Anniversaries 19 June
Birth
![James I of England photo]()
king during union of English and Scottish crowns
1566–1625
![Blaise Pascal photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer, and Chri…
1623–1662
![Johann de Kalb photo]()
American general
1721–1780
![James Braid photo]()
Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist
1795–1860
![Francesco Dall'Ongaro photo]()
Italian poet, playwright and librettist
1808–1873
![Richard Monckton Milnes, 1st Baron Houghton photo]()
British politician and poet
1809–1885
![George Whyte-Melville photo]()
Scottish writer
1821–1878
![Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch photo]()
Dutch painter of the Hague School (1824-1903)
1824–1903
![Charles Spurgeon photo]()
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
1834–1892
![Elbert Hubbard photo]()
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el …
1856–1915
![Sam Walter Foss photo]()
American writer
1858–1911
![José Rizal photo]()
Filipino writer, ophthalmologist, polyglot and nationalist
1861–1896
![Heinrich Schenker photo]()
Austrian music theorist
1868–1935
![Gancho Tsenov photo]()
Bulgarian historian
1870–1949
![Clarence Stein photo]()
American architect
1882–1975
![Wallis, Duchess of Windsor photo]()
wife of Edward VIII of the United Kingdom
1896–1986
![Cyril Norman Hinshelwood photo]()
English physical chemist
1897–1967
![Lou Gehrig photo]()
American baseball player
1903–1941
![Ernst Chain photo]()
German scientist
1906–1979
![Osamu Dazai photo]()
Japanese author
1909–1948
![Joshua Nkomo photo]()
Zimbabwean politician
1917–1999
![Pauline Kael photo]()
American film critic
1919–2001
![Aage Niels Bohr photo]()
Danish physicist
1922–2009
![Colin Jordan photo]()
British holocaust denier
1923–2009
![Vasil Bykaŭ photo]()
Belarusian writer
1924–2003
![Henry Spira photo]()
American activist
1927–1998
![Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez photo]()
Spanish priest (1936-2021)
1936–2021
![Wu Po-hsiung photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1939
![John F. MacArthur photo]()
American pastor and author
1939
![Václav Klaus photo]()
2nd President of the Czech Republic
1941
![Radovan Karadžić photo]()
former Bosnian Serb politician; convicted war criminal
1945
![Aung San Suu Kyi photo]()
State Counsellor of Myanmar and Leader of the National Leag…
1945
![John Ralston Saul photo]()
Canadian author and essayist
1947
![Salman Rushdie photo]()
British Indian novelist and essayist
1947
![Youn Yuh-jung photo]()
South Korean actress
1947
![Nick Drake photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1948–1974
![Paul deParrie photo]()
American activist
1949–2006
![Stephen Shen photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1949
![Ayman al-Zawahiri photo]()
Egyptian physician, Islamic theologian and leader of al-Qae…
1951
![Angie Sage photo]()
English author and illustrator
1952
![Euclid Tsakalotos photo]()
Greek economist and politician
1960
![Boris Johnson photo]()
British politician, historian and journalist
1964
![Sadie Frost photo]()
English actress and producer
1965
![Howard M. Wiseman photo]()
Australian physicist
1968
![Cheng Li-chun photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1969
![Macklemore photo]()
American rapper from Washington
1983
![Jacob deGrom photo]()
American baseball player
1988
Death
![Luca Pacioli photo]()
Italian father of accounting
1445–1517
![Nader Shah photo]()
ruled as Shah of Iran
1688–1747
![Richard Henry Lee photo]()
American statesman
1732–1794
![Nathanael Greene photo]()
American general in the American Revolutionary War
1742–1786
![Charles Hodge photo]()
American Presbyterian theologian
1797–1878
![Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet photo]()
colonial administrator and historian
1807–1886
![Mikhail Bakunin photo]()
Russian revolutionary, philosopher, and theorist of collect…
1814–1876
![John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton photo]()
British politician and historian
1834–1902
![J. M. Barrie photo]()
Scottish writer
1860–1937
![Zabel Sibil Asadour photo]()
Armenian writer
1863–1934
![Tom Watson photo]()
American businessman
1874–1956
![Henry Calvert Simons photo]()
American economist
1899–1946
![Lee Krasner photo]()
American artist
1908–1984
![William Golding photo]()
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite…
1911–1993
![Abraham Kaplan photo]()
American philosopher
1918–1993
![Chế Lan Viên photo]()
Vietnamese writer
1920–1989
![James Salter photo]()
American novelist and short-story writer
1925–2015
![Stanley Cavell photo]()
American philosopher
1926–2018
![R. C. O. Matthews photo]()
British economist
1927–2010
![Ali Shariati photo]()
Iranian academic and activist
1933–1977
![Coluche photo]()
French comedian and actor
1944–1986
![Vince Flynn photo]()
American writer of fiction
1966–2013
