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Today's Anniversary – Friday, June 05


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Births

* 1979 Peter Wentz Bassist, back-up vocalist, and primary lyricist of Chicago-based band Fall Out Boy.
* 1972 Chuck Klosterman American pop-culture journalist, critic, and essayist.
* 1971 Mark Wahlberg Academy Award-nominated American actor and television producer, formerly known as rapper Marky Mark.
* 1965 Michael E. Brown Has been a professor of planetary astronomy at the California Institute of Technology since 2003.
* 1963 Mike Turner Canadian musician and producer.
* 1958 Geoff Dyer British writer.
* 1958 Avigdor Lieberman Israeli politician and leader of the Yisrael Beytenu party.
* 1950 John Yau American poet and critic.
* 1947 David Hare English playwright and stage director who has also worked as a screenwriter and film director, winning a BAFTA and being nominated for an Oscar and a Golden Globe.
* 1947 Laurie Anderson American experimental performance artist and musician.
* 1944 Nigel Rees British broadcaster, author, journalist and speaker, well-known for his Quote Unquote program on BBC Radio 4.
* 1939 Joe Clark Retired Canadian politician.
* 1939 Margaret Drabble English novelist, biographer and literary critic.
* 1934 Bill Moyers American journalist, broadcaster, and a former White House Press Secretary.
* 1900 Garrett Fort American short story writer, playwright, and Hollywood screenwriter.
* 1900 Dennis Gabor Hungarian-born British physicist and inventor at Imperial College London (1958–1967), most notable for inventing holography in 1949, for which he received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971.
* 1898 Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist and composer.
* 1898 Federico Garcia Lorca Spanish poet, dramatist, painter, pianist and composer.
* 1897 Charles Hartshorne Prominent American philosopher who concentrated primarily on the philosophy of religion and metaphysics.
* 1886 Kurt Hahn German-born British educator and founder of several innovative educational movements, including Outward Bound.
* 1885 W. C. Allee American zoologist and ecologist known for his work in the behavioural sciences during the 1930s.
* 1884 Ivy Compton-Burnett Award-winning English novelist.
* 1883 John Maynard Keynes British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
* 1878 Pancho Villa Better known as Francisco or "Pancho" Villa, was a Mexican Revolutionary general.
* 1868 James Connolly Scottish-born Irish socialist politician and fighter against British rule.
* 1830 Carmine Crocco Known as Donatello, was an Italian brigand.

Deaths

† 2012 Ray Bradbury American fantasy, horror, science fiction, and mystery writer.
† 2006 Frederick Franck Painter, sculptor, and author of many books on Buddhism and human spirituality.
† 2004 Ronald Reagan American actor and politician, who became 33rd Governor of California and 40th President of the United States; He was the husband of Jane Wyman (1940–1948) and Nancy Davis (married in 1952).
† 1981 Elie Munk French rabbi and author.
† 1973 Madhav Sadashiv Golwalkar Popularly known as "Guruji", was the second "Sarsanghchalak" of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh.
† 1965 Eleanor Farjeon English author of children's stories and plays, poetry, biography, history and satire.
† 1915 Henri Gaudier-Brzeska French sculptor who developed a rough-hewn, primitive style of direct carving.
† 1910 O. Henry Pen name of William Sydney Porter, a short-story writer famous for his use of twist endings.
† 1900 Stephen Crane American novelist, poet and journalist.
† 1807 Boyle Roche Irish politician, famed for his highly ornamented and often inaccurate speech, which often included amusing mixed metaphors and malapropisms.
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