Anniversaries 19 April
Birth
![Niccolao Manucci photo]()
Italian writer and historian
1638–1717
![Adoniram Judson Gordon photo]()
American hymnwriter
1836–1895
![Richard von Mises photo]()
Austrian physicist and mathematician
1883–1953
![Manuel Bandeira photo]()
Brazilian writer
1886–1968
![Elias Aslaksen photo]()
Norwegian clergyman
1888–1976
![Peter de Noronha photo]()
Indian businessman
1897–1970
![Edith Summerskill, Baroness Summerskill photo]()
British politician
1901–1980
![Glenn T. Seaborg photo]()
American scientist
1912–1999
![Getatchew Haile photo]()
Ethiopian-American philologist; scholar of the Ge'ez langua…
1931–2021
![Fred Brooks photo]()
American computer scientist
1931
![Fernando Botero photo]()
Colombian artist
1932–2023
![Jayne Mansfield photo]()
American actress, singer, model
1933–1967
![Dudley Moore photo]()
English actor, comedian, composer and musician
1935–2002
![Joseph Estrada photo]()
The 13th President of the Philippines, serving from 1998 un…
1937
![Bernd Heinrich photo]()
American ornithologist
1940
![Bill Raftery photo]()
American basketball player-coach and current broadcaster fo…
1943
![Tim Curry photo]()
English actor, voice artist, comedian and singer
1946
![Mark Haines photo]()
American journalist and television show presenter
1946–2011
![Murray Perahia photo]()
American classical pianist and conductor
1947
![William G. Boykin photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1948
![Rikki Ducornet photo]()
American writer and artist
1949
![Ralph Peters photo]()
American military officer, writer, pundit
1952
![Mukesh Ambani photo]()
Indian business magnate
1957
![Gregory Colbert photo]()
Canadian photographer
1960
![Peter Chung photo]()
Korean-American animator
1961
![Luis Miguel photo]()
Puerto Rican singer; music producer
1970
![Fumito Ueda photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1970
![Joshua Fernandez photo]()
Malaysian film director
1974
![James Franco photo]()
American actor, writer, producer, director, and teacher
1978
![Ali Wong photo]()
American actress, comedian, and writer
1982
![Arkady Martine photo]()
Science fiction author
1985
![Simisola Kosoko photo]()
Nigerian singer and songwriter
1988
![Simu Liu photo]()
Chinese-born Canadian actor
1989
Death
![Philip Melanchthon photo]()
German reformer
1497–1560
![Paolo Veronese photo]()
Italian painter of the Renaissance
1523–1588
![Uesugi Kenshin photo]()
Japanese daimyo
1530–1578
![Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset photo]()
English politician and poet
1536–1608
![Richard Price photo]()
Welsh nonconformist preacher and radical
1721–1791
![Benjamin Rush photo]()
American physician, educator, author
1745–1813
![Andreas Schelfhout photo]()
Dutch painter, etcher and lithographer
1787–1870
![George Gordon Byron photo]()
English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
1788–1824
![Benjamin Disraeli photo]()
British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Pri…
1804–1881
![Charles Darwin photo]()
British naturalist, author of "On the origin of species, by…
1809–1882
![Charles Sanders Peirce photo]()
American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist
1839–1914
![John Addington Symonds photo]()
English poet and literary critic
1840–1893
![George Parsons Lathrop photo]()
United States novelist and poet
1851–1898
![Henry Stephens Salt photo]()
British activist
1851–1939
![E. W. Hobson photo]()
British mathematician
1856–1933
![Pierre Curie photo]()
French physicist
1859–1906
![Henry Newbolt photo]()
English poet and writer
1862–1938
![Stephen Samuel Wise photo]()
American rabbi (1874-1949)
1874–1949
![Konrad Adenauer photo]()
German statesman, Federal Chancellor of Germany, politician…
1876–1967
![Hans Kelsen photo]()
Austrian lawyer
1881–1973
![Maxwell D. Taylor photo]()
United States general
1901–1987
![Margaret A. Edwards photo]()
American librarian
1902–1988
![Alfred Whitney Griswold photo]()
American historian
1906–1963
![Octavio Paz photo]()
Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite…
1914–1998
![Bruce R. McConkie photo]()
American Mormon leader
1915–1985
![Reginald Rose photo]()
American screenwriter
1920–2002
![John Maynard Smith photo]()
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist
1920–2004
![François Jacob photo]()
French biologist
1920–2013
![Walter Kohn photo]()
American physicist
1923–2016
![Mirza Tahir Ahmad photo]()
caliph of the Ahmadiyya
1928–2003
![Walter Mondale photo]()
42nd Vice President of the United States
1928–2021
![E. L. Konigsburg photo]()
American writer and illustrator
1930–2013
![Eldon Hoke photo]()
Singer, musician
1958–1997
![Tamerlan Tsarnaev photo]()
Chechen-American perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bo…
1986–2013
