Headline Birthdays for June 27
Charles IX 1550-1574
born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; died in Vincennes
May 30, 1574; King of France; 1560 succeeded his brother Francois II under
the regency of his mother, Catherine de Médicis until 1570; best known
for authorizing the massacre of 20,000 Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day,
Aug. 23-24, 1572, on the advice of his mother, who feared the power of French
Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny, who was conspiring with the Dutch to
lead an invasion of the Netherlands to drive out the Spanish. Catherine convinced
her son that a Protestant plot to overthrow the monarchy was imminent, and
that only swift action could save France.
Charles Stewart Parnell 1846-1891
born at Avondale, County Wicklow,
Ireland, son of an Irish Protestant landlord and an American mother; died
at Brighton, Sussex, Oct. 6, 1891; Irish statesman, and the leader of the
struggle for Irish Home Rule; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge; 1874
high sheriff of Wicklow; decided to enter politics after the execution of
three Fenians in Manchester; 1875-91 MP for Meath at Westminster; 1879 elected
president of Michael Davitt's Irish National Land League, to reduce rents
and promote the ownership of the soil by the farmers; 1880 visited the US
adn addressed the House of Representatives at Washington; 1881 jailed for
nine months for his connection with the land league; 1889-90 ruined by proof
of his adultery with Katherine O'Shea, whom he subsequently married.
Helen Keller 1880-1968
born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of
a newspaper editor; died at Westport, Connecticut June 1, 1968; author, educator;
Feb. 1882 lost her sight and hearing due to an infection at 19 months old;
her parents took her at age 6 to Alexander Graham Bell, who was famous for
working with the deaf; he saw how bright she was, in spite of her tantrums,
and in March 1877 sent 20 year old teacher Anne Sullivan to the Keller home
to work with her; April 5, 1887 Helen associated water with the letters w-a-t-e-r
that Anne was spelling into her hand; she learned 30 words by the end of
that day; Sullivan also taught Keller how to speak by placing her fingers
on Sullivan's larynx to feel the vibrations; Keller enrolled at Radcliffe
College and graduated with honours in 1904; at college she published The
Story of My Life and later published two further books about her life; worked
to make Braille, a raised form of writing, the standard for printed communication
with the blind.
Quote: "The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or
even touched. They must be felt with the heart."
Juan Trippe 1899-1981
born in Seabright, New jersey; died in New
York City April 3, 1981; pilot, commercial aviation pioneer; 1927 won the
US Air Mail contract for US-Cuba service operated his Pan-American Airways
from Key West, then Miami; first leased a single engine Fairchild, then bought
longer range Fokker F-10 Trimotors; became known for strong-arming Latin
American, European and Pacific governments into granting the landing rights
he wanted in the name of the US government. Historian Robert Daley called
Trippe, who reigned over Pan Am for 41 years "the first aviation tycoon in
history -and the last." [picture: with his CEO Charles Lindbergh]
Bob Keeshan 1927-
born in Lynbrook, Long Island, New York; childrens
TV actor, producer; 1947 started career by creating the character of Clarabel
the Clown for the Howdy Doody Show, to 1952; Clarabel couldn't talk, but
could make noise with a horn, like Harpo Marx, and could spray seltzer water;
1955 developed and scripted the Captain Kangaroo show; to 1985, a six time
Emmy winner and the longest running network children's program to date; also
hosted the Saturday television program, CBS Storybreak, a weekly series presenting
original adaptations for children's books, and was a regular on the CBS news
program, Up to the Minute.
Isabelle Adjani 1955-
born in Paris, France, to an Algerian father
of Turkish ancestry and a German mother; the sister of Eric Adjani, a famous
photographer; actress, started film acting in high school, but first earned
critical praise at age 17 as a member of the Comedie Francaise; worked mostly
in stage roles until 1974, when she played in La Gifle with Claude Pinoteau;
1975 directered by François Truffaut in L'Histoire de Adele H (Oscar
and César nominations); 1976 in Roman Polanski's Le Locataire; 1976
André Téchiné's Barocco; 1977 Walter Hill's The Driver;
1979 Werner Herzog's Nosferatu; 1978 André Téchiné's
Les Soeurs Brontë; 1981 Zulawski's Clara et les chics types and James
Ivory's Quartet; 1982 Tout feu tout flamme (César); 1981 Carlos Saura's
Antonieta, Jean Becker's L'été meutrier (César) and
Claude Miller's Mortelle Randonnée; 1985 Luc Besson's Subway; 1987
Ishtar; 1988 Camille Claudel (César); 1993 Toxic Affair; 1994 La Reine
Margot; 1995 Le sang du massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy (César);
1996 Isabelle La Diabolique (with Sharon Stone; 1998 Passionnément,
with Gérard Depardieu; 1997 Anne Boleyn; 1998 The Last Face, with
Jeremy Irons.
"Isabelle Adjani was only 17 years old, but she was the only actress who
ever made me cry in front of a television screen. And because of that, I
wanted to film with her right away, in all urgency...to steal precious things
from her...like everything that passes over a body and a face in full transformation."
- Francois Truffaut, L'Express, March 1975.
[picture: with Truffaut]
Other Birthdays
1462 06 27 Louis XII, the Just, King of France (1498-1515)
1550 06 27 Charles IX, King of France (1560-74)
1615 06 27 Johann Paul Schor, German Baroque painter
1718 06 27 Wenzel Raimund Pirck, composer
1745 06 27 Johann Nepomuk Went, composer
1789 06 27 Philipp Friedrich Silcher, composer
1805 06 27 Stephen Elvey, composer
1808 06 27 Everhardus J Potgieter, Dutch writer/publisher (The Guide)
1809 06 27 Fran‡ois de Canrobert, French marshal/parliament member
1812 06 27 John Pike Hullah, composer
1819 06 27 Carl Albert Loeschhorn, composer
1821 06 27 August Conradi, composer
1828 06 27 Junius Daniel, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1833 06 27 Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba, composer
1838 06 27 Bankim Chandra Chatterjee, Bengali novelist (Anandamath)
1846 06 27 Charles S Parnell, English/Irish Home Rule Party-Lower house member
1849 06 27 Harriet Hubbard Ayers, beauty cream maufacturer & expert/columnist
1850 06 27 Ivan Vazov, Bulgaria, poet/novelist/playwright (Under the Yoke)
1850 06 27 Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer
1850 06 27 Lafcadio Hearn, US, journalist/author (Chita)
1859 06 27 Mildred J Hill, composer/musician (Happy Birthday To You)
1862 06 27 May Irwin, US comedienne/singer (Hot Time in the Old Town)
1869 06 27 Emma Goldman, anarchist/publisher (Mother Earth)
1872 06 27 Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dayton Ohio, poet/novelist (Oak & Ivory)
1878 06 27 Jean F Van Royen, Dutch bibliophile/secretary-general of PTT
1880 06 27 Helen Keller, Ala, blind-deaf author/lecturer had more sense than many
1882 06 27 Eduard Spranger, German psychologist/educator
1884 06 27 Forrester Harvey, Ireland, actor (Tarzan, Chump at Oxford)
1884 06 27 Gaston Bachelard, French philosopher (La psychanalyse du feu)
1885 06 27 Arthur Harmat, composer
1886 06 27 Charles Macartney, cricketer (Governor-General)
1889 06 27 Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
1889 06 27 Moroni Olsen, Ogden UT, actor (Annie Oakley, Black Gold, Snow White)
1896 06 27 Franciscus J Feron, vicaris-general of Roermond
1898 06 27 Alexandra G Alja von Hoyer-Rachmanova, Russ/Aust author (Students)
1898 06 27 Tibor Harsanyi, composer
1900 06 27 Otto E Passman, (Rep-D-La, 1947-77)
1905 06 27 Ruby Middleton Forsythe, teacher (50 years in 1 room school in SC)
1906 06 27 Vernon P Watkins, Welsh poet (Ballad of Mari Lwyd)
1907 06 27 John McIntire, Spokane WA, actor (Naked City, Wagon Train, Virginian)
1907 06 27 Valerie Cossart, London, actress (Hartmans)
1908 06 27 Hans de Jong, musician/conductor (De Damrakkertjes)
1908 06 27 William Eric David Davis, broadcaster
1909 06 27 Gianandrea Gavazzeni, composer
1910 06 27 Karel Reiner, composer
1911 06 27 Alfred Scott Witherbee Jr, US, 3 year old who drowned on Lusitania
1911 06 27 Paul Eekman, Flemish RC politician (1964- )
1911 06 27 V K Narayana Menon, composer
1912 06 27 Audrey Christie, Chic Ill, actress (Dorothy-Fair Exchange)
1913 06 27 Willie Mosconi, world champion pool player (1941-57)
1914 06 27 Alexander Pola, [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor/writer (Farce Major)
1914 06 27 Giorgio Almirante, Italy, fascist (member of parliament (1948-87))
1915 06 27 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, musician
1916 06 27 Arthur Walter Lucas, picture restorer
1916 06 27 Hallvard Olav Johnsen, composer
1917 06 27 K M Rangnekar, cricketer (batted in 3 Tests India v Australia 1947-48)
1917 06 27 Ronald George Hayward, political manager
1918 06 27 Adolph Kiefer, US, 100m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1936)
1920 06 27 I A L Diamond, screenwriter (1960 Acad Award-Apartment)
1921 06 27 G M J Veldkamp, Dutch politician (CDA)
1922 06 27 George Theophilus Walker, Washington DC, composer (Praise of Lillies)
1922 06 27 Herbert Ziergiebel, writer
1923 06 27 Paul F Conrad, Cedar Rapids Iowa, cartoonist (Pulitzer 1964, 71, 84)
1924 06 27 Bob Appleyard, cricketer (superb England off-spinner, brief career)
1924 06 27 Efua Theodore Sutherland, writer
1924 06 27 Paul Conrad, comic strip cartoonist (LA Times)
1925 06 27 Jerome Doc Pomus, rocker
1926 06 27 Frank O'Hara, writer
1927 06 27 Bob Keeshan, Lynbrook NY, aka Capt Kangaroo/Clarabelle (Good Morning)
1927 06 27 Peter Bayliss, Thames England, actor (From Russia With Love)
1927 06 27 Robert Casey, Rochester NY, actor (Henry-Aldrich Family Show)
1930 06 27 H Ross Perot, Texas, billionaire/presidental candidate (1992)
1930 06 27 Tamio Kono, Sacramento CA, weightlifting (Oly-gold-52, 56, 60)
1931 06 27 Alojz Srebotnjak, composer
1931 06 27 Charles Bronfman, CEO (Seagrams, Montreal Expos)
1931 06 27 Ryszard Kwiatkowski, composer
1932 06 27 Hugh Wood, composer
1932 06 27 Joachim Wohlgemuth, writer
1934 06 27 Anna Moffo, Wayne Penn, soprano (Adventurers) [or 1927/1932]
1935 06 27 Eduard Pavlovich Kugno, Russia, cosmonaut
1935 06 27 Frans K”hler, painter
1936 06 27 John MD Shali Shalikashvili, Polish/US general (NATO)
1937 06 27 Joseph P Allen IV, Crawfordsville Ind, PhD/astronaut (STS-5, STS 51A)
1938 06 27 Bruce E Babbitt, (Gov-D-AL)/secretary of interior
1938 06 27 Gordon Rorke, cricketer (Australian quickie, 4 Tests at end of 50's)
1938 06 27 Shirley Ann Field, actress (Beat Girl, Kings of the Sun) [or Jul 27]
1939 06 27 Neil Hawke, cricketer (Aust pace bowler & late-order bat in 60s)
1940 06 27 Erik Erikson, anthropologist
1941 06 27 James P[atrick] Hogan, UK, sci-fi author (Giants' Star)
1941 06 27 Krzysztof Kieslowski, Poland, director/actor (Underground Passage)
1942 06 27 Frank Mills, pianist/composer/arranger (Music Box Dancer)
1942 06 27 John Howard McGuire, composer
1944 06 27 Bruce Johnston, rocker
1944 06 27 Cornelis J Kees Ouwens, Dutch writer/poet (Intimate Acts)
1944 06 27 Patrick Sercu, Belgium, 1K time trial (Olympic-gold-1964)
1945 06 27 Catherine Lacoste, Paris France, golfer (US Women's Open 1967)
1945 06 27 John Veltch, horse trainer
1945 06 27 Norma Kamali, NYC, dress designer (Costumes for the Wiz)
1946 06 27 Daria Semegen, composer
1946 06 27 Janice Giteck, composer
1946 06 27 Sally Priesand, first us woman rabbi
1947 06 27 Francisca Cisca Beaudoux, actress (2 Under a Cap)
1948 06 27 Angel Penna Jr, horse trainer
1950 06 27 Benjamin Peterson, US, heavyweight boxer (Olympic-gold-1972)
1950 06 27 Julia Duffy, Minneapolis Mn, actress (Stephanie-Newhart, Baby Talk)
1951 06 27 Sidney M Gutierrez, Albuquerque NM, Mjr USAF/astronaut (STS 40, 59)
1951 06 27 Ulf Andersson, Sweden, International Chess Grandmaster (1972)
1953 06 27 Kent Bostick, Lowell Mass, pursuit cyclist (Olympics-84, 96)
1955 06 27 Frank H G de Grave, Dutch MP (VVD)
1955 06 27 Isabelle Adjani, Paris, actress (Story of Adele H, Driver, Ishtar)
1956 06 27 Jeff Odintz, horse trainer
1957 06 27 Jack Poels, Dutch rock vocalist/gitarist (Rowwen HŠze-In the Wei)
1958 06 27 Jeffrey Lee Pierce, singer/songwriter (Gun Club)
1958 06 27 Robert Newman, LA Calif, actor (Joshua Lewis-Guiding Light)
1959 06 27 Lorrie Morgan, Nashville Tn, country singer (Out of Your Shoes)
1959 06 27 Trisha Yearwood, Nashville Tenn, singer (She's in Love With the Boy)
1960 06 27 7th marquess of Cholmondeley, English large landowner/millionaire
1960 06 27 Brian Dillinger, Brooklyn NY, actor (Brighton Beach Memoirs)
1960 06 27 Jim Nussle, (Rep-R-Iowa)
1963 06 27 Stephen Peterson, Detroit Mich, Conn, rower (Olympics-1996)
1964 06 27 Chuck Person, NBA forward (San Antonio Spurs)
1966 06 27 Jason Patric, NYC, actor (Lost Boys, Solar Babies)
1966 06 27 Jeff Conine, Tacoma Washington, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1966 06 27 Mercedes Paz, Tucum Argentina, tennis star (1990 Strasbourg)
1966 06 27 Rob Harbison, Fallston MD, 3x40 rifle (Olympics-6th-1996)
1967 06 27 Lester Archambeau, NFL defensive end (Atlanta Falcons)
1967 06 27 Michelle Torres, Chicago IL, tennis star
1967 06 27 Sylvie Fréchette, Montreal QUE, synchro swimmer (Oly-gold/silv-92, 96)
1968 06 27 Jason Patric, actor (Speed 2 Cruise Control)
1969 06 27 Mark Telerico, Cleveland Ohio, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 S Florida)
1970 06 27 Petra Langrova, Prostejov Czech, tennis star (1995 Palermo doubles)
1970 06 27 Ricardo Jordan, Delray Beach Fla, pitcher (Phila Phillies)
1971 06 27 Brant Boyer, linebacker (Jacksonville Jaguars)
1971 06 27 Jimmy Kemp, CFL quarterback (Edmonton Eskimos)
1973 06 27 Heath Irwin, guard (New England Patriots)
1973 06 27 Jennifer Brundage, US softball infielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1973 06 27 Wendell Davis, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1974 06 27 Juran Bolden, NFL cornerback (Atlanta Falcons)
1975 06 27 Porter Collins, NYC, rower (Olympics-5th-1996)
1975 06 27 Sarah Evanetz, Vancouver BC, 100m butterfly (Olympics-96)
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born at Saint-Germain-en-Laye; died in Vincennes
May 30, 1574; King of France; 1560 succeeded his brother Francois II under
the regency of his mother, Catherine de Médicis until 1570; best known
for authorizing the massacre of 20,000 Protestants on St. Bartholomew's Day,
Aug. 23-24, 1572, on the advice of his mother, who feared the power of French
Huguenot leader Gaspard de Coligny, who was conspiring with the Dutch to
lead an invasion of the Netherlands to drive out the Spanish. Catherine convinced
her son that a Protestant plot to overthrow the monarchy was imminent, and
that only swift action could save France.
born at Avondale, County Wicklow,
Ireland, son of an Irish Protestant landlord and an American mother; died
at Brighton, Sussex, Oct. 6, 1891; Irish statesman, and the leader of the
struggle for Irish Home Rule; educated at Magdalene College, Cambridge; 1874
high sheriff of Wicklow; decided to enter politics after the execution of
three Fenians in Manchester; 1875-91 MP for Meath at Westminster; 1879 elected
president of Michael Davitt's Irish National Land League, to reduce rents
and promote the ownership of the soil by the farmers; 1880 visited the US
adn addressed the House of Representatives at Washington; 1881 jailed for
nine months for his connection with the land league; 1889-90 ruined by proof
of his adultery with Katherine O'Shea, whom he subsequently married.
born in Tuscumbia, Alabama, the daughter of
a newspaper editor; died at Westport, Connecticut June 1, 1968; author, educator;
Feb. 1882 lost her sight and hearing due to an infection at 19 months old;
her parents took her at age 6 to Alexander Graham Bell, who was famous for
working with the deaf; he saw how bright she was, in spite of her tantrums,
and in March 1877 sent 20 year old teacher Anne Sullivan to the Keller home
to work with her; April 5, 1887 Helen associated water with the letters w-a-t-e-r
that Anne was spelling into her hand; she learned 30 words by the end of
that day; Sullivan also taught Keller how to speak by placing her fingers
on Sullivan's larynx to feel the vibrations; Keller enrolled at Radcliffe
College and graduated with honours in 1904; at college she published The
Story of My Life and later published two further books about her life; worked
to make Braille, a raised form of writing, the standard for printed communication
with the blind.
born in Seabright, New jersey; died in New
York City April 3, 1981; pilot, commercial aviation pioneer; 1927 won the
US Air Mail contract for US-Cuba service operated his Pan-American Airways
from Key West, then Miami; first leased a single engine Fairchild, then bought
longer range Fokker F-10 Trimotors; became known for strong-arming Latin
American, European and Pacific governments into granting the landing rights
he wanted in the name of the US government. Historian Robert Daley called
Trippe, who reigned over Pan Am for 41 years "the first aviation tycoon in
history -and the last." [picture: with his CEO Charles Lindbergh]
born in Paris, France, to an Algerian father
of Turkish ancestry and a German mother; the sister of Eric Adjani, a famous
photographer; actress, started film acting in high school, but first earned
critical praise at age 17 as a member of the Comedie Francaise; worked mostly
in stage roles until 1974, when she played in La Gifle with Claude Pinoteau;
1975 directered by François Truffaut in L'Histoire de Adele H (Oscar
and César nominations); 1976 in Roman Polanski's Le Locataire; 1976
André Téchiné's Barocco; 1977 Walter Hill's The Driver;
1979 Werner Herzog's Nosferatu; 1978 André Téchiné's
Les Soeurs Brontë; 1981 Zulawski's Clara et les chics types and James
Ivory's Quartet; 1982 Tout feu tout flamme (César); 1981 Carlos Saura's
Antonieta, Jean Becker's L'été meutrier (César) and
Claude Miller's Mortelle Randonnée; 1985 Luc Besson's Subway; 1987
Ishtar; 1988 Camille Claudel (César); 1993 Toxic Affair; 1994 La Reine
Margot; 1995 Le sang du massacre de la Saint-Barthélémy (César);
1996 Isabelle La Diabolique (with Sharon Stone; 1998 Passionnément,
with Gérard Depardieu; 1997 Anne Boleyn; 1998 The Last Face, with
Jeremy Irons.