Anniversaries 8 June
Birth
![Robert Schumann photo]()
German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
1810–1856
![David Dixon Porter photo]()
United States Navy admiral
1813–1891
![Henry Clay Trumbull photo]()
Union Army chaplain
1830–1903
![Smith Wigglesworth photo]()
British evangelist
1859–1947
![Frank Lloyd Wright photo]()
American architect (1867-1959)
1867–1959
![Toshio Shiratori photo]()
Japanese politician
1887–1949
![Gardiner C. Means photo]()
American economist
1896–1988
![John G. Bennett photo]()
British mathematician and author
1897–1974
![Ralph Yarborough photo]()
Texas politician
1903–1996
![John W. Campbell photo]()
American science fiction writer and editor
1910–1971
![Robert F. Young photo]()
American writer
1915–1986
![Francis Crick photo]()
British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; …
1916–2004
![Byron White photo]()
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American footb…
1917–2002
![Ivan Kozhedub photo]()
Soviet aviator, thrice hero of the Soviet Union
1920–1991
![Kenneth N. Waltz photo]()
American political scientist and international relations th…
1924–2013
![Barbara Bush photo]()
former First Lady of the United States
1925–2018
![Robert Aumann photo]()
Israeli-American mathematician
1930
![Joan Rivers photo]()
American comedian, actress, and television host
1933–2014
![Robert Floyd photo]()
American computer scientist
1936–2001
![Martin Lee photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1938
![George Pell photo]()
Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender
1941–2023
![Jacques Dubochet photo]()
Nobel prize winning Swiss chemist
1942
![Rudiger Dornbusch photo]()
German economist
1942–2002
![Penny Rimbaud photo]()
writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist
1943
![Tim Berners-Lee photo]()
British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web
1955
![R. Lee Wrights photo]()
American gubernatorial candidate
1958–2017
![Nayef Al-Rodhan photo]()
philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author
1959
![Shappi Khorsandi photo]()
Iranian born comedian
1973
![Kanye West photo]()
American rapper, singer and songwriter
1977
![Torrey DeVitto photo]()
actress, model, violinist
1984
Death
![Muhammad photo]()
Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
570–632
![Thomas Paine photo]()
English and American political activist
1737–1809
![Andrew Jackson photo]()
American general and politician, 7th president of the Unite…
1767–1845
![Patrick Matthew photo]()
British scientist
1790–1874
![Douglas William Jerrold photo]()
English dramatist and writer
1803–1857
![George Sand photo]()
French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore D…
1804–1876
![James Freeman Clarke photo]()
American theologian and writer
1810–1888
![Henry Clay Work photo]()
American composer and songwriter
1832–1884
![Oswald Pohl photo]()
Head of the SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt
1892–1951
![Murray Leinster photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1896–1975
![Elsa Gidlow photo]()
Canadian-American poet
1898–1986
![Giorgio De Santillana photo]()
American historian and philosopher
1902–1974
![Satchel Paige photo]()
American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues
1906–1982
![Abraham Maslow photo]()
American psychologist
1908–1970
![Elizabeth Enright photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator, short story wri…
1909–1968
![Richard Rorty photo]()
American philosopher
1931–2007
![H. Jay Dinshah photo]()
American proponent of veganism and Jain ethics
1933–2000
![Bimal Krishna Matilal photo]()
Indian philosopher
1935–1991
![Jeff MacNelly photo]()
American cartoonist
1947–2000
![Anthony Bourdain photo]()
Chef and food writer
1956–2018
