Anniversaries 11 October

Birth

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers1

German physician and astronomer 1758–1840

Mason Weems3

fictionalizing biographer of George Washington 1759–1825

Barend Cornelis Koekkoek11

painter from the Northern Netherlands 1803–1862

Louis Veuillot4

French journalist 1813–1883

Charles P. Mattocks3

American soldier, lawyer and politician 1840–1910

Henry J. Heinz5

American businessman 1844–1919

Harlan F. Stone14

United States federal judge 1872–1946

Hans Kelsen6

Austrian lawyer 1881–1973

Eleanor Roosevelt148

American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady… 1884–1962

Francois Mauriac38

French author 1885–1970

Edwin Arthur Burtt5

American philosopher 1892–1989

Danie Craven4

South African rugby union player and administrator 1910–1993

Art Blakey2

American jazz drummer and bandleader 1919–1990

Harish-Chandra2

Indian American mathematician and physicist (1923–1983) 1923–1983

Elmore Leonard9

American novelist and screenwriter 1925–2013

Thich Nhat Hanh169

Religious leader and peace activist 1926

William Perry1

American mathematician and businessman 1927

Annette Baier5

New Zealand philosopher 1929–2012

Dottie West2

American country music singer 1932–1991

James M. McPherson27

American historian 1936

Tom Zé1

Brazilian songwriter, composer 1936

Amitabh Bachchan72

Indian actor 1942

Robert Lighthizer3

US Trade Representative 1947

Theodore Dalrymple96

English doctor and writer 1949

Patty Murray1

United States senator from Washington 1950

Bruce Bartlett11

American historian 1951

Lobão5

Brazilian musician 1957

Dawn French1

English actress and comedian 1957

Bob Inglis2

Former U.S. congressman 1959

Richard Paul Evans51

American writer 1962

Anne Enright7

Irish writer 1962

Chad Ripperger1

American Roman Catholic priest and exorcist 1964

Todd Snider14

American singer 1966

Peter Thiel11

American entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and hedge fund m… 1967

Joshua Braff1

American writer 1967

Artie Lange1

Comedian, radio personality 1967

Ben Marcus1

American writer 1967

Mark Driscoll9

American pastor 1970

Emily Deschanel1

American actress, television producer, and film producer 1976

Salim Stoudamire1

American basketball player 1982

Michelle Trachtenberg10

American actress 1985

Brianna Wiest6

1992

Death

Pope Boniface VIII4

193rd Pope of the Catholic Church 1235–1303

Huldrych Zwingli18

leader of the Protestant Reformation in Switzerland, and fo… 1484–1531

Thomas Wyatt3

English poet and diplomat (1503-1542) 1503–1542

Meriwether Lewis1

American explorer 1774–1809

James Prescott Joule2

English physicist and brewer 1818–1889

Jean Henri Fabre6

French entomologist and author 1823–1915

Ferdinand Eisenstein2

German mathematician 1823–1852

Anton Bruckner1

Austrian composer 1824–1896

Ethel Lynn Beers2

American writer 1827–1879

Francis J. Grimké5

American activist and minister 1852–1937

June Downey8

American psychologist 1875–1932

Maurice de Vlaminck13

French painter 1876–1958

Jean Cocteau123

French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager … 1889–1963

Dorothea Lange6

American photojournalist 1895–1965

Chesty Puller5

United States Marine Corps general 1898–1971

M. King Hubbert1

American geoscientist 1903–1989

William Vickrey1

Canadian noble laureate in economics 1914–1996

Edith Penrose7

economist 1914–1996

Anatole Broyard5

American literary critic 1920–1990

Redd Foxx4

American comedian and actor 1922–1991

Fernando Sabino8

Brazilian writer 1923–2004

Sri Chinmoy75

Indian writer and guru 1931–2007

Claire Rayner1

British writer 1931–2010

William J. Higginson6

American writer 1938–2008

Jörg Haider2

Austrian politician 1950–2008