Anniversaries 11 April
Birth
![Septimius Severus photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome
145–211
![Marguerite de Navarre photo]()
Queen consort of Navarre
1492–1549
![George Canning photo]()
British statesman and politician
1770–1827
![Edward Everett photo]()
American politician, orator, statesman
1794–1865
![John Milner Fothergill photo]()
British physician and medical writer
1841–1888
![John Park Finley photo]()
American meteorologist
1854–1943
![Sergei Prokofiev photo]()
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
1891–1953
![Dean Acheson photo]()
Statesman and lawyer
1893–1971
![Quentin Reynolds photo]()
American journalist and war correspondent
1902–1965
![Leo Rosten photo]()
American writer
1908–1997
![Masaru Ibuka photo]()
Japanese businessman
1908–1997
![Anton LaVey photo]()
Founder of the Church of Satan, author of the Satanic Bible
1930–1997
![Ralph Compton photo]()
American writer
1934–1998
![Mark Strand photo]()
Canadian-American poet, essayist, translator
1934–2014
![Richard Kuklinski photo]()
American contract killer
1935–2006
![Thomas Harris photo]()
American author and screenwriter
1940
![Ellen Goodman photo]()
American journalist and writer
1941
![Winston Peters photo]()
New Zealand politician
1945
![Dorothy Allison photo]()
poet, novelist, critic
1949
![Louis-Marie de Blignières photo]()
French traditionalist Catholic priest
1949
![Andrew Wiles photo]()
British mathematician
1953
![Guy Verhofstadt photo]()
former prime minister of Belgium
1953
![Michael Card photo]()
singer, songwriter, author, composer, Radio Host
1957
![Jeremy Clarkson photo]()
English broadcaster, journalist and writer
1960
![Vincent Gallo photo]()
American film director, writer, model, actor and musician
1961
![Sergei Lukyanenko photo]()
Russian science fiction writer
1968
![Joss Stone photo]()
English singer and actress
1987
![Slim Burna photo]()
Nigerian singer and record producer
1988
Death
![Rowland Hill (preacher) photo]()
British preacher
1744–1833
![Edward Coote Pinkney photo]()
American poet, lawyer, sailor, professor, and editor
1802–1828
![Monier Monier-Williams photo]()
Linguist and dictionary compiler
1819–1899
![Francis Pharcellus Church photo]()
American publisher and editor
1839–1906
![Luther Burbank photo]()
American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultur…
1849–1926
![Joseph Merrick photo]()
English man with severe deformities
1862–1890
![Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar photo]()
Scottish Distiller and Conservative Party politician
1864–1930
![S. S. Van Dine photo]()
American journalist
1888–1939
![Eric Blom photo]()
Swiss-born British-naturalised music lexicographer, musicol…
1888–1959
![Caroline Gordon photo]()
Novelist, literary critic
1895–1981
![Jacques Prevért photo]()
French poet, screenwriter
1900–1977
![Cecil Howard Green photo]()
American businessman
1900–2003
![John O'Hara photo]()
American journalist
1905–1970
![Enver Hoxha photo]()
the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death i…
1908–1985
![Eve Merriam photo]()
American poet and writer
1916–1992
![Ahmed Ben Bella photo]()
First President of Algeria
1916–2012
![Primo Levi photo]()
Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, e…
1918–1987
![Harry Secombe photo]()
British entertainer
1921–2001
![Kurt Vonnegut photo]()
American writer
1922–2007
![Jonathan Winters photo]()
American comedian, actor, and artist
1925–2013
![Patrick F. McManus photo]()
American journalist
1933–2018
![Joseph Epstein photo]()
American essayist, short story writer and editor
1937–1944
![Judith Krug photo]()
librarian and freedom of speech proponent
1940–2009
![Miss Shangay Lily photo]()
Spanish artivist and drag queen
1963–2016
![Jessica Dubroff photo]()
American child pilot trainee
1988–1996
