Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/June 1
Births
[edit]- 1801 - Brigham Young, Mormon church leader and American western settler (d. 1877)
- 1926 - Marilyn Monroe, (pictured) American actress (d. 1962)
- 1926 - Andy Griffith, American actor (d. 2012)
- 1937 - Morgan Freeman, American actor
- 1939 - Jackie Stewart, British race car driver
- 1946 - Brian Cox, Scottish actor
- 1974 - Alanis Morissette, Canadian singer
- 1982 - Justine Henin-Hardenne, Belgian tennis player
- 1996 - Tom Holland, English actor
Deaths
[edit]- 1616 - Shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu (b. 1543)
- 1846 - Pope Gregory XVI (b. 1765)
- 1868 - James Buchanan, 15th President of the United States (b. 1791)
- 1946 - Ion Antonescu, Prime Minister of Romania (b. 1882)
- 1962 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (b. 1906)
- 1968 - Helen Keller, American humanitarian (b. 1880)