June 7 Dateline

Birthdays

1848 - Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin, French post-Impressionist artist. Unappreciated until after his death, Gauguin is now recognized for his experimental use of colour and Synthetist style that were distinctly different from Impressionism.  (Paul Gauguin: Biography and Artwork. Uploaded by Educational Videos for Kids. Accessed June 7, 2019.)

1868 - Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Scottish architect, designer, water colourist artist and illustrator. His artistic approach had much in common with European Symbolism. His work, alongside that of his wife Margaret Macdonald, was influential on European design movements such as Art Nouveau and Secessionism and praised by great modernists such as Josef Hoffmann.

1897 - George Szell (born György Széll, György Endre Szél, or Georg Szell), Hungarian-born American conductor and composer. (Szell conducting Mozart's Overture to The Marriage of Figaro). He is widely considered one of the twentieth century's greatest conductors. Szell is remembered today for his long and successful tenure as music director of the Cleveland Orchestra of Cleveland, Ohio, and for the recordings of the standard classical repertoire he made in Cleveland and with other orchestras.

1909 - Virginia Apgar, American obstetrical anesthesiologist, best known as the inventor of the 'Apgar Score', a way to quickly assess the health of a newborn child immediately after birth in order to combat infant mortality.

1909 - Jessica Alice Tandy, English-American actress. She appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV, receiving such accolades as an Academy Award, four Tony Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award.

1917 - Dean Martin, American actor, singer and comedian. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the mid-20th century.

1931 - Virginia Anne McKenna, OBE, British stage and screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films A Town Like Alice, Carve Her Name with Pride, Born Free, and Ring of Bright Water, as well as her work with The Born Free Foundation.

1940 - Tom Jones, (born Thomas John Woodward) OBE, Welsh singer. His career has spanned six decades, from his emergence as a vocalist in the mid-1960s with a string of top hits, regular touring, appearances in Las Vegas, and career comebacks—to coaching on The Voice UK from 2012. (Tom Jones - Green, Green Grass of Home. Uploaded by Polydor 1000. Accessed June 7, 2024. Tom Jones - Delilah. Live performance Diamond Jubilee Concert. Uploaded by Joffre Maestracci. Accessed June 7, 2018.)

1952 - Liam John Neeson, OBE, actor from Northern Ireland. He has been nominated for a number of awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actor, a BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role, and three Golden Globe Awards for Best Actor in a Motion Picture Drama. He rose to prominence when he starred as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List. He also provided the voices of Aslan in The Chronicles of Narnia trilogy (2005–2010) and the titular monster in A Monster Calls. In 2020, Neeson was listed at number 7 on The Irish Times list of Ireland's 50 greatest film actors.

1958 - Prince (born Prince Rogers Nelson), American singer-musician, songwriter. He was also a record producer, dancer, actor, and filmmaker. Regarded as one of the greatest musicians of his generation, he worked across multiple genres and often played most or all instruments on recordings. He was known for his flamboyant and androgynous persona, with a wide vocal range which included a far-reaching falsetto and high-pitched screams. Prince's music integrated a wide variety of styles. He pioneered the Minneapolis sound, a funk rock subgenre that emerged in the late 1970s. He was also known for his prolific output, releasing 39 albums during his life. 

 

1965 - Damien Steven Hirst, British contemporary artist, entrepreneur, and art collector. He is one of the Young British Artists, who dominated the art scene in the UK during the 1990s. He is reportedly the United Kingdom's richest living artist, with his wealth valued at £215m in the 2010 Sunday Times Rich List.

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Singer Prince

 

More birthdays and historical events today, 7 June - On This Day. 

Historical Events

1832 - Irish immigrants from the ship Carrick die of Asiatic cholera in lower Canada. It is the beginning of an epidemic that ultimately kills some 9,000 people.

1862 - The ratified treaty between the U.S. and U.K. agreeing to suppress the slave trade comes into action.

1929 - Vatican City is given the status of a sovereign state by the Lateran Treaty. It separates the papal lands from Rome and gives them self-government.

1942 - The Battle of Midway in the Pacific ends with severe loss for the Japanese fleet. Midway is retained as a landing ground vital for the Pacific Allies. it ends this day after three days of ferocious fighting. It began on June 4 with Japanese air raids on the U.S. military base on Midway Island, a thousand miles north of Hawaii. The Americans either sank or damaged ten Japanese destroyers and four aircraft carriers without losing any of their own ships. Of this battle, Admiral Chester Nimitz of the Pacific fleet said: "Pearl Harbor has now been partially avenged."

1945 - Sir Benjamin Britten's opera Peter Grimes is first staged in London. 

1965 - The U.S. Supreme Court, in Griswold v. Connecticut, upholds the right of married couples to use contraception.



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6. Wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org



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