Anniversaries 24 August
Birth
![Bartolomé de las Casas photo]()
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer
1474–1566
![John Taylor photo]()
English poet of the 16th and 17th centuries
1578–1653
![Robert Herrick photo]()
17th-century English poet and cleric
1591–1674
![Selina Hastings, Countess of Huntingdon photo]()
British countess
1707–1791
![William Wilberforce photo]()
English politician
1759–1833
![Lyman Heath photo]()
American musician
1804–1870
![Henry R. Towne photo]()
American engineer
1844–1924
![Nesta Helen Webster photo]()
British far-right conspiracy theorist and author
1876–1960
![Jean Rhys photo]()
novelist from Dominica
1890–1979
![Jorge Luis Borges photo]()
Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator…
1899–1986
![Fernand Braudel photo]()
French historian and a leader of the Annales School
1902–1985
![Milton Mayer photo]()
American journalist
1908–1986
![James Tiptree, Jr photo]()
American science fiction writer
1915–1987
![Avery Dulles photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1918–2008
![Howard Zinn photo]()
author and historian
1922–2010
![René Lévesque photo]()
Quebec politician
1922–1987
![Arthur Jensen photo]()
professor of educational psychology
1923–2012
![Guido Ceronetti photo]()
Italian poet, writer, journalist and translator
1927–2018
![Yasser Arafat photo]()
former Palestinian President, and Nobel Peace Prize recipie…
1929–2004
![A. S. Byatt photo]()
English fiction writer and critic
1936
![Yaron London photo]()
Israeli journalist, actor and songwriter
1940
![Jim Horning photo]()
computer scientist
1942–2013
![Christine Chubbuck photo]()
American television news reporter
1944–1974
![Paulo Coelho photo]()
Brazilian lyricist and novelist
1947
![Sauli Niinistö photo]()
12th president of Finland
1948
![Jean-Michel Jarre photo]()
French composer, performer and music producer
1948
![Orson Scott Card photo]()
American science fiction novelist
1951
![Stephen Fry photo]()
English comedian, actor, writer, presenter, and activist
1957
![Yan Lianke photo]()
Chinese novelist and satirist
1958
![Cal Ripken, Jr. photo]()
American baseball player
1960
![Hideo Kojima photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1963
![Dana Gould photo]()
Comedian and comedy writer
1964
![John Green photo]()
American author and vlogger
1977
Death
![Pliny the Elder photo]()
Roman military commander and writer
23–79
![Rose of Lima photo]()
Peruvian colonist and Dominican saint
1586–1617
![John Owen photo]()
English theologian
1616–1683
![George Lyttelton, 1st Baron Lyttelton photo]()
British politician
1709–1773
![Thomas Chatterton photo]()
English poet, forger
1752–1770
![Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot photo]()
French physicist, the "father of thermodynamics" (1796–1832)
1796–1832
![Rudolf Clausius photo]()
German mathematical physicist
1822–1888
![Luís Gama photo]()
Brazilian lawyer, poet, abolitionist and journalist
1830–1882
![Edward McKendree Bounds photo]()
clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal Church South
1835–1913
![Kate Douglas Wiggin photo]()
American writer
1856–1923
![Margaret Barber photo]()
English Christian writer
1869–1901
![John William Dunne photo]()
British soldier, aeronautical engineer and philosopher
1875–1949
![Henry J. Kaiser photo]()
American industrialist
1882–1967
![Scott Nearing photo]()
American activist
1883–1983
![Stella Wolfe Murray photo]()
British journalist and writer
1886–1935
![Ronald Knox photo]()
English priest and theologian
1888–1957
![Simone Weil photo]()
French philosopher, Christian mystic, and social activist
1909–1943
![Wilfred Thesiger photo]()
British explorer
1910–2003
![Bayard Rustin photo]()
American civil rights activist and gay rights activist
1912–1987
![Abdul Rahman Arif photo]()
President and Prime Minister of Iraq
1916–2007
![Elisabeth Kübler-Ross photo]()
American psychiatrist
1926–2004
![Arun Jaitley photo]()
Indian politician
1952–2019
