Anniversaries 14 April

Birth

Averroes18

Medieval Arab scholar and philosopher 1126–1198

Christiaan Huygens16

Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher 1629–1695

Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis6

French physician 1787–1872

Horace Bushnell32

American theologian 1802–1876

John Maxson Stillman1

American chemist 1852–1923

Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom1

Member of the British Royal Family and daughter of Queen Vi… 1857–1944

Pyotr Stolypin2

Russian politician 1862–1911

James Branch Cabell130

American author 1879–1958

Moritz Schlick3

German philosopher 1882–1936

Arnold J. Toynbee17

British historian, author of A Study of History 1889–1975

Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar65

Father of republic India, champion of human rights, father … 1891–1956

John Gielgud2

English actor and theatre director 1904–2000

Reinout Willem van Bemmelen4

Dutch geologist 1904–1983

Faisal of Saudi Arabia10

King of Saudi Arabia 1906–1975

François Duvalier4

40th President of the Republic of Haiti 1907–1971

Valerie Hobson1

actress 1917–1998

Thomas C. Schelling6

American economist 1921–2016

John Holt7

educator 1923–1985

Mary Warnock1

Philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on … 1924–2019

Harold M. Schulweis4

American rabbi and theologian 1925–2014

Loretta Lynn2

American country-music singer-songwriter 1932

Arun Gandhi1

Indian activist 1934

Fredric Jameson16

American academic 1934

Jack McDevitt125

American novelist, Short story writer 1935

Lucy R. Lippard8

American art curator 1937

Julie Christie3

British actress and activist 1940

Gerald Cohen10

Canadian philosopher 1941–2009

Lien Fang Yu1

wife of Lien Chan 1943

Ritchie Blackmore1

British guitarist and songwriter 1945

Mireille Guiliano1

French author 1946

Francis S. Collins9

Geneticist; Director of the National Institutes of Health 1950

David M. Buss1

American psychologist 1953

Bruce Sterling13

American writer, speaker, futurist, and design instructor 1954

Chuck Dixon4

American comic book writer 1954

Richard Jeni13

American comedian 1957–2007

Brad Garrett7

actor, comedian, voice actor 1960

Alexandra Ivy4

American novelist 1961

Yukihiro Matsumoto3

Japanese computer scientist 1965

Vadim Krasnoselsky1

politician 1970

Klayton5

American musician 1970

Jericho Brown4

American writer 1976

Sarah Michelle Gellar1

American actress 1977

Death

Thomas Otway5

English writer 1652–1685

George Frideric Handel12

German, later British Baroque composer 1685–1759

Josiah Warren2

American individualist anarchist, inventor, musician, and a… 1798–1874

James Dwight Dana1

American mineralogist 1813–1895

William Morley Punshon29

English Nonconformist minister 1824–1881

Louis Sullivan33

American architect 1856–1924

Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof4

Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto 1859–1917

Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya12

Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore 1860–1962

Ramana Maharshi75

Indian religious leader 1879–1950

Ernest Bevin17

British labour leader, politician, and statesman 1881–1951

Emmy Noether7

German mathematician 1882–1935

Vladimir Mayakovsky14

Russian and Soviet poet, playwright, artist and stage and f… 1893–1930

F. R. Leavis8

British literary critic 1895–1978

Rachel Carson42

American marine biologist and conservationist 1907–1964

Simone de Beauvoir152

French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po… 1908–1986

Julius Sumner Miller7

American physicist 1909–1987

Frank Westheimer2

American chemist 1912–2007

Maurice Druon1

French writer 1918–2009

Michael Flanders8

English writer and performer 1922–1975

Alice Miller24

Swiss psychologist 1923–2010

David Brion Davis1

American historian 1927–2019

Gene Wolfe102

American science fiction and fantasy writer 1931–2019

Ian Wilson (conceptual artist)1

American artist, born 1940 1940–2020

Mirjana Markovic1

Serbian politician 1942–2019

Peter Steele4

American musician 1962–2010