Born on this day – Powers Boothe:

 

Actor

June 1, 1948 – May 14, 2017

Born on this day – Tom Mankiewicz:

 

Writer

Director

Producer

June 1, 1942 – July 31, 2010

Born on this day – Edward Woodward:

 

Actor

Singer,

June 1, 1930 – November 16, 2009

Born on this day – Joan Caulfield:

Actress

Model

June 1, 1922 – June 18, 1991

Credits:

All-Star Party for 'Dutch' Reagan (1985); Baretta (1977); Blue Skies (1946); Buckskin (1968); Burke's Law (1963–1965); Cattle King (1963); Celebrity Playhouse (1956); Cheyenne (1962); Dear Ruth (1947); Dear Wife (1949); Duffy's Tavern (1945); General Electric Theater (1959); Here's Hollywood (1962); Hollywood Opening Night (1952); Hollywood Preview (1956); Hong Kong (1961); I've Got a Secret (1955); Larceny (1948); Lux Video Theatre (1950–1956); Miss Susie Slagle's (1946); Monsieur Beaucaire (1946); Movie Memories with Debbie Reynolds (1991); Murder, She Wrote (1987); My Favorite Husband (1953–1955); My Three Sons (1966); Pony Express Rider (1976); Pursuit (1958); Red Tomahawk (1967); Robert Montgomery Presents (1952); Sally (1957–1958); Schlitz Playhouse (1951–1956); Screen Directors Playhouse (1956); Screen Test! (1965); Skip E. Lowe Looks at Hollywood (1989); The Bob Hope Show (1957–1966); The Costume Designer (1950); The Daring Dobermans (1973); The Ed Sullivan Show (1955); The Ford Television Theatre (1952–1957); The Hatfields and the McCoys (1975); The High Chaparral (1967); The Lady Says No (1951); The Magician (1973); The Match Game (1963); The Object Is (1964); The Petty Girl (1950); The Rains of Ranchipur (1955); The Sainted Sisters (1948); The Space-Watch Murders (1975); The Steve Allen Plymouth Show (1957); The Tonight Show Starring Jack Paar (1957); The Unsuspected (1947); This Is Your Life (1952); To Tell the Truth (1957); Variety Girl (1947); Welcome Stranger (1947); You Don't Say (1965).

Born on this day – John Randolph:

 

Actor

June 1, 1915 – February 24, 2004

Born on this day – Freeman Wills Crofts:

Writer

June 1, 1879 – April 11, 1957

Credits:

A Losing Game (1941); A Scream in Soho (1940); A Surprise for Christmas and Other Seasonal Mysteries (2020); Antidote to Venom (1938); Antidote to Venom (1938); Anything to Declare? (1957); Bats in the Belfry (1937); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Blood on the Tracks (2018); Bodies from the Library (1953); Calamity in Kent (1950); Capital Crimes: London Mysteries (2015); Castle Skull (1931); Checkmate to Murder (1944); Continental Crimes (2017); Crime at Guildford (1935); Crimson Snow (2016); Crossed Skis (1952); Dark Journey / French Strikes Oil (1951); Death Has Deep Roots (1951); Death in Fancy Dress (1933); Death in the Tunnel / Dark in the Tunnel (1936); Death Makes a Prophet (1947); Death of a Busybody (1942); Death of a Train (1946); Death of an Airman (1934); Death on the Cherwell (1935); Death on the Riviera (1952); Death on the Way (1932); Deep Waters: Murder on the Waves (2019); Double Death (1985); Due to a Death (1963); Enemy Unseen (1945); Excellent Intentions (1938); Family Matters (1933); Fatal Venture (1939); Fear Comes to Chalfont (1942); Fell Murder (1944); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1948); Fire in the Thatch (1946); Foreign Bodies (2017); Found Floating (1937); Golden Age of Detection Puzzle Book (2018); Golden Ashes (1940); Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror (1931); Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021); Inspector French and Sir John Magill’s Last Journey (1930); Inspector French and the Cheyne Mystery (1926); Inspector French and the Sea Mystery (1928); Inspector French and the Starvel Hollow Tragedy (1927); Inspector French’s Greatest Case (1924); It Walks by Night (1930); James Tarrant, Adventurer (1941); Man Overboard (1936); Many a Slip (1955); Miraculous Mysteries (2017); Murder at the Manor (2016); Murder by Matchlight (1945); Murder in the Mill-Race (1952); Murder in the Museum (1938); Murder of a Lady (1931); Murder On The Railways (2003); Murder Underground (1934); Murderers Make Mistakes (1947); Murder's a Swine: A Second World War Mystery (1943); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in the Channel (1931); Mystery in White (1937); Mystery of the Sleeping Car Express (1956); Mystery on Southampton Water (1934); Nine Detective Stories (1964); Portrait of a Murderer (1933); Resorting to Murder (2015); Scarweather (1934); Serpents in Eden (2016); Settling Scores: Sporting Mysteries (2020); Seven Dead (1939); Silence for the Murderer (1949); Silent Nights (2015); Six Against the Yard (1937); Smallbone Deceased (1950); Somebody at the Door (1943); Sudden Death (1932); Surfeit of Suspects (1964); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The 12.30 from Croydon (1934); The Affair at Little Wokeham (1943); The Arsenal Stadium Mystery (1939); The Belting Inheritance (1965); The Body in the Dumb River (1961); The Box Office Murders (1929); The Cask (1920); The Cheltenham Square Murder (1937); The Chianti Flask (1934); The Christmas Card Crime and Other Stories (2018); The Christmas Egg (1958); The Colour Of Murder (1957); The Cornish Coast Murder (1935); The Corpse in the Waxworks / The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Danger Within / Death in Captivity (1952); The Dead Shall be Raised & Murder of a Quack (1942); The Division Bell Mystery (1932); The End of Andrew Harrison (1938); The End of the Web (1976); The Female Detective (1864); The Groote Park Murder (1923); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Hog's Back Mystery (1933); The Incredible Crime (1931); The Lake District Murder (1935); The Last Best Friend (1967); The Long Arm of the Law (2017); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Loss of the Jane Vosper (1936); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Measure of Malice (2019); The Notting Hill Mystery (1862); The Pit-Prop Syndicate (1922); The Pocket Detective 2: 100+ More Puzzles, Brainteasers and Conundrums (2019); The Poisoned Chocolates Case (1929); The Ponson Case (1921); The Port of London Murders (1938); The Progress of a Crime (1960); The Realm of the Impossible (2017); The Santa Klaus Murder (1936); The Scoop and Behind the Screen (1983); The Secret of High Eldersham / The Mystery of High Eldersham (1930); The Spoilt Kill (1961); The Spy Paramount (1934); The Sussex Downs Murder (1936); The Traitor (1936); The Z Murders (1931); Thirteen Guests (1938); Trouble on the Thames (1945); Two-Way Murder (2021); Verdict of Twelve (1940).

Henry Ward Beecher, on books:

Books are not made for furniture,

but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
- Henry Ward Beecher