Anniversaries 15 January
Birth
![Molière photo]()
French playwright and actor
1622–1673
![Algernon Sidney photo]()
British politician and political theorist
1623–1683
![Jacques Pierre Brissot photo]()
French revolutionary
1754–1793
![Franz Grillparzer photo]()
austrian dramatic and writer
1791–1872
![Pierre Joseph Proudhon photo]()
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so…
1809–1865
![Sarah Doudney photo]()
English novelist and poet
1841–1926
![Paul Lafargue photo]()
French politician
1842–1911
![Frederic G. Kenyon photo]()
British palaeographer and biblical and classical scholar
1863–1952
![Isa Boletini photo]()
Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader
1864–1916
![Gottfried de Purucker photo]()
Author, Theosophist
1874–1942
![Ibn Saud photo]()
Founder of Saudi Arabia
1875–1953
![Stringfellow Barr photo]()
American writer
1897–1982
![Goodman Ace photo]()
Comedian, television writer and columnist
1899–1982
![Eddie DeLange photo]()
American bandleader and lyricist
1904–1949
![Edward Teller photo]()
Hungarian-American nuclear physicist
1908–2003
![Frank Westheimer photo]()
American chemist
1912–2007
![Beatrice Sparks photo]()
American writer
1917–2012
![Gamal Abdel Nasser photo]()
second president of Egypt
1918–1970
![Lee Teng-hui photo]()
former President of Republic of China
1923
![Ivor Cutler photo]()
Scottish poet, humorist
1923–2006
![Rafiq Nishonov photo]()
Soviet politician
1926–2023
![James G. March photo]()
American sociologist
1928–2018
![Martin Luther King, Jr. photo]()
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci…
1929–1968
![John Naisbitt photo]()
American business writer
1929
![Ernest J. Gaines photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, teacher
1933–2019
![Robert Silverberg photo]()
American speculative fiction writer and editor
1935
![Jenny Nimmo photo]()
British author of children's books
1944
![Muhammad Asadullah Al-Ghalib photo]()
Bangladeshi academic
1948
![Mike Gabbard photo]()
Samoan American politician
1948
![John Podesta photo]()
Former White House Chief of Staff
1949
![Kent Hovind photo]()
American young Earth creationist
1953
![Mark Penn photo]()
American political consultant
1954
![Андреас Гурски photo]()
German artist and photographer
1955
![Boris Tadić photo]()
Serbian politician, President of Serbia 2004–2012
1958
![Bruce Schneier photo]()
American computer scientist
1963
![Giles Milton photo]()
British writer and historian
1966
![Raegan Butcher photo]()
American actor and singer
1969
![Josh Pate photo]()
Screenwriter, director and producer
1970
![Jonas Pate photo]()
American screenwriter, director and producer
1970
![Keiran Lee photo]()
British pornographic film actor, director and producer
1984
![Ben Shapiro photo]()
American journalist and attorney
1984
Death
![Joseph Hopkinson photo]()
United States federal judge
1770–1842
![Edward Everett photo]()
American politician, orator, statesman
1794–1865
![Friedrich von Waldersee photo]()
Prussian general (1795-1864)
1795–1864
![Fanny Kemble photo]()
English actress and writer
1809–1893
![Stephen F. Chadwick photo]()
American politician
1825–1895
![James Ryder Randall photo]()
American journalist
1839–1908
![Hermann Bahr photo]()
austrian dramatic, publicist and writer
1863–1934
![Rosa Luxemburg photo]()
Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolut…
1871–1919
![Gulzarilal Nanda photo]()
Prime Minister of India
1898–1998
![Leopold Infeld photo]()
Polish physicist
1898–1968
![Charles W. Morris photo]()
American philosopher
1903–1979
![Sammy Cahn photo]()
American lyricist, songwriter, musician
1913–1993
![Doris Fisher photo]()
American musician
1915–2003
![Harriet Van Horne photo]()
American journalist
1920–1998
![Manuel Fraga Iribarne photo]()
Spanish politician
1922–2012
