Anniversaries 6 June

Birth

Pierre Corneille81

French tragedian 1606–1684

Nathan Hale2

soldier for the Continental Army during the American Revolu… 1755–1776

John Angell James22

British abolitionist 1785–1859

Timothy Shay Arthur3

Novelist, short story writer, publisher 1809–1885

Ivan Goncharov2

Russian writer 1812–1891

William Ralph Inge18

Dean of St Pauls 1860–1954

Henry Newbolt5

English poet and writer 1862–1938

Robert Falcon Scott8

Royal Navy officer and explorer 1868–1912

Thomas Mann159

German novelist, and 1929 Nobel Prize laureate 1875–1955

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar4

Indian writer 1891–1986

Violet Trefusis6

English writer and socialite 1894–1972

Harry Greb4

American boxer 1894–1926

Sukarno23

first President of the Republic of Indonesia 1901–1970

Jan Struther9

British writer 1901–1953

George Rickey2

American artist 1907–2002

Isaiah Berlin30

Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philoso… 1909–1997

Миньон МакЛафлин10

1913–1983

Mignon McLaughlin278

American journalist 1913–1983

Martin Esslin11

Playwright, theatre critic, scholar 1918–2002

Maxine Kumin2

American poet and author 1925–2014

Elio Sgreccia1

Catholic cardinal 1928–2019

Sunil Dutt18

Hindi film actor 1929–2005

Heinrich Rohrer6

Swiss physicist 1933–2013

Harry E. Soyster1

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1935

Joseph Edra Ukpo1

Nigerian priest (1937–2023) 1937

Marian Wright Edelman15

American children's rights activist 1939

Lee Jye1

Taiwanese military personnel 1940

Alexander Cockburn7

Leftist journalist and writer 1941–2012

Richard Smalley1

American chemist 1943–2005

Edgar Froese5

German musician and founder of Tangerine Dream 1944–2015

David Alan Harvey1

American photographer 1944

Robert Englund1

American actor, voice-actor, singer, and director 1947

Andrew P. Napolitano3

American judge and syndicated columnist 1950

Geraldine McCaughrean1

British children's writer 1951

Chen Chien-jen2

Vice President of the Republic of China, Taiwanese epidemio… 1951

Ibrahim Lipumba2

Tanzanian politician 1952

Marsha Blackburn2

American politician 1952

Apostolos Doxiadis1

Greek writer 1953

Cynthia Rylant4

American author of children's books and librarian 1954

Harvey Fierstein13

actor from the United States 1954

Tim O'Reilly9

Irish computer programmer 1954

Lee Smolin52

American cosmologist 1955

Lori Wilde1

American writer 1958

Garin Nugroho1

Indonesian director 1961

Wolfgang Drechsler3

Political Philosophy and Innovation Policy scholar 1963

Eric Cantor1

American politician 1963

John Wong Soo Kau1

Malaysian Archbishop 1968

Sarah Dessen511

American writer 1970

Céline Cousteau2

French-American explorer, filmmaker, and diver 1972

Patrick Rothfuss236

American fantasy writer 1973

Alexander Vindman1

retired United States Army officer, diplomat, and national … 1975

Jonathan Nolan1

British-American screenwriter, television producer, directo… 1976

Carl Barât2

English musician 1978

Randa Abdel-Fattah12

contemporary Australian writer of novels for young adults 1979

Lauren Anderson (model)2

American model 1980

Death

Patrick Henry43

attorney, planter, politician and Founding Father of the Un… 1736–1799

Jeremy Bentham30

British philosopher, jurist, and social reformer 1748–1832

Hosea Ballou10

American Universalist minister (1771–1852) 1771–1852

John A. Macdonald7

1st Prime Minister of Canada 1815–1891

Theodore Watts-Dunton4

English literary critic and poet 1832–1914

C.G. Jung257

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

James Agate9

British diarist and critic 1877–1947

Edward Andrade3

English physicist 1887–1971

Masti Venkatesha Iyengar4

Indian writer 1891–1986

J. Paul Getty4

American industrialist 1892–1977

Nguyễn Công Hoan2

1903–1977

Kenneth Rexroth65

American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientiou… 1905–1982

William Baziotes22

American painter 1912–1963

Mary Wilson2

British poet, wife of Harold Wilson 1916–2018

Esther Williams3

competitive American swimmer and actor 1921–2013

Noreen Nash1

American film and television actress 1924–2023

Robert F. Kennedy72

American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy 1925–1968

Peter Shaffer6

English playwright and screenwriter 1926–2016

Yves Klein33

French artist 1928–1962

Tom Sharpe1

English satirical novelist 1928–2013

Anne Bancroft10

American actress 1931–2005

Karen DeCrow1

American lawyer 1937–2014

F. David Peat14

British physicist 1938–2017

Ken Grimwood5

American writer 1944–2003