Anniversaries 21 January
Birth
![Ethan Allen photo]()
American general
1738–1789
![William Henry Smyth photo]()
English naval officer and hydrographer
1788–1865
![John Bingham photo]()
American lawyer and politician
1815–1900
![Daniel McCallum photo]()
Canadian engineer and early organizational theorist
1815–1878
![Thomas Jackson photo]()
Confederate general
1824–1863
![David Lipscomb photo]()
Leader, American Restoration Movement
1831–1917
![Helen H. Gardener photo]()
American writer and academic
1853–1925
![David Eugene Smith photo]()
American mathematician
1860–1944
![Roger Nash Baldwin photo]()
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) co-founder
1884–1981
![Seishirō Itagaki photo]()
Japanese general
1885–1948
![Wolfgang Köhler photo]()
German-American psychologist and phenomenologist
1887–1967
![John Bodkin Adams photo]()
general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer
1899–1983
![R. P. Blackmur photo]()
American literary critic
1904–1965
![Christian Dior photo]()
French fashion designer
1905–1957
![Dick Winters photo]()
American military personnel
1918–2011
![Benny Hill photo]()
English comedian and actor
1924–1992
![Eva Ibbotson photo]()
British children's writer
1925–2010
![Gene Sharp photo]()
American political scientist
1928–2018
![Jerzy Vetulani photo]()
Polish scientist
1936–2017
![Jack Abbott photo]()
Author, criminal
1944–2002
![Thomas Olmsted photo]()
Roman Catholic prelate; 4th Bishop of the Diocese of Phoeni…
1947
![Eric Holder photo]()
82nd Attorney General of the United States
1951
![Louis Menand photo]()
writer, Pulitzer Prize for History winner
1952
![Paul Allen photo]()
American inventor, investor and philanthropist
1953–2018
![Hakeem Olajuwon photo]()
Nigerian–American basketball player
1963
![Rickard Falkvinge photo]()
former head of the Swedish Pirate Party
1972
![Cat Power photo]()
American singer-songwriter and actress
1972
![Izabella Miko photo]()
Polish actress and dancer
1981
Death
![Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of Shaftesbury photo]()
English politician and Earl
1621–1683
![Bernard Mandeville photo]()
Anglo-Dutch writer and physician
1670–1733
![Baron d'Holbach photo]()
French-German author, philosopher, encyclopedist
1723–1789
![Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre photo]()
writer and botanist from France
1737–1814
![Franz Grillparzer photo]()
austrian dramatic and writer
1791–1872
![Elisha Gray photo]()
American electrical engineer
1835–1901
![James Daly (Irish Land League) photo]()
Irish nationalist activist with the Irish National Land Lea…
1838–1911
![A.W. Bickerton photo]()
British scientist
1842–1929
![George Moore (novelist) photo]()
Irish novelist, short-story writer, poet, art critic, memoi…
1852–1933
![John Kendrick Bangs photo]()
American author, editor and satirist
1862–1922
![Vladimir Lenin photo]()
Russian politician, led the October Revolution
1870–1924
![Blaise Cendrars photo]()
French writer of Swiss origin
1887–1961
![George Orwell photo]()
English author and journalist
1903–1950
![Will Lang, Jr. photo]()
American journalist
1914–1968
![John James Cowperthwaite photo]()
British colonial administrator
1915–2006
![Joseph O`Connor photo]()
Anglo-Irish actor and playwright
1916–2001
![Russell Baker photo]()
writer and satirst from the United States
1925–2019
![Michael Winner photo]()
English film director, film producer, film editor and scree…
1935–2013
![Terry Jones photo]()
Welsh comedian, screenwriter, actor, film director and auth…
1942–2020
