Anniversaries 15 June

Birth

Jean Meslier2

French priest 1664–1729

Elizabeth Benger1

British writer 1775–1827

Adah Isaacs Menken2

American actress, dancer, painter and poet 1835–1868

William McFee19

American writer 1881–1966

Yrjö Kallinen4

Finnish politician 1886–1976

Erik H. Erikson8

American German-born psychoanalyst & essayist 1902–1994

Herbert A. Simon58

American political scientist, economist, sociologist, and p… 1916–2001

Albert K. Cohen5

American criminologist 1918–2014

Morris Udall4

American politician 1922–1998

Budd Hopkins3

American UFO researcher, painter and sculptor 1931–2011

Mario Cuomo39

American politician, Governor of New York 1932–2015

Hettie Jones2

American writer 1934

David Hull2

American philosopher 1935–2010

Ilene Beckerman1

American journalist 1935

Waylon Jennings13

American country music singer, songwriter, and musician 1937–2002

Anna Hazare1

Indian activist 1937

Brian Jacques37

British fiction writer known for Redwall animal fantasy nov… 1939–2011

Xaviera Hollander1

Dutch prostitute 1943

Lawrence Wilkerson3

Chief of Staff to Colin Powell 1945

Robert Sarah16

Roman Catholic bishop 1945

Alain Aspect6

French physicist 1947

Hamid Dabashi6

American academic 1951

Xi Jinping22

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and param… 1953

Ana Castillo6

novelist, poet, essayist, short story writer 1953

Bob McDonnell3

American attorney and politician 1954

Jim Belushi3

American actor, comedian, singer, and musician 1954

Zheng Yuanjie3

Chiese writer 1955

Jill Mansell3

British author 1957

Jill Eisenstadt1

American writer 1963

Courteney Cox1

television and film actress from the United States 1964

Daniel Pinchbeck1

American author and journalist 1966

Darby Conley37

American cartoonist 1970

Neil Patrick Harris4

American actor and host 1973

Chiara Civello2

Italian singer 1975

Jordi Vilasuso1

American actor 1981

Terese Marie Mailhot4

First Nation Canadian writer, journalist, memoirist, teacher 1983

Michael Prysner6

American anti-war political activist 1983

Nathaniel Erskine-Smith1

Canadian politician and lawyer (born 1984) 1984

Akshay Makadiya4

an Entrepreneur and Founder of RankLane 1993

Death

René-Aubert Vertot1

French historian 1655–1735

Thomas Campbell64

British writer 1777–1844

James K. Polk15

American politician, 11th President of the United States (i… 1795–1849

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton8

English feminist, social reformer, and author 1808–1877

Dorothy Frances Gurney1

English hymnwriter, poet 1858–1932

Francis Joseph Sherman1

Canadian writer 1871–1926

Evelyn Underhill28

British saint, poet, novelist 1875–1941

Alfred Cortot4

Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor 1877–1962

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner54

German painter, sculptor, engraver and printmaker 1880–1938

Eduardo Torroja29

Spanish architect 1899–1961

Grant MacEwan1

Alberta politician, Mayor of Calgary, Lieutenant Governor o… 1902–2000

W. Arthur Lewis2

Saint Lucain economist 1915–1991

Charlotte Joko Beck1

US American Zen Teacher 1917–2011

Элла Джейн Фицджеральд1

1917–1996

Ella Fitzgerald2

American jazz singer 1917–1996

Elisabeth Elliot58

American missionary 1926–2015

Daniel Keyes47

American author 1927–2014

Charles A. Reich55

American lawyer 1928–2019

Lois Duncan13

American young-adult and children's writer 1934–2016

James Hunt1

British racing driver 1947–1993

Kirk R. Smith1

American climatologist 1947–2020