Anniversaries 26 April
Birth
![Marcus Aurelius photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome
121–180
![Thomas Reid photo]()
Scottish philosopher
1710–1796
![David Hume photo]()
Scottish philosopher, economist, and historian
1711–1776
![John James Audubon photo]()
American ornithologist, naturalist, and painter
1785–1851
![Louis de Potter photo]()
pamphleteer, politician (1786-1859)
1786–1859
![Alice Cary photo]()
American writer
1820–1871
![Artemus Ward photo]()
American writer
1834–1867
![Henry Morgenthau, Sr. photo]()
American diplomat
1856–1946
![Anita Loos photo]()
Actress, novelist, screenwriter, TV producer
1889–1981
![Ludwig Wittgenstein photo]()
Austrian-British philosopher
1889–1951
![Rudolf Hess photo]()
German Nazi leader
1894–1987
![Meša Selimović photo]()
Yugoslav-Bosnian writer
1910–1982
![A. E. van Vogt photo]()
Canadian writer
1912–2000
![Bernard Malamud photo]()
American author
1914–1986
![Morris West photo]()
Australian writer
1916–1999
![I.M. Pei photo]()
Chinese American architect
1917–2019
![Muhammad Qutb photo]()
Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar
1919–2014
![Paul R. Lawrence photo]()
American business theorist
1922–2011
![William Stringfellow photo]()
American theologian
1928–1985
![Patricia Reilly Giff photo]()
American children's writer
1935
![Joan Chittister photo]()
Roman Catholic nun, activist, writer and academic
1936
![Ron McLarty photo]()
American actor and writer
1947–2020
![Jet Li photo]()
Chinese martial artist and actor
1963
![Kevin James photo]()
American actor and comedian
1965
![Glenn Jacobs photo]()
American professional wrestler and actor
1967
![Melania Trump photo]()
Slovenian model, wife of Donald Trump and First Lady of the…
1970
![Jessica Lynch photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1983
![Rutger Bregman photo]()
Dutch journalist, writer and historian
1988
![Aaron Judge photo]()
American baseball player
1992
Death
![Attar of Nishapur photo]()
Persian Sufi poet
1145–1230
![Jeremy Collier photo]()
English theatre critic, non-juror bishop and theologian
1650–1726
![Josiah Quincy II photo]()
American lawyer
1744–1775
![George Herbert Mead photo]()
American philosopher, sociologist, and psychologist
1863–1931
![Hermann von Keyserling photo]()
German philosopher
1880–1946
![Morihei Ueshiba photo]()
founder of aikido
1883–1969
![Srinivasa Ramanujan photo]()
Indian mathematician
1887–1920
![Bessie Love photo]()
American actress (1898–1986)
1898–1986
![Andrei Grechko photo]()
Soviet military commander
1903–1976
![Count Basie photo]()
American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
1904–1984
![Carl B. Boyer photo]()
American mathematician
1906–1976
![Lucille Ball photo]()
American actress and businesswoman
1911–1989
![Gypsy Rose Lee photo]()
American burlesque performer, actress, author
1911–1970
![Stirling Silliphant photo]()
American screenwriter and film producer
1918–1996
![Jack Valenti photo]()
President of the MPAA
1921–2007
![Hubert Selby Jr. photo]()
American writer
1928–2004
![George Jones photo]()
American musician, singer and songwriter
1931–2013
![David Fasold photo]()
American sailor
1939–1998
