Anniversaries 21 June
Birth
![Increase Mather photo]()
Puritan minister, academic, activist
1639–1723
![David Hartley (philosopher) photo]()
British philosopher
1705–1757
![Siméon Denis Poisson photo]()
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist
1781–1840
![Matthew Simpson photo]()
American bishop and academic
1811–1884
![Moses Hess photo]()
German philosopher
1812–1875
![William Edmondstoune Aytoun photo]()
British writer and lawyer
1813–1865
![William Greenough Thayer Shedd photo]()
American theologian
1820–1894
![William Stubbs photo]()
English historian and clergyman
1825–1901
![Luís Gama photo]()
Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist
1830–1882
![Machado de Assis photo]()
Brazilian writer
1839–1908
![Henry Ossawa Tanner photo]()
American painter
1859–1937
![Rockwell Kent photo]()
American artist
1882–1971
![Reinhold Niebuhr photo]()
American protestant theologian
1892–1971
![Alois Hába photo]()
Czech music educator and composer
1893–1973
![Curt Martin Riess photo]()
German journalist and writer
1902–1993
![Jean Paul Sartre photo]()
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc…
1905–1980
![Mary McCarthy photo]()
American writer
1912–1989
![William Vickrey photo]()
Canadian noble laureate in economics
1914–1996
![William B. Ruger photo]()
American inventor
1916–2002
![Gerald Kaufman photo]()
British politician
1930–2017
![Aloysius Paul D'Souza photo]()
Indian Roman Catholic Bishop
1941
![Ellen Meloy photo]()
American writer
1946–2004
![Shirin Ebadi photo]()
Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Priz…
1947
![Yousif Thomas Mirkis photo]()
Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk Sulaimaniya
1949
![Gregory David Roberts photo]()
Australian writer and bank robber
1952
![Benazir Bhutto photo]()
11th Prime Minister of Pakistan
1953–2007
![Tim Bray photo]()
Canadian software developer
1955
![Lee Hong-yuan photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1956
![Kate Ross photo]()
Novelist, lawyer
1956–1998
![Manu Chao photo]()
French Spanish singer, guitarist and record producer
1961
![Viktor Tsoi photo]()
Soviet rock musician (1962-1990)
1962–1990
![Yingluck Shinawatra photo]()
Thai businesswoman and politician
1967
![Jim Breuer photo]()
American actor and comedian
1967
![Brandon Flowers photo]()
American indie rock singer
1981
![Jussie Smollett photo]()
American actor, singer, director and photographer
1982
![Prince William, Duke of Cambridge photo]()
a member of the British royal family
1982
![Edward Snowden photo]()
American whistleblower and former National Security Agency …
1983
![Lana Del Rey photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1985
Death
![Edward III of England photo]()
King of England
1312–1377
![Niccolo Machiavelli photo]()
Italian politician, Writer and Author
1469–1527
![John Smith (explorer) photo]()
Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, a…
1580–1631
![Johann Georg Hamann photo]()
German philosopher
1730–1788
![Charles Dodgson (archdeacon) photo]()
Anglican clergyman, scholar
1800–1868
![John McClellan Holmes photo]()
US Christian minister and author
1834–1911
![Charles E. Nash photo]()
American politician
1844–1913
![Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse photo]()
British sociologist
1864–1929
![Smedley D. Butler photo]()
United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor r…
1881–1940
![K. B. Hedgewar photo]()
Founding leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
1889–1940
![Thorne Smith photo]()
an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction
1892–1934
![Cecil Roth photo]()
British historian
1899–1970
![Sukarno photo]()
first President of the Republic of Indonesia
1901–1970
![Alan Hovhaness photo]()
Armenian-American composer
1911–2000
![Anna Schwartz photo]()
American economist
1915–2012
![Leon Uris photo]()
American novelist
1924–2003
![Timothy Findley photo]()
Canadian writer
1930–2002
![Charles Krauthammer photo]()
American journalist
1950–2018
