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Today's Anniversary – Saturday, June 06


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Births

* 1978 Carl Barat English musician who is currently the lead singer and guitarist for Dirty Pretty Things and is also the former co-frontman of The Libertines along with Pete Doherty.
* 1973 Patrick Rothfuss New York Times bestselling American fantasy writer and a college lecturer.
* 1963 Eric Cantor American politician, and U S Representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district, of the Republican Party.
* 1963 Wolfgang Drechsler Public Administration, Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar.
* 1955 Sandra Bernhard American actress and comedian.
* 1952 Harvey Fierstein American Tony Award-winning and Emmy Award-winning actor, playwright and screenwriter.
* 1952 Ibrahim Lipumba Tanzanian politician and chairman of the Civic United Front party.
* 1950 Andrew Napolitano Former New Jersey Superior Court Judge and now a political and legal analyst for Fox News Channel.
* 1943 Richard Smalley Renowned American chemist, nanotechnogist, and a Nobel laureate for his discovery of the carbon form Buckminsterfullerene.
* 1941 Alexander Cockburn Scottish-born political journalist who was raised in Ireland and has lived and worked in the United States since 1972.
* 1939 Marian Wright Edelman American activist for the rights of children.
* 1935 Harry E. Soyster Former United States Army officer.
* 1933 Heinrich Rohrer Swiss physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for 1986 with Gerd Binnig for their design of the scanning tunneling microscope.
* 1918 Martin Esslin Hungarian-born English producer and playwright dramatist, journalist, adaptor and translator, critic, academic scholar and professor of drama most famous for coining the term "Theatre of the Absurd" in his 1961 work of that name, critiquing mid-twentieth century forms of Absurdism in dramatic theatre.
* 1909 Isaiah Berlin Political philosopher and historian of ideas, regarded as one of the leading liberal thinkers of the 20th century.
* 1901 Sukarno Known as Sukarno, was an Indonesian nationalist and orator who later became the founding President (1945–1967) of the Republic of Indonesia.
* 1901 Jan Struther English writer remembered for her character Mrs.
* 1896 R. C. Sherriff English writer.
* 1894 Harry Greb Boxer.
* 1875 Thomas Mann German novelist, short story writer, social critic, philanthropist, essayist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate, known for his series of highly symbolic and ironic epic novels and mid-length stories, noted for their insight into the psychology of the artist and the intellectual.
* 1868 Robert Falcon Scott Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions.
* 1862 Henry Newbolt Early 20th century English poet, best known for "Vitai Lampada".
* 1860 William Ralph Inge Popularly referred to simply as Dean Inge, was an English author, Anglican prelate, professor of divinity at Cambridge, and Dean of St Paul's Cathedral.
* 1755 Nathan Hale Captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.
* 1606 Pierre Corneille French tragedian who was one of the three great 17th Century French dramatists, along with Moli?re and Jean Racine.

Deaths

† 2005 Anne Bancroft Born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano, was an American actress; wife of Mel Brooks.
† 1982 Kenneth Rexroth American poet, essayist, translator and anarchist.
† 1977 John Masterman Noted academic, sportsman and author.
† 1976 J. Paul Getty American industrialist and founder of the Getty Oil Company.
† 1971 Edward Andrade English physicist, writer and poet.
† 1968 Robert F. Kennedy American politician, Attorney General of the U S and Senator; brother of President John F Kennedy and Senator Edward "Ted" Kennedy.
† 1962 Yves Klein French artist and is considered an important figure in post-war European art.
† 1961 Carl Jung Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology.
† 1951 Lionel Tennyson Cricketer who captained England.
† 1947 James Agate English drama critic and diarist.
† 1914 Theodore Watts-Dunton English critic and poet.
† 1891 John A. Macdonald First Prime Minister of Canada.
† 1843 Friedrich Holderlin Major German lyric poet, whose work bridges the Classical and Romantic schools.
† 1832 Jeremy Bentham British gentleman, jurist, philosopher, and legal and social reformer.
† 1799 Patrick Henry Prominent figure in the American Revolution, known and remembered primarily for his stirring oratory.
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