Ernest Miller Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) was an American author and journalist. He produced most of his work between the mid-1920s and the mid-1950s, and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in...
Robert Charles Durman Mitchum (August 6, 1917 – July 1, 1997) was an American film actor, author, composer and singer. He is number 23 on the American Film Institute’s list of the greatest male American screen...
Charles Laughton (1 July 1899 – 15 December 1962) was an English stage and film actor and director. Among Laughton’s biggest film-hits were The Barretts of Wimpole Street, Mutiny on the Bounty, Jamaica Inn and The Hunchback of...
Michael Gerard “Mike” Tyson (born June 30, 1966) is a retired American professional boxer. Tyson is a former undisputed heavyweight champion of the world and holds the record as the youngest boxer to win the WBC, WBA and IBF heavyweight titles at...
Nelson Ackerman Eddy (June 29, 1901 – March 6, 1967) was an American singer and actor who appeared in 19 musical films during the 1930s and 1940s, as well as in opera and on the concert stage,...
Mel Brooks (born Melvin James Kaminsky; June 28, 1926) is an American film director, screenwriter, composer, lyricist, comedian, actor and producer. In middle age he became one of the most successful film directors of the 1970s, with many of his films being among the...
Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, political activist, and lecturer. She was the first deaf and blind person to earn a Bachelor of Arts degree. Her birthday on June 27...
George IV (George Augustus Frederick; 12 August 1762 – 26 June 1830) was king of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and king of Hanover following the death of his father, George III, on 29 January 1820,...
Wilhelm Emil “Willy” Messerschmitt (/’vĭli ‘messer shmĭt/) (June 26, 1898 – September 15, 1978) was a German aircraft designer and manufacturer, born in Frankfurt am Main. Probably Messerschmitt’s single most important design was the Messerschmitt Bf 109, designed in...
Eric Arthur Blair (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950), known by his pen name George Orwell, was an English novelist and journalist. Eric Arthur Blair was born on 25 June 1903, in Motihari, Bihar, in India....
Anthony John “Tony” Hancock (12 May 1924 – 24 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. Popular during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock’s Half...
John Herbert Dillinger (June 22, 1903 – July 22, 1934) was an American bank robber in the Depression-era United States In 1933–34, Dillinger was the most notorious of all, standing out even among more violent criminals...
Judy Garland (born Frances Ethel Gumm; June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969) was an American actress and singer. Described by Fred Astaire as “the greatest entertainer who ever lived”, she attained international stardom throughout a career...
Errol Leslie Thomson Flynn (20 June 1909 – 14 October 1959) was an Australian actor. He was known for his romantic swashbuckler roles in Hollywood films. Errol Flynn was born in Hobart, Tasmania. Flynn had a reputation for womanizing. His...
Sir James Matthew Barrie, 1st Baronet, OM (9 May 1860 – 19 June 1937) was a Scottish author and dramatist, best remembered today as the creator of Peter Pan. He moved to London, where he developed a career as a novelist...
Roger Ebert had the most-watched thumb in Hollywood. With a twist of his wrist, the Pulitzer Prize-winning critic rendered decisions that influenced a nation of moviegoers and could sometimes...
Barry Manilow (born June 17, 1943) is an American singer-songwriter and producer In 1978, five of his albums were on the best-seller charts simultaneously, a feat equalled only by Herb Alpert, Frank Sinatra, Michael Jackson, Bruce Springsteen and Johnny Mathis. Between 1974 and...
Stanley “Stan” Laurel (born Arthur Stanley Jefferson, 16 June 1890 – 23 February 1965), was an English comic actor, writer and film director, famous as one half of the comedy team Laurel and Hardy. Laurel began...
George Herbert Walker Bush (born June 12, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 41st President of the United States (1989–1993). A Republican, he had previously served as the 43rd Vice...
Marion Mitchell Morrison (born Marion Robert Morrison; May 26, 1907 – June 11, 1979), better known by his stage name John Wayne, was an American film actor, director and producer. Wayne was...
