Anniversaries 16 August
Birth
![Avicenna photo]()
medieval Persian polymath, physician, and philosopher
980–1037
![Francis de Sales photo]()
French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
1567–1622
![Jean de La Bruyère photo]()
17th-century French writer and philosopher
1645–1696
![Carolina, Baroness Nairne photo]()
British musician
1766–1845
![Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné photo]()
Swiss historian
1794–1872
![John Bosco photo]()
Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer
1815–1888
![Wilhelm Wundt photo]()
German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor
1832–1920
![T. E. Lawrence photo]()
British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
1888–1935
![Ric Berger photo]()
Swiss professor of design, decoration and art history
1894–1984
![Eli Siegel photo]()
Latvian-American poet, philosopher
1902–1978
![Wallace Thurman photo]()
American novelist active during the Harlem Renaissance
1902–1934
![Georgette Heyer photo]()
British historical romance and detective fiction novelist
1902–1974
![Crawford Greenewalt photo]()
American chemical engineer
1902–1993
![E. F. Schumacher photo]()
British economist
1911–1977
![Menachem Begin photo]()
Israeli politician and Prime Minister
1913–1992
![Charles Bukowski photo]()
American writer
1920–1994
![Bill Evans photo]()
American jazz pianist
1929–1980
![Diana Wynne Jones photo]()
English children's fantasy writer
1934–2011
![Donnie Dunagan photo]()
actor and United States Marine
1934
![Billy Joe Shaver photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1939
![Massoud Barzani photo]()
Iraqi Kurdish politician
1946
![Carol Moseley Braun photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1947
![Umaru Yar'Adua photo]()
President of Nigeria
1951–2010
![James Cameron photo]()
Canadian film director
1954
![George Galloway photo]()
British politician, broadcaster, and writer
1954
![Madonna photo]()
American singer, songwriter, and actress
1958
![Ayub Bachchu photo]()
Musician, singer, songwriter
1962–2018
![Goran Bare photo]()
Croatian rock musician, singer
1965
![Manisha Koirala photo]()
Nepalese actress, UNFPA Goodwill Ambassador and social acti…
1970
![Jakub Tencl photo]()
Czech clinical hypnotherapist and writer
1978
![Arden Cho photo]()
Korean-American actress and singer
1985
Death
![Thomas Heywood photo]()
English playwright, actor, and author
1574–1641
![Thomas Fuller photo]()
English churchman and historian
1608–1661
![Andrew Marvell photo]()
English metaphysical poet and politician
1621–1678
![Jacob Bernoulli photo]()
Swiss mathematician
1655–1705
![Charles Thomson photo]()
American patriot leader (1729-1824)
1729–1824
![Charles Cotesworth Pinckney photo]()
American politician
1746–1825
![Charles Grandison Finney photo]()
American writer
1792–1875
![Benjamin Harvey Hill photo]()
American politician
1823–1882
![John James Ingalls photo]()
American politician
1833–1900
![Ramakrishna photo]()
Indian mystic and religious preacher
1836–1886
![William H. Crogman photo]()
American classical philologist
1841–1931
![José Maria Eça de Queiroz photo]()
Portuguese writer
1845–1900
![Wanda Landowska photo]()
Polish-French classical harpsichordist
1879–1959
![Irving Langmuir photo]()
American chemist and physicist
1881–1957
![William Frederick Halsey, Jr. photo]()
United States admiral
1882–1959
![Béla Lugosi photo]()
Hungarian actor
1882–1956
![Selman Waksman photo]()
American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discover…
1888–1973
![Babe Ruth photo]()
American baseball player
1895–1948
![John Diefenbaker photo]()
13th Prime Minister of Canada
1895–1979
![Margaret Mitchell photo]()
American author and journalist
1900–1949
![Masanobu Fukuoka photo]()
Japanese farmer and philosopher
1913–2007
![Wahbi Al-Hariri photo]()
Artist, architect, author
1914–1994
![Atal Bihari Vajpayee photo]()
10th Prime Minister of India
1924–2018
![Idi Amin photo]()
third president of Uganda
1925–2003
![Elvis Presley photo]()
American singer and actor
1935–1977
![Nicola Cabibbo photo]()
Italian physicist
1935–2010
![Aretha Franklin photo]()
American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1942–2018
![Peter W. Schramm photo]()
American academic
1946–2015
![Jacob Bekenstein photo]()
Mexican-Israeli physicist
1947–2015
![Mark Heard photo]()
American musician and record producer
1951–1992
![Gerardine DeSanctis photo]()
American organizational theorist
1954–2005
