Eat Your Vegetables Day

June 17
Yearly Date: Always on June 17th

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Quote for the Day

“A fruit is a vegetable with looks and money. Plus, if you let fruit rot, it turns into wine, something brussel sprouts never do.”

P. J. O'Rourke

Famous People Born in June

June 1, 1801   – Brigham Young, Mormon religious leader

June 1, 1926   – Andy Griffith, actor

June 1, 1926   – Marilyn Monroe, actress

June 1, 1934   – Pat Boone, singer

June 1, 1937   – Morgan Freeman, actor, movie “Driving Miss Daisy”

June 1, 1947   – Ron Wood, musician, member of the “Rolling Stones”

June 1, 1973   – Heidi Klum, German supermodel, actress, fashion designer

June 1, 1974   – Alanis Morisette, singer

June 2, 1731   – Martha Washington, the very first First Lady of the United States

June 2, 1904   – Johnny Weissmuller, Olympic champion swimmer, actor “Tarzan”

June 2, 1930   – Pete Conrad, astronaut

June 2, 1941   – Stacy Keach, actor

June 2, 1948   – Jerry Mathers, actor “Beaver” on “Leave it to Beaver”

June 2, 1955   – Dana Carvey, SNL, “Wayne’s World”

June 2, 1980   – Abby Wambach, soccer player, coach

June 3, 1808   – Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America

June 3, 1865   – King George V, of England

June 3, 1925   – Tony Curtis, actor

June 3, 1926   – Allen Ginsberg, poet

June 3, 1942   – Curtis Mayfield, singer, songwriter

June 3, 1967   – Anderson Cooper, journalist and author

June 4, 1738   – King George III, king of England during the American Revolution

June 4, 1924   – Dennis Weaver, actor

June 4, 1944   – Michelle Phillips, singer, member of the “Mamas and the Papas”

June 4, 1952   – Parker Stevenson, actor

June 4, 1971   – Noah Wyle, actor “Carter” on TV series “ER”

June 4, 1975   – Angelina Jolie, actress

June 5, 1878   – Francisco “Pancho” Villa, Mexican revolutionary

June 5, 1883   – John Maynard Keynes, economist

June 5, 1934   – Bill Moyers, TV journalist

June 5, 1956   – Kenny G, musician

June 6, 1755   – Nathan Hale, Revolutinary War hero and patriot

June 6, 1799  – Alexander Pushkin, poet

June 6, 1892   – Donald F. Duncan Sr, created the Duncan Yo-Yo

June 6, 1935   – The Dalai Lama, Tibetan spiritual leader

June 6, 1939   – Marian Wright Edelman, children’s rights activist

June 6, 1956   – Bjorn Borg, tennis champion

June 7, 1848   – Paul Gauguin, painter

June 7, 1917   – Dean Martin, singer, actor, producer

June 7, 1922   – Rocky Graziano, boxing champion

June 7, 1940   – Tom Jones, singer

June 7, 1952   – Liam Neeson, actor

 June 7, 1958   – “Prince”, singer

 June 8, 1867   – Frank Lloyd Wright, architect

 June 8, 1916   – Francis Crick, biologist, biochemist, co-discovered of the structure of DNA

 June 8, 1917   – Byron R. White, Supreme Court justice

 June 8, 1925   – Barbara Bush, First Lady of the United States

 June 8, 1929   – Jerry Stiller, comedian, actor

 June 8, 1936   – James Darren, singer, actor

 June 8, 1937   – Joan Rivers, comedian

 June 8, 1940   – Nancy Sinatra, Singer

 June 8, 1944   – Boz Scaggs, rock singer

 June 8, 1957   – Scott Adams, cartoonist, created “Dilbert”

 June 8, 1966   – Julianna Margulies, actress

 June 9, 1781   – George Stephenson, invented the steam locomotive

 June 9, 1893   – Cole Porter, composer, lyricist

 June 9, 1908   – Robert Cummings, actor

 June 9, 1940   – Dick Vitale, sportscaster

 June 9, 1961   – Michael J. Fox, actor, “Back to the Future”

 June 9, 1963   – Johnny Depp, actor, “Pirates of the Caribbean”

June 9, 1981   – Natalie Portman, “Queen Amidala” in “Star Wars”

 June 10, 1901   – Frederick Loewe, composer

 June 10, 1921   – Prince Philip, Britain Prince Consort, Duke of Ellington

 June 10, 1922   – Judy Garland, singer, actress “The Wizard of Oz”

 June 10, 1982   – Tara Lipinski, Olympic champion figure skater

 June 11, 1864   – Richard Strauss, composer, musician, conductor

 June 11, 1880   – Jeannette Rankin, first woman elected to Congress

June 11, 1910   – Jacques Cousteau, undersea explorer, writer, filmmaker

 June 11, 1913   – Vince Lombardi, football coach

 June 11, 1935   – Gene Wilder, actor, director

 June 11, 1936   – Chad Everett, actor

June 11, 1956   – Joe Montana, NFL quarterback

 June 12, 1915   – David Rockefeller, banker

 June 12, 1924   – George H. W. Bush, 41st U.S. President (1989-1993)

 June 12, 1928   – Vic Damone, singer

 June 12, 1929   – Anne Frank, Holocaust victim, wrote diary of her experience

 June 12, 1933   – Jim Nabors, actor, singer

 June 12, 1943   – Marv Albert, sportscaster

 June 13, 1893   – Dorothy L. Sayers, mystery writer

June 13, 1943   – Malcolm McDowell, actor

 June 13, 1951   – Richard Thomas, actor

 June 13, 1953   – Tim Allen, comedian, movie and television actor, TV series “Home Improvement”

 June 13, 1986   – Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen twins, actresses

 June 14, 1811   – Harriet Beecher Stowe, author, abolitionist

 June 14, 1864   – Alois Alzheimer, psychiatrist, pathologist

 June 14, 1909   – Burl Ives, singer, actor

 June 14, 1919   – Gene Barry, actor

 June 14, 1946   – Donald Trump, 45th U.S. President, real estate executive, TV personality

 June 14, 1961   – Boy George, singer

 June 14, 1969   – Steffi Graf, tennis champion

 June 15, 1932   – Mario Cuomo, NY governor

 June 15, 1937   – Waylon Jennings, country singer

 June 15, 1954   – Jim Belushi, actor, brother of John Belushi

 June 15, 1958   – Wade Boggs, MLB slugger

June 15, 1963   – Helen Hunt, actress (Los Angeles, CA)

 June 15, 1964   – Courtney Cox, actress “Friends”

 June 15, 1969   – Ice Cube, rapper

 June 15, 1974   – Neil Patrick Harris, actor, singer, director

 June 16, 1829   – Geronimo, Native American Apache leader

June 16, 1890   – Stan Laurel, comedian, “Laurel & Hardy” duo

June 16, 1917   – Katharine Graham, newspaper publisher (New York, NY)

 June 16, 1943   – Joan Van Ark, actress , “Val” on TV series “Knots Landing”

June 16, 1951   – Roberto Duran, boxing champion

 June 17, 1917   – Dean Martin, actor, singer

 June 17, 1943   – Newt Gingrich, Speaker of the House

 June 17, 1946   – Barry Manilow, singer and songwriter

 June 17, 1948   – Phylicia Rashad, actress

 June 17, 1951   – Joe Piscopo, comedian , actor, SNL

 June 17, 1965   – Dan Jansen, Olympic champion speed skater

 June 17, 1980   – Venus Williams, tennis player

June 18, 1886   – George Mallory, mountain climber, explorer

 June 18, 1908   – Bud Collyer, Game show host for “To Tell the Truth”

 June 18, 1942   – Roger Ebert, film critic, “Siskel & Ebert”

 June 18, 1942   – Paul McCartney, singer, songwriter, musician, “The Beatles”

 June 18, 1952   – Carol Kane, actress

 June 18, 1976   – Blake Shelton, country singer, Tv personality on “The Voice”.

 June 19, 1623   – Blaise Pascal, philosopher, physicist

 June 19, 1897   – Moe Howard, comedian, actor, “Moe” of the “Three Stooges”

 June 19, 1902   – Guy Lombardo, bandleader

 June 19, 1903   – Lou Gehrig, baseball player

 June 19, 1947   – Salman Rushdie, author “The Satanic Verses”

 June 19, 1954   – Kathleen Turner, actress

 June 19, 1962   – Paula Abdul, dancer, choreographer, “American Idol” judge

 June 19, 1964   – Boris Johnson, British Prime Minister

 June 20, 1909   – Erol Flynn, Actor

 June 20, 1924   – Chet Atkins, guitarist

 June 20, 1924   – Audie Murphy, actor, WWII hero

 June 20, 1931   – Olympia Dukakis, actress

 June 20, 1933   – Danny Aiello, actor

 June 20, 1934   – Martin Landau, actor

 June 20, 1942   – Brian Wilson, singer, songwriter, member of the “Beach Boys”

June 20, 1945   – Anne Murray, singer

 June 20, 1946   – Bob Vila, TV handyman show

June 20, 1950   – Lionel Richie, singer

 June 20, 1952   – John Goodman, actor

 June 20, 1953   – Cyndi Lauper, singer

 June 20, 1967   – Nicole Kidman, actress

 June 21, 1905   – Jean-Paul Sartre, philosopher, novelist, playwright

 June 21, 1912   – Mary McCarthy, novelist

June 21, 1921   – Jane Russell, actress

 June 21, 1925   – Maureen Stapleton, actress

 June 21, 1947   – Meredith Baxter, actress

 June 21, 1947   – Michael Gross, actor

 June 22, 1903   – John Dillinger, bank robber

 June 22, 1922   – Bill Blass, fashion designer

 June 22, 1929   – Ralph Waite, actor

 June 22, 1936   – Kris Kristofferson, singer, actor

 June 22, 1941   – Ed Bradley, TV journalist

 June 22, 1949   – Meryl Streep, Oscar winning actress

 June 22, 1949   – Lindsay Wagner, actress

 June 23, 1929   – June Carter Cash, country singer

 June 23, 1948   – Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court justice

 June 24, 1895   – Jack Dempsey, boxing champion

 June 24, 1942   – Mick Fleetwood, musician, member of Fleetwood Mac

 June 24, 1942   – Michele Lee, actress

 June 24, 1945   – George Pataki, NY Governor

 June 24, 1946   – Ellison Onizuka, astronaut, died in Challenger Space Shuttle explosion

 June 24, 1967   – Sherry Stringfield, actress

 June 25, 1874   – Rose O’Neill, created Kewpie Dolls

June 25, 1903  – George Orwell, novelist

June 25, 1925   – June Lockhart, actress

June 25, 1930   – Clint Eastwood, actor

June 25, 1945   – Carly Simon, singer

June 25, 1948   – Jimmie Walker, actor, comedian

June 26, 1819   – Abner Doubleday, invented the game of baseball

June 26, 1892   – Pearl S. Buck, novelist

June 26, 1910   – Roy Plunkett, invented Teflon

June 26, 1963   – George Michael, singer

June 26, 1970   – Chris O’Donnell, actor

June 26, 1974   – Derek Jeter, American baseball player

June 27, 1880   – Helen Keller, blind author, lecturer

June 27, 1927   – Bob Keeshan, children’s TV- “Captain Kangaroo”

June 27, 1930   – H. Ross Perot, entrepreneur, presidential candidate

June 27, 1993   – Ar-ana Grande, singer, actress

June 27, 1951   – Julia Duffy, actress

June 28, 1491   – Henry VIII, King of England

June 28, 1712   – Jean-Jacques Rousseau, philosopher

June 28, 1902   – Richard Rodgers, music composer, “Rogers and Hammerstein”

June 28, 1926   – Mel Brooks, actor, director

June 28, 1932   – Pat Morita, actor

June 28, 1946   – Bruce Davison, actor

June 28, 1960   – John Elway, NFL quarterback , Denver Broncos

June 28, 1966   – John Cusack, actor

June 28, 1971   – Elon Musk, born in South Africa. Entrepreneur, invnetor, Tesla Motors, Space-X.

June 29, 1858   – George W. Goethals, chief engineer fore the Panama Canal

June 29, 1941   – Stokely Carmichael, militant civil rights activist

June 29, 1944   – Gary Busey, actor

June 29, 1947   – Richard Lewis, comedian, actor

June 29, 1962   – Sharon Lawrence, actress

June 30, 1917   – Susan Hayward, actress

June 30, 1917   – Lena Horne, actress, singer

June 30, 1966   – Mike Tyson, boxing champion

June 30, 1985   – Michael Phelps, American Olympic multiple gold medalist in swimming

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