Headline Birthdays for June 8

Tomaso Albinoni 1671-1750

born in Venice Italy, eldest son of a wealthy paper merchant; died there Jan. 17, 1750; composer and contemporary of Vivaldi; when his father died, his brothers took charge of the family business, and he became a full-time musician, and ran a successful academy of singing; wrote 53 operas and 54 concertos; best known for his Adagio in G-minor, the Adagio of Giazotto, apparently based on a genuine fragment by Albinoni himself.

Robert Schumann 1810-1856

born in Zwickau, Saxony, Germany; died at Endenich, near Bonn; Romantic composer; 1834 founded the New Journal for Music and served as its editor for nine years; 1835 fell in love with his former piano teacher's daughter, Clara Wieck, who was only sixteen; her father opposed the union, but they persevered, married in 1840 and had eight children; early 1840s started to suffer from manic depression and psychosis; 1854 attempted suicide, and was committed to an asylum in Bonn, where he died at age 46; best known for piano pieces (many written for Clara) and the song (lieder) cycles Frauenliebe und Leben and Dichterliebe

John Everett Millais 1829-1896

born in Southampton, Hampshire; died in London Aug. 13, 1896; painter, illustrator; a child prodigy, entered the Royal Academy Schools at age 11, and exhibited at the RA from age 17; friends first with Holman Hunt, then Dante Gabriel Rossetti, and the three founded the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in 1848. [pictures: Ophelia 1851-52, (with Elizabeth Siddall, later wife of Rossetti as the model); Sir Isumbras at the Ford 1857]

Franklin King 1848-1911

born near Whitewater, Wisconsin; died in Madison Aug. 4, 1911; scientist, invented the cylindrical tower silo, and a gravity system of ventilation for dairy barns widely used before farmers got electric blowers.

Frank Lloyd Wright 1867-1959

born at Richland Center, Wisconsin; Phoenix, Arizona; architect, writer, developer of the Prairie Style of residential design; studied engineering at the University of Wisconsin, then moved to Chicago to work as a draftsman, designing in his spare time a few houses for some of his boss's clients. He called them his "bootlegged houses" his prairie style features low, sweeping rooflines hanging over window walls; with massive brick or stone fireplaces at the heart of the house. [pictures: Robie House, Chicago, 1909; Kaufman House (Falling Water), Bear Run, Pennsylvania, 1936; Guggenheim Museum, New York, 1943-59]

John W. Campbell 1910-1971

born in Newark, New Jersey; died in Mountainside July 11, 1971; science-fiction writer, publisher; a master at predicting future advances in science; 1930 his story When the Atoms Failed has the first depiction of modern computers; in the late 1930s took over a little adventure-pulp magazine called Astounding Stories, and started publishing writers like Isaac Asimov and Robert A. Heinlein; changed its name to Analog and it became the leading science fiction magazine; during World War II his stories about atomic energy were so accurate the FBI had him investigated.

Francis Crick 1916-

born in Northampton, England; biophysicist; awarded the 1962 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine with James Watson and Maurice Wilkins, for their determination of the structure of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA), the molecule responsible for the hereditary control of life.

Sara Peretsky 1947-

born in Ames, Iowa, grew up in Lawrence, Kansas; got her doctorate in history from the University of Chicago; went into marketing but was an avid mystery reader, and decided to try her hand; 1982 published her first novel, Indemnity Only, with fiction's first feminist private investigator, Victoria Iphigenia Warshawski; currently nine books in the V. I. Warshawski series.

Other Birthdays

1318 06 08 Eleonora Plantagenet, daughter of King Eduard II/wife of Reinald II
1625 06 08 Giovanni D Cassini, Perinaldo, France, discoverer (4 moons of Saturn)
1652 06 08 William Dampier, English explorer/pirate
1671 06 08 Tomaso Albinoni, Italian composer (Adagio in G-minor)
1722 06 08 Jakob Friedrich Kleinknecht, composer
1724 06 08 John Smeaton, Leeds, civil engineer
1740 06 08 Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer
1743 06 08 Alessandro Cagliostro, Palermo Italy, adventurer
1753 06 08 Nicolas-Marie Dalayrac, composer
1756 06 08 Cornelis van Foreest, mayor of Alkmaar
1759 06 08 Thomas Dunham Whitaker, Rainham Norfolk UK, topographer
1772 06 08 Robert Stevenson, Glasgow, civil engineer
1783 06 08 Joseph Lincke, composer
1804 06 08 Jan Baptist van Son, Dutch politician (RC)
1805 06 08 Luigi Ricci, composer
1806 06 08 Gideon Johnson Pillow, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1878
1810 06 08 Robert A Schumann, Zwickau Saxony Germany, composer (Fantastiestcke)
1812 06 08 Spyridon Xyndas, composer
1813 06 08 David Dixon Porter, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1891
1814 06 08 Charles Reade, England, novelist (Cloister & Hearth)
1821 06 08 John Dunlap Stevenson, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1897
1821 06 08 Samuel White Baker, London England, explorer (Ceylon/Egypt)
1824 06 08 James Loudon, gov-gen of Neth-Indies
1824 06 08 William Montgomery Gardner, Brig Gen (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1829 06 08 John Everett Millais, England, painter (Order of Release)
1834 06 08 George Garrett, composer
1837 06 08 Jan Kleczynski, composer
1837 06 08 Moriz Heyne, German germanist (Beowulf)
1847 06 08 Ida Sazton McKinley, first lady (1897-1901)
1849 06 08 Juliaan Dillens, Flemish sculptor (Anspach Monument)
1856 06 08 Natalia Janotha, composer
1858 06 08 Antonio Nicolau, Spanish composer/conductor
1867 06 08 Frank Lloyd Wright, Richland Center Wisc, master builder (Guggenheim)
1881 06 08 Prospero Bisquertt, composer
1888 06 08 Guëmundur J¢nsson Kamban, Icelandic writer (Sk lholt)
1888 06 08 Poul Julius Ouscher Schierbeck, composer
1889 06 08 Joseph L Hromadka, Czech theologist (Lenin prize 1957)
1894 06 08 Erwin Schulhoff, Czech/Russian composer/pianist (Ogelala)
1896 06 08 Samuel Gonard, chairman (International Red Cross)
1900 06 08 Herman J Friedericy, [H J Merlijn], writer (Last general)
1902 06 08 Albe, [Renaut A Joostens], Flemish writer (Andalusian Diary)
1903 06 08 Gerrit C Berkouwer, Dutch theologist (Dogmatic Studies)
1903 06 08 Ralph Webster Yarborough, politician
1903 06 08 Ronald Shiner, actor (Carry on Admiral, Keep it Clean, Aunt Clara)
1905 06 08 Brian Coffey, poet
1906 06 08 Charles Janssens, Belgium, actor (Mira, Malpertuis)
1906 06 08 S Nazir Ali, cricketer (bro of Wazir Ali, India's first Test 1932)
1909 06 08 Maria M van de Berg, actress (It was April 1st)
1909 06 08 William Odling, major-general
1910 06 08 Aleksandr T Tvardovski, Russian conductor [NS=June 21]
1910 06 08 John W Campbell, US, sci-fi writer (Moon is Hell)
1911 06 08 Van Lingle Mungo, SC, pitcher (Dodgers, Giants)
1912 06 08 Ian Morrow, company director
1913 06 08 Graham Watson, literary agent
1913 06 08 Janos Jagamas, composer
1913 06 08 Peter Diamand, artistic administrator
1914 06 08 Joseph de Pietro, US, 56kg weightlifter (Olympic-gold-1948)
1914 06 08 KuBa, writer
1915 06 08 Gustaaf AWC baron van Hemert Dingshof, (mayor-Maarn Neth)
1915 06 08 Julian Ridsdale, MP
1916 06 08 Francis Crick, British co-discovered DNA's structure (Nobel 1962)
1917 06 08 Byron R Whizzer White, Ft Collins, NFLer/Supreme Court Just (1962-93)
1918 06 08 Robert Preston, Newton MA, actor (Music Man, Mame, Last Starfighter)
1919 06 08 Guy Overton, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in 3 Tests on 1953-54 SA tour)
1920 06 08 A J Mottram, tennis player
1920 06 08 Bert Leysen, TV director (Belgian National TV)
1921 06 08 Alexis Smith, Penticton BC Canada, actress (Jessica-Dallas, Follies)
1921 06 08 Alwyn Williams, Vice-Chancellor (Glasgow U)
1921 06 08 Lord Campbell of Croy
1921 06 08 Sheila Ryan, KS, actress (Big Fix, Mule Train, Ringside, Caged Fury)
1921 06 08 Suharto, general/president Indonesia (1967- )
1922 06 08 Myron Healy, Petalumus Calif, actor (Wyatt Earp)
1923 06 08 Alice Coleman, geographer
1923 06 08 Jean Maxwell-Scott, Lady-in-Waiting (Prin Alice Duchess Gloucester)
1923 06 08 Karel Goeyvaerts, Flemish composer (Summer Games)
1924 06 08 George Kirby, Chicago, comedian (ABC Comedy Hour, Pearl Bailey Show)
1924 06 08 Glidewell, Lord Justice
1924 06 08 Ian Colquhoun, cricket wicket keeper (NZ vs England 1954-55)
1924 06 08 Sheldon Allman, Chicago, actor (Norm-Harris Against the World)
1924 06 08 William Barlow, CEO (BICC)
1925 06 08 Barbara Pierce Bush, Rye NY, first lady (1989-93)
1925 06 08 Eddie Gaedel, 3'7 St Louis Browns pinch-hitter (he walked)
1926 06 08 Anatol Vieru, composer
1926 06 08 Cranley Onslow, MP
1926 06 08 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1927 06 08 Dame Anne Warburton, President (Lucy Cavendish College-Cambridge_
1927 06 08 David Hobman, director (Age Concern England)
1927 06 08 Jerry Stiller, Bkln NY, comedian (Frank Constanza-Seinfeld)
1927 06 08 Michael Levey, director (British National Gallery)
1928 06 08 Jiri Dvoracek, composer
1928 06 08 Kat[i]e [Gertrude] Wilhelm, US, sci-fi author (Hugo, Hamlet Trap)
1929 06 08 Earl Ferrers, British minister of state (Dept of Environment)
1929 06 08 Ventappa Muddiah, cricketer (Indian off-spinner in 2 Tests 1959-61)
1930 06 08 Bo Gunnar Widerberg, Malm” Sweden, director (Elvira Madigan)
1930 06 08 Dana Wynter, London, actress (Airport, Invasion of the Body Snatchers)
1930 06 08 Michael Codron, theatrical producer
1930 06 08 Yannis Ioannidis, composer
1931 06 08 Ivan V Lali, poet
1931 06 08 James Leander Leo Nichols, honorary consul
1932 06 08 Hans Gunter Helms, composer
1932 06 08 Lady Littler, CEO (Gaming Board for Great Britain)
1932 06 08 Ray Illingworth, cricketer (England off-spin all-rounder & captain)
1932 06 08 Raymond Illingworth, CEO )England committee, TCCB)
1933 06 08 Dr Robert Stevens, Master (Pembroke College, Oxford)
1933 06 08 Eric Parker, deputy CEO (Trafalgar House)
1933 06 08 Joan Rivers, [Molinsky], Bkln, comedienne (Late Show, Hollywood Sq)
1934 06 08 Millicent Martin, Romford Eng, actress (Alfie, Nothing but the Best)
1936 06 08 James Darren, Phila, actor (TJ Hooker, Diamond Head, Venus in Furs)
1937 06 08 Bruce McCandless II, Boston, Cap USN/astronaut (STS 41B, STS-31)
1937 06 08 Norma Shaw, bowler
1939 06 08 Bernie Casey, Wyco WV, actor (Boxcar Bertha, Rent-a-Cop)
1939 06 08 Herb Adderley, Phila, NFL hall of famer (Packers, Cowboys)
1940 06 08 Nancy Sinatra, Jersey City, singer (Boots are Made for Walkin')
1940 06 08 Sherman Garnes, rock vocalist (Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers)
1941 06 08 Clarence Fuzzy Haskins, US pop singer (Funkadelic-Knee Deep)
1941 06 08 Joop H van den Berg, Dutch 2nd Chamber member (PvdA)
1942 06 08 Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Skvortsov, Russian cosmonaut
1942 06 08 Chuck Negron, singer (3 Dog Night-Joy to the World)
1942 06 08 Gael Ramsey, Brigadier commander (HQ Aldershot Garrison)
1942 06 08 Willie D Davenport, Troy Alabama, 110m hurdler (Olympic-gold-1968)
1943 06 08 Colin Baker, actor (Dr Who, Swallows & Amazons)
1943 06 08 J C A Barrett, Headmaster (Leys School-Cambridge)
1943 06 08 Vicki Stangroome, campaigner
1943 06 08 Willie Davenport, Troy Ala, bobsledder/hurdler (Olympics-gold-68)
1944 06 08 Boz Scaggs, [William Royce], Dallas Tx, rocker (Steve Miller Band)
1944 06 08 Don Grady, [Agrati], actor (Robbie Douglas-My Three Sons)
1945 06 08 Derek Underwood, cricketer (Deadly Maybe the best post-war SLA)
1945 06 08 Donna Deitch, director (Sexual Advances, Women of Brewster Place)
1946 06 08 Dudley Fishburn, MP
1946 06 08 Elizabeth A Lynn, US, sci-fi author (Watchtower, Red Hawk)
1946 06 08 Richie Robinson, cricketer (Victorian keeper, Australian batsman 1977)
1947 06 08 Joan La Barbara, composer
1947 06 08 Julie Driscoll, rocker/actress (33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee)
1947 06 08 Mick Box, rock guitarist (Uriah Heep)
1949 06 08 Emmanuel Ax, Lvov Poland, pianist (Artur Rubinstein Comp-1974)
1949 06 08 Hildegard Falck, German FR, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 06 08 Elmar Oliveira, Waterbury Connecticut, violinist (Naumburg 1978)
1950 06 08 Kathy Whitton Baker, Midland Tx, actress (Right Stuff, 16 Candles)
1952 06 08 Lindka Cierach, fashion designer
1952 06 08 Martin Taylor, CEO (Barclays Bank)
1953 06 08 Bonnie Tyler, singer (Total Eclipse of the Heart)
1955 06 08 Griffin Dunne, actor (American Werewolf in London, Who's That Girl)
1955 06 08 James Jonathan Sylvers, rocker
1957 06 08 Scott Raymond Adams, Catskill NY, cartoonist (Dilbert)
1958 06 08 Keenan Ivory Wayans, NYC, comedian (In Living Color)
1958 06 08 Stan Brock, NFL tackle (SD Chargers)
1960 06 08 Linda Hanley, Laguna Beach Calif, beach volleyballer (Olympics-4th-96)
1960 06 08 Mike Hucknail, rocker (Simply Red-Every Time We Say Goodbye)
1961 06 08 Kevin Gross, Downey CA, pitcher (Texas Rangers)
1961 06 08 Ursula Buchfellner, Munich Ger, playmate (Oct, 1979)/actr (Bloodline)
1962 06 08 Nick Rhodes, [Bates], keyboardist (Duran Duran-Hungry Like the Wolf)
1963 06 08 John Restino, Westchester NY, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Tommy Armour)
1963 06 08 Kino Haitsma, pianist/arrangeur (Josephine)
1963 06 08 Susan Smith, LPGA golfer
1964 06 08 Butch [Harry Lee] Reynolds Jr, Akron, Ohio, 4X400m runner
1964 06 08 Nelli [Antoinette HC] Fiere-Cooman, Neth, runner (WR 60 m in 7.00)
1965 06 08 Kevin Ritz, Eatonstown NJ, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1965 06 08 Robert Platus, NYC, lip syncher (Milli Vanilli-Girl You Know This)
1966 06 08 Brian Williams, NFL center (NY Giants)
1966 06 08 Doris Pearson, Essex, rocker (5 Star-Silk & Steel)
1966 06 08 Julianna Margulies, Spring Valley NY, actress (Carol Hathaway-ER)
1967 06 08 Kathryn Marshall, Dundee Scotland, LPGA golfer (1995 Jamie Farr)
1967 06 08 Neil Mitchell, rocker (Wet, Wet, Wet-Wishing I Was)
1967 06 08 Stephane Simian, France, tennis star
1967 06 08 Willie Williams, WLAF tight end (Amsterdam Admirals)
1968 06 08 Dave Mlicki, Cleveland Ohio, pitcher (NY Mets)
1968 06 08 Rob Ray, Belleville, NHL left wing (Buffalo Sabres)
1969 06 08 Glenn Rogers Jr, CFL defensive back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1969 06 08 Laurel Martin, Hummelstown PA, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 06 08 Troy Vincent, NFL cornerback (Miami Dolphins, Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 06 08 Amanda Jahn, Miss USA-Missouri (1997)
1971 06 08 Elena Brioukhovets, Odessa Ukraine, tennis star (finalist 1990 Moscow)
1971 06 08 Jamie Morgan, Australia, tennis star
1971 06 08 Tom Nutten, CFL/NFL centers (Hamilton Tiger Cats, Buffalo Bills)
1972 06 08 David Sloan, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1972 06 08 P[eter] J[ason] Farley, Hackensack, bass (Trixter-Give It To Me Good)
1973 06 08 Bryant Reeves, NBA center (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 06 08 Michael Sheldon, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1974 06 08 Gabe Northern, defensive end (Buffalo Bills)
1975 06 08 Bryan McCabe, St Catherines, NHL defenseman (NY Islanders)
1976 06 08 Lindsay Davenport, Palos Verdes CA, tennis star (Olympics-gold-96)
1977 06 08 Belvilyn Ada Tenorio, Miss Universe-Northern Marianas (1996)
1977 06 08 Yvette Basting, Breda Neth, tennis star (1994 Futures-Flensberg-GER)
1978 06 08 Maria Menounos, Miss Massachusetts Teen USA (1996)
1994 06 08 Nicholas Joseph Mills, son of Chris Evert & Andy Mills

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