Anniversaries 14 September

Birth

Cornelius Agrippa2

Magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, alchemist 1486–1535

Francisco de Quevedo1

Spanish writer 1584–1645

James Wilson6

one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and a sign… 1742–1798

Alexander von Humboldt11

Prussian geographer, naturalist and explorer 1769–1859

John Henry Hobart1

Episcopal Bishop of New York 1775–1830

Seba Smith1

American humorist 1792–1868

Henry Hawkins, 1st Baron Brampton5

British judge 1817–1907

Benjamin Harvey Hill1

American politician 1823–1882

Julius Hawley Seelye1

American politician 1824–1895

Ivan Pavlov6

Russian physiologist 1849–1936

Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare3

British orientalist 1856–1924

Henry Burchard Fine3

American academic 1858–1928

Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood30

lawyer, politician and diplomat in the United Kingdom 1864–1958

Margaret Sanger61

American birth control activist, educator and nurse 1879–1966

Wei Wu Wei25

writer 1895–1986

Solomon Asch2

American psychologist 1907–1996

Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán2

president of Guatemala in 1951-54 1913–1971

Sydney J. Harris44

American journalist 1917–1986

Lawrence Klein15

American economist 1920–2013

Mario Benedetti4

Uruguayan journalist, novelist, and poet 1920–2009

Humberto Maturana14

Chilean biologist and philosopher 1928

Allan Bloom29

American philosopher, classicist, and academician 1930–1992

Joyce Taylor1

American actress 1932

Barbara Grizzuti Harrison2

American journalist 1934–2002

Orrin H. Pilkey4

American ecologist 1934

Sarah Kofman6

philosopher from France 1934–1994

Juhani Pallasmaa3

Finnish architect 1936

Kate Millett1

American writer and activist 1937–2017

Ventseslav Konstantinov4

Bulgarian writer and Translator 1940–2019

John Lehman5

American banker and government official 1942

Bernard MacLaverty20

Irish writer 1942

Sam Neill3

Irish-born New Zealand actor 1947

Robert B. Pippin2

American philosopher 1948

Gérard Larcher1

President of the Senate (France) 1949

Robert Costanza7

American economist 1950

Volodymyr Melnykov2

Ukrainian writer, poet, composer 1951

David Wojnarowicz1

American painter, photographer, writer, filmmaker, performa… 1954–1992

François Asselineau2

French politician 1957

James Sears1

Canadian pickup artist, physician, politician and National … 1963

Dmitry Medvedev11

Russian Prime Minister and former president 1965

Bong Joon-ho2

South Korean film director and screenwriter 1969

Nas41

American rapper, record producer and entrepreneur 1973

Ron DeSantis3

Florida politician 1978

Amy Winehouse17

English singer and songwriter 1983–2011

Tiffany Brar7

Indian Social Activist 1988

Death

Cyprian7

Bishop of Carthage and Christian writer 200–258

John Chrysostom26

important Early Church Father 349–407

Dante Alighieri105

Italian poet 1265–1321

Thomas Overbury3

(1581–1613) English poet and essayist 1581–1613

Charles Rollin3

French historian 1661–1741

Aaron Burr4

American Vice President and politician 1756–1836

Артур Уэлсли Уэллингтон1

1769–1852

Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington45

British soldier and statesman 1769–1852

James Fenimore Cooper26

American author 1789–1851

Johannes Bosboom9

Dutch painter 1817–1891

William McKinley22

American politician, 25th president of the United States (i… 1843–1901

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk9

First Czechoslovak president 1850–1937

Josiah Royce2

United States philosopher 1855–1916

Pierre Duhem8

French physicist, historian of science 1861–1916

Isadora Duncan14

American dancer and choreographer 1877–1927

Hugo Ball19

German author, poet and one of the leading Dada artists 1886–1927

Rudolf Carnap21

German philosopher 1891–1970

Irving Thalberg1

American film producer 1899–1936

Vasily Grossman22

Soviet writer and journalist who originally trained as an e… 1905–1964

Laxmi Prasad Devkota49

Nepali poet 1909–1959

Russell Lynes2

American art historian 1910–1991

Stormont Mancroft, 2nd Baron Mancroft5

British politician 1914–1987

Garrett Hardin12

American ecologist 1915–2003

John Holt7

educator 1923–1985

Moshe Goshen-Gottstein5

Israeli linguist 1925–1991

Grace Kelly10

American actress and Princess consort of Monaco 1929–1982

Fred Jelinek2

Czech linguist 1932–2010

Richard Brautigan49

American novelist, poet, and short story writer 1935–1984

Bachir Gemayel1

Lebanese politician and militia commander 1947–1982