Anniversaries 4 January
Birth
![Ali Zayn al-Abidin photo]()
Great-grandson of the Prophet Muhammad
659–713
![Isaac Newton photo]()
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern c…
1643–1727
![Frederick York Powell photo]()
British historian
1850–1904
![Langdon Smith photo]()
American journalist
1858–1908
![Marsden Hartley photo]()
American artist
1877–1943
![Wilhelm Lehmbruck photo]()
German sculptor
1881–1919
![Yoshijirō Umezu photo]()
Japanese general
1882–1949
![Max Eastman photo]()
American activist
1883–1969
![J. C. Kumarappa photo]()
Jōsaph Celladurai; b. 01/04/1892; economist; mem., Indian P…
1892–1960
![Everett Dirksen photo]()
United States Army officer
1896–1969
![C. L. R. James photo]()
Trinidadian writer
1901–1989
![Marie-Louise von Franz photo]()
Swiss psychologist and scholar
1915–1998
![Don Arden photo]()
English producer
1926–2007
![Günter Schabowski photo]()
German politician
1929–2015
![Paul Virilio photo]()
French philosopher
1932–2018
![Phyllis Reynolds Naylor photo]()
American children's writer
1933
![Gianni Vattimo photo]()
Italian philosopher, politician
1936–2023
![Gao Xingjian photo]()
Chinese novelist and playwright
1940
![John McLaughlin photo]()
guitarist, founder of the Mahavishnu Orchestra
1942
![Jon D. Levenson photo]()
American biblical scholar
1949
![Roy A. Childs, Jr. photo]()
American libertarian essayist and critic
1949–1992
![Gerald Barbarito photo]()
Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida
1950
![April Winchell photo]()
American voice actor and writer
1960
![Peter Steele photo]()
American musician
1962–2010
![Till Lindemann photo]()
German industrial metal musician
1963
![Harmony Korine photo]()
American film director and screenwriter
1973
![Michael Nielsen photo]()
Australian and Canadian physicist and writer (b.1974)
1974
![Shiro Amano photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1976
![Alicia Garza photo]()
Co-founder of the Black Lives Matter International movement
1981
![Rayssa Leal photo]()
Youngest Brazilian skateboarder and athlete to win a medal …
2008
Death
![Hasan al-Askari photo]()
Eleventh of the Twelve Imams
846–874
![Alauddin Khalji photo]()
Ruler of the Khalji dynasty
1266–1316
![Girolamo Gigli photo]()
Italian dramaturge
1660–1722
![Moses Mendelssohn photo]()
German Jewish philosopher and theologian
1729–1786
![Antonio Simeone Sografi photo]()
Italian playwright
1759–1818
![Cornelius Vanderbilt photo]()
American businessman, philanthropist, and tycoon
1794–1877
![Tryon Edwards photo]()
American theologian
1809–1894
![Elizabeth Wormeley Latimer photo]()
English-American writer and translator
1822–1904
![Silas Weir Mitchell photo]()
American physician
1829–1914
![Henri Bergson photo]()
French philosopher
1859–1941
![Frances Kellor photo]()
American sociologist
1873–1952
![Mohammad Ali Jauhar photo]()
Indian Muslim leader, activist, scholar, journalist and poet
1878–1931
![Erwin Schrödinger photo]()
Austrian physicist
1887–1961
![T.S. Eliot photo]()
20th century English author
1888–1965
![Lauretta Bender photo]()
American neuropsychiatrist
1897–1987
![Carlo Levi photo]()
Italian painter
1902–1975
![Christopher Isherwood photo]()
English novelist
1904–1986
![Reijer Hooykaas photo]()
Dutch historian
1906–1994
![Danie Craven photo]()
South African rugby union player and administrator
1910–1993
![Irving Layton photo]()
Romanian-born Canadian poet
1912–2006
![Albert Camus photo]()
French author and journalist
1913–1960
![Robert L. Heilbroner photo]()
American historian and economist
1919–2005
![Dick King-Smith photo]()
English writer of children's books
1922–2011
![Joan Aiken photo]()
English fiction writer
1924–2004
![Harold Demsetz photo]()
American economist
1930–2019
![Doris Veillette photo]()
Quebec journalist
1935–2019
![Salmaan Taseer photo]()
Pakistani politician
1944–2011
![Gerry Rafferty photo]()
Scottish singer and songwriter
1947–2011
