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Today In History Basic Datebook-June 14th

For The Weekday Of: Sunday in 2009, Monday in 2010
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People on June 14th: birthdates

Rod Argent: 1945 (is 64 in 2009, 65 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Keyboardist, Singer, Pianist, Songwriter, English, of The Zombies; lead of Argent
Jack Bannon: 1940 (is 69 in 2009, 70 in 2010)
TV Actor, son of Bea Benaderet and Jim Bannon; Lou Grant's Art Donovan
Gene Barry: 1919 (is 90 in 2009, 91 in 2010)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Jewish, b. in New York City; RN:Eugene Klass; Our Miss Brooks' Gene, Bat Masterson star, Burke's Law's Capt. Amos Burke, The Name of the Game's Glenn Howard
Yasmine Bleeth: 1968 (is 41 in 2009, 42 in 2010)
TV/Soap Actress, Model, her first name is NOT FN:Jasmine!!!; b. in New York City; Ryan's Hope's Ryan Fenelli, One Life to Live's Lee Ann Demerest Buchanan, Baywatch's Caroline Holden, Nash Bridges' Caitlin Cross 1998-2000, Titans' Heather Portman Williams; movies: BASEketball; D.T. met her in 1995 at the Auto Show; some say b. 1969 (a D.T. raving fave); Titan's Heather
Boy George: 1961 (is 48 in 2009, 49 in 2010)
Pop Singer, Composer, Music Producer, Songwriter, English, Gay, RN:George Alan O'Dowd; lead of Culture Club, soloist
David Darius Brubeck: 1947 (is 62 in 2009, 63 in 2010)
Pianist, of Two Generaions of Brubeck; Dave's son
Michael Cade: 1973 (is 36 in 2009, 37 in 2010)
TV Actor, California Dreams' Sylvester "Sly" Winkle
DeGarmo Chris: 1963 (is 46 in 2009, 47 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Guitarist, Songwriter, of Queensryche
Linda Clifford: 1948 (is 61 in 2009, 62 in 2010)
Pop Singer
Diablo Cody: 1978 (is 31 in 2009, 32 in 2010)
Screen/Scriptwriter
Chris De Garmo: 1963 (is 46 in 2009, 47 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Musician, of Queensryche
Benjamin Dreyfuss: 1986 (is 23 in 2009, 24 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Richard & Jeramie's son
Skylar Grace Fisher-Duddy: 2001 (is 8 in 2009, 9 in 2010)
Celebrity Daughter, Joely Fisher and Christopher's daughter
Marla Gibbs: 1931 (is 78 in 2009, 79 in 2010)
Actress, b. in Chicago; The Jeffersons' & Checking In's Florence Johnston, 227's Mary Jenkins, Passions' Irma; some say 1941 or '46
Traylor Howard: 1971 (is 38 in 2009, 39 in 2010)
Actress, Boston Common's Joy Byrnes, Two Guys a Girl and a Pizza Place's Sharon Carter, Monk's Natalie Teeger; AP says 1971, others say 1966
Bryce Maximus James: 2007 (is 2 in 2009, 3 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Savannah Brinson and LeBron's son
Shea Joelle James: 2007 (is 2 in 2009, 3 in 2010)
Celebrity Daughter, Steffiana and Kevin's daughter
Kim Lankford: 1955 (is 54 in 2009, 55 in 2010)
TV/Soap Actress, Waverly Wonders, Knots Landing's Ginger Ward
Jimmy Lea: 1952 (is 57 in 2009, 58 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Singer, Bassist, Songwriter, Pianist, Violinist, English, of Slade
Peter Mayle: 1939 (is 70 in 2009, 71 in 2010)
Writer
Eddie Mekka: 1952 (is 57 in 2009, 58 in 2010)
TV/Movie Actor, Opera Singer, Soap Actor, b. in Worchester, MA; Laverne & Shirley's Carmine Ragusa 'The Big Ragu', Blanksy's Beauties' Joey DeLuca, Guiding Light's Grady, A League of Their Own
Barry Melton: 1947 (is 62 in 2009, 63 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Singer, Rock & Roll Guitarist, of Country Joe & the Fish
Colton Jack Mill: 1996 (is 13 in 2009, 14 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Chris Evert and Andy's son
Billie Myers: 1970 (is 39 in 2009, 40 in 2010)
Singer
Rosa Nevin: 1962 (is 47 in 2009, 48 in 2010)
Soap Actress, MaN:Langschwadt; All My Children's Cecily Davidson Kelly
Spooner Oldham: 1943 (is 66 in 2009, 67 in 2010)
Country-Rock Performer, of Drive-By Truckers
Will Patton: 1954 (is 55 in 2009, 56 in 2010)
Actor, Armageddon, Entrapment, Remember the Titans
Daryl Sabara: 1992 (is 17 in 2009, 18 in 2010)
Movie Actor, Spy Kids, Father of the Pride's Hunter, Keeping Up With The Steins
Lawrence Saint Victor: 1982 (is 27 in 2009, 28 in 2010)
Soap Actor, Guiding Light's Remy Bourdeau
Montgomery Edward Scott: 2160 (is-151 in 2009, -150 in 2010)
Engineer, Scotish, b. in Aberdeen
Samuel Walker Shepard: 1987 (is 22 in 2009, 23 in 2010)
Celebrity Son, Jessica Lange & Sam Shepard's son
Trish Stewart: 1946 (is 63 in 2009, 64 in 2010)
TV/Soap Actress, Young & the Restless' Chris Brooks, Salvage 1's Melanie Slozar
Donald Trump: 1946 (is 63 in 2009, 64 in 2010)
Zillionaire, Trump Towers/Plaza/Castle king; Real Estate Mogul & Multimillionaire, The Apprentice; Ivana's ex-hubby, Marla's wife
Nick Van Eede: 1959 (is 50 in 2009, 51 in 2010)
Singer, Songwriter, British, of Cutting Crew
Alan White: 1949 (is 60 in 2009, 61 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Drummer, English, of Yes, Plastic-Ono band, sought after sessionist
Brian David Willis: 1958 (is 51 in 2009, 52 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Drummer, of Quarterflash
Muff Winwood: 1943 (is 66 in 2009, 67 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Bassist, English, RFN:Mervyn; of Spencer Davis Group; Steve's brother
Miff Winwoodof: 1940 (is 69 in 2009, 70 in 2010)
Rock & Roll Musician, of Spencer Davis Group

People on June 14th: birth anniversaries

Dr. Alois Alzheimer: 1864=d.Dec 19, 1915 (was 51)
Psychiatrist, German, founded disease named after him
John Bartlett: 1820=d.Dec 3, 1905 (was 85)
Editor, Lexicographer, Publisher, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
Harriet Elizabeth Beecher-Stowe: 1811=d.Jul 1, 1896 (was 85)
Novelist, Catherine Beecher & Henry Ward Beecher's sister; Uncle Tom's Cabin
Renaldo "Obie" Benson: 1936=d.Jul 1, 2005 (was 69)
HALL OF FAMER, Pop Singer, of The Four Tops
Major Edward Bowes: 1874=d.Jun 13, 1946 (was 71)
Movie/Stage Actor, Radio Actor, NN:Patron Saint of Amateurs
Cy Coleman: 1929=d.Nov 18, 2004 (was 75)
Bandleader, Composer/Songwriter, Producer, Pianist, Singer, b. in New York City; RN:Seymour Kaufman; Witchcraft, The Best is Yet to Come, Hey, Look Me Over
Charles-Augustin de Coulomb: 1736=d.????
Scientist, Inventor, French, measured the force of magnetic & electrical attraction
Cliff Edwards: 1895=d.Jul 17, 1971 (was 76)
Singer, Stage Actor, Cartoon Voicist, Vaudevillan, Ukelele, NN:Ukulele Ike, Jiminy Cricket voicist; not d. 7-18
Benny Fields: 1894=d.Aug 16, 1959 (was 65)
Vaudevillan, Actor, Blossom Seeley's hubby
E. Cuyler Hammond: 1912=d.1986
Scientist, 1st to link smoking with lung cancer
Burl Ives: 1909=d.Apr 14, 1995 (was 85)
TV/Movie/Stage Actor, Radio Actor, Folk Singer, Author, Guitarist, Banjoist, b. in Hunt, Ill.; RN:Burle Icle Ivanhoe; The Wayfaring Stranger, O.K. Crackerby star, The Lawyers' Walter Nichols, Roots' Justin, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Big Country; children's folk songs like Blue Tail Fly and Frosty The Snowman, Holly Jolly Xmas, narrated TVs Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer, Broadway's Cat On A Hot Tim Roof as Big Daddy
Jerzy Kosinski: 1933=d.May 3, 1991 (was 57)
Novelist, Author, Polish
Gil Lamb: 1906=d.Nov 2, 1995 (was 89)
TV Host, TV/Movie Actor, Comedian
"Lash" LaRue: 1917=d.May 21, 1996 (was 78)
TV/Movie Actor, RFN:Al; Cowboy actor; Lash of the West's Marshal Lash La Rue, Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp's Sheriff Johnny Behan; wed 10 times; called Lash because of his skill with a bullwhip; claimed to be older
Edward Mallory: 1930=d.Apr 4, 2007 (was 76)
Actor, Days of Our Lives' Bill Horton
Dorothy McGuire: 1916=d.Sep 13, 2001 (was 85)
Movie Actress, Soap Actress, b. in Omaha, NE; LN:Maguire?; Rich Man Poor Man, Little Women, Young & the Restless' Cora Miller; some say b. 1918
Leon Payne: 1917?=d.Sep 11, 1969 (was 52)
Country/Western Performer, Singer, Multi-instrumentalist, Songwriter, of Texas Playboys; some say b. Jun 15, 1917
Pierre Salinger: 1925=d.Oct 16, 2004 (was 79)
Journalist, Author, former JFK Press secretary; ABC News; not sure of ddate
Jeremy Sinden: 1950=d.May 29, 1996 (was 45)
Actor, Chariots of Fire
John Scott Trotter: 1908=d.Oct 29, 1975 (was 67)
Bandleader, Composer, Pianist, Arranger, of The George Gobel Show, with Bing Crosby in music, Gobelues composer, Charlie Brown specials
June Walker: 1900=d.Feb 3, 1966 (was 65)
Actress, War Nurses
Junior Walker: 1931=d.Nov 23, 1995 (was 64)
Jazz Performer, Singer, Bandleader, Alto-sax, lead of Junior Walker & the All-Stars; RN:Autry De Walt II
Sam Wanamaker: 1919=d.Dec 18, 1993 (was 74)
Movie Actor, Movie Producer/Director, b. in Chicago; Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines, Baby Boom

People on June 14th: death anniversaries

Benedict Arnold: 1801 (was 60)/b.Jan 14, 1741 O.S.
General, Revolutionary, American Revolutinary War gen'l & traitor; d. in London; other style says b. Jan 25, 1741 N.S.
Dame Peggy Ashcroft: 1991 (was 83)/b.Dec 22, 1907
Movie/Stage Actress, English, A Passage To India
John Logie Baird: 1946 (was 57)/b.Aug 13, 1888
Inventor, Engineer, Scotish, a father of TV; the first man to televise pictures of objects in motion.
Marjorie Bennett: 1982 (was 86)/b.Jan 15, 1896
TV Actress, Many Loves of Dobie Gillis' Mrs. Blossom Kenney
Chris Berman: 1989 (was 70)/b.Jun 3, 1919
Soap Actor, Guiding Light's Alan Spaulding
Jorge Luis Borges: 1986 (was 86)/b.Aug 24, 1899
Short Story Writer, Poet, Essayist, Quaker, Argentine
William W. Campbell: 1938 (was 76)/b.Apr 11, 1862
Astronomer, Stellar Motions
G. K. Chesterton: 1936 (was 62)/b.May 29, 1874
Critic, Author, Poet, Journalist, Novelist, English, RFN:Gilbert Keith
Clancy Cooper: 1975 (was 68)/b.Jul 23, 1906
Actress
Rory Gallagher: 1995 (was 47)/b.Mar 2, 1948
Blues Singer, Blues Guitarist, Composer, Irish, some say b. 1949, died at 46
Karl Gegenbaur: 1903 (was 76)/b.Aug 21, 1826
Scientist, German, anatomist who demonstrated that the field of comparative anatomy offers important evidence in support of evolutionary theory.
Maxim Gorky: 1936 (was 68)/b.Mar 16, 1868 O.S.
Short Story Writer, Novelist, Dramatist/Playwright, Russian, RN:Alexei Maximovich Peshkov; other style says b. Mar 28, 1868 N.S.
Vincent T. Hamlin: 1993 (was 93)/b.May 10, 1900
ComicStrip Cartoonist, Journalist, Alley Oop creator
Wynonie Harris: 1969 (was 53)/b.Aug 24, 1915
Blues Performer, Singer, Drummer, Songwriter, NN:Mr. Blues
Richard Jaeckel: 1997 (was 70)/b.Oct 10, 1926
TV/Movie Actor, TV Bombs: Banyon, Firehouse, Salvage I, At Ease; did supp roles in almost every drama & western TV series B-4 Spencer's Lt. Martin Quirk, Baywatch's Lt. Ben Edwards; Walking Tall, Sands of Iwo Jima, Dirty Dozen, others
H. V. Kaltenborn: 1965 (was 86)/b.Jul 9, 1878
Newscaster, Commentator, Famous & prestigious Dean of Radio Commentators 30s-40s
John Kirby: 1952 (was 43)/b.Dec 31, 1908
Jazz Musician, Bassist, Bandleader, Maxine Sullivan's hubby
Jimmy Knepper: 2003 (was 75)/b.Nov 22, 1927
Jazz Musician, Trombonist, Composer, Arranger
Pierre Charles L'Enfant: 1825 (was 70)/b.Aug 2, 1754
Architect, Engineer, Revolutionary, French, responsible for the city layout of Washington
Giacomo Leopardi: 1837 (was 38)/b.Jun 29, 1798
Poet, Italian
Alan Jay Lerner: 1986 (was 67)/b.Aug 31, 1918
Lyricist, Dramatist/Playwright, Songwriter, b. in New York City; multiple Tony & Oscar winner; My Fair Lady, An American in Paris, Gigi, Brigadoon, On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Camelot; wed 8x's; d. in NYC
Henry Mancini: 1994 (was 70)/b.Apr 16, 1924
Conductor/Composer, Arranger, b. in Cleveland; Peter Gunn, Newhart, Pink Panther, Romeo & Juliet, Moon River, Days of Wine and Roses, and other theme scores; won 4 Oscars & 20 Grammys
Robert Middleton: 1977 (was 66)/b.May 13, 1911
Actor, The Monroes' Barney Wales
Emmeline Pankhurst: 1928 (was 69)/b.Jul 14, 1858
Social Reformer, Feminist, British
Marlin Perkins: 1986 (was 81)/b.Mar 28, 1905
TV Host, Naturalist, Author, Zoologist, Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom; some say b. 1902; d. in St. Louis
Alan Reed: 1977 (was 69)/b.Aug 20, 1907
TV/Radio Actor, Cartoon Voicist, Songwriter, b. in New York City; Allen's Alley's Falstaff Openshaw (radio 1932-49); Fred Allen Show, Life with Luigi, Mr. Adams & Eve's JB Hafter, Peter Loves Mary's Happy, The Flintstones' Fred Flintstone (orig voice), Where's Huddles' Mad Dog Maloney
Max Rosenberg: 2004 (was 89)/b.Sep 13, 1914
Movie Producer, low-budget horror films
Ernest Van "Pop" Stoneman: 1968 (was 75)/b.May 25, 1893
Country Singer, Banjoist, Harmonicaist
Kurt Waldheim: 2007 (was 88)/b.Dec 21, 1918
Head of State, Austrian, ex-Austrian Prez; ex-U.N. sec gen'l
Max Weber: 1920 (was 56)/b.Apr 21, 1864
Scientist, Professor, Author, German, Sociologist; Theorist of Liberal Imperialism

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