Anniversaries 16 January
Birth
![Vittorio Alfieri photo]()
Italian dramatist and poet
1749–1803
![Karl G. Maeser photo]()
prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus…
1828–1901
![Franz Brentano photo]()
Austrian philosopher
1838–1917
![Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton photo]()
British Army general
1853–1947
![William Roscoe Thayer photo]()
United States author and editor
1859–1923
![Edward Gordon Craig photo]()
Modernist stage designer and theatre director
1872–1966
![Karl Freund photo]()
German film director and cinematographer
1890–1969
![Laura Riding Jackson photo]()
poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer
1901–1991
![Paul Nitze photo]()
American government official
1907–2004
![Ethel Merman photo]()
American actress and singer
1908–1984
![Clement Greenberg photo]()
American writer and artist
1909–1994
![Tom Burns photo]()
British sociologist
1913–2001
![Stirling Silliphant photo]()
American screenwriter and film producer
1918–1996
![Nanabhoy Palkhivala photo]()
Indian jurist and economist
1920–2002
![James Robinson Risner photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1925–2013
![Dian Fossey photo]()
American zoologist, gorilla researcher
1932–1985
![Susan Sontag photo]()
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
1933–2004
![Estela Portillo-Trambley photo]()
American writer
1936–1998
![Francis George photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1937–2015
![Robert Lipsyte photo]()
American sports journalist, novelist
1938
![Wayne Teasdale photo]()
American writer
1945–2004
![John Carpenter photo]()
American film director, screenwriter and producer
1948
![Bran Ferren photo]()
American technologist
1953
![Anatoli Boukreev photo]()
Russian mountain climber
1958–1997
![Sade Adu photo]()
English singer-songwriter
1959
![Massimo Pigliucci photo]()
chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College
1964
![Rebecca Stead photo]()
American children's writer
1968
![Alexander Acosta photo]()
27th and current United States Secretary of Labor
1969
![Kate Moss photo]()
English model and businesswoman
1974
![Джефф Фостер photo]()
American basketball player
1977
![Aaliyah photo]()
American singer, actress and model
1979–2001
![Albert Pujols photo]()
Dominican-American baseball player
1980
![Lin-Manuel Miranda photo]()
American actor and musician
1980
![Marwan Kenzari photo]()
Dutch Tunesian actor
1983
![Zaman Ali photo]()
Pakistani philosopher
1993
Death
![Hatshepsut photo]()
Egyptian Pharaoh
-1507–-1458 BC
![Edward Gibbon photo]()
English historian and Member of Parliament
1737–1794
![Mahadev Govind Ranade photo]()
Indian scholar, social reformer and author
1842–1901
![John Woodroffe photo]()
English orientalist
1865–1936
![R. H. Tawney photo]()
English philosopher
1880–1962
![Oscar Cullmann photo]()
French theologian
1902–1999
![Carole Lombard photo]()
American actress
1908–1942
![Robert Fitzgerald photo]()
American poet, critic and translator
1910–1985
![Kenneth Arnold photo]()
American aviator and businessman
1915–1984
![Andrew Wyeth photo]()
Realist painter
1917–2009
![Ajahn Chah photo]()
thai Buddhist monk
1918–1992
![Hiroo Onoda photo]()
Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer
1922–2014
![John Mortimer photo]()
English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
1923–2009
![Christopher Tolkien photo]()
British book editor
1924–2020
![Vera Mae Green photo]()
American anthropologist and academic
1928–1982
![Eugene Cernan photo]()
United States Navy officer and former NASA astronaut
1934–2017
![Phil Spector photo]()
American record producer, songwriter
1939–2021
![Jón Páll Sigmarsson photo]()
Icelandic strongman
1960–1993
