Anniversaries 19 May
Birth
![Li Bai photo]()
Chinese poet of the Tang dynasty poetry period
701–762
![Johann Gottlieb Fichte photo]()
German philosopher
1762–1814
![Margaret Junkin Preston photo]()
American writer
1820–1897
![Walter Russell photo]()
American philosopher
1871–1963
![Wilson Mizner photo]()
American writer
1876–1933
![Mohammad Mosaddegh photo]()
Prime Minister of Iran
1882–1967
![Ho Chi Minh photo]()
Vietnamese communist leader and first president of Vietnam
1890–1969
![Milutin Bojić photo]()
Serbian playwright and poet (1892-1917)
1892–1917
![Michael Balcon photo]()
English Film producer
1896–1977
![Julius Evola photo]()
Italian philosopher and esotericist
1898–1974
![Nathuram Godse photo]()
Assassin of Mahatma Gandhi
1910–1949
![Neelam Sanjiva Reddy photo]()
sixth President of India
1913–1996
![Max Perutz photo]()
Austrian-born British molecular biologist
1914–2002
![Abraham Pais photo]()
American Physicist
1918–2000
![Yuri Kochiyama photo]()
American activist
1921–2014
![Malcolm X photo]()
American human rights activist
1925–1965
![Pol Pot photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Kampuchea
1925–1998
![Lorraine Hansberry photo]()
playwright and writer
1930–1965
![Rudolf E. Kálmán photo]()
Hungarian-born American electrical engineer
1930–2016
![Ruskin Bond photo]()
British Indian writer
1934
![Girish Raghunath Karnad photo]()
Indian playwright
1938–2019
![Nancy Kwan photo]()
Chinese-American actress and restauranter
1939
![John Esposito photo]()
writer and professor of Islamic studies
1940
![Nora Ephron photo]()
Film director, author screenwriter
1941–2012
![Gary Kildall photo]()
Computer scientist and entrepreneur
1942–1994
![Grace Jones photo]()
Jamaican singer, actress and model
1948
![Ashraf Ghani photo]()
Afghanistani politician
1949
![Victoria Wood photo]()
British comedian
1953–2016
![Bill Laimbeer photo]()
American basketball player
1957
![Theo de Raadt photo]()
systems software engineer
1968
![Uwem Akpan photo]()
Nigerian Jesuit priest and writer
1971
![Greg Steube photo]()
U.S. Representative from Florida
1978
![Georges St. Pierre photo]()
Canadian mixed martial artist
1981
![David Edgar photo]()
Canadian soccer player
1987
Death
![Alcuin photo]()
English scholar and abbot
735–804
![Anne Boleyn photo]()
Second wife of Henry VIII of England, mother of Queen Eliza…
1501–1536
![Miyamoto Musashi photo]()
Japanese martial artist, writer, artist
1584–1645
![James Boswell photo]()
Scottish lawyer, diarist and author
1740–1795
![Henri de Saint-Simon photo]()
French early socialist theorist
1760–1825
![Charles James Apperley photo]()
Welsh sportsman and writer
1778–1843
![Nathaniel Hawthorne photo]()
American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1804–1864
![William Ewart Gladstone photo]()
British Liberal politician and prime minister of the United…
1809–1898
![Bolesław Prus photo]()
leading figure in the history of Polish literature
1847–1912
![José Martí photo]()
Poet, writer, Cuban nationalist leader
1853–1895
![Joseph Larmor photo]()
Irish physicist and mathematician
1857–1942
![Booth Tarkington photo]()
American novelist
1869–1946
![Jadunath Sarkar photo]()
Indian historian
1870–1958
![Walter Russell photo]()
American philosopher
1871–1963
![Frederick B. Maurice photo]()
British Army general and historian
1871–1951
![Max Scheler photo]()
German philosopher
1874–1928
![Charles Ives photo]()
American composer
1874–1954
![T. E. Lawrence photo]()
British archaeologist, military officer, and diplomat
1888–1935
![Halvard Lange photo]()
Norwegian politician
1902–1970
![John Betjeman photo]()
English poet, writer and broadcaster
1906–1984
![Jacques Ellul photo]()
French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch…
1912–1994
![James Tiptree, Jr photo]()
American science fiction writer
1915–1987
![Bernard Lewis photo]()
British-American historian
1916–2018
![Koichi Tohei photo]()
Japanese aikidoka
1920–2011
![Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis photo]()
public figure, First Lady to 35th U.S. President John F. Ke…
1929–1994
