Famous Birthdays on 21st June

1002 - Leo IX, [Bruno count of Egesheim & Dagsburg], Pope (1049-54)1002 - Pope Leo IX (d. 1054)1226 - King Boleslaus V of Poland (d. 1279)1528 - Maria of Spain, Holy Roman Empire Empress (1603)1577 - Giovanni Del Turco, composer1596 - Michael Fjodorovitsj, tsar of Russia (1613-45)/1st Romanov1639 - Increase Mather, New England Puritan minister (d. 1723)1640 - Abraham Mignon, still life painter1646 - Maria Francisca of Nemours, queen of Portugal (d. 1683)1668 - Cajetan Kolberer, composer1688 - Alexander Pope, English poet (Rape of the Lock)1712 - Luc Urbain de Bouexic, comte de Guichen, French admiral (d. 1790)1730 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist1732 - Johann Christoph Frederic Bach, composer1732 - Martha Washington, 1st, 1st lady (1789-97)1740 - Hendrik van Wijn, Dutch archivist (Algemeen Rijksarchief)1750 - Pierre-Nicolas Beauvallet, French artist (d. 1818)1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)1763 - Pierre P Royer-Collard, French attorney/philosopher1764 - Sidney Smith, British admiral (d. 1840)1774 - Daniel D Tompkins, (D-R), 6th US vice-president (1817-25)1781 - Siméon-Denis Poisson, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1840)1782 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (d. 1852)1788 - Princess Augusta of Bavaria (d. 1850)1790 - Wilhelm Speyer, composer1791 - Robert Napier, British engineer (d. 1876)1798 - Wolfgang Menzel, German writer (d. 1873)1805 - Karl Friedrich Curschmann, composer1805 - Charles Thomas Jackson, American scientist, polymath (d. 1880)1811 - Carlo Matteucci, Italian physicist (d. 1868)1812 - Moses Hess, Jewish socialist and nationalist (d. 1875)1817 - James Brewerton Ricketts, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 18871818 - Ernst II, duke of Saxon-Coburg-Gotha (1844-93)/composer1818 - Joseph Abel Haskin, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 18741823 - Edward Elmer Potter, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 18891823 - Jean Chacornac, French astronomer (d. 1873)1825 - William Stubbs, English historian and Anglican bishop of Oxford (d. 1901)1839 - Joaquim M Machado de Assic, Brazil, writer (Epitaph of a small winner)1839 - Johannes P R Tak, Dutch liberal politician1839 - John Decatur Barry, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 18671839 - Machado de Assis, writer1844 - Ernest F Cambier, Belgian colonial pioneer (1st railway Congo)1851 - Daniel Carter Beard, US, organized 1st boy scout troop1859 - Henry O Tanner, artist1862 - Henry Holden Huss, composer1862 - Johannes Schlaf, writer1862 - Damrong Rajanubhab, Thai prince and historian (d. 1943)1863 - Max Wolf, German astronomer (d. 1932)1864 - Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian (d. 1945)1865 - Albert Herbert Brewer, composer1868 - Edwin Stephen Goodrich, English zoologist (d. 1946)1870 - Clara Immerwahr, German chemist (d. 1915)1873 - Henry M Tomlinson, British writer (Sea & Jungle)1876 - Willem H Keesom, physicist (helium vast)1879 - Umberto Brunelleschi, Italian cartoonist/illustrator (Candide)1880 - Arnold Gesell, American psychologist and pediatrician (d. 1961)1880 - Josiah Stamp, 1st Baron Stamp, British civil servant, industrialist, economist, statistician and banker (d. 1941)1882 - Rockwell Kent, artist/painter/illustrator (Canterbury Tales)1882 - Lluís Companys i Jover, Spanish politician (d. 1940)1883 - Fjodor W Gladkow, Russian writer (Cement)1883 - Fyodor Gladkov, Russian writer (d. 1958)1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa1887 - Norman L. Bowen, Canadian petrologist (d. 1956)1889 - Ralph Craig, American athlete (d. 1972)1890 - Frank Sherman Land, The order of DeMolay founder (d. 1959)1891 - Hermann Scherchen, Berlin Germany, conductor (Nature of Music)1891 - Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian architect (Nuove Struttura)1892 - Reinhold Niebuhr, US, theologian (Nature & Destiny of Man)1893 - Alois Hába, Czech composer (d. 1973)1894 - Milward Kennedy, British public servant and mystery writer (d. 1968)1896 - Charles B. Momsen, American inventor (d. 1967)1898 - Donald C. Peattie, American botanist and writer (d. 1964)1899 - Pavel Haas, composer1900 - Gunnar Ek, composer1902 - Wilhelm Maler, composer1902 - Howie Morenz, professional ice hockey player (d. 1937)1903 - Al[bert] Hirschfield, St Louis Mo, cartoonist (NINA, NY Times)1903 - Dorothy Stickney, Dickinson ND, actress (And So They Were Married)1903 - Helene Costello, dancer/actress (Love Toy)1903 - Louis Krasner, violinist1903 - Al Hirschfeld, American cartoonist (d. 2003)1905 - Jacques Goddot, French publisher (Tour de France)1905 - Jean Paul Sartre, existentialist/writer (Le Mur, Nobel 1964; declined)1906 - Luis Maria Millet, composer1906 - Harold Spina, American composer (d. 1997)1908 - William Frankena, American philosopher (d. 1994)1909 - Kurt Schwaen, composer1910 - Bela Tardos, composer1910 - Charles Jones, composer1910 - Aleksandr Tvardovsky, Soviet poet (d. 1971)1912 - Mary McCarthy, US, novelist (Group)1913 - Irving Shulman, author/screenwriter1914 - Jan Decadt, composer1914 - William Vickrey, economist1916 - Joe Bamford, British manufacturer/multi-millionaire1918 - James Bysse Joll, historian1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)1919 - Gérard Pelletier, French Canadian journalist, politician, and diplomat (d. 1997)1919 - Paolo Soleri, Italian-born American architect1920 - Helen Cattanach, British Army Nursing Service (QARANC)1921 - Frank Scott, Fargo ND, pianist (Lawrence Welk Show)1921 - Jane Russell, Bemidji MN, full-figured actress (Outlaw)1921 - Jean Kent, London England, actress (Adv of Sir Francis Drake)1921 - Joan Tetzel, NYC, actress (Hell Below Zero, Joy in the Morning)1921 - Jean de Broglie, French politician1922 - Jim McConnon, cricketer (England off-spinner against Pakistan 1954)1922 - Judy Holliday, NYC, comedienne/actress (Born Yesterday, Adam's Rib)1923 - John Compton, Lynchburg Tn, actor (Shannon-D.A.'s Man)1924 - Wally Fawkes, cartoonist/jazz clarinettist1924 - Jean Laplanche, French psychoanalytic thinker1925 - Maureen Stapleton, Troy NY, actress (Airport, Coccoon, Plaza Suite)1925 - Giovanni Spadolini, Italian politician (d. 1994)1926 - Conrad Hall, Tahitian-born cinematographer (d. 2003)1927 - Carl Burton Stokes, Cleveland, (Mayor-Cleve)/TV newscaster1927 - Jackie Collum, baseball player1928 - Judith Raskin, NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)1928 - V G Yershov, cosmonaut1929 - Agha Saadat Ali, cricketer (Paki bat in Test v NZ 1956, scored 8*)1929 - John Morgan, British ambassador (to Mexico)1929 - Alexandre Lagoya, Greek-Italian classical guitarist (d. 1999)1930 - Gerald Kaufman, British MP (shadow Foreign Secretary)1930 - Mike McCormack, NFL offensive tackle (NY Yankees, Cleveland, Phila)1930 - Patricia Lindop, radio biologist1930 - Peter Marshall, police commissioner (London)1931 - Lawrence K Grossman, News president (NBC-TV)1931 - Margaret Heckler, US Secretary of Health & Human Services (1983-85)1932 - Bernard Ingham, press secretary (Margaret Thatcher)1932 - Lalo [Boris] Schifrin, Buenos Aires Argentina, composer1932 - Ocie Lee "OC" Smith, US jazz singer (Little Green Apples)1932 - O.C. Smith, American singer (d. 2001)1933 - Bernie Kopell, NYC, actor (Love Boat, Get Smart, That Girl)1934 - Wulf Kirsten, writer1935 - Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], Cajarc France, novelist (Bonjour Trieste)1935 - Monte Markham, Manatee Fla, actor (Second Hundred Years, Dallas)1936 - O C Smith, rocker1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)1937 - John Edrich, cricketer (England left-handed batsman, 310* v NZ 1965)1938 - Dan Burton, (Rep-R-IN, 1983- )1938 - James Botten, cricketer (all-rounder in 1965 S Afr series v England)1938 - Ron Ely, Hereford Tx, actor (Tarzan, Doc Savage)1938 - Ron Ely, American actor1939 - Charles Boone, composer1939 - Ruben Berrios, Puerto Rican politician1940 - Mariette Hartley, NYC, actress (Poloroid spokesperson, Marooned)1940 - Michael Ruse, Canadian philosopher1941 - Pia J Barendrecht, Indonesian/Dutch actress (Pinokkio)1941 - Joe Flaherty, American-Canadian actor1942 - Marg Margolies-Mezvinsky, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)1942 - William Bradford Reynolds, Conn, US asst attorney general1942 - Togo D. West, Jr., American attorney and public official1942 - Henry S. Taylor, American writer1943 - Salomé, Spanish singer1944 - Corinna Tsopel, Athens, actress (Man Called Horse)/Miss Universe (64)1944 - Frans Luitjes, Dutch athlete1944 - Jon Hiseman, rocker1944 - Miguel Danus, Vicens rocker1944 - Ray Davies, London, singer/guitarist (Kinks-Come Dancing)1945 - Chris Britton, England, rock guitarist (Troggs-Wild Thing)1945 - Adam Zagajewski, Polish philosopher, poet1946 - Brenda Holloway, US singer/songwriter (When I'm Gone)1946 - Kate Hoey, British MP (Lab)1946 - Malcolm Rifkind, British QC MP (Sect of State for Defense)1946 - Maurice Saatchi, English advertising CEO (Saatchi & Saatchi)1946 - Trond Kirkvaag, Norwegian comedian and author1947 - Dana Rohrabacher, (Rep-R-California)1947 - Lex van Delden, Dutch actor (Soldier of Orange)1947 - Meredith Baxter-Birney, Ca, actr (Family Ties, Bridget Loves Bernie)1947 - Michael Gross, Chicago Ill, actor (Family Ties, FBI murders)1947 - Shirin Ebadi, Iranian lawyer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate1948 - Joey Malland, Liverpool, rock guitarist (Badfinger-Come & Get It)1948 - Leo Sayers, rocker (You Make Me Feel Like Dancing)1948 - Ian McEwan, English writer1948 - Lionel Rose, Australian boxer1948 - Andrzej Sapkowski, Polish writer1949 - Jim Bacchus, (Rep-D-Florida)1950 - Joey Kramer, NYC, hard rock drummer (Aerosmith-Toys in the Attic)1950 - Terry Miskolczi, Dunnville ON, Canadian Tour golfer (1976 Alberta-3rd)1950 - Anne Carson, Canadian poet1950 - Gérard Lanvin, French actor1951 - Nils Lofgren, Chicago, guitarist/singer/songwriter (East Street Band)1952 - Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director1953 - Benazir Bhutto, 1st female leader of a Moslem nation (Pakistan)1953 - Charlie Moore Jr, baseball player1953 - Robyn Douglass, Sendai Japan, actress (Lonely Guy, Romantic Comedy)1953 - Michael Bowen, American actor1953 - Augustus Pablo, Jamaican musician (d. 1999)1954 - Anne Kirkbridge, actress (Deidre-Coronation Street)1954 - Jeremy Coney, cricketer (NZ captain turned them into world-beaters)1954 - Robert Pastorelli, Bkln NY, actor (Eldin-Murphy Brown)1954 - Müjde Ar, Turkish actress1954 - Mark Kimmitt, US Army general1954 - Anne Kirkbride, English actress1954 - Robert Menasse, Austrian writer1955 - David Marshall Grant, Westport CT, actor (Legs, French Postcards)1955 - Leigh J McCloskey, LA Calif, actor (Dallas, Executive Suite, Gen Hosp)1955 - Michel Platini, French footballer1956 - Mikhail Burtsev, USSR, sabres (Olympic-gold-1976)1956 - Rick Sutcliffe, pitcher (LA Dodgers, Chicago Cubs)1957 - Berke Breathed, cartoonist (Vegetarian, Bloom County, Outland)1957 - Mark Brzezicki, rock drummer (Big Country-Wonderland)1958 - Gennadi Ivanovich Padalka, Russian major/cosmonaut (SK: Soyuz TM-28)1959 - Kathy Mattea, country singer (Love at the Five & Dime)1959 - Tom Chambers, NBA forward, center (Seattle SuperSonics, Phoenix Suns)1961 - Kip Winger, rocker (Winger-17)1961 - Manu Chao, Spanish musician1961 - Sascha Konietzko, German musician1961 - Karen Barber, ice skater1962 - Marc Copage, LA Calif, actor (Corey Baker-Julia)1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician1962 - Takeshi Asami, Japanese racing driver1963 - Jeff Musselman, baseball player1963 - Mike Sherrard, NFL wide receiver (NY Giants)1964 - Doug Savant, Burbank Calif, actor (Matt Fielding-Melrose Place)1964 - Kari Kennell, Colorado, playmate (Feb, 1988)/actress (Eric's Revenge)1964 - Sammi Davis-Voss, Kidderminster England, actress (Hope & Glory)1964 - David Morrissey, British actor1965 - Michael Dolan, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Hamburger Hill, Liberace)1965 - Larry Wachowski, film director1965 - Yang Liwei, Chinese astronaut1966 - David Williams, NFL tackle (Houston Oilers, NY Jets)1966 - Nan Woods, actress (1 More Saturday Night)1966 - Rudi Bakhtiar, American journalist1966 - Mancow Muller, American radio personality1967 - Derrick Coleman, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)1967 - Michele Smith, Califon NJ, softball pitcher (Olympics-gold-96)1967 - Robert Drummond, CFL running back (Toronto Argonauts)1967 - Tim Simenson, rocker (Bomb the Bass)1967 - Pierre Omidyar, Iranian-American billionaire1967 - Jim Breuer, American comedian1968 - Alastair Campbell Mackintosh, Hamilton NZ, coxless rower (Olympics-96)1968 - Brandon Douglas, Okla City, actor (Dr Quinn, Father's Homecoming)1968 - Darryl Shannon, Barrie, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)1968 - Henry Newby, NFL linebacker (Seattle Seahawks)1968 - Alisyn Camerota, American journalist1968 - Sonique, British DJ1968 - Gretchen Carlson, American journalist1969 - Chris Perez, CFL tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)1969 - Donovan Osborne, Roseville CA, pitcher (St Louis Cardinals)1969 - Gabriella Paruzzi, Italian skier1970 - Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)1970 - John Roethlisberger, Afton Minn, gymnast (Olympics-5th-96)1970 - Sindee Coxx, American pornographic actress1970 - Pete Rock, American rapper/producer1971 - Dipendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince/son of King of Nepal1971 - Nicole Stevenson, Melbourne Australia, backstroker (Oly-bronze-92, 96)1971 - Tyrone Drakeford, NFL cornerback (SF 49ers)1971 - Anette Olzon, Swedish singer1972 - Andrew Jordan, NFL tight end (Minn Vikings)1972 - Billy Milner, NFL tackle (Miami Dolphins)1972 - Heath Rylance, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)1972 - Jamal Ellis, NFL/WLAF cornerback (Denver Broncos, Rhein Fire)1972 - Marv Marshall, NFL/WLAF receiver (Buccaneers, Barcelona Dragons)1972 - Tony Berti, NFL tackle (SD Chargers)1972 - Alon Hilu, Israeli writer1972 - Neil Doak, former Irish cricketer1973 - Alyson Annan, Sydney NSW Aust, field hockey midfielder (Olympics-96)1973 - Juliette Lewis, LA Calif, actress (Natural Born Killers, Cape Fear)1973 - Merlakia Jones, WNBA guard/forward (Cleveland Rockers)1973 - Sammie Burroughs, linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)1974 - Rob Kelly, safety (New Orleans Saints)1974 - Natasha Desborough, British radio personality1974 - Craig Lowndes, Australian racing driver1974 - Rob Kelly, American football player1974 - Neely Jenkins, American musician1976 - Natalia Cronenbold Aguilera, Miss Universe-Bolivia (1996)1976 - Antonio Cochran, American football player1976 - Mike Einziger, American musician1976 - Nigel Lappin, Australian footballer1977 - Jochen Hecht, Mannheim GER, hockey forward (Team Germany 1998)1978 - Cristiano Lupatelli, Italian footballer1978 - Jack Guzman, American actor1978 - Erica Durance, Canadian actress1978 - Dejan Ognjanović, Montenegrin football player1979 - Chris Pratt, American actor1980 - Sendy Rleal, Dominican baseball player1980 - Richard Jefferson, American basketball player1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)1981 - Yann Danis, Canadian ice hockey player1982 - William of Wales, son of Prince Chuck & Lady Di1984 - Franck Perera, French racing driver1984 - Alicia Alighatti, American pornographic actress1985 - Anthony Morelli, American football player1985 - Byron Schammer, AFL footballer1987 - Dale Thomas, AFL footballer1987 - Kim Ryeowook, Korean pop singer1987 - Sebastian Prödl, Austrian footballer