Anniversaries 7 June

Birth

Emperor Wu of Han1

emperor Wu-Ti -156–-87 BC

Fermín Lasuén3

Spanish missionary to Alta California. 1736–1803

Robert Jenkinson, 2nd Earl of Liverpool2

British politician 1770–1828

Paul Gauguin41

French Post-Impressionist artist 1848–1903

Samuel McChord Crothers3

American minister 1857–1927

Alice Moore Hubbard9

American activist 1861–1915

Charles Rennie Mackintosh1

Scottish architect, designer, water colourist and artist 1868–1928

Herman Kruyder5

Dutch painter 1881–1935

Robert S. Mulliken1

American physicist and chemist 1896–1986

Elizabeth Bowen17

Irish writer 1899–1973

Frederick Terman3

American electronic engineer 1900–1982

Stanley Unwin (comedian)6

British comedian 1911–2002

Khwaja Ahmad Abbas1

Film director, Screenwriter, Novelist, Journalist 1914–1987

Dean Martin1

American singer, actor, comedian and film producer 1917–1995

Gwendolyn Brooks53

American writer 1917–2000

Bernard Lown23

American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and… 1921–2021

Andy Griffith1

American actor, television producer, Southern-gospel singer… 1926–2012

John Turner7

17th Prime Minister of Canada 1929

Harry Crews5

Novelist, short story writer, essayist 1935–2012

Tom Jones4

Welsh singer 1940

Muammar Gaddafi66

Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist 1942–2011

Billy Graham (wrestler)9

American professional wrestler, american football player, b… 1943–2023

Nikki Giovanni23

American writer and academic 1943

Annette Lu4

Taiwanese politician 1944

Deborah Tannen1

American sociolinguist 1945

Mosadi Seboko1

kgosikgolo of the Balete people in Botswana 1950

Philip Davis1

Bahamian politician 1951

Liam Neeson1

Northern Irish actor 1952

Orhan Pamuk55

Turkish novelist, screenwriter, and Nobel Prize in Literatu… 1952

Louise Erdrich25

writer from the United States 1954

Jan Theuninck2

painter, poet 1954

Bob Beatty8

American-football player (1955-) 1955

Hou You-yi2

Taiwanese politician 1957

Prince53

American pop, songwriter, musician and actor 1958–2016

Bradley Denton8

American science fiction author 1958

Hsu Kuo-yung1

Taiwanese politician 1958

Catherine Pepinster3

1959

Mohsen Kadivar1

Iranian philosopher 1959

Matthew Ishaya Audu1

Nigerian catholic priest 1959

Mike Pence15

48th Vice President of the United States 1959

Muhammad Al-Munajjid1

lecturer 1960

Eric Chu14

Taiwanese politician 1961

Jeff Danna1

film composer 1964

Damien Hirst7

artist 1965

Maggie Shayne1

American writer 1965

Bear Grylls5

Chief Scout, adventurer, author 1974

Ekta Kapoor4

TV and film producer 1975

Allen Iverson3

American basketball player 1975

Necro (rapper)2

American rapper 1976

Brian Clevinger28

writer 1978

Larisa Oleynik2

actress 1981

Susie Feldman2

American actress 1982

Sofía Sisniega1

Mexican actress 1989

Adam Silvera6

American author 1990

Iggy Azalea1

Australian rapper 1990

Fetty Wap15

American rapper and singer from New Jersey 1991

Emily Ratajkowski1

American model and actress 1991

Death

John Aubrey20

English writer and antiquarian 1626–1697

Joseph Yates (judge)18

English barrister and judge 1722–1770

Friedrich Hölderlin16

German poet 1770–1843

David Mushet2

Scottish metallurgist 1772–1847

Chief Seattle16

Duwamish chief 1786–1866

Joseph von Fraunhofer7

German optical physicist 1787–1826

Charles Fenno Hoffman1

United States poet and novelist 1806–1884

Richard Salter Storrs13

American Congregational clergyman 1821–1900

Goldwin Smith1

British historian and journalist 1823–1910

Jules Devaux1

(1828-1886) 1828–1886

Edwin Booth3

19th century American actor 1833–1893

Henry Abbey4

American poet 1842–1911

Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis1

American publisher 1850–1933

Julien Benda19

French essayist 1867–1956

E.M. Forster200

English novelist 1879–1970

Hans Arp42

Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist 1886–1966

Chester Barnard24

American businessman 1886–1961

Henry Miller187

American novelist 1891–1980

Leo Burnett9

American advertising executive 1891–1971

Dorothy Parker172

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist 1893–1967

Paul Blobel10

German SS officer and Holocaust perpetrator 1894–1951

Jan Burgers1

Dutch physicist 1895–1981

Otto Ohlendorf11

German general 1907–1951

Basappa Danappa Jatti14

Indian politician 1912–2002

Alan Turing33

British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer… 1912–1954

Phillip Guston35

American artist 1913–1980

Charles Templeton2

Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, news… 1915–2001

Christopher Lee3

British actor and singer 1922–2015

Jorge Semprún1

Spanish writer 1923–2011

Michael Hamburger7

British translator, poet, critic, memoirist and academic 1924–2007

Forrest Carter4

Political speechwriter, politician, novelist, memoirist 1925–1979

Peter Townsend (sociologist)1

British sociologist 1928–2009

Dennis Potter19

English television dramatist, screenwriter and journalist 1935–1994

Delores Phillips1

American writer 1950–2014

Dora Akunyili3

Pharmacist and Government Official 1954–2014

Richard Ramirez3

American serial killer 1960–2013

Abu Musab Zarqawi14

Jordanian jihadist 1966–2006