Anniversaries 23 September
Birth
![Jeremy Collier photo]()
English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian
1650–1726
![Joshua Evans (Quaker minister) photo]()
American Quaker minister and abolitionist
1731–1798
![Sir Frederick Pollock, 1st Baronet photo]()
British lawyer and Tory politician
1783–1870
![Victoria Woodhull photo]()
American suffragist
1838–1927
![Robert Bosch photo]()
German industrialist, inventor, engineer
1861–1942
![Mary Church Terrell photo]()
African Americans' rights activist
1863–1954
![Emma Orczy photo]()
Hungarian-British author of "The Scarlet Pimpernel"
1865–1947
![Herbert N. Casson photo]()
Canadian journalist and writer
1869–1951
![Walter Lippmann photo]()
American journalist
1889–1974
![Louise Nevelson photo]()
American sculptor
1899–1988
![Jaroslav Seifert photo]()
Czechoslovak poet, Nobel prize laureate
1901–1986
![Pauline Réage photo]()
French journalist and novelist
1907–1998
![Albert Messiah photo]()
French physicist
1921–2013
![John Coltrane photo]()
American jazz saxophonist
1926–1967
![Ray Charles photo]()
American musician
1930–2004
![George Jackson (activist) photo]()
activist, Marxist, author, member of the Black Panther Part…
1941–1971
![Dith Pran photo]()
Cambodian photojournalist
1942–2008
![Julio Iglesias photo]()
Spanish recording artist; singer-songwriter
1943
![Bruce Springsteen photo]()
American singer and songwriter
1949
![Jerry B. Jenkins photo]()
novelist, biographer
1949
![Cherie Blair photo]()
British barrister and wife of former British Prime Minister…
1954
![Peter David photo]()
American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies …
1956
![Nathaniel Borenstein photo]()
American computer scientist
1957
![Philip Lymbery photo]()
Animal welfare advocate
1965
![Justine Larbalestier photo]()
Australian young-adult fiction author
1967
![Adam Price photo]()
Welsh politician and Plaid Cymru leader (born 1968)
1968
![Ani DiFranco photo]()
musician and activist
1970
![Sean Spicer photo]()
American political strategist and former White House Pres…
1971
![Karl Pilkington photo]()
English television personality, social commentator, actor, …
1972
![Sarah Blasko photo]()
Australian singer-songwriter, musician, record producer
1976
![Han Han photo]()
Chinese writer and racing driver
1982
Death
![Bai Juyi photo]()
Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty
772–846
![Al-Mutanabbi photo]()
Arabic poet from the Abbasid era
915–965
![John Brown (essayist) photo]()
English divine and author
1715–1766
![Benjamin Beddome photo]()
British hymnwriter
1717–1795
![Prosper Mérimée photo]()
French writer, historian, and translator
1803–1870
![John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn photo]()
British Liberal statesman, writer and newspaper editor
1838–1923
![Émile Gallé photo]()
French glass artist and cabinetmaker
1846–1904
![Sigmund Freud photo]()
Austrian neurologist known as the founding father of psycho…
1856–1939
![Elinor Glyn photo]()
British novelist and scriptwriter
1864–1943
![A.S. Neill photo]()
Scottish educator and theorist
1883–1973
![Padre Pio photo]()
Italian saint, priest, stigmatist and mystic
1887–1968
![Lawrence K. Frank photo]()
American cyberneticist
1890–1968
![Carl Rowan photo]()
American journalist
1925–2000
![Vernon Corea photo]()
The legendary broadcaster – a pioneer with Radio Ceylon/Sri…
1927–2002
![Al Alvarez photo]()
English poet, novelist, essayist and critic
1929–2019
![Charles K. Kao photo]()
Hong Hong-British-American physicist
1933–2018
![Robert Hunter photo]()
American musician
1941–2019
![Pavel Grachev photo]()
Soviet generals
1948–2012
