Anniversaries 20 October
Birth
![Christopher Wren photo]()
English architect
1632–1723
![Henry Temple, 3rd Viscount Palmerston photo]()
British politician
1784–1865
![Daniel Drake photo]()
American physician and writer
1785–1852
![Patrick Matthew photo]()
British scientist
1790–1874
![Báb photo]()
Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated …
1819–1850
![Thomas Hughes photo]()
English lawyer, author and cricketer
1822–1896
![Arthur Rimbaud photo]()
French Decadent and Symbolist poet
1854–1891
![Alphonse Allais photo]()
French writer and humourist
1854–1905
![John Burns photo]()
English trade unionist and politician
1858–1943
![John Dewey photo]()
American philosopher, psychologist, and educational reformer
1859–1952
![Gustav Cassel photo]()
Swedish economist
1866–1945
![Frances Kellor photo]()
American sociologist
1873–1952
![Charles Ives photo]()
American composer
1874–1954
![Bouck White photo]()
American author and novelist
1874–1951
![Béla Lugosi photo]()
Hungarian actor
1882–1956
![Jomo Kenyatta photo]()
First prime minister and first president of Kenya
1893–1978
![Jack Lindsay photo]()
Australian writer in the United Kingdom
1900–1990
![Tommy Douglas photo]()
Scottish-born Canadian politician
1904–1986
![Christopher Caudwell photo]()
British Marxist literary critic, journalist and writer
1907–1937
![Eddie August Schneider photo]()
American aviator
1911–1940
![Amet-khan Sultan photo]()
WWII fighter pilot and twice Hero of the Soviet Union who w…
1920–1971
![Robert Craft photo]()
American conductor and writer
1923–2015
![Art Buchwald photo]()
journalist, humorist, United States Marine
1925–2007
![Mickey Mantle photo]()
Professional baseball player
1931–1995
![Zhong Nanshan photo]()
Chinese pulmonologist
1936
![Robert Pinsky photo]()
American poet, editor, literary critic, academic.
1940
![Lewis Grizzard photo]()
American journalist
1946–1994
![Tom Schulman photo]()
American film director, screenwriter
1950
![Tom Petty photo]()
American musician
1950–2017
![Ken Ham photo]()
Australian young Earth creationist
1951
![Steven J. Rosen photo]()
American editor, author on Vaishnavism
1955
![Gennifer Choldenko photo]()
American children's writer
1957
![Hilda Solis photo]()
25th United States Secretary of Labor
1957
![Shuping Wang photo]()
Chinese-American medical researcher
1959–2019
![Kate Mosse photo]()
English novelist, non-fiction and short story writer and br…
1961
![Navjot Singh Sidhu photo]()
Indian cricketer and politician
1963
![Kamala Harris photo]()
United States Senator from California
1964
![Monica Ali photo]()
British writer and novelist
1967
![Wee Ka Siong photo]()
A Malaysian engineer and politician
1968
![Michelle Malkin photo]()
American political commentator
1970
![Dannii Minogue photo]()
Australian pop singer, songwriter, actress
1971
![BJ Miller photo]()
palliative caregiver
1971
![Snoop Dogg photo]()
American rapper, singer-songwriter, record producer, and ac…
1971
![Ryan North photo]()
Canadian webcomic writer and programmer
1980
Death
![Ali Zayn al-Abidin photo]()
Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad
659–713
![Musō Soseki photo]()
Japanese Zen-Buddhist teacher and landscape architect
1275–1351
![James Iredell photo]()
one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the Unite…
1751–1799
![Lydia Maria Child photo]()
American abolitionist, author and women's rights activist
1802–1880
![Richard Fuller (minister) photo]()
United States Baptist minister
1804–1876
![James Anthony Froude photo]()
English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fras…
1818–1894
![Philip Schaff photo]()
American Calvinist theologian
1819–1893
![Richard Francis Burton photo]()
British explorer, geographer, translator, writer, soldier, …
1821–1890
![Charles Dudley Warner photo]()
American writer
1829–1900
![Alexander III of Russia photo]()
Emperor of Russia
1845–1894
![Eugene V. Debs photo]()
American labor and political leader
1855–1926
![Henry L. Stimson photo]()
United States Secretary of War
1867–1950
![Winnifred Harper Cooley photo]()
American author and lecturer
1874–1967
![Herbert Hoover photo]()
31st President of the United States of America
1874–1964
![Carl Ferdinand Cori photo]()
Czech Nobel prize laureate and scientist
1896–1984
![Arthur Beer photo]()
German astronomer
1900–1980
![Paul Dirac photo]()
theoretical physicist
1902–1984
![Mary Chase photo]()
American writer
1907–1981
![Burt Lancaster photo]()
American actor and producer
1913–1994
![Peg Bracken photo]()
American writer
1918–2007
![Lawrence Klein photo]()
American economist
1920–2013
![Arno Gruen photo]()
German psychologist
1923–2015
![Eva Ibbotson photo]()
British children's writer
1925–2010
![Paul Kurtz photo]()
American professor of philosophy
1925–2012
![Muammar Gaddafi photo]()
Libyan revolutionary, politician and political theorist
1942–2011
![Wayne Teasdale photo]()
American writer
1945–2004
