Today anniversaries

Birth

Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer2

English-American writer and translator 1822–1904

Arthur Kekewich19

British judge 1832–1907

Alfred Marshall5

British economist 1842–1924

George Bernard Shaw413

Irish playwright 1856–1950

Antonio Machado8

Spanish poet 1875–1939

C.G. Jung257

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytic… 1875–1961

Shunroku Hata7

Japanese general 1879–1962

André Maurois202

French writer 1885–1967

George Grosz9

German artist 1893–1959

Charles Baudouin4

French-Swiss psychoanalyst 1893–1963

Aldous Huxley290

English writer 1894–1963

Paul Gallico3

American writer and journalist 1897–1976

Gracie Allen34

American actress and comedienne 1902–1964

Estes Kefauver2

American politician 1903–1963

Robert Aaron Gordon12

American economist 1908–1978

George Kubler15

American art historian 1912–1996

K. Pattabhi Jois3

Indian yoga teacher 1915–2009

James E. Lovelock16

independent scientist, environmentalist and futurist 1919

Jean Shepherd2

American writer and radio host 1921–1999

Джин Шеперд1

1921–1999

Chairil Anwar5

Indonesian poet 1922–1949

Heinz Isler4

engineer 1926–2009

Elliott Erwitt2

American photographer 1928

Peter Lougheed1

Canadian politician 1928–2012

Stanley Kubrick33

American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematogra… 1928–1999

Edmund Phelps2

American economist 1933

Jagdish Bhagwati1

economist 1934

Boris Cyrulnik1

French psychiatrist 1937

John Howard18

25th Prime Minister of Australia 1939

Mick Jagger24

British rock musician, member of The Rolling Stones 1943

Helen Mirren1

British actress 1945

M. John Harrison8

English author and critic 1945

Joel Mokyr12

Israeli American economic historian 1946

John Holloway20

Mexican sociologist 1947

Thaksin Shinawatra3

Thai politician 1949

John E. Hare6

British philosopher 1949

Sharron Angle30

Former member of the Nevada Assembly from 1999 to 2007 1949

Nicholas Evans4

British producer and writer 1950

John Steakley2

American writer 1951–2010

Asif Ali Zardari4

politician in Pakistan 1955

Andy Goldsworthy12

British sculptor and photographer 1956

Arthur Japin1

Dutch author 1956

Mark Norell7

American paleontologist 1957

François Gautier9

French journalist 1959

Kevin Spacey8

American actor, director and producer 1959

Andrei Lankov11

Russian academic 1963

Sandra Bullock10

American actress and producer 1964

Ralf Metzenmacher3

German artist, designer and painter 1964

Jason Statham9

English actor, film producer, martial artist and former div… 1967

Nigel Cumberland122

British author and leadership coach 1967

Leo Igwe21

Nigerian human rights activist 1970

Scott Cawthon3

American independent video game designer 1971

Kate Beckinsale6

English actress 1973

Daniel Negreanu2

Canadian poker player 1974

Liz Truss5

British Conservative Party politician 1975

Johnson Beharry1

British Army officer 1979

Jacinda Ardern17

Prime Minister of New Zealand 1980

Death

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester34

English poet, and peer of the realm 1647–1680

Sam Houston11

nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and sold… 1793–1863

George Borrow11

English author 1803–1881

Gottlob Frege22

mathematician, logician, philosopher 1848–1925

Helen H. Gardener1

American writer and academic 1853–1925

William Jennings Bryan33

United States Secretary of State 1860–1925

Antonin Sertillanges1

French philosopher 1863–1948

Rezā Shāh3

Shah of the Imperial State of Iran 1878–1944

W. Averell Harriman1

American businessman, politician and diplomat 1891–1986

Benjamin Lee Whorf8

American linguist 1897–1941

George Gallup1

American statistician 1901–1984

Thomas A. Bailey5

American historian 1902–1983

Goparaju Ramachandra Rao12

Indian activist 1902–1975

Oskar Morgenstern5

austrian economist 1902–1977

Jim Bishop4

American journalist and author 1907–1987

Trygve Haavelmo1

Norwegian economist and econometrician 1911–1999

John Tukey3

American mathematician 1915–2000

Merce Cunningham5

American dancer 1919–2009

Diane Arbus16

American photographer and author 1923–1971

Kenneth Tynan40

English theatre critic and writer 1927–1980

Bryan Magee7

British politician 1930–2019

Ann Rule1

True crime writer 1931–2015

Fredy Perlman1

Czech anarchist 1934–1985

Lupe Ontiveros2

Mexican-American actress 1942–2012

Sung Jae-gi4

South Korean masculism activist 1967–2013