1787 – Sir Henry George Wakelyn (Harry) Smith, Wittlesea England, governor at the Cape Colony
1913 – George Walter Selwyn Lloyd, English composer (Serf, John Socman)
1928 – Peter Heine, cricketer (solid South African fast bowler in 1950’s)
1931 – Junior Johnson, American NASCAR driver
1937 – George Knudson, Canadian golfer (d. 1989)
1943 – Klaus von Klitzing, German physicist, Nobel laureate
1946 – John “Mike” Lounge, astr (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), born in Denver, Colorado
1966 – Mary Stuart Masterson, American actress (Some Kind of Wonderful), born in Houston, Texas
1972 – Kelly Wiltshire, CFL defensive back (Toronto Argonauts)
1979 – Jimmy Spithill, Australian sailor (America’s Cup winning helmsman 2010, 2013), born in Sydney, Australia
Category: Famous Birthdays
Famous Birthdays for 27th June 2018
1350 – Manuel II Palaeologus, Byzantine Emperor (1391-1425) (d. 1425)
1821 – August Conradi, German organist and composer, born in Berlin (d. 1873)
1889 – Alfred Courtens, Belgian sculptor
1914 – Robert Aickman, English author (d. 1981)
1914 – Alexander Pola [Abraham Polak], Dutch actor and writer (Cassata), born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands (d. 1992)
1935 – Laurent Terzieff, actor (Head Over Heels, Milky Way), born in Paris, France
1966 – J. J. Abrams, American writer, producer and director (Lost, Star Wars: the Force Awakens), born in NYC, New York
1973 – Jennifer Brundage, US softball infielder (Olympic gold 1996)
1985 – Nico Rosberg, German Finnish race car driver (F1 Champion 2016), born in Wiesbaden, West Germany
1988 – Kate Ziegler, American swimmer
Famous Birthdays for 26th June 2018
1819 – Abner Doubleday, Union general-major and inventor (baseball), born in Ballston Spa, New York (d. 1893)
1874 – Albert Relf, English cricketer (England all-rounder in 13 Tests 1903-14), born in Burwash, East Sussex, England (d. 1937)
1885 – Anna Maria Franciska van Wageningen-Salomons, Dutch author (Girl Student), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1980)
1900 – Jo Spier [Joseph Spier], Dutch cartoonist and water color painter, born in Zutphen, Netherlands (d. 1978)
1929 – Alexander Fenton, CEO (Euro Ethnological Research Center in Edinburgh)
1939 – Smangaliso P Mkhatshwa, South Africa, Secretary-General (Bishops’ Conference 1983-88)
1946 – Clive Francis, actor (Masada), born in London, England
1948 – Allen Michael Doyle, Woonsocket RI, PGA golfer (1991 Memorial-64th)
1973 – Paweł Małaszyński, Polish actor
1984 – Deron Williams, American basketball player
Famous Birthdays for 25th June 2018
1905 – Ian Cromb, cricketer (NZ pace bowler in the early 1930’s)
1923 – Samuel Lewis Francis, painter
1925 – Ted Stepien, American business (d. 2007)
1925 – June Lockhart, American actress (Lassie, Lost in Space, Petticoat Junction), born in NYC, New York
1966 – Dikembe Mutombo, NBA center (Atlanta Hawks, Denver Nuggets)
1970 – Lucy Benjamin, British actress
1971 – Steve Tikolo, cricketer (outstanding Kenyan batsman in 1996 World Cup)
1974 – Nisha Ganatra, Canadian film director
1979 – Hirooki Goto, Japanese professional wrestler
1981 – Pooja Umashankar, Indian actress
Famous Birthdays for 24th June 2018
1343 – Jeanne de Valois, Queen of Navarre (d. 1373)
1893 – Roy O. Disney, co-founder of the Walt Disney Company and brother of Walt (d. 1971)
1903 – Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
1912 – Selwyn Powell, art editor
1934 – Bob Holthus, horse trainer
1939 – Henry Lawrence Garett III, Sect of Navy (1989-92), born in Miami, Florida
1958 – Victor M Gerena, American security guard robbed $7 million (FBI wanted), born in NYC, New York
1978 – Ariel Pink, American musician
1986 – Solange Knowles, American singer (Destiny’s Child), born in Houston, Texas
1993 – Primera, an Andean condor, hatched at Cleve Zoo, 5th born in captivity
Famous Birthdays for 23rd June 2018
1858 – William Ernst Johnson, mathematician, born in Cambridge, England
1875 – Carl Milles, Uppsala Sweden, fountain sculptor (Wedding of Rivers)
1935 – Maurice Ferre, former mayor of Miami
1948 – Nigel Osborne, composer
1960 – Tatsuya Uemura, Japanese musician and programmer
1961 – Mark Drillich, Dutch pop bassist (Kong-Slauerhoff)
1963 – Steve Shelley, American musician (Crucifucks and Sonic Youth)
1967 – Laurie Wood, Orange California, playmate (March, 1989)
1970 – Robert Brooks, NFL wide receiver (Green Bay Packers-Super Bowl 31)
1975 – Alexander Serikow, Landshut GER, hockey forward (Team Germany)
Famous Birthdays for 22nd June 2018
1613 – Lambert Pietkin, Flemish baroque composer, born in Liege (d. 1696)
1892 – Robert Ritter von Greim, German field marshal (d. 1945)
1898 – Erich Maria Remarque, German novelist (All Quiet on the Western Front), born in Osnabrück, Germany (d. 1970)
1921 – Joseph Papp, stage producer/director (Pirates of Penzance), born in Brooklyn, New York
1946 – Eliades Ochoa, Cuban guitarist (Buena Vista Social Club)
1949 – Alan Osmond, singer (Osmond Brothers, Donnie and Marie), born in Ogden, Utah
1974 – Joseph Vijay, Indian actor
1975 – Laila Rouass, Moroccan-Indian actress
1975 – Andreas Klöden, German professional road cyclist
1979 – Brad Hawpe, American baseball player
Famous Birthdays for 21st June 2018
1790 – Wilhelm Speyer, German violinist and composer, born in Offenbach, Hesse, Germany (d. 1878)
1873 – H. M. Tomlinson, British writer (Sea and Jungle), born in London (d. 1958)
1899 – Pavel Haas, Czech Jewish composer killed during the Holocaust, born in Brno, Czech Republic (d. 1944)
1926 – Conrad Hall, Tahitian-American cinematographer, born in Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia (d. 2003)
1927 – Carl Burton Stokes, African American politician (51st mayor of Cleveland) and TV newscaster, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1996)
1935 – Francoise Sagan, [Quoirez], French novelist (Bonjour Trieste), born in Cajarc, France
1948 – Ian McEwan, English writer
1952 – Kôichi Mashimo, Japanese anime director
1970 – Brandon Moore, NFL tackle (NE Patriots)
1974 – Natasha Desborough, British radio personality
Famous Birthdays for 20th June 2018
1566 – Sigismund III Vasa, King of Poland and Grand Duke of Lithuania (1587-1632) and King of Sweden (1592-99), born in Gripsholm Castle, Sweden (d. 1632)
1730 – Nonnosus Madlseder, composer
1808 – Samson Raphael Hirsch, German rabbi (d. 1888)
1905 – Lillian Hellman, American playwright (Toys in the Attic, Little Foxes), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1984)
1917 – Igor Śmiałowski, Polish actor (Lalka, Znachor, Niedaleko Warszawy), born in Moscow, Russia (d. 2006)
1944 – Terry Funk, pro wrestler (WWF/NWA)/actor (Paradise Alley), born in Hammond, Indiana
1965 – Michael Landon Jr, actor (Bonanza, Little House on the Prairie ), born in Encino California (d. 1991)
1972 – Martin Keino, Nyeri Kenya, 1.5k runner
1972 – Paras Mhambrey, Indian cricket pace bowler (Test v England 1996)
1974 – Jami Ferrell, playmate (Jan 1997), born in Munncie, Indiana
Famous Birthdays for 19th June 2018
1814 – Johannes H Weissenbruch, landscape painter
1909 – Edwin Gerschefski, composer
1912 – Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (d. 2005)
1921 – Howell T Heflin, (Sen-D-Alabama, 1979- )
1930 – Jul Levi, Bulgarian composer and conductor, born in Salonica, Greece
1938 – John Sheil, Northern Irish High Court judge
1942 – Neil Chalmers, director (National History Museum, London)
1947 – Salman Rushdie, British-Indian novelist (Midnight’s Children, Satanic Verses), born in Mumbai, India
1951 – Francesco Moser, Italian cyclist
1972 – Jean Dujardin, 1st French actor to win an Oscar for Best Actor (The Artist), born in Rueil-Malmaison, Île-de-France