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Births On This Day,
June, 19

  • 1978 Dirk Nowitzki

    German basketball player

  • 1964 Boris Johnson

    British politician

  • 1947 Salman Rushdie

    Indian author

  • 1945 Aung San Suu Kyi

    Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate

  • 1861 José Rizal

    Filipino polymath

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Deaths On This Day,
June, 19

  • 2013 James Gandolfini

    American actor

  • 1993 William Golding

    English author, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

  • 1991 Jean Arthur

    American actress

  • 1937 J. M. Barrie

    Scottish author, playwright

  • 1312 Piers Gaveston, 1st Earl of Cornwall

    English nobleman

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