Anniversaries 17 April
Birth
![Marguerite Bourgeoys photo]()
French colonist and foundress
1620–1700
![Henry Vaughan photo]()
Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
1621–1695
![Archibald Alexander photo]()
American theologian
1772–1851
![Alexander II of Russia photo]()
Emperor of Russia
1818–1881
![J. P. Morgan photo]()
American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector
1837–1913
![Benjamin Ricketson Tucker photo]()
American journalist and anarchist
1854–1939
![Artur Schnabel photo]()
Austrian pianist
1882–1951
![George Adamski photo]()
American ufologist
1891–1965
![Emanuel Moravec photo]()
Czech military officer, writer, and politician
1893–1945
![Thornton Wilder photo]()
American playwright and novelist
1897–1975
![Miss Read photo]()
English novelist
1913–2012
![Frank Popper photo]()
French art historian
1918
![Donald Richie photo]()
American writer
1924–2013
![Whitney Balliett photo]()
American jazz critic
1926–2007
![Chandra Shekhar photo]()
Indian politician
1927–2007
![Karen Demirchyan photo]()
Soviet politician
1932–1999
![Richard Epstein photo]()
American legal scholar
1943
![Diederik Aerts photo]()
Belgian theoretical physicist
1953
![Afrika Bambaataa photo]()
American DJ, record producer and activist
1957
![Rachel Notley photo]()
17th Premier of Alberta
1964
![Victoria Beckham photo]()
English businesswoman, fashion designer and singer
1974
![Eduard Kava photo]()
Ukrainian Roman Catholic Bishop
1978
![Sandra Fluke photo]()
American women's rights activist and lawyer
1981
Death
![Proclus photo]()
Greek philosopher
412–485
![Juana Inés de la Cruz photo]()
Nun, scholar and poet in New Spain
1651–1695
![Benjamin Franklin photo]()
American author, printer, political theorist, politician, p…
1706–1790
![Thomas Gold Appleton photo]()
American artist
1812–1884
![Alexander Mackenzie photo]()
2nd Prime Minister of Canada
1822–1892
![Lucy Larcom photo]()
American teacher, poet, author
1824–1893
![Patrick Geddes photo]()
British scientist and town planner
1854–1932
![Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan photo]()
Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre…
1888–1975
![Mark W. Clark photo]()
American general
1896–1984
![Louise Nevelson photo]()
American sculptor
1899–1988
![Piet Hein photo]()
Danish puzzle designer, mathematician, author, poet
1905–1996
![Arthur Calder-Marshall photo]()
English novelist, essayist, critic, memoirist and biographer
1908–1992
![Aimé Césaire photo]()
Martiniquais politician
1913–2008
![Roger Wolcott Sperry photo]()
American neuroscientist
1913–1994
![Arthur Hertzberg photo]()
American rabbi and historian
1921–2006
![Albert Messiah photo]()
French physicist
1921–2013
![Barbara Bush photo]()
former First Lady of the United States
1925–2018
![John T. Noonan Jr. photo]()
United States federal judge
1926–2017
![Ralph Abernathy photo]()
American Civil Rights Movement leader
1926–1990
![Turgut Özal photo]()
Turkish politician
1927–1993
![Gabriel García Márquez photo]()
Colombian writer
1927–2014
![Francis George photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1937–2015
![Linda McCartney photo]()
American photographer
1941–1998
![Alan García photo]()
Peruvian politician
1949–2019
