Anniversaries 27 April
Birth
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English historian and Member of Parliament
1737–1794
![Mary Wollstonecraft photo]()
British writer and philosopher
1759–1797
![Jasmine Jones photo]()
American painter and inventor
1791–1872
![William Muir photo]()
Scottish Orientalist and colonial administrator
1819–1905
![Herbert Spencer photo]()
English philosopher, biologist, sociologist, and prominent …
1820–1903
![Ulysses S. Grant photo]()
18th President of the United States
1822–1885
![Anne Ross Cousin photo]()
Scottish musician and songwriter
1824–1906
![Alice Morse Earle photo]()
American historian
1851–1911
![Arthur F. Burns photo]()
American economist and diplomat
1904–1987
![Martin Cecil, 7th Marquess of Exeter photo]()
Marquess of Exeter
1909–1988
![Philip Abelson photo]()
US physicist, editor of the journal Science, and director o…
1913–2004
![Edwin Morgan photo]()
Scottish poet and translator
1920–2010
![John Stott photo]()
British theologian
1921–2011
![Coretta Scott King photo]()
American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of…
1927–2006
![Gilbert Sorrentino photo]()
American writer
1929–2006
![Pik Botha photo]()
South African politician
1932–2018
![Brennan Manning photo]()
writer, American Roman Catholic priest and United States Ma…
1934–2013
![Nico Perrone photo]()
Italian historian and writer
1935
![Fethullah Gülen photo]()
Turkish preacher, former imam, writer, and political figure
1941
![Dilip Kumar Chakrabarti photo]()
Indian archaeologist
1941
![August Wilson photo]()
American playwright
1945–2005
![Frank W. Abagnale photo]()
American security consultant, former confidence trickster, …
1948
![Ace Frehley photo]()
American musician best known as the former lead guitarist a…
1951
![Herm Edwards photo]()
American football player, coach and analyst
1954
![Frank Bainimarama photo]()
Prime Minister of Fiji
1954
![Eric Schmidt photo]()
software engineer, businessman
1955
![Nicholas D. Kristof photo]()
journalist, author, columnist
1959
![Joanne B. Freeman photo]()
US historian and tenured professor of History and American …
1962
![Russell T. Davies photo]()
Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who
1963
![Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands photo]()
King of the Netherlands
1967
![Cory Booker photo]()
35th Class 2 senator for New Jersey in U.S. Congress
1969
![Jussi Halla-aho photo]()
Finnish Slavic linguist, blogger and a politician
1971
![Roberta Floris photo]()
italian journalist, television presenter and former model (…
1979
![Luke Cummo photo]()
American mixed martial artist
1980
Death
![Ferdinand Magellan photo]()
Portuguese explorer
1480–1521
![Jonathan Boucher photo]()
English minister
1738–1804
![William Jones photo]()
Anglo-Welsh philologist and scholar of ancient India
1746–1794
![Ralph Waldo Emerson photo]()
American philosopher, essayist, and poet
1803–1882
![Subh-i-Azal photo]()
Persian religious leader
1831–1912
![Karl Pearson photo]()
English mathematician and biometrician
1857–1936
![Edmund Husserl photo]()
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology
1859–1938
![H. Stanley Allen photo]()
English Physicist
1873–1954
![Daniel Daly photo]()
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient
1873–1937
![Antonio Gramsci photo]()
Italian writer, politician, theorist, sociologist and lingu…
1891–1937
![Matsushita Konosuke photo]()
Japanese businessman
1894–1989
![Hart Crane photo]()
American writer
1899–1932
![Pauline Réage photo]()
French journalist and novelist
1907–1998
![Edward R. Murrow photo]()
Television journalist
1908–1965
![Kwame Nkrumah photo]()
Pan Africanist and First Prime Minister and President of Gh…
1909–1972
![Carlos Castaneda photo]()
Peruvian-American author
1925–1998
![Gerard O'Neill photo]()
Physicist, author, and inventor
1927–1992
![Vito Acconci photo]()
Designer, landscape architect, performance and installation…
1940–2017
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Novelist, short story writer
1947–2002
