Anniversaries 6 June
Birth
![Pierre Corneille photo]()
French tragedian
1606–1684
![Nathan Hale photo]()
soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolu…
1755–1776
![John Angell James photo]()
British abolitionist
1785–1859
![Timothy Shay Arthur photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, publisher
1809–1885
![William Ralph Inge photo]()
Dean of St Pauls
1860–1954
![Henry Newbolt photo]()
English poet and writer
1862–1938
![Robert Falcon Scott photo]()
Royal Navy officer and explorer
1868–1912
![Thomas Mann photo]()
German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate
1875–1955
![Violet Trefusis photo]()
English writer and socialite
1894–1972
![Sukarno photo]()
first President of the Republic of Indonesia
1901–1970
![George Rickey photo]()
American artist
1907–2002
![Isaiah Berlin photo]()
Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philoso…
1909–1997
![Mignon McLaughlin photo]()
American journalist
1913–1983
![Martin Esslin photo]()
Playwright, theatre critic, scholar
1918–2002
![Maxine Kumin photo]()
American poet and author
1925–2014
![Elio Sgreccia photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1928–2019
![Sunil Dutt photo]()
Hindi film actor
1929–2005
![Heinrich Rohrer photo]()
Swiss physicist
1933–2013
![Harry E. Soyster photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1935
![Joseph Edra Ukpo photo]()
Nigerian priest (1937–2023)
1937
![Marian Wright Edelman photo]()
American children's rights activist
1939
![Lee Jye photo]()
Taiwanese military personnel
1940
![Alexander Cockburn photo]()
Leftist journalist and writer
1941–2012
![Richard Smalley photo]()
American chemist
1943–2005
![Edgar Froese photo]()
German musician and founder of Tangerine Dream
1944–2015
![David Alan Harvey photo]()
American photographer
1944
![Robert Englund photo]()
American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director
1947
![Andrew P. Napolitano photo]()
American judge and syndicated columnist
1950
![Geraldine McCaughrean photo]()
British children's writer
1951
![Chen Chien-jen photo]()
Vice President of the Republic of China, Taiwanese epidemio…
1951
![Ibrahim Lipumba photo]()
Tanzanian politician
1952
![Cynthia Rylant photo]()
American author of children's books and librarian
1954
![Harvey Fierstein photo]()
actor from the United States
1954
![Tim O'Reilly photo]()
Irish computer programmer
1954
![Lee Smolin photo]()
American cosmologist
1955
![Wolfgang Drechsler photo]()
Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar
1963
![John Wong Soo Kau photo]()
Malaysian Archbishop
1968
![Céline Cousteau photo]()
French-American explorer, filmmaker, and diver
1972
![Patrick Rothfuss photo]()
American fantasy writer
1973
![Alexander Vindman photo]()
retired United States Army officer, diplomat, and national …
1975
![Jonathan Nolan photo]()
British-American screenwriter, television producer, directo…
1976
![Randa Abdel-Fattah photo]()
contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults
1979
Death
![Patrick Henry photo]()
attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the Un…
1736–1799
![Jeremy Bentham photo]()
British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer
1748–1832
![Hosea Ballou photo]()
American Universalist minister (1771–1852)
1771–1852
![John A. Macdonald photo]()
1st Prime Minister of Canada
1815–1891
![Theodore Watts-Dunton photo]()
English literary critic and poet
1832–1914
![C.G. Jung photo]()
Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic…
1875–1961
![James Agate photo]()
British diarist and critic
1877–1947
![Edward Andrade photo]()
English physicist
1887–1971
![J. Paul Getty photo]()
American industrialist
1892–1977
![Kenneth Rexroth photo]()
American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou…
1905–1982
![William Baziotes photo]()
American painter
1912–1963
![Mary Wilson photo]()
British poet, wife of Harold Wilson
1916–2018
![Esther Williams photo]()
competitive American swimmer and actor
1921–2013
![Noreen Nash photo]()
American film and television actress
1924–2023
![Robert F. Kennedy photo]()
American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
1925–1968
![Peter Shaffer photo]()
English playwright and screenwriter
1926–2016
![Tom Sharpe photo]()
English satirical novelist
1928–2013
![Anne Bancroft photo]()
American actress
1931–2005
![Karen DeCrow photo]()
American lawyer
1937–2014
![F. David Peat photo]()
British physicist
1938–2017
![Ken Grimwood photo]()
American writer
1944–2003
