History of Today in India – 09 June

Explore the history of today 09 June in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

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📜 Important Events on 09 June in World History

09 Jun 2010: At least 40 people are killed and more than 70 wounded in a suicide bombing at a wedding party in Arghandab, Kandahar. Read more
09 Jun 2009: An explosion kills 17 people and injures at least 46 at a hotel in Peshawar, Pakistan. Read more
09 Jun 2008: Two bombs explode at a train station near Algiers, Algeria, killing at least 13 people. Read more
09 Jun 1999: Kosovo War: The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and NATO sign a peace treaty. Read more
09 Jun 1995: Ansett New Zealand Flight 703 crashes into the Tararua Range during approach to Palmerston North Airport on the North Island of New Zealand, killing four. Read more
09 Jun 1979: The Ghost Train fire at Luna Park Sydney, Australia, kills seven. Read more
09 Jun 1978: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints opens its priesthood to "all worthy men", ending a 148-year-old policy of excluding black men. Read more
09 Jun 1973: In horse racing, Secretariat wins the U.S. Triple Crown. Read more
09 Jun 1972: Severe rainfall causes a dam in the Black Hills of South Dakota to burst, creating a flood that kills 238 people and causes $160 million in damage. Read more
09 Jun 1968: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson declares a national day of mourning following the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Read more
09 Jun 1967: Six-Day War: Israel captures the Golan Heights from Syria. Read more
09 Jun 1965: The civilian Prime Minister of South Vietnam, Phan Huy Quát, resigns after being unable to work with a junta led by Nguyễn Cao Kỳ. Read more
09 Jun 1965: Vietnam War: The Viet Cong commences combat with the Army of the Republic of Vietnam in the Battle of Đồng Xoài, one of the largest battles in the war. Read more
09 Jun 1959: The USS George Washington is launched. It is the first nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine. Read more
09 Jun 1958: Aeroflot Flight 105 crashes on approach to Magdan-13 Airport, killing 24. Read more
09 Jun 1957: First ascent of Broad Peak by Fritz Wintersteller, Marcus Schmuck, Kurt Diemberger, and Hermann Buhl. Read more
09 Jun 1954: Joseph N. Welch, special counsel for the United States Army, lashes out at Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Army–McCarthy hearings, giving McCarthy the famous rebuke, "You've done enough. Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?" Read more
09 Jun 1953: The Flint–Worcester tornado outbreak sequence kills 94 people in Massachusetts. Read more
09 Jun 1948: Foundation of the International Council on Archives under the auspices of the UNESCO. Read more
09 Jun 1944: World War II: Ninety-nine civilians are hanged from lampposts and balconies by German troops in Tulle, France, in reprisal for maquisards attacks. Read more
09 Jun 1944: World War II: The Soviet Union invades East Karelia and the previously Finnish part of Karelia, occupied by Finland since 1941. Read more
09 Jun 1930: A Chicago Tribune reporter, Jake Lingle, is killed during rush hour at the Illinois Central train station by Leo Vincent Brothers, allegedly over a $100,000 gambling debt owed to Al Capone. Read more
09 Jun 1928: Charles Kingsford Smith completes the first trans-Pacific flight in a Fokker Trimotor monoplane, the Southern Cross. Read more
09 Jun 1923: Bulgaria's military takes over the government in a coup. Read more
09 Jun 1922: Åland's Regional Assembly convened for its first plenary session in Mariehamn, Åland; today, the day is celebrated as Self-Government Day of Åland. Read more
09 Jun 1915: William Jennings Bryan resigns as Woodrow Wilson's Secretary of State over a disagreement regarding the United States' handling of the sinking of the RMS Lusitania. Read more
09 Jun 1900: Indian nationalist Birsa Munda dies of cholera in a British prison. Read more
09 Jun 1885: Treaty of Tientsin is signed to end the Sino-French War, with China eventually giving up Tonkin and Annam – most of present-day Vietnam – to France. Read more
09 Jun 1863: American Civil War: The Battle of Brandy Station in Virginia, the largest cavalry battle on American soil, ends Confederate cavalry dominance in the eastern theater. Read more
09 Jun 1862: American Civil War: Stonewall Jackson concludes his successful Shenandoah Valley Campaign with a victory in the Battle of Port Republic. Read more
09 Jun 1861: The Beyoglu Protocol turns the district of Mount Lebanon into an autonomous region within the Ottoman Empire and grants the Christians more power over the Druze. Read more
09 Jun 1856: Five hundred Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa for the Mormon Trail. Read more
09 Jun 1815: End of the Congress of Vienna: The new European political situation is set. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 09 June in World History

09 Jun 2000: Diego Lainez, Mexican footballer Diego Lainez Leyva is a Mexican professional footballer who plays as a winger for Liga MX club Tigres UANL and the Mexico national team. Read more
09 Jun 1993: George Jennings, Australian rugby league player George Jennings is a Tonga international rugby league footballer who plays as a winger and centre for Western Suburbs Devils – Harrigan Premiership. Read more
09 Jun 1992: Zach Hyman, Canadian ice hockey player Zachary Martin Hyman is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a left winger for the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He previously played for the Toronto Maple Leafs. He and his family own the Brantford Bulldogs of the Ontario Hockey League. Read more
09 Jun 1992: Yannick Agnel, French swimmer Yannick Agnel is a French former competitive swimmer who specialized in freestyle events, and is a three-time Olympic medalist. In his Olympic debut at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he won gold in the 200-meter freestyle, gold in the 4×100-meter freestyle relay, and silver in the 4×200-meter freestyle relay. He is the current world record holder in the 400-meter freestyle and the national record holder in the 200- and 400-meter freestyle. Read more
09 Jun 1992: Boyd Cordner, Australian rugby league player Boyd Cordner is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played as a second-row forward for the Sydney Roosters in the National Rugby League (NRL) and Australia at international level. Read more
09 Jun 1991: Aaron M. Johnson, American jazz saxophonist Aaron Michael Johnson is an American jazz saxophonist, writer and performance artist. Read more
09 Jun 1990: Matthias Mayer, Austrian skier Matthias Mayer is an Austrian retired World Cup alpine ski racer and Olympic champion. Read more
09 Jun 1990: Antonella Alonso, Venezuelan pornographic actress Antonella Alonso, also known by her stage name LaSirena69, is a Venezuelan-Italian pornographic actress. Read more
09 Jun 1989: Dídac Vilà, Spanish footballer Dídac Vilà Rosselló is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back. Read more
09 Jun 1988: Jason Demers, Canadian ice hockey defenseman Jason Demers is a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who is currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for the Bakersfield Condors in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Edmonton Oilers of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was drafted by the San Jose Sharks in the seventh round, 186th overall, at the 2008 NHL entry draft. Read more
09 Jun 1988: Sara Isaković, Slovenian swimmer Sara Isaković is a retired Slovenian swimmer. At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, aged 20, she placed 2nd in the 200 m freestyle with the time of 1:54.97, becoming the second woman ever to break the 1 min 55 sec mark. It is still, to this day, the only swimming Olympic medal won for Slovenia. Isaković competed for Slovenia at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, and the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. Read more
09 Jun 1988: Sokratis Papastathopoulos, Greek footballer Sokratis Papastathopoulos, also known mononymously as Sokratis, is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
09 Jun 1988: Mae Whitman, American actress Mae Margaret Whitman is an American actor. She began her career as a child actor, starring in the films When a Man Loves a Woman (1994), One Fine Day (1996), Independence Day (1996), and Hope Floats (1998), and the television series Chicago Hope (1996–1999) and JAG (1998–2001). She earned mainstream recognition for her performances in the Fox sitcom Arrested Development, the NBC drama series Parenthood (2010–2015)—for which she was nominated for a Critics' Choice Television Award—and the NBC crime comedy series Good Girls (2018–2021). She also had roles in the films Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010), The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012), and The DUFF (2015), the latter earning her a Teen Choice Award nomination. Read more
09 Jun 1987: Jaan Mölder, Estonian race car driver Jaan Mölder is an Estonian former rally driver. Read more
09 Jun 1986: Doug Legursky, American football player Wayne Douglas Legursky II is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL). He was signed by the Steelers as an undrafted free agent in 2008. He played college football for the Marshall Thundering Herd. Read more
09 Jun 1986: Yadier Pedroso, Cuban baseball player (died 2013) Yadier Pedroso González, was a right-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Cuban national baseball team and La Habana of the Cuban National Series. Pedroso was part of the Cuban team at the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classics. Read more
09 Jun 1986: Ashley Postell, American gymnast Ashley Postell is an American former artistic gymnast. She is the 2002 World champion on the balance beam. After concluding her elite career, she competed for the Utah Red Rocks and became the 2007 NCAA champion on the balance beam. Read more
09 Jun 1985: Richard Kahui, New Zealand rugby player Richard Kahui is a New Zealand former professional rugby union player. He played for Western Force in Super Rugby AU. He previously played for the Highlanders and Chiefs in Super Rugby, Waikato in the National Provincial Championship, and New Zealand internationally. He played at centre and wing. Read more
09 Jun 1985: Sonam Kapoor, Indian model and actress Sonam Kapoor Ahuja is an Indian former actress who works in Hindi films. Known for portraying the lives of ordinary Indian women, she is also cited in the media as a fashion icon. She has received several awards, including a National Film Award and a Filmfare Award. Kapoor appeared in Forbes India's Celebrity 100 list from 2012 to 2016. Read more
09 Jun 1985: Sebastian Telfair, American basketball player Sebastian Telfair is an American former professional basketball player. He has played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Chinese Basketball Association. Telfair was picked thirteenth overall in the 2004 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers on the heels of an eminent high school career playing for Abraham Lincoln High. He had committed to the University of Louisville during his senior year, but decided to turn professional instead. Telfair is a cousin of former NBA player Stephon Marbury. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Yulieski Gourriel, Cuban baseball player Yulieski Gurriel Castillo, commonly known as Yuli Gurriel and nicknamed "La Piña", is a Cuban professional baseball first baseman who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Houston Astros, Miami Marlins, Kansas City Royals, and San Diego Padres, and in Nippon Professional Baseball (NPB) for the Yokohama DeNA BayStars. Gurriel is a former member of Cuba's national team and an Olympic Games gold medalist in 2004. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Jake Newton, Guyanese footballer Jake Alexander Newton is a Guyanese footballer who plays as a right back for Folland Sports. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Asko Paade, Estonian basketball player Asko Paade is an Estonian basketball player who last played for Estonian basketball team Tartu Ülikool. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Masoud Shojaei, Iranian footballer Masoud Soleimani Shojaei is an Iranian coach and former professional footballer. Shojaei played mainly as an attacking midfielder, he could also play as a winger or forward. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Wesley Sneijder, Dutch footballer Wesley Sneijder is a Dutch former professional footballer. Noted for his playmaking ability, he was considered one of the best midfielders in the world during his prime. Read more
09 Jun 1983: Firas Al-Khatib, Syrian footballer Firas Mohamad Al Khatib is a Syrian former footballer who mainly played as a forward. He is the Syria national team all-time top goalscorer, with 36 goals. Read more
09 Jun 1983: Josh Cribbs, American football player Joshua Cribbs is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver and return specialist in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Kent State Golden Flashes and was signed by the Cleveland Browns as an undrafted free agent after the 2005 NFL draft. Cribbs is tied for the second-most NFL career record with eight kickoff returns for touchdowns, and also the NFL record with two kickoffs of 100 yards or more returned for touchdowns in a single game. He has also played for the New York Jets, the Oakland Raiders and the Indianapolis Colts. He was most recently a special teams coaching intern for the Cleveland Browns. Read more
09 Jun 1983: Dwayne Jones, American basketball player Dwayne Clinton Jones is an American basketball coach and former professional player who is an assistant coach for the Saint Joseph's Hawks of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Read more
09 Jun 1983: Danny Richar, Dominican-American baseball player Danny Adam Richar is a Dominican former professional baseball second baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Chicago White Sox and Cincinnati Reds, Richar had a .229 batting average, six home runs, and 18 runs batted in. Read more
09 Jun 1982: Yoshito Ōkubo, Japanese footballer Yoshito Okubo is a Japanese former professional footballer who played as a forward. He played for the Japan national team, scoring six goals in 60 appearances. He was the J.League Top Scorer and J.League Best XI in 2013, 2014, and 2015. Read more
09 Jun 1982: Christina Stürmer, Austrian singer-songwriter Christina Stürmer is an Austrian singer and songwriter. Born and raised in Linz, she rose to fame as the runner-up of the inaugural season of the ORF eins television talent series Starmania. Following her participation, she signed with Universal Music and released her debut single "Ich lebe" which spent nine weeks atop the Austrian Singles Chart. It was followed by the release of her first two albums, Freier Fall (2003) and Soll das wirklich alles sein (2004), both of which debuted atop the Austrian Albums Chart and produced eight top ten hits, including the number-one singles "Mama " and "Vorbei". Read more
09 Jun 1981: Natalie Portman, Israeli-American actress Natalie Hershlag, known professionally as Natalie Portman, is an actress, film producer and director with dual Israeli and American citizenship. She has had a prolific screen career from her teenage years and has starred in various blockbusters and independent films, receiving multiple accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and two Golden Globe Awards. Read more
09 Jun 1981: Parinya Charoenphol, Thai boxer, model, and actress Parinya Charoenphol, nicknamed Toom, also known by the stage name Parinya Kiatbusaba and the colloquial name Nong Toom or Nong Tum, is a Thai boxer, former muay Thai champion, model and actress. She is a kathoey (ladyboy), a Thai word referring to what is often considered a distinct gender in Thailand and elsewhere generally considered to be gender-nonconforming men or transgender women. At the age of 18, she underwent gender-affirming surgery. Read more
09 Jun 1980: D'banj, Nigerian singer-songwriter and harmonica player Oladapo Daniel Oyebanjo, known professionally as D'banj, is a Nigerian singer, rapper, music executive, event host and television personality. Often regarded as one of the greatest African and Afrobeats artistes of all time, he signed with American rapper Kanye West's record label GOOD Music to release his 2012 single "Oliver Twist", an uptempo dance fusion of EDM and Afrobeats for which he became best known. With record producer Don Jazzy, he co-founded the record label Mo' Hits Records. His stage name is a combination of his first name, Dapo, and his surname, Oyebanjo. Read more
09 Jun 1980: Mike Fontenot, American baseball player Michael Eugene Fontenot Jr. is an American former professional baseball infielder who played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Chicago Cubs, San Francisco Giants, and Philadelphia Phillies. He batted left-handed and threw right-handed. Fontenot was commonly used at second base, shortstop, or third base during his career. He won a World Series with the Giants in 2010. Read more
09 Jun 1980: Udonis Haslem, American basketball player Udonis Johneal Haslem is an American professional basketball executive and former player. He is the vice president of basketball development for the Miami Heat, where he spent his entire 20-year playing career in the National Basketball Association (NBA). Haslem is one of only three players in NBA history to play at least 20 years with one team. He played college basketball for the Florida Gators, where he was a key member of four NCAA tournament teams. Haslem began his professional career in France with Chalon-sur-Saône and then signed with his hometown team, the Miami Heat, in 2003, leaving as the longest-tenured player in franchise history when he retired 20 years later. Haslem won three NBA championships in 2006, 2012, and 2013. Read more
09 Jun 1980: Lehlohonolo Seema, South African footballer Lehlohonolo Seema is a retired Mosotho footballer who played as a defender and midfielder. He began his coaching career at Bloemfontein Celtic where he was Assistant Manager in 2013. He went on to manage Black Leopards, Lamontville Golden Arrows, Chippa United, Polokwane City and Sekhukhune United in the South African Premiership. Read more
09 Jun 1979: Dario Dainelli, Italian footballer Dario Dainelli is an Italian former professional footballer who played as a defender. Read more
09 Jun 1979: Amanda Lassiter, American basketball player Amanda Lassiter is an American former professional women's basketball player. After graduating from George Washington High School in San Francisco, Lassiter attended college at University of Missouri in Columbia, Missouri and graduated in 2001. Following her collegiate career, she was selected 15th overall in the 2001 WNBA draft by the Houston Comets. She has also played for the Seattle Storm and Minnesota Lynx. Read more
09 Jun 1978: Matt Bellamy, English singer, musician and songwriter Matthew James Bellamy is an English musician and producer. He is the lead vocalist, guitarist, pianist, and lyricist for the English rock band Muse. He is recognised for his eccentric stage persona, wide tenor vocal range and musicianship. Read more
09 Jun 1978: Shandi Finnessey, American model and actress, Miss USA 2004 Shandi Ren Finnessey is an American actress, model, TV host and beauty pageant titleholder. She is best known for winning the Miss USA title, as Miss Missouri USA. She previously held the title of Miss Missouri 2002 and competed in Miss America, where she won a preliminary award. She placed as first runner-up at the Miss Universe 2004 competition. Read more
09 Jun 1978: Miroslav Klose, German footballer Miroslav Josef Klose is a German professional football manager and former player who is head coach of 2. Bundesliga club 1. FC Nürnberg. Born in Poland, Klose played as a striker for the Germany national team. He is the all-time top scorer for Germany and holds the record for the most goals scored in the FIFA World Cup with 16 goals scored over four editions of the tournament between 2002 and 2014. Read more
09 Jun 1978: Heather Mitts, American soccer player Heather Mitts Feeley is an American former professional soccer defender. Mitts played college soccer for the University of Florida, and thereafter, she played professionally in the Women's Professional Soccer (WPS) league; for the Philadelphia Charge, Boston Breakers, Philadelphia Independence and Atlanta Beat. She is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, and was a member of the U.S. women's national team. She played in four matches in the 2011 FIFA Women's World Cup, where the U.S. national team finished second. Mitts announced her retirement from soccer via Twitter on March 13, 2013. Read more
09 Jun 1978: Hayden Schlossberg, American director, producer, and screenwriter Hayden Schlossberg is an American screenwriter, director, and producer best known for his work on Cobra Kai, the Harold & Kumar films and American Reunion. Read more
09 Jun 1977: Usman Afzaal, Pakistani-English cricketer Usman Afzaal is an English cricketer who played three Test matches for England, all against Australia in 2001. He is a left-handed middle order batsman and occasional left arm slow bowler. Read more
09 Jun 1977: Paul Hutchison, English cricketer Paul Michael Hutchison is an English former first-class cricketer. He was a left-handed batsman, and a left-arm fast-medium bowler. Read more
09 Jun 1977: Olin Kreutz, American football player Olin George Kreutz is an American former professional football player who was a center in the National Football League (NFL) for fourteen seasons. He played college football for University of Washington, and earned consensus All-American honors. He was drafted by the Chicago Bears in the third round of the 1998 NFL draft and spent 13 seasons with Chicago where he was selected to six Pro Bowls. He also played four games for the New Orleans Saints in 2011. Kreutz was a semi-finalist for the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2020 after being named to the 2000s All-Decade Team. Read more
09 Jun 1977: Peja Stojaković, Serbian basketball player Predrag Stojaković, known by his nickname Peja, is a Serbian former professional basketball player and basketball executive. Stojaković played for five teams in an NBA career that spanned from 1998 to 2011. Standing at 6 ft 10 in, he played mostly as a small forward. Stojaković starred for the Sacramento Kings in the 2000s and was named an NBA All-Star three times during his Kings tenure. He is regarded as one of the greatest shooters in NBA history, having made 1,760 three-point field goals in his career; this total ranked fourth all-time upon his retirement from the NBA. Stojaković won an NBA championship with the Dallas Mavericks in 2011. Read more
09 Jun 1975: Otto Addo, German-Ghanaian footballer and manager Nana Otto Addo is a professional football manager and former professional football player. Born in Germany, he played for the Ghana national football team. He was most recently the manager for the Ghana national team and was previously a talent coach and interim first-team assistant coach for Borussia Dortmund. Read more
09 Jun 1975: Ameesha Patel, Indian actress and model Ameesha Patel is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi and Telugu films. Patel is the recipient of several awards such as a Filmfare Award and a Zee Cine Award. Read more
09 Jun 1975: Andrew Symonds, English-Australian cricketer (died 2022) Andrew Symonds was an Australian international cricketer, who played all three formats as a batting all-rounder. Commonly nicknamed "Roy", he was a key member of two World Cup–winning squads. Symonds was a part of the team that won both the 2003 Cricket World Cup and, four years later, the 2007 Cricket World Cup. Symonds played as a right-handed, middle-order batsman and alternated between medium pace and off-spin bowling. He was also notable for his exceptional fielding skills. Read more
09 Jun 1974: Samoth, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist Tomas Thormodsæter Haugen, better known by his stage name Samoth is a Norwegian guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in the country's black metal scene. He is well known for his distinct guitar work and drumming in the band Emperor, as well as his formation of the death metal band Zyklon. In very early Emperor releases, he was called Samot, and with the formation of Zyklon he became known as Zamoth. Samoth was the owner of the record label Nocturnal Art Productions and had a close relationship with Candlelight Records. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Aigars Apinis, Latvian discus thrower and shot putter Aigars Apinis is a Latvian athlete. He participates in F52 class which means he has limited finger movement and no trunk or leg function. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Tedy Bruschi, American football player and sportscaster Tedy Lacap Bruschi is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for 13 seasons. He played college football for the Arizona Wildcats, where he earned two-time consensus All-American. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the third round of the 1996 NFL draft, and played his entire professional career with them. Bruschi won three Super Bowls and was a two-time second-team All-Pro selection. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Frédéric Choffat, Swiss director, producer, and cinematographer Frédéric Choffat is a French-speaking Swiss director. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Grant Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player Grant W. Marshall is a Canadian former ice hockey right winger. He played 11 seasons in the National Hockey League, for the Dallas Stars, Columbus Blue Jackets, and New Jersey Devils. He last played for the Devils' minor league affiliate, the Lowell Devils, during the 2007–08 season. Marshall won two Stanley Cup championships during his career, one with the Stars in 1999 and one with the Devils in 2003. He currently works on behalf of the Devils Alumni Association. Read more
09 Jun 1972: Matt Horsley, Australian footballer and coach Matt Horsley is an Australian retired footballer. Read more
09 Jun 1971: Gilles De Bilde, Belgian footballer and sportscaster Gilles De Bilde is a Belgian former professional footballer, sports pundit and television personality. Read more
09 Jun 1971: Jean Galfione, French pole vaulter and sportscaster Jean Galfione is a French retired pole vaulter. During his pole vaulting career, he won at least one medal in each of the following major international competitions – the Olympic Games, the World Championships, the World Indoor Championships, the European Championships and the European Indoors Championships Read more
09 Jun 1971: Jackie McKeown, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist Jackie McKeown is the Scottish former lead singer and guitarist for the Glasgow indie rock band The Yummy Fur who plays in 1990s. Read more
09 Jun 1969: André Racicot, Canadian ice hockey player André Racicot, Jr., is a Canadian former professional ice hockey goaltender, most famous for his time with the Montreal Canadiens with whom he won the 1993 Stanley Cup as the backup goaltender to Patrick Roy. Read more
09 Jun 1969: Eric Wynalda, American soccer player, coach, and sportscaster Eric Boswell Wynalda is an American soccer coach, television commentator, and former player. He was formerly an analyst and color commentator for soccer coverage on Fox Sports 1 and ESPN. Previously, he served as head coach and technical director of Las Vegas Lights FC in the USL Championship and he is the host of WTF: Wynalda Talks Football on SiriusXM FC. Read more
09 Jun 1968: Niki Bakoyianni, Greek high jumper and coach Niki Bakoyianni is a retired Greek high jumper. She was born in Lamia. Read more
09 Jun 1967: Rubén Maza, Venezuelan runner Rubén Dario Maza Larez is a long-distance runner from Venezuela. Read more
09 Jun 1967: Jian Ghomeshi, Iranian-Canadian radio personality Jian Ghomeshi is a Canadian broadcaster, writer, musician, producer and former CBC personality. From 1990 to 2000, he was a vocalist and drummer in the Thornhill-based folk-pop band Moxy Früvous. In the 2000s, he became a television and radio broadcaster. He hosted, among others, the CBC Newsworld program Play (2002–2005), the CBC Radio One program The National Playlist (2005–2006), and the CBC Radio One program Q, which he co-created and hosted from 2007 to 2014. Read more
09 Jun 1964: Gloria Reuben, Canadian-American actress Gloria Elizabeth Reuben is a Canadian actress, producer, and singer. She is well-known for her role as Jeanie Boulet on the medical drama ER, for which she was twice nominated for an Emmy Award, and for portraying Elizabeth Keckley in the 2012 Steven Spielberg–directed film Lincoln. Read more
09 Jun 1964: Wayman Tisdale, American basketball player and bass player (died 2009) Wayman Lawrence Tisdale was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) and a smooth jazz bass guitarist. A three-time All American at the University of Oklahoma, he was elected to the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009. Read more
09 Jun 1963: Gilad Atzmon, Israeli-English saxophonist, author, and activist Gilad Atzmon is an Israeli-born British saxophonist, novelist, political activist, and writer. Read more
09 Jun 1963: Johnny Depp, American actor John Christopher Depp II is an American actor, musician, and filmmaker. He is the recipient of multiple accolades, including a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Academy Awards and two British Academy Film Awards. His films, in which he has often played eccentric characters, have grossed over $10.8 billion worldwide. Read more
09 Jun 1963: David Koepp, American director, producer, and screenwriter David Koepp is an American screenwriter and director. He is the fourth most successful screenwriter of all time in terms of U.S. box office receipts with a total gross of over $2.97 billion. Read more
09 Jun 1962: Yuval Banai, Israeli singer-songwriter and guitarist Yuval Banai is an Israeli musician, best known as the lead singer of the influential Israeli pop rock band Mashina. Read more
09 Jun 1962: Ken Rose, American football player Kenneth Frank Rose is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Jets, Cleveland Browns, and Philadelphia Eagles. Rose graduated from Christian Brothers High School. He played college football for the UNLV Rebels and played alongside Randall Cunningham, among others. Read more
09 Jun 1962: David Trewhella, Australian rugby league player David Trewhella is an Australian former rugby league footballer who played in the 1980s and 1990s. After playing junior football in Newcastle, he started his senior football career in Queensland, playing for Redcliffe. Read more
09 Jun 1961: Thomas Benson, American football player Thomas Carl Benson is an American former professional football player who was a linebacker in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Oklahoma Sooners football before being selected by the Atlanta Falcons in the second round of the 1984 NFL draft. He played nine seasons in the NFL for four teams. Read more
09 Jun 1961: Michael J. Fox, Canadian-American actor, producer, and author Michael Andrew Fox, known professionally as Michael J. Fox, is a Canadian and American actor and activist. Beginning his career as a child actor in the 1970s, he rose to prominence portraying Alex P. Keaton on the NBC sitcom Family Ties (1982–1989) and Marty McFly in the Back to the Future film trilogy (1985–1990). Fox went on to star in films such as Teen Wolf (1985), The Secret of My Success (1987), Casualties of War (1989), Doc Hollywood (1991) and The Frighteners (1996). He returned to television on the ABC sitcom Spin City in the lead role of Mike Flaherty (1996–2000). Read more
09 Jun 1961: Aaron Sorkin, American screenwriter, producer, and playwright Aaron Benjamin Sorkin is an American screenwriter, playwright, and filmmaker. As a writer for stage, television, and film, he is recognized for his trademark fast-paced dialogue and extended monologues, complemented by frequent use of the storytelling technique called the "walk and talk". Sorkin has earned numerous accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, five Primetime Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and two WGA Awards, in addition to a Laurence Olivier Award nomination. Read more
09 Jun 1960: Steve Paikin, Canadian journalist and author Steven Hillel Paikin is a Canadian journalist, author, and documentary producer. Paikin has primarily worked for TVOntario (TVO), Ontario's public broadcaster, and was formerly the anchor of TVO's flagship current affairs program The Agenda with Steve Paikin. Read more
09 Jun 1959: Peter Fowler, Australian golfer Peter Randall Fowler is an Australian professional golfer. He played on the European Tour, PGA Tour of Australasia, and the European Senior Tour. His most prestigious win was 1983 Australian Open. Read more
09 Jun 1958: David Ancrum, American basketball player and coach David Chalton Ancrum is an American former college and professional basketball player and coach. Ancrum played college basketball for Utica College. Subsequently, he had a professional basketball career, and he played in several leagues, most notably in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), the Greek Basketball League, and the Israeli Premier League. In 1994, he was the Israeli Premier League's Top Scorer. Read more
09 Jun 1957: Randy Read, English crystallographer and academic Randy John Read was a Wellcome Trust Principal Research Fellow and professor of protein crystallography at the University of Cambridge. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Berit Aunli, Norwegian skier Berit Kristine Aunli is a Norwegian former cross-country skier. She is a World (1982) and Olympic (1984) champion and won a total of 15 Norwegian titles (1977—1982). Read more
09 Jun 1956: Patricia Cornwell, American journalist and author Patricia Cornwell is an American crime writer. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. Cornwell has also accused Walter Sickert of carrying out the Jack the Ripper killings. However, Sickert is not considered a serious suspect by most who study the case, and strong evidence shows he spent most of 1888 outside the UK, and was in France at the time of most of the Ripper murders. Her books have sold more than 120 million copies. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Marek Gazdzicki, Polish nuclear physicist Marek Gaździcki is a Polish high-energy nuclear physicist, and the initiator and spokesperson of the NA61/SHINE experiment at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron (SPS). Read more
09 Jun 1956: Joaquín, Spanish footballer Joaquín Alonso González, known simply as Joaquín, is a Spanish former footballer who played as an attacking midfielder. Read more
09 Jun 1956: John Le Lievre, British squash player (died 2021) John Robert Le Lievre was an English professional squash player. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Kayhan Mortezavi, Iranian director Kayhan Mortezavi is a prominent film art director/production designer, and director. He has also been a university professor at University of Tehran, Alzahra University, Tehran University of Art, and Iran Broadcasting University, (1982–1994). Kayhan Mortezavi has been nominated twice for the best production designer at Fajr International Film Festival, and won the award for the best TV art direction at Sima Festival – IRIB, 1992. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Francine Raymond, French Canadian singer-songwriter Francine Raymond is a Francophone Canadian folk-style singer songwriter. In 1994, Raymond's music was distributed by Montreal-based Distribution Select. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Nikolai Tsonev, Bulgarian politician Nikolay Georgiev Tsonev is a Bulgarian military officer, professor and politician. He served as the Bulgarian Minister of Defence between 2008 and 2009. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Rudolf Wojtowicz, Polish footballer Rudolf Wojtowicz is a Polish former professional footballer, who in different periods of his career was a defender or midfielder. Read more
09 Jun 1954: Pete Byrne, English singer-songwriter Peter James Byrne is an English singer best known for being a member of the pop and new wave band Naked Eyes. Read more
09 Jun 1954: Paul Chapman, Welsh guitarist and songwriter (died 2020) Paul William Chapman was a Welsh rock guitarist best known for his work in bands such as UFO and Lone Star. He was well known by his nickname "Tonka", allegedly acquired because of his indestructible qualities. Read more
09 Jun 1954: Gregory Maguire, American author Gregory Maguire is an American novelist. He is the author of Wicked, Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister, and several dozen other novels for adults and children. Many of Maguire's adult novels are inspired by classic children's stories. Maguire published his first novel, The Lightning Time, in 1978. Wicked, published in 1995, was his first novel for adults. It was adapted into a popular Broadway musical in 2003, which was later adapted into a two-part musical film series with the first film released in 2024 and the second film released in 2025. Read more
09 Jun 1954: Elizabeth May, American-Canadian environmentalist, lawyer, and politician Elizabeth Evans May is a Canadian politician, environmentalist, lawyer, activist, and author. She has served as the member of Parliament (MP) for Saanich—Gulf Islands since 2011. May is the leader of the Green Party of Canada, having first held the position from 2006 to 2019. She returned to the leadership in 2022, initially as co-leader with Jonathan Pedneault and is now serving as the party's sole and outgoing leader following his resignation. Read more
09 Jun 1954: George Pérez, American author and illustrator (died 2022) George Pérez was an American comic book artist and writer, who worked primarily as a penciller. He came to prominence in the 1970s penciling Fantastic Four and The Avengers for Marvel Comics. In the 1980s, he penciled The New Teen Titans, which became one of DC Comics' top-selling series. He penciled DC's landmark limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths, followed by relaunching Wonder Woman as both writer and penciller. In the meantime, he worked on other comics published by Marvel, DC, and other companies into the 2010s. He was known for his detailed and realistic rendering, and his facility with complex crowd scenes. Read more
09 Jun 1953: Ken Navarro, Italian-American guitarist and composer Ken Navarro is an American contemporary jazz guitarist from Lafayette, Indiana. Read more
09 Jun 1952: Uzi Hitman, Israeli singer-songwriter (died 2004) Uzi Hitman was an Israeli singer-songwriter, composer, actor, director and television personality. Read more
09 Jun 1952: Billy Knight, American basketball player William R. Knight is an American former professional basketball player and executive. Playing with the Indiana Pacers in both the American Basketball Association (ABA) and later the National Basketball Association (NBA), he was both an ABA and NBA All-Star. He played college basketball with the Pittsburgh Panthers, who retired his No. 34. Read more
09 Jun 1951: Michael Patrick Cronan, American graphic designer and academic (died 2013) Michael Patrick Cronan was an American graphic designer, brand strategist, adjunct professor, and fine art painter. He was one of the founders of the San Francisco Bay Area postmodern movement in graphic design, that later became known as the "Pacific Wave". Read more
09 Jun 1951: James Newton Howard, American composer, conductor, and producer James Newton Howard is an American film composer, orchestrator and music producer. He has scored over 100 films and is the recipient of a Grammy Award, an Emmy Award, and nine nominations for Academy Awards. Read more
09 Jun 1951: Dave Parker, American baseball player and coach (died 2025) David Gene Parker, nicknamed "the Cobra", was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a right fielder from 1973 to 1991. A seven-time All-Star, Parker won two National League (NL) batting titles and was the 1978 NL Most Valuable Player. He was a member of two World Series championship teams, winning with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1979 and the Oakland Athletics in 1989. Read more
09 Jun 1951: Brian Taylor, American basketball player Brian Dwight Taylor is an American former professional basketball player who played for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association (ABA) and the Kansas City Kings, Denver Nuggets, and San Diego Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Read more
09 Jun 1950: Trevor Bolder, English bass player, songwriter, and producer (died 2013) Trevor Bolder was an English rock musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his long association with Uriah Heep and his tenure with the Spiders from Mars, the backing band for David Bowie, although he also played alongside a variety of musicians from the early 1970s. Read more
09 Jun 1950: Fred Jackson, American football player and coach Fred Jackson is an American college football coach and former player. He is currently the assistant running backs coach for the University of Michigan. He has worked with Michigan Wolverines running backs for 28 years, from 2022 to the present and from 1992 to 2014. He was also the offensive coordinator in 1995 and 1996, assistant head coach from 1997 to 2002, and associate head coach from 2003 to 2007. Jackson was on Michigan's staff when the team won national championships in 1997 and 2023. Read more
09 Jun 1950: Giorgos Kastrinakis, Greek-American basketball player Giorgos Kastrinakis is a retired Greek American professional basketball player. He played basketball professionally for many years in the Greek Basket League. At 2.04 m tall, he played as a power forward-center. During his basketball playing career, Kastrinakis was mainly known for his spectacular dunking ability. Read more
09 Jun 1949: Kiran Bedi, Indian police officer and activist Kiran Bedi is a former tennis player who became the first Indian woman to join the officer ranks of the Indian Police Service (IPS) in 1972 and was the 24th lieutenant governor of Puducherry from 28 May 2016 to 16 February 2021. She remained in service for 35 years before taking voluntary retirement in 2007 as Director General, Bureau of Police Research and Development. Read more
09 Jun 1948: Jim Bailey, American football player James Randall Bailey is an American former gridiron football player. After attending the University of Kansas, he played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL) as a defensive lineman during the 1970s. Read more
09 Jun 1948: Gudrun Schyman, Swedish social worker and politician Gerd Gudrun Maria Schyman is a Swedish politician. She served as leader of the Swedish Left Party from 1993 until January 2003. She remained a member of the Left Party until 2004, when she left to focus entirely on her feminist political work after a tax evasion scandal. She remained an independent member of the Riksdag until 2006. She co-founded Feminist Initiative in 2005 and was its co-spokesperson from 2005 to 2011 and from 2013 to 2019. She left the party in 2022. Read more
09 Jun 1948: Tim Sullivan, American novelist (died 2024) Timothy Robert Sullivan was an American science fiction novelist, screenwriter, actor, film director and short story writer. Read more
09 Jun 1947: Robert Indermaur, Swiss painter Robert Indermaur is a Swiss painter and sculptor. Originally trained as a schoolteacher, Indermaur became a freelance artist in 1969, producing contemporary paintings and sculptures. He rose to prominence in the 1970s, and created pieces for public spaces in both Switzerland and Liechtenstein. Indermaur also ran the Klibühni Schnidrzunft, a regional theatre in Chur, for ten years with his wife and children, including the actress Rebecca Indermaur. Read more
09 Jun 1947: Robbie Vincent, UK disc jockey and radio presenter Robbie Vincent is an English radio broadcaster and DJ. As a champion of jazz, funk and soul music in the UK during the late 1970s he made an important contribution both live in clubs and on radio. In 1995 he was voted Independent Radio Personality of the Year at the Variety Club of Great Britain annual awards. Read more
09 Jun 1946: Deyda Hydara, Gambian journalist and publisher, co-founded The Point (died 2004) Deyda Hydara was co-founder and primary editor of The Point, a major independent Gambian newspaper. He worked as a radio presenter for Radio Syd during his early years as a freelance journalist before becoming a correspondent for AFP News Agency and Reporters Without Borders. Read more
09 Jun 1946: James Kelman, Scottish author and playwright James Kelman is a Scottish novelist, short story writer, playwright and essayist. His fiction and short stories feature accounts of internal mental processes of usually, but not exclusively, working-class narrators and their labyrinthine struggles with authority or social interactions, mostly set in his home city of Glasgow. Frequently employing stream of consciousness experimentation, Kelman's stories typically feature "an atmosphere of gnarling paranoia, imprisoned minimalism, the boredom of survival." Read more
09 Jun 1946: Peter Kilfoyle, English politician Peter Kilfoyle is a British Labour Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Liverpool Walton from 1991 to 2010. Read more
09 Jun 1946: Giulio Terzi di Sant'Agata, Italian politician and diplomat, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Giuliomaria Terzi di Sant'Agata is an Italian diplomat and politician. He was Italy's Minister of Foreign Affairs in Mario Monti's government from November 2011 until March 2013, Permanent Representative of Italy to the United Nations in New York between 2008 and 2009 and Ambassador of Italy to the United States between 2009 and 2011. He is currently a Senator of the Republic of Italy and the President of the 4th Permanent Senate Commission of EU Affairs elected from the Lombardy constituency as a part of Brothers of Italy. He is also the President of the India-Italy Parliamentary Friendship group. Read more
09 Jun 1944: Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon, English accountant and politician Janric Fraser Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon was a British peer and chartered accountant. He was one of the 92 hereditary peers elected to remain in the House of Lords after the passing of the House of Lords Act 1999; he sat as a crossbencher. Read more
09 Jun 1944: Wally Gabler, American football player and sportscaster Wallace Fredrick Gabler III was an American professional football player who was a quarterback for seven seasons in the Canadian Football League (CFL). He played college football for the Michigan Wolverines, starting at quarterback in 1965. Gabler was a starter in the CFL for the Toronto Argonauts (1966–1969), Winnipeg Blue Bombers (1969–1970), and Hamilton Tiger-Cats (1970–1972). He passed for 13,080 yards and 61 touchdowns in the CFL. Read more
09 Jun 1943: John Fitzpatrick, English race car driver John Fitzpatrick is a British former racing driver, winning many titles throughout his career. He works within motorsport as a consultant doing corporate events and driver management. He published a book "Fitz-My Life at the Wheel" in 2016. Read more
09 Jun 1943: Joe Haldeman, American sci-fi author Joe William Haldeman is an American science fiction author and former college professor. He is best known for his novel The Forever War (1974), which was inspired by his experiences as a combat soldier in the Vietnam War. That novel and other works, including The Hemingway Hoax (1991) and Forever Peace (1997), have won science fiction awards, including the Hugo Award and Nebula Award. He received the SFWA Grand Master for career achievements. In 2012, he was inducted as a member of the Science Fiction Hall of Fame. From 1983 to 2014, he was a professor teaching writing at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Read more
09 Jun 1943: Charles Saatchi, Iraqi-English businessman, co-founded Saatchi & Saatchi Charles Saatchi is an Iraqi-British businessman and the co-founder, with his brother Maurice, of advertising agency Saatchi & Saatchi. The brothers led the business, the world's largest advertising agency in the 1980s, until they left the agency in 1995. In the same year, the brothers formed a new agency called M&C Saatchi. Read more
09 Jun 1942: Anton Burghardt, German footballer and manager (died 2022) Anton Burghardt was a German football player and manager. Read more
09 Jun 1942: Nicholas Lloyd, English journalist Sir Nicholas Markley Lloyd is a British former newspaper editor and broadcaster. Read more
09 Jun 1941: Richard A. Cash, American global health researcher (died 2024) Richard Alan Cash was an American global health researcher, public health physician, and internist. He was a pioneer of oral rehydration therapy for lethal diseases such as cholera. This simple, practical therapy is estimated to have saved over 50 million lives. Read more
09 Jun 1941: Jon Lord, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player (died 2012) John Douglas "Jon" Lord was an English keyboardist and composer. In 1968, Lord co-founded the hard rock band Deep Purple. Lord performed on most of the band's most popular songs; he and drummer Ian Paice were the only continuous members in the band between 1968 and 1976, and also from its revival in 1984 until his retirement in 2002. He also played for the bands Whitesnake, Paice Ashton Lord, the Artwoods, the Flower Pot Men and Santa Barbara Machine Head. Read more
09 Jun 1940: André Vallerand, Canadian businessman and politician André Vallerand is a Canadian administrator, entrepreneur, and former politician. Vallerand served in the National Assembly of Quebec from 1985 to 1994 and was a cabinet minister in the governments of Robert Bourassa and Daniel Johnson. Read more
09 Jun 1939: Ileana Cotrubaș, Romanian soprano and actress Ileana Cotrubaș is a Romanian operatic soprano whose career spanned from the 1960s to the 1980s. She was much admired for her acting skills and facility for singing opera in many different languages. Read more
09 Jun 1939: Eric Fernie, Scottish historian and academic

Eric Campbell Fernie is a Scottish art historian. Read more
09 Jun 1939: David Hobbs, English race car driver and sportscaster David Wishart Hobbs is a British former racing driver. He worked as a commentator from the mid 1970s for CBS until 1996, Speed from 1996 to 2012 and NBC from 2013 to 2017. In 1969, Hobbs was included in the FIA list of graded drivers, a group of 27 drivers who by their achievements were rated the best in the world. Hobbs was inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame of America in 2009. Read more
09 Jun 1939: Dick Vitale, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster Richard John Vitale, also known as "Dickie V", is an American basketball sportscaster and former head basketball coach. He is well known for his tenure since 1979 as a college basketball broadcaster for ESPN. He is known for catchphrases such as "This is awesome, baby!" and "diaper dandy", as well as his enthusiastic and colorful remarks during games. He has also written fourteen books and appeared in several films. Read more
09 Jun 1939: Charles Webb, American author (died 2020) Charles Richard Webb was an American novelist. His most famous work is the 1963 novel The Graduate, which was made into a 1967 film of the same name. Read more
09 Jun 1938: Jeremy Hardie, English economist and businessman Charles Jeremy Mawdesley Hardie, CBE is a British economist and businessman. Read more
09 Jun 1938: Giles Havergal, Scottish actor, director, and playwright Giles Pollock Havergal CBE was a Scottish theatre director and actor, opera stage director, teacher and adaptor. He was artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens Theatre from 1969 until he stepped down in 2003, one of the triumvirate of directors at the theatre, alongside Philip Prowse and Robert David MacDonald. Their input and influence within the theatre landscape of Glasgow – and the city itself – were significant, inspiring and supporting several notable actors and designers. Read more
09 Jun 1938: Charles Wuorinen, American composer and educator (died 2020) Charles Peter Wuorinen was an American composer of contemporary classical music based in New York City. He also performed as a pianist and conductor. Wuorinen composed more than 270 works: orchestral music, chamber music, solo instrumental and vocal works, and operas, such as Brokeback Mountain (2014). His work was termed serialist but he came to disparage that idea as meaningless. Time's Encomium, his only purely electronic piece, received the 1970 Pulitzer Prize. Wuorinen taught at several institutions, including Columbia University, Rutgers University and the Manhattan School of Music. Read more
09 Jun 1937: Harald Rosenthal, German hydrobiologist and academic Harald Rosenthal is a German hydrobiologist and fisheries scientist known for his work in fish farming, ecology, and international cooperation. Read more
09 Jun 1936: Nell Dunn, English playwright, screenwriter and author Nell Mary Dunn is an English playwright, screenwriter and author. She is known especially for a volume of short stories, Up the Junction, and a novel, Poor Cow. Read more
09 Jun 1936: Mick O'Dwyer, Irish Gaelic footballer and manager (died 2025) Michael O'Dwyer was an Irish Gaelic football manager and player. He most famously managed the senior Kerry county team between 1974 and 1989, during which time he became the county's longest-serving manager, and its most successful at winning major titles. O'Dwyer is regarded as one of the greatest managers in the history of the game. He is one of only three men to manage five different counties. Martin Breheny has described him as "the ultimate symbol of the outside manager". Read more
09 Jun 1936: George Radda, Hungarian chemist and academic Sir George Charles Radda was a Hungarian-British chemist. Read more
09 Jun 1935: Dutch Savage, American wrestler and promoter (died 2013) Frank Stewart was an American professional wrestler and wrestling promoter, best known for his time spent competing in Pacific Northwest Wrestling under the ring name Dutch Savage. Read more
09 Jun 1934: Michael Mates, English colonel and politician Michael John Mates is a Conservative Party politician who was the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency of East Hampshire from 1974 to 2010. He was a minister at the Northern Ireland Office from 1992 to 1993, resigning after his support for failed businessman Asil Nadir damaged his reputation. After his long career at Westminster, Mates lost the election for police commissioner in Hampshire in August 2012. Read more
09 Jun 1934: Jackie Wilson, American singer-songwriter (died 1984) Jack Leroy Wilson Jr. was an American singer who was a prominent figure in the transition of rhythm and blues into soul. Nicknamed "Mr. Excitement", he was considered a master showman and one of the most dynamic singers and performers in the 20th century. Among Wilson's hits are "Lonely Teardrops," "Baby Workout," "Reet Petite", "I Get the Sweetest Feeling" and "(Your Love Keeps Lifting Me) Higher and Higher". His performance style is often cited as a significant influence on contemporary and later artists such as Elvis Presley, James Brown, and Michael Jackson. Read more
09 Jun 1933: Al Cantello, American javelin thrower and coach (died 2024) Albert Anthony Cantello was an American javelin thrower as a member of the United States Marine Corps. He was the coach of the men's distance running program at the United States Naval Academy from 1963 to 2018. Read more
09 Jun 1931: Jackie Mason, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2021) Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Read more
09 Jun 1931: Nandini Satpathy, Indian author and politician, 8th Chief Minister of Odisha (died 2006) Nandini Satpathy was an Indian politician and author. She was the Chief Minister of Odisha from June 1972 to December 1976. Read more
09 Jun 1931: Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager (died 2021) William Charles Virdon was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager, and coach in Major League Baseball (MLB). Virdon played in MLB for the St. Louis Cardinals and Pittsburgh Pirates from 1955 through 1965 and in 1968. He served as a coach for the Pirates and Houston Astros, and managed the Pirates, Astros, New York Yankees, and Montreal Expos. Read more
09 Jun 1930: Barbara, French singer (died 1997) Monique Andrée Serf, known as Barbara, was a French singer. She took her stage name from her grandmother, Varvara Brodsky, a native of Odesa, Ukraine. Barbara became a famous cabaretière in the late 1950s in Paris, known as La Chanteuse de minuit, before she started composing her own tracks, which brought her to fame. Her most famous songs include "Dis, quand reviendras-tu ?" (1962), "Ma plus belle histoire d'amour" (1966) and "L'Aigle noir" (1970), the latter of which is said to have sold over 1 million copies in just twelve hours. Read more
09 Jun 1930: Jordi Pujol, Spanish physician and politician, 126th President of the Generalitat de Catalunya Jordi Pujol i Soley is a retired Catalan politician who was the leader of the party Convergència Democràtica de Catalunya (CDC) from 1974 to 2003, and President of the Generalitat de Catalunya from 1980 to 2003. Read more
09 Jun 1929: Johnny Ace, American singer and pianist (died 1954) John Marshall Alexander Jr., known by the stage name Johnny Ace, was an American rhythm-and-blues singer. He had a string of hit singles in the mid-1950s. He emerged as a prominent figure in postwar R&B and gained fame with hits such as "My Song", "Cross My Heart", and "Pledging My Love". Ace's smooth vocal style and romantic ballads made him a popular artist, particularly on R&B radio stations and jukeboxes. At the height of his career, he toured extensively and was regarded as one of the most promising young stars in the genre. Read more
09 Jun 1928: R. Geraint Gruffydd, Welsh critic and academic (died 2015) Robert Geraint Gruffydd FLSW FBA was a scholar of Welsh language and literature. From 1970 to 1979, he was Professor of Welsh Language and Literature at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and was made Emeritus Professor in 1993. Read more
09 Jun 1928: Jackie Mason, American stand-up comedian (died 2021) Jackie Mason was an American stand-up comedian and actor. Read more
09 Jun 1927: George Nigh, American politician, 17th and 22nd Governor of Oklahoma (died 2025) George Patterson Nigh was an American politician and civic leader from the state of Oklahoma. Nigh served as the 17th and the 22nd governor of Oklahoma and as the eighth and tenth lieutenant governor of Oklahoma. He was the first Oklahoma governor to be re-elected and the first to win all 77 counties in the state. Additionally, short term vacancies in the governor's office twice resulted in Nigh assuming gubernatorial duties while serving as lieutenant governor. Read more
09 Jun 1927: Jim Nolan, American basketball player (died 1983) James S. Nolan was an American professional basketball player. Nolan was selected in the second round of the 1949 BAA draft by the Philadelphia Warriors. He played for the Warriors for five games in the 1949–50 NBA season and recorded totals of eight points and four assists. He played college basketball and football at Georgia Institute of Technology. He later returned to Georgia and started a coaching career leading the Tech Freshman Basketball team from 1955 to 1957, then became the Lanier football coach in the early 1960s. He is a member of Georgia Sports Hall of Fame and the Georgia Tech Athletic Hall of Fame. Read more
09 Jun 1926: Calvin "Fuzz" Jones, American singer and bass player (died 2010) Calvin "Fuzz" Jones was an American electric blues bassist and singer. He worked with many blues musicians, including Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, the Legendary Blues Band, Mississippi Heat, James Cotton, Luther "Guitar Junior" Johnson, Little Walter and Elmore James. Read more
09 Jun 1926: Happy Rockefeller, American philanthropist, 31st Second Lady of the United States (died 2015) Margaretta Large "Happy" Rockefeller was a philanthropist who, as the wife of the 41st vice president of the United States, Nelson Rockefeller, served as second lady of the United States from 1974 to 1977. She was previously the first lady of New York from 1963 to 1973, during her husband's last three terms in office. Read more
09 Jun 1925: Keith Laumer, American soldier and author (died 1993) John Keith Laumer was an American science fiction author. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, he was an officer in the United States Air Force and a diplomat in the United States Foreign Service. His older brother March Laumer was also a writer, known for his adult reinterpretations of the Land of Oz. Frank Laumer, their youngest brother, is a historian and writer. Read more
09 Jun 1925: Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (died 2014) Herman Sarkowsky was a Seattle, Washington, United States businessman, philanthropist, thoroughbred breeder, and former sports executive. He was a co-founder of two Pacific Northwest sports franchises, the Portland Trail Blazers and the Seattle Seahawks. Read more
09 Jun 1924: Ed Farhat, American wrestler and manager (died 2003) Edward George Farhat was an American professional wrestler, better known by his ring name The Sheik. In wrestling, Farhat, whose career debuted in 1947, is credited as one of the originators of the hardcore style, is also retroactively called The Original Sheik, mostly to distinguish him from the similarly named Iron Sheik who debuted in 1972. Read more
09 Jun 1923: Gerald Götting, German politician (died 2015) Gerald Götting was a German politician and chairman of the East German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) from 1966 until 1989. He served as President of the People's Chamber (Volkskammer) from 1969 to 1976 and deputy chairman of the State Council of East Germany from 1960 to 1989. Read more
09 Jun 1922: George Axelrod, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2003) George Axelrod was an American screenwriter and producer. His play The Seven Year Itch (1952), was adapted into a film of the same name starring Marilyn Monroe. Axelrod was nominated for an Academy Award for his 1961 adaptation of Truman Capote's Breakfast at Tiffany's and also adapted Richard Condon's The Manchurian Candidate (1962). Read more
09 Jun 1922: Hein Eersel, Surinamese linguist and Minister of Education (died 2022) Christiaan Hendrik "Hein" Eersel was a Surinamese linguist and cultural researcher. Read more
09 Jun 1922: John Gillespie Magee Jr., Anglo-American pilot and poet (died 1941) John Gillespie Magee Jr. was a World War II Anglo-American Royal Canadian Air Force fighter pilot and war poet, who wrote the sonnet "High Flight". He was killed in an accidental mid-air collision over England in 1941. Read more
09 Jun 1922: Fernand Seguin, Canadian biochemist and academic (died 1988) Fernand Seguin, was a Canadian biochemist, professor and host of science programs on radio and television. Read more
09 Jun 1921: Arthur Hertzberg, American rabbi and scholar (died 2006) Arthur Hertzberg was a Conservative rabbi and prominent Jewish-American scholar and activist. Read more
09 Jun 1921: Jean Lacouture, French journalist, historian, and author (died 2015) Jean Lacouture was a journalist, historian and author. He was particularly famous for his biographies. Read more
09 Jun 1918: John Hospers, American philosopher and politician (died 2011) John Hospers was an American philosopher and political activist. Hospers was interested in Objectivism, and was once a friend of the philosopher Ayn Rand, though he later broke with her. In 1972, Hospers became the first presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party, and was the only minor party candidate to receive an electoral vote in that year's U.S. presidential election. Read more
09 Jun 1917: Eric Hobsbawm, Egyptian-English historian and author (died 2012) Eric John Ernest Hobsbawm was a British historian of the rise of industrial capitalism, socialism and nationalism. His best-known works include his tetralogy about what he called the "long 19th century" and the "short 20th century", and an edited volume that introduced the influential idea of "invented traditions". He was a life-long Marxist, and his socio-political convictions influenced the character of his work. Read more
09 Jun 1916: Jurij Brězan, German soldier and author (died 2006) Jurij Brězan was a Sorbian writer. His works, especially the novels, narrative works and children's books, were available in the two languages German and Upper Sorbian. Read more
09 Jun 1916: Siegfried Graetschus, German SS officer (died 1943) Siegfried Graetschus was a German SS functionary at the Sobibor extermination camp during Operation Reinhard, the deadliest phase of the Holocaust in occupied Poland. He was assassinated by a prisoner during the Sobibor uprising. Read more
09 Jun 1916: Robert McNamara, American businessman and politician, 8th United States Secretary of Defense (died 2009) Robert Strange McNamara, also known by his initials RSM, was an American businessman and government official who served as the eighth United States secretary of defense from 1961 to 1968 under presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of the Cold War. He remains the longest-serving secretary of defense, having remained in office over seven years. He played a major role in promoting the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. McNamara was responsible for the institution of systems analysis in public policy, which developed into the discipline known today as policy analysis. Read more
09 Jun 1915: Jim McDonald, American football player and coach (died 1997) James Allen McDonald was an American professional football player for the Detroit Lions of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes. After his playing career, he was the head coach at the University of Tennessee for one season. Read more
09 Jun 1915: Les Paul, American guitarist and songwriter (died 2009) Lester William Polsfuss, known as Les Paul, was an American jazz, country, and blues guitarist, songwriter, luthier, and inventor. He was one of the pioneers of the solid-body electric guitar, and his prototype, called the Log, served as inspiration for the Gibson Les Paul. Paul taught himself how to play guitar, and while he is mainly known for jazz and popular music, he had an early career in country music. In the 1950s, he and his wife, singer and guitarist Mary Ford, made numerous recordings, selling millions of copies. Read more
09 Jun 1913: Patrick Steptoe, English scientist (developed in vitro fertilization) (died 1988) Patrick Christopher Steptoe CBE FRS was an English obstetrician and gynaecologist and a pioneer of fertility treatment. Steptoe was responsible with biologist and physiologist Robert Edwards and the nurse and embryologist Jean Purdy for developing in vitro fertilisation. Louise Joy Brown, the first test-tube baby, was born on 25 July 1978. Edwards was awarded the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work on the development of in vitro fertilisation; Steptoe and Purdy were not eligible for consideration because the Nobel Prize is not awarded posthumously. Read more
09 Jun 1912: Ingolf Dahl, German-American pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1970) Ingolf Dahl was a German-born American composer, pianist, conductor, and educator. Read more
09 Jun 1910: Robert Cummings, American actor, singer, and director (died 1990) Charles Clarence Robert Orville Cummings was an American film and television actor who appeared in roles in comedy films such as The Devil and Miss Jones (1941) and Princess O'Rourke (1943), and in dramatic films, especially two of Alfred Hitchcock's thrillers, Saboteur (1942) and Dial M for Murder (1954). He received five Primetime Emmy Award nominations, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor in a Single Performance in 1955. On February 8, 1960, he received two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions to the motion picture and television industries, at 6816 Hollywood Boulevard and 1718 Vine Street. He used the stage name Robert Cummings from mid-1935 until the end of 1954 and was credited as Bob Cummings from 1955 until his death. Read more
09 Jun 1910: Ted Hicks, Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to New Zealand (died 1984) Sir Edwin William "Ted" Hicks was a senior Australian public servant and diplomat. He was Secretary of the Department of Defence from 1956 to 1968. Read more
09 Jun 1908: Luis Kutner, American lawyer, author, and activist (died 1993) Luis Kutner was a US human rights activist, FBI informant, and lawyer who was on the National Advisory Council of the US branch of Amnesty International during its early years and created the concept of a living will. He was also notable for his advocacy of "world habeas corpus", the development of an international writ of habeas corpus to protect individual human rights. He was a founder of World Habeas Corpus, an organization created to fight for international policies which would protect individuals against unwarranted imprisonment. Kutner's papers are at the Hoover Institution Archives at Stanford University. Read more
09 Jun 1908: Branch McCracken, American basketball player and coach (died 1970) Emmett B. "Branch" McCracken was an American basketball player and coach. He served as the head basketball coach at Ball State University from 1930 to 1938 and at Indiana University Bloomington from 1938 to 1943 and again from 1946 to 1965. At Indiana, McCracken's Hoosiers won the NCAA Championship in 1940 and 1953. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as a player in 1960. Read more
09 Jun 1906: Robert Klark Graham, American eugenicist and businessman, founded Repository for Germinal Choice (died 1997) Robert Klark Graham was an American eugenicist and businessman who made millions by developing shatterproof plastic eyeglass lenses and who later founded the Repository for Germinal Choice, a sperm bank for geniuses, in the hope of implementing a eugenics program. Read more
09 Jun 1903: Felice Bonetto, Italian race car driver (died 1953) Felice Bonetto was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Formula One at 16 Grands Prix from 1950 to 1953. Nicknamed "il Pirata", Bonetto won the Targa Florio in 1952 with Lancia. Read more
09 Jun 1903: Marcia Davenport, American author and critic (died 1996) Marcia Davenport was an American writer and music critic. She is best known for her 1932 biography of composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, the first American published biography of Mozart. Davenport also is known for her novels The Valley of Decision and East Side, West Side, both of which were adapted to film in 1945 and 1949, respectively. Read more
09 Jun 1902: Skip James, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1969) Nehemiah Curtis "Skip" James was an American Delta blues singer, guitarist, pianist and songwriter. AllMusic stated: "Coupling an oddball guitar tuning set against eerie, falsetto vocals, James' early recordings could make the hair stand up on the back of your neck." Read more
09 Jun 1900: Fred Waring, American singer, bandleader, and television host (died 1984) Fredrick Malcolm Waring Sr. was an American musician, bandleader, choral director, and radio and television personality, sometimes referred to as "America's Singing Master" and "The Man Who Taught America How to Sing". He was also a promoter, financial backer and eponym of the Waring Blendor, the first modern electric food blender on the market. Read more
09 Jun 1898: Luigi Fagioli, Italian race car driver (died 1952) Luigi Cristiano Fagioli was an Italian racing driver, who competed in Grand Prix motor racing from 1928 to 1949, and Formula One from 1950 to 1951. Nicknamed "the Abruzzi Robber", Fagioli won the 1951 French Grand Prix with Alfa Romeo aged 53, and remains the oldest driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. Fagioli was runner-up in the European Drivers' Championship in 1935 with Mercedes. Read more
09 Jun 1896: Catherine Filene Shouse, American philanthropist (Wolf Trap Institute) (died 1994) Catherine Filene Shouse was an American researcher and philanthropist. She graduated in 1918 from Wheaton College in Norton, Massachusetts. She worked for the Women's Division of the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor, and was the first woman appointed to the Democratic National Committee in 1925. She was also the editor of the Woman's National Democratic Committee's Bulletin (1929–32), and the first woman to chair the Federal Prison for Women Board. Read more
09 Jun 1895: Archie Weston, American football player and journalist (died 1981) Archie Bruce "Beak" Weston was an American football player who was a quarterback for the University of Michigan in 1917 and a halfback in 1919. He was selected as a first-team All-American in 1917 by Chicago Tribune sports editor Walter Eckersall. Read more
09 Jun 1893: Irish Meusel, American baseball player and coach (died 1963) Emil Frederick "Irish" Meusel was an American baseball left fielder. He played in the major leagues between 1914 and 1927 for the Washington Senators, Philadelphia Phillies, New York Giants, and Brooklyn Robins. With the Giants, he played in four consecutive World Series in the early 1920s. He was the brother of major league player Bob Meusel. Read more
09 Jun 1891: Cole Porter, American composer and songwriter (died 1964) Cole Albert Porter was an American composer and songwriter. Many of his songs became standards noted for their witty, urbane lyrics, and many of his scores found success on Broadway and in Hollywood films. Read more
09 Jun 1890: Leslie Banks, English actor, director, and producer (died 1952) Leslie James Banks CBE was an English stage and screen actor, director and producer, now best remembered for playing gruff, menacing characters in black-and-white films of the 1930s and 1940s, but also the Chorus in Laurence Olivier's wartime version of Henry V. Read more
09 Jun 1885: Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, Polish general and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Poland (died 1962) Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski was a Polish physician, general, and politician who served as Minister of Internal Affairs and as the 28th Prime Minister of Poland before and at the outbreak of World War II. Read more
09 Jun 1882: Robert Kerr, Irish-Canadian sprinter and coach (died 1963) Robert Kerr was an Irish Canadian sprinter. He won the gold medal in the 200 metres and the bronze medal in the 100 metres at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Read more
09 Jun 1879: Harry DeBaecke, American rower (died 1961) Harry Leopold DeBaecke was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. Read more
09 Jun 1875: Henry Hallett Dale, English pharmacologist and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1968) Sir Henry Hallett Dale was an English pharmacologist and physiologist. For his study of acetylcholine as agent in the chemical transmission of nerve pulses (neurotransmission) he shared the 1936 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Otto Loewi. Read more
09 Jun 1874: Launceston Elliot, Scottish weightlifter and wrestler (died 1930) Launceston Elliot was a British weightlifter, and the first athlete representing the United Kingdom to become an Olympic champion. Read more
09 Jun 1868: Jane Avril, French model and dancer (died 1943) Jane Avril was a French can-can dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and a frequent subject of painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec's art. Extremely thin and "given to jerky movements and sudden contortions", she was nicknamed La Mélinite, after an explosive. Read more
09 Jun 1865: Albéric Magnard, French composer and educator (died 1914) Lucien Denis Gabriel Albéric Magnard was a French composer, somewhat influenced by César Franck and Vincent d'Indy. Magnard became a national hero in 1914 when he refused to surrender his property to German invaders and died defending it. Read more
09 Jun 1865: Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist, composer, and conductor (died 1931) Carl August Nielsen was a Danish composer, conductor, and violinist, widely recognized as his country's most prominent composer. Read more
09 Jun 1864: Jeanne Bérangère, French actress (died 1928) Jeanne Bérangère was a French stage and film actress whose career spanned nearly forty years on the stage and in films during the silent film era. Read more
09 Jun 1861: Pierre Duhem, French physicist, mathematician, and historian (died 1916) Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem was a French theoretical physicist who made significant contributions to thermodynamics, hydrodynamics, and the theory of elasticity. Duhem was also a prolific historian of science, noted especially for his pioneering work on the European Middle Ages. As a philosopher of science, Duhem is credited with the "Duhem–Quine thesis" on the indeterminacy of experimental criteria. Duhem's opposition to positivism was partly informed by his traditionalist Catholicism, an outlook that put him at odds with the dominant academic currents in France during his lifetime. Read more
09 Jun 1861: Gustav Tammann, Russian-German chemist and physicist (died 1938) Gustav Heinrich Johann Apollon Tammann was a prominent Baltic German chemist-physicist who made important contributions in the fields of glassy and solid solutions, heterogeneous equilibria, crystallization, and metallurgy. He first predicted the order-disorder transition in alloys. Read more
09 Jun 1851: Charles Joseph Bonaparte, American lawyer and politician, 46th United States Attorney General (died 1921) Charles Joseph Bonaparte was an American lawyer and political activist of French noble descent who advocated for progressive and liberal causes. Originally from Baltimore, Maryland, he served in the cabinet of the 26th U.S. president, Theodore Roosevelt. Read more
09 Jun 1849: Michael Ancher, Danish painter and academic (died 1927) Michael Peter Ancher was a Danish realist artist, widely known for his paintings of fishermen, the Skagerrak and the North Sea, and other scenes from the Danish fishing community in Skagen. Read more
09 Jun 1845: Frank Norton, American baseball player (died 1920) Frank Prescott Norton was an American professional baseball player, who played in one game for the Washington Olympics on May 5, 1871. He struck out in his only at-bat and played third base and outfield in the game. He made an error at third, on his only recorded fielding chance. Read more
09 Jun 1843: Bertha von Suttner, Austrian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1914) Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist and novelist. In 1905, she became the second female Nobel laureate, the first woman to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize, and the first Austrian laureate. Read more
09 Jun 1842: Hazard Stevens, American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer (died 1918) Hazard Stevens was an American military officer, mountaineer, politician and writer. He received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Union army during the American Civil War at the Battle of Fort Huger. Stevens and Philemon Beecher Van Trump made the first documented successful climb of Mount Rainier on August 17, 1870. Read more
09 Jun 1837: Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie, English author (died 1919) Anne Isabella, Lady Ritchie, eldest daughter of William Makepeace Thackeray, was an English writer, whose several novels were appreciated in their time and made her a central figure on the late Victorian literary scene. She is noted especially as the custodian of her father's literary legacy, and for short fiction that places fairy tale narratives in a Victorian milieu. Her 1885 novel Mrs. Dymond introduced into English the proverb, "If you give a man a fish he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish you do him a good turn." Read more
09 Jun 1837: Michele Rua, Italian Catholic priest and saint (died 1910) Michele Rua was an Italian Catholic priest and professed member of the Salesians of Don Bosco. Rua was a student under Don Bosco and was also the latter's first collaborator in the order's founding as well as one of his closest friends. He served as the first Rector Major of the Salesians following Bosco's death in 1888. He was responsible for the expansion of the Salesians and the order had grown to a significant degree around the world at the time he died. Rua served as a noted spiritual director and leader for the Salesians known for his austerities and rigid adherence to the rule. It was for this reason that he was nicknamed "the living rule". Read more
09 Jun 1836: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, English physician and politician (died 1917) Elizabeth Garrett Anderson was an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon and as a co-founder and dean of the London School of Medicine for Women, which was the first medical school in Britain to train women as doctors. She was the first female dean of a British medical school, the first woman in Britain to be elected to a school board and, as mayor of Aldeburgh, the first female mayor in Britain. Read more
09 Jun 1812: Johann Gottfried Galle, German astronomer and academic (died 1910) Johann Gottfried Galle was a German astronomer from Radis, Germany, at the Berlin Observatory who, on 23 September 1846, with the assistance of student Heinrich Louis d'Arrest, was the first person to view and identify the planet Neptune. Urbain Le Verrier had predicted the existence and position of Neptune, and sent the coordinates to Galle, asking him to verify. Galle found Neptune in the same night he received Le Verrier's letter, within 1° of the predicted position. The discovery of Neptune is widely regarded as a dramatic validation of celestial mechanics, and is one of the most remarkable moments of 19th-century science. Read more
09 Jun 1810: Otto Nicolai, German composer and conductor (died 1849) Carl Otto Ehrenfried Nicolai was a German composer, conductor, and one of the founders of the Vienna Philharmonic. Nicolai is best known for his operatic version of Shakespeare's comedy The Merry Wives of Windsor as Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. In addition to five operas, Nicolai composed lieder, works for orchestra, chorus, ensemble, and solo instruments. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 09 June in World History

09 Jun 2025: Sly Stone, American musician and record producer (Sly and the Family Stone) Sylvester Stewart, better known by his stage name Sly Stone, was an American musician, songwriter and record producer. He was the frontman of Sly and the Family Stone, playing a critical role in the development of psychedelic soul and funk with his pioneering fusion of soul, rock, psychedelia, and gospel in the 1960s and 1970s. AllMusic stated that "James Brown may have invented funk, but Sly Stone perfected it," and credited him with "creating a series of euphoric yet politically charged records that proved a massive influence on artists of all musical and cultural backgrounds". Crawdaddy! has credited him as the founder of the "progressive soul" movement. Read more
09 Jun 2024: James Lawson, American activist, professor, and minister (born 1928) James Morris Lawson Jr. was an American activist and university professor. He was a leading theoretician and tactician of nonviolence within the Civil Rights Movement. During the 1960s, he served as a mentor to the Nashville Student Movement and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. He was expelled from Vanderbilt University for his civil rights activism in 1960, and later served as a pastor in Los Angeles for 25 years. Read more
09 Jun 2023: Alain Touraine, French sociologist (born 1925) Alain Touraine was a French sociologist. He was research director at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, where he founded the Centre d'étude des mouvements sociaux. Touraine was an important figure in the founding of French sociology of work after World War II and later became a sociologist of social movements, particularly the May 68 student movement in France and the Solidarity trade-union movement in communist Poland. Read more
09 Jun 2022: Julee Cruise, American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress (born 1956) Julee Ann Cruise was an American singer and actress, known for her collaborations with composer Angelo Badalamenti and filmmaker David Lynch in the late 1980s and early 1990s. She released four albums beginning with 1989's Floating into the Night. Read more
09 Jun 2022: Billy Kametz, American voice actor (born 1987) Billy P. Kametz was an American voice and stage actor. He was best known for his work dubbing anime and video games. Kametz began his voice acting career in 2016. He provided the English voices for Josuke Higashikata in JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond Is Unbreakable, Takuto Maruki in Persona 5 Royal, Naofumi Iwatani in The Rising of the Shield Hero, Colt in Brawl Stars, and Ferdinand von Aegir in the Fire Emblem series. Kametz died from colorectal cancer at the age of 35. Read more
09 Jun 2022: Matt Zimmerman, Canadian actor (born 1934) Matthew Zimmerman was a Canadian actor. He was the voice of Alan Tracy in the 1960s television series Thunderbirds and sequel films Thunderbirds Are Go and Thunderbird 6. Read more
09 Jun 2022: Amir Liaquat Hussain, Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. (born 1971) Aamir Liaquat Hussain was a Pakistani politician, columnist and television host. Hussain was a top ranking TV anchor and was listed three times in The 500 influential Muslims worldwide, and was among 100 popular personalities of Pakistan. He was criticized on media numerous times due to his controversial comments about superstars. He was a member of the National Assembly of Pakistan from August 2018 to June 2022. Read more
09 Jun 2019: Bushwick Bill, Jamaican-American rapper (born 1966) Richard William Stephen Shaw, better known by his stage name Bushwick Bill, was a Jamaican rapper. He was a member of the Texas hip hop group Geto Boys, a group he originally joined as a breakdancer in 1986 as Little Billy. He went on to become one third of the most popular incarnation of the group, alongside Willie D and Scarface. Read more
09 Jun 2018: Fadil Vokrri, Kosovo Albanian football administrator and player (born 1960) Fadil Avdullah Vokrri was a Kosovan football administrator and former Yugoslav professional football player. He served as president of the Football Federation of Kosovo from 16 February 2008 until his death in 2018. Read more
09 Jun 2017: Adam West, American actor and investor (born 1928) William West Anderson, known professionally as Adam West, was an American actor. He portrayed Batman in the 1960s ABC series of the same name and its 1966 theatrical feature film, reprising the role in various media until 2017. Having made his film debut in the 1950s, West starred opposite Chuck Connors in Geronimo (1962) and The Three Stooges in The Outlaws Is Coming (1965). He also appeared in the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars (1964). Read more
09 Jun 2015: Pumpkinhead, American rapper (born 1975) Robert Alan Diaz known by his stage name Pumpkinhead or P.H., was an American rapper and hip hop artist. He grew up in the Park Slope area of Brooklyn, New York with his mother and younger sister. Read more
09 Jun 2015: Pedro Zerolo, Spanish lawyer and politician (born 1960) Pedro González Zerolo was a Spanish-Venezuelan lawyer, politician and a town councillor of the city of Madrid, and a member of the Federal Executive Committee of the PSOE where he held the position of Secretary for Social Movements and Relations with NGOs. He was also a trustee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (born 1926) Bernard Agré was an Ivorian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Abidjan from 1994 to 2006. He was made a cardinal in 2001. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Stuart Long, American boxer and Catholic priest (born 1963) Stuart Ignatius Long was an American boxer and Catholic priest who developed a rare progressive muscle disorder. He was portrayed by Mark Wahlberg in the 2022 biopic Father Stu. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1958) Richard Michael Mayall was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Elsie Quarterman, American ecologist and academic (born 1910) Elsie Quarterman was a prominent plant ecologist. She was a professor emerita at Vanderbilt University. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Alicemarie Huber Stotler, American lawyer and judge (born 1942) Alicemarie Huber Stotler was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Central District of California. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Gustave Tassell, American fashion designer (born 1926) Gustave Tassell was an American fashion designer and Coty Award winner. Read more
09 Jun 2014: Bob Welch, American baseball player and coach (born 1956) Robert Lynn Welch was an American professional baseball starting pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Los Angeles Dodgers (1978–87) and Oakland Athletics (1988–94). Prior to his professional career, he attended Eastern Michigan University, where he played college baseball for the Hurons baseball team. He helped lead the Hurons, coached by Ron Oestrike, to the 1976 College World Series, losing to Arizona in the championship game. He also played for the U.S. national collegiate team in 1976. Read more
09 Jun 2013: Iain Banks, Scottish author (born 1954) Iain Menzies Banks was a Scottish author, writing mainstream fiction as Iain Banks and science fiction as Iain M. Banks. His books have been adapted for theatre, radio, and television. In 2008, The Times named Banks in their list of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. Read more
09 Jun 2013: Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (born 1926) Bruno Bartoletti was an Italian operatic conductor. His active international career lasted from 1953 to 2007, and he specialized in the Italian repertory and contemporary works. He was particularly noted for his 51-year association with Lyric Opera of Chicago, as co-artistic director, artistic director, principal conductor, and artistic director emeritus. He also served as Artistic Director of both the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma (1965–1973) and the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (1985–1991), and as principal conductor of the Danish Royal Opera (1957–1960), in addition to frequent work as a guest conductor at various major opera houses. Read more
09 Jun 2013: John Burke, English rugby player (born 1948) John Burke was an English professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s and 1970s. He played at representative level for Great Britain, and at club level for Normanton, Leeds, Keighley, South Sydney Rabbitohs, Castleford and Wakefield Trinity, as a prop. Read more
09 Jun 2013: Walter Jens, German philologist, historian, and academic (born 1923) Walter Jens was a German philologist, literature historian, critic, university professor and writer. Read more
09 Jun 2013: Zdeněk Rotrekl, Czech poet and historian (born 1920) Zdeněk Rotrekl was a Czech Catholic poet, literary historian and writer. He was severely persecuted for his work and Roman Catholic beliefs during Czechoslovakia's Communist era from 1948 to 1989, including thirteen years in prison. The Communist government also banned his work for more than forty years. The Prague Daily Monitor has called him "one of the most distinguished personalities of the Catholic stream in Czech poetry of the latter half of the 20th century." Read more
09 Jun 2012: Régis Clère, French cyclist (born 1956) Régis Clère was a French professional road bicycle racer. Read more
09 Jun 2012: John Maples, Baron Maples, English lawyer and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Defence (born 1943) John Cradock Maples, Baron Maples was a British politician and life peer who served as Economic Secretary to the Treasury from 1989 to 1992 and Shadow Foreign Secretary from 1999 to 2000. He is a former Deputy Chairman of the Conservative Party. He was Member of Parliament (MP) for Lewisham West from 1983 to 1992 and Stratford-upon-Avon from 1997 to 2010. Read more
09 Jun 2012: Ivan Minatti, Slovene poet and translator (born 1924) Ivan Minatti was a Slovene poet, translator, and editor. He started writing poetry before World War II but principally belongs to the first postwar generation of Slovene poets. He is one of the best representatives of Slovene Intimism. Read more
09 Jun 2012: Hawk Taylor, American baseball player and coach (born 1939) Robert Dale "Hawk" Taylor was an American professional baseball player who appeared in 394 games over all or part of 11 Major League Baseball (MLB) seasons as a catcher and outfielder for the Milwaukee Braves, New York Mets (1964–67), California Angels (1967) and Kansas City Royals (1969–70). Born in Metropolis, Illinois, he threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 6 feet 1 inch (1.85 m) tall and 187 pounds (85 kg). Read more
09 Jun 2012: Abram Wilson, American-English trumpet player and educator (born 1973) Abram Wilson was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist raised in New Orleans and based in London, England, where he also taught music in schools. Read more
09 Jun 2011: M. F. Husain, Indian painter and director (born 1915) Maqbool Fida Husain was an Indian painter and film director who painted narrative paintings in a modified Cubist style. One of the founding members of Bombay Progressive Artists' Group, Husain is associated with Indian modernism in the 1940s. His early association with the Bombay Progressive Artists' Group used modern technique, and was inspired by the "new" India after the partition of 1947. His narrative paintings, executed in a modified Cubist style, can be caustic and funny as well as serious and sombre. His themes—sometimes treated in series—included topics as diverse as Gandhi, Mother Teresa, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the British Raj, and motifs of Indian urban and rural life. In September 2020, his painting titled Voices, auctioned for a record $2.5 million. Read more
09 Jun 2011: Tomoko Kawakami, Japanese voice actress (born 1970) Tomoko Kawakami was a Japanese voice actress. She was also known by her pen-name Tomozou (とも蔵), and her Christian name Cecilia . Having graduated from the Toho Gakuen College of Drama and Music, she was a member of Production Baobab. Read more
09 Jun 2011: Mike Mitchell, American basketball player (born 1956) Michael Anthony Mitchell was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA), over eleven seasons, from 1978 to 1990. Read more
09 Jun 2010: Ken Brown, British Guitarist who was a member of The Quarrymen (born 1940) Kenneth Brown was a British guitarist with The Quarrymen, a precursor to The Beatles. Read more
09 Jun 2009: Dick May, American race car driver (born 1930) Richard Shelton May was an American NASCAR driver who competed in 185 races in the NASCAR Grand National/Winston Cup Series between 1967 and 1985. Read more
09 Jun 2008: Algis Budrys, Lithuanian-American author and critic (born 1931) Algirdas Jonas "Algis" Budrys was a Lithuanian-American science fiction author, editor and critic. He was also known under the pen names Frank Mason, Alger Rome in collaboration with Jerome Bixby, John A. Sentry, William Scarff and Paul Janvier. In the 1990s he was the publisher and editor of the science fiction magazine Tomorrow Speculative Fiction. Read more
09 Jun 2008: Suleiman Mousa, Jordanian historian and author (born 1919) Suleiman Mousa was a Jordanian author and historian born in Al-Rafeed, a small village north of the city of Irbid. He wrote up to fifty books of which most prominent are Biography of Sharif Hussein Bin Ali, Jordan in the 1948 War, Great Arab Revolt, History of Jordan in the 20th century, and was the first and only Arab author to write about Lawrence of Arabia and show the Arab perspective. Read more
09 Jun 2007: Frankie Abernathy, American purse designer, cast-member on The Real World: San Diego (born 1981) Frankie Jo Abernathy was an American purse designer and reality television personality, known for her time as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: San Diego which was filmed in late 2003 and aired from January to June 2004. Hailing from Kansas City, Abernathy was the elder daughter of Abbie Hunter and Joe Abernathy. She had a younger sister named Mamie, and a stepfather, Perry Hunter. She attended Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Missouri. Read more
09 Jun 2006: Drafi Deutscher, German singer-songwriter (born 1946) Drafi Franz Richard Deutscher was a German singer and songwriter of Sinti origin. Read more
09 Jun 2004: Rosey Brown, American football player and coach (born 1932) Roosevelt Brown Jr. was an American professional football offensive tackle who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants from 1953 to 1965. He played college football for the Morgan State Bears and was selected by the Giants in the 27th round of the 1953 NFL draft. Read more
09 Jun 2004: Brian Williamson, Jamaican activist, co-founded J-FLAG (born 1945) Brian Williamson was a Jamaican gay rights activist who co-founded the Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays (J-FLAG). He was known for being one of the earliest openly gay men in Jamaican society and one of its best known gay rights activists. Read more
09 Jun 2000: John Abramovic, American basketball player (born 1919) John M. Abramovic Jr. was an American professional basketball player. He played in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) for the Pittsburgh Ironmen, St. Louis Bombers and Baltimore Bullets. Abramovic was nicknamed "Brooms" and worked in his family's broom manufacturing business after his playing retirement. Read more
09 Jun 2000: Jacob Lawrence, American painter and academic (born 1917) Jacob Armstead Lawrence was an American painter known for his portrayal of African-American historical subjects and contemporary life. Lawrence referred to his style as "dynamic cubism", an art form popularized in Europe which drew great inspiration from West African and Meso-American art. For his compositions, Lawrence found inspiration in everyday life in Harlem. He brought the African-American experience to life using blacks and browns juxtaposed with vivid colors. Lawrence also taught and spent 16 years as a professor at the University of Washington. Read more
09 Jun 1998: Lois Mailou Jones, American painter and academic (born 1905) Lois Mailou Jones was an artist and educator. Her work can be found in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Muscarelle Museum of Art, and The Phillips Collection. Jones is often associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Read more
09 Jun 1997: Stanley Knowles, American-Canadian academic and politician (born 1908) Stanley Howard Knowles was a Canadian parliamentarian. Knowles represented the riding of Winnipeg North Centre from 1942 to 1958 on behalf of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) and again from 1962 to 1984 representing the CCF's successor, the New Democratic Party (NDP). Read more
09 Jun 1994: Jan Tinbergen, Dutch economist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903) Jan Tinbergen was a Dutch economist who was awarded the first Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1969, which he shared with Ragnar Frisch for having developed and applied dynamic models for the analysis of economic processes. He is widely considered to be one of the most influential economists of the 20th century and one of the founding fathers of econometrics. Read more
09 Jun 1993: Alexis Smith, Canadian-born American actress (born 1921) Margaret Alexis Smith was an American actress, pin-up girl and singer. She appeared in several major Hollywood films in the 1940s and had a notable career on Broadway in the 1970s, winning a Tony Award in 1972 for the Stephen Sondheim-James Goldman musical Follies. Read more
09 Jun 1991: Claudio Arrau, Chilean-American pianist and educator (born 1903) Claudio Arrau León was a Chilean and American pianist known for his interpretations of a vast repertoire spanning the baroque to 20th-century composers, especially Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Chopin, Schumann, Liszt and Brahms. He is widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the twentieth century. Read more
09 Jun 1989: George Wells Beadle, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1903) George Wells Beadle was an American geneticist. In 1958 he shared one-half of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Edward Tatum for their discovery of the role of genes in regulating biochemical events within cells. He served as the 7th president of the University of Chicago from 1961 to 1968. Read more
09 Jun 1984: Helen Hardin, American painter (born 1943) Helen Hardin was a Tewa Native American painter. She started making and selling paintings, participated in the University of Arizona's Southwest Indian Art Project and was featured in Seventeen magazine, all before she was 18 years of age. Creating art was a means of spiritual expression that developed from her Roman Catholic upbringing and Native American heritage. She created contemporary works of art with geometric patterns based upon Native American symbols and motifs, like corn, katsinas, and chiefs. In 1976 she was featured in the PBS American Indian artists series. Read more
09 Jun 1981: Allen Ludden, American game show host (born 1917) Allen Ellsworth Ludden was an American television personality, actor, singer, emcee, and game show host. He hosted various incarnations of the game show Password between 1961 and 1980. Read more
09 Jun 1979: Cyclone Taylor, Canadian ice hockey player and civil servant (born 1884) Frederick Wellington "Cyclone" Taylor was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and civil servant. A cover-point and rover, he played professionally from 1906 to 1922, and is acknowledged as one of the first stars of the professional era of hockey. Taylor was recognized as one of the fastest skaters and most prolific scorers, winning five scoring championships in the PCHA. He won the Stanley Cup twice, with Ottawa in 1909 and Vancouver in 1915, and was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1947. Read more
09 Jun 1974: Miguel Ángel Asturias, Guatemalan journalist, author, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899) Miguel Ángel Asturias Rosales was a Guatemalan poet-diplomat, novelist, playwright and journalist. Winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1967, his work helped bring attention to the importance of indigenous cultures, especially those of his native Guatemala. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Chuck Bennett, American football player and coach (born 1907) Charles Henry Bennett was an American football player and coach. He played halfback for the Indiana University football team from 1926 to 1928 and won the 1928 Chicago Tribune Silver Football trophy as the most valuable player in the Big Ten Conference. He also played professional football for the Portsmouth Spartans from 1930 to 1931 and for the Chicago Cardinals in 1933. After retiring as a football player, Bennett was a high school coach and athletic director from 1934 to 1966. Read more
09 Jun 1973: John Creasey, English author and politician (born 1908) John Creasey was an English author known mostly for detective and crime novels but who also wrote science fiction, romance and westerns. He wrote more than six hundred novels using twenty-eight different pseudonyms. Read more
09 Jun 1973: Erich von Manstein, German general (born 1887) Erich von Manstein was a German military officer who served as a Generalfeldmarschall in the Heer (Army) of Nazi Germany during World War II. He was subsequently convicted of war crimes and sentenced to 18 years' imprisonment. Read more
09 Jun 1972: Gilberto Parlotti, Italian motorcycle racer (born 1940) Gilberto Parlotti was an Italian professional motorcycle racer competing in the FIM World Championship between 1969 and 1972. He competed for the Benelli, Derbi, Morbidelli and Tomos factories. Read more
09 Jun 1968: Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (born 1884) Bernard Cronin was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors. Read more
09 Jun 1964: Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, British businessman and politician, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (born 1879) William Maxwell Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook, was a Canadian-British newspaper publisher and backstage politician who was an influential figure in British media and politics of the first half of the 20th century. His base of power was the largest circulation newspaper in the world, the Daily Express, which appealed to the conservative working class with intensely patriotic news and editorials. During the Second World War, he played a major role in mobilising industrial resources as Winston Churchill's Minister of Aircraft Production. Read more
09 Jun 1963: Jacques Villon, French painter (born 1875) Jacques Villon, also known as Gaston Duchamp, was a French Cubist and abstract painter and printmaker. Read more
09 Jun 1961: Camille Guérin, French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist (born 1872) Jean-Marie Camille Guérin was a French veterinarian, bacteriologist and immunologist who, together with Albert Calmette, developed the Bacillus Calmette–Guérin (BCG), a vaccine for immunization against tuberculosis. Read more
09 Jun 1960: Harry S. Hammond, American football player and businessman (born 1884) Harry Stevens Hammond was an American football player and businessman. He played college football at the University of Michigan from 1904 to 1907. He later had a career in business with the Pressed Steel Car Company and the National Tube Co. Read more
09 Jun 1959: Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876) Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus was a German chemist who won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1928 for his work on sterols and their relation to vitamins. He was the doctoral advisor of Adolf Butenandt who also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1939. Read more
09 Jun 1958: Robert Donat, English actor (born 1905) Friedrich Robert Donat was an English actor. Making his breakthrough film role in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933), today he is best remembered for his roles in The Count of Monte Cristo (1934), Alfred Hitchcock's The 39 Steps (1935), and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor as the gentle English schoolmaster Mr. Chips. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Chandrashekhar Agashe, Indian industrialist and lawyer (born 1888) Chandrashekhar Govind Agashe was an Indian industrialist, lawyer, educator, and philanthropist, best remembered as the founder of the Brihan Maharashtra Sugar Syndicate Ltd. He served as the managing agent of the company from its inception in 1934 till his death in 1956. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Hans Bergsland, Norwegian fencer (born 1878) Hans Bergsland was a Norwegian fencer, sports official and businessperson. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Thomas Hicks, Australian tennis player (born 1869) Thomas Henry Hicks was an Australian tennis player and administrator who managed Australia and New Zealand's participation in early Davis Cup competitions. Hicks was born in Balmain, New South Wales, the first of eight children and four sons of Henry Hicks and Emily Garrett. He was the older brother of Ernest Hicks. Living in Stanmore, Hicks was educated at Newington College commencing in 1885 aged sixteen. Hicks was the Honorary Secretary of the Lawn Tennis Association of Australasia/Australia from 1904 until 1926. Read more
09 Jun 1956: Ferdinand Jodl, German general (born 1896) Ferdinand Alfred Friedrich Jodl was a German general during World War II who commanded the Mountain Corps Norway during the Petsamo–Kirkenes Offensive. He was the younger brother of Alfred Jodl, Chief of the Operations Staff of the OKW. He was the nephew of philosopher and psychologist Friedrich Jodl at the University of Vienna. Read more
09 Jun 1953: Ernest Graves Sr., American football player, coach, and general (born 1880) Ernest "Pot" Graves was an American football and baseball player, coach, and United States Army officer. He served as the head football coach at the United States Military Academy in 1906 and 1912. Graves retired from the Army with the rank of brigadier general. Read more
09 Jun 1952: Adolf Busch, German-Austrian violinist and composer (born 1891) Adolf Georg Wilhelm Busch was a German-Swiss violinist, conductor, and composer. Read more
09 Jun 1942: František Erben, Czech gymnast (born 1874) František Erben was a Czech gymnast, trainer and educator. Erben made his international competitive debut for Bohemia at the 1900 Paris Summer Olympics where he finished in 32nd place. Read more
09 Jun 1929: Louis Bennison, American stage and silent film actor (born 1884) Louis Bennison was an American stage and silent film actor, known for westerns. Read more
09 Jun 1929: Margaret Lawrence, American stage actress (born 1889) Margaret Whittaker Lawrence was an American stage actress known for her performances on Broadway and other venues. Read more
09 Jun 1929: Alice Gossage, American journalist (born 1861) Rhoda Alice Gossage was an American newspaper editor, journalist, and activist. Often referred to as the "Mother of Rapid City", she was inducted into the South Dakota Newspaper Hall of Fame in 1934 and the South Dakota Hall of Fame in 1978. She was one of, if not the, first newspaperwomen in South Dakota. Read more
09 Jun 1927: Victoria Woodhull, American activist for women's rights (born 1838) Victoria Claflin Woodhull, later Victoria Woodhull Martin, was an American leader of the women's suffrage movement who ran for president of the United States in the 1872 election. While many historians and authors agree that Woodhull was the first woman to run for the presidency, some disagree with classifying it as a true candidacy because according to the Constitution she would have been too young to be president if elected. Read more
09 Jun 1923: Princess Helena of the United Kingdom (born 1846) Princess Helena, later Princess Christian of Schleswig-Holstein, was the third daughter and fifth child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Read more
09 Jun 1913: Sarah Roberts, English woman who was the subject of a vampire legend (born 1872).

Sarah Ellen Roberts was an Englishwoman who died and was buried in Pisco, Peru. After her death, a legend evolved that she was a vampire and bride of Dracula. On 9 June 1993, the 80th anniversary of her death, locals in Pisco feared she would come back to life and take her revenge. Read more
09 Jun 1901: Adolf Bötticher, German historian and author (born 1842) Adolf Bötticher or Adolf Boetticher was a German art historian and conservator. Read more
09 Jun 1892: William Grant Stairs, Canadian-English captain and explorer (born 1863) William Grant Stairs was a Canadian-British explorer, soldier, and adventurer who had a leading role in two expeditions during the Scramble for Africa. Read more
09 Jun 1889: Mike Burke, American baseball player (born 1854) Michael E. Burke was an American Major League Baseball player who played mainly shortstop for the 1879 Cincinnati Reds of the National League. In 28 games, he had 26 hits in 117 at bats for a .222 batting average, scored 13 Runs, and hit three doubles. He died at the age of 34 or 35 in Albany, New York, and is interred at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands, New York. Read more
09 Jun 1875: Gérard Paul Deshayes, French geologist and conchologist (born 1795) Gérard Paul Deshayes was a French geologist and conchologist. Read more
09 Jun 1871: Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (born 1799) Anna Atkins was an English botanist and photographer. She is often considered the first person to publish a book illustrated with photographic images. Some sources say that she was the first woman to create a photograph. Read more
09 Jun 1870: Charles Dickens, English novelist and critic (born 1812) Charles John Huffam Dickens was an English writer and journalist. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime and, by the 20th century, critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories are widely read today. Read more
09 Jun 1834: William Carey, English minister and missionary (born 1761) William Carey was an English Christian missionary, Particular Baptist minister, translator, social reformer and cultural anthropologist who founded the Serampore College and the Serampore University, the first degree-awarding university in India and cofounded the Serampore Mission Press. Read more

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