Anniversaries 21 June

Birth

Ben Jonson93

English writer 1572–1637

Increase Mather2

Puritan minister, academic, activist 1639–1723

David Hartley (philosopher)2

British philosopher 1705–1757

Siméon Denis Poisson3

French mathematician, mechanician and physicist 1781–1840

Matthew Simpson4

American bishop and academic 1811–1884

Moses Hess8

German philosopher 1812–1875

William Edmondstoune Aytoun3

British writer and lawyer 1813–1865

William Greenough Thayer Shedd5

American theologian 1820–1894

William Stubbs4

English historian and clergyman 1825–1901

Luís Gama4

Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist 1830–1882

Joseph Hayne Rainey14

politician 1832–1887

Machado de Assis16

Brazilian writer 1839–1908

Henry Ossawa Tanner2

American painter 1859–1937

H. M. Tomlinson1

British writer 1873–1958

Rockwell Kent3

American artist 1882–1971

Olga Rozanova4

Russian artist 1886–1918

Hastings Ismay4

Army officer 1887–1965

Reinhold Niebuhr65

American protestant theologian 1892–1971

Alois Hába1

Czech music educator and composer 1893–1973

Curt Martin Riess2

German journalist and writer 1902–1993

Jean Paul Sartre321

French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc… 1905–1980

Mary McCarthy79

American writer 1912–1989

William Vickrey1

Canadian noble laureate in economics 1914–1996

William B. Ruger2

American inventor 1916–2002

Gerald Kaufman4

British politician 1930–2017

Bernard Ingham3

British journalist 1932

Françoise Sagan34

French writer 1935–2004

Aloysius Paul D'Souza1

Indian Roman Catholic Bishop 1941

Adam Zagajewski5

Poet 1945

Ellen Meloy1

American writer 1946–2004

Dana Rohrabacher2

American politician 1947

Shirin Ebadi5

Iranian lawyer, human rights activist, and Nobel Peace Priz… 1947

Andrzej Sapkowski18

Novelist 1948

Ian McEwan80

British author 1948

Yousif Thomas Mirkis1

Chaldean Catholic Archbishop of Kirkuk Sulaimaniya 1949

Anne Carson3

Canadian poet 1950

Gregory David Roberts61

Australian writer and bank robber 1952

Benazir Bhutto27

11th Prime Minister of Pakistan 1953–2007

Tim Bray1

Canadian software developer 1955

Lee Hong-yuan2

Taiwanese politician 1956

Kate Ross1

Novelist, lawyer 1956–1998

Berkeley Breathed2

American cartoonist 1957

Manu Chao4

French Spanish singer, guitarist and record producer 1961

Viktor Tsoi5

Soviet rock musician (1962-1990) 1962–1990

Yingluck Shinawatra4

Thai businesswoman and politician 1967

Jim Breuer3

American actor and comedian 1967

Maria Dahvana Headley9

American writer 1977

Brandon Flowers8

American indie rock singer 1981

Jussie Smollett6

American actor, singer, director and photographer 1982

Prince William, Duke of Cambridge9

a member of the British royal family 1982

Edward Snowden35

American whistleblower and former National Security Agency … 1983

Lana Del Rey9

American singer-songwriter 1985

Death

Edward III of England3

King of England 1312–1377

John Skelton14

English poet 1460–1529

Niccolo Machiavelli130

Italian politician, Writer and Author 1469–1527

John Smith (explorer)2

Admiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, a… 1580–1631

Johann Georg Hamann13

German philosopher 1730–1788

Charles Dodgson (archdeacon)5

Anglican clergyman, scholar 1800–1868

John McClellan Holmes14

US Christian minister and author 1834–1911

Charles E. Nash3

American politician 1844–1913

Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse24

British sociologist 1864–1929

Édouard Vuillard4

French painter 1868–1940

Smedley D. Butler18

United States Marine Corps General, 2 time Medal of Honor r… 1881–1940

K. B. Hedgewar3

Founding leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 1889–1940

Thorne Smith1

an American writer of humorous supernatural fantasy fiction 1892–1934

Cecil Roth3

British historian 1899–1970

Sukarno23

first President of the Republic of Indonesia 1901–1970

Alan Hovhaness4

Armenian-American composer 1911–2000

Anna Schwartz1

American economist 1915–2012

Joan Fuster2

Spanish writer 1922–1992

Leon Uris6

American novelist 1924–2003

Timothy Findley4

Canadian writer 1930–2002

Charles Krauthammer78

American journalist 1950–2018