Anniversaries 19 January

Birth

Dogen34

Japanese Zen buddhist teacher 1200–1253

Hakuin Ekaku4

Japanese Zen Buddhist master 1686–1769

James Watt7

British engineer 1736–1819

Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre3

writer and botanist from France 1737–1814

James Morris III2

American writer 1752–1820

Auguste Comte23

French philosopher 1798–1857

Sarah Helen Whitman7

United States poet 1803–1878

Robert E. Lee55

Confederate general in the Civil War 1807–1870

Lysander Spooner30

Anarchist, Entrepreneur, Abolitionist 1808–1887

Edgar Allan Poe126

American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

Paul Cézanne62

French painter 1839–1906

Alonzo Cushing2

Union Army soldier 1841–1863

George Trumbull Ladd4

American psychologist, educator and philosopher 1842–1921

William Mulock6

Canadian politician, judge, academic administrator 1843–1944

Augustine Birrell11

British politician 1850–1933

David Starr Jordan4

American ichthyologist and educator 1851–1931

Werner Sombart1

German economist, sociologist, historian 1863–1941

Frederick B. Maurice2

British Army general and historian 1871–1951

Alexander Woollcott10

American critic 1887–1943

Sophie Taeuber-Arp4

Swiss artist 1889–1943

Natacha Rambova13

American film personality and fashion designer 1897–1966

John Pudney1

British writer 1909–1977

Leonid Kantorovich8

Russian mathematician 1912–1986

Brion Gysin10

Canadian artist 1916–1986

Serge Raynaud de la Ferriere2

French astrologer 1916–1962

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar2

5th Secretary-General of the United Nations 1920

Patricia Highsmith22

American novelist and short story writer 1921–1995

Jean-François Revel23

French writer and philosopher 1924–2006

Samuel C. Florman3

American writer and civil engineer 1925

Eugene Rotberg13

1930

Ziaur Rahman7

President of Bangladesh 1936–1981

Joseph Nye27

American political scientist 1937

Benjamin Zablocki3

American sociologist 1941

Margaret George9

American writer 1943

Janis Joplin16

American singer and songwriter 1943–1970

Josip Mrzljak1

Croatian Roman Catholic bishop 1944

David Marr9

British neuroscientist and psychologist 1945–1980

Julian Barnes77

English writer 1946

Dolly Parton36

American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

Kirk R. Smith1

American climatologist 1947–2020

Paul Rodriguez (actor)1

American comedian and actor 1955

Thomas Kinkade2

American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic… 1958–2012

Murray Chatlain1

Roman Catholic archbishop 1963

John Bercow3

British politician and Speaker of the House of Commons (bor… 1963

Dirk Helbing1

Complex systems scientist 1965

Edwidge Danticat13

Novelist, short story writer, memoirist 1969

Z-Ro6

American rapperdoj 1977

Pete Buttigieg7

American politician 1982

Tommy Orange3

writer 1982

JaVale McGee1

American basketball player 1988

Death

Al-Shafi‘i2

Founder of Sunni Shafi‘i 767–820

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey16

English Earl 1516–1547

Maharana Pratap4

Hindu Rajput ruler of Mewar 1540–1597

William Congreve35

British writer 1670–1729

Isaac D'Israeli15

British writer 1766–1848

Pierre Joseph Proudhon40

French politician, mutualist philosopher, economist, and so… 1809–1865

Jules de Gaultier5

French philosopher 1858–1942

Digby Jephson1

English cricketer 1871–1926

Jeanne Calment8

French supercentenarian who had the longest confirmed human… 1875–1934

Martin H. Fischer18

American university teacher (1879-1962) 1879–1962

Gus Arnheim4

American musician 1897–1955

William O. Douglas52

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1898–1980

Eric Voegelin13

American philosopher 1901–1985

Frank P. Ramsey10

British mathematician, philosopher 1903–1930

G. Ledyard Stebbins1

American botanist and geneticist 1906–2000

Hedy Lamarr5

Austrian-American actress and co-inventor of an early techn… 1914–2000

James Dickey12

American writer 1923–1997

Frederick Herzberg21

American psychologist 1923–2000

Reies Tijerina2

American activist 1926–2015

Wilfrid Sheed50

English-American novelist and essayist 1930–2011

Rajneesh76

Godman and leader of the Rajneesh movement 1931–1990

Rudi van Dantzig1

Dutch dancer and choreographer 1933–2012

Anne Wilson Schaef1

American psychotherapist and author 1934–2020

Francesca Woodman2

American photographer 1958–1981

Adam Yahiye Gadahn1

Al-Qaida member 1978–2015