Anniversaries 11 May
Birth
![Frederick Russell Burnham photo]()
father of scouting; military scout; soldier of fortune; oil…
1861–1947
![Theodore von Kármán photo]()
Hungarian-American mathematician, aerospace engineer and ph…
1881–1963
![Irving Berlin photo]()
American composer
1888–1989
![Paul Nash (artist) photo]()
British surrealist painter and war artist
1889–1946
![Martha Graham photo]()
American dancer and choreographer
1894–1991
![John B. Calhoun photo]()
American ethologist and behavioral researcher
1917–1995
![Richard Feynman photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1918–1988
![Bill Trader photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1922–2003
![Antony Hewish photo]()
English physicist and radio astronomer
1924–2021
![William Glasser photo]()
American psychiatrist
1925–2013
![Mort Sahl photo]()
American comedian and actor
1927–2021
![Zilpha Keatley Snyder photo]()
American writer of children's fiction
1927–2014
![Brother Andrew photo]()
Christian missionary
1928–2022
![Edsger W. Dijkstra photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1930–2002
![Louis Farrakhan photo]()
leader of the Nation of Islam
1933
![Cheng Yen photo]()
Taiwanese Buddhist nun
1937
![Nancy Greene photo]()
Canadian alpine skier and politician
1943
![Robert Jarvik photo]()
Jarvik created the Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1946
![Mark Vonnegut photo]()
American physician and writer
1947
![John F. Kelly photo]()
American politician and military officer; White House Chief…
1950
![Marcella Althaus-Reid photo]()
Argentine theologian
1952–2009
![Ziad Jarrah photo]()
September 11th hijacker
1975–2001
![Richard Bertrand Spencer photo]()
American white supremacist
1978
![Lana Condor photo]()
Vietnamese-American actress
1997
Death
![Yagyū Munenori photo]()
samurai and daimyo of the early Edo period
1571–1646
![Jean de La Bruyère photo]()
17th-century French writer and philosopher
1645–1696
![Mary Astell photo]()
English feminist writer
1666–1731
![William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham photo]()
British politician
1708–1778
![John Herschel photo]()
English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
1792–1871
![Henri-Frédéric Amiel photo]()
Swiss philosopher and poet
1821–1881
![Thomas Buchanan Read photo]()
American artist
1822–1872
![Leonard H. Courtney photo]()
British politician
1832–1918
![William Dean Howells photo]()
author, critic and playwright from the United States
1837–1920
![Henry Martyn Robert photo]()
United States Army general and Chief of Engineers
1837–1923
![Daniel De Leon photo]()
American newspaper editor
1852–1914
![Henry Cuyler Bunner photo]()
American writer
1855–1896
![John R. Commons photo]()
United States institutional economist and labor historian
1862–1945
![Théophile de Donder photo]()
Belgian physicist
1872–1957
![Max Reger photo]()
German composer, pianist and conductor
1873–1916
![John D. Rockefeller, Jr. photo]()
American financier and philanthropist
1874–1960
![Sakutarō Hagiwara photo]()
Japanese writer
1886–1942
![Juan Gris photo]()
Spanish painter and sculptor
1887–1927
![Ed Ricketts photo]()
American marine biologist
1897–1948
![Alvar Aalto photo]()
Finnish architect and designer
1898–1976
![Nnamdi Azikiwe photo]()
First President of Nigeria
1904–1996
![Maurice Goldhaber photo]()
American physicist
1911–2011
![Joachim Kaiser photo]()
German music critic
1928–2017
![Leigh Snowden photo]()
American actress
1929–1982
![Eqbal Ahmad photo]()
writer, journalist, anti-war activist
1933–1999
![Bob Marley photo]()
Jamaican singer, songwriter, musician
1945–1981
![Katherine Dunn photo]()
American novelist, journalist, poet
1945–2016
![David Rowlands photo]()
British civil servant
1947–2014
![Douglas Adams photo]()
English writer and humorist
1952–2001
