Anniversaries 17 July
Birth
![Richard Carew (antiquary) photo]()
English scholar
1555–1620
![Isaac Watts photo]()
English hymnwriter, theologian and logician
1674–1748
![Pierre Louis Maupertuis photo]()
French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters
1698–1759
![Elbridge Gerry photo]()
US diplomat and vice president; Massachusetts governor
1744–1814
![John Jacob Astor photo]()
German-American businessman
1763–1848
![William Cranch photo]()
United States federal judge (1769-1855)
1769–1855
![Martin Farquhar Tupper photo]()
English writer and poet
1810–1889
![Lyonel Feininger photo]()
German-American painter
1871–1956
![Donald Tovey photo]()
British composer
1875–1940
![Shmuel Yosef Agnon photo]()
Israeli Hebrew writer, Nobel laureate in Literature
1888–1970
![Erle Stanley Gardner photo]()
Lawyer, novelist, travel writer
1889–1970
![Warren Weaver photo]()
American mathematician
1894–1978
![Georges Lemaître photo]()
Belgian scientist and priest
1894–1966
![Berenice Abbott photo]()
American photographer
1898–1991
![James Cagney photo]()
American actor and dancer
1899–1986
![Christina Stead photo]()
Twentieth-century expatriate Australian novelist
1902–1983
![Roger Garaudy photo]()
French philosopher
1913–2012
![Kenan Evren photo]()
Turkish general
1917–2015
![Phyllis Diller photo]()
American actress and stand-up comedianne
1917–2012
![Nils Bohlin photo]()
Swedish inventor
1920–2002
![Hannah Senesh photo]()
Jewish poet and anti-nazi fighter in World War II
1921–1944
![Gerrit Blaauw photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1924–2018
![Olive Ann Burns photo]()
American novelist, journalist
1924–1990
![Stephen Levine photo]()
American poet and author
1937–2016
![Ali Khamenei photo]()
Iranian Shiite faqih, Marja' and official independent islam…
1939
![Chris Crutcher photo]()
American children's writer
1946
![Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall photo]()
second wife of Prince Charles
1947
![Wolfgang Flür photo]()
former member of Kraftwerk
1947
![Geezer Butler photo]()
English musician, bassist and lyricist of Black Sabbath
1949
![Angela Merkel photo]()
Chancellor of Germany
1954
![J. Michael Straczynski photo]()
American writer and television producer
1954
![Francesca Marciano photo]()
Italian actor, film director, screenwriter and writer
1955
![Mike Bickle photo]()
American writer and priest
1955
![Wong Kar-wai photo]()
Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director
1958
![Susan Silver photo]()
American music manager
1958
![António Costa photo]()
Prime Minister of Portugal
1961
![Jeremy Hardy photo]()
British comedian
1961–2019
![Matti Nykänen photo]()
Finnish ski jumper
1963–2019
![Cory Doctorow photo]()
Canadian-British blogger, journalist, and science fiction a…
1971
![Terence Tao photo]()
Australian mathematician
1975
![Brian K. Vaughan photo]()
American screenwriter, comic book creator
1976
![Jagseer Singh photo]()
Paralympic long jumper
1987
Death
![Adam Smith photo]()
Scottish moral philosopher and political economist
1723–1790
![Tench Coxe photo]()
American economist
1755–1824
![Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and I…
1764–1845
![James McNeill Whistler photo]()
American-born, British-based artist
1834–1903
![Henri Poincaré photo]()
French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher …
1854–1912
![Daniel Salamanca photo]()
President of Bolivia (1863-1935)
1863–1935
![George William Russell photo]()
Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter
1867–1935
![Nicholas II of Russia photo]()
Emperor of All the Russias, Grand Duke of Finland and King …
1868–1918
![Nicolae Paulescu photo]()
Romanian academic
1869–1931
![Ty Cobb photo]()
American baseball player
1886–1961
![Susanne K. Langer photo]()
American philosopher
1895–1985
![George Rickey photo]()
American artist
1907–2002
![Billie Holiday photo]()
American jazz singer and songwriter
1915–1959
![Walter Cronkite photo]()
American broadcast journalist
1916–2009
![Edward Heath photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
1916–2005
![Katharine Graham photo]()
American publisher
1917–2001
![Mickey Spillane photo]()
American writer
1918–2006
![John Coltrane photo]()
American jazz saxophonist
1926–1967
![Leszek Kolakowski photo]()
Philosopher, historian of ideas
1927–2009
![Joep Lange photo]()
dutch clinical researcher specializing in HIV therapy
1954–2014
![Jules Bianchi photo]()
French motor racing driver
1989–2015
