Fellow Dadaist John Heartfield was born June 19, 1891.

Petit désert, by Dadaist writer and artist Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes, born June 19, 1884.

Russian ballerina Marina Semyonova, born June 12, 1908.

Illustration by Djuna Barnes of a scene from J. M. Synge’s Well of the Saints, 1917.

Writer and artist Djuna Barnes, born June 12, 1892.

Self Portrait with Violet Shirt, by Austrian painter Egon Schiele, born June 12, 1890.

Physicist and inventor Oliver Joseph Lodge, born June 12, 1851.

Swiss writer Johanna Spyri was born June 12, 1827.  She wrote Heidi, as well as a number of other beloved children’s books.

Writer and professor Charles Kingsley was born June 12, 1819.  He coined the term pteridomania (fern fever), describing the Victorian frenzy for ferns, in his 1855 book Glaucus.

Illustration from the 1807 book A Journal of the Voyages and Travels of a Corps of Discovery by Phillip Gass, sergeant on the Lewis and Clark expedition, born June 12, 1771.

Swiss mathematician and astronomer Paul Guldin, born June 12, 1577.

Painter Frank Runacres, born June 2, 1904, photographed with wife Lily.

Lotte Reiniger’s Thumbelina.

Silhouette animator Lotte Reiniger was born June 2, 1899.  Click on the photo to see multiple plates from The Adventures of Prince Achmed.