Anniversaries 17 September
Birth
![Nadezhda Durova photo]()
Russian Army officer
1783–1866
![Bernhard Riemann photo]()
German mathematician
1826–1866
![Masaoka Shiki photo]()
Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period …
1867–1902
![Periyar E. V. Ramasamy photo]()
Tamil politician and social reformer
1879–1973
![Hans Freudenthal photo]()
Dutch mathematician
1905–1990
![Warren E. Burger photo]()
Chief Justice of the United States from 1969 to 1986
1907–1995
![David Oistrakh photo]()
Soviet violinist
1908–1974
![Elizabeth Enright photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator, short story wri…
1909–1968
![Eugene P. Odum photo]()
mathematician, ecologist, natural philosopher, and systems …
1913–2002
![Mary Stewart photo]()
English novelist
1916–2014
![Hank Williams photo]()
American country music singer
1923–1953
![Peter Ladefoged photo]()
British phonetician
1925–2006
![Jean-Marie Cardinal Lustiger photo]()
French Catholic cardinal
1926–2007
![Jim Rohn photo]()
American motivational speaker
1930–2009
![Anne Bancroft photo]()
American actress
1931–2005
![Robert B. Parker photo]()
American crime writer
1932–2010
![David Souter photo]()
Judge of the United States of America
1939
![Ron Sider photo]()
Canadian theologian
1939–2022
![Lupe Ontiveros photo]()
Mexican-American actress
1942–2012
![Anthony Zinni photo]()
American Marine Corps general
1943
![Reinhold Messner photo]()
Italian mountaineer, adventurer and explorer
1944
![Carol Tavris photo]()
American psychologist
1944
![Phil Jackson photo]()
basketball player and coach from the United States
1945
![Jeff MacNelly photo]()
American cartoonist
1947–2000
![Narendra Modi photo]()
Prime Minister of India
1950
![Almazbek Atambayev photo]()
President of Kyrgyzstan
1956
![Baz Luhrmann photo]()
Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
1962
![Sean Covey photo]()
author; business executive
1964
![Anastacia photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1968
![Cheryl Strayed photo]()
author, memoirist, blogger
1968
![Griff Furst photo]()
American actor, director and musician
1981
![Alexander Ovechkin photo]()
Russian ice hockey player
1985
Death
![Hildegard of Bingen photo]()
Medieval saint, prophetise, mystic and Doctor of Church
1098–1179
![Thomas Fuller (writer) photo]()
British physician, preacher, and intellectual
1654–1734
![Tobias Smollett photo]()
18th-century poet and author from Scotland
1721–1771
![Alfred De Vigny photo]()
French poet, playwright, and novelist
1797–1863
![Edmonia Lewis photo]()
American sculptor
1844–1907
![Claude Bragdon photo]()
American architect
1866–1946
![Bernard Groethuysen photo]()
French literary historian, translator and writer
1880–1946
![Ruth Benedict photo]()
American anthropologist and folklorologist
1887–1948
![Folke Bernadotte photo]()
Swedish diplomat
1895–1948
![Otis Hamilton Lee photo]()
American philosopher
1902–1948
![Adrienne von Speyr photo]()
Swiss doctor and mystic
1902–1967
![Karl Popper photo]()
Austrian-British philosopher of science
1902–1994
![Helen Nearing photo]()
American writer
1904–1995
![Fred Polak photo]()
Dutch futurologist
1907–1985
![Paul Twitchell photo]()
American writer
1909–1971
![Red Skelton photo]()
American comedian
1913–1997
![Spiro Agnew photo]()
39th Vice President of the United States
1918–1996
![Theodore Wilbur Anderson photo]()
American statistician
1918–2016
![James Crumley photo]()
American writer
1939–2008
![Cokie Roberts photo]()
American journalist
1943–2019
![Bobby Heenan photo]()
American professional wrestler, professional wrestling comm…
1944–2017
