Anniversaries 18 June
Birth
![Thomas Overbury photo]()
(1581–1613) English poet and essayist
1581–1613
![Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh photo]()
British politician
1769–1822
![Jang Bahadur Rana photo]()
Nepalese prime minister and Maharaja of Lamjung and Kaski
1817–1877
![Samuel Longfellow photo]()
American clergyman
1819–1892
![Auberon Herbert photo]()
British politician
1838–1906
![Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis photo]()
American publisher
1850–1933
![Miklós Horthy photo]()
Hungarian Admiral and Regent 1920-1944
1868–1957
![Georgi Dimitrov photo]()
Bulgarian politician
1882–1949
![Igor Stravinsky photo]()
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
1882–1971
![George Mallory photo]()
British mountaineer
1886–1924
![Bruno Snell photo]()
German classical philologist
1896–1986
![Philip Barry photo]()
American playwright
1896–1949
![Frithjof Schuon photo]()
Swiss philosopher
1907–1998
![Stanley Knowles photo]()
Canadian politician
1908–1997
![Sammy Cahn photo]()
American lyricist, songwriter, musician
1913–1993
![Franco Modigliani photo]()
Italian-American economist
1918–2003
![Valentino Braitenberg photo]()
Italian-Austrian neuroscientist
1926–2011
![Jürgen Habermas photo]()
German sociologist and philosopher
1929
![Geoffrey Hill photo]()
English poet and professor
1932–2016
![Gail Godwin photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1937
![Jack Herer photo]()
American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist
1939–2010
![Phillip E. Johnson photo]()
American Law clerk
1940–2019
![Roger Ebert photo]()
American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
1942–2013
![Thabo Mbeki photo]()
South African politician, President of South Africa
1942
![Paul McCartney photo]()
English singer-songwriter and composer
1942
![Lech Kaczyński photo]()
Polish politician, president of Poland
1949–2010
![Chris Van Allsburg photo]()
US children's writer and illustrator
1949
![Isabella Rossellini photo]()
Italian actress and filmmaker
1952
![Amy Bloom photo]()
Fiction writer, screenwriter, social worker, psychotherapist
1953
![Lisa Randall photo]()
American theoretical physicist and an expert on particle ph…
1962
![Alireza Kohany photo]()
Musician, Actor, Entrepreneur
1993
Death
![Avicenna photo]()
medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher
980–1037
![Thomas Brown photo]()
English translator and writer of satire
1662–1704
![Ambrose Philips photo]()
Anglo-Irish poet and politician
1674–1749
![William Cobbett photo]()
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
1763–1835
![William Smith O'Brien photo]()
Irish nationalist politician (1803-1864)
1803–1864
![Matthew Simpson photo]()
American bishop and academic
1811–1884
![J. Proctor Knott photo]()
American politician
1830–1911
![Carmine Crocco photo]()
Italian revolutionary
1830–1905
![Helmuth von Moltke the Younger photo]()
Chief of the German General Staff
1848–1916
![Robert M. La Follette Sr. photo]()
American politician
1855–1925
![Maxim Gorky photo]()
Russian and Soviet writer
1868–1936
![Roald Amundsen photo]()
Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the …
1872–1928
![Giorgio Morandi photo]()
Italian painter
1890–1964
![Djuna Barnes photo]()
American Modernist writer, poet and artist
1892–1982
![Georgy Zhukov photo]()
Marshal of the Soviet Union
1896–1974
![Konrad Heiden photo]()
German journalist and historian
1901–1966
![George Katona photo]()
American psychologist
1901–1981
![I. F. Stone photo]()
American investigative journalist and author
1907–1989
![John Cheever photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1912–1982
![Tasha Tudor photo]()
American illustrator and writer
1915–2008
![José Saramago photo]()
Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in …
1922–2010
![Jules Sedney photo]()
Prime Minister of Suriname (1922-2020)
1922–2020
![Yelena Bonner photo]()
human rights activist in the former Soviet Union; wife of d…
1923–2011
![Jack Buck photo]()
American sportscaster
1924–2002
![Vernard Eller photo]()
Church of the Brethren pastor and academic, coiner of the t…
1927–2007
