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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, June 02


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Births

* 1972 Wentworth Miller British-born American actor who rose to stardom following his role as Michael Scofield in the Fox Network television series Prison Break.
* 1953 Cornel West Prominent African-American scholar and public intellectual.
* 1949 Heather Couper British astronomer who popularized astronomy in the 1980s and 1990s on British television.
* 1945 Richard Long English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists.
* 1944 Dennis Overbye Science correspondent for the New York Times.
* 1927 Harriett Woods American politician and activist, a two-time Democratic nominee for the United States Senate from Missouri, and a former Lieutenant Governor of Missouri.
* 1857 Edward Elgar English composer.
* 1855 Archibald Berkeley Milne Admiral of the Royal Navy who commanded the British Mediterranean Fleet at the outbreak of the First World War.
* 1840 John Lancaster Spalding First bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908, a notable scholarly writer of the time and, a co-founder of The Catholic University of America.
* 1840 Thomas Hardy English novelist, short story writer and poet.
* 1835 Pope Pius X 257th Pope — the Bishop of Rome and head of the Roman Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914.
* 1816 John Godfrey Saxe American poet.
* 1740 Donatien de Sade Better known as the Marquis de Sade, was a French writer of philosophy-laden and often violent pornography, as well as some strictly philosophical works.

Deaths

† 1994 David Stove Australian philosopher of science.
† 1987 Anthony de Mello Jesuit priest, psychotherapist and writer who became widely known for his books on spirituality.
† 1983 Stan Rogers Canadian folk musician and songwriter.
† 1968 A. A. Thomson English writer best known for his books on cricket.
† 1962 Vita Sackville-West Most famous as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist and writer on gardening.
† 1951 John Erskine U S educator and author, born in New York City and raised in Weehawken, New Jersey.
† 1951 Emile Chartier Notable French essayist and philosopher who wrote under the pseudonym Alain.
† 1948 Viktor Brack Organizer of the Euthanasia Programme, Operation T4, where the Nazi state systematically murdered German disabled people.
† 1948 Karl Brandt Personal physician of Adolf Hitler in August 1944 and headed the administration of the Nazi euthanasia program from 1939.
† 1943 Nile Kinnick 1939 Heisman Trophy winner.
† 1941 Lou Gehrig Born Ludwig Heinrich Gehrig, was an American Major League Baseball player in the first half of the twentieth century.
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