Anniversaries 14 October
Birth
![James II of England photo]()
King of England, Scotland and Ireland
1633–1701
![William Penn photo]()
English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher, early Quaker…
1644–1718
![Girolamo Gigli photo]()
Italian dramaturge
1660–1722
![Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician) photo]()
Irish writer and activist
1814–1845
![William Harcourt photo]()
British politician
1827–1904
![Gottlieb Wilhelm Leitner photo]()
British orientalist
1840–1899
![Ravachol photo]()
French anarchist
1859–1892
![John Cunningham McLennan photo]()
Canadian physicist
1867–1935
![Éamon de Valera photo]()
3rd President of Ireland
1882–1975
![Katherine Mansfield photo]()
New Zealand author
1888–1923
![Dwight D. Eisenhower photo]()
American general and politician, 34th president of the Unit…
1890–1969
![Leslie Weatherhead photo]()
English theologian
1893–1976
![Lillian Gish photo]()
American actress
1893–1993
![W. Edwards Deming photo]()
American professor, author, and consultant
1900–1993
![Hannah Arendt photo]()
Jewish-American political theorist
1906–1975
![Hassan Banna photo]()
Egyptian politician
1906–1949
![John Wooden photo]()
American basketball coach
1910–2010
![Ivo Kozarčanin photo]()
Croatian writer
1911–1941
![C. Everett Koop photo]()
American pediatric surgeon and public health administrator
1916–2013
![Joel Barnett, Baron Barnett photo]()
British politician
1923–2014
![Thomas Luckmann photo]()
American-Austrian sociologist
1927–2016
![Mobutu Sésé Seko photo]()
President of Zaïre
1930–1997
![Wolf Vostell photo]()
German painter and sculptor
1932–1998
![John Dean photo]()
American lawyer, politician
1938
![George Ritzer photo]()
American sociologist
1940
![Jerry Glanville photo]()
American former football player and sports coach
1941
![Dyanne Thorne photo]()
American actress
1943–2020
![Eli Bebout photo]()
American politician and businessman
1946
![Mohamad Sabu photo]()
Defence Minister of Malaysia
1954
![Robin D. Laws photo]()
Canadian writer and game designer
1964
![Steve Coogan photo]()
English actor and comedian
1965
![George Floyd photo]()
African American man who was a victim of police violence in…
1973–2020
![Jessica Drake photo]()
American pornographic actress
1974
![Usher photo]()
American singer, songwriter, dancer and actor
1978
![Ocean Vuong photo]()
Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist
1988
![Ocean Vuong photo]()
Vietnamese American poet, essayist and novelist
1988
Death
![Harold II of England photo]()
Anglo-Saxon King of England
1022–1066
![Samuel Daniel photo]()
Poet and historian
1562–1619
![Josh Billings photo]()
American humorist
1818–1885
![John Marshall Harlan photo]()
United States Union Army officer and Supreme Court Associat…
1833–1911
![Douglas Mawson photo]()
Australian geologist, Antarctic explorer and academic
1882–1958
![Edith Evans photo]()
British actress
1888–1976
![Erwin Rommel photo]()
German field marshal of World War II
1891–1944
![Kyūichi Tokuda photo]()
Japanese politician
1894–1953
![Errol Flynn photo]()
Australian actor
1909–1959
![John R. P. French photo]()
American psychologist
1913–1995
![Randall Jarrell photo]()
poet, critic, novelist, essayist
1914–1965
![Cleveland Amory photo]()
American writer
1917–1998
![Martin Ryle photo]()
English radio astronomer
1918–1984
![Leonard Bernstein photo]()
American composer, conductor, author, music lecturer, and p…
1918–1990
![Dattopant Thengadi photo]()
Indian politician
1920–2004
![Julius Nyerere photo]()
Tanzanian politician and writer, first Prime Minister and P…
1922–1999
![Paul Taylor photo]()
american philosopher, born 1923
1923–2015
![James Barr photo]()
British bible scholar
1924–2006
![Benoît Mandelbrot photo]()
Polish-born, French and American mathematician
1924–2010
![Arlen Specter photo]()
American politician; former United States Senator from Penn…
1930–2012
![Harold Bloom photo]()
American literary critic and scholar
1930–2019
![Ed Gorman photo]()
American writer
1941–2016
