History of Today in India – 10 June

Explore the history of today 10 June in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

Last updated on 10 June 2026, 10:00 AM

📜 Important Events on 10 June in World History

10 Jun 2025: Eleven people are killed, including the perpetrator, and eleven others are injured, in a mass shooting at a secondary school in Graz, Austria. Read more
10 Jun 2024: A plane crash in Malawi leaves 10 people dead, including the country's Vice President Saulos Chilima. Read more
10 Jun 2018: The Opportunity rover sends its last message back to Earth. The mission was finally declared over on February 13, 2019. Read more
10 Jun 2009: Eighty-eight year-old James Wenneker von Brunn opens fire inside the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and fatally shoots Museum Special Police Officer Stephen Tyrone Johns. Other security guards returned fire, wounding von Brunn, who was apprehended. Read more
10 Jun 2008: Sudan Airways Flight 109 crashes at Khartoum International Airport, killing 30 people. Read more
10 Jun 2003: The Spirit rover is launched, beginning NASA's Mars Exploration Rover mission. Read more
10 Jun 2002: The first direct electronic communication experiment between the nervous systems of two humans is carried out by Kevin Warwick in the United Kingdom. Read more
10 Jun 2001: Pope John Paul II canonizes Lebanon's first female saint, Saint Rafqa. Read more
10 Jun 1999: Kosovo War: NATO suspends its airstrikes after Slobodan Milošević agrees to withdraw Serbian forces from Kosovo. Read more
10 Jun 1997: Before fleeing his northern stronghold, Khmer Rouge leader Pol Pot orders the killing of his defense chief Son Sen and 11 of Sen's family members. Read more
10 Jun 1996: Peace talks begin in Northern Ireland without the participation of Sinn Féin. Read more
10 Jun 1994: China conducts a nuclear test for DF-31 warhead at Area C (Beishan), Lop Nur, its prominence being due to the Cox Report. Read more
10 Jun 1991: Eleven-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped in South Lake Tahoe, California; she would remain a captive until 2009. Read more
10 Jun 1990: British Airways Flight 5390 lands safely at Southampton Airport after a blowout in the cockpit causes the captain to be partially sucked from the cockpit. There are no fatalities. Read more
10 Jun 1987: June Democratic Struggle: The June Democratic Struggle starts in South Korea, and people protest against the government. Read more
10 Jun 1982: Lebanon War: The Syrian Arab Army defeats the Israeli Defense Forces in the Battle of Sultan Yacoub. Read more
10 Jun 1980: The African National Congress in South Africa publishes a call to fight from their imprisoned leader Nelson Mandela. Read more
10 Jun 1977: James Earl Ray escapes from Brushy Mountain State Penitentiary in Petros, Tennessee. He is recaptured three days later. Read more
10 Jun 1967: The Six-Day War ends: Israel and Syria agree to a cease-fire. Read more
10 Jun 1964: United States Senate breaks a 75-day filibuster against the Civil Rights Act of 1964, leading to the bill's passage. Read more
10 Jun 1963: The Equal Pay Act of 1963, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex, is signed into law by John F. Kennedy as part of his New Frontier Program. Read more
10 Jun 1960: Trans Australia Airlines Flight 538 crashes near Mackay Airport in Mackay, Queensland, Australia, killing 29. Read more
10 Jun 1957: John Diefenbaker leads the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada to a stunning upset in the 1957 Canadian federal election, ending 22 years of Liberal Party government. Read more
10 Jun 1947: Saab produces its first automobile. Read more
10 Jun 1945: Australian Imperial Forces land in Brunei Bay to liberate Brunei. Read more
10 Jun 1944: World War II: Six hundred forty-three men, women and children are massacred at Oradour-sur-Glane, France. Read more
10 Jun 1944: World War II: In Distomo, Boeotia, Greece, 228 men, women and children are massacred by German troops. Read more
10 Jun 1944: In baseball, 15-year-old Joe Nuxhall of the Cincinnati Reds becomes the youngest player ever in a major-league game. Read more
10 Jun 1942: World War II: The Lidice massacre is perpetrated as a reprisal for the assassination of Obergruppenführer Reinhard Heydrich. Read more
10 Jun 1940: World War II: Fascist Italy declares war on France and the United Kingdom, beginning an invasion of southern France. Read more
10 Jun 1940: World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt denounces Italy's actions in his "Stab in the Back" speech at the graduation ceremonies of the University of Virginia. Read more
10 Jun 1940: World War II: Military resistance to the German occupation of Norway ends. Read more
10 Jun 1935: Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio, United States, by him and Bill Wilson. Read more
10 Jun 1935: Chaco War ends: A truce is called between Bolivia and Paraguay who had been fighting since 1932. Read more
10 Jun 1924: Fascists kidnap and kill Italian Socialist leader Giacomo Matteotti in Rome. Read more
10 Jun 1918: The Austro-Hungarian battleship SMS Szent István sinks off the Croatian coast after being torpedoed by an Italian MAS motorboat; the event is recorded by camera from a nearby vessel. Read more
10 Jun 1916: The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire is declared by Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca. Read more
10 Jun 1898: Spanish–American War: In the Battle of Guantánamo Bay, U.S. Marines begin the American invasion of Spanish-held Cuba. Read more
10 Jun 1886: Mount Tarawera in New Zealand erupts, killing 153 people and burying the famous Pink and White Terraces. Eruptions continue for three months creating a large, 17 km (11 mi) long fissure across the mountain peak. Read more
10 Jun 1878: League of Prizren is established, to oppose the decisions of the Congress of Berlin and the Treaty of San Stefano, as a consequence of which the Albanian lands in the Balkans were being partitioned and given to the neighbor states of Serbia, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Greece. Read more
10 Jun 1873: Russian forces under General von Kaufmann capture the city of Khiva from the Khanate of Khiva. Read more
10 Jun 1871: Sinmiyangyo: Captain McLane Tilton leads 109 US Marines in a naval attack on Han River forts on Kanghwa Island, Korea. Read more
10 Jun 1868: Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia is assassinated. Read more
10 Jun 1864: American Civil War: Battle of Brice's Crossroads: Confederate troops under Nathan Bedford Forrest defeat a much larger Union force led by General Samuel D. Sturgis in Mississippi. Read more
10 Jun 1863: During the French intervention in Mexico, Mexico City is captured by French troops. Read more
10 Jun 1861: American Civil War: Battle of Big Bethel: Confederate troops under John B. Magruder defeat a much larger Union force led by General Ebenezer W. Pierce in Virginia. Read more
10 Jun 1854: The United States Naval Academy graduates its first class of students. Read more
10 Jun 1838: Myall Creek massacre: Twenty-eight Aboriginal Australians are murdered. Read more
10 Jun 1829: The first Boat Race between the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge takes place on the Thames in London. Read more
10 Jun 1805: First Barbary War: Yusuf Karamanli signs a treaty ending the hostilities between Tripolitania and the United States. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 10 June in World History

10 Jun 2001: Julien Alfred, Saint Lucian sprinter Julien Alfred is a Saint Lucian sprinter. She won the gold medal at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the 100 metres event, setting a new national record of 10.72s in the final. Her medal was the first-ever Olympic medal for Saint Lucia. She then won a silver in the 200 metres. Alfred also won the gold medal in the 60 metres at the 2024 World Athletics Indoor Championships. Read more
10 Jun 1999: Rafael Leão, Portuguese footballer Rafael "Rafa" Alexandre da Conceição Leão is a Portuguese professional footballer who plays as a left winger and forward for Serie A club AC Milan and the Portugal national team. He is known for his dribbling and speed. Read more
10 Jun 1999: Blanche, Belgian singer Ellie Noa Blanche Delvaux, better known mononymously as Blanche, is a Belgian singer and songwriter. She represented Belgium in the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kyiv, Ukraine with the song "City Lights", finishing in fourth place. Blanche previously competed on season five of The Voice Belgique, where she was a member of Team Cats on Trees. Read more
10 Jun 1998: Ryan Papenhuyzen, Australian rugby league player Ryan Papenhuyzen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who last played as a fullback for the Melbourne Storm in the National Rugby League. Read more
10 Jun 1997: Cheung Ka-long, Hong Kong foil fencer, 2020 Olympic champion Edgar Cheung Ka Long is a Hong Kong left-handed foil fencer, two-time Olympic champion and two-time individual Asian champion, having won the gold medal at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics. Read more
10 Jun 1996: Wen Junhui, Chinese singer and actor Wen Junhui, known professionally as Jun (Korean: 준), is a Chinese singer, actor, and dancer working in South Korea and China. Managed by Pledis Entertainment, he is a member of the South Korean boy band Seventeen and its performance team. Read more
10 Jun 1992: Kate Upton, American model and actress Katherine Elizabeth Upton is an American model and actress. She first appeared in the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue in 2011, and was the cover model for the 2012, 2013, and 2017 issues. In addition, she was the subject of the 100th-anniversary Vanity Fair cover. Upton has also appeared in the films Tower Heist (2011), The Other Woman (2014), and The Layover (2017). Read more
10 Jun 1991: Alexa Scimeca Knierim, American figure skater Alexa Paige Knierim is an American former competitive pair skater. With her skating partner, Brandon Frazier, she is the 2022 World champion, the 2023 World silver medalist, a 2022 Olympic gold medalist in the figure skating team event, the 2022 Grand Prix Final silver medalist, a two-time U.S. National champion, and a three-time Grand Prix gold medalist. Read more
10 Jun 1989: David Miller, South African cricketer David Andrew Miller is a South African professional cricketer. He currently plays for South African national team in limited overs cricket. He is an aggressive left-handed middle order batsman and an occasional wicket-keeper. He holds the record for the second fastest T20I century among full member ICC teams against full member opposition, tied with Rohit Sharma, achieving the milestone in 35 deliveries. Read more
10 Jun 1989: Mustapha Carayol, Gambian footballer Mustapha Soon Carayol is a Gambian professional footballer who plays as a winger for National League North club Peterborough Sports. He also represented the Gambia national team. Read more
10 Jun 1989: Alexandra Stan, Romanian singer-songwriter, dancer, and model Alexandra Ioana Stan is a Romanian singer. Born in Constanța, she made her worldwide breakthrough with the 2010 single "Mr. Saxobeat", which was written and produced by Marcel Prodan and Andrei Nemirschi. They had previously discovered Stan at a karaoke bar in 2009 and signed her to their label, Maan Records. "Mr. Saxobeat" had followed the singer's debut single, "Lollipop " (2009), which brought her moderate fame in Romania. "Mr. Saxobeat" quickly achieved commercial success locally and abroad, reaching number one in several countries and gathering various certifications. Saxobeats, Stan's debut studio album, was released in August 2011 and features the follow-up singles "Get Back (ASAP)" (2011) and "Lemonade" (2012), which had moderate success in Europe. Read more
10 Jun 1988: Jeff Teague, American basketball player Jeffrey Demarco Teague is an American former professional basketball player, who is the head coach for Pike High School in Indianapolis, Indiana. Nicknamed "Jet", he played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for five teams between 2009 and 2021, including seven seasons with the Atlanta Hawks. Since retiring in 2021, he has worked as regional scout for the Hawks. Teague played college basketball for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons before being selected 19th overall in the 2009 NBA draft by the Hawks. He made an appearance as an NBA All-Star in 2015 and won an NBA championship in 2021 with the Milwaukee Bucks. Read more
10 Jun 1987: Martin Harnik, German-Austrian footballer Martin Harnik is a professional footballer who plays for German fifth-tier club TuS Dassendorf. Born in Germany, he has represented the Austria national team. He plays as a forward or as a right winger. Read more
10 Jun 1987: Amobi Okoye, Nigerian-American football player Amobi Okoye is a Nigerian former professional player of American football who was a defensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Louisville Cardinals and was selected by the Houston Texans tenth overall in the 2007 NFL draft, the youngest player in NFL history to be drafted in the first round at 19. He was also a member of the Chicago Bears, Tampa Bay Buccaneers, Dallas Cowboys, and Saskatchewan Roughriders. Read more
10 Jun 1986: Al Alburquerque, Dominican baseball player Alberto Jose Alburquerque is a Dominican professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Angels, Kansas City Royals, and Chicago White Sox. Read more
10 Jun 1986: Marco Andreolli, Italian footballer Marco Giancarlo Andreolli is an Italian retired professional footballer who played as a centre-back. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Richard Chambers, Irish rower Richard Scott Chambers is a British rower, and is the brother of fellow rower Peter Chambers. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London he was part of the British crew that won the silver medal in the lightweight men's four. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Celina Jade, Hong Kong-American actress Celina Jade is a Hong Kong and American actress, singer, songwriter, model, and martial artist. She is nominated as one of four of the greatest beauties in Hong Kong besides Carol Cheng, Lydia Shum and Amy Yip. She is the first Hong Konger of European descent to win this title. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Kaia Kanepi, Estonian tennis player Kaia Kanepi is a former Estonian professional tennis player. She achieved her career-high ranking of world No. 15 on 20 August 2012 and has won four singles titles on the WTA Tour. Kanepi retired from professional tennis by 2025 and subsequently began competing in padel. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Dane Nielsen, Australian rugby league player Dane Nielsen is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. A Queensland State of Origin representative, he played as a centre and wing. He previously played in the NRL for the Cronulla-Sutherland Sharks, Melbourne Storm, with whom he won the 2012 NRL Premiership, the New Zealand Warriors, St. George Illawarra, South Sydney and also the Bradford Bulls in the English Super League. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Andy Schleck, Luxembourger cyclist Andy Raymond Schleck is a Luxembourgish former professional road bicycle racer. He won the 2010 Tour de France, being awarded it retroactively in February 2012 after Alberto Contador's hearing at the Court of Arbitration for Sport. He has also been the runner-up at the Tour twice; in 2009 and 2011. He's the current deputy general manager for the Lidl-Trek. He is the younger brother of Fränk Schleck, also a professional rider between 2003 and 2016. Their father Johny Schleck rode the Tour de France and Vuelta a España between 1965 and 1974. Read more
10 Jun 1985: Vasilis Torosidis, Greek footballer Vasilis Torosidis is a Greek former professional footballer who played as a right-back. Read more
10 Jun 1984: Johanna Kedzierski, German sprinter Johanna Kedzierski is a German sprinter who specializes in the 200 metres. Read more
10 Jun 1984: Dirk Van Tichelt, Belgian martial artist Dirk Van Tichelt is a Belgian judoka. Read more
10 Jun 1984: Betsy Sodaro, American actress Betsy Sodaro is an American actress. She is a regular performer at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater in Los Angeles. She is best known for her appearances on comedy programs such as Ghosts, Another Period, Duncanville, Clipped, Animal Practice, Nailed It!, Big Time in Hollywood, FL and the Netflix show Disjointed. Read more
10 Jun 1983: Jade Bailey, Barbadian athlete Jade Latoya Bailey is a track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Barbados. Bailey lives in Barbados and is coached by Keith Thornhill. Read more
10 Jun 1983: Marion Barber III, American football player (died 2022) Marion Sylvester Barber III was an American professional football player who was a running back for seven seasons in the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Minnesota Golden Gophers, he was selected by the Dallas Cowboys in the fourth round of the 2005 NFL draft. He was selected to the Pro Bowl in 2007 during his six-year tenure with the Cowboys. He played for the Chicago Bears in 2011. Read more
10 Jun 1983: Aaron Davey, Australian footballer Aaron Davey is a former professional Australian rules footballer, who represented the Melbourne Football Club between 2004 and 2013. Read more
10 Jun 1983: Leelee Sobieski, American actress and producer Liliane Rudabet Gloria Elsveta "Leelee" Sobieski is an American artist and retired actress. She achieved fame in her teens with roles in films such as Deep Impact (1998), Never Been Kissed, Eyes Wide Shut, Here on Earth (2000), Joy Ride and The Glass House. Read more
10 Jun 1983: Steve von Bergen, Swiss footballer Steve von Bergen is a retired Swiss professional footballer who played as defender. He played for FC Zürich for two full seasons, winning the Swiss Super League in both campaigns and then moved to Hertha BSC, playing there for three years. He managed to establish himself as a regular on the Switzerland national football team, earning over 40 caps since his debut in 2006 and playing at two World Cups. Read more
10 Jun 1982: Tara Lipinski, American figure skater Tara Kristen Lipinski is an American sports commentator and former competitive figure skater. A former competitor in women's singles, she was the 1997 U.S. national champion and world champion, a two-time Champions Series Final champion (1997–1998), and the 1998 Olympic champion. She is the youngest single skater Olympic champion and World champion ever, and until 2019 was the youngest to win the U.S. Nationals. She was the first woman to complete a triple loop–triple loop combination, which became her signature jump element, in competition. Read more
10 Jun 1982: Princess Madeleine, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland Princess Madeleine of Sweden, Duchess of Hälsingland and Gästrikland is the second daughter and youngest child of King Carl XVI Gustaf and Queen Silvia. Upon her birth, she was third in line of succession to the Swedish throne; currently, she is ninth. Princess Madeleine is married to British-American financier Christopher O'Neill. They have three children, Princess Leonore, Prince Nicolas and Princess Adrienne. Read more
10 Jun 1982: Ana Lúcia Souza, Brazilian ballerina and journalist Ana Lúcia Souza is a Brazilian naturalized American ballet dancer, filmmaker, and journalist. Souza was a soloist at the extinct Das Meininger Ballett, the Stuttgart Ballet, and Les Ballets de Monte Carlo in the Principality of Monaco. In New York, Souza worked as an on-camera correspondent for Brazilian Rede TV network and E! Entertainment Latin America, produced and directed Manhattan Connection's segment with host Pedro Andrade and other independent and commercial productions. Previous work also include the Lee Strasberg Theater and Film Institute, episodic TV, and on commercial and independent film. In 2018, Ana launched a stationery line named Ana.Logica. Read more
10 Jun 1981: Mat Jackson, English racing driver Mathew Jackson is a British former racing driver. Read more
10 Jun 1981: Albie Morkel, South African cricketer Johannes Albertus Morkel, better known as Albie Morkel, is a former South African cricketer. He is an all-rounder who bowls right-arm medium fast and bats left-handed. He was earmarked as the new Lance Klusener from an early age and is famous for his six hitting abilities. Albie has a younger brother, Morné Morkel, who also played international cricket for South Africa while his father Albert played provincial cricket in South Africa. He has a particularly impressive first class record, with a batting average of 44.0 and a bowling average of 29.0. In January 2019, he retired from all forms of cricket. Read more
10 Jun 1981: Andrey Yepishin, Russian sprinter Andrey Sergeyevich Yepishin is a Russian athlete specializing in the 100 metres. Read more
10 Jun 1980: Jessica DiCicco, American actress and voice actress Jessica Sonya DiCicco is an American actress. She is known for voicing in animated television series and video games. Her first voice role was the announcer for Nickelodeon's educational channel Noggin. DiCicco has since voiced various other characters for Nickelodeon, including Gwen Wu in The Mighty B!, Selina and Miele in Winx Club, Lucy Loud and Lynn Loud Jr. in The Loud House, and Annie Bramley in It's Pony. Since 2012, she also serves as the announcer for the Nick Jr. Channel. She also had voice roles on Disney Junior, including Toby the Cactus in Sheriff Callie's Wild West, Hissy in Puppy Dog Pals, and Summer Penguin in Muppet Babies. Read more
10 Jun 1980: Matuzalém, Brazilian footballer Matuzalém Francelino da Silva, commonly known as just Matuzalém, is a Brazilian football manager and former player, who played as a midfielder. Read more
10 Jun 1980: Ovie Mughelli, American football player Ovie Phillip Mughelli is an American former professional football player who was a fullback for the Baltimore Ravens and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League (NFL). After playing college football for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, he was selected by the Ravens in the fourth round of the 2003 NFL draft. Read more
10 Jun 1980: Dmitri Uchaykin, Russian ice hockey player (died 2013) Dmitri Viktorovich Uchaykin was a Russian ice hockey left-winger. Read more
10 Jun 1980: Daniele Seccarecci, Italian bodybuilder (died 2013) Daniele Seccarecci was an Italian bodybuilder. Read more
10 Jun 1979: Evgeni Borounov, Russian ice dancer and coach Evgueni Borounov is a Russian-Australian former competitive ice dancer. Competing for Australia with his wife, Maria Borounov, he became the 2006–2007 Australian national champion and competed at six Four Continents Championships. Read more
10 Jun 1979: Kostas Louboutis, Greek footballer Konstantinos Louboutis is a Greek former professional footballer. He was a defender who played as a left back. Read more
10 Jun 1978: Raheem Brock, American football player Raheem Fukwan Brock is an American former professional football player who was a defensive end the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Temple Owls. He was selected by the Philadelphia Eagles in the seventh round of the 2002 NFL draft, but was never signed by them. Brock subsequently played for the Indianapolis Colts for eight years, winning Super Bowl XLI with them, and he also played with the Seattle Seahawks. Read more
10 Jun 1978: Subhash Khot, Indian-American mathematician and computer scientist Subhash Khot is an Indian-American mathematician and theoretical computer scientist who is the Julius Silver Professor of Computer Science in the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University. Khot has contributed to the field of computational complexity, and is best known for his unique games conjecture. Read more
10 Jun 1977: Adam Darski (Nergal), Polish singer-songwriter and guitarist Adam Nergal Darski, often referred to by his stage name Nergal, is a Polish musician, best known as the frontman of the extreme metal band Behemoth. Read more
10 Jun 1977: Mike Rosenthal, American football player and coach Mike Rosenthal is an American former professional football player who was an offensive tackle in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Notre Dame Fighting Irish, earning first-team All-American honors in 1998. He was selected by the New York Giants in the fifth round of the 1999 NFL draft, and played nine seasons in the National Football League (NFL). Read more
10 Jun 1976: Alari Lell, Estonian footballer Alari Lell is an Estonian former footballer who played as a defender. He played for several clubs in his native country, including FC Flora Tallinn, JK Tervis Pärnu, JK Viljandi Tulevik and FC Kuressaare. Read more
10 Jun 1976: Esther Ouwehand, Dutch politician Esther Ouwehand is a Dutch politician of the Party for the Animals in the House of Representatives. She served as the party leader from 2019 to June 2026, and has been a member of the House of Representatives since the 2006 election with two interruptions. Read more
10 Jun 1976: Hadi Saei, Iranian martial artist Hadi Saei is an Iranian councilor and former taekwondo athlete who became the most successful Iranian athlete in Olympic history and the most titled champion in the sport by winning 9 world class titles .
Earlier in his career and in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Saei had won the bronze medal. He was elected as member of City Council of Tehran in 2006 local elections and was reelected in 2013 but lost the 2017 election. He is one of the three olympians with the most medals in the sport of taekwondo. He was the President of Islamic Republic of Iran Taekwondo Federation from January 2022 to January 2026. Read more
10 Jun 1975: Henrik Pedersen, Danish footballer Henrik Pedersen is a Danish retired footballer who played as a striker for Silkeborg IF, Bolton Wanderers and Hull City. He played three games for the Danish national team. Read more
10 Jun 1974: Dustin Lance Black, American screenwriter, director, film and television producer, and LGBT rights activist Dustin Lance Black is an American screenwriter, director, producer, and LGBTQ rights activist. He is known for writing and producing the film Milk, for which he won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2009. He also wrote the screenplay for the films J. Edgar, Rustin and created the 2022 true crime limited series Under the Banner of Heaven. Read more
10 Jun 1973: Faith Evans, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress Faith Renée Evans is an American singer, songwriter, and actress. Born in Lakeland, Florida, and raised in New Jersey, she relocated to Los Angeles in 1991 in pursuit of a recording career. Evans initially performed as a backing vocalist for R&B singers Al B. Sure! and Christopher Williams, and by the age of 20, signed with Sean Combs' Bad Boy Records as the label's first female artist in 1994. Following her uncredited appearance on labelmate the Notorious B.I.G.'s single "One More Chance", she released her debut studio album, Faith (1995), to critical acclaim and moderate commercial reception. Evans then guest performed alongside 112 on Combs' 1997 single "I'll Be Missing You," which won Best Rap Performance at the 40th Annual Grammy Awards and became the first hip hop song to debut atop the Billboard Hot 100. Her second and third albums, Keep the Faith (1998) and Faithfully (2001), peaked at numbers six and 14 on the Billboard 200, respectively, and saw further critical praise. Read more
10 Jun 1973: Flesh-n-Bone, American rapper and actor Stanley Howse, better known as Flesh-n-Bone, is an American rapper known as a member of the hip hop group Bone Thugs-n-Harmony. He is the older brother of Layzie Bone and cousin of Wish Bone. Read more
10 Jun 1973: Pokey Reese, American baseball player Calvin "Pokey" Reese Jr. is an American former professional baseball infielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) with the Cincinnati Reds, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Boston Red Sox from 1997 to 2004. With the Red Sox, he won the 2004 World Series over the St. Louis Cardinals. He batted and threw right-handed. Reese was known for his defense, winning two Gold Glove Awards during his career. Read more
10 Jun 1972: Steven Fischer, American director and producer Steven Thomas Fischer is an American film director, producer, and cartoonist. His work has been honored by the Directors Guild of America, The New York Festivals, the CINE Golden Eagle Awards, and Marquis Who's Who in Entertainment. Read more
10 Jun 1972: Radmila Šekerinska, Macedonian politician, Prime Minister of the Republic of Macedonia Radmila Šekerinska Jankovska is a Macedonian politician who has been serving as the Deputy Secretary General of NATO since December 2024. Previously she served as the defense minister of North Macedonia and a former leader of the Social Democratic Union of Macedonia (SDSM). Šekerinska was previously Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration and National Coordinator for Foreign Assistance of North Macedonia and also was the acting Prime Minister of North Macedonia from 12 May 2004 until 12 June 2004 and from 3 November 2004 until 15 December 2004. She was elected 5 November 2006 the SDUM leader. She is the first female (acting) prime minister of North Macedonia. Read more
10 Jun 1972: Sundar Pichai, Indian-American businessman Pichai Sundararajan, better known as Sundar Pichai, is an Indian–American business executive who has been the CEO of Google since 2015 and the CEO of its parent company Alphabet Inc. since 2019. Read more
10 Jun 1972: Eric Upashantha, Sri Lankan cricketer Kalutarage Eric Amila Upashantha is a Sri Lankan former cricketer, who played two Test matches and 12 One Day Internationals for Sri Lanka. He was educated at Maliyadeva College, Kurunegala. He is a right-handed batsman and a right-arm medium-fast bowler. Read more
10 Jun 1971: JoJo Hailey, American singer K-Ci & JoJo are an American R&B duo, consisting of brothers Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey and Joel "JoJo" Hailey. Natives of Charlotte, North Carolina, they are also the lead singers of the chart-topping R&B group Jodeci with the DeGrate brothers—Donald and Mr. Dalvin. They are best known for their 1998 single "All My Life" which peaked atop the Billboard Hot 100 for three weeks and received three Grammy Award nominations. They also appeared on the Tupac Shakur number one multi-platinum song "How Do U Want It" in 1996, which was nominated for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 1997. K-Ci & JoJo also achieved mainstream success with the 1999 hit "Tell Me It's Real", which peaked at number two on the Billboard Hot 100. Their 2001 song, "Crazy", was included on the Save the Last Dance soundtrack and peaked at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100. Read more
10 Jun 1971: Bobby Jindal, American journalist and politician, 55th Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal is an American politician who served as the 55th governor of Louisiana from 2008 to 2016. A member of the Republican Party, Jindal previously served as a U.S. representative from Louisiana from 2005 to 2008, and served as chair of the Republican Governors Association from 2012 to 2013. Read more
10 Jun 1971: Bruno Ngotty, French footballer Bruno Ngotty is a French former professional footballer. He played as a centre-back from 1988 until 2008; however, he came out of retirement briefly in 2011. Read more
10 Jun 1971: Erik Rutan, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Erik Rutan is an American death metal musician and record producer. He is the guitarist and lead vocalist of death metal band Hate Eternal, as well as the lead guitarist for Cannibal Corpse. Rutan has also played with Morbid Angel and Ripping Corpse. In addition, Rutan owns and operates Mana Recording Studios in Florida. Read more
10 Jun 1971: Kyle Sandilands, Australian radio and television host Kyle Dalton Sandilands is an Australian radio host, shock jock and television personality. Together with Jackie O, they co-hosted the weekday breakfast radio program The Kyle and Jackie O Show from 2005 until 2026 on Sydney's radio station KIIS 106.5. Read more
10 Jun 1970: Mike Doughty, American singer-songwriter and guitarist Michael Ross Doughty is an American singer-songwriter and author. He founded the band Soul Coughing in 1992, and as of The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns (2016), has released 18 studio albums, live albums, and EPs, all since 2000. Read more
10 Jun 1970: Katsuhiro Harada, Japanese game designer, director, and producer Katsuhiro Harada is a Japanese game director and producer who is currently CEO of SNK VS Studio. He is best known for his time at Bandai Namco Entertainment and for his work on the fighting game series Tekken. Read more
10 Jun 1970: Alex Santos, Filipino journalist Alexander "Alex" Hidalgo Santos is a Filipino field reporter who is currently a news and radio anchor for Net 25 and DZEC Radyo Agila. Santos was a former news director for DWIZ, and a former newscaster and television host for ABS-CBN, DZMM and PTV. Read more
10 Jun 1970: Shane Whereat, Australian rugby league player Shane Whereat is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s. His outstanding speed saw him mostly play on the Wing. Read more
10 Jun 1970: Sarah Wixey, Welsh sport shooter Sarah Wixey is a Welsh sport shooter. She competed in the women's trap event at the 2018 Commonwealth Games, winning the bronze medal. Read more
10 Jun 1969: Craig Hancock, Australian rugby league player Craig Hancock is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. With his natural pace, "Hank" Hancock mostly played as a winger, though he also played a number of games at fullback, he played club football for the Manly-Warringah Sea Eagles and Balmain Tigers. He played one game for New South Wales in the State of Origin. Read more
10 Jun 1969: Ronny Johnsen, Norwegian footballer Jean Ronny Johnsen is a Norwegian former footballer who played as a centre-back or defensive midfielder. He played club football in Norway, Turkey, and England for Sem, Stokke, Eik-Tønsberg, Lyn, Lillestrøm, Beşiktaş, Manchester United, Aston Villa, Newcastle United and Vålerenga. Read more
10 Jun 1969: Kate Snow, American journalist Kate Snow is an American television journalist for NBC News, serving as Senior National Correspondent to various NBC platforms, including Today, NBC Nightly News, Dateline NBC, and MSNBC. Snow also anchors NBC News Daily, and frequently substitutes for the weekday and weekend broadcast. Snow also previously hosted MSNBC Live and anchored the Sunday edition of NBC Nightly News. Read more
10 Jun 1968: Bill Burr, American comedian and actor William Frederic Burr is an American stand-up comedian, podcaster, actor, writer and director. He started his career as a stand-up comedian before expanding his career as an actor on stage and screen. As a comedian he is known for his sharp confrontational observational humor often tackling subjects such as social issues, politics and the absurdities of the human condition. Burr has been referred to as a "comedian's comedian" by observers of the American stand-up comedy circuit. Rolling Stone magazine called him "the undisputed heavyweight champ of rage-fueled humor". Read more
10 Jun 1968: Derek Dooley, American football player and coach Derek Vincent Dooley is an American football coach, attorney, and former college football player. Dooley most recently served as a senior offensive analyst for the Alabama Crimson Tide. He served as the head football coach at Louisiana Tech University from 2007 to 2009 and the University of Tennessee from 2010 to 2012. Read more
10 Jun 1967: Emma Anderson, English singer-songwriter and guitarist Emma Victoria Jane Anderson is an English musician. She is a songwriter, and was guitarist and singer in the shoegazing/Britpop band Lush. Read more
10 Jun 1967: Darren Robinson, American rapper (died 1995) Darren Robinson, also known as Big Buff, Buff Love, Buffy, The Human Beat Box, The Ox That Rocks, and DJ Doctor Nice, was a rapper, beatboxer, and actor who was a member of the 1980s hip hop group The Fat Boys. He, along with Doug E. Fresh and others, were pioneers of beatboxing, a form of vocal percussion used in many rap groups throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Read more
10 Jun 1967: Elizabeth Wettlaufer, Canadian nurse and serial killer Elizabeth Tracy Mae "Bethe" Wettlaufer is a convicted Canadian serial killer and former registered nurse who confessed to murdering eight senior citizens and attempting to murder six other people in southwestern Ontario between 2007 and 2016. With a total of 14 victims either killed or injured by her actions, she is described as one of the deadliest serial killers in Canadian history. Read more
10 Jun 1966: David Platt, English footballer and manager David Andrew Platt is an English retired football coach and player who played as a midfielder. Read more
10 Jun 1965: Susanne Albers, German computer scientist and academic Susanne Albers is a German theoretical computer scientist and professor of computer science at the Department of Informatics of the Technical University of Munich. She is a recipient of the Otto Hahn Medal and the Leibniz Prize. Read more
10 Jun 1965: Elizabeth Hurley, English model, actress, and producer Elizabeth Jane Hurley, often known as Liz Hurley, is an English actress and model. Her best-known film roles are Vanessa Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) and as the Devil in Bedazzled (2000). Hurley's television roles include the E! original series The Royals (2015–2018) and Morgan le Fay in Runaways (2019), based on the Marvel Comics series. She portrayed Diana Payne on the fifth season of The CW's original series Gossip Girl (2011). Read more
10 Jun 1965: Joey Santiago, American alternative rock musician Joseph Alberto Santiago is a Filipino-American guitarist and composer. Active since 1986, Santiago is best known as the co-founder and lead guitarist of the alternative rock band Pixies. After the band's breakup in 1993, Santiago produced musical scores for film and television documentaries, and he formed The Martinis with his ex-wife, Linda Mallari. He contributed to albums by Charles Douglas and former Pixies band-mate Frank Black. Santiago resumed his role as the Pixies' lead guitarist when they reunited in 2004. Read more
10 Jun 1963: Brad Henry, American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of Oklahoma Charles Bradford Henry is an American politician and lawyer who served as the 26th governor of Oklahoma from 2003 to 2011. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a member of the Oklahoma Senate from 1992 to 2003. As of 2026, he is the most recent Democrat to have been elected or serve as governor of Oklahoma. Read more
10 Jun 1963: Jeanne Tripplehorn, American actress Jeanne Marie Tripplehorn is an American actress. She began her career on stage, acting in several plays throughout the early 1990s, including Anton Chekhov's Three Sisters on Broadway. Her film career began with the role of a police psychologist in the erotic thriller Basic Instinct (1992). Her other film roles include The Firm (1993), Waterworld (1995) and Sliding Doors (1998). On television, she starred as Barbara Henrickson on the HBO drama series Big Love (2006–2011) and as Dr. Alex Blake on the CBS police drama Criminal Minds (2012–2014), and she received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her performance as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis in the 2009 HBO movie Grey Gardens. Read more
10 Jun 1962: Gina Gershon, American actress, singer and author Gina L. Gershon is an American actress and singer. She has starred in such films as Cocktail (1988), Red Heat (1988), Showgirls (1995), Bound (1996), Face/Off (1997), The Insider (1999), Demonlover (2002), P.S. I Love You (2007), Five Minarets in New York (2010), Killer Joe (2011), and House of Versace (2013). She has also had supporting roles in FX's Rescue Me and HBO's How to Make It in America. Additionally, she portrayed Jughead's mom Gladys Jones on The CW teen drama series Riverdale and Lauren Bloom's mother Jeanie Bloom on the NBC medical series New Amsterdam. Read more
10 Jun 1962: Anderson Bigode Herzer, Brazilian poet and author (died 1982) Anderson Bigode Herzer was a writer and poet. He died by suicide at the age of 20. The film Vera by Sérgio Toledo is based on Herzer's life. Read more
10 Jun 1962: Wong Ka Kui, Hong Kong singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1993) Wong Ka Kui, also known by his Japanese stage name Koma Wong, was a Hong Kong musician, singer and songwriter, best known as the leader and a co-founder of the rock band Beyond, where he was the lead vocalist, the rhythm guitarist and the primary songwriter. His younger brother Wong Ka Keung was also the band's bass guitarist. Wong Ka Kui wrote over 100 songs in his short life and was considered one of the iconic figures of Cantonese and Mandarin rock music. Read more
10 Jun 1962: Tzi Ma, Hong Kong American character actor Tzi Ma is a Hong Kong-American actor. He has appeared in television shows including The Man in the High Castle and 24, and films including Dante's Peak, Rush Hour, Rush Hour 3, Arrival, The Farewell, Tigertail, and Mulan. From 2021 to 2023, he starred in the American martial arts television series Kung Fu on The CW. Read more
10 Jun 1962: Brent Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Brent Colin Sutter is a Canadian former National Hockey League (NHL) player and former head coach of the New Jersey Devils and Calgary Flames. Selected by the New York Islanders 17th overall at the 1980 NHL entry draft, Sutter played over 1,000 games for the Islanders and Chicago Blackhawks during his 18-year career. Regarded as one of the best face-off specialists of his generation, Sutter won the Stanley Cup twice with the Islanders and was an All-Star. He represented Canada on numerous occasions, winning the Canada Cup three times. Read more
10 Jun 1961: Kim Deal, American singer-songwriter and musician Kimberley Ann Deal is an American musician. She was the original bassist and co-vocalist in the alternative rock band the Pixies from 1986 to 1993 and again from 2004 to 2013. She is the frontwoman of the Breeders, which she formed in 1989. Read more
10 Jun 1961: Maxi Priest, English singer-songwriter Max Alfred Elliott, known by his stage name Maxi Priest, is a British reggae vocalist of Jamaican descent. He is best known for singing reggae music with an R&B influence, otherwise known as reggae fusion. He was one of the first international artists to have success in this genre, and one of the most successful reggae fusion acts of all time. Read more
10 Jun 1960: Nandamuri Balakrishna, Indian film actor and politician Nandamuri Balakrishna, also known as Balayya or NBK, is an Indian actor, film producer, politician and philanthropist known for his works in Telugu cinema. Balakrishna is an elected member of the Andhra Pradesh Legislative Assembly from Hindupur constituency since 2014. Read more
10 Jun 1959: Carlo Ancelotti, Italian footballer and manager Carlo Ancelotti is an Italian professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Brazil national team. Nicknamed "Carletto" in Italy and "Don Carlo" in Spain, he is regarded as one of the greatest football managers of all time. Read more
10 Jun 1959: Ernie C, American heavy metal guitarist, songwriter, and producer Ernie Cunnigan, better known by his stage name Ernie C, is an American musician and record producer, best known as the guitarist of rap metal band Body Count. Read more
10 Jun 1959: Eliot Spitzer, American lawyer and politician, 54th Governor of New York Eliot Laurence Spitzer is an American politician and attorney who served as the 54th governor of New York from 2007 until his resignation in 2008. A member of the Democratic Party, he was also the 63rd attorney general of New York from 1999 to 2006. Read more
10 Jun 1958: Elain Harwood, English architectural historian (died 2023) Elain Harwood Hon.FRIBA was a British architectural historian with Historic England and a specialist in post–Second World War English architecture. Read more
10 Jun 1958: Yu Suzuki, Japanese game designer and producer Yu Suzuki is a Japanese game designer, producer, programmer and engineer who headed Sega's AM2 team for 18 years. Read more
10 Jun 1955: Annette Schavan, German theologian and politician Annette Schavan is a German politician of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). She was the Federal Minister of Education and Research in the government of Chancellor Angela Merkel from 2005 to 2013, when she resigned following the revocation of her doctorate due to plagiarism. From 2014 until 2018 she served as the German Ambassador to the Holy See. From April 2018, she also briefly served as first German Ambassador to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta. Read more
10 Jun 1955: Andrew Stevens, American actor and producer Herman Andrew Stevens is an American executive, film producer, director and actor. Read more
10 Jun 1954: Moya Greene, Canadian businesswoman Dame Moya Marguerite Greene is a Canadian businesswoman who was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Royal Mail from 2010 until 2018, having previously been the CEO of Canada Post. Read more
10 Jun 1954: Rich Hall, American actor, producer, and screenwriter Richard Travis Hall is an American comedian, writer, director, actor, and musician, first coming to prominence as a sketch comedian in the 1980s. He wrote and performed for a range of American networks, in series such as Fridays, Not Necessarily the News, and Saturday Night Live. Read more
10 Jun 1953: Eileen Cooper, English painter and academic Eileen Cooper is a British artist, known primarily as a painter and printmaker. Read more
10 Jun 1953: John Edwards, American lawyer and politician Johnny Reid Edwards is an American lawyer and former politician who represented North Carolina in the United States Senate from 1999 to 2005. A member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's vice presidential nominee under Senator John Kerry in the 2004 presidential election. He also was a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2004 and 2008. Read more
10 Jun 1953: Garry Hynes, Irish director and producer

Garry Hynes is an Irish theatre director. She was the first woman to win the prestigious Tony Award for Best Direction of a Play. Read more
10 Jun 1953: Don Maitz, American artist Don Maitz is an American science fiction, fantasy, and commercial artist. He has twice won the Hugo Award for Best Professional Artist, science fiction's highest honor for an artist, out of 21 nominations. His peers in the Association of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists have honored him ten times with a Chesley Award for outstanding achievement, and he has received a Silver Medal of Excellence from the Society of Illustrators. Additionally he won the 1980 Artist World Fantasy Award and was a Guest of Honor at the 1996 World Horror Convention. Read more
10 Jun 1953: Christine St-Pierre, Canadian journalist and politician Christine St-Pierre is a Canadian journalist and politician, who was MNA for the Montreal provincial riding of Acadie from 2007 to 2022 as a member of the Quebec Liberal Party. Read more
10 Jun 1952: Kage Baker, American author (died 2010) Kage Baker was an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Read more
10 Jun 1951: Dan Fouts, American football player and sportscaster Daniel Francis Fouts is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for the San Diego Chargers of the National Football League (NFL) throughout his 15-season career (1973–1987). After a relatively undistinguished first five seasons in the league, Fouts came to prominence as an on-field leader during the Chargers' Air Coryell period. He led the league in passing yards every year from 1979 to 1982, throwing for over 4,000 yards in the first three of these—no quarterback had previously posted consecutive 4,000-yard seasons. Fouts was voted a Pro Bowler six times, first-team All-Pro twice, and in 1982 he was the Offensive Player of the Year. He was elected to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1993, his first year of eligibility. Read more
10 Jun 1951: Tony Mundine, Australian boxer Anthony William Mundine, also known as Tony Mundine is an Australian former boxer, and one of the country's most accomplished Indigenous fighters. He was the only Australian boxer to compete professionally in four weight divisions, he held the Australian middleweight, light heavyweight, cruiserweight and heavyweight titles, as well as the Commonwealth middleweight and light heavyweight titles. He also challenged once for the WBA world middleweight title in 1974. Read more
10 Jun 1951: Burglinde Pollak, German pentathlete Burglinde Pollak is a retired German pentathlete. She won bronze medals at the 1972 and 1976 Olympics and finished sixth in 1980. At the European championships she won three silver medals, in 1971, 1974 and 1978. Pollak set three world records, in 1970, 1972 and 1973. After retiring from competitions she worked as a physiotherapist at her own clinic. Read more
10 Jun 1950: Elías Sosa, Dominican-American baseball player Elías Sosa Martínez is a Dominican former professional baseball pitcher. He was signed by the San Francisco Giants of Major League Baseball (MLB) as an amateur free agent on March 4, 1968, and played for the Giants (1972–1974), St. Louis Cardinals (1975), Atlanta Braves (1975–1976), Los Angeles Dodgers (1976–1977), Oakland Athletics (1978), Montreal Expos (1979–1981), Detroit Tigers (1982), and San Diego Padres (1983). Read more
10 Jun 1947: Michel Bastarache, Canadian businessman, lawyer, and jurist J. E. Michel Bastarache is a Canadian lawyer, businessman, and retired puisne justice on the Supreme Court of Canada. Read more
10 Jun 1947: Ken Singleton, American baseball player and sportscaster Kenneth Wayne Singleton is an American former professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and designated hitter from 1970 to 1984, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles, where he was a three-time All-Star player and was a member of the 1983 World Series winning team. He also played for the New York Mets and the Montreal Expos. Read more
10 Jun 1947: Robert Wright, English air marshal Air Marshal Sir Robert Alfred Wright, is a former senior Royal Air Force officer. Read more
10 Jun 1944: Ze'ev Friedman, Polish-Israeli weightlifter (died 1972) Ze'ev Friedman was an Israeli flyweight weightlifter. A member of the Israeli Olympic team, he was killed in the 1972 Munich Olympics massacre. Read more
10 Jun 1944: Rick Price, English rock bass player (died 2022) Richard Gordon Price was an English bassist and singer who played with various Birmingham-based rock bands, most notably Sight and Sound, the Move (1969–1971), and Wizzard (1972–1975). Read more
10 Jun 1943: Simon Jenkins, English journalist and author Sir Simon David Jenkins FLSW is a British author, a newspaper columnist and editor. He was editor of the Evening Standard from 1976 to 1978 and of The Times from 1990 to 1992. Read more
10 Jun 1943: Sigríður Jóhannesdóttir, Icelandic politician Sigríður Jóhannesdóttir is an Icelandic politician and former member of the Althing. A member of the Social Democratic Alliance, she represented the Reykjanes constituency from July 1996 to May 2003. Read more
10 Jun 1942: Gordon Burns, Northern Irish journalist Gordon Henry Burns is a Northern Irish retired journalist and broadcaster. He was the host of The Krypton Factor for its original 18-year run (1977–1995) and was the chief anchorman for the BBC regional news programme North West Tonight from January 1997 to October 2011. In November 2011, he moved back to Belfast where he was born. Read more
10 Jun 1942: Chantal Goya, French singer and actress Chantal de Guerre, known as Chantal Goya, is a French singer and actress. Read more
10 Jun 1942: Arthur Hamilton, Lord Hamilton, Scottish lawyer and judge Arthur Campbell Hamilton, Lord Hamilton,, is a Scottish judge and served as Lord Justice General and Lord President of the Court of Session from November 2005 until 8 June 2012, succeeding Lord Cullen. Read more
10 Jun 1942: Preston Manning, Canadian politician Ernest Preston Manning is a retired Canadian politician. He was the founder and the only leader of the Reform Party of Canada, a Canadian federal political party that evolved into the Canadian Alliance in 2000 which in turn merged with the Progressive Conservative Party to form today's Conservative Party of Canada in 2003. Manning represented the federal constituency of Calgary Southwest in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 until his retirement in 2002. He served as leader of the Official Opposition from 1997 to 2000. Read more
10 Jun 1941: Mickey Jones, American drummer (died 2018) Mickey Jones was an American musician and actor. He played drums with acts such as Trini Lopez and Bob Dylan, with whom he played on his 1966 world tour. He became a founding member of The First Edition with singer Kenny Rogers, and played on all of their albums. Overall, Jones played on 17 gold records from his musical career of over two decades. Read more
10 Jun 1941: Shirley Owens, American singer Shirley Alston Reeves, born Shirley Owens, is an American soul singer who was the main lead singer of the hit girl group the Shirelles. Read more
10 Jun 1941: Jürgen Prochnow, German actor Jürgen Prochnow is a German actor. His international breakthrough was his portrayal of the good-hearted and sympathetic U-boat Commander "Der Alte" in the 1981 war film Das Boot. Read more
10 Jun 1941: David Walker, Australian racing driver David Walker was an Australian racing driver who drove for Lotus in the 1971 and 1972 Formula One World Championships. Read more
10 Jun 1940: Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist (died 2007) August Henry "Augie" Auer Jr was an American-born atmospheric scientist and meteorologist in New Zealand. Read more
10 Jun 1940: John Stevens, English drummer (died 1994) John William Stevens was an English drummer, and a founding member of the Spontaneous Music Ensemble. Read more
10 Jun 1938: Rahul Bajaj, Indian businessman and politician (died 2022) Rahul Bajaj was an Indian billionaire businessman and politician. He was the chairman emeritus of the Indian conglomerate Bajaj Group. He was awarded the third-highest civilian award in India, the Padma Bhushan, in 2001. Read more
10 Jun 1938: Violetta Villas, Belgian-Polish singer-songwriter and actress (died 2011) Czesława Maria Gospodarek, known by her stage name Violetta Villas, was a Polish and international cabaret star, singer, actress, composer and songwriter. Her voice was characterized as coloratura soprano, which spanned over four octaves. She could play the piano, violin, and trombone and had absolute pitch. Characterisations of her included "the voice of the atomic age", "the singing toast of the continent", "a voice like French champagne", and the "Polish Yma Sumac". Villas was the first star of the Casino de Paris at Dunes Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas (1966–1970). Read more
10 Jun 1938: Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak, Indian mathematician and academic (died 2009) Vasanti N. Bhat-Nayak was a mathematician whose research concerned balanced incomplete block designs, bivariegated graphs, graceful graphs, graph equations and frequency partitions.
She earned a Ph.D. from the University of Mumbai in 1970 with the dissertation Some New Results in PBIBD Designs and Combinatorics. S. S. Shrikhande was her advisor. Read more
10 Jun 1935: Vic Elford, English racing driver (died 2022) Victor Henry Elford was an English sports car racing, rallying, and Formula One driver. He participated in 13 World Championship F1 Grands Prix, debuting on 7 July 1968. He scored a total of 8 championship points. Read more
10 Jun 1935: Lu Jiaxi, Chinese self-taught mathematician (died 1983) Lu Jiaxi was a self-taught Chinese mathematician who made important contributions in combinatorial design theory. He was a high school physics teacher in a remote city and worked in his spare time on the problem of large sets of disjoint Steiner triple systems. Read more
10 Jun 1935: Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (died 2015) Yoshihiro Tatsumi was a Japanese manga artist whose work was first published in his teens, and continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. His work frequently illustrated the darker elements of life. Read more
10 Jun 1934: Peter Gibson, English lawyer and judge Sir Peter Leslie Gibson is a British former barrister and Lord Justice of Appeal of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales, and was a judge of the Qatar International Court. Gibson has also served, between April 2006 and December 2010, as the UK's Intelligence Services Commissioner, and was appointed by David Cameron in July 2010 to lead the Detainee Inquiry. He is an honorary member of the Society of Legal Scholars. Read more
10 Jun 1934: Tom Pendry, Baron Pendry, English politician (died 2023) Thomas Pendry, Baron Pendry, was a British Labour politician and member of the House of Lords. He was previously the Labour member of parliament for Stalybridge and Hyde from 1970 to 2001. In 2000, prior to his retirement as an MP he was made a member of the Privy Council on the recommendation of Tony Blair. After the 2001 election he was elevated to the peerage on 4 July as Baron Pendry, of Stalybridge in the County of Greater Manchester. He was president of the Football Foundation Ltd and was formerly sports advisor to Tameside District Council Sports Trust. Read more
10 Jun 1933: Chuck Fairbanks, American football player and coach (died 2013) Charles Leo Fairbanks was an American football coach who was a head coach at the high school, college and professional levels. He served as the head coach at the University of Oklahoma from 1967 to 1972 and at the University of Colorado from 1979 to 1981, compiling a career college record of 59–41–1 (.589). Fairbanks was also the head coach for the New England Patriots of the National Football League (NFL) from 1973 to 1978, amassing a record of 46–41 (.529), and for the New Jersey Generals of the United States Football League (USFL) in 1983, tallying a mark of 6–12. Read more
10 Jun 1932: Pierre Cartier, French mathematician and academic (died 2024) Pierre Émile Cartier was a French mathematician. An associate of the Bourbaki group and at one time a colleague of Alexander Grothendieck, his interests have ranged over algebraic geometry, representation theory, mathematical physics, and category theory. Read more
10 Jun 1931: Bryan Cartledge, English academic and diplomat, British Ambassador to Russia Sir Bryan Cartledge, is a former British diplomat and academic. Read more
10 Jun 1931: João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2019) João Gilberto do Prado Pereira de Oliveira, known as João Gilberto, was a Brazilian guitarist, singer, and composer who was a pioneer of the musical genre of bossa nova in the late 1950s. Around the world, he was often called the "father of bossa nova"; in his native Brazil, he was referred to as "O Mito" .
In 1965, the album Getz/Gilberto was the first jazz record to win the Grammy Award for Album of the Year. It also won Best Jazz Instrumental Album – Individual or Group and Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical.
Gilberto's Amoroso was nominated for a Grammy in 1978 in the category Best Jazz Vocal Performance. In 2001 he won in the Best World Music Album category with João voz e violão. Read more
10 Jun 1930: Aranka Siegal, Czech-American author and Holocaust survivor Aranka Siegal is a writer, Holocaust survivor, and recipient of the Newbery Honor and Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, both awarded to her in 1982. She is the author of three books, the best known of which is Upon the Head of the Goat: A Childhood in Hungary 1930-1944, a memoir of her childhood in Hungary before her 12-month imprisonment in the Nazi concentration camps, Auschwitz – Birkenau and Bergen-Belsen. Read more
10 Jun 1930: Carmen Cozza, American baseball and football player (died 2018) Carmen Louis Cozza was an American football and baseball player and coach of football. He served as the head football coach at Yale University from 1965 to 1996, winning ten Ivy League championships and compiling a record of 179–119–5. Cozza was named UPI New England Coach of the Year four times and Eastern Coach of the Year. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame as a coach in 2002. Read more
10 Jun 1930: Theo Sommer, German journalist (died 2022) Theo Sommer was a German newspaper editor and intellectual. He began working for Die Zeit in 1958, rising to an editor-in-chief and publisher. His editorials for Die Zeit shaped the paper's social-liberal attitude. He advocated the policy of détente with the Eastern bloc states (Entspannungspolitik). From 1992, Sommer was publisher of Die Zeit, together with Marion Dönhoff and Helmut Schmidt. He was considered one of Germany's authorities on international relations and strategic issues. Read more
10 Jun 1930: Chen Xitong, Chinese politician, 8th Mayor of Beijing (died 2013) Chen Xitong was a member of the Politburo of the Chinese Communist Party and the Mayor of Beijing until he was removed from office on charges of corruption in 1995. Read more
10 Jun 1929: James McDivitt, American general, pilot, and astronaut (died 2022) James Alton McDivitt Jr. was an American test pilot, United States Air Force (USAF) pilot, aeronautical engineer, and NASA astronaut in the Gemini and Apollo programs. He joined the USAF in 1951 and flew 145 combat missions in the Korean War. In 1959, after graduating first in his class with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering from the University of Michigan through the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT) program, he qualified as a test pilot at the Air Force Experimental Flight Test Pilot School and Aerospace Research Pilot School, and joined the Manned Spacecraft Operations Branch. By September 1962, McDivitt had logged over 2,500 flight hours, of which more than 2,000 hours were in jet aircraft. This included flying as a chase pilot for Robert M. White's North American X-15 flight on July 17, 1962, in which White reached an altitude of 59.5 miles (95.8 km) and became the first X-15 pilot to be awarded Astronaut Wings. Read more
10 Jun 1929: Ian Sinclair, Australian farmer and politician, 42nd Australian Minister for Defence Ian McCahon Sinclair is an Australian former politician who served as a Member of Parliament for 35 years, and was leader of the National Party from 1984 to 1989. He served as either a minister or opposition frontbencher for all but a few months from 1965 to 1989, and later Speaker of the House of Representatives from March to August 1998. Read more
10 Jun 1929: Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, British Labour Party politician (died 2016) Thomas Taylor, Baron Taylor of Blackburn, was a businessman and Labour politician. He was a member of Blackburn Council for 22 years, serving as its leader from 1972 to 1976. In 1978, he became a member of the House of Lords. In 2009, he was suspended from the House, along with Baron Truscott, as a result of the cash for influence scandal, the first peers to be suspended since the 17th century. Read more
10 Jun 1929: E. O. Wilson, American biologist, author, and academic (died 2021) Edward Osborne Wilson was an American biologist, naturalist, ecologist, and entomologist who developed the field of sociobiology. Read more
10 Jun 1928: Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator (died 2012) Maurice Bernard Sendak was an American author and illustrator of children's books. Born to Polish-Jewish parents, his childhood was impacted by the death of many of his family members during the Holocaust. Sendak illustrated his own books as well as those by other authors, such as the Little Bear series by Else Holmelund Minarik. He achieved acclaim with Where the Wild Things Are (1963), the first of a trilogy followed by In the Night Kitchen (1970) and Outside Over There (1981). He also designed sets for operas, notably Mozart's The Magic Flute. Read more
10 Jun 1927: Claudio Gilberto Froehlich, Brazilian zoologist (died 2023) Claudio Gilberto Froehlich was a Brazilian zoologist. Read more
10 Jun 1927: László Kubala, Hungarian footballer, coach, and manager (died 2002) László Kubala was a professional footballer. He played as a forward for Ferencváros, Slovan Bratislava, Barcelona, and Espanyol, among other clubs. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history, Kubala is considered a hero of Barcelona. He was born in Hungary but also had Czechoslovak and Spanish citizenship, and played for the national teams of all three countries. Read more
10 Jun 1927: Lin Yang-kang, Chinese politician, 29th Vice Premier of the Republic of China (died 2013) Lin Yang-kang was a Taiwanese politician. He was born at Sun Moon Lake during the Japanese rule of Taiwan. Some thought he might be Chiang Ching-kuo's successor as head of the Kuomintang (KMT), but after failing to win the KMT's nomination for president in 1996, he became an independent. Lin rejoined the party in 2005, and died in 2013. Read more
10 Jun 1927: Johnny Orr, American basketball player and coach (died 2013) John Michael Orr was an American basketball player and coach, best known as the head coach of men's basketball at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, University of Michigan, and at Iowa State University. In the 1975–76 season, Orr was named National Coach of the Year. Read more
10 Jun 1927: Eugene Parker, American astrophysicist and academic (died 2022) Eugene Newman Parker was an American solar and plasma physicist, often called the "father" and "founder" of heliophysics. In 1958, he proposed the existence of the solar wind and predicted that the magnetic field in the outer Solar System would be in the shape of a Parker spiral—predictions initially rejected by reviewers and scientific community, but quickly confirmed by the Mariner 2 spacecraft in 1962. Multiple phenomena in solar and plasma physics bear his name, including the Parker instability, Parker equation, Sweet–Parker model of magnetic reconnection, Parker limit on magnetic monopoles, and Parker theorem. In 1988, he proposed that nanoflares could explain the coronal heating problem, a theory that remains a leading candidate. Read more
10 Jun 1926: Bruno Bartoletti, Italian conductor (died 2013) 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
10 Jun 1926: Lionel Jeffries, English actor, screenwriter and film director (died 2010) Lionel Charles Jeffries was an English actor, director, and screenwriter. He appeared primarily in films and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for his role in The Spy with a Cold Nose. Read more
10 Jun 1925: Leo Gravelle, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2013) Joseph Léo Gérard Gravelle was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played 223 games in the National Hockey League between 1946 and 1951. He played with the Detroit Red Wings and Montreal Canadiens. Gravelle was born in Aylmer, Quebec, but grew up in Port Colborne, Ontario. Read more
10 Jun 1925: Nat Hentoff, American historian, author, and journalist (died 2017) Nathan Irving Hentoff was an American historian, novelist, jazz and country music critic, and syndicated columnist for United Media. Hentoff was a columnist for The Village Voice from 1958 to 2009. Following his departure from The Voice, Hentoff became a senior fellow at the Cato Institute and continued writing his music column for The Wall Street Journal, which published his works until his death. He often wrote on First Amendment issues, vigorously defending the freedom of the press. Read more
10 Jun 1925: James Salter, American novelist and short-story writer (died 2015) James Arnold Horowitz, better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters. Read more
10 Jun 1924: Friedrich L. Bauer, German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (died 2015) Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich. Read more
10 Jun 1923: Paul Brunelle, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1994) Paul Brunelle was a singer, songwriter and country guitarist of western Quebec. He is considered the pioneer of country in Quebec and the main source of influence on the artist who would popularize the genre, Willie Lamothe. Brunelle continued with RCA until 1975, and then continued to record on the Bonanza label. Read more
10 Jun 1923: Robert Maxwell, Czech-English captain, publisher, and politician (died 1991) Ian Robert Maxwell was a Czechoslovak-born British-French media proprietor and politician. Read more
10 Jun 1922: Judy Garland, American actress and singer (died 1969) Judy Garland was an American actress, singer, and vaudevillian whose career spanned four decades. She is known for her artistic range and strong contralto voice, working in a variety of genres including musicals, comedies, and dramas. Her career and personal life, marked by both public fascination and private struggle, made her a cultural icon. Read more
10 Jun 1922: Bill Kerr, South African-Australian actor (died 2014) William Henry Kerr was a British and Australian actor, comedian and vaudevillian. Read more
10 Jun 1922: Mitchell Wallace, Australian rugby league player (died 2016) Mitchell Wallace was an Australian professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1940s and 1950s. He played for Balmain Tigers and Parramatta as a winger. Read more
10 Jun 1921: Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (died 2021) Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was the husband of Queen Elizabeth II and served as consort of the British monarch from her accession on 6 February 1952 until his death in 2021, making him the longest-serving royal consort in British history. Read more
10 Jun 1921: Jean Robic, French cyclist (died 1980) Jean Robic was a French road racing cyclist who won the 1947 Tour de France. Robic was a professional cyclist from 1943 to 1961. His diminutive stature and appearance was encapsulated in his nickname Biquet (Kid goat). For faster, gravity-assisted descents, he collected drinking bottles ballasted with lead or mercury at the summits of mountain climbs and "cols". After fracturing his skull in 1944 he always wore a trademark leather crash helmet. Read more
10 Jun 1919: Haidar Abdel-Shafi, Palestinian physician and politician (died 2007) Haidar Abdel-Shafi was a Palestinian physician, community leader and political leader. He was the head of the Palestinian delegation to the Madrid Conference of 1991 and served in the Palestinian Legislative Council for Gaza Governorate from 1996 to 1998. Read more
10 Jun 1919: Kevin O'Flanagan, Irish footballer, rugby player, and physician (died 2006) Kevin Patrick O'Flanagan was an Irish sportsman, physician and sports administrator. An outstanding all-rounder, he represented his country at both soccer and rugby union. He was also a noted sprinter and long jumper and as a youth played Gaelic football. In his spare time he also played golf and tennis at a decent level. O'Flanagan played soccer for among others, Bohemians and Arsenal, and as an international he played for both Ireland teams – the FAI XI and the IFA XI. O'Flanagan also played rugby union for UCD, London Irish and Ireland. Read more
10 Jun 1918: Patachou, French singer and actress (died 2015) Henriette Ragon, better known as Patachou, was a French singer and actress, best-known for popularizing Georges Brassens songs by singing them before he became famous. She was an Officier of the Légion d'honneur. Read more
10 Jun 1918: Barry Morse, English-Canadian actor and director (died 2008) Herbert "Barry" Morse was a British-Canadian actor, writer, and director. He was known for playing Lt. Philip Gerard, the principal antagonist of the American television series The Fugitive (1963–67), as well as Dr. Victor Bergman on Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's science-fiction programme Space: 1999 (1975–76). Read more
10 Jun 1916: Peride Celal, Turkish author (died 2013) Peride Celal Yönsel, commonly known as Peride Celal or Peride Celâl, was a Turkish novelist and story writer. Her work has won major awards such as the Sedat Simavi Literature Award in 1977, and the Orhan Kemal Novel Prize in 1991. Read more
10 Jun 1916: William Rosenberg, American entrepreneur, founded Dunkin' Donuts (died 2002) William Rosenberg was an American entrepreneur who founded the Dunkin' Donuts franchise in 1950 in Quincy, Massachusetts, one of the pioneers in name-brand franchising, originally named the "Open Kettle" doughnut shop when established in 1948. At the end of 2011, there were more than 10,000 outlets of the chain in 32 countries. Read more
10 Jun 1915: Saul Bellow, Canadian-American novelist, essayist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2005) Saul Bellow was a Canadian-American writer. For his literary work, Bellow was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, the 1976 Nobel Prize in Literature, and the National Medal of Arts. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times, and he received the National Book Foundation's lifetime Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters in 1990. Read more
10 Jun 1914: Oktay Rıfat Horozcu, Turkish poet and playwright (died 1988) Ali Oktay Rifat, better known as Oktay Rifat, was a Turkish writer and playwright, and one of the forefront poets of modern Turkish poetry since the late 1930s. He was the founder of the Garip movement, together with Orhan Veli and Melih Cevdet. Read more
10 Jun 1913: Tikhon Khrennikov, Russian pianist and composer (died 2007) Tikhon Nikolayevich Khrennikov was a Russian and Soviet composer, pianist, and General Secretary of the Union of Soviet Composers (1948–1991), who was also known for his political activities. He wrote three symphonies, four piano concertos, two violin concertos, two cello concertos, operas, operettas, ballets, chamber music, incidental music and film music. Read more
10 Jun 1913: Benjamin Shapira, German-Israeli biochemist and academic (died 1993) Benjamin Shapira was an Israeli biochemist. Read more
10 Jun 1912: Jean Lesage, Canadian lawyer and politician, 11th Premier of Quebec (died 1980) Jean Lesage was a Canadian lawyer and politician. He served as the 19th premier of Quebec from July 5, 1960, to June 16, 1966. Alongside Georges-Émile Lapalme, René Lévesque and others, he is often viewed as the father of the Quiet Revolution. He is the namesake of the Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport, the main sections of Quebec's longest Autoroute highway Autoroute 20, and the provincial electoral district within Quebec City named Jean-Lesage. Read more
10 Jun 1911: Ralph Kirkpatrick, American harpsichord player and musicologist (died 1984) Ralph Leonard Kirkpatrick was an American harpsichordist and musicologist, widely known for his chronological catalog of Domenico Scarlatti's keyboard sonatas as well as for his performances and recordings. Read more
10 Jun 1911: Terence Rattigan, English playwright and screenwriter (died 1977) Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background. He wrote The Winslow Boy (1946), The Browning Version (1948), The Deep Blue Sea (1952) and Separate Tables (1954), among many others. Read more
10 Jun 1910: Frank Demaree, American baseball player and manager (died 1958) Joseph Franklin Demaree was an American baseball outfielder. He played all or part of twelve seasons in the majors for the Chicago Cubs, New York Giants (1939–41), Boston Braves (1941–42), St. Louis Cardinals (1943) and St. Louis Browns (1944). Read more
10 Jun 1910: Howlin' Wolf, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1976) Chester Arthur Burnett, better known by his stage name Howlin' Wolf, was an American blues singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was at the forefront of transforming acoustic Delta blues into electric Chicago blues, and over a four-decade career, recorded blues, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, and psychedelic rock. He is regarded as one of the most influential blues musicians ever. Read more
10 Jun 1909: Lang Hancock, Australian soldier and businessman (died 1992) Langley Frederick George Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world's largest iron ore deposit in 1952 and becoming one of the richest men in Australia, he is now perhaps best remembered for his marriage to the much-younger Rose Porteous, a Filipino woman and his former maid. Hancock's daughter, Gina Rinehart, was bitterly opposed to Hancock's relationship with Porteous. The conflicts between Rinehart and Porteous overshadowed his final years and continued until more than a decade after his death. Read more
10 Jun 1907: Fairfield Porter, American painter and critic (died 1975) Fairfield Porter was an American painter and art critic. He was the fourth of five children of James Porter, an architect, and Ruth Furness Porter, a poet from a literary family. He was the brother of photographer Eliot Porter and the brother-in-law of federal Reclamation Commissioner Michael W. Straus. He was married to the poet Anne Porter (1911–2011). Read more
10 Jun 1907: Dicky Wells, American jazz trombonist (died 1985)[n 1] William Wells, known professionally as Dicky Wells, was an American jazz trombonist. Read more
10 Jun 1904: Lin Huiyin, Chinese architect and poet (died 1955) Lin Huiyin was a Chinese architect, writer, and poet. She is known to be the first female architect in modern China. Her husband was Liang Sicheng, named as the "father of modern Chinese architecture". Read more
10 Jun 1901: Frederick Loewe, Austrian-American composer (died 1988) Frederick Loewe was an American composer. He collaborated with lyricist Alan Jay Lerner on a series of Broadway musicals, including Brigadoon, Paint Your Wagon, My Fair Lady, and Camelot, all of which were made into films, as well as the original film musical Gigi (1958), which was first transferred to the stage in 1973. Read more
10 Jun 1899: Stanisław Czaykowski, Polish racing driver (died 1933) Count Stanisław Michel Frederic Marie Czaykowski, also known as Stanislas Czaykowski and Stanislaus Czaykowski was a Polish Grand Prix motor racing driver. Read more
10 Jun 1898: Princess Marie-Auguste of Anhalt (died 1983) Princess Marie Auguste of Anhalt was the daughter of Eduard, Duke of Anhalt, and his wife, Princess Louise Charlotte of Saxe-Altenburg. She married and divorced a son of Kaiser Wilhelm II, then married and divorced a baron. Read more
10 Jun 1897: Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia (died 1918) Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna of Russia
10 June [O.S. 29 May] 1897 – 17 July 1918) was the second daughter of Tsar Nicholas II, the last monarch of Russia, and Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna. She was born at Peterhof Palace, near Saint Petersburg. Read more
10 Jun 1893: Hattie McDaniel, American actress (died 1952) Hattie McDaniel was an American actress, singer-songwriter, and comedian. For her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind (1939), she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first African American to win an Oscar. She has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, was inducted into the Black Filmmakers Hall of Fame in 1975, and in 2006, became the first black Oscar winner honored with a U.S. postage stamp. In 2010, she was inducted into the Colorado Women's Hall of Fame. Read more
10 Jun 1891: Al Dubin, Swiss-American songwriter (died 1945) Alexander Dubin was an American lyricist. He is best known for his collaborations with the composer Harry Warren. Read more
10 Jun 1886: Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese actor and producer (died 1973) Kintarō Hayakawa, known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa, was a Japanese actor. He was a popular star and matinée idol in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. His "broodingly handsome" good looks and typecasting as a sexually dominant villain made him a heartthrob among American women during a time of racial discrimination, and he became one of the first male sex symbols of Hollywood. Read more
10 Jun 1884: Leone Sextus Tollemache, English captain (died 1917) Leone Sextus Denys Oswolf Fraudatifilius Tollemache-Tollemache de Orellana Plantagenet Tollemache-Tollemache was a captain in the British Army who died during the First World War. Read more
10 Jun 1882: Nils Økland, Norwegian Esperantist and teacher (died 1969) Nils Andreas Økland was a Norwegian Esperantist and teacher in Stord Municipality, Norway. He spent some years in his youth on the island of Utsira, where his father was a school teacher. Nils Økland was married to Hanna Olava Bergstøl, and they had 3 sons. His father Matthias Larsen Økland was also a school teacher and a church chorister; his mother was Signi Nilsdatter from Eidsvåg. Having learned Esperanto indirectly through his friend Haldor Midthus by 1904, he served as president on the executive council of Stord's Norwegian Esperanto League branch. Read more
10 Jun 1880: André Derain, French painter and sculptor (died 1954) André Derain was a French artist, painter, sculptor and co-founder, with Henri Matisse, of Fauvism. His paintings of 1905–1906 are characterized by riotous colourism in the Fauve style. By 1910, however, his work had become more austere as a result of his study of Cézanne and the old masters. After the First World War, Derain became one of the leaders of the new classicism in the arts known as the Return to order. Read more
10 Jun 1878: Margarito Bautista, Nahua-Mexican evangelizer, theologian, and religious founder (died 1961) Margarito Bautista was a Mexican evangelist and religious founder who wrote and preached for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. After converting in 1901, Bautista preached for the church through word and writing for three decades and spent time in Mexico and Utah. During this time, Bautista developed a theology that fused Book of Mormon doctrine with Mexican nationalism, and he claimed Mexicans held a birthright to lead the church and someday the world. The church's Anglo-American leaders often considered Bautista's interpretations out of line with official doctrine, but they became very popular with Mexican Latter-day Saints. Read more
10 Jun 1865: Frederick Cook, American physician and explorer (died 1940) Frederick Albert Cook was an American explorer, medical doctor and ethnographer, who is most known for allegedly being the first to reach the North Pole on April 21, 1908. A competing claim was made a year later by Robert Peary, though both men's accounts have since been fiercely disputed; in December 1909, after reviewing Cook's limited records, a commission of the University of Copenhagen ruled his claim unproven. Nonetheless, in 1911, Cook published a memoir of the expedition in which he maintained the veracity of his assertions. In addition, he also claimed to have been the first person to reach the summit of Denali, the highest mountain in North America, a claim which has since been similarly discredited. Though he may not have achieved either Denali or the North Pole, his was the first and only expedition where a United States national discovered an Arctic island in North America, Meighen Island. Read more
10 Jun 1864: Ninian Comper, Scottish architect (died 1960) Sir John Ninian Comper was a Scottish-born architect, one of the last of the great Gothic Revival architects. Read more
10 Jun 1863: Louis Couperus, Dutch author and poet (died 1923) Louis Marie Anne Couperus was a Dutch novelist and poet. His oeuvre contains a wide variety of genres: lyric poetry, psychological and historical novels, novellas, short stories, fairy tales, feuilletons and sketches. Couperus is considered to be one of the foremost figures in Dutch literature. In 1923, he was awarded the Tollensprijs. Read more
10 Jun 1862: Mrs. Leslie Carter, American actress (died 1937) Caroline Louise Dudley, known professionally as Mrs. Leslie Carter, was an American silent film and stage actress who found fame on Broadway through collaborations with impresario David Belasco. She was a beautiful and vivacious performer with strikingly red hair, known as "The American Sarah Bernhardt". She acted under her married name, Mrs. Leslie Carter, which she continued to use even after her divorce. Read more
10 Jun 1859: Emanuel Nobel, Swedish-Russian businessman (died 1932) Emanuel Ludvig Nobel was a Swedish oil baron, the eldest son of Ludvig Nobel and his first wife, Mina Ahlsell, grandson of Immanuel Nobel and nephew of Alfred Nobel. Read more
10 Jun 1854: Sarah Grand, Irish feminist writer (died 1943) Sarah Grand was an Irish-English feminist writer active from 1873 to 1922. Her work revolved around the New Woman ideal. Read more
10 Jun 1851: Cora Agnes Benneson, American attorney (died 1919) Cora Agnes Benneson was an American attorney, lecturer, and writer. She was one of the first women to practice law in New England. Benneson was raised in Quincy, Illinois, to parents involved in local politics, religious organizing, and philanthropy; her parents regularly invited prominent guests to their home, including the writers and philosophers Amos Bronson Alcott and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Benneson began her university studies in 1875 at the University of Michigan, where she earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1878, a Bachelor of Laws in 1880, and a Master of Arts in 1883. After earning her master's degree, she was admitted to the bars of Illinois and Michigan. Read more
10 Jun 1843: Heinrich von Herzogenberg, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1900) Heinrich Picot de Peccaduc, Freiherr von Herzogenberg was an Austrian composer and conductor descended from a French aristocratic family. Read more
10 Jun 1840: Theodor Philipsen, Danish painter (died 1920) Theodor Esbern Philipsen was a Danish painter of Jewish ancestry, known for landscapes and animal portraits. He also did small figures in wax and clay. Read more
10 Jun 1839: Ludvig Holstein-Ledreborg, Danish lawyer and politician, 19th Prime Minister of Denmark (died 1912) Count Johan Ludvig Carl Christian Tido of Holstein-Ledreborg, was a Danish politician who was Minister of State of Denmark. He was Council President of Denmark for two months, from 16 August to 28 October 1909. He also served as Defence Minister of Denmark from 18 October to 28 October 1909. Read more
10 Jun 1835: Rebecca Latimer Felton, American educator and politician (died 1930) Rebecca Ann Felton was an American writer, politician, white supremacist, and slave owner who was the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, serving for only one day. Read more
10 Jun 1832: Edwin Arnold, English poet and journalist (died 1904) Sir Edwin Arnold was an English poet and journalist. He is best known for his 1879 work, The Light of Asia. Read more
10 Jun 1832: Nicolaus Otto, German engineer (died 1891) Nicolaus August Otto was a German engineer who successfully developed the compressed charge internal combustion engine which ran on petroleum gas and led to the modern internal combustion engine. The Association of German Engineers (VDI) created DIN standard 1940 which says "Otto Engine: internal combustion engine in which the ignition of the compressed fuel-air mixture is initiated by a timed spark", which has been applied to all engines of this type since. Read more
10 Jun 1832: Stephen Mosher Wood, American lieutenant and politician (died 1920) Stephen Mosher Wood was an American politician. He Wood represented Chase County, Kansas in the Kansas House of Representatives in 1871 and 1875, and was a member of the Kansas Senate in 1876 after replacing S. R. Peters who resigned. Read more
10 Jun 1825: Sondre Norheim, Norwegian-American skier (died 1897) Sondre Norheim, born Sondre Auverson, was a Norwegian skier and pioneer of modern skiing. Sondre Norheim is known as the father of Telemark skiing. Read more
10 Jun 1819: Gustave Courbet, French-Swiss painter and sculptor (died 1877) Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realism movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only what he could see, he rejected academic convention and the Romanticism of the previous generation of visual artists. His independence set an example that was important to later artists, such as the Impressionists and the Cubists. Courbet occupies an important place in 19th-century French painting as an innovator and as an artist willing to make bold social statements through his work. Read more
10 Jun 1804: Hermann Schlegel, German ornithologist and herpetologist (died 1884) Hermann Schlegel was a German ornithologist, herpetologist and ichthyologist. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 10 June in World History

10 Jun 2025: Suchinda Kraprayoon, Thai army general, 19th Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1933) Suchinda Kraprayoon was a Thai military officer and politician who was the 19th prime minister of Thailand for several weeks in 1992. Read more
10 Jun 2024: Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash: Saulos Klaus Chilima was a Malawian economist and politician who served as Vice President of Malawi from 2014 to 2019 and again from 2020 until his death in 2024. Chilima assumed office on 28 June 2020, winning the majority alongside presidential candidate Lazarus Chakwera. Chilima also served as the Minister of Economic Planning and Development, as well as Head of Public Sector Reforms, a position he also previously held under the administration of former president Peter Mutharika. Before joining politics, Chilima held key leadership positions in various multi-national companies including Unilever, Coca-Cola, and Airtel Malawi, where he rose to become Chief Executive Officer. Read more
10 Jun 2024: Victims in the 2024 Chikangawa Dornier 228 crash: Patricia Shanil Dzimbiri was a Malawian politician, teacher, and First Lady of Malawi from 1999 until 2004 as the then-wife of former President Bakili Muluzi. She later represented the Balaka West Constituency in the National Assembly of Malawi from 2014 to 2019. Read more
10 Jun 2024: Steele Hall, Australian politician, 36th Premier of South Australia (born 1928) Raymond Steele Hall was an Australian politician who served as the 36th Premier of South Australia from 1968 to 1970. He also served in the federal Parliament as a senator for South Australia from 1974 to 1977 and federal member for the Division of Boothby from 1981 to 1996. Read more
10 Jun 2023: Ted Kaczynski, American mathematician and domestic terrorist (born 1942) Theodore John Kaczynski, also known as the Unabomber, was an American mathematician and domestic terrorist. A mathematics prodigy, he abandoned his academic career in 1969 to pursue a reclusive primitive lifestyle and lone wolf terrorism campaign. Read more
10 Jun 2020: Claudell Washington, American baseball player (born 1954) Claudell Washington was an American baseball outfielder who played seventeen seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB). He played for the Oakland Athletics, Texas Rangers, Chicago White Sox, New York Mets, Atlanta Braves, New York Yankees, and California Angels from 1974 until 1990. He batted and threw left-handed. Read more
10 Jun 2018: Neal E. Boyd, American singer, winner of the 2008 season of America's Got Talent (born 1975) Neal Evans Boyd was an American singer who developed an interest in opera after listening to the performances of the Three Tenors. Despite being raised in conditions of poverty within the U.S. state of Missouri, he achieved a degree in music and eventually entered the third season of America's Got Talent, winning that year's competition. In addition to music, he also became involved in politics and conducted performances at many state-wide events across Missouri. Read more
10 Jun 2017: Julia Perez, Indonesian singer and actress (born 1980) Yuli Rachmawati, better known as Julia Perez, abbreviated as Jupe, was an Indonesian singer, model, and actress. In the early 2010s, she became known for her outspoken statements against conservative Muslim clerics, who deemed her as too erotic for Indonesian audiences. Read more
10 Jun 2016: Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (born 1994) Christina Victoria Grimmie was an American singer, songwriter, and internet personality. In 2009, she began posting covers of popular songs on YouTube. After releasing her debut EP, Find Me (2011), her YouTube channel reached one million subscribers. After she reached two million subscribers, she released her debut studio album, With Love (2013). Read more
10 Jun 2016: Gordie Howe, Canadian ice hockey player (born 1928) Gordon Howe was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. From 1946 to 1980, he played 26 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) and six seasons in the World Hockey Association (WHA); his first 25 seasons were spent with the Detroit Red Wings. Nicknamed "Mr. Hockey", Howe is often considered the most complete player ever to play the game and one of the greatest of all time. At his retirement, his 801 goals, 1,049 assists, and 1,850 total points were all NHL records that stood until they were broken by Wayne Gretzky, who himself has been a major champion of Howe's legacy. A 23-time NHL All-Star, he shares the NHL record for seasons played with Chris Chelios, and his all-time NHL games played record of 1,767 was only surpassed in 2021 by Patrick Marleau. In 2017, Howe was named one of the "100 Greatest NHL Players". Read more
10 Jun 2015: Robert Chartoff, American film producer and philanthropist (born 1933) Robert Irwin Chartoff was an American film producer and philanthropist. Read more
10 Jun 2015: Wolfgang Jeschke, German author and publisher (born 1936) Wolfgang Jeschke was a German science fiction author and editor at Heyne Verlag. In 1987, he won the Harrison Award for international achievements in science fiction. Read more
10 Jun 2014: Marcello Alencar, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 57th Governor of Rio de Janeiro (born 1925) Marcello Nunes de Alencar was a Brazilian politician and lawyer. Alencar served as the Governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro from 1995 until 1999, as well as two tenures as Mayor of Rio de Janeiro from 1983 to 1986 and 1989 to 1993. Read more
10 Jun 2014: Gary Gilmour, Australian cricketer and manager (born 1951) Gary John Gilmour was an Australian cricketer who played in 15 test matches and five One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1973 and 1977. He was a part of the Australian squad that finished as runners-up at the 1975 Cricket World Cup. Read more
10 Jun 2014: Robert M. Grant, American theologian and academic (born 1917) Robert McQueen Grant was an American academic theologian and the Carl Darling Buck Professor Emeritus of Humanities and of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of Chicago. His scholarly work focused on the New Testament and Early Christianity. Read more
10 Jun 2014: Jack Lee, American radio host and politician (born 1920) Jackson "Jack" Lee was an American radio broadcaster and politician. In 1971, Lee became the first Republican Mayor of Fayetteville, North Carolina, of the 20th Century. He served as the city's Mayor for two consecutive, two-year terms from 1971 to 1975. Lee was also elected Chairman of the North Carolina Republican Party in April 1977. He is widely credited with unifying the state Republican Party during his tenure as chairman. Read more
10 Jun 2013: Doug Bailey, American political consultant (born 1933) Doug Bailey was an American political consultant and founder of The Hotline, a bipartisan, daily briefing on American politics. Read more
10 Jun 2013: Enrique Orizaola, Spanish footballer and coach (born 1922) Enrique Orizaola Velázquez was a Spanish
football player and coach. Read more
10 Jun 2013: Barbara Vucanovich, American lawyer and politician (born 1921) Barbara Farrell Vucanovich was an American Republican politician from Nevada. She was the first woman from Nevada elected to the United States House of Representatives, in which she served seven terms representing Nevada from 1983 to 1997. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Piero Bellugi, Italian conductor (born 1924) Piero Bellugi was an Italian orchestral conductor. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Warner Fusselle, American sportscaster (born 1944) Warner Fusselle was an American sportscaster remembered for contributions to the television shows This Week in Baseball and Major League Baseball Magazine, and for his memorable Southern voice. He was an announcer for several Minor League Baseball teams such as the Spartanburg Phillies, Richmond Braves, and the Brooklyn Cyclones from 2001 until his death from a heart attack at age 68. He was also a radio broadcaster for the Virginia Squires of the American Basketball Association until they folded operations in 1976. From 1991 to 2003, he was the radio voice for the Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Will Hoebee, Dutch songwriter and producer (born 1947) Will Hoebee was a Dutch record producer and songwriter. In late 1981, he married José Hoebee. Benny Neyman, Saskia & Serge, Gheorghe Zamfir, David Soul and Nana Mouskouri were among the acts he produced. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Georges Mathieu, French painter and academic (born 1921) Georges Mathieu was a French abstract painter, art theorist, and member of the Académie des Beaux-Arts in Paris. He is considered one of the fathers of European lyrical abstraction, a trend of informalism. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Joshua Orwa Ojode, Kenyan politician (born 1958) Joshua Orwa Ojode was a Kenyan politician. He was first appointed to parliament on June 28, 1994 to represent the Ndhiwa Constituency for the National Development party. In 2007 he joined the Orange Democratic Movement. He served as assistant minister for provincial administration and internal security. Read more
10 Jun 2012: George Saitoti, Kenyan economist and politician, 6th Vice-President of Kenya (born 1945) George Musengi Saitoti, E.G.H. was a Kenyan politician, businessman and American- and British-trained economist, mathematician and development policy thinker. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Sudono Salim, Chinese-Indonesian businessman, founded Bank Central Asia (born 1916) Sudono Salim or Lim Sioe Liong, also known as Om (Uncle) Liem was an Indonesian banker and businessman. He was the richest individual in Indonesia. He was the founder and chairman of the conglomerate Salim Group before handing over its management to his youngest son Anthoni Salim in 1992. Read more
10 Jun 2012: Gordon West, English footballer (born 1943) Gordon West was an English professional football goalkeeper. He won three international caps in a career that included a long stint at Everton. Read more
10 Jun 2011: Brian Lenihan Jnr, Irish lawyer and politician, 25th Irish Minister for Finance (born 1959) Brian Joseph Lenihan was an Irish Fianna Fáil politician who served as Minister for Finance from 2008 to 2011, Deputy leader of Fianna Fáil from March 2011 to June 2011, Minister for Justice, Equality and Law Reform from 2007 to 2008 and Minister of State for Children from 2002 to 2007. He served as a Teachta Dála (TD) for Dublin West from 1996 until his death in 2011. Read more
10 Jun 2010: Basil Schott, American archbishop (born 1939) Basil Myron Schott was the Archbishop of the Byzantine Catholic Archeparchy of Pittsburgh from 2002 until his death. Read more
10 Jun 2010: Sigmar Polke, German painter and photographer (born 1941) Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on his perception of historical events. Read more
10 Jun 2009: Stelios Skevofilakas, Greek footballer (born 1940) Stelios Skevofilakas was a Greek professional footballer who played as a midfielder mostly for AEK Athens and later a manager. Read more
10 Jun 2008: Chinghiz Aitmatov, Kyrgyzstani author and diplomat (born 1928) Chinghiz Torekulovich Aitmatov was a Kyrgyz author who wrote mainly in Russian, but also in Kyrgyz. He is one of the best known figures in Kyrgyz literature. Read more
10 Jun 2007: Augie Auer, American-New Zealand meteorologist (born 1940) August Henry "Augie" Auer Jr was an American-born atmospheric scientist and meteorologist in New Zealand. Read more
10 Jun 2005: Curtis Pitts, American aircraft designer, designed the Pitts Special (born 1915) Curtis Hardeman Pitts was an American aircraft designer, aircraft manufacturer, crop duster, and airport fixed-base operator. He became widely known and revered in the aerobatics community for his design of the Pitts Special, a series of highly aerobatic biplanes. Pitts Specials dominated aerobatic competition from the 1960's to the 1970's. Though later outclassed by newer monoplane designs, Pitts Specials remain popular as sport airplanes for their excellent flying qualities. The Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, DC has called Curtis Pitts' design "revolutionary because of its small size, light weight, short wingspan and extreme agility". Read more
10 Jun 2004: Ray Charles, American singer-songwriter, pianist, and actor (born 1930) Ray Charles Robinson was an American singer, songwriter, and pianist. He is regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians, Charles preferred being called "Brother Ray". He lost his vision as a child, possibly due to glaucoma, and consequently wore dark glasses. Read more
10 Jun 2004: Odette Laure, French actress and singer (born 1917) Odette Laure was a French actress and cabaret singer. She appeared in more than 50 films and television shows between 1950 and 2001. She was nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress for Daddy Nostalgia (1990). She was born Odette Yvonne Marie Dhommée in Paris, where she died. Read more
10 Jun 2004: Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician, 177th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1904) Xenophon Euthymiou Zolotas was a Greek economist who served as an interim non-party Prime Minister of Greece. Read more
10 Jun 2003: Donald Regan, American colonel and politician, 11th White House Chief of Staff (born 1918) Donald Thomas Regan was an American government official and business executive who served as the 66th United States secretary of the treasury from 1981 to 1985 and as the 11th White House chief of staff from 1985 to 1987 under President Ronald Reagan. Read more
10 Jun 2003: Bernard Williams, English philosopher and academic (born 1929) Sir Bernard Arthur Owen Williams was an English philosopher. His publications include Problems of the Self (1973), Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (1985), Shame and Necessity (1993), and Truth and Truthfulness (2002). He was knighted in 1999. Read more
10 Jun 2003: Phil Williams, Welsh academic and politician (born 1939) Philip James Stradling Williams was a Welsh politician for Plaid Cymru and scientist. Read more
10 Jun 2002: John Gotti, American mobster (born 1940) John Joseph Gotti Jr. was an American mafioso and boss of the Gambino crime family in New York City. He ordered and helped to orchestrate the murder of Gambino boss Paul Castellano in December 1985 and took over the family shortly thereafter, leading what was described as the most powerful crime syndicate in the United States. Read more
10 Jun 2001: Leila Pahlavi, Princess of Iran (born 1970) Leila Pahlavi was a princess of Iran. She was the youngest daughter of Mohammad Reza Shah the last Shah of Iran, and his third wife, Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi. Read more
10 Jun 2000: Hafez al-Assad, Syrian general and politician, 18th President of Syria (born 1930) Hafez al-Assad was a Syrian politician, military officer, and revolutionary who served as the president of Syria from 1971 until his death in 2000. He was previously the prime minister from 1970 to 1971 as well as the regional secretary of the regional command of the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party and secretary general of the National Command of the Ba'ath Party from 1970 until his death. Assad was a key participant in the 1963 Syrian coup d'état, which brought the Syrian regional branch of the Arab Socialist Ba'ath Party to power in the country, a power that lasted until the fall of the regime in 2024, then led by his son Bashar. Read more
10 Jun 2000: Brian Statham, English cricketer (born 1930) John Brian Statham, was an English professional cricketer from Gorton, in Manchester, who played for Lancashire County Cricket Club from 1950 to 1968 and for England from 1951 to 1965. As an England player, he took part in nine overseas tours from 1950–51 to 1962–63. He was a right arm fast bowler and was noted for the consistent accuracy of his length and direction. Read more
10 Jun 1998: Jim Hearn, American baseball player (born 1921) James Tolbert Hearn was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball for 13 seasons (1947–1959). The right-hander was listed as 6 feet 3 inches (1.91 m) tall and 205 pounds (93 kg). Read more
10 Jun 1998: Hammond Innes, English author (born 1913) Ralph Hammond Innes was a British novelist who wrote over 30 novels, as well as works for children and travel books. Read more
10 Jun 1996: George Hees, Canadian soldier, football player, and politician (born 1910) George Harris Hees was a Canadian politician and businessman. Read more
10 Jun 1996: Jo Van Fleet, American actress (born 1915) Jo Van Fleet was an American stage, film, and television actress. During her long career, which spanned over four decades, she often played characters much older than her actual age. Van Fleet won a Tony Award in 1954 for her performance in the Broadway production The Trip to Bountiful, and the next year she won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in East of Eden. Read more
10 Jun 1993: Les Dawson, English comedian, actor, writer and presenter (born 1931) Leslie Dawson was an English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and pianist. He was known for his deadpan style, curmudgeonly persona, musical routines, and jokes about his mother-in-law and wife. Read more
10 Jun 1992: Hachidai Nakamura, Chinese-Japanese pianist and composer (born 1931) Hachidai Nakamura was a Japanese songwriter and jazz pianist. Read more
10 Jun 1991: Jean Bruller, French author and illustrator, co-founded Les Éditions de Minuit (born 1902) Jean Marcel Adolphe Bruller was a French writer and illustrator who co-founded the publishing company Les Éditions de Minuit with Pierre de Lescure. Read more
10 Jun 1988: Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (born 1908) Louis Dearborn L'Amour was an American novelist and short story writer. His books consisted primarily of Western novels, though he called his work "frontier stories". His most widely known Western fiction works include Last of the Breed, Hondo, Shalako, and the Sackett series. L'Amour also wrote historical fiction, science fiction, non-fiction (Frontier), and poetry and short-story collections. Many of his stories were made into films. His books remain popular and most have gone through multiple printings. At the time of his death, almost all of his 105 existing works were still in print, and he was "one of the world's most popular writers". Read more
10 Jun 1987: Elizabeth Hartman, American actress (born 1943) Mary Elizabeth Hartman was an American actress of stage and screen. She debuted in the popular film A Patch of Blue (1965), playing a blind girl named Selina D'Arcy, opposite Sidney Poitier, a role for which she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress, and won the Golden Globe Award for New Star of the Year. Read more
10 Jun 1986: Merle Miller, American author and playwright (born 1919) Merle Dale Miller was an American writer, novelist, and author, who gained notability with his best-selling biography of Harry S. Truman, and as a pioneer in the gay rights movement. Read more
10 Jun 1984: Halide Nusret Zorlutuna, Turkish author and poet (born 1901)
Halide Nusret Zorlutuna was a Turkish poet and novelist. Read more
10 Jun 1982: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, German actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1945) Rainer Werner Fassbinder, sometimes credited as R. W. Fassbinder, was a German filmmaker, dramatist and actor. He is widely regarded as one of the major figures and catalysts of the New German Cinema movement. He directed over 40 films that span a variety of genres; frequently his work blends elements of Hollywood melodrama with social criticism and avant-garde techniques. His films, according to him, explored "the exploitability of feelings". His work was deeply rooted in post-war German culture: the aftermath of Nazism, the German economic miracle and the Red Army Faction. Early on, Fassbinder focused on marginalized figures in the city—migrant workers, prisoners, and gay people. He worked with a company of actors and technicians who frequently appeared in his projects. Read more
10 Jun 1976: Adolph Zukor, American film producer, co-founded Paramount Pictures (born 1873) Adolph Zukor was a Hungarian-American film producer best known as one of the three founders of Paramount Pictures. He produced one of America's first feature-length films, The Prisoner of Zenda, in 1913. Read more
10 Jun 1974: Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (born 1900) Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester, was a member of the British royal family. He was the third son of King George V and Queen Mary, and was a younger brother of kings Edward VIII and George VI. He served as the 11th governor-general of Australia from 1945 to 1947, the only prince to hold the post. Read more
10 Jun 1973: William Inge, American playwright and novelist (born 1913) William Motter Inge was an American playwright and novelist, whose works typically feature solitary protagonists encumbered with strained sexual relations. With his portraits of small-town life and settings rooted in the American heartland, Inge became known as the "Playwright of the Midwest". Read more
10 Jun 1971: Michael Rennie, English actor (born 1909) Michael Rennie was a British film, television and stage actor, who had leading roles in a number of Hollywood films, including his portrayal of the space visitor Klaatu in the science fiction film The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951). In a career spanning more than 30 years, Rennie appeared in more than 50 films and in several American television series. Read more
10 Jun 1967: Spencer Tracy, American actor (born 1900) Spencer Bonaventure Tracy was an American actor. He was known for his natural performing style and versatility. One of the major stars of Hollywood's Golden Age, Tracy was the first actor to win two consecutive Academy Awards for Best Actor, from nine nominations. During his career, he appeared in 75 films and developed a reputation among his peers as one of the screen's greatest actors. In 1999, the American Film Institute ranked Tracy as the ninth greatest male star of Classic Hollywood Cinema. Read more
10 Jun 1965: Vahap Özaltay, Turkish footballer and manager (born 1908) Vahap Özaltay or Vehâb Özaltay was a Turkish international footballer and track and field athlete. Read more
10 Jun 1963: Timothy Birdsall, English cartoonist (born 1936) Timothy Birdsall was an English cartoonist. Read more
10 Jun 1959: Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian politician (born 1883) Zoltán Meskó de Széplak was a leading Hungarian Nazi during the 1930s. He led his own Nazi movement during the early 1930s but faded from the political scene when Hungary became a member of the Axis powers. Read more
10 Jun 1958: Angelina Weld Grimké, American journalist, poet, and playwright (born 1880) Angelina Weld Grimké was an African-American journalist, teacher, playwright, and poet. Read more
10 Jun 1955: Margaret Abbott, Indian-American golfer (born 1876) Margaret Ives Abbott was an American amateur golfer. She was the first American woman to win an Olympic event: the women's golf tournament at the 1900 Summer Olympics. Read more
10 Jun 1949: Sigrid Undset, Danish-Norwegian novelist, essayist, and translator, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1882) Sigrid Undset was a Danish-born Norwegian novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. Read more
10 Jun 1947: Alexander Bethune, Canadian businessman and politician, 12th Mayor of Vancouver (born 1852) Alexander Bethune, merchant, was the 12th Mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, serving from 1907 to 1908. He had previously served seven years as alderman. Read more
10 Jun 1946: Jack Johnson, American boxer (born 1878) John Arthur Johnson, nicknamed the "Galveston Giant", was an American boxer who, at the height of the Jim Crow era, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion (1908–1915). His 1910 fight against James J. Jeffries was dubbed the "fight of the century". Johnson defeated Jeffries, who was white, triggering dozens of race riots across the U.S. According to filmmaker Ken Burns, "for more than thirteen years, Jack Johnson was the most famous and the most notorious African American on Earth". He is widely regarded as one of the most influential boxers in history. Read more
10 Jun 1944: Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch mathematician and academic (born 1910) Willem Jacob van Stockum was a Dutch mathematician who made an important contribution to the early development of general relativity. Read more
10 Jun 1940: Marcus Garvey, Jamaican journalist and activist, founded the Black Star Line (born 1887) Marcus Mosiah Garvey Jr. was a Jamaican political activist. He was the founder and first President-General of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, through which he declared himself Provisional President of Africa. Garvey was ideologically a black nationalist and Pan-Africanist. His ideas came to be known as Garveyism. Read more
10 Jun 1939: Albert Ogilvie, Australian politician, 28th Premier of Tasmania (born 1890) Albert George Ogilvie was an Australian politician and Premier of Tasmania from 22 June 1934 until his death on 10 June 1939. Read more
10 Jun 1937: Robert Borden, Canadian lawyer and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Canada (born 1854) Sir Robert Laird Borden was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the eighth prime minister of Canada from 1911 to 1920. He is best known for his leadership of Canada during World War I. Read more
10 Jun 1936: John Bowser, English-Australian politician, 26th Premier of Victoria (born 1856) Sir John Bowser, Australian politician, was the 26th Premier of Victoria. He was born in London, the son of an army officer, and arrived in Melbourne as a child with his family. He grew up at Bacchus Marsh and when he left school got a job with the Bacchus Marsh Express. As a young man he went to Scotland and worked on newspapers while studying at University of Edinburgh. Returning to Australia, he settled in Wangaratta, where he farmed and managed the Wangaratta Chronicle, which he eventually bought. Read more
10 Jun 1934: Frederick Delius, English composer and educator (born 1862) Frederick Theodore Albert Delius was an English composer. Born in Bradford in the north of England to a prosperous mercantile family, he resisted attempts to recruit him to commerce. He was sent to Florida in the United States in 1884 to manage an orange plantation. He soon neglected his managerial duties, and in 1886 returned to Europe. Read more
10 Jun 1930: Adolf von Harnack, German historian and theologian (born 1851) Carl Gustav Adolf von Harnack was a Baltic German Lutheran theologian and prominent church historian. He produced many religious publications from 1873 to 1912. He was ennobled in 1914. Read more
10 Jun 1926: Antoni Gaudí, Spanish architect, designed the Park Güell (born 1852) Antoni Gaudí i Cornet was a Catalan architect and designer from Spain, widely known as the greatest exponent of Catalan Modernisme. Gaudí's works have a sui generis style, with most located in Barcelona, including his magnum opus, the Sagrada Família church. Read more
10 Jun 1924: Giacomo Matteotti, Italian lawyer and politician (born 1885) Giacomo Matteotti was an Italian socialist, anti-fascist politician and an opposition leader, who was the secretary of the Unitary Socialist Party (PSU) from 1922 to 1924. Born in the province of Rovigo in Fratta Polesine, he was a militant socialist from a young age, joining the youth wing of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in 1898 and then the main party around 1900. In 1907, he graduated in law at the University of Bologna. A lawyer by degree and a journalist by trade, Matteotti was a follower of Filippo Turati, a co-founder of the PSI and leader of the gradualist wing. Politically, his name is associated with democratic socialism and social democracy, and his thought is summarised as reformist socialist, radical reformist, and revolutionary reformist. Read more
10 Jun 1923: Pierre Loti, French soldier and author (born 1850) Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and novelist, known for his exotic novels and short stories. Read more
10 Jun 1918: Arrigo Boito, Italian author, poet, and composer (born 1842) Arrigo Boito was an Italian librettist, composer, poet and critic whose only completed opera was Mefistofele. Among the operas for which he wrote the libretti are Giuseppe Verdi's monumental last two operas Otello and Falstaff as well as Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda. Read more
10 Jun 1914: Ödön Lechner, Hungarian architect (born 1845) Ödön Lechner was a Hungarian architect, one of the prime representatives of the Hungarian Szecesszió style, which was related to Art Nouveau in the rest of Europe, including the Vienna Secession. He is famous for decorating his buildings with Zsolnay tile patterns inspired by old Magyar and Turkic folk art, which are combined with modern materials such as iron. Read more
10 Jun 1909: Edward Everett Hale, American minister, historian, and author (born 1822) Edward Everett Hale was an American author, historian, and Unitarian minister, best known for his writings such as "The Man Without a Country", published in Atlantic Monthly, in support of the Union during the Civil War. He was the grand-nephew of Nathan Hale, the American spy during the Revolutionary War. Read more
10 Jun 1906: Richard Seddon, English-New Zealand politician, 15th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1845) Richard John Seddon was a New Zealand politician who served as the 15th premier of New Zealand from 1893 until his death in 1906. In office for thirteen years, he is to date New Zealand's longest-serving head of government. Read more
10 Jun 1902: Jacint Verdaguer, Catalan priest and poet (born 1845) Jacint Verdaguer i Santaló was a Spanish writer and priest, regarded as one of the greatest poets of Catalan literature and a prominent literary figure of the Renaixença, a cultural revival movement of the late Romantic era. The bishop Josep Torras i Bages, one of the main figures of Catalan nationalism, called him the "Prince of Catalan poets". He was also known as mossèn (Father) Cinto Verdaguer, because of his career as a priest, and informally also simply "mossèn Cinto". Read more
10 Jun 1901: Robert Williams Buchanan, Scottish poet, author, and playwright (born 1841) Robert Williams Buchanan was a Scottish poet, novelist and dramatist. Several of his works were adapted into films. Read more
10 Jun 1899: Ernest Chausson, French composer (born 1855) Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French Romantic composer. Read more
10 Jun 1868: Mihailo Obrenović III, Prince of Serbia (born 1823) Mihailo Obrenović III was the ruling Prince of Serbia from 1839 to 1842 and again from 1860 to 1868. Read more
10 Jun 1849: Thomas Robert Bugeaud, French general and politician (born 1784) Thomas Robert Bugeaud, marquis de la Piconnerie, duc d'Isly was a Marshal of France and Governor-General of Algeria during the French colonization. Born an aristocrat, he has a complex legacy, serving as a soldier during the Napoleonic wars, focusing on agriculture during Bourbon rule, then serving the July monarchy in Algeria during which he achieved undoubted military success, also utilised extreme violence and caused outrage at the time. Read more
10 Jun 1849: Robert Brown, Scottish botanist (born 1773) Robert Brown was a Scottish botanist and paleobotanist who made important contributions to botany largely through his pioneering use of the microscope. His contributions include one of the earliest detailed descriptions of the cell nucleus and cytoplasmic streaming; the observation of Brownian motion; early work on plant pollination and fertilisation, including being the first to recognise the fundamental difference between gymnosperms and angiosperms; and some of the earliest studies in palynology. He also made numerous contributions to plant taxonomy, notably erecting a number of plant families that are still accepted today; and numerous Australian plant genera and species, the fruit of his exploration of that continent with Matthew Flinders. Read more
10 Jun 1836: André-Marie Ampère, French physicist and mathematician (born 1775) André-Marie Ampère was a French physicist and mathematician who was one of the founders of the science of classical electromagnetism, which he referred to as electrodynamics. He made also important contributions in chemistry and philosophy. He is also the inventor of numerous applications, such as the solenoid and the electrical telegraph. As an autodidact, Ampère was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and professor at the École polytechnique and the Collège de France. Read more
10 Jun 1831: Hans Karl von Diebitsch, German-Russian field marshal (born 1785) Hans Karl Friedrich Anton Graf von Diebitsch-Sabalkanski und Narten was a Prussian-born soldier serving as Russian field marshal. His dynasty is of Silesian origin. He stands among the most important military leaders of the late modern period. Read more
10 Jun 1811: Charles Frederick, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1728) Charles Frederick was Margrave, Elector and later Grand Duke of Baden from 1738 until his death. Read more

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