June 19

Birthdays:

1972~ Robin Tunney, American actress, best known for her role in the TV series, The Mentalist.

1962~ Paula Abdul (née Paula Julie Abdul), American singer and choreographer.

1957~ Anna Lindh (née Ylva Anna Maria Lindh, d. Sept. 11, 2003), the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs died following a knife attack against her on the preceding day.  She was 46 years old.

1954~ Kathleen Turner (née Mary Kathleen Turner), American actress.

1948~ Phylician Rashad, African-American actress.

1947~ Sir Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist.

1945~ Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize.

1941~ Václav Klaus, Czech economist and President of the Czech Republic. He was in office from March 2003 through March 2013.

1930~ Gena Rowlands (née Virginia Cathryn Rowlands), American actress.

1928~ Nancy Marchand (d. June 18, 2000), American actress.  She died 1 day before her 72^ndbirthday.

1926~ Erna Schneider Hoover, American mathematician.  She is best known for developing a computerized telephone switching method.

1922~ Aage Bohr (d. Sept. 8, 2009), Danish physicist and recipient of the 1975 Nobel Prize in Physics.  He was the son of Nobel Laureate, Niels Bohr.  He died at age 87.

1921~ Louis Jourdan (né Louis Robert Gendre, d. Feb. 14, 2015), French actor.  He died at age 93.

1919~ Pauline Kael (d. Sept. 3, 2001), American writer and film critic.  She died at age 82 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

1914~ Alan Cranston (né Alan MacGregor Cranston, d. Dec. 31, 2000), American journalist and politician from California.  He died at age 86.

1910~ Abe Fortas (né Abraham Fortas, d. Apr. 5, 1982), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President Lyndon Johnson.  He served on the Court from October 1965 until May 1969.  He died at age 71 of a ruptured aorta.

1910~ Paul Flory (néPaul John Flory, d. Sept. 9, 1985), American chemist and recipient of the 1974 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He died at age 75.

1906~ Sir Ernst Boris Chain (d. Aug. 12, 1979), German biochemist and recipient of the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in penicillin.  Following the rise of Nazism in Germany, he fled to England in 1933.  He died at age 73.

1903~ Lou Gehrig (né Henry Louis Gehrig, d. June 2, 1941), American baseball player.  He died 17 days before his 38^th birthday.  He had amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), now often referred to as Lou Gehrig Diseases.

1902~ Guy Lombardo (né Gaetano Alberto Lombardo, d. Nov. 5, 1977), Canadian violinist and bandleader.  He died of a heart attack in Houston, Texas at age 75.

1900~ Laura Z. Hobson (née Laura Kean Zametkin, d. Feb. 28, 1986), American author best known for her novel, Gentleman’s Agreement.  She died at age 85.

1897~ Sir Cyril Norman Hinshelwood (d. Oct. 9, 1967), English chemist and recipient of the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.  He died at age 70.

1897~ Moe Howard (né Moses Harry Horwitz, d. May 4, 1975), American comedian and one of the Three Stooges.  He died of lung cancer at age 77.

1896~ Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (née Bessie Wallis Warfield, d. April 24, 1986), wife of Edward, Duke of Windsor, formerly King Edward VIII of England, who gave up the throne of England to become her third husband.  She died at age 89.

1854~ Eleanor Norcross (née Ella Augusta Norcross, d. Oct. 19, 1923), American painter.  She was born and died in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.  She died at age 69.

1854~ Hjalmar Mellin (né Robert Hjalmar Mellin, d. Apr. 5, 1933), Finnish mathematician.  He died at age 78.

1834~ Charles Spurgeon (né Charles Haddon Spurgeon, d. Jan. 31, 1892), English Particular Baptist preacher.  He died at age 57.

1771~ Joseph Diaz Gergonne (d. May 4, 1859), French mathematician.  He died at age 87.

1623~ Blaise Pascal (d. Aug. 19, 1662), French mathematician and philosopher.  He died at age 39.

1566~ King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (d. Mar. 27, 1625).  He died at age 58.

Events that Changed the World:

2016~ Father’s Day in the United States.

1991~ The Soviet occupation of Hungary ended.

1978~ The comic strip, Garfield, was first published.

1964~ The Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law after surviving an 83-day filibuster in the United States Senate.

1961~ Kuwait declared its independence from the United Kingdom.

1953~ Convicted spies Julius (b. 1918) and Ethel Rosenberg (b. 1915) were executed at Sing Sing Prison in New York.

1910~ The first Father’s Day celebration occurred in Spokane, Washington.

1862~ The United States Congress prohibited slavery in United States territories, thereby nullifying the prior United States Supreme Court decision of Dred Scott v. Sanford.

1850~ Princess Louise of the Netherlands (1828 ~ 1871) married Crown Prince Carl of Sweden-Norway (1826 ~ 1872).  He was also known as King Charles of Sweden and Norway.

1775~ George Washington (1732 ~ 1799) was appointed commander-in-chief of the Continental Army.

1269~ King Louis IX of France (1214 ~ 1270) ordered all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined.

Good-Byes:

2017~ Otto Warmbier (né Otto Frederick Warmbier, b. Dec. 12, 1994), American student who had been arrested and tortured by the North Korean regime.  He was returned to the United States in a coma six days before his death.  He died at age 22.

2016~ Anton Yelchin (b. Mar. 11, 1989), Russian-born actor.  He was killed in a freak accident when he was pinned to a wall by his Jeep Cherokee.  He was 27 years old.

2013~ James Gandolfini (né James Joseph Gandolfini, Jr., b. Sept. 18, 1961), American actor most famous for his role as Tony Soprano on the cable TV series, The Sopranos.  He died of a heart attack at age 51.

2013~ Gyula Horn (b. July 5, 1932), Prime Minister of Hungary from July 1994 until July 1998.  He died 16 days before his 81^stbirthday.

2010~ Manute Bol (b. Oct. 16, 1962), Sudanese basketball player.  At 7 ft 7 in, he was one of the tallest NBA basketball players.  He died of kidney failure at age 47.

2007~ Ze’ev Schiff (b. July 1, 1932), Israeli journalist.  He died 12 days before his 75^thbirthday.

1995~ Peter Townsend (néPeter Wooldridge Townsend, b. Nov. 22, 1914), English military officer.  He is most well known for his ill-fated romance with England’s Princess Margaret.  He died at age 80.

1993~ Sir William Golding (né William Gerald Golding, b. Sept. 19, 1911), English writer and recipient of the 1983 Nobel Prize in Literature.  He is best known for his novel, The Lord of the Flies.  He died at age 81.

1986~ Lennie Bias (né Leonard Kevin Bias, b. Nov. 18, 1963), American basketball player.  He died at age 22 from a cocaine overdose two days after being selected to play for the Boston Celtics in the NBA Draft.

1984~ Lee Krasner (née Lenora Krassner, b. Oct. 27, 1908), American painter.  She was the wife of Jackson Pollack.  She died at age 75.

1981~ Lotte Reiniger (née Charlotte Reiniger, b. June 2, 1899), German film director and pioneer in silhouette animation. She died less than 3 weeks after her 82^nd birthday.

1966~ Ed Wynn (né Isaiah Edwin Leopold, b. Nov. 9, 1886), American actor, best known for his role in Mary Poppins.  He died at age 79 of throat cancer.

1965~ James Collip (b. Nov. 20, 1892), Canadian biochemist and co-discoverer of Insulin.  He died at age 72.

1953~ Julius Rosenberg (b. May 12, 1918), American who was convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.  He and his wife, Ethel (1915 ~ 1953), were executed.  He was 35 years old.

1953~ Ethel Rosenberg (b. Sept. 28, 1915), American spy convicted of spying for the Soviet Union.  She and her husband, Julius (1918 ~ 1953) were executed.  She was 37 years old.

1939~ Grace Abbott (b. Nov. 17, 1878), American social worker.  She died of multiple myeloma at age 60.

1937~ Sir J.M. Barrie, 1^st Baronet (né James Matthew Barrie, b. May 9, 1860), Scottish writer best known for his play, Peter Pan.  He died at age 77.

1897~ Charles Boycott (né Charles Cunningham Boycott, b. Mar. 12, 1832), British land agent.  He was ostracized by his local community, hence the verb Boycott.  He died at age 65.

1867~ Maximilian I (b. July 6, 1832), President of the Second Mexican Empire was executed by firing squad just 17 days before his 35^th birthday.

1811~ Samuel Chase (b. Apr. 17, 1741), Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court.  He was appointed to the High Court by President George Washington.  He replaced John Blair on the Court.  He served on the Court from January 1796 until his death in June 1811.  He was also a signatory to the Declaration of Independence.  He died at age 70.

1786~ Nathanael Green (b. Aug. 7, 1742), General in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.  He died at age 43.