Headline Birthdays for June 1
Carl von Clausewitz 1780-1831
born in Burg, near Magdeburg, Prussia;
died in Breslau, Silesia Nov.16, 1831; soldier, military strategist; joined
the Prussian army at age 12 and by 14 was a commissioned officer and a veteran
of the Rhine campaign against the French Revolutionary Army; 1801 admitted
to the War College in Berlin, where he studied military science under General
Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who developed the modern general staff system; 1812
resigned to serve, along with other Germans, in the Russian Army against
Napoleon; 1815 chief of an army corps during the Waterloo campaign; 1818-30
administrative head of the War College; started his master work, On War,
which advocated the concept of total war, in which all the enemy's territory,
property, and citizens are attacked without limits; published by his widow
in 1832. Quote: "War is not an end in itself: it is a way of carrying out
political action by other means... To impose our will on the enemy is its
object. To secure that object we must render the enemy powerless; and that,
in theory, is the true aim of warfare.... But move from the abstract to the
real world, and the whole thing looks very different."
Brigham Young 1801-1877
born in Whitingham, Vermont, into a poor Vermont
farming family, the ninth of eleven children; died in Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug. 29, 1877; religious leader, colonizer, second president of the Mormon
church; grew up in western New York, left home to start a career as an itinerant
carpenter, painter, farmer and general handyman; 1830 discovered the Book
of Mormon and devoted the rest of his life to Joseph Smith's newly formed
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; 1832 went to Canada as a missionary;
1833, a recent widower, he led several friends and much of his family to
join Joseph Smith and the gathering of Zion in Kirtland, Ohio; 1840-41 carried
the Mormon message to England; 1841 made President of the Quorum of Twelve
Apostles, the governing body of the church, second in authority to Smith
himself; 1844 took over the Church when Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon
mob in Nauvoo, Illinois; 1846 led a mass exodus of thousands of Mormons out
of the Midwest, first to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, to settle in over 300
western towns, including the Great Basin in Utah, where he arrived on July
24, 1847, and set up the church's headquarters in Salt Lake City; built other
colonies throughout Utah and in the neighboring Arizona, Nevada and Idaho
territories; 1851 became Governor and superintendant of Indian Affairs of
the new territory of Utah; 1852 announced that plural marriage, or polygamy,
was a basic tenet of the church; 1857 President James Buchanan sent an army
into Utah to suppress his power; 1858 reconciled with the federal government,
which pardoned alleged Mormon offenses and for a time let them practice their
religion in peace; 1871 tried but not convicted under an 1862 law that prohibited
polygamy; survived by 17 wives and 47 children. [picture: cartoon by Puck shows all his wives weeping at his death].
Frank Whittle 1907-1996
born in Coventry, Warwickshire; died in 1996;
engineer, test pilot; 1928 entered the RAF Officer Training College at Cranwell
as a pilot officer; 1930 awarded his first patent on adapting gas turbine
technology to produce an aircraft powerplant - the turbojet engine, which
could produce thrust well in excess of any reciprocating engine or propeller;
1932 worked on fans, turbines and combustion chambers at Cambridge University;
1936 graduated from Cambridge with a First, and set up Power Jets Ltd. to
get his designs ready for prototype production; also patented the concept
of the by-pass (turbofan) jet engine; April 12, 1937 ran his first unit;
almost ruined by underfunding and lack of interest from Whitehall, but all
that changed when World War II was declared; May 15, 1941 first flight of
his W.I. engine in an experimental Gloster aircraft; also sent to the US
and became the basis for American work on the turbojet engine; regarded as
co-inventor of the jet engine with von Ohain of Germany. [picture: first Gloster jet]
Marilyn Monroe 1926-1962
born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles,
California; died there Aug. 5, 1962; actress, comedienne publicized during
her career as a beautiful but dumb blonde; 1946 started working for Fox and
changed her first name to Marilyn and took her mother's maiden name of Monroe;
1948 starred in her first picture, Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!; 1952 appeared
in Playboy magazine's first issue; other films include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds
are a Girl's Best Friend, The Misfits; married to Joe DiMaggio, then Arthur
Miller; found dead in the bedroom of her Los Angeles home, her death ruled
a "probable suicide" caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. In 1995, the
US Postal Service issued a 32 cent stamp honoring her. [picture: old cover; with Jane Russell at Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1953; by Halsman; at Niagara
Falls, 1952]
Gerald Scarfe 1936
born in London, England; cartoon caricaturist,
satirist; known for his savage portraits of politicians and other public
figures; married to actress Jane Asher, former girlfriend of Paul McCartney;
drew the Beatles and worked for The Times Newspaper; created animation scenes
for Pink Floyd's The Wall, and wrote and animated Walt Disney's recent feature,
Hercules.
Other Birthdays
1503 06 01 Wilhelm von Grumbach, German lt col
1549 06 01 Allesandre Spontone, composer
1563 06 01 Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury, English prime minister (1598-1612)
1611 06 01 Felician Schwab, composer
1653 06 01 Georg Muffat, composer
1679 06 01 Johan Runius, Swedish poet (Dudaim)
1755 06 01 Frederico Fiorillo, Ital's violist/composer
1757 06 01 Ignaz J Pleyel, Austria composer/piano builder (Piano method)
1763 06 01 Christian Gottlob Saupe, composer
1765 06 01 Christiane Vulpius, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's wife (d. 1816).
1765 06 01 Friedrich Ludwig Seidel, composer
1769 06 01 Joseph Antoni Frantiszek Elsner, composer
1771 06 01 Ferdinando Paer, composer
1776 06 01 John George Schetky, composer
1780 06 01 Karl von Clausewitz, Prussian strategist, general (d. 1831)
1790 06 01 Salomon J Rappoport, Czech rabbi/learned (Ereg miliem)
1796 06 01 Nicolas LŽonard Sadi Carnot, mathematician (d. 1832).
1801 06 01 Brigham Young, Mormon church leader, settler (d. 1877).
1804 06 01 Mikhail Ivan Glinka, Novosspaskoye Russia, composer (Jota Aragonesa)
1806 06 01 John Buchanan Floyd, Ex-Sect of War (Union), died in 1863
1815 06 01 Philip Kearny, general (d. 1862).
1825 06 01 John Hunt Morgan, Brig General (Confederate cavalry commander)
1826 06 01 Carl Bechstein, German piano manufacturer (d. 1900).
1826 06 01 Hermann Zopff, composer
1831 06 01 John Bell Hood, Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1844 06 01 Galusha Pennypacker, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1916
1848 06 01 Otto Valdemar Malling, composer
1858 06 01 William W Campbell, Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)
1862 06 01 Ant—nio JdC Feiji, Portuguese diplomat/poet (Bailatas)
1878 06 01 John Masefield, England, 15th poet laureate (Salt-Water Ballads)
1882 06 01 John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Abraham Lincoln)
1886 06 01 Ernst Kurth, Austrian/Swiss musicologist
1887 06 01 Clive Brook, London England, actor/director (List of Adrian Messenger)
1890 06 01 Frank Morgan, [Francis P Wupperman], NYC, actor (Annie Get Your Gun) D. 1949)
1892 06 01 Amanullah, emir/king of Afghanistan (1919-28)
1892 06 01 Samuel L M Barlow, composer
1898 06 01 Molly Picon, actress (d. 1992).
1898 06 01 Curtis Stevens, US, 2 man bobsled (Olympic-gold-1932)
1898 06 01 Edgar Cookie Fairchild, NYC, bandleader (Jerry Colonna Show)
1898 06 01 Lieb Glantz, composer
1898 06 01 Molly Picon, NYC, Yiddish actress (Milk & Honey)
1899 06 01 Edward Charles Titchmarsh, mathematician (d. 1963).
1899 06 01 Werner Janssen, NYC, conductor/composer (New Years Eve in NY)
1901 06 01 John W Van Duren, playwright (I Remember Mama)
1903 06 01 Percy William Whitlock, composer
1905 06 01 Dinora de Carvalho, composer
1905 06 01 Robert Newton, England, actor (Henry V, Around the World in 80 Days)
1907 06 01 Frank A Whittle, England inventor (jet engine)
1908 06 01 Percy Edwards, animal imitator
1909 06 01 Szymon Goldberg, Polish/US violinist/conductor (Neth Chamber orch)
1911 06 01 Gertrude Michael, AL, actress (Cleopatra, Menace, Club Havana)
1915 06 01 John Randolph, NYC, actor (King Kong, Lucan, Lucas Tanner, Angie)
1919 06 01 Boris Lazarevich Klyuzner, composer
1921 06 01 Nelson Riddle, Oradell NJ, musical conductor, band leader (d. 1985). (Batman, Frank Sinatra)
1922 06 01 Abdul Rashid, Pakistan, field hockey player (Olympic-gold-1960)
1922 06 01 Joan Caulfield, East Orange NJ, actress (Liz-My Favorite Husband)
1922 06 01 Joan Copeland, [Miller], NYC, actress (Roseland, A Little Sex)
1924 06 01 Dr. William Sloane Coffin, Jr., radical clergyman.
1924 06 01 Paula Hinton, dancer
1925 06 01 Richard Erdman, Enid Ok, actor (Stalag 17, Anything Goes)
1926 06 01 Andy Griffith, Mount Airy NC, actor (Andy Griffith Show, Matlock)
1926 06 01 Marilyn Monroe, [Norma Jean Mortenson], LA, actress (Some Like It Hot)
1927 06 01 Colleen McCullough, writer
1928 06 01 Georgi Dobrovolski, cosmonaut.
1928 06 01 Bob Monkhouse, Kent England, comedian (Bonkers)
1928 06 01 Georgi Timofeyevich Dobrovolsky, Odessa, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1929 06 01 Yehudi Wyner, composer
1930 06 01 Edward Woodward, Croydon England, actor (Breaker Morant, Wickerman)
1930 06 01 Matt Poore, cricketer (NZ batsman in 14 tests 1953-56 average 15.43)
1930 06 01 Ty Hardin, Ill, actor (Berserk, PT 109) [or Jan 1]
1932 06 01 Francis Cameron, cricketer (NZ pace bowler took 61 wickets 1961-65)
1932 06 01 Philo [Rolf] Bregstein, Dutch writer (Dingen die niet Voorbijgaan)
1933 06 01 Alan the Horse Ameche, Wisc, NFL fullback (Baltimore Colts)
1933 06 01 Charles Wilson, (Rep-D-TX, 1973- )
1933 06 01 Ian Sinclair, cricketer (2 Tests NZ v WI 1956, bowling average 120.00)
1934 06 01 Pat Boone, Florida, singer/actor (April Love, Cross & Switchblade)
1934 06 01 Peter Masterson, Houston Texas, actor (Ambush Bay)
1934 06 01 Sylvia Syms, London, actress (Asylum, Moonraker, Shirley Valentine)
1934 06 01 Willy Roggeman, Flemish writer (Goldfish, Nardis)
1935 06 01 James George, US, weightlifter (Olympic-silver-1960/bronze-1956)
1935 06 01 John Edward Porter, (Rep-R-IL, 1980- )
1935 06 01 Reverend Ike, SC, evangelist minister (Joy of Living)
1936 06 01 Bekim Fehmiu, actor (Black Sunday, Permission to Kill, Cagliostro)
1937 06 01 Colleen McCullough, writer (Tim, Indecent Obsession)
1937 06 01 Morgan Freeman, Memphis Tn, actor (Driving Mrs Daisy, Glory)
1939 06 01 Cleavon Little, Chickasha Okla, actor (Blazing Saddles, Toy Soldiers)
1940 06 01 RenŽ Auberjonois, actor (Clayton-Benson, Star Trek Deep Space 9)
1941 06 01 Edo de Waart, Amsterdam Holland, conductor (Houston Opera-1976)
1942 06 01 Tom Mankiewicz, LA Calif, screenwriter (Diamonds are Forever)
1943 06 01 Ely van Tongeren, Dutch guitarist/singer (Buffoons)
1943 06 01 Richard Goode, Bronx, concert pianist (1980 Avery Fisher Award)
1944 06 01 Robert Powell, England, actor (Jigsaw Man, Shaka Zulu, Secrets)
1945 06 01 Frederica Von Stade, Somerville NJ, mezzo-soprano (Die Zauberfl”te)
1945 06 01 Linda Scott, singer (Hey Look at Me Now)
1946 06 01 Brian Cox, actor (Killer Party, Manhunter)
1946 06 01 Carol Neblett, Modesto California, soprano (NYC Opera)
1947 06 01 Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor (Evita, Brazil, Praying Mantis)
1947 06 01 Ron Wood, rock guitarist (Faces, Jeff Beck Group, Rolling Stones)
1948 06 01 Tom Sneva, US auto racer (Indianapolis 500-1983)
1949 06 01 Mike Levine, rock keyboardist/bassist (Triumph)
1950 06 01 Annemarie Jorritsma-Lebbink, Dutch minister of Traffic (VVD)
1950 06 01 Charlene [D'Angelo], singer (I've Never Been To Me)
1950 06 01 Gemma Craven, Dublin, actress (Wagner, Story of Slipper & Rose)
1950 06 01 Gennadi Mikhailovich Manakov, colonel/cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-10, TM-16)
1950 06 01 Graham Russell, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 06 01 Diana Canova, West Palm Beach Fla, actress (Corrine-Soap)
1955 06 01 Chiyonofuji, sumo wrestler
1955 06 01 Lorraine Moller, Boulder Colo, NZ athelete (Olympics-96)
1956 06 01 Lisa Hartman Black, Houston, singer/actress (Tabitha, Knots Landing)
1956 06 01 Robin Mattson, LA Calif, actress (Janet Green-All My Children)
1958 06 01 Cathy Hearn, Wash DC, slalom kayak (Olympics-7th-96)
1959 06 01 Alan Wilder, English rock vocalist/music (Depeche Mode-Wild!)
1961 06 01 Johnny Ray Huston, Mt Vernon IL, PGA golfer (1990 Honda Classic)
1961 06 01 Mark Rodenhauser, NFL center (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1961 06 01 Paul Coffey, Weston Ontario, NHL forward (Oilers, Penguins, Red Wings)
1962 06 01 Jesse Johnson, rocker (Time)
1962 06 01 Sherri Howard, Sherman Tx, 4X400m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 06 01 Mike Joyce, rock drummer (Smiths-Ask, Panic, London)
1964 06 01 Rashid Patel, cricketer (Indian pace bowler, Lamba incident)
1965 06 01 Nigel Short, chess player.
1965 06 01 Dan Quinn, Ottawa, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1965 06 01 India Allen, Portsmouth Va, playmate of the year (Dec, 1987)
1967 06 01 Carlos van Wanrooy, soccer player (NEC)
1967 06 01 Olivier Delaitre, Metz France, tennis star (1991 Guaruja Doubles)
1967 06 01 Vernon Turner, WLAF WR (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 06 01 Jason Donovan, rocker/actor (Neighbors)
1968 06 01 Jeff Hackett, London, NHL goalie (Chicago Blackhawks)
1968 06 01 Jerry Crafts, WLAF tackle (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 06 01 Larry Centers, NFL running back (Arizona Cardinals)
1969 06 01 Ari Sulander, hockey goaltender (Team Finland Oly-Bronze-1998)
1969 06 01 Erin Hartwell, Phila, time trial cyclist (Olymp-bronze/silver-92, 96)
1969 06 01 Florence Descampe, Brussels Belgium, LPGA golfer (1992 McCall)
1970 06 01 Alexi Lalas, football player.
1970 06 01 Joshua Compston, art impressario
1970 06 01 Raylee Johnson, NFL defensive end (SD Chargers)
1970 06 01 Scott Couper, WLAF receiver (Scottish Claymores)
1970 06 01 Shane Matthews, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1972 06 01 Cheryl Abplanalp, Bryn Mawr Penn, team handball wing (Olympics-1996)
1972 06 01 Jon Witman, fullback (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 06 01 Leta Lindley, Phoenix AZ, LPGA golfer (1995 State Farm Rail-3rd)
1972 06 01 Nicholas Porzig, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1972 06 01 Scott Greene, fullback (Carolina Panthers)
1973 06 01 Jeffrey Schiebler, New Westminster BC, 10k/steeplechase (Olympics-96)
1973 06 01 Ray Carey, US, 200m butterfly (Olympics-96)
1974 06 01 Alanis Nadine Morisette, vocalist (Jagged Little Pill)
1975 06 01 Michal Grosek, Gottwaldov Cze, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 06 01 Camille Martens, Vancouver BC, gymnist (Olympics-96)
1977 06 01 Danielle Harris, voice actress.
1978 06 01 Karen Kwan, Torrance Calif, figure skater (1995 Pac Coast Sr champ)
1982 06 01 Justine Henin-Hardenne, tennis player
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born in Burg, near Magdeburg, Prussia;
died in Breslau, Silesia Nov.16, 1831; soldier, military strategist; joined
the Prussian army at age 12 and by 14 was a commissioned officer and a veteran
of the Rhine campaign against the French Revolutionary Army; 1801 admitted
to the War College in Berlin, where he studied military science under General
Gerhard von Scharnhorst, who developed the modern general staff system; 1812
resigned to serve, along with other Germans, in the Russian Army against
Napoleon; 1815 chief of an army corps during the Waterloo campaign; 1818-30
administrative head of the War College; started his master work, On War,
which advocated the concept of total war, in which all the enemy's territory,
property, and citizens are attacked without limits; published by his widow
in 1832. Quote: "War is not an end in itself: it is a way of carrying out
political action by other means... To impose our will on the enemy is its
object. To secure that object we must render the enemy powerless; and that,
in theory, is the true aim of warfare.... But move from the abstract to the
real world, and the whole thing looks very different."
born in Whitingham, Vermont, into a poor Vermont
farming family, the ninth of eleven children; died in Salt Lake City, Utah
Aug. 29, 1877; religious leader, colonizer, second president of the Mormon
church; grew up in western New York, left home to start a career as an itinerant
carpenter, painter, farmer and general handyman; 1830 discovered the Book
of Mormon and devoted the rest of his life to Joseph Smith's newly formed
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; 1832 went to Canada as a missionary;
1833, a recent widower, he led several friends and much of his family to
join Joseph Smith and the gathering of Zion in Kirtland, Ohio; 1840-41 carried
the Mormon message to England; 1841 made President of the Quorum of Twelve
Apostles, the governing body of the church, second in authority to Smith
himself; 1844 took over the Church when Smith was murdered by an anti-Mormon
mob in Nauvoo, Illinois; 1846 led a mass exodus of thousands of Mormons out
of the Midwest, first to Winter Quarters, Nebraska, to settle in over 300
western towns, including the Great Basin in Utah, where he arrived on July
24, 1847, and set up the church's headquarters in Salt Lake City; built other
colonies throughout Utah and in the neighboring Arizona, Nevada and Idaho
territories; 1851 became Governor and superintendant of Indian Affairs of
the new territory of Utah; 1852 announced that plural marriage, or polygamy,
was a basic tenet of the church; 1857 President James Buchanan sent an army
into Utah to suppress his power; 1858 reconciled with the federal government,
which pardoned alleged Mormon offenses and for a time let them practice their
religion in peace; 1871 tried but not convicted under an 1862 law that prohibited
polygamy; survived by 17 wives and 47 children. [picture: cartoon by Puck shows all his wives weeping at his death].
born Norma Jean Mortenson in Los Angeles,
California; died there Aug. 5, 1962; actress, comedienne publicized during
her career as a beautiful but dumb blonde; 1946 started working for Fox and
changed her first name to Marilyn and took her mother's maiden name of Monroe;
1948 starred in her first picture, Scudda-Hoo! Scudda-Hay!; 1952 appeared
in Playboy magazine's first issue; other films include Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,
The Seven Year Itch, Some Like It Hot, Bus Stop, The Asphalt Jungle, Diamonds
are a Girl's Best Friend, The Misfits; married to Joe DiMaggio, then Arthur
Miller; found dead in the bedroom of her Los Angeles home, her death ruled
a "probable suicide" caused by an overdose of sleeping pills. In 1995, the
US Postal Service issued a 32 cent stamp honoring her. [picture: old cover; with Jane Russell at Grauman's Chinese Theater, 1953; by Halsman; at Niagara
Falls, 1952]