Anniversaries 30 January
Birth
![George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham photo]()
English statesman and poet
1628–1687
![Charles Rollin photo]()
French historian
1661–1741
![Godfrey Higgins photo]()
British archaeologist
1772–1833
![Ann Taylor (poet) photo]()
British female poet and literary critic
1782–1866
![Balbhadra Kunwar photo]()
National hero of Nepal
1789–1823
![Thomas Cogswell Upham photo]()
American philosopher and psychologist
1799–1872
![George Gilfillan photo]()
Scottish writer
1813–1878
![Nathaniel Banks photo]()
politician of Massachusetts and general of the Union Army (…
1816–1894
![F. H. Bradley photo]()
British philosopher
1846–1924
![Gelett Burgess photo]()
artist, art critic, poet, author and humorist
1866–1951
![Franklin D. Roosevelt photo]()
32nd President of the United States
1882–1945
![Boris III of Bulgaria photo]()
Tsar of Bulgaria
1894–1943
![Nikolaus Pevsner photo]()
German-born British scholar
1902–1983
![Saul D. Alinsky photo]()
American community organizer and writer
1909–1972
![Francis Schaeffer photo]()
American theologian
1912–1984
![Barbara W. Tuchman photo]()
American historian and author
1912–1989
![Amrita Sher-Gil photo]()
Hungarian Indian artist
1913–1941
![Lloyd Alexander photo]()
American children's writer
1924–2007
![Douglas Engelbart photo]()
American engineer and inventor
1925–2013
![Olof Palme photo]()
Swedish 20th century prime minister
1927–1986
![Roger Shepard photo]()
American psychologist
1929
![Shirley Hazzard photo]()
Australian-Anglo-American novelist, short story writer, mem…
1931–2016
![Louis Rukeyser photo]()
American journalist
1933–2006
![Asher Peres photo]()
Israeli physicist
1934–2005
![Stuart Wheeler photo]()
British businessman and politician
1935
![Richard Brautigan photo]()
American novelist, poet, and short story writer
1935–1984
![Dick Cheney photo]()
American politician and businessman
1941
![Gregory Benford photo]()
Science fiction author and astrophysicist
1941
![Robert McKee photo]()
American academic specialised in seminars for screenwriters
1941
![Wu Den-yih photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1948
![John Dufresne photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, screenwriter, playwright
1948
![Peter Agre photo]()
American chemist, recipient of Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1949
![Phil Collins photo]()
English musician, songwriter and actor
1951
![Peter Kruse photo]()
German psychologist
1955–2015
![Judith Tarr photo]()
American fantasy writer, historian
1955
![Dexter Scott King photo]()
American civil rights activist
1961
![Abdullah II of Jordan photo]()
King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan
1962
![John Roecker photo]()
American film director
1966
![Lee Zeldin photo]()
New York state senator
1980
![Kid Cudi photo]()
American rapper, singer, songwriter, guitarist and actor fr…
1984
Death
![Charles I of England photo]()
monarch of the three kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ire…
1600–1649
![Mary Howitt photo]()
English poet, and author
1799–1888
![Ernesto Teodoro Moneta photo]()
Italian journalist, nationalist, revolutionary soldier and …
1833–1918
![Charles Bradlaugh photo]()
British freethinker, and radical politician
1833–1891
![Joseph Jacobs photo]()
British historian
1854–1916
![Robert Charles (scholar) photo]()
Biblical scholar, theologian
1855–1931
![Jules Payot photo]()
French educationist
1859–1940
![Mahatma Gandhi photo]()
pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul…
1869–1948
![Orville Wright photo]()
American aviation pioneer
1871–1948
![Ferdinand Porsche photo]()
German automobile designer
1875–1951
![Georgy Pyatakov photo]()
Bolshevik revolutionary leader
1890–1937
![Stanley Holloway photo]()
English stage and film actor, comedian, singer, poet and mo…
1890–1982
![J. C. Kumarappa photo]()
Jōsaph Celladurai; b. 01/04/1892; economist; mem., Indian P…
1892–1960
![Dorothy Thompson photo]()
American journalist and radio broadcaster
1893–1961
![George Frederick James Temple photo]()
British mathematician
1901–1992
![John Bardeen photo]()
American physicist and engineer
1908–1991
![Lesslie Newbigin photo]()
Christian missionary
1909–1998
![Sidney Sheldon photo]()
American writer
1917–2007
![Carl Djerassi photo]()
American chemistry professor, inventor, author, playwright
1923–2015
![Gerald Durrell photo]()
naturalist, zookeeper, conservationist, author and televisi…
1925–1995
![Coretta Scott King photo]()
American author, activist, and civil rights leader. Wife of…
1927–2006
![Wendy Wasserstein photo]()
American playwright
1950–2006
