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Births On This Day,
June, 12

  • 1971 Mark Henry

    American weightlifter, wrestler

  • 1941 Roy Harper

    English singer-songwriter, guitarist, poet, actor

  • 1929 Anne Frank

    German/Dutch author, Holocaust victim

  • 1924 George H. W. Bush

    American politician, 41st President of the United States

  • 1897 Anthony Eden

    British politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 12

  • 2010 Al Williamson

    American illustrator

  • 2006 György Ligeti

    Romanian/Austrian composer

  • 1994 Menachem Mendel Schneerson

    Russian/French rabbi

  • 1980 Billy Butlin

    South African/English businessman, founded Butlins

  • 1963 Medgar Evers

    American civil rights activist

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