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Birthdays in History for Wednesday 11th June 2014

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1403 - John IV, Duke of Brabant (d. 1427)
1456 - Anne Neville, wife of Richard III of England (d. 1485)
1540 - Barnabe Googe, English poet (d. 1594)
1572 - Ben Jonson, England, playwright/poet (Volpone, Alchemist)
1588 - George Wither, English writer (d. 1667)
1672 - Francesco Antonio Bonporti, composer
1696 - Francis Edward James Keith, Scottish soldier and Prussian field marshal (d. 1758)
1697 - Francesco A Vallotti, Italian organist/composer/theorist
1704 - Jose Antonio Carlos de Seixas, composer
1713 - Edward Capell, English critic (d. 1781)
1719 - Franz K von Velbruck, German free mason/prince-bishop of Luik
1723 - J G Palitzsch, 1st saw Halley's comet on return, Prolitz
1740 - Luigi Gatti, composer
1741 - Joseph Warren, American doctor and soldier (d. 1775)
1776 - John Constable, England, landscape painter (Hay Wain)
1807 - James Findlay Schenck, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1808 - Charles Henry Poor, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1882
1815 - Julia Margaret Cameron, English photographer (d. 1879)
1816 - Robert Huston Milroy, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1890

Playwright and Poet Ben Jonson (1572) 1822 - Samuel Davis Sturgis, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1889
1823 - James Lawson Kemper, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1829 - Hendrik Gerhard, Founder (Dutch Social-Democratic)
1840 - Henri Braekeleer, Flemish painter/etser
1842 - Alfred, Liechtenstein noble/politician
1842 - Carl von Linde, German engineer and industrialist (d. 1934)
1846 - William Louis Marshall, American general and engineer (d. 1920)
1847 - Millicent Garrett Fawcett, leader (English women's movement)
1861 - Sigismund Vladislavovich Zaremba, composer
1863 - Eduard David, German undersecretary (constitution of Weimar)
1864 - Richard Georg Strauss, Munich Germany, composer (Don Quixote)
1865 - Jan H Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam)
1867 - Charles Fabry, discoverer (ozone layer in upper atmosphere)
1874 - Richard Stohr, composer
1876 - Alfred L Kroeber, Hoboken NJ, author (Anthropologist looks at History)
1877 - Renee Vivien, English-born poet (d. 1909)
1879 - Roger Bresnahan, baseball player (d. 1944)
1879 - Max Schreck, German actor (d. 1936)

1st Woman Elected to Congress Jeannette Rankin (1880) 1880 - Jeannette Rankin, 1st woman elected to US Congress (Rep-Montana)
1883 - Frank O King, Cashton Wisc, cartoonist (Gasoline Alley)
1886 - David Steinman, NYC, bridge designer (Hudson, Triborough)
1886 - Lillian Fontaine, Reading England, actress (Suddenly it's Spring)
1888 - Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (d. 1927)
1889 - Wesley Ruggles, actor/producer/director (Keystone Kops)
1892 - Edward B B Shanks, British poet/critic
1894 - Dai Vernon (David Frederick Wingfield Verner), Canadian magician, The Professor (d. 1992)
1895 - Nikolai A Bulganin, Gorki Russia, premier of USSR (1955-58)
1897 - Bruno Frei, writer
1899 - George Frederick McKay, composer
1899 - Yasonari Kawabata, Japan, novelist (Thousand Cranes)
1900 - Lawrence E Spivak, Brooklyn New York, American news panelist (Meet the Press)
1902 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer
1903 - Ernie Nevers, NFL fullback (Duluth Eskimos, Chicago Cardinals)
1904 - Clarence "Pinetop" Smith, jazz pianist/singer (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1904 - Daphne Fielding, socialite/writer
1904 - Emil Frantisek Burian, composer
1906 - Clifford Leofric Purdy Bishop, bishop
1907 - Anton D Hildebrand, children's book writer (Man in the Moon)
1907 - Jose Bernabe Marino Barreto y Casanova, pianist vocalist bandleader
1907 - Paul Mellon, US, oil magnate/pres (Washington National Gallery of Art)
1910 - Carmine Coppola, composer/conductor (Godfather II, Apocalypse Now)

Oceanographer, Explorer and Scientist Jacques Cousteau (1910) 1910 - Jacques Cousteau, French oceanic explorer (Calypso)
1911 - Russ Hodges, Dayton Tn, sportscaster (Wednesday Night Fights)
1912 - Mukhtar Ashrafi, composer
1912 - William Baziotes, painter (abstract expressionist)
1913 - John Elliott Terry, managing director (National Film Finance Corp)
1913 - Revaz Kondrat'yevich Gabichvadze, composer
1913 - Vince Lombardi, NFL coach (Green Bay Packers)
1914 - Gerald Mohr, NYC, actor (Christopher-Foreign Intrigue)
1914 - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist (Church & Emperor)
1914 - Jack Mann, pilot/hostage
1915 - David Kindersley, font designer/cutter
1915 - Nicholas Metropolis, Greek-American mathematician, physicist and computer scientist (d. 1999)
1917 - James Bostock, painter/engraver
1917 - Joseph B. Wirthlin, LDS apostle
1919 - Richard Todd, Ireland, actor (Dorian Gray, Assassin Yangtse Incident)
1920 - Bir Bikram Shah Deva Mahendra, King of Nepal (1955-72)
1920 - Hazel Scott, Trinidad, singer/pianist (Hazel Scott)
1920 - Irving Howe, US, writer/critic (World of Our Fathers)
1920 - Robert Hutton, Kingston NY, actor (Torture Garden, Rocket)
1921 - Beatrice "Fiet" van Ommeren-Samson, Suriname writer
1921 - Michael Meyer, UK, novelist/Ibsen translator (Hedda Gabler)
1922 - Erving Goffman, sociologist (presentation of self in everyday life)
1922 - John Bromfield, South Bend In, actor (Easy to Love)
1922 - Michael Cacoyannis, director (Zorba the Greek, Trojan Women)
1922 - Tony Charmoli, director/choreographer (Dinah Shore, Danny Kaye)
1923 - Gerard Vaughn, MP (Conservative)
1924 - Ed Farhat, American professional wrestler (d. 2003)
1925 - William Styron, Va, novelist (Confess of Nat Turner, Sophie's Choice)
1925 - Richard White, Gisborne, New Zealand, rugby union player (55 games as an All Black), (d. 2012)
1926 - Brother Dave Gardner, Novelty singer/comedian
1926 - Carlisle Floyd, Latta SC, composer (Slow Dusk)
1927 - Beryl Grey, prima ballerina
1927 - Eric St Eval Atkinson, cricketer (bro of Denis WI pace bowler 1958-59)
1927 - John Aspinall, owner (casino, zoos)
1927 - Josef Anton Reidl, composer
1927 - Marcus Fox, conservative MP/chairman (1922 Committee)
1928 - Fabiola de Mora y Aragon, Spanish Queen of Belgium
1928 - Gerard van Leijenhorst, Dutch undersecretary of the Interior (CDA)
1930 - Anatoli Fyodorovich Voronov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 12a backup)
1930 - Charles B Rangel, (Rep-D-NY, 1971- )
1931 - Lord Cameron of Lochbroom, lord advocate
1931 - Lucianna Paluzzi, Rome Italy, actress (Five Fingers, Thunderball)
1931 - Tab Hunter, NYC, actor (Tab Hunter Show)
1931 - Audrey Schuh, American soprano
1932 - Athol Fugard, Middleburg South Africa, anti-apartheid writer (Blood Knot)
1932 - Timothy Sainsbury, British minister of state
1933 - Jud Strunk, Jamestown NY, singer/comedian (Laugh-In)
1933 - Gene Wilder, American actor
1934 - Anthony Evans, British high court judge
1934 - Pookie Hudson, vocalist (Goodnite Sweetheart Goodnite-Spaniels)
1934 - Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark
1935 - Gene Wilder, [Jerome Silbermann], Milwaukee, actor (Silver Streak)
1935 - Sheikh Fazalur Rehman, cricketer (played 1 Test Pakistan v WI 1958)
1936 - George Bryan Ingham, artist
1936 - Jud Strunk, American musician and comedian (d. 1981)
1937 - Chad Everett [Raymon Lee Cramton], South Bend, Indiana, American actor (Medical Center, Airplane II)
1937 - Johnny Brown, St Petersburg Fla, comedian (Good Times, Leslie Uggams)
1937 - Robin Warren, Australian pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine
1939 - Barry George Barrington Porter, politician
1939 - Barry Porter, MP (Conservative)
1939 - Christina Crawford, author, Joan's daughter (Mommie Dearest)
1939 - Jackie Stewart, Scotland, driver/sports announcer (27 Grand Prix)
1939 - Rachel Heyhoe Flint, English cricket player/journalist
1939 - Wilma Burgess, country-pop singer
1939 - Bernard Purdie, American session drummer
1940 - Joey Dee, Passaic NJ, singer (Hey Let's Twist, 2 Tickets to Paris)
1942 - Somachandra De Silva, cricketer (Sri Lankan leg-spinner 1982-84)

Mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill (1943) 1943 - Henry Hill Jr., Brooklyn, New York, mobster and FBI informant (inspired Goodfellas), (d. 2012)
1944 - Alan Horworth, MP
1944 - Barry Stevens, British/Neth, choreographer (Personals, Young Again)
1944 - James "Ox" D A van Hoften, Fresno California, astronaut (STS 11, STS 20)
1945 - Adrienne Barbeau, Sacramento California, actress (Maude, Swamp Thing)
1946 - Jenny Pittman, horse trainer
1946 - John Lawton, British rock singer (Uriah Heep)
1946 - Michael Wilkes, commander (UK Field Army)
1947 - Glenn Leonard, R&B singer (Temptations)
1947 - Henry Cisneros, first Hispanic to serve as mayor of a major U.S. city (San Antonio), later Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Clinton Administration
1947 - Laloo Prasad Yadav, Indian politician
1948 - Anthony Nelson, British Sec of Treasury
1948 - Skip Alan, [Alan Skipper], drummer (Them, Pretty Things)
1948 - Stephen Schnetzer, Boston Mass, actor (Cass Winthrop-Another World)
1949 - George Willig, stuntman (climbed World Trade Center in 1977)
1949 - Frank Beard, Frankston Texas, US country rock drummer (ZZ Top)
1949 - Tom Pryce, British racing driver (d. 1977)
1949 - Benjamin Vasserman, Estonian graphic artist
1950 - Graham Russell, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1950 - Debbie "Pokey" Watson, US, 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1950 - Lindsey de Paul, singer
1950 - Michael Swan, Palo Alto California, actor (Duncan-As The World Turns)
1951 - Collis King, cricketer (WI all-rounder late 70s)
1951 - Jan Fransen, Dutch MP (VVD)
1951 - Maren Seidler, Brooklyn New York, American shot putter (Olympics-11th-1968)
1951 - Mark D Siljander, (Rep-R-MI, 1981- )
1951 - Mithra Wettimuny, cricketer (brother of Sidath 2 Tests for SL v NZ 1983)
1951 - Yasumasa Morimura, Japanese appropriation artist
1952 - Donnie Van Zant, rock vocalist (.38 Special)
1952 - Russell Hitchcock, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Air Supply)
1953 - Peter Bergman, actor (All My Children, Starland Vocal Band)
1954 - Gary Fencik, NFL defensive back (Chicago Bears)
1954 - John Dyson, cricketer (NSW & Australian opening batsman)
1955 - Tony Allcock, bowler
1955 - Yuriy Sedykh, Soviet hammer thrower
1956 - Joe Montana, NFL quarterback (SF 49ers)
1957 - Bruce Plummer, Seattle Wash, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 West Coast)
1957 - Jamaaladeen Tacuma, American musician
1958 - Deborah Vidal, Ponce Puerto Rico, LPGA golfer (1994 Oldsmobile-19th)

Actor Hugh Laurie (1959) 1959 - Hugh Laurie [James Hugh Calum Laurie], Oxford, English actor (Strapless, Dr Gregory House-House)
1961 - Caroline Quentin, English actress
1961 - María Barranco, Spanish actress
1962 - Michael Kenny, WLAF offensive assistant (Scottish Claymores)
1962 - Erika Salumäe, Estonian cyclist, Olympian
1963 - Max Stevens, Millmeran QLD, Australasia golfer
1963 - Tommy Barnhardt, NFL punter (Carolina Panthers, GB Packers, TB Bucs)
1963 - Bruce Kimball, American diver
1963 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (d. 2000)
1964 - Kim Gallagher, Phila, 800m runner (Olympic-silver-1984)
1964 - Jean Alesi, French Formula One driver
1965 - Anthony Painter, Milton NSW, Australasia golfer
1965 - Giola Bruno, rocker (Expose)
1965 - Joe Cain, NFL linebacker (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1965 - Manuel Uribe Garza, morbidly obese Mexican
1966 - Scott Mellanby, Montreal, NHL right wing (Florida Panthers)
1966 - Tiffany Cohen, Culver City California, swimmer (Olympic-2 gold-1984)
1967 - Clare Carey, actress (Kelly Fox Rosebrock-Coach)
1967 - John Doherty, pitcher
1967 - Mario Chitarroni, hockey forward (Team Italy 1998)
1968 - Staci Baldwin, Miss Washington USA (1996)
1969 - Johan Hansma, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1969 - Nancy Blogg, Swiss dancer (Josephine)
1969 - Peter Dinklage, American actor
1969 - Steven Drozd, American drummer
1969 - Matt McGrath, American actor
1970 - Brock Marion, NFL safety (Dallas Cowboys)
1970 - Roman Kontsek, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1970 - William Selby, Monroeville MI, infielder (Boston Red Sox)
1970 - Chris Rice, singer/songwriter
1971 - Dion Foxx, NFL linebacker (Miami Dolphins)
1971 - Duane Dmytryshyn, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1972 - Andrew Peterson, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers, Carolina Panthers)
1972 - Joe O'Brien, WLAF defensive tackle (Scottish Claymores)
1973 - Lance Johnstone, defensive end (Oakland Raiders)
1973 - Robby Kiger, Encino California, actor (Josh Fox-Crazy Like a Fox)
1973 - Tony McKenzie, WLAF guard (London Monarchs)
1974 - Emilee Klein, Santa Monica CA, LPGA golfer (1995 SAFECO Classic-2nd)
1974 - Tanya Pogatchnik, Miss Montana USA (1996)
1974 - Tatiana Ignatieva, Minsk Belarus, tennis star (1994 Futures-Sopot POL)
1975 - Choi Ji Woo, South Korean actress and model
1975 - Thomas Bimis, Greek diver
1976 - Scott Guyton, Tokoroa NZ, cyclist (Olympics-96)
1976 - Tai Anderson, American musician (bass player for Third Day)
1977 - Geoff Ogilvy, Australian golfer
1977 - Ryan Dunn, American actor
1977 - Shane Meier, Canadian actor
1978 - Joshua Jackson, actor (Mighty Ducks)
1978 - Leah Sexton, Miss Missouri Teen USA (1996)
1978 - Ujjwala Raut, Indian supermodel
1980 - Yhency Brazoban, Dominican born baseball player
1981 - Emiliano Moretti, Italian footballer
1982 - Eldar Rønning, Norwegian cross-country skier
1982 - Johnny Candido, American professional wrestler
1982 - Joey Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Steven Graham, American basketball player
1982 - Diana Taurasi, American basketball player
1983 - José Reyes, Dominican baseball player
1983 - Chuck Hayes, American basketball player
1984 - Vagner Love, Brazilian footballer
1984 - Andy Lee, Irish Boxer
1985 - Anja Rubik, Polish supermodel
1985 - Chris Trousdale, American pop singer and dancer
1985 - Josh Ramsay, Canada, singer-songwriter (Marianas Trench)
1986 - Brighton Hertford, actress (BJ Jones-General Hospital)

Actor Shia LaBeouf (1986) 1986 - Shia LaBeouf, Los Angeles, California, American actor (Disturbia, Transformers)
1987 - TiA, Japanese R&B singer
1988 - Yui Aragaki, Japanese actress and model
1989 - Jeff Linton Osbourne, son of Jeffrey & Sheri
1994 - Ivana Baquero, Spanish actress

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