Anniversaries 17 June
Birth
![Edward I of England photo]()
King of England
1239–1307
![John Wesley photo]()
Christian theologian
1703–1791
![Alexandre Vinet photo]()
Swiss theologian
1797–1847
![William Crookes photo]()
British chemist and physicist
1832–1919
![Henry Lawson photo]()
Australian writer and poet
1867–1922
![James Weldon Johnson photo]()
writer and activist
1871–1938
![John Rupert Firth photo]()
English linguist
1890–1960
![M. C. Escher photo]()
Dutch graphic artist
1898–1972
![Martin Bormann photo]()
Nazi leader and private secretary to Adolf Hitler
1900–1945
![W. V. D. Hodge photo]()
British mathematician
1903–1975
![Charles Eames photo]()
American designer, half of duo the Eames
1907–1978
![James Cameron (journalist) photo]()
British journalist
1911–1985
![John Hersey photo]()
American journalist, novelist, professor
1914–1993
![Ajahn Chah photo]()
thai Buddhist monk
1918–1992
![Kingman Brewster, Jr. photo]()
American diplomat
1919–1988
![François Jacob photo]()
French biologist
1920–2013
![Tigran Petrosian photo]()
Soviet Georgian Armenian chess player and chess writer
1929–1984
![Hal Higdon photo]()
American distance runner and writer
1931
![Frank Oski photo]()
American pediatrician
1932–1996
![Harry Browne photo]()
American politician and writer
1933–2006
![Ted Nelson photo]()
American information technologist, philosopher, and sociolo…
1937
![George Akerlof photo]()
American economist and Koshland Professor of Economics
1940
![Mohamed ElBaradei photo]()
Egyptian law scholar and diplomat, former Director General …
1942
![Burt Rutan photo]()
American aerospace engineer
1943
![Newt Gingrich photo]()
Professor, Speaker of the United States House of Representa…
1943
![Ken Livingstone photo]()
Mayor of London between 2000 and 2008
1945
![Tommy Franks photo]()
United States Army general
1945
![Starhawk photo]()
American author, activist and Neopagan
1951
![Mike Milbury photo]()
American ice hockey player
1952
![Nils Funcke photo]()
Swedish writer and journalist
1953
![Kerry Greenwood photo]()
Australian crime writer
1954
![David Walsh photo]()
Irish sports journalist
1955
![Han Kuo-yu photo]()
Taiwanese political figure
1957
![Christopher J. Coyne photo]()
Roman Catholic auxiliary bishop in the United States
1958
![Sebastian Tudu photo]()
Roman catholic Bishop
1967
![Venus Williams photo]()
American tennis player
1980
![Kendrick Lamar photo]()
American rapper, songwriter and record producer from Califo…
1987
![Alan Dzagoev photo]()
Russian association football player
1990
Death
![Uthman photo]()
Companion of Muhammad and third Rashidun Caliph
574–656
![Claude Louis Hector de Villars photo]()
Marshal General of France
1653–1734
![Joseph Addison photo]()
politician, writer and playwright
1672–1719
![Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon photo]()
British countess
1707–1791
![Richard Harris Barham photo]()
British writer and priest
1788–1845
![Mark Hopkins (educator) photo]()
American educationalist and theologian
1802–1887
![A. C. Benson photo]()
English essayist, poet, author and Master of Magdalene Coll…
1862–1925
![John Cowper Powys photo]()
British writer, lecturer and philosopher
1872–1963
![J. Allen Boone photo]()
American writer
1882–1965
![Walter James, 4th Baron Northbourne photo]()
British rower, agriculturalist and translater
1896–1982
![Milbourne Christopher photo]()
American magician
1914–1984
![John R. Platt photo]()
American physicist
1918–1992
![Thomas Kuhn photo]()
American historian, physicist and philosopher
1922–1996
![Basil Hume photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1923–1999
![Gloria Vanderbilt photo]()
American businesswoman, fashion designer, socialite and wri…
1924–2019
![O. Timothy O'Meara photo]()
American mathematician
1928–2018
![Ismail Mahomed photo]()
South African judge
1931–2000
![Mohamed Morsi photo]()
5th President of Egypt
1951–2019
![Erik Naggum photo]()
Norwegian computer programmer
1965–2009
![Rodney King photo]()
American taxi driver and police brutality victim
1969–2012
