Anniversaries 25 April
Birth
![Oliver Cromwell photo]()
English military and political leader
1599–1658
![Emer de Vattel photo]()
jurist from the Principality of Neuchâtel
1714–1767
![Paulinus of St. Bartholomew photo]()
Austrian Carmelite missionary and Orientalist
1748–1806
![William Henry Maule photo]()
British politician
1788–1858
![John Keble photo]()
English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement
1792–1866
![James Pierpont (musician) photo]()
American composer whose songs include "Jingle Bells"
1822–1893
![Marko Miljanov photo]()
author from Montenegro
1833–1901
![Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky photo]()
Russian composer
1840–1893
![Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon photo]()
British Liberal statesman
1862–1933
![Walter de la Mare photo]()
English poet and fiction writer
1873–1956
![Guglielmo Marconi photo]()
Italian inventor and radio pioneer
1874–1937
![Maud Hart Lovelace photo]()
American writer
1892–1980
![Wolfgang Pauli photo]()
Austrian physicist, Nobel prize winner
1900–1958
![Edward R. Murrow photo]()
Television journalist
1908–1965
![Victor Weisz photo]()
German-British political cartoonist
1913–1966
![John James Cowperthwaite photo]()
British colonial administrator
1915–2006
![Rousas John Rushdoony photo]()
American theologian
1916–2001
![Ella Fitzgerald photo]()
American jazz singer
1917–1996
![Karel Appel photo]()
Dutch painter, sculptor, and poet
1921–2006
![Cy Twombly photo]()
American painter
1928–2011
![Jim Peebles photo]()
Canadian-American astronomer
1935
![Henry E. Allison photo]()
American philosopher
1937
![Robert Skidelsky photo]()
Economist and author
1939
![Al Pacino photo]()
American film and stage actor and director
1940
![Peter Unger photo]()
American philosopher
1942
![Jon Kyl photo]()
junior U.S. Senator from Arizona
1942
![Vladimir Zhirinovsky photo]()
Russian politician and political activist
1946–2022
![Johan Cruyff photo]()
Dutch association football player
1947–2016
![Melvin Burgess photo]()
British children's writer
1954
![Roch Marc Christian Kaboré photo]()
President of Burkina Faso
1957
![Joseph G. Hanefeldt photo]()
Eighth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Grand Island.
1958
![Juha Sipilä photo]()
Finnish businessman and politician (b. 1961)
1961
![Dinesh D'Souza photo]()
Indian-American political commentator, filmmaker, author
1961
![Joe Buck photo]()
American sportscaster
1969
![David Eagleman photo]()
neuroscientist and author
1971
![Jason Tanamor photo]()
Filipino-American Author and Writer
1975
![Manal al-Sharif photo]()
Saudi Arabian activist
1979
![Joy Villa photo]()
Singer, songwriter, and actress
1986
![Sara Paxton photo]()
American actress, model and singer
1988
![Mack Horton photo]()
Australian freestyle swimmer
1996
![Eitan Bernath photo]()
American entertainer and chef
2002
Death
![Louise Labé photo]()
female French poet of the Renaissance, born in Lyon
1524–1566
![William Cowper photo]()
(1731–1800) English poet and hymnodist
1731–1800
![Siméon Denis Poisson photo]()
French mathematician, mechanician and physicist
1781–1840
![Anna Sewell photo]()
English novelist
1820–1878
![Crowfoot photo]()
Chief of the Siksika
1830–1890
![Donald Davidson photo]()
American poet, essayist, critic and author
1893–1968
![Clifford D. Simak photo]()
American writer, journalist
1904–1988
![Irving Fiske photo]()
American writer
1908–1990
![Ginger Rogers photo]()
American actress and dancer
1911–1995
![Jane Jacobs photo]()
American–Canadian journalist, author on urbanism and activi…
1916–2006
![Saul Bass photo]()
American graphic designer and filmmaker
1920–1996
![Humphrey Lyttelton photo]()
English jazz trumpeter
1921–2008
![Bea Arthur photo]()
actress, singer, comedian
1922–2009
![Sidiq Koya photo]()
Fijian politician
1923–1993
![Valerie Solanas photo]()
American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassin…
1936–1988
