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Birthdays:

• Johanna Louise Heusser, aka Johanna Spyri author of children's stories, best known for Heidi, June 12, 1827 - July 7, 1901


• Robert Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon, KG, MC, PC, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the 1950's, remembered mainly for his role in the politically disastrous Suez Crisis [1956], June 12, 1897– January 14, 1977


• Emmett Louis Hardy, jazz cornet player, June 12, 1903 – June 16, 1925


• Marina Timofeyevna Semyonova, the first Soviet-trained prima ballerina, 1908


• J. Alphonse Ouimet, Canadian television pioneer and president of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) from 1958 to 1967, who helped design, build, and demonstrate the first Canadian television set, June 12, 1908 – December 20, 1988


• William John Francis 'Bill' Naughton, playwright and author, best known for his play Alfie, June 12, 1910 - January 9, 1992


• Irwin Allen, television and film producer nicknamed "The Master of Disaster" for his work in the disaster film genre, also known for creating a number of popular television series, June 12, 1916 – November 2, 1991


• Samuel Zachary Arkoff, producer of B movies, co-founder of American International Pictures, June 12, 1918 – September 16, 2001


• Uta Thyra Hagen, actress and acting teacher, June 12, 1919 - January 14, 2004


• Dave Berg, cartoonist, June 12, 1920 – May 17, 2002


• James Archibald Houston, OC , D.Litt. , FRSA , LL.D, artist, designer, children's author, and filmmaker, played an important role in the recognition of Inuit art and introduced printmaking to the Inuit, June 12, 1921 – April 17, 2005


• Vito Rocco Farinola, aka Vic Damone, singer, 1928


• Annelies Marie 'Anne' Frank, diarist and Holocaust victim, June 12, 1929 – March, 1945


• James Thurston 'Jim' Nabors, actor, singer, and comedian, best known as Gomer Pyle on The Andy Griffith Show, and its spinoff, Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C., 1930


• Rona Jaffe, novelist, June 12, 1932 — December 30, 2005


• Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea, jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, 1941


• Bradley E. 'Brad, Delp, lead vocalist for Boston, 1951


• Brad Carlson, aka Bun E. Carlos, drummer for Cheap Trick, 1951


• Pete Farndon, bassist and founding member of The Pretenders, June 12, 1952 - April 14, 1983


• Hideki Matsui, MLB left fielder for the New York Yankees, who had a huge career with the Yomiuri Giants of the Japanese Central League, in which he was a three-time [league] MVP; nicknamed "Godzilla," 1974


• Jason Mewes, television and film actor, with roles in several low-budget independent films, best known as drug dealer Jay in films written and directed by Kevin Smith, 1974

RIP:

• Maria Teresa Carreño, pianist, singer, and conductor, December 22, 1853 - June 12, 1917


• James 'Jimmy' Dorsey, jazz clarinetist, saxophonist, and big band leader, February 29, 1904 – June 12, 1957


• Medgar Wiley Evers, black civil rights activist, murdered because of his activism, July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963


• Hermann Scherchen, conductor and arranger, June 21, 1891 – June 12, 1966


• Milburn Stone, television actor, best known "Doc" (Doctor Galen Adams) on Gunsmoke, July 5, 1904 - June 12, 1980


• Edith Norma Shearer, Academy Award-winning actress, August 10, 1902 - June 12, 1983


• Ronald Lyle Goldman, aspiring actor and part-time model, murdered along with his friend, Nicole Brown Simpson, at the age of 25, July 2, 1968 – June 12, 1994


• Nicole Brown Simpson, ex-wife of O. J. Simpson, murdered along with her friend, Ronald Goldman, May 19, 1959 – June 12, 1994


• Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, classical pianist, January 5, 1920 – June 12, 1995


• Eldred Gregory Peck, Oscar-winning film actor [for To Kill a Mockingbird] and, later, television actor, nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor five times, four of which came in his first five years of film acting, April 5, 1916 – June 12, 2003


• Kenneth Roy Thomson, 2nd Baron Thomson of Fleet, businessman and art collector, September 1, 1923 – June 12, 2006