Today anniversaries
Birth
![Nostradamus photo]()
French apothecary and reputed seer
1503–1566
![Anne Conway photo]()
British philosopher
1631–1679
![Noah Porter photo]()
American academic
1811–1892
![Frances Ridley Havergal photo]()
British poet and hymn-writer
1836–1879
![Charles Otis Whitman photo]()
American zoologist
1842–1910
![Daniel De Leon photo]()
American newspaper editor
1852–1914
![Roger Fry photo]()
English artist and art critic
1866–1934
![Charles Seeger photo]()
American musicologist
1886–1979
![Jorge VI photo]()
King of the United Kingdom
1895–1952
![James Doolittle photo]()
United States Air Force Medal of Honor recipient
1896–1993
![Margaret Chase Smith photo]()
Member of the United States Senate from Maine
1897–1995
![Thomas A. Bailey photo]()
American historian
1902–1983
![Shirley Jackson photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1916–1965
![Elyse Knox photo]()
American actress
1917–2012
![B.K.S. Iyengar photo]()
Indian yoga teacher and scholar
1918–2014
![Lawrence Haworth photo]()
American-Canadian philosopher
1926
![Ellen Willis photo]()
writer, activist
1941–2006
![Patty Duke photo]()
American actress
1946–2016
![Antony Beevor photo]()
English military historian
1946
![Dilma Rousseff photo]()
36th President of Brazil
1947
![John Mearsheimer photo]()
American political scientist
1947
![Mike Scott photo]()
songwriter, musician
1958
![James Comey photo]()
American lawyer and the seventh director of the Federal Bur…
1960
![Vytautas Juozapaitis photo]()
Lithuanian opera singer
1963
![Sulaiman Abu Ghaith photo]()
One of Al-Qaeda's official spokesmen
1965
![Thuy Trang photo]()
Vietnamese actress (1973-2001)
1973–2001
![Sophie Monk photo]()
Australian actor and singer
1979
![Reza Goodary photo]()
Mixed martial artist
1988
Death
![John of the Cross photo]()
Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic saint
1542–1591
![Henry Aldrich photo]()
Theologian, philosopher, architect, and poet
1647–1710
![Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach photo]()
German harpsichordist and composer
1714–1788
![Ignatius Sancho photo]()
British composer, writer and grocer
1729–1780
![George Washington photo]()
first President of the United States
1732–1799
![Vincenzo Cuoco photo]()
Italian historian and writer
1770–1823
![Louis Agassiz photo]()
Swiss naturalist
1807–1873
![Saint Nimatullah Kassab photo]()
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
1808–1858
![Albert, Prince Consort photo]()
husband of Queen Victoria
1819–1861
![John Harvey Kellogg photo]()
American physician
1852–1943
![Alfred Cochrane photo]()
English cricketer
1865–1948
![Stanley Baldwin photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1867–1947
![Juho Kusti Paasikivi photo]()
7th President of Finland
1870–1956
![Kurt Hahn photo]()
German educator
1886–1974
![Walter Lippmann photo]()
American journalist
1889–1974
![John Rupert Firth photo]()
English linguist
1890–1960
![William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim photo]()
former Governor-General of Australia
1891–1970
![Stanley Spencer photo]()
English painter
1891–1959
![Catherine Doherty photo]()
Religious order founder; Servant of God
1896–1985
![Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings photo]()
American novelist
1896–1953
![Myrna Loy photo]()
American film, television and stage actress
1905–1993
![John Arlott photo]()
English sports commentator and writer
1914–1991
![Andrei Sakharov photo]()
Soviet nuclear physicist and human rights activist
1921–1989
![Friedrich Dürrenmatt photo]()
Swiss author and dramatist
1921–1990
![Dennis Lindley photo]()
British statistician
1923–2013
![Trevanian photo]()
American writer
1931–2005
![Peter O'Toole photo]()
Irish film and stage actor
1932–2013
![Robyn Dawes photo]()
American psychologist
1936–2010
![Janet Dailey photo]()
American writer
1944–2013
