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Birth

John Gay 56

English poet and playwright 1685–1732

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury photo

Richard Bethell, 1st Baron Westbury 1

British politician 1800–1873

Frédéric Bastiat photo

Frédéric Bastiat 33

French classical liberal theorist, political economist, and… 1801–1850

Thomas Lovell Beddoes photo

Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2

English poet, dramatist and physician 1803–1849

Benjamin Brewster photo

Benjamin Brewster 1

American businessman 1828–1897

Cargill Gilston Knott photo

Cargill Gilston Knott 3

British mathematician and physicist 1856–1922

Franz Halder photo

Franz Halder 7

German general 1884–1972

Georges Duhamel photo

Georges Duhamel 23

French writer 1884–1966

Viktor Schauberger photo

Viktor Schauberger 54

austrian philosopher and inventor 1885–1958

J. R. Partington photo

J. R. Partington 38

British chemist 1886–1965

Stanley Spencer photo

Stanley Spencer 2

English painter 1891–1959

Oswald Pohl photo

Oswald Pohl 10

Head of the SS Wirtschafts-Verwaltungshauptamt 1892–1951

Walter Ulbricht photo

Walter Ulbricht 3

German politician 1893–1973

Harold J. Laski photo

Harold J. Laski 1

British academic 1893–1950

Isaac Babel photo

Isaac Babel 2

Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translato… 1894–1940

Roman Shukhevych photo

Roman Shukhevych 1

Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1907-1950) 1907–1950

Winston Graham photo

Winston Graham 4

British writer 1908–2003

Czeslaw Milosz photo

Czeslaw Milosz 106

Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator 1911–2004

Lena Horne photo

Lena Horne 5

American singer, actress, civil rights activist and dancer 1917–2010

Ebrahim Amini photo

Ebrahim Amini 1

Iranian ayatollah 1925

James Goldman photo

James Goldman 2

American screenwriter, playwright, novelist 1927–1998

Thomas Sowell photo

Thomas Sowell 101

American economist, social theorist, political philosopher … 1930

C. N. R. Rao photo

C. N. R. Rao 40

Indian chemist 1934

Loren Cunningham photo

Loren Cunningham 2

American missionary 1935

Barry Hines photo

Barry Hines 8

British author 1939–2016

Tony Hatch photo

Tony Hatch 1

British musician 1939

Saeed Akhtar Mirza photo

Saeed Akhtar Mirza 3

Indian film director 1943

Raymond Moody photo

Raymond Moody 1

American psychologist 1944

Alain Finkielkraut photo

Alain Finkielkraut 4

French essayist, born 1949 1949

Serzh Sargsyan photo

Serzh Sargsyan 17

Armenian politician, 3rd President of Armenia 1954

Egils Levits photo

Egils Levits 7

Latvian judge, jurist and politician 1955

Louie Giglio photo

Louie Giglio 1

American clergy 1958

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen photo

Daniel Jonah Goldhagen 1

Jewish American historian 1959

David Frum photo

David Frum 3

American political commentator 1960

Adam Roberts photo

Adam Roberts 44

British writer known for speculative fiction and parody nov… 1965

Mike Tyson photo

Mike Tyson 89

American boxer 1966

Michael Phelps photo

Michael Phelps 3

American swimmer 1985

Miyuru Amarasiri photo

Miyuru Amarasiri 3

Artist 2002

Death

Friedrich von Schrötter photo

Friedrich von Schrötter 1

Prussian politician 1743–1815

Dadabhai Naoroji photo

Dadabhai Naoroji 15

Indian politician 1825–1917

William Winter photo

William Winter 7

American writer 1836–1917

Уильям Винтер photo

Уильям Винтер 1

1836–1917

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh photo

John Strutt, 3rd Baron Rayleigh 5

English physicist 1842–1919

Georgia Hopley photo

Georgia Hopley 3

American journalist and temperance advocate 1858–1944

Natalia Nordman photo

Natalia Nordman 1

Russian author 1863–1914

Lee De Forest photo

Lee De Forest 7

American inventor 1873–1961

Billy Bennett photo

Billy Bennett 6

British comedian 1887–1942

Gregor Strasser photo

Gregor Strasser 12

German politician, rival of Adolf Hitler inside the Nazi Ps… 1892–1934

Margery Allingham photo

Margery Allingham 15

English writer of detective fiction 1904–1966

Nancy Mitford photo

Nancy Mitford 9

British writer 1904–1973

Lillian Hellman photo

Lillian Hellman 20

American dramatist and screenwriter 1905–1984

Christopher Fry photo

Christopher Fry 4

British writer 1907–2005

Robert McCloskey photo

Robert McCloskey 1

children's book author and illustrator from the United Stat… 1914–2003

Yitzhak Shamir photo

Yitzhak Shamir 4

prime minister of Israel 1915–2012

Édouard Boubat photo

Édouard Boubat 1

French photographer 1923–1999

W. Maxwell Cowan photo

W. Maxwell Cowan 1

South African-American neurobiologist and neuro-anatomist 1931–2002

Geoffrey Hill photo

Geoffrey Hill 27

English poet and professor 1932–2016

Petero Mataca photo

Petero Mataca 5

Catholic archbishop 1933–2014

Wong Ka Kui photo

Wong Ka Kui 3

Hong Kong singer-songwriter 1962–1993