Headline Birthdays for June 3

Richard Cobden 1804-1865

born into a farming family at Heyshott near Midhurst, Sussex, the fourth of eleven children; died in London April 2, 1865; manufacturer, free trader, politician; 1819 when his father lost the farm went to work in his uncle's warehouse in London; 1831 he and two partners opened a calico-printing works in Lancashire; 1838 founded the Anti-Corn-Law League in Manchester, with John Bright and others, to cut tariffs on imported grain and promote free trade; 1841 elected to Parliament; 1846 won over Sir Robert Peel, and the corn laws were repealed; 1849 advocated no intervention in Europe and an end to imperial expansion; 1857 lost his parliamentary seat for his opposition to the Crimean War; 1859 reelected, and negotiated the Cobden Treaty, for reciprocal tariffs with France.

Jefferson Davis 1808-1889

born in Christian County, Kentucky; brought up in Mississippi; died in New Orleans, Louisiana Dec. 6, 1889; 1824 entered West Point, and graduated in 1828 suceeding to a second lieutenant post in the US Army; 1835 resigned after seven years of military duty in Illinois and Wisconsin, and moved back to the family plantation in Mississippi; 1845 elected to Congress as Democratic Representatives from Mississippi; served as a Senator and as Secretary of War in the cabinet of Franklin Pierce; 1861 resigned from Senate on Mississippi's sucession from the Union; Feb. 18, 1861 inaugurated as provisional President of the Confederate States of America at Montgomery, and elected that October; determined to see the South gain independence during the American Civil War; May 10, 1865 captured by Federal cavalry, and spent two years as a prisoner in Fortress Monroe; never brought to trial and was released on bond, May 13, 1867. [picture left: by Matthew Brady, taken before the Civil War]

Flinders Petrie 1853-1942

born at Charlton, near Greenwich, London, a grandson of Matthew Flinders, explorer of Australia; died in Jerusalem July 28, 1942; archaeologist, Egyptologist; as a boy, he got interested in standards of measurement, and tracked about England measuring churches, buildings and ancient megalithic ruins, such as Stonehenge; Nov. 1880 travelled to Egypt to figure the triangulation of the Great Pyramids of Gizah; later led the excavation of the tomb of Horuta, a nobleman from the 26th Dynasty; also founded the British School in Egypt, to replace damaging excavators with educated, thoughtful scientists; known as "the father of modern archaeology" for his painstaking methods of field excavation; invented a sequence dating method to reconstruct history from pottery and other remains of ancient cultures.

Ransom Eli Olds 1864-1950

born in Geneva, Ohio; died in Lansing, Michigan Aug. 26, 1950; inventor, car maker; 1890 built a steam powered car; 1896 built his his first gas powered car; 1899 the Olds Motor Vehicle Company of Detroit started production; 1901 sold his first 600 three-horsepower, Curved Dash runabouts, the first commercially successful US-made automobile; first to use a progressive assembly system, which foreshadowed Henry Ford's mass-production methods; the early Oldsmobile had a single cylinder engine, two-speed transmission, buggy-type chassis, tiller steering and chain drive; price $650; 1902 sold 2,500, 1903 sold 4,000, 1904 sold 5,000; August 1904 left the company to form Reo (for Ransom Eli Olds) automobiles; Oldsmobile joined General Motors in 1909. [picture: 1890 steam car; 1896 gas car; 1901 3 hp Olds; Olds in about 1900]

Josephine Baker 1906-1975

born Frida Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, Missouri; died in Paris, France April 12, 1975; dancer, jazz singer; started her career with the Jones Family Band at the Booker T. Washington Theater, a black vaudeville house in St. Louis; 1923 moved to New York and worked with the Ziegfeld Follies; joined the Folies-Bergeres and the Le Negre Revue in Paris, dancing in a costume consisting of a skirt of feathers; 1930s toured Europe, recorded songs for Columbia Records, and starred in two films, Zou-Zou and Princesse Tam-Tam; became a French citizen and worked for the Resistance in France and Morocco during World War II.

Alain Resnais 1922-

born at Vannes, France; film director, leader of the French Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) of unorthodox film directors; works include Hiroshima mon amour (1959) and L'Année dernière à Marienbad (1961; Last Year at Mariendbad).

Allen Ginsberg 1926-1998

born in Newark, New Jersey; poet; 1940s attended Columbia University and met Jack Kerouac, Lucien Carr and William Burroughs, forming the nucleus of the Beat writers - "Beat" was short for "beatific," a term given them by Kerouac; worked at a New York ad agency, then moved to San Francisco; 1956 published his epic poem Howl, then in 1959, Kaddish; other poems include Reality Sandwiches, The Fall of America: Poems of These States. Quote: "My father would go around the house reciting Emily Dickinson and Longfellow, or attacking T.S. Eliot for ruining poetry, and my mother made up bedtime stories that went something like, 'The good king rode from his castle, saw the suffering workers and healed them.' I grew suspicious of both sides."

Other Birthdays

1610 06 03 Jacob Neefs, Flemish engraver/publisher, baptised
1657 06 03 Manuel de Egues, composer
1660 06 03 Johannes Schenck, composer
1685 06 03 Cornelis Hop, Amsterdam regent/diplomat
1726 06 03 James Hutton, Edinburgh Scotland, geologist
1738 06 03 Johann Christoph Oley, composer
1746 06 03 James Hook, composer
1750 06 03 Frederic Thieme, composer
1761 06 03 Henry Scrapnel, English inventor (shrapnel shell)
1770 06 03 Manuel Belgrano, Argentina
1771 06 03 Sydney Smith, Woodford Essex, preacher/reformer/author
1773 06 03 Caspar G C Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1773 06 03 Michael Gottard Fischer, composer
1780 06 03 William Hone, England, author/bookseller (Every-Day Book)
1782 06 03 Charles Waterton, eccentric naturalist/pioneer
1801 06 03 Frantisek Jan Skroup, composer
1804 06 03 Richard Cobden, West Sussex, founder (Anti-Corn-Law League)
1808 06 03 Jefferson F Davis, Ky, Pres of Confederate States of America (1861-5)
1812 06 03 Pieter Mijer, Dutch gov-gen of Neth Indies (1866-72)
1815 06 03 Martin Edward Green, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863
1819 06 03 Johann Barthold Jongkind, Lattrop Neth, Dut/Fr painter (Winter Scenes)
1819 06 03 Thomas Ball, US, sculptor/painter/singer
1824 06 03 Charles Kinnaird Graham, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 06 03 Jean Alexander Ferdinand Poise, composer
1828 06 03 Jose Inzenga y Castellanos, composer
1829 06 03 Alfonse Charles Renaud de Vilback, composer
1831 06 03 Otho French Strahl, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1832 06 03 Alexander Charles Lecocq, composer
1839 06 03 Paul Lindau, German playwright/critic (Der Herr im Hause)
1840 06 03 Eugeen van Oye, Flemish writer/poet (Morning Twilight)
1841 06 03 Eduardo Caudella, composer
1843 06 03 Frederik VIII CWK, King of Denmark (1906-12)
1844 06 03 Detlev [Freiherr Friedrich A von] Liliencron, German poet
1844 06 03 Emile Paladilhe, composer
1844 06 03 Garret Augustus Hobart, (R) 24th US VP (1897-99)
1864 06 03 Ransom Eli Olds, auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer
1865 06 03 George V, Saksen-Coburg [Windsor], King of Great Britain (1910-36)
1867 06 03 Bela Anton Szabados, composer
1868 06 03 Lvar Henning Mankell, composer
1869 06 03 Maria Radulphus, inspector on Cura‡ao (Radulphus College)
1870 06 03 Jules JBV Bordet, Belgian bacteriologist (syphillis, Nobel 1919)
1873 06 03 Otto Loewi, Frankfurt am Main Germany, physician (Nobel-1936)
1877 06 03 Raoul Dufy, France, Fauvist painter (Palm)
1879 06 03 Pieter J A Adriani, Dutch tax lawyer
1887 06 03 Emil Axman, composer
1893 06 03 Assen Karastoyanov, composer
1895 06 03 Kavalam Madhava Panikkar, India, diplomat (Asia & Western Dominance)
1898 06 03 Rosa Chacel, spanish novelist
1899 06 03 Georg von Bekesy, Budapest Hungary, physician (Nobel-1961)
1900 06 03 Gerard den Brabander, [Jan G Jofriet], poet (Nothing New)
1901 06 03 Maurice Evans, Dorchester England, actor (Maurice-Bewitched)
1902 06 03 Edward Wayne, physician (Queen of Scotland)
1904 06 03 Charles Richard Drew, pioneer of blood plasma research
1904 06 03 Jan Peerce, [Jacob Pincus Perelmuth], NYC, tenor (NY Met Opera)
1906 06 03 Josephine Baker, dancer/Parisian night club owner (Folies-BergŠre)
1906 06 03 Louis Simmonds, bookseller
1906 06 03 Norman Gallichan, cricketer (all-rounder in 1 Test NZ v England 1937)
1906 06 03 Robert Brown Black, British diplomat/gov (Hong Kong)
1906 06 03 Walter Robins, cricketer (dynamic England leg-spin all-rounder)
1907 06 03 Antonio Emmanvilovich Spadavecchia, composer
1908 06 03 Adele Dixon, actress (Calling the Tune)
1908 06 03 Eddie Acuff, actor (Guns of the Pecos, Phantom Creeps, Outer Gate)
1910 06 03 Wilfred Thesiger, explorer/writer
1911 06 03 Ellen Corby, Racine Wisc, actress (Grandma Walton-Waltons)
1911 06 03 Mason Gross, Dr/TV professor (Think Fast, Two for the Money)
1911 06 03 Olaf Okern, Norway, Nordic skier (Olympic-medal-1948)
1911 06 03 Paulette Goddard, [Marion Levy], Switz, actress (Great Dictator)
1912 06 03 Richard D'Aeth, president (Hughes Hall Cambridge)
1912 06 03 William Douglas-Home, playwright (Now .. Barabbas)
1914 06 03 Eugene Fuller, polymath/linguist
1914 06 03 Ronald George Woodman, pilot
1915 06 03 Iris Meredith, Sioux City Iowa, actress (Son of Davy Crockett)
1915 06 03 Leo Gorcey, NYC, actor (Mannequin, Road to Zanzibar)
1918 06 03 Patrick Cargill, actor (Help, Hammerhead)
1920 06 03 Lord Brandon of Oakbrook, Lord of appeal (Ordinary)
1922 06 03 Alain Resnais, France, director (Providence, Hiroshima, Mon Amour)
1922 06 03 Ivan Patachich, composer
1922 06 03 M Alain Resnais, Vannes France, director (Melo, I Want to Go Home)
1923 06 03 Michael Jaffe, director (Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge England)
1924 06 03 David Richard Holloway, literary Editor
1924 06 03 Michael Gow, commandant (Royal College of Defense Studies)
1925 06 03 Gerhard Zwerenz, writer
1925 06 03 Thomas Winning, Roman Catholic archbishop (Glasgow)
1925 06 03 Tony Curtis, [Bernard Schwartz], Bronx, NY, actor (Some Like It Hot)
1926 06 03 Allen Ginsberg, Newark NJ, beat poet (Howl)
1926 06 03 Carlos Veerhoff, composer
1926 06 03 Colleen Dewhurst, Montreal Canada, actress (Maggie-Blue & Grey)
1926 06 03 Hamilton Fish Jr, (Rep-R-NY, 1969- )
1926 06 03 Janez Maticic, composer
1926 06 03 Roscoe G Bartlett, (Rep-R-Maryland)
1927 06 03 Boots Randolph, Paducah KY, saxophonist (Yakety Sax)
1928 06 03 Donald Judd, US, sculptor (minimal art)
1928 06 03 John Reid, cricketer (prolific NZ batsman 1949-65)
1928 06 03 Sheila Faith, MP/MEP
1929 06 03 Chuck Barris, Phila, TV game show producer/host (Gong Show) [or 6/2]
1929 06 03 Howard Yanks, founder (Philadelphia folk festival)
1930 06 03 Marion [Eleanor] Zimmer Bradley [Breen], sci-fi author (Storm Queen)
1930 06 03 Michael Melle, cricketer (South African pace bowler of early 1950's)
1931 06 03 Francoise Arnoul, actress/composer (French Cancan, Jacko & Lise)
1932 06 03 Dakota Staton, [Rabia Aliyah], US jazz singer (In the Night)
1934 06 03 Jim Gentile, baseball player
1935 06 03 Edward McGrady, MP
1935 06 03 Raoul Franklin, chancellor (City University London)
1936 06 03 Colin Meads, rugby player
1936 06 03 David Nicholls, priest/theologian/political theorist
1936 06 03 Harry Pitt, vice chancellor (Reading University)
1936 06 03 Larry McMurtry, US scriptwriter (Lonesome Dove, Pulitzer 1986)
1936 06 03 Philip J Attenborough, CEO/publisher (Hodder & Stoughton)
1937 06 03 Solomon P Ortiz, (Rep-D-TX, 1983- )
1939 06 03 David Frederick Stock, composer
1939 06 03 Phil Gallie, MP
1940 06 03 Richard Edwards, cricketer (WI pace bowler 1968-69 Aust/NZ tour)
1942 06 03 Anita Harris, singer/actress (Follow that Camel)
1942 06 03 Curtis Mayfield, Chicago, rock vocalist (Freddie's Dead, Superfly)
1942 06 03 Duane Josephson, baseball player
1943 06 03 Billy Cunningham, NBA/ABA (Phila 76ers, Carolina Cougers)
1943 06 03 Eddie McGrady, MP
1943 06 03 Mike Dennis, rocker (Dovells)
1944 06 03 Edith McGuire, US 200m sprinter (Olympic-gold-1964)
1944 06 03 Michael Clarke, NYC, rock drummer (Byrds-Turn! Turn! Turn!)
1945 06 03 Hale S Irwin, Joplin MO, PGA golfer (1974 US Open)
1946 06 03 Anita Pollack, MEP (Labour)
1946 06 03 Earl of Cromer, managing director (Inchcape (China) Ltd)
1946 06 03 Eddie Holman, rocker
1946 06 03 Ian Hunter, England, rocker (Mott the Hoople-All the Young Dudes)
1946 06 03 John Paul Jones, [John Baldwin], rock bassist (Led Zeppelin)
1946 06 03 Tristan Rogers, Australia, actor (Robert Scorpio-General Hospital)
1947 06 03 Penelope Wilton, actress (Cry Freedom, Norman Conquests)
1947 06 03 Timothy David, diplomat
1949 06 03 David Evenett, MP (Conservative)
1949 06 03 Stephen Ruppenthal, composer
1950 06 03 Marlene Elejarde, Havana Cuba, 4x100m runner (Olympic-silver-1968)
1950 06 03 Suzi Quatro[cchio], Detroit, singer (Stumblin')/actress (Happy Days)
1951 06 03 Christopher Cross, Texas, singer (Sailing)
1951 06 03 David Ogilvie, cricketer (5 Tests for Australia 1977-78)
1951 06 03 Deniece Williams, [Chandler], IN, singer (Love Wouldn't Let Me Wait)
1952 06 03 Billy Powell, keyboards (Lynyrd Skynyrd-That Smell, Freebird)
1954 06 03 Cindy Ferro, LPGA golfer
1954 06 03 Dan Hill, rocker (Sometimes When We Touch)
1956 06 03 Danny Wilde, rocker (Rembrandts)
1956 06 03 Suren Nalbandyan, USSR, lightweight (Olympic-gold-1976)
1958 06 03 Ann Wilson, Brisbane Qld, golfer (1985 R/U NSW Open)
1958 06 03 Ibrahim Hussein, marathoner, (Boston Marathon-1988, 91, 92)
1958 06 03 Scott Valentine, actor (Nick-Family Ties, My Demon Lover)
1959 06 03 Sam Mills, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1959 06 03 Tom Arnold, former husband of Rosanne Barr/actor (True Lies, Stupids)
1960 06 03 Barry Lyons, baseball player
1960 06 03 Carl Rackemann, cricketer (Queensland & Australian quickie)
1960 06 03 Jack Daugherty, baseball player
1960 06 03 Steve Lyons, baseball player
1961 06 03 Kevin Arnott, cricketer (Zimbabwe batsman, 101* v NZ 1992)
1961 06 03 Peter Glen Vidmar, LA Calif, gymnist (Olympic-2 gold/silver-1984)
1962 06 03 Connie Price-Smith, St Charles MO, discus thrower (Oly-5th-96)
1963 06 03 Deb Richard, Abbeville LA, LPGA golfer (1991 Women's Kemper Open)
1963 06 03 Sabrina Goles, Yugoslavia, tennis star
1963 06 03 Yuri Yuriyevich Krikun, Russia, cosmonaut
1964 06 03 Nelson Liriano, Puerto Plata Dom Rep, infielder (Pitts Pirates)
1965 06 03 Suzan Kaminga, Austin TX, bodybuilder
1966 06 03 Wasim Akram, cricketer (brilliant Pakistani lefty fast bowler)
1967 06 03 Tam s Darnyi, Hungary, backstroke swimmer (Oly-gold-88, 92)
1967 06 03 William Bill Carlucci, Minneapolis Minn, rower (Olympics-bronze-96)
1968 06 03 Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1969 06 03 Ray Roberts, tackle (Detroit Lions)
1970 06 03 Andrea Congreaves, WNBA forward/center (Charlotte Sting)
1970 06 03 Carl Everett, baseball player
1970 06 03 Lanee Butler, Manhasset NY, mistral sailboat yachter (Olymp-11th-1996)
1970 06 03 Peter Newton, Kailua Hawaii, sprint kayak (Olympics-96)
1971 06 03 Aaron Ledesma, baseball player
1971 06 03 Carl Everett, Tampa Fla, outfielder (NY Mets)
1971 06 03 Mark Parrish, Columbia MD, canoe (alt-Olympics-96)
1972 06 03 Bryan Rekar, Oak Lawn IL, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1972 06 03 Omar Douglas, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1972 06 03 Robert Kennedy, cricketer (New Zealand opening bowler 1996)
1973 06 03 Charles Emanuel, safety (Philadelphia Eagles)
1973 06 03 Sargis Sargsian, Yerevan Armenia, tennis star (1995 NCAA)
1974 06 03 Alison McCreary, Florence Alabama, Miss America (Alabama-4th-1997)
1974 06 03 Ashaundai Smith, CFL receiver (Hamilton Tiger Cats)
1974 06 03 Bryan Still, wide receiver (San Diego Chargers)
1975 06 03 Jamie Nails, offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)

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