Anniversaries 9 June
Birth
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English civil engineer and mechanical engineer
1781–1848
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American actor and writer
1791–1852
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French physicist, historian of science
1861–1916
![John Edensor Littlewood photo]()
English Mathematician
1885–1977
![Cole Porter photo]()
American composer and songwriter
1891–1964
![Gerald James Whitrow photo]()
British mathematician
1912–2000
![Robert S. McNamara photo]()
American businessman and Secretary of Defense
1916–2009
![Eric Hobsbawm photo]()
British academic historian and Marxist historiographer
1917–2012
![John Hospers photo]()
American philosopher and politician
1918–2011
![Arthur Hertzberg photo]()
American rabbi and historian
1921–2006
![René Henry Gracida photo]()
American Roman Catholic bishop
1923
![Dawn Hampton photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1928–2016
![Lin Carter photo]()
American fantasy writer, editor, critic
1930–1988
![Jackie Mason photo]()
American rabbi and comedian
1931
![Letty Cottin Pogrebin photo]()
American author, journalist, lecturer, and social justice a…
1939
![Joe Haldeman photo]()
American science fiction writer
1943
![Benny Gantz photo]()
Israeli general and politician
1959
![Michael J. Fox photo]()
Canadian-American actor
1961
![Aaron Sorkin photo]()
American screenwriter, producer, playwright
1961
![Johnny Depp photo]()
American actor, film producer, and musician
1963
![Shandi Finnessey photo]()
American beauty queen, model, and television hostess
1978
![Matthew Bellamy photo]()
English singer-songwriter
1978
![Natalie Portman photo]()
Israeli-American actress
1981
Death
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Emperor of Ancient Rome, 5th and last of the Julio-Claudian…
37–68
![Ephrem the Syrian photo]()
Syriac deacon and a prolific Syriac-language hymnographer a…
306–373
![Leonard Calvert photo]()
First governor of Maryland colony
1606–1647
![Banda Singh Bahadur photo]()
Sikh military commander
1670–1716
![William Carey (missionary) photo]()
English Baptist missionary and a Particular Baptist minister
1761–1834
![John Joseph Griffin photo]()
English chemist and publisher
1802–1877
![Charles Jefferys photo]()
British music publisher
1807–1865
![Charles Dickens photo]()
English writer and social critic and a Journalist
1812–1870
![Walter Besant photo]()
English novelist and historian
1836–1901
![Victoria Woodhull photo]()
American suffragist
1838–1927
![Max Aitken, 1st Baron Beaverbrook photo]()
Anglo-Canadian business tycoon, politician, and writer
1879–1964
![George Mallory photo]()
British mountaineer
1886–1924
![Jan Tinbergen photo]()
Dutch economist
1903–1994
![Witness Lee photo]()
Chinese Christian preacher
1905–1997
![Harold Davenport photo]()
English Mathematician
1907–1969
![Stanley Knowles photo]()
Canadian politician
1908–1997
![Raya Dunayevskaya photo]()
American philosopher
1910–1987
![Ousmane Sembène photo]()
Senegalese film director, producer, screenwriter, actor & a…
1923–2007
![Ananda Mahidol photo]()
eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
1925–1946
![Algis Budrys photo]()
American writer
1931–2008
![Iain Banks photo]()
Scottish writer
1954–2013
![Rik Mayall photo]()
British comedian and actor
1958–2014
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American rapper
1966–2019
