Today in History - Famous Birthdays - June 21st

Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54) 

King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279) 

Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603) 

Giovanni Del Turco, composer 

Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov 

Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723) 

Abraham Mignon, still life painter 

Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683) 

Cajetan Kolberer, composer 

Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790) 

Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist 

Johann Christoph Friedrich Bach, composer and 9th son of Johann Sebastian Bach 

Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief) 

Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818) 

Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817) 

Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher 

Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840) 

Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le mémorial de Sainte-Hélène 

Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25) 

Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840) 

Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852) 

Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850) 

Wilhelm Speyer, composer 

Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876) 

Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873) 

Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer 

Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880) 

Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868) 

Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875) 

James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1887 

Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer 

Joseph Abel Haskin, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1874 

Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1889 

Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873) 

William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901) 

S. Fillmore Bennett, Walk the Line 

Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner) 

Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician 

John Decatur Barry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1867 

Machado de Assis, writer 

Machado de Assis, What Is It Worth? 

Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo) 

Enrico Cecchetti, Coppélia, A ballet in three acts 

Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop 

Apolônia Pinto, A Viuvinha do Cinema 

Henry Guy Carleton, The Phantom Honeymoon 

Henry Weaver, For Valour 

David Higgins, His Last Dollar 

Queen María Cristina, Corazón de reina 

Henry O Tanner, artist 

Henry Holden Huss, composer 

Johannes Schlaf, writer 

Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943) 

Gustav Rickelt, Bobby, der Benzinjunge 

Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932) 

Robert Marshall, The Unforseen 

Axel Blixen-Finecke, Direktør Ivar Knudsen til prøvesejlads om bord paa et dieselskib, omgivet af repræsentanter for handel og industri, hvoriblandt admiral A. de Richelieu, etatsraad Martin Dessau, gehejmeetatsraad Julius Larsen, baron Blixen-Finecke og flere 

Georges Docquois, A Pair of White Gloves 

Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945) 

J. Darcie 'Foxy' Lloyd, Over the Fence 

Albert Herbert Brewer, composer 

Joseph Giampietro, Don Juan heiratet 

Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946) 

Graça Aranha, Vale do Canaã 

Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915) 

Winter Hall, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ 

Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle) 

J.H. Benrimo, The Yellow Jacket 

Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast) 

Richard Buhler, Her Bleeding Heart 

Thompson Buchanan, Easy to Love 

Charles Miller, House of Frankenstein 

Ellen Price, Solo af troubaduren og Solo af Sylfiden 

Frederika Brown, Ninotchka 

Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide) 

Mary Young, The Lost Weekend 

DeWitt Jennings, Mutiny on the Bounty 

Henry Creamer, The Aviator 

J.C. Hoffner, White Oak 

Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961) 

Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941) 

Nellie St. Clair, A Feather in Her Hat 

Paul Leyssac, Arise, My Love 

Toni Impekoven, Der Haus-Tyrann 

Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales) 

Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940) 

Rockwell Kent, Night Descends on Treasure Island 

Lluís Companys, El ejército del pueblo nace 

Feodor Gladkov, Russian socialist writer (Cement) (d. 1958) 

Fyodor Gladkov, Flames on the Volga 

Emil Preetorius,  

Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa 

Claude Auchinleck,  

Grania O'Malley, The Hot Rock 

Giulio Bonnard, Stadio 

Manuel Luís Vieira, O Fauno das Montanhas 

Memo Benassi, Everybody's Woman 

Ben Piazza, Operator 13 

Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956) 

Mieczyslaw Mieczynski, Strachy 

Hastings Ismay, Friends of Mr. Churchill 

Olga Raphael-Linden, The President 

Aubrey M. Kennedy, Sky Eye 

Sydney Moncton, Robbery with Violence 

William J. Bantel, America 

Ernst Pröckl, Adieu Mascotte 

Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972) 

Ray Myers, The Hunchback of Notre Dame 

Ralph Block, I Am a Thief 

Ferike Vidor, Treasured Earth 

Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959) 

Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music) 

Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura) 

Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man) 

Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973) 

Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968) 

Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967) 

Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964) 

Pavel Haas, composer 

Gunnar Ek, composer 

Wilhelm Maler, composer 

Howie Morenz, Mitchell Quebec, Canadian professional ice hockey player 

Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times) 

Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married) 

Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy) 

Louis Krasner, violinist 

Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003) 

Alois Johannes Lippl, Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau 

Mack Gordon, The Green Mile 

George Victor Martin, Our Vines Have Tender Grapes 

Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France) 

Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined) 

Jean-Paul Sartre, The Respectful Whore 

W.H. Parker, The Big Cast 

Stuart Palmer, The Smiling Ghost 

Tino Bianchi, Senso 

Ray Flin, Monster from Green Hell 

Carmen Viance, The Cursed Village 

Jacques Goddet, Les coulisses de l'exploit 

Edward Colton, Passion 

Pyotr Lobanov, Pirogov 

Luis Maria Millet, composer 

Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997) 

Helene Costello, Lights of New York 

Karin Kavli, Walpurgis Night 

Erich Petraschk, Jörg Ratgeb - Painter 

Nusch Eluard, La Garoupe 

Mikhail Pokotilo, Road to Life 

Harold Spina, Anywhere But Here 

Grete Sultan, John Cage: Man and Myth 

John Rox, Avalon 

Charles Oliver, The Lady Vanishes 

Olive Young, Daxia Gan Fengchi 

Charles Dant, Submarine Base 

Janina Lukowska, Border Street 

William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994) 

Stefan Witas, Inspekcja pana Anatola 

Kurt Schwaen, composer 

Ted Sherdeman, Them! 

Gerda Ryselin, Magdaleena ja maailman lapset 

Louis Cortina, Around the World in Eighty Days 

Carl Cabasin, Clarabell's Big Surprise 

Kurt Schwaen, Der Fall Gleiwitz 

Arthur Korb, Pinocchio in Outer Space 

Wladyslaw Hermanowicz, Zobaczymy sie w niedziele 

Bela Tardos, composer 

Charles Jones, composer 

Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971) 

Shelagh Wilcocks, Twins of Evil 

Montie Montana, The Circle of Death 

Lucille Rogers, Coward of the County 

Charlotte Radspieler, Der Prozeß Mary Dugan 

Béla Tardos, Dalolva szép az élet 

Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Pechniki 

Wonderful Smith, This Is Spinal Tap 

Jacques Rémy, La chatte sort ses griffes 

Irving Fein, 18 Again! 

Helen Trenholme, The Case of the Howling Dog 

Chester Wilmot, We Make 'Em Proud 1694-1953 

Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group) 

Karel Fabián, Cerný vlk 

Georg Philipp, Ein Strich durch die Rechnung 

Mary McCarthy, The Group 

Carl Milletaire, The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima 

Billy Vernon, Jet Pilot 

Oscar Huttner, Afacerea Protar 

Marga Spiegel, Saviors in the Night 

George Peckham, Little Women 

Vladimir Ivanovsky, Razmakh krylyev 

Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter 

Jean Daurand, The Battle of the Rails 

Giancarlo Vigorelli, La macchina ammazzacattivi 

Alf Salin, The Unknown Soldier 

Gerald Turney-Smith, Storm Boy 

András Benedek, Itt járt Mátyás király 

Jan Decadt, composer 

William Vickrey, economist 

Earl K. Brent, The Ides of March 

Charles K. Hagedon, North by Northwest 

Elihu Winer, The Man Without a Country 

Halina Michalska, Rytm serca 

Ralf Parland, Herra Lahtinen lähtee lipettiin 

Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire 

Kitty Jantzen, Das indische Grabmal 

William B. Ruger Sr., The Story of the Gun 

Russell Wade, The Body Snatcher 

Tommy Conlon, The Sign of the Cross 

Michael Harvey, Duck, You Sucker 

Pat Campea Sr., The Godfather: Part II 

Pero Budak, It Was Not Useless 

Annukka Lomas, Punainen viiva 

Leslie Shepard, Service for Southend 

Wanda Bartówna, For Crimes Not Theirs 

James Bysse Joll, historian 

Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992) 

María Luisa Ponte, Voyage to Nowhere 

Nanci Price, Adoration 

Adriana Sivieri, Bitter Rice 

Will Lorin, Cry Rape 

Blanka Szombathelyi, Tokaji rapszódia 

Ed Lopat, Game 2 

James Joll, British Universities Historical Studies in Film: Fascism 

Nick Boris, There's a Message in Every Bottle 

Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997) 

Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect 

Tsilla Chelton, Tatie Danielle 

Phil Ford, Show #35 

Anna Arena, Bell' Antonio 

Guy Lux, Episode dated 26 September 1979 

Paolo Soleri, The 11th Hour 

Morey Bernstein, The Search for Bridey Murphy 

Gérard Pelletier, The Champions, Part 2: Trappings of Power 

Nélson Gonçalves, Moleque Tião 

La Verne Busher, The Ice Follies of 1939 

Leon Roth, The Luck of Ginger Coffey 

Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC) 

Yves Robert, The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe 

Byron Palmer, Man in the Attic 

Rosie Sturgess, Thirst 

Grigori Melik-Avakyan, Hello, Artyom! 

Marisa Vernati, Down with Misery 

Puiu Calinescu, Brigada Diverse intra în actiune 

Marcel Durham, The Dark Crystal 

William Pawley Jr., The Crowning Experience 

Luciano Codignola, Il giorno dei cristalli 

Carlos Scliar, A Cartomante 

Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show) 

Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw) 

Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake), (d. 2013) 

Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning) 

Jean de Broglie, French politician 

Aileen Mehle, Episode dated 3 July 1966 

Judy Holliday, Born Yesterday 

Jane Russell, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 

Joan Tetzel, Duel in the Sun 

William Self, The Reluctant Stowaway 

Herbert Greene, The Music Man 

Syra Marty, Edge of Hell 

Owen Weingott, The Private World of Miss Prim 

Jaroslav Heyduk, Gagman 

István Zsolt, Az attasé 

John Mosley, In Times of War: Stories of Colorado Veterans 

Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954) 

Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib) 

Wade Denning, Halloween 

Erik Holst, 7 Days 

Werner Reichow, Reunion 

Irene Dodel, Flug in Gefahr 

Grits Gresham, Grits Gresham 

Geninha da Rosa Borges, Baile Perfumado 

Louis Cavecche, Circus Girl 

John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man) 

Seth Holt, The Nanny 

John Compton, Out of Town 

Arne Riis, Frisøndag 

Jacques Hébert, The Coffin Affair 

Nisan Hançer, Vatan ugruna 

George Kritzman, One Who Came Back 

Nikolay Zimovets, Nazar Stodolya 

György Simon, Strange Masquerade 

Darrel Presnell, The Severed Arm 

Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist 

Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker 

Marga López, Nazarin 

Ezzatolah Entezami, The Cow 

Jean Vilmont, Pirate Submarine 

Taisto Lindegren, The White Reindeer 

Pontus Hulten, En Dag I Staden 

Györgyi Fáy, Another Way 

Jean Guilda, Pousse mais pousse égal 

Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite) 

Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994) 

Maureen Stapleton, Cocoon 

Desmond Briscoe, The Man Who Fell to Earth 

Larisa Avdeyeva, Boris Godunov 

Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003) 

Conrad L. Hall, American Beauty 

Merle Harmon, 1978 Astro-Bluebonnet Bowl 

June Williams, Episode #1.3 

Earl Ubell, Six Hours of Surgery 

Nick Noble, See 

Kaarlo Gustafsson, Otus 

Kreso Novosel, Olujne tisine 1895-1995 

Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, (Mayor-Cleve)/TV newscaster 

Jackie Collum, baseball player 

Jeremy Lepard, Young Guns 

Mino Roli, Machine Gun McCain 

Carl Stokes, Episode #3.87 

Liane Croon, Rumpelstiltskin 

Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro) 

V G Yershov, cosmonaut 

Fiorella Mari, The Day the Sky Exploded 

Gino Bramieri, Nonno Felice 

Margit Bara, Kertes házak utcája 

Mona Baptiste, Humorist müßte man sein 

Per Lillo-Stenberg, Olsenbanden gir seg aldri! 

Lillian Michelson, Reds 

Judith Raskin, Labyrinth 

Rudy Wissler, The Gas House Kids in Hollywood 

Junia Crawford, The Girl in the Picture 

Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (Paki bat in Test v NZ 1956, scored 8*) 

John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico) 

Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999) 

Abdel Halim Hafez, Abi foq al-Shagara 

John Brandon, Scarface 

Chela Castro, El ministro y yo 

Traugott Buhre, Anatomy 

Dick Scheffer, Turkish Delight 

Dennis Barker, The China Syndrome 

Danuta Scibor-Rylska, Wilcze echa 

Berta Meglic, The Battle of Neretva 

Bob Gain, 1957 NFL Championship Game 

Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary) 

Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila) 

Patricia Lindop, radio biologist 

Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London) 

Gerald Kaufman, Episode #1.1 

Mike McCormack, The Complete History of the Philadelphia Eagles 

Elek Hidvégi, Boldogtalan kalap 

Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV) 

Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85) 

Johnny Worth, Mix Me a Person 

Claude Godard, Palace of Shame 

Zlatko Grgic, The Musical Pig 

Ernst August Schepmann, Der Hund von Baskerville 

Gunnvør Nolsøe, Barbara 

Everett Ensley, The Private History of a Campaign That Failed 

Erik Neutsch, Spur der Steine 

Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher) 

Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer 

Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples) d. 2001 

Lalo Schifrin, Mission: Impossible 

Nigar Sultana, Mughal-E-Azam 

Izolda Izvitskaya, The Forty-first 

Bernard Ingham, The Hunger Strike 

Larry Gaynes, The Hustler 

Eloisa Cianni, Ho amato una diva 

Ilka Soares, Modelo 19 

Victor Schamoni, Max Ernst: Mein Vagabundieren - Meine Unruhe 

Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl) 

Bernie Kopell, Get Smart 

Franco Piavoli, Il pianeta azzurro 

Ted Tannebaum, Arlington Road 

Gerald Barrax, Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 

Jon Lee, Angel 

Wulf Kirsten, writer 

Maggie Jones, Episode #1.7068 

Maro Kodou, What If... 

Jacqueline Ellis, Gutter Girls 

Bente Børsum, The Chasers 

Luigi Albertelli, Conversation Piece 

Anvar Turaev, Brosok 

Claus Schulz, Revue um Mitternacht 

Son Dinh, The Last P.O.W.? The Bobby Garwood Story 

Bengt Rosén, De många sängarna 

Wulf Kirsten, Episode #1.1 

Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste) 

Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas) 

Monte Markham, We Are Still Here 

Françoise Sagan, Heartbeat 

Peter Dudley, Episode #1.2081 

Berny Stringle, Deadly Summer 

Diego Masson, Black Moon 

Kostas Karras, Iphigenia 

Hilary Holden, The Brood 

Algimantas Vidugiris, Katastrofu ne razreshayu 

Osamu Ichikawa, Super Space Fortress Macross 

O.C. Smith, Episode dated 14 September 1968 

Helena Notkonen, Pila pyykkisoikosta 

Bob Kovoloff, Red Line 

Aleksandr Ulyanov, Master i Margarita 

Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U) 

John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965) 

Sandu Popa, Das Land der kleinen Zweige 

Anna Wiktorska, Ktokolwiek wie... 

John Edrich, International Knock Out Match: M.C.C. vs. Australia 

Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- ) 

James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England) 

Ron Ely, Hereford, Texas, American actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage) 

Ron Ely, Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze 

Don Black, Madagascar 

Joaquín Blanco, Blood River 

Nikolai Nikiforov, Edinstveniyat svidetel 

John W. Dower, Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima 

Charles Boone, composer 

Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician 

Svein Scharffenberg, Pathfinder 

Kalle Holmberg, Aleksis Kivi 

Salomé, The Eurovision Song Contest 

Darlene Demarest, Wilbur Falls 

Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned) 

Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher 

Mariette Hartley, One Life to Live 

David Calderisi, The Dark Hours 

John Hambrick, Telefon 

Enn Klooren, City Unplugged 

Julian Wilson, Episode dated 30 August 1982 

Notker Wolf, Gestresst - Arbeiten bis zum Umfallen? 

Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio) 

Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor 

Lyman Ward, Ferris Bueller's Day Off 

Joe Flaherty, Happy Gilmore 

Valeriy Zolotukhin, Night Watch 

Heinz Trixner, '38 - Vienna Before the Fall 

Chavit Singson, Chavit Singson/Venus Raj/Andrei Felix 

Eduardo Suplicy, São Paulo, SP 

Carol van Herwijnen, Still Smokin 

Aiko Nagayama, Tora-san's Runaway