Anniversaries 11 July

Birth

Robert Greene (dramatist)11

English author 1558–1592

Luis de Góngora6

Spanish Baroque lyric poet 1561–1627

John Quincy Adams52

American politician, 6th president of the United States (in… 1767–1848

James McNeill Whistler26

American-born, British-based artist 1834–1903

Henry Abbey4

American poet 1842–1911

Léon Bloy22

French writer, poet and essayist 1846–1917

Joseph Larmor3

Irish physicist and mathematician 1857–1942

Carl Schmitt36

German jurist, political theorist and professor of law 1888–1985

E. B. White54

American writer 1899–1985

Samuel Abraham Goudsmit1

Dutch physicist 1902–1978

John Stapp2

American academic 1910–1999

Cordwainer Smith1

American author 1913–1966

Gough Whitlam10

Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia 1916–2014

Mortimer Caplin1

Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attor… 1916–2019

Richard Pipes46

American historian 1923–2018

Frederick Buechner67

Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian 1926

Vernard Eller2

Church of the Brethren pastor and academic, coiner of the t… 1927–2007

Harold Bloom13

American literary critic and scholar 1930–2019

Laurel Thatcher Ulrich3

American historian 1938

Howard Gardner8

American developmental psychologist 1943

Lon Milo DuQuette9

American occult writer 1948

Martin Rushent8

English record producer 1948–2011

Andrew Puzder2

American businessman 1950

Amitav Ghosh1

Indian writer 1956

Eugenio Coter1

Catholic bishop 1957

Richie Sambora8

musician, songwriter 1959

Suzanne Vega10

American singer 1959

Bala2

Indian film director 1966

Kentaro Miura1

Japanese manga artist 1966

Jhumpa Lahiri28

Short story writer, novelist 1967

Mark Fisher (writer)1

British cultural theorist (1968-2017) 1968–2017

Henrique Capriles Radonski1

Venezuelan politician and lawyer an thot THICC 1972

Shane Claiborne37

American activist 1975

FakTyrA1

Russian rapper 1989

David Henrie1

American actor 1989

Glacier Kwong5

Hong Kong human rights activist 1996

Alessia Cara10

Canadian singer 1996

Death

Bartholomew of San Concordio1

Italian jurist 1262–1347

Nicole Oresme7

French philosopher 1323–1382

Charles Macklin2

Irish actor 1699–1797

Evgeny Baratynsky3

Russian poet 1800–1844

Frederic Dan Huntington8

American bishop 1819–1904

William Muir2

Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator 1819–1905

Simon Newcomb3

American astronomer 1835–1909

Marie Bilders-van Bosse5

painter from the Netherlands 1837–1900

William Ernest Henley29

English poet, critic and editor 1849–1903

Ravachol8

French anarchist 1859–1892

Aga Khan III12

48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community 1877–1957

Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington2

Duchess of Wellington 1889–1956

Paul Nash (artist)1

British surrealist painter and war artist 1889–1946

Buddy de Sylva4

American musician 1895–1950

Sophrony (Sakharov)5

Russian monk, theologian and writer 1896–1993

George Gershwin12

American composer and pianist 1898–1937

Harold Rosenberg29

American writer and art critic 1906–1978

Laurence Olivier5

British actor, director and producer 1907–1989

Meša Selimović5

Yugoslav-Bosnian writer 1910–1982

John W. Campbell2

American science fiction writer and editor 1910–1971

Delmore Schwartz11

American poet 1913–1966

Ross Macdonald14

Novelist 1915–1983

Denis Mack Smith12

British historian 1920–2017

John Seigenthaler2

American journalist, writer, and political figure 1927–2014

Milan Kundera198

Czech author of Czech and French literature 1929–2023

Timothy Sprigge5

British philosopher 1932–2007

Gary Kildall7

Computer scientist and entrepreneur 1942–1994

Satoru Iwata12

Japanese video game programmer and businessman 1959–2015

Claudia Alexander3

American geophysicist and planetary scientist 1959–2015

Arturo Gatti2

Italian-Canadian boxer 1972–2009