Anniversaries 14 April
Birth
![Averroes photo]()
Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher
1126–1198
![Christiaan Huygens photo]()
Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
1629–1695
![Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis photo]()
French physician
1787–1872
![Horace Bushnell photo]()
American theologian
1802–1876
![John Maxson Stillman photo]()
American chemist
1852–1923
![Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom photo]()
Member of the British Royal Family and daughter of Queen Vi…
1857–1944
![Pyotr Stolypin photo]()
Russian politician
1862–1911
![James Branch Cabell photo]()
American author
1879–1958
![Moritz Schlick photo]()
German philosopher
1882–1936
![Arnold J. Toynbee photo]()
British historian, author of A Study of History
1889–1975
![Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar photo]()
Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father …
1891–1956
![John Gielgud photo]()
English actor and theatre director
1904–2000
![Reinout Willem van Bemmelen photo]()
Dutch geologist
1904–1983
![Faisal of Saudi Arabia photo]()
King of Saudi Arabia
1906–1975
![François Duvalier photo]()
40th President of the Republic of Haiti
1907–1971
![Thomas C. Schelling photo]()
American economist
1921–2016
![Mary Warnock photo]()
Philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on …
1924–2019
![Harold M. Schulweis photo]()
American rabbi and theologian
1925–2014
![Loretta Lynn photo]()
American country-music singer-songwriter
1932
![Jack McDevitt photo]()
American novelist, Short story writer
1935
![Lucy R. Lippard photo]()
American art curator
1937
![Julie Christie photo]()
British actress and activist
1940
![Gerald Cohen photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1941–2009
![Ritchie Blackmore photo]()
British guitarist and songwriter
1945
![Francis S. Collins photo]()
Geneticist; Director of the National Institutes of Health
1950
![David M. Buss photo]()
American psychologist
1953
![Bruce Sterling photo]()
American writer, speaker, futurist, and design instructor
1954
![Chuck Dixon photo]()
American comic book writer
1954
![Richard Jeni photo]()
American comedian
1957–2007
![Brad Garrett photo]()
actor, comedian, voice actor
1960
![Yukihiro Matsumoto photo]()
Japanese computer scientist
1965
Death
![George Frideric Handel photo]()
German, later British Baroque composer
1685–1759
![Josiah Warren photo]()
American individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and a…
1798–1874
![James Dwight Dana photo]()
American mineralogist
1813–1895
![William Morley Punshon photo]()
English Nonconformist minister
1824–1881
![Louis Sullivan photo]()
American architect
1856–1924
![Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof photo]()
Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto
1859–1917
![Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya photo]()
Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
1860–1962
![Ramana Maharshi photo]()
Indian religious leader
1879–1950
![Ernest Bevin photo]()
British labour leader, politician, and statesman
1881–1951
![Emmy Noether photo]()
German mathematician
1882–1935
![Vladimir Mayakovsky photo]()
Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and f…
1893–1930
![F. R. Leavis photo]()
British literary critic
1895–1978
![Rachel Carson photo]()
American marine biologist and conservationist
1907–1964
![Simone de Beauvoir photo]()
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po…
1908–1986
![Julius Sumner Miller photo]()
American physicist
1909–1987
![Frank Westheimer photo]()
American chemist
1912–2007
![Michael Flanders photo]()
English writer and performer
1922–1975
![Alice Miller photo]()
Swiss psychologist
1923–2010
![David Brion Davis photo]()
American historian
1927–2019
![Gene Wolfe photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1931–2019
![Ian Wilson (conceptual artist) photo]()
American artist, born 1940
1940–2020
![Mirjana Markovic photo]()
Serbian politician
1942–2019
![Peter Steele photo]()
American musician
1962–2010
