Anniversaries 29 September
Birth
![Miguel de Cervantes photo]()
Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
1547–1616
![Horatio Nelson photo]()
Royal Navy Admiral
1758–1805
![Miguel de Unamuno photo]()
19th-20th century Spanish writer and philosopher
1864–1936
![Andrew Paterson photo]()
Scottish photographer
1877–1948
![Ludwig von Mises photo]()
austrian economist
1881–1973
![Ahmad Kasravi photo]()
Iranian academic
1890–1946
![Harold Hotelling photo]()
American economist and statistician
1895–1973
![Enrico Fermi photo]()
Italian physicist
1901–1954
![Diana Vreeland photo]()
American magazine editor
1903–1989
![Michelangelo Antonioni photo]()
Italian film director and screenwriter
1912–2007
![Lizabeth Scott photo]()
American actress and singer
1922–2015
![Elizabeth Peters photo]()
American author and egyptologist
1927–2013
![Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi photo]()
Hungarian American psychologist
1934
![Jerry Lee Lewis photo]()
American singer-songwriter and pianist
1935
![Molly Haskell photo]()
American film critic
1939
![Rhodri Morgan photo]()
British politician
1939–2017
![Mir-Hossein Mousavi photo]()
Iranian politician and architect
1941
![Madeline Kahn photo]()
American actress
1942–1999
![Lech Wałęsa photo]()
Polish politician, Nobel Peace Prize winner, former Preside…
1943
![Mohammad Khatami photo]()
Iranian prominent reformist politician, scholar and shiite …
1943
![Bryant Gumbel photo]()
American sportscaster
1948
![Pete Hautman photo]()
American children's writer
1952
![Michael Talbot photo]()
American Writer
1953–1992
![Mark Hertling photo]()
United States Army general
1953
![Gwen Ifill photo]()
American journalist, television newscaster and author
1955–2016
![Ian Shapiro photo]()
American political theorist
1956
![Andrew Dice Clay photo]()
American comedian and actor
1957
![Zoran Tegeltija photo]()
Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Bosnia and Herzegov…
1961
![Julia Gillard photo]()
Australian politician and lawyer, 27th Prime Minister of Au…
1961
![Philip Rosedale photo]()
American businessman, founder of Second Life
1968
![Andriy Shevchenko photo]()
Ukrainian association football player
1976
Death
![George Whitefield photo]()
English minister and preacher
1714–1770
![Alphonse Karr photo]()
French critic, journalist, and novelist
1808–1890
![William McGonagall photo]()
weaver, actor, poet
1825–1902
![Machado de Assis photo]()
Brazilian writer
1839–1908
![Emile Zola photo]()
French writer (1840-1902)
1840–1902
![Casey Stengel photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1890–1975
![Irving Chernev photo]()
Russian-American chess player
1900–1981
![W. H. Auden photo]()
Anglo-American poet
1907–1973
![Bill Shankly photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1913–1981
![Henry Ford II photo]()
American automotive industry executive; longtime president,…
1917–1987
![Carson McCullers photo]()
American writer
1917–1967
![Madalyn Murray O'Hair photo]()
Atheist activist
1919–1995
![Shūsaku Endō photo]()
author from Japan
1923–1996
![Roy Lichtenstein photo]()
American pop artist
1923–1997
![Nguyễn Văn Thiệu photo]()
president of South Vietnam from 1965–75
1923–2001
![Georges Charpak photo]()
ukrainian-born french physicist
1924–2010
![John M. Rodgers photo]()
American politician
1928–2012
![Hebe Camargo photo]()
Brazilian television host
1929–2012
![Joni Madraiwiwi photo]()
Fijian politician
1957–2016
![Greg Giraldo photo]()
American comedian
1965–2010
