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Famous People Born in June 1865

George Lohmann (1865-1901)

Jun 2 England cricket medium pace bowler (18 Tests, 112 wickets @ 10.75), born in Kensington, England

George V (1865-1936)

Jun 3 King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India (1910-36), born in Marlborough House, London,

  • Jun 4 Guido Gasperini, Italian composer, born in Florence, Italy (d. 1942)
  • Jun 9 Albéric Magnard, French composer (died defending his property against German invasion 1914), born in Paris, France (d. 1914)
  • Jun 9 Carl Nielsen, Danish violinist and composer (Det Uudslukkelige), born in Sortelung, Denmark (d. 1931)
  • Jun 10 Frederick Cook, American explorer, claimed to have 1st discovered North Pole, born in Callicoon, New York (d. 1940)
  • Jun 11 J. H. Leopold, Dutch poet (translated Omar Khayyam), born in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands (d. 1925)
  • Jun 13 W. B. Yeats, Irish poet (Wild Swans at Coole-Nobel 1923), born in Sandymount, Ireland (d. 1939)
  • Jun 14 Auguste Serieyx, French composer and pedagogue, born in Amiens, France (d. 1949)
  • Jun 15 L. H. Perquin, Dutch religious radio broadcaster (d. 1938)
  • Jun 15 Paul Gilson, Belgian composer, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1942)
  • Jun 17 Susan La Flesche Picotte, American physician (first Native American woman to receive a medical degree), born on the Omaha Reservation, Nebraska (d. 1915) [1]
  • Jun 19 Alfred Hugenberg, German right-wing politician, businessman, and media magnate, born in Hanover, Kingdom of Hanover (now Germany) (d. 1951)
  • Jun 19 May Whitty, British actress (Mrs Miniver, Suspicion), born in Liverpool, England (d. 1948)
  • Jun 21 Herbert Brewer, English composer, organist (Gloucester Cathedral, 1896-1928), and choral director, born in Gloucester, England (d. 1928)
  • Jun 24 Robert Henri, American painter (The Eight) and leader of Ashcan school of painting, born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1929)
  • Jun 26 Bernard Berenson, American art critic (Italian Painters of the Renaissance), born in Vilnius, Lithuania, Russian Empire (d. 1959)
  • Jun 26 Charles Bonin, French explorer and diplomat (China), born in Poissy, France (d. 1929)
  • Jun 26 George C. Pearce, American actor (The Shadow Sinister, British Agent, Valiant), born in New York City (d. 1940)
  • Jun 28 Otto Julius Bierbaum, German writer (Irrgarten Der Liebe), born in Grünberg, Province of Silesia, Kingdom of Prussia (d. 1910)
  • Jun 29 Shigechiyo Izumi, once thought to be the world's oldest man ever but birth date now disputed (120 y 237 d), born in Isen, Tokunoshima, Satsuma Domain, Japan (d. 1986)
  • Jun 29 William E. Borah, American lawyer and politician (Republican U.S. Senator from Idaho), born in Fairfield, Illinois (d. 1940)