Anniversaries 23 April
Birth
![Vilna Gaon photo]()
Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to …
1720–1797
![J.M.W. Turner photo]()
British Romantic landscape painter, water-colourist, and pr…
1775–1851
![James Buchanan photo]()
American politician, 15th President of the United States (i…
1791–1868
![Adin Ballou photo]()
American minister
1803–1890
![Stephen A. Douglas photo]()
American politician
1813–1861
![James Anthony Froude photo]()
English historian, novelist, biographer, and editor of Fras…
1818–1894
![Chauncey Depew photo]()
American politician
1834–1928
![Max Planck photo]()
German theoretical physicist
1858–1947
![Ngaio Marsh photo]()
New Zealand writer
1895–1982
![Lester B. Pearson photo]()
14th Prime Minister of Canada
1897–1972
![Bertil Ohlin photo]()
Swedish economist and politician
1899–1979
![Halldór Laxness photo]()
Icelandic author
1902–1998
![Fritz Wotruba photo]()
Austrian sculptor (23 April 1907, Vienna – 28 August 1975,…
1907–1975
![William Ian Beardmore Beveridge photo]()
British zoologist
1908–2006
![Glyn Daniel photo]()
British archaeologist
1914–1986
![J. P. Donleavy photo]()
Novelist, playwright, essayist
1926–2017
![Shirley Temple photo]()
American actress and diplomat
1928–2014
![George Steiner photo]()
American writer
1929–2020
![Chuck Feeney photo]()
American businessman
1931
![Barry Hannah photo]()
Short story writer, novelist, professor
1942–2010
![Tony Esposito photo]()
American ice hockey goaltender
1943
![Richard Mottram photo]()
British civil ervant
1946
![Jean-Dominique Bauby photo]()
French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion …
1952–1997
![Michael Moore photo]()
American filmmaker, author, social critic, and liberal acti…
1954
![Timothy McVeigh photo]()
American army soldier, security guard, terrorist
1968–2001
![Kal Penn photo]()
American actor and civil servant
1977
![Joanna Krupa photo]()
Polish-American model and actress
1979
![Yana Gupta photo]()
Czech model and actress
1979
Death
![William Shakespeare photo]()
English playwright and poet
1564–1616
![Henry Vaughan photo]()
Welsh author, physician and metaphysical poet
1621–1695
![William Wordsworth photo]()
English Romantic poet
1770–1850
![Karl Polanyi photo]()
economist, philosopher and historian
1886–1964
![Teresa de la Parra photo]()
Venezuelan novelist
1889–1936
![George Adamski photo]()
American ufologist
1891–1965
![George Ohsawa photo]()
twentieth century Japanese philosopher
1893–1966
![Sam Ervin photo]()
Democratic United States Senator from North Carolina
1896–1985
![P. L. Travers photo]()
Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist
1899–1996
![Howard Cosell photo]()
American sportscaster
1918–1995
![Jürg Niehans photo]()
Swiss economist
1919–2007
![Satyajit Ray photo]()
Indian author, poet, composer, lyricist, filmmaker
1921–1992
![Cesar Chavez photo]()
American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activi…
1927–1993
![Boris Yeltsin photo]()
1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet …
1931–2007
![David Halberstam photo]()
American writer, journalist, historian
1934–2007
![Эрл Уилсон photo]()
American baseball player
1934–2005
![Lawrence Shepp photo]()
American mathematician
1936–2013
![Mohammed Omar photo]()
Founder and former leader of the Taliban
1959–2013
