Anniversaries 19 January
Birth
![Dogen photo]()
Japanese Zen buddhist teacher
1200–1253
![Hakuin Ekaku photo]()
Japanese Zen Buddhist master
1686–1769
![James Watt photo]()
British engineer
1736–1819
![Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre photo]()
writer and botanist from France
1737–1814
![James Morris III photo]()
American writer
1752–1820
![Auguste Comte photo]()
French philosopher
1798–1857
![Sarah Helen Whitman photo]()
United States poet
1803–1878
![Robert E. Lee photo]()
Confederate general in the Civil War
1807–1870
![Lysander Spooner photo]()
Anarchist, Entrepreneur, Abolitionist
1808–1887
![Edgar Allan Poe photo]()
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
1809–1849
![Alonzo Cushing photo]()
Union Army soldier
1841–1863
![George Trumbull Ladd photo]()
American psychologist, educator and philosopher
1842–1921
![William Mulock photo]()
Canadian politician, judge, academic administrator
1843–1944
![Augustine Birrell photo]()
British politician
1850–1933
![David Starr Jordan photo]()
American ichthyologist and educator
1851–1931
![Werner Sombart photo]()
German economist, sociologist, historian
1863–1941
![Frederick B. Maurice photo]()
British Army general and historian
1871–1951
![Alexander Woollcott photo]()
American critic
1887–1943
![Natacha Rambova photo]()
American film personality and fashion designer
1897–1966
![Leonid Kantorovich photo]()
Russian mathematician
1912–1986
![Brion Gysin photo]()
Canadian artist
1916–1986
![Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere photo]()
French astrologer
1916–1962
![Javier Pérez de Cuéllar photo]()
5th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1920
![Patricia Highsmith photo]()
American novelist and short story writer
1921–1995
![Jean-François Revel photo]()
French writer and philosopher
1924–2006
![Samuel C. Florman photo]()
American writer and civil engineer
1925
![Ziaur Rahman photo]()
President of Bangladesh
1936–1981
![Joseph Nye photo]()
American political scientist
1937
![Benjamin Zablocki photo]()
American sociologist
1941
![Janis Joplin photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1943–1970
![Josip Mrzljak photo]()
Croatian Roman Catholic bishop
1944
![David Marr photo]()
British neuroscientist and psychologist
1945–1980
![Dolly Parton photo]()
American singer-songwriter and actress
1946
![Kirk R. Smith photo]()
American climatologist
1947–2020
![Paul Rodriguez (actor) photo]()
American comedian and actor
1955
![Thomas Kinkade photo]()
American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic…
1958–2012
![Murray Chatlain photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1963
![John Bercow photo]()
British politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (bor…
1963
![Dirk Helbing photo]()
Complex systems scientist
1965
![Edwidge Danticat photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, memoirist
1969
![JaVale McGee photo]()
American basketball player
1988
Death
![Al-Shafi‘i photo]()
Founder of Sunni Shafi‘i
767–820
![Maharana Pratap photo]()
Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar
1540–1597
![Pierre Joseph Proudhon photo]()
French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so…
1809–1865
![Jules de Gaultier photo]()
French philosopher
1858–1942
![Digby Jephson photo]()
English cricketer
1871–1926
![Jeanne Calment photo]()
French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human…
1875–1934
![Martin H. Fischer photo]()
American university teacher (1879-1962)
1879–1962
![Gus Arnheim photo]()
American musician
1897–1955
![William O. Douglas photo]()
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
1898–1980
![Eric Voegelin photo]()
American philosopher
1901–1985
![Frank P. Ramsey photo]()
British mathematician, philosopher
1903–1930
![G. Ledyard Stebbins photo]()
American botanist and geneticist
1906–2000
![Hedy Lamarr photo]()
Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn…
1914–2000
![James Dickey photo]()
American writer
1923–1997
![Frederick Herzberg photo]()
American psychologist
1923–2000
![Reies Tijerina photo]()
American activist
1926–2015
![Wilfrid Sheed photo]()
English-American novelist and essayist
1930–2011
![Rajneesh photo]()
Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement
1931–1990
![Rudi van Dantzig photo]()
Dutch dancer and choreographer
1933–2012
![Anne Wilson Schaef photo]()
American psychotherapist and author
1934–2020
![Francesca Woodman photo]()
American photographer
1958–1981
![Adam Yahiye Gadahn photo]()
Al-Qaida member
1978–2015
