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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, June 11


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Births

* 1959 Hugh Laurie English actor, comedian, writer and musician.
* 1956 Ray Nagin Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana.
* 1951 Matthew Engel British sports writer.
* 1945 Adrienne Barbeau American actress.
* 1943 Henry Hill Former Irish-Italian American mobster, Lucchese crime family associate, and FBI informant whose life was immortalized in the book Wiseguy, written by crime reporter Nicholas Pileggi, and the 1990 Martin Scorsese film Goodfellas, in which Hill was played by Ray Liotta.
* 1930 Charles B. Rangel American politician, who has been a Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives since 1971, representing New York's 15th congressional district.
* 1925 William Styron American novelist.
* 1922 Erving Goffman Canadian born American sociologist and writer.
* 1918 Abraham Kaplan U S philosopher, known best for being the first philosopher to systematically examine the behavioral sciences in his book "The Conduct of Inquiry" (1964).
* 1915 Nicholas Metropolis Greek American mathematician, physicist, and computer scientist.
* 1913 Vince Lombardi One of the most successful coaches in the history of American football as head coach of the Green Bay Packers from 1959 to 1967, and the Washington Redskins in 1969.
* 1911 Josephine Miles American poet and literary critic.
* 1910 Jacques-Yves Cousteau French naval officer, inventor, explorer and researcher.
* 1889 Joseph Lewis American freethinker, and atheist who was born in Montgomery, Alabama.
* 1888 Bartolomeo Vanzetti Anarchist, who with Ferdinando Nicola Sacco was convicted of murdering two men during a 1920 armed robbery in South Braintree, Massachusetts.
* 1877 Renee Vivien Born Pauline Mary Tarn, was a British poet who wrote in the French language.
* 1867 Charles Fabry French physicist.
* 1864 Richard Strauss German composer of classical music and conductor.
* 1851 Mary Augusta Ward British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs.
* 1776 John Constable English Romantic painter.
* 1671 Colley Cibber English actor, playwright, Poet Laureate, first British actor-manager, and head Dunce of Alexander Pope's Dunciad.
* 1588 George Wither English poet and satirist.
* 1572 Ben Jonson English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor, most famous for his plays Volpone and The Alchemist, his lyrics, his influence on Jacobean and Caroline poets, his theory of humours, his contentious personality, and his friendship and rivalry with William Shakespeare.

Deaths

† 2009 Frank J. Low Solid state physicist who became a leader in the new field of infrared astronomy, after inventing the gallium doped germanium bolometer in 1961.
† 2003 David Brinkley American television journalist.
† 2001 Timothy McVeigh United States Army veteran and security guard who bombed the Alfred P Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City.
† 1998 Leo Buscaglia Teacher, writer, and lecturer; Professor at the University of Southern California.
† 1990 John H. Manley American physicist who worked with Robert Oppenheimer at the University of California, Berkeley before becoming a group leader during the Manhattan Project.
† 1979 John Wayne Better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer.
† 1974 Julius Evola Italian esotericist and occult author, who wrote extensively on matters political, philosophical, historical, racial, religious.
† 1969 John L. Lewis American Labor union leader and the president of the United Mine Workers of America from 1920 to 1960.
† 1936 Robert E. Howard American writer of fantasy and historical adventure pulp stories, published primarily in Weird Tales magazine in the 1930s.
† 1934 Lev Vygotsky Soviet psychologist and the founder of cultural-historical psychology.
† 1876 George Walter Thornbury English author.
† 1347 Bartholomew of San Concordio Italian Dominican canonist and man of letters.
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