Headline Birthdays for June 30
John Gay 1685-1732
born in Barnstaple, Devon; died in London Dec.
4, 1732; poet, dramatist; founder with Swift and Pope of the group of Tory
satirists called the Scriblerians; best known for his popular musical The
Beggar's Opera, a parody of the Italian opera of the day, that featured elaborate
stories about fairy sprites and the gods, Gay wrote a libretto in English
about London's criminal lowlifers and highwaymen, and used it to satirize
contemporary genteel society, and the Prime Minister, Robert Walpole; his
sequel, Polly, written the following year, was suppressed by Sir Robert Walpole
since it ridiculed his government.
Willie Sutton 1901-1980
born in Brooklyn, New York; died in Spring
Hill, Florida Nov. 2, 1980; bank robber, aka The Actor because of the disguises
and rented uniforms he used in his robberies; started a life of crime at
age 9, and learned at the feet of "Doc" Tate, an expert safecracker; also
learned the secrets of makeup from the chorus girls he hung around with;
robbed roughly 100 banks over a career spanning from the late 1920s to his
final arrest in 1952, with a number of prison terms in between; 1952 wrote
the story of his life of crime called I, Willie Sutton, followed in 1976
by Where the Money Was: The Memoirs of a Bank Robber; also made a TV commercial
for New Britain Bank and Trust Co. in Connecticut, promoting the bank's credit
card by saying, "Now when I say I'm Willie Sutton, people believe me." Sutton
is best known for his quip when asked by a reporter why he robbed banks,
"because that's where the money is." The medical profession has coined a
term called "Sutton's Law," which means looking for the obvious, before going
further afield, when diagnosing.
Harry Blackstone Jr 1934-1997
born Harry Boughton in Colon, Michigan;
died May 14, 1997; magician; career in magic started at the age of six months,
appearing and disappearing in his father's show; learned such illusions as
The Floating Light Bulb, The Vanishing Birdcage, The Dancing Handkerchief,
and the frightening Buzzsaw; 1980 after setting box office records in 16
US cities, he opened his show at the Majestic Theater on Broadway; became
the longest running magic and illusion show in the history of the New York
theater; 1991 hosted the International Magic Awards, a 2-hour TV special
originating in five countries on three continents and seen by half a billion
people; also played Dr. Mephisto on the NBC-TV daytime soap Santa Barbara
and produced the Broadway show Hair; has co-authored three books (The Blackstone
Book of Magic and Illusion, There's One born Every Minute and My Life As
A Magician ) and re-edited his father's Blackstone's Secrets of Magic.
Robert Ballard 1942-
explorer, geologist, author; grew up in southern
California, where he collected sea shells studied the sea creatures that
lived in tidal pools and took up scuba diving; as a boy, his favorite book
was Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaand; BA in geology and chemistry
from the University of California; postgraduate work in marine geology at
the University of Hawaii; worked as a trainer at a nearby marine park, teaching
dolphins to dive through hoops and perform tricks; University of Rhode Island
PhD in marine geophysics on the controversial subject of plate tectonics;
1967 entered the US Navy and was assigned to the Deep Submergence Laboratory
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Senior
Scientist there until 1997; 1973-74, explored the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a huge
underwater mountain range in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Alvin,
a small, three-person submarine; 1977 near the Galapagos Islands off the
coast of Ecuador, he and his crew discovered giant worms, some over 2.5 m
long, living inside white tubes and clustered around underwater hot springs;
979 found underwater volcanoes he called black smokers off the coast of Baja
California; 1985 discovered the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic off Newfoundland;
he and his colleagues designed a robot, the Jason Jr., to enter the Titanic
and photograph its interior; 1989 built the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Jason, equipped with floodlights, TV cameras, and a sample-retrieving mechanism,
and tethered to the mother ship by optical cable,; took 200,000 students
by telepresence to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where they saw underwater
volcanoes, artifacts, and the remains of ancient trading vessels; 1990, year
two of the JASON Project, explored the wrecks of the Hamilton and Scourge,
armed schooners that sank in Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; founding
chairman of the Jason Foundation for Education; has mounted recent expeditions
to the wrecks of the Lusitania, the Bismarck and the sunken aircraft carriers
of World War II's Battle of Midway; found the U.S.S. Yorktown, sunk in 1942,
lying 5,075 metres underwater on May 19, 1998.
Mike Tyson 1966-
born in Brooklyn, New York; boxer; trained by Constantine
"Cus" D'Amato in the Catskill Mountains; after an amateur record of 24-3,
turned pro on March 6, 1985, scoring a first-round knockout of Hector Mercedes
and finishing his first year with a record of 15-0, with 15 knockouts; after
racking up 27 consecutive wins, signed to fight Trevor Berbick for the World
Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title; Nov. 26, 1986, beat Berbick in less
than six minutes, becoming heavyweight champion at the unprecedented age
of 20; March 7, 1987 took a 12 round victory over James "Bonecrusher" Smith
to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) belt; Aug. 1, 1987 out-pointed
Tony Tucker to claim the International Boxing Federation (IBF) belt; youngest
heavyweight boxing champ in history, and the world's first undisputed heavyweight
champion since Muhammad Ali a decade earlier; Feb. 11, 1990 lost title to
Buster Douglas in Tokyo; 1991 convicted of rape by an Indianapolis jury and
sentenced to six years in prison; released March 25, 1995 on good behaviour;
1995 beat USBA heavyweight champion Buster Mathis Jr., and regained his WBC
and IBF champion belts, but could not outlast his nemesis Evander Holyfield
in 11 rounds in Las Vegas on Nov. 9, 1996. On June 28, 1997, he is disqualified after he bits a large portion of Evander Holyfield's ear off; later is banned from boxing and fined $3 million for the incident. In 2002 he is defeated in a comeback attempt by Lennox Lewis.
Other Birthdays
1468 06 30 Johan, the Standvastige, monarch of Saxon
1470 06 30 Charles VIII, King of France (1483-98), invaded Italy
1503 06 30 Johan Frederik, elector of Saxon (1532-47)
1669 06 30 Mauritius Vogt, composer
1685 06 30 Dominikus Zimmermann, German architect/painter (Liebfrauenkirche)
1685 06 30 John Gay, author (Baggars' Opera)
1722 06 30 Jiri Antonin Benda, composer
1723 06 30 Christian Ernst Graf, composer
1743 06 30 Niels Schiorring, composer
1748 06 30 Jacques D comte Cassini, French astronomer
1768 06 30 Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, first lady (1817-25)
1789 06 30 E J Horace Vernet, French painter
1791 06 30 Félix Savart, French surgeon/physicist (law of Biot & Savart)
1807 06 30 Friedrich T Vischer, German philosopher/writer (Auch einer)
1810 06 30 Stanko Vraz, [Jakob Frass], Slovenian/Croatian poet (illyrism)
1817 06 30 Joseph D Hooker, British botanist
1818 06 30 Edward John Hopkins, composer
1819 06 30 William A Wheeler, (R) 19th VP (1877-81)
1823 06 30 Hendrik Jan Schimmel, Dutch writer/dramatist (2 Tudors)
1837 06 30 Stephen D Ramseur, youngest West Pointer to be Maj Gen
1846 06 30 Ricardo Drigo, composer
1847 06 30 Jacob T Cremer, min of Colonies/pres (Dutch Trading Comp)
1853 06 30 Adolf Furtw„ngler, German archaeologist (Antiken Gemmen)
1856 06 30 Gerrit Kalff, writer (history of Dutch writers)
1858 06 30 André Antoine, French stage manager (Théƒtre Libre) [or 7/31]
1860 06 30 Gyula Andr ssy Jr, Hungarian minister of Foreign affairs (1918-20)
1868 06 30 C V France, Bradford Engld, actor (Skin Game, Adventure in Blackmail)
1879 06 30 Walter Hampden, Bkln NY, actor (Five Fingers, Hunchback of Notre Dame)
1882 06 30 Sven R Lidman, Swedish writer (Tvedr„ktens Barn)
1890 06 30 Gertrude McCoy, Sugar Valley GA, silent screen actress (Blue Bird)
1890 06 30 Horace Chapman, cricketer (leg-spin all-rounder for S Afr in 2 Tests)
1892 06 30 Laszlo Lajtha, composer
1892 06 30 Pierre Blanchar, Philippeville Algeria, actor (Magnificent Sinner)
1893 06 30 Harold/Joseph Laski, English economist/Labour leader (1945-..)
1893 06 30 Walter Ulbricht, president German DR
1894 06 30 Gavrilo Princip, Bosnian assassin (arch duke Ferdinand)
1896 06 30 Wilfred Pelletier, Montreal Canada, conductor (Voice of Firestone)
1898 06 30 George Chandler, Waukegan Ill, actor (Lassie)
1899 06 30 Frantisek Tomasek, bishop of Prague/cardinal
1902 06 30 Madge Bellamy, Hillsboro TX, actress (White Zombie)
1904 06 30 Glenda Farrell, Enid OK, actress (Golddiggers of 1935)
1905 06 30 Nestor Paiva, Fresno CA, actor (Comanche, Fear, Tarantula, Killer Ape)
1908 06 30 Charles Camproux, French linguistic/author (Bestiari)
1908 06 30 Lucino Tinio Sacramento, composer
1908 06 30 Monica Maurice, industrialist
1909 06 30 Juan Bosch, poet/pres of Dominican Republic (1962-63)
1911 06 30 Czeslaw Milosz, Polish/American writer (Bells in Winter, Nobel 1980)
1911 06 30 Virginia Smith, (Rep-R-NB, 1975- )
1912 06 30 Dan Reeves, NFL team owner (Cleveland/LA Rams)
1912 06 30 J Tibor de Powerula, [de Abrah mfalva], Hungarian/Dutch cellist)
1912 06 30 Kenneth Jameson, art educator
1912 06 30 Madhaviah Krishnan, naturalist
1912 06 30 [J] Tibor de Machula, Hungarian/Dutch cellist
1913 06 30 Harry Wismer, Port Huron Mich, AFL owner (NY Titans)
1914 06 30 David Wayne, actor (Adam's Rib, Andromeda Strain, 3 Faces of Eve)
1914 06 30 Natko Devcic, composer
1915 06 30 Charles Rowe, cricketer (scored a pair in only Test (NZ v Aust 1946))
1917 06 30 Buddy Rich, Bkln NY, drummer/orch leader (Buddy Rich Band-Away We Go)
1917 06 30 Lena Horne, Bkln NY, actress/singer (Stormy Weather, Wiz)
1917 06 30 Robert Vandekerckhove, Belgian politician
1918 06 30 Stuart Foster, Binghamton NY, singer (Galen Drake Show)
1918 06 30 Susan Hayward, Flatbush Bkln, actress (I Want to Live, Tulsa)
1919 06 30 Lee Krieger, MD, actor (Clambake, One Way Wahini)
1920 06 30 Sam Moskowitz, SF fandom historian
1920 06 30 Zeno Colo, Italy, downhill skier (Olympic-gold-1952)
1921 06 30 Gordon Reynolds, musician
1925 06 30 Dorothy Malone, actress (Peyton Place)
1925 06 30 Jim Levitch, horse trainer
1925 06 30 Micheline Lannoy, Belgium, figure skating pairs (Olympic-gold-1948)
1925 06 30 Will Gay Bottje, composer
1927 06 30 Harvey Vernon, Flint Mich, actor (Jasper-Carter Country)
1927 06 30 James Goldman, author/playwright (Butch Cassidy & Sundance Kid)
1927 06 30 Joseph R Skeen, (Rep-R-New Mexico, 1981- )
1928 06 30 Frank Ulrich Marcus, playwright/critic
1929 06 30 Alexander Kelly, pianist/teacher
1930 06 30 Doyle Holly, comedian/country performer (Buckaroos)
1930 06 30 June Valli, Bronx NY, singer (Your Hit Parade)
1930 06 30 Mac Benson, horse trainer
1930 06 30 Nikolai Karetnikov, composer
1931 06 30 James Loughran, British conductor
1931 06 30 Johannes Gruijters, Dutch mayor (D66-Lelystad)
1931 06 30 June Thorburn, Kashmir India, actress (Touch & Go, Children Galore)
1932 06 30 Martin Mailman, composer
1933 06 30 Mike J K Smith, cricketer (England captain mid-60s)
1934 06 30 Harry Blackstone Jr, magician (Blackstone Book of Magic & Illusion)
1936 06 30 Dave Van Ronk, rocker/actor (Caffe Lena)
1936 06 30 Nancy Dussault, Pensacola Fla, actress (Muriel-Too Close for Comfort)
1936 06 30 Pauls Dambis, composer
1936 06 30 Tony Musante, Bridgeport Ct, actor (David Toma-Toma, Nowhere to Hide)
1938 06 30 Billy Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10k (Olympics-gold-64)
1938 06 30 Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi)
1938 06 30 William Mervin Mills, Pine Ridge SD, 10K runner (Olympic-gold-64)
1939 06 30 Lindembergue Cardoso, composer
1941 06 30 John Jameson, cricketer (England batsman, 465 p/ship with Kanhai)
1941 06 30 Larry Hall, rocker (Tape Heads)
1941 06 30 Micki Grant, composer
1941 06 30 Mike Leander Farr, record producer
1941 06 30 Peter Pollock, cricketer (bro of Graeme/father of Shaun, S Af quickie)
1942 06 30 Robert Ballard, explorer/geologist/author/discoverer (Titanic in 1985)
1943 06 30 Florence Ballard, Detroit Mich, rocker (Supremes)
1944 06 30 Glenn Shorrock, Sydney Australia, rock vocalist (Little River Band)
1944 06 30 Ron Swoboda, baseball outfielder/sportscaster (NY Yankees, NY Mets)
1946 06 30 Billy Brown, rock vocalist (Ray, Goodman, Brown)
1947 06 30 Jasper van 't Hof, Dutch jazz pianist (Live in Montreux)
1947 06 30 Yuri Petrovich Sheffer, Russian cosmonaut
1949 06 30 Andrew Scott, Wales, rock guitarist (Sweet)
1949 06 30 Bui Thanh Liem, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1949 06 30 Eric Goetz, NYC, US shipbuilder (America's Cup 1995)
1949 06 30 Thanh Liem Bui, Vietnam, cosmonaut
1950 06 30 Donna Jean Willmott, Akron Ohio, FALN member (FBI most wanted)
1950 06 30 Pablo Castillo, jockey
1951 06 30 André Hazes, Dutch barkeeper/singer (We Love Orange)
1951 06 30 Andy Scott, rocker
1951 06 30 Stanley Clarke, Phila, rock bassist (New Barbarians-Find Out Hideaway)
1951 06 30 Stephen S Oswald, Seattle Washington, astronaut (STS 42, 56, 67)
1953 06 30 Hal Lindes, Monterey CA, rocker (Dire Straits)
1954 06 30 Bryn B Burrows, rock drummer (Fabulous Poodles)
1954 06 30 Ken Olin, Chicago, actor (Thirtysomething, Det Quinn-EZ Street)
1955 06 30 Mark MacDonald, horse trainer
1956 06 30 Adrian Wright, Sheffield, rock vocalist (Human League-Only Human)
1956 06 30 David Alan Grier, comedian (In Living Color, Boomerang)
1956 06 30 Ronald Winans, gospel singer (Winans)
1957 06 30 Sarah McGuire, Springfield IL, LPGA golfer (1983 United Va Bank-5th)
1958 06 30 Esa-Pekka Salonen, Helsinki Finland, conductor (Giro)
1959 06 30 Gina Goldberg, playmate (May, 1981)
1959 06 30 Michel Dion, Quebec City Canada, Rifle shooter (Olympics-24-92, 96)
1959 06 30 Stephanie Farwig, Milwaukee WI, golfer (1994 LPGA Corning Classic-2nd)
1960 06 30 Randy Ladouceur, Brockville, NHL defenseman (Anaheim Mighty Ducks)
1961 06 30 Karolyn Kirby, US beach volleyball player (Goodwill-gold-94)
1962 06 30 Julianne Regan, rocker (All About Eve-All About Scarlet)
1962 06 30 Vladimir Mikolaevich Dezhurov, Mordovia, astronaut (Mir 18, STS-71)
1963 06 30 Rupert Graves, actor (Damage, Handful of Dust, Maurice)
1965 06 30 Mitch Richmond, Ft Lauderdale Fl, NBA guard (Sac Kings, Oly-g-88, 96)
1965 06 30 Steve Duchesne, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Ottawa Senators)
1966 06 30 Iron Mike Tyson, NY, youngest heavyweight boxing champ (1986-90)
1966 06 30 Louie Aguiar, NFL punter (KC Chiefs)
1967 06 30 Rudi Steyn, cricketer (S African opening batsman 1995)
1967 06 30 Sheila Hudson, US triple jumper (US record 1992)
1967 06 30 Tina Bockrath, Dayton Oh, playmate (May, 1990)/actress
1968 06 30 Dan Peltier, Clifton Park NY, outfielder (SF Giants)
1968 06 30 Peter Miller, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1969 06 30 Jim Montgomery, Montreal, NHL center (Phila Flyers)
1969 06 30 Ken Gernander, Grand Rapids, NHL center (NY Rangers)
1969 06 30 Kristina Farrar Stookey, Martha Vineyard MA, 470 yachter (Oly-4th-96)
1969 06 30 Sanath Jayasuriya, cricketer (Sri Lankan open bat MVP-1996 World Cup)
1970 06 30 Brian Bloom, actor (As the World Turns)
1970 06 30 Mark Grudzielanek, Milwaukee Wisc, infielder (Montreal Expos)
1971 06 30 Ann Marsh, Royal Oak Mich, fencer-foil (Olympics-96)
1971 06 30 Viktor Ivanovich Patsayev, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz 11), dies at 38
1972 06 30 Dan Comiskey, CFL guard (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 06 30 Ellen Coleen Pasturzak, Portsmouth Ohio, Miss America-Ohio (1996)
1972 06 30 Garret Anderson, Los angeles CA, outfielder (California Angels)
1972 06 30 Tyrone Davis, NFL tight end (NY Jets, Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 06 30 Chan Ho Park, Kong Ju City Korea, pitcher (LA Dodgers)
1973 06 30 Dodda Ganesh, cricketer (Karnataka & India pace bowler 1997)
1974 06 30 Michelle Kang, Fredericksburg Virginia, Miss America-Virginia (1997)
1975 06 30 Natasha Sturgess, Australian mistral yachter (Olympics-96)
1976 06 30 Brian Rocheleleau, Honolulu Hawaii, kayak (alt-olympics-96)
1977 06 30 Lola Odusoga, Finland, Miss Universe-3rd place (1996)
1981 06 30 Allison Schroeder, Miss Wisconsin Teen USA (1997)
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explorer, geologist, author; grew up in southern
California, where he collected sea shells studied the sea creatures that
lived in tidal pools and took up scuba diving; as a boy, his favorite book
was Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Seaand; BA in geology and chemistry
from the University of California; postgraduate work in marine geology at
the University of Hawaii; worked as a trainer at a nearby marine park, teaching
dolphins to dive through hoops and perform tricks; University of Rhode Island
PhD in marine geophysics on the controversial subject of plate tectonics;
1967 entered the US Navy and was assigned to the Deep Submergence Laboratory
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts; Senior
Scientist there until 1997; 1973-74, explored the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, a huge
underwater mountain range in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean, in the Alvin,
a small, three-person submarine; 1977 near the Galapagos Islands off the
coast of Ecuador, he and his crew discovered giant worms, some over 2.5 m
long, living inside white tubes and clustered around underwater hot springs;
979 found underwater volcanoes he called black smokers off the coast of Baja
California; 1985 discovered the wreck of the R.M.S. Titanic off Newfoundland;
he and his colleagues designed a robot, the Jason Jr., to enter the Titanic
and photograph its interior; 1989 built the Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Jason, equipped with floodlights, TV cameras, and a sample-retrieving mechanism,
and tethered to the mother ship by optical cable,; took 200,000 students
by telepresence to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, where they saw underwater
volcanoes, artifacts, and the remains of ancient trading vessels; 1990, year
two of the JASON Project, explored the wrecks of the Hamilton and Scourge,
armed schooners that sank in Lake Ontario during the War of 1812; founding
chairman of the Jason Foundation for Education; has mounted recent expeditions
to the wrecks of the Lusitania, the Bismarck and the sunken aircraft carriers
of World War II's Battle of Midway; found the U.S.S. Yorktown, sunk in 1942,
lying 5,075 metres underwater on May 19, 1998.
born in Brooklyn, New York; boxer; trained by Constantine
"Cus" D'Amato in the Catskill Mountains; after an amateur record of 24-3,
turned pro on March 6, 1985, scoring a first-round knockout of Hector Mercedes
and finishing his first year with a record of 15-0, with 15 knockouts; after
racking up 27 consecutive wins, signed to fight Trevor Berbick for the World
Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight title; Nov. 26, 1986, beat Berbick in less
than six minutes, becoming heavyweight champion at the unprecedented age
of 20; March 7, 1987 took a 12 round victory over James "Bonecrusher" Smith
to win the World Boxing Association (WBA) belt; Aug. 1, 1987 out-pointed
Tony Tucker to claim the International Boxing Federation (IBF) belt; youngest
heavyweight boxing champ in history, and the world's first undisputed heavyweight
champion since Muhammad Ali a decade earlier; Feb. 11, 1990 lost title to
Buster Douglas in Tokyo; 1991 convicted of rape by an Indianapolis jury and
sentenced to six years in prison; released March 25, 1995 on good behaviour;
1995 beat USBA heavyweight champion Buster Mathis Jr., and regained his WBC
and IBF champion belts, but could not outlast his nemesis Evander Holyfield
in 11 rounds in Las Vegas on Nov. 9, 1996. On June 28, 1997, he is disqualified after he bits a large portion of Evander Holyfield's ear off; later is banned from boxing and fined $3 million for the incident. In 2002 he is defeated in a comeback attempt by Lennox Lewis.