Anniversaries 5 June

Birth

Pu Songling2

Chinese writer 1640–1715

Adam Smith175

Scottish moral philosopher and political economist 1723–1790

Carmine Crocco2

Italian revolutionary 1830–1905

Paul-Jean Toulet4

French poet 1867–1920

James Connolly17

Irish republican and socialist leader 1868–1916

Pancho Villa6

Mexican revolutionary 1878–1923

John Maynard Keynes122

British economist 1883–1946

Ivy Compton-Burnett10

English writer 1884–1969

W. C. Allee2

American zoologist and ecologist 1885–1955

Kurt Hahn8

German educator 1886–1974

Ruth Benedict4

American anthropologist and folklorologist 1887–1948

Charles Hartshorne23

Philosopher 1897–2000

Federico García Lorca32

Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director 1898–1936

Dennis Gabor4

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography 1900–1979

Garrett Fort21

screenwriter 1900–1945

Theodore Wilbur Anderson3

American statistician 1918–2016

Richard Scarry2

author and illustrator from the United States 1919–1994

Christy Brown1

Irish artist 1932–1981

Bill Moyers34

American journalist 1934

Hélène Cixous8

French philosopher and writer 1937

Joe Clark6

16th Prime Minister of Canada 1939

Margaret Drabble12

Novelist, biographer and critic 1939

Spalding Gray1

actor, dramatist, playwright, screenwriter 1941–2004

Jon Kabat-Zinn27

American academic 1944

Nigel Rees3

British writer and broadcaster 1944

David Hare17

British writer 1947

Laurie Anderson7

American musician 1947

Ken Follett26

British novelist 1949

John Yau2

American poet 1950

Suze Orman2

American author, television personality, motivational speak… 1951

Mary Engelbreit5

American illustrator 1952

Geoff Dyer18

English writer 1958

Rick Riordan1402

American writer 1964

Dalton Tagelagi1

New Zealand politician, Premier of Niue and bowler 1968

Mark Wahlberg7

American actor, television producer and rap musician 1971

Chuck Klosterman77

Author, Columnist 1972

Yogi Adityanath4

Indian politician 1972

Aesop Rock3

American rapper 1976

Peter Wentz6

American musician 1979

Sébastien Lefebvre1

French Canadian musician 1981

Death

Boyle Roche11

Irish politician 1736–1807

Sir Francis Buller, 1st Baronet24

British judge 1746–1800

Carl Maria von Weber1

German composer 1786–1826

George Hendrik Breitner31

Dutch painter and photographer 1857–1923

O. Henry49

American short story writer 1862–1910

Stephen Crane42

American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist 1871–1900

Eleanor Farjeon32

English children's writer 1881–1965

Henri Gaudier-Brzeska5

French painter and sculptor 1891–1915

Natacha Rambova13

American film personality and fashion designer 1897–1966

Elie Munk6

French rabbi 1900–1981

Max Lerner5

American journalist and educator 1902–1992

M. S. Golwalkar5

second head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh 1906–1973

Frederick Franck30

Dutch painter 1909–2006

Ronald Reagan264

American politician, 40th president of the United States (i… 1911–2004

Peter L. Bernstein1

American academic 1919–2009

Ray Bradbury401

American writer 1920–2012

Elio Sgreccia1

Catholic cardinal 1928–2019

Tariq Aziz6

Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein 1936–2015

Dee Dee Ramone4

German-American songwriter and musician 1951–2002

Helen Dunmore2

British novelist 1952–2017

Kate Spade1

American fashion designer 1962–2018