Anniversaries 24 June

Birth

John of the Cross48

Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint 1542–1591

Thomas Fuller (writer)420

British physician, preacher, and intellectual 1654–1734

Jean Baptiste Massillon11

French Catholic bishop and famous preacher 1663–1742

William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper4

English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Brita… 1665–1723

Henry Ward Beecher75

American clergyman and activist 1813–1887

George Arnold2

American author and poet 1834–1865

Ambrose Bierce204

American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu… 1842–1914

Brooks Adams5

American political writer 1848–1927

Robert Henri20

American painter 1865–1929

Oswald Veblen1

American mathematician 1880–1960

Jean Metzinger33

French painter 1883–1956

Jack Dempsey5

American boxer 1895–1983

Katherine Dunham1

Dancer, choreographer, songwriter, activist 1909–2006

Ernesto Sábato2

Argentine writer, painter and physicist 1911–2011

Fred Hoyle19

British astronomer 1915–2001

Norman Cousins32

American journalist 1915–1990

John Ciardi4

American poet, professor, translator 1916–1986

David Easton1

Canadian academic 1917–2014

Ruth Harrison1

British activist 1920–2000

Martin Lewis Perl9

American scientist 1927–2014

Lester Grinspoon1

American physician 1928–2020

Pete Hamill1

American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator 1935

Anita Desai4

Indian novelist 1937

Lawrence Block3

American writer 1938

Julia Kristeva3

Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic 1941

Kathryn Lasky20

American children's writer 1944

Jeff Beck1

English rock guitarist 1944

Robert B. Reich12

American political economist 1946

Mercedes Lackey35

American novelist and short story writer 1950

Edward Allington1

sculptor 1951–2017

Steve Kluger9

American writer 1952

Lars Gule1

Norwegian philosopher 1955

David Abram2

American philosopher, ecologist 1957

J. Bradford DeLong4

American economist 1960

Rebecca Solnit45

Author and essayist from United States 1961

Shaun Ellis17

American football player, defensive end 1977

Juan Román Riquelme6

Argentine footballer 1978

Ariel Pink1

American musician 1978

Mindy Kaling57

actress, writer, comedian 1979

Petra Němcová1

Czech fashion model 1979

Lionel Messi31

Argentine association football player 1987

Death

Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford7

English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era 1550–1604

Thomas McKean1

American politician (1734-1817) 1734–1817

Thomas McKean1

American politician (1734-1817) 1734–1817

Thomas McKean1

American politician (1734-1817) 1734–1817

Thomas McKean1

American politician 1734–1817

Adam Lindsay Gordon1

Australian poet, jockey and politician 1833–1870

Grover Cleveland31

22nd and 24th president of the United States 1837–1908

Terence V. Powderly11

American mayor 1849–1924

Sarah Orne Jewett21

American novelist, short story writer and poet 1849–1909

Stuart Davis2

American painter 1892–1964

Leon MacLaren10

British philosopher 1910–1994

Leonid Hurwicz6

Russian-American economist and mathematician 1917–2008

Brian Keith9

actor 1921–1997

Romeo LeBlanc10

Canadian politician 1927–2009

James Martin (author)9

British information technology consultant and writer 1933–2013

Marva Collins3

American schoolteacher 1936–2015