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June the 1st

June 1 is the 152nd day of the year (153rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 213 days remain until the end of the year.

1990 – Cold War: George H. W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev sign a treaty to end chemical weapon production. 1993 – Dobrinja mortar attack: Thirteen are killed and 133 wounded when Serb mortar shells are fired at a soccer game in Dobrinja, west of Sarajevo. 1994 – Republic of South Africa becomes a Commonwealth republic.[4] 1999 – American Airlines Flight 1420 slides and crashes while landing at Little Rock National Airport, killing 11 people on a flight from Dallas to Little Rock. 2001 – Nepalese royal massacre: Crown Prince Dipendra of Nepal shoots and kills several members of his family including his father and mother. 2001 – Dolphinarium discotheque massacre: A Hamas suicide bomber kills 21 at a disco in Tel Aviv. 2004 – Oklahoma City bombing co-conspirator Terry Nichols is sentenced to 161 consecutive life terms without the possibility of a parole, breaking a Guinness World Record. 2008 – A fire on the back lot of Universal Studios breaks out, destroying the attraction King Kong Encounter and a large archive of master tapes for music and film, the full extent of which was not revealed until 2019. 2009 – Air France Flight 447 crashes into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Brazil on a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 passengers and crew are killed. 2009 – General Motors files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. It is the fourth largest United States bankruptcy in history. 2011 – A rare tornado outbreak occurs in New England; a strong EF3 tornado strikes Springfield, Massachusetts, during the event, killing four people. 2011 – Space Shuttle Endeavour makes its final landing after 25 flights.[5] 2015 – A ship carrying 458 people capsizes on Yangtze river in China's Hubei province, killing 400 people.

Births 1134 – Geoffrey, Count of Nantes (d. 1158)[6] 1300 – Thomas of Brotherton, 1st Earl of Norfolk, English politician, Lord Marshal of England (d. 1338)[7] 1451 – Giles Daubeney, 1st Baron Daubeney (d. 1508)[8] 1460 – Enno I, Count of East Frisia, German noble (d. 1491) 1480 – Tiedemann Giese, Polish bishop (d. 1550) 1498 – Maarten van Heemskerck, Dutch painter (d. 1574) 1522 – Dirck Volckertszoon Coornhert, Dutch writer and scholar (d. 1590) 1563 – Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, English politician, Secretary of State for England (d. 1612) 1612 – Frans Post, Dutch painter (d. 1680) 1633 – Geminiano Montanari, Italian astronomer and academic (d. 1687) 1637 – Jacques Marquette, French missionary and explorer (d. 1675) 1653 – Georg Muffat, French organist and composer (d. 1704) 1675 – Francesco Scipione, marchese di Maffei, Italian archaeologist and playwright (d. 1755) 1762 – Edmund Ignatius Rice, Irish priest and missionary, founded the Irish Christian Brothers (d. 1844) 1765 – Christiane Vulpius, mistress and wife of Johann Wolfgang Goethe (d. 1816)[9] 1770 – Friedrich Laun, German author (d. 1849) 1790 – Ferdinand Raimund, Austrian actor and playwright (d. 1836) 1796 – Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot, French physicist and engineer (d. 1832) 1800 – Edward Deas Thomson, Australian educator and politician, Chief Secretary of New South Wales (d. 1879) 1801 – Brigham Young, American religious leader, 2nd President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1877)[10] 1804 – Mikhail Glinka, Russian composer (d. 1857)[11] 1808 – Henry Parker, English-Australian politician, 3rd Premier of New South Wales (d. 1881) 1815 – Otto of Greece (d. 1862)[12] 1819 – Francis V, Duke of Modena (d. 1875) 1822 – Clementina Maude, Viscountess Hawarden, English portrait photographer (d. 1865) 1825 – John Hunt Morgan, American general (d. 1864)[13] 1831 – John Bell Hood, American general (d. 1879) 1833 – John Marshall Harlan, American lawyer, judge, and politician, Attorney General of Kentucky (d. 1911) 1843 – Henry Faulds, Scottish physician and missionary, developed fingerprinting (d. 1930) 1844 – John J. Toffey, American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1911) 1869 – Richard Wünsch, German philologist (d. 1915) 1873 – Elena Alistar, Bessarabian politician (d. 1955) 1874 – Yury Nikolaevich Voronov, Russian botanist (d. 1931) 1878 – John Masefield, English author and poet (d. 1967) 1879 – Max Emmerich, American triathlete and gymnast (d. 1956) 1882 – Nicolae Bivol, Moldovan businessman and politician, Mayor of Chișinău (d. 1940) 1887 – Clive Brook, English actor (d. 1974) 1889 – James Daugherty, American author, illustrator, and painter (d. 1974) 1889 – Charles Kay Ogden, English linguist and philosopher (d. 1957) 1890 – Frank Morgan, American actor (d. 1949) 1892 – Amanullah Khan, sovereign of the Kingdom of Afghanistan, (d. 1960) 1899 – Edward Charles Titchmarsh, English mathematician and academic (d. 1963) 1901 – Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player, referee, and manager (d. 1990) 1901 – Tom Gorman, Australian rugby league player (d. 1978) 1901 – John Van Druten, English-American playwright and director (d. 1957) 1903 – Vasyl Velychkovsky, Ukrainian-Canadian bishop and martyr (d. 1973) 1903 – Hans Vogt, Norwegian linguist and academic (d. 1986) 1905 – Robert Newton, English-American actor (d. 1956) 1907 – Jan Patočka, Czech philosopher (d. 1977) 1907 – Frank Whittle, English airman and engineer, developed the jet engine (d. 1996) 1908 – Julie Campbell Tatham, American author (d. 1999) 1909 – Yechezkel Kutscher, Slovakian-Israeli philologist and linguist (d. 1971) 1910 – Gyula Kállai, Hungarian communist leader, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary (d. 1996)[14] 1912 – Herbert Tichy, Austrian geologist, author, and mountaineer (d. 1987) 1913 – Bill Deedes, English journalist and politician (d. 2007) 1915 – John Randolph, American actor (d. 2004) 1916 – Jean Jérôme Hamer, Belgian Cardinal (d. 1996) 1917 – William Standish Knowles, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2012)[15] 1920 – Robert Clarke, American actor and producer (d. 2005) 1921 – Nelson Riddle, American composer and bandleader (d. 1985)[16] 1922 – Joan Caulfield, American model and actress (d. 1991) 1922 – Povel Ramel, Swedish singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 2007) 1924 – William Sloane Coffin, American minister and activist (d. 2006) 1925 – Dilia Díaz Cisneros, Venezuelan teacher (d. 2017) 1926 – Johnny Berry, English footballer (d. 1994) 1926 – Andy Griffith, American actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2012) 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, American model and actress (d. 1962)[17] 1926 – Richard Schweiker, American soldier and politician, 14th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services (d. 2015) 1928 – Georgy Dobrovolsky, Ukrainian pilot and astronaut (d. 1971) 1928 – Steve Dodd, Australian actor and composer (d. 2014) 1928 – Bob Monkhouse, English actor and screenwriter (d. 2003) 1929 – Nargis, Indian actress (d. 1981) 1929 – James H. Billington, American academic and Thirteenth Librarian of Congress (d. 2018) 1930 – John Lemmon, English logician and philosopher (d. 1966) 1930 – Richard Levins, American ecologist and geneticist (d. 2016) 1930 – Matt Poore, New Zealand cricketer 1930 – Edward Woodward, English actor (d. 2009) 1931 – Walter Horak, former Austrian footballer (d. 2019) 1932 – Frank Cameron, New Zealand cricketer[18] 1932 – Christopher Lasch, American historian and critic (d. 1994) 1933 – Haruo Remeliik, Palauan politician, 1st President of Palau (d. 1985) 1933 – Charles Wilson, American lieutenant and politician (d. 2010) 1934 – Pat Boone, American singer-songwriter and actor 1934 – Peter Masterson, American actor, director, producer and screenwriter (d. 2018) 1934 – Doris Buchanan Smith, American author (d. 2002) 1935 – Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank, English architect, founded Foster and Partners 1935 – Reverend Ike, American minister and television host (d. 2009) 1935 – Jack Kralick, American baseball player (d. 2012) 1935 – Percy Adlon, German director, screenwriter and producer 1935 – John C. Reynolds, American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013) 1936 – Anatoly Albul, Soviet and Russian wrestler (d. 2013) 1936 – André Bourbeau, Canadian politician (d. 2018) 1936 – Bekim Fehmiu, Bosnian actor (d. 2010) 1936 – Gerald Scarfe, English illustrator and animator[19] 1937 – Morgan Freeman, American actor and producer 1937 – Rosaleen Linehan, Irish actress 1937 – Colleen McCullough, Australian neuroscientist and author (d. 2015) 1939 – Cleavon Little, American actor and comedian (d. 1992) 1940 – René Auberjonois, American actor (d. 2019)[20] 1940 – Katerina Gogou, Greek writer and actress (d. 1993) 1940 – Kip Thorne, American physicist, astronomer, and academic 1941 – Dean Chance, American baseball player and manager (d. 2015) 1941 – Toyo Ito, Japanese architect, designed the Torre Realia BCN and Hotel Porta Fira 1941 – Alexander V. Zakharov, Russian physicist and astronomer 1942 – Parveen Kumar, Pakistani-English physician and academic 1943 – Orietta Berti, Italian singer and actress 1943 – Richard Goode, American pianist[21] 1943 – Lorrie Wilmot, South African cricketer (d. 2004) 1944 – Colin Blakemore, British neurobiologist 1944 – Robert Powell, English actor 1945 – Jim McCarty, American blues rock guitarist 1945 – Linda Scott, American singer 1945 – Lydia Shum, Chinese-Hong Kong actress (d. 2008) 1945 – Kerry Vincent, Australian chef and author 1945 – Frederica von Stade, American soprano and actress 1946 – Brian Cox, Scottish actor 1947 – Ron Dennis, English businessman, founded the McLaren Group 1947 – Jonathan Pryce, Welsh actor and singer 1947 – Ronnie Wood, English guitarist, songwriter, and producer 1948 – Powers Boothe, American actor (d. 2017) 1948 – Tomáš Halík, Czech Roman Catholic priest, philosopher, theologian and scholar 1948 – Michel Plasse, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2006) 1948 – Juhan Viiding, Estonian poet and actor (d. 1995) 1950 – Perrin Beatty, Canadian businessman and politician 1950 – Charlene, American singer-songwriter 1950 – Jean Lambert, English educator and politician 1950 – Michael McDowell, American author and screenwriter (d. 1999) 1952 – Şenol Güneş, Turkish footballer and manager 1952 – David Lan, South African-English director and playwright 1952 – Mihaela Loghin, Romanian shot putter 1953 – Ronnie Dunn, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1953 – Ted Field, American entrepreneur and racing driver 1954 – Jill Black, English lawyer and judge 1955 – Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 2016) 1955 – Lorraine Moller, New Zealand runner 1955 – Tony Snow, American journalist, 26th White House Press Secretary (d. 2008) 1956 – Patrick Besson, French writer and journalist 1956 – Lisa Hartman Black, American actress 1956 – Petra Morsbach, German author[22] 1958 – Nambaryn Enkhbayar, Mongolian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Mongolia[23] 1958 – Gennadiy Valyukevich, Belarusian triple jumper (d. 2019) 1959 – Martin Brundle, English racing driver and sportscaster 1959 – Alan Wilder, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer 1960 – Simon Gallup, English musician (The Cure) 1960 – Vladimir Krutov, Russian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2012) 1960 – Sergey Kuznetsov, Russian footballer and manager 1960 – Giorgos Lillikas, Cypriot politician, 8th Cypriot Minister of Foreign Affairs 1960 – Elena Mukhina, Russian gymnast (d. 2006) 1961 – Paul Coffey, Canadian ice hockey player 1961 – Mark Curry, American actor 1961 – Werner Günthör, Swiss shot putter and bobsledder 1961 – John Huston, American golfer 1961 – Peter Machajdík, Slovakian-German pianist and composer 1963 – Vital Borkelmans, Belgian footballer 1963 – Miles J. Padgett, Scottish physicist and academic 1963 – David Westhead, English actor and producer 1965 – Larisa Lazutina, Russian skier 1965 – Olga Nazarova, Russian sprinter 1965 – Nigel Short, English chess player and journalist 1966 – Greg Schiano, American football player and coach 1968 – Jason Donovan, Australian actor and singer 1968 – Jeff Hackett, Canadian ice hockey player and coach 1968 – Mathias Rust, German aviator 1969 – Luis García Postigo, former Mexican footballer 1969 – Teri Polo, American actress 1970 – Georgie Gardner, Australian journalist and television host 1970 – Alexi Lalas, American soccer player, manager, and sportscaster 1970 – Alison Hinds, English-Barbadian Soca singer 1971 –Mario Cimarro, Cuban-American actor and singer 1973 – Frédérik Deburghgraeve, Belgian swimmer 1973 – Adam Garcia, Australian actor 1973 – Derek Lowe, American baseball player 1973 – Heidi Klum, German-American model, fashion designer, and producer 1974 – Alanis Morissette, Canadian-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress 1974 – Michael Rasmussen, Danish cyclist 1974 – Sarah Teather, English politician 1974 – Akis Zikos, Greek footballer and coach 1975 – Michal Grošek, Czech-Swiss ice hockey player and coach 1975 – Frauke Petry, German politician 1975 – Ēriks Rags, Latvian javelin thrower 1976 – Marlon Devonish, English sprinter and coach 1976 – Kōhei Murakami, Japanese actor 1977 – Andrea Bogart, American actress 1977 – Arsen Gitinov, Russian and Kyrgyzstani freestyle wrestler 1977 – Danielle Harris, American actress 1977 – Brad Wilkerson, American baseball player and coach 1977 – Sarah Wayne Callies, American actress 1978 – Antonietta Di Martino, Italian high jumper 1978 – Matthew Hittinger, American poet and author 1979 – Santana Moss, American football player 1979 – Markus Persson, Swedish game designer, founded Mojang 1981 – Brandi Carlile, American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1981 – Amy Schumer, American actress[24] 1981 – Carlos Zambrano, Venezuelan-American baseball player 1981 – Aleksei Mikhailovich Uvarov, Russian footballer 1982 – Justine Henin, Belgian tennis player 1983 – Tetyana Hamera-Shmyrko, Ukrainian runner 1983 – Tõnis Sahk, Estonian long jumper 1984 – Jean Beausejour, Chilean footballer 1984 – Olivier Tielemans, Dutch racing driver 1985 – Tirunesh Dibaba, Ethiopian runner 1985 – Mário Hipólito, Angolan footballer 1985 – Dinesh Karthik, Indian cricketer 1985 – Nick Young, American basketball player 1985 – Sam Young, American basketball player 1986 – Moses Ndiema Masai, Kenyan runner 1986 – Chinedu Obasi, Nigerian footballer 1986 – Ben Smith, New Zealand rugby player 1987 – Zoltán Harsányi, Slovakian footballer 1987 – Jerel McNeal, American basketball player 1987 – Yarisley Silva, Cuban pole vaulter 1988 – Javier Hernández, Mexican footballer 1989 – Nataliya Goncharova, Ukrainian/Russian volleyball player 1989 – Sammy Alex Mutahi, Kenyan runner 1990 – Miller Bolaños, Ecuadoran footballer 1990 – Kennie Chopart, Danish footballer 1990 – Carlota Ciganda, Spanish golfer 1990 – Martin Pembleton, English footballer 1990 – Bianca Perie, Romanian hammer thrower 1991 – Tyrone Roberts, Australian rugby league player 1993 – Sam Anas, American ice hockey player 1994 – Kagayaki Taishi, Japanese sumo wrestler 1996 – Edvinas Gertmonas, Lithuanian footballer 1996 – Tom Holland, English actor