Anniversaries 15 May
Birth
![Mary Wortley Montagu photo]()
writer and poet from England
1689–1762
![Klemens von Metternich photo]()
Austrian diplomat
1773–1859
![Samuel Laman Blanchard photo]()
British author and journalist
1804–1845
![L. Frank Baum photo]()
Children's writer, editor, journalist, screenwriter
1856–1919
![Pierre Curie photo]()
French physicist
1859–1906
![Henry Charles Beeching photo]()
English clergyman, author and poet
1859–1919
![Cassius Jackson Keyser photo]()
American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philoso…
1862–1947
![Arthur Schnitzler photo]()
Austrian writer
1862–1931
![Yasuji Okamura photo]()
Japanese general
1884–1966
![Edwin Muir photo]()
British poet, novelist and translator
1887–1959
![Katherine Anne Porter photo]()
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist…
1890–1980
![Richard J. Daley photo]()
American politician
1902–1976
![Clifton Fadiman photo]()
American editor
1904–1999
![Max Frisch photo]()
Swiss playwright and novelist
1911–1991
![Paul A. Samuelson photo]()
American economist
1915–2009
![Montague Levine photo]()
British surgeon
1922–2013
![Richard Avedon photo]()
American photographer
1923–2004
![Peter Shaffer photo]()
English playwright and screenwriter
1926–2016
![Gene Hill photo]()
American author
1928–1997
![Ken Venturi photo]()
Professional golfer
1931–2013
![Norma Fox Mazer photo]()
American children's writer
1931–2009
![Utah Phillips photo]()
American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
1935–2008
![Paul Zindel photo]()
American dramatist and children's writer
1936–2003
![Madeleine K. Albright photo]()
Former U.S. Secretary of State
1937–2022
![Nancy Garden photo]()
American fiction writer
1938–2014
![Roger Ailes photo]()
Television executive
1940–2017
![Basil Mramba photo]()
Tanzanian politician
1940
![Jusuf Kalla photo]()
The tenth Vice President of the Republic of Indonesia
1942
![Muhyiddin Yassin photo]()
Home Affairs Minister of Malaysia
1947
![Brian Eno photo]()
English musician, composer, record producer and visual arti…
1948
![William Hanna Shomali photo]()
auxiliary bishop of the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem
1950
![David Almond photo]()
British children's writer
1951
![Mike Oldfield photo]()
English musician, multi-instrumentalist
1953
![Anatoly Antonov photo]()
Russian diplomat and statesman, Russian Ambassador to the U…
1955
![Dan Patrick photo]()
American sportscaster
1956
![Amit Chaudhuri photo]()
contemporary Indian-English novelist
1962
![Emmitt Smith photo]()
American football player and sports broadcaster
1969
![Lauren Myracle photo]()
American children's writer
1969
![Ray Lewis (American football) photo]()
former American football linebacker
1975
![Andy Murray photo]()
British tennis player
1987
Death
![Heloise photo]()
French nun, writer, scholar, and abbess
1101–1164
![Suzanne Curchod photo]()
French-Swiss salonist and writer
1737–1794
![Daniel O'Connell photo]()
Irish political leader
1775–1847
![Philip Snowden, 1st Viscount Snowden photo]()
British politician
1864–1937
![Kazimir Malevich photo]()
Russian and Soviet artist of polish descent
1879–1935
![Mary Antin photo]()
American memoirist
1881–1949
![Edward Hopper photo]()
prominent American realist painter and printmaker
1882–1967
![Charles Williams photo]()
British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and me…
1886–1945
![Hugh Kingsmill photo]()
British writer and journalist
1889–1949
![William March photo]()
United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
1893–1954
![Robert Menzies photo]()
Australian politician, 12th Prime Minister of Australia
1894–1978
![Lionel Robbins photo]()
British economist
1898–1984
![Tyrone Guthrie photo]()
English actor and director
1900–1971
![Ida Friederike Görres photo]()
Austrian writer and noble
1901–1971
![Michael Lydon photo]()
Irish politician
1907–1977
![Francis Schaeffer photo]()
American theologian
1912–1984
![Willis Lamb photo]()
American Physicist
1913–2008
![Jean Craighead George photo]()
American novelist and nature writer
1919–2012
![June Carter Cash photo]()
American singer, songwriter and actress
1929–2003
![Jerry Falwell photo]()
American evangelical pastor, televangelist, and conservativ…
1933–2007
![Ian Brady photo]()
British serial killer, perpetrator of the Moors murders
1938–2017
![Gloria E. Anzaldúa photo]()
Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory
1942–2004
![Yolanda King photo]()
American actress
1955–2007
![Lynn Shelton photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, film editor, actress …
1965–2020
