Today anniversaries
Birth
![Horace photo]()
Roman lyric poet
-65–-8 BC
![Wang Anshi photo]()
Song Dynasty chancellor and poet
1021–1086
![Mary, Queen of Scots photo]()
Scottish monarch and queen consort of France
1542–1587
![Baron d'Holbach photo]()
French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
1723–1789
![Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann photo]()
Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician
1728–1795
![Francesco Mario Pagano photo]()
Italian jurist and author
1748–1799
![Henry Timrod photo]()
Poet from the American South
1828–1867
![Herbert Giles photo]()
British sinologist and diplomat
1845–1935
![Aristide Maillol photo]()
sculptor from France
1861–1944
![Camille Claudel photo]()
French sculptor and graphic artist
1864–1943
![Jean Sibelius photo]()
Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
1865–1957
![Diego Rivera photo]()
Mexican painter, muralist, Communist
1886–1957
![Florbela Espanca photo]()
Portuguese poet
1894–1930
![James Thurber photo]()
American cartoonist, author, journalist, playwright
1894–1961
![Caryl Brahms photo]()
English critic, novelist, and journalist
1901–1982
![Richard Llewellyn photo]()
British novelist
1906–1983
![Lesslie Newbigin photo]()
Christian missionary
1909–1998
![Lucian Freud photo]()
British painter and engraver
1922–2011
![Niklas Luhmann photo]()
German sociologist, administration expert, and social syste…
1927–1998
![Ulric Neisser photo]()
American psychologist
1928–2012
![Sherwin B. Nuland photo]()
American surgeon
1930–2014
![Flip Wilson photo]()
Comedian, actor
1933–1998
![David Carradine photo]()
American actor and martial artist
1936–2009
![William Wulf photo]()
American computer scientist
1939
![Mary Catherine Bateson photo]()
American anthropologist
1939
![Mario Savio photo]()
American activist
1942–1996
![Jim Morrison photo]()
lead singer of The Doors
1943–1971
![Jimmy Lai photo]()
Hong Kong businessman
1948
![Per Bak photo]()
Danish physicist
1948–2002
![Dan Hartman photo]()
American singer, songwriter, guitarist, keyboardist, record…
1950–1994
![Rick Baker photo]()
American special makeup effects artist
1950
![Sam Kinison photo]()
American comedian
1953–1992
![Norman G. Finkelstein photo]()
American political scientist and author
1953
![John Woods photo]()
Irish long-distance runner
1955
![Jim Yong Kim photo]()
Korean-American physician and anthropologist, 12th Presiden…
1959
![Aaron Allston photo]()
American writer
1960–2014
![Bill McKibben photo]()
American environmentalist and writer
1960
![Lim Guan Eng photo]()
Finance Minister of Malaysia
1960
![Ann Coulter photo]()
author, political commentator
1961
![Teri Hatcher photo]()
American actress, presenter, writer
1964
![Richard David Precht photo]()
German philosopher and author
1964
![Bushwick Bill photo]()
American rapper
1966–2019
![Nicki Minaj photo]()
Trinidadian-born American singer, rapper and actress
1982
![Meagan Duhamel photo]()
Canadian pair skater
1985
![AnnaSophia Robb photo]()
American actress, singer, and model
1993
Death
![John Peckham photo]()
Archbishop of Canterbury
1227–1292
![John Davies (poet) photo]()
English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
1569–1626
![Richard Baxter photo]()
English Puritan church leader, poet, and hymn-writer
1615–1691
![Benjamin Constant photo]()
Swiss-born French politician, writer on politics and religi…
1767–1830
![George Boole photo]()
English mathematician, philosopher and logician
1815–1864
![Herbert Spencer photo]()
English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent …
1820–1903
![William Henry Vanderbilt photo]()
American philanthropist
1821–1885
![George Augustus Henry Sala photo]()
British journalist
1828–1895
![Henry Clay Trumbull photo]()
Union Army chaplain
1830–1903
![Sarah Doudney photo]()
English novelist and poet
1841–1926
![Gertrude Jekyll photo]()
garden designer, artist
1843–1932
![Madison Cawein photo]()
poet from Louisville, Kentucky
1865–1914
![John Snaith photo]()
British cricketer (1876-)
1876–1936
![Claude Scudamore Jarvis photo]()
British journalist
1879–1953
![Hermann Weyl photo]()
German mathematician
1885–1955
![Florbela Espanca photo]()
Portuguese poet
1894–1930
![Golda Meir photo]()
former prime minister of Israel
1898–1978
![Bawa Muhaiyaddeen photo]()
Sri Lankan Sufi leader
1900–1986
![Sydney J. Harris photo]()
American journalist
1917–1986
![John Glenn photo]()
American astronaut and politician
1921–2016
![Paul Volcker photo]()
American economist
1927–2019
![John Lennon photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1940–1980
![James C. Nelson photo]()
Montana Supreme Court Justice
1944–2006
![John Trudell photo]()
Native American rights activist, musician, poet
1946–2015
