Anniversaries 2 July
Birth
![Thomas Cranmer photo]()
leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterb…
1489–1556
![Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock photo]()
German poet, writer and linguist
1724–1803
![Jules Van Praet photo]()
Belgian diplomat
1806–1887
![George Law Curry photo]()
American politician
1820–1878
![Theodore Chickering Williams photo]()
American hymnwriter
1855–1915
![William Henry Bragg photo]()
British scientist
1862–1942
![Anthony McAuliffe photo]()
American general
1898–1975
![Muhammad Asad photo]()
Austro-Hungarian writer and academic
1900–1992
![Tyrone Guthrie photo]()
English actor and director
1900–1971
![Alec Douglas-Home photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1903–1995
![Hans Bethe photo]()
German-American nuclear physicist
1906–2005
![Thurgood Marshall photo]()
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1908–1993
![Jean Craighead George photo]()
American novelist and nature writer
1919–2012
![Patrice Lumumba photo]()
Congolese Prime Minister, cold war leader, executed
1925–1961
![Imelda Marcos photo]()
Former First Lady of the Philippines
1929
![Carlos Menem photo]()
Argentine politician who was President of Argentina from 19…
1930
![Robert Gilpin photo]()
Political scientist
1930–2018
![Tom Springfield photo]()
English musician, songwriter and record producer
1934
![Alexandros Panagoulis photo]()
Greek politician and poet
1939–1976
![Ken Clarke photo]()
British Conservative politician
1940
![Ivar Ekeland photo]()
French mathematician
1944
![Larry David photo]()
American comedian, writer, actor, and television producer
1947
![Doron Zeilberger photo]()
Israeli mathematician
1950
![Stephen M. Walt photo]()
American political scientist
1955
![Cynthia Kadohata photo]()
Japanese-American children's writer
1956
![J. Michael Bailey photo]()
American psychologist
1957
![Bret Hart photo]()
Canadian professional wrestler, writer, and actor
1957
![José Canseco photo]()
Cuban-American baseball player
1964
![Jennifer Lee photo]()
American motion picture writer and director.
1971
![Peter Kay photo]()
English writer, producer, actor and comedian
1973
![Moon So-ri photo]()
South Korean actress
1974
![Michelle Branch photo]()
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1983
![Ashley Tisdale photo]()
American actress, singer
1985
![Kendrick Farris photo]()
American weightlifter
1986
![Lindsay Lohan photo]()
American actress and pop singer
1986
![Alex Morgan photo]()
American soccer player
1989
Death
![Najmuddin Kubra photo]()
Iranian sufi poet and philosopher
1145–1221
![Nostradamus photo]()
French apothecary and reputed seer
1503–1566
![Jean Jacques Rousseau photo]()
Genevan philosopher
1712–1778
![Samuel Hahnemann photo]()
German physician best known for creating a system of altern…
1755–1843
![Robert Peel photo]()
British Conservative statesman
1788–1850
![Porfirio Díaz photo]()
President of Mexico
1830–1915
![Joseph Chamberlain photo]()
British businessman, politician, and statesman
1836–1914
![Washington Gladden photo]()
American pastor
1836–1918
![Élie Metchnikoff photo]()
Russian-French immunologist, embriologist, biologist, Nobel…
1845–1916
![Herbert Beerbohm Tree photo]()
English actor and theatre manager
1852–1917
![Emile Coué photo]()
French psychologist and pharmacist
1857–1926
![Anton Chekhov photo]()
Russian dramatist, author and physician
1860–1904
![William McFee photo]()
American writer
1881–1966
![Georgi Dimitrov photo]()
Bulgarian politician
1882–1949
![Alfonso Uribe Misas photo]()
Colombian lawyer, politician and writer
1886–1984
![George Seldes photo]()
American journalist
1890–1995
![Gene Fowler photo]()
American journalist
1890–1960
![Amelia Earhart photo]()
American aviation pioneer and author
1897–1937
![Ernest Hemingway photo]()
American author and journalist
1899–1961
![Vladimir Nabokov photo]()
Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
1899–1977
![Jimmy Stewart photo]()
American film and stage actor
1908–1997
![Kay Thompson photo]()
American actress, singer, composer and writer
1909–1998
![Andrei Gromyko photo]()
Soviet diplomat
1909–1989
![Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen photo]()
Portuguese poet and writer
1919–2004
![Mario Puzo photo]()
American Novelist
1920–1999
![Lee Iacocca photo]()
American businessman
1924–2019
![Douglas Engelbart photo]()
American engineer and inventor
1925–2013
![Elie Wiesel photo]()
writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and …
1928–2016
![Rudolf E. Kálmán photo]()
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
1930–2016
![Itamar Franco photo]()
Brazilian politician
1930–2011
![Beryl Bainbridge photo]()
English novelist
1932–2010
![Israel Shahak photo]()
Israeli academic
1933–2001
