Anniversaries 21 October
Birth
![George Colman the Younger photo]()
English dramatist and writer
1762–1836
![Samuel Taylor Coleridge photo]()
English poet, literary critic and philosopher
1772–1834
![Alphonse de Lamartine photo]()
French writer, poet, and politician
1790–1869
![Samuel Francis Smith photo]()
Protestant Christian Minister Patriotic hymn writer
1808–1895
![Enoch Fitch Burr photo]()
American astronomer
1818–1907
![Alfred Nobel photo]()
Swedish chemist, innovator, and armaments manufacturer
1833–1896
![Dexter S. Kimball photo]()
American engineer
1865–1952
![Leo Burnett photo]()
American advertising executive
1891–1971
![Paul Brunton photo]()
British philosopher
1898–1981
![John Strachey photo]()
British politician and writer (1901-1963)
1901–1963
![Georg Solti photo]()
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
1912–1997
![Martin Gardner photo]()
recreational mathematician and philosopher
1914–2010
![Celia Cruz photo]()
Cuban singer (1925-2003)
1925–2003
![Ursula K. Le Guin photo]()
American writer
1929–2018
![Rudolph Rummel photo]()
American academic
1932–2014
![Geoff Boycott photo]()
cricket player of England
1940
![Judith Sheindlin photo]()
American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author
1942
![Paul Churchland photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1942
![Tariq Ali photo]()
British Pakistani writer, journalist, and historian
1943
![Mandy Rice-Davies photo]()
British actress
1944–2014
![William Leonard Pickard photo]()
American writer and researcher
1945
![Benjamín Netanyahu photo]()
Israeli prime minister
1949
![Peter Mandelson photo]()
British Labour politician
1953
![Rich Mullins photo]()
American christian musician
1955–1997
![Carrie Fisher photo]()
American actress, screenwriter and novelist
1956–2016
![Attila the Stockbroker photo]()
punk poet, folk punk musician and songwriter
1957
![Tamerlan Tsarnaev photo]()
Chechen-American perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bo…
1986–2013
![Miracle Davis photo]()
American actress and writer
1991
Death
![Pietro Aretino photo]()
Italian author, playwright, poet, satirist, and blackmailer
1492–1556
![Edmund Waller photo]()
English poet and politician
1606–1687
![Samuel Foote photo]()
British dramatist
1720–1777
![Horatio Nelson photo]()
Royal Navy Admiral
1758–1805
![Jean-Henri Merle d'Aubigné photo]()
Swiss historian
1794–1872
![Jacques Babinet photo]()
French physicist, mathematician and astronomer
1794–1872
![Charles Eliot Norton photo]()
American art historian
1827–1908
![Robert Barr (writer) photo]()
Scottish-Canadian novelist
1849–1912
![Arthur Schnitzler photo]()
Austrian writer
1862–1931
![Isabelle Eberhardt photo]()
Swiss explorer and author
1877–1904
![Anastas Mikoyan photo]()
Russian revolutionary and Soviet statesman
1895–1978
![Guido Beck photo]()
German physicist
1903–1988
![Luis A. Ferré photo]()
American politician
1904–2003
![Gough Whitlam photo]()
Australian politician, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
1916–2014
![Jack Kerouac photo]()
American writer
1922–1969
![Sheldon S. Wolin photo]()
American political philosopher
1922–2015
![George S. McGovern photo]()
American politician, Congressman, senator, Democratic presi…
1922–2012
![Linda Goodman photo]()
American astrologer
1925–1995
![Robert Faurisson photo]()
French Holocaust specialist
1929–2018
![Ted Sizer photo]()
American education reformer
1932–2009
![Shannon Hoon photo]()
singer-songwriter
1967–1995
![Elliott Smith photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1969–2003
![Halyna Hutchins photo]()
Ukrainian-American cinematographer and investigative journa…
1979–2021
