Anniversaries 23 October
Birth
![Ignatius of Loyola photo]()
Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit…
1491–1556
![Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey photo]()
British politician
1773–1850
![George Saintsbury photo]()
British literary critic
1845–1933
![Frederick W. Lanchester photo]()
British polymath
1868–1946
![Edwin Boring photo]()
American psychologist
1886–1968
![Margaret A. Edwards photo]()
American librarian
1902–1988
![Paul Twitchell photo]()
American writer
1909–1971
![Ali Al-Wardi photo]()
Iraqi sociologist
1913–1995
![Allen Wheelis photo]()
American psychoanalyst
1915–2007
![Ned Rorem photo]()
American composer
1923–2022
![Fred Shero photo]()
Former ice hockey player and coach
1925–1990
![Johnny Carson photo]()
American talk show host and magician
1925–2005
![Leszek Kolakowski photo]()
Philosopher, historian of ideas
1927–2009
![Paul Davidson photo]()
Post Keynesian economist
1930
![Pelé photo]()
Brazilian association football player
1940–2022
![Michael Crichton photo]()
American author, screenwriter, film producer
1942–2008
![Ang Lee photo]()
Taiwanese-born American film director, screenwriter and fil…
1954
![Graeme Revell photo]()
New Zealand musician
1955
![Martin Luther King III photo]()
Civil right activist
1957
![Robert Muhiirwa photo]()
Ugandan Roman Catholic bishop
1958
!["Weird Al" Yankovic photo]()
American singer-songwriter, music producer, accordionist, a…
1959
![Sam Raimi photo]()
American film director, producer, writer and actor
1959
![Nancy Grace photo]()
American legal commentator, television host, television jou…
1959
![Randy Pausch photo]()
American professor of computer science, human-computer inte…
1960–2008
![Laurie Halse Anderson photo]()
American children's writer
1961
![Mylo Hubert Vergara photo]()
Filipino bishop of the Catholic Church (born 1962)
1962
![Gordon Korman photo]()
Canadian American children's writer
1963
![Robert Trujillo photo]()
American bassist known for his role as the current bassist …
1964
![Alex Flinn photo]()
American children's writer
1966
![Sanjay Gupta photo]()
journalist, medical correspondent, neurosurgeon
1969
![Aravind Adiga photo]()
Indian journalist and author
1974
![Derek Landy photo]()
Irish children's writer
1974
![Cat Deeley photo]()
English television presenter, actress, singer and model
1976
![Meghan McCain photo]()
Daughter of United States Senator John McCain
1984
![Masiela Lusha photo]()
Albanian actress, writer, author
1985
Death
![Marcus Junius Brutus photo]()
Roman politician
-85–-42 BC
![John Conington photo]()
British classical scholar
1825–1869
![John William Lloyd photo]()
American anarchist, sexologist, utopian theorist and author…
1857–1940
![Ernest Thompson Seton photo]()
British/ American author, artist, and a founder of the scou…
1860–1946
![Ahmed Shawqi photo]()
Egyptian poet and dramatist
1868–1932
![Zane Grey photo]()
American novelist
1872–1939
![Charles Demuth photo]()
American painter
1883–1935
![Soong Mei-ling photo]()
Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China
1897–2003
![Asaf Ali Asghar Fyzee photo]()
Indian educator, jurist, author, diplomat, and Islamic scho…
1899–1981
![Clarice Cliff photo]()
English ceramic artist
1899–1972
![Carl Eckart photo]()
American physicist
1902–1973
![Christian Dior photo]()
French fashion designer
1905–1957
![Jack T. Chick photo]()
Christian comics writer
1924–2016
![Kurien Kunnumpuram photo]()
Indian theologian
1931–2018
![Tony Hoagland photo]()
American writer
1953–2018
