Anniversaries 15 September
Birth
![Ali photo]()
cousin and son-in-law of the Islamic prophet Muhammad
601–661
![Marco Polo photo]()
Venetian explorer and merchant noted for travel to central …
1254–1324
![François de La Rochefoucauld photo]()
French author of maxims and memoirs
1613–1680
![Shneur Zalman of Liadi photo]()
Orthodox Rabbi, and the founder and first Rebbe of Chabad
1745–1812
![James Fenimore Cooper photo]()
American author
1789–1851
![James Gates Percival photo]()
American geologis, poet, and surgeon
1795–1856
![Porfirio Díaz photo]()
President of Mexico
1830–1915
![Heinrich von Treitschke photo]()
Historian, political writer
1834–1896
![Russell Conwell photo]()
American academic administrator
1843–1925
![Edward Bouchet photo]()
African American academic
1852–1918
![William Howard Taft photo]()
American politician, 27th President of the United States (i…
1857–1930
![Mokshagundam Visveshvaraya photo]()
Indian engineer, scholar, statesman and the Diwan of Mysore
1860–1962
![Robert Benchley photo]()
American comedian
1889–1945
![Claude McKay photo]()
Jamaican American writer, poet
1889–1948
![Agatha Christie photo]()
English mystery and detective writer
1890–1976
![Hans Kohn photo]()
American historian
1891–1971
![Jean Renoir photo]()
French film director and screenwriter
1894–1979
![Kurt Daluege photo]()
German SS general
1897–1946
![John N. Mitchell photo]()
former US attorney general, Watergate felon
1913–1988
![Robert McCloskey photo]()
children's book author and illustrator from the United Stat…
1914–2003
![Adolfo Bioy Casares photo]()
Argentine novelist
1914–1999
![Fawn M. Brodie photo]()
American historian and biographer
1915–1981
![Nipsey Russell photo]()
American entertainer
1918–2005
![Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. photo]()
American historian
1918–2007
![Jean-Pierre Serre photo]()
French mathematician
1926
![David Stove photo]()
Australian philosopher
1927–1994
![Cannonball Adderley photo]()
American jazz alto saxophonist
1928–1975
![Murray Gell-Mann photo]()
American physicist
1929–2019
![Donald O'Brien (actor) photo]()
Italian film and TV actor
1930–2003
![Tomie dePaola photo]()
American children's illustrator and writer
1934
![Sara Henderson photo]()
Australian writer
1936–2005
![Norman Spinrad photo]()
American science fiction writer and critic
1940
![Emanuel Tov photo]()
Israeli biblical scholar and linguist
1941
![Wen Jiabao photo]()
former Premier of the People's Republic of China
1942
![Jessye Norman photo]()
American opera singer
1945–2019
![Tommy Lee Jones photo]()
American actor and film director
1946
![Oliver Stone photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, and producer
1946
![Joe Barton photo]()
United States congressional representative from Texas
1949
![Mirza Masroor Ahmad photo]()
spiritual leader of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
1950
![Rajiv Malhotra photo]()
Indian-American entrepreneur and author
1950
![Mark Kirk photo]()
former U.S. junior senator from Illinois
1959
![Jimmy Carr photo]()
British comedian and humourist
1972
![Tom Hardy photo]()
British actor, screenwriter and producer
1977
![Jolin Tsai photo]()
Taiwanese singer, songwriter, and actress
1980
![Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex photo]()
a member of the British royal family
1984
Death
![Catherine of Genoa photo]()
Italian author and nurse
1447–1510
![Anton Webern photo]()
Austrian composer and conductor
1883–1945
![Beverley Nichols photo]()
Author, playwright, journalist, composer
1898–1983
![Thomas Wolfe photo]()
American writer
1900–1938
![John Desmond Bernal photo]()
British scientist
1901–1971
![Robert Penn Warren photo]()
American poet, novelist, and literary critic
1905–1989
![Edmund Crispin photo]()
British composer
1921–1978
![Harry Dean Stanton photo]()
American actor, musician, and singer
1926–2017
![Bill Evans photo]()
American jazz pianist
1929–1980
![Troy Kennedy Martin photo]()
British screenwriter
1932–2009
![Fernando Botero photo]()
Colombian artist
1932–2023
