Anniversaries 16 January

Birth

Richard Savage4

English poet 1697–1743

Vittorio Alfieri11

Italian dramatist and poet 1749–1803

Karl G. Maeser12

prominent Utah educator and a member of The Church of Jesus… 1828–1901

Franz Brentano1

Austrian philosopher 1838–1917

Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton2

British Army general 1853–1947

William Roscoe Thayer1

United States author and editor 1859–1923

Edward Gordon Craig2

Modernist stage designer and theatre director 1872–1966

Robert W. Service16

Canadian poet 1874–1958

Karl Freund4

German film director and cinematographer 1890–1969

Laura Riding Jackson42

poet, critic, novelist, essayist and short story writer 1901–1991

Paul Nitze2

American government official 1907–2004

Ethel Merman1

American actress and singer 1908–1984

Clement Greenberg17

American writer and artist 1909–1994

Walter Schellenberg6

German general 1910–1952

Tom Burns8

British sociologist 1913–2001

Stirling Silliphant2

American screenwriter and film producer 1918–1996

Nanabhoy Palkhivala2

Indian jurist and economist 1920–2002

James Robinson Risner5

Recipient of the Purple Heart medal 1925–2013

Dian Fossey2

American zoologist, gorilla researcher 1932–1985

Susan Sontag168

American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist 1933–2004

Estela Portillo-Trambley3

American writer 1936–1998

Francis George7

Catholic cardinal 1937–2015

Robert Lipsyte1

American sports journalist, novelist 1938

Wayne Teasdale3

American writer 1945–2004

Graham Masterton1

British writer 1946

John Carpenter2

American film director, screenwriter and producer 1948

Julie Anne Peters64

American writer 1952

Bran Ferren15

American technologist 1953

Mary Karr11

American writer 1955

Anatoli Boukreev1

Russian mountain climber 1958–1997

Sade Adu1

English singer-songwriter 1959

Philip Sington1

British writer 1962

Suzanne Enoch2

American writer 1964

Massimo Pigliucci2

chair of the Department of Philosophy at CUNY-Lehman College 1964

Rebecca Stead12

American children's writer 1968

Stephan Pastis2

American cartoonist 1968

Alexander Acosta1

27th and current United States Secretary of Labor 1969

Garth Ennis1

Irish comics writer 1970

Kate Moss5

English model and businesswoman 1974

Джефф Фостер1

American basketball player 1977

Aaliyah27

American singer, actress and model 1979–2001

Albert Pujols5

Dominican-American baseball player 1980

Lin-Manuel Miranda2

American actor and musician 1980

Marwan Kenzari1

Dutch Tunesian actor 1983

Paul Sweeney4

Scottish politician 1989

Zaman Ali35

Pakistani philosopher 1993

Death

Hatshepsut2

Egyptian Pharaoh -1507–-1458 BC

Edward Gibbon43

English historian and Member of Parliament 1737–1794

Mahadev Govind Ranade15

Indian scholar, social reformer and author 1842–1901

John Woodroffe1

English orientalist 1865–1936

R. H. Tawney34

English philosopher 1880–1962

Oscar Cullmann7

French theologian 1902–1999

Carole Lombard2

American actress 1908–1942

Robert Fitzgerald3

American poet, critic and translator 1910–1985

Kenneth Arnold6

American aviator and businessman 1915–1984

Andrew Wyeth1

Realist painter 1917–2009

Ajahn Chah7

thai Buddhist monk 1918–1992

Hiroo Onoda7

Imperial Japanese Army intelligence officer 1922–2014

John Mortimer20

English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author 1923–2009

Christopher Tolkien1

British book editor 1924–2020

Vera Mae Green3

American anthropologist and academic 1928–1982

John Bogle4

1929–2019

Eugene Cernan2

United States Navy officer and former NASA astronaut 1934–2017

Phil Spector4

American record producer, songwriter 1939–2021

Auberon Waugh2

Author 1939–2001

Jón Páll Sigmarsson1

Icelandic strongman 1960–1993