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Jun 15 1542

Richard Grenville English parliament leadervice-admiral (Roanoke)

Jun 15 1553

Ernst archduke of Austriagovernor of the Netherlands

Jun 15 1638

Samuel Apostool Dutch vicartheologist (The Sun)

Jun 15 1755

Antoine Franois comte de Fourcroy French chemist (d. 1809)

Jun 15 1763

Franz Danzi German composer and cellist born in Schwetzingen (d. 1826)

Jun 15 1765

Johann Gottlieb Friedrich von Bohnenberger German mathematician (d. 1831)

Jun 15 1767

Rachel Donelson Jackson wife of President Andrew Jackson (1828-37) (d. 1828)

Jun 15 1789

Josiah Henson American slave and settlement founder (d. 1883)

Jun 15 1805

William Butler Ogden first Mayor of Chicago (d. 1877)

Jun 15 1809

Franois-Xavier Garneau French-Canadian poet and historian (d. 1866)

Jun 15 1833

Edward Moody McCook American lawyer politician and Brevet Major General (Union Army) born in Steubenville Ohio (d. 1909)

Jun 15 1843

Edvard Grieg Norwegian composer (Bewitched One) born in Bergen Norway (d. 1907)

Jun 15 1864

Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz] French composer born in Guingamp France (d. 1955)

Jun 15 1865

Paul Gilson Belgian composer born in Brussels (d. 1942)

Jun 15 1867

Konstantin Balmont Russian writer born in Gumnishchi Shuya (d. 1945)

Jun 15 1875

Herman Smith-Johannsen cross-country skier (d. 1987)

Jun 15 1878

Margaret Abbott American golfer (1st American woman to win Olympic event golf 1900) born in Calcutta India (d. 1955)

Jun 15 1880

Mahlon Hamilton American actor (Honky Tonk High School Girl Mississippi) born at Baltimore Maryland (d. 1960)

Jun 15 1884

Harry Langdon American comedian (The Strong Man Tramp Tramp Tramp) born in Council Bluffs Iowa (d. 1944)

Jun 15 1884

Rodney Heath Australian tennis player (Australasian Cship 1905 10) born in Melbourne Victoria (d. 1936)

Jun 15 1888

Ramon Lopez Velarde Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota)

Jun 15 1890

Georg Wst Posen German Oceanographer who provided the first complete understanding of the temperature salinity and deep-current structure of the Atlantic Ocean

Jun 15 1894

Robert Russell Bennett composerarranger (Oklahoma) born in Kansas City Kansas

Jun 15 1894

Nikolai Chebotaryov Ukrainian mathematician (d. 1947)

Jun 15 1898

Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong English organist and composer born in Peterborough England (d. 1994)

Jun 15 1900

Otto Clarence Luening composer (Sonority Canon) born in Milwaukee Wisconsin

Jun 15 1900

Paul J Mares American jazz trumpetistcomposer (Farewell blues)

Jun 15 1900

Gotthard Gnther German philosopher (d. 1984)

Jun 15 1902

Erik Erikson Frankfurt Germany American developmental psychologist and psychoanalyst who coined the phrase identity crisis

Jun 15 1906

Louis RJ Ridder van Rappard Dutch mayor (Zoelen)

Jun 15 1906

Lon Degrelle Belgian SS officer (d. 1994)

Jun 15 1907

James Robertson Justice British actor (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Moby Dick) born in Lewisham London England (d. 1975)

Jun 15 1910

David Rose orchestra leader (Red Skelton Show Stripper) born in London England

Jun 15 1184 Magnus V Erlingsson King of Norway (1156) dies in the Battle of Fimreite

Jun 15 1246 With the death of Duke Frederick II the Babenberg dynasty ends in Austria

Jun 15 1567 Battle at Carberry Scotland Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army

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