Today in History and Celebrity Birthdays

Celebrity Birthdays for June 13: Actor Malcolm McDowell is 82. CFL Hall of Fame receiver Terry Evanshen is 81. Singer Dennis Locorriere of Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show is 76. Actor Stellan Skarsgard ("Mamma Mia") is 74. Actor Jonathan Hogan is 74.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 10: Actress Alexandra Stewart ("Under the Cherry Moon") is 86. Actor Jurgen Prochnow is 84. Singer Shirley Alston Reeves of The Shirelles is 84. Former Reform Party leader Preston Manning is 83.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 11: International Motorsports Hall-of-Famer Jackie Stewart is 86. Funk drummer Bernard (Pretty) Purdie is 86. Singer Joey Dee of Joey Dee and the Starliters is 85. Actress Adrienne Barbeau ("Maude") is 80.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 12: Sports announcer Marv Albert is 84. Singer Roy Harper is 84. Actor Roger Aaron Brown is 76. Drummer Bun E. Carlos of Cheap Trick is 75. Country singer-guitarist Junior Brown is 73.

Celebrity Birthdays for June 9: Media analyst Marvin Kalb is 95. Sports commentator Dick Vitale is 86. Author Letty Cottin Pogrebin is 87. Guitarist Mick Box of Uriah Heep is 78. Film composer James Newton Howard is 74.

Today in History for June 20: In 1529, Clement VII and Holy Roman Emperor Charles V signed the "Peace of Barcelona," which ended attacks on Rome by the Lutheran armies. In 1599, the "Synod of Diamper" reunited a church in India with Rome.

Today in Music History for June 18: In 1830, Elizabeth Cecilia Clephane, an orphaned Scottish poet, was born. Two of her most notable hymns were "Beneath the Cross of Jesus" and “The Ninety and Nine.

Today in Music History for June 19: In 1902, band leader Guy Lombardo, whose orchestra played "The Sweetest Music This Side of Heaven," was born in London, Ont.

Today in History for June 17: In 1616, Sir William Vaughan bought the Avalon Peninsula, which forms Newfoundland's southeastern corner, from the London and Bristol Company.

Today in Music History for June 15: In 1843, composer Edvard Grieg, whose strongly nationalist style led to his being known as "The Voice of Norway," was born. In 1872, the Governor General's "Foot Guards Band" made its debut in Ottawa.