Today anniversaries

Birth

Avicenna8

medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher 980–1037

Francis de Sales12

French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j 1567–1622

Jean de La Bruyère65

17th-century French writer and philosopher 1645–1696

John Eardley Wilmot22

English judge 1709–1792

Carolina, Baroness Nairne4

British musician 1766–1845

Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné1

Swiss historian 1794–1872

John Bosco7

Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer 1815–1888

Wilhelm Wundt6

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor 1832–1920

T. E. Lawrence33

British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat 1888–1935

Ric Berger1

Swiss professor of design, decoration and art history 1894–1984

Albert Cohen13

Swiss writer 1895–1981

Eli Siegel19

Latvian-American poet, philosopher 1902–1978

Wallace Thurman1

American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance 1902–1934

Georgette Heyer39

British historical romance and detective fiction novelist 1902–1974

Crawford Greenewalt2

American chemical engineer 1902–1993

E. F. Schumacher16

British economist 1911–1977

Menachem Begin9

Israeli politician and Prime Minister 1913–1992

Charles Bukowski555

American writer 1920–1994

Ann Blyth1

American actress 1928

Bill Evans5

American jazz pianist 1929–1980

Julie Newmar2

American actress 1933

Diana Wynne Jones137

English children's fantasy writer 1934–2011

Donnie Dunagan6

actor and United States Marine 1934

Lorraine Gary1

American actress 1937

Billy Joe Shaver8

American singer-songwriter 1939

Massoud Barzani7

Iraqi Kurdish politician 1946

Carol Moseley Braun2

American politician and lawyer 1947

Earl Blumenauer1

American politician 1948

Umaru Yar'Adua2

President of Nigeria 1951–2010

Anne Taintor6

American artist 1953

James Cameron20

Canadian film director 1954

George Galloway44

British politician, broadcaster, and writer 1954

Carol Plum-Ucci4

American writer 1957

Madonna107

American singer, songwriter, and actress 1958

Ayub Bachchu3

Musician, singer, songwriter 1962–2018

Jennifer Donnelly59

American writer 1963

Goran Bare1

Croatian rock musician, singer 1965

Manisha Koirala2

Nepalese actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social acti… 1970

Frankie Boyle24

Scottish comedian 1972

Jakub Tencl9

Czech clinical hypnotherapist and writer 1978

Arden Cho4

Korean-American actress and singer 1985

Death

Thomas Heywood6

English playwright, actor, and author 1574–1641

Thomas Fuller35

English churchman and historian 1608–1661

Andrew Marvell35

English metaphysical poet and politician 1621–1678

Jacob Bernoulli3

Swiss mathematician 1655–1705

Charles Thomson1

American patriot leader (1729-1824) 1729–1824

Charles Cotesworth Pinckney2

American politician 1746–1825

Charles Grandison Finney6

American writer 1792–1875

Benjamin Harvey Hill1

American politician 1823–1882

John James Ingalls4

American politician 1833–1900

Ramakrishna142

Indian mystic and religious preacher 1836–1886

William H. Crogman7

American classical philologist 1841–1931

José Maria Eça de Queiroz14

Portuguese writer 1845–1900

Wanda Landowska2

Polish-French classical harpsichordist 1879–1959

Irving Langmuir2

American chemist and physicist 1881–1957

William Frederick Halsey, Jr.7

United States admiral 1882–1959

Béla Lugosi4

Hungarian actor 1882–1956

Pat O'Keeffe3

British boxer 1883–1960

Selman Waksman1

American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discover… 1888–1973

Babe Ruth70

American baseball player 1895–1948

John Diefenbaker9

13th Prime Minister of Canada 1895–1979

Margaret Mitchell98

American author and journalist 1900–1949

Masanobu Fukuoka6

Japanese farmer and philosopher 1913–2007

Wahbi Al-Hariri4

Artist, architect, author 1914–1994

Brother Roger1

Swiss monk 1915–2005

Atal Bihari Vajpayee30

10th Prime Minister of India 1924–2018

Idi Amin13

third president of Uganda 1925–2003

Ronnie Drew3

Irish musician 1934–2008

Elvis Presley42

American singer and actor 1935–1977

Nicola Cabibbo2

Italian physicist 1935–2010

Aretha Franklin7

American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1942–2018

Peter W. Schramm4

American academic 1946–2015

Jacob Bekenstein6

Mexican-Israeli physicist 1947–2015

Mark Heard37

American musician and record producer 1951–1992

Gerardine DeSanctis3

American organizational theorist 1954–2005