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June is
African-American Music Appreciation
and
Audio Book
Month
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Sunday June 17
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Born June 17
Jeph Jacques (b. 1980) – U.S. comic strip artist – Questionable Content
Nino (Kazunari Ninomiya) (b. 1983) – Japanese singer/songwriter
Monday June 18
| Lidia Jorge b. 1946 – Portuguese novelist – A Noite das Mulheres Cantoras / The Night of the Singing Women (2011) |  |
Read about Lidia Jorge here
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Born June 18
Sammy Cahn (Samuel Cohen) (b. June 18, 1913) – U.S. songwriter/lyricist – “High Hopes”
Paul McCartney (b. 1942) – U.K. singer/songwriter (The Beatles)
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Tuesday June 19
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Born June 19
Aung San Suu Kyi (b. 1945) – Burmese political leader, human rights activist, 1991 Nobel Peace Prize winner - Letters from Burma (1997)
Pauline Kael (b. 1919) – U.S. film critic – I Lost It at the Movies (1965)
Salman Rushdie (b. 1947) – British-Indian novelist – The Satanic Verses(1988)
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Wednesday June 20
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Born June 20
Enn Vetemaa (b. 1936) – Estonian novelist, playwright, lyricist, poet
Amos Tutuola (b. 1920) – Nigerian novelist - The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952)
Anna Laetitia Barbauld (b. 1743) – British poet, essayist, children’s book writer - “Eighteen Hundred and Eleven” in The Poems of Anna Letitia Barbauld
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Thursday June 21
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Born June 21
John Agard (b. 1949) – U.K. – Guyana poet, playwright, children’s writer
Benazir Bhutto (b. 1953) – Pakistani political leader - Daughter of Destiny: An Autobiography (1989)
Jean-Paul Sartre (b. 1905) – French philosopher, playwright, novelist
Mary McCarthy (b. 1912) – U.S. novelist, theater critic – The Unimportance of Being Oscar
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Friday June 22
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Born June 22
Moana Maniapoto (b. 1961) – New Zealand / Maori singer/songwriter, filmmaker
Sándor Weöres (b. 1913) – Hungarian poet
Dan Brown (b. 1964) – U.S. novelist – The DaVinci Code
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Born June 23
Anna Akhmatova (b. 1889) – Russian poet
Alfred Kinsey (b. 1893) – U.S. biologist who studied human sexuality - The Kinsey Reports (1948)
Patrick Monahan (b. 1976) – Irish-Iranian standup comedian
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