Headline Birthdays for June 16
Geronimo 1829-1909
born Goyathlay at at present-day Clifton, Arizona;
died at Fort Sill, Oklahoma Feb 17, 1909; medicine man, leader of the Chiricahua
band of the Mimbreno Apache tribe known as Goyathlay (One Who Yawns); admitted
to the warriors' council at the young age of 17; 1858 while he was trading
in town, a group of Mexican soldiers murdered his wife, children, and mother;
from then on he hated all Mexicans and killed them whenever he could; Geronimo
was a nickname given by the Mexicans; 1876 US government tried to move the
Chiracahua from their traditional home to a reservation at San Carlos, New
Mexico, but Geronimo fled with about 700 other Apaches; 1886 US General Cook
finally captured Geronimo and forced a treaty to relocate the Chiracahua
to Florida; Geronimo escaped but was again captured and sent to Florida then
Oklahoma as a prisoner of war for almost thirty years.
Stan Laurel 1890-1965
born Arthur S Jefferson at Ulverston, Lancashire,
England, son of a music-hall performer; died in Santa Monica, California
Feb. 23, 1965; part of the Laurel and Hardy motion-picture comedy team; 1907
joined Fred Karno's troupe of slapstick comedians in Manchester, and polished
his comic techniques in the Mumming Birds, where he understudied a young
Charlie Chaplin in the role of an obstreperous drunk who repeatedly interrupts
the other performers; 1910 first to the US in the Karno company's tour; 1917
followed Chaplin to Hollywood and made his first film, Nuts; 1926 first started
working with Oliver 'Babe' Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios in the Hal Roach
All-Stars; came to play the pompous oaf to simple-witted Stan, and together
they made over 50 short comedies - mostly two-reelers, but sometimes three
reels; 1933 the pair won an Academy Award for The Music Box.. [some say born
1894, 1895, or 1900] [picture: with Hardy in Sons of the Desert}
Barbara McClintock 1902-1992
born at Hartford, Connecticut; died at
Huntington, NY; cytogeneticist, discoverer of mobile genetic elements; studied
in the College of Agriculture at Cornell University where she was the first
to identify each of the 10 maize chromosomes; doctorate in 1927; at the University
of Missouri, she started studying chromosomes that had been broken by X rays,
and later devised a way to use these chromosomes to generate new mutations;
continued her work at Carnegie Institution and in 1945 was elected President
of the Genetics Society of America; 1983 awarded the for Physiology or Medicine
for her discovery of transposable elements 35 years earlier; author of Jumping
Genes.
Katharine Graham 1917-
born in New York City; owner and publisher
of The Washington Post, Newsweek magazine, and other publications; won the
Pulitzer Prize for biography for her book Personal History; 1963 took over
the company after her husband's suicide; and said that her "credentials were
pathetically thin"; 1972 publisher when her reporters Bob Woodward and Carl
Bernstein broke the Watergate scandal.
Other Birthdays
1583 06 16 Axel Gustafson Oxenstierna, Swedish earl/chancellor/regent
1633 06 16 Nathaniel Schnittelbach, composer
1637 06 16 Giovanni Paulo Colonna, composer
1752 06 16 Meingosus Gaelle, composer
1834 06 16 Wesley Merritt, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1910
1837 06 16 Eli Long, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1903
1843 06 16 David Popper, composer
1843 06 16 Jan Malat, composer
1853 06 16 Johan Gustaf Emil Sjogren, composer
1858 06 16 Eugene Ysaye, composer
1858 06 16 Gustav V, king of Sweden (1907-50)
1861 06 16 Scato Gocko de Vries, Dutch paleographer/librarian
1863 06 16 Paul Antonin Vidal, composer
1874 06 16 Arthur Meighen, (C) 9th PM of Canada (1920-21, 1926)
1879 06 16 Fritz Schulz, German law historian (Classical Novel Law)
1879 06 16 Theo[dorus J] Thijssen, Dutch writer (Kees the boy)
1888 06 16 Bobby Clark, vaudevillan (World's funniest circus clown)
1890 06 16 Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], England, comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1892 06 16 Lupino Lane, London England, actress (Love Parade)
1894 06 16 Norman Kerry, Rochester NY, actor (Phantom of the Opera)
1895 06 16 Stan Laurel, [Arthur S Jefferson], comedian (Laurel & Hardy)
1896 06 16 Jean Peugeot, Frans auto manufacturer (Peugeot)
1896 06 16 William Fitzgerald Jenkins, author (Time Tunnel, Land of Giants)
1899 06 16 Helen Traubel, St Louis MO, soprano (Sieglinde in Walkre, Nightclubs)
1899 06 16 Nelson Doubleday, US, publisher (Doubleday)
1900 06 16 Jan van Tilburg, governor Suriname (PVDA, 1955-62)
1901 06 16 Arthur Pierson, Oslo Norway, actor/director (Hat Check Girl)
1901 06 16 Conrad Beck, composer
1902 06 16 Barbara McClintock, US, cytogeneticist (Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983)
1902 06 16 Kornelis Posthumus, Dutch chemist
1903 06 16 Huldreich Georg Fruh, composer
1904 06 16 Gerard Holt, Dutch architect
1906 06 16 Alan Fairfax, cricketer (Australian all-rounder late 20's early 30's)
1907 06 16 Jack Albertson, Malden Mass, actor (Thin Man, Chico & the Man)
1907 06 16 John Hadfield, author/publisher (Love on a Branch Line)
1909 06 16 Willi Boskovsky, Austria, conductor (new years concert)
1910 06 16 E G Marshall, Owatonna Minn, actor (Lawrence-Defenders, Caine Mutiny)
1910 06 16 Ilona Massey, Budapest Hungary, actress/singer (Ilona Massey Show)
1910 06 16 Lord Richardson, president (General Medical Council)
1910 06 16 Richard Maling Barrer, chemist
1911 06 16 Georg Meistermann, German (glass)painter (Raumplnen)
1912 06 16 Enoch Powell, England, MP (C)/racist/Greek professor
1912 06 16 John Peel, MP
1914 06 16 Stewart Cathie Billy Griffith, cricketer (140 for England, 1948)
1914 06 16 Stewart Griffith, secretary (MCC)
1915 06 16 Joseph Kagan, businessman
1915 06 16 Mariano Rumor, premier Italy
1916 06 16 Francis Lopez, composer
1916 06 16 Hank Luisetti, NBA forward (first to use a one-handed shot)
1917 06 16 Katharine Graham, NYC, newspaper publisher (Wash Post)
1919 06 16 Lord Aberdare, committee chairman (House of Lords)
1920 06 16 John Howard Griffin, US, photographer/author (Black Like Me)
1921 06 16 Lord Perry of Walton, SDP/vice chancellor (Open University England)
1923 06 16 Ake Hermanson, composer
1923 06 16 Henryk Czyz, composer
1924 06 16 Sayed Idries Shah, thinker
1925 06 16 Faith Domergue, New Orleans, actress (House of 7 Corpses)
1925 06 16 Richard Jacobs, philanthropist/sports owner (Cleveland Indians)
1927 06 16 Robert Matthews, master (Clare College Cambridge England)
1927 06 16 Thomas W Tom Graveney, English cricket batsman (50's & 60's)
1928 06 16 Harold Hanham, vice chancellor (Lancaster University)
1928 06 16 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
1929 06 16 James Kirtland Randall, composer
1930 06 16 Brian Statham, cricketer (masterful England quick for two decades)
1930 06 16 David Konstant, bishop (Leeds)
1931 06 16 Courtney Alexandre Henriques Laws, community leader
1931 06 16 Ivo Petric, composer
1931 06 16 Robert F [Bob] Smith, (Rep-R-OR, 1983- )
1932 06 16 David Keylsey, actor/director
1932 06 16 Ralph Robins, CEO (Rolls-Royce)
1933 06 16 Joachim Nowotny, writer
1934 06 16 Eileen Atkins, London England, actress (Equus, Devil Within Her)
1934 06 16 Janet Pilgrim, playmate (July 1955, Dec 1955, Oct 1956)
1934 06 16 Little Caesar, vocalist (Little Caesar & the Romans)
1934 06 16 Lord Patrick Beresforord, blood-stock agent
1934 06 16 Lucia Dlugoszewski, composer
1935 06 16 Jim Dine, Cincinnati Oh, pop artist (St John the Divine)
1936 06 16 August Willemsen, Dutch poet/translator
1936 06 16 Fred Oster, Dutch TV host
1937 06 16 August Busch III, CEO (Anheuser-Busch, St Louis Cards)
1937 06 16 Erich Segal, Brooklyn NY, author (Love Story, Oliver's Story)
1938 06 16 Helen Ryan, British?, actress (Hannah)
1938 06 16 James Bolam, actor (Crucible of Terror)
1938 06 16 Joyce Carol Oates, NY, novelist (Garden of Earthly Delights)
1938 06 16 Michael Culver, British? actor (Devil's Webs)
1938 06 16 Mickie Finn, Hugo Okla, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
1940 06 16 Billy Crash Craddock, Greensboro NC, singer
1940 06 16 Hans Dorrestijn, Dutch cabaret performer
1941 06 16 Lamont Dozier, Detroit, songwriter (Dozier-Holland-Dozier)
1942 06 16 Eddie Levert, Canton Ohio, vocalist (O'Jays-For the Love of Money)
1942 06 16 Giacomo Agostini, Lovere, Italy, world motorcycle race champion
1942 06 16 John Rostill, rocker
1943 06 16 Joan Van Ark, NYC, actress (Valene-Dallas, Knots Landing)
1944 06 16 Joan Barbara Grigor, artist
1944 06 16 Takamiyama, [Jesse Kuhaulua], Hawaii, first non-Japanese sumo champion
1946 06 16 Lord Astor, of Hever
1946 06 16 Neil MacGregor, director (British National Gallery)
1946 06 16 Simon Williams, US, actor (Fiendish plot of dr Fu Manchu)
1949 06 16 Kale Browne, San Rafael Calif, actor (Michael Hudson-Another World)
1949 06 16 Peppy Castro, [Emil Thielhelm], NYC, rock vocalist (Balance)
1950 06 16 James Smith, US, singer (Stylistics-Can't Give you Anything)
1950 06 16 Jesse Dizon, Oceanside Calif, actor (Ramon-Operation Petticoat)
1951 06 16 John Salthouse, British(?) actor (American Werewolf in London)
1951 06 16 Michel Viso, France, cosmonaut
1951 06 16 Roberto Duran, boxer (fists of stone, no m
s)
1951 06 16 Sonia Braga, Maringa Brazil, actress (Dona Flor & Her 2 Husbands)
1952 06 16 Aleksandr Zaitsev, USSR, pairs figure skating (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1952 06 16 Gino Vanelli, Montreal Quebec, singer (Living Inside Myself)
1952 06 16 Rob Kloet, pop drummer/singer (Nits-In the Dutch Mountains)
1953 06 16 Ian Mosley, Paddington London, drummer (Marillion-Clutching at Straws)
1954 06 16 Gary Roberts, rocker (Boomtown Rats)
1954 06 16 Jeffrey S Ashby, Dallas Tx, astronaut (sk: STS 85)
1955 06 16 Laurie Metcalf, Carbonville Illinois, actress (Jackie-Roseanne)
1955 06 16 Simon Bailey, priest
1957 06 16 Adri van Tiggelen, Dutch soccer star (Sparta/PSV)
1957 06 16 Ian Buchanan, Scotland, actor (General Hospital, Gary Shandling Show)
1961 06 16 Robbie Kerr, cricketer (Queensland opener 2 Tests for Australia 1985)
1963 06 16 Mohsin Kamal, cricketer (Pakistani fast bowler 1984- )
1965 06 16 J J Birden, NFL wide receiver (Atlanta Falcons)
1965 06 16 Johannes Harisch, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1966 06 16 Jan Zelezny, Czech, javelin thrower (Olympics-2 gold-92, 96)
1966 06 16 [Eric] Randy Barnes, Charleston WV, shot putter (Oly-silv/gold-88, 96)
1968 06 16 Alton Montgomery, NFL safety (Atlanta Falcons)
1968 06 16 Matt Turk, NFL punter (Washington Redskins)
1968 06 16 Nehemiah Perry, cricketer (fine Jamaican off-spinner)
1968 06 16 Patrick Stuart, Hollywood Cal, actor (Will Cortlandt-All My Children)
1969 06 16 Kevin Young, Alpena MI, infielder (KC Royals)
1969 06 16 L B Stephens, NFLer (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1970 06 16 Michael Husted, NFL place kicker (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1970 06 16 Phil A Mickelson, San Diego CA, PGA golfer (1991 Northern Telecom)
1971 06 16 Andre President, tight end (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 06 16 Christopher Gomez, LA Calif, infielder (San Diego Padres)
1971 06 16 Tupac Shakur, Bkln NY, rap star/actor (Juice, Bullet) (killed in 1996)
1972 06 16 Shawnelle Scott, NBA center (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1973 06 16 Shannon Myers, CFL receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1975 06 16 Asa Carlsson, Vasteras Sweden, tennis star (1995 Futures-Stockholm)
1975 06 16 Maria Sinigerova, Miss Universe-Bulgaria (1996)
1976 06 16 Frank van Twillert, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles)
1993 06 16 Alice Ann Newman, daughter of Gretchen & Randy
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born Arthur S Jefferson at Ulverston, Lancashire,
England, son of a music-hall performer; died in Santa Monica, California
Feb. 23, 1965; part of the Laurel and Hardy motion-picture comedy team; 1907
joined Fred Karno's troupe of slapstick comedians in Manchester, and polished
his comic techniques in the Mumming Birds, where he understudied a young
Charlie Chaplin in the role of an obstreperous drunk who repeatedly interrupts
the other performers; 1910 first to the US in the Karno company's tour; 1917
followed Chaplin to Hollywood and made his first film, Nuts; 1926 first started
working with Oliver 'Babe' Hardy at the Hal Roach Studios in the Hal Roach
All-Stars; came to play the pompous oaf to simple-witted Stan, and together
they made over 50 short comedies - mostly two-reelers, but sometimes three
reels; 1933 the pair won an Academy Award for The Music Box.. [some say born
1894, 1895, or 1900] [picture: with Hardy in Sons of the Desert}
