Anniversaries 23 June
Birth
![Giambattista Vico photo]()
philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist from Italy
1668–1744
![Alfred Kinsey photo]()
American scientist (1894–1956)
1894–1956
![Edward VIII of the United Kingdom photo]()
king of the United Kingdom and its dominions in 1936
1894–1972
![Paul Schmidt photo]()
German translator, Nazi
1899–1970
![Frank Fraser Darling photo]()
British scientist
1903–1979
![Derek Jackson photo]()
British physicist
1906–1982
![James Meade photo]()
British economist
1907–1995
![Jean Anouilh photo]()
French playwright
1910–1987
![Gordon B. Hinckley photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1910–2008
![David Ogilvy photo]()
Advertising executive
1911–1999
![Alan Turing photo]()
British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer…
1912–1954
![Ralph Brazelton Peck photo]()
American civil engineer
1912–2008
![Colin Cherry photo]()
British scientist
1914–1979
![Michael Shaara photo]()
American writer
1928–1988
![June Carter Cash photo]()
American singer, songwriter and actress
1929–2003
![Adrian Hastings photo]()
Roman Catholic priest, historian and author
1929–2001
![Leigh Snowden photo]()
American actress
1929–1982
![Ted Sizer photo]()
American education reformer
1932–2009
![Richard Bach photo]()
American spiritual writer
1936
![Martti Ahtisaari photo]()
Finnish politician and former President of Finland
1937
![Erkki Pulliainen photo]()
Finnish zoologist and politician
1938
![Ivor Grattan-Guinness photo]()
Historian of mathematics and logic
1941–2014
![Robert Hunter photo]()
American musician
1941–2019
![Martin J. Rees photo]()
cosmologist, astrophysicist, Astronomer Royal, Master of Tr…
1942
![Vint Cerf photo]()
American computer scientist
1943
![Clarence Thomas photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1948
![Orani João Tempesta photo]()
Cistercian abbot, archbishop and cardinal
1950
![Armen Sarkissian photo]()
4th President of Armenia, Member of the Global Leadership F…
1953
![Annette Curtis Klause photo]()
American writer and librarian
1953
![Randy Alcorn photo]()
American Protestant author
1954
![Kevin Lane Keller photo]()
American business theorist
1956
![Vikas Swarup photo]()
Indian novelist and diplomat
1961
![Liu Cixin photo]()
Chinese science fiction writer
1963
![Joss Whedon photo]()
American director, writer, and producer for television and …
1964
![Zinedine Zidane photo]()
French association football player and manager
1972
![KT Tunstall photo]()
Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist
1975
![Tite Kubo photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1977
![Jason Mraz photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1977
![Cal Newport photo]()
American computer scientist
1982
![Sahara Marie photo]()
American plus-size model
1985
![HoYeon Jung photo]()
South Korean model, actress
1994
Death
![Vespasian photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome, founder of the Flavian dynasty
9–79
![Koxinga photo]()
Chinese military leader
1624–1662
![Mark Akenside photo]()
English poet and physician
1721–1770
![John Wilmot photo]()
English politician
1748–1815
![James Mill photo]()
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philo…
1773–1836
![V. V. Giri photo]()
Indian politician and 4th president of India
1894–1980
![Syama Prasad Mookerjee photo]()
Indian politician
1901–1953
![Clyfford Still photo]()
American artist
1904–1980
![Michel Aflaq photo]()
Syrian philosopher, sociologist and Arab nationalist
1910–1989
![Moses I. Finley photo]()
American historian
1912–1986
![Jonas Salk photo]()
Inventor of polio vaccine
1914–1995
![Boris Vian photo]()
French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator…
1920–1959
![Richard Matheson photo]()
American fiction writer
1926–2013
![Donald Hall photo]()
American writer
1928–2018
![Nancy Garden photo]()
American fiction writer
1938–2014
![Michael Herr photo]()
American war correspondent, screenwriter
1940–2016
