Anniversaries 15 November
Birth
![Bernard Mandeville photo]()
Anglo-Dutch writer and physician
1670–1733
![William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham photo]()
British politician
1708–1778
![William Herschel photo]()
German-born British astronomer, technical expert, and compo…
1738–1822
![Heinrich Christian Friedrich Schumacher photo]()
Danish scientist
1757–1830
![James Henry Hammond photo]()
Governor of South Carolina, South Carolina politician
1807–1864
![African Spir photo]()
Russian philosopher
1837–1890
![Robert Stanley Weir photo]()
Canadian judge and poet
1856–1926
![Charles Edward Merriam photo]()
American political scientist
1874–1953
![August Krogh photo]()
Danish physiologist
1874–1949
![Franklin Pierce Adams photo]()
United States humor writer
1881–1960
![René Guénon photo]()
French metaphysician
1886–1951
![Georgia O'Keeffe photo]()
American artist
1887–1986
![Marianne Moore photo]()
American poet and writer
1887–1972
![Erwin Rommel photo]()
German field marshal of World War II
1891–1944
![W. Averell Harriman photo]()
American businessman, politician and diplomat
1891–1986
![Aneurin Bevan photo]()
Welsh politician
1897–1960
![Goparaju Ramachandra Rao photo]()
Indian activist
1902–1975
![Curtis LeMay photo]()
American general and politician
1906–1990
![N. G. L. Hammond photo]()
British classical scholar
1907–2001
![Raymond F. Jones photo]()
American writer
1915–1994
![Roy Hilligenn photo]()
South African bodybuilder
1922–2008
![Mwai Kibaki photo]()
Former president of Kenya
1931
![Alvin Plantinga photo]()
American Christian philosopher
1932
![Petula Clark photo]()
British actress and singer
1932
![Theodore Roszak photo]()
American social historian, social critic, writer
1933–2011
![Mahmoud Abbas photo]()
Palestinian statesman
1935
![Daniel Barenboim photo]()
Israeli Argentine-born pianist and conductor
1942
![Anni-Frid Lyngstad photo]()
Swedish female singer
1945
![Gregory Chaitin photo]()
Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist
1947
![Bill Richardson photo]()
politician and governor from the United States
1947
![Aleksander Kwaśniewski photo]()
Polish politician, president of Poland
1954
![Gao Fu photo]()
Chinese virologist and immunologist
1961
![Fausto Brizzi photo]()
Italian film director, screenwriter and producer
1968
![Ol' Dirty Bastard photo]()
American rapper
1968–2004
![Intan Paramaditha photo]()
Indonesian writer and feminist academic
1979
![William Eubank photo]()
American film director
1982
![Jeffree Star photo]()
American singer-songwriter, make-up artist, fashion designe…
1985
![Sania Mirza photo]()
Indian tennis player
1986
Death
![Albertus Magnus photo]()
Dominican friar
1206–1280
![Ferenc Dávid photo]()
Hungarian noble
1510–1579
![Johannes Kepler photo]()
German mathematician, astronomer and astrologer
1571–1630
![John Amos Comenius photo]()
Czech teacher, educator, philosopher and writer
1592–1670
![Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama photo]()
sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet
1683–1706
![John Witherspoon photo]()
Scottish-American Presbyterian minister and a Founding Fath…
1723–1794
![Jean-Baptiste Say photo]()
French economist and businessman
1767–1832
![Empress Dowager Cixi photo]()
Chinese empress
1835–1908
![Henryk Sienkiewicz photo]()
Polish journalist, Nobel Prize-winning novelist, and philan…
1846–1916
![Agnes Repplier photo]()
American essayist
1855–1950
![Émile Durkheim photo]()
French sociologist (1858-1917)
1858–1917
![Frank Johnson Goodnow photo]()
American historian
1859–1939
![Oswald Chambers photo]()
British missionary
1874–1917
![Margaret Mead photo]()
American anthropologist
1901–1978
![W. Ross Ashby photo]()
British psychiatrist
1903–1972
![Elizabeth George Speare photo]()
American writer
1908–1994
![Nathuram Godse photo]()
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
1910–1949
![Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj photo]()
spiritual leader
1922–2013
![Grace Hartigan photo]()
American artist
1922–2008
![Adrian Rogers photo]()
American television evangelist
1931–2005
![Sallie McFague photo]()
American feminist and theologian
1933–2019
![Hugh Prather photo]()
American writer
1938–2010
![Stokely Carmichael photo]()
American activist
1941–1998
![Barbara Park photo]()
American juvenile author
1947–2013
![Leslie Feinberg photo]()
activist and author known for authoring Stone Butch Blues
1949–2014
![Lil Peep photo]()
American rapper
1996–2017
