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Famous People Born in June 1864

  • Jun 2 Ben Webster, British actor (Old Curiosity Shop), born in London, England (d. 1947)
  • Jun 3 Ransom Eli Olds, American auto (Oldsmobile) & truck (REO) manufacturer, born in Geneva, Ohio (d. 1950)
  • Jun 11 Jean de Merode, Belgian lieutenant colonel, Grand Marshal of the Court of Belgium, and Prince de Merode, born in Paris, France (d. 1933)

Richard Strauss (1864-1949)

Jun 11 German composer (Also sprach Zarathustra, Don Quixote), born in Munich, Germany

  • Jun 13 Dwight B. Waldo, American educator (first President of Western Michigan University), born in Arcade, New York (d. 1939)
  • Jun 13 Rudolf Kjellén, Swedish political scientist and politician who first coined the term "geopolitics", born in Torsö, Sweden (d. 1922)

Alois Alzheimer (1864-1915)

Jun 14 German psychiatrist and neuropathologist (Alzheimer Disease), born in Marktbreit, Bavaria

  • Jun 15 Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, born in Guingamp, France (d. 1955)
  • Jun 20 Pier Pander, Dutch sculptor, born in Drachten, Friesland (d. 1919)
  • Jun 21 Heinrich Wölfflin, Swiss art historian, born in Basel, Switzerland (d. 1945)
  • Jun 22 Hermann Minkowski, German mathematician (work on relativity - Minkowski spacetime), born in Aleksota, Kingdom of Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1909)
  • Jun 25 Walther Hermann Nernst, Prussian physicist and chemist (Nobel 1920), born in Briesen, West Prussia (d. 1941)
  • Jun 29 Anton Beer-Walbrun, German composer, born in Kohlberg, Kingdom of Württemberg (d. 1929)
  • Jun 29 Ashutosh Mukherjee, Bengali educator, jurist, barrister and mathematician described as the "Banglar Bagh" (Tiger of Bengal), born in Calcutta, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1924)
  • Jun 29 Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, born in Poggio Mirteto, Italy (d. 1932)
  • Jun 29 Wilbert Robinson, American Baseball HOF catcher (Philadelphia A's, Baltimore Orioles, St. Louis Cardinals) and manager (Baltimore Orioles, Brooklyn Robins), born in Bolton, Massachusetts (d. 1934)