Anniversaries 31 October

Birth

Bem Cavalgar7

King of Portugal 1391–1438

John Evelyn5

writer, gardener and diarist 1620–1706

Hokusai1

Japanese artist 1760–1849

John Keats211

English Romantic poet 1795–1821

Karl Weierstrass1

German mathematician 1815–1897

Louis Jacolliot1

French writer and lawyer 1837–1890

Axel Munthe15

Swedish physician 1857–1949

Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel4

Indian freedom fighter who forged united India 1875–1950

Natalie Clifford Barney8

writer and salonist 1876–1972

Chiang Kai-shek9

Chinese politician and military leader 1887–1975

Alexander Alekhine6

Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo… 1892–1946

Carlos Drummond de Andrade6

Brazilian poet 1902–1987

Joan Robinson46

English economist 1903–1983

Harry Harlow9

American psychologist 1905–1981

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild3

senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild … 1910–1990

Dale Evans1

American actress, singer and writer 1912–2001

Jean Améry2

Austrian essayist 1912–1978

William H. McNeill43

Canadian historian 1917–2016

Ian Stevenson2

Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher 1918–2007

Helmut Newton6

German-Australian photographer 1920–2004

Dick Francis4

English jockey and crime writer 1920–2010

Norodom Sihanouk24

Cambodian King 1922–2012

John Pople1

Nobel prize winning British chemist 1925–2004

Jimmy Savile2

English DJ, television presenter, media personality and pae… 1926–2011

Roger Kahn30

American baseball writer 1927–2020

Dan Rather11

Journalist, Anchor 1931

Katherine Paterson33

American children's writer born and mainly raised in China 1932

Bill Pearl1

American bodybuilder 1935

David Harvey37

British anthropologist 1935

Karl E. Weick30

Organisational psychologist 1936

Dieter Seebach1

German chemist 1937

G. Madhavan Nair1

Indian aerospace engineer 1943

Leopoldo González González1

Mexican archbishop 1950

Zaha Hadid2

Iraqi-British architect 1950–2016

Harriet Rubin1

American writer 1952

Don Winslow4

American writer 1953

Joseph Wu7

Taiwanese politician 1954

Susan Orlean2

American journalist 1955

Sam Tanenhaus1

American writer 1955

Annie Finch1

American poet 1956

Neal Stephenson167

American science fiction writer 1959

Reza Pahlavi100

Last crown prince of the former Imperial State of Iran 1960

Mark Buchanan2

American physicist 1961

Peter Jackson7

New Zealand film director, producer, actor, and screenwriter 1961

Johnny Marr7

musician 1963

Frank Bruni1

American journalist 1964

Joseph Boyden3

Canadian writer 1966

Roger Manganelli71

American musician 1973

Frank Iero1

American musician 1981

Scott Clifton8

American television actor, musician, internet personality. 1984

Blair Imani3

American activist 1993

Amos Yee17

blogger 1998

Death

Richard Edwardes2

English writer 1525–1566

Wali Mohammed Wali1

Indian poet 1667–1707

John Edwin1

English actor 1749–1790

Pierre Vergniaud1

French politician 1753–1793

Jacques Pierre Brissot2

French revolutionary 1754–1793

Charles Taze Russell28

Founder of the Bible Student Movement 1852–1916

Harry Houdini4

Austro-Hungarian born American magician, escapologist, and … 1874–1926

Herwarth Walden1

German artist 1878–1941

Ralph Vary Chamberlin8

American biologist (1879-1967) 1879–1967

Otto Rank3

Austrian psychologist 1884–1939

Egon Schiele3

austrian painter 1890–1918

Bruno Snell1

German classical philologist 1896–1986

Robert S. Mulliken1

American physicist and chemist 1896–1986

C. B. Colby2

American writer 1904–1977

Qian Xuesen4

Chinese rocket scientist 1911–2009

Studs Terkel19

American author, historian and broadcaster 1912–2008

P. W. Botha52

South African prime minister 1916–2006

Indíra Gándhí35

Indian politician and Prime Minister 1917–1984

Federico Fellini36

Italian filmmaker 1920–1993

Immanuel Jakobovits5

British rabbi 1921–1999

Natalie Babbitt14

American children's writer and illustrator 1932–2016

River Phoenix35

American actor, musician, and activist 1970–1993