Anniversaries 11 July
Birth
![Luis de Góngora photo]()
Spanish Baroque lyric poet
1561–1627
![John Quincy Adams photo]()
American politician, 6th president of the United States (in…
1767–1848
![James McNeill Whistler photo]()
American-born, British-based artist
1834–1903
![Léon Bloy photo]()
French writer, poet and essayist
1846–1917
![Joseph Larmor photo]()
Irish physicist and mathematician
1857–1942
![Carl Schmitt photo]()
German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
1888–1985
![E. B. White photo]()
American writer
1899–1985
![Samuel Abraham Goudsmit photo]()
Dutch physicist
1902–1978
![John Stapp photo]()
American academic
1910–1999
![Cordwainer Smith photo]()
American author
1913–1966
![Gough Whitlam photo]()
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
1916–2014
![Mortimer Caplin photo]()
Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service; prominent tax attor…
1916–2019
![Richard Pipes photo]()
American historian
1923–2018
![Frederick Buechner photo]()
Poet, novelist, short story writer, theologian
1926
![Vernard Eller photo]()
Church of the Brethren pastor and academic, coiner of the t…
1927–2007
![Harold Bloom photo]()
American literary critic and scholar
1930–2019
![Howard Gardner photo]()
American developmental psychologist
1943
![Lon Milo DuQuette photo]()
American occult writer
1948
![Martin Rushent photo]()
English record producer
1948–2011
![Andrew Puzder photo]()
American businessman
1950
![Richie Sambora photo]()
musician, songwriter
1959
![Bala photo]()
Indian film director
1966
![Kentaro Miura photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1966
![Jhumpa Lahiri photo]()
Short story writer, novelist
1967
![Mark Fisher (writer) photo]()
British cultural theorist (1968-2017)
1968–2017
![Henrique Capriles Radonski photo]()
Venezuelan politician and lawyer an thot THICC
1972
![Glacier Kwong photo]()
Hong Kong human rights activist
1996
Death
![Nicole Oresme photo]()
French philosopher
1323–1382
![Frederic Dan Huntington photo]()
American bishop
1819–1904
![William Muir photo]()
Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator
1819–1905
![Simon Newcomb photo]()
American astronomer
1835–1909
![Marie Bilders-van Bosse photo]()
painter from the Netherlands
1837–1900
![William Ernest Henley photo]()
English poet, critic and editor
1849–1903
![Ravachol photo]()
French anarchist
1859–1892
![Aga Khan III photo]()
48th Imam of the Nizari Ismaili community
1877–1957
![Dorothy Wellesley, Duchess of Wellington photo]()
Duchess of Wellington
1889–1956
![Paul Nash (artist) photo]()
British surrealist painter and war artist
1889–1946
![Buddy de Sylva photo]()
American musician
1895–1950
![Sophrony (Sakharov) photo]()
Russian monk, theologian and writer
1896–1993
![George Gershwin photo]()
American composer and pianist
1898–1937
![Harold Rosenberg photo]()
American writer and art critic
1906–1978
![Laurence Olivier photo]()
British actor, director and producer
1907–1989
![Meša Selimović photo]()
Yugoslav-Bosnian writer
1910–1982
![John W. Campbell photo]()
American science fiction writer and editor
1910–1971
![Denis Mack Smith photo]()
British historian
1920–2017
![John Seigenthaler photo]()
American journalist, writer, and political figure
1927–2014
![Milan Kundera photo]()
Czech author of Czech and French literature
1929–2023
![Timothy Sprigge photo]()
British philosopher
1932–2007
![Gary Kildall photo]()
Computer scientist and entrepreneur
1942–1994
![Satoru Iwata photo]()
Japanese video game programmer and businessman
1959–2015
![Claudia Alexander photo]()
American geophysicist and planetary scientist
1959–2015
![Arturo Gatti photo]()
Italian-Canadian boxer
1972–2009
