Anniversaries 21 April

Birth

Jan van Riebeeck4

Dutch colonial governor 1619–1677

Catherine the Great29

Empress of Russia 1729–1796

Jean-Baptiste Biot2

French scientist 1774–1862

Reginald Heber21

English clergyman 1783–1826

Asahel Nettleton2

American theologian 1783–1844

James Martineau13

English religious philosopher 1805–1900

Charlotte Brontë83

English novelist and poet 1816–1855

Josh Billings91

American humorist 1818–1885

Hippolyte Taine3

French critic and historian 1828–1893

John Muir183

Scottish-born American naturalist and author 1838–1914

Cora L. V. Scott9

American spiritualist, writer 1840–1923

Charles Follen Adams3

American poet 1842–1918

Max Weber41

German sociologist, philosopher, and political economist 1864–1920

Kyuzo Mifune4

One of the greatest exponents of the art of judo. 1883–1965

Aiden Wilson Tozer31

American missionary 1897–1963

Golda Meir38

former prime minister of Israel 1898–1978

Hans Fritzsche8

German Nazi official 1900–1953

Odilo Globocnik5

SS officer 1904–1945

Rollo May135

US psychiatrist 1909–1994

Garrett Hardin12

American ecologist 1915–2003

Anthony Quinn2

Mexican American actor 1915–2001

Licio Gelli4

Italian financier, liaison with Nazi Germany, P2 grandmaste… 1919–2015

Krister Stendahl1

Swedish theologian 1921–2008

Alistair MacLean2

Scottish novelist 1922–1987

John Mortimer20

English barrister, dramatist, screenwriter and author 1923–2009

Isabel II do Reino Unido21

queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he… 1926–2022

Robert Brustein1

American writer 1927

Elaine May2

American screenwriter, film director, actress, and comedian 1932

James Dobson26

Evangelical Christian psychologist, author, and radio broad… 1936

Helen Prejean2

advocate for the abolition of the death penalty 1939

Guity Novin18

artist 1944

Barbara Park6

American juvenile author 1947–2013

Iggy Pop19

American rock singer-songwriter, musician, and actor 1947

Emily Prager1

American writer 1948

Gerald Early1

American poet 1952

Rich Whitney1

American lawyer 1955

Robert Smith (musician)36

English singer, songwriter and musician 1959

Jeannette Walls50

American writer and journalist 1960

Michael Franti17

American rapper 1966

Narges Mohammadi15

Iranian human rights activist 1972

Death

Anselm of Canterbury4

Benedictine monk, philosopher, and prelate 1033–1109

Peter Abelard20

French scholastic philosopher, theologian and preeminent lo… 1079–1142

Henry VII of England1

King of England, 1485–1509 1457–1509

Shlomo Ephraim Luntschitz1

Polish rabbi 1550–1619

Jean Racine15

French dramatist 1639–1699

Thomas Tickell11

English poet and man of letters 1685–1740

Jane Welsh Carlyle11

Scottish writer 1801–1866

Mark Twain637

American author and humorist 1835–1910

Francis Burnand1

British comic writer and dramatist 1836–1917

Robert Seymour Bridges43

British writer 1844–1930

Muhammad Iqbál28

Urdu poet and leader of the Pakistan Movement 1877–1938

John Maynard Keynes122

British economist 1883–1946

Aldo Leopold130

American writer and scientist 1887–1948

Stafford Cripps20

British politician 1889–1952

Dennis Holme Robertson3

British economist 1890–1963

Walter Model13

German field marshal 1891–1945

Pedro Albizu Campos1

Puerto Rican politician and independence advocate 1891–1965

Sepp Dietrich9

German SS commander 1892–1966

Merian C. Cooper1

American aviator, actor, director and producer 1893–1973

Paul Schmidt5

German translator, Nazi 1899–1970

Walter Slezak10

actor 1902–1983

François Duvalier4

40th President of the Republic of Haiti 1907–1971

René Daumal12

French poet and writer 1908–1944

Diosdado Macapagal1

the 9th President of the Philippines 1910–1997

M. H. Abrams19

American literary theorist 1912–2015

Gwynfor Evans3

Welsh politician 1912–2005

Saima Harmaja1

Finnish poet and writer 1913–1937

Väinö Linna12

Finnish writer 1920–1992

Marc Ferro1

French historian 1924–2021

Jean-François Lyotard26

French philosopher 1924–1998

Sohrab Sepehri1

Iranian poet and painter 1928–1980

Charles W. Colson2

Lawyer, public servant, Christian advocate 1931–2012

Nina Simone7

American singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger, and civil r… 1933–2003

Prince53

American pop, songwriter, musician and actor 1958–2016