Anniversaries 5 June
Birth
![Adam Smith photo]()
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
1723–1790
![Carmine Crocco photo]()
Italian revolutionary
1830–1905
![James Connolly photo]()
Irish republican and socialist leader
1868–1916
![Pancho Villa photo]()
Mexican revolutionary
1878–1923
![John Maynard Keynes photo]()
British economist
1883–1946
![W. C. Allee photo]()
American zoologist and ecologist
1885–1955
![Kurt Hahn photo]()
German educator
1886–1974
![Ruth Benedict photo]()
American anthropologist and folklorologist
1887–1948
![Federico García Lorca photo]()
Spanish poet, dramatist and theatre director
1898–1936
![Dennis Gabor photo]()
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and inventor of holography
1900–1979
![Theodore Wilbur Anderson photo]()
American statistician
1918–2016
![Richard Scarry photo]()
author and illustrator from the United States
1919–1994
![Hélène Cixous photo]()
French philosopher and writer
1937
![Joe Clark photo]()
16th Prime Minister of Canada
1939
![Margaret Drabble photo]()
Novelist, biographer and critic
1939
![Spalding Gray photo]()
actor, dramatist, playwright, screenwriter
1941–2004
![Nigel Rees photo]()
British writer and broadcaster
1944
![Suze Orman photo]()
American author, television personality, motivational speak…
1951
![Mary Engelbreit photo]()
American illustrator
1952
![Dalton Tagelagi photo]()
New Zealand politician, Premier of Niue and bowler
1968
![Mark Wahlberg photo]()
American actor, television producer and rap musician
1971
![Sébastien Lefebvre photo]()
French Canadian musician
1981
Death
![Boyle Roche photo]()
Irish politician
1736–1807
![Carl Maria von Weber photo]()
German composer
1786–1826
![George Hendrik Breitner photo]()
Dutch painter and photographer
1857–1923
![O. Henry photo]()
American short story writer
1862–1910
![Stephen Crane photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, poet, and journalist
1871–1900
![Eleanor Farjeon photo]()
English children's writer
1881–1965
![Henri Gaudier-Brzeska photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1891–1915
![Natacha Rambova photo]()
American film personality and fashion designer
1897–1966
![Max Lerner photo]()
American journalist and educator
1902–1992
![M. S. Golwalkar photo]()
second head of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
1906–1973
![Ronald Reagan photo]()
American politician, 40th president of the United States (i…
1911–2004
![Peter L. Bernstein photo]()
American academic
1919–2009
![Ray Bradbury photo]()
American writer
1920–2012
![Elio Sgreccia photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1928–2019
![Tariq Aziz photo]()
Iraqi Foreign Minister under Saddam Hussein
1936–2015
![Dee Dee Ramone photo]()
German-American songwriter and musician
1951–2002
![Helen Dunmore photo]()
British novelist
1952–2017
![Kate Spade photo]()
American fashion designer
1962–2018
