Born on June 11

Anne Royall was an American writer and journalist, considered one of the first professional women reporters in the United States. The author of travel narratives, she founded newspapers that denounced corruption and championed the separation of Church and State.

John Constable (1776-1837) was a major English Romantic landscape painter. He revolutionized landscape painting by observing nature directly and depicting atmospheric effects with great fidelity.

British feminist activist and leading figure of constitutional suffragism. As president of the NUWSS, she championed winning women's voting rights through lawful and peaceful means, in contrast to the militant methods of the suffragettes.

Yasunari Kawabata (1899-1972) was a Japanese writer, the first author from his country to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, in 1968. His work, imbued with melancholy and traditional Japanese aesthetics, explores fleeting beauty, solitude, and the passage of time.

Jazz pianist and singer of Trinidadian and American descent, a virtuoso known for her arrangements blending classical music and swing. A star of nightclubs and the silver screen, she was also a civil rights activist who refused to perform for segregated audiences.