Anniversaries 16 October
Birth
![Olaudah Equiano photo]()
African abolitionist
1745–1797
![Adolph Freiherr Knigge photo]()
German writer and Freemason
1752–1796
![Noah Webster photo]()
lexicographer, textbook pioneer, English-language spelling …
1758–1843
![Karl Kautsky photo]()
Czech-Austrian philosopher, journalist, and Marxist theoret…
1854–1938
![Oscar Wilde photo]()
Irish writer and poet
1854–1900
![J. B. Bury photo]()
Irish historian and freethinker
1861–1927
![Austen Chamberlain photo]()
British politician
1863–1937
![Otto Mueller photo]()
German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement
1874–1930
![David Ben-Gurion photo]()
Israeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel
1886–1973
![Eugene O'Neill photo]()
American playwright, and Nobel laureate in Literature
1888–1953
![Michael Collins (Irish leader) photo]()
Irish revolutionary leader
1890–1922
![William O. Douglas photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1898–1980
![Enrique Jardiel Poncela photo]()
Spanish dramatist
1902–1952
![Robert Ardrey photo]()
Screenwriter and author of several books on anthropology
1908–1980
![Enver Hoxha photo]()
the Communist leader of Albania from 1944 until his death i…
1908–1985
![Nancy Bird Walton photo]()
Australian aviatrix
1915–2009
![Robert E. Machol photo]()
American systems engineer
1917–1998
![Louis Althusser photo]()
French political philosopher
1918–1990
![Kathleen Winsor photo]()
American author
1919–2003
![Sita Ram Goel photo]()
Indian activist
1921–2003
![Max Bygraves photo]()
Singer, comedian, actor
1922–2012
![Günter Grass photo]()
German novelist, poet, playwright, illustrator, graphic art…
1927–2015
![Mary Daly photo]()
American radical feminist philosopher and theologian
1928–2010
![John Polkinghorne photo]()
physicist and priest
1930
![Charles W. Colson photo]()
Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate
1931–2012
![Nico photo]()
German musician, model and actress, one of Warhol's superst…
1938–1988
![Larry Laudan photo]()
American philosopher
1941
![Joseph Bruchac photo]()
American children's writer
1942
![Elizabeth Loftus photo]()
American cognitive psychologist
1944
![Paul Monette photo]()
American writer
1945–1995
![Robert Bringhurst photo]()
Canadian writer and typographer
1946
![André Leon Talley photo]()
American journalist
1948–2022
![Hema Malini photo]()
Indian actress, dancer and politician
1948
![Mary Ruwart photo]()
American scientist and libertarian activist
1949
![Meg Rosoff photo]()
American-British children's writer
1956
![John Feffer photo]()
American foreign policy writer
1963
![Alafair Burke photo]()
American novelist and legal scholar
1969
![John Mayer photo]()
guitarist and singer/songwriter
1977
Death
![François de Malherbe photo]()
(1555–1628) French poet, critic, and translator
1555–1628
![Ahmed Shah Durrani photo]()
founder of the Durrani Empire, considered founder of the st…
1722–1772
![Joseph Strutt photo]()
British engraver, artist, antiquary and writer
1749–1802
![Marie Antoinette photo]()
last Queen of France prior to the French Revolution
1755–1793
![Nachman of Breslov photo]()
Ukrainian rabbi
1772–1810
![John Wentworth photo]()
American newspaper editor and politician
1815–1888
![Wilhelm Frick photo]()
German Nazi official
1877–1946
![George Marshall photo]()
US military leader, Army Chief of Staff
1880–1959
![Gaston Bachelard photo]()
French writer and philosopher
1884–1962
![Julius Streicher photo]()
German politician
1885–1946
![Arthur Seyss-Inquart photo]()
austrian chancellor and politician, convicted of crimes aga…
1892–1946
![Alfred Rosenberg photo]()
German architect and politician
1893–1946
![Liaquat Ali Khan photo]()
Pakistan Movement Leader and 1st Prime Minister of Pakistan
1895–1951
![Hans Frank photo]()
German war criminal
1900–1946
![Ernst Kaltenbrunner photo]()
Austrian-born senior official of Nazi Germany executed for …
1903–1946
![James A. Michener photo]()
American author
1907–1997
![Hale Boggs photo]()
American politician
1914–1972
![Moshe Dayan photo]()
Israeli military leader and politician
1915–1981
![Art Blakey photo]()
American jazz drummer and bandleader
1919–1990
![Jean Shepherd photo]()
American writer and radio host
1921–1999
![Harish-Chandra photo]()
Indian American mathematician and physicist (1923–1983)
1923–1983
![Jon Postel photo]()
American computer scientist
1943–1998
![Per Bak photo]()
Danish physicist
1948–2002
