Today anniversaries
Birth
![Pope Leo X photo]()
Pope from 1513 to 1521
1475–1521
![George Mason photo]()
American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional …
1725–1792
![David Brewster photo]()
British astronomer and mathematician
1781–1868
![Hector Berlioz photo]()
French Romantic composer
1803–1869
![Arthur Guy Empey photo]()
American writer
1883–1963
![Mark Tobey photo]()
American abstract expressionist painter
1890–1976
![Michael Oakeshott photo]()
British philosopher
1901–1990
![Elliott Carter photo]()
American composer
1908–2012
![Naguib Mahfouz photo]()
Egyptian writer
1911–2006
![Qian Xuesen photo]()
Chinese rocket scientist
1911–2009
![Marie Windsor photo]()
American actress
1919–2000
![Grace Paley photo]()
American writer and activist
1922–2007
![Maila Nurmi photo]()
Finnish-American actress
1922–2008
![Owain Owain photo]()
Welsh novelist, short story writer and poet
1929–1993
![Ronald Dworkin photo]()
American legal philosopher
1931–2013
![Rajneesh photo]()
Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
1931–1990
![Rita Moreno photo]()
Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress
1931
![Pranab Mukherjee photo]()
13th President of India
1935
![Jim Harrison photo]()
American novelist, poet, essayist
1937–2016
![Derek Parfit photo]()
British philosopher
1942–2017
![John F. Kerry photo]()
politician from the United States
1943
![Teri Garr photo]()
American film and television actress
1944
![Diana Palmer photo]()
American romance novelist
1946
![Mordechai Ben-Ari photo]()
Israeli computer scientist
1948
![Tom Shadyac photo]()
American film director
1958
![Macky Sall photo]()
current President and former Prime Minister of Senegal
1961
![Marco Pierre White photo]()
English chef and restaurateur
1961
![Ayelet Waldman photo]()
American- Israeli writer
1964
![Raymond Kethledge photo]()
a United States Circuit Judge of the United States Court of…
1966
![Devdutt Pattanaik photo]()
Indian physician; leadership consultant, mythologist and au…
1970
![Khem Veasna photo]()
Cambodian politician
1971
![Mos Def photo]()
American rapper and actor
1973
![Valentina Lisitsa photo]()
Ukrainian-American classical pianist
1973
![Christina Hagan photo]()
Member of the Ohio House of Representatives
1988
Death
![Colley Cibber photo]()
British poet laureate
1671–1757
![Robert Cunninghame-Grahame of Gartmore photo]()
British politician, died 1797
1735–1797
![Hardinge Giffard, 1st Earl of Halsbury photo]()
British politician
1823–1921
![Charles Fabry photo]()
French physicist
1867–1945
![M. S. Subbulakshmi photo]()
singer,Carnatic vocalist
1916–2004
![Krafft Arnold Ehricke photo]()
German aerospace engineer
1917–1984
![Ravi Shankar photo]()
Indian musician and sitar player
1920–2012
![Nanabhoy Palkhivala photo]()
Indian jurist and economist
1920–2002
![Sam Cooke photo]()
American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur
1931–1964
![James Robert Flynn photo]()
New Zealand scholar
1934–2020
![N. S. Rajaram photo]()
Indian mathematician
1943–2019
![Richard Sandbrook photo]()
environmentalist
1946–2005
![Lynn Strait photo]()
American musician
1968–1998
