Anniversaries 13 June
Birth
![Alessandro Piccolomini photo]()
Italian writer and philosopher
1508–1579
![Martha Washington photo]()
First Lady of the United States
1731–1802
![Thomas Young (scientist) photo]()
English polymath
1773–1829
![Winfield Scott photo]()
Union United States Army general
1786–1866
![Thomas Arnold photo]()
English headmaster of Rugby School
1795–1842
![James Clerk Maxwell photo]()
Scottish physicist
1831–1879
![W.B. Yeats photo]()
Irish poet and playwright
1865–1939
![Miriam A. Ferguson photo]()
American politician
1875–1961
![Joseph Stella photo]()
American artist
1877–1946
![Mary Antin photo]()
American memoirist
1881–1949
![Étienne Gilson photo]()
French historian and philosopher
1884–1978
![Burrill Bernard Crohn photo]()
American gastroenterologist
1884–1983
![Fernando Pessoa photo]()
Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publi…
1888–1935
![Dorothy L. Sayers photo]()
English crime writer, playwright, essayist and Christian wr…
1893–1957
![Abdur Rab Nishtar photo]()
Pakistani politician
1899–1958
![Bruno de Finetti photo]()
Italian mathematician
1906–1985
![E. M. S. Namboodiripad photo]()
Indian politician
1909–1998
![Mary Whitehouse photo]()
British activist
1910–2001
![John Nash photo]()
American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
1928–2015
![Irvin D. Yalom photo]()
American psychotherapist and writer
1931
![Eleanor Holmes Norton photo]()
non-voting Delegate to to the United States Congress for th…
1937
![Ban Ki-moon photo]()
8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1944
![Ranulph Glanville photo]()
British cyberneticist (1946-2014)
1946–2014
![Ann Druyan photo]()
American author and producer
1949
![Red Symons photo]()
Australian broadcaster and musician
1949
![Angelo Moreschi photo]()
Italian Catholic Bishop
1952–2020
![Tim Allen photo]()
American actor, voiceover artist and comedian
1953
![Boyko Borissov photo]()
Bulgarian politician
1959
![Cathy Cassidy photo]()
British author of young adult fiction
1962
![Audrey Niffenegger photo]()
American writer, artist and academic
1963
![Erik Naggum photo]()
Norwegian computer programmer
1965–2009
![Grigori Perelman photo]()
Russian mathematician
1966
![Ben Horowitz photo]()
American businessman
1966
![Jeanine Áñez photo]()
President of Bolivia
1967
![Steve-O photo]()
England-born American stunt performer/radio personality
1974
![Johannes Grenzfurthner photo]()
Austrian artist, writer, curator, and theatre and film dire…
1975
Death
![Honinbo Sansa photo]()
go player, founder of the prestigious Hon'inbō school
1559–1623
![Helen Blackwood, Baroness Dufferin and Claneboye photo]()
British songwriter, composer, poet and author
1807–1867
![Tippu Tip photo]()
Swahili slave trader
1837–1905
![Martin Buber photo]()
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
1878–1965
![William A. Patterson photo]()
President of United Airlines from 1934 until 1966
1899–1980
![Georg von Békésy photo]()
Hungarian physicist
1899–1972
![Osamu Dazai photo]()
Japanese author
1909–1948
![Roger Garaudy photo]()
French philosopher
1913–2012
![Ruth Harrison photo]()
British activist
1920–2000
![Charles Haughey photo]()
Irish politician
1925–2006
![Jimmy Dean photo]()
American singer
1928–2010
![Fathi Yakan photo]()
Lebanese Islamic cleric-politician
1933–2009
![Anita Pallenberg photo]()
German actress, model and Rolling Stones groupie
1942–2017
![Walter Rodney photo]()
Guyanese politician, activist and historian
1942–1980
