John Hale (minister)

John Hale was the Puritan pastor of Beverly, Massachusetts, and took part in the Salem witch trials in 1692. He was one of the most prominent and influential ministers associated with the witch trials, being noted as having initially supported the trials and then changing his mind and publishing a critique of them.

3 June 1636

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Allen Ginsberg • Baburao Painter • Charles II, Archduke of Austria • Colin Meads • Conon of Naso • Dan Hill • Dean Pay • Deniece Williams • Dilraba Dilmurat • Ed Wynne • Giovanni Antonio Scopoli • Hale Irwin • Ignacio Ponseti • Lyfe Jennings • Magdalene Thoresen • Melissa Mathison • Mike Gordon • Otto Porter Jr. • Patrick Cargill • Pietro de' Medici • Travis Hafner • Wasim Akram • Yelena Isinbayeva

Born in the same month (June 1636): Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon