Anniversaries 4 July
Birth
![Nathaniel Hawthorne photo]()
American novelist and short story writer (1804 – 1879)
1804–1864
![Giuseppe Garibaldi photo]()
Italian general and politician
1807–1882
![Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo photo]()
Californian military commander, politician, and rancher
1807–1890
![Thomas March Clark photo]()
American bishop
1812–1903
![Stephen Foster photo]()
American songwriter
1826–1864
![Hermann Cohen photo]()
German philosopher
1842–1918
![Edmonia Lewis photo]()
American sculptor
1844–1907
![Jessie Ackermann photo]()
Second Woman's Christian Temperance Union round-the-world m…
1857–1951
![Calvin Coolidge photo]()
American politician, 30th president of the United States (i…
1872–1933
![Irving Caesar photo]()
American composer and lyricist
1895–1996
![Gulzarilal Nanda photo]()
Prime Minister of India
1898–1998
![S. J. Simon photo]()
British bridge player and writer, comic fiction writer
1904–1948
![Lionel Trilling photo]()
American academic
1905–1975
![Robert K. Merton photo]()
American sociologist
1910–2003
![Frederick Seitz photo]()
American physicist
1911–2008
![Oswald Wynd photo]()
Scottish writer
1913–1998
![Ann Landers photo]()
American advice columnist
1918–2002
![Leona Helmsley photo]()
American hotel owner
1920–2007
![Gérard Debreu photo]()
French economist and mathematician
1921–2004
![Alfredo Di Stéfano photo]()
Argentine association football player
1926–2014
![Neil Simon photo]()
playwright, writer, academic
1927–2018
![Thomas Nagel photo]()
American philosopher
1937
![Richard Rhodes photo]()
historian, journalist and writer from the USA
1937
![Bill Withers photo]()
American singer-songwriter and musician
1938–2020
![Tomaž Šalamun photo]()
Slovene poet, born in 1941 in Zagreb, Croatia
1941–2014
![John Allen Paulos photo]()
American mathematician
1945
![Vinod Gupta photo]()
American businessman
1946
![Sharon Gannon photo]()
American yoga teacher
1951
![Angelo Galasso photo]()
Italian fashion designer
1959
![Richard Garriott photo]()
video game developer, astronaut and entrepreneur
1961
![Rosie Malek-Yonan photo]()
Assyrian actress, author, director, public figure and human…
1965
Death
![William Byrd photo]()
British composer
1543–1623
![Thomas Middleton photo]()
English playwright and poet
1580–1627
![Philippe Néricault Destouches photo]()
French playwright
1680–1754
![Samuel Richardson photo]()
English writer and printer
1689–1761
![Ebenezer Kinnersley photo]()
American scientist
1711–1778
![John Adams photo]()
2nd President of the United States
1735–1826
![Thomas Jefferson photo]()
3rd President of the United States of America
1743–1826
![Fisher Ames photo]()
American politician
1758–1808
![James Monroe photo]()
American politician, 5th President of the United States (in…
1758–1831
![François-René de Chateaubriand photo]()
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
1768–1848
![Joseph Brackett photo]()
American songwriter
1797–1882
![Élisée Reclus photo]()
French geographer and writer
1830–1905
![Peter Guthrie Tait photo]()
British mathematician
1831–1901
![Giovanni Schiaparelli photo]()
Italian astronomer and science historian
1835–1910
![Marcelo H. del Pilar photo]()
Filipino writer, lawyer, and journalist (1850-1896)
1850–1896
![Swami Vivekananda photo]()
Indian Hindu monk and phylosopher
1863–1902
![Marie Curie photo]()
French-Polish physicist and chemist
1867–1934
![Wladyslaw Sikorski photo]()
Polish military and political leader
1881–1943
![Haj Amin al-Husseini photo]()
Palestinian Arab nationalist and Muslim leader
1895–1974
![John Bodkin Adams photo]()
general practitionar, fraudster and suspected serial killer
1899–1983
![Georgette Heyer photo]()
British historical romance and detective fiction novelist
1902–1974
![Gregory Bateson photo]()
English anthropologist, social scientist, linguist, visual …
1904–1980
![Barnett Newman photo]()
American artist
1905–1970
![Gersh Budker photo]()
Soviet physicist
1918–1977
![Eva Gabor photo]()
Hungarian actress and businesswoman
1919–1995
![Jesse Helms photo]()
American politician
1921–2008
![Nicolaus Sombart photo]()
German sociologist
1923–2008
![Eric Sykes photo]()
English actor and director
1923–2012
![Olive Ann Burns photo]()
American novelist, journalist
1924–1990
![Abbas Kiarostami photo]()
Iranian film director, screenwriter, photographer and film …
1940–2016
![Thomas M. Disch photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, poet
1940–2008
![Bob Ross photo]()
American painter, art instructor, and television host
1942–1995
![Michel-Rolph Trouillot photo]()
Haitian academic and anthropologist
1949–2012
