June 2 - Births

Births

• 926 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
• 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
• 1731 – Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
• 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
• 1743 – Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
• 1773 – John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
• 1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
• 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
• 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
• 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
• 1838 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
• 1840 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
• 1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
• 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
• 1863 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
• 1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
• 1869 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937)
• 1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973)
• 1887 – Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
• 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Takijirō Ōnishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
• 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
• 1904 – Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
• 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
• 1907 – John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
• 1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
• 1913 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
• 1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
• 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
• 1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
• 1918 – Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
• 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller
• 1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
• 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
• 1920 – Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
• 1920 – Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009)
• 1922 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
• 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
• 1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
• 1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
• 1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41^st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
• 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
• 1929 – Norton Juster, American author and architect
• 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
• 1930 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
• 1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball player
• 1931 – Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1931 – William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
• 1932 – Sammy Turner, American singer
• 1934 – Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
• 1935 – Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
• 1935 – Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
• 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
• 1937 – Jimmy Jones (singer), American singer and songwriter
• 1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
• 1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
• 1940 – King Constantine II of Greece
• 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
• 1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
• 1941 – William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
• 1941 – Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Maree Cheatham, American actress
• 1943 – Charles Haid, American actor
• 1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian composer
• 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
• 1945 – Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
• 1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
• 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
• 1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
• 1946 – Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
• 1947 – Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
• 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
• 1949 – Heather Couper, British astronomer
• 1949 – Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
• 1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
• 1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
• 1952 – Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
• 1953 – Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
• 1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
• 1953 – Cornel West, American civil rights activist
• 1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor
• 1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
• 1955 – Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
• 1955 – Dana Carvey, American actor
• 1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian director
• 1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
• 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English football commentator
• 1957 – Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
• 1958 – Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
• 1959 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player
• 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer
• 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver
• 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
• 1961 – Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
• 1963 – Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
• 1964 – Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
• 1965 – Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
• 1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
• 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
• 1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
• 1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
• 1968 – Beetlejuice, American radio personality
• 1968 – Jon Culshaw, British comedian
• 1969 – Cy Chadwick, English actor
• 1970 – Andy McCollum, American football player
• 1970 – B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
• 1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
• 1971 – Kateřina Jacques, Czech politician
• 1971 – Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian
• 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
• 1972 – Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
• 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
• 1972 – Simon Staho, Danish film director
• 1973 – Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
• 1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
• 1974 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
• 1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
• 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
• 1976 – Martin Čech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
• 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
• 1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
• 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
• 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
• 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
• 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
• 1978 – A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
• 1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian-born rock drummer (The Strokes)
• 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
• 1980 – Abby Wambach, American soccer player
• 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian professional tennis player
• 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
• 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
• 1982 – Abdulkadir Kocak, Turkish boxer
• 1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
• 1983 – Brooke White, American singer
• 1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
• 1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress
• 1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
• 1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian-American footballer
• 1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress
• 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, British actress