Julian Huxley

Sir Julian Sorell Huxley was a British evolutionary biologist, eugenicist, and internationalist. He was a proponent of natural selection, and a leading figure in the mid-twentieth century modern synthesis. He was secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935–1942), the first Director of UNESCO, a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund, the president of the British Eugenics Society (1959–1962), and the first president of the British Humanist Association.

22 June 1887

Born on the same birth day (22 June): Aleksander Warma • Brian Cookson • Cyndi Lauper • Danny Green (basketball) • Eleanor of Naples, Duchess of Ferrara • Eriks Ādamsons • Green Gartside • Howard Kaylan • James H. Pomerene • Jimmy Somerville • John Taylor (classical scholar) • Johnny Jacobs • Joseph Cohen (solicitor) • Leonard W. Murray • Maximilian von Spee • Mike Todd • Prunella Scales • Robert Ritter von Greim • Sharon Maughan • Sir John Gell, 1st Baronet • Todd Rundgren • Walter Bonatti • William Kneale • Yevgeny Kychanov

Born in the same month (June 1887): André François-Poncet • Bruno Frank • Clive Brook • Frigyes Karinthy • George Abbott • Kurt Schwitters • Norman L. Bowen • Tancrède Labbé