Anniversaries 20 May
Birth
![Toussaint Louverture photo]()
Leader of the Haitian Revolution
1743–1803
![Richard Arden, 1st Baron Alvanley photo]()
British judge and politician
1744–1804
![John Stuart Mill photo]()
British philosopher and political economist
1806–1873
![Alfred Domett photo]()
Prime Minister of New Zealand
1811–1887
![Antoinette Brown Blackwell photo]()
American minister
1825–1921
![Henry Gantt photo]()
American engineer
1861–1919
![Wladyslaw Sikorski photo]()
Polish military and political leader
1881–1943
![Sigrid Undset photo]()
Norwegian writer
1882–1949
![Earl Browder photo]()
American political activist (1891-1973)
1891–1973
![Harry J. Anslinger photo]()
1st Commissioner of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics
1892–1975
![Joseph Murphy photo]()
American writer
1898–1981
![John Marshall Harlan II photo]()
American judge and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court (…
1899–1971
![Max Euwe photo]()
Dutch chess Grandmaster, mathematician, and author
1901–1981
![Margery Allingham photo]()
English writer of detective fiction
1904–1966
![Franz Jägerstätter photo]()
martyr, conscientious objector
1907–1943
![Jimmy Stewart photo]()
American film and stage actor
1908–1997
![Bernard Brodie photo]()
American nuclear strategist
1910–1978
![Moses I. Finley photo]()
American historian
1912–1986
![Moshe Dayan photo]()
Israeli military leader and politician
1915–1981
![David C. McClelland photo]()
American psychological theorist
1917–1998
![Charles A. Reich photo]()
American lawyer
1928–2019
![Adnan al-Dulaimi photo]()
Iraqi politician
1932–2017
![Goh Chok Tong photo]()
Singaporean politician
1941
![Anton Zeilinger photo]()
Austrian quantum physicist
1945
![Cher photo]()
American singer and actress
1946
![Mary Pope Osborne photo]()
American children's writer
1949
![Joe Higgins photo]()
Irish socialist politician
1949
![Wei Jingsheng photo]()
Chinese democracy activist and dissident
1950
![Walter Isaacson photo]()
American writer and biographer
1952
![Robert Doyle photo]()
Australian politician
1953
![Ron Reagan photo]()
talk radio host and political analyst
1958
![Larry Solov photo]()
American attorney and media executive
1968
![Busta Rhymes photo]()
American rapper, actor, record producer and record executiv…
1972
![Andrew Sega photo]()
musician from America
1975
![Andrew Scheer photo]()
35th Speaker of the Canadian House of Commons and MP for Re…
1979
![Enes Kanter photo]()
Turkish basketball player
1992
Death
![Cristoforo Colombo photo]()
Explorer, navigator, and colonizer
1451–1506
![Thomas Boston photo]()
Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher
1676–1732
![Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette photo]()
French general and politician
1757–1834
![Gilbert Murray photo]()
Anglo-Australian scholar
1866–1957
![Nannie Helen Burroughs photo]()
American activist
1879–1961
![John Gould Fletcher photo]()
American writer
1886–1950
![Herbert Mason photo]()
British film director and producer
1891–1960
![Barbara Hepworth photo]()
English sculptor
1903–1975
![John Hicks photo]()
British economist
1904–1989
![Paul Ricoeur photo]()
French philosopher
1913–2005
![Bob Pike (surfer) photo]()
Australian surfer
1940–1999
![Stephen Jay Gould photo]()
American evolutionary biologist
1941–2002
![Gilda Radner photo]()
American comedian
1946–1989
![Paul deParrie photo]()
American activist
1949–2006
![Niki Lauda photo]()
Austrian former Formula 1 racing driver
1949–2019
