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Birth

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac photo
Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac 2
French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the mo… 1755–1841
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa photo
Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa 7
Irish Republican Brotherhood member 1831–1915
John Robert Seeley photo
John Robert Seeley 7
British historian 1834–1895
William Torrey Harris photo
William Torrey Harris 2
American philosopher 1835–1909
Charles Sanders Peirce photo
Charles Sanders Peirce 121
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist 1839–1914
Benjamin Fish Austin photo
Benjamin Fish Austin 24
Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi… 1850–1933
K. S. Ranjitsinhji photo
K. S. Ranjitsinhji 3
Indian cricket player. 1872–1933
Carl Van Doren photo
Carl Van Doren 14
American biographer 1885–1950
H.D. photo
H.D. 4
American Imagist poet 1886–1961
Jerome Frank photo
Jerome Frank 9
American jurist 1889–1957
Franz Werfel photo
Franz Werfel 6
Austrian-Bohemian author 1890–1945
Ordway Tead photo
Ordway Tead 10
American academic 1891–1973
Arthur Compton photo
Arthur Compton 2
American physicist 1892–1962
Georges Bataille photo
Georges Bataille 68
French intellectual and literary figure 1897–1962
Bessie Love photo
Bessie Love 3
American actress (1898–1986) 1898–1986
Cyril Connolly photo
Cyril Connolly 49
British author 1903–1974
Max Shachtman photo
Max Shachtman 4
American Marxist theorist 1904–1972
Basappa Danappa Jatti photo
Basappa Danappa Jatti 14
Indian politician 1912–2002
Robert B. Leighton photo
Robert B. Leighton 1
American astronomer 1919–1997
Uri Avnery photo
Uri Avnery 9
Israeli writer 1923–2018
Boyd K. Packer photo
Boyd K. Packer 14
American Mormon leader 1924–2015
Jean Vanier photo
Jean Vanier 36
Canadian humanitarian 1928–2019
Peter Chung Hoan Ting photo
Peter Chung Hoan Ting 1
Malaysian catholic priest 1928
Liliana Segre photo
Liliana Segre 1
Italian Holocaust survivor and senator for life 1930
Karl Lagerfeld photo
Karl Lagerfeld 57
German fashion designer 1933–2019
Mary Oliver photo
Mary Oliver 98
American writer 1935–2019
Jared Diamond photo
Jared Diamond 33
American scientist and author 1937
Stephen Jay Gould photo
Stephen Jay Gould 274
American evolutionary biologist 1941–2002
Neale Donald Walsch photo
Neale Donald Walsch 69
American writer 1943
Margaret Trudeau photo
Margaret Trudeau 2
ex-wife of the late Canadian prime minister Pierre Trudeau 1948
Bill O'Reilly photo
Bill O'Reilly 54
American political commentator, television host and writer 1949
Medea Benjamin photo
Medea Benjamin 2
American political activist and author 1952
Pat Cadigan photo
Pat Cadigan 18
science fiction author 1953
Andrei Makine photo
Andrei Makine 1
French writer 1957
Siobhan Fahey photo
Siobhan Fahey 9
singer and songwriter in Banarama and Shakespears Sister 1958
Nancy A. Collins photo
Nancy A. Collins 1
writer 1959
Alison Bechdel photo
Alison Bechdel 58
American cartoonist, author 1960
Colin Firth photo
Colin Firth 2
English actor 1960
Marian Keyes photo
Marian Keyes 19
Irish writer 1963
Jack Ma photo
Jack Ma 9
Chinese businessman 1964
John E. Sununu photo
John E. Sununu 5
American politician 1964
Big Daddy Kane photo
Big Daddy Kane 3
American musician 1968
Jorge Majfud photo
Jorge Majfud 21
Uruguayan-American writer 1969
Benson Taylor photo
Benson Taylor 2
composer and music producer from the United Kingdom 1983
Jared Lee Loughner photo
Jared Lee Loughner 9
Charged with 2011 Tucson shooting 1988
Sanjaya Malakar photo
Sanjaya Malakar 15
American reality television personality 1989

Death

Qin Shi Huang photo
Qin Shi Huang 2
founding emperor of the Qin Dynasty -258–-210 BC
Titian photo
Titian 20
Italian painter 1488–1576
Gerrard Winstanley photo
Gerrard Winstanley 9
English Protestant religious reformer, political philosophe… 1609–1676
Mary Wollstonecraft photo
Mary Wollstonecraft 44
British writer and philosopher 1759–1797
Joseph Story photo
Joseph Story 10
US Supreme Court justice 1779–1845
Sophie Swetchine photo
Sophie Swetchine 4
Russian salon-holder 1782–1857
George Linley photo
George Linley 3
British writer 1798–1865
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt photo
Wilfrid Scawen Blunt 4
English poet and writer 1840–1922
Aubrey Faulkner photo
Aubrey Faulkner 1
South African cricketer 1881–1930
Huey Long photo
Huey Long 20
American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United Stat… 1893–1935
Norah Lofts photo
Norah Lofts 2
British writer 1904–1983
Dalton Trumbo photo
Dalton Trumbo 18
American screenwriter and novelist 1905–1976
John Vorster photo
John Vorster 2
politician from South Africa and seventh Prime Minister of … 1915–1983
Virginia Satir photo
Virginia Satir 7
American psychologist 1916–1988
Sam Hinton photo
Sam Hinton 4
folk singer, artist, marine biologist 1917–2009
Hermann Bondi photo
Hermann Bondi 5
British mathematician and cosmologist 1919–2005
Frank Honywill George photo
Frank Honywill George 9
British psychologist 1921–1997
Jock Stein photo
Jock Stein 4
Scottish footballer and manager 1922–1985
Edward Nelson photo
Edward Nelson 2
American mathematical physicist and logician 1932–2014
Paul Virilio photo
Paul Virilio 7
French philosopher 1932–2018
Len Wein photo
Len Wein 2
American comic book writer and editor 1948–2017