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Famous People Born in June 1888

  • Jun 3 Tom Brown, American dixieland jazz trombonist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1958)
  • Jun 5 Raden Mas Noto Soeroto, Javanese poet (Melatiknoppen), born in Yogyakarta, Indonesia (d. 1951)

Clarence DeMar (1888-1958)

Jun 7 American marathon runner and 7-time winner of the Boston Marathon, born in Madeira, Ohio

  • Jun 8 Poul Schierbeck, Danish organist and composer, born in Copenhagen (d. 1949)
  • Jun 9 Adrian Shaposhnikov, Russian composer, born in St Peterberg (d. 1967)
  • Jun 9 Hugo Kauder, Austrian composer, born in Tovačov (d. 1972)
  • Jun 10 Leo Weismantel, German writer (Der Reiter der Apocalypse), born in Obersinn, Germany (d. 1964)
  • Jun 11 Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian anarchist (Sacco and Vanzetti Trial), born in Villafalletto, Italy (d. 1927)
  • Jun 12 Zygmunt Janiszewski, Polish mathematician, born in Warsaw, Poland (d. 1920)

Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935)

Jun 13 Portuguese writer, poet (The Book of Disquiet), and translator, born in Lisbon, Kingdom of Portugal [1] [2]

  • Jun 15 Ramon Lopez Velarde, Mexican poet (La Sangre Devota), born in Jerez de García Salinas, Mexico (d. 1921)
  • Jun 16 Bobby Clark, American vaudevillian, clown and actor (in comedy act with Paul McCullough), born in Springfield, Ohio (d. 1960)
  • Jun 16 Peter Stoner, American mathematician and astronomer (d. 1980)
  • Jun 17 Bernhard van den Sigtenhorst Meyer, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam, Netherlands (d. 1953)
  • Jun 17 Heinz Guderian, German Army General (WWII - developed Panzer Division, advocated 'blitzkrieg'), and memoirist (Panzer Leader), born in Kulm, Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire (d. 1954)
  • Jun 18 Margarita Xirgu, Catalan stage actress, director and political radical (Bloody Wedding, Mariana Pineda), born in Barcelona, Spain (d. 1969)
  • Jun 22 Harold Burton, American politician (Rep (R) Ohio 1941-45), U.S. Supreme Court justice, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1964)
  • Jun 23 Bronson M. Cutting, American politician (Senator (R) New Mexico 1927-28, 1929-35), born in Great River, New York (d. 1935)
  • Jun 23 Lee Moran, American actor (Circus Clown), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1961)
  • Jun 24 Gerrit Rietveld, Dutch architect and furniture designer (Juliana Hall, Sonsbeek Pavilion), born in Utrecht, Netherlands (d. 1964)
  • Jun 26 Paul Niggli, Swiss mineralogist (crystal structures), born in Zonfingen, Switzerland (d. 1953)
  • Jun 27 Antoinette Perry, American stage actress, theater director, co-founder of the American Theatre Wing, and namesake of the Tony Award, born in Denver, Colorado (d. 1946)
  • Jun 27 Lewis Bernstein Namier, English historian, born in Wola Okrzejska, Poland (d. 1960)
  • Jun 28 George Challenor, West Indian cricketer (pioneering West Indian batsman), born in St. Michael, Barbados (d. 1947)
  • Jun 29 Joseph "Squizzy" Taylor, Australian gangster, born in Brighton, Victoria (d. 1927)