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Headline Birthdays for June 11

  

Ben Jonson 1572-1637

born in London, England; died there Aug. 6, 1637; dramatist, lyric poet, literary critic during the reign of James I, and a contemporary of Shakespeare; educated at Westminster School, and trained in his stepfather's trade of bricklaying; 1592 served briefly with the English army in Flanders, then joined the London theatrical company of Philip Henslowe as an actor and apprentice playwright, revising plays already in the repertory; at age 26 killed a fellow actor in a duel, was dragged before the court, but pled benefit of clergy, since he could read from the Latin Bible , and was saved him from hanging; best known for his 1598 comedy, Every Man in His Humour, performed by the Lord Chamberlain's Company with Shakespeare in the cast, as well as Volpone (1606), Epicene, or the Silent Woman (1609), The Alchemist (1610), and Bartholomew Fair (1614); served as poet laureate from 1616.
Quote: "Drink to me only with thine eyes,/ And I will pledge with mine;/ Or leave a kiss but in the cup/ And I'll not look for wine."

    

John Constable 1776-1837

born in East Bergholt, Suffolk; died in London March 31, 1837; landscape painter who sketched from nature; best known for works like The Hay-Wain. Quote: "No two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world." [pictures: The Hay-Wain, 1821; The White Horse 1810; his wife Maria Bicknell]

  

Julia Margaret Cameron 1815-1879

born Julia Margaret Pattle in Calcutta, India; died in Kalutara, Sri Lanka Jan. 26, 1879; pioneering portrait photographer who applied principle of fine art to photography; educated in Paris, and back in India, married Charles Hay Cameron, a wealthy tea estate owner; 1848 arrived in London with her husband and their six children; her brother-in-law, Thoby Prinsep, was part of an artistic circle in London that included the the poet Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Pre-Raphaelite painters Millais, Rossetti and Holman Hunt; 1863 started to take pictures when one of her daughters presented her with a large wooden camera and all the necessary dark room equipment. She immediately changed the coal house at her Isle of Wight cottage into a darkroom and set to work, making portraits of her family and friends, and famous contemporaries such as Browning, Carlyle, Tennyson, Longfellow, Newman, Trollope, Taylor, Darwin, Herschel and Ellen Terry; 1874 produced Arthurian illustrations for Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and other poems by Tennyson, Browning, Kingsley, and Shakespeare; also made classical allegories and figure studies of melancholy Pre-Raphaelite girls; 1875 returned with her husband to Ceylon, and the family tea plantation. [pictures: Allegorical study 1865; portrait of Julia Jackson; Devotion, 1865]

Carl von Linde 1842-1934

born in Berndorf, Bavaria; died in Munich Nov. 16, 1934; engineer; invented a continuous process of liquefying gases in large quantities; led to the modern technology of refrigeration; his Linde company is still in operation.

  

Richard Strauss 1864-1949

born in Munich, Germany, the son of Franz Strauss, Germany's leading horn player; died in Garmisch-Partenkirchen Sept. 8, 1949; Romantic composer of symphonic poems and operas; played the piano at age 4, started composing at age 6, and studied theory and composition at age 11; 1884 at age 20, made his conducting debut, without rehearsal, in Munich; best known for his tone poems, Don Juan (1888), Till Eulenspiegel (1895), and Als Sprach Zarathustra (1896, used as part of the sound track for Kubrick's film, 2001: A Space Odyssey), Don Quixote (1897), and Ein Heldenlieben (1898); operas include Salome (1905), Electra (1909) and Der Rosenkavalier (1911); served briefly as head of musical affairs under the Nazis, then was expelled as head of the Reichsmusikkammer and his music banned for a year because his daughter-in-law and grandsons were of Jewish ancestry; he was forced to make a deal with the Nazis for their protection; after the war, he was welcomed back the musical world in London with a festival organized by Sir Thomas Beecham.

Charles Fabry 1867-1945

born in Marseilles, France; died in Paris Dec. 11, 1945; physicist, expert in spectroscopic measurement; discovered the ozone layer in the upper atmosphere; found it protected life on the surface of Earth from harmful ultraviolet solar radiation.

Anna Akhmatova 1889-1966

born Anna Andreyevna Gorenko at Bolshoy Fontan, near Odessa, Ukraine; died at Domodedovo, near Moscow March 5, 1966; poet; started writing at age 11 and at 21 became a member of the Acmeist group of poets, who rejected symbolism and sought "beautiful clarity", and whose leader, Nikolay Gumilyov, she married in 1910, but divorced in 1918 (Lenin had him shot); works include Evening (1912), Rosary Beads (1914), The Whte Flock (1917) and Anno Domini MCMXXI (1922); Soviet critics proclaimed her "bourgeois and aristocratic," condemned her poetry for its narrow preoccupation with love and God, and characterizing her as "half nun and half harlot"; in 1946 she was harshly denounced by Andrey Zhdanov, Politburo member and the director of Stalin's program of cultural restriction, and expelled from the Union of Soviet Writers; in 1950, she was forced to win the freedom of her son, Lev Gumilyov, arrested in 1949 and exiled to Siberia, by writing a number of poems eulogizing Stalin and Soviet communism; in one poem, she declared: "Where Stalin is, there is Freedom, Peace, and the grandeur of the earth"; her lyrical cycle, Requiem (1935-40), about the horrors of the Stalinist terror, was published in Moscow in 1989. [picture: portrait by Modligiani]

  

Jacques Cousteau 1910-1997

born in Saint-André-de-Cubzac, France; died in Paris June 25, 1997; naval officer, author, environmentalist, known for his extensive underseas investigations, co-inventor of the 'self-contained underwater breathing apparatus,' or SCUBA; 1930 entered France's Naval Academy at Brest, served at sea and entered naval aviation school; 1935 a near-fatal car crash in his father's sports car denied him his wings; during World War II, worked in espionage for the French Resistance and got the underground a copy of the Italian Navy's codebook; 1943 with engineer Emile Gagnan, and the help of his wife's father, a director of Air Liquide, France's main producer of industrial gases, perfected an underwater breathing apparatus that supplied compressed air to divers, gear that he said enabled him to be a "manfish"; filed a patent application in wartime Paris and called it the "Aqualung"; 1950 English millionaire Noel Guiness gave him money to buy Calypso, a 400-ton former mine-sweeper that he converted into a floating laboratory outfitted with underwater TV gear; 1952-53 took Calypso to the Red Sea and shot the first color footage ever taken at a depth of 50 metres; 1956 won the top award at the Cannes Film Festival for his documentary The Silent World; host of TV's The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau; books include The Living Sea (1963) and World Without Sun (1965) and he assisted with a 20-volume encyclopedia, The Ocean World of Jacques Cousteau.
Quote: "Happiness, for the bee as for the dolphin, is to exist. For man, it is to know existence and to marvel in it."

Vince Lombardi 1913-1970

born in Brooklyn, New York; died in Washington, DC Sept.3, 1970; NFL football coach; became a symbol of single-minded determination to win; 1959-67 head coach of the Green Bay Packers; led team to 5 NFL championships and 2 Super Bowl victories including the first; the Super Bowl trophy is named after him.

Other Birthdays

1723 J. G. Palitzsch, first saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1776 John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
1823 James L Kemper, Major General, hero at Battle of Williamsberg; also fought at Gettysburg
1847 Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader of English women's movement
1876 A.L. Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, anthropologist/textbook author
1880 Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to US Congress (from Montana)
1883 Frank O. King, Cashton WI, "Gasoline Alley" cartoonist
1886 David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1895 Nikolai A. Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1899 Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 Lawrence E. Spivak, Brooklyn NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1903 Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
1907 Paul Mellon, philanthropist/horse breeder (1964 Gold Baton)
1911 Russ Hodges, Dayton TN, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1913 Rise Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Metropolitan Opera)
1914 Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1914 Henry G. Cisheros, (Mayor-San Antonio)
1919 Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
1920 Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1920 Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1922 John Bromfield, South Bend IN, actor (Easy to Love)
1925 William Styron, VA, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1926 Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1931 Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1932 Athol Fugard, South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1933 Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1935 Gene Wilder, born Jerome Silberman, Milwaukee WI, comic actor (Young Frankenstein, Silver Streak)
1936 Chad Everett, South Bend IN, actor (Medical Center, Airplane II)
1937 Johnny Brown, St Petersburg FL, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1939 Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1940 Joey Dee Passaic, NJ, actor (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1944 James "Ox" D A Van Hoften, Fresno CA, astronaut (STS 41C, STS 51I)
1945 Adrienne Barbeau, wife of John Carpenter, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1947 Henry G. Cisneros, (Mayor-D-San Antonio)
1949 Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Lets, Fandango)
1950 Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 Michael Swan, Palo Alto CA, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1952 Russell Hitchcock, rocker (Air Supply-All out of Love)
1953 Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1956 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback, Super Bowl (San Francisco 49ers)
1967 Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1973 Robby Kiger, Encino CA, actor (Crazy Like a Fox) 1572 06 11 Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1672 06 11 Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
1697 06 11 Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 06 11 Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
1719 06 11 Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
1723 06 11 J G Palitzsch, first saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1740 06 11 Luigi Gatti, composer
1776 06 11 John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
1807 06 11 James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1808 06 11 Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1816 06 11 Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890
1822 06 11 Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1823 06 11 James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1829 06 11 Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
1840 06 11 Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
1842 06 11 Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
1842 06 11 Carl PG von Linde, German engineer/physicist (Linde-procédé)
1847 06 11 Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
1861 06 11 Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1863 06 11 Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1864 06 11 Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1865 06 11 Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
1867 06 11 Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
1874 06 11 Richard Stohr, composer
1876 06 11 Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
1879 06 11 Roger P Bresnaham, hall of fame catcher/manager
1880 06 11 Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
1883 06 11 Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
1886 06 11 David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1886 06 11 Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1889 06 11 Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1892 06 11 Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1895 06 11 Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1897 06 11 Bruno Frei, writer
1899 06 11 George Frederick McKay, composer
1899 06 11 Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 06 11 Lawrence E Spivak, Bkln NY, news panelist (Meet the Press)
1902 06 11 Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1903 06 11 Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
1904 06 11 Clarence Pinetop Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 06 11 Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
1904 06 11 Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1906 06 11 Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1907 06 11 Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
1907 06 11 Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1907 06 11 Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
1910 06 11 Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)
1910 06 11 Jacques-Yves Cousteau, France, oceanic explorer (Calypso)
1911 06 11 Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1912 06 11 Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1912 06 11 William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
1913 06 11 John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
1913 06 11 Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 06 11 Ris‰ Stevens, NYC, mezzo-soprano (Met Opera)/actor (Going My Way)
1913 06 11 Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1914 06 11 Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1914 06 11 Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
1914 06 11 Henry G Cisheros, (Mayor-D-San Antonio)
1914 06 11 Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1915 06 11 David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
1917 06 11 James Bostock, painter/engraver
1918 06 11 Nelson Mandela, President (South Africa)
1919 06 11 Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
1920 06 11 Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
1920 06 11 Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1920 06 11 Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
1920 06 11 Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1921 06 11 Beatrice Fiet van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
1921 06 11 Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1922 06 11 Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
1922 06 11 John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
1922 06 11 Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1922 06 11 Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
1923 06 11 Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
1925 06 11 William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1926 06 11 Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 06 11 Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 06 11 Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
1927 06 11 Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
1927 06 11 John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
1927 06 11 Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1927 06 11 Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1928 06 11 Fabiola de Mora y Arag˘n, Spanish Queen of Belgium
1928 06 11 Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
1930 06 11 Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930 06 11 Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
1931 06 11 Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
1931 06 11 Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 06 11 Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1932 06 11 Athol Fugard, Middleburg S Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1932 06 11 Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1933 06 11 Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1934 06 11 Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 06 11 Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1935 06 11 Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
1935 06 11 Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
1936 06 11 Chad Everett, South Bend In, actor (Medical Center, Airplane II)
1936 06 11 George Bryan Ingham, artist
1937 06 11 Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1939 06 11 Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
1939 06 11 Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
1939 06 11 Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
1939 06 11 Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1939 06 11 Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
1939 06 11 Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1940 06 11 Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1942 06 11 Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)
1944 06 11 Alan Horworth, MP
1944 06 11 Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
1944 06 11 James Ox D A van Hoften, Fresno Calif, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
1945 06 11 Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento Calif, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1946 06 11 Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 06 11 John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1946 06 11 Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
1946 06 11 Richard Pietraá, writer
1947 06 11 Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
1948 06 11 Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1948 06 11 Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1948 06 11 Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
1949 06 11 Frank Beard, rocker (ZZ Top-She Got Legs, Fandango)
1949 06 11 George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
1950 06 11 Debbie Pokey Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 06 11 Lindsey de Paul, singer
1950 06 11 Michael Swan, Palo Alto Calif, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1951 06 11 Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
1951 06 11 Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1951 06 11 Maren Seidler, Bkln NY, shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
1951 06 11 Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
1951 06 11 Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer (bro of Sidath 2 Tests for SL v NZ 1983)
1952 06 11 Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 06 11 Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 06 11 Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 06 11 Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1954 06 11 John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
1955 06 11 Tony Allcock, bowler
1956 06 11 Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1957 06 11 Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
1958 06 11 Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)
1959 06 11 Hugh Laurie, actor (Strapless)
1962 06 11 Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1963 06 11 Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
1963 06 11 Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
1964 06 11 Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1965 06 11 Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 06 11 Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
1965 06 11 Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1966 06 11 Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 06 11 Tiffany Cohen, Culver City Calif, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1967 06 11 Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1967 06 11 John Doherty, pitcher
1967 06 11 Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 06 11 Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
1969 06 11 Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 06 11 Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
1970 06 11 Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 06 11 Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 06 11 William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1971 06 11 Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 06 11 Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 06 11 Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 06 11 Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1973 06 11 Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1973 06 11 Robby Kiger, Encino Calif, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
1973 06 11 Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
1974 06 11 Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
1974 06 11 Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
1974 06 11 Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
1976 06 11 Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1978 06 11 Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks)
1978 06 11 Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1986 06 11 Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)
1989 06 11 Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri

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