Anniversaries 23 January
Birth
![Benjamin Beddome photo]()
British hymnwriter
1717–1795
![John Hancock photo]()
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revoluti…
1737–1793
![Lewis Morris (poet) photo]()
Welsh poet in the English language
1833–1907
![David Hilbert photo]()
German prominent mathematician
1862–1943
![Kliment Voroshilov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1881–1969
![Pitirim Sorokin photo]()
American sociologist
1889–1968
![Subhas Chandra Bose photo]()
Indian nationalist leader and politician
1897–1945
![Anya Seton photo]()
American writer
1904–1990
![Bill Bailey (Spanish Civil War veteran) photo]()
American labor activist
1910–1995
![W. Arthur Lewis photo]()
Saint Lucain economist
1915–1991
![Gertrude B. Elion photo]()
American biochemist and pharmacologist
1918–1999
![Ernie Kovacs photo]()
American comedian, actor, and writer
1919–1962
![Vernon Scannell photo]()
British boxer and poet
1922–2007
![Walter M. Miller, Jr. photo]()
American fiction writer
1923–1996
![Frank Lautenberg photo]()
U.S. Senator from New Jersey
1924–2013
![John Polanyi photo]()
Hungarian-Canadian chemist
1929
![Derek Walcott photo]()
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
1930–2017
![Pierre Bourgault photo]()
Canadian politician
1934–2003
![Willoughby Sharp photo]()
American artist
1936–2008
![Hugh Prather photo]()
American writer
1938–2010
![Boris Berezovsky photo]()
Russian mathematician
1946–2013
![Jose Romeo Lazo photo]()
Filipino Roman Catholic archbishop
1949
![Miguel Ángel Alba Díaz photo]()
Mexican Roman Catholic bishop
1951
![Alister McGrath photo]()
Northern Irish priest and academic
1953
![James Altucher photo]()
American hedge fund manager, entrepreneur, and author
1968
![Michael Stevens (educator) photo]()
Internet personality
1986
Death
![Giambattista Vico photo]()
philosopher, rhetorician, historian and jurist from Italy
1668–1744
![Edward Rutledge photo]()
American politician
1749–1800
![William Pitt the Younger photo]()
British politician
1759–1806
![Thomas Love Peacock photo]()
English novelist, poet, and official of the East India Comp…
1785–1866
![Ignacy Domeyko photo]()
Polish mineralogist and geologist
1802–1889
![Michael Joseph Barry photo]()
Irish poet and political figure
1817–1889
![Charles Kingsley photo]()
English clergyman, historian and novelist
1819–1875
![Phillips Brooks photo]()
American clergyman and author
1835–1893
![Henry Maudsley photo]()
British psychiatrist
1835–1918
![Arthur Desmond photo]()
New Zealnd writer
1859–1929
![Edvard Munch photo]()
Norwegian painter and printmaker
1863–1944
![Isa Boletini photo]()
Kosovo Albanian guerilla leader
1864–1916
![Pierre Bonnard photo]()
French painter and printmaker
1867–1947
![Anna Pavlova photo]()
Russian ballet dancer
1881–1931
![Geoffrey Hodson photo]()
New Zealand occultist
1886–1983
![Alexander Woollcott photo]()
American critic
1887–1943
![Yakov Frenkel photo]()
Russian physicist
1894–1952
![Paul Robeson photo]()
American singer and actor
1898–1976
![Northrop Frye photo]()
Canadian literary critic and literary theorist
1912–1991
![Nicanor Parra photo]()
writer, poet, matematician, fisic
1914–2018
![Jack LaLanne photo]()
American exercise instructor
1914–2011
![George Perle photo]()
American composer
1915–2009
![Helmut Newton photo]()
German-Australian photographer
1920–2004
![Joseph Beuys photo]()
German visual artist
1921–1986
![Abdullah of Saudi Arabia photo]()
former King of Saudi Arabia
1924–2015
![Johnny Carson photo]()
American talk show host and magician
1925–2005
![Bob Keeshan photo]()
United States Marine
1927–2004
![Pierre Bourdieu photo]()
French sociologist, anthropologist, and philosopher
1930–2002
![Ernie Banks photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1931–2015
![Ryszard Kapuściński photo]()
Polish historian
1932–2007
![Robert Nozick photo]()
American political philosopher
1938–2002
![Clayton M. Christensen photo]()
Mormon academic
1952–2020
