What happened on June 19 ?

1301 - Prince Morikuni, Japanese shogun (d. 1333)

1507 - Annibale Caro, Italian poet (d. 1566)

1566 - King James I of England and VI of Scotland (d. 1625)

1606 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (d. 1649)

1623 - Blaise Pascal, French mathematician and philosopher (d. 1662)

1633 - Philipp van Limborch, Dutch protestant theologian (d. 1712)

1717 - Johann Stamitz, Czech violinist and composer (d. 1757)

1764 - José Gervasio Artigas, father of Uruguay (d. 1850)

1771 - Joseph Gergonne, French mathematician, logician

1792 - Gustav Schwab, German author (d. 1850)

1815 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (d. 1872)

1816 - William Henry Webb, American industrialist and philanthropist (d. 1899)

1834 - Charles Spurgeon, English preacher (d. 1892)

1846 - Antonio Abetti, Italian astronomer (d. 1928)

1861 - Douglas Haig, British soldier (d. 1928)

1861 - José Rizal, Filipino poet and national hero (d. 1896)

1865 - Dame May Whitty, English entertainer (d. 1948)

1874 - Peder Oluf Pedersen, Danish engineer and physicist (d. 1941)

1877 - Charles Coburn, American actor (d. 1961)

1896 - Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor (d. 1986)

1897 - Cyril Norman Hinshelwood, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1967)

1897 - Moe Howard, American actor and comedian (d. 1975)

1898 - James Joseph Sweeney, American Catholic prelate (d. 1968)

1902 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian bandleader (d. 1977)

1903 - Lou Gehrig, baseball player (d. 1941)

1903 - Wally Hammond, English cricketer (d. 1965)

1905 - Mildred Natwick, American actress (d. 1994)

1906 - Ernst Boris Chain, German-born biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1979)

1907 - Clarence Wiseman, the 10th General of The Salvation Army (d. 1985)

1910 - Paul Flory, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1985)

1914 - Alan Cranston, American politician (d. 2000)

1914 - Lester Flatt, American musician (d. 1979)

1915 - Julius Schwartz, American editor and agent

1919 - Pauline Kael, American movie critic (d. 2001)

1919 - Louis Jourdan, French actor

1922 - Aage Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1925 - Charlie Drake, British actor, writer and singer

1928 - Nancy Marchand, American actress (d. 2000)

1928 - Barry Took, British comedy writer and broadcaster (d. 2002)

1928 - Tommy DeVito, musician and singer (The Four Seasons)

1930 - Gena Rowlands, American actress

1932 - Pier Angeli, Italian-born actress (d. 1972)

1932 - Marisa Pavan, Italian-born actress

1933 - Viktor Patsayev, cosmonaut

1938 - Wahoo McDaniel, American football player and wrestler (d. 2002)

1941 - Václav Klaus, Czech politician and President

1942 - Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, lead singer of Spanky and Our Gang

1945 - Aung San Suu Kyi, Burmese politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize

1945 - Radovan Karad?i?, Serbian-Bosnian politician

1947 - Salman Rushdie, Indian author

1948 - Phylicia Rashad, American actress

1948 - Nick Drake, British singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1974)

1950 - Ann Wilson, American singer

1954 - Kathleen Turner, American actress

1957 - Anna Lindh, Swedish politician (d. 2003)

1960 - Luke Morley, British guitarist and songwriter

1962 - Paula Abdul, American singer and choreographer

1962 - Jeremy Bates, English tennis player

1963 - Rory Underwood, English rugby player

1964 - Boris Johnson, British Member of Parliament (Conservative, seat of Henley-upon-Thames), and Shadow Higher Education Secretary. Also former editor of The Spectator, journalist and sometime game show host

1964 - Brian Vander Ark, American rock singer/guitarist (Verve Pipe)

1966 - Joichi Ito, Japanese Activist and Entrepreneur

1967 - Bjørn Dæhlie, Norwegian skier

1968 - Alastair Lynch, Australian footballer

1970 - Quincy Watts, American athlete

1970 - Rahul Gandhi, Indian Politician

1970 - Brian Welch, American guitarist (formerly of Ko?n)

1972 - Brian McBride, American soccer player

1972 - Poppy Montgomery, Australian actress (claims 1975 as her birth year)

1974 - Joshua John Fanene, American artist

1975 - Anthony Parker, American basketball player

1976 - Bryan Hughes, English footballer

1977 - Peter Warrick, American football player

1978 - Dirk Nowitzki, German basketball player

1979 - John Duddy, Northern Irish boxer

1979 - Quentin Jammer, American football player

1982 - David Pollack, American football player

1982 - Alexander Frolov, Russian ice hockey player

1985 - Jordan Brown, professional Australian musician

1995 - Blake Woodruff, American actor