Anniversaries 2 April
Birth
![Charlemagne photo]()
King of the Franks, King of Italy, and Holy Roman Emperor
748–814
![Francesco Maria Grimaldi photo]()
Italian physicist
1618–1663
![Giacomo Casanova photo]()
Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice
1725–1798
![Hans Christian Andersen photo]()
Danish author, fairy tale writer, and poet
1805–1875
![Sir Charles Trevelyan, 1st Baronet photo]()
colonial administrator and historian
1807–1886
![Henry L. Benning photo]()
Confederate Army general
1814–1875
![Emile Zola photo]()
French writer (1840-1902)
1840–1902
![Nicholas Murray Butler photo]()
American philosopher, diplomat, and educator
1862–1947
![J. C. Squire photo]()
British poet, writer, historian, and literary editor
1884–1958
![Max Ernst photo]()
German painter, sculptor and graphic artist
1891–1976
![Jan Tschichold photo]()
German graphic designer
1902–1974
![G. Spencer-Brown photo]()
British mathematician
1923–2016
![George MacDonald Fraser photo]()
English-born author of Scottish descent
1925–2008
![Kenneth Tynan photo]()
English theatre critic and writer
1927–1980
![Ferenc Puskás photo]()
Hungarian-Spanish association football player
1927–2006
![Serge Gainsbourg photo]()
French musician and actor
1928–1991
![A. James Gregor photo]()
American political scientist
1929–2019
![Paul Cohen photo]()
American mathematician
1934–2007
![Marvin Gaye photo]()
American singer-songwriter and musician
1939–1984
![Sue Townsend photo]()
English writer and humorist
1946–2014
![Emily Rodda photo]()
Australian fiction writer, for children as Rodda (pseudonym…
1948
![Zhang Yimou photo]()
Chinese actor, film director, screenwriter and film producer
1950
![Alberto Fernández photo]()
President of Argentina
1959
![Gregory Parkes photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop
1964
![Rodney King photo]()
American taxi driver and police brutality victim
1969–2012
![Mark Jason Dominus photo]()
American computer programmer
1969
![Eyal Berkovic photo]()
Israeli footballer and manager
1972
![Evan McMullin photo]()
American political candidate
1976
![Natalia Villaveces photo]()
Colombian television host
1979
Death
![John Howe photo]()
English Puritan theologian
1630–1705
![Jasmine Jones photo]()
American painter and inventor
1791–1872
![Thomas Cogswell Upham photo]()
American philosopher and psychologist
1799–1872
![Richard Cobden photo]()
English manufacturer and Radical and Liberal statesman
1804–1865
![Albert Pike photo]()
Confederate States Army general and Freemason
1809–1891
![K. S. Ranjitsinhji photo]()
Indian cricket player.
1872–1933
![Eugene M. Kulischer photo]()
American sociologist
1881–1956
![Bernard Lyot photo]()
French astronomer
1897–1952
![C. S. Forester photo]()
British novelist
1899–1966
![Hannes Alfvén photo]()
Swedish electrical engineer and plasma physicist
1908–1995
![Buddy Rich photo]()
Jazz drummer and bandleader
1917–1987
![Pope John Paul II photo]()
264th Pope of the Catholic Church, saint
1920–2005
![Robert H. Schuller photo]()
American television evangelist
1926–2015
![Mike Zwerin photo]()
American jazz musician
1930–2010
