Anniversaries 26 September
Birth
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Irish playwright and librettist
1733–1812
![Charles Bradlaugh photo]()
British freethinker, and radical politician
1833–1891
![Max Ehrmann photo]()
American writer, poet, and attorney
1872–1945
![Alfred Cortot photo]()
Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor
1877–1962
![Archibald Hill photo]()
English physiologist and biophysicist
1886–1977
![Antonio Moreno photo]()
Spanish-American film actor and director
1887–1967
![T.S. Eliot photo]()
20th century English author
1888–1965
![J. Frank Dobie photo]()
American writer
1888–1964
![Martin Heidegger photo]()
German philosopher
1889–1976
![Hans Reichenbach photo]()
American philosopher
1891–1953
![Marina Tsvetaeva photo]()
Russian poet and writer
1892–1941
![Robert Staughton Lynd photo]()
American sociologist
1892–1970
![Pope Paul VI photo]()
262nd Pope of the Catholic Church
1897–1978
![George Gershwin photo]()
American composer and pianist
1898–1937
![Leonard E. Read photo]()
American academic
1898–1983
![Jack LaLanne photo]()
American exercise instructor
1914–2011
![Bertram Raven photo]()
American psychologist
1926
![Manmohan Singh photo]()
13th Prime Minister of India
1932
![Robert Maxwell Young photo]()
American medical historian
1935–2019
![Mehdi Karroubi photo]()
Iranian reformist politician, democracy activist, mojtahed,…
1937
![Gloria E. Anzaldúa photo]()
Chicana cultural theory, feminist theory, and queer theory
1942–2004
![Andrea Dworkin photo]()
Feminist writer
1946–2005
![Minette Walters photo]()
British crime writer
1949
![Mary Crow Dog photo]()
Lakota author and indigenous rights activist
1954–2013
![Tanya Huff photo]()
Canadian fantasy author
1957
![Robert Kagan photo]()
American political scientist
1958
![Will Self photo]()
English writer and journalist
1961
![Tracey Thorn photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1962
![Petro Poroshenko photo]()
Ukrainian businessman and politician
1965
![Shannon Hoon photo]()
singer-songwriter
1967–1995
![Rich Piana photo]()
American bodybuilder and internet personality
1970–2017
![Anand Gandhi photo]()
Indian film director
1980
![Serena Williams photo]()
American tennis player
1981
Death
![Ibn Taymiyyah photo]()
Sunni Islamic scholar and theologian, who lived during the …
1263–1328
![John Byrom photo]()
Poet, inventor of a shorthand system
1692–1763
![Daniel Boone photo]()
American settler
1734–1820
![Thomas Clarkson photo]()
English abolitionist
1760–1846
![Thomas Denman, 1st Baron Denman photo]()
British politician
1779–1854
![Hermann Grassmann photo]()
German polymath, linguist and mathematician
1809–1877
![Lahiri Mahasaya photo]()
Indian yogi and guru
1828–1895
![Keir Hardie photo]()
Scottish socialist and labour leader
1856–1915
![Georg Simmel photo]()
German sociologist, philosopher, and critic
1858–1918
![Harriet Monroe photo]()
American poet and editor
1860–1936
![George Santayana photo]()
20th-century Spanish-American philosopher associated with P…
1863–1952
![Béla Bartók photo]()
Hungarian composer and pianist
1881–1945
![Hugh Lofting photo]()
British author, trained as a civil engineer
1886–1947
![August Macke photo]()
German painter of the expressionist group Der Blaue Reiter
1887–1914
![Charles Erwin Wilson photo]()
American secretary of Defence
1890–1961
![Walter Benjamin photo]()
German literary critic, philosopher and social critic (1892…
1892–1940
![S. W. R. D. Bandaranaike photo]()
Sri Lankan politician
1899–1959
![Helen Kane photo]()
American actress
1904–1966
![Alberto Moravia photo]()
Italian writer and journalist
1907–1990
![Stanislav Andreski photo]()
Polish-British sociologist
1919–2007
![Nils Bohlin photo]()
Swedish inventor
1920–2002
![Thomas Dubay photo]()
American Catholic priest, author, and retreat director
1921–2010
![Paul Newman photo]()
American actor and film director
1925–2008
![Jacques Chirac photo]()
22nd President of France
1932–2019
![John D. Barrow photo]()
British scientist
1952–2020
![Shawn Lane photo]()
American musician
1963–2003
