Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 1

Births

 * 1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (d. 1877)
 * 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, (pictured) American actress (d. 1962)
 * 1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
 * 1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
 * 1939 - Jackie Stewart, British race car driver
 * 1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
 * 1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
 * 1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
 * 1996 - Tom Holland, English actor

Deaths

 * 1616 - Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
 * 1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
 * 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
 * 1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
 * 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
 * 1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)