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June 22

Biographies: June 22

Featured Biography Meryl Streep

American film actress Meryl Streep—whose masterly technique, expertise with dialects, and subtly expressive face helped her win three Academy Awards amid a record number of Oscar nominations—was born this day in 1949.

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June 22, 1837 — July 10, 1884

Paul Charles Morphy

Paul Charles Morphy was an American chess master who, during his public...

June 22, 1910 — December 18, 1995

Konrad Zuse

Zuse computer: …’40s by the German engineer Konrad Zuse. He had been...

August 12, 1844 — June 22, 1885

al-Mahdī

Al-Mahdī was the creator of a vast Islamic state extending from the...

June 22, 1906 — February 7, 2001

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Anne Morrow Lindbergh was an American author and airplane pilot primarily...

June 22, 1887 — February 14, 1975

Sir Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Huxley was an English biologist, philosopher, educator,...

H. Rider Haggard, caricature by “Spy” (pseudonym of Leslie Ward) for Vanity Fair, 1905.

June 22, 1856 — May 14, 1925

Sir H. Rider Haggard

Sir H. Rider Haggard was an English novelist best known for his romantic...

June 22, 1864 — January 12, 1909

Hermann Minkowski

Hermann Minkowski was a German mathematician who developed the geometrical...

1469 — June 22, 1535

Saint John Fisher

Saint John Fisher ; canonized May 19, 1935; feast day July 9) was...