Anniversaries 14 June

Birth

Charles-Augustin de Coulomb1

French physicist 1736–1806

Heber C. Kimball6

American Mormon leader 1801–1868

Harriet Beecher Stowe87

Abolitionist, author 1811–1896

Richard Realf1

American poet 1832–1878

Robert M. La Follette Sr.22

American politician 1855–1925

Bernard Berenson2

American art critic 1865–1959

Ruth Nanda Anshen1

American philosopher, author and editor 1900–2003

René Char4

20th-century French poet 1907–1988

Kathleen Raine5

poet, critic, translator 1908–2003

Jacob Talmon1

Polish-born Israeli historian; Professor of Modern History;… 1916–1980

Park Chung-hee7

Korean Army general and the leader of South Korea from 1961… 1917–1979

Mahāprajña7

Acharya or the Svetambar Terapanth sect of Jainism 1920–2010

Ernesto Che Guevara258

Argentine Marxist revolutionary 1928–1967

Klaus Klostermaier2

German historian and philosopher 1933

Jerzy Kosiński4

Novelist 1933–1991

Robert D. Richardson6

American historian 1934

Vivian Gornick1

US author 1935

Peter Mayle2

British writer 1939–2018

Héctor Epalza Quintero1

priest 1940–2021

John Edgar Wideman1

Fiction writer, memoirist, essayist 1941

Eduardus Sangsun3

Indonesian bishop (1943-2008) 1943–2008

Laurie Colwin1

Novelist, short story writer, food writer 1944–1992

Jörg Immendorff2

German artist 1945–2007

Donald J. Trump904

45th President of the United States of America 1946

Laurence Yep1

American children's writer 1948

Harry Turtledove48

American novelist, short story author, essayist, historian 1949

Basílio do Nascimento1

Roman Catholic bishop of Baucau, East Timor 1950–2021

Rowan Williams2

Archbishop of Canterbury (2002–2012) 1950

Massimo Introvigne4

Italian philosopher 1955

Mona Simpson1

American novelist 1957

Olaf Scholz3

German politician, federal minister of finance and vice cha… 1958

Pamela Geller5

blogger, author, political activist, and commentator 1958

Boy George6

English musician 1961

Scott W. Ambler2

Canadian software engineer/consultant/author 1966

Stephanie Pearl-McPhee12

Canadian writer 1968

Viktor Pinchuk6

1969

Alfred Freddy Krupa3

Croatian contemporary painter, master draughtsman, book art… 1971

Joshua Radin1

American musician 1974

Benedict Rogers1

London-based human rights activist 1974

Diablo Cody11

Screenwriter and author 1978

Roosh Valizadeh1

American writer and men's rights activist 1979

Lang Lang3

Chinese pianist 1982

Death

Benedict Arnold6

Continental and later British Army general during the Ameri… 1741–1801

Giacomo Leopardi18

Italian poet, philosopher and writer 1798–1837

Edward FitzGerald13

English poet and writer 1809–1883

John Coleridge, 1st Baron Coleridge24

British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician 1820–1894

Mary Cassatt5

American painter and printmaker 1844–1926

Emmeline Pankhurst4

English suffragist 1858–1928

Jerome K. Jerome87

English humorist 1859–1927

Max Weber41

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist 1864–1920

Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr.19

American industrial engineer 1868–1924

G. K. Chesterton229

English mystery novelist and Christian apologist 1874–1936

Albert Marquet12

French artist 1875–1947

Aleksandar Stamboliyski1

Bulgarian prime minister 1879–1923

Kariamanickam Srinivasa Krishnan1

Indian physicist 1898–1961

Jorge Luis Borges213

Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator… 1899–1986

Allen Wheelis1

American psychoanalyst 1915–2007

Alan Jay Lerner2

lyricist and librettist from the United States 1918–1986

Kurt Waldheim7

4th Secretary-General of the United Nations, President of A… 1918–2007

Virgil John Tangborn13

1920–1944

Ruth Bell Graham2

Congressional Gold Medal recipient 1920–2007

June Jordan13

Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist 1936–2002

Roger Zelazny112

American speculative fiction writer 1937–1995

Rory Gallagher3

Blues rock musician from Ireland 1948–1995

Peter McWilliams5

American author and civil liberties advocate 1949–2000