Anniversaries 15 June
Birth
![Adah Isaacs Menken photo]()
American actress, dancer, painter and poet
1835–1868
![William McFee photo]()
American writer
1881–1966
![Yrjö Kallinen photo]()
Finnish politician
1886–1976
![Erik H. Erikson photo]()
American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist
1902–1994
![Herbert A. Simon photo]()
American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p…
1916–2001
![Albert K. Cohen photo]()
American criminologist
1918–2014
![Morris Udall photo]()
American politician
1922–1998
![Budd Hopkins photo]()
American UFO researcher, painter and sculptor
1931–2011
![Mario Cuomo photo]()
American politician, Governor of New York
1932–2015
![David Hull photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2010
![Waylon Jennings photo]()
American country music singer, songwriter, and musician
1937–2002
![Brian Jacques photo]()
British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy nov…
1939–2011
![Lawrence Wilkerson photo]()
Chief of Staff to Colin Powell
1945
![Robert Sarah photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1945
![Xi Jinping photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and param…
1953
![Ana Castillo photo]()
novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer
1953
![Bob McDonnell photo]()
American attorney and politician
1954
![Jim Belushi photo]()
American actor, comedian, singer, and musician
1954
![Courteney Cox photo]()
television and film actress from the United States
1964
![Daniel Pinchbeck photo]()
American author and journalist
1966
![Neil Patrick Harris photo]()
American actor and host
1973
![Terese Marie Mailhot photo]()
First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, teacher
1983
![Michael Prysner photo]()
American anti-war political activist
1983
![Nathaniel Erskine-Smith photo]()
Canadian politician and lawyer (born 1984)
1984
![Akshay Makadiya photo]()
an Entrepreneur and Founder of RankLane
1993
Death
![René-Aubert Vertot photo]()
French historian
1655–1735
![James K. Polk photo]()
American politician, 11th President of the United States (i…
1795–1849
![Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton photo]()
English feminist, social reformer, and author
1808–1877
![Dorothy Frances Gurney photo]()
English hymnwriter, poet
1858–1932
![Francis Joseph Sherman photo]()
Canadian writer
1871–1926
![Evelyn Underhill photo]()
British saint, poet, novelist
1875–1941
![Alfred Cortot photo]()
Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor
1877–1962
![Ernst Ludwig Kirchner photo]()
German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker
1880–1938
![Eduardo Torroja photo]()
Spanish architect
1899–1961
![Grant MacEwan photo]()
Alberta politician, Mayor of Calgary, Lieutenant Governor o…
1902–2000
![W. Arthur Lewis photo]()
Saint Lucain economist
1915–1991
![Charlotte Joko Beck photo]()
US American Zen Teacher
1917–2011
![Ella Fitzgerald photo]()
American jazz singer
1917–1996
![Elisabeth Elliot photo]()
American missionary
1926–2015
![Daniel Keyes photo]()
American author
1927–2014
![Charles A. Reich photo]()
American lawyer
1928–2019
![Lois Duncan photo]()
American young-adult and children's writer
1934–2016
![James Hunt photo]()
British racing driver
1947–1993
![Kirk R. Smith photo]()
American climatologist
1947–2020
