Born on Friday, 6th June – Famous Birthdays

06/06/2001

Rayan Aït-Nouri, French-Algerian footballer

Rayan Aït-Nouri is a professional footballer who plays as a left-back or a left wing-back for Premier League club Manchester City. Born in France, he plays for the Algeria national team.

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06/06/2000

Haechan, South Korean singer

Lee Dong-hyeok, known professionally as Haechan (해찬), is a South Korean singer. He is a member of South Korean boy band NCT and its subunit NCT U alongside its fixed subunits NCT 127 and NCT Dream. On September 8, 2025, Haechan began his solo debut with the release of his first studio album Taste.

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06/06/1998

Kenny Pickett, American football player

Kenneth Pickett is an American professional football quarterback for the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Pittsburgh Panthers, winning the Johnny Unitas Golden Arm Award in 2021, and was selected by the Pittsburgh Steelers in the first round of the 2022 NFL draft. Pickett spent two seasons as the Steelers' primary starter, helping lead the team to a playoff appearance in 2023. Due to inconsistent play, he was traded to the Philadelphia Eagles, where he spent one season as a backup and was a member of the team that won Super Bowl LIX.

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06/06/1996

Jack Hetherington, Australian rugby league player

Jack Hetherington is an Australian professional rugby league footballer who plays as a prop forward for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League (NRL).

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06/06/1995

Julian Green, American soccer player

Julian Wesley Green is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for 2. Bundesliga club Greuther Fürth.

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06/06/1994

Yvon Mvogo, Swiss footballer

Yvon Landry Mvogo Nganoma is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Ligue 1 club Lorient. Born in Cameroon, he plays for the Switzerland national team.

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06/06/1993

Vic Mensa, American rapper and singer

Victor Kwesi Mensah, known professionally as Vic Mensa, is an American rapper. Born and raised in Chicago, he was a member of the regional hip-hop groups Kids These Days and Savemoney prior to releasing his debut solo mixtape, Innanetape (2013). As a solo artist, Mensa has been signed to Virgin EMI Records, Def Jam Recordings, Capitol Records, and Roc Nation.

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06/06/1992

DeAndre Hopkins, American football player

DeAndre Rashaun Hopkins, nicknamed "DHop" and "Nuk", is an American professional football wide receiver who is currently a free agent. He played college football for the Clemson Tigers and was selected by the Houston Texans in the first round of the 2013 NFL draft. He has also played in the NFL for the Arizona Cardinals, Tennessee Titans, and Kansas City Chiefs. Hopkins is a five-time Pro Bowler and has been named to five All-Pro teams.

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06/06/1990

Gavin Hoyte, English born footballer who represented Trinidad and Tobago

Gavin Andrew Hoyte is a professional footballer who plays as a defender for Isthmian League South East Division club Sittingbourne. Born in England, he has represented the Trinidad and Tobago national team.

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Anthony Rendon, American baseball player

Anthony Michael Rendon is an American baseball third baseman for the Los Angeles Angels of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Washington Nationals.

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Pape Souaré, Senegalese footballer

Pape N'Diaye Souaré is a Senegalese professional footballer who plays as a left-back.

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06/06/1988

Anthony Pilkington, Irish footballer

Anthony Neil James Pilkington is an Irish former professional footballer who played as a winger.

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06/06/1986

Gin Wigmore, New Zealand singer and songwriter

Virginia Claire Wigmore is a New Zealand singer and songwriter. Featured on the Smashproof single "Brother" in 2009, Wigmore went on to release four albums – Holy Smoke (2009), Gravel & Wine (2011), Blood to Bone (2015) and Ivory (2018) – with the first three having been chart-toppers on the New Zealand Albums Chart. She is known for her high pitched and raspy voice.

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06/06/1985

Sebastian Larsson, Swedish footballer

Bengt Ulf Sebastian Larsson is a Swedish former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Beginning his career at hometown club IFK Eskilstuna, Larsson was signed by Arsenal. He made three Premier League appearances for the Gunners, before joining Birmingham City, initially on loan for the 2006–07 season, before a permanent transfer in the winter of 2007. Larsson spent five years at Birmingham, experiencing promotion to, and relegation from, the Premier League on two occasions. He joined Sunderland on 1 July 2011 upon the expiry of his contract, after Birmingham suffered relegation. He left Sunderland in 2017 to sign for Hull City in the EFL Championship where he spent one season. He returned to his native Sweden in 2018 to sign for AIK, and helped them win the 2018 Allsvenskan title before retiring in 2022. Larsson is renowned for being a set-piece specialist.

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Drew McIntyre, Scottish professional wrestler

Andrew McLean Galloway IV is a Scottish-American professional wrestler. As of April 2017, he is signed to WWE, where he performs on the SmackDown brand under the ring name Drew McIntyre.

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Becky Sauerbrunn, American footballer; twice a winner of the FIFA Women's World Cup, also an Olympic gold medallist

Rebecca Elizabeth Sauerbrunn is an American former professional soccer player who played as a center back. She co-captained the United States national team with Carli Lloyd from 2016 to 2018 and was the captain of the team from 2021 to 2023.

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06/06/1983

Michael Krohn-Dehli, Danish footballer

Michael Krohn-Dehli is a Danish former professional footballer. He played mostly as an attacking midfielder, but was also deployed as a winger.

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06/06/1980

Pete Hegseth, American author, political commentator and 29th United States Secretary of Defense

Peter Brian Hegseth is an American government official and former television personality who has served since 2025 as the 29th United States secretary of defense.

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06/06/1979

Roberto De Zerbi, Italian football manager

Roberto De Zerbi is an Italian professional football manager and former player. He is the current head coach of Premier League club Tottenham Hotspur.

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06/06/1977

David Connolly, Irish footballer

David James Connolly is a former professional footballer who played as a striker. He played for various clubs including Feyenoord and Excelsior in the Netherlands as well as Wigan Athletic and Sunderland in the Premier League. Born in England, Connolly represented the Republic of Ireland national team at international level. He was a member of Ireland's 2002 FIFA World Cup squad that lost to Spain in the knockout stage where his penalty kick was saved by Iker Casillas during the shootout.

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06/06/1974

Uncle Kracker, American musician

Matthew Shafer, also known by his stage name Uncle Kracker, is an American singer and musician. He came to prominence in the 1990s as a turntablist for Kid Rock's backing group Twisted Brown Trucker and launched a solo career in 1999. He is best known for his singles "Follow Me", "Drift Away", and "Smile" – all of which peaked within the top 40 of the Billboard Hot 100.

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Sonya Walger, British-American actress

Sonya Walger is a British and American actress. She had a starring role in the HBO sitcom The Mind of the Married Man (2001–2002) before landing her role as Penny Widmore in the ABC drama series Lost (2006–2010). Walger later starred on Tell Me You Love Me (2007), FlashForward (2009–2010), Common Law (2012), The Catch (2016–2017), and For all Mankind (2019–2022).

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06/06/1973

Jackie Arklöv, Swedish mercenary and convicted murderer

Jackie Banny Arklöv is a Swedish convicted murderer and bankrobber. Arklöv is an ex-neo-Nazi, Yugoslav Wars mercenary and war criminal, who, with two other neo-Nazis, murdered two police officers after a bank robbery in 1999.

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06/06/1972

Natalie Morales, American television journalist and NBC News anchor

Natalie Morales-Rhodes is an American journalist who recently was a co-host and moderator of the CBS Daytime talk show The Talk. Prior to that, Morales worked for NBC News for 22 years in various roles as the West Coast anchor of Today and appeared on Dateline NBC and NBC Nightly News.

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06/06/1967

Paul Giamatti, American actor and producer

Paul Edward Valentine Giamatti is an American actor. His accolades include a Primetime Emmy Award and three Golden Globes, as well as nominations for two Academy Awards and a British Academy Film Award.

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06/06/1966

Sophie Jamal, Canadian endocrinologist involved in scientific misconduct

Abida Sophie Jamal is a Canadian endocrinologist and former osteoporosis researcher who was at the centre of a scientific misconduct case in the mid-to-late 2010s. Jamal published a high-profile paper suggesting that the heart medication nitroglycerin was a treatment for osteoporosis, and was later demonstrated to have misrepresented her results. She received a lifetime ban from receiving funding from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research and was named directly in their disclosure report, becoming the first person mentioned by name by the institute for scientific misconduct. Jamal was later stripped of her medical license for two years, regaining it in a controversial 3–2 decision.

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Tony Yeboah, Ghanaian footballer

Anthony Yeboah is a Ghanaian former professional footballer who played as a striker.

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06/06/1963

Jason Isaacs, English actor

Jason Michael Isaacs is an English actor. He is best known for his portrayal of D.J. in Event Horizon (1997), Ronald Quincy in Armageddon (1998), Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot (2000), Michael D. Steele in Black Hawk Down (2001), Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter film series (2002–2011), Captain Hook in Peter Pan (2003), Captain Waggoner in Fury (2014), Georgy Zhukov in The Death of Stalin (2017), Jay Perry in Mass (2021), John Godfrey in Operation Mincemeat (2021), and Timothy Ratliff in The White Lotus (2025).

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06/06/1962

Hirokazu Kore-eda, Japanese director

Hirokazu Kore-eda is a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter, and editor. He began his career in television and has since directed more than a dozen feature films, including Nobody Knows (2004) and Still Walking (2008).

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06/06/1960

Steve Vai, American musician

Steven Siro Vai is an American guitarist, songwriter, and producer. A three-time Grammy Award winner and fifteen-time nominee, Vai started his music career in 1978 at the age of eighteen as a transcriptionist for Frank Zappa, and played in Zappa's band from 1980 to 1983. He embarked on a solo career in 1983 and has released 11 solo albums to date. He has recorded and toured with Alcatrazz, David Lee Roth, and Whitesnake, as well as recording with artists such as Public Image Ltd, Mary J. Blige, Spinal Tap, Alice Cooper, Motörhead, and Polyphia. Additionally, Vai has toured with live-only acts G3, Zappa Plays Zappa, Beat and the Experience Hendrix Tour, as well as headlining international tours.

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Raudin Anwar, Indonesian diplomat

Raudin Anwar is an Indonesian retired diplomat specializing in international law. He spent most of his career in the foreign ministry's international treaties directorate general, including assignments abroad in Washington, Port Moresby, London, and Canberra. His last assignment was as ambassador to Libya from 2013 to 2017.

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06/06/1959

Colin Quinn, American comedian and actor

Colin Edward Quinn is an American stand-up comedian, actor, and writer. He first gained widespread attention for his work as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000, and he became known for anchoring Weekend Update, the show's news parody segment. Prior to SNL, he was best known as the announcer/sidekick/co-host on MTV's 1980s game show Remote Control. Following his departure from SNL, Quinn went on to host Comedy Central's late-night panel show Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn, where he and a panel of New York's big names in stand-up comedy discussed and debated news stories of the day. Notable film work includes his role as Dooey in A Night at the Roxbury, Dickey Bailey in the Grown Ups films, and playing Amy Schumer's father in the film Trainwreck. Comedians such as Jerry Seinfeld, Tina Fey, Chris Rock, and Dave Attell have cited Quinn as the quintessential "comic's comic" and New York comedian.

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06/06/1956

Björn Borg, Swedish tennis player; winner of eleven Grand Slam singles titles including five consecutive Wimbledons

Björn Rune Borg is a Swedish former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 109 weeks. Borg won 66 singles titles during his career, including eleven majors: six at the French Open and five consecutively at Wimbledon. Borg was ATP Player of the Year from 1976 to 1980, the year-end No. 1 in the ATP rankings in 1979 and 1980, and the ITF World Champion from 1978 to 1980.

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06/06/1955

Sam Simon, American director, producer and screenwriter; co-developer of The Simpsons (died 2015)

Samuel Michael Simon was an American television writer, producer and animal rights activist who co-developed the animated sitcom The Simpsons.

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06/06/1954

Wladyslaw Zmuda, Polish footballer and manager; 91 caps for Poland and voted Best Young Player at the 1974 FIFA World Cup

Władysław Antoni Żmuda is a Polish former professional footballer who played as a defender for Śląsk Wrocław, Widzew Łódź, Hellas Verona, New York Cosmos and US Cremonese. He earned 91 caps for the Poland national team and is a four-time FIFA World Cup participant. At the 1974 FIFA World Cup, where Poland claimed third place, he received the FIFA Young Player Award.

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06/06/1952

Harvey Fierstein, American actor and playwright; winner of four Tony Awards

Harvey Forbes Fierstein is an American actor, playwright, and screenwriter, known for his distinctive gravelly voice. He gained notice for his theater work in Torch Song Trilogy, winning both the Tony Award for Best Play and Best Actor in a Play. He went on to win the Tony Award for Best Book of a Musical for La Cage aux Folles, then Best Actor in a Musical for playing Edna Turnblad in Hairspray, a role he reprised for the Hairspray Live! television special.

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06/06/1951

Dwight Twilley, American pop/rock singer and songwriter (died 2023)

Dwight Twilley was an American pop/rock singer and songwriter, best known for the top 20 hit singles "I'm on Fire" (1975) and "Girls" (1984). His music is associated with the power pop style. Twilley and Phil Seymour performed as the Dwight Twilley Band through 1978, and Twilley performed as a solo act afterwards.

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06/06/1949

Holly Near, American folk singer and songwriter

Holly Near is an American singer-songwriter, actress, teacher, and activist.

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06/06/1948

Arlene Harris, American entrepreneur, inventor, investor and policy advocate

Arlene Joy Harris is an entrepreneur, inventor, investor, and policy advocate in the telecommunications industry. She is the president and co-founder of Dyna LLC, an incubator for start-up and early-stage organizations historically in the wireless technology field. Harris is widely recognized as a pioneer in mobile and wireless enterprise and an innovator of consumer products and services. In May 2007, she became the first female inductee of the Wireless Hall of Fame, and was named to the Consumer Technology Hall of Fame in 2017.

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06/06/1947

David Blunkett, British Labour politician; Home Secretary 2001–2004

David Blunkett, Baron Blunkett, is a British politician who served as Secretary of State for Education and Employment from 1997 to 2001, Home Secretary from 2001 to 2004 and Secretary of State for Work and Pensions in 2005. A member of the Labour Party, he served as Member of Parliament (MP) for Sheffield Brightside and Hillsborough from 1987 to 2015 and was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2015.

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Robert Englund, American actor; best known for Nightmare on Elm Street

Robert Barton Englund is an American actor and director. Englund is best known for playing the villain Freddy Krueger in the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Englund has received multiple accolades and honors, including a Saturn Award, a Fangoria Chainsaw Award, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

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Ada Kok, Dutch butterfly stroke swimmer; winner of three Olympic medals including gold in 1968

Aagje ("Ada") Kok is a Dutch former swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s.

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Keith Daniel Williams, American convicted rapist and triple murderer (died 1996)

Keith Daniel Williams was an American triple murderer who was executed by the state of California for the October 1978 murders of three people in Merced, California. He was convicted and sentenced to death in 1979 and was subsequently executed in 1996 at San Quentin State Prison by lethal injection.

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06/06/1946

Tony Levin, American bass player and songwriter

Anthony Frederick Levin is an American musician and composer specializing in electric bass guitars, Chapman Stick and upright bass. He also sings and plays synthesizer. Levin is best known for his work with King Crimson and Peter Gabriel. He is also a member of Liquid Tension Experiment, Bruford Levin Upper Extremities (1998–2000) and HoBoLeMa (2008–2010). He has led his own band, Stick Men, since 2010.

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06/06/1944

Monty Alexander, Jamaican jazz pianist

Montgomery Bernard "Monty" Alexander OJ CD is a Jamaican American jazz pianist. His playing has a Caribbean influence and bright swinging feeling, with a strong vocabulary of bebop jazz and blues rooted melodies. He was influenced by Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Erroll Garner, Nat King Cole, Oscar Peterson, Ahmad Jamal, Les McCann, and Frank Sinatra. Alexander also sings and plays the melodica. He is known for his surprising musical twists, bright rhythmic sense, and intense dramatic musical climaxes. His recording career has covered many of the well-known American songbook standards, jazz standards, pop hits, and Jamaican songs from his original homeland. Alexander has resided in New York City for many years and performs frequently throughout the world at jazz festivals and clubs.

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Phillip Allen Sharp, American molecular biologist; 1993 Nobel Prize laureate (Physiology or Medicine)

Phillip Allen Sharp is an American geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered RNA splicing. He shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Richard J. Roberts for "the discovery that genes in eukaryotes are not contiguous strings but contain introns, and that the splicing of messenger RNA to delete those introns can occur in different ways, yielding different proteins from the same DNA sequence". He was awarded the 2015 Othmer Gold Medal.

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Tommie Smith, American sprinter and football player; winner of 1968 Olympic 200m gold medal in a world record time

Tommie C. Smith is an American former track and field athlete and wide receiver in the American Football League. At the 1968 Summer Olympics, Smith, aged 24, won the 200-meter sprint finals and gold medal in 19.83 seconds – the first time the 20-second barrier was broken officially. His Black Power salute with John Carlos atop the medal podium caused controversy, as it was seen as politicizing the Olympic Games. It remains a symbolic moment in the history of the Black Power movement.

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06/06/1943

Richard Smalley, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1996 for chemistry (died 2005)

Richard Errett Smalley was an American chemist who was the Gene and Norman Hackerman Professor of Chemistry, Physics, and Astronomy at Rice University. In 1996, along with Robert Curl, also a professor of chemistry at Rice, and Harold Kroto, a professor at the University of Sussex, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the discovery of a new form of carbon, buckminsterfullerene, also known as buckyballs. He was an advocate of nanotechnology and its applications.

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06/06/1940

Willie John McBride, Northern Irish rugby player who toured with the British Lions five times

William James McBride, better known as Willie John McBride, is a former rugby union footballer from Northern Ireland who played as a lock for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He made 63 appearances for Ireland, including eleven as captain, and toured with the Lions five times; a record that earned him 17 Lions Test caps and 71 appearances in the red jersey. He also captained one of the most successful Lions sides, which returned undefeated from South Africa in 1974. McBride, inducted into the World Rugby Hall of Fame in 2009, is regarded as one of the most influential figures ever to play the game.

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06/06/1939

Louis Andriessen, Dutch pianist and composer (died 2021)

Louis Joseph Andriessen was a Dutch composer, pianist and academic teacher. Considered the most influential Dutch composer of his generation, he was a central proponent of The Hague school of composition. Although his music was initially dominated by neoclassicism and serialism, his style gradually shifted to a synthesis of American minimalism, big band jazz and the expressionism of Igor Stravinsky.

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Gary U.S. Bonds, American singer-songwriter

Gary U.S. Bonds is an American rhythm and blues and rock and roll singer, known for his hits "New Orleans" and "Quarter to Three".

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06/06/1936

D. Ramanaidu, Indian actor, director, and producer, founded Suresh Productions (died 2015)

Daggubati Ramanaidu was an Indian film producer known for his work in Telugu cinema. He founded Suresh Productions in 1964 which became of one of the largest film production companies in India. He was one of the most influential movie moguls in Indian cinema. He was placed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most films produced by an individual, with more than 150 films in all official Indian languages. He also served as a Member of Parliament for the Bapatla constituency in Andhra Pradesh in the 13th Lok Sabha from 1999 to 2004.

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Levi Stubbs, American soul singer; lead vocalist of the Four Tops (died 2008)

Levi Stubbs was an American baritone singer, widely known as the lead vocalist of the R&B group the Four Tops, that released a variety of Motown hit records during the 1960s and 1970s. He was noted for his powerful, emotional, and dramatic singing style. In 1990, Stubbs was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Four Tops.

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06/06/1935

Jon Henricks, Australian swimmer; winner of two Olympic gold medals in 1956

John Malcolm Henricks is an Australian Olympic swimmer who won two gold medals at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Henricks set world records in two freestyle events.

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06/06/1934

Albert II, King of the Belgians from 9 August 1993 to 21 July 2013 (abdicated)

Albert II is a member of the Belgian royal family who reigned as King of the Belgians from 1993 until his abdication in 2013.

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Taichi Yamada, Japanese screenwriter and novelist (died 2023)

Taichi Yamada was a Japanese screenwriter and novelist. His real name was Taichi Ishizaka .

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06/06/1933

Heinrich Rohrer, Swiss physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2013)

Heinrich Rohrer was a Swiss physicist who shared half of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Physics with Gerd Binnig for the design of the scanning tunneling microscope (STM). The other half of the Prize was awarded to Ernst Ruska. The Heinrich Rohrer Medal is presented triennially by the Surface Science Society of Japan with IBM Research – Zurich, Swiss Embassy in Japan, and Ms. Rohrer in his memory. The medal is not to be confused with the Heinrich Rohrer Award presented at the Nano Seoul 2020 conference.

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06/06/1932

David Scott, American colonel, engineer, and astronaut who was the commander of Apollo 15

David Randolph Scott is an American retired test pilot and NASA astronaut who was the seventh person to walk on the Moon. Selected as part of the third group of astronauts in 1963, Scott flew to space three times and commanded Apollo 15, the fourth lunar landing; he is one of four surviving Moon walkers and the only living commander of a spacecraft that landed on the Moon.

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06/06/1931

Richard Hickock, American convicted murderer (died 1965)

Richard Eugene Hickock was one of two ex-convicts convicted of murdering four members of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, on November 15, 1959, a crime made famous by Truman Capote in his 1966 non-fiction novel In Cold Blood. Along with Perry Edward Smith, Hickock took part in the burglary and multiple murders at the Clutter family farmhouse.

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06/06/1930

Frank Tyson, English-Australian cricketer, coach and journalist (died 2015)

Frank Holmes Tyson was an England international cricketer of the 1950s, who also worked as a schoolmaster, journalist, cricket coach and cricket commentator after emigrating to Australia in 1960. Nicknamed "Typhoon Tyson" by the press, he was regarded by many commentators as one of the fastest bowlers ever seen in cricket and took 76 wickets at an average of 18.56 in 17 Test matches.

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06/06/1929

James Barnor, Ghanaian photographer

James Barnor Hon. FRPS, OV is a Ghanaian photographer who has been based in London since the 1990s. His career spans six decades, and although for much of that period his work was not widely known, it has latterly been discovered by new audiences. In his street and studio photography, Barnor represents societies in transition in the 1950s and 1960s: Ghana moving toward independence, and London becoming a multicultural metropolis. He has said: "I was lucky to be alive when things were happening...when Ghana was going to be independent and Ghana became independent, and when I came to England the Beatles were around. Things were happening in the 60s, so I call myself Lucky Jim." He was Ghana's first full-time newspaper photographer in the 1950s, and he is credited with introducing colour processing to Ghana in the 1970s. It has been said: "James Barnor is to Ghana and photojournalism what Ousmane Sembène was to Senegal and African cinema."

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Sunil Dutt, Indian actor, director, producer, and politician (died 2005)

Sunil Dutt was an Indian actor, film producer, director, and politician known for his work in Hindi cinema. He acted in more than 80 films over a career spanning five decades and was the recipient of three Filmfare Awards, including two for Best Actor. Regarded as one of the most successful and finest actors in the history of Indian cinema, Dutt was known for his unique style and delivering impactful messages through his films. In 1968, the Government of India honoured him with the Padma Shri, India's fourth highest civilian award, for his contribution to Indian cinema.

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06/06/1926

Klaus Tennstedt, German conductor (died 1998)

Klaus Hermann Wilhelm Tennstedt was a German conductor from Merseburg. Known for his interpretation of the Austro-German repertoire, especially his sympathetic approaches towards Gustav Mahler, Tennstedt is widely considered one of the greatest and most influential conductors of the late 20th century. He worked with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Symphony Orchestra, and other highly regarded ensembles such as the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and most notably the London Philharmonic Orchestra, with which he was closely associated and recorded many of his celebrated recordings under the EMI label, including a cycle of Mahler's 10 symphonies.

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06/06/1925

Maxine Kumin, American poet and author (died 2014)

Maxine Kumin was an American poet and author. She was appointed Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1981–1982.

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Frank Chee Willeto, American soldier and politician, 4th Vice President of the Navajo Nation and a noted code talker during World War II (died 2013)

Frank Chee Willeto was an American politician and Navajo code talker during World War II. Willeto served as the vice president of the Navajo Nation under President Milton Bluehouse, Sr. from his appointment in August 1998 until January 1999, when the Begaye administration took office.

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06/06/1923

V. C. Andrews, American author, illustrator, and painter (died 1986)

Cleo Virginia Andrews, better known as Virginia C. Andrews or V. C. Andrews, was an American novelist. She was best known for her 1979 novel Flowers in the Attic, which inspired two movie adaptations and four sequels. While her novels are not classified by her publisher as Young Adult, their young protagonists have made them popular among teenagers for decades. After her death in 1986, a ghostwriter who was initially hired to complete two unfinished works has continued to publish books under her name.

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Jean Pouliot, Canadian broadcaster (died 2004)

Jean Adélard Pouliot was a Canadian broadcasting pioneer who helped establish television stations in Kitchener, Ontario, and Quebec City, Quebec. Pouliot was the president and CEO for the first publicly traded Quebec broadcasting company, Télé-Capitale, and started two French language networks: TVA, and TQS.

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06/06/1920

Virginia Oliver (died 2026), American lobster fisherwoman

Virginia Oliver was an American lobster fisherwoman.

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06/06/1919

Peter Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, English army officer and politician, 6th Secretary General of NATO (died 2018)

Peter Alexander Rupert Carington, 6th Baron Carrington, Baron Carington of Upton, was a British Conservative Party politician and hereditary peer who served as Defence Secretary from 1970 to 1974, Foreign Secretary from 1979 to 1982, chairman of the General Electric Company from 1983 to 1984, and Secretary General of NATO from 1984 to 1988. In Margaret Thatcher's first government, he played a major role in negotiating the Lancaster House Agreement that ended the conflict in Rhodesia and enabled the creation of Zimbabwe. Carington later served as the Chairman of the Steering Committee for the Bilderberg Group's meetings from 1990 to 1998.

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06/06/1918

Kenneth Connor, English comedy actor (died 1993)

Kenneth Connor was a British stage, film and broadcasting actor, who rose to national prominence with his appearances in the Carry On films.

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Edwin G. Krebs, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2009)

Edwin Gerhard Krebs was an American biochemist. He received the Albert Lasker Award for Basic Medical Research and the Louisa Gross Horwitz Prize of Columbia University in 1989 together with Alfred Gilman and, together with his collaborator Edmond H. Fischer, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1992 for describing how reversible phosphorylation works as a switch to activate proteins and regulate various cellular processes.

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06/06/1917

Kirk Kerkorian, American businessman, founded the Tracinda Corporation (died 2015)

Kerkor "Kirk" Kerkorian was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. He was the president and CEO of Tracinda Corporation, his private holding company based in Beverly Hills, California. Kerkorian was one of the important figures in the shaping of Las Vegas and, with architect Martin Stern Jr., is described as the "father of the mega-resort". He built the world's largest hotel in Las Vegas three times: the International Hotel, the original MGM Grand Hotel (1973) and the current MGM Grand (1993). He purchased the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer movie studio in 1969.

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06/06/1916

Hamani Diori, Nigerien academic and politician, 1st President of Niger (died 1989)

Hamani Diori was the first President of the Republic of Niger. He was appointed to that office in 1960, when Niger gained independence from France. Although corruption was a common feature of his administration, he gained international respect for his role as a spokesman for African affairs and as a popular arbitrator in conflicts. His rule ended with a military coup in 1974.

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06/06/1915

Vincent Persichetti, American pianist and composer (died 1987)

Vincent Ludwig Persichetti was an American composer, teacher, and pianist. An important musical educator and writer, he was known for his integration of various new ideas in musical composition into his own work and teaching, as well as for training many noted composers in composition at the Juilliard School.

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06/06/1909

Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-English historian and philosopher (died 1997)

Sir Isaiah Berlin was a Russian-British social and political theorist, philosopher, and historian of ideas. Although he became increasingly averse to writing for publication, his improvised lectures and talks were sometimes recorded and transcribed, and many of his spoken words were converted into published essays and books, both by himself and by others, especially by his principal editor from 1974, Henry Hardy.

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06/06/1907

Bill Dickey, American baseball player and manager who played in eight World Series, winning seven (died 1993)

William Malcolm Dickey was an American professional baseball catcher and manager. He played in Major League Baseball with the New York Yankees for 17 seasons. Dickey managed the Yankees as a player-manager in 1946 in his last season as a player.

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06/06/1906

Max August Zorn, German mathematician and academic who is noted for Zorn's Lemma (died 1993)

Max August Zorn was a German mathematician. He was an algebraist, group theorist, and numerical analyst. He is best known for Zorn's lemma, a method used in set theory that is applicable to a wide range of mathematical constructs such as vector spaces, and ordered sets amongst others. Zorn's lemma was first postulated by Kazimierz Kuratowski in 1922, and then independently by Zorn in 1935.

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06/06/1903

Aram Khachaturian, Armenian composer and conductor (died 1978)

Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a Soviet Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Soviet composers.

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06/06/1902

Jimmie Lunceford, American saxophonist and bandleader (died 1947)

James Melvin Lunceford was an American jazz alto saxophonist and bandleader in the swing era.

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06/06/1901

Jan Struther, English author, poet and hymnwriter who created the character Mrs Miniver (died 1953)

Jan Struther was the pen name of Joyce Anstruther, later Joyce Maxtone Graham and finally Joyce Placzek, an English writer remembered for her character Mrs. Miniver and a number of hymns, such as "Lord of All Hopefulness".

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Sukarno, Indonesian engineer and politician, 1st President of Indonesia (died 1970)

Sukarno was an Indonesian statesman, activist, and revolutionary who served as the first president of Indonesia from 1945 to 1967.

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06/06/1900

Manfred Sakel, Ukrainian-American psychiatrist and physician (died 1957)

Manfred Joshua Sakel was an Austrian-American neurophysiologist and psychiatrist, credited with developing insulin shock therapy in 1927.

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06/06/1898

Jacobus Johannes Fouché, South African politician, 2nd State President of South Africa (died 1980)

Jacobus Johannes Fouché, also known as J. J. Fouché, was a South African politician who served as the second state president of South Africa from 1968 to 1975.

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Ninette de Valois, English ballerina, choreographer, and director (died 2001)

Dame Ninette de Valois was an Irish-born British ballet dancer, teacher, choreographer, and director of classical ballet. She danced professionally with Serge Diaghilev's Ballets Russes, later establishing The Royal Ballet, one of the foremost ballet companies of the 20th century and one of the leading ballet companies in the world. She also established the Royal Ballet School and the touring company which became the Birmingham Royal Ballet. She is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in the history of ballet and as the "godmother" of English and Irish ballet.

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06/06/1897

Joel Rinne, Finnish actor (died 1981)

Toivo Joel Rinne was a prolific Finnish actor of stage and screen. Among his most memorable film parts is the title role in the Inspector Palmu movie series, which started in 1960s Komisario Palmun erehdys, and continued in three sequels. Another well-known role by Rinne is in the 1970 film Päämaja, directed by Matti Kassila, in which Rinne interprets in the role of Marshal Mannerheim.

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06/06/1896

Henry Allingham, English World War I soldier and supercentenarian (died 2009)

Henry William Allingham was an English supercentenarian. He is the longest-lived man ever recorded from the United Kingdom, a First World War veteran, and, for one month, was the verified oldest living man in the world. He is also the second-oldest military veteran ever.

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Italo Balbo, Italian air marshal and fascist politician who played a key role in developing Mussolini's air force (died 1940)

Italo Balbo was an Italian fascist politician and Blackshirts' leader who served as Italy's Marshal of the Air Force, Governor-General of Italian Libya and Commander-in-Chief of Italian North Africa. Due to his young age, he was sometimes seen as a possible successor to dictator Benito Mussolini.

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06/06/1891

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar, Indian author and academic (died 1986)

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar was a well-known writer in Kannada language. He was the fourth among Kannada writers to be honored with the Jnanpith Award, the highest literary honor conferred in India. He was popularly referred to as Maasti Kannadada Aasti which means "Maasti, Kannada's Treasure". He is most renowned for his short stories. He wrote under the pen name Srinivasa. He was honoured with the title Rajasevasakta by then Maharaja of Mysore Nalvadi Krishnaraja Wadeyar.

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Erich Marcks, German general in WWII who planned Operation Barbarossa (died 1944)

Erich Marcks was a German general in the Wehrmacht during World War II. He authored the first draft of the operational plan, Operation Draft East, for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of the Soviet Union, advocating what was later known as A–A line as the goal for the Wehrmacht to achieve, within nine to seventeen weeks. Marcks studied philosophy in Freiburg in 1909.

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06/06/1890

Ted Lewis, American singer, clarinet player, and bandleader (died 1971)

Ted Lewis was an American entertainer, bandleader, singer, and musician. He was well known for his catchphrase "Is everybody happy?" He fronted a band and touring stage show that presented a combination of hot jazz, comedy, and nostalgia that was a hit with the American public before and after World War II.

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06/06/1875

Thomas Mann, German author and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955)

Paul Thomas Mann was a German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and the 1929 Nobel Prize in Literature laureate. His highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and novellas are noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual. His analysis and critique of the European and German soul used modernized versions of German and Biblical stories, as well as the ideas of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Arthur Schopenhauer.

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06/06/1872

Alix of Hesse, German princess and Russian empress (died 1918)

Alexandra Feodorovna was the last empress of Russia as the consort of Nicholas II from their marriage on 26 November [O.S. 14 November] 1894 until his forced abdication on 15 March [O.S. 2 March] 1917. A granddaughter of Queen Victoria, Alexandra was one of the most famous royal carriers of hemophilia and passed the condition to her only son, Alexei.

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Arthur Henry Adams, Australian journalist and author (died 1936)

Arthur Henry Adams was a journalist and author. He started his career in New Zealand, though he spent most of it in Australia, and for a short time lived in China and London.

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06/06/1868

Robert Falcon Scott, English sailor and explorer (died 1912)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13.

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06/06/1867

David T. Abercrombie, American entrepreneur and co-founder of lifestyle brand Abercrombie & Fitch (died 1931)

David Thomas Abercrombie was the founder of the American brand Abercrombie & Fitch. A topographer and expert in the outdoors, Abercrombie opened the company as New York's outfitter for the elite and later partnered up with co-founder Ezra Fitch – both men managed the Company through great years of success.

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06/06/1862

Henry Newbolt, English historian, author, and poet (died 1938)

Sir Henry John Newbolt, CH was an English poet, novelist and historian. He also had a role as a government adviser with regard to the study of English in England. He is perhaps best remembered for his poems "Vitaï Lampada" and "Drake's Drum".

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06/06/1857

Aleksandr Lyapunov, Russian mathematician and physicist (died 1918)

Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov was a Russian mathematician, mechanician and physicist. He was the son of the astronomer Mikhail Lyapunov and the brother of the pianist and composer Sergei Lyapunov.

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06/06/1851

Angelo Moriondo, Italian inventor of the espresso machine (died 1914)

Angelo Moriondo was an Italian inventor, who is usually credited with patenting the earliest known espresso machine, in 1884. His machine used a combination of steam and boiling water to efficiently brew coffee.

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06/06/1850

Karl Ferdinand Braun, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate in 1909 for physics (died 1918)

Karl Ferdinand Braun was a German applied physicist who shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Guglielmo Marconi for their contributions to the development of radio. With his two circuit system, long range radio transmissions and modern telecommunications were made possible. His invention of the phased array antenna in 1905 led to the development of radar, smart antennas, and MIMO. Braun built the first cathode-ray tube in 1897, which led to the development of television, and the first semiconductor diode in 1874, which co-started the development of electronics and electronic engineering.

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06/06/1843

Henriette Wulfsberg, Norwegian school owner and writer (died 1906)

Henriette Wulfsberg was a Norwegian educator, writer and translator.

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06/06/1841

Eliza Orzeszkowa, Polish author and publisher (died 1910)

Eliza Orzeszkowa was a Polish novelist and a leading writer of the Positivism movement during the foreign Partitions of Poland. In 1905, together with Henryk Sienkiewicz, she was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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06/06/1825

Friedrich Bayer, German pharmacist, founded Bayer (died 1880)

Friedrich Bayer was the founder of what would become Bayer, a German chemical and pharmaceutical company. He founded the dyestuff factory Friedrich Bayer along with Johann Friedrich Weskott in 1863 in Elberfeld, a flourishing city in the early industrialised region of the Wuppertal or Wupper Valley.

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06/06/1810

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, German philologist and scholar (died 1856)

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, was a German classical scholar.

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06/06/1799

Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet (died 1837)

Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was a Russian poet, playwright, and novelist of the Romantic era. He is considered by many to be the greatest Russian poet, as well as the founder of modern Russian literature.

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06/06/1756

John Trumbull, American soldier and painter (died 1843)

John Trumbull was an American painter and military officer best known for his historical paintings of the American Revolutionary War, of which he was a veteran. He has been called the "Painter of the Revolution". Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1817), one of his four paintings that hang in the United States Capitol rotunda, is used on the reverse of the current United States two-dollar bill.

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06/06/1755

Nathan Hale, American soldier (died 1776)

Nathan Hale was an American Patriot, soldier, and spy for the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He volunteered for an intelligence-gathering mission in New York City but was captured by the British and executed. Hale is considered an American hero and in 1985 was officially designated the state hero of Connecticut.

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06/06/1714

Joseph I of Portugal, King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death (died 1777)

Dom Joseph I, known as the Reformer, was King of Portugal from 31 July 1750 until his death in 1777. Among other activities, he was devoted to hunting and the opera. His government was controlled by Sebastião José de Carvalho e Melo, 1st Marquis of Pombal, who implemented new laws, modernized the economy and Portuguese society, marking Joseph's reign as a time of modernization of Portugal.

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06/06/1622

Claude-Jean Allouez, French-American missionary and explorer (died 1689)

Claude Jean Allouez, SJ was a Jesuit missionary and French explorer of North America. He established a number of missions among the indigenous people living near Lake Superior.

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06/06/1606

Pierre Corneille, French playwright and producer (died 1684)

Pierre Corneille was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great 17th-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.

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06/06/1605

Peregrine Palmer, English politician (died 1684)

Peregrine Palmer was an English politician who sat as MP for Bridgwater on 7 December 1669.

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06/06/1599

Diego Velázquez (date of baptism), Spanish painter and educator (died 1660)

Diego Rodríguez de Silva y Velázquez was a Spanish Baroque painter, the leading artist in the court of King Philip IV of Spain and Portugal, and of the Spanish Golden Age. He is generally considered one of the greatest artists in the history of Western art.

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06/06/1519

Andrea Cesalpino, Italian philosopher, physician, and botanist (died 1603)

Andrea Cesalpino was a Florentine physician, philosopher and botanist.

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06/06/1436

Regiomontanus (Johannes Müller von Königsberg), German mathematician, astronomer, and bishop (died 1476)

Johannes Müller von Königsberg, better known as Regiomontanus, was a mathematician, astrologer and astronomer of the German Renaissance, active in Vienna, Buda and Nuremberg. His contributions were instrumental in the development of Copernican heliocentrism in the decades following his death.

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