Anniversaries 24 September
Birth
![Girolamo Cardano photo]()
Italian Renaissance mathematician, physician, astrologer
1501–1576
![Tang Xianzu photo]()
Chinese playwright
1550–1616
![Horace Walpole photo]()
English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig…
1717–1797
![John Marshall photo]()
fourth Chief Justice of the United States
1755–1835
![William Lisle Bowles photo]()
English priest, poet and critic
1762–1850
![Sir Alexander Cockburn, 12th Baronet photo]()
Lord Chief Justice
1802–1880
![Epes Sargent photo]()
American editor, poet and playwright
1813–1880
![Frances Harper photo]()
American writer
1825–1911
![Mark Hanna photo]()
Republican United States Senator from Ohio
1837–1904
![Florence Scovel Shinn photo]()
American writer
1871–1940
![Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow photo]()
British politician, agriculturalist and colonial administra…
1887–1952
![A. P. Herbert photo]()
British politician
1890–1971
![Adélard Godbout photo]()
Canadian politician
1892–1956
![F. Scott Fitzgerald photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1896–1940
![Ruhollah Khomeini photo]()
Religious leader, politician
1902–1989
![Leon MacLaren photo]()
British philosopher
1910–1994
![Konstantin Chernenko photo]()
Soviet politician
1911–1985
![Wilson Rawls photo]()
American children's writer
1913–1984
![Geoffrey Burbidge photo]()
British astronomer
1925–2010
![Bruce Baillie photo]()
American film director
1931
![Jim Henson photo]()
American puppeteer
1936–1990
![Linda McCartney photo]()
American photographer
1941–1998
![Rhys Bowen photo]()
British writer of children's picture books, YA novels, and …
1941
![Antonio Tabucchi photo]()
writer and literary scholar
1943–2012
![Ian Stewart photo]()
British mathematician and science fiction author
1945
![Lou Dobbs photo]()
American Television Host
1945
![Phil Hartman photo]()
Canadian American actor, comedian, screenwriter, and graphi…
1948–1998
![Stowe Boyd photo]()
information technologist
1953
![Ash Carter photo]()
United States Secretary of Defense
1954
![Brad Bird photo]()
American director, screenwriter, animator, producer and occ…
1957
![Karen Kwiatkowski photo]()
retired military officer and author
1960
![Pavel Kroupa photo]()
Australian astrophysicist
1963
![Stefan Molyneux photo]()
libertarian philosopher, writer, speaker, and online broadc…
1966
![Zainab Salbi photo]()
Iraqi American author, women's rights activist
1969
Death
![Paracelsus photo]()
Swiss physician and alchemist
1493–1541
![Robert Hayne photo]()
American politician
1791–1839
![Henry Hart Milman photo]()
English historian and churchman
1791–1868
![Alfred Stillé photo]()
American physician, educator, and writer
1813–1900
![Walter Dill Scott photo]()
President of Northwestern university and psychologist
1869–1955
![Otto Mueller photo]()
German painter and printmaker of the expressionist movement
1874–1930
![Gottfried Feder photo]()
German economist and politician
1883–1941
![Warren S. McCulloch photo]()
American neuroscientist
1898–1969
![Dr. Seuss photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B…
1904–1991
![Derek Prince photo]()
British missionary
1915–2003
![Bill Mollison photo]()
Australian permaculturist
1928–2016
![Zeki Müren photo]()
Turkish musician
1931–1996
![Gennady Yanayev photo]()
USSR politician
1937–2010
