June 27th
Holidays and Festivals
Seven Sleepers Day a.k.a. Siebenschläfertag (Germany)
Armed Forces Day (Great Britain)
Tamil puja for Manikkavacakar, Saint and author of the celebrated Tamil works (Tamil peoples)
Great American Backyard Campout
National Veterans' Day (United Kingdom)
Mixed Race Day (Brazil)
National HIV Testing Day (United States)
St. Peter's Eve (Cornwall, UK)
Penzance, the Golowan Festival (Cornwall, UK), also known as Penzance Golowan June 23rd through 28th.
Paul Bunyan Day
Happy Birthday To You Day
Decide To Be Married Day
Sun Glasses Day
Feast of Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Feast of Saint Cyril of Alexandria
Feast of Saint Ladislas
* Glastonbury Festival 2010 Glastonbury, UK June 23 – 27 (5of5) (2010) End of June
Fête de la Absinthe Translation: Absinthe or Wormwood Day (French Republican) The Ninth day of the Month of Messidor in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"Here's to the perfect girl,
I couldn't ask for more.
She's deaf 'n dumb, oversexed,
and owns a liquor store."
- Anonymous
Drink of The Day
Juan Collins AKA José Collins
2 parts Tequilla
1 part freshly squeezed Lemon Juice
Drizzle of sugar syrup, add chilled carbonated water to taste
Wine of The Day
Bota Box (2009) Malbec
Style - Malbec
Lodi
$25
Beer of The Day
Hell In Keller
Brewer - Uncle Billy's Brew & Que Austin, TX
Style - Kellerbier
- In honor of Helen Adams Keller (June 27th, 1880 – June 1st, 1968), an American author, political activist, and the first deaf-blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree.
Joke of The Day
I recall my first time with a condom, I was 16 or so. I went in to buy a packet of condoms at Murphy's pharmacy. There was this beautiful woman assistant behind the counter, and she could see that I was new at it. She handed me the package and asked if I knew how to wear one. I honestly answered, 'No, this is my first time.' So she unwrapped the package, took one out and slipped it over her thumb. She cautioned me to make sure it was on tight and secure.
I apparently still looked confused so, she looked all around the store to make sure it was empty.
'Just a minute,' she said, and walked to the door, and locked it.Taking my hand, she led me into the
back room, unbuttoned her blouse and removed it. She unhooked her bra and laid it aside. 'Do these excite you?' she asked, holding her breasts up for me to see.
Well, I was so dumb-struck that all I could do was nod my head. She then said it was time to slip the condom on. As I was slipping it on, she dropped her skirt, removed her panties and lay down on a desk. 'Well, come on',
she said, 'We don't have much time.'
So I climbed on her. It was so wonderful, that unfortunately, I could no longer hold back and
KAPOW, I was done within a few moments. She looked at me with a bit of a frown. 'Did you put that condom on?' she asked. I said,
'I sure did,' and held up my thumb to show her.
Quote of The Day
"I'm going to buy a boat... do a little traveling, and I'm going to be drinking beer!"
-John Welsh, Brooklyn bus driver who won $30 million in the New York lottery
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $15
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
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
Lightning Safety Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
Carpenter Ant Awareness Week, Last Full Week in June
National Mosquito Control Awareness Week, Week of June 26th
Appreciate Your Plumbing, Heating, and Cooling Professionals Week, Fourth Week in June
Water Ski Days, Last Full Weekend in June
Watermelon Seed Spitting Week, Last Weekend Thursday to Sunday in June
Eye Safety Awareness Week, Last Week in June
Fish Are Friends, Not Food! Week, Last Week in June
National Prevention of Eye Injuries Awareness, June 27th through July 4th
Historical Events on June 27th
678 St Agatho begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1358 Republic of Dubrovnik is founded
1524 Earl Henry III of Nassau weds Mencia de Medoza, 16-years old marquess
1542 Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo claims California for Spain
1580 Duke van Alva's army occupies Portugal
1652 New Amsterdam (now NYC) passes 1st speed limit law in US
1693 1st sea battle of Lagos, England & Holland vs France
1693 1st woman's magazine "Ladies' Mercury" published (London)
1697 Polish parliament selects monarch August van Saksen as king
1709 Peter the Great defeats Charles XII of Sweden at the Battle of Poltava.
1743 English defeat French at Dettingen
1743 Battle of Dettingen of the War of the Austrian Succession, On the battlefield in Bavaria, George II personally leads troops into battle. The last time that a British monarch would command troops in the field.
1756 French fleet conquer St Philips Castle of Minorca
1759 General James Wolfe begins the siege of Quebec.
1778 Liberty Bell came home to Phila after the British had left
1806 Buenos Aires captured by British
1833 Prudence Crandall, a white woman, arrested for conducting an academy for black females at Canterbury Conn
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and his brother Hyrum Smith, are murdered by a mob at the Carthage, Illinois jail.
1847 NY & Boston linked by telegraph wires
1862 Battle at Garnett's/Golding's Farms, Virginia
1862 Battle of Gaines' Mill, VA (Cold Harbor, Chickahominy Bluffs) Day 3
1863 Skirmish at Fairfax (Courthouse) Virginia
1864 Atlanta Campaign: Battle of Kennesaw Mountain GA
1867 Bank of California opens doors
1876 1st NLer to get 6 hits in 9 inn game (Dave Force, Phila Athletics)
1876 Democratic Party elects Samuel Tilden as presidential candidate
1890 Cecil Rhodes' colonies attack Motlousi at Matabeleland
1890 George Dixon becomes 1st black boxing champ (Bantam weight)
1893 Great stock crash on NY stock exchange
1895 The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad's Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York City, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives.
1898 The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia.
1903 9th US Golf Open, Willie Anderson shoots a 307 at Baltusrol GC NJ
1905 Battleship Potemkin uprising, sailors start a mutiny aboard the Battleship Potemkin, denouncing the crimes of autocracy, demanding liberty and an end to war.
1909 23rd US Womens Tennis, Hazel H Wightman beats M Barger-Wallach (60 61)
1909 Etten-Leur 1st airplane flight in Neth (Belgium count De Lambert)
1914 Jack Johnson beats Frank Moran in 20 for heavyweight boxing title
1914 US signs treaty of commerce with Ethiopia
1915 100°F (38°C), Fort Yukon Alaska (state record)
1915 Dutch SDAP demonstrates against conscription
1917 1st baseball player (Hank Gowdy) to enter WW I military service
1922 Newberry Medal 1st presented for kids literature (Hendrik Van Loon)
1923 Capt. Lowell H. Smith and Lt. John P. Richter perform the first ever aerial refueling in a DH-4B biplane
1929 1st color TV demo (NYC)
1929 Pres Von Hindenburg refuses to pay German debt of WW I
1931 3rd Ryder Cup, US wins, 9-3 at Scioto Country Club (Columbus, Ohio, US)
1933 4th Ryder Cup, Great Britain wins, 6½-5½ at Southport & Ainsdale, England
1934 Federal Savings & Loan Association created
1935 Danno O'Mahoney beats Jim Londos in Boston, to become wrestling champ
1939 1st night game at Cleveland Municipal Stadium (Indians 5, Tigers 0)
1939 Brooklyn Dodgers tie Boston Braves, 2-2, in 23 innings
1939 Headley scores a cricket century in each innings v England at Lord's
1940 Soviet Army attacks Romania
1940 USSR returns to Gregorian calendar
1941 German troops capture the city of Bialystok, Poland during Operation Barbarossa.
1941 Nazi manifest against the Jews in Amsterdam
1941 Romanian governmental forces, allies of Nazi Germany, launch one of the most violent pogroms in Jewish history in the city of Iasi, (Romania), resulting in the murder of at least 13,266 Jews.
1942 FBI captures 8 Nazi saboteurs from a sub off NY's Long Island
1942 PQ-17 convoy leaves Iceland for Archangelsk
1943 Elly Dammers throws Dutch record spear (41,43m)
1943 Fanny Blankers-Koen runs Dutch record 200m (24.5)
1944 Cherbourg, France liberated by Allies
1945 Foundation 1940-45 established
1947 98°F (36.8°C) in De Bilt Netherlands
1947 WRC TV channel 4 in Washington DC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 "Captain Video & His Video Rangers," debut on DUMONT-TV
1950 "Liar" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 12 performances
1950 32nd PGA Championship, Chandler Harper at Scioto CC Columbus Ohio
1950 North Koreans troop reach Seoul, UN asks members to aid South Korea, Harry Truman orders Air Force & Navy into Korean conflict
1950 US sends 35 military advisers to South Vietnam
1953 Joseph Laniel appointed French premier
1954 CIA-sponsored rebels overthrow elected government of Guatemala
1954 The world's first nuclear power station opens in Obninsk, near Moscow.
1955 "Julius LaRosa Show," debuts on CBS-TV
1955 1st automobile seat belt legislation enacted (Illinois)
1956 Indians trailing Orioles 9-1 come back to win 12-11 in 11 innings
1957 Hurricane Audrey, kills 526 in Louisiana & Texas
1958 Billy Pierce's perfect game bid broken with 2 outs in 9th
1958 Harry Burrell flies KC-135 record (5:27:42.8) NY to London
1959 "West Side Story" closes at Winter Garden Theater NYC after 734 perfs
1959 14th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by Mickey Wright
1959 Players vote Henry Aaron unanimously for the All-Star Game
1960 British Somaliland becomes part of Somalia
1960 Chlorophyll "A" synthesized Cambridge Mass
1960 Oil pipe line from Rotterdam-Ruhrgebied opens
1962 NASA civilian pilot Joseph Walker takes X-15 to 6,606 kph, 37,700 m
1962 Ross Perot begins Electronic Data Systems
1963 Bill J Kramer & Dakotas record Lennon & McCartney "I Call Your Name"
1963 Phillies Johnny Callison hits for cycle, but Phillie centerfielder Tony Gonzalez's error ends his record 205 consecutive errorless games
1963 Pres Kennedy spent 1st full day in Ireland
1963 USAF Major Robert A Rushworth in X-15 reaches 86,900 m
1964 "New Phil Silvers Show," last airs on CBS-TV
1964 "Sie Liebt Dich (She Loves You)" by Die Beatles peaks at #97
1964 Jan & Dean release "Little Old Lady From Pasadena"
1965 Carol Mann wins LPGA Carling Golf Open
1966 1st sci-fi soap opera, "Dark Shadows," premieres on ABC-TV
1966 4th Mayor's Trophy Game, Yanks beat Mets 5-2
1967 Race riot in Buffalo NY (200 arrested)
1967 The world's first ATM is installed in Enfield, London.
1968 Ludvik Vaculik publishes "Manifest of 2000 words" in Prague
1969 50,000 attend Denver Pop Festival
1969 Honduras/El Salvador breaks diplomatic relations due to soccer match
1969 Police raid Stonewall Gay Bar in Greenwich Village, NY, about 400 to 1,000 patrons riot against police, it lasts 3 days
1971 "You're a Good Man Charlie Brown" closes at Golden NYC after 31 perfs
1971 26th US Women's Open Golf Championship won by JoAnne Carner
1973 "Live & Let Die" premieres in US
1973 John W Dean tells Watergate Committee about Nixon's "enemies list"
1973 The President of Uruguay dissolves Parliament and heads a coup d'état.
1973 Uruguay suspends constitution
1974 "Flip Wilson Show," last airs on NBC-TV
1974 U.S president Richard Nixon visits the U.S.S.R..
1976 "Pacific Overtures" closes at Winter Garden NYC after 193 perfs
1976 Air France Airbus Flight 139 (Tel Aviv-Athens-Paris) is hijacked en route to Paris by the PLO and redirected to Entebbe, Uganda.
1976 Israeli raid on Entebbe, Uganda
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Babe Didrikson-Zaharias Golf Invitational
1976 Portuguese general Antonio Eanes elected president
1977 5-4 Supreme Court decision allows lawyers to advertise
1977 Djibouti (Afars & Issas) claims Independence from France.
1977 Willie McCovey smashes 2 HRs in inning for 2nd time (Apr 12, 1973)
1978 Henry Rono of Kenya sets record for 3,000 m, 7:32.1
1978 Soyuz 30 carries 2 cosmonauts (1 Polish) to Salyut 6 space station
1978 US Seasat 1, 1st oceanographic satellite, launched into polar orbit
1979 Heavyweight Muhammad Ali confirms that his 3rd retirement is final (it isn't)
1979 Supreme Court rules employers may use quotas to help minorities
1980 1st female state police graduates (NJ)
1980 Dodger's Jerry Reuss' no-hits SF Giants 8-0
1980 Italian plane crashes into Tyrrheense Sea, kills 81
1980 US revives draft registration
1981 "Bette Davis Eyes" by Kim Carnes returns to #1 slot
1981 Cambodia adopts its constitution
1981 Pamela Jenks, 21, crowned 14th Miss Black America
1982 "Dancin'" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 1,774 performances
1982 "Play Me a Country Song" opens & closes at Virginia Theater NYC
1982 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Rochester Golf International
1982 Space Shuttle Columbia launched from the Kennedy Space Center on the final research and development flight mission, STS-4.
1983 Highest price paid for painting by a living artist 960,200 pounds Miro
1983 Mariners bat out of order against White Sox in 2nd inning
1983 NASA launches space vehicle S-205
1983 Soyuz T-9 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 7 space station
1984 Emmy 11th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 5th time
1984 Fire destroys a set in "A View to the Kill"
1984 France wins soccer's European Cup
1984 Late Night's 1st Tower Drop
1984 Supreme Court ends NCAA monopoly on college football telecasts
1985 First hotel strike in NY
1985 Route 66 (Chicago to Santa Monica), is decertified
1986 Anne White shocks Wimbledon by wearing only a body stocking
1986 In referendum, Irish uphold ban on divorce
1986 Robby Thompson (SF Giants) sets record, caught stealing 4 times in 1 game
1986 US informs NZ it will not defend it against attack
1986 World Court rules US aid to Nicaraguan contras illegal
1987 Supreme Court Justice Powell retires
1988 Mike Tyson KOs Michael Spink in 91 seconds, in Atlantic City ($67m)
1988 Reds bat out of order against Padres in 1st inning
1989 The current international treaty defending indigenous peoples, ILO 169 convention, was adopted.
1990 Jose Canseco signs record $4,700,000 per year Oak A's contract
1990 Salman Rushdie, condemned to death by Iran, contributes $8600 to help their earthquake victims
1991 Emmy 18th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 12th time
1991 Slovenia, after declaring independence two days before, is invaded by Yugoslav troops, tanks, and aircraft, starting the Ten-Day War.
1992 "57 Channels (and Nothin' on)" by Bruce Springsteen peaks at #68
1992 193rd ranked Andrei Olhovsky defeats #1 seed Jim Courier at Wimbledon
1992 Dan O'Brien fails on pole vault & eliminated from Olympics decathlon
1992 Daryl Gates retires as LA police chief
1993 "Falsettos" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 487 performances
1993 11th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Jim Colbert
1993 Actress Julia Roberts weds country singer Lyle Lovett
1993 Don Henley booed in Milwaukee when he dedicates the song "It's Not Easy Being Green" to President Clinton
1993 NY Met pitcher Anthony Young loses record 24th straight game
1993 Shelley Hamlin wins ShopRite LPGA Golf Classic
1994 "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 8 performances
1994 12th Seniors Players Golf Championship, Dave Stockton
1994 118°F (47.8°C) at Lakewood New Mexico (state record)
1994 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
1994 NY Daily News increases prices to 50 cents
1995 Former WMMS engineer William Alford is sentenced to 10 days & $1,000 fine for cutting feed during Howard Stern's broadcast from Cleveland
1995 Holland's debut in English domestic comp (v Northants, NatWest)
1995 Mason City Iowa's TV news personality Jodi Huisentruit disappears
1995 Space shuttle STS-71 (Atlantis 14), launches
1998 Opening of the Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia.
1999 ATB go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with '9pm, Till I Come'
1999 The Chemical Brothers go to No.1 on the UK album chart with 'Surrender', their second No.1 album
2001 Pope John Paul II beatifies 28 Ukrainian Greek Catholics, including 27 martyrs most of whom were killed by the Soviet secret police. Beatification takes place at the service in Lviv, western Ukraine during his first visit to this country.
2001 The International Court of Justice finds against the United States in its judgement in the LaGrand Case.
2003 The United States National Do Not Call Registry, formed to combat unwanted telemarketing calls and administered by the Federal Trade Commission, enrolls almost three-quarters of a million phone numbers on its first day.
2005 AMD files broad antitrust complaints against Intel Corporation in U.S. Federal District Court, alleging abuse of monopoly powers and antitrust violations.
2007 The Brazilian Military Police invades the favelas of Complexo do Alemão in an episode which is remembered as the Complexo do Alemão massacre.
2008 Bill Gates steps down as Chairman of Microsoft Corporation to work full time for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
2010 Cristie Kerr wins the 56th LPGA Championship
2012 Queen Elizabeth II shakes hands with former IRA commander and Sinn Fein leader Martin McGuinness
2013 Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj is re-elected President of Mongolia
2016 US Supreme Court strikes down Texas law restricting abortion 5-3
Born on June 27th
862 Hindu saint Manikkavacakar
1040 King Ladislaus I of Hungary (d. 1095)
1350 Manuel II Palaiologos, Eastern Roman Emperor
1462 Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515) (d. 1515)
1550 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74) (d. 1574)
1615 Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1696 William Pepperrell, British colonial soldier (d. 1759)
1717 Louis Guillaume Lemonnier, French botanist (d. 1799)
1718 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
1745 Johann Nepomuk Went, composer
1789 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
1805 Stephen Elvey, composer
1808 Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
1809 Francois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1812 John Pike Hullah, composer
1819 Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
1821 August Conradi, composer
1828 Junius Daniel, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1864)
1833 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1838 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
1838 Paul von Mauser, German weapon designer (d. 1914)
1846 Charles S(tewart) Parnell, Irish independence fighter (Irish Home Rule Party)(d. 1891)
1849 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, beauty cream maufacturer & expert/columnist
1850 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
1850 Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
1850 Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (d. 1919)
1850 Lafcadio Hearn, Greek-born author (Chita), journalist (d. 1904)
1859 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1862 May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
1865 Sir John Monash, Australian military commander (d. 1931)
1869 Emma Goldman, Lithuanian-American anarchist and feminist, publisher (Mother Earth) (d. 1940)
1869 Hans Spemann, German embryologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1941)
1869 Kate Carew, American caricaturist (d. 1961)
1872 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
1878 Jean François van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT
1880 Helen Keller, American deaf and blind activist (d. 1968)
1882 Eduard Spranger, German philosopher and educator (d. 1963)
1884 Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)
1884 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher and poet (La psychanalyse du feu) (d. 1962)
1885 Arthur Harmat, composer
1886 Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)
1888 Antoinette Perry, American theater director (d. 1946)
1888 Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian (d. 1960)
1889 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
1889 Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)
1892 Paul Colin, French poster designer (d. 1985)
1896 Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond
1898 Alexandra G "Alja" von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students)
1898 Tibor Harsanyi, composer
1899 Juan Trippe, American airline entrepreneur (d. 1981)
1900 Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77)
1905 Armand Mondou, French Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1976)
1905 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)
1906 Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1907 John McIntire, American actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian) (d. 1991)
1907 Valerie Cossart, London, actress (Hartmans)
1908 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes)
1908 João Guimarães Rosa, Brazilian writer (d. 1967)
1908 William Eric David Davis, broadcaster
1909 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer
1910 Karel Reiner, composer
1911 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania
1911 Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964)
1911 V K Narayana Menon, composer
1912 Audrey Christie, Chic Ill, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange)
1913 Willie Mosconi, American billiards player, world champion (1941-57) (d. 1993)
1914 Alexander Pola (Abraham Polak), Dutch actor and writer (Farce Major)
1914 Giorgio Almirante, Italian politician (facist), member of parliament (1948-87) (d. 1988)
1914 Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1915 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician
1916 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer
1916 Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer
1917 K M Rangnekar, Indian cricketer
1917 Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1918 Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
1921 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
1921 Muriel Pavlow, British actress
1922 George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies)
1922 Herbert Ziergiebel, writer
1923 Jacques Berthier, French composer (d. 1994)
1923 Paul F Conrad, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84)
1924 Bob Appleyard, English cricketer
1924 Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer
1924 Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist (LA Times)
1924 Rosalie Allen, American singer and disc jockey (d. 2003)
1925 Jerome "Doc" Pomus, American blues singer and songwriter (d. 1991)
1926 Frank O'Hara, writer
1927 Bob Keeshan (Captain Kangaroo), American actor (Clarabelle-Good Morning) (d. 2004)
1927 Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1927 Robert Casey, Rochester NY, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show)
1928 Rudy Perpich, American politician (d. 1995)
1929 William Afflis, American wrestler (d. 1991)
1930 H Ross Perot, Texas, American businessman and politician, presidental candidate (1992)
1930 Tamio Kono, Sacramento CA, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60)
1931 Alojz Srebotnjak, composer
1931 Charles Bronfman, Canadian industrialist, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
1931 Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1931 Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
1932 Anna Moffo, American soprano (d. 2006)
1932 Eddie Kasko, baseball player
1932 Hugh Wood, composer
1932 Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer
1932 Magali Noël, French actress
1934 Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, soprano (Adventurers) [or 1927/1932]
1935 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 Laurent Terzieff, French actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way)
1935 Ramon Zamora, Filipino martial arts actor (d. 2007)
1936 John MD "Shali" Shalikashvili, Polish/US general (NATO)
1936 Lucille Clifton, American poet
1937 Joseph P Allen IV, Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
1937 Kirkpatrick Sale, American author
1938 Bruce E Babbitt, American politician (Gov-D-AL) and Secretary of the Interior
1938 Gordon Rorke, cricketer (Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50's)
1938 Kathryn Beaumont, British voice actress
1938 Shirley Anne Field, British actress (Beat Girl, Kings of the Sun)
1938 Tommy Cannon, British comedian
1939 Neil Hawke, cricketer (Aust pace bowler & late-order bat in 60s)
1939 Rahul Dev Burman, Indian composer and actor (d. 1994)
1940 Erik Erikson, anthropologist
1941 Avi Lerner, Israeli-born American film producer
1941 Bill Baxley, American politician
1941 James P(atrick) Hogan, British sci-fi author (Giants' Star)
1941 Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director, actor (Underground Passage) (d. 1996)
1942 Bruce Johnston, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 Frank Mills, Canadian pianist and composer (Music Box Dancer)
1942 John Howard McGuire, composer
1943 Kjersti Døvigen, Norwegian actress
1943 Rico Petrocelli, American baseball player
1944 Bruce Johnston, US pop musician (Beach Boys-God Only Knows)
1944 Cornelis J "Kees" Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts)
1944 Patrick Sercu, Belgian cyclist, 1K time trial (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 Catherine Lacoste, Paris France, golfer (US Women's Open 1967)
1945 John Veltch, horse trainer
1945 Norma Kamali, NYC, dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz)
1946 Daria Semegen, composer
1946 Janice Giteck, composer
1946 Sally Priesand, 1st us woman rabbi
1947 Francisca "Cisca" Beaudoux, actress (2 Under a Cap)
1948 Angel Penna Jr, horse trainer
1948 Camile Baudoin, American musician
1949 Vera Wang, American fashion designer
1950 Benjamin Peterson, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1951 Julia Duffy, American actress (Stephanie-Newhart, Baby Talk)
1951 Mary McAleese, President of Ireland
1951 Sidney M Gutierrez, Albuquerque NM, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 40, 59)
1951 Ulf Andersson, Sweden, International Chess Grandmaster (1972)
1952 Madan Kumar Bhandari, Nepalese politician (d. 1993)
1953 Kent Bostick, Lowell Mass, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-84, 96)
1955 Frank H G de Grave, Dutch MP (VVD)
1955 Isabelle Adjani, French actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar)
1956 Brad Childress, American football coach
1956 Heiner Dopp, German field hockey player
1956 Jeff Odintz, horse trainer
1956 Ted Haggard, American evangelical preacher
1958 Brian Helicopter, Musician, bass guitarist (The Shapes, HellsBelles, Rogue Male)
1958 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (d. 1996)
1958 Lisa Germano, American singer, songwriter and musician
1958 Magnus Lindberg, Finnish composer
1958 Robert Newman, LA California, actor (Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light)
1959 Dan Jurgens, American comic book writer
1959 Lorrie Morgan, American country music singer (Out of Your Shoes)
1960 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire
1960 Brian Dillinger, Brooklyn NY, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
1960 Craig Hodges, American basketball player
1960 Jim Nussle, (Rep-R-Iowa)
1961 Margo Timmins, Canadian folk-rock singer (Cowboy Junkies)
1961 Meera Syal, British-Indian comedienne and actress
1962 Tony Leung Chiu Wai, Hong Kong actor
1963 Johnny Benson, American NASCAR driver
1963 Paul Roos, Australian rules footballer
1963 Stephen Peterson, Detroit Mich, Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 Chuck Person, American basketball player, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1964 Stephan Brenninkmeijer, Dutch film producer and director
1966 J. J. Abrams, American television writer and producer
1966 Jason Patric, NYC, actor (Lost Boys, Solar Babies)
1966 Jeff Conine, Tacoma Washington, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1966 Mercedes Paz, Tucum Argentina, tennis star (1990 Strasbourg)
1966 Rob Harbison, Fallston MD, 3x40 rifle (Olympics-6th-1996)
1967 Lester Archambeau, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 Michelle Torres, Chicago IL, tennis star
1967 Sylvie Fréchette, French-Canadian synchronized swimmer
1968 Pascale Bussières, French-Canadian actress
1969 Mark Telerico, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 S Florida)
1969 Viktor Petrenko, Ukranian figure skater
1970 Jim Edmonds, American baseball player, outfielder (St. Louis Cardinals)
1970 John Eales, Australian Rugby Player
1970 Petra Langrova, Prostejov Czech, tennis star (1995 Palermo doubles)
1970 Ricardo Jordan, Delray Beach Fla, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1971 Brant Boyer, linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 DJ Screw, American musician (Screwed Up Click) (d. 2000)
1971 Jimmy Kemp, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 Jo Frost, English nanny and television host
1971 Kieren Keke, Nauruan politician
1971 Yancey Arias, American actor
1972 Dawud Wharnsby, Canadian poet and singer/songwriter
1972 Tony McCarroll
1973 Abbath Doom Occulta, Norwegian Black Metal musician/songwriter (Immortal)
1973 Heath Irwin, guard (New England Patriots)
1973 Jennifer Brundage, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 Wendell Davis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 Big Moe, American musician (Screwed Up Click) (d. 2007)
1974 Christian Kane, American actor and singer
1974 Juran Bolden, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 Ace Darling, American professional wrestler
1975 Daryle Ward, American baseball player
1975 Porter Collins, NYC, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1975 Sarah Evanetz, Canadian swimmer, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1975 Tobey Maguire, American actor
1976 Johnny Estrada, American baseball player
1976 Leigh Nash, American musician (Sixpence None the Richer)
1977 Arkadiusz Radomski, Polish footbaler
1977 Raúl, Spanish footballer
1978 Anna Kumble, British Singer, also known as Lolly
1978 Courtney Ford, American actress
1979 Benjamin Speed, Australian musician and film composer
1979 John Warne, American musician (Relient K; Ace Troubleshooter)
1979 Kim Gyu-ri, South Korean actress
1980 Craig Terrill, American football player
1980 Jennifer Goodridge, American Musician (Seaspin, Your Enemies Friends)
1980 Kevin Pietersen, English cricketer
1981 Andrew Embley, Australian rules footballer
1981 John Driscoll, American actor
1983 Alsou, Russian singer
1983 Dale Steyn, South African cricketer
1983 Evan Taubenfeld, American musician
1984 D.J. King, Canadian ice hockey player
1984 Emma Lahana, New Zealand actress
1984 Gökhan Inler, Swiss footballer
1984 Julie Ordon, Swiss model
1984 Khloe Kardashian, American reality television star
1984 Rocio Guirao Diaz, Argentinian Model
1985 Coby Linder, American Pop Punk Drummer (Say Anything)
1985 James Hook, Welsh rugby player
1985 Nico Rosberg, German race car driver
1985 Svetlana Kuznetsova, Russian tennis player
1986 Drake Bell, musician/ songwriter / American actor
1986 LaShawn Merritt, American sprinter
1987 Ed Westwick, English actor
1988 Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
1988 Matthew Spiranovic, Australian footballer
1988 Stefani Bismpikou, Greek gymnast
1989 Matthew Lewis, English actor
1989 Travis Curtis, American Artist/ Amateur Skateboarder
1990 Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
1991 Madylin Sweeten, American actress
1996 Rebecca Simpson , American Actress
1996 Tanay Chheda , Indian actor
Died on June 27th
444 Cyrillus van Alexandria, patriarch of Alexandria
1137 Guigo de Castro, [Venerabilis], 5th prior of Grande Chartreuse
1162 Eudes II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1118)
1296 Floris V, count of Holland & Zeeland
1458 Alfonso V, King of Aragon, Sicily, and Naples (Alfonso I) (b. 1396)
1543 Agnolo Firenzuola (Giovannini), Italian monk (De golden ezel)
1574 Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter and architect (b. 1511)
1603 Jan Dymitr Solikowski, Polish archbishop and diplomat (b. 1539)
1627 John Hayward, English historian
1636 Date Masamune, founder of Sendai Japan (b. 1567)
1638 Lukaris Cyrillus, patriarch of Alexandria/Constantinople
1641 Michiel Jansz of Mierevelt, royal painter
1654 Johann V Andreae, German vicar/writer (Christenburg)
1655 Eleonore Gonzaga, wife of Ferdinand II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1598)
1672 Roger Twysden, English antiquarian (b. 1597)
1679 Pablo Bruna, composer
1720 Guillaume Amfrye de Chaulieu, French poet (b. 1639)
1757 Willem Gideon Deutz, Amsterdam regent/banker/merchant
1773 Mentewab, dowager Empress of Ethiopia (b. c. 1706)
1776 Thomas Hickey, plan to hand George Washington to British, executed
1785 Egbert de Free Temminck, Amsterdam regent
1794 Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (b. 1729)
1794 Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy, French soldier (b. 1715)
1794 Wenzel Anton Graf Kaunitz, Austrian statesman (b. 1711)
1814 Johann Friedrich Reichardt, composer
1827 Johann Gottfried Eichhorn, German theologian (b. 1754)
1829 James Smithson, English scientist and philanthropist, will establishes Smithsonian Institute (b. 1765)
1829 Louis-Sebastien Lebrun, composer
1831 Sophie Germain, French mathematician (b. 1776)
1832 Claude-Joseph Rouget de Lisla, composer
1839 Ranjit Singh, gov of Lahore
1844 Hyrum Smith, American religious leader (Mormon Church), shot by mob (b. 1800)
1844 Joseph Smith, Jr., founder of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon Church), shot by mob (b. 1805)
1848 Denis-Auguste Affre, archbsp of Paris (1840-48), shot to death
1848 Zschokke, writer
1859 Jean C Baud, gov-gen of Dutch-Indies (1834-36)
1862 Chatham Roberdeau Wheat, Confederate major, dies in battle
1863 Martin E Green, Confederate brig-general, shot
1864 Charles Garrison Harker, US Union-brig-general, dies in battle at 26
1876 Christian G Ehrenberg, German zoologist (micro-organisms)
1889 Carlotta Patti, Italian soprano
1889 Whitney Eugene Thayer, composer
1896 John Berryman, English recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1825)
1907 Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz, American educator (b. 1822)
1912 George Bonnor, Australian cricketer (b. 1855)
1917 Gustav von Schmolle, German economist (Historical School)
1917 Karl Allmenroder, German World War I Ace (b. 1896)
1934 Max Pallenberg, Austria actor (Brave Suender)
1935 Eugene Augustin Lauste, French inventor (b. 1857)
1944 Milan Hodža, Slovak politician (b. 1878)
1944 Werner Wehrli, composer
1947 Frank Smythe, British mountaineer (b. 1900)
1948 George Templeton Strong, composer
1950 Milada Horakova, Czech advocate/anti fascist, hanged
1952 Jean "Skip" Ziegler, American Test Pilot (b. 1920)
1952 Max Dehn, German mathematician (b. 1878)
1954 Francis L Casadesus, French violinist/composer/conductor
1954 Maximilian von Weichs, German field marshal (b. 1881)
1957 Hermann Buhl, Austrian mountaineer (b. 1924)
1957 Malcolm Lowry, English writer (Ultramarine)
1958 Robert Greig, actor (Devil Doll, Indian Love Call)
1960 Harry Pollitt, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Great Britain
1960 Lottie Dod, English athlete (b. 1871)
1961 Paul (II) Guilfoyle, actor (Apache, Final Anaylsis)
1962 Paul Viiding, Estonian poet (b. 1904)
1964 Daniel Lazarus, composer
1965 Anthony Veiller, writer
1966 Arthur D Waley (Schloss), British sinology/poet (Monkey)
1968 Norman Norton, cricketer (dismissed Hobbs in only Test for S Af)
1969 Richard Vance Maxfield, composer
1970 Daniel Kinsey, American hurdler (b. 1902)
1971 Kenneth Washington, actor (Sgt Baker-Hogan's Heroes)
1973 Earl Browder, leader US Communist Party (1930-45)
1973 Ernest Truex, actor (Pop-Pete & Gladys, Mr Peepers)
1980 Steve Peregrin Took, percussionist (T-Rex)
1982 Jack Mullaney, actor (My Living Doll, It's About Time)
1983 Don Ida, balloonists, dies during a race
1983 Maxie Anderson, balloonists, dies during a race
1986 Don Rogers, of Cleveland Browns, dies of cocaine poisoning
1986 Edna Mae Cooper, actress (Folly of Vanity, Grounds for Divorce)
1986 George Nepia, New Zealand rugby player (b. 1905)
1988 Leonie Fuller Adams, US poetess (High Falcon)
1989 Alfred Jules Ayer, British philosopher (Logical Positivism) (b. 1910)
1989 Jack Beutel, actor (The Outlaw)
1991 Klaas Bruinsma, Dutch drug lord, murdered (b. 1953)
1991 Milton Subotsky, American screenwriter (b. 1921)
1991 Willem J (Molly) Geertsema, liberal/foreign minister)
1992 Allen James, vocalist/actor (Show Boat)
1992 Sandy Amoros, Bkln Dodger
1992 Stefanie Ann Sargent, guitarist (7 Year Bitch), dies of overdose
1993 Wolfgang Grams, German RAF-terrorist, shot to death
1994 Jeremy Brooks, writer
1995 Lionel Edmund "Sonny" Taylor, musician
1995 Madeleine Gillian Jinkinson, medical administrator
1995 Prez "Kidd" Kenneth, blues singer/guitarist
1996 Cubby Alberto Romolo Broccoli, American film producer (b. 1909)
1996 Roy James Alfred Kaulback, soldier
1998 Gilles Rocheleau, French Canadian politician (b. 1935)
1999 Georgios Papadopoulos, Greek dictator (b. 1919)
2000 Molly Bish, American Abductee (b. 1983)
2000 Pierre Pflimlin, French Politician (b. 1907)
2001 Jack Lemmon, American actor (b. 1925)
2001 Tove Jansson, Finnish author (b. 1914)
2002 John Entwistle, English bassist (The Who) (b. 1944)
2003 David Newman, American filmmaker (b. 1937)
2004 Darrell Russell, American race car driver (b. 1968)
2004 George Patton IV, American general (b. 1923)
2005 Domino Harvey, English-born bounty hunter (b. 1969)
2005 Frank Harte, Traditional Irish Singer and song collector
2005 John T. Walton, American businessman (b. 1946)
2005 Ray Holmes, Battle of Britain veteran (b. 1914)
2005 Shelby Foote, American author and historian (b. 1917)
2006 Ángel Maturino Reséndiz, Mexican serial killer, known as "The Railway Killer" (b. 1959)
2007 Dragutin Tadijanovic, Croatian poet (b. 1905)
2007 Patrick Allotey, Ghanaian footballer (b. 1979)
2007 William Hutt, Canadian stage and film actor (b. 1920)
2008 Michael Turner, American comic book artist (b. 1971)
2008 Sam Manekshaw, Indian Field Marshal (b. 1914)
2009 Fayette Pinkney, African American singer (The Three Degrees) (b. 1948)
2009 Gale Storm, TV Personality (b. 1922)
2011 Mike Doyle, English former footballer (b. 1946)
2012 Don Grady (Agrati), American actor
2013 Alain Mimoun, French track and field athlete (b. 1921)
2014 Bobby Womack, American Hall of Fame R and B singer
2015 Chris Squire, English rock bassist (Yes)
2016 Alvin Toffler, American author (Future Shock, Power Shift, The Third Wave)
2016 Mack Rice, musician and songwriter (Mustang Sally)