Today anniversaries
Birth
![Woodrow Wilson photo]()
American politician, 28th president of the United States (i…
1856–1924
![John J. Whitacre photo]()
American politician
1860–1938
![Arthur Stanley Eddington photo]()
British astrophysicist
1882–1944
![Carol Ryrie Brink photo]()
American children's writer
1895–1981
![Mortimer J. Adler photo]()
American philosopher and educator
1902–2001
![John Von Neumann photo]()
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
1903–1957
![George Bird Evans photo]()
American writer
1906–1998
![Sam Levenson photo]()
American journalist
1911–1980
![Stan Lee photo]()
American comic book writer
1922–2018
![Guy Debord photo]()
French Marxist theorist, writer, filmmaker and founding mem…
1931–1994
![Dhirubhai Ambani photo]()
Indian business tycoon
1932–2002
![Manuel Puig photo]()
Argentine author and screenwriter
1932–1990
![Nichelle Nichols photo]()
American actress, singer and voice artist
1932
![Roy Hattersley photo]()
British Labour Party politician, published author and journ…
1932
![Alasdair Gray photo]()
Scottish writer and artist
1934–2019
![Kary Mullis photo]()
American biochemist
1944–2019
![David Allen photo]()
American productivity consultant and author
1945
![Tim Johnson photo]()
United States Senator from South Dakota
1946
![Ma Anand Sheela photo]()
former chief assistant for the Indian mystic Rajneesh
1949
![Mark Mwandosya photo]()
Tanzanian politician
1949
![Ian Buruma photo]()
Dutch writer and academic
1951
![Arun Jaitley photo]()
Indian politician
1952–2019
![Trip Hawkins photo]()
American businessman
1953
![Denzel Washington photo]()
actor, screenwriter, director, producer
1954
![Liu Xiaobo photo]()
Chinese literary critic, writer, professor, and human right…
1955–2017
![Robert M. Edsel photo]()
American art historian
1956
![Gerald F. Davis photo]()
American sociologist
1961
![Michel Petrucciani photo]()
French jazz pianist
1962–1999
![Linus Torvalds photo]()
Finnish-American software engineer and hacker
1969
![Milan Stipić photo]()
Croatian Greek-Catholic bishop
1978
![James Blake photo]()
American tennis player
1979
![Sienna Miller photo]()
British-American actress
1981
![Taryn Terrell photo]()
American professional wrestler and model
1985
Death
![Francis de Sales photo]()
French bishop, saint, writer and Doctor of the Church j
1567–1622
![Francesco Maria Grimaldi photo]()
Italian physicist
1618–1663
![Pierre Bayle photo]()
French philosopher and writer
1647–1706
![Emer de Vattel photo]()
jurist from the Principality of Neuchâtel
1714–1767
![Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay photo]()
British historian and Whig politician
1800–1859
![George Gissing photo]()
English novelist
1857–1903
![Robert Edouard Moritz photo]()
German mathematician
1868–1940
![Theodore Dreiser photo]()
Novelist, journalist
1871–1945
![Clarence Day photo]()
American writer
1874–1935
![Maurice Ravel photo]()
French composer
1875–1937
![John Howard Dellinger photo]()
American engineer
1886–1962
![Frank Chodorov photo]()
American libertarian thinker
1887–1966
![William L. Shirer photo]()
American journalist
1904–1993
![A. J. Liebling photo]()
American journalist
1904–1963
![John D. MacDonald photo]()
writer from the United States
1916–1986
![Sam Peckinpah photo]()
American film director and screenwriter
1925–1984
![Michio Kushi photo]()
Japanese educator
1926–2014
![Debbie Reynolds photo]()
American actress, singer, and dancer
1932–2016
![Susan Sontag photo]()
American writer and filmmaker, professor, and activist
1933–2004
![Robert Rosen photo]()
American theoretical biologist
1934–1998
![Margrit Kennedy photo]()
German architect
1939–2013
![Amos Oz photo]()
Israeli writer, novelist, journalist and intellectual
1939–2018
![Sue Grafton photo]()
American writer
1940–2017
![Denis Dutton photo]()
Professor and philosopher
1944–2010
![Lemmy Kilmister photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1945–2015
