June

Brigham Young (1801) American who led the Mormons from Illinois to
Utah

Pat Boone (1934) American singer and actor

John Randolph of Roanoke (1773) American statesman

Edwin Way Teale (1899) American naturalist, writer, and photographer

Jefferson Davis (1808) president of the Confederate States of
America

Charles R. Drew (1904) American doctor; set up World War II blood
banks

George III (1738) king of Great Britain during the American
Revolution

Who shares my birthday?

Is your birthday in June?\’The names of some of the famous people born
in June are shown on the calendar on this page and the next. What do you
know about the person who shares your birthday?

Adam Smith (1723) Scottish economist; wrote The Wealth of Nations

John Couch

Adams (1819)

British astronomer; discovered Neptune

Nathan Hale (1755)

American patriot hanged as a spy by the British

Thomas Mann

(1875) German author who won a Nobel Prize

Gwendolyn Brooks (1917) American poet, winner of a Pulitzer Prize,
whose poems are about the life of blacks in the city

Nikki Giovanni (1943) American poet

Robert Stevenson

(1772) Scottish inventor of flashing light in lighthouses

Frank Lloyd Wright (1867) American architect

George Stephenson (1781) English inventor, known as “Founder of
Railways”

Cole Porter (1893) American composer of popular music

Prince Philip (1921) Duke of Edinburgh; husband of Queen Elizabeth

Judy Garland

(1922) American singer and movie actress

Jeanette Rankin (1880) first woman member of Congress

Jacques-Yves Cousteau (1910) French marine explorer

Johanna Spyri

(1827) Swiss author of Heidi

Anne Frank (1929)

Dutch writer, famous for the diary she kept

William Butler

Yeats (1865) Irish poet

Paavo Nurmi (1897)

Finnish long-distance runner

Harriet Beecher

Stowe (1811)

American author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Eric Heiden (1958) American Olympic speed skater

Edvard Grieg

(1843) Norwegian composer

Ernestine Schumann-Heink

(1861) Czech opera singer

Arthur Meighen

(1874) a prime minister of Canada

Katharine Graham

(1917) American newspaper publisher

Charles Gounod

(1818) French composer of operas

Igor Stravinsky

(1882) Russian-born composer, famous for his ballet music

Paul McCartney (1942) English rock star of the 1960’s, who belonged
to a music group called the Beatles

Lou Gehrig (1903) American baseball hero who played 2,130
consecutive games with the New York Yankees

Alberto Santos- Dumont (1873) Brazilian aviator and airplane builder

Lillian Hellman

(1905) American playwright

Daniel C. Beard

(1850) an early leader of the Boy Scouts of America

Prince William

(1982) son of Prince Charles and Princess Diana of England

Julian Huxley (1887) English biologist

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906) American author; wife of Charles
Lindbergh

Edward VIII (1894) English king who gave up his throne to marry
Wallis Simpson

Wilma Rudolph (1940) American Olympic sprinter

E. I. du Pont (1771) French-born founder of the world’s largest
maker of chemical products

Louis Mountbatten

(1900) British admiral and World War II hero

Celia Franca (1921)

British ballet dancer; founded National Ballet of Canada

Antonia Brica

(1902) first American woman to conduct the Berlin Symphony

Mildred \”Babe” Didrikson Zaharias (1914) outstanding athlete and
golfer

Peter Paul Rubens (1577) Flemish painter

Helen Keller (1880) famous deaf, blind American speaker and author

Henry VIII (1491) king of England

Esther Forbes

(1891) American author of Johnny Tremain and other children’s books

George Goethals

(1858) American engineer who built the Panama Canal

George E. Hale (1868) American astronomer

Lena Horne (1917) American singer

Czeslaw Milosz (1919) Polish-born writer; won the Nobel Prize for
literature