Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts (born 2 June 1941) is an English drummer, best known as a member of The Rolling Stones. He is also the leader of a jazz band, a record producer, commercial artist, and horse breeder. Watts was born to Charles Watts, a lorry driver for a precursor of British Rail and his wife Lilian (née Eaves) at University College Hospital, London, and raised (along with his sister Linda) in Islington and then Kingsbury. He attended Tylers Croft Secondary Modern School from 1952 to 1956; as a schoolboy, he displayed a talent for art, cricket and football. Watts' parents gave him his first drum kit in 1955; he was interested in jazz, and would practice drumming along with jazz records he collected. After completing secondary school, he enrolled at Harrow Art School (now the University of Westminster), which he attended until 1960. After leaving school, Watts worked as a graphic designer for an advertising company called Charlie Daniels Studios, and also played drums occasionally with local bands in coffee shops and clubs. In 1961 he met Alexis Korner, who invited him to join his band, Blues Incorporated. At that time Watts was on his way to a sojourn working as a graphic designer in Denmark, but he accepted Korner's offer when he returned to London in February 1962. Watts played regularly with Blues Incorporated as well as working at the advertising firm of Charles, Hobson and Grey. It was in mid-1962 that Watts first met Brian Jones, Ian "Stu" Stewart, Mick Jagger, and Keith Richards, who also frequented the London rhythm and blues clubs, but it wasn't until January 1963 that Watts finally agreed to join the Rolling Stones.
Events
- 455 – Sack of Rome: Vandals enter Rome, and plunder the city for two weeks
- 1098 – First Crusade: The first Siege of Antioch ends as Crusader forces take the city. The second siege would later start on June 7.
- 1615 – First Récollet missionaries arrive at Quebec City, from Rouen, France.
- 1676 – Franco-Dutch War: France ensured the supremacy of its naval fleet for the remainder of the war with its victory in the Battle of Palermo.
- 1692 – Bridget Bishop is the first person to go to trial in the Salem witch trials in Salem, Massachusetts. Found guilty, she is hanged on June 10.
- 1763 – Pontiac's Rebellion: At what is now Mackinaw City, Michigan, Chippewas capture Fort Michilimackinac by diverting the garrison's attention with a game of lacrosse, then chasing a ball into the fort.
- 1774 – Intolerable Acts: The Quartering Act is enacted, allowing a governor in colonial America to house British soldiers in uninhabited houses, outhouses, barns, or other buildings if suitable quarters are not provided.
- 1793 – French Revolution: François Hanriot, leader of the Parisian National Guard, arrests 22 Girondists selected by Jean-Paul Marat, setting the stage for the Reign of Terror.
- 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: A Franco-Spanish fleet recaptures Diamond Rock, an uninhabited island at the entrance to the bay leading to Fort-de-France, from the British.
- 1835 – P. T. Barnum and his circus start their first tour of the United States.
- 1848 – The Slavic congress in Prague begins.
- 1855 – The Portland Rum Riot occurs in Portland, Maine.
- 1866 – Fenian raids: Fenians are victorious in both the Battle of Ridgeway and the Battle of Fort Erie.
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, a national revolutionary of Bulgaria, is killed in Stara Planina
- 1886 – U.S. President Grover Cleveland marries Frances Folsom in the White House, becoming the only president to wed in the executive mansion.
- 1896 – Guglielmo Marconi applies for a patent for his newest invention: the radio.
- 1909 – Alfred Deakin becomes Prime Minister of Australia for the third time.
- 1910 – Charles Rolls, co-founder of Rolls-Royce Limited, becomes the first man to make a non-stop double crossing of the English Channel by plane.
- 1919 – Anarchists simultaneously set off bombs in eight separate U.S. cities.
- 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge signs the Indian Citizenship Act into law, granting citizenship to all Native Americans born within the territorial limits of the United States.
- 1941 – World War II: German paratoopers murder Greek civilians in the village of Kondomari.
- 1946 – Birth of the Italian Republic: In a referendum, Italians vote to turn Italy from a monarchy into a Republic. After the referendum the king of Italy Umberto II di Savoia is exiled.
- 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.
- 1955 – The USSR and Yugoslavia sign the Belgrade declaration and thus normalize relations between both countries, discontinued since 1948.
- 1962 – During the 1962 FIFA World Cup, police had to intervene multiple times in fights between Chilean and Italian players in one of the most violent games in football history.
- 1966 – Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft land on another world.
- 1967 – Luis Monge is executed in Colorado's gas chamber, in the last pre-Furman execution in the United States.
- 1967 – Protests in West Berlin against the arrival of the Shah of Iran turn into riots, during which Benno Ohnesorg is killed by a police officer. His death results in the founding of the terrorist group Movement 2 June.
- 1979 – Pope John Paul II first official visit to his native Poland, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country.
- 1983 – After an emergency landing because of an in-flight fire, twenty-three passengers aboard Air Canada Flight 797 are killed when a flashover occurs as the plane's doors open. Because of this incident, numerous new safety regulations are put in place.
- 1990 – The Lower Ohio Valley tornado outbreak spawns 66 confirmed tornadoes in Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ohio, killing 12. Petersburg, Indiana, is the hardest-hit town in the outbreak, with 6 deaths.
- 1995 – United States Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady's F-16 is shot down over Bosnia while patrolling the NATO no-fly zone.
- 1997 – In Denver, Colorado, Timothy McVeigh is convicted on 15 counts of murder and conspiracy for his role in the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
- 1999 – The Bhutan Broadcasting Service brings television transmissions to the Kingdom for the first time.
- 2003 – Europe launches its first voyage to another planet, Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.
- 2004 – Ken Jennings begins his 74-game winning streak on the syndicated game show Jeopardy!
- 2010 – Derrick Bird goes on a killing spree in Cumbria, killing 13 and injuring 11, see Cumbria shootings.
Births
- 926 – Murakami, Emperor of Japan (d. 967)
- 1535 – Pope Leo XI (d. 1605)
- 1731 – Martha Washington, First American first lady (d. 1802)
- 1740 – Marquis de Sade, French author (d. 1814)
- 1743 – Count Alessandro di Cagliostro, Sicilian Occultist (d. 1795)
- 1773 – John Randolph, U.S. Senator from Virginia (d. 1833)
- 1774 – William Lawson, explorer of New South Wales, Australia (d. 1850)
- 1815 – Philip Kearny, American general (d. 1862)
- 1823 – Gédéon Ouimet, French Canadian politician (d. 1905)
- 1835 – Pope Pius X (d. 1914)
- 1838 – Grand Duchess Alexandra Petrovna (d. 1900)
- 1840 – Thomas Hardy, English writer (d. 1928)
- 1857 – Edward Elgar, English composer (d. 1934)
- 1857 – Karl Adolph Gjellerup, Danish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1919)
- 1861 – Concordia Selander, Swedish actress (d. 1935)
- 1863 – Felix Weingartner, Yugoslavian conductor (d. 1942)
- 1865 – George Lohmann, English cricketer (d. 1901)
- 1869 – Jack O'Connor, American baseball player (d. 1937)
- 1875 – Charles Stewart Mott, automotive industrialist and mayor (d. 1973)
- 1878 – Wallace Hartley, English violinist (d. 1912)
- 1887 – Howard Johnson, American songwriter (d. 1941)
- 1891 – Thurman Arnold, American attorney and jurist (d. 1969)
- 1891 – Takijiro Onishi, Japanese WWII figure (d. 1945)
- 1899 – Lotte Reiniger, German film director (d. 1981)
- 1904 – Frank Runacres, English artist (d. 1974)
- 1904 – Johnny Weissmuller, American swimmer and actor (d. 1984)
- 1907 – Dorothy West, American writer (d. 1998)
- 1907 – John Lehmann, English poet, editor, and publisher (d. 1987)
- 1913 – Walter Andreas Schwarz, German singer and author (d. 1992)
- 1913 – Barbara Pym, English novelist (d. 1980)
- 1915 – Walter Tetley, American voice actor (d. 1975)
- 1915 – Alexandru Nicolschi, Romanian communist (d. 1992)
- 1917 – Heinz Sielmann, German photographer and filmmaker (d. 2006)
- 1917 – Max Showalter, American actor (d. 2000)
- 1918 – Ruth Atkinson, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
- 1918 – Kathryn Tucker Windham, American writer and storyteller (d. 2011)
- 1919 – Nat Mayer Shapiro, American painter (d. 2005)
- 1920 – Frank G. Clement, Governor of Tennessee (d. 1969)
- 1920 – Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Polish-born critic
- 1920 – Tex Schramm, American football team president and general manager (d. 2003)
- 1920 – Johnny Speight, British television writer (d. 1998)
- 1921 – Betty Freeman, American philanthropist and photographer (d. 2009)
- 1922 – Charlie Sifford, American golfer
- 1922 – Juan Antonio Bardem, Spanish director and screenwriter (d. 2002)
- 1924 – June Callwood, Canadian journalist and activist (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Al Ruscio, American actor
- 1926 – Milo O'Shea, Irish actor
- 1926 – Chiyonoyama Masanobu, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 41st Yokozuna (d. 1977)
- 1927 – W. Watts Biggers, American novelist and animator
- 1929 – Norton Juster, American author and architect
- 1929 – Ken McGregor, Australian tennis player (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Pete Conrad, American astronaut (d. 1999)
- 1930 – Bob Lillis, baseball player
- 1931 – Larry Jackson, baseball player (d. 1990)
- 1931 – William Donaldson, American businessman and politician
- 1932 – Sammy Turner, American singer
- 1934 – Johnny Carter, American doo wop singer (d. 2009)
- 1935 – Carol Shields, American-born novelist (d. 2003)
- 1935 – Roger Brierley, English actor (d. 2005)
- 1935 – Dimitri Kitsikis, Greek turkologist
- 1937 – Sally Kellerman, American actress
- 1937 – Jimmy Jones, American singer and songwriter
- 1937 – Robert Paul, Canadian figure skater
- 1938 – Kevin Brownlow, English film historian and author
- 1940 – King Constantine II of Greece
- 1941 – Stacy Keach, American actor
- 1941 – Charlie Watts, English musician (The Rolling Stones)
- 1941 – William Guest, American singer (Gladys Knight & the Pips)
- 1941 – Jeff Winkless, American voice actor (d. 2006)
- 1942 – Maree Cheatham, American actress
- 1943 – Charles Haid, American actor
- 1943 – Ilaiyaraaja, Indian Musician
- 1944 – Marvin Hamlisch, American composer and musician
- 1945 – Jane Bonnie Newman, American politician
- 1945 – Jon Peters, American film producer and hairdresser
- 1946 – Peter Sutcliffe, English serial killer
- 1946 – Lasse Hallström, Swedish film director
- 1946 – Song Dae Kwan, Korean singer
- 1947 – Mark Elder, British opera and symphony conductor
- 1948 – Jerry Mathers, American actor
- 1949 – Heather Couper, British astronomer
- 1949 – Frank Rich, American theater critic and columnist
- 1950 – Joanna Gleason, Canadian actress and singer
- 1951 – Larry Robinson, Canadian hockey player
- 1952 – Gary Bettman, American National Hockey League commissioner
- 1953 – Keith Allen, Welsh comedian, actor, singer and writer
- 1953 – Craig Stadler, American golfer
- 1953 – Cornel West, American civil rights activist
- 1954 – Dennis Haysbert, American actor
- 1955 – Michael Steele, American musician (The Bangles)
- 1955 – Chantal Hochuli, Swiss-born socialite
- 1955 – Dana Carvey, American actor
- 1956 – Malcolm Garrett, English graphic designer
- 1956 – Mani Ratnam, Indian Film Director
- 1956 – Jan Lammers, Dutch racing driver
- 1957 – Mark Lawrenson, English footballer and commentator
- 1957 – Jonathan Stack, American documentary filmmaker
- 1958 – Lawrence Pfohl, American professional wrestler
- 1959 – Charlie Huddy, Canadian hockey player
- 1959 – Lydia Lunch, American singer
- 1960 – Tony Hadley, English singer (Spandau Ballet)
- 1960 – Kyle Petty, American race car driver
- 1961 – Dez Cadena, American musician (Black Flag)
- 1963 – Jim Burns, American entrepreneur
- 1964 – Caroline Link, German film director and screenwriter
- 1965 – Jim Knipfel, American autobiographer and journalist
- 1965 – Mark Waugh Australian cricketer
- 1965 – Steve Waugh, Australian cricketer
- 1966 – Pedro Guerra, Spanish songwriter and singer
- 1967 – Mike Stanton, American baseball player
- 1968 – Beetlejuice, American radio personality
- 1968 – Andy Cohen, American television personality
- 1968 – Jon Culshaw, British comedian
- 1968 – Jason Falkner, American musician
- 1969 – Cy Chadwick, English actor
- 1970 – Andy McCollum, American football player
- 1970 – B-Real, American rapper (Cypress Hill)
- 1971 – Katerina Jacques, Czech politician
- 1971 – Jo Koy, Filipino-American comedian
- 1971 – Anthony Montgomery, American actor
- 1972 – Wayne Brady, American actor and comedian
- 1972 – Raúl Ibáñez, American baseball player
- 1972 – Wentworth Miller, American actor
- 1972 – Simon Staho, Danish film director
- 1973 – Neifi Perez, Dominican baseball player
- 1974 – Gata Kamsky, American chess player
- 1974 – Matt Serra, American mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Earl Boykins, American basketball player
- 1976 – Martin Cech, Czech ice hockey player (d. 2007)
- 1976 – Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira, Brazilian mixed martial artist
- 1976 – Queen 'Masenate Mohato Seeiso of Lesotho
- 1976 – Tim Rice-Oxley, English musician (Keane)
- 1977 – Zachary Quinto, American actor
- 1978 – Dominic Cooper, English actor
- 1978 – Nikki Cox, American actress
- 1978 – Justin Long, American actor
- 1978 – A.J. Styles, American professional wrestler
- 1979 – Morena Baccarin, Brazilian actress
- 1979 – Butterfly Boucher, Australian musician
- 1980 – Fabrizio Moretti, Brazilian rock drummer (The Strokes)
- 1980 – Bobby Simmons, American basketball player
- 1980 – Abby Wambach, American footballer
- 1981 – Nikolay Davydenko, Russian tennis player
- 1981 – Chin-hui Tsao, Taiwanese baseball player
- 1981 – Velvet Sky, American professional wrestler
- 1891 – Catherine Manoukian, Canadian violinist
- 1982 – Jewel Staite, Canadian actress
- 1983 – Christopher Higgins, American ice hockey player
- 1983 – Brooke White, American singer
- 1983 – Leela James, American singer-songwriter
- 1984 – Max Boyer, Canadian professional wrestler
- 1985 – Ana Cristina, American singer, composer, and actress
- 1985 – Jacqueline Fernandez, Miss Universe Sri Lanka 2006, Indian Actress
- 1986 – Curtis Lofton, American football player
- 1987 – Darin Zanyar, Swedish singer
- 1987 – Maryka Holtzhausen, South African netballer
- 1987 – Sonakshi Sinha, Indian actress
- 1988 – Sergio Agüero, Argentinian footballer
- 1988 – Patrik Berglund, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1989 – Freddy Adu, Ghanaian/American footballer
- 1989 – Steven Smith, Australian cricketer
- 1990 – Brittany Curran, American actress
- 1992 – Pajtim Kasami, Swiss footballer
- 1994 – Jemma McKenzie-Brown, English actress
Deaths
- 829 – Saint Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople (b. 758)
- 910 – Richilde of Provence, Queen of Western Francia (b. 845)
- 1418 – Katherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III of Castile (b. 1373)
- 1567 – Shane O'Neill, Irish king of Ulsters (b. 1530)
- 1581 – James Douglas, 4th Earl of Morton, regent of Scotland (b. 1525)
- 1693 – John Wildman, English soldier and politician (b. 1621)
- 1701 – Madeleine de Scudéry, French writer (b. 1607)
- 1716 – Ogata Korin, Japanese painter (b. 1658)
- 1720 – Jeremiah Shepard, American minister (b. 1648)
- 1754 – Ebenezer Erskine, Scottish religious dissenter (b. 1680)
- 1761 – Jonas Alströmer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1685)
- 1785 – Jean Paul de Gua de Malves, French mathematician (b. 1713)
- 1806 – William Tate, English painter (b. 1747)
- 1833 – Simon Byrne, Irish bare-knuckle prize fighter (b. 1806)
- 1853 – Henry Trevor, 21st Baron Dacre, British peer and soldier (b. 1777)
- 1865 – Ner Alexander Middleswarth, American politician (b. 1783)
- 1875 – Józef Kremer, Polish messianistic philosopher (b. 1806)
- 1876 – Hristo Botev, Bulgarian revolutionary and poet (b. 1848)
- 1881 – Émile Littré, French lexicographer (b. 1801)
- 1882 – Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian revolutionarist (b. 1807)
- 1901 – George Leslie Mackay, Canadian missionary (b. 1844)
- 1929 – Enrique Gorostieta, Mexican soldier (b.1889)
- 1933 – Frank Jarvis, American athlete (b. 1878)
- 1937 – Louis Vierne, French organist and composer (b. 1870)
- 1941 – Lou Gehrig, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1942 – Bunny Berigan, American jazz musician (b. 1908)
- 1948 – Viktor Brack, German physician (b. 1904)
- 1948 – Karl Brandt, personal physician of Adolf Hitler (b. 1904)
- 1948 – Karl Gebhardt, German doctor (b. 1897)
- 1948 – Waldemar Hoven, German physician (b. 1903)
- 1948 – Wolfram Sievers, German SS officer (b. 1905)
- 1952 – Naum Torbov, Bulgarian architect (b. 1880)
- 1956 – Jean Hersholt, Danish actor and humanitarian (b. 1886)
- 1961 – George S. Kaufman, American playwright (b. 1889)
- 1962 – Vita Sackville-West, English writer, and gardener (b. 1892)
- 1967 – Benno Ohnesorg, German student (b. 1940)
- 1968 – André Mathieu, Quebec pianist and composer (b. 1929)
- 1969 – Leo Gorcey, American actor (b. 1917)
- 1970 – Albert Lamorisse, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 1970 – Bruce McLaren, New Zealand car racer and designer (b. 1937)
- 1970 – Giuseppe Ungaretti, Italian poet (b. 1888)
- 1974 – Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (b. 1949)
- 1976 – Kenneth Mason, British geographer (b. 1887)
- 1976 – Juan José Torres, former President of Bolivia (b. 1920)
- 1977 – Albert Bittlmayer, German footballer (b. 1952)
- 1977 – Stephen Boyd, Northern Irish actor (b. 1931)
- 1979 – Jim Hutton, American actor (b. 1934)
- 1982 – Fazal Ilahi Chaudhry, Pakistani politician (b. 1904)
- 1983 – Stan Rogers, Canadian musician (b. 1949)
- 1984 – Georgios Kasassoglou, Greek musician (b. 1908)
- 1986 – Aurèle Joliat, Canadian hockey player (b. 1901)
- 1987 – Anthony de Mello, Indian Jesuit priest and psychotherapist (b. 1931)
- 1987 – Sammy Kaye, American bandleader (b. 1910)
- 1987 – Andrés Segovia, Spanish guitarist (b. 1893)
- 1988 – Raj Kapoor, Indian film actor, producer and director (b. 1924)
- 1989 – Ted a'Beckett, Australian cricketer (b. 1907)
- 1990 – Jack Gilford, American actor (b. 1908)
- 1990 – Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (b. 1908)
- 1992 – Philip Dunne, American film director (b. 1908)
- 1993 – Johnny Mize, American baseball player (b. 1913)
- 1994 – David Stove, Australian philosopher (b. 1927)
- 1996 – John Alton, American cinematographer (b. 1901)
- 1996 – Ray Combs, American game show host and comedian (b. 1956)
- 1996 – Leon Garfield, English children's author (b. 1921)
- 1996 – Amos Tversky, Israeli psychologist (b. 1937)
- 1997 – Doc Cheatham, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1905)
- 1998 – Sylvester Ritter, American wrestler (b. 1952)
- 1999 – Junior Braithwaite, Jamaican musician (The Wailers) (b. 1949)
- 2000 – Svyatoslav Fyodorov, Russian ophthalmologist (b. 1927)
- 2000 – Gerald Whitrow, British mathematician (b. 1912)
- 2001 – Imogene Coca, American actress (b. 1908)
- 2001 – Joey Maxim, American boxer (b. 1922)
- 2001 – Frank Stagg, Baptist theologian (b. 1911)
- 2003 – Fred Blassie, American professional wrestler (b. 1918)
- 2004 – Loyd Sigmon, American amateur radio broadcaster (b. 1909)
- 2005 – Gunder Gundersen, Norwegian skier and sports official (b. 1930)
- 2005 – Chloe Jones, Model and pornographic actress (b. 1975)
- 2005 – Samir Kassir, Lebanese journalist and teacher (b. 1950)
- 2005 – Melita Norwood, British spy (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Keith Smith, English rugby player (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Vince Welnick, musician, keyboardist (The Grateful Dead) (b. 1951)
- 2007 – Huang Ju, Chinese Vice-Premier (b. 1938)
- 2007 – Kentaro Haneda, Japanese composer (b. 1949)
- 2008 – Bo Diddley, American musician (b. 1928)
- 2008 – Mel Ferrer, American actor, film director and film producer (b. 1917)
- 2009 – David Eddings, American fantasy writer (b. 1931)
- 2011 – Willem Duys, Dutch commentator and music producer (b. 1928)
Holidays and observances
- Children's Day (North Korea)
- Christian Feast Day:
- Coronation Day of Fourth Druk Gyalpo (Bhutan)
- Day of Hristo Botev and the people died for the freedom and the independence of Bulgaria (Bulgaria)
- Festa della Repubblica, commemorates the birth of the Repubblica Italiana and the end of the monarchy. (Italy)
- Isabel Province Day (Isabel Province, Solomon Islands)
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