2016

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali died on June 3, 2016. Ali had won the World Heavyweight Boxing Championship three times in his career. This was not the only battles Muhammad Ali took on and won. He was a champion for his people whom he saw as oppressed. The Zen of Muhammad Ali by Davis Miller tells us of fighting, living, friendship and love.

1967

Arthur Ransome

Arthur Ransome was born in Switzerland on January 18, 1884 and died on June 3, 1967. Ransome is best known for his Swallows and Amazons series of nature books for children. Swallows and Amazons is the first novel in the 12 part Swallows and Amazons series.

1930

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Marion Zimmer Bradley was born on June 3, 1930 and dies on September 25, 1999. Bradley is known for her fantasy, historical fantasy amd science fiction novels, her most famous work being the novel about King Arthur, The Mists of Avalon. Heartlight is the fourth novel in the Witchlight series, written around the same time as Mists, but with a different emphasis.

Authors to have made their mark on June 3

Born

1967 Anderson Cooper, American journalist and author
1962 Susannah Constantine, English fashion designer, journalist, and author
1961 Lawrence Lessig, American lawyer, academic, and author, founded the Creative Commons
1959 Imbi Paju, Estonian-Finnish journalist and author
1931 John Norman, American philosopher and author
1926 Allen Ginsberg, American poet (d. 1997)
1913 Pedro Mir, Dominican poet and author (d. 2000)
1844 Detlev von Liliencron, German poet and author (d. 1909)

Died

2014 Svyatoslav Belza, Russian journalist, author, and critic (b. 1942)
2012 Carol Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (b. 1942)
2011 Jack Kevorkian, American pathologist, author, and activist (b. 1928)
2010 John Hedgecoe, English photographer and author (b. 1932)
1964 Frans Eemil Sillanpaa, Finnish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1963 Nazim Hikmet Ran, Turkish poet, author, and playwright (b. 1902)
1924 Franz Kafka, Czech-Austrian lawyer and author (b. 1883)
1900 Mary Kingsley, English explorer and author (b. 1862)

Other events through the years on June 3

1950

Maurice Herzog and Louis Lachenal become the first to reach an 8,000 metre summit on the Annaporna Expedition

Literary and other important events that occurred on this day in June

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