Anniversaries 31 July
Birth
![Ignacy Domeyko photo]()
Polish mineralogist and geologist
1802–1889
![George Henry Thomas photo]()
United States Army general
1816–1870
![Jean Dubuffet photo]()
sculptor from France
1901–1985
![Damodar Dharmananda Kosambi photo]()
Indian mathematician
1907–1966
![Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn photo]()
Austrian noble and political theorist
1909–1999
![Milton Friedman photo]()
American economist, statistician, and writer
1912–2006
![Primo Levi photo]()
Italian chemist, memoirist, short story writer, novelist, e…
1918–1987
![Peter Benenson photo]()
English human rights activist
1921–2005
![Hilary Putnam photo]()
American philosopher
1926–2016
![John Rogers Searle photo]()
American philosopher
1932
![John Rohr photo]()
American political scientist
1934–2011
![Richard Rodríguez photo]()
American journalist and essayist
1944
![Geoffrey Moore photo]()
American business writer
1946
![Arjo Klamer photo]()
Dutch columnist, economist and politician
1953
![Chela Sandoval photo]()
Chicana and post-colonial feminist and theoretician
1956
![Deval Patrick photo]()
71st Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA
1956
![Ignatius Ayau Kaigama photo]()
Nigerian Catholic archbishop
1958
![Martyn Percy photo]()
British Anglican priest and theologian
1962
![Wesley Snipes photo]()
film actor, Martial artist, film producer
1962
![Joanne K. Rowling photo]()
British novelist, author of the Harry Potter series
1965
![Elizabeth Wurtzel photo]()
American author and journalist
1967–2020
![Tami Stronach photo]()
American choreographer
1972
![Jacob Aagaard photo]()
Danish-born Scottish chess grandmaster
1973
![Loujain al-Hathloul photo]()
Saudi Arabian activist
1989
Death
![Ignatius of Loyola photo]()
Catholic Saint, founder of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuit…
1491–1556
![Denis Diderot photo]()
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
1713–1784
![James Waddel Alexander photo]()
American Presbyterian minister and theologian
1804–1859
![Andrew Johnson photo]()
American politician, 17th president of the United States (i…
1808–1875
![Franz Liszt photo]()
Hungarian romantic composer and virtuoso pianist
1811–1886
![Sándor Petöfi photo]()
Hungarian poet and liberal revolutionary
1823–1849
![Phoebe Cary photo]()
American writer
1824–1871
![Harry Johnston photo]()
British explorer, botanist, linguist and colonial administr…
1858–1927
![Robert A. Taft photo]()
politician from the United States, son of 27th US President…
1889–1953
![Ernst Fischer photo]()
Austrian literature historian, publicist and writer
1899–1972
![Paul-Henri Spaak photo]()
Belgian politician
1899–1972
![Antoine de Saint-Exupéry photo]()
French writer and aviator
1900–1944
![Pascual Jordan photo]()
German physicist and politician
1902–1980
![Virginia Grey photo]()
American actress (1917-2004)
1917–2004
![David Hawkes (sinologist) photo]()
British sinologist
1923–2009
![Gore Vidal photo]()
American writer
1925–2012
![Warren Bennis photo]()
American leadership expert
1925–2014
![Poul Anderson photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1926–2001
![Sara Shane photo]()
American actress
1928–2022
![Michael Harrington photo]()
American political writer
1928–1989
![Seymour Papert photo]()
MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and educator
1928–2016
![Baudouin of Belgium photo]()
King of Belgians
1930–1993
![Bobby Robson photo]()
English association football player and manager
1933–2009
![Paul Cilliers photo]()
South African philosopher
1956–2011
