Today anniversaries
Birth
![Samuel Woodworth photo]()
American writer
1784–1842
![Salmon P. Chase photo]()
Chief Justice of the United States
1808–1873
![Ernestine Rose photo]()
American feminist activist
1810–1892
![Ethel Lynn Beers photo]()
American writer
1827–1879
![George Ivanovitch Gurdjieff photo]()
influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos…
1866–1949
![G. I. Gurdjieff photo]()
influential spiritual teacher, Armenian philosopher, compos…
1866–1949
![Lev Mekhlis photo]()
Soviet politician
1889–1953
![Elmer Davis photo]()
American politician
1890–1958
![Miguel Pro photo]()
Mexican Jesuit priest and martyr
1891–1927
![Clark Ashton Smith photo]()
American author
1893–1961
![Jan Burgers photo]()
Dutch physicist
1895–1981
![Jeff Morrow photo]()
American actor and World War II veteran
1907–1993
![Dieter Wisliceny photo]()
SS-Hauptsturmführer
1911–1948
![Paul Karl Feyerabend photo]()
Austrian-born philosopher of science
1924–1994
![Michael Bond photo]()
English author, creator of Paddington the Bear
1926–2017
![Carolyn G. Heilbrun photo]()
Academic, novelist
1926–2003
![Sydney Brenner photo]()
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medic…
1927–2019
![Guy Sajer photo]()
French military writer and cartoonist
1927
![Carolyn See photo]()
American writer
1934–2016
![Edmund White photo]()
American novelist and LGBT essayist
1940
![Diego Causero photo]()
Italian apostolic nuncio
1940
![Tevita Momoedonu photo]()
Prime Minister of Fiji
1946
![Steve Rivkin photo]()
American marketing theorist
1947–2016
![Paul Guyer photo]()
American philosopher
1948
![Fernando Chui photo]()
Chief Executive of Macau (2009-2019)
1957
![Winnie Byanyima photo]()
Ugandan aeronautical engineer, politician and diplomat
1959
![Ernie Irvan photo]()
American racing driver
1959
![Julia Louis-Dreyfus photo]()
American actress, comedian and producer
1961
![Bill Bailey photo]()
English comedian, musician, actor, TV and radio presenter a…
1965
![Debito Arudou photo]()
Author/activist with Japanese citizenship born in the USA
1965
![Masha Gessen photo]()
Russian-American journalist and activist
1967
![Andrew Yang photo]()
American entrepreneur
1975
![Nate Silver photo]()
American statistician and writer
1978
![Kadda Sheekoff photo]()
Haitian rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, actor,…
1993
Death
![George Fox photo]()
English Dissenter and founder of the Religious Society of F…
1624–1691
![John Scott photo]()
British barrister and politician, born 1751
1751–1838
![Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac photo]()
French politician, freemason, journalist, and one of the mo…
1755–1841
![Stephen Foster photo]()
American songwriter
1826–1864
![John Robert Seeley photo]()
British historian
1834–1895
![Jakob Hurt photo]()
Estonian linguist
1839–1907
![Lyonel Feininger photo]()
German-American painter
1871–1956
![James Joyce photo]()
Irish novelist and poet
1882–1941
![Jerome Frank photo]()
American jurist
1889–1957
![Sigurd F. Olson photo]()
American conservationist
1899–1982
![Hubert H. Humphrey photo]()
Vice-President of the USA under Lyndon B. Johnson
1911–1978
![Hortense Calisher photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, and memoirist
1911–2009
![Nancy Bird Walton photo]()
Australian aviatrix
1915–2009
![Ernie Kovacs photo]()
American comedian, actor, and writer
1919–1962
![Ellen Stewart photo]()
American theater director and producer
1919–2011
![Richard Dalitz photo]()
Australian physicist
1925–2006
![Francine du Plessix Gray photo]()
American writer
1930–2019
![Mark Fisher (writer) photo]()
British cultural theorist (1968-2017)
1968–2017
![Tom Hurndall photo]()
British activist
1981–2004
