Muazzez İlmiye Çığ

Muazzez İlmiye Çığ is a Turkish archaeologist and Assyriologist who specializes in the study of Sumerian civilization. She stirred controversy in the Muslim world and received worldwide media coverage in 2006 with her assertion, outlined in her book from the previous year, that the headscarf worn by Arab women did not originate in the Muslim world, but was actually worn five thousand years earlier by Sumerian priestesses as a means of initiating young men into sex.

20 June 1914

Born on the same birth date (20 June 1914): Gordon Juckes

Born on the same birth day (20 June): Armando Picchi • Charles W. Chesnutt • Edgar Bronfman Sr. • Frederick Gowland Hopkins • Gotabaya Rajapaksa • James Tolkan • Jerzy Nowak • Johannes Heinrich Schultz • Mohamed Mbougar Sarr • Neil Trudinger • Robert Crais • Sheila McLean • Willy Rampf

Born in the same month (June 1914): Aribert Heim • Beatrice de Cardi • Christos Papakyriakopoulos • Efraín Huerta • Francisco da Costa Gomes • Gordon Juckes • Ignacio Ponseti • Jan Karski • Sultan Ahmad Nanupuri