Born on this day – Gwendolyn Brooks:

Gwendolyn Brooks

Writer

Teacher

June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000

Credits:

A Street in Bronzeville (1945); Aloneness (1971); Annie Allen (1949); Black Love (1982); Bronzeville Boys and Girls (1956); Family Pictures (1970); For Illinois 1968: A Sesquicentennial Poem (1968); In Montgomery, and Other Poems (2003); In the Mecca (1968); Maud Martha (1953); Mayor Harold Washington; and, Chicago, the I Will City (1983); Report from Part One: An Autobiography (1972); Report from Part Two (1996); Riot (1969); The Bean Eaters (1960); The Near-Johannesburg Boy, and Other Poems (1987); We Real Cool (1960); Winnie (1988).

Born on this day – Robin Hughes:

Robin Hughes

Actor

June 7, 1920 – December 10, 1989

Credits:

77 Sunset Strip (1959–1961); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1956); American Masters (1995); Auntie Mame (1958); Battle of the Coral Sea (1959); Cavalcade of America (1953–1955); Charge of the Lancers (1954); Cheyenne (1957); China Smith (1952); Colt .45 (1960); Command Decision (1948); Court Martial (1965); Crusader (1956); Cyrano de Bergerac (1950); Darling, How Could You! (1951); Dial M for Murder (1954); Dynamite, the Story of Alfred Nobel (1954); El Alaméin (1953); Enchantment (1948); Fancy Pants (1950); Fireside Theatre (1954); Flame of Calcutta (1953); Flight (1958–1959); Forever Amber (1947); Four Star Playhouse (1954); Front Row Center (1955); Garrison's Gorillas (1967); Ghost Squad (1962); Green Dolphin Street (1947); Hawaiian Eye (1960); He Who Rides a Tiger (1965); Hue and Cry (1947); If Winter Comes (1947); Johnny Tremain (1957); Khyber Patrol (1954); Kim (1950); King Richard and the Crusaders (1954); Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948); Kraft Mystery Theater (1962); Look for the Silver Lining (1949); Lux Video Theatre (1954–1956); Manhunt in the Jungle (1958); Markham (1959–1960); Men Into Space (1960); Mike Hammer (1958); Million Dollar Mermaid (1952); Money from Home (1953); Mutiny (1952); My Own True Love (1949); Navy Log (1955); One Step Beyond (1961); Paris Playboys (1954); Perry Mason (1958); Port Said (1948); Quo Vadis (1951); Rogue's March (1953); Schlitz Playhouse (1954–1956); Secrets of Monte Carlo (1951); Sir Francis Drake (1962); Star! (1968); Sugarfoot (1959); Sword in the Desert (1949); The 13th Letter (1951); The Adventures of Jim Bowie (1958); The Bigelow Theatre (1951); The Box Brothers (1956–1957); The Brothers Brannagan (1961); The Buccaneer (1958); The Court Jester (1955); The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951); The Flame and the Arrow (1950); The Gray Ghost (1958); The Human Jungle (1963); The Islanders (1960); The Loner (1965); The Magical World of Disney (1960); The Maze (1953); The Mole People (1956); The Movie That Couldn't Die (2014); The Road to Hong Kong (1962); The Ruggles (1951); The Saint (1962); The Scarlet Coat (1955); The Secret of St. Ives (1949); The Seven Minutes (1971); The Silent Service (1957–1958); The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951); The Star and the Story (1955–1956); The Thing That Couldn't Die (1958); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Year of Living Locked Up (2020); Three Came Home (1950); Thriller (1961); Titanic (1953); Untamed (1955); Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse (1959); What Price Victory (1955); When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950); You Are There (1953–1956); Zorro (1958).

Born on this day – Charles Strouse:

Charles Strouse

Composer

Lyricist

Actor

June 7, 1928 – May 15, 2025

Credits:
 
Musicals:

A Broadway Musical (1978); A Pound in Your Pocket (1959); Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1998); All American (1962); An American Tragedy (1995 / 2010); Annie (1977); Annie 2: Miss Hannigan's Revenge (1989); Annie Warbucks (1993); Applause (1970); Bojangles (1993); Bring Back Birdie (1981); Bye Bye Birdie (1960); Charlie and Algernon (1979); Charlotte's Web (1989); Dance a Little Closer (1983); Golden Boy (1964); I and Albert (1972); It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's Superman (1966); Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (1988); Martin: A New American Musical (2011); Marty (2002); Mayor (1985); Minsky's (2009); Nick & Nora (1991); Nightingale (1982); Rags (1986); Real Men (2005); Six (1971); Studio (2006); The Future of the American Musical Theater (2004).

Movies and television:

13 Conversations About One Thing (2001); 29th Street (1991); 30 Rock (2006–2008); 61* (2001); 7 in a Barn (1971); 90 Minutes Live (1978); A Broadway Lullaby (2012); A Child's Garden of Verses (1992); A Special Sesame Street Christmas (1978); Addams Family Values (1993); Aladdin and the Forty Thieves (1984); Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day (1990); Alice in Wonderland or What's a Nice Kid Like You Doing in a Place Like This? (1966); All by Myself: The Eartha Kitt Story (1982); All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989); All in the Family (1971–1979); AMV Hell 3: The Motion Picture (2005); Angels in New York (2010); Annie (1982 / 1999 / 2014); Annie Live! (2021); Annie: A Royal Adventure! (1995); Applause (1973); Archie Bunker's Place (1979–1983); Are You Being Served? (1979); Austin Powers in Goldmember (2002); Backstage (2015); Bandstand (1961–1965); Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021); BBC Show of the Week (1967); Beyond the Sea (2004); Blue Bloods (2012); Bonnie and Clyde (1967); Boy Meets World (1996); Broadway Beat (2009); Broadway Idiot (2013); Broadway Musicals: A Jewish Legacy (2013); Broadway Plays Washington on Kennedy Center Tonight (1982); Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age (2021); Bye Bye Birdie (1963 / 1995 / 2012); Call Me Fitz (2010); Call the Midwife (2013); Camp Nowhere (1994); Canada After Dark (1978); Cathouse: The Musical (2008); CBS News Sunday Morning with Jane Pauley (2025); Charlie Bartlett (2007); Cheers (1990–1992); Children of the Wind (2015); Clone High (2024); Conan (2016); Concentration (1958–1973); Crumbs (2006); Cybill (1997); Dancing with the Stars (2014); Daria (2000); Dave (1993); De Mike Burstyn show (1980); Deadpool 2 (2018); Demi Lovato: Stay Strong (2012); Diminishing Returns (2019); Diminishing Returns Diminisodes (2021); Dorbees: Making Decisions (1998); Dorothy (1979); Drunk Parents (2019); Duckman: Private Dick/Family Man (1994); Edtv (1999); Ein Abend für zwei Komödianten (1982); Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show (1985); Emu's Wide World (1988); Esta noche (1981); Evil (2019); Family Guy (2009–2011); Family Ties (1982–1989); Fathers' Day (1997); Fred Claus (2007); Gizmo! (1977); Glee (2012–2014); Golic and Wingo (2018); Good Morning Britain (2017); Great Performances (1985–2003); Growing Pains (1991); Ha-Hofesh Ha'Acharon (1989); Hanging Up (2000); Happy Together (1989); Happy! (2019); HBO Storybook Musicals (1987); Here's Lucy (1969); Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996); Holiday Greetings from 'The Ed Sullivan Show' (1992); Holiday in Metropolis (2006); Hollywood Rocks the Movies: The Early Years (1955-1970) (2000); How to Build a Girl (2019); Hugh Hefner's After Dark: Speaking Out in America (2018); Idina Menzel Live: Barefoot at the Symphony (2012); Igor (2008); In Living Color (1993–1994); Inside TV Land (2002); Ishtar (1987); It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's Superman! (1975); It's a Living (1987); It's Tough to Be a Bug (1998); Jay-Z: Hard Knock Life (Ghetto Anthem);  (1998); Jazz Scene at the Ronnie Scott Club (1970); Jungle Fever (1991); Just Like Heaven (2005); Just Tell Me What You Want (1980); Justice for All (1968); Keeping Up Appearances (1993); Kissing Jessica Stein (2001); Late Night with Conan O'Brien (2004); Late Night with Seth Meyers (2016); Lea Salonga Live (2003); Liberty Weekend (1986); Life After Tomorrow (2006); Life with Mikey (1993); Lights, Camera, Annie! (1982); Like Mike (2002); Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear's 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons' (2019); Lorraine (2017); Lulu's Back in Town (1968); Mad Men (2009); Married... with Children (1994); Masked Singer Sverige (2022); Matzav Ha'Uma (2013); Maurice Hines: Bring Them Back (2019); Meet Sammy Davis Jr. 1 (1963); Memory (1993); MGM Sing-Alongs: Being Happy (1997); MGM Sing-Alongs: Friends (1997); MGM Sing-Alongs: Having Fun (1997); Mike & Mike (2013); Monsanto Night Presents Tony Bennett in Waikiki (1973); Morgen is er zon (2016); Morning Joe (2023); MsMojo (2021); Murphy Brown (1990); Mystery Science Theater 3000 (1992–2018); Night Dicks: Miami (2021); Night of 100 Stars (1982); Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You (2016); Nurse Jackie (2010); Off Beat (1986); On Parade (1964); Only Murders in the Building (2021); Over the Top (1997); P.O.V. (2014); Pan Am (2011–2012); Parade of Stars (1983); Perfect Strangers (1988); Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (1966); Petticoat Junction (1970); Playboy After Dark (1970); PM East (1961); Police Squad! (1982); Popular (2001); Portrait of a Showgirl (1982); Pushing Tin (1999); Replay (1970); Sammy Davis and the Wonderful World of Children (1965); Sammy Davis, Jr.: I've Gotta Be Me (2017); Saturday Night Live (1981–2009); Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993); School of Rock (2003); Scrubs (2006); Search Party (2022); Secondhand Lions (2003); Serial (1980); Serial Mom (1994); Shindig! (1965–1966); Shrek 2 (2004); Shrek Forever After (2010); Sia: You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (2014); Since I Don't Have You (2013); Spirit Young Performers Company: It's the Hard Knock Life (2014); Spirit Young Performers Company: You're Never Fully Dressed Without a Smile (2014); Spotlight on Broadway (2013); Stars in Their Eyes Kids (2002); Summer Sounds (1966); Tall Girl 2 (2022); That'll Be the Day (1973); The 25th Annual Tony Awards (1971); The 31st Annual Tony Awards (1977); The 35th Annual Tony Awards (1981); The 40th Annual Tony Awards (1986); The 41st Annual Tony Awards (1987); The 45th Annual Tony Awards (1991); The 51st Annual Tony Awards (1997); The 67th Annual Tony Awards (2013); The Afterlife of Grandpa (1989); The Annie Christmas Show (1977); The Anniversary Party (2001); The Avengers (1963); The Beatles: The First U.S. Visit (1991); The Big Bang Theory (2015); The Brady Bunch Variety Hour (1977); The Broadway.com Show (2013); The Broken Hearts Club: A Romantic Comedy (2000); The Ed Sullivan Show (1960–1967); The Facts of Life (1987); The Fantastic Funnies (1980); The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1996); The Golden Girls (1991); The Graham Kennedy Show (1975); The Hollywood Palace (1965); The Interviews: An Oral History of Television (2005); The Kennedy Center Honors: A Celebration of the Performing Arts (1998); The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2010); The Legacy Project (2011); The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017); The Mating Game (1959); The Mike Douglas Show (1977 / 1980); The Morecambe & Wise Show (1968); The Muppet Show (1978–1980); The Nanny (1993); The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968); The Nostradamus Kid (1993); The Office (2013); The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976); The Porter Wagoner Show (1970); The Post (2017); The Price Is Right (1956–1965); The Simpsons (1991–2018); The Songwriters (1982); The Songwriter's Hall of Fame 20th Anniversary... The Magic of Music (1989); The Tennessee Ernie Ford Show (1960); The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2015–2017); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1982); The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (2011–2012); The Two Ronnies (1983); The Voice Kids (2014); The West Wing (2000); The Women's Football Show (2016); The World According to Jeff Goldblum (2019); The Worst Witch (1986); The X-Files (1998); Theater Camp (2023); There Was a Crooked Man... (1970); Tony Bennett at the Talk of the Town (1972); Tony Bennett: Duets - The Making of an American Classic (2006); Tu cara me suena - Argentina (2014); Viki ja Köpi Show (2023); Webster (1984–1987); What's Up Doc? (1992); When Things Were Rotten (1975); Words and Music by Jerry Herman (2007); Working in the Theatre (1984–1996); Xena: Warrior Princess (2000); Year of the Comet (1992); You've Got Mail (1998); Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist (2021).

Born on this day – Nikki Giovanni:

 

Nikki Giovanni

Writer

June 7, 1943 – December 9, 2024

Credits:
 
Written work:
 

100 Best African American Poems (2010); A Dialogue with James Baldwin (1973); A Good Cry: What We Learn From Tears and Laughter (2017); A Library (2022); A Poetic Equation: Conversations between Nikki Giovanni and Margaret Walker (1974); Acolytes (2007); Adele Sebastian: Intro to Fine (poems) Woman in the Moon (1985); Appalachian Elders: A Warm Hearth Sampler (1991); Artemis 2017 (Academic Journal of southwest Virginia) (2017); Bicycles: Love Poems (2009); Black Ink: Literary Legends on the Peril, Power, and Pleasure of Reading and Writing (2018); Black Feeling, Black Talk (1968); Black Feeling, Black Talk / Black Judgement (1970); Black Judgement (1968); Blues: For All the Changes (1999); Chasing Utopia: A Hybrid (2013); Continuum: New and Selected Poems by Mari Evans (2012); Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems For Young People (1973); Ego-Tripping and Other Poems for Young People Revised Edition (1993); Hip Hop Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2008); I Am Loved (2018); Knoxville, Tennessee (1994); Lincoln and Douglass: An American Friendship (2008); Love Poems (1997); Make Me Rain (2020); My House (1972); Gemini: An Extended Autobiographical Statement on My First Twenty-five Years of Being a Black Poet (1971); Grand Mothers: Poems, Reminiscences, and Short Stories about the Keepers of Our Traditions (1994); Heav'nly Tidings From the Afric Muse: The Grace and Genius of Phillis Wheatley by Richard Kigel (2017); Night Comes Softly: An Anthology of Black Female Voices (1970); Racism 101 / essays (1994); Sacred Cows ... and Other Edibles (essays) (1988); Shimmy Shimmy Shimmy Like My Sister Kate: Looking at the Harlem Renaissance through Poems (1995); The Abandoned Baobob: The Autobiography of a Woman (1991); Poetry Speaks to Children: A Celebration of Poetry with a Beat (2005); Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea: Poems and Not Quite Poems (2002); Re: Creation (1970); Rosa (2005); Spin a Soft Black Song (1971); The Collected Poetry of Nikki Giovanni: 1968-1998 (2003); The Genie in The Jar (1996); The Girls in the Circle (Just for You!) (2004); The Grasshopper's Song: An Aesop's Fable (2008); The Prosaic Soul of Nikki Giovanni (2003); The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni (1996); The Sun Is So Quiet (1996); The Women and The Men (1975); Those Who Ride The Night Winds (1983); Vacation Time: Poems for Children (1980); Woman (1978).

 

Music:
 

Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day (1978); Every Tone A Testimony (2001); Legacies: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1976); Like a Ripple on a Pond (1973); Nikki Giovanni and the New York Community Choir (1993); The Gospel According To Nikki Giovanni (2022); The Nikki Giovanni Poetry Collection (2002); The Reason I Like Chocolate (1976); The Way I Feel (1975); Truth Is On Its Way (1971).

 

Movies and television:
 

27th NAACP Image Awards (1996); 29th NAACP Image Awards (1998); American Masters (2017); An Evening with Nikki Giovanni (2005); Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People (2009); BET Awards 2014: Genius Talks (2014); Black Journal (1969); Brooks People (2017); By Whatever Means Necessary: The Times of Godfather of Harlem (2020); Camera Three (1972); Channel 4 News (2024); Chester Himes, Reflections (1972); Def Poetry (2002–2005); Democracy Now! (2012–2013); Furious Flower: A Video Anthology of African American Poetry 1960-95 (1998); Get Real! Wise Women Speak (2011); Going to Mars: The Nikki Giovanni Project (2023); HBCUs: 2nd Acts (2022); How Do Your Children Grow? (1972); Independent Lens (2021); Legends Ball (2006); Love Life (2021); Maya Angelou And Still I Rise (2016); Mr. Soul! (2018); MU/T/T/ER (2022); Muhammad Ali (2021); Number One with a Bullet (2008); Overheard (2018); Say It Loud (2008); Soul! (1971–1972); Sp!t (2006); Spirit to Spirit: The Poetry of Nikki Giovanni (1986); What's My Name: Muhammad Ali (2019); Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso (2021); Tavis Smiley (2007–2014); Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White (1998); The ABCs of Book Banning (2023); The Amazing Nina Simone (2015); The Final Genocide (2021); The History Makers (2005); The Mike Douglas Show (1974–1975); The Poets' Café (1995); The Rock Newman Show (2013); The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson (1972); Toni Morrison et les fantômes de l'Amérique (2020); Touré Show (2017); Tupac Shakur: Thug Angel 2 (2011); What Ever Happened to Hip Hop? (2009).

Born on this day – Robert Trebor:

 

Robert Trebor

Actor

Director

June 7, 1953 – March 11, 2025

Credits:

52 Pick-Up (1986); Baywatch (1989); Boomtown (2003); Dark Justice (1992); Dying on the Edge (2001); Empty Nest (1989); Face of Fire (1959); Frank's Place (1988); Gorp (1980); Hail, Caesar! (2016); Hercules and the Lost Kingdom (1994); Hercules: The Legendary Journeys (1995–1999); Hip-Hop Headstrong (2010); Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004); JoAnne (2011); Joe Bash (1986); Magnum Force (1973); Making Mr. Right (1987); Meet Market (2004); Miami Vice (1985 / 1988); Murphy Brown (1989); My Demon Lover (1987); Night Court (1990); Out of the Darkness (1985); Parker Lewis Can't Lose (1991); Raise Your Voice (2004); Simon & Simon (1986); Tales from the Crypt (1992); Talk Radio (1988); The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones (1999); The Devil's Rejects (2005); The First Time (1981); The Nutt House (1992); The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985); The Sex O'Clock News (1985); The Shadow (1994); The Streets of San Francisco (1973); The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles (1993); Turk 182 (1985); Universal Soldier (1992); Wedding Daze (2004); Xena: Warrior Princess (1996–1999).

On this day in movie history - Armored Car Robbery (1950)

Armored Car Robbery

directed by Richard Fleischer,

written by Gerald Drayson Adams and Earl Felton,

based on a story by Robert Leeds and Robert Angus,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1950.

Music by Roy Webb and Paul Sawtell.

Cast:

Charles McGraw, Adele Jergens, William Talman, Douglas Fowley, Steve Brodie, Don McGuire, Don Haggerty, James Flavin, Gene Evans.

On this day in movie history - Delusion (1991)

Delusion

directed by Carl Colpaert,

written by Carl Colpaert and Kurt Voss,

was released in the United States on June 7, 1991.

Music by Barry Adamson.

Cast:

Jim Metzler, Jennifer Rubin, Kyle Secor, Jerry Orbach, Robert Costanzo, Tracey Walter, Barbara Alyn Woods, Amanda Horan Kennedy, Angelina Fiordellisi, Raymond Singer, Tommy Redmond Hicks, Kevin West, Darryl Cox, Bob McCracken, Pat Reilly, Frankie Maiolo, Tamara Landry, Rudolph Willrich, Brendan McKane, John W. Hart, Rachel Gebler, Chitra F. Mojtabai, Robert Moore, Carol Lang, Laura Lang, Craig Sexton, Richard Jordan, Seth Willenson, Kristin Stuart, Albert Albala, James Magowan, Charles Ayers, Jeffrey Madison, Maria Gulezian, Roxanne Thompson, Tony Markes, Marc James, Lurezia Covacevich, Suzan Nesbit Hiett, Tracy Collins, María de Souza.