Anniversaries 19 October

Birth

Marsilio Ficino9

Italian philosopher 1433–1499

Thomas Tusser12

English poet 1524–1580

Thomas Browne78

English polymath 1605–1682

Gerrard Winstanley9

English Protestant religious reformer, political philosophe… 1609–1676

Pierre Nicole4

French Jansenists 1625–1695

John Woolman7

American Quaker preacher 1720–1772

Valentine Blacker3

British colonial administrator 1778–1826

Leigh Hunt17

English critic, essayist, poet and writer 1784–1859

Charles Robert Leslie9

British painter (1794-1859) 1794–1859

Robert Pollok8

Scottish poet 1798–1827

Adam Lindsay Gordon1

Australian poet, jockey and politician 1833–1870

Fyodor Dan2

Russian revolutionary 1871–1947

Umberto Boccioni41

Italian painter and sculptor 1882–1916

Bram van Velde97

Dutch painter 1895–1981

Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee7

Indian politician 1895–1971

Lewis Mumford75

American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology,… 1895–1990

Miguel ángel Asturias2

colombia 1899–1974

Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar2

physicist 1910–1995

Vinícius de Moraes1

Brazilian composer 1913–1980

Russell Kirk6

American political theorist and writer 1918–1994

Pandurang Shastri Athavale2

Indian philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer 1920–2003

Emilio Massera2

Argentine military officer 1925–2010

Edward Lewis Wallant6

American writer 1926–1962

John le Carré42

British novelist and spy 1931

James Martin (author)9

British information technology consultant and writer 1933–2013

Sylvia Browne6

American author 1936–2013

Renata Adler6

American author, journalist and film critic 1938

Michael Gambon2

British actor 1940

Andrew Vachss27

American writer and lawyer 1942

Jim Rogers11

American writer 1942

John Lithgow2

American character actor, musician, and author 1945

Philip Pullman161

English author 1946

James Howard Kunstler45

American writer 1948

Mohammad-Ali Taskhiri3

Iranian ayatollah 1948

L. Lin Wood1

American lawyer 1952

Wang Yi1

Chinese diplomat and politician 1953

Dan Gutman4

American children's writer 1954

Jean Kambanda1

Rwandan politician 1955

Grover Norquist8

Conservative Lobbyist 1956

Evander Holyfield1

American boxer 1962

Tracy Chevalier15

American writer 1962

Jonathan Haidt28

American psychologist 1963

Diederik Stapel3

Dutch social psychologist 1966

Dimitris Lyacos4

Greek writer 1966

Karol Kulczycki1

Polish Roman Catholic prelate, working in Australia, who wa… 1966

Yoko Shimomura1

Japanese video game composer 1967

Fadi Abou Chebel1

1969

Pedro Castillo1

president of Peru 1969

Abby Sunderland40

Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor 1993

Death

Thomas Browne78

English polymath 1605–1682

Godfrey Kneller1

painter from Germany active in the United Kingdom 1646–1723

Jonathan Swift141

Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet 1667–1745

Henry Kirke White9

English poet 1785–1806

Lucy Stone34

American abolitionist and suffragist 1818–1893

Cesare Lombroso7

Italian criminologist 1835–1909

Camille Claudel1

French sculptor and graphic artist 1864–1943

Ernest Rutherford16

New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist 1871–1937

Lu Xun16

Chinese novelist and essayist 1881–1936

Margaret Caroline Anderson7

American magazine editor 1886–1973

Edna St. Vincent Millay69

American poet 1892–1950

Aldo Capitini47

Italian philosopher and political activist 1899–1968

Henri Michaux8

painter, poet, writer 1899–1984

Nyanaponika Thera30

German Buddhist monk 1901–1994

Sergei Biriuzov5

Soviet military commander 1904–1964

Paul Nitze2

American government official 1907–2004

Charlton Ogburn2

American journalist and author 1911–1998

Martha Raye3

American comic actress and singer 1916–1994

Sathi Narain2

Fijian politician 1919–1989

Kenneth E. Iverson12

Canadian computer scientist 1920–2004

Alija Izetbegović15

Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina 1925–2003

Marilyn Ferguson128

American writer 1938–2008