Today anniversaries
Birth
![Nero photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome, 5th and last of the Julio-Claudian…
37–68
![Henry Fothergill Chorley photo]()
English literary, art and music critic and editor
1808–1872
![Ludoviko Lazaro Zamenhof photo]()
Polish ophthalmologist and inventor of Esperanto
1859–1917
![John Woodroffe photo]()
English orientalist
1865–1936
![Josef Hoffmann photo]()
Austrian architect and product designer
1870–1956
![J. Paul Getty photo]()
American industrialist
1892–1977
![Betty Smith photo]()
writer from the USA
1896–1972
![Kurt Schuschnigg photo]()
Chancellor of Austria
1897–1977
![David McCord photo]()
American writer
1897–1997
![Oscar Niemeyer photo]()
Brazilian architect
1907–2012
![Richard Crossman photo]()
British Member of Parliament
1907–1974
![Muriel Rukeyser photo]()
poet and political activist
1913–1980
![Philip Rieff photo]()
American sociologist
1922–2006
![Valentin Varennikov photo]()
Soviet general and russian politician
1923–2009
![Freeman Dyson photo]()
theoretical physicist and mathematician
1923
![Friedensreich Hundertwasser photo]()
Austrian artist
1928–2000
![Edna O'Brien photo]()
Novelist, memoirist, biographer, playwright, poet and short…
1930
![John Taylor Gatto photo]()
American teacher, book author
1935–2018
![Don Johnson photo]()
American actor and singer
1949
![Brian T. Carroll photo]()
American educator and politician
1949
![Marie Brenner photo]()
About someone's LIFE and Hers
1949
![Julie Taymor photo]()
American film and theatre director
1952
![Mark Warner photo]()
United States Senator from Virginia
1954
![Paul Simonon photo]()
English musician (Bass guitarist, vocalist, songwriter) and…
1955
![Donna Brazile photo]()
American author, educator, and political activist and strat…
1959
![Surya Bonaly photo]()
French figure skater
1973
![Brooke Fraser photo]()
New Zealand singer and songwriter
1983
![Niniola photo]()
Nigerian singer-songwriter
1986
![Ayuel Monykuch photo]()
South Sudanese Entrepreneur
1997
Death
![Izaak Walton photo]()
English author and biographer
1593–1683
![Margaret Cavendish photo]()
English aristocrat, a prolific writer, and a scientist
1623–1673
![John Dyer photo]()
Welsh cleric, poet and painter
1699–1757
![Anthony Wayne photo]()
Continental Army general
1745–1796
![Joseph Martin Kraus photo]()
German composer
1756–1792
![Eliza Farnham photo]()
American novelist, feminist, abolitionist, and activist for…
1815–1864
![Donald Grant Mitchell photo]()
American writer
1822–1908
![Sitting Bull photo]()
Hunkpapa Lakota medicine man and holy man
1831–1890
![Arthur Machen photo]()
Welsh author and mystic
1863–1947
![Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel photo]()
Indian freedom fighter who forged united India
1875–1950
![Andrew Paterson photo]()
Scottish photographer
1877–1948
![Alice A. Bailey photo]()
esoteric, theosophist, writer
1880–1949
![Carlos P. Romulo photo]()
Filipino politician and diplomat
1899–1985
![Wolfgang Pauli photo]()
Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner
1900–1958
![Walt Disney photo]()
American film producer and businessman
1901–1966
![Claud Cockburn photo]()
Irish journalist
1904–1981
![Penaia Ganilau photo]()
President of Fiji
1918–1993
![Licio Gelli photo]()
Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaste…
1919–2015
![John Gall photo]()
American physician
1925–2014
![Dick Stuart photo]()
American baseball player
1932–2002
![Christopher Hitchens photo]()
British American author and journalist
1949–2011
