Anniversaries 23 May
Birth
![Carl Linnaeus photo]()
Swedish botanist, physician, and zoologist
1707–1778
![Charles-Joseph, 7th Prince of Ligne photo]()
Prince of Ligne
1735–1814
![Margaret Fuller photo]()
American feminist, poet, author, and activist
1810–1850
![John Ross Macduff photo]()
Scottish religious writer
1818–1895
![Frances Fuller Victor photo]()
American writer
1826–1902
![`Abdu'l-Bahá photo]()
Son of Bahá'u'lláh and leader of the Bahá'í Faith
1844–1921
![Charles E. Nash photo]()
American politician
1844–1913
![Otto Lilienthal photo]()
German aviation pioneer
1848–1896
![Alfred P. Sloan photo]()
American businessman
1875–1966
![Corrado Gini photo]()
Italian statistician
1884–1965
![Dennis Holme Robertson photo]()
British economist
1890–1963
![Scott O'Dell photo]()
American children's writer
1898–1989
![Hans Frank photo]()
German war criminal
1900–1946
![Charles W. Morris photo]()
American philosopher
1903–1979
![John Bardeen photo]()
American physicist and engineer
1908–1991
![Artie Shaw photo]()
American clarinetist, composer, and bandleader
1910–2004
![Margaret Wise Brown photo]()
American children's writer and editor
1910–1952
![Franz Kline photo]()
American painter
1910–1962
![Edward Norton Lorenz photo]()
American mathematician and meteorologist
1917–2008
![Humphrey Lyttelton photo]()
English jazz trumpeter
1921–2008
![James Blish photo]()
American author
1921–1975
![Karlheinz Deschner photo]()
German writer and activist
1924–2014
![Joan Collins photo]()
English actress, author and columnist
1933
![Dr. Moog photo]()
electronic music pioneer and inventor from the United States
1934–2005
![Susan Cooper photo]()
English fantasy writer
1935
![M. Scott Peck photo]()
American psychiatrist
1936–2005
![Ann Hui photo]()
Hong Kong film director
1947
![Jane Kenyon photo]()
American poet, translator
1947–1995
![Michael E. Porter photo]()
American engineer and economist
1947
![Vinod Rai photo]()
Comptroller and Auditor General of India
1948
![Alan García photo]()
Peruvian politician
1949–2019
![Anatoly Karpov photo]()
Russian chess player
1951
![Neil Fligstein photo]()
American sociologist
1951
![Lea DeLaria photo]()
American actress and singer
1958
![Drew Carey photo]()
American actor, comedian, game show host, libertarian and p…
1958
![Rubens Barrichello photo]()
Brazilian racing driver
1972
![Jewel photo]()
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actress, a…
1974
Death
![Girolamo Savonarola photo]()
Italian Dominican friar and preacher
1452–1498
![Luis de Góngora photo]()
Spanish Baroque lyric poet
1561–1627
![James Otis Jr. photo]()
Lawyer in colonial Massachusetts
1725–1783
![Mason Weems photo]()
fictionalizing biographer of George Washington
1759–1825
![Augustin Louis Cauchy photo]()
French mathematician (1789–1857)
1789–1857
![Kit Carson photo]()
American frontiersman and Union Army general
1809–1868
![Mark Lemon photo]()
British magazine editor
1809–1870
![Henrik Ibsen photo]()
Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet
1828–1906
![John D. Rockefeller photo]()
American business magnate and philanthropist
1839–1937
![Rudolf Pannwitz photo]()
German writer and philosopher
1881–1969
![Moms Mabley photo]()
American comedian and actress
1894–1975
![Heinrich Himmler photo]()
Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
1900–1945
![David Smith photo]()
American visual artist (1906-1965)
1906–1965
![Telford Taylor photo]()
American lawyer
1908–1998
![W. W. Hansen photo]()
American physicist
1909–1949
![Lloyd Bentsen photo]()
American politician
1921–2006
![Paul Fussell photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1924–2012
![John Nash photo]()
American mathematician and Nobel Prize laureate
1928–2015
![Utah Phillips photo]()
American labor organizer, folk singer, storyteller and poet
1935–2008
![Roh Moo-hyun photo]()
9th President of the Republic of Korea
1946–2009
![Ali Raymi photo]()
Boxing Knockout Artist
1973–2015
![Aleksey Mozgovoy photo]()
pro-Russian rebel and warlord in Eastern Ukraine
1975–2015
![Elliot Rodger photo]()
American spree killer
1991–2014
