Today anniversaries
Birth
![Girolamo Savonarola photo]()
Italian Dominican friar and preacher
1452–1498
![Herrick Johnson photo]()
American clergyman
1832–1913
![Edmund Gosse photo]()
Poet, author, and critic
1849–1928
![James E. Talmage photo]()
American Mormon leader
1862–1933
![Henry L. Stimson photo]()
United States Secretary of War
1867–1950
![Gustav Holst photo]()
English composer
1874–1934
![Learie Constantine photo]()
West Indian cricketer, lawyer, politician and diplomat
1901–1971
![Chuck Jones photo]()
American animator, cartoon artist, screenwriter, producer, …
1912–2002
![Vitaly Ginzburg photo]()
Russian Physicist
1916–2009
![Mario Bunge photo]()
Argentine philosopher and physicist
1919
![Donald A. Glaser photo]()
American physicist and neurobiologist
1926–2013
![Reies Tijerina photo]()
American activist
1926–2015
![Bernard Williams photo]()
English moral philosopher
1929–2003
![Leonard Cohen photo]()
Canadian poet and singer-songwriter
1934–2016
![Fannie Flagg photo]()
American actress, comedian and author
1944
![Marsha Norman photo]()
American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
1947
![Charles Clarke photo]()
British Labour Party politician
1950
![David Frawley photo]()
American Hindu teacher
1950
![Bill Murray photo]()
American actor and comedian
1950
![Aslan Maskhadov photo]()
Chechen warlord
1951–2005
![Marion Koopmans photo]()
Dutch university teacher
1956
![Kevin Rudd photo]()
Australian politician, 26th Prime Minister of Australia
1957
![Suman Pokhrel photo]()
Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist
1967
![Samantha Power photo]()
Irish-American academic, author and diplomat
1970
![Jon Kitna photo]()
American football quarterback
1972
![Liam Gallagher photo]()
English musician and songwriter
1972
![Mark Burns (televangelist) photo]()
Christian pastor and founder of the NOW Television Network
1979
![Nicole Richie photo]()
American television personality, musician, actress, and aut…
1981
![Bilawal Bhutto Zardari photo]()
politician in Pakistan
1988
Death
![Virgil photo]()
Ancient Roman poet
-70–-19 BC
![Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor photo]()
Holy Roman Emperor
1500–1558
![Girolamo Cardano photo]()
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
1501–1576
![Walter Scott photo]()
Scottish historical novelist, playwright, and poet
1771–1832
![Arthur Schopenhauer photo]()
German philosopher
1788–1860
![Joseph Rodman Drake photo]()
Early American poet
1795–1820
![Chief Joseph photo]()
Nez Percé Chieftain
1840–1904
![James D. Mooney photo]()
American businessman
1884–1957
![Benjamin Graham photo]()
American investor
1894–1976
![Kenji Miyazawa photo]()
Japanese poet and author of children's literature
1896–1933
![Hovhannes Bagramyan photo]()
Soviet military commander
1897–1982
![William Plomer photo]()
South African-British writer
1903–1973
![Dingiri Banda Wijetunga photo]()
President of Sri Lanka
1916–2008
![Jacqueline Susann photo]()
Novelist, actress
1918–1974
![Henri Nouwen photo]()
Dutch priest and writer
1932–1996
![Robert L. Forward photo]()
American physicist, science fiction writer
1932–2002
![Napoleon Chagnon photo]()
American anthropologist
1938–2019
![Jaco Pastorius photo]()
Musician, producer, educator
1951–1987
![Trần Đại Quang photo]()
8th President of Vietnam
1956–2018
![Shuping Wang photo]()
Chinese-American medical researcher
1959–2019
