Anniversaries 16 November

Birth

Tiberius9

2nd Emperor of Ancient Rome, member of the Julio-Claudian d… -42–37 BC

Jean le Rond d'Alembert1

French philosopher 1717–1783

Edward Law, 1st Baron Ellenborough21

Lord Chief Justice of England 1750–1818

John Bright55

British Radical and Liberal statesman 1811–1889

Charles Eliot Norton1

American art historian 1827–1908

Anton Rubinstein1

Russian pianist, composer and conductor 1829–1894

Antonin Sertillanges1

French philosopher 1863–1948

W. C. Handy9

American blues composer and musician 1873–1958

Alexander Blok8

poet 1880–1921

George Seldes10

American journalist 1890–1995

Oswald Mosley20

British politician; founder of the British Union of Fascists 1896–1980

Choudhry Rahmat Ali2

Pakistani politician 1897–1951

Warren S. McCulloch6

American neuroscientist 1898–1969

Nnamdi Azikiwe5

First President of Nigeria 1904–1996

Jean Fritz2

American children's writer 1915–2017

Gene Amdahl5

American physicist 1922–2015

José Saramago138

Portuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in … 1922–2010

Warren Gulley2

American military non-commissioned officer (NCO) 1922–2012

Chinua Achebe63

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah26

Lebanese faqih 1935–2010

Elizabeth Drew1

American journalist 1935

Robert Nozick32

American political philosopher 1938–2002

Terence McKenna111

American ethnobotanist 1946–2000

Mark Satin45

American political theorist, author, and newsletter publish… 1946

William Kent Krueger6

author, novelist 1950

John Swartzwelder1

1950; comedy writer and novelist 1950

Alexander Stepanov3

Russian programmer 1950

Robin McKinley48

American fantasy writer 1952

Shigeru Miyamoto17

Japanese video game designer and producer 1952

Griff Rhys Jones6

British actor and comedian 1953

Andrea Barrett1

American novelist and short story writer 1954

Guillermo Lasso1

President of Ecuador 1955

Geling Yan13

Chinese writer and screenwriter 1958

Sooronbay Jeenbekov2

President of Kyrgyzstan 1958

Sheryl WuDunn2

American journalist and executive 1959

Frank Bruno2

British boxer 1961

Lisa Bonet1

American actress 1967

Martha Plimpton2

American actress 1970

Ethan H. Shagan1

American historian 1971

Robert Bassili1

1972

Paul Scholes43

English footballer 1974

Maggie Gyllenhaal6

American actress 1977

Sanna Marin1

Finnish politician and the 46th Prime Minister of Finland 1985

Death

Ibn Arabi1

Arab Andalusian Sufi mystic and philosopher 1165–1240

Pierre Charron3

French theologian and philosopher 1541–1603

Pierre Nicole4

French Jansenists 1625–1695

Stephen Grellet4

American Quaker missionary 1773–1855

Carl von Clausewitz68

German-Prussian soldier and military theorist 1780–1831

Samuel Francis Smith3

Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer 1808–1895

Robert Charles Winthrop7

American politician 1809–1894

James McCosh8

British philosopher 1811–1894

Louis Riel28

Canadian politician 1844–1885

Sam Rayburn10

lawmaker from Bonham, Texas 1882–1961

Stuart Chase2

American economist 1888–1985

Clark Gable2

American actor 1901–1960

Kaarlo Sarkia1

Finnish poet 1902–1945

Donald Watson2

English vegan activist 1910–2005

Milton Friedman158

American economist, statistician, and writer 1912–2006

Alan Watts107

British philosopher, writer and speaker 1915–1973

Jay Wright Forrester7

American operations researcher 1918–2016

Vernon Scannell33

British boxer and poet 1922–2007

Chris Argyris9

American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Busin… 1923–2013

William Goldman89

American novelist, screenwriter and playwright 1931–2018

Jock Young4

British sociologist and criminologist 1942–2013

Edie Sedgwick53

Socialite, actress, model 1943–1971

Steve Rivkin1

American marketing theorist 1947–2016