Today anniversaries
Birth
![Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac photo]()
French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the mo…
1755–1841
![Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa photo]()
Irish Republican Brotherhood member
1831–1915
![John Robert Seeley photo]()
British historian
1834–1895
![William Torrey Harris photo]()
American philosopher
1835–1909
![Charles Sanders Peirce photo]()
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
1839–1914
![Benjamin Fish Austin photo]()
Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi…
1850–1933
![K. S. Ranjitsinhji photo]()
Indian cricket player.
1872–1933
![Carl Van Doren photo]()
American biographer
1885–1950
![H.D. photo]()
American Imagist poet
1886–1961
![Jerome Frank photo]()
American jurist
1889–1957
![Franz Werfel photo]()
Austrian-Bohemian author
1890–1945
![Ordway Tead photo]()
American academic
1891–1973
![Arthur Compton photo]()
American physicist
1892–1962
![Georges Bataille photo]()
French intellectual and literary figure
1897–1962
![Bessie Love photo]()
American actress (1898–1986)
1898–1986
![Max Shachtman photo]()
American Marxist theorist
1904–1972
![Basappa Danappa Jatti photo]()
Indian politician
1912–2002
![Robert B. Leighton photo]()
American astronomer
1919–1997
![Boyd K. Packer photo]()
American Mormon leader
1924–2015
![Jean Vanier photo]()
Canadian humanitarian
1928–2019
![Peter Chung Hoan Ting photo]()
Malaysian catholic priest
1928
![Liliana Segre photo]()
Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life
1930
![Karl Lagerfeld photo]()
German fashion designer
1933–2019
![Mary Oliver photo]()
American writer
1935–2019
![Jared Diamond photo]()
American scientist and author
1937
![Stephen Jay Gould photo]()
American evolutionary biologist
1941–2002
![Margaret Trudeau photo]()
ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau
1948
![Bill O'Reilly photo]()
American political commentator, television host and writer
1949
![Medea Benjamin photo]()
American political activist and author
1952
![Pat Cadigan photo]()
science fiction author
1953
![Siobhan Fahey photo]()
singer and songwriter in Banarama and Shakespears Sister
1958
![Alison Bechdel photo]()
American cartoonist, author
1960
![Jorge Majfud photo]()
Uruguayan-American writer
1969
![Benson Taylor photo]()
composer and music producer from the United Kingdom
1983
![Jared Lee Loughner photo]()
Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting
1988
![Sanjaya Malakar photo]()
American reality television personality
1989
Death
![Qin Shi Huang photo]()
founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty
-258–-210 BC
![Titian photo]()
Italian painter
1488–1576
![Gerrard Winstanley photo]()
English Protestant religious reformer, political philosophe…
1609–1676
![Mary Wollstonecraft photo]()
British writer and philosopher
1759–1797
![Joseph Story photo]()
US Supreme Court justice
1779–1845
![Sophie Swetchine photo]()
Russian salon-holder
1782–1857
![Wilfrid Scawen Blunt photo]()
English poet and writer
1840–1922
![Aubrey Faulkner photo]()
South African cricketer
1881–1930
![Huey Long photo]()
American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United Stat…
1893–1935
![Dalton Trumbo photo]()
American screenwriter and novelist
1905–1976
![John Vorster photo]()
politician from South Africa and seventh Prime Minister of …
1915–1983
![Virginia Satir photo]()
American psychologist
1916–1988
![Sam Hinton photo]()
folk singer, artist, marine biologist
1917–2009
![Hermann Bondi photo]()
British mathematician and cosmologist
1919–2005
![Frank Honywill George photo]()
British psychologist
1921–1997
![Jock Stein photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1922–1985
![Edward Nelson photo]()
American mathematical physicist and logician
1932–2014
![Paul Virilio photo]()
French philosopher
1932–2018
![Len Wein photo]()
American comic book writer and editor
1948–2017
