Anniversaries 16 November
Birth
![Tiberius photo]()
2nd Emperor of Ancient Rome, member of the Julio-Claudian d…
-42–37 BC
![Jean le Rond d'Alembert photo]()
French philosopher
1717–1783
![Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough photo]()
Lord Chief Justice of England
1750–1818
![John Bright photo]()
British Radical and Liberal statesman
1811–1889
![Charles Eliot Norton photo]()
American art historian
1827–1908
![Anton Rubinstein photo]()
Russian pianist, composer and conductor
1829–1894
![Antonin Sertillanges photo]()
French philosopher
1863–1948
![W. C. Handy photo]()
American blues composer and musician
1873–1958
![George Seldes photo]()
American journalist
1890–1995
![Oswald Mosley photo]()
British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists
1896–1980
![Choudhry Rahmat Ali photo]()
Pakistani politician
1897–1951
![Warren S. McCulloch photo]()
American neuroscientist
1898–1969
![Nnamdi Azikiwe photo]()
First President of Nigeria
1904–1996
![Jean Fritz photo]()
American children's writer
1915–2017
![Gene Amdahl photo]()
American physicist
1922–2015
![José Saramago photo]()
Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in …
1922–2010
![Warren Gulley photo]()
American military non-commissioned officer (NCO)
1922–2012
![Chinua Achebe photo]()
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
1930–2013
![Robert Nozick photo]()
American political philosopher
1938–2002
![Terence McKenna photo]()
American ethnobotanist
1946–2000
![Mark Satin photo]()
American political theorist, author, and newsletter publish…
1946
![John Swartzwelder photo]()
1950; comedy writer and novelist
1950
![Robin McKinley photo]()
American fantasy writer
1952
![Shigeru Miyamoto photo]()
Japanese video game designer and producer
1952
![Griff Rhys Jones photo]()
British actor and comedian
1953
![Andrea Barrett photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1954
![Guillermo Lasso photo]()
President of Ecuador
1955
![Geling Yan photo]()
Chinese writer and screenwriter
1958
![Sooronbay Jeenbekov photo]()
President of Kyrgyzstan
1958
![Sheryl WuDunn photo]()
American journalist and executive
1959
![Sanna Marin photo]()
Finnish politician and the 46th Prime Minister of Finland
1985
Death
![Ibn Arabi photo]()
Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher
1165–1240
![Pierre Charron photo]()
French theologian and philosopher
1541–1603
![Pierre Nicole photo]()
French Jansenists
1625–1695
![Stephen Grellet photo]()
American Quaker missionary
1773–1855
![Carl von Clausewitz photo]()
German-Prussian soldier and military theorist
1780–1831
![Samuel Francis Smith photo]()
Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer
1808–1895
![Robert Charles Winthrop photo]()
American politician
1809–1894
![James McCosh photo]()
British philosopher
1811–1894
![Louis Riel photo]()
Canadian politician
1844–1885
![Sam Rayburn photo]()
lawmaker from Bonham, Texas
1882–1961
![Stuart Chase photo]()
American economist
1888–1985
![Donald Watson photo]()
English vegan activist
1910–2005
![Milton Friedman photo]()
American economist, statistician, and writer
1912–2006
![Alan Watts photo]()
British philosopher, writer and speaker
1915–1973
![Jay Wright Forrester photo]()
American operations researcher
1918–2016
![Vernon Scannell photo]()
British boxer and poet
1922–2007
![Chris Argyris photo]()
American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Busin…
1923–2013
![William Goldman photo]()
American novelist, screenwriter and playwright
1931–2018
![Jock Young photo]()
British sociologist and criminologist
1942–2013
![Edie Sedgwick photo]()
Socialite, actress, model
1943–1971
![Steve Rivkin photo]()
American marketing theorist
1947–2016
