Velikovsky, writer (Worlds in Collision)
1898 Virginia Valli (McSweeney), Chicago IL, actress (Pleasure Garden)
1899 Raoul Salan, Fr/Indochina/Algeria (leader OAS)
1900 Henri Bruning, Dutch literary
1901 Frederick Loewe, Austrian-born composer (d. 1988)
1902 Gaston Brenta, composer
1902 J Wouterus van Dieren, Dutch biologist (Terschelling)
1903 Clyde Beatty, US animal trainer/actor (Big Cage)
1903 Theo Lingen, German director/actor (M, Charm of La Boheme) [or Jun 19]
1904 Frederick Loewe, composer (Learner & Loewe)
1906 Janos Viski, composer
1907 Fairfield Porter, American painter (d. 1975)
1908 Brinsley Ford, CEO (National Art Collections Fund)
1908 Ernst B Chain, German chemist/bacteriologist (penicillin, Nobel 1945)
1909 Erwin Dressel, composer
1910 Frank Demaree, American baseball player (d. 1958)
1910 Howlin' Wolf (Chester Arthur Burnett), American musician , harmonica (Big City Blues) (d. 1976)
1910 Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
1911 C P "Chilla" Christ, cricketer (Qld spinner late 30's)
1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti) and musicologist (d. 1984)
1911 Terence Rattigan, British playwright (Winslow Boy, Browning Version) (d. 1977)
1912 Jean Lesage, Premier of Quebec (d. 1980)
1912 Leslie Brown, Bishop (St Edmundsbury & Ipswich)
1912 William Gordon Harris, civil engineer
1913 Benjamin Shapira, a German-born Israeli biochemist and recipient of the Israel Prize (d. 1993)
1913 John Edmunds, composer
1913 Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
1913 Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian composer (d. 2007)
1913 Van Carlyle Wilton-Davies, archdeacon Emeritus (Oxford)
1913 Wilbur J Cohen, 1st employee of Social Security System
1914 Polly Hill, Dr/anthropologist
1914 Saul Bellow, Lachine Quebec, author (Mr Sammler's Planet) (Nobel laureate 1976) (d. 2005)
1915 Oscar Comras, Bronx, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park)
1916 Bill Waddington, British actor/comedian (Percy-Coronation Street)
1917 William Barr, rector (Exeter College, Oxford)
1918 Barry Morse, British-born Canadian actor (Fugitive-Lt Philip Gerard, Winds of War) (d. 2008)
1918 Patachou, French singer
1919 Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian Negotiator and community leader (d. 2007)
1919 Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish athlete and physician (d. 2006)
1920 Zbynek Vostrak, composer
1921 Jean Robic, French cyclist (d. 1980)
1921 Philip Mountbatten, Greece, Duke of Edinburgh, Prince, Mr Elizabeth II
1922 Judy Garland (Frances Gumm), American musical actress and singer (Wizard of Oz) (d. 1969)
1922 Rose Moffard, (acting Gov-AZ)
1923 Earl Hamner Jr, Schuyler Va, TV narrator (Waltons)
1923 Robert Maxwell (Jan Hoch), Slovakian-born newspaperman, CEO (NY Daily News) (d. 1991)
1925 Don Costa, actor (Impossible Years, Soul of Nigger Charlie)
1925 Nat Hentoff, American historian, novelist, jazz critic, and columnist (Village Voice, The Cold Society)
1926 June Haver, Rock Island, actress (Dolly Sisters, Girl Next Door)
1926 Lionel Jeffries, British actor (Fanny, Prisoner of Zenda) (d. 2010)
1926 Willem Oltmans, Dutch journalist (Outlawed, Free as a Bird)
1927 Ladislao Kubala, Hungarian-born footballer (d. 2002)
1927 Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician
1927 Michael Walsh, major-general/director (Overseas Relations)
1928 Asher Wallfish, journalist
1928 Maurice Sendak, American writer and illustrator (Where The Wild Things Are), (d. 2012)
1929 E. O. Wilson, American biologist
1929 Harald Juhnke, German actor and comedian (Guitars of Love) (d. 2005)
1929 Ian McCahon Sinclair, Australian politician
1929 James McDivitt, American astronaut (Gemini 4, Apollo 9)
1929 Vasile Herman, composer
1931 Jim (Purvis) Ferree Jr, Pine Bluff NC, PGA golfer (1958 Vancouver)
1931 João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
1932 Branko Lustig, film producer
1932 Gardner McKay, NYC, actor (Pleasure Seekers, Boots & Saddles)
1932 George Burns, British TV host
1932 J Bennett Johnston, (Sen-D-LA, 1972)
1933 F. Lee Bailey, American attorney (Sam Shepard case, OJ case)
1933 Georgi Atanasov, Bulgarian Prime Minister
1934 Nicolas Roussakis, composer
1934 Paul Gibson, British high court judge
1935 Tom Pendry, MP (Labour)
1935 Vic Elford, British racing driver
1936 Graham Carleton Greene, literary agent
1937 Richard Foreman, NYC, theatrical director (Daily Life)
1939 Alexandra Stewart, Montreal, actress (In Praise of Older Women)
1939 Guy Harwood, horse trainer
1940 Augie Auer, Meteorologist and television presenter (d. 2007)
1940 John William Stevens, British jazz drummer (d. 1994)
1941 David Walker, Australian racing driver
1941 Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
1941 Jürgen Prochnow, German actor (Das Boot)
1941 Mickey Jones, American musician and actor
1941 Shirley Owens, American singer (Shirelles)
1941 Soraya Khashoogi, Leicester England, wife (Adrian Khashoogi)
1942 Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
1942 Preston Manning, Canadian politician
1943 Jeff Greenfield, NYC, media commentator (Firing Line, Nightline)
1943 Simon Jenkins, editor (Times)
1944 Rick Price, rocker (Move)
1945 Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
1945 Ron Glass, Evansville Ind, actor (Ron-Barney Miller, New Odd Couple)
1946 Fernando Balzaretti, Mexican actor (d. 1998)
1946 Matthew Fisher, England, keyboardist (Procol Harum-Conquistador)
1946 Mensje F van Keulen-van der Steen, Dutch writer (Bleeker's Summer)
1947 Ken Singleton, American baseball player (Orioles)
1949 John Sentamu, Archbishop of York
1949 Kevin Corcoran, actor (Swiss Family Robinson, Babes in Toyland)
1950 Elias Sosa, Major League Baseball pitcher
1951 Burglinde Pollak, German DR, pentathlete (Olympics-bronze-1972)
1951 Dan Fouts, American football player, NFL QB (San Diego Chargers)
1951 Vicky Latta, Auckland NZ, equestrian 3 day event (Olympics-96)
1953 John Edwards, American politician and lawyer
1955 Andrew Stevens, Memphis Tn, actor (Seduction, Boys in Company C, Fury)
1956 Georg Borwin, Duke of Mecklenburg, head of the House of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
1957 Hidetsugu Aneha, Japanese architect
1957 Lindsay Hoyle, British politician
1959 Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager (A.C. Milan)
1959 Eliot Spitzer, American politician
1959 Timothy Van Patten, Bkln NY, actor (White Shadow, Master)
1960 Balakrishna Nandamuri, Indian actor
1960 Maxi Priest, English musician
1961 Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
1961 Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies, The Breeders)
1961 Maxi Priest (Max Elliott), Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
1962 Akie Abe, First Lady of Japan
1962 Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian writer and poet (d. 1982)
1962 Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL center (Chicago Blackhawks)
1962 Duane Sutter, NHL player (NY Islander)
1962 Floris Jansen, cricketer (Netherlands pace bowler 1996 World Cup)
1962 Gina Gershon, American actress
1962 Koma Wong Ka-Kui, Hong Kong musician (Beyond) (d. 1993)
1962 Vincent Perez, Swiss actor
1963 Brad Henry, American politician (Oklahoma governor)
1963 Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress
1964 Ben Daniels, British actor
1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
1964 Kate Flannery, American actress
1964 Pete Jordan, Elmhurst IL, Nike golfer (1992 Fresno Open-2nd)
1964 Tony Martin, Australian comedian
1965 Claudio Mezzadri, Switzerland, tennis star
1965 Elizabeth Hurley, English model and actress (Christabel)
1965 Joey Santiago, American Musician (Pixies)
1965 Linda Evangelista, Canada, super model/actress (Catwalk, Unzipped)
1965 Vincent Perez, actor (The Crow-City of Angels)
1966 David Platt, English footballer
1966 Doug McKeon, NJ, actor (Big Shamus Little Shamus, Centennial)
1967 Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
1967 Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
1967 John Yoo, American attorney
1968 Bill Burr, American comedian and actor (Chappelles Show, Breaking Bad)
1968 Jimmy Shea, American skeleton racer
1968 Kevin Donnalley, NFL guard/tackle (Houston/Tennessee Oilers)
1968 Susan Haskell, actress (Marty-One Life to Live, Strictly Business)
1968 The D.O.C., American rapper
1969 Fred Foggie, WLAF cornerback (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 Kate Snow, American TV journalist
1969 Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer
1969 Tony McCoy, NFL defensive tackle (Indianapolis Colts)
1970 David Wilson, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Laurel Korholz, La Jolla California, rower (Olympics-4th-96)
1970 Mike Doughty, American singer
1971 Bobby Jindal, American politician, Louisiana Congressman, Governor
1971 Bruno N'Gotty, French footballer
1971 DeWayne Dotson, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 Erik Rutan, Singer/Guitarist
1971 Jeff Rodgers, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Joel Hailey, American singer
1971 Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio host and TV personality
1971 Leanza Cornet, TV host (Entertainment Tonight)
1972 C J Richardson, NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 David Dunn, NFL wide receiver (Cin Bengals)
1972 Edward Reevey, St John NB, Canadian Tour golfer (1992 SC Intercol)
1972 Pat Johnson, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1972 Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician
1972 Steven Fischer, American film producer and director
1973 Brandon Sanders, safety (NY Giants)
1973 Carl Kidd, NFL defensive back (Oakland Raiders)
1973 David Friedman, LA California, actor (Jason-Little House on the Prairie)
1973 Faith Evans, American singer
1973 Flesh-N-Bone, American rapper, (Bone Thugs-N-Harmony)
1973 Pokey Reese, American baseball player
1973 Wade Miller, CFL linebacker (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1974 Orlando Hernandez, Peruvian journalist
1975 Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer
1975 Risto Jussilainen, Finnish ski jumper
1976 Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician, parliamentarian for the Party for the Animals
1976 Freddy García, American baseball player
1976 Hadi Saei Bonehkohal, Persian taekwondoka
1976 Lisa Jean Costantino, Miss USA-Vermont (1997)
1976 Stefan Postma, Dutch footballer
1977 Adam Darski, Polish musician (Behemoth)
1977 Dan-e-o, Canadian rapper
1977 Enzo Emanuele, Italian medical researcher
1977 Mike Rosenthal, American football player, sports radio talk show host
1977 Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
1978 Brian West, American soccer player
1978 Shane West, American actor
1979 Jake Tsakalidis, Georgian-Greek basketball player
1979 Konstantinos Loumpoutis, Greek footballer
1980 Francelino Matuzalem, Brazilian footballer
1980 Jessica DiCicco, American actress
1980 Ovie Mughelli, American football player
1980 Wang Yuegu, Singaporean table tennis player
1981 Albie Morkel, South African cricketer
1981 Burton O'Brien, Scottish footballer
1981 Hoku, American singer and actress
1981 Jonathan Bennett, actor (Mean Girls)
1981 Prince Hashim bin Al Hussein, Jordanian royalty
1982 Ana Lucia Souza, Brazilian ballet dancer
1982 Leelee Sobieski, American actress
1982 Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland, Swedish royalty
1982 Tara Lipinski, American figure skater (1997 World Champ)
1983 Josh Ramsay, Canadian singer (Marianas Trench)
1983 Leelee Sobieski, New York City, American actress (Deep Impact, Joan of Arc, Uprising)
1984 Dean Leacock, English footballer
1984 Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian judoka
1984 Nicky Bailey, English footballer
1985 Andy Schleck, Luxembourg cyclist
1985 Kristina Lundberg, Swedish ice hockey player
1985 Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer
1987 Amobi Okoye, Nigeria-born American football player
1987 Kelly Vitz, American actress
1987 Lyssa Chapman, American bounty hunter
1987 Martin Harnik, Austrian footballer
1988 Kelly Vitz, American actress
1989 Mustapha Carayol, Gambian/English footballer
1989 Ryuya Wakaba, Japanese actor
1990 Valeen Montenegro, Filipina actress
1991 James Cleveland McFadden-Talbot, son of Gates McFaden (Star Trek NG)
1994 Nicholas Santo Pietro, son of Vanna White
Died on June 10th
(323 BC) Alexander the Great, Macedonian king (b. 356 BC)
1075 Ernest of Austria (b. 1027)
1190 Frederik I van Hohenstaufen "Barbarossa", Holy Roman Emperor, German King (b. 1122)
1247 Rodrigo Jimenez de Rada, archbishop Toledo/advisor Alfonso VIII, dies
1424 Duke Ernest of Austria (b. 1377)
1552 Alexander Barclay, English poet
1556 Martin Agricola (M Sore), German composer (b. 1486)
1560 Mary de Guise, queen-mother of Scotland
1580 Luis Vaz de Camoes, Portugal's national poet (Os Lusiados)
1584 Francois-Hercule de Valois, French crown prince
1588 Valentin Weigel, German mystic
1607 John Popham, English politician (b. 1531)
1654 Alessandro Algardi, Italian sculptor and architect (b. 1598)
1680 Johan Göransson Gyllenstierna, Swedish statesman (b. 1635)
1692 Bridget Bishop, first person to be convicted and executed during the Salem Witch Trials (b. 1632)
1727 George Ludwig, German monarch of Hannover/king of England
1735 Thomas Hearne, English antiquarian (b. 1678)
1776 Leopold Widhalm, Austrian luthier (b. 1722)
1791 Toussaint-Guillaume Picquet de la Motte, French admiral (b. 1720)
1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer
1831 Hans Karl von Diebitsch, Russian field marshal (b. 1785)
1834 Antonius van Gils, RC theologist (against Relief)
1836 André-Marie Ampère, French physicist (b. 1775)
1839 Nathaniel Pryor, sgt of Lewis & Clark Expedition
1849 Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1849 Thomas Robert Bugeaud, Marshal of France and duke of Isly (b. 1784)
1868 Michael Obrenovic, ruler of Sweden, murdered
1883 Carl Gradener, composer
1893 Elek Erkel, composer
1896 Amelia Dyer, English murderer (b. 1829)
1898 Tuone Udaina, last speaker of the Dalmatian language.
1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois) (b. 1855)
1901 Robert Williams Buchanan, British dramatist (b. 1841)
1902 Auguste Schmidt, German teacher/feminist
1902 Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan poet (b. 1845)
1903 Alexander I, King of Serbia are assassinated
1903 Dragia, Queen of Serbia, assassinated
1903 Luigi Cremona, Italian mathematician (grafostatica)
1909 Edward Everett Hale, American author (b. 1822)
1912 Anton Aškerc, Slovenian poet (b. 1856)
1918 Arrigo Enrico Boito, Italian composer (b. 1842)
1923 Pierre Loti (Julien Viaud), French sailor and writer (b. 1850)
1924 Giacomo Matteotti, Italian socialist deputy, assassinated by fascists (b. 1885)
1926 Antonio Gaudi y Cornet, Catalan architect (b. 1852)
1930 Adolf Harnack, German theologian (b. 1851)
1934 Frederick Delius, English composer (Suite Florida) (b. 1862)
1937 Robert Borden, eighth Prime Minister of Canada (b. 1854)
1940 Marcus Garvey, American civil rights activist (Back to Africa Movement) (b. 1887)
1941 Herschel Mayall, actor (Tale of 2 Cities)
1942 Jean François van Royen, Sect-Gen of Concentration Camp Amersfoort
1942 Ross Gregory, cricketer (Australian batsman 1937)
1944 French Duwaer, Dutch printer/resistance fighter, executed
1944 Gerrit Jan van der Veen (Wolffensperger), resister, executed
1944 Johan Limpers, sculptor/resistance fighter, executed
1944 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist (b. 1910)
1946 Ananda Mahidol, king of Siam, shot dead
1946 Jack Johnson, American boxer, 1st black heavyweight champion, dies in car accident (b. 1878)
1947 Alexander Bethune, Canadian politician (b. 1852)
1949 Sigrid Undset, Norwegian writer, Nobel laureate (b. 1882)
1953 Grzlegorz Fitelberg, composer
1954 Will Rossiter, composer
1958 Angelina Weld Grimke, American journalist (b. 1880)
1959 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (b. 1883)
1963 Anita King, actress (Tender Loving Care)
1963 Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (b. 1936)
1964 Louis Gruenberg, composer
1967 Frank Butler, actor/screenwriter (Road to Bali, China)
1967 Spencer Tracy, American actor (7th Cross, Father ot Bride) (b. 1900)
1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer
1969 Frank Lawton, actor (David Copperfield, Skin Game)
1971 Michael Rennie, English actor (Day the Earth Stood Still) (b. 1909)
1971 Virginia Eames, entertainer
1973 Erich von Manstein, German military commander (b. 1887)
1973 William Inge, American playwright (Come Back Little Sheba) (b. 1913)
1974 Henry WFA, English duke of Gloucester/baron Culloden
1974 Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (b. 1900)
1976 Adolph Zukor, Hungarian-born producer, fur trader (b. 1873)
1980 Denys Morkel, South African cricketer (batsman scored 663 runs 1927-32)
1981 Russell "Lucky" Hayden, actor (Judge Roy Bean)
1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, American singer (Shirelles) (b. 1940)
1982 Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German author and director, dies of drug overdose (b. 1945)
1985 Bob Prince, sportscaster (Monday Night Baseball)
1985 George Chandler, actor (Lassie)
1986 Merle Miller, American biographer (b. 1919)
1987 Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (Fixer, Patch of Blue) (b. 1943)
1988 Louis L'Amour, American author (Bowdrie) (b. 1908)
1989 Richard Quine, director and actor (Babes on Broadway)
1991 Vercors (Jean Bruller), French writer (Silence of Mer) (b. 1902)
1992 Hachidai Nakamura, Japanese songwriter (Sukiyaki) and pianist (b. 1931)
1992 Otto FAH van Nispen, mayor of Pannerden/MP (KVP)
1992 Peter Von Zerneck, actor (Foreign Affair)
1992 Zak Hernández, American soldier (b. 1970)
1993 Alexis Smith, actress (Constant Nymph)
1993 Alice Reinhart, entertainer
1993 Les Dawson, English Comedian (b. 1934)
1993 Richard Webb, actor (Captain Midnight), shoots himsel
1994 Edward Kienholz, US sculptor (Back seat of a '38 Dodge)
1994 Mary Maxwell Gates, philanthropist/mother of Bill Gates
1995 Ernest Anderson, publicist
1995 Masaya Hanai, businessamn
1995 Ron Morrisby, cricketer (prolific batsman for Tasmania 1931-52)
1996 George Hees, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
1996 Hugh Burnton Mitchell, US senator
1996 Jo Van Fleet, American actress (Seize the Day, Cinderella) (b. 1914)
1996 Marie-Louise von Motesiczky, painter
1996 Norman Lambert, British restuarateur
1996 Uno Choyo, writer
1998 Hammond Innes, English author (b. 1914)
1998 Jim Hearn, American baseball player (b. 1921)
2000 Brian Statham, English cricketer (b. 1930)
2000 Hafez al-Assad, President of Syria (b. 1930)
2001 Mike Mentzer, American bodybuilder (b. 1951)
2001 Princess Leila of Iran (b. 1970)
2002 John Gotti, American gangster (b. 1940)
2003 Bernard Williams, English philosopher (b. 1929)
2003 Donald Regan, American Chief of Staff and U.S. Treasury Secretary (b. 1918)
2003 Dr Phil Williams, Welsh politician and scientist (b. 1939)
2004 Ray Charles, American musician, Grammy winning crooner who blended gospel and blues (b. 1930)
2004 Xenophon Zolotas, Greek politician (b. 1904)
2005 Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer (b. 1915)
2007 Augie Auer, New Zealander meteorologist and television presenter (b. 1940)
2008 Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani-Soviet writer (b. 1928)
2009 Tenniel Evans, English actor (b. 1926)
2010 Metropolitan Basil Schott, Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh (b. 1939)
2011 Brian Lenihan, Jnr, Irish Politician (b. 1959)
2013 Barbara Vucanovich, American politician
2016 Margaret Heldt, American hairdresser who created the Beehive
2016 Gordie Howe, Canadian NHL right wing (Detroit Redwings)
