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June 13th
1900 Ian Hunter (actor) (d 9/23/75, age 75)
1903 Harold 'Red' Grange (d 1/28/91, age 87)
1910 Mary Wickes (actress) (d 10/22/95, age 85)
1910 Mary Whitehouse (schoolteacher whose 30-year campaign against TV violence and sexual exploitation made her a household name in Britain) (d 11/23/01, age 91)
1913 Ralph Edwards (host: This Is Your Life; co-creator: The People's Court) (d 11/16/05, age 92)
1918 Ben Johnson (d 4/8/96, age 77)
1926 Paul Lynde (actor: Uncle Arthur on "Bewitched") (d 1/10/82, age 55)
1927 David Kirkpatrick (aka Slim Dusty, country singer) (d 9/19/03, age 76)
1928 John Nash (mathematician, inspiration for the movie "A Beautiful Mind") (d 5/23/15, age 86)
1929 Ralph McQuarrie (artist: conceptual art for Star Wars) (d 3/3/12, age 82)
1931 Curtis Gentry (author: Helter Skelter) (d 7/10/14, age 83)
1932 Norman Jones (actor: Dr. Who) (d 4/23/13, age 80)
1932 Bob McGrath (original human character, Bob Johnson, on "Sesame Street") (d 12/4/22, age 90)
1935 Christo (Vladimirov Javacheff) (artist, with his wife who was born the same day, created large scale often short lived projects like "Running Fence" and "Wrapped Reichstag") (d 5/31/20, age 84)
1935 Jeanne-Claude (Denat de Guillebon) (artist, with her husband Christo, who was born the same day, created large scale often short lived projects like "Running Fence" and "Wrapped Reichstag") (d 11/18/09, age 74)
1939 Siegfried Fischbacher (of Siegfried & Roy) (d 1/13/21, age 81)
1940 Bobby Freeman (singer: Do You Wanna Dance, C'Mon and Swim) (d 1/28/17, age 76)
1941 Tom Hallick (actor)
1942 James Carr (soul singer) (d 1/7/01, age 58)
1946 Josh Mostel (actor)
1949 Dennis Locorriere (guitarist/singer: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show - "Cover of the Rolling Stone") (d 5/16/26, age 76)
1951 Howard Leese (guitarist/keyboardist: Heart 1970-1993)
1951 Stellan Skarsgard
1951 Richard Thomas (actor: John Boy on "The Waltons")
1953 Tim Allen (actor: Home Improvement, Last Man Standing)
1962 Ally Sheedy
1969 Jamie Walters (actor: Ray on "Beverly Hills 90210")
1981 Chris Evans (actor)
1986 Kat Dennings (actress: Max on "Two Broke Girls")
1986 Ashley Olsen (twin actress: Full House, Two of a Kind)
1986 Mary-Kate Olsen (twin actress: Full House, Two of a Kind)
Flag Day
1895 Cliff Edwards (voice actor: Jiminy Cricket) (d 7/17/71, age 76)
1909 Burl Ives (singer: Holly Jolly Christmas) (d 4/14/95, age 85)
1914 Pauline Moore (actress: starred in 25 films between 1937 and 1941, Charlie Chan's sidekick and Roy Rogers' leading lady) (d 12/7/01, age 87)
1917 Paul Monash (veteran Hollywood writer and producer of hit films "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" and "Carrie" as well as celebrated TV fares "Salem's Lot" and "Peyton Place") (d 1/14/03, age 85)
1917 Al 'Lash' LaRue (cowboy actor) (d 5/21/96, age 78)
1918 Dorothy McGuire (actress) (d 9/14/01, age 83)
1919 Sam Wanamaker (d 12/18/93, age 74)
1921 Gene Barry (actor: Burke's Law, original "War of the Worlds") (d 12/9/09, age 88)
1925 Pierre Salinger (JFK press secretary, ABC commentator) (d 10/16/04, age 79)
1926 Don Newcombe (pitcher: Dodgers) (d 2/19/19, age 92)
1929 Cy Coleman (songwriter) (d 11/18/04, age 75)
1931 Autry Dewalt (aka Junior Walker, saxophonist) (d 11/23/95, age 64)
1931 Marla Gibbs (actress: The Jeffersons, 227)
1932 William P. D'Angelo (producer: Love American Style, Room 222, Alice) (d 6/8/02, age 69)
1940 Ben Davidson (defensive end: Green Bay Packers 1961, Washington Redskins 1962-1963, Oakland Raiders 1964-1971) (d 7/2/12, age 72)
1940 John Bannon (actor) (d 10/25/17, age 77)
1942 Allen Daviau (cinematographer: E.T., The Color Purple, Empire of the Sun) (d 4/15/20, age 77)
1945 Rod Argent (keyboardist: The Zombies - "She's Not There," Argent - "Hold Your Head Up")
1946 Donald Trump (businessman / 45th U.S. President: 2017-2021, 47th U.S. President: 2025-present)
1949 Alan White (drummer: Yes) (d 5/26/22, age 72)
1949 Rochelle Firestone (actress)
1952 Patricia Summitt (basketball coach: Tennessee 1974-2012) (d 6/28/16, age 64)
1952 Eddie Mekka (actor: Carmine 'The Big Ragoo' Raguso on "Laverne & Shirley") (d 11/27/21, age 69)
1954 Will Patton
1958 Eric Heiden (five time Gold Medal Speed Skater in 1980 Olympics)
1961 'Boy' George O'Dowd (singer: Culture Club)
1962 Charles Fowler (recording engineer for Eric Clapton)
1963 Chris DeGarmo (guitarist: Queensryche)
1966 Traylor Howard (actress: Sharon on "Two Guys, a Girl, & a Pizza Place," Joy on "Boston Common")
1968 Molly Glynn (actress, died when hit by a falling tree while biking) (d 9/6/14, age 46)
1968 Yasmine Bleeth
1969 Steffi Graf
1983 J.R. Martinez
1988 Kevin McHale (actor: Glee)
1992 Darryl Sabara (actor)
June 15th
1914 Yuri Andropov (former Soviet President, in power only 15 months, 1982-1984) (d 2/9/84, age 69)
1914 Saul Steinberg (cartoonist: drew for The New Yorker for more than 50 years, his trademark "A View of the World from Manhattan" became a cottage industry for poster-makers) (d 5/12/99, age 84)
1918 Richard Derr (d 5/8/92, age 73)
1923 Barney McNulty (inventor of cue cards, later worked with Bob Hope and Milton Berle) (d 12/18/00, age 77)
1928 Martha Vaughan (mother of Jimmie and Stevie Ray Vaughan) (d 6/13/09, age 80)
1932 Mario Cuomo (former New York City mayor 1983-1994) (d 1/1/15, age 82)
1935 Harvey Miller (writer/director: The Odd Couple (TV), among others) (d 1/8/99, age 63)
1935 Belinda Lee (actress) (d 3/12/61, age 25)
1937 Waylon Jennings (singer, gave up his seat to the Big Bopper on an airplane in 1959, hits include "Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow up to be Cowboys," also was the balladeer on "The Dukes of Hazzard") (d 2/13/02, age 64)
1940 Aron Kincaid (actor) (d 1/6/11, age 70)
1940 Peggy Sue Gerron (namesake of the Buddy Holly song "Peggy Sue," was drummer Jerry Allison's girlfriend at the time, later his wife) (d 10/1/18, age 78)
1941 Harry Nilsson (musician) (d 1/15/94, age 52)
1942 Judy Pace (actress) (d 3/11/26, age 83)
1944 Eddie Hinton (blues guitarist, pianist, and singer) (d 7/28/95, age 51)
1945 Nicola Pagett (actress) (d 3/3/21, age 75)
1946 Jim Varney (actor: The Beverly Hillbillies, Ernest Goes to Jail, Ernest Saves Christmas) (d 2/10/00, age 53)
1946 Brigitte Fossey (actress)
1947 Lee Purcell (actress)
1948 Mike Holmgren (coach: Green Bay Packers 1992-1998, Seattle Seahawks 1999-2008)
1950 Noddy Holder (guitarist: Slade - "Run Runaway")
1951 Steve Walsh (keyboardist/singer: Kansas)
1954 Jim Belushi (actor: According to Jim)
1954 Terri Gibbs (singer: Somebody's Knockin')
1955 Wayne 'Tree' Rollins (center: Cleveland Cavaliers)
1956 Polly Draper (actress: Ellyn on "thirtysomething")
1956 Julie Hagerty (actress: Airplane)
1957 Brad Gillis (guitarist: Night Ranger)
1958 Wade Boggs (Red Sox third baseman)
1959 Eileen Davidson (actress)
1963 Helen Hunt (actress: Mad About You)
1963 Scott Rockenfield (drummer: Queensryche)
1964 Courteney Cox Arquette (actress: Monica on "Friends")
1965 Carry Mitchum (actress)
1969 O'Shea 'Ice Cube' Jackson
1970 Leah Remini (actress: Carrie on "King of Queens")
1973 Neil Patrick Harris (actor: Doogie Howser M.D., Barney Stinson on "How I Met Your Mother")
1975 Elizabeth Reaser (actress)
June 16th
1890 Stan Laurel (actor/comedian: Laurel & Hardy) (d 2/23/65, age 74)
1907 Jack Albertson (actor: Grampa Joe in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory," Ed Brown (The Man) on "Chico & the Man") (d 11/25/81, age 74)
1917 Irving Penn (photographer) (d 10/7/09, age 92)
1922 Frances Rafferty (actress) (d 4/18/04, age 81)
1926 Lionel Jeffries (actor: Grandpa Potts in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang") (d 2/19/10, age 83)
1926 Bebe Barron (experimental musician who wrote for "Forbidden Planet") (d 4/20/08, age 81)
1930 Vilmos Zsigmond (cinematographer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Deer Hunter, The River) (d 1/1/16, age 85)
1934 Jane Henson (puppeteer, wife of Jim Henson) (d 4/2/13, age 78)
1934 Bill Cobbs (actor) (d 6/25/24, age 90)
1937 Erich Segal (author: Love Story) (d 1/17/10, age 72)
1938 Joyce Carol Oates (novelist)
1940 Billy 'Crash' Craddock (singer: Ruby)
1941 Lamont Dozier (songwriter: Holland-Dozier-Holland) (d 8/8/22, age 81)
1942 Edward Levert (singer: The O'Jays)
1943 Joan Van Ark
1949 Kale Browne (actor)
1950 Garry Roberts (guitarist/singer: The Boomtown Rats) (d 11/9/22, age 72)
1950 Jesse Dizon (actor)
1950 James Smith (singer: The Stylistics - "You Make Me Feel Brand New")
1951 Sonia Braga
1951 Roberto Duran (boxer)
1952 Jerry Hadley (tenor) (d 7/18/07, age 55)
1952 Gino Vanelli (singer: Livin' Inside Myself)
1955 Laurie Metcalf (actress: Jackie on "Roseanne," Laurie on "The Norm Show")
1957 Ian Buchanan
1957 Clio Goldsmith (actress)
1959 James Brian Hellwig (aka The Ultimate Warrior in WWE/WWF) (d 4/8/14, age 54)
1966 Adrienne Shelly (actress) (d 11/1/06, age 40)
1968 Patrick Stuart (actor)
1971 Tupac Shakur (rapper) (d 9/13/96, age 25)
1972 John Cho
1973 Eddie Cibrian (actor: Third Watch)
1975 Frrderick Koehler (actor: Chip on "Kate & Allie")
1987 Diana DeGarmo (singer, second place finisher on 2004 American Idol)
1989 Lucy Hale
June 17th
1882 Fyodorovich 'Igor' Stravinsky (d 4/6/71, age 88)
1902 Sammy Fain (composer: Peter Pan, Alice in Wonderland songs) (d 12/6/89, age 87)
1904 Ralph Bellamy (d 11/29/91, age 87)
1910 Clyde 'Red' Foley (singer: Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy, Just a Closer Walk with Thee, Peace in the Valley, Goodnight Irene) (d 9/19/68, age 58)
1915 David 'Stringbean' Akeman (banjoist/comedian: Hee Haw) (d 11/11/73, age 58)
1919 Patrick Cranshaw (actor: Blue in "Old School," bank teller in "Bonnie & Clyde," demolition derby owner in "Herbie Fully Loaded," Mork and Mindy, The Dukes of Hazzad) (d 12/28/05, age 86)
1923 Elroy 'Crazy Legs' Hirsch (halfback: L.A. Rams, Pro Football Hall of Famer, UW-Madison football player for one year in 1942, then finished college at Michigan, UW-Madison athletic director 1969-1987) (d 1/28/04, age 80)
1929 Arthur 'Bud' Collins (journalist/sportscaster) (d 3/4/16, age 86)
1932 John Murtha (Pennsylvania Democrat, Vietnam hero) (d 2/8/10, age 77)
1933 James Shigeta (actor) (d 7/28/14, age 81)
1940 Alton Kelley (artist who helped create the psychodelic style posters associated with 1960s San Francisco music scene) (d 6/1/08, age 67)
1943 Bill Dial (actor: Bucky Dornster (the station engineer) on "WKRP in Cincinnati," also wrote for the show and for "Star Trek the Next Generation") (d 6/2/08, age 64)
1943 Newt Gingrich
1943 Barry Manilow
1944 Bill Rafferty (comedian) (d 8/10/12, age 68)
1947 Christopher Allport (actor) (d 1/25/08, age 60)
1947 Paul Young (guitarist: Mike & the Mechanics) (d 7/15/00, age 53)
1947 Gregg Rolie (keyboardist: Santana/Journey)
1951 Joe Piscopo
1952 Mike Buck (drummer: The Fabulous Thunderbirds 1974-1980, co-owner of Antone's Record Store in Austin TX)
1954 Mark Linn-Baker (actor: Larry on "Perfect Strangers")
1958 Dan McVicar (actor)
1963 Greg Kinnear
1965 Kami Cotler (actress: Elizabeth on "The Waltons")
1965 Dan Jansen (speed skater)
1966 Jason Patric (actor: The Lost Boys, grandson of Jackie Gleason)
1969 Kevin Thornton (singer: Color Me Badd)
1970 Will Forte
1977 Mark Tauscher (offensive tackle: Green Bay Packers 2000-2008, former Wisconsin Badger)
1980 Venus Williams (tennis star)
1989 Simone Battle (singer: finalist on 2011 X-Factor, also with the group G.R.L.) (d 9/5/14, age 25)
June 18th
1908 Bud Collyer (game show host: Beat the Clock) (d 9/8/69, age 61)
1914 E.G. Marshall (actor: The Caine Mutiny) (d 8/24/98, age 84)
1918 Bob Carroll (singer/actor) (d 11/19/94, age 76)
1924 George Mikan (basketball star) (d 6/1/05, age 80)
1925 Robert Arthur (actor: Twelve O'Clock High) (d 10/1/08, age 83)
1927 Eva Bartok (actress) (d 8/1/98, age 71)
1939 Lou Brock (baseball hall of famer) (d 9/6/20, age 81)
1940 William Sheard (actor) (d 8/31/05, age 65)
1942 Roger Ebert (movie critic: Siskel and Ebert) (d 4/4/13, age 70)
1942 Richard Perry (record producer: Ringo Starr, Carly Simon, The Pointer Sisters, many others) (d 12/24/24, age 82)
1942 Paul McCartney (bassist/singer/songwriter The Beatles, Wings)
1947 Linda Thorson (actress)
1949 Lech Aleksander Kaczynski (Polish President 2005-2010) (d 4/10/10, age 60)
1952 Lasse Wellander (lead guitarist: Abba) (d 4/7/23, age 70)
1952 Carol Kane (actress: Taxi, When a Stranger Calls, Dog Day Afternoon)
1952 Isabella Rossellini
1957 Andrea Evans (actress: Tina Lord on "One Life to Live") (d 7/9/23, age 66)
1958 Daniels Koran (saxophonist: Atlantic Starr)
1960 Jude Cole (singer/songwriter)
1961 Oz Fox (guitarist: Stryper)
1961 Alison Moyet (singer: YAZ)
1971 Nathan Morris (singer: Boyz II Men)
1974 Larry 'Bumper' Robinson (actor: Webster, Night Court)
1976 Blake Shelton
Juneteenth
1897 Harry Moses Horwitz (aka Moe Howard, of The Three Stooges 1922, 1926, 1929-1971) (d 5/4/75, age 77)
1902 Gaetano 'Guy' Lombardo (bandleader) (d 11/5/77, age 75)
1903 Lou Gehrig (d 6/2/41, age 37)
1914 Lester Flatt (singer: Flatt & Scruggs - "The Ballad of Jed Clampett") (d 5/11/79, age 64)
1914 Alan Cranston (Senator from California 1969-1993) (d 12/31/00, age 86)
1915 Julius Schwartz (comic editor, edited many DC comics including Superman) (d 2/8/04, age 88)
1919 Pauline Kael (film critic) (d 9/3/01, age 82)
1921 Louis Jourdan (actor: Bond villain in "Octopussy," also starred in "Gigi") (d 2/14/15, age 93)
1928 Nancy Marchand (actress: Livia on "The Sopranos") (d 6/18/00, age 71)
1928 Tommy DeVito (singer: The Four Seasons) (d 9/21/20, age 92)
1930 Gena Rowlands (actress) (d 8/14/24, age 94)
1930 Diana Sowle (actress: Mrs. Bucket (Charlie's mom) in "Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory") (d 10/19/18, age 88)
1932 Marisa Pavan (actress) (d 12/6/23, age 91)
1939 Al Wilson (singer/songwriter: Show and Tell) (d 4/21/08, age 68)
1941 Marlene Warfield (actress) (d 4/6/25, age 83)
1942 Jeffrey Moss (writer, composer: Sesame Street songs, including the show's theme, "Rubber Duckie," and "I Love Trash") (d 9/24/98, age 56)
1942 Elaine 'Spanky' McFarlane (singer: Spanky and Our Gang)
1942 DeWayne Quirico (drummer: Bobby Fuller Four - "I Fought the Law," only surviving member)
1943 Malcolm McDowell (actor: A Clockwork Orange)
1945 Tim Hovey (actor) (d 9/9/89, age 44)
1947 Salman Rushdie (author: Satanic Verses)
1948 Phylicia Rashad
1950 Connie Forsland (actress)
1950 Derek O'Brien (blues guitarist)
1950 Ann Wilson (singer: Heart)
1954 The Tazmanian Devil (cartoon character)
1959 Mark DeBarge (trumpeter/saxophonist: DeBarge)
1962 Paula Abdul (singer, judge on American Idol)
1972 Poppy Montgomery (actress: Samantha Spade on "Without a Trace")
1972 Robin Tunney (actress)
1978 Garfield (animated cat, "Big Fat Hairy Deal")
1978 Zoe Saldana (actress)
1992 Oscar Taveras (right fielder: St. Louis Cardinals) (d 10/26/14, age 22)
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