Anniversaries 16 July
Birth
![Ennius photo]()
Roman writer
-239–-169 BC
![Giovanni Boccaccio photo]()
Italian author and poet
1313–1375
![Joshua Reynolds photo]()
English painter, specialising in portraits
1723–1792
![Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot photo]()
French landscape painter and printmaker in etching
1796–1875
![Mary Baker Eddy photo]()
religious leader
1821–1910
![Ida B. Wells-Barnett photo]()
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, …
1862–1931
![Roald Amundsen photo]()
Norwegian polar researcher, who was the first to reach the …
1872–1928
![Kathleen Norris photo]()
American writer
1880–1966
![Joe Jackson photo]()
American baseball player
1887–1951
![Frits Zernike photo]()
Dutch physicist
1888–1966
![Arnold Tustin photo]()
British engineer
1899–1994
![Barbara Stanwyck photo]()
American actress
1907–1990
![David Lack photo]()
British ornithologist and biologist
1910–1973
![Ginger Rogers photo]()
American actress and dancer
1911–1995
![Anatole Broyard photo]()
American literary critic
1920–1990
![Chris Argyris photo]()
American business theorist/Professor Emeritus/Harvard Busin…
1923–2013
![Shirley Hughes photo]()
English children's writer and illustrator
1927
![Anita Brookner photo]()
British novelist and art historian.
1928–2016
![Robert Sheckley photo]()
American writer
1928–2005
![Sheri S. Tepper photo]()
American fiction writer
1929–2016
![George M. Fredrickson photo]()
American professor and historian
1934–2008
![Reinaldo Arenas photo]()
Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
1943–1990
![Gregory Balestrero photo]()
American industrial engineer
1947
![Assata Shakur photo]()
American activist who was a member of the Black Panther Par…
1947
![Rubén Blades photo]()
Panamanian musician, singer, composer, actor, activist, and…
1948
![Stewart Copeland photo]()
American musician; drummer of The Police
1952
![Tony Kushner photo]()
American playwright and screenwriter
1956
![Scott Derrickson photo]()
American screenwriter and film director
1966
![Will Ferrell photo]()
American actor, writer, and comedian
1967
![Larry Sanger photo]()
American former professor, co-founder of Wikipedia, founder…
1968
![Douglas Murray photo]()
British political commentator and far-right activist
1979
Death
![Thomas Kyd photo]()
English dramatist
1558–1594
![Jean-Louis de Lolme photo]()
Genevan and English political theorist and writer on consti…
1740–1806
![Pierre-Jean de Béranger photo]()
French poet and chansonnier
1780–1857
![Ellen G. White photo]()
American author and founder/leader of the Seventh-Day Adven…
1827–1915
![C. T. Studd photo]()
British cricketer and missionary
1860–1931
![Albert Kesselring photo]()
German Luftwaffe Generalfeldmarschall during World War II
1885–1960
![Meindert DeJong photo]()
American children's writer
1906–1991
![Herbert von Karajan photo]()
Austrian conductor
1908–1989
![Stephen Spender photo]()
English poet and man of letters
1909–1995
![May Sarton photo]()
American poet, novelist, and memoirist
1912–1995
![William Foote Whyte photo]()
American sociologist
1914–2000
![Robert Motherwell photo]()
American artist
1915–1991
![John Henrik Clarke photo]()
American historian and writer
1915–1998
![Heinrich Böll photo]()
German author, novelist, and short story writer
1917–1985
![Julian Schwinger photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1918–1994
![Jack Goody photo]()
British anthropologist
1919–2015
![John Paul Stevens photo]()
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
1920–2019
![Celia Cruz photo]()
Cuban singer (1925-2003)
1925–2003
![Stephen R. Covey photo]()
American educator, author, businessman and motivational spe…
1932–2012
![Carol Shields photo]()
American author
1935–2003
![George A. Romero photo]()
American-Canadian film director, film producer, screenwrite…
1940–2017
![Harry Chapin photo]()
American musician
1942–1981
![Kevin Mitnick photo]()
American computer security consultant, author, convicted cr…
1963–2023
