Anniversaries 14 January
Birth
![William Whipple photo]()
American signatory of the Declaration of Independence
1730–1785
![Benedict Arnold photo]()
Continental and later British Army general during the Ameri…
1741–1801
![Jane Welsh Carlyle photo]()
Scottish writer
1801–1866
![Henri Fantin-Latour photo]()
painter from France
1836–1904
![Berthe Morisot photo]()
painter from France
1841–1895
![Albert Schweitzer photo]()
French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph…
1875–1965
![Hendrik Willem van Loon photo]()
Dutch-American historian, journalist and author
1882–1944
![Morihei Ueshiba photo]()
founder of aikido
1883–1969
![Hugh Lofting photo]()
British author, trained as a civil engineer
1886–1947
![Ilya Ehrenburg photo]()
Russian-Soviet writer and poet
1891–1967
![Martin Niemöller photo]()
German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor
1892–1984
![John Dos Passos photo]()
novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter
1896–1970
![Carlos P. Romulo photo]()
Filipino politician and diplomat
1899–1985
![Alfred Tarski photo]()
Polish-American logician
1901–1983
![Emily Hahn photo]()
American writer
1905–1997
![Thomas Watson, Jr. photo]()
American businessman and diplomat
1914–1993
![Andy Rooney photo]()
writer, humorist, television personality
1919–2011
![Chế Lan Viên photo]()
Vietnamese writer
1920–1989
![Murray Bookchin photo]()
American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosop…
1921–2006
![Yukio Mishima photo]()
Japanese author
1925–1970
![Joseph Chilton Pearce photo]()
American writer
1926–2016
![Timothy Sprigge photo]()
British philosopher
1932–2007
![Jean Ferris photo]()
American children's writer
1939–2015
![Nina Totenberg photo]()
American political journalist
1944
![Richard Laymon photo]()
American writer
1947–2001
![John Lescroart photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter
1948
![Rāmabhadrācārya photo]()
Hindu religious leader
1950
![Ann E. Dunwoody photo]()
U.S. Army, first four-star general in U.S. military history
1953
![Anchee Min photo]()
Chinese-American author
1957
![Shepard Smith photo]()
television news anchor from the United States
1964
![Rob Flello photo]()
British politician (born 1966)
1966
![LL Cool J photo]()
American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor
1968
![Dave Grohl photo]()
American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-s…
1969
![Michelle Wu photo]()
City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts
1985
Death
![Edmond Halley photo]()
English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorolog…
1656–1742
![George Berkeley photo]()
Anglo-Irish philosopher
1685–1753
![John Wolcot photo]()
English satirist
1738–1819
![John Leland (Baptist) photo]()
American Baptist minister
1754–1841
![Henry Edward Manning photo]()
English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal
1808–1892
![Edmund Sears photo]()
American minister
1810–1876
![Lewis Carroll photo]()
English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer
1832–1898
![Mandell Creighton photo]()
English historian and ecclesiastic
1843–1901
![Harry Furniss photo]()
Irish artist and illustrator
1854–1925
![Gustav Cassel photo]()
Swedish economist
1866–1945
![Heinrich Schenker photo]()
Austrian music theorist
1868–1935
![Fred Fisher photo]()
American songwriter
1875–1942
![G. D. H. Cole photo]()
British historian, economist, writer
1889–1959
![Ammon Hennacy photo]()
American Christian radical
1893–1970
![Anthony Eden photo]()
British Conservative politician, prime minister
1897–1977
![Ray Kroc photo]()
American businessman
1902–1984
![Anaïs Nin photo]()
writer of novels, short stories, and erotica
1903–1977
![Sergei Korolev photo]()
Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer
1906–1966
![William Feller photo]()
Croatian-American mathematician
1906–1970
![Kurt Gödel photo]()
logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics
1906–1978
![Robert Ardrey photo]()
Screenwriter and author of several books on anthropology
1908–1980
![Uta Hagen photo]()
German-born American actress and drama teacher
1919–2004
![Jack Cady photo]()
American writer
1932–2004
![Alan Rickman photo]()
English film, television and stage actor
1946–2016
