Anniversaries 12 June
Birth
![Harriet Martineau photo]()
English writer and sociologist
1802–1876
![Charles Kingsley photo]()
English clergyman, historian and novelist
1819–1875
![Johanna Spyri photo]()
author of children's stories, best known for her book Heidi
1827–1901
![Oliver Lodge photo]()
British physicist
1851–1940
![Harry Johnston photo]()
British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administr…
1858–1927
![James Oliver Curwood photo]()
Novelist, conservationist
1878–1927
![Egon Schiele photo]()
austrian painter
1890–1918
![Djuna Barnes photo]()
American Modernist writer, poet and artist
1892–1982
![Anthony Eden photo]()
British Conservative politician, prime minister
1897–1977
![Otto Skorzeny photo]()
Austrian SS-Standartenführer (colonel) in the German Waffen…
1908–1975
![David Rockefeller photo]()
American banker and philanthropist
1915–2017
![Uta Hagen photo]()
German-born American actress and drama teacher
1919–2004
![Margherita Hack photo]()
Italian astrophysicist and popular science writer
1922–2013
![George H. W. Bush photo]()
American politician, 41st President of the United States
1924–2018
![Paul Shepard photo]()
American human ecologist
1925–1996
![Anne Frank photo]()
victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary
1929–1945
![Brigid Brophy photo]()
novelist, essayist
1929–1995
![Trevanian photo]()
American writer
1931–2005
![Robin Cook photo]()
English crime writer
1931–1994
![Ervin László photo]()
Hungarian musician and philosopher
1932
![Vladimir I. Arnold photo]()
Russian mathematician
1937–2010
![Chick Corea photo]()
American jazz and fusion pianist, keyboardist, and composer
1941
![John Bura photo]()
Ukrainian Catholic bishop in the United States
1944–2023
![Len Wein photo]()
American comic book writer and editor
1948–2017
![Tess Gerritsen photo]()
Chinese-American novelist
1953
![Melanie Rawn photo]()
novel by Melanie Rawn
1954
![Ho Iat Seng photo]()
Chief Executive of Macau
1957
![Hilary McKay photo]()
English children's writer
1959
![Alber Elbaz photo]()
Israeli fashion designer
1961–2021
![John C. Baez photo]()
American mathematician and mathematical physicist
1961
![Jordan Peterson photo]()
Canadian clinical psychologist, cultural critic, and profes…
1962
![T. B. Joshua photo]()
Nigerian Christian leader
1963
![Christian Drosten photo]()
German virologist and university teacher
1972
![Bryan Alvarez photo]()
Professional wrestler, editor and publisher
1975
![Justin Heazlewood photo]()
Australian musician and comedian
1980
Death
![William Collins photo]()
English poet, born 1721
1721–1759
![William Cullen Bryant photo]()
American romantic poet and journalist
1794–1878
![Thomas Arnold photo]()
English headmaster of Rugby School
1795–1842
![Gerald Griffin photo]()
Irish novelist, poet and playwright
1803–1840
![Michael von Faulhaber photo]()
German Roman Catholic Cardinal
1869–1952
![William Ernest Hocking photo]()
American philosopher
1873–1966
![Karl Kraus photo]()
Czech playwright and publicist
1874–1936
![Herbert Read photo]()
English anarchist, poet, and critic of literature and art
1893–1968
![Mikhail Tukhachevsky photo]()
Marshal of the Soviet Union
1893–1937
![Edmund Wilson photo]()
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man …
1895–1972
![Ludwig von Bertalanffy photo]()
austrian biologist and philosopher
1901–1972
![Saul D. Alinsky photo]()
American community organizer and writer
1909–1972
![Veikko Vennamo photo]()
Finnish politician
1913–1997
![J. F. Powers photo]()
American writer
1917–1999
![John Hospers photo]()
American philosopher and politician
1918–2011
![José Leite Lopes photo]()
Brazilian physicist
1918–2006
![Philip Selznick photo]()
American sociologist
1919–2010
![P. L. Deshpande photo]()
Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist
1919–2000
![Leo Buscaglia photo]()
Motivational speaker, writer
1924–1998
![Elinor Ostrom photo]()
American political economist
1933–2012
![Monte Melkonian photo]()
National Hero of Armenia
1957–1993
