Anniversaries 16 February
Birth
![Philip Melanchthon photo]()
German reformer
1497–1560
![Andreas Schelfhout photo]()
Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer
1787–1870
![Henry Wilson photo]()
Union Army officer, Vice president, politician, historian
1812–1875
![Francis Galton photo]()
British polymath: geographer, statistician, pioneer in euge…
1822–1911
![Henry Adams photo]()
journalist, historian, academic, novelist
1838–1918
![Henry M. Leland photo]()
American businessman
1843–1932
![Octave Mirbeau photo]()
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, …
1848–1917
![Charles Taze Russell photo]()
Founder of the Bible Student Movement
1852–1916
![Charles Webster Leadbeater photo]()
English theosophist
1854–1934
![Julius Tandler photo]()
Austrian physician & politician
1869–1936
![Arthur Ponsonby photo]()
British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
1871–1946
![Mikhail Tukhachevsky photo]()
Marshal of the Soviet Union
1893–1937
![Edgar Bergen photo]()
American actor, radio performer, comedian and ventriloquist
1903–1978
![George F. Kennan photo]()
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and histori…
1904–2005
![John Bonica photo]()
Anesthesiologist; pioneer in pain management
1917–1994
![Achille Castiglioni photo]()
Italian designers and architect
1918–2002
![Harold Kelley photo]()
American psychologist & academic
1921–2003
![David Brion Davis photo]()
American historian
1927–2019
![Ricou Browning photo]()
American film actor and director
1930
![Michael A. Jackson photo]()
British computer scientist
1936
![Yuri I. Manin photo]()
Russian mathematician
1937
![Kim Jong-il photo]()
General Secretary of the Workers' Party of Korea
1941–2011
![Richard Ford photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1944
![Roger von Oech photo]()
Creativity theorist and inventor
1948
![Iain Banks photo]()
Scottish writer
1954–2013
![Rina Mor photo]()
Israeli lawyer and former Miss Universe
1956
![Warren Ellis photo]()
English comics and fiction writer
1968
![Jerome Bettis photo]()
Former American football running back for the Pittsburgh St…
1972
![Lorin Morgan-Richards photo]()
American poet, cartoonist, and children's writer
1975
![Mimo Garcia photo]()
Bulgarian director and actor
1998
Death
![Richard Mead photo]()
British physician
1673–1754
![Henry Fothergill Chorley photo]()
English literary, art and music critic and editor
1808–1872
![Giosuè Carducci photo]()
Italian poet and teacher
1835–1907
![Octave Mirbeau photo]()
French journalist, art critic, travel writer, pamphleteer, …
1848–1917
![Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield photo]()
American theologian
1851–1921
![Alice Morse Earle photo]()
American historian
1851–1911
![James Harvey Robinson photo]()
American historian
1863–1936
![Dadasaheb Phalke photo]()
Indian producer-director-screenwriter
1870–1944
![Erich Hückel photo]()
German physical chemist known for the Debye-Hückel Theory a…
1896–1980
![Cyril J. O'Donnell photo]()
American professor
1900–1976
![Chien-Shiung Wu photo]()
Chinese American experimental physicist
1912–1997
![John W. Gardner photo]()
American politician
1912–2002
![Jânio Quadros photo]()
Brazilian politician
1917–1992
![Elyse Knox photo]()
American actress
1917–2012
![Bernard Lown photo]()
American cardiologist developer of the DC defibrillator and…
1921–2021
![Boutros Boutros-Ghali photo]()
6th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1922–2016
![Charles C. Ryrie photo]()
Dispensationalist theologian
1925–2016
![Jannis Kounellis photo]()
Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts
1936–2017
![Angela Carter photo]()
English novelist
1940–1992
![Keith Haring photo]()
American artist and social activist whose work responded to…
1958–1990
