June 21 Birthday
June 21 is typically the summer solstice, the longest day of the year in the Northern Hemisphere. It gave us Jean-Paul Sartre and Prince, born on the same day 53 years apart. Sartre declined the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964, the only person ever to do so, saying that no writer should allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Prince changed his name to an unpronounceable symbol in 1993 to protest his Warner Bros. contract, and was universally referred to as "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince.". People born on June 21 fall under the zodiac sign of Cancer. The birthstone is Pearl and the birth flower is Rose. Historical events on June 21 include 1948: First stored-program computer runs (Manchester Baby), 1964: Three civil rights workers murdered in Mississippi, 1982: Prince releases 1999. Famous people born on June 21 include Jean-Paul Sartre (1905), Prince Rogers Nelson (1958), Chris Pratt (1979).