Anniversaries 11 May

Birth

Isaac D'Israeli15

British writer 1766–1848

Thomas Noel (poet)2

English poet 1799–1861

Frederick Russell Burnham4

father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil… 1861–1947

Theodore von Kármán3

Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and ph… 1881–1963

Irving Berlin6

American composer 1888–1989

Paul Nash (artist)1

British surrealist painter and war artist 1889–1946

Martha Graham48

American dancer and choreographer 1894–1991

Kaarlo Sarkia1

Finnish poet 1902–1945

Salvador Dalí117

Spanish artist 1904–1989

Mikhail Sholokhov6

Soviet writer 1905–1984

John B. Calhoun1

American ethologist and behavioral researcher 1917–1995

Richard Feynman181

American theoretical physicist 1918–1988

Bill Trader4

American singer-songwriter 1922–2003

Antony Hewish1

English physicist and radio astronomer 1924–2021

William Glasser14

American psychiatrist 1925–2013

Mort Sahl11

American comedian and actor 1927–2021

Zilpha Keatley Snyder3

American writer of children's fiction 1927–2014

Brother Andrew1

Christian missionary 1928–2022

Edsger W. Dijkstra68

Dutch computer scientist 1930–2002

Roberta Kalechofsky1

American activist 1931

Louis Farrakhan16

leader of the Nation of Islam 1933

Cheng Yen6

Taiwanese Buddhist nun 1937

Victor Villaseñor89

American writer 1940

Bruce Nauman2

American artist 1941

Nancy Greene1

Canadian alpine skier and politician 1943

Carole Nelson Douglas1

American writer 1944

Fred E. Foldvary4

American economist 1946

Robert Jarvik1

Jarvik created the Jarvik-7 artificial heart 1946

Mark Vonnegut4

American physician and writer 1947

Pam Ferris1

British actress 1948

John F. Kelly2

American politician and military officer; White House Chief… 1950

Marcella Althaus-Reid1

Argentine theologian 1952–2009

Đorđe Balašević4

Serbian songwriter 1953

William Paul Young1

American writer 1955

Michael Horton (theologian)3

American theologian 1964

Igor Matovič1

Slovak politician 1973

Ziad Jarrah8

September 11th hijacker 1975–2001

Richard Bertrand Spencer23

American white supremacist 1978

Lana Condor8

Vietnamese-American actress 1997

Death

Moses Isserles1

Polish rabbi 1520–1572

Yagyū Munenori10

samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period 1571–1646

Jean de La Bruyère65

17th-century French writer and philosopher 1645–1696

Mary Astell7

English feminist writer 1666–1731

William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham36

British politician 1708–1778

John Trumbull (poet)4

American poet 1750–1831

John Herschel16

English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer 1792–1871

Henri-Frédéric Amiel50

Swiss philosopher and poet 1821–1881

Thomas Buchanan Read7

American artist 1822–1872

Leonard H. Courtney9

British politician 1832–1918

William Dean Howells18

author, critic and playwright from the United States 1837–1920

Henry Martyn Robert1

United States Army general and Chief of Engineers 1837–1923

Daniel De Leon7

American newspaper editor 1852–1914

Henry Cuyler Bunner2

American writer 1855–1896

John R. Commons26

United States institutional economist and labor historian 1862–1945

Théophile de Donder1

Belgian physicist 1872–1957

Max Reger1

German composer, pianist and conductor 1873–1916

John D. Rockefeller, Jr.15

American financier and philanthropist 1874–1960

Sakutarō Hagiwara1

Japanese writer 1886–1942

Juan Gris6

Spanish painter and sculptor 1887–1927

Ed Ricketts1

American marine biologist 1897–1948

Alvar Aalto1

Finnish architect and designer 1898–1976

Nnamdi Azikiwe5

First President of Nigeria 1904–1996

Maurice Goldhaber1

American physicist 1911–2011

Joachim Kaiser1

German music critic 1928–2017

Leigh Snowden2

American actress 1929–1982

Eqbal Ahmad1

writer, journalist, anti-war activist 1933–1999

Bob Marley118

Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician 1945–1981

Katherine Dunn20

American novelist, journalist, poet 1945–2016

David Rowlands1

British civil servant 1947–2014

Douglas Adams317

English writer and humorist 1952–2001