What Happened In June 1931 In History

Historical Events for June, 1931

• 23rd » Wiley Post and Harold Gatty take off from Roosevelt Field, Long Island in an attempt to circumnavigate the world in a single-engine plane.

Famous Birthdays on June in 1931

• 1st » Hal Smith (catcher) e.g Hal Smith, American baseball player and coach (d. 2014)
• 1st » Michael Thompson (academic) called Michael Thompson, English academic
• 2nd » William H. Donaldson, American businessman
• 2nd » Larry Jackson, American baseball player and politician (d. 1990)
• 2nd » Gerry Peacocke, Australian politician (d. 2013)
• 3rd » Françoise Arnoul, Algerian-French actress
• 3rd » Raúl Castro, Cuban politician, 17th Prime Minister of Cuba
• 3rd » John Norman, American philosopher and author
• 3rd » Lindy Remigino, American runner
• 4th » Gustav Nossal, Austrian-Australian biologist and academic
• 5th » Yves Blais, Canadian politician (d. 1998)
• 5th » Jacques Demy, French actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 5th » Jerzy Prokopiuk, Polish anthropologist and philosopher
• 7th » Malcolm Morley, English-American photographer
• 7th » Virginia McKenna, English actress and author
• 8th » James Goldstone, American director and screenwriter (d. 1999)
• 8th » Dana Wynter, German-English actress (d. 2011)
• 9th » Joe Santos, American actor
• 9th » Bill Virdon, American baseball player, coach, and manager
• 10th » Bryan Cartledge, English academic and diplomat
• 10th » João Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 11th » Kenneth Cameron, Baron Cameron of Lochbroom, Scottish judge
• 11th » Audrey Schuh, American soprano
• 12th » Trevanian, American author and scholar (d. 2005)
• 12th » Rona Jaffe, American author (d. 2005)
• 13th » Nora Kovach, Hungarian-American ballerina (d. 2009)
• 13th » Reed Scowen, Canadian politician
• 13th » Irvin D. Yalom, American psychotherapist and academic
• 14th » Marla Gibbs, American actress, singer, and screenwriter
• 14th » Junior Walker, American saxophonist and singer (d. 1995)
• 15th » Joseph Gilbert (RAF officer) named Joseph Gilbert, English air marshal
• 17th » John Baldessari, American painter
• 18th » Fernando Henrique Cardoso, Brazilian politician, 34th President of Brazil
• 18th » K. S. Sudarshan, Indian politician (d. 2012)
• 19th » John Dennis (bishop) or John Dennis, English bishop
• 20th » Olympia Dukakis, American actress
• 20th » James Tolkan, American actor
• 21st » Zlatko Grgić, Croatian-Canadian animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 21st » Margaret Heckler, American politician, 15th United States Secretary of Health and Human Services
• 21st » Barbara Levick, English historian and author
• 21st » Jan Trąbka, Polish neurologist and academic (d. 2012)
• 23rd » Gunnar Uusi, Estonian chess player (d. 1981)
• 24th » Billy Casper, American golfer
• 25th » V. P. Singh, Indian politician, 7th Prime Minister of India (d. 2008)
• 26th » Colin Wilson, English philosopher and author (d. 2013)
• 27th » Charles Bronfman, Canadian-American businessman and philanthropist
• 27th » Martinus J. G. Veltman, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics e.g Nobel Prize laureate
• 28th » Junior Johnson, American race car driver
• 28th » Lucien Victor, Belgian cyclist (d. 1995)
• 28th » Patrick Wright, Baron Wright of Richmond, English diplomat
• 29th » Ed Gilbert, American actor (d. 1999)
• 30th » Yo-Yo Davalillo, Venezuelan baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 30th » Andrew Hill, American pianist and composer (d. 2007)
• 30th » James Loughran, Scottish conductor

Famous Deaths for June 1931

• 7th » Viktor Schwanneke, German actor and director (b. 1880)
• 13th » Kitasato Shibasaburō, Japanese physician and bacteriologist (b. 1851)
• 22nd » Armand Fallières, French politician, 9th President of France (b. 1841)
• 24th » Otto Mears, Russian-American businessman (b. 1840)
• 24th » Xiang Zhongfa, Chinese politician, 2nd General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (b. 1880)
• 29th » Nérée Beauchemin, Canadian poet and physician (b. 1850)

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