Anniversaries 1 August
Birth
![Jean-Baptiste Lamarck photo]()
French naturalist
1744–1829
![Francis Scott Key photo]()
American lawyer and poet
1779–1843
![Octavius Winslow photo]()
English theologian
1808–1878
![Richard Henry Dana Jr. photo]()
United States author and lawyer
1815–1882
![Herman Melville photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
1818–1891
![Maria Mitchell photo]()
American astronomer
1818–1889
![Mary Harris Jones photo]()
Irish-born American labor and community organizer
1837–1930
![Stuart Merrill photo]()
American poet, who wrote mostly in the French language
1863–1915
![Claude Bragdon photo]()
American architect
1866–1946
![Mohammad Ali Foroughi photo]()
Iranian politician
1877–1942
![Rose Macaulay photo]()
English novelist and writer
1881–1958
![Marvin Bower photo]()
American business theorist
1903–2003
![Reijer Hooykaas photo]()
Dutch historian
1906–1994
![Eric Shipton photo]()
British explorer
1907–1977
![Fiorenzo Angelini photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1916–2014
![Elaine Dundy photo]()
American journalist, actress
1921–2008
![Shimon Peres photo]()
Israeli politician, 8th prime minister and 9th president of…
1923–2016
![John Clive Ward photo]()
British-Australian nuclear physicist
1924–2000
![Abdullah of Saudi Arabia photo]()
former King of Saudi Arabia
1924–2015
![Georges Charpak photo]()
ukrainian-born french physicist
1924–2010
![Barry Long photo]()
Australian spiritual teacher and writer
1926–2003
![Hafizullah Amin photo]()
politician, former Afghan head of state (1979)
1929–1979
![Lawrence Eagleburger photo]()
American statesman and diplomat
1930–2011
![Pierre Bourdieu photo]()
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
1930–2002
![Hsu Shui-teh photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1931
![Meir Kahane photo]()
American/Israeli political activist and rabbi
1932–1990
![Anthony F. Tonnos photo]()
Canadian Catholic bishop
1935
![Yves Saint Laurent photo]()
fashion designer
1936–2008
![W. D. Hamilton photo]()
British evolutionary biologist (1936-2000)
1936–2000
![Robert James Waller photo]()
American writer
1939–2017
![Jerry Garcia photo]()
American musician and member of the Grateful Dead
1942–1995
![Giancarlo Giannini photo]()
Italian actor, voice actor, director and screenwriter
1942
![David Gemmell photo]()
British author of heroic fantasy
1948–2006
![Ray Dalio photo]()
American businessman
1949
![Zoran Đinđić photo]()
Serbian politician
1952–2003
![Michael Badnarik photo]()
American software engineer
1954
![James Gleick photo]()
American author, journalist, and biographer
1954
![Amber Rudd photo]()
British politician (born 1963)
1963
![Fiona Oakes photo]()
British marathon runner
1966
![Kenneth Bae photo]()
American missionary held as prisoner in North Korea
1968
![Jason Momoa photo]()
American actor and model
1979
![Glenn Dorsey photo]()
American football player, defensive lineman
1985
![Raheem Kassam photo]()
British journalist and politician
1986
Death
![Cosimo de' Medici photo]()
First ruler of the Medici political dynasty
1389–1464
![Anne of Great Britain photo]()
queen of England, queen of Scotland and queen of Ireland (1…
1665–1714
![Alphonsus Maria de' Liguori photo]()
Italian Catholic bishop, spiritual writer, composer, musici…
1696–1787
![Elizabeth Drew Stoddard photo]()
United States poet and novelist
1823–1902
![Manuel L. Quezon photo]()
president of the Philippines from 1935 to 1944
1878–1944
![Hope Mirrlees photo]()
British translator, poet and novelist
1887–1978
![Walter Ulbricht photo]()
German politician
1893–1973
![Norbert Elias photo]()
German sociologist
1897–1990
![Philip Abelson photo]()
US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director o…
1913–2004
![Frances Farmer photo]()
American actress
1913–1970
![Henry Mazer photo]()
American conductor
1918–2002
![Bernard d'Espagnat photo]()
French physicist and philosopher
1921–2015
![Sidney Morgenbesser photo]()
American philosopher
1921–2004
![Pauline Baynes photo]()
English illustrator of children's books
1922–2008
![Paddy Chayefsky photo]()
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
1923–1981
![Barry Hughart photo]()
American novelist
1934–2019
![Iris Marion Young photo]()
American philosopher
1949–2006
