Anniversaries 2 June

Birth

Michel-Jean Sedaine2

French writer 1719–1797

Suzanne Curchod6

French-Swiss salonist and writer 1737–1794

Marquis de Sade30

French novelist and philosopher 1740–1814

Alessandro Cagliostro25

Italian occultist 1743–1795

Nakayama Miki19

Founder of Tenrikyo 1798–1887

John Godfrey Saxe24

American poet 1816–1887

Grace Aguilar4

Novelist, writer 1816–1847

Richard Holt Hutton3

English journalist 1826–1897

Pope Pius X10

Catholic Pope and saint 1835–1914

Thomas Hardy171

English novelist and poet 1840–1928

John Lancaster Spalding202

Catholic bishop 1840–1916

Archibald Berkeley Milne1

Royal Navy admiral 1855–1938

Edward Elgar9

English composer 1857–1934

Jules de Gaultier5

French philosopher 1858–1942

Alfred George Gardiner2

British journalist and writer 1865–1946

Robert Edouard Moritz2

German mathematician 1868–1940

Henry Hamilton Beamish1

British antisemite (1873-1948) 1873–1948

Ion Antonescu5

prime minister and conducător of Romania during World War II 1882–1946

Barbara Pym7

British writer 1913–1980

Yuri Andropov1

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1914–1984

Lester del Rey10

Novelist, short story writer, editor 1915–1993

Charlie Sifford3

professional golfer 1922–2015

Clair Cameron Patterson3

American chemist and geochemist 1922–1995

Harriett Woods1

American politician 1927–2007

Norton Juster40

American children's writer, academic, and architect 1929

Carol Shields7

American author 1935–2003

Constantine II of Greece3

former King of Greece 1940–2023

Tony Buzan9

British psychologist 1942–2019

Crescenzio Sepe1

Italian Catholic cardinal 1943

Dennis Overbye2

American writer 1944

Richard Long10

artist 1945

Michael Leunig1

Australian artist 1945

Kathleen Willey2

White House aide 1946

Loretta Chase15

American writer 1949

Heather Couper3

astronomer 1949

Michael E. Uslan2

American film producer 1951

Kenneth Chenault8

American business executive 1951

Gideon Levy10

Israeli journalist 1953

Cornel West28

African-American philosopher and political/civil rights act… 1953

Gregory A. Boyd1

American theologian and pastor 1957

John Bevere2

American author 1959

Stephen D. Parkes3

roman-catholic clergyman 1965

Wentworth Miller4

British-born American actor 1972

Angelo Mathews6

Sri Lankan cricketer 1987

Awkwafina1

actress and rapper from New York 1988

Steve Smith (cricketer)3

Australian international cricketer 1989

Death

Giuseppe Garibaldi2

Italian general and politician 1807–1882

Benjamin Stanton5

American politician 1809–1872

Alfred Austin56

British writer and poet 1835–1913

Timothy Thomas Fortune1

American writer and activist 1856–1928

Alain35

French philosopher 1868–1951

John Erskine5

American educator 1879–1951

Arnold Lunn1

British writer and skier 1888–1974

Vita Sackville-West39

English writer and gardener 1892–1962

A. A. Thomson2

cricketer and author 1894–1968

Lou Gehrig3

American baseball player 1903–1941

Viktor Brack2

SS officer 1904–1948

Gerald James Whitrow39

British mathematician 1912–2000

Nile Kinnick21

College football player 1918–1943

David Stove2

Australian philosopher 1927–1994

David Eddings43

American novelist 1931–2009

Anthony de Mello135

Indian writer 1931–1987

Amos Tversky5

Israeli psychologist 1937–1996

Lavina Washines1

American politician 1940–2011

Josephine Hart6

Irish writer 1942–2011

Stan Rogers9

Folk singer 1949–1983