Anniversaries 19 June

Birth

James I of England9

king during union of English and Scottish crowns 1566–1625

Blaise Pascal144

French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri… 1623–1662

Johann de Kalb6

American general 1721–1780

James Braid18

Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist 1795–1860

Francesco Dall'Ongaro6

Italian poet, playwright and librettist 1808–1873

Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton12

British politician and poet 1809–1885

George Whyte-Melville4

Scottish writer 1821–1878

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch10

Dutch painter of the Hague School (1824-1903) 1824–1903

Charles Spurgeon49

British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist 1834–1892

Mary Gardiner Brainard3

American poet 1837–1905

Elbert Hubbard141

American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el … 1856–1915

Sam Walter Foss8

American writer 1858–1911

José Rizal64

Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist 1861–1896

Heinrich Schenker3

Austrian music theorist 1868–1935

Gancho Tsenov10

Bulgarian historian 1870–1949

Clarence Stein4

American architect 1882–1975

André Thérive1

French writer 1891–1967

Wallis, Duchess of Windsor2

wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom 1896–1986

Cyril Norman Hinshelwood1

English physical chemist 1897–1967

Lou Gehrig3

American baseball player 1903–1941

Ernst Chain1

German scientist 1906–1979

Osamu Dazai39

Japanese author 1909–1948

Joshua Nkomo1

Zimbabwean politician 1917–1999

Pauline Kael72

American film critic 1919–2001

Aage Niels Bohr1

Danish physicist 1922–2009

Colin Jordan1

British holocaust denier 1923–2009

Vasil Bykaŭ11

Belarusian writer 1924–2003

Henry Spira7

American activist 1927–1998

Barbara Marciniak8

1928–2012

Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez1

Spanish priest (1936-2021) 1936–2021

Wu Po-hsiung9

Taiwanese politician 1939

John F. MacArthur6

American pastor and author 1939

Václav Klaus3

2nd President of the Czech Republic 1941

Sevastianos Rossolatos1

Greek archbishop 1944

Greil Marcus5

American historian 1945

Leah Tsemel5

Israeli lawyer 1945

Radovan Karadžić2

former Bosnian Serb politician; convicted war criminal 1945

Aung San Suu Kyi86

State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National Leag… 1945

John Ralston Saul85

Canadian author and essayist 1947

Salman Rushdie122

British Indian novelist and essayist 1947

Youn Yuh-jung3

South Korean actress 1947

Nick Drake22

British singer-songwriter 1948–1974

Paul deParrie3

American activist 1949–2006

Stephen Shen1

Taiwanese politician 1949

Ayman al-Zawahiri2

Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and leader of al-Qae… 1951

Angie Sage18

English author and illustrator 1952

Kathleen Turner1

American actress 1954

José Cabantan1

catholic archbishop 1957

Subcomandante Marcos13

Mexican activist 1957

Euclid Tsakalotos7

Greek economist and politician 1960

Boris Johnson119

British politician, historian and journalist 1964

Sadie Frost2

English actress and producer 1965

Howard M. Wiseman1

Australian physicist 1968

Cheng Li-chun2

Taiwanese politician 1969

Rahul Gandhi22

Indian politician 1970

Peadar Tóibín1

Irish politician 1974

Macklemore5

American rapper from Washington 1983

Jessica Minh Anh9

Vietnamese model 1988

Jacob deGrom1

American baseball player 1988

Death

Luca Pacioli4

Italian father of accounting 1445–1517

Nader Shah4

ruled as Shah of Iran 1688–1747

Richard Henry Lee4

American statesman 1732–1794

Nathanael Greene126

American general in the American Revolutionary War 1742–1786

Charles Hodge5

American Presbyterian theologian 1797–1878

Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet2

colonial administrator and historian 1807–1886

Mikhail Bakunin63

Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collect… 1814–1876

John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton112

British politician and historian 1834–1902

Джон Эмерих Эдвард Дальберг-Актон1

1834–1902

J. M. Barrie49

Scottish writer 1860–1937

Zabel Sibil Asadour2

Armenian writer 1863–1934

Tom Watson9

American businessman 1874–1956

Ed Wynn1

American actor 1886–1966

Henry Calvert Simons1

American economist 1899–1946

Lee Krasner19

American artist 1908–1984

William Golding79

British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite… 1911–1993

Abraham Kaplan8

American philosopher 1918–1993

Chế Lan Viên9

Vietnamese writer 1920–1989

James Salter17

American novelist and short-story writer 1925–2015

Stanley Cavell3

American philosopher 1926–2018

R. C. O. Matthews4

British economist 1927–2010

Ali Shariati11

Iranian academic and activist 1933–1977

Coluche5

French comedian and actor 1944–1986

Vince Flynn7

American writer of fiction 1966–2013