Anniversaries 21 April
Birth
![Jan van Riebeeck photo]()
Dutch colonial governor
1619–1677
![Catherine the Great photo]()
Empress of Russia
1729–1796
![Jean-Baptiste Biot photo]()
French scientist
1774–1862
![Reginald Heber photo]()
English clergyman
1783–1826
![Asahel Nettleton photo]()
American theologian
1783–1844
![James Martineau photo]()
English religious philosopher
1805–1900
![Charlotte Brontë photo]()
English novelist and poet
1816–1855
![Josh Billings photo]()
American humorist
1818–1885
![Hippolyte Taine photo]()
French critic and historian
1828–1893
![John Muir photo]()
Scottish-born American naturalist and author
1838–1914
![Cora L. V. Scott photo]()
American spiritualist, writer
1840–1923
![Max Weber photo]()
German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist
1864–1920
![Kyuzo Mifune photo]()
One of the greatest exponents of the art of judo.
1883–1965
![Aiden Wilson Tozer photo]()
American missionary
1897–1963
![Golda Meir photo]()
former prime minister of Israel
1898–1978
![Hans Fritzsche photo]()
German Nazi official
1900–1953
![Rollo May photo]()
US psychiatrist
1909–1994
![Garrett Hardin photo]()
American ecologist
1915–2003
![Anthony Quinn photo]()
Mexican American actor
1915–2001
![Licio Gelli photo]()
Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaste…
1919–2015
![Krister Stendahl photo]()
Swedish theologian
1921–2008
![Alistair MacLean photo]()
Scottish novelist
1922–1987
![John Mortimer photo]()
English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author
1923–2009
![Isabel II do Reino Unido photo]()
queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he…
1926–2022
![Elaine May photo]()
American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian
1932
![James Dobson photo]()
Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broad…
1936
![Helen Prejean photo]()
advocate for the abolition of the death penalty
1939
![Barbara Park photo]()
American juvenile author
1947–2013
![Iggy Pop photo]()
American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor
1947
![Robert Smith (musician) photo]()
English singer, songwriter and musician
1959
![Jeannette Walls photo]()
American writer and journalist
1960
![Narges Mohammadi photo]()
Iranian human rights activist
1972
Death
![Anselm of Canterbury photo]()
Benedictine monk, philosopher, and prelate
1033–1109
![Peter Abelard photo]()
French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent lo…
1079–1142
![Henry VII of England photo]()
King of England, 1485–1509
1457–1509
![Jean Racine photo]()
French dramatist
1639–1699
![Thomas Tickell photo]()
English poet and man of letters
1685–1740
![Jane Welsh Carlyle photo]()
Scottish writer
1801–1866
![Mark Twain photo]()
American author and humorist
1835–1910
![Francis Burnand photo]()
British comic writer and dramatist
1836–1917
![Muhammad Iqbál photo]()
Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement
1877–1938
![John Maynard Keynes photo]()
British economist
1883–1946
![Aldo Leopold photo]()
American writer and scientist
1887–1948
![Stafford Cripps photo]()
British politician
1889–1952
![Dennis Holme Robertson photo]()
British economist
1890–1963
![Walter Model photo]()
German field marshal
1891–1945
![Pedro Albizu Campos photo]()
Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate
1891–1965
![Sepp Dietrich photo]()
German SS commander
1892–1966
![Merian C. Cooper photo]()
American aviator, actor, director and producer
1893–1973
![Paul Schmidt photo]()
German translator, Nazi
1899–1970
![François Duvalier photo]()
40th President of the Republic of Haiti
1907–1971
![René Daumal photo]()
French poet and writer
1908–1944
![Diosdado Macapagal photo]()
the 9th President of the Philippines
1910–1997
![M. H. Abrams photo]()
American literary theorist
1912–2015
![Gwynfor Evans photo]()
Welsh politician
1912–2005
![Saima Harmaja photo]()
Finnish poet and writer
1913–1937
![Marc Ferro photo]()
French historian
1924–2021
![Jean-François Lyotard photo]()
French philosopher
1924–1998
![Sohrab Sepehri photo]()
Iranian poet and painter
1928–1980
![Charles W. Colson photo]()
Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate
1931–2012
![Nina Simone photo]()
American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil r…
1933–2003
![Prince photo]()
American pop, songwriter, musician and actor
1958–2016
