Today anniversaries

Birth

Abu Hanifa2

Founder of Hanafi school of thought 699–767

Al-Biruni14

Persian scholar and polymath 973–1048

Ignace-Gaston Pardies1

French physicist 1636–1673

Louis XIV of France5

King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715 1638–1715

Jean-Étienne Montucla3

French mathematician 1725–1799

Christoph Martin Wieland5

German writer, poet and publisher 1733–1813

Caspar David Friedrich31

Swedish painter 1774–1840

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky10

Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astr… 1857–1935

Walter Raleigh (professor)12

British academic 1861–1922

Trần Tế Xương1

poet 1870–1907

Frank B. Jewett1

American physicist 1879–1949

Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan84

Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre… 1888–1975

Anant Priolkar1

historian 1895–1973

Arthur Koestler25

Hungarian-British author and journalist 1905–1983

John Cage43

American avant-garde composer 1912–1992

Nicanor Parra3

writer, poet, matematician, fisic 1914–2018

Jack Valenti35

President of the MPAA 1921–2007

Paul Volcker5

American economist 1927–2019

Bob Newhart6

American stand-up comedian and actor 1929

Werner Erhard40

Critical Thinker and Author 1935

John Danforth22

American politician 1936

Jonathan Kozol3

American activist and educator 1936

Claudette Colvin3

African-American civil rights movement leader 1939

Raquel Welch3

American actress 1940–2023

Werner Herzog53

German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and ope… 1942

Freddie Mercury29

British singer, songwriter and record producer 1946–1991

Loudon Wainwright III1

American singer-songwriter, humorist, and actor 1946

Cathy Guisewite3

Cartoonist 1950

Michael Keaton4

American actor 1951

Victor Davis Hanson41

American military historian, essayist, university professor 1953

Daniel Alan Vallero5

American scientist 1953

Tom Kean, Jr.4

Member of the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate 1968

Rose McGowan4

American actress 1973

Annabelle Wallis2

British Actress 1984

Mercy chinwo1

Nigerian Gospel Singer 1990

Death

John Home4

Minister of religion and dramatist 1722–1808

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos16

French novelist, official and army general 1741–1803

Hannah Flagg Gould5

American writer 1788–1865

Auguste Comte23

French philosopher 1798–1857

Zuo Zongtang1

Qing dynasty general 1812–1885

John Sullivan Dwight5

American minister 1813–1893

Rudolf Virchow8

German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, path… 1821–1902

Crazy Horse9

Oglala Sioux chief 1840–1877

Ludwig Boltzmann11

Austrian physicist 1844–1906

Hugh Macmillan, Baron Macmillan31

British judge 1873–1952

Charles Péguy13

French poet, essayist, and editor 1873–1914

Carl Panzram10

American serial killer 1891–1930

Earl Long1

American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana for … 1895–1960

Richard Walther Darré4

Nazi SS General 1895–1953

Matka Tereza52

Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin 1910–1997

Douglas Bader8

British World War II flying ace 1910–1982

Fritz Leiber67

American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction 1910–1992

Georg Solti5

Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor 1912–1997

Nicolaas Bloembergen1

Dutch-born American physicist 1920–2017

Albert Rees1

American economist 1921–1992

Phyllis Schlafly22

American activist 1924–2016

Alan Clark10

British politician 1928–1999

Jane Roberts288

American Writer 1929–1984

James Kennedy (televangelist)4

American evangelist 1930–2007

Christopher Trace2

British television presenter 1933–1992

James Rachels6

American philosopher 1941–2003