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Che Guevara. Born June 14,1928.

Born in 1815 – Julia Margaret Cameron, British photographer.

Above: Ophelia, 1867

Born in 1928 – Maurice Sendak, American author and illustrator.

Above: Sendak Illustration from Janice May Udry’s The Moon Jumpers.

Born in 1915 – Les Paul, American guitarist and inventor.

Born in 1955 – Griffin Dunne, American actor, director, and producer.

Above: Dunne in the 1985 film, After Hours, directed by Martin Scorsese.

Born in 1954 – Louise Erdrich, American author and poet.

“To sew is to pray. Men don’t understand this. They see the whole but they don’t see the stitches. They don’t see the speech of the creator in the work of the needle. We mend. We women turn things inside out and set things right. We salvage what we can of human garments and piece the rest into blankets. Sometimes our stitches stutter and slow. Only a woman’s eyes can tell. Other times, the tension in the stitches might be too tight because of tears, but only we know what emotion went into the making. Only women can hear the prayer.”
― Louise Erdrich, Four Souls

Born in 1799 – Alexander Pushkin, Russian author and poet.

Above: Self-portrait.

Born in 1919 – Richard Scarry, American-Swiss author and illustrator.

In 1989, student-led demonstrations in Beijing were forcibly suppressed by the Chinese government and military. Troops with assault rifles and tanks inflicted casualties on unarmed civilians trying to block the military’s advance towards Tiananmen Square, which demonstrators had occupied  for seven weeks.

Born in 1922 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter.

Above: From his 1961 film  L’Annee Derniere a Marienbad.