Anniversaries 16 September
Birth
![John Dennis photo]()
British dramatist
1658–1734
![Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke photo]()
English politician and Viscount
1678–1751
![James Francis Stephens photo]()
British ornithologist and entomologist
1792–1852
![William Augustus Muhlenberg photo]()
United States Anglican Episcopal clergyman
1796–1877
![Francis Parkman photo]()
American historian
1823–1893
![Anna Kingsford photo]()
English physician, activist and feminist
1846–1888
![Robert Barr (writer) photo]()
Scottish-Canadian novelist
1849–1912
![Bonar Law photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1858–1923
![T. E. Hulme photo]()
English Imagist poet and critic
1883–1917
![Karen Horney photo]()
American-German psychoanalyst
1885–1952
![Hans Arp photo]()
Alsatian, sculptor, painter, poet and abstract artist
1886–1966
![Karl Dönitz photo]()
President of Germany; admiral in command of German submarin…
1891–1980
![Albert Szent-Györgyi photo]()
Hungarian biochemist who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology …
1893–1986
![Halvard Lange photo]()
Norwegian politician
1902–1970
![Gwen Bristow photo]()
American author and journalist
1903–1980
![August Heckscher II photo]()
American writer
1913–1997
![M. S. Subbulakshmi photo]()
singer,Carnatic vocalist
1916–2004
![Laurence J. Peter photo]()
Canadian eductor
1919–1990
![J. J. C. Smart photo]()
Australian philosopher and academic
1920–2012
![J. J. C. Smart photo]()
Australian philosopher and academic
1920–2012
![Lee Kuan Yew photo]()
First Prime Minister of Singapore
1923–2015
![Lauren Bacall photo]()
American actress, model
1924–2014
![Charles Haughey photo]()
Irish politician
1925–2006
![Robert H. Schuller photo]()
American television evangelist
1926–2015
![John Knowles photo]()
American novelist
1926–2001
![E. C. George Sudarshan photo]()
Indian physicist
1931–2018
![George Chakiris photo]()
American dancer, singer and actor
1934
![Jules Bass photo]()
American composer and filmmaker
1935–2022
![Richard Perle photo]()
American government official
1941
![Julia Donaldson photo]()
British children's writer
1948
![Ralph Abraham (politician) photo]()
American physician and congressman
1954
![Ashrita Furman photo]()
American world record holder
1954
![David Copperfield photo]()
American illusionist
1956
![Richard Wiseman photo]()
British psychologist
1966
![Katie Melua photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1984
Death
![Anne Bradstreet photo]()
Anglo-American poet
1612–1672
![James II of England photo]()
King of England, Scotland and Ireland
1633–1701
![Nguyễn Du photo]()
Vietnamese poet
1765–1820
![Antoine-Vincent Arnault photo]()
French dramatist
1766–1834
![Thomas Osborne Davis (Irish politician) photo]()
Irish writer and activist
1814–1845
![Grace Aguilar photo]()
Novelist, writer
1816–1847
![Henry Benjamin Whipple photo]()
Bishop of Minnesota
1822–1901
![Omar Mukhtar photo]()
Libyan resistance leader
1858–1931
![James Jeans photo]()
British mathematician and astronomer
1877–1946
![Paul Lewis Anderson photo]()
American photographer and writer
1880–1956
![Jean Piaget photo]()
Swiss psychologist, biologist, logician, philosopher & acad…
1896–1980
![Bryce Crawford photo]()
American chemist (1914-2011)
1914–2011
![Oodgeroo Noonuccal photo]()
Aboriginal Australian poet, artist, teacher and campaigner…
1920–1993
![Maria Callas photo]()
American-born Greek operatic soprano
1923–1977
![Gabriele Amorth photo]()
Italian Roman Catholic priest and exorcist
1925–2016
![Edward Albee photo]()
American playwright
1928–2016
![Víctor Jara photo]()
Pro teacher, theatre director, poet, singer-songwriter, and…
1932–1973
![Ronald DeWolf photo]()
American critic of Scientology
1934–1991
![Ralph Compton photo]()
American writer
1934–1998
![Winston Groom photo]()
American writer
1943–2020
![Robert Jordan photo]()
American writer
1948–2007
![Nabeel Qureshi (author) photo]()
Christian missionary, speaker and author who was a convert …
1983–2017
