Today anniversaries
Birth
![Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury photo]()
Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religiou…
1583–1648
![Edmund Waller photo]()
English poet and politician
1606–1687
![William Godwin photo]()
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
1756–1836
![John Austin (legal philosopher) photo]()
legal philosopher
1790–1859
![Gustave de Molinari photo]()
Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist
1819–1912
![Chief Joseph photo]()
Nez Percé Chieftain
1840–1904
![Alexander Graham Bell photo]()
scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone
1847–1922
![Arthur Machen photo]()
Welsh author and mystic
1863–1947
![Alain photo]()
French philosopher
1868–1951
![Edward Thomas photo]()
Poet and journalist
1878–1917
![Lyndall Urwick photo]()
British management consultant
1891–1983
![Ragnar Frisch photo]()
Norwegian economist
1895–1973
![Thomas Charles Lethbridge photo]()
British explorer and archaeologist
1901–1971
![Isabel Bishop photo]()
American painter
1902–1988
![Richard M. Weaver photo]()
American scholar
1910–1963
![Paul R. Halmos photo]()
American mathematician
1916–2006
![Denis Mack Smith photo]()
British historian
1920–2017
![Richard M. DeVos photo]()
American businessman
1926–2018
![John M. Rodgers photo]()
American politician
1928–2012
![Dinanath Batra photo]()
Indian school teacher
1930
![Michael Walzer photo]()
American philosopher
1935
![Patricia MacLachlan photo]()
American writer of children's books
1938
![Mike Lange photo]()
Canadian sportscaster
1948
![Ron Chernow photo]()
American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer
1949
![Stephen Jay Berg photo]()
Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo
1951
![Robyn Hitchcock photo]()
English singer-songwriter and guitarist
1953
![Ira Glass photo]()
American radio personality
1959
![Ian Mulder photo]()
Dutch pianist, composer and conductor (*1963)
1963
![Tedros Adhanom photo]()
Director-General of the World Health Organization, former M…
1965
![Brian Cox (physicist) photo]()
English physicist and former musician
1968
![Charlie Brooker photo]()
journalist, broadcaster and writer from England
1971
![Julius Malema photo]()
South African political activist
1981
![Shraddha Kapoor photo]()
Indian film actress & Singer
1987
![Ire Aderinokun photo]()
Nigerian front end developer
1991
Death
![Aurangzeb photo]()
Sixth Mughal Emperor
1618–1707
![Robert Hooke photo]()
English natural philosopher, architect and polymath
1635–1703
![William Stukeley photo]()
English antiquarian
1687–1765
![Oliver Cowdery photo]()
American Mormon leader
1806–1850
![William Kingdon Clifford photo]()
English mathematician and philosopher
1845–1879
![Sidney Lee photo]()
English biographer and critic
1859–1926
![Alfred George Gardiner photo]()
British journalist and writer
1865–1946
![G. L. S. Shackle photo]()
British economist
1903–1992
![Yoshimi Takeuchi photo]()
Japanese academic
1910–1977
![Pierre Stephen Robert Payne photo]()
British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer
1911–1983
![Michael Foot photo]()
British politician
1913–2010
![Danny Kaye photo]()
American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian
1913–1987
![Marguerite Duras photo]()
French writer and film director
1914–1996
![Fred W. Friendly photo]()
President of CBS News
1915–1998
![John Edward Williams photo]()
American author
1922–1994
![Ivor Cutler photo]()
Scottish poet, humorist
1923–2006
![Kyril Bonfiglioli photo]()
British art dealer
1928–1985
![Roger Bannister photo]()
English physician and athlete
1929–2018
![Robert Ashley photo]()
American composer
1930–2014
![Sherwin B. Nuland photo]()
American surgeon
1930–2014
![Jackson C. Frank photo]()
American musician
1943–1999
![René Préval photo]()
President of Haiti
1943–2017
![Pedro Pietri photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1944–2004
![John H. Freeman photo]()
(1944-2008) US-American sociologist and organizational theo…
1944–2008
![Roy Porter photo]()
British historian
1946–2002
![Kenneth Gärdestad photo]()
Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer
1948–2018
