Today anniversaries
Birth
![Catherine of Aragon photo]()
first wife of Henry VIII of England (1485–1536)
1485–1536
![John Selden photo]()
English jurist and scholar of England's ancient laws and co…
1584–1654
![George Whitefield photo]()
English minister and preacher
1714–1770
![Ludwig Van Beethoven photo]()
German Romantic composer
1770–1827
![Jane Austen photo]()
English novelist
1775–1817
![Leopold I of Belgium photo]()
German prince who became the first King of the Belgians
1790–1865
![Léon Walras photo]()
French mathematical economist
1834–1910
![George Santayana photo]()
20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with P…
1863–1952
![Amy Carmichael photo]()
Missionary in India
1867–1951
![Ivan Konev photo]()
Soviet military commander
1897–1973
![Noel Coward photo]()
English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
1899–1973
![V.S. Pritchett photo]()
British writer and critic
1900–1997
![Margaret Mead photo]()
American anthropologist
1901–1978
![Piet Hein photo]()
Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
1905–1996
![Murray Kempton photo]()
American journalist
1917–1997
![Arthur C. Clarke photo]()
British science fiction writer, science writer, inventor, u…
1917–2008
![Philip K. Dick photo]()
American author
1928–1982
![Bernard Crick photo]()
British political theorist and democratic socialist
1929–2008
![Chiang Pin-kung photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1932–2018
![Quentin Blake photo]()
English cartoonist, illustrator and children's writer
1932
![John Zachman photo]()
American computer scientist
1934
![Edward Ruscha photo]()
American artist and photographer
1937
![Frank Deford photo]()
American sportswriter
1938–2017
![Jim Gibbons photo]()
American attorney, aviator, geologist, hydrologist and poli…
1944
![Mark Heard photo]()
American musician and record producer
1951–1992
![Bill Hicks photo]()
American comedian
1961–1994
![Shane Black photo]()
American actor, screenwriter and film director
1961
![Mindaugas Murza photo]()
Lithuanian politician
1973
![Jacy Reese photo]()
American social scientist
1992
Death
![François Quesnay photo]()
French economist
1694–1774
![Camille Saint-Saëns photo]()
French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Ro…
1835–1921
![Alphonse Daudet photo]()
French novelist
1840–1897
![Robert W. Chambers photo]()
American artist, novelist, short story writer
1865–1933
![W. Somerset Maugham photo]()
British playwright, novelist, short story writer
1874–1965
![Philip Guedalla photo]()
British historical writer
1889–1944
![Harland Sanders photo]()
American entrepreneur and businessman
1890–1980
![Minnie Evans photo]()
American artist
1892–1987
![Joseph Murphy photo]()
American writer
1898–1981
![Laurens van der Post photo]()
South African writer
1906–1996
![Agnes Martin photo]()
American artist
1912–2004
![Wilson Rawls photo]()
American children's writer
1913–1984
![Uthradom Thirunal Marthanda Varma photo]()
Maharaja of Travancore
1922–2013
![Roy E. Disney photo]()
longtime senior executive for The Walt Disney Company
1930–2009
![Manto Tshabalala-Msimang photo]()
South African politician
1940–2009
![Dan Fogelberg photo]()
singer-songwriter, musician
1951–2007
