Anniversaries 16 April
Birth
![Genghis Khan photo]()
founder and first emperor of the Mongol Empire
1162–1227
![John Davies (poet) photo]()
English poet, lawyer, and politician, born 1569
1569–1626
![Swathi Thirunal Rama Varma photo]()
Maharajah of Travencore
1813–1846
![Ferdinand Eisenstein photo]()
German mathematician
1823–1852
![Ernest Solvay photo]()
Belgian chemist, industrialist, philanthropist
1838–1922
![Henry Smith Pritchett photo]()
American astronomer
1857–1939
![Grace Livingston Hill photo]()
20th-century novelist
1865–1947
![Wilbur Wright photo]()
American aviation pioneer
1867–1912
![John Millington Synge photo]()
Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk…
1871–1909
![Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax photo]()
British politician
1881–1959
![Ernst Thälmann photo]()
leader of the Communist Party of Germany (KPD) during much …
1886–1944
![Charlie Chaplin photo]()
British comic actor and filmmaker
1889–1977
![Jerzy Neyman photo]()
Polish statistician
1894–1981
![Tristan Tzara photo]()
Romanian and French avant-garde poet, essayist and performa…
1896–1963
![William T. Stearn photo]()
British botanist
1911–2001
![Evsey Domar photo]()
American economist
1914–1997
![Spike Milligan photo]()
British-Irish comedian, writer, musician, poet, playwright,…
1918–2002
![Merce Cunningham photo]()
American dancer
1919–2009
![Peter Ustinov photo]()
English actor, writer, and dramatist
1921–2004
![Kingsley Amis photo]()
English novelist, poet, critic, teacher
1922–1995
![Pope Benedict XVI photo]()
265th Pope of the Catholic Church
1927
![Dusty Springfield photo]()
English singer and record producer
1939–1999
![Moni Ovadia photo]()
Italian actor, musician, singer and theatrical author
1946
![Margot Adler photo]()
author, Neopagan, and National Public Radio reporter
1946–2014
![Kareem Abdul-Jabbar photo]()
American basketball player
1947
![Gerry Rafferty photo]()
Scottish singer and songwriter
1947–2011
![Yochanan Afek photo]()
Israeli chess player, composer, trainer and arbiter
1952
![Bill Belichick photo]()
American football coach
1952
![Henri of Luxembourg photo]()
Grand Duke (head of state) of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg
1955
![Rafael Benítez photo]()
Spanish association football player and manager
1960
![Antony Blinken photo]()
American government official and 71th U.S. Secretary of Sta…
1962
![Ian MacKaye photo]()
American singer and record label owner
1962
![Martin Lawrence photo]()
American actor and director
1965
![Selena photo]()
Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion d…
1971–1995
![Nate Diaz photo]()
American mixed martial artist
1985
![Mirai Nagasu photo]()
American figure skater
1993
![Umair Ahmad photo]()
Entrepreneur, Writer, Researcher & Film Producer
1997
Death
![Bayazid Bastami photo]()
Persian Sufi mystic
804–846
![George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham photo]()
English statesman and poet
1628–1687
![Aphra Behn photo]()
British playwright, poet, translator and fiction writer
1640–1689
![Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon photo]()
French natural historian
1707–1788
![Francisco De Goya photo]()
Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828)
1746–1828
![Alexis De Tocqueville photo]()
French political thinker and historian
1805–1859
![Samuel Smiles photo]()
Scottish author
1812–1904
![Edna Ferber photo]()
Novelist, playwright
1885–1968
![Yasunari Kawabata photo]()
Japanese author, Nobel Prize winner
1899–1972
![Rudolf Höss photo]()
German war criminal, commandant of Auschwitz concentration …
1901–1947
![Ralph Ellison photo]()
American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer
1914–1994
![Kaoru Ishikawa photo]()
Japanese business theorist
1915–1989
![Edward Norton Lorenz photo]()
American mathematician and meteorologist
1917–2008
![Rosalind Franklin photo]()
British chemist, biophysicist, and X-ray crystallographer
1920–1958
![C.K. Prahalad photo]()
Indian academic
1941–2010
