Anniversaries 3 June

Birth

Filippo Baldinucci2

Italian art historian 1625–1697

James Hutton3

Scottish geologist and physician 1726–1797

Giles Rooke6

British judge (1743-1808) 1743–1808

Sydney Smith68

English writer and clergyman 1771–1845

Richard Cobden56

English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman 1804–1865

Jefferson Davis44

President of the Confederate States of America 1808–1889

Norman MacLeod (1812–1872)3

Scottish clergyman and author (1812–1872) 1812–1872

Johan Jongkind5

Dutch painter and printmaker regarded as a forerunner of Im… 1819–1891

Ned Kelly27

Australian bushranger 1855–1880

Shibli Nomani2

Indian scholar 1857–1914

Neil Munro (Hugh Foulis)2

Journalist, author, critic 1863–1930

George V of the United Kingdom19

King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and E… 1865–1936

K. M. Panikkar30

Indian diplomat, academic and historian 1895–1963

Georg von Békésy3

Hungarian physicist 1899–1972

Eric A. Havelock5

1903-1988, British classical philologist 1903–1988

Charles R. Drew1

African-American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher 1904–1950

Bernard Hollowood2

English cricketer 1910–1981

Wilfred Thesiger55

British explorer 1910–2003

Karunanidhi3

Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Tamil… 1924–2018

Kurt Danziger20

German academic 1926

Allen Ginsberg76

American poet 1926–1997

Donald Judd33

artist 1928–1994

Chuck Barris1

American game show creator, producer, and host 1929–2017

Marion Zimmer Bradley12

Novelist, editor 1930–1999

Raúl Castro2

First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist P… 1931

John Norman3

philosophy professor, author of Gor novel series 1931

Larry McMurtry26

American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter 1936

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss2

American writer 1939–2007

Antonio Arregui Yarza1

Catholic archbishop 1939

Curtis Mayfield15

American singer, songwriter, and record producer 1942–1999

Tom Burns (bishop)1

Catholic bishop 1944

John Derbyshire27

writer 1945

Ernest Debrah1

Ghanian politician 1947–2016

Satu Hassi2

Finnish politician and MEP 1951

John Loeffler2

Anime composer 1951

Paul Stagg Coakley1

Catholic archbishop 1955

Jesús Tirso Blanco2

Argentinian bishop 1957–2022

Ali Larijani4

Iranian philosopher, politician 1958

Krishna Kant Shukla5

Indian Classical musician 1959

Steve Lyons5

American baseball player 1960

Lawrence Lessig71

American academic, political activist. 1961

Susannah Constantine17

British fashion designer and journalist 1962

Chen Fu-hai1

Magistrate of Kinmen County 1963

Kate Forsyth2

Australian writer 1966

Anderson Cooper6

journalist and author 1967

Eric Hargan2

American civil servant 1968

John Hodgman20

American humorist 1971

Carl Everett1

American baseball player 1971

Jason Jones (actor)2

Canadian-American actor and comedian 1973

Paul Berry2

North Ireland politician 1976

Petro Loza1

roman-catholic bishop 1979

Rafael Nadal7

Spanish tennis player 1986

Death

William Harvey8

English physician 1578–1657

Stephen A. Douglas10

American politician 1813–1861

James Hudson Taylor88

Missionary in China 1832–1905

James Thomson (B.V.)26

Scottish writer (1834-1882) 1834–1882

Frances Ridley Havergal15

British poet and hymn-writer 1836–1879

Georges Bizet2

French composer 1838–1875

John Flanagan115

Irish-American hammer thrower 1873–1938

Mikhail Kalinin8

Soviet politician 1875–1946

Hjalmar Schacht9

German politician 1877–1970

Pope John XXIII5

261st Pope of the Catholic Church 1881–1963

Franz Kafka266

author 1883–1924

Arthur Ransome11

English author and journalist 1884–1967

Archibald Hill3

English physiologist and biophysicist 1886–1977

Toshio Shiratori7

Japanese politician 1887–1949

Ruhollah Khomeini57

Religious leader, politician 1902–1989

Nâzım Hikmet19

Turkish poet 1902–1963

Thế Lữ2

1907–1989

Robert Morley3

English actor 1908–1992

Lew Wasserman1

American studio executive and talent agent 1913–2002

Anthony Quinn2

Mexican American actor 1915–2001

Reese Palley13

1922–2015

Leonard Baskin2

American sculptor 1922–2000

Merton Miller5

American economist 1923–2000

Frank Lautenberg2

U.S. Senator from New Jersey 1924–2013

Robert Noyce1

American businessman and engineer 1927–1990

Eugene Kennedy2

American psychologist 1928–2015

Jack Kevorkian20

American pathologist, euthanasia activist 1928–2011

David Carradine1

American actor and martial artist 1936–2009

Vladimir I. Arnold8

Russian mathematician 1937–2010

Muhammad Ali100

African American boxer, philanthropist and activist 1942–2016

Caroline Knapp7

American writer 1959–2002