Today anniversaries
Birth
![Étienne Bonnot de Condillac photo]()
French academic
1714–1780
![Lahiri Mahasaya photo]()
Indian yogi and guru
1828–1895
![Fred Fisher photo]()
American songwriter
1875–1942
![Johan Falkberget photo]()
Norwegian politician
1879–1967
![Louis Lecoin photo]()
French militant anarcho-pacifist
1888–1971
![Richard Peirse photo]()
Royal Air Force air marshal
1892–1970
![M. C. Chagla photo]()
Indian politician and judge
1900–1981
![Michael Powell photo]()
English film director
1905–1990
![Savitri Devi photo]()
Greek–French writer
1905–1982
![Buddy Rich photo]()
Jazz drummer and bandleader
1917–1987
![Eileen Chang photo]()
Chinese writer and screenwriter
1920–1995
![Truman Capote photo]()
American author
1924–1984
![Piri Thomas photo]()
Puerto Rican poet
1928–2011
![Elie Wiesel photo]()
writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, and …
1928–2016
![Lawrence Hogan photo]()
Maryland politician
1928–2017
![Ilya Kabakov photo]()
Soviet and American conceptual artist
1933
![Ehud Olmert photo]()
Israeli politician, prime minister of Israel
1945
![Raël photo]()
Author of Raëlism and founder and current leader of the Raë…
1946
![S.M. Stirling photo]()
Canadian-American author, primarily of speculative fiction
1953
![Enrique Peñalosa photo]()
Colombian politician
1954
![Xiomara Castro photo]()
First Lady of Honduras
1959
![Nicola Griffith photo]()
British-American writer
1960
![Antony Sumich photo]()
New Zealand rugby union footballer and coach
1964
![Omid Djalili photo]()
Iranian-British stand-up comedian
1965
![Ta-Nehisi Coates photo]()
writer, journalist, and educator
1975
![T-Pain photo]()
American rapper and record producer from Florida
1984
Death
![Jerome photo]()
Catholic saint and Doctor of the Church
345–420
![Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke photo]()
English politician
1554–1628
![Francis Wayland photo]()
President of Brown University
1796–1865
![George Frisbie Hoar photo]()
American politician
1826–1904
![Francisco Luís Gomes photo]()
Indo-Portuguese physician, writer, historian, economist, po…
1829–1869
![F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead photo]()
British politician
1872–1930
![Thérèse of Lisieux photo]()
French Discalced Carmelite nun
1873–1897
![Michael Chekhov photo]()
Russian actor and director
1891–1955
![Virgil Thomson photo]()
American composer
1896–1989
![Thomas Charles Lethbridge photo]()
British explorer and archaeologist
1901–1971
![Edgar Bergen photo]()
American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist
1903–1978
![Trường Chinh photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam …
1907–1988
![Bruno Munari photo]()
Italian artist and designer
1907–1998
![Nicholas Kaldor photo]()
British/Hungarian economist
1908–1986
![Patrick White photo]()
English-born Australian writer
1912–1990
![Alfred Bester photo]()
American science fiction author
1913–1987
![John Lilly photo]()
American physician
1915–2001
![Barry Commoner photo]()
American biologist, college professor and eco-socialist
1917–2012
![Martin Lewis Perl photo]()
American scientist
1927–2014
![Frank Slay photo]()
American record producer
1930–2017
![Hanoi Hannah photo]()
Vietnamese radio personality
1931–2016
![Stephen J. Cannell photo]()
American television producer, writer, novelist and occasion…
1941–2010
![Jessye Norman photo]()
American opera singer
1945–2019
![Michael Flynn photo]()
American statistician and writer
1947–2023
![Vladimir Voevodsky photo]()
Russian mathematician
1966–2017
