Anniversaries 31 August
Birth
![Caligula photo]()
3rd Emperor of Ancient Rome, a member of the Julio-Claudian…
12–41
![Jahangir photo]()
4th Mughal Emperor
1569–1627
![Hermann von Helmholtz photo]()
physicist and physiologist
1821–1894
![Anna Bartlett Warner photo]()
American hymnwriter
1827–1915
![Elizabeth Stuart Phelps photo]()
American author, intellectual and feminist
1844–1911
![Elizabeth von Arnim photo]()
Australian writer
1866–1941
![Maria Montessori photo]()
Italian pedagogue, philosopher and physician
1870–1952
![Wilhelmina of the Netherlands photo]()
Queen of the Netherlands 1898 - 1948
1880–1962
![George Sarton photo]()
American historian of science
1884–1956
![Gordon H. Clark photo]()
American philosopher and Calvinist theologian
1902–1985
![William Saroyan photo]()
American writer
1908–1981
![John DeFrancis photo]()
American linguist
1911–2009
![Alan Jay Lerner photo]()
lyricist and librettist from the United States
1918–1986
![Alanis Obomsawin photo]()
Abenaki filmmaker in Montreal
1932
![Jim Morris (bodybuilder) photo]()
American bodybuilder
1935–2016
![Eldridge Cleaver photo]()
American activist
1935–1998
![Marva Collins photo]()
American schoolteacher
1936–2015
![Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey photo]()
American journalist and playwright
1938
![Itzhak Perlman photo]()
Israeli-American violinist and conductor
1945
![Van Morrison photo]()
Northern Irish singer-songwriter and musician
1945
![Shirley Jackson (physicist) photo]()
American physicist, eighteenth president of the Rensselaer …
1946
![Jerome Corsi photo]()
American conservative author
1946
![Robert Kocharyan photo]()
second President of Armenia
1954
![Gary Webb photo]()
American investigative journalist
1955–2004
![Tsai Ing-wen photo]()
President of the Republic of China
1956
![Colm O'Rourke photo]()
Irish Gaelic football player, journalist and businessman
1957
![Hassan Nasrallah photo]()
Secretary General of Hezbollah
1960
![Dee Bradley Baker photo]()
American voice actor
1962
![Kenneth Oppel photo]()
Canadian children's writer
1967
![Queen Rania of Jordan photo]()
Queen consort of Jordan
1970
![Kris Carr photo]()
American actress and filmmaker
1971
![Mohammad bin Salman photo]()
Saudi crown prince and minister of defense
1985
Death
![John Bunyan photo]()
English Christian writer and preacher
1628–1688
![George William Curtis photo]()
American writer
1824–1892
![Wilhelm Wundt photo]()
German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor
1832–1920
![John Todd Ferrier photo]()
Christian vegetarian
1855–1943
![Abraham Cahan photo]()
Journalist, novelist, short story writer, memoirist
1860–1951
![Henri Bourassa photo]()
Canadian politician
1868–1952
![Georges Braque photo]()
French painter and sculptor
1882–1963
![E.E. "Doc" Smith photo]()
Food engineer and author (1890-1965)
1890–1965
![E. E. Smith photo]()
Food engineer and author (1890-1965)
1890–1965
![Ilya Ehrenburg photo]()
Russian-Soviet writer and poet
1891–1967
![Marina Tsvetaeva photo]()
Russian poet and writer
1892–1941
![Stefan Banach photo]()
Polish &Ukrainian mathematician
1892–1945
![Elizabeth Coatsworth photo]()
American writer
1893–1986
![John Ford photo]()
American film director
1894–1973
![Andrei Zhdanov photo]()
Soviet politician
1896–1948
![Frank Macfarlane Burnet photo]()
Australian virologist
1899–1985
![K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera photo]()
Sri Lankan Buddhist monk
1919–2006
![George Porter photo]()
British chemist
1920–2002
![Myron Tribus photo]()
American academic
1921–2016
![Max Bygraves photo]()
Singer, comedian, actor
1922–2012
![J. S. Holliday photo]()
American historian
1924–2006
![David Frost photo]()
English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and…
1939–2013
![Diana, Princess of Wales photo]()
First wife of Charles, Prince of Wales
1961–1997
