Anniversaries 16 June
Birth
![John Cheke photo]()
English politician and scholar
1514–1557
![Jacques Ozanam photo]()
French mathematician
1640–1718
![Geronimo photo]()
leader of the Bedonkohe Apache
1829–1909
![Kodo Sawaki photo]()
Japanese zen Buddhist monk
1880–1965
![Alice A. Bailey photo]()
esoteric, theosophist, writer
1880–1949
![Murray Leinster photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1896–1975
![Henri Lefebvre photo]()
French philosopher
1901–1991
![Barbara McClintock photo]()
American scientist and cytogeneticist
1902–1992
![George Gaylord Simpson photo]()
American paleontologist
1902–1984
![Archie Carr photo]()
American university professor, zoologist, herpetologist, co…
1909–1987
![Enoch Powell photo]()
British politician
1912–1998
![John Tukey photo]()
American mathematician
1915–2000
![Katharine Graham photo]()
American publisher
1917–2001
![John Howard Griffin photo]()
American race activist
1920–1980
![Idries Shah photo]()
writer and Sufi teacher
1924–1996
![R. C. O. Matthews photo]()
British economist
1927–2010
![Robert Kraft (astronomer) photo]()
American astronomer
1927–2015
![Erich Segal photo]()
American writer
1937–2010
![Lou Sullivan photo]()
American author and activist known for his work on behalf o…
1951–1991
![Michael Francis Burbidge photo]()
American Catholic bishop
1957
![Arnold Vosloo photo]()
South African-American actor
1962
![Scott Alexander photo]()
American writer, director and producer
1963
![Jürgen Klopp photo]()
German association football player and manager
1967
![Tupac Shakur photo]()
rapper and actor
1971–1996
![Teal Swan photo]()
American spiritual teacher
1984
![Ryan Holiday photo]()
businessperson and writer
1987
![Keshia Chante photo]()
Canadian actor and musician
1988
![Lauren Southern photo]()
Canadian libertarian commentator
1995
Death
![John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough photo]()
English soldier and statesman
1650–1722
![Norman MacLeod (1812–1872) photo]()
Scottish clergyman and author (1812–1872)
1812–1872
![Edwin Percy Whipple photo]()
American writer
1819–1886
![Ernst Schröder photo]()
German mathematician
1841–1902
![Rufus M. Jones photo]()
American writer
1863–1948
![Chittaranjan Das photo]()
Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj Party
1870–1925
![George W. Joseph photo]()
American politician (1872-1930)
1872–1930
![Holbrook Jackson photo]()
British journalist
1874–1948
![Marc Bloch photo]()
French historian, medievalist, and historiographer
1886–1944
![Harold Alexander photo]()
British military commander and field marshal; Governor Gene…
1891–1969
![Diana Cooper photo]()
English social figure, actress and memoirist
1892–1986
![Dal Stivens photo]()
Australian writer
1911–1997
![Wernher von Braun photo]()
German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space arc…
1912–1977
![Jacob Talmon photo]()
Polish-born Israeli historian; Professor of Modern History;…
1916–1980
![Francis Parker Yockey photo]()
American writer
1917–1960
![Helmut Kohl photo]()
former chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and then the …
1930–2017
![Nayef bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud photo]()
Saudi Arabian former crown prince
1933–2012
![Pierre Bourgault photo]()
Canadian politician
1934–2003
![Benjamin W. Lee photo]()
Korean American physicist
1935–1977
![Miguel Piñero photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1946–1988
