Igor Shafarevich

Igor Rostislavovich Shafarevich was a Soviet and Russian mathematician who contributed to algebraic number theory and algebraic geometry. Outside mathematics, he wrote books and articles that criticised socialism and other books which were described as anti-semitic.

3 June 1923

Born on the same birth day (3 June): Alain Resnais • Allen Ginsberg • Charles II, Archduke of Austria • Jamie McMurray • Jean-Pierre Jaussaud • John Hale (minister) • Josephine Baker • Julie Gayet • M. Karunanidhi • Manuel Belgrano • Masami Nagasawa • Mike Gordon • Mikhail Larionov • Paulette Goddard • Ramon Jacinto • Takako Minekawa • Willem van Mieris

Born in the same month (June 1923): Adolfo Schwelm Cruz • Arnold S. Relman • Dale C. Thomson • Doris Johnson • Dorothy Gilman • Elmo Hope • Franz-Paul Decker • Gaye Stewart • Gerald Götting • Green Wix Unthank • Jacques Berthier • Jamshid Amouzegar • Mas Oyama • Ninian Stephen • Pete Candoli • Robert Maxwell • V. C. Andrews