Anniversaries 9 June

Birth

George Stephenson8

English civil engineer and mechanical engineer 1781–1848

John Howard Payne2

American actor and writer 1791–1852

Francis Miles Finch1

American judge 1827–1907

Pierre Duhem8

French physicist, historian of science 1861–1916

John Edensor Littlewood6

English Mathematician 1885–1977

Cole Porter33

American composer and songwriter 1891–1964

Gerald James Whitrow39

British mathematician 1912–2000

Robert S. McNamara7

American businessman and Secretary of Defense 1916–2009

Eric Hobsbawm47

British academic historian and Marxist historiographer 1917–2012

John Hospers7

American philosopher and politician 1918–2011

Arthur Hertzberg1

American rabbi and historian 1921–2006

René Henry Gracida1

American Roman Catholic bishop 1923

Dawn Hampton1

American musician and songwriter 1928–2016

Barbara (singer)3

French singer 1930–1997

Lin Carter24

American fantasy writer, editor, critic 1930–1988

Jackie Mason1

American rabbi and comedian 1931

Letty Cottin Pogrebin6

American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice a… 1939

Летти Коттин Погребин1

1939

Amir Taheri85

Iranian journalist 1942

Joe Haldeman29

American science fiction writer 1943

Jeanne DuPrau12

American writer 1944

Gregory Maguire87

Novelist 1954

Elizabeth May19

Canadian politician 1954

T.D. Jakes20

American bishop 1957

Benny Gantz1

Israeli general and politician 1959

Carlo Beenakker4

Dutch physicist 1960

Michael J. Fox20

Canadian-American actor 1961

Aaron Sorkin6

American screenwriter, producer, playwright 1961

Johnny Depp76

American actor, film producer, and musician 1963

Shandi Finnessey2

American beauty queen, model, and television hostess 1978

Matthew Bellamy8

English singer-songwriter 1978

Natalie Portman12

Israeli-American actress 1981

Death

Nero2

Emperor of Ancient Rome, 5th and last of the Julio-Claudian… 37–68

Ephrem the Syrian3

Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer a… 306–373

Leonard Calvert1

First governor of Maryland colony 1606–1647

Jeanne Marie Bouvier de la Motte Guyon7

French mystic 1648–1717

Banda Singh Bahadur4

Sikh military commander 1670–1716

William Carey (missionary)12

English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister 1761–1834

John Joseph Griffin3

English chemist and publisher 1802–1877

Charles Jefferys8

British music publisher 1807–1865

Charles Dickens116

English writer and social critic and a Journalist 1812–1870

Walter Besant5

English novelist and historian 1836–1901

Victoria Woodhull6

American suffragist 1838–1927

Уильям Максвелл Эйткен1

1879–1964

Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook1

Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer 1879–1964

George Mallory4

British mountaineer 1886–1924

Miguel ángel Asturias2

colombia 1899–1974

Jan Tinbergen21

Dutch economist 1903–1994

Richard Eberhart6

American poet 1904–2005

Witness Lee16

Chinese Christian preacher 1905–1997

Harold Davenport1

English Mathematician 1907–1969

Stanley Knowles12

Canadian politician 1908–1997

Raya Dunayevskaya1

American philosopher 1910–1987

Ousmane Sembène1

Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor & a… 1923–2007

Ananda Mahidol3

eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII 1925–1946

Adam West4

American actor 1928–2017

Algis Budrys44

American writer 1931–2008

Iain Banks139

Scottish writer 1954–2013

Rik Mayall6

British comedian and actor 1958–2014

Bushwick Bill1

American rapper 1966–2019