Anniversaries 24 January
Birth
![John Vanbrugh photo]()
English architect and dramatist
1664–1726
![Frederick II of Prussia photo]()
king of Prussia
1712–1786
![Pierre Beaumarchais photo]()
French playwright diplomat and polymath
1732–1799
![Charles James Fox photo]()
British Whig statesman
1749–1806
![E. T. A. Hoffmann photo]()
German Romantic author
1776–1822
![Hermann Ebbinghaus photo]()
German psychologist
1850–1909
![Edith Wharton photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, designer
1862–1937
![Lev Shestov photo]()
Russian theologian
1866–1938
![Walter Model photo]()
German field marshal
1891–1945
![Oskar Morgenstern photo]()
austrian economist
1902–1977
![Doris Haddock photo]()
American political activist
1910–2010
![C. L. Moore photo]()
American author
1911–1987
![Robert Motherwell photo]()
American artist
1915–1991
![Howard Raiffa photo]()
American academic
1924–2016
![Desmond Morris photo]()
English zoologist, ethologist and surrealist painter
1928
![Henri Nouwen photo]()
Dutch priest and writer
1932–1996
![José Argüelles photo]()
American author and artist
1939–2011
![Vito Acconci photo]()
Designer, landscape architect, performance and installation…
1940–2017
![Neil Diamond photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1941
![Sharon Tate photo]()
actress, victim of murder by Charles Manson followers
1943–1969
![David Gerrold photo]()
American screenwriter and novelist
1944
![Warren Zevon photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1947–2003
![Michio Kaku photo]()
American theoretical physicist, futurist and author
1947
![John Belushi photo]()
American comedian, actor, and musician
1949–1982
![Gennifer Flowers photo]()
American actress and model
1950
![Rogelio Cabrera López photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1951
![Moon Jae-in photo]()
President of South Korea
1953
![Fridolin Ambongo Besungu photo]()
Congolese theologian and catholic cardinal
1960
![Robbert Dijkgraaf photo]()
Dutch mathematical physicist and string theorist
1960
![Christopher McDougall photo]()
American journalist and writer
1962
![Antony Garrett Lisi photo]()
American theoretical physicist
1968
Death
![Caligula photo]()
3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian…
12–41
![Rebecca Latimer Felton photo]()
American politician
1835–1930
![Lord Randolph Churchill photo]()
British politician
1849–1895
![John Burns photo]()
English trade unionist and politician
1858–1943
![James Allen photo]()
British philosophical writer
1864–1912
![Vladimir Barsky photo]()
Russian film director
1866–1936
![Winston S. Churchill photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1874–1965
![Amedeo Modigliani photo]()
Italian painter and sculptor
1884–1920
![Oliverio Girondo photo]()
Argentinian writer
1891–1967
![William Barclay photo]()
Church of Scotland minister and academic
1907–1978
![Thurgood Marshall photo]()
Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court
1908–1993
![Homi J. Bhabha photo]()
1909-1966, Indian nuclear physicist
1909–1966
![L. Ron Hubbard photo]()
American science fiction author, philosopher, cult leader, …
1911–1986
![Raymond F. Jones photo]()
American writer
1915–1994
![Gianni Agnelli photo]()
Italian businessman
1921–2003
![Bhimsen Joshi photo]()
Indian vocalist
1922–2011
![Peter Ladefoged photo]()
British phonetician
1925–2006
![Marvin Minsky photo]()
American cognitive scientist
1927–2016
![Shulamit Aloni photo]()
Israeli politician
1928–2014
![Betty Berzon photo]()
American psychotherapist
1928–2006
![David Finkelstein photo]()
American physicist
1929–2016
![Pete Stark photo]()
American politician
1931–2020
![Jack Ketchum photo]()
American horror writer
1946–2018
![Ted Bundy photo]()
American serial killer
1946–1989
![Mark E. Smith photo]()
English spoken-word artist, singer, songwriter & bandleader…
1957–2018
