Today anniversaries
Birth
![Titus Salt photo]()
English industrialist and philanthropist
1803–1876
![Yoshida Shoin photo]()
Japanese politician
1830–1859
![Ernesto Teodoro Moneta photo]()
Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and …
1833–1918
![Henry Stephens Salt photo]()
British activist
1851–1939
![Upton Sinclair photo]()
American novelist, writer, journalist, political activist
1878–1968
![Ugo Cavallero photo]()
Italian general
1880–1943
![Charles Williams photo]()
British poet, novelist, theologian, literary critic, and me…
1886–1945
![Roy Turk photo]()
American songwriter
1892–1934
![Leo Strauss photo]()
Classical philosophy specialist and father of neoconservati…
1899–1973
![Adrienne von Speyr photo]()
Swiss doctor and mystic
1902–1967
![Stevie Smith photo]()
poet, novelist, illustrator, performer
1902–1971
![Ernest Manning photo]()
Canadian politician
1908–1996
![Red Auerbach photo]()
Hall of Fame basketball coach
1917–2006
![William Kapell photo]()
American classical pianist
1922–1953
![Justo Gallego Martínez photo]()
Ex-monk and sole builder of a cathedral in Spain
1925–2021
![Ananda Mahidol photo]()
eighth monarch of Siam from the Chakri dynasty as Rama VIII
1925–1946
![John Dankworth photo]()
British musician
1927–2010
![Donald Hall photo]()
American writer
1928–2018
![Malachy McCourt photo]()
Irish-American actor, writer and politician
1931
![Keith Roberts photo]()
British writer and artist
1935–2000
![Tarō Asō photo]()
92nd Prime Minister of Japan
1940
![Gérald Tremblay photo]()
former mayor of Montreal, Quebec (2001-2012)
1942
![George Raymond Richard Martin photo]()
American writer, screenwriter and television producer
1948
![Sithembiso Nyoni photo]()
Zimbabwean politician
1949
![Guy Lafleur photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1951
![Manuel Zelaya photo]()
President of Honduras
1952
![James Moloney photo]()
Australian children's author
1954
![Jim Al-Khalili photo]()
British theoretical physicist, author and broadcaster
1962
![Van Jones photo]()
American environmental advocate and civil rights activist
1968
![Michelle Visage photo]()
American singer, radio DJ, TV host
1968
![Hanya Yanagihara photo]()
American novelist and travel writer
1974
![Asia Argento photo]()
Italian actress, film director and model
1975
Death
![Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon photo]()
Canadian writer
1829–1879
![Annie Besant photo]()
British socialist, theosophist, women's rights activist, wr…
1847–1933
![Narayana Guru photo]()
Indian social reformer
1855–1928
![Clarence G. Child photo]()
scholar of medieval literature
1864–1948
![Jean Sibelius photo]()
Finnish composer of the late Romantic period
1865–1957
![Giorgos Seferis photo]()
Greek poet and diplomat
1900–1971
![Jule Styne photo]()
British-born American songwriter
1905–1994
![Simon Wiesenthal photo]()
Austrian Holocaust survivor noted for his work as a Nazi hu…
1908–2005
![Paul Erdős photo]()
Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
1913–1996
![Robert Muller photo]()
Civil servant with the United Nations
1923–2010
![J. California Cooper photo]()
American playwright, novelist. short story writer
1931–2014
![Jimmy Magee photo]()
Gaelic games commentatot
1935–2017
![C.K. Williams photo]()
American poet and critic
1936–2015
![Стив Гудман photo]()
American folk music singer-songwriter
1948–1984
