Anniversaries 31 October
Birth
![Bem Cavalgar photo]()
King of Portugal
1391–1438
![John Evelyn photo]()
writer, gardener and diarist
1620–1706
![Hokusai photo]()
Japanese artist
1760–1849
![John Keats photo]()
English Romantic poet
1795–1821
![Karl Weierstrass photo]()
German mathematician
1815–1897
![Louis Jacolliot photo]()
French writer and lawyer
1837–1890
![Axel Munthe photo]()
Swedish physician
1857–1949
![Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel photo]()
Indian freedom fighter who forged united India
1875–1950
![Natalie Clifford Barney photo]()
writer and salonist
1876–1972
![Chiang Kai-shek photo]()
Chinese politician and military leader
1887–1975
![Alexander Alekhine photo]()
Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo…
1892–1946
![Joan Robinson photo]()
English economist
1903–1983
![Harry Harlow photo]()
American psychologist
1905–1981
![Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild photo]()
senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild …
1910–1990
![Dale Evans photo]()
American actress, singer and writer
1912–2001
![Jean Améry photo]()
Austrian essayist
1912–1978
![William H. McNeill photo]()
Canadian historian
1917–2016
![Ian Stevenson photo]()
Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher
1918–2007
![Helmut Newton photo]()
German-Australian photographer
1920–2004
![Dick Francis photo]()
English jockey and crime writer
1920–2010
![John Pople photo]()
Nobel prize winning British chemist
1925–2004
![Jimmy Savile photo]()
English DJ, television presenter, media personality and pae…
1926–2011
![Roger Kahn photo]()
American baseball writer
1927–2020
![Katherine Paterson photo]()
American children's writer born and mainly raised in China
1932
![Bill Pearl photo]()
American bodybuilder
1935
![David Harvey photo]()
British anthropologist
1935
![Karl E. Weick photo]()
Organisational psychologist
1936
![G. Madhavan Nair photo]()
Indian aerospace engineer
1943
![Zaha Hadid photo]()
Iraqi-British architect
1950–2016
![Joseph Wu photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1954
![Neal Stephenson photo]()
American science fiction writer
1959
![Reza Pahlavi photo]()
Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran
1960
![Peter Jackson photo]()
New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter
1961
![Scott Clifton photo]()
American television actor, musician, internet personality.
1984
Death
![Pierre Vergniaud photo]()
French politician
1753–1793
![Jacques Pierre Brissot photo]()
French revolutionary
1754–1793
![Charles Taze Russell photo]()
Founder of the Bible Student Movement
1852–1916
![Harry Houdini photo]()
Austro-Hungarian born American magician, escapologist, and …
1874–1926
![Ralph Vary Chamberlin photo]()
American biologist (1879-1967)
1879–1967
![Otto Rank photo]()
Austrian psychologist
1884–1939
![Egon Schiele photo]()
austrian painter
1890–1918
![Bruno Snell photo]()
German classical philologist
1896–1986
![Robert S. Mulliken photo]()
American physicist and chemist
1896–1986
![C. B. Colby photo]()
American writer
1904–1977
![Qian Xuesen photo]()
Chinese rocket scientist
1911–2009
![Studs Terkel photo]()
American author, historian and broadcaster
1912–2008
![P. W. Botha photo]()
South African prime minister
1916–2006
![Indíra Gándhí photo]()
Indian politician and Prime Minister
1917–1984
![Federico Fellini photo]()
Italian filmmaker
1920–1993
![Natalie Babbitt photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator
1932–2016
![River Phoenix photo]()
American actor, musician, and activist
1970–1993
