Stanley Spencer

Sir Stanley Spencer, CBE RA was an English painter. Shortly after leaving the Slade School of Art, Spencer became well known for his paintings depicting Biblical scenes occurring as if in Cookham, the small village beside the River Thames where he was born and spent much of his life. Spencer referred to Cookham as "a village in Heaven" and in his biblical scenes, fellow-villagers are shown as their Gospel counterparts. Spencer was skilled at organising multi-figure compositions such as in his large paintings for the Sandham Memorial Chapel and the Shipbuilding on the Clyde series, the former being a First World War memorial while the latter was a commission for the War Artists' Advisory Committee during the Second World War.

30 June 1891

Born on the same birth date (30 June 1891): Ed Lewis (wrestler) • Man Mountain Dean

Born on the same birth day (30 June): Dan Reeves (American football executive) • Florence Ballard • Lizzy Caplan • Martín de Rada • Ralf Schumacher • Ronald Rene Lagueux • Rupert Graves • Sakis Tsiolis • Sandip Verma, Baroness Verma

Born in the same month (June 1891): Al Dubin • Carl Spaatz • Cole Porter • Ed Lewis (wrestler) • Erich Marcks • Giannina Arangi-Lombardi • John A. Costello • Man Mountain Dean • Masti Venkatesha Iyengar • Pier Luigi Nervi • Takijirō Ōnishi • Thurman Arnold • William Funnell (public servant)