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Henry Louis Gehrig was an American professional baseball first baseman who played 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees.
Famous Birthdays on June 19
1903 — Lou Gehrig
American baseball player (died 1941)
June 19 has 208 recorded notable births across history, from 1301 to 2004. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Major events on June 19
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- 1865 Over two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, slaves in Galveston, Texas, United States, are officially informed of their freedom. The anniversary was officially celebrated in Texas and other states as Juneteenth. On June 17, 2021, Juneteenth officially became a federal holiday in the United States. Source
- 1862 President Abraham Lincoln signs the Territorial Slavery Act of 1862, which prohibits slavery in all current and future United States territories. Source
- 1978 Garfield's first comic strip, originally published locally as Jon in 1976, goes into nationwide syndication. Source
- 1785 The Boston King's Chapel adopts James Freeman's revised prayer book, without the Nicene Creed, establishing it as the first Unitarian congregation in the United States. Source
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Other film roles include Joe Conner in Shooting Dogs (2005), Grigg Harris in The Jane Austen Book Club (2007), Luke Brandon in Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009), Adam Raki in Adam (2009) and Ted in Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011).
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Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.
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Ashly Burch is an American actress, writer, director, and singer.
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" and since October 2023, Capitán Insurgente Marcos.
More major people born on June 19
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1975
Hugh Dancy
English actor and model
Hugh Michael Horace Dancy is an English actor who rose to prominence for his role as the title character in the television film adaptation of David Copperfield (2000) as well as for roles in feature films as Kurt Schmid…
1945
Aung San Suu Kyi
Burmese politician, Nobel Prize laureate
Aung San Suu Kyi is a Burmese politician, diplomat and author who served as State Counsellor of Myanmar and Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2016 to 2021.
1990
Ashly Burch
American actress, writer, and director
Ashly Burch is an American actress, writer, director, and singer.
1957
Subcomandante Marcos
Mexican insurgent and EZLN leader
Rafael Sebastián Guillén Vicente is a Mexican insurgent, the former military leader and spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN) in the ongoing Chiapas conflict, and a prominent anti-capitalist and…
1876
Nigel Gresley
Scottish-English engineer (died 1941)
Sir Herbert Nigel Gresley was a British railway engineer. He was one of Britain's most famous steam locomotive engineers, who rose to become Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the London and North Eastern Railway…
1903
Wally Hammond
English cricketer and coach (died 1965)
Walter Reginald Hammond was an English first-class cricketer who played for Gloucestershire in a career that lasted from 1920 to 1951.
1947
John Ralston Saul
Canadian philosopher and author
John Ralston Saul is a Canadian writer, political philosopher, and public intellectual.
1960
Johnny Gray
American runner and coach
John Lee Gray Jr. is a retired American world-class 800 meter runner from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s and the holder of the 600m world best.
1937
André Glucksmann
French philosopher and author (died 2015)
André Glucksmann was a French philosopher, activist, and writer. He was a leading figure of the new philosophers.
1990
Moa Hjelmer
Swedish sprinter
Moa Elin Marianne Hjelmer is a Swedish athlete who competes in the 200 metres and 400 metres. Hjelmer was born in Stockholm. She won a silver medal in the Junior European Championships in 2011 in Ostrava.
1966
Mike Hasenfratz
Canadian ice hockey referee (died 2024)
Michael Edgar Hasenfratz was a Canadian ice hockey referee. He worked in the National Hockey League (NHL) from the 2000–01 season until his retirement following the 2014–15 season, officiating 705 regular season games.
1833
Mary Tenney Gray
American editorial writer, club-woman, philanthropist, and suffragette (died 1904)
Mary Davy Tenney Gray was a 19th-century American editorial writer, clubwoman, philanthropist, and suffragist from Pennsylvania, who later became a resident of Kansas.
1972
Jean Dujardin
French actor
Jean Edmond Dujardin is a French actor and comedian. He began his career as a stand-up comedian in Paris before guest starring in comedic television programmes and films.
1910
Abe Fortas
American lawyer and jurist, associate member of the US Supreme Court (died 1982)
Abraham Fortas was an American lawyer and jurist who served as an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1965 to 1969.
2002
Bennedict Mathurin
Canadian basketball player
Bennedict Richard Felder Mathurin is a Canadian professional basketball player who last played for the Los Angeles Clippers of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
1851
Silvanus P. Thompson
English physicist, engineer, and academic (died 1916)
Silvanus Phillips Thompson was an English professor of physics at the City and Guilds Technical College in Finsbury, England.
1958
Sergei Makarov
Russian-American ice hockey player and coach
Sergei Mikhailovich Makarov is a Russian former professional ice hockey right wing. In the Soviet Union, Makarov played 11 championship seasons with CSKA Moscow, winning the Soviet Player of the Year award three times.
1959
Christian Wulff
German lawyer and politician, 10th President of Germany
Christian Wilhelm Walter Wulff is a retired German politician and lawyer who served as President of Germany from 2010 to 2012.
1986
Aoiyama Kōsuke
Bulgarian sumo wrestler
Aoiyama Kōsuke is a Japanese former professional sumo wrestler or rikishi from Elhovo, Bulgaria.