Anniversaries 19 October
Birth
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Italian philosopher
1433–1499
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English polymath
1605–1682
![Gerrard Winstanley photo]()
English Protestant religious reformer, political philosophe…
1609–1676
![Pierre Nicole photo]()
French Jansenists
1625–1695
![John Woolman photo]()
American Quaker preacher
1720–1772
![Valentine Blacker photo]()
British colonial administrator
1778–1826
![Leigh Hunt photo]()
English critic, essayist, poet and writer
1784–1859
![Charles Robert Leslie photo]()
British painter (1794-1859)
1794–1859
![Adam Lindsay Gordon photo]()
Australian poet, jockey and politician
1833–1870
![Fyodor Dan photo]()
Russian revolutionary
1871–1947
![Umberto Boccioni photo]()
Italian painter and sculptor
1882–1916
![Nirmal Chandra Chatterjee photo]()
Indian politician
1895–1971
![Lewis Mumford photo]()
American historian, sociologist, philosopher of technology,…
1895–1990
![Vinícius de Moraes photo]()
Brazilian composer
1913–1980
![Russell Kirk photo]()
American political theorist and writer
1918–1994
![Pandurang Shastri Athavale photo]()
Indian philosopher, spiritual leader and social reformer
1920–2003
![Emilio Massera photo]()
Argentine military officer
1925–2010
![Edward Lewis Wallant photo]()
American writer
1926–1962
![John le Carré photo]()
British novelist and spy
1931
![James Martin (author) photo]()
British information technology consultant and writer
1933–2013
![Sylvia Browne photo]()
American author
1936–2013
![Renata Adler photo]()
American author, journalist and film critic
1938
![Andrew Vachss photo]()
American writer and lawyer
1942
![John Lithgow photo]()
American character actor, musician, and author
1945
![Wang Yi photo]()
Chinese diplomat and politician
1953
![Dan Gutman photo]()
American children's writer
1954
![Grover Norquist photo]()
Conservative Lobbyist
1956
![Jonathan Haidt photo]()
American psychologist
1963
![Diederik Stapel photo]()
Dutch social psychologist
1966
![Karol Kulczycki photo]()
Polish Roman Catholic prelate, working in Australia, who wa…
1966
![Yoko Shimomura photo]()
Japanese video game composer
1967
![Abby Sunderland photo]()
Camera Assistant, Inspirational Speaker and Sailor
1993
Death
![Thomas Browne photo]()
English polymath
1605–1682
![Godfrey Kneller photo]()
painter from Germany active in the United Kingdom
1646–1723
![Jonathan Swift photo]()
Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, and poet
1667–1745
![Lucy Stone photo]()
American abolitionist and suffragist
1818–1893
![Cesare Lombroso photo]()
Italian criminologist
1835–1909
![Camille Claudel photo]()
French sculptor and graphic artist
1864–1943
![Ernest Rutherford photo]()
New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist
1871–1937
![Lu Xun photo]()
Chinese novelist and essayist
1881–1936
![Margaret Caroline Anderson photo]()
American magazine editor
1886–1973
![Aldo Capitini photo]()
Italian philosopher and political activist
1899–1968
![Henri Michaux photo]()
painter, poet, writer
1899–1984
![Nyanaponika Thera photo]()
German Buddhist monk
1901–1994
![Sergei Biriuzov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1904–1964
![Paul Nitze photo]()
American government official
1907–2004
![Charlton Ogburn photo]()
American journalist and author
1911–1998
![Martha Raye photo]()
American comic actress and singer
1916–1994
![Sathi Narain photo]()
Fijian politician
1919–1989
![Kenneth E. Iverson photo]()
Canadian computer scientist
1920–2004
![Alija Izetbegović photo]()
Chairman of the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina
1925–2003
![Marilyn Ferguson photo]()
American writer
1938–2008
