Anniversaries 29 July
Birth
![Muhammad al-Mahdi photo]()
12th and last Imam in Twelver Shia Islam
869–941
![Antonio Simeone Sografi photo]()
Italian playwright
1759–1818
![Alexis De Tocqueville photo]()
French political thinker and historian
1805–1859
![Henri Fayol photo]()
Developer of Fayolism
1841–1925
![Booth Tarkington photo]()
American novelist
1869–1946
![William Beebe photo]()
American ornithologist, marine biologist, entomologist, and…
1877–1962
![Don Marquis photo]()
American writer
1878–1937
![Benito Mussolini photo]()
Duce and President of the Council of Ministers of Italy. Le…
1883–1945
![Theda Bara photo]()
Silent film actress
1885–1955
![Isidor Isaac Rabi photo]()
American physicist
1898–1988
![Mahasi Sayadaw photo]()
Burmese Buddhist philosopher
1904–1982
![J. R. D. Tata photo]()
Indian businessman
1904–1993
![Dag Hammarskjöld photo]()
Swedish diplomat, economist, and author
1905–1961
![Jo Grimond photo]()
British soldier, politician and academic
1913–1993
![Bruce R. McConkie photo]()
American Mormon leader
1915–1985
![Mary Lee Settle photo]()
Novelist, biographer, academic
1918–2005
![Margaret Singer photo]()
clinical psychology
1921–2003
![Arnold Weinstock photo]()
English businessman
1924–2002
![Ted Lindsay photo]()
Canadian ice hockey player
1925–2019
![Stanley Rosen photo]()
American philosopher
1929–2014
![Israel Singer photo]()
American Jewish activist
1942
![Sharon Creech photo]()
American writer of children's novels
1945
![Jenny Holzer photo]()
American conceptual artist
1950
![Susan Blackmore photo]()
British writer and academic
1951
![Geddy Lee photo]()
vocalist, bassist, and keyboardist for the Canadian rock gr…
1953
![Tim Gunn photo]()
American actor and fashion consultant
1953
![Fumio Kishida photo]()
100th~101st Prime Minister of Japan
1957
![Gail Dines photo]()
anti-pornography campaigner
1958
![Simon Nye photo]()
British screenwriter
1958
![Steven Novella photo]()
American neurologist, skepticist
1964
![Giles Coren photo]()
British food critic, television presenter and novelist
1969
![Wil Wheaton photo]()
American actor and writer
1972
![Patri Friedman photo]()
American libertarian activist and theorist of political eco…
1976
![Fernando Alonso photo]()
Spanish racing driver
1981
Death
![Tang Xianzu photo]()
Chinese playwright
1550–1616
![William Wilberforce photo]()
English politician
1759–1833
![Robert Schumann photo]()
German composer, aesthete and influential music critic
1810–1856
![Vincent Van Gogh photo]()
Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890)
1853–1890
![David Eugene Smith photo]()
American mathematician
1860–1944
![Edward Gordon Craig photo]()
Modernist stage designer and theatre director
1872–1966
![Ludwig Klages photo]()
German psychologist and philosopher
1872–1956
![Burrill Bernard Crohn photo]()
American gastroenterologist
1884–1983
![Nikolai Krylenko photo]()
Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser
1885–1938
![Robert Moses photo]()
American urban planner
1888–1981
![Ronald Fisher photo]()
English statistician, evolutionary biologist, geneticist, a…
1890–1962
![Herbert Marcuse photo]()
German philosopher, sociologist, and political theorist
1898–1979
![Erich Kästner photo]()
German children's writer
1899–1974
![David Niven photo]()
English actor and novelist
1910–1983
![Dorothy Hodgkin photo]()
British chemist
1910–1994
![James Harvey Young photo]()
American historian
1915–2006
![Stanley Edgar Hyman photo]()
American literary critic
1918–1970
![Cass Elliot photo]()
American singer
1941–1974
![L.A. Meyer photo]()
American writer
1942–2014
![Media Kashigar photo]()
Iranian translator, writer and poet
1956–2017
