Anniversaries 14 May
Birth
![Thomas Gainsborough photo]()
English portrait and landscape painter
1727–1788
![George Macartney photo]()
British statesman, colonial administrator and diplomat
1737–1806
![Timothy Dwight IV photo]()
American historian
1752–1817
![Albrecht Thaer photo]()
German agronomist and an avid supporter of the humus theory…
1752–1828
![John Leland (Baptist) photo]()
American Baptist minister
1754–1841
![Robert Owen photo]()
Welsh social reformer
1771–1858
![B.C. Forbes photo]()
American journalist
1880–1954
![Ed Ricketts photo]()
American marine biologist
1897–1948
![Hal Borland photo]()
American journalist and writer
1900–1978
![Nicholas Kurti photo]()
Hungarian physicist
1908–1998
![Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis photo]()
Greek architect
1914–1975
![Franjo Tuđman photo]()
Croatian politician, soldier and president
1922–1999
![María Irene Fornés photo]()
American writer
1930–2018
![Richard John Neuhaus photo]()
Canadian-American Christian writer
1936–2009
![Rolf Gindorf photo]()
German sexologist
1939–2016
![George Lucas photo]()
American film producer
1944
![Jill Stein photo]()
American politician and physician
1950
![David Byrne photo]()
Scottish alternative rock musician and promoter of world mu…
1952
![Jibril Rajoub photo]()
Palestinian sharamit
1953
![Steve Hogarth photo]()
English singer-songwriter and musician
1956
![Eoin Colfer photo]()
Irish author of children's books
1965
![Sofia Coppola photo]()
screenwriter and director from the United States
1971
![Ike Moriz photo]()
German-South African singer, composer and actor
1972
![Visvaldas Kulbokas photo]()
Lithuanian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church
1974
![Frank Gore photo]()
American football running back
1983
![Mark Zuckerberg photo]()
American internet entrepreneur
1984
Death
![Muhammad al-Mahdi photo]()
12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
869–941
![Henry IV of France photo]()
first French monarch of the House of Bourbon
1553–1610
![Lucy Mack Smith photo]()
American religious leader
1775–1856
![Matthew Lewis (writer) photo]()
English novelist and dramatist
1775–1818
![Théodore Guérin photo]()
Catholic saint and nun from France
1798–1856
![Lysander Spooner photo]()
Anarchist, Entrepreneur, Abolitionist
1808–1887
![Carl Schurz photo]()
Union Army general, politician
1829–1906
![Henry J. Heinz photo]()
American businessman
1844–1919
![August Strindberg photo]()
Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter
1849–1912
![Heber J. Grant photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1856–1945
![H. Rider Haggard photo]()
English writer of adventure novels
1856–1925
![Emma Goldman photo]()
anarchist known for her political activism, writing, and sp…
1868–1940
![Robert Hunter (author) photo]()
American sociologist, author, golf course architect
1874–1942
![Frances Perkins photo]()
American politician
1882–1965
![Jean Rhys photo]()
novelist from Dominica
1890–1979
![Leonard E. Read photo]()
American academic
1898–1983
![J. Posadas photo]()
Argentine Trotskyist (1912-1981)
1912–1981
![Jiang Qing photo]()
Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong
1914–1991
![Frank Sinatra photo]()
American singer and film actor
1915–1998
![Jean Fritz photo]()
American children's writer
1915–2017
![Rita Hayworth photo]()
American actress, dancer and director
1918–1987
![Tom Wolfe photo]()
American author and journalist
1930–2018
![E. C. George Sudarshan photo]()
Indian physicist
1931–2018
![Doyle Brunson photo]()
American poker player
1933–2023
![Asghar Ali Engineer photo]()
Indian activist
1939–2013
