Anniversaries 24 June
Birth
![John of the Cross photo]()
Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
1542–1591
![Thomas Fuller (writer) photo]()
British physician, preacher, and intellectual
1654–1734
![Jean Baptiste Massillon photo]()
French Catholic bishop and famous preacher
1663–1742
![William Cowper, 1st Earl Cowper photo]()
English politician and first Lord Chancellor of Great Brita…
1665–1723
![Henry Ward Beecher photo]()
American clergyman and activist
1813–1887
![George Arnold photo]()
American author and poet
1834–1865
![Ambrose Bierce photo]()
American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabu…
1842–1914
![Brooks Adams photo]()
American political writer
1848–1927
![Robert Henri photo]()
American painter
1865–1929
![Oswald Veblen photo]()
American mathematician
1880–1960
![Katherine Dunham photo]()
Dancer, choreographer, songwriter, activist
1909–2006
![Ernesto Sábato photo]()
Argentine writer, painter and physicist
1911–2011
![Fred Hoyle photo]()
British astronomer
1915–2001
![Norman Cousins photo]()
American journalist
1915–1990
![John Ciardi photo]()
American poet, professor, translator
1916–1986
![David Easton photo]()
Canadian academic
1917–2014
![Ruth Harrison photo]()
British activist
1920–2000
![Martin Lewis Perl photo]()
American scientist
1927–2014
![Lester Grinspoon photo]()
American physician
1928–2020
![Pete Hamill photo]()
American journalist, novelist, essayist, editor and educator
1935
![Julia Kristeva photo]()
Bulgarian-French philosopher, psychoanalyst & academic
1941
![Kathryn Lasky photo]()
American children's writer
1944
![Jeff Beck photo]()
English rock guitarist
1944
![Robert B. Reich photo]()
American political economist
1946
![Mercedes Lackey photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1950
![Lars Gule photo]()
Norwegian philosopher
1955
![David Abram photo]()
American philosopher, ecologist
1957
![Rebecca Solnit photo]()
Author and essayist from United States
1961
![Shaun Ellis photo]()
American football player, defensive end
1977
![Juan Román Riquelme photo]()
Argentine footballer
1978
![Mindy Kaling photo]()
actress, writer, comedian
1979
![Lionel Messi photo]()
Argentine association football player
1987
Death
![Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford photo]()
English peer and courtier of the Elizabethan era
1550–1604
![Thomas McKean photo]()
American politician (1734-1817)
1734–1817
![Thomas McKean photo]()
American politician (1734-1817)
1734–1817
![Thomas McKean photo]()
American politician (1734-1817)
1734–1817
![Thomas McKean photo]()
American politician
1734–1817
![Adam Lindsay Gordon photo]()
Australian poet, jockey and politician
1833–1870
![Grover Cleveland photo]()
22nd and 24th president of the United States
1837–1908
![Sarah Orne Jewett photo]()
American novelist, short story writer and poet
1849–1909
![Stuart Davis photo]()
American painter
1892–1964
![Leon MacLaren photo]()
British philosopher
1910–1994
![Leonid Hurwicz photo]()
Russian-American economist and mathematician
1917–2008
![Romeo LeBlanc photo]()
Canadian politician
1927–2009
![James Martin (author) photo]()
British information technology consultant and writer
1933–2013
![Marva Collins photo]()
American schoolteacher
1936–2015
