Anniversaries 27 June
Birth
![Augustus De Morgan photo]()
British mathematician, philosopher and university teacher (…
1806–1871
![Charles Stewart Parnell photo]()
Irish politician
1846–1891
![Emma Goldman photo]()
anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp…
1868–1940
![Paul Laurence Dunbar photo]()
American author
1872–1906
![Roy Bedichek photo]()
American writer and naturalist
1878–1959
![Helen Keller photo]()
American author and political activist
1880–1968
![Gaston Bachelard photo]()
French writer and philosopher
1884–1962
![Jacques Deval photo]()
French film director and writer
1890–1972
![João Guimarães Rosa photo]()
Brazilian novelist
1908–1967
![Phillip Guston photo]()
American artist
1913–1980
![Robert Aickman photo]()
British fantasy and horror writer
1914–1981
![William Foote Whyte photo]()
American sociologist
1914–2000
![Grace Lee Boggs photo]()
social activist and feminist
1915–2015
![Paul Conrad photo]()
German theologian
1924–2010
![Michael Dummett photo]()
British academic and philosopher
1925–2011
![Bob Keeshan photo]()
United States Marine
1927–2004
![Ross Perot photo]()
American businessman
1930–2019
![Robert Rosen photo]()
American theoretical biologist
1934–1998
![Alan Coren photo]()
humorist and writer from the United Kingdom
1938–2007
![Krzysztof Kieślowski photo]()
Polish film director and screenwriter
1941–1996
![Arthur Li photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1945
![Alice McDermott photo]()
American writer, novelist, essayist
1953
![Charlie Beck photo]()
Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department
1953
![Sultan bin Salman bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud photo]()
former Royal Saudi Air Force pilot who flew aboard the Amer…
1956
![Scott Cunningham photo]()
U.S. writer about Wicca and the occult
1956–1993
![J. J. Abrams photo]()
American film and television producer and director
1966
![Ismail ibn Musa Menk photo]()
Muslim cleric and Grand Mufti of Zimbabwe.
1975
![Tobey Maguire photo]()
actor from the United States
1975
![Khloé Kardashian photo]()
American television personality
1984
![Jessamyn Stanley photo]()
American yoga teacher and author
1987
![Ed Westwick photo]()
English actor and musician
1987
![Lauren Jauregui photo]()
Cuban-American singer and songwriter
1996
Death
![Agnolo Firenzuola photo]()
Italian poet and litterateur
1493–1543
![Giorgio Vasari photo]()
Italian painter, architect, writer and historian
1511–1574
![Ranjit Singh photo]()
founder of Sikh Empire (early 19th century)
1780–1839
![Harriet Martineau photo]()
English writer and sociologist
1802–1876
![Sarah Helen Whitman photo]()
United States poet
1803–1878
![Joseph Smith, Jr. photo]()
American religious leader and the founder of the Latter Day…
1805–1844
![Arthur Waley photo]()
British academic
1889–1966
![Earl Browder photo]()
American political activist (1891-1973)
1891–1973
![Alfred Jules Ayer photo]()
English philosopher
1910–1989
![Simon Ramo photo]()
Father of the ICBM
1913–2016
![Sam Manekshaw photo]()
First Field marshal of the Indian Army
1914–2008
![Tove Jansson photo]()
Finnish children's writer and illustrator
1914–2001
![Shelby Foote photo]()
Novelist, historian
1916–2005
![George S. Patton IV photo]()
U.S. Army general
1923–2004
![Michael Bond photo]()
English author, creator of Paddington the Bear
1926–2017
![Alvin Toffler photo]()
American writer
1928–2016
![Peter L. Berger photo]()
Austrian-born American sociologist
1929–2017
![Alden Nowlan photo]()
Canadian writer
1933–1983
![Surendra Pratap Singh photo]()
Indian journalist
1948–1997
![Bhakti Tirtha Swami photo]()
American Hindu writer
1950–2005
