Anniversaries 14 January

Birth

Abu'l-Fazl ibn Mubarak11

vizier 1551–1602

William Whipple2

American signatory of the Declaration of Independence 1730–1785

Benedict Arnold6

Continental and later British Army general during the Ameri… 1741–1801

Jane Welsh Carlyle11

Scottish writer 1801–1866

Henri Fantin-Latour5

painter from France 1836–1904

Berthe Morisot36

painter from France 1841–1895

Pierre Loti1

French writer 1850–1923

Albert Schweitzer126

French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph… 1875–1965

Hendrik Willem van Loon1

Dutch-American historian, journalist and author 1882–1944

Morihei Ueshiba50

founder of aikido 1883–1969

Hugh Lofting1

British author, trained as a civil engineer 1886–1947

Ilya Ehrenburg1

Russian-Soviet writer and poet 1891–1967

Martin Niemöller13

German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor 1892–1984

John Dos Passos25

novelist, playwright, poet, journalist, painter 1896–1970

Carlos P. Romulo2

Filipino politician and diplomat 1899–1985

Alfred Tarski6

Polish-American logician 1901–1983

Emily Hahn5

American writer 1905–1997

Thomas Watson, Jr.7

American businessman and diplomat 1914–1993

Andy Rooney25

writer, humorist, television personality 1919–2011

Chế Lan Viên9

Vietnamese writer 1920–1989

Murray Bookchin24

American libertarian socialist author, orator, and philosop… 1921–2006

Yukio Mishima60

Japanese author 1925–1970

Joseph Chilton Pearce7

American writer 1926–2016

Timothy Sprigge5

British philosopher 1932–2007

Jean Ferris8

American children's writer 1939–2015

Махназ Афхами1

1941

Nina Totenberg2

American political journalist 1944

Richard Laymon1

American writer 1947–2001

Eric Maisel10

American writer 1947

John Lescroart1

Novelist, screenwriter 1948

Rāmabhadrācārya21

Hindu religious leader 1950

Maureen Dowd6

American journalist 1952

Ann E. Dunwoody8

U.S. Army, first four-star general in U.S. military history 1953

Mike Cierpiot1

American politician 1953

Victor Lyngdoh1

catholic archbishop 1956

Anchee Min2

Chinese-American author 1957

Edward St. Aubyn50

British writer 1960

Shepard Smith4

television news anchor from the United States 1964

Rob Flello2

British politician (born 1966) 1966

LL Cool J1

American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor 1968

Dave Grohl6

American rock musician, multi-instrumentalist, and singer-s… 1969

Michelle Wu11

City Councilor in Boston, Massachusetts 1985

Death

Edmond Halley1

English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorolog… 1656–1742

George Berkeley18

Anglo-Irish philosopher 1685–1753

John Wolcot5

English satirist 1738–1819

John Leland (Baptist)7

American Baptist minister 1754–1841

Henry Edward Manning9

English Roman Catholic archbishop and cardinal 1808–1892

Edmund Sears4

American minister 1810–1876

Lewis Carroll241

English writer, logician, Anglican deacon and photographer 1832–1898

Mandell Creighton6

English historian and ecclesiastic 1843–1901

Harry Furniss2

Irish artist and illustrator 1854–1925

Gustav Cassel2

Swedish economist 1866–1945

Heinrich Schenker3

Austrian music theorist 1868–1935

Joseph H. Hertz18

British rabbi 1872–1946

Fred Fisher2

American songwriter 1875–1942

Dorothea Mackellar1

Poet 1885–1968

G. D. H. Cole1

British historian, economist, writer 1889–1959

Ammon Hennacy14

American Christian radical 1893–1970

Anthony Eden18

British Conservative politician, prime minister 1897–1977

Humphrey Bogart3

American actor 1899–1957

Mani Madhava Chakyar28

Indian actor 1899–1990

Ray Kroc3

American businessman 1902–1984

Anaïs Nin278

writer of novels, short stories, and erotica 1903–1977

Sergei Korolev6

Soviet rocket engineer and spacecraft designer 1906–1966

William Feller30

Croatian-American mathematician 1906–1970

Kurt Gödel12

logician, mathematician, and philosopher of mathematics 1906–1978

Robert Ardrey8

Screenwriter and author of several books on anthropology 1908–1980

Uta Hagen1

German-born American actress and drama teacher 1919–2004

Shelley Winters4

actress 1920–2006

Jack Cady22

American writer 1932–2004

Alan Rickman5

English film, television and stage actor 1946–2016