Headline Birthdays for June 19
James I 1566-1625
born in Edinburgh Castle, to Mary Queen of Scots
and her second husband, Henry Stewart, Lord Darnley, both grandchildren of
Margaret Tudor; died at Theobalds, Hertfordshire March 27, 1625; 1567 ascended
the Scottish throne as James VI after his mother was forced to abdicate because
of her indiscretions and Catholic faith, but Scotland was ruled by a regent
until he came of age; 1589 married Anne of Denmark, who bore him three sons
and four daughters; 1603 ascended the English throne after being named successor
by his cousin, Elizabeth I; as first Stuart king of England, he styled himself
"King of Great Britain"; constantly at odds with Parliament due to extravagant
spending; awarded over 200 peerages (landed titles) as bribes designed to
win loyalty, the most controversial of which was his creation of George Villiers
(his closest advisor and homosexual partner) as Duke of Buckingham; tried
to kindle Spanish relations by a marriage between his son Charles and the
Spanish Infanta, and by executing Sir Walter Raleigh; known for his Authorized
Version of the Bible, printed in English in 1611.
Blaise Pascal 1623-1662
born at Clermont-Ferrand, France; died
in Paris Aug. 19, 1662; scientist, philosopher; educated at home by his father,
a tax collector, and taken to scientific meetings as a boy; his father would
not let him study mathematics until age 15, but at 12 years old he discovered
that the sum of the angles of a triangle equal two right angles; when his
father found out, he relented and gave him a copy of Euclid; his studies
of hydrostatic and atmospheric pressure led him to invent the syringe and
the hydraulic press; 1642-45 built a mechanical adding machine called the
Pascaline, the world's first digital calculator, to help his father with
tax collecting; 1647 wrote New Experiments Concerning Vacuums, and observed
that the pressure of the atmosphere decreases with height and that a vacuum
must exist above the atmosphere; 1648 wrote The Generation of Conic Sections,
pioneering projective geometry, calculus and probability theory; wrote a
Treatise on the Arithmetical Triangle, now called the Pascal Triangle; 1653
wrote Treatise on the Equilibrium of Liquids, with Pascal's law of pressure,
a complete outline of a system of hydrostatics, the first in the history
of science; October 1654 nearly lost his life in an accident when the horses
pulling his carriage bolted and the carriage was left hanging over a bridge
above the river Seine; pledged his life to Christianity and visited the Jansenist
monastery Port-Royal des Champs; 1656-57 published anonymous works on religious
topics, including his eighteen Provincial Letters; 1656-58 wrote his Pensées,
a collection of personal thoughts on human suffering and faith in God; contains
'Pascal's wager' which claims to prove that belief in God is rational with
the following argument : "If God does not exist, one will lose nothing by
believing in him, while if he does exist, one will lose everything by not
believing."
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig 1861-1928
born in Edinburgh to the
Haig whisky family; died in London Jan. 29, 1928; soldier; educated at Oxford
and Royal Military College Sandhurst, where he was commissioned in the
7th Hussars; 1898-1902 served under Kitchener in the Omdurman campaign and
Boer War; 1909 Chief of Staff of the Indian army; 1914-15 commander of the
British 1st Army in World War I; 1915-19 Commander in Chief British Expeditionary
Forces in France and Flanders; his strategy of attrition (summarized as "kill
more Germans") and his broad frontal attack strategy resulted in enormous
numbers of British casualties but little immediate gain; always believed
he could bring off great sweeping decisive victories, but put under extreme
pressure from the nearly beaten French to produce a diversion from Verdun,
he fought the First Battle of the Somme from July to November 1916, advanced
12km, suffered 420,000 British and 200,000 French casualties, but in the
end stopped a German breakthrough; earned him the title, "Butcher of the
Somme"; 1918 took charge of the successful British advances on the Western
Front after the Canadian victory at Vimy Ridge.
Wallis Warfield, Duchess of Windsor 1896-1986
born at Blue Ridge Summit,
Pennsylvania; died in Paris, France April 24, 1986; socialite who became
the wife of Prince Edward, Duke of Windsor (Edward VIII), after the latter
had abdicated the British throne; 1916-27 married to a US naval lieutenant;
1928 married Ernest Aldrich Simpson, an American businessman residing in
London, where she met Edward, who was then prince of Wales; Oct. 1936 obtained
a divorce decree nisi, and after his abdication and her divorce married Edward
in France June 3, 1937; by special letters patent it was provided that the
duchess of Windsor should not share her husband's royal rank; she was not
officially invited back to Britain until 1967; attended Edward's funeral
in England in 1972 and was buried next to him at her death.
Lou Gehrig 1903-1941
born in New York City, the son of poor German
immigrants; died there June 2, 1941; baseball player known as The Iron Horse;
June 1, 1925 started playing first base for the New York Yankees, batting
4th in the lineup after Babe Ruth; in 1925, hit .295; in 1926, hit .313,
and hit over .300 for the next 12 consecutive seasons; 1928 hit .374 and
led the league in on base average; the Yankees beat the Cardinals sweeping
their second consecutive World Series, and Gehrig batted .545 in the World
Series; appeared in 2,130 consecutive games and seven World Series; May 2,
1939 retired with a career average of .340, 493 home runs, and 1,990 runs
batted in; 1938 stricken with a degenerative muscle disease, amyotrophic
lateral sclerosis, that came to be known as Lou Gehrig's disease. [picture: with Babe Ruth]
Aung San Suu Kyi 1945-
born in Yangôn, Myanmar, the daughter
of Aung San, a martyred national hero of independent Burma, and Khin Kyi,
a prominent Burmese diplomat; politician, Myanmar opposition leader; educated
at Delhi University and Oxford; 1988 returned to her country and began a
nonviolent struggle for democracy against military strongman Ne Win; 1989
put under house arrest until July, 1995; 1991 awarded the Nobel Prize for
Peace. [picture: with her British husband, Michael Aris, in 1973]
Salman Rushdie 1947-
born in Bombay, India; author of seven novels
including Midnight's Children (1981 Booker Prize), The Moor's Last Sigh,
The Ground Beneath Her Feet and Satanic Verses, which led him in 1989 to
be condemned to death by leading Iranian Muslim clerics for allegedly having
blasphemed Islam; the sentence has since been lifted.
Kathleen Turner 1954-
born in Springfield, Missouri; actress; started
he career as Nola in the soap opera The Doctors; films include Moonlight
and Valentino (1995), Serial Mom (1994), House of Cards (1993), Naked in
New York (1993), Undercover Blues (1993), V.I. Warshawski (1991), Tummy Trouble
(1990) (voice), The War of the Roses (1989), The Accidental Tourist (1988),
Switching Channels (1988), Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988, voice of Jessica
Rabbit), Julia and Julia/Giulia e Giulia (1987), Peggy Sue Got Married (1986,
Academy Award Nomination: Best Actress; Golden Globe Nomination: Best Actress
in a Comedy), The Jewel of the Nile (1985), Prizzi's Honor (1985, Golden
Globe: Best Actress in a Comedy), A Breed Apart (1984), Crimes of Passion
(1984), Romancing the Stone (1984, Golden Globe: Best Actress in a Comedy),
The Man with Two Brains (1983), Body Heat (1981); has also played the voice
of Stacy Lovell in The Simpsons. Some say her film career was hurt by a highly
public feud with co-star Michael Douglas; stage credits include her portrayal
of Maggie in the 1989 Broadway hit production of Tennessee Williams' Cat
on a Hot Tin Roof. Turner performed some of her own stunts in Romancing the
Stone (1984), Undercover Blues (1993) and V.I. Warshawski (1991, broke her
nose during filming.)
Other Birthdays
1566 06 19 James I Stuart, king of Scotland (James VI)/England (1567/1603-25)
1595 06 19 Wladyslaw IV Vasa, king of Poland (1632-48)
1608 06 19 Thomas Fuller, England, literary (History of the Holy War)
1613 06 19 Christian de Placker, composer
1623 06 19 Blaise Pascal, mathematician/physicist/religious writer (Pascal)
1633 06 19 Philippus van Limborch, remonstrants theologist/vicar
1708 06 19 Johann Gottlieb Janitsch, composer
1717 06 19 Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer
1741 06 19 Reinier Vinkeles, Dutch engraver/art collector
1749 06 19 Jean-Marie Collot d'Herbois, France, chairman (National Convention)
1764 06 19 John Barrow, England, founded Royal Geographical Society
1764 06 19 José Gervasio Artigas, general/father of Uruguay
1766 06 19 Edmund Weber, composer
1782 06 19 Hugues F R de Lamennais, French priest/writer (L'avenir)
1782 06 19 John Bray, composer
1783 06 19 Thomas Sully, US portrait painter (Queen Victoria)
1790 06 19 John Gibson, British (?) sculptor
1792 06 19 Gustav Schwab, writer
1810 06 19 Ferdinand David, violist/compser (Hohe Schule des Violinspiels)
1811 06 19 Henry Prince, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1892
1814 06 19 Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1815 06 19 John William Glover, composer
1834 06 19 Edgar H G Degas, French painter (ballerina)
1842 06 19 Carl Johann Adam Zeller, composer
1843 06 19 Charles Edouard Lefebvre, composer
1854 06 19 Alfredo Catalani, composer
1856 06 19 Elbert Hubbard, US, editor/publisher/author (Message to Garcia)
1858 06 19 Charles Haddon George Alexander, [George Samson], British actor
1858 06 19 Dirk Fock, governor-general of Neth Indies (1921-26)
1861 06 19 Douglas Haig, British fieldmarshal (Sudan, WW I)
1861 06 19 José Protasio Rizal, Philippine optician/author/nationalist
1865 06 19 Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1865 06 19 May Whitty, Liverpool England, actress (Mrs Minerva, Suspicion)
1867 06 19 Eduard Jacobs, Dutch cabaret artist
1867 06 19 Frank Iredale, cricketer (Australian batsman 1894-99)
1868 06 19 Heinrich Schenker, [A Niloff], Austrian musicologist (Urlinie)
1877 06 19 Charles Coburn, Macon Ga, actor (Acad-1943, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes)
1878 06 19 James M Kilroe, priest of St Mary Star of the Sea, in the Bronx
1880 06 19 Johann Sigurjonsson, Icelandic writer (Dr Rung)
1885 06 19 Stevan Hristic, composer
1886 06 19 Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1886 06 19 Robert Herberigs, Flemish composer/writer (Hiawatha's Song)
1889 06 19 Enrico Celio, president (Switzerland)
1890 06 19 Barbara Everest, London England, actress (Fatal Witness, Inquest)
1893 06 19 Adriaan F Dussenbroek, Dutch family dr/co-founder (Union Natl Arubano)
1896 06 19 Bessie Wallis Warfield Simpson, Duchess of Windsor, divorcee
1897 06 19 Moe Howard, [Moses Horowitz], Bkln NY, comedian (3 Stooges)
1898 06 19 Paul Muller-Zurich, composer
1899 06 19 George Calinescu, Romania, literature (Enigma Otilei)
1900 06 19 Laura Hobson, NYC, TV writer/panelist (I've Got a Secret)
1901 06 19 Edward Lambert, British diplomat
1902 06 19 Guy Lombardo, London Ontario Canada, orch leader (Auld Lang Syne)
1903 06 19 Walter Hammond, cricketer (one of the greatest of English batsman)
1903 06 19 [Henry] Lou[is] Gehrig, Iron Horse, first baseman (NY Yankees)
1904 06 19 Balis Dvarionas, composer
1905 06 19 George Voskovec, Czech, actor (Fred-Nero Wolfe, Peter-Skag)
1905 06 19 Taneli Kuusisto, composer
1908 06 19 Mildred Natwick, Balt Md, actress (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon)
1908 06 19 Quentin N Burdick, (Sen-D-ND, 1960-91)
1909 06 19 Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1909 06 19 Osamu Dazai, Japan, novelist (Tsugaru, No Longer Human)
1910 06 19 Frederick Harry Baines, painter
1912 06 19 Jerry Jerome, Bkln NY, saxophonist (Words & Music)
1912 06 19 Martin Gabel, Phila, TV host (With this Ring)
1914 06 19 Alan Cranston, (Sen-D-CA, 1969- )
1914 06 19 Harry Lauter, White Plains NY, actor (Waterfront)
1914 06 19 Lester Flatt, Earl Scrugg's partner (Beverly Hillbillies theme)
1914 06 19 Morgan Morgan-Giles, Brits Lt admiral/MP
1916 06 19 Pat Buttram, actor (Mr Haney-Green Acres)
1917 06 19 Joshua Nkomo, Zimbabwan minister (ZAPUA)
1918 06 19 Evelle Jansen Younger, prosecutor (Charles Manson, Sirhan Sirhan)
1919 06 19 Louis Jourdan, Marseilles France, actor (Gigi, Can-Can, Madame Bovary)
1919 06 19 Pauline Kael, movie critic (NY Times, For Keeps)
1921 06 19 Allan Davis, (mayor-London)
1921 06 19 Herman Berserik, Dutch painter/graphic artist
1921 06 19 Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1921 06 19 Rosalyn Yalow, famed award winning medical physicist
1922 06 19 Aage Neals Bohr, Denmark, physicist/study atomic nucleus (Nobel 1975)
1924 06 19 David Scott, priest
1924 06 19 Leo Nomellini, NFL defensive tackle (SF 49ers)
1924 06 19 Wassil Bykau, writer
1925 06 19 Alfred B Nzo, South African sec-gen ANC (1969- )
1925 06 19 Charlie Drake, British comic (Plank, Rhubarb Rhubarb, Splish Splash)
1927 06 19 Karel Kupka, composer
1928 06 19 Nancy Marchand, Buffalo NY, actress (Beacon Hill, Margaret-Lou Grant)
1928 06 19 Raymond Powell, British MP
1930 06 19 Bryan Kneale, British sculptor
1930 06 19 Jul Levi, composer
1931 06 19 Against Iain duke of Atholl, English large landowner
1932 06 19 Marisa Pavan, Cagliari Italy, actress (Solomon & Sheba, Rose Tattoo)
1932 06 19 Pier Angeli, Italy (Sodom & Gomorrah, Vintage, Battle of the Bulge)
1933 06 19 Thelma Barlow, English actress (Mavis-Coronation Street)
1933 06 19 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11)
1934 06 19 Gena Rowlands, Cambria Wisc, actress (Gloria, Tempest, Brinks Job)
1934 06 19 Hammond Furlonge, cricketer (WI batsman in 3 Tests 1955-56)
1934 06 19 Terence Clark, British diplomat
1935 06 19 Tommy Devito, Montclair NJ, rock vocalist (Four Seasons-Sherry)
1936 06 19 Shirley Goodman, US R&B singers (Shirley & Lee-Feels so Good)
1938 06 19 Charles Gwathmey, architect (5 Architects)
1938 06 19 John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1939 06 19 Peter Duffell, Brits lt-general/minister of Defense
1940 06 19 Shirley Cha Cha Muldowney, drag racer (first woman Top Fuel champ)
1941 06 19 Marlene Warfield, Queens NY, actress (Victoria-Maude)
1942 06 19 Elaine Spanky McFarlane, rocker (Spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day)
1942 06 19 Jos Brink, Dutch TV host (Op Zoek)
1942 06 19 Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1942 06 19 Robert [Bob] W Kasten Jr, (Sen-R-WI, 1981- )
1945 06 19 Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician (Nobel)
1945 06 19 Tim Hovey, LA Calif, actor (Queen Bee, Toy Tiger, Man Afraid)
1945 06 19 Tobias Wolff, US writer (This Boy's Life)
1947 06 19 James T Walsh, (Rep-R-NY)
1947 06 19 Phylicia Ayers-Allen Rashad, Houston, actress (Clair-Bill Cosby)
1947 06 19 Salman Rushdie, Pak, novelist (Midnight's Children, Satanic Verses)
1948 06 19 Dervin Gordon, rocker
1949 06 19 [Mary] Kathleen Turner, Springfield Mo, actress (Romancing The Stone)
1950 06 19 Constance Forslund, San Diego Calif, actress (Shining Season)
1951 06 19 Ann Wilson, San Diego Calif, rock vocalist (Heart-What About Love)
1951 06 19 Daria Nicolodi, Florence Italy, actress (Terror, Shock)
1952 06 19 Robert Ainsworth, British MP
1953 06 19 Larry Dunn, [Dunhill], US keyboardist (Earth Wind & Fire)
1954 06 19 Jim Cooper, (Rep-D-TN, 1983- )
1954 06 19 Michael O'Brien, British MP
1957 06 19 David Gleeson, Norfolk England, US, rower (Olympics-1996)
1959 06 19 Kimberley Leston, journalist
1959 06 19 Mark DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rock vocalist (DeBarge-Who's Johnny)
1960 06 19 Heike Walpot, German, cosmonaut
1960 06 19 Johnny Lee Gray, Jr, LA Calif, 800m runner (Olympics-7th-1996)
1960 06 19 Patti Rizzo, Hollywood Fla, golfer (Mexican Amateur champion 1980)
1960 06 19 Simon Wright, heavy metal drummer (AC/DC)
1962 06 19 Ken Tohill, jockey
1962 06 19 Paula Julie Abdul, Van Nuys Calif, singer/choreographer (Straight Up)
1962 06 19 Phillip Hatchett, Russellville Ky, Canadian Tour golfer (1991 Quebec)
1962 06 19 Sid Fenech, jockey
1964 06 19 David Freedman, cricketer (NSW left-arm Chinese bowler since 1990)
1965 06 19 Karen Davies, Wrexham N Wales, golfer (1991 PING-Cellular One-6th)
1967 06 19 Eric Schweig, Inuvik Canada, actor (Dead Man's Walk)
1968 06 19 Jud Buechler, NBA guard/forward (Chicago Bulls)
1970 06 19 Chris Gray, NFL guard (Miami Dolphins, Chicago Bears)
1970 06 19 Claire Mitchell-Taverner, Australian field hockey midfielder (Oly-96)
1970 06 19 Leonard Humphries, CFL cornerback (BC Lions)
1970 06 19 Quincy Dushawn Watts, Detroit Mich, 400m runner
1970 06 19 Scott Brumfield, guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 06 19 Andre Strode, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1972 06 19 Anna Van der Kamp, Abbotsford BC, rower (Olympics-96)
1972 06 19 Millard Coleman, CFL receiver (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 06 19 Arne van de Berg, soccer player (Willem II)
1973 06 19 Jahine Arnold, wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1973 06 19 Josie Davis, actress (Charles in Charge) [or Jan 16]
1975 06 19 Anna Valle, Miss Universe-Italy (1996)
1975 06 19 Anthony Parker, NBA guard (Phila 76ers)
1975 06 19 Brandon Mitchell, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1976 06 19 Darnell Autry, running back (Chicago Bears)
1978 06 19 Garfield the Cat, animated character Big fat hairy deal
1979 06 19 Soni Meduna, Omaha Neb, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 06 19 Amy Merrill, Miss Utah Teen USA (1997)
1984 06 19 Emil Coleman, orchestra leader (Arthur Murray Party)
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born in Yangôn, Myanmar, the daughter
of Aung San, a martyred national hero of independent Burma, and Khin Kyi,
a prominent Burmese diplomat; politician, Myanmar opposition leader; educated
at Delhi University and Oxford; 1988 returned to her country and began a
nonviolent struggle for democracy against military strongman Ne Win; 1989
put under house arrest until July, 1995; 1991 awarded the Nobel Prize for
Peace. [picture: with her British husband, Michael Aris, in 1973]
