Anniversaries 1 June

Birth

Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury1

English Earl 1563–1612

Carl von Clausewitz68

German-Prussian soldier and military theorist 1780–1831

Henry Francis Lyte5

Anglican priest, hymn-writer and poet 1793–1847

Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot19

French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832) 1796–1832

Brigham Young52

Latter Day Saint movement leader 1801–1877

John Marshall Harlan7

United States Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associat… 1833–1911

Gustave Geffroy2

French writer 1855–1926

Hugo Munsterberg8

German-American psychologist, philosopher and agitator 1863–1916

John Masefield17

English poet and writer 1878–1967

Henry Beston24

American writer 1888–1968

Jan Patočka1

Czech essayist and philosopher 1907–1977

William Sloane Coffin4

American activist 1924–2006

Marilyn Monroe149

American actress, model, and singer 1926–1962

John Joseph Gerry2

Australian priest 1927–2017

Anwar Shaikh8

British Pakistani writer 1928–2006

Bob Monkhouse17

English entertainer 1928–2003

Christopher Lasch1

American historian 1932–1994

Norman Foster, Baron Foster of Thames Bank6

British architect 1935

Bimal Krishna Matilal1

Indian philosopher 1935–1991

Colleen McCullough4

Australian author 1937–2015

Morgan Freeman6

American actor, film director, and narrator 1937

Kip S. Thorne1

American physicist 1940

Robert Powell1

English television and film actor 1944

Colin Blakemore1

British neuroscientist 1944

Geoffrey Nunberg1

American linguist 1945

Don Tapscott4

Canadian businessman 1947

John Townsend30

Canadian clinical psychologist and author 1952

David Russell1

Scottish classical guitarist 1953

John Barwa2

Roman Catholic archbishop 1955

Tony Snow8

American White House Press Secretary 1955–2008

Tim Paterson3

American computer programmer, best known as the original au… 1956

Jeff Hawkins3

American entrepreneur and neuroscientist; founder of Palm C… 1957

Nambaryn Enkhbayar2

Mongolian politician, Leader of Mongolian People's Revoluti… 1958

Martin Brundle11

British racecar driver 1959

Ivan Pereira1

Indian bishop (born 1964) 1964

Nigel Short4

British chess player and writer 1965

Sheri Holman1

Novelist 1966

Edward Luce1

journalist 1968

R. Madhavan1

Indian actor 1970

Heidi Klum56

German model, television host, businesswoman, fashion desig… 1973

C.E. Murphy2

American writer 1973

Alanis Morissette29

Canadian-American singer-songwriter 1974

Nikol Pashinyan1

Prime Minister of Armenia 1975

Markus Persson4

Swedish video game programmer 1979

Amy Schumer1

American comedian and actor 1981

Carlos Zambrano23

Venezuelan baseball pitcher 1981

Death

Emperor Gaozu of Han1

founding emperor of the Han Dynasty (256 BC - 195 BC) -256–-195 BC

John Suckling7

English poet 1609–1642

James Buchanan10

American politician, 15th President of the United States (i… 1791–1868

Daniel Burnham2

American architect and urban designer 1846–1912

Thomas R. Marshall11

American politician who served as the 28th Vice President o… 1854–1925

John Dewey62

American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer 1859–1952

J. B. Bury11

Irish historian and freethinker 1861–1927

Leo Slezak1

Austrian opera tenor 1873–1946

Helen Keller156

American author and political activist 1880–1968

Witter Bynner3

American author 1881–1968

Ion Antonescu5

prime minister and conducător of Romania during World War II 1882–1946

Sax Rohmer2

English novelist 1883–1959

Hugh Walpole6

New Zealand writer 1884–1941

Giuseppe Ungaretti2

poet and writer from Italy 1888–1970

Don Herold1

cartoonist 1889–1966

Reinhold Niebuhr65

American protestant theologian 1892–1971

Ödön von Horváth2

Austro-Hungarian writer 1901–1938

Neelam Sanjiva Reddy17

sixth President of India 1913–1996

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas1

Film director, Screenwriter, Novelist, Journalist 1914–1987

Thomas Berry5

American priest 1914–2009

Yuri Kochiyama3

American activist 1921–2014

William Manchester6

(April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) American author, journalist … 1922–2004

Charles Simmons1

American editor and writer 1924–2017

Michael Andrew Screech3

1926–2018

Ann B. Davis2

American actress 1926–2014

Jacques Parizeau3

Canadian politician 1930–2015

Andrey Voznesensky8

Soviet poet 1933–2010

Jill Ker Conway1

American historian 1934–2018

Yves Saint Laurent10

fashion designer 1936–2008

Linah Mohohlo5

Botswana banker 1952–2021

Peter Kruse2

German psychologist 1955–2015

Charles Kennedy2

British politician 1959–2015

Nkosi Johnson4

South African child AIDS activist 1989–2001