Headline Birthdays for June 14

Harriet Beecher Stowe 1811-1896

born in Litchfield, Connecticut; died in Hartford July 1, 1896; writer, philanthropist, grew up in Cincinnati, across the Ohio River from Kentucky, a slave state; saw slaves on the run from their masters and learned about their lives on the plantations; 1850 she and her husband moved to Brunswick, Maine where she began writing Uncle Tom's Cabin; or, Life Among the Lowly, the story of a kindly slave and his friendship with Little Eva St. Clare, the daughter of his master. Tom saves the girl's life and she asks her father to free all his slaves, but before he can do so he is killed, and Tom is eventually whipped to death; the novel first came out in serial form in a Washington anti-slavery paper, the National Era; dismissed by Southerners as sentimental rubbish from a Yankee preacher's wife, but in the North it sold 300,000 copies in its first year, and contributed so much to popular feeling against slavery that it is regarded as one of the causes of the American Civil War. [picture: With husband Calvin]

John Bartlett 1820-1905

born at Plymouth, Massachusetts; died in Cambridge Dec. 3, 1905; bookseller, editor, lexicographer best known for his Bartlett's Familiar Quotations.

Robert La Follette 1855-1955

born in Primrose, Wisconsin; died in Washington, DC June 18, 1925; politician, reformer, leader of the Progressive Movement; 1901-06 Governor of Wisconsin; 1906-25 US Senator who backed pro-farm reform legislation; ran unsuccessfully as presidential candidate of the League for Progressive Political Action (Progressive Party).

Alois Alzheimer: 1864-1915

born in Markbreit in Southern Germany; died in Frankfurt Dec 19, 1915; psychiatrist; studied medicine in Berlin, Tubingen and Wurzburg where he graduated in 1887; started work in the state asylum in Frankfurt am Main, becoming interested in research on the cortex of the human brain; 1904-18 with neurologist Franz Nissl published the six-volume Histologic and Histopathologic Studies of the Cerebral Cortex; 1906 identified an "unusual disease of the cerebral cortex" in a woman in her fifties; using a then-new staining technique, he noticed an odd bunching of the nerve cells in her cerebral cortex, the part of the brain responsible for reasoning and memory; he termed the strange nerve bundles neurofibrillary tangles; also noted an unexpected accumulation of cellular debris around the affected nerves, which he termed senile plaques (later named the Alzheimer plaque - in the picture); the tangles had been seen before in older dementia patients, but never before in someone so young; the disease first caused a jealousy towards her husband, then a rapidly increasing amnesia; she became lost in her own apartment, carried objects about aimlessly, hid them, sometimes believed that she was to be murdered, and had spells of unrestrained screaming, then an early death at age 55. Psychiatrist Emil Kraepelin proposed naming the condition after Alzheimer.

Karl Landsteiner 1868-1943

born in Vienna, Austria; died in New York City June 26, 1943; immunologist, pathologist; 1922 came to the US to join the staff of the Rockefeller Institute (now Rockefeller University); awarded the 1930 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of the major blood groups and development of the ABO system of blood typing that has made blood transfusion a routine medical procedure; studied the chemistry of antigens and serological reactions, and made valuable contributions in hemolysis and in methods of studying poliomyelitis; 1940 identified, in collaboration with A. S. Wiener, the Rh factor.

Margaret Bourke-White 1906-1971

born in New York City; died in Stamford, Connecticut Aug. 27, 1971; photographer, pioneer of photojournalism; 1920s as a student at Cornell bought her first camera, a $20 second-hand Ica Reflex that had a crack in the lens; worked as as an architectural photographer in Cleveland; 1929 staff photographer with Time magazine and with the new Fortune magazine as associate editor; 1930 sent to the Soviet Union on assignment, the first Western photographer allowed into that country; 1931 she published Eyes on Russia; 1935 asked by Henry Luce to join his newly created Life magazine, and her photograph of the Fort Peck Dam appeared on Life's first cover; 1936 traveled the South with novelist Erskine Caldwell, to document living conditions of poor tenant farmers; 1937 they published a book You Have Seen Their Faces; 1939 married Caldwell and together they published two more books. North of the Danube (1939, about life in Czechoslovakia before the Nazi invasion) and Say, Is This the U.S.A. (1941); in Moscow when the Germans attacked, and sent photos to Life; 1942 she and Caldwell divorced; went on to photograph US Forces crossing into Germany, concentration camps; also the division of India, Mahatma Gandhi; the Korean War. Quote: "The very secret of life for me...was to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance."
[picture: from The Living Dead of Buchenwald]

Burl Ives 1909-1995

born Burle Icle Ivanhoe in in Hunt, Illinois; died Apr 14, 1995; folk singer, actor; spent the 1930s traveling the US gathering musical material, journeys he recalled in his memoir Wayfaring Stranger (1940); started acting on Broadway in I Married an Angel (1938) and originated the role of Big Daddy in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; film roles include The Big Country [Academy Award, 1958], Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, East of Eden, Smokey, Our Man in Havana, The Bold Ones; best known songs include Blue Tail Fly, Frosty The Snowman, A Holly Jolly Christmas, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, I Know an Old Lady (Who Swallowed A Fly), A Little Bitty Tear, Funny Way of Laughin', Call Me Mr. In- Between.

Che Guevara 1928-1967

born Ernesto Guevara Lynch de la Serna in Rosario, Argentina; died in Bolivia in 1967; Marxist revolutionary and guerrilla leader; qualified as an MD, but chose to get involved in revolution; 1954 met Cuban political emigres Raul and Fidel Castro in Mexco City, joined their cause and was given a tough commando course of professional training in guerrilla warfare by Spanish Republican Army captain, Alberto Bayo, a Maoist; 1956 active in the Cuban Revolution; became a ruthless disciplinarian who unhesitatingly shot defectors; 1959 second only to Fidel Castro in the new government of Cuba; organized and directed the Instituto Nacional de la Reforma Agraria to administer the new agrarian laws expropriating the large land holders; ran its Department of Industries; was appointed President of the National Bank of Cuba; forced non-communist out of the government and key posts; pushed the Cuban economy so fast into total Communism, and into crop and production diversification, that he temporarily ruined it; 1960 as Minister for Industry signed a trade pact with Moscow whereby the USSR bought Cuban sugar in exchange for mercenary support in the Congo and Bolivia; 1965 estranged from Castro when he charged the USSR with being a 'tacit accomplice of imperialism' by not trading exclusively with the Communist bloc and by not giving underdeveloped socialist countries aid without any thought of return; killed by government forces in Bolivia, he became a poster boy for discontented youth in the 1960s and early 70's.

Eric Heiden 1958-

born in Madison, Wisconsin; speed skater; 3-time overall world champion (1977-79); first to win all 5 men's gold medals at the 1980 Winter Olympic Games at Lake Placid, setting new records in each of the speed-skating events (500, 1,000, 1,500, 5,000, and 10,000 metres).

Steffi Graf 1969-

born Stephanie Graf in Bruhl, Germany; tennis player; won the Grand Slam and Olympic gold medal in 1988 at age 19; won three of four majors in 1993 and the Australian Open in 1994; her 15 Grand Slam titles include 6 at Wimbledon, 4 Australian, 4 US, and 3 French Opens.

Other Birthdays

1529 06 14 Ferdinand, archduke (Austria)/mayor (Bohemia)
1657 06 14 Cornelis Cruys, [Niels Olsen Creutz], Norwegian/Dutch admiral
1691 06 14 Jan Francisci, composer
1730 06 14 Antonio Maria Gasparo Giaccino Sacchini, composer [or Jul 23 1734]
1736 06 14 Charles-Augustin de Coulomb, physicist (formulated Coulomb's Law)
1760 06 14 Candido Jose Ruano, composer
1763 06 14 Johannes Simon Mayr, composer
1769 06 14 Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1805 06 14 Robert Anderson, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1871
1811 06 14 Harriet Beecher Stowe, author (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1820 06 14 John Bartlett, US, editor (compiled Familiar Quotations)
1821 06 14 Jozef Lies, Flemish painter
1835 06 14 Nikolay Rubinstein, composer
1836 06 14 Thomas Wilberforce Egan, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1844 06 14 Edouard Naville, Swiss egyptologist
1854 06 14 Frederik Rung, composer
1855 06 14 Robert Marion La Follette, Wisconsin, pres candidate (Progressive)
1856 06 14 Andrey Markov, Russia, mathematician (Markov Chain)
1864 06 14 Alois Alzheimer, Germany, psychiatrist/pathologist (Alzheimer Disease)
1865 06 14 Auguste Jean Maria Charles Serieyx, composer
1868 06 14 Karl Landsteiner, Austria, immunologist/pathologist (Nobel 1930)
1874 06 14 Edward Bowes, radio host (Major Bowes Amateur Hour)
1882 06 14 Ion Antonescu, fascist premier/dictator of Roemenia
1882 06 14 Michael Zadora, composer
1883 06 14 Lucien Cerfaux, Belgian bible expert
1884 06 14 John McCormack, Irish/US singer (Irish folksongs)
1889 06 14 Victor van Straelen, Flemish biologist/palaeontologist
1895 06 14 Cliff Edwards, Hannibal MO, singer (When You Wish Upon a Star)
1895 06 14 Louis Finkelstein, US historian/theologist (Pharizees)
1899 06 14 Kawabata Yasunari, Zen writer (Nobel Literature 1968)
1900 06 14 June Walker, IL, actress (War Nurse, Unforgiven)
1903 06 14 Arthur William Raynes McDonald, radar Pioneer/pilot
1904 06 14 Benno Ammann, composer
1906 06 14 Carl Esmond, Wien (Vienna) Austria, actor (Smash-Up)
1906 06 14 Gil Lamb, Minneapolis, actor (Hit Parade of 1947, Riding High)
1906 06 14 Margaret Bourke-White, photographer/innovator/correspondent
1907 06 14 René Char, French poet/painter
1908 06 14 John Scott Trotter, Charlotte NC, orch leader (George Gobel Show)
1909 06 14 Burl Ives, Hunt Ill, folk singer/actor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1910 06 14 Rudolf Kempe, Niederpoyritz Germany, conductor (Tonhalle Orch 1965-72)
1912 06 14 E Cuyler Hammond, scientist (first to link smoking with lung cancer)
1916 06 14 Geoffrey Goodwin, British professor of international relations
1916 06 14 Karl-Rudi Griesbach, composer
1917 06 14 Al Lash LaRue, Gretna La, actor (Lash of the West, Wyatt Earp)
1918 06 14 Carter Harman, composer
1918 06 14 Dorothy McGuire, Omaha Neb, actress (Old Yeller, Summer Magic)
1918 06 14 Leroy T Walker, Atlanta Ga, US Olympic consultant (1960, 68, 72)
1919 06 14 Sam Wanamaker, Chic Ill, actor (Holocaust, Competition, Raw Deal)
1920 06 14 Helmer-Rayner Sinisalo, composer
1921 06 14 Gene Barry, NYC, actor (Bat Masterson, Name of the Game, Burke's Law)
1922 06 14 Arthur Jacobs, musicologist
1923 06 14 Donald Smith, cricketer (uneventful England opening batsman 1957)
1923 06 14 Jack Hayward, Brit financier (Wolverhampton Wanderers Football Club)
1923 06 14 Theodore Bloomfield, composer
1924 06 14 Solouchin, writer
1925 06 14 Barbara Hammer Avedon, scriptwriter
1925 06 14 David Bache, designer
1925 06 14 Pierre Salinger, newsman (ABC)/press secretary (John Kennedy)
1926 06 14 Hermann Kant, writer
1928 06 14 Ernesto Che Guevara Serna, Arg/Cuba revolutionary (Cuba)
1929 06 14 Alan Davidson, cricketer (mighty Australian lefty quick all-rounder)
1929 06 14 Cy Coleman, [Seymour Kaufman], songwriter (Witchcraft, Sweet Charity)
1931 06 14 Marla Gibbs, Chicago Ill, actress (Florence-Jeffersons, Mary-227)
1932 06 14 Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, composer
1933 06 14 Jerzy Kosinski, novelist (Painted Bird, Being There)
1935 06 14 Jan Nijland, cattle breeder/Dutch MP (CDA)
1939 06 14 Steny H Hoyer, (Rep-D-MD, 1981- )
1940 06 14 Ben Davidson, LA Calif, actor (Rhino-Ball Four, Code R)
1940 06 14 Bill Baker, (Rep-R-California)
1940 06 14 Jack Bannon, LA Calif, actor (Art-Lou Grant, Trauma Center)
1940 06 14 John Mizelle, composer
1941 06 14 John Edgar Widerman, US writer
1943 06 14 F James Sensenbrenner, (Rep-R-Wisconsin)
1943 06 14 Muff [Mervyn] Winwood, singer (Spencer Davis Group-Gimme Some Lovin)
1943 06 14 W J [Billy] Tauzin, (Rep-D-LA, 1980- )
1945 06 14 Rod Argent, rocker (She's Not There-Zombies, Hold Your Head Up-Argent)
1946 06 14 Donald Trump, billionaire/master builder (Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle)
1946 06 14 Ralph McAllister Ingersol II, NYC, newspaper publisher
1949 06 14 Alan White, English rock drummer (Yes, Ramshackled)
1949 06 14 Bob Frankston, programmer (VisiCalc)
1949 06 14 Rochelle Firestone, Kansas City MO, actress (Hellhole)
1950 06 14 Jeremy Sinden, actor (Chariots of Fire, Ascendancy, Harem)
1952 06 14 Eddie Mekka, Worcester Mass, actor (Carmine-Laverne & Shirley)
1952 06 14 Jimmy Lea, England, rock bassist (Slade)
1953 06 14 David Thomas, US singer/songwriter (Pere Ubu)
1954 06 14 Will Patton, Charleston SC, actor (No Way Out, Ballzaire the Cajun)
1955 06 14 Kim Lankford, Montebello Calif, actress (Gingers-Knots Landing)
1955 06 14 Larry Burrows, fictional character (Mr Destiny)
1955 06 14 Vince Evans, NFL quarterback (Oakland Raiders)
1956 06 14 Frederick Funk, Takoma Park MD, PGA golfer (1992 Shell Houston Open)
1958 06 14 Brian David Willis, rock drummer (Quarterflash)
1958 06 14 Carina Persson, Stockholm Sweden, playmate (August, 1983)
1958 06 14 Eric Heiden, Wisc, �/1/1�/5/10K speed skater (Olympic-5 golds-1980)
1960 06 14 Tonie Campbell, LA Calif, 100m hurdler (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1961 06 14 Boy George O'Dowd, androgynous vocalist & druggie (Culture Club)
1961 06 14 Grace Jackson, St Ann Jamaica, 200m runner (Olympic-silver-1988)
1961 06 14 Sam Perkins, NBA forward/center (Seattle Supersonics)
1962 06 14 Scott Radecic, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1963 06 14 Chris DeGarmo, guitarist (Queensryche-Breaking the Silence)
1963 06 14 James Patrick, Winnipeg, NHL defenseman (Calgary Flames)
1963 06 14 Laurel Kean, Portland ME, LPGA golfer (1994 JAL Big Apple-17th)
1964 06 14 Jamie Dukes, NFL center (Arizona Cardinals)
1964 06 14 Randall Thompson, Halifax Nova Scotia, boxer (Olympics-96)
1966 06 14 Ricky Siglar, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs, New Orleans Saints)
1966 06 14 Rod Stephens, NFL linebacker (Washington Redskins)
1966 06 14 Traylor Howard, Orlando Fla, actress (Joy Byrnes-Boston Common)
1967 06 14 Ante Mise, Yugoslav soccer player (Hajduk Split/Vitesse)
1967 06 14 Dedrick Dodge, NFL safety (SF 49ers, Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1967 06 14 Wendy Lian Williams, St Louis Mo, US diver (Olympic-bronze-88, 92)
1968 06 14 Brian Wiggins, NFL wide receiver (Carolina Panthers)
1968 06 14 Eric Murdock, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies, Miami Heat)
1968 06 14 Tony Smith, NBA guard (Miami Heat)
1968 06 14 Yasmine Bleeth, NYC, actress (Ryan's Hope, 1 Life to Live, Baywatch)
1969 06 14 Eric Desjardins, Rauyn Quebec, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers, Canada)
1969 06 14 Eugene Chung, NFL guard (Jacksonville Jaguars, Indianapolis Colts)
1969 06 14 Steffi Graf, Bruhl West Germany, tennis player (Grand Slam 1988)
1970 06 14 Simone Fleurice Eden, Arcadia Ca, playmate (Feb, 1989)
1970 06 14 Todd Manning, fictional character (One Life to Live)
1970 06 14 Willie Beamon, NFL cornerback (NY Giants)
1971 06 14 Bruce Bowen, NBA guard (Boston Celtics)
1971 06 14 Fred Baxter, NFL tight end (NY Jets)
1972 06 14 Jeff Kysar, NFL tackle (Oakland Raiders)
1972 06 14 Rick Brunson, NBA guard (Portland Trailblazers)
1973 06 14 Daniel Marsh, cricketer (son of Rod South Aust slow lefty since 1993)
1973 06 14 Michael Cade, NJ, actor (Sylvester Winkle-Calif Dreams)
1973 06 14 Sam Shade, NFL strong safety (Cin Bengals)
1973 06 14 Sami Kapanen, Vantaa Fin, NHL left wing (Whalers, Carolina, Oly-B-98)
1973 06 14 Stepfret Williams, wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 06 14 Rod Payne, corner (Cincinnati Bengals)
1975 06 14 A J Mleczko, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1976 06 14 Rita Carvalho, Miss Universe-Portugal (1996)
1994 06 14 Nicholas Pietro Santopictro, son of Vanna White
2160 06 14 Montgomery Edward Scott, Aberdeen Scotland, fictional eng (Star Trek)

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