Headline Birthdays for June 21
the first day of Summer or the summer solstice,
a word that comes from the Latin meaning "the static Sun", since at this
time of year and on the first day of winter, sunrises and sunsets only vary
by a few seconds, giving the impression that the sun is staying still.
Jean-Paul Sartre 1905-1980
born in Paris, France; died there April
15, 1980; novelist, playwright, existentialist philosopher; received a doctorate
in philosophy at the Sorbonne; 1938 publishes his first novel, La Nausée
(Eng. trans. Nausea, 1949), where Roquentin, the main character, is stricken
by anguish and alienation from a senseless universe, where individual existence
is purposeless; at least, he sees, he is free, in control of his life and
actions; spent nine months in prison camp during World War II for Resistance
work, and during the Cold War gravitated toward Marxism, only to reject it
in favour of issues oriented politics; other works include Being and Nothingness
(1943) and his plays The Flies (1943) and No Exit (1944); 1964 declines the
award of the Nobel Prize for Literature; with long time partner Simone de
Beauvoir founds and edits the review Les Temps Modernes (1946).
Quote: "Life is nothing until it is lived; but it is yours to make sense
of, and the value of it is nothing else but the sense that you choose."
from Existentialism as Humanism (1946).
Mary McCarthy 1912-1989
born in Seattle, Washington; died in New
York City Oct. 25, 1989; novelist, critic, satirist; orphaned at age 6 with
three brothers in the influenza epidemic of 1918; to keep them in the Catholic
faith, they are sent to Minneapolis to live with a great-aunt and her husband,
Uncle Meyers, a cruel and repressive Dickensian figure who beats them, and
makes them stand outside in snowdrifts for hours at a time; once when Mary
won an award at school, she was beaten with a razor strap to keep her from
getting a big head about it; after five years the children are rescued by
their Protestant grandfather and Jewish grandmother and brought back to Seattle,
where she attends convent school; all recounted in her later autobiography,
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957); 1933 gets her BA from Vassar College;
works as a critic for the New Republic, the Nation, and the Partisan Review;
1937-48 serves on the editorial staff of the Partisan Review; other books
include The Company She Keeps (1942), stories about a fashionable woman who
experiences divorce and psychoanalysis; The Oasis (1949) a short novel about
the failure of a utopian community of ineffectually idealistic intellectuals,
The Groves of Academe (1952), a satire of American higher education during
the Joseph McCarthy era; The Group 1963 (filmed 1966), which follows eight
Vassar women of the class of 1933 through their subsequent careers and the
intellectual fads of the 1930s and '40s; Birds of America (1971); The Mask
of State (1974), on the Watergate affair; Cannibals and Missionaries (1979),
a novel; and How I Grew (1987), a second volume of autobiography.
Quote: "The suspense of a novel is not only in the reader, but in the novelist,
who is intensely curious about what will happen to the hero."
Paolo Soleri 1919-
born in Turin, Italy; architect, designer, utopian
city planner, guru; 1946 PhD in architecture at the Torino Polytechnico;
1947 moved to the US to study with Frank Lloyd Wright at Taliesin West in
Arizona, and at Taliesin East in Wisconsin; worked in bridge design and and
siltcast structures; designed a series of popular ceramic and bronze windbells
and used the proceeds to test his theoretical wor; 1956 settled in Scottsdale,
Arizona, and set up the non-profit Cosanti Foundation, whose major project
is Arcosanti, a prototype town for 7,000 people at Cordes Junction near Phoenix;
based on Soleri's concept of "Arcology," architecture coherent with ecology,
to combat urban sprawl, where nature is immense and extensive, kind, and
brutal, the reservoir of life, and the man-made is dense, organized, powerful,
and dedicated to serving man well.
Ray Davies 1944-
born in London, England to a musical family; lead
singer and songwriter for the Kinks, formed in 1963 with his brother, Dave;
began as a singles band, with such hits as You Really Got Me, All Day and
All of the Night, Well Respected Man, Tired of Waiting, Set Me Free, See
My Friends, Till The End of the Day, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, Dedicated
Follower Of Fashion, Lola; followed with concept albums/rock operas such
as (The Kinks Are) The Village Green Preservation Society and Lola Versus
Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One; other albums include Low Budget
(1979), State of Confusion (1983) with the hit Come Dancing; banned from
playing in the US for four years after slugging an official from the American
Federation of Musicians union; played the lead in the TV play The Long Distance
Piano Player; resident composer for the BBC series The 11th Hour and Where
Was Spring; 1995 published his autobiography, X-Ray, and has been touring
internationally with his one man show, The Storyteller. The Kinks were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
Benazir Bhutto 1953-
born in Karachi, Pakistan, the daughter of Prime
Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto; politician; attended Radcliffe College and
Oxford University; first non-British woman to be elected President of the
Oxford Union; 1974 her father's Chief-of-Staff, General Zia-ul-Haq, overthrew
the elected government; April, 1979 witnessed the hanging of her father and
later the mysterious death of her younger brother, Mir Shahnawaz; arrested
nine times, she spent nearly 6 years either in prison or under detention
for her leadership of the opposition Pakistan Peoples Party; 1981 helped
form a nine-party alliance for the restoration of democracy, called the Movement
for the Restoration of Democracy (MRD), to put pressure on Zia-ul-Haq to
hold elections; 1986 returned from exile in England; 1988 after the death
of Zia-Ul Haq in a plane crash, was elected Prime Minister of Pakistan, the
first woman leader of an Islamic state; embarked on program of liberalization;
1990 dismissed from office and her husband, Asif Ali Zardari, arrested and
jailed for over two years on corruption charges; 1993 reelected with a new
Agenda for Change; 1996 again ousted as Prime Minister after battles with
landowners, religious leaders, the bureaucracy and the drug lords; lost the
1997 elections and was recently sentenced to 5 years in prison and fined
$8.6 million for taking kickbacks. Quote: "Democracy is the best revenge."
Other Birthdays
1002 06 21 Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)
1577 06 21 Giovanni Del Turco, composer
1596 06 21 Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/first Romanov
1640 06 21 Abraham Mignon, still life painter
1668 06 21 Cajetan Kolberer, composer
1688 06 21 Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock)
1730 06 21 Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist
1732 06 21 Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer
1732 06 21 Martha Washington, 1st, first lady (1789-97)
1740 06 21 Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)
1763 06 21 Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher
1774 06 21 Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)
1781 06 21 Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician (Poisson verdeling)
1790 06 21 Wilhelm Speyer, composer
1805 06 21 Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer
1817 06 21 James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887
1818 06 21 Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer
1818 06 21 Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1874
1823 06 21 Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889
1839 06 21 Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)
1839 06 21 Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician
1839 06 21 John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1867
1839 06 21 Machado de Assis, writer
1844 06 21 Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (first railway Congo)
1851 06 21 Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized first boy scout troop
1859 06 21 Henry O Tanner, artist
1862 06 21 Henry Holden Huss, composer
1862 06 21 Johannes Schlaf, writer
1865 06 21 Albert Herbert Brewer, composer
1873 06 21 Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)
1876 06 21 Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)
1879 06 21 Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)
1882 06 21 Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)
1883 06 21 Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)
1884 06 21 Claude Auk Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa
1891 06 21 Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)
1891 06 21 Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)
1892 06 21 Hilding Rosenberg, Bosjkloster Sweden, composer (Babels Torn)
1892 06 21 Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)
1893 06 21 Alois Hba, Czech (opera)composer (Mother)
1899 06 21 Pavel Haas, composer
1900 06 21 Gunnar Ek, composer
1902 06 21 Wilhelm Maler, composer
1903 06 21 Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)
1903 06 21 Alf Sjberg, Stockholm Sweden, director (Fadern, Oen, Domaren)
1903 06 21 Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)
1903 06 21 Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)
1903 06 21 Louis Krasner, violinist
1905 06 21 Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)
1905 06 21 Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)
1906 06 21 Luis Maria Millet, composer
1909 06 21 Kurt Schwaen, composer
1910 06 21 Bela Tardos, composer
1910 06 21 Charles Jones, composer
1912 06 21 Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)
1913 06 21 Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter
1914 06 21 Jan Decadt, composer
1914 06 21 William Vickrey, economist
1916 06 21 Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire
1918 06 21 James Bysse Joll, historian
1920 06 21 Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)
1921 06 21 Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1921 06 21 H Heienbttel, writer
1921 06 21 Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw)
1921 06 21 Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)
1921 06 21 Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)
1922 06 21 Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954)
1922 06 21 Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)
1923 06 21 John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)
1924 06 21 Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist
1925 06 21 Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)
1927 06 21 Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, (Mayor-Cleve)/TV newscaster
1927 06 21 Jackie Collum, baseball player
1928 06 21 Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
1928 06 21 V G Yershov, cosmonaut
1929 06 21 Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (Paki bat in Test v NZ 1956, scored 8*)
1929 06 21 John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)
1930 06 21 Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)
1930 06 21 Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)
1930 06 21 Patricia Lindop, radio biologist
1930 06 21 Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)
1931 06 21 Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)
1931 06 21 Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)
1932 06 21 Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)
1932 06 21 Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer
1932 06 21 Ocie Lee OC Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)
1933 06 21 Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)
1934 06 21 Wulf Kirsten, writer
1935 06 21 Franoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste)
1935 06 21 Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)
1936 06 21 O C Smith, rocker
1937 06 21 Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)
1937 06 21 John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965)
1938 06 21 Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )
1938 06 21 James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England)
1938 06 21 Ron Ely, Hereford Tx, actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)
1939 06 21 Charles Boone, composer
1940 06 21 Joe Flaherty, Pitts Pa, comedian (SCTV, Blue Monday)
1940 06 21 Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)
1941 06 21 Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)
1942 06 21 Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1942 06 21 William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general
1944 06 21 Corinna Tsopel, Athens, actress (Man Called Horse)/Miss Universe (64)
1944 06 21 Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete
1944 06 21 Jon Hiseman, rocker
1944 06 21 Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker
1944 06 21 Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)
1945 06 21 Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)
1946 06 21 Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)
1946 06 21 Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)
1946 06 21 Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)
1946 06 21 Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)
1947 06 21 Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)
1947 06 21 Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange)
1947 06 21 Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)
1947 06 21 Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)
1948 06 21 Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)
1948 06 21 Leo Sayers, rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing)
1949 06 21 Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)
1950 06 21 Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)
1950 06 21 Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Alberta-3rd)
1951 06 21 Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist/singer/songwriter (East Street Band)
1953 06 21 Benazir Bhutto, first female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)
1953 06 21 Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player
1953 06 21 Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)
1954 06 21 Anne Kirkbridge, actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)
1954 06 21 Jeremy Coney, cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)
1954 06 21 Robert Pastorelli, Bkln NY, actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown)
1955 06 21 David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards)
1955 06 21 Leigh J McCloskey, LA Calif, actor (Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp)
1956 06 21 Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)
1956 06 21 Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)
1957 06 21 Berke Breathed, cartoonist (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)
1957 06 21 Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)
1958 06 21 Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)
1959 06 21 Kathy Mattea, country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)
1959 06 21 Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)
1961 06 21 Kip Winger, rocker (Winger-17)
1962 06 21 Marc Copage, LA Calif, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)
1963 06 21 Jeff Musselman, baseball player
1963 06 21 Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)
1964 06 21 Doug Savant, Burbank Calif, actor (Matt Fielding-Melrose Place)
1964 06 21 Kari Kennell, Colorado, playmate (Feb, 1988)/actress (Eric's Revenge)
1964 06 21 Sammi Davis-Voss, Kidderminster England, actress (Hope & Glory)
1965 06 21 Michael Dolan, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)
1966 06 21 David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)
1966 06 21 Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)
1967 06 21 Derrick Coleman, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 06 21 Michele Smith, Califon NJ, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)
1967 06 21 Nicole Kidman, Honolulu Hawaii, actress (Dead Calm, Far & Away)
1967 06 21 Robert Drummond, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 06 21 Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)
1968 06 21 Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton NZ, coxless rower (Olympics-96)
1968 06 21 Brandon Douglas, Okla City, actor (Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming)
1968 06 21 Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1968 06 21 Henry Newby, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)
1969 06 21 Chris Perez, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1969 06 21 Donovan Osborne, Roseville CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)
1970 06 21 Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1970 06 21 John Roethlisberger, Afton Minn, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)
1971 06 21 Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal
1971 06 21 Nicole Stevenson, Melbourne Australia, backstroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)
1971 06 21 Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)
1972 06 21 Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end (Minn Vikings)
1972 06 21 Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)
1972 06 21 Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 06 21 Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)
1972 06 21 Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)
1972 06 21 Tony Berti, NFL tackle (SD Chargers)
1973 06 21 Alyson Annan, Sydney NSW Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)
1973 06 21 Juliette Lewis, LA Calif, actress (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear)
1973 06 21 Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard/forward (Cleveland Rockers)
1973 06 21 Sammie Burroughs, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 06 21 Rob Kelly, safety (New Orleans Saints)
1976 06 21 Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996)
1977 06 21 Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)
1982 06 21 William of Wales, son of Prince Charles & Lady Diana Spencer
«« | Calendar | »» | Milestones |
|
born in Paris, France; died there April
15, 1980; novelist, playwright, existentialist philosopher; received a doctorate
in philosophy at the Sorbonne; 1938 publishes his first novel, La Nausée
(Eng. trans. Nausea, 1949), where Roquentin, the main character, is stricken
by anguish and alienation from a senseless universe, where individual existence
is purposeless; at least, he sees, he is free, in control of his life and
actions; spent nine months in prison camp during World War II for Resistance
work, and during the Cold War gravitated toward Marxism, only to reject it
in favour of issues oriented politics; other works include Being and Nothingness
(1943) and his plays The Flies (1943) and No Exit (1944); 1964 declines the
award of the Nobel Prize for Literature; with long time partner Simone de
Beauvoir founds and edits the review Les Temps Modernes (1946).
born in London, England to a musical family; lead
singer and songwriter for the Kinks, formed in 1963 with his brother, Dave;
began as a singles band, with such hits as You Really Got Me, All Day and
All of the Night, Well Respected Man, Tired of Waiting, Set Me Free, See
My Friends, Till The End of the Day, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, Dedicated
Follower Of Fashion, Lola; followed with concept albums/rock operas such
as (The Kinks Are) The Village Green Preservation Society and Lola Versus
Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One; other albums include Low Budget
(1979), State of Confusion (1983) with the hit Come Dancing; banned from
playing in the US for four years after slugging an official from the American
Federation of Musicians union; played the lead in the TV play The Long Distance
Piano Player; resident composer for the BBC series The 11th Hour and Where
Was Spring; 1995 published his autobiography, X-Ray, and has been touring
internationally with his one man show, The Storyteller. The Kinks were inducted
into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1990.
