Born:
Conrad Beck, born in Lohn, Switzerland, composer, studied with Jacques Ibert, head of Radio Basel music department for 30 years, composed concertos, symphonies, oratorio, elegy, instrumental, vocal music, and one ballet
More Notable Birthdays on June 16:
1971 - Tupac Shakur, born in Brooklyn, New York, rap star/actor, Juice, Bullet, killed in 1996
1951 - Roberto Duran, boxer, fists of stone
1938 - Joyce Carol Oates, born in New York, novelist, Garden of Earthly Delights
1917 - Katharine Graham, born in New York City, newspaper publisher, Washington Post
1902 - Barbara McClintock, U.S., cytogeneticist, Jumping Genes, Nobel 1983
