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Famous June Birthdays

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Who was Born in June on Your Birthday?

Do you know who was born on your birthday? There are many famous June birthdays displayed below. We hope you find famous and historic people who share your special day.  See who was born in your birth month below.

Did You Know? The song “Happy Birthday to You” was first sung on June 27, 1859

Famous June Birthdays

June 1, 1801 – Brigham Young, Mormon religious leader

June 1, 1926 – Andy Griffith, actor

June 1, 1926 – Marilyn Monroe, actress

June 1, 1934 – Pat Boone, singer

June 1, 1937 – Morgan Freeman, actor, movie “Driving Miss Daisy”

June 1, 1947 – Ron Wood, musician, member of the “Rolling Stones”

June 1, 1973 –  Heidi Klum, German supermodel, actress, fashion designer

June 1, 1974 – Alanis Morisette, singer

June 2, 1731 – Martha Washington, the very first First Lady of the United States

June 2, 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic champion swimmer, actor “Tarzan”

June 2, 1930 – Pete Conrad, astronaut

June 2, 1941 – Stacy Keach, actor

June 2, 1948 – Jerry Mathers, actor “Beaver” on “Leave it to Beaver”

June 2, 1955 – Dana Carvey,  SNL, “Wayne’s World”

June 2, 1980 – Abby Wambach, soccer player, coach

June 3, 1808 – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America

June 3, 1865 – King George V, of England

June 3, 1925 – Tony Curtis, actor

June 3, 1926 – Allen Ginsberg, poet

June 3, 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, singer, songwriter

June 3, 1967 – Anderson Cooper, journalist, and author

June 4, 1738 – King George III, king of England during the American Revolution

June 4, 1924 – Dennis Weaver, actor

June 4, 1944 – Michelle Phillips, singer, member of the “Mamas and the Papas”

June 4, 1952 – Parker Stevenson, actor

June 4, 1971 – Noah Wyle, actor “Carter” on the TV series “ER”

June 4, 1975 – Angelina Jolie, actress

June 5, 1878 – Francisco “Pancho” Villa, Mexican revolutionary

June 5, 1883 – John Maynard Keynes, economist

June 5, 1934 – Bill Moyers, TV journalist

June 5, 1956 – Kenny G, musician

June 6, 1755 – Nathan Hale, Revolutionary War hero, and  patriot

June 6, 1799- Alexander Pushkin, poet

June 6, 1892 – Donald F. Duncan Sr, created the Duncan Yo-Yo

June 6, 1935 – The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader

June 6, 1939 – Marian Wright Edelman, children’s rights activist

June 6, 1956 – Bjorn Borg, tennis champion

June 7, 1848 – Paul Gauguin, painter

June 7, 1917 – Dean Martin, singer, actor, producer

June 7, 1922 – Rocky Graziano, boxing champion

June 7, 1940 – Tom Jones, singer

June 7, 1952 – Liam Neeson, actor

June 7, 1958 – “Prince”, singer

June 8, 1867 – Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

June 8, 1916 – Francis Crick, biologist, biochemist, co-discovered the structure of DNA

June 8, 1917 – Byron R. White, Supreme Court justice

June 8, 1925 – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States

June 8, 1929 – Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor

June 8, 1936 – James Darren, singer, actor

June 8, 1937 – Joan Rivers, comedian

June 8, 1940 – Nancy Sinatra, Singer, daughter of Frank Sinatra, “These Boots are Made for Walking”.

June 8, 1944 – Boz Scaggs, rock singer

June 8, 1957 – Scott Adams, cartoonist, created “Dilbert”

June 8, 1966 – Julianna Margulies, actress

June 8, 1977 – Kanye West, singer, producer.

June 9, 1781 – George Stephenson, invented the steam locomotive

June 9, 1893 – Cole Porter, composer, lyricist

June 9, 1908 – Robert Cummings, actor

June 9, 1940 – Dick Vitale, sportscaster

June 9, 1961 – Michael J. Fox, actor, “Back to the Future”

June 9, 1963 – Johnny Depp, actor, “Pirates of the Caribbean”

June 9, 1981 – Natalie Portman, “Queen Amidala” in “Star Wars”

June 10, 1901 – Frederick Loewe, composer

June 10, 1921 – Prince Philip, Britain Prince Consort, Duke of Ellington

June 10, 1922 – Judy Garland, singer, actress “The Wizard of Oz”

June 10, 1982 – Tara Lipinski, Olympic champion figure skater

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June 11, 1864 – Richard Strauss, composer, musician, conductor

June 11, 1880 – Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress

June 11, 1910 – Jacques Cousteau, undersea explorer, writer, filmmaker

June 11, 1913 – Vince Lombardi, football coach

June 11, 1935 – Gene Wilder, actor, director

June 11, 1936 – Chad Everett, actor

June 11, 1956 – Joe Montana, NFL quarterback

June 12, 1915 – David Rockefeller, banker

June 12, 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President (1989-1993)

June 12, 1928 – Vic Damone, singer

June 12, 1929 – Anne Frank, Holocaust victim, wrote diary of her experience

June 12, 1933 – Jim Nabors, actor, singer

June 12, 1943 – Marv Albert, sportscaster

June 13, 1893 – Dorothy L. Sayers, mystery writer

June 13, 1943 – Malcolm McDowell, actor

June 13, 1951 – Richard Thomas, actor

June 13, 1953 – Tim Allen, comedian, movie and television actor, TV series “Home Improvement”

June 13, 1986 – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen twins, actresses

June 14, 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, abolitionist

June 14, 1864 – Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist, pathologist

June 14, 1909 – Burl Ives, singer, actor

June 14, 1919 – Gene Barry, actor

June 14, 1946 – Donald Trump,  45th U.S. President, real estate executive, TV personality “The Donald”

June 14, 1961 – Boy George, singer

June 14, 1969 – Steffi Graf, tennis champion

June 15, 1932 – Mario Cuomo, NY Governor

June 15, 1937 – Waylon Jennings, country singer

June 15, 1954 – Jim Belushi, actor, brother of John Belushi

June 15, 1958 – Wade Boggs, MLB slugger

June 15, 1963 – Helen Hunt, actress (Los Angeles, CA)

June 15, 1964 – Courtney Cox, actress “Friends”

June 15, 1969 – Ice Cube, rapper

June 15, 1974 – Neil Patrick Harris, actor, singer, director

June 16, 1829 – Geronimo, Native American Apache leader

June 16, 1890 – Stan Laurel, comedian, “Laurel & Hardy” duo

June 16, 1917 – Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher (New York, NY)

June 16, 1943 – Joan Van Ark, actress, “Val” on the TV series “Knots Landing”

June 16, 1951 – Roberto Duran, boxing champion

June 17, 1917 – Dean Martin, actor, singer

June 17, 1943 – Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House

June 17, 1946 – Barry Manilow, singer, and songwriter

June 17, 1948 – Phylicia Rashad, actress

June 17, 1951 – Joe Piscopo, comedian, actor, SNL

June 17, 1965 – Dan Jansen, Olympic champion speed skater

June 17, 1980 – Venus Williams, tennis player

June 18, 1886 – George Mallory, mountain climber, explorer

June 18, 1908 – Bud Collyer, Game show host for “To Tell the Truth”

June 18, 1942 – Roger Ebert, film critic, “Siskel & Ebert”

June 18, 1942 – Paul McCartney, singer, songwriter, and musician, “The Beatles”

June 18, 1952 – Carol Kane, actress

June 18, 1976 – BlLake Shelton, country singer, Tv personality on “The Voice”.

June 19, 1623 – Blaise Pascal, philosopher, physicist

June 19, 1897 – Moe Howard, comedian, actor, “Moe” of the “Three Stooges”

June 19, 1902 – Guy Lombardo, bandleader

June 19, 1903 – Lou Gehrig, baseball player

June 19, 1947 – Salman Rushdie, author of “The Satanic Verses”

June 19, 1954 – Kathleen Turner, actress

June 19, 1962 – Paula Abdul, dancer,  choreographer, “American Idol” judge

June 19, 1964 – Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister

June 20, 1909 – Erol Flynn, Actor

June 20, 1924 – Chet Atkins, guitarist

June 20, 1924 – Audie Murphy, actor, WWII hero

June 20, 1931 – Olympia Dukakis, actress

June 20, 1933 – Danny Aiello, actor

June 20, 1934 – Martin Landau, actor

June 20, 1942 – Brian Wilson, singer, songwriter, member of the “Beach Boys”

June 20, 1945 – Anne Murray, singer

June 20, 1946 – Bob Vila, TV handyman show

June 20, 1949 – Lionel Richie, singer

June 20, 1952 – John Goodman, actor

June 20, 1953 – Cyndi Lauper, singer

June 20, 1967 – Nicole Kidman, actress



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Who was born on your June birthday?

June 21, 1905 – Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist, playwright

June 21, 1912 – Mary McCarthy, novelist

June 21, 1921 – Jane Russell, actress

June 21, 1925 – Maureen Stapleton, actress

June 21, 1947 – Meredith Baxter, actress

June 21, 1947 – Michael Gross, actor

June 22, 1903 – John Dillinger, bank robber

June 22, 1922 – Bill Blass, fashion designer

June 22, 1929 – Ralph Waite, actor

June 22, 1936 – Kris Kristofferson, singer, actor

June 22, 1941 – Ed Bradley, TV journalist

June 22, 1949 – Meryl Streep, Oscar-winning actress

June 22, 1949 – Lindsay Wagner, actress, television series The Bionic Woman

June  22, 1964 – Dan Brown, author, The DaVinci Code

June 23, 1929 – June Carter Cash, country singer

June 23, 1948 – Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice

June 24, 1895 – Jack Dempsey, boxing champion

June 24, 1942 – Mick Fleetwood, musician, member of Fleetwood Mac

June 24, 1942 – Michele Lee, actress

June 24, 1945 – George Pataki, NY Governor

June 24, 1946 – Ellison Onizuka, astronaut, died in the Challenger Space Shuttle explosion

June 24, 1967 – Sherry Stringfield, actress (Colorado Springs, CO)

 June 25, 1874 – Rose O’Neill, created Kewpie Dolls

June 25, 1903-  George Orwell, novelist

June 25, 1925 – June Lockhart, actress

June 25, 1930 – Clint Eastwood, actor

June 25, 1945 – Carly Simon, singer

June 25, 1948 – Jimmie Walker, actor, comedian

June 26, 1819 – Abner Doubleday, invented the game of baseball

June 26, 1892 – Pearl S. Buck, novelist

June 26, 1910 – Roy Plunkett, invented Teflon

June 26, 1963 – George Michael, singer

June 26, 1970 – Chris O’Donnell, actor

June 26, 1974 – Derek Jeter, American baseball player

June 26, 1993 – Ariana Grande, actress, singer

June 27, 1880 – Helen Keller, blind author, lecturer

June 27, 1927 – Bob Keeshan, children’s TV- “Captain Kangaroo”

June 27, 1930 – H. Ross Perot, entrepreneur, presidential candidate

June 27, 1993 – Ar-ana Grande, singer, actress

June 27, 1951 – Julia Duffy, actress

June 28, 1491 – Henry VIII, King of England

June 28, 1712 – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher

June 28, 1902 – Richard Rodgers, music composer, “Rogers and Hammerstein”

June 28, 1926 – Mel Brooks, actor, director

June 28, 1932 – Pat Morita, actor

June 28, 1946 – Bruce Davison,  actor

June 28, 1960 – John Elway, NFL quarterback, Denver Broncos

June 28, 1966 – John Cusack, actor

June 28, 1971 – Elon Musk, born in South Africa. Entrepreneur, invnetor, Tesla Motors, Space-X.

June 29, 1858 – George W. Goethals, chief engineer for the Panama Canal

June 29, 1941 – Stokely Carmichael, militant civil rights activist

June 29, 1944 – Gary Busey, actor

June 29, 1947 – Richard Lewis, comedian, actor

June 29, 1962 – Sharon Lawrence, actress

June 30, 1917 – Susan Hayward, actress

June 30, 1917 – Lena Horne, actress, singer

June 30, 1966 – Mike Tyson, boxing champion

June 30, 1985 – Michael Phelps, American Olympic multiple gold medalist in swimming

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