Anniversaries 1 April
Birth
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Mediæval French poet
1431–1463
![William Harvey photo]()
English physician
1578–1657
![Guru Tegh Bahadur photo]()
The ninth Guru of Sikhism
1621–1675
![John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester photo]()
English poet, and peer of the realm
1647–1680
![Antoine François Prévost photo]()
French novelist
1697–1763
![Joseph De Maistre photo]()
Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, and diplomat
1753–1821
![Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin photo]()
French lawyer, politician and writer
1755–1826
![James McCosh photo]()
British philosopher
1811–1894
![Otto von Bismark photo]()
German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
1815–1898
![Otto von Bismarck photo]()
German statesman, Chancellor of Germany
1815–1898
![Agnes Repplier photo]()
American essayist
1855–1950
![Ferruccio Busoni photo]()
Italian composer, pianist, conductor, editor, writer, and p…
1866–1924
![Ernest Barnes photo]()
English mathematician and clergyman
1874–1953
![Edgar Wallace photo]()
British crime writer, journalist and playwright
1875–1932
![Aurelia Henry Reinhardt photo]()
American educator and social activist
1877–1948
![Laurette Taylor photo]()
American stage and silent film actress
1884–1946
![Clementine Churchill photo]()
wife of Sir Winston Churchill and a life peeress in her own…
1885–1977
![K. B. Hedgewar photo]()
Founding leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh
1889–1940
![Howard Scott photo]()
American engineer
1890–1970
![Whittaker Chambers photo]()
Defected Communist spy
1901–1961
![Abraham Maslow photo]()
American psychologist
1908–1970
![William Manchester photo]()
(April 1, 1922 – June 1, 2004) American author, journalist …
1922–2004
![Alan Perlis photo]()
American computer scientist
1922–1990
![Anne McCaffrey photo]()
American-Irish novelist
1926–2011
![Milan Kundera photo]()
Czech author of Czech and French literature
1929–2023
![Debbie Reynolds photo]()
American actress, singer, and dancer
1932–2016
![Wangari Maathai photo]()
Kenyan environmental and political activist
1940–2011
![Lavina Washines photo]()
American politician
1940–2011
![Samuel R. Delany photo]()
American author, professor and literary critic
1942
![Yu Zhengsheng photo]()
Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's …
1945
![Paul Manafort photo]()
American political consultant
1949
![Gil Scott-Heron photo]()
American musician, poet and author
1949–2011
![Samuel Alito photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1950
![Begum Aga Khan photo]()
German philanthropist
1963
![Marcus Sedgwick photo]()
British writer and illustrator
1968
![Thich Nhat Tu photo]()
Vietnamese philosopher
1969
Death
![Daniel Clement Colesworthy photo]()
American writer
1810–1893
![Thomas Dunn English photo]()
American state and federal politician
1819–1902
![John Cunningham Geikie photo]()
Scottish Presbyterian minister and author
1824–1906
![Philipp Mainländer photo]()
German poet and philosopher
1841–1876
![Mikhail Vrubel photo]()
Russian painter
1856–1910
![J.A. Hobson photo]()
English economist, social scientist and critic of imperiali…
1858–1940
![Scott Joplin photo]()
American composer, musician, and pianist
1868–1917
![Max Ernst photo]()
German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
1891–1976
![Martha Graham photo]()
American dancer and choreographer
1894–1991
![Elizabeth Goudge photo]()
English fiction writer
1900–1984
![Charles R. Drew photo]()
African-American physician, surgeon, and medical researcher
1904–1950
![Lin Huiyin photo]()
Chinese architect and writer
1904–1955
![Lev Landau photo]()
Soviet physicist
1908–1968
![Richard M. Weaver photo]()
American scholar
1910–1963
![Evsey Domar photo]()
American economist
1914–1997
![Yevgeny Yevtushenko photo]()
Russian poet, film director, teacher
1932–2017
![Marvin Gaye photo]()
American singer-songwriter and musician
1939–1984
![Vonda N. McIntyre photo]()
American writer
1948–2019
![Pavel 183 photo]()
Russian street artist
1983–2013
