Anniversaries 19 September
Birth
![William Robertson (historian) photo]()
Scottish historian, minister of religion, and Principal of …
1721–1793
![Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux photo]()
English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great…
1778–1868
![Hartley Coleridge photo]()
British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
1796–1849
![Lajos Kossuth photo]()
Hungarian politician
1802–1894
![Orson Pratt photo]()
Apostle of the LDS Church
1811–1881
![William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme photo]()
English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
1851–1925
![Ludwig von Bertalanffy photo]()
austrian biologist and philosopher
1901–1972
![Bergen Evans photo]()
American lexicographer
1904–1978
![Victor Frederick Weisskopf photo]()
Austrian-born American theoretical physicist
1908–2002
![Neil H. Jacoby photo]()
University professor and public servant
1909–1979
![William Golding photo]()
British novelist, poet, playwright and Nobel Prize for Lite…
1911–1993
![Frances Farmer photo]()
American actress
1913–1970
![Hal Draper photo]()
American activist
1914–1990
![Paulo Freire photo]()
educator and philosopher
1921–1997
![Damon Knight photo]()
American science fiction writer, editor and critic
1922–2002
![Emil Zátopek photo]()
Czech Olympic long-distance runner
1922–2000
![Donald A. Schön photo]()
American academic
1930–1997
![Mike Royko photo]()
American writer and newspaper columnist
1932–1997
![Paul Williams (songwriter) photo]()
American composer, singer, songwriter and actor
1940
![Cass Elliot photo]()
American singer
1941–1974
![David D. Burns photo]()
American psychiatrist
1942
![J. Gordon Melton photo]()
American scholar new religious movements
1942
![Joan Lunden photo]()
Television journalist
1950
![Guy Consolmagno photo]()
American Jesuit, Catholic Priest, research astronomer and p…
1952
![Mark Drakeford photo]()
First Minister of Wales
1954
![Mario Batali photo]()
American chef, writer, restaurateur and media personality
1960
![Alessandra Martines photo]()
Italian dancer and actor
1963
![Jarvis Cocker photo]()
English musician, singer-songwriter, radio presenter and ed…
1963
![Patrick Marber photo]()
English comedian, actor and screenwriter
1964
![Yvonne Vera photo]()
Zimbabwean writer
1964–2005
![Antonella Gambotto-Burke photo]()
Australian author and journalist
1965
![Heiko Maas photo]()
German politician (SPD), federal minister for foreign affai…
1966
![Hidetaka Miyazaki photo]()
Japanese video game director
1974
![Jimmy Fallon photo]()
American TV Personality
1974
![Nathan Larson (politician) photo]()
American perennial candidate, pedophile and white supremaci…
1980–2022
Death
![James A. Garfield photo]()
American politician, 20th President of the United States (i…
1831–1881
![David Starr Jordan photo]()
American ichthyologist and educator
1851–1931
![Konstantin Tsiolkovsky photo]()
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astr…
1857–1935
![Charles M. Schwab photo]()
American capitalist and public official
1862–1939
![Masaoka Shiki photo]()
Japanese poet, author, and literary critic in Meiji period …
1867–1902
![Rudolf Rocker photo]()
anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist
1873–1958
![Étienne Gilson photo]()
French historian and philosopher
1884–1978
![Will Cuppy photo]()
American writer
1884–1949
![William F. Albright photo]()
Orientalist, biblical scholar and archaeologist
1891–1971
![David Low (cartoonist) photo]()
British cartoonist
1891–1963
![Kenneth E. Hagin photo]()
American theologian
1917–2003
![Vico Magistretti photo]()
Italian architect
1920–2006
![Denis Norden photo]()
British comedy scriptwriter and television presenter
1922–2018
![Italo Calvino photo]()
Italian journalist and writer of short stories and novels
1923–1985
![Hiroshi Yamauchi photo]()
Japanese businessman
1927–2013
![Joseph Fiorenza photo]()
US Roman Catholic archbishop
1931–2022
![Gianni Vattimo photo]()
Italian philosopher, politician
1936–2023
![Zine El Abidine Ben Ali photo]()
Tunisian politician
1936–2019
![Jackie Collins photo]()
British-American novelist and writer
1937–2015
![Rich Mullins photo]()
American christian musician
1955–1997
