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Births On This Day,
June, 16

  • 1971 Tupac Shakur

    American rapper, producer, actor

  • 1912 Enoch Powell

    British politician

  • 1890 Stan Laurel

    English actor, comedian

  • 1882 Mohammad Mosaddegh

    Iranian politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran

  • 1723 Adam Smith

    Scottish philosopher, economist

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 16

  • 2014 Tony Gwynn

    American baseball player, coach

  • 1993 Lindsay Hassett

    Australian cricketer

  • 1977 Wernher von Braun

    German physicist, engineer

  • 1969 Harold Alexander, 1st Earl Alexander of Tunis

    English field marshal, 17th Governor General of Canada

  • 1722 John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough

    English general, politician

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