Anniversaries 2 June
Birth
![Suzanne Curchod photo]()
French-Swiss salonist and writer
1737–1794
![Marquis de Sade photo]()
French novelist and philosopher
1740–1814
![Alessandro Cagliostro photo]()
Italian occultist
1743–1795
![Nakayama Miki photo]()
Founder of Tenrikyo
1798–1887
![Grace Aguilar photo]()
Novelist, writer
1816–1847
![Richard Holt Hutton photo]()
English journalist
1826–1897
![Pope Pius X photo]()
Catholic Pope and saint
1835–1914
![Thomas Hardy photo]()
English novelist and poet
1840–1928
![John Lancaster Spalding photo]()
Catholic bishop
1840–1916
![Archibald Berkeley Milne photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1855–1938
![Edward Elgar photo]()
English composer
1857–1934
![Jules de Gaultier photo]()
French philosopher
1858–1942
![Alfred George Gardiner photo]()
British journalist and writer
1865–1946
![Robert Edouard Moritz photo]()
German mathematician
1868–1940
![Henry Hamilton Beamish photo]()
British antisemite (1873-1948)
1873–1948
![Ion Antonescu photo]()
prime minister and conducător of Romania during World War II
1882–1946
![Yuri Andropov photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1914–1984
![Lester del Rey photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, editor
1915–1993
![Charlie Sifford photo]()
professional golfer
1922–2015
![Clair Cameron Patterson photo]()
American chemist and geochemist
1922–1995
![Harriett Woods photo]()
American politician
1927–2007
![Norton Juster photo]()
American children's writer, academic, and architect
1929
![Carol Shields photo]()
American author
1935–2003
![Constantine II of Greece photo]()
former King of Greece
1940–2023
![Tony Buzan photo]()
British psychologist
1942–2019
![Crescenzio Sepe photo]()
Italian Catholic cardinal
1943
![Michael E. Uslan photo]()
American film producer
1951
![Kenneth Chenault photo]()
American business executive
1951
![Cornel West photo]()
African-American philosopher and political/civil rights act…
1953
![Gregory A. Boyd photo]()
American theologian and pastor
1957
![Stephen D. Parkes photo]()
roman-catholic clergyman
1965
![Wentworth Miller photo]()
British-born American actor
1972
![Angelo Mathews photo]()
Sri Lankan cricketer
1987
![Awkwafina photo]()
actress and rapper from New York
1988
![Steve Smith (cricketer) photo]()
Australian international cricketer
1989
Death
![Giuseppe Garibaldi photo]()
Italian general and politician
1807–1882
![Benjamin Stanton photo]()
American politician
1809–1872
![Alfred Austin photo]()
British writer and poet
1835–1913
![Timothy Thomas Fortune photo]()
American writer and activist
1856–1928
![Alain photo]()
French philosopher
1868–1951
![John Erskine photo]()
American educator
1879–1951
![Arnold Lunn photo]()
British writer and skier
1888–1974
![Vita Sackville-West photo]()
English writer and gardener
1892–1962
![A. A. Thomson photo]()
cricketer and author
1894–1968
![Lou Gehrig photo]()
American baseball player
1903–1941
![Gerald James Whitrow photo]()
British mathematician
1912–2000
![Nile Kinnick photo]()
College football player
1918–1943
![David Stove photo]()
Australian philosopher
1927–1994
![David Eddings photo]()
American novelist
1931–2009
![Amos Tversky photo]()
Israeli psychologist
1937–1996
![Lavina Washines photo]()
American politician
1940–2011
