Anniversaries 8 June

Birth

Robert Schumann9

German composer, aesthete and influential music critic 1810–1856

David Dixon Porter45

United States Navy admiral 1813–1891

Charles Reade14

British writer 1814–1884

Henry Clay Trumbull15

Union Army chaplain 1830–1903

Smith Wigglesworth12

British evangelist 1859–1947

Frank Lloyd Wright99

American architect (1867-1959) 1867–1959

Toshio Shiratori7

Japanese politician 1887–1949

Gardiner C. Means9

American economist 1896–1988

John G. Bennett13

British mathematician and author 1897–1974

Ralph Yarborough1

Texas politician 1903–1996

Marguerite Yourcenar37

French writer 1903–1987

Джеральд Баррил1

1906–2001

John W. Campbell2

American science fiction writer and editor 1910–1971

Robert F. Young1

American writer 1915–1986

Francis Crick16

British molecular biologist, biophysicist, neuroscientist; … 1916–2004

Byron White8

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American footb… 1917–2002

Ivan Kozhedub3

Soviet aviator, thrice hero of the Soviet Union 1920–1991

Kenneth N. Waltz26

American political scientist and international relations th… 1924–2013

Barbara Bush11

former First Lady of the United States 1925–2018

Jerry Stiller4

American comedian 1927

Gustavo Gutiérrez32

Peruvian theologian 1928

Robert Aumann16

Israeli-American mathematician 1930

Joan Rivers29

American comedian, actress, and television host 1933–2014

Robert Floyd9

American computer scientist 1936–2001

Gillian Clarke2

Welsh poet 1937

Martin Lee2

Hong Kong politician 1938

George Pell1

Australian Catholic cardinal and convicted sex offender 1941–2023

Jacques Dubochet4

Nobel prize winning Swiss chemist 1942

Rudiger Dornbusch10

German economist 1942–2002

Penny Rimbaud1

writer, poet, philosopher, painter, musician and activist 1943

David A. Dodge2

Canadian economist 1943

Joyce Rupp1

American writer 1943

Eric F. Wieschaus1

American geneticist 1947

Stephen Rotluanga1

1952

Tim Berners-Lee27

British computer scientist, inventor of the World Wide Web 1955

Scott Adams86

cartoonist, writer 1957

R. Lee Wrights13

American gubernatorial candidate 1958–2017

Nayef Al-Rodhan75

philosopher, neuroscientist, geostrategist, and author 1959

Stacey Campfield7

US politician 1968

Gabrielle Giffords9

American politician 1970

Mark Feuerstein1

American actor 1971

Joel Kleefisch1

US politician 1971

Shappi Khorsandi4

Iranian born comedian 1973

Kanye West82

American rapper, singer and songwriter 1977

Pär Sundström1

Swedish bassist 1981

Torrey DeVitto2

actress, model, violinist 1984

Lex Immers1

Dutch footballer 1986

Death

Muhammad312

Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam 570–632

Thomas Paine262

English and American political activist 1737–1809

Andrew Jackson41

American general and politician, 7th president of the Unite… 1767–1845

Patrick Matthew9

British scientist 1790–1874

Douglas William Jerrold16

English dramatist and writer 1803–1857

George Sand38

French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore D… 1804–1876

James Freeman Clarke15

American theologian and writer 1810–1888

Henry Clay Work3

American composer and songwriter 1832–1884

Gerard Manley Hopkins81

English poet 1844–1889

Bliss Carman5

author 1861–1929

Oswald Pohl10

Head of the SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1892–1951

Murray Leinster38

Novelist, short story writer 1896–1975

Elsa Gidlow3

Canadian-American poet 1898–1986

Giorgio De Santillana1

American historian and philosopher 1902–1974

Satchel Paige9

American baseball player and coach; Negro Leagues 1906–1982

Abraham Maslow34

American psychologist 1908–1970

Elizabeth Enright1

American children's writer and illustrator, short story wri… 1909–1968

Matta El Meskeen2

Egyptian monk 1919–2006

Richard Rorty21

American philosopher 1931–2007

H. Jay Dinshah5

American proponent of veganism and Jain ethics 1933–2000

Bimal Krishna Matilal1

Indian philosopher 1935–1991

Jeff MacNelly1

American cartoonist 1947–2000

Anthony Bourdain57

Chef and food writer 1956–2018