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Births On This Day,
June, 1

  • 1982 Justine Henin

    Belgian tennis player

  • 1974 Alanis Morissette

    Canadian/American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress

  • 1937 Morgan Freeman

    American actor, producer

  • 1926 Marilyn Monroe

    American model, actress, singer

  • 1907 Frank Whittle

    English engineer, inventor, developed the jet engine

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 1

  • 2008 Yves Saint Laurent

    French fashion designer

  • 1971 Reinhold Niebuhr

    American theologian

  • 1952 John Dewey

    American philosopher, psychologist

  • 1868 James Buchanan

    American politician, 15th President of the United States

  • 1830 Swaminarayan

    Indian religious leader

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