Anniversaries 30 August
Birth
![Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley photo]()
English novelist, short story writer, dramatist, essayist, …
1797–1851
![Marcelo H. del Pilar photo]()
Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)
1850–1896
![Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff photo]()
Dutch physical and organic chemist
1852–1911
![Ernest Rutherford photo]()
New Zealand-born British chemist and physicist
1871–1937
![Theo van Doesburg photo]()
Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
1883–1931
![Huey Long photo]()
American politician, Governor of Louisiana, and United Stat…
1893–1935
![Virginia Lee Burton photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator
1909–1968
![Edward M. Purcell photo]()
American physicist
1912–1997
![Richard Stone photo]()
British economist, Nobel Memorial Prize winner
1913–1991
![Denis Healey photo]()
British Labour Party politician and Life peer
1917–2015
![Ted Williams photo]()
American professional baseball player
1918–2002
![Warren Buffett photo]()
American business magnate, investor, and philanthropist
1930
![Sylvia Earle photo]()
American oceanographer
1935
![Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf photo]()
Diplomatic politician and he was the Iraqi Information Min…
1940
![Jonathan Aitken photo]()
Conservative Member of Parliament, former British governmen…
1942
![Molly Ivins photo]()
American journalist
1944–2007
![Martin Dada Abejide Olorunmolu photo]()
Nigerian catholic priest
1948
![Fred Hampton photo]()
African-American activist
1948–1969
![Lewis Black photo]()
American stand-up comedian, author, playwright, social crit…
1948
![Robert Parish photo]()
American basketball player
1953
![Alexander Lukashenko photo]()
President of Belarus since 20 July 1994
1954
![Jeff McMahan (philosopher) photo]()
American philosopher
1954
![Guy Kawasaki photo]()
American businessman and author
1954
![Anna Politkovskaya photo]()
Russian journalist
1958–2006
![Paul Oakenfold photo]()
British record producer and a trance music DJ
1963
![Nathalie Cabrol photo]()
French American astrobiologist
1963
![William Barber II photo]()
civil rights leader from North Carolina
1963
![Ben Emmerson photo]()
British Queen's Counsel
1963
![Sara Ahmed photo]()
Australian and British academic
1969
![Lisa Ling photo]()
American journalist, television presenter, and author
1973
![Bisco Hatori photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1975
![Raúl Castillo photo]()
American actor, writer
1977
Death
![Musa al-Kadhim photo]()
Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a ren…
745–799
![Marianne North photo]()
English biologist and botanical artist
1830–1890
![Ilia Chavchavadze photo]()
Georgian poet and politician; a saint of Georgian Orthodox …
1837–1907
![J. J. Thomson photo]()
British physicist
1856–1940
![Henri Barbusse photo]()
French novelist
1873–1935
![Paul Lazarsfeld photo]()
American sociologist
1901–1976
![Naguib Mahfouz photo]()
Egyptian writer
1911–2006
![George Mikes photo]()
Hungarian-born British author
1912–1987
![Ad Reinhardt photo]()
American painter
1913–1967
![Donald Davidson (philosopher) photo]()
scriitor amator
1917–2003
![Jean Tinguely photo]()
Swiss painter and sculptor
1925–1991
![Louise L. Hay photo]()
American writer
1926–2017
![Killer Kowalski photo]()
Canadian professional wrestler
1926–2008
![Bipan Chandra photo]()
Indian historian
1928–2014
![A. James Gregor photo]()
American political scientist
1929–2019
![Oliver Sacks photo]()
British neurologist and writer
1933–2015
![Seamus Heaney photo]()
Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
1939–2013
