Anniversaries 31 January
Birth
![Gouverneur Morris photo]()
American politician
1752–1816
![Franz Schubert photo]()
Austrian composer
1797–1828
![James G. Blaine photo]()
American Republican politician
1830–1893
![John Henry Boner photo]()
American writer
1845–1903
![Anna Yesipova photo]()
Russian pianist
1851–1914
![James Huneker photo]()
American music critic
1857–1921
![Zane Grey photo]()
American novelist
1872–1939
![Helena Roerich photo]()
Russian philosopher
1879–1955
![Irving Langmuir photo]()
American chemist and physicist
1881–1957
![Eddie Cantor photo]()
American actor, singer, dancer and comedian
1892–1964
![Freya Stark photo]()
British explorer and writer
1893–1993
![Vasily Chuikov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1900–1982
![Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov photo]()
Bulgarian philosopher
1900–1986
![Tallulah Bankhead photo]()
American actress
1902–1968
![Eva Hart photo]()
Titanic survivor
1905–1996
![John O'Hara photo]()
American journalist
1905–1970
![Thomas Merton photo]()
Priest and author
1915–1968
![Morteza Motahhari photo]()
Iranian politician
1919–1979
![Jackie Robinson photo]()
American baseball player
1919–1972
![Norman Mailer photo]()
American novelist, journalist, essayist, playwright, film m…
1923–2007
![Jean Simmons photo]()
British-American actress
1929–2010
![Ernie Banks photo]()
American baseball player and coach
1931–2015
![J. J. Sakurai photo]()
American physicist
1933–1982
![Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi photo]()
Member of Iran's Assembly of Experts
1934
![Farrokh Tamimi photo]()
Iranian poet and translator
1934–2003
![Jack Trout photo]()
American marketing man
1935–2017
![James G. Watt photo]()
United States Secretary of the Interior
1938
![Eugène Terre'Blanche photo]()
South African police officer, farmer, political activist, w…
1941–2010
![Derek Jarman photo]()
British film director and artist
1942–1994
![Rynn Berry photo]()
American historian of vegetarianism
1945–2014
![Joseph Kosuth photo]()
American conceptual artist
1945
![Ken Wilber photo]()
American writer and public speaker
1949
![John Lydon photo]()
English singer, songwriter, and musician
1956
![Laura Lippman photo]()
Detective fiction writer
1959
![Jay Samit photo]()
American businessman
1961
![Flavio Tranquillo photo]()
Italian journalist and writer
1962
![Dov Charney photo]()
Canadian-born U.S. based fashion designer/businessman
1969
![Portia de Rossi photo]()
Australian-American actress
1973
![Michael Waltz photo]()
U.S. Representative from Florida
1974
![Daniel Tammet photo]()
British writer, essayist and autistic savant
1979
![Justin Timberlake photo]()
American singer and actor
1981
![Oksana Shachko photo]()
Ukrainian artist and activist with FEMEN
1987–2018
Death
![Menno Simons photo]()
Dutch theologian, founder of the Mennonites
1496–1561
![Guy Fawkes photo]()
English member of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605
1570–1606
![John Bosco photo]()
Italian Roman Catholic priest, educator and writer
1815–1888
![Basil Manly Jr. photo]()
American minister and theologian
1825–1892
![Charles Spurgeon photo]()
British preacher, author, pastor and evangelist
1834–1892
![John Galsworthy photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1867–1933
![Samuel Goldwyn photo]()
American film producer (1879-1974).
1879–1974
![Jean Giraudoux photo]()
French novelist, essayist, diplomat and playwright
1882–1944
![Poul Henningsen photo]()
Danish architect
1894–1967
![Ragnar Frisch photo]()
Norwegian economist
1895–1973
![Matvei Zakharov photo]()
Soviet military commander
1898–1972
![Dorothea Tanning photo]()
American artist
1910–2012
![Lizabeth Scott photo]()
American actress and singer
1922–2015
![Gordon R. Dickson photo]()
Canadian-American science fiction writer
1923–2001
![Mary Higgins Clark photo]()
Novelist, writer
1927–2020
![Douglas T. Ross photo]()
American computer scientist
1929–2007
![Molly Ivins photo]()
American journalist
1944–2007
![Eva Heller photo]()
German writer (1948-2008)
1948–2008
![Kage Baker photo]()
American writer
1952–2010
