This Week’s Birthdays – Week of June 11

June 11, 1933 – Gene Wilder, American actor

June 12, 1924 – George H. W. Bush, 41st President of the United States

June 13, 1820 – John Harrington Stevens was the first authorized resident on the west bank of the Mississippi River in what would become Minneapolis, Minnesota.

June 14, 1811 – Harriet Beecher Stowe, American novelist and abolitionist (d. 1896)

June 15, 1937 – Waylon Jennings, American singer (d. 2002)

June 16, 1971 – Tupac Amaru Shakur, known by his stage names 2Pac (or simply Pac) and Makaveli, was an American rapper.

June 17, 1704 – John Kay, English inventor (d. 1780)