Anniversaries 22 August
Birth
![Denis Papin photo]()
French physicist, mathematician and inventor
1647–1713
![John Bartholomew Gough photo]()
Anglo-American temperance orator
1817–1886
![Charles Fillmore photo]()
American mystic
1854–1948
![Claude Debussy photo]()
French composer
1862–1918
![Max Scheler photo]()
German philosopher
1874–1928
![Ananda K. Coomaraswamy photo]()
Ceylon-American art historian
1877–1947
![Jacques Lipchitz photo]()
American and French sculptor
1891–1973
![Dorothy Parker photo]()
American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
1893–1967
![Leni Riefenstahl photo]()
German film director, photographer, actress and dancer
1902–2003
![Deng Xiaoping photo]()
Chinese politician, Paramount leader of China
1904–1997
![Henri Cartier-Bresson photo]()
French photographer
1908–2004
![Dave Dellinger photo]()
American activist
1915–2004
![Ray Bradbury photo]()
American writer
1920–2012
![Bernard d'Espagnat photo]()
French physicist and philosopher
1921–2015
![Madame Nhu photo]()
First lady of South Vietnam
1924–2011
![Arthur Jones (inventor) photo]()
American inventor
1926–2007
![Karlheinz Stockhausen photo]()
German composer
1928–2007
![Norman Schwarzkopf photo]()
United States Army general
1934–2012
![Annie Proulx photo]()
American novelist, short story and non-fiction author
1935
![Keith Ward photo]()
British philosopher, theologian, priest and scholar
1938
![K.C. Cole photo]()
American non-fiction writer
1946
![Eli Noam photo]()
professor of Finance and Economics at the Columbia Business…
1946
![James Rumbaugh photo]()
Computer scientist, software engineer
1947
![Margaret Chan photo]()
Director-General of the World Health Organization
1947
![Scooter Libby photo]()
former lawyer and White House official
1950
![Hau Lung-pin photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1952
![Gary Steiner photo]()
American philosopher
1956
![Andrés Calamaro photo]()
Argentine musician and composer
1961
![Layne Staley photo]()
American singer
1967–2002
![Iris Kyle photo]()
American bodybuilder
1974
![Dua Lipa photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1995
Death
![Richard III of England photo]()
English monarch
1452–1485
![Henri-Louis Duhamel du Monceau photo]()
French naval engineer, botanist and agronomist
1700–1782
![Pierre Charles Alexandre Louis photo]()
French physician
1787–1872
![Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury photo]()
British politician
1830–1903
![Charles William Eliot photo]()
President of Harvard
1834–1926
![Jan Neruda photo]()
Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer
1834–1891
![William Paton Mackay photo]()
Scottish clergyman
1839–1885
![Kate Chopin photo]()
American author
1850–1904
![Oliver Lodge photo]()
British physicist
1851–1940
![Michael Collins (Irish leader) photo]()
Irish revolutionary leader
1890–1922
![Stanton Macdonald-Wright photo]()
American artist
1890–1973
![Jomo Kenyatta photo]()
First prime minister and first president of Kenya
1893–1978
![George R. Stewart photo]()
American historian, toponymist, and novelist
1895–1980
![Ignazio Silone photo]()
Italian author and politician
1900–1978
![Diana Vreeland photo]()
American magazine editor
1903–1989
![Jacob Bronowski photo]()
Polish-born British mathematician
1908–1974
![Grace Paley photo]()
American writer and activist
1922–2007
![Huey P. Newton photo]()
Co-founder of the Black Panther Party
1942–1989
![Jack Layton photo]()
Leader of the New Democratic Party of Canada
1950–2011
