Anniversaries 4 April
Birth
![Nachman of Breslov photo]()
Ukrainian rabbi
1772–1810
![Thaddeus Stevens photo]()
American politician
1792–1868
![Benjamin Peirce photo]()
American mathematician
1809–1880
![James Freeman Clarke photo]()
American theologian and writer
1810–1888
![George Albert Smith (duchowny mormoński) photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1870–1951
![Pierre Monteux photo]()
French conductor
1875–1964
![Isoroku Yamamoto photo]()
Japanese Marshal Admiral
1884–1943
![Sigurd F. Olson photo]()
American conservationist
1899–1982
![Marcello Marchesi photo]()
Italian actor and director
1912–1978
![Marguerite Duras photo]()
French writer and film director
1914–1996
![Noreen Nash photo]()
American film and television actress
1924–2023
![Maya Angelou photo]()
American author and poet
1928–2014
![Andrei Tarkovsky photo]()
Soviet and Russian film-maker, writer, film editor, film th…
1932–1986
![Frances Mayes photo]()
American university professor and writer
1940
![Rudi Vis photo]()
British politician
1941–2010
![Harvey Brown (philosopher) photo]()
Philosopher of physics
1950
![Richard Templar photo]()
selfhelp author
1950–2006
![Julie Carmen photo]()
actress, dancer turned psychotherapist
1954
![Aki Kaurismäki photo]()
Finnish film director
1957
![Liborius Ndumbukuti Nashenda photo]()
Roman Catholic archbishop
1959
![Hugo Weaving photo]()
Nigerian born British-Australian actor
1960
![Martin Firrell photo]()
British artist and activist
1963
![David Cross photo]()
American comedian, writer and actor
1964
![Alain Faubert photo]()
Canadian religious servant and auxiliary bishop
1965
![David Blaine photo]()
American illusionist and endurance artist
1973
![Heath Ledger photo]()
Australian actor
1979–2008
![Ned Vizzini photo]()
American writer
1981–2013
Death
![Ambrose photo]()
bishop of Milan; one of the four original doctors of the Ch…
339–397
![Isidore of Seville photo]()
bishop, confessor and doctor of the Catholic Church
560–636
![Ramban photo]()
Spanish rabbi and scholar
1194–1270
![Alfonso X of Castile photo]()
King of Castile
1221–1284
![John Napier photo]()
Scottish mathematician
1550–1617
![Szymon Starowolski photo]()
Polish historian
1588–1656
![Oliver Goldsmith photo]()
Irish physician and writer
1728–1774
![William Henry Harrison photo]()
American general and politician, 9th President of the Unite…
1773–1841
![William Crookes photo]()
British chemist and physicist
1832–1919
![John Venn photo]()
English logician and philosopher
1834–1923
![Hermann Cohen photo]()
German philosopher
1842–1918
![W. W. Rouse Ball photo]()
English mathematician
1850–1925
![George Albert Smith (duchowny mormoński) photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1870–1951
![Edgar A. Singer, Jr. photo]()
American philosopher
1873–1954
![Carl Ludwig Siegel photo]()
German mathematician
1896–1981
![Gloria Swanson photo]()
American actress
1899–1983
![Eric A. Havelock photo]()
1903-1988, British classical philologist
1903–1988
![Karl William Kapp photo]()
American economist
1910–1976
![Max Frisch photo]()
Swiss playwright and novelist
1911–1991
![C. L. Moore photo]()
American author
1911–1987
![Muhammad Qutb photo]()
Egyptian Islamist writer and scholar
1919–2014
![Giovanni Sartori photo]()
Italian journalist and political scientist
1924–2017
![Zulfikar Ali Bhutto photo]()
Fourth President and ninth Prime Minister of Pakistan
1928–1979
![Martin Luther King, Jr. photo]()
American clergyman, activist, and leader in the American Ci…
1929–1968
![Chögyam Trungpa photo]()
Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer
1939–1987
![Roger Ebert photo]()
American film critic, author, journalist, and TV presenter
1942–2013
