Anniversaries 23 June

Birth

Giambattista Vico3

philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist from Italy 1668–1744

Alfred Kinsey12

American scientist (1894–1956) 1894–1956

Edward VIII of the United Kingdom21

king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936 1894–1972

Paul Schmidt5

German translator, Nazi 1899–1970

Frank Fraser Darling1

British scientist 1903–1979

Derek Jackson1

British physicist 1906–1982

James Meade15

British economist 1907–1995

Jean Anouilh9

French playwright 1910–1987

Gordon B. Hinckley43

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1910–2008

David Ogilvy12

Advertising executive 1911–1999

Alan Turing33

British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer… 1912–1954

Ralph Brazelton Peck4

American civil engineer 1912–2008

Colin Cherry12

British scientist 1914–1979

John Prebble1

British writer 1915–2001

Michael Shaara20

American writer 1928–1988

June Carter Cash1

American singer, songwriter and actress 1929–2003

Adrian Hastings5

Roman Catholic priest, historian and author 1929–2001

Leigh Snowden2

American actress 1929–1982

Ted Sizer2

American education reformer 1932–2009

Richard Bach154

American spiritual writer 1936

Martti Ahtisaari6

Finnish politician and former President of Finland 1937

Erkki Pulliainen1

Finnish zoologist and politician 1938

Ivor Grattan-Guinness8

Historian of mathematics and logic 1941–2014

Robert Hunter31

American musician 1941–2019

Martin J. Rees5

cosmologist, astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, Master of Tr… 1942

Vint Cerf3

American computer scientist 1943

Rafik Schami1

German writer 1946

Clarence Thomas100

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1948

Orani João Tempesta2

Cistercian abbot, archbishop and cardinal 1950

Reed Noss9

1952

Robert D. Kaplan4

American writer 1952

Armen Sarkissian3

4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership F… 1953

Annette Curtis Klause7

American writer and librarian 1953

Randy Alcorn2

American Protestant author 1954

Kevin Lane Keller1

American business theorist 1956

Frances McDormand13

American actress 1957

Vikas Swarup6

Indian novelist and diplomat 1961

Liu Cixin4

Chinese science fiction writer 1963

Joss Whedon107

American director, writer, and producer for television and … 1964

Zinedine Zidane15

French association football player and manager 1972

Markus Zusak214

Australian author 1975

KT Tunstall22

Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist 1975

Tite Kubo81

Japanese manga artist 1977

Jason Mraz4

American singer-songwriter 1977

Cal Newport4

American computer scientist 1982

Sahara Marie1

American plus-size model 1985

HoYeon Jung8

South Korean model, actress 1994

Death

Vespasian1

Emperor of Ancient Rome, founder of the Flavian dynasty 9–79

Koxinga7

Chinese military leader 1624–1662

Mark Akenside17

English poet and physician 1721–1770

John Wilmot4

English politician 1748–1815

James Mill12

Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philo… 1773–1836

Albert Gleizes21

French painter 1881–1953

V. V. Giri21

Indian politician and 4th president of India 1894–1980

Syama Prasad Mookerjee16

Indian politician 1901–1953

Clyfford Still15

American artist 1904–1980

Michel Aflaq3

Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist 1910–1989

Moses I. Finley17

American historian 1912–1986

Jonas Salk47

Inventor of polio vaccine 1914–1995

Boris Vian1

French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator… 1920–1959

Shana Alexander3

Journalist 1925–2005

Richard Matheson58

American fiction writer 1926–2013

Donald Hall2

American writer 1928–2018

Nancy Garden8

American fiction writer 1938–2014

Michael Herr4

American war correspondent, screenwriter 1940–2016