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Birth

Ibn Taymiyyah photo

Ibn Taymiyyah 7

Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the … 1263–1328

Francis Bacon photo

Francis Bacon 295

English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth… 1561–1626

Pierre Gassendi photo

Pierre Gassendi 1

French philosopher, astronomer, mathematician, priest, and … 1592–1655

Richard Blackmore photo

Richard Blackmore 6

English poet and physician 1654–1729

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing photo

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing 18

writer, philosopher, publicist, and art critic 1729–1781

George Gordon Byron photo

George Gordon Byron 227

English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement 1788–1824

John Joseph Griffin photo

John Joseph Griffin 3

English chemist and publisher 1802–1877

John McClellan Holmes photo

John McClellan Holmes 14

US Christian minister and author 1834–1911

August Strindberg photo

August Strindberg 10

Swedish playwright, novelist, poet, essayist and painter 1849–1912

Terence V. Powderly photo

Terence V. Powderly 11

American mayor 1849–1924

Leonard Eugene Dickson photo

Leonard Eugene Dickson 1

American mathematician 1874–1954

Hjalmar Schacht photo

Hjalmar Schacht 9

German politician 1877–1970

Francis Picabia photo

Francis Picabia 11

French painter and writer 1879–1953

Isabel Paterson photo

Isabel Paterson 17

author and editor 1886–1961

Fred M. Vinson photo

Fred M. Vinson 2

American politician and Supreme Court justice 1890–1953

Antonio Gramsci photo

Antonio Gramsci 22

Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu… 1891–1937

Charles Morgan photo

Charles Morgan 1

British writer 1894–1958

Leslie Sarony photo

Leslie Sarony 1

British singer 1897–1985

Fritz Houtermans photo

Fritz Houtermans 1

German physicist 1903–1966

George Balanchine photo

George Balanchine 8

Georgian choreographer, dancer and ballet master (1904-1983) 1904–1983

Robert E. Howard photo

Robert E. Howard 145

American author 1906–1936

Baruch Ashlag photo

Baruch Ashlag 8

Polish rabbi 1907–1991

Lev Landau photo

Lev Landau 3

Soviet physicist 1908–1968

U Thant 5

3rd Secretary-General of the United Nations 1909–1974

Harold Geneen photo

Harold Geneen 16

American businessman 1910–1997

Peter L. Bernstein photo

Peter L. Bernstein 1

American academic 1919–2009

Alf Ramsey photo

Alf Ramsey 4

English association football player and manager 1920–1999

Philippa Pearce photo

Philippa Pearce 2

English children's writer 1920–2006

Irving Kristol photo

Irving Kristol 35

American columnist, journalist, and writer 1920–2009

Sam Cooke photo

Sam Cooke 13

American singer-songwriter and entrepreneur 1931–1964

Claire Rayner photo

Claire Rayner 1

British writer 1931–2010

Piper Laurie photo

Piper Laurie 3

actress 1932

Mancur Olson photo

Mancur Olson 3

American economist 1932–1998

Peter Beard photo

Peter Beard 2

American photographer and writer 1938–2020

Serge Savard photo

Serge Savard 1

Canadian ice hockey player 1946

John Miles Foley photo

John Miles Foley 3

American literary scholar 1947–2012

D. A. Miller photo

D. A. Miller 1

American literary critic 1948

Northern Calloway photo

Northern Calloway 2

American actor 1948–1990

Alveda King photo

Alveda King 4

American, civil rights activist, Christian minister, conser… 1951

Eduardo Horacio García photo

Eduardo Horacio García 1

Catholic bishop 1956

Linda Blair photo

Linda Blair 3

actress, producer, animal rights activist 1959

Cho Jung-tai photo

Cho Jung-tai 1

Taiwanese politician 1959

Keith Gray photo

Keith Gray 1

American basketball player 1963

Nigel Benn photo

Nigel Benn 5

British boxer 1964

Ben Moody photo

Ben Moody 9

American musician 1981

Death

Sesson Yūbai photo

Sesson Yūbai 1

Japanese Zen Buddhist monk of the Rinzai sect 1290–1347

Shah Jahan photo

Shah Jahan 14

5th Mughal Emperor 1592–1666

John Berridge photo

John Berridge 2

British priest 1716–1793

Charles Sprague photo

Charles Sprague 5

Boston businessman and poet 1791–1875

George D. Prentice photo

George D. Prentice 1

American newspaper editor 1802–1870

George Holyoake photo

George Holyoake 13

British secularist, co-operator, and newspaper editor 1817–1906

Victoria of the United Kingdom photo

Victoria of the United Kingdom 11

British monarch who reigned 1837–1901 1819–1901

George Salmon photo

George Salmon 2

mathematician and Anglican theologian 1819–1904

Anna Bartlett Warner photo

Anna Bartlett Warner 2

American hymnwriter 1827–1915

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce photo

James Bryce, 1st Viscount Bryce 19

British academic, jurist, historian and Liberal politician 1838–1922

Benjamin Fish Austin photo

Benjamin Fish Austin 24

Nineteenth-century Canadian educator/Methodist Minister/Spi… 1850–1933

Pope Benedict XV photo

Pope Benedict XV 1

258th Pope of the Catholic Church 1854–1922

Richard Franck photo

Richard Franck 1

German composer 1858–1938

Arthur Symons photo

Arthur Symons 21

British poet 1865–1945

Fyodor Dan photo

Fyodor Dan 2

Russian revolutionary 1871–1947

Ralph Barton Perry photo

Ralph Barton Perry 15

American philosopher 1876–1957

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy photo

Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy 6

American philanthropist and mother of John F. Kennedy 1890–1995

Roman Vishniac photo

Roman Vishniac 11

American photographer 1897–1990

Itsurō Sakisaka photo

Itsurō Sakisaka 4

Japanese economist 1897–1985

Marvin Bower photo

Marvin Bower 12

American business theorist 1903–2003

Stanley Marcus photo

Stanley Marcus 1

American businessman 1905–2002

Lyndon B. Johnson photo

Lyndon B. Johnson 153

American politician, 36th president of the United States (i… 1908–1973

Bill Mauldin photo

Bill Mauldin 15

American editorial cartoonist 1921–2003

Kóbó Abe 16

Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

Jean Simmons photo

Jean Simmons 1

British-American actress 1929–2010

Ursula K. Le Guin photo

Ursula K. Le Guin 292

American writer 1929–2018

Heath Ledger photo

Heath Ledger 28

Australian actor 1979–2008