Anniversaries 12 January
Birth
![John Winthrop photo]()
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "C…
1588–1649
![Jonathan Richardson photo]()
English painter
1667–1745
![Edmund Burke photo]()
Anglo-Irish statesman
1729–1797
![Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi photo]()
Swiss pedagogue and educational reformer
1746–1827
![Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon photo]()
Canadian writer
1829–1879
![Joseph Joffre photo]()
French general who served as Commander-in-Chief of French f…
1852–1931
![John Singer Sargent photo]()
American painter
1856–1925
![Swami Vivekananda photo]()
Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
1863–1902
![Bhagwan Das photo]()
Indian Theosophist
1869–1958
![Jack London photo]()
American author, journalist, and social activist
1876–1916
![Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad photo]()
Caliph of the Messiah
1889–1965
![Hermann Göring photo]()
German politician and military leader
1893–1946
![Alfred Rosenberg photo]()
German architect and politician
1893–1946
![Joe E. Lewis photo]()
American singer and comedian
1902–1971
![Emmanuel Levinas photo]()
French philosopher
1906–1995
![Luise Rainer photo]()
German-born Austrian and American film actress
1910–2014
![P. W. Botha photo]()
South African prime minister
1916–2006
![Mary Wilson photo]()
British poet, wife of Harold Wilson
1916–2018
![Maharishi Mahesh Yogi photo]()
Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
1917–2008
![Ilya Prigogine photo]()
physical chemist
1917–2003
![Leonard B. Meyer photo]()
American composer and philosopher
1918–2007
![Alice Miller photo]()
Swiss psychologist
1923–2010
![Morton Feldman photo]()
American avant-garde composer
1926–1987
![Alasdair MacIntyre photo]()
Scottish philosopher
1929
![Nancy Pearl photo]()
American librarian and writer
1945
![William Nicholson photo]()
British screenwriter, playwright and novelist
1948
![Khalid Abdul Muhammad photo]()
American activist
1948–2001
![Martin de Maat photo]()
American theatre director
1949–2001
![Haruki Murakami photo]()
Japanese author, novelist
1949
![Dorrit Moussaieff photo]()
First Lady of Iceland
1950
![Rush Limbaugh photo]()
U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, author, and televis…
1951
![Howard Stern photo]()
American radio personality
1954
![Marie Colvin photo]()
American journalist, war reporter
1956–2012
![Antoine Chbeir photo]()
Lebanese cleric, Maronite bishop of Latakia
1961
![Jeff Bezos photo]()
American entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Amazon.com, Inc.
1964
![Jimmy John Liautaud photo]()
Jimmy John's Owner, Founder, & Chairman
1964
![Heather Mills photo]()
former glamour model, activist
1968
![Zack de la Rocha photo]()
American musician, poet rapper and activist best known as t…
1970
![Melanie C photo]()
British singer-songwriter, actress and businesswoman
1974
![DJ Paul photo]()
American rapper and record producer
1977
![Kris Roe photo]()
American composer and singer
1978
![Issa Rae photo]()
American actress and writer
1985
![Edward W. Hardy photo]()
American composer, musician and producer
1992
Death
![Pierre de Fermat photo]()
French mathematician and lawyer
1601–1665
![Marguerite Bourgeoys photo]()
French colonist and foundress
1620–1700
![Jacob Leupold photo]()
German multidisciplinary scientist
1674–1727
![Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel photo]()
German poet, critic and scholar
1772–1829
![Henry Alford photo]()
English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe…
1810–1871
![Hermann Minkowski photo]()
German mathematician and physicist
1864–1909
![William H. P. Blandy photo]()
American admiral
1890–1954
![Agatha Christie photo]()
English mystery and detective writer
1890–1976
![Nevil Shute photo]()
British racing driver
1899–1960
![Alberto Giacometti photo]()
Swiss sculptor and painter (1901-1966)
1901–1966
![Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter photo]()
Marquess of Exeter
1909–1988
![Stanley Unwin (comedian) photo]()
British comedian
1911–2002
![Laurence J. Peter photo]()
Canadian eductor
1919–1990
![Leopoldo Galtieri photo]()
Argentine military dictator
1926–2003
![William Peter Blatty photo]()
American writer and filmmaker
1928–2017
![Bo Hi Pak photo]()
South Korean member of the Unification Church
1930–2019
![Lorraine Hansberry photo]()
playwright and writer
1930–1965
![Roger Corless photo]()
English theologian and academic
1938–2007
![Roger Scruton photo]()
English philosopher
1944–2020
