June 19

In literary history

• 1937J.M. Barrie died, having eight years earlier signed over the Peter Pan copyright to Great Ormond Street Hospital for sick children. Asked why, he said Peter Pan had once been an invalid there himself, and left it at that.

Writers born on June 19

• Blaise Pascal (1623),
• Salman Rushdie (1947)

The Daily Canon for June 19

Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987).