June 7
Birthdays:
1988 ~ Michael Cera (né Michael Austin Cera), Canadian actor. He is best known for his role as George Michael Bluth on the television sit-com Arrested Development. He was born in Brampton, Ontario, Canada.
1981 ~ Anna Kournikova, Russian professional tennis player. She was born in Moscow, Soviet Union.
1978 ~ Bill Hader (né William Thomas Hader, Jr.), American comedian. He is best known for his work on Saturday Night Live. He also starred in the comedy television show Barry. He was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
1962 ~ Lance Reddick (né Lance Solomon Reddick; d. Mar. 17, 2023), African-American prolific actor who radiated authority. He specialized in characters who were authority figures but is best known for portraying Detective Cedric Daniels on television series, The Wire. He was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He died at age 60 in Los Angeles, California.
1959 ~ Mike Pence (né Michael Richard Pence), 48th Vice President of the United States. He served under President Donald Trump. He served in that Office from January 2017 until January 2021. He had previously served as the 50thGovernor of Indiana from 2013 until 2017. He is a fundamentalist and has misogynistic views towards women. He was born in Columbus, Indiana.
1958 ~ Prince (né Prince Rogers Nelson; d. Apr. 21, 2016), American singer-songwriter, actor and musical chameleon who defied definition. He was born in Minneapolis, Missouri. He died of an accidental drug overdose at age 57 in Chanhassen, Minnesota.
1956 ~ Bonnie Lee Bakley (d. May 5, 2001), American model and second wife of actor Robert Blake. He was her 10thhusband. She was murdered while sitting in Robert Blake’s car under mysterious circumstances. Robert Blake was tried and acquitted of her murder. She was born in Morristown, New Jersey. She was killed in Studio City, California. She was 44 at the time of her death.
1954 ~ Louise Erdrich (née Karen Louise Erdrich), American author. She was born in Little Falls, Minnesota.
1952 ~ Liam Neeson (né William John Neeson), Irish actor. He was born in Ballyena, Northern Ireland.
1952 ~ Orhan Pamuk (né Ferit Orhan Pamuk), Turkish writer and recipient of the 2006 Nobel Laureate for Literature. He was born in Istanbul, Turkey.
1947 ~ Thurman Munson (né Thurman Lee Munson; d. Aug. 2, 1979), American professional baseball player. He was born in Akron, Ohio. He was killed while practice landing in a small plane in Green, Ohio. He was 32 years old.
1943 ~ Ken Osmond (né Kenneth Charles Osmond; d. May 18, 2020), American actor. He was the Leave It to Beaverbad boy who viewers loved to hate. He is best known for his role as Eddie Haskell from the 1950s sit-com Leave It to Beaver. He later became a Los Angeles police officer. He was born in Glendale, California. He died in Los Angeles, California 20 days before his 77th birthday.
1943 ~ Nikki Giovanni (née Yolande Cornelia Giovanni, Jr.), African-American poet. She was born in Knoxville, Tennessee.
1942 ~ Muammar Gaddafi (d. Oct. 20, 2011), Libyan dictator who was murdered after he was caught by rebels in his hometown of Sirte, Lybia. He was the “mad dog” who ruled Libya for 42 years. His fourth son, Mutassim Gaddafi (b. 1977), was also killed in the raid. The exact date of his birth is unknown, but this is often given as June 7, 1942, although he could have been born anytime between 1940 and 1943, making him between 68 and 71 at the time of his death.
1940 ~ Tom Jones (né Thomas John Woodward), Welsh singer. He was born in Treforest, Wales.
1936 ~ Bert Sugar (né Herbert Randolph Sugar; d. Mar. 25, 2012), American boxing writer who could spin a great yarn. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died at age 75 in Mount Kisco, New York.
1928 ~ James Ivory (né James Francis Ivory), American movie director. He was born in Berkeley, California.
1924 ~ Donald Davies (né Donald Watts Davies, d. May 28, 2000), British computer scientist. He is best known for inventing the packet-switching, in which data are snipped into small packets for efficient dispatch across computer networks. He died 10 days before his 76th birthday.
1921 ~ Bernard Lown (né Boruch Lac; d. Feb. 16, 2021), Lithuanian-American cardiologist who campaigned against nukes. He invented the first effective direct-current defibrillator. He was born in Utena, Lithuania. When he was 14 years old, his family moved to Maine and he graduated from the University of Maine. He died in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts at age 99.
1917 ~ Dean Martin (né Dino Paul Crocetti; d. Dec. 25, 1995), American singer and actor. He was born in Steubenville, Ohio. He died at age 78 in Beverly Hills, California.
1917 ~ Gwendolyn Brooks (née Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks; d. Dec. 3, 2000), African-American poet. She was born in Topeka, Kansas. She died at age 83 in Chicago, Illinois.
1909 ~ Virginia Apgar (d. Aug. 7, 1974), American physician who developed the Apgar test for newborns. She was born in Westfield, New Jersey. She died at age 65 in Manhattan, New York.
1909 ~ Jessica Tandy (née Jessie Alice Tandy; d. Sept. 11, 1994), English-American actress. She won an Oscar for her role in Driving Miss Daisy. She was married to actor Hume Cronyn. She was born in London, England. She died of ovarian cancer at age 85 in Easton, Connecticut.
1909 ~ Peter W. Rodino, Jr. (né Peter Wallace Rodino, Jr.; d. May 7, 2005), American Democratic politician and congressman from New Jersey who presided over President Nixon’s impeachment. He served in the United States House of Representatives from January 1949 until January 1989. He was born in Newark, New Jersey. He died a month before his 96th birthday in West Orange, New Jersey.
1899 ~ Elizabeth Bowen (née Elizabeth Dorothea Cole; d. Feb. 22, 1973), Irish novelist. She was born in Dublin, Ireland. She died at age 73 in London, England.
1896 ~ Imre Nagy (d. June 16, 1958), Prime Minister of Hungary. He was executed for treason as a result of his participation in the 1956 Hungarian uprising. He was executed 9 days after his 62nd birthday in Budapest, Hungary.
1896 ~ Robert S. Mulliken (né Robert Sanderson Mulliken; d. Oct. 31, 1986), American chemist and recipient of the 1966 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. He died at age 90 in Arlington, Virginia.
1884 ~ Ester Claesson (née Ester Laura Matilda Claesson; d. Nov. 12, 1931), Swedish landscape architect. She is considered the first professional female landscape architect in Sweden. She died at age 47, reportedly of a gunshot wound.
1877 ~ Charles Glover Barkla (d. Oct. 23, 1944), English physicist and recipient of the 1917 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work in X-ray spectroscopy. He died at age 67 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
1868 ~ Charles Rennie Mackintosh (d. Dec. 10, 1928), Scottish architect. He was the designer of the Glasgow School of Art. He was born in Glasgow, Scotland. He died of throat and tongue cancer at age 60 in London, England.
1862 ~ Philipp Lenard (né Phillipp Eduard Anton von Lenard; d. May 20, 1947), German physicist and recipient of the 1905 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on cathode rays. He died 17 days before his 85th birthday.
1848 ~ Paul Gauguin (né Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin; d. May 8, 1903), French painter. He is known as being one of the founders of modern art. He was born in Paris, France. He died a month before his 55th birthday in French Polynesia.
1831 ~ Amelia Edwards (d. Apr. 15, 1892), English journalist and author. She was born in London, England. She died of influenza at age 60.
1770 ~ Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool (né Robert Banks Jenkinson; d. Dec. 4, 1828), Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. He served in that office from June 1812 through April 1827. This was during the reigns of George III and George IV, Kings of the United Kingdom. He was born in London, England. He died at age 58 of a stroke.
1660 ~ George I, King of Great Britain (d. June 22, 1727). He ruled from August 1714 until his death 13 years later in June 1727. He married Sophia Dorothea of Celle (1666 ~ 1726) in 1682. It was not a happy marriage and they divorced in 1694 over an alleged affair. After their divorce, he had her imprisoned in the Castel of Ahlden in German for the remainder of her life. They were the parents of George II, King of Great Britain. He was of the House of Hanover. He was the son of Ernest August, Elector of Hanover and Sophia of the Palatinate. He died 2 weeks after his 67th birthday. The dates of his birth and death are sometimes listed under the Julian calendar, which are June 7 and June 11, respectively.]
1502 ~ John III, King of Portugal (d. June 11, 1557). He ruled Portugal from December 1521 until his death in 1557. He was known as John the Pious. During his rule, Portugal expanded its territories into Asia and the New World. Portugal colonized Brazil and ventured into the spice trade into the Asian spice trade. During his reign, Portuguese traders became the first Europeans to make contact with Japan. In 1525, he married Catherine, Archduchess of Austria (1507 ~ 1578). He was of the House of Aviz. He was the son of Manuel I, King of Portugal and Infanta Maria of Aragon. He was Roman Catholic. He died 4 days after his 55th birthday. He was succeeded by his three-year-old grandson, Sebastian, King of Portugal.
1082 ~ Huizong of Song (d. June 4, 1135), 8th Chinese emperor of the Song Dynasty. He died 3 days before his 53rdbirthday.
1003 ~ Emperor Jingzong of Western Xia (d. Jan. 19, 1048), 1st Chinese Emperor of the Western Xia Dynasty. He died at age 44.
Events that Changed the World:
2019 ~ Theresa May (b. 1956), resigned as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
2002 ~ Michael Skakel (b. 1960), a member of the Kennedy family, was found guilty of the 1975 murder of 15-year-old Martha Moxley (1960 ~ 1975). He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. In 2013, a new trial was ordered on the grounds that he had received ineffective counsel in his first trial. In 2018, his murder conviction was vacated by the Connecticut Supreme Court.
1991 ~ The volcanic Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines erupted.
1982 ~ Elvis Presley’s home, Graceland, opened to the public.
1981 ~ During Operation Opera, the Israeli Air Force destroyed Iraq’s Osiraq nuclear reactor. This facility could have been used to make nuclear weapons.
1977 ~ The Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II, Queen of the United Kingdom (1926 ~ 2022) began.
1971 ~ In the case of Cohen v. California, the United States Supreme Court overturned Paul Cohen’s conviction for disturbing the peace. This case set the precedent that vulgar writing is protected under the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. Justice John Marshall Harlan (1899 ~ 1971) wrote the majority opinion.
1967 ~ Israeli forces entered Jerusalem during the Six-Day War.
1965 ~ The United States Supreme Court handed down its decision in Griswold v. Connecticut, which legalized contraceptive use by married couples. Justice William O. Douglas (1898 ~ 1980) authored the decision.
1948 ~ Edvard Beneš (1884 ~ 1948) resigned is office as President of Czechoslovakia rather than sign the Ninth-of-May Constitution, which made the country become a Communist state. Beneš would die 3 months later of natural causes.
1944 ~ During World War II, a steamer, The Danae, which was carrying 600 individuals, 350 of whom were Jews, sank off the shore of Santorini. There were no survivors.
1942 ~ World War II’s Battle of Midway ended in an American victory.
1939 ~ George VI, King of the United Kingdom (1895 ~ 1952) became the first British monarch to visit the United States when he crossed the United States-Canadian border at Niagara Falls. Later during his visit, he went to New York City and Washington, D.C.
1929 ~ The sovereign State of the Vatican City was established by the Lateran Treaty.
1906 ~ The Cunard Line’s RMS Lusitania was launched from Glasgow, Scotland. It would be torpedoed 9 years later.
1905 ~ Norway dissolved its union with Sweden.
1899 ~ Carry Nation (1846 ~ 1911) began her temperance campaign by vandalizing saloons in an effort to stop drinking.
1893 ~ In his first act of civil disobedience, a young Indian lawyer, Mohandas Gandhi (1869 ~ 1948), refused to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train. He was forcibly ejected from the train.
1892 ~ Homer Plessy (1862 ~ 1925) was arrested for refusing to leave his seat in a “whites-only” section of a train in Louisiana, leading to what would ultimately become the United States Supreme Court case of Plessy v. Ferguson, which held that “separate but equal” was constitutional. Justice Henry Billings Brown (1836 ~ 1913) authored the opinion. Justice John Harlan (1833 ~ 1911) was the only dissenting view. The decision has never explicitly been overruled, however, the 1954 decision of Brown v. Board of Education, which held that the “separate but equal” doctrine is unconstitutional, severely weakened the ruling.
1692 ~ A massive earthquake struck Port Royal, Jamaica killing over 1,600 people and injuring another 3,000 people.
1654 ~ Louis XIV (1638 ~ 1715) was crowned King of France.
1494 ~ Spain and Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesilla, which divided the New World between the two countries.
1099 ~ The Siege of Jerusalem is believed to have begun during the First Crusade.
Good-Byes:
2020 ~ Lynika Strozier (b. Aug. 28, 1984), African-American research scientist who overcame a severe childhood learning disability and a drug-addicted parent to become a researcher at the Field Museum in Chicago. She extracted DNA from plants, some as tiny as an eyelash. She was born in Birmingham, Alabama. She died in Chicago, Illinois of complications of Covid-19 at age 35,
2018 ~ Gena Turgel (née Gena Goldfinger, b. Feb. 1, 1923), Polish Holocaust survivor who cared for Anne Frank. She survived the Bergen-Belen concentration camp where she nursed the dying Anne Frank. She was liberated from the camp on April 15, 1945. She spent the rest of her life working with Holocaust educational groups. Her memoir is entitled I Light a Candle. She was born in Kraków, Poland. She died at age 95 in England.
2015 ~ Sir Christopher Lee (né Christopher Frank Carandini Lee; b. May 27, 1922), British actor who brought monsters to life. He was known for his portrayal of Dracula and for being a Bond villain. He was born and died in London, England. He died 11 days after his 93rd birthday.
2012 ~ Phillip Tobias (né Phillip Valentine Tobias; b. Oct. 14, 1925), South African paleoanthropologist, best known for his work at South Africa’s hominid fossil sites. He was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa. He died at age 86 in Johannesburg, South Africa.
2011 ~ Leonard B. Stern (né Leonard Bernard Stern; Dec. 23, 1923), American TV writer who laughed all the way to the bank. He was known for writing and creating such shows as The Honeymooners and Get Smart. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 87 in Beverly Hills, California.
2008 ~ Jim McKay (né James Kenneth McManus; b. Sept. 24, 1921), American sportscaster. He was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 86 in Monkton, Maryland.
2002 ~ Lilian, Princess of Réthy (née Mary Lilian Henriette Lucie Josephine Ghislaine Baels; b. Nov. 28, 1916), 2nd wife of Leopold III, King of Belgium (1901 ~ 1983). They married in in secret in 1941. She was born in London, England. She was the daughter of Henri Baels and Anne Marie de Visscher. She was born in London, England. She died at age 85 in Belgium.
1996 ~ Max Factor, Jr. (né Francis Factor; b. Aug. 18, 1904), American cosmetics entrepreneur. He was the son of the Max Factor, Sr. (né Maksymilian Faktorowicz), the Polish-born founder of the cosmetics company. Max, Jr. continued in the family business. He was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He died of a heart attack at age 91 in Los Angeles, California.
1994 ~ Dennis Potter (né Dennis Christopher George Potter; b. May 17, 1935), British television writer and journalist. He died of pancreatic cancer 21 days after his 59th birthday.
1992 ~ Bill France, Sr. (né William Henry Getty France; b. Sept. 26, 1909), American race car driver and founder of NASCAR, which came into being in February 1948. He was born in Washington, D.C. He died at age 82 in Ormond Beach, Florida.
1980 ~ Henry Miller (né Henry Valentine Miller; b. Dec. 26, 1891), American writer best known for his books Tropic of Cancer and Tropic of Capricorn. He was born in New York, New York. He died at age 88 in Los Angeles, California.
1978 ~ Ronald George Wreyford Norrish (b. Nov. 9, 1897), English chemist and recipient of the 1967 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He was born and died in Cambridge. England. He died at age 80.
1970 ~ E.M. Forster (né Edward Morgan Forster; b. Jan. 1, 1879), English author, best known for his novels, A Room with a View, to A Passage to India, and Howards End. He died at age 91.
1967 ~ Anatoly Maltsev (b. Nov. 27, 1909), Russian mathematician. He died at age 57.
1967 ~ Dorothy Parker (née Dorothy Rothschild; b. Aug. 22, 1893), American writer. She was born in Long Branch, New Jersey. She died of a heart attack at age 73 in New York, New York.
1966 ~ Jean Arp (b. Sept. 16, 1886), German-born painter and artist. He was also known as Hans Arp. He died at age 79 in Basel, Switzerland.
1965 ~ Judy Holliday (née Judith Tuvim; b. June 21, 1921), American actress. She was born in Queens, New York. She died of breast cancer 2 weeks before her 44th birthday in Manhattan, New York.
1954 ~ Alan Turing (né Alan Mathison Turing; b. June 23, 1912), British mathematician and computer scientist. He was the subject of the 2014 movie The Imitation Game. He was born in London, England. He died by suicide after consuming a cyanide-laced apple 16 days before his 42nd birthday.
1937 ~ Jean Harlow (née Harlean Harlow Carpenter; b. Mar. 3, 1911), American actress. She was known for her “bad girl” characters and was an early sex symbol in the 1930s. She married three times. She was born in Kansas City, Missouri. She died of kidney disease at age 26 in Los Angeles, California.
1876 ~ Josephine of Leuchtenberg (b. Mar. 14, 1807), Queen consort of Sweden and Norway. In 1823, she married Oscar I, King of Sweden and Norway (1799 ~ 1859). They were the parents of Charles XV, King of Sweden and Oscar II, King of Sweden. She was of the House of Beauharnais. She was the Princess of Bologna by birth. She was the daughter of Eugène de Beauharnais and Princess Augusta of Bavaria. She was born in Milan, Italy. She died at age 69 in Stockholm, Sweden.
1843 ~ Friedrich Hölderlin (née Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin; b. Mar. 20, 1770), German poet. He was born in Lauffen am Nackar, Germany. He died at age 73.
1840 ~ Frederick William III, King of Prussia (b. Aug. 3, 1766). He ruled over Prussia from November 1797 until his death in 1840. He ruled during the difficult Napoleonic Wars. He was married twice. His first wife was Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1776 ~ 1810). They married in 1793 and were the parents of Frederick William IV, King of Prussia and William I, Emperor of Germany. She died in 1810. After her death, he entered into a morganatic marriage with Auguste von Harrach (1800 ~ 1873) in 1824. He was of the House of Hohenzollern. He was the son of Frederick William II, King of Prussia and Frederica Louisa of Hesse-Darmstadt. He was a Calvinist,but after 1817, he converted to Prussian United. He died at age 69.
1799 ~ Increase Sumner (b. Nov. 27, 1746), 5th Governor of Massachusetts. He served in that office from 1797 until his death in office in June 1799. He was born and died in Roxbury, Massachusetts. He died at age 52 of a heart attack.
1710 ~ Louise de La Vallière (née Françoise Louise de La Blaume Le Blanc de La Vallière; b. Aug. 10, 1644), French noblewoman and first mistress of Louis XIV, King of France. After leaving the court, she pursued a religious life and became a nun. She was born in Tours, Kingdom of France. She died at age 65 in Paris, Kingdom of France.
1492 ~ Casimir IV Jagiellon, King of Poland (b. Nov. 30, 1427). He reigned as King of Poland from June 1447 until his death 45 years later. He was married to Elisabeth of Austria (1436 ~ 1505). He was of the Jagiellon Dynasty. He was the son of Władysław II Jagiełło and Sophia of Halshany. He was Roman Catholic. He died at age 64.
1394 ~ Anne of Bohemia (b. May11, 1394), Queen consort of England. She was the first wife of Richard II, King of England (1367 ~ 1400). They married in 1382. They were married for 12 years before she died of the plague less than a month after her 28th birthday. There were no children of the marriage. She was also known as Anne of Luxembourg. She was of the House of Luxembourg. She was the daughter of Charles, IV, Holy Roman Emperor and Elizabeth of Pomerania.
1329 ~ Robert I, King of the Scots (b. July 11, 1274). He was known as Robert the Bruce. He reigned from March 1306 until his death in 1329. He is one of the most renowned warriors of his generation. He is known for leading Scotland into its independence from England. He was married twice. His first wife was Isabella of Mar (1277 ~ 1296). His second wife was Elizabeth de Burgh (1289 ~ 1327). He was of the House of Bruce. He was the son of Robert de Brus, 6th Lord of Annandale and Marjorie, Countess of Carrick. He died about a month before his 55th birthday.
555 ~ Pope Vigilius (b. 500). He was Pope from March 537 until his death on this date 18 years later. The date of his birth is unknown.
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