Anniversaries 22 June

Birth

Jacques Delille4

French poet and translator 1738–1813

Wilhelm Von Humboldt35

German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, dipl… 1767–1835

Giuseppe Mazzini14

Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805–1872

Paul Morphy16

American chess player 1837–1884

H. Rider Haggard25

English writer of adventure novels 1856–1925

Hermann Minkowski11

German mathematician and physicist 1864–1909

William McDougall2

british psychologist 1871–1938

Gwen John2

Welsh painter 1876–1939

Julian Huxley38

English biologist, philosopher, author 1887–1975

Aaro Hellaakoski2

Finnish writer, poet, geographer and teacher 1893–1952

Norbert Elias4

German sociologist 1897–1990

Erich Maria Remarque63

German novelist 1898–1970

Michał Kalecki16

Polish economist 1899–1970

Billy Wilder23

American filmmaker 1906–2002

Anne Morrow Lindbergh72

American aviator and author 1906–2001

Gilbert Highet7

British academic 1906–1978

Konrad Zuse3

German computer scientist and engineer 1910–1995

Eugenia Price1

American writer 1916–1996

Nico van Kampen3

Dutch theoretical physicist 1921–2013

Géza Vermès3

British scholar 1924–2013

Larkin Kerwin2

Canadian physicist 1924–2004

Dianne Feinstein6

American politician 1933

Kris Kristofferson12

American country music singer, songwriter, musician, and fi… 1936

Abbas Kiarostami6

Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film … 1940–2016

Ed Bradley29

News correspondent 1941–2006

Kay Redfield Jamison31

American bipolar disorder researcher 1946

Bruno Latour1

French sociologist, philosopher and anthropologist 1947

Octavia E. Butler107

American science fiction writer 1947–2006

Meryl Streep12

American actress 1949

Elizabeth Warren19

28th United States Senator from Massachusetts 1949

Stephen Antony Pillai1

Roman Catholic bishop 1952

J. Doyne Farmer15

American physicist and entrepreneur (b.1952) 1952

René Weis1

1953

François Lelord11

French writer 1953

Cyndi Lauper2

American singer, songwriter, actress and activist 1953

Charles T. Canady3

American politician and judge 1954

Jennifer Finney Boylan2

American author 1958

Ed Viesturs1

American mountain climber 1959

Adam Schiff8

American politician 1960

Dan Brown135

American author 1964

Uwe Boll8

German restaurateur and former filmmaker 1965

Miri Yu2

Zainichi Korean writer 1968

Kurt Warner2

American football quarterback 1971

Kambri Crews2

American storyteller 1971

Isabelle Adriani1

Italian actress, journalist, singer, and writer 1972

Ian Tregillis1

American writer 1973

Jo Cox61

UK politician 1974–2016

Mati Diop3

French actress and film director 1982

Death

Katherine Philips3

Anglo-Welsh poet and translator 1632–1664

Matthew Henry38

Theologician from Wales 1662–1714

Johann Jakob Wilhelm Heinse1

German writer 1746–1803

Heber C. Kimball6

American Mormon leader 1801–1868

Benjamin Ricketson Tucker50

American journalist and anarchist 1854–1939

Basil King5

Canadian writer 1859–1928

Walter de la Mare33

English poet and fiction writer 1873–1956

Moritz Schlick3

German philosopher 1882–1936

Will T. Kirk1

Commissioner of the Oregon Industrial Accident Commission 1884–1947

Darius Milhaud1

French composer and teacher 1892–1974

Marston Morse2

American mathematician 1892–1977

Fred Astaire73

American dancer, singer, actor, choreographer and televisio… 1899–1987

Yves Congar1

Dominican priest and cardinal 1904–1995

Robert F. Young1

American writer 1915–1986

Ann Landers1

American advice columnist 1918–2002

Judy Garland13

actress, singer and vaudevillian from the United States 1922–1969

Vasil Bykaŭ11

Belarusian writer 1924–2003

Leandro Díaz1

Colombian musician 1928–2013

George Carlin270

American stand-up comedian 1937–2008