Anniversaries 25 June
Birth
![Shah Alam II photo]()
16th Mughal Emperor
1728–1806
![Antoni Gaudí photo]()
Catalan architect
1852–1926
![Robert Erskine Childers photo]()
Irish nationalist and author
1870–1922
![Arthur Chapman (poet) photo]()
American poet and newspaper columnist
1873–1935
![Louis Mountbatten, 1st Earl Mountbatten of Burma photo]()
British statesman and naval officer
1900–1979
![Moses Hadas photo]()
American classical philologist
1900–1966
![George Orwell photo]()
English author and journalist
1903–1950
![Willard van Orman Quine photo]()
American philosopher and logician
1908–2000
![Barry Perowne photo]()
British crime writer
1908–1985
![Sid Tepper photo]()
American songwriter
1918–2015
![Sidney Lumet photo]()
American director, producer and screenwriter
1924–2011
![Robert Venturi photo]()
American architect
1925–2018
![Ingeborg Bachmann photo]()
Austrian poet and author
1926–1973
![Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov photo]()
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
1928–2017
![Eric Carle photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1929
![V. P. Singh photo]()
Indian politician
1931–2008
![Charles Sheffield photo]()
British scientist, American science fiction writer
1935–2002
![Howard Bloom photo]()
American publicist and author
1943
![Carly Simon photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician and author
1943
![Terry M. Moe photo]()
American political scientist
1949
![Dan Barker photo]()
American atheist activist
1949
![Sonia Sotomayor photo]()
U.S. Supreme Court Justice
1954
![Anthony Bourdain photo]()
Chef and food writer
1956–2018
![Ricky Gervais photo]()
English comedian, actor, director, producer, musician, writ…
1961
![George Michael photo]()
English singer-songwriter, musician, producer
1963–2016
![Yann Martel photo]()
Canadian author best known for the book Life of Pi
1963
![Jonah Lehrer photo]()
American science writer
1981
![Waleed Al-Husseini photo]()
Palestinian essayist and writer
1989
![Valter Bitencourt Júnior photo]()
Brazilian poet and writer
1994
![Mckenna Grace photo]()
American child actress
2006
Death
![Robert Leighton photo]()
17th century Archbishop of Glasgow, and Principal of the Un…
1611–1684
![E. T. A. Hoffmann photo]()
German Romantic author
1776–1822
![Thomas Eakins photo]()
American painter
1844–1916
![Wilhelm Stekel photo]()
Austrian physician and psychologist
1868–1940
![Miriam A. Ferguson photo]()
American politician
1875–1961
![Ernest King photo]()
United States Navy admiral, Chief of Naval Operations
1878–1956
![Warren E. Burger photo]()
Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
1907–1995
![Johnny Mercer photo]()
American lyricist, songwriter, singer and music professional
1909–1976
![Jacques-Yves Cousteau photo]()
French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker,…
1910–1997
![Michel Foucault photo]()
French philosopher
1926–1984
![Lester Grinspoon photo]()
American physician
1928–2020
![David Goldblatt photo]()
South African photographer
1930–2018
![Nigel Calder photo]()
British science writer
1931–2014
![Michael Jackson photo]()
American singer, songwriter and dancer
1958–2009
![Salwa Bugaighis photo]()
Libyan activist
1963–2014
