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Jun 01 1300

Thomas of Brotherton 1st Earl of Norfolk son of Edward I of England (d. 1338)

Jun 01 1480

Tiedemann Giese Polish Catholic bishop (d. 1550)

Jun 01 1563

Robert Cecil 1st Earl of Salisbury and English Prime Minister (1598-1612) born in Westminster Salisbury (d. 1612)

Jun 01 1633

Geminiano Montanari Italian astronomer (d. 1687)

Jun 01 1653

Georg Muffat baroque composer born in Megve Duchy of Savoy (d. 1704)

Jun 01 1757

Ignaz J Pleyel Austria composerpiano builder (Piano method)

Jun 01 1762

Edmund Ignatius Rice Irish founder of the Christian Brothers and Presentation Brothers (d. 1844)

Jun 01 1765

Christiane Vulpius wife of Johann W von Goethe

Jun 01 1765

Friedrich Ludwig Seidel German composer born in Treuenbrietzen (d. 1831)

Jun 01 1776

John George Schetky American violoncellist music teacher and composer born in Edinburgh Scotland (d. 1831)

Jun 01 1790

Salomon J Rappoport Czech rabbilearned (Ereg miliem)

Jun 01 1790

Ferdinand Raimund Austrian playwright (d. 1836)

Jun 01 1796

Nicolas Lonard Sadi Carnot French mathematician (d. 1832)

Jun 01 1675

Francesco Scipione marchese di Maffei Italian archaeologist (d. 1755)

Jun 01 1800

Edward Deas Thomson Australian politician (d. 1879)

Jun 01 1804

Mikhail Glinka Novosspaskoye Russia composer (Jota Aragonesa Ruslan and Ludmilla) [OSMay 20]

Jun 01 1806

John B Floyd American Governor (Virginia) Secretary of War (1857-60) and Confederate general born in Blacksburg Virginia (d. 1863)

Jun 01 1815

Otto of Greece King of Greece (1832-62) born in Salzburg Bavaria (d. 1862)

Jun 01 1825

John Hunt Morgan Brigadier General (Confederate cavalry commander)

Jun 01 1831

John Bell Hood General (Confederate Army) (d. 1879)

Jun 01 1833

John Marshall Harlan Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1911)

Jun 01 1843

Henry Faulds Scottish fingerprinting pioneer (d. 1930)

Jun 01 1844

Galusha Pennypacker Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1916)

Jun 01 1844

John J. Toffey American Civil War hero (d. 1911)

Jun 01 1848

Otto Valdemar Malling Danish organist and composer (Det hellige Land opus 46) born in Copenhagen Denmark (d. 1915)

Jun 01 1858

William W Campbell Canadian poet (Beyond the Hills of Dream)

Jun 01 1862

Antnio Feij Portuguese poet and diplomat born in Ponte de Lima Portugal (d. 1917)

Jun 01 1878

John Masefield British writer and poet (Salt-Water Ballads) Poet Laureate (1930-67) born in Ledbury Herefordshire (d. 1967)

Jun 01 1881

Charles Kay Ogden English writer and linguist (d. 1957)

Jun 01 1882

John Drinkwater English poetplaywright (Abraham Lincoln)

Jun 01 1887

Clive Brook British actor and director (List of Adrian Messenger) born in London England (d. 1974)

Jun 01 1890

Frank Morgan [Francis P Wupperman] US actor (The Wizard of Oz) born in NYC New York (d. 1949)

Jun 01 1892

Samuel L M Barlow II American composer (Mon Ami Pierrot) born in NYC New York (d. 1982)

Jun 01 4000 BC Approximate domestication of the horse in the Eurasian steppes near Dereivka central Ukraine (hypothesis only)

Jun 01 1283 Albrecht I van Habsburg becomes ruler of AustrianBull market

Jun 01 1283 Treaty of Rheinfelden Duke Rudolph II of Austria waives his right to the Duchies of Austria and Styria

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