Anniversaries 18 September
Birth
![Martin Joseph Routh photo]()
Classical scholar and college head
1755–1854
![Joseph Story photo]()
US Supreme Court justice
1779–1845
![Léon Foucault photo]()
French physicist
1819–1868
![John Townsend Trowbridge photo]()
American author
1827–1916
![Anton Mauve photo]()
Dutch painter (1838–1888)
1838–1888
![Francesco Filippini photo]()
Italian impressionist painter
1853–1895
![Owen Seaman photo]()
Editor of Punch
1861–1936
![Madan Lal Dhingra photo]()
Indian revolutionary
1883–1909
![William March photo]()
United States Marine, novelist, short story writer
1893–1954
![Aleksandr Vasilevsky photo]()
Soviet military commander
1895–1977
![John Diefenbaker photo]()
13th Prime Minister of Canada
1895–1979
![Vladimir Horowitz photo]()
American classical pianist and composer
1903–1989
![Greta Garbo photo]()
Swedish-American actress
1905–1990
![Agnes de Mille photo]()
American dancer and choreographer
1905–1993
![Francis Parker Yockey photo]()
American writer
1917–1960
![John Gall photo]()
American physician
1925–2014
![Julio César Strassera photo]()
Argentine lawyer and jurist
1933–2015
![Fred Willard photo]()
American actor and comedian
1939
![John McAfee photo]()
American computer programmer and businessman
1945
![Anna Deavere Smith photo]()
American actress, playwright and professor
1950
![Ben Carson photo]()
17th and current United States Secretary of Housing and Urb…
1951
![Dee Dee Ramone photo]()
German-American songwriter and musician
1951–2002
![Steven Pinker photo]()
psychologist, linguist, author
1954
![Dan Povenmire photo]()
American television director, writer, producer, storyboard …
1963
![João Magueijo photo]()
Portuguese scientist
1967
![Dan Eldon photo]()
Kenyan photojournalist, artist and activist
1970–1993
![Lance Armstrong photo]()
professional cyclist from the USA
1971
![Mark Shuttleworth photo]()
South African entrepreneur; second self-funded visitor to t…
1973
![Sabine Hossenfelder photo]()
German theoretical physicist
1976
![Lucy Aharish photo]()
Arab-Israeli journalist
1981
![Peter Wilfahrt photo]()
German author and entrepreneur
1986
![Luísa Sobral photo]()
Portuguese singer and songwriter
1987
Death
![Matthew Prior photo]()
British diplomat, poet
1664–1721
![Leonhard Euler photo]()
Swiss mathematician
1707–1783
![James Finlay Weir Johnston photo]()
Scottish agricultural chemist
1796–1855
![Alexander Bain photo]()
Scottish philosopher and educationalist
1818–1903
![Dion Boucicault photo]()
Irish actor and dramatist
1820–1890
![George MacDonald photo]()
Scottish journalist, novelist
1824–1905
![F. H. Bradley photo]()
British philosopher
1846–1924
![Pyotr Stolypin photo]()
Russian politician
1862–1911
![Gelett Burgess photo]()
artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist
1866–1951
![Bhagwan Das photo]()
Indian Theosophist
1869–1958
![J. Frank Dobie photo]()
American writer
1888–1964
![Paul Bernays photo]()
Swiss mathematician
1888–1977
![Henry D. Moyle photo]()
Member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles
1889–1963
![Katherine Anne Porter photo]()
American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist…
1890–1980
![Adélard Godbout photo]()
Canadian politician
1892–1956
![Dag Hammarskjöld photo]()
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
1905–1961
![Mohammad Hidayatullah photo]()
11th Chief Justice of India
1905–1992
![Irving Kristol photo]()
American columnist, journalist, and writer
1920–2009
![Robert Venturi photo]()
American architect
1925–2018
![Jill Johnston photo]()
American activist
1929–2010
![Jimi Hendrix photo]()
American musician, singer and songwriter
1942–1970
![Nathan Larson (politician) photo]()
American perennial candidate, pedophile and white supremaci…
1980–2022
