Anniversaries 30 June

Birth

John Gay56

English poet and playwright 1685–1732

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury1

British politician 1800–1873

Frédéric Bastiat33

French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and… 1801–1850

Thomas Lovell Beddoes2

English poet, dramatist and physician 1803–1849

Benjamin Brewster1

American businessman 1828–1897

Cargill Gilston Knott3

British mathematician and physicist 1856–1922

Franz Halder7

German general 1884–1972

Georges Duhamel23

French writer 1884–1966

Viktor Schauberger54

austrian philosopher and inventor 1885–1958

J. R. Partington38

British chemist 1886–1965

Stanley Spencer2

English painter 1891–1959

Oswald Pohl10

Head of the SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1892–1951

Walter Ulbricht3

German politician 1893–1973

Harold J. Laski1

British academic 1893–1950

Isaac Babel2

Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translato… 1894–1940

Roman Shukhevych1

Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1907-1950) 1907–1950

Winston Graham4

British writer 1908–2003

Czeslaw Milosz106

Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

Lena Horne5

American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer 1917–2010

Ebrahim Amini1

Iranian ayatollah 1925

James Goldman2

American screenwriter, playwright, novelist 1927–1998

Thomas Sowell101

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher … 1930

C. N. R. Rao40

Indian chemist 1934

Loren Cunningham2

American missionary 1935

Barry Hines8

British author 1939–2016

Tony Hatch1

British musician 1939

Saeed Akhtar Mirza3

Indian film director 1943

Raymond Moody1

American psychologist 1944

Alain Finkielkraut4

French essayist, born 1949 1949

Serzh Sargsyan17

Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia 1954

Egils Levits7

Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Louie Giglio1

American clergy 1958

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen1

Jewish American historian 1959

David Frum3

American political commentator 1960

Adam Roberts44

British writer known for speculative fiction and parody nov… 1965

Mike Tyson89

American boxer 1966

Michael Phelps3

American swimmer 1985

Miyuru Amarasiri3

Artist 2002

Death

Friedrich von Schrötter1

Prussian politician 1743–1815

Dadabhai Naoroji15

Indian politician 1825–1917

William Winter7

American writer 1836–1917

Уильям Винтер1

1836–1917

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh5

English physicist 1842–1919

Georgia Hopley3

American journalist and temperance advocate 1858–1944

Natalia Nordman1

Russian author 1863–1914

Lee De Forest7

American inventor 1873–1961

Billy Bennett6

British comedian 1887–1942

Gregor Strasser12

German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Ps… 1892–1934

Margery Allingham15

English writer of detective fiction 1904–1966

Nancy Mitford9

British writer 1904–1973

Lillian Hellman20

American dramatist and screenwriter 1905–1984

Christopher Fry4

British writer 1907–2005

Robert McCloskey1

children's book author and illustrator from the United Stat… 1914–2003

Yitzhak Shamir4

prime minister of Israel 1915–2012

Édouard Boubat1

French photographer 1923–1999

W. Maxwell Cowan1

South African-American neurobiologist and neuro-anatomist 1931–2002

Geoffrey Hill27

English poet and professor 1932–2016

Petero Mataca5

Catholic archbishop 1933–2014

Wong Ka Kui3

Hong Kong singer-songwriter 1962–1993