Anniversaries 15 April
Birth
![Leonardo Da Vinci photo]()
Italian Renaissance polymath
1452–1519
![Nanak photo]()
Founder of Sikhism
1469–1539
![Guru Arjan photo]()
The fifth Guru of Sikhism
1563–1606
![Leonhard Euler photo]()
Swiss mathematician
1707–1783
![Hermann Grassmann photo]()
German polymath, linguist and mathematician
1809–1877
![Théodore Rousseau photo]()
French painter (1812-1867)
1812–1867
![John Lothrop Motley photo]()
American historian and diplomat
1814–1877
![Benjamin Jowett photo]()
Theologian, classical scholar, and academic administrator
1817–1893
![Henry James photo]()
American novelist, short story author, and literary critic
1843–1916
![Émile Durkheim photo]()
French sociologist (1858-1917)
1858–1917
![Harold W. Percival photo]()
Barbadian writer
1868–1953
![Max Wertheimer photo]()
Co-founder of Gestalt psychology
1880–1943
![A. Philip Randolph photo]()
African-American civil-rights movement leader
1889–1979
![Corrie ten Boom photo]()
Dutch resistance hero and writer
1892–1983
![Arshile Gorky photo]()
Armenian-American painter
1904–1948
![Eden ahbez photo]()
American songwriter and recording artist
1908–1995
![Kim Il-sung photo]()
President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1912–1994
![Helene Hanff photo]()
Screenwriter, writer
1916–1997
![Thomas Szasz photo]()
Hungarian psychiatrist
1920–2012
![Tomas Tranströmer photo]()
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
1931–2015
![Jeffrey Archer photo]()
English author and former politician
1940
![Hugh Thompson, Jr. photo]()
United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War
1943–2006
![Avital Ronell photo]()
American philosopher
1952
![Nick Minchin photo]()
Australian politician
1953
![Joice Mujuru photo]()
Zimbabwean politician
1955
![Benjamin Zephaniah photo]()
English poet and author
1958
![Thomas F. Wilson photo]()
actor, writer, musician, painter, voice-over artist, stand-…
1959
![Emma Thompson photo]()
British actress and writer
1959
![Philippe of Belgium photo]()
seventh king of the Belgians
1960
![Lee Kernaghan photo]()
Australian country music singer-songwriter
1964
![Daniel Sokatch photo]()
CEO of the New Israel Fund
1968
![Arturo Gatti photo]()
Italian-Canadian boxer
1972–2009
![Austin Aries photo]()
professional wrestler
1978
![Milton Bradley (baseball) photo]()
Major League Baseball player
1978
![Blu photo]()
American rapper and music producer
1983
![Emma Watson photo]()
British actress and model
1990
Death
![George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore photo]()
English politician and coloniser
1578–1632
![Madame de Pompadour photo]()
chief mistress of Louis XV of France
1721–1764
![Abraham Lincoln photo]()
16th President of the United States
1809–1865
![Matthew Arnold photo]()
English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector…
1822–1888
![Joseph Dietzgen photo]()
german philosopher
1828–1888
![Jane Ellen Harrison photo]()
British classical scholar, linguist and feminist
1850–1928
![John Singer Sargent photo]()
American painter
1856–1925
![Giovanni Gentile photo]()
Italian neo-Hegelian Idealist philosopher and politician
1875–1944
![Robert Musil photo]()
Austrian writer
1880–1942
![Frank Knight photo]()
American economist
1885–1972
![Henry Beston photo]()
American writer
1888–1968
![Corrie ten Boom photo]()
Dutch resistance hero and writer
1892–1983
![César Vallejo photo]()
Peruvian writer
1892–1938
![Jean Paul Sartre photo]()
French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, sc…
1905–1980
![Greta Garbo photo]()
Swedish-American actress
1905–1990
![William Empson photo]()
English literary critic and poet
1906–1984
![László Tisza photo]()
Hungarian physicist
1907–2009
![Jean Genet photo]()
French novelist, playwright, poet and political activist
1910–1986
![Hu Yaobang photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of China
1915–1989
![Byron White photo]()
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, American footb…
1917–2002
![Krister Stendahl photo]()
Swedish theologian
1921–2008
![Damon Knight photo]()
American science fiction writer, editor and critic
1922–2002
![Clement Freud photo]()
English broadcaster, writer, politician and chef
1924–2009
![Edward Gorey photo]()
American writer, artist, and illustrator
1925–2000
![Alexander Trocchi photo]()
Scottish writer
1925–1984
![Pol Pot photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
1925–1998
![Michael Halliday photo]()
Australian linguist
1925–2018
![Kenneth Williams photo]()
English actor and comedian
1926–1988
![H. Dieter Zeh photo]()
German physicist
1932–2018
![Jack Herer photo]()
American Cannabis/Hemp and freedom activist
1939–2010
![Godwin, Earl of Wessex photo]()
Anglo-Saxon nobleman; son of Wulfnoth Cild
