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): Cadillac Anderson • Clifton McNeely • Eriks Ādamsons • Franz Alexander • Greg Oliphant • Helmut Dietl • Hermeto Pascoal • Jo Cox • Kevin Bond (English footballer) • Lord John Sackville • Milan Vidmar • Pete Maravich • Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiary • Stephen Chow

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