Anniversaries 4 September
Birth
![Tommaso Campanella photo]()
Italian philosopher, theologian, astrologer, and poet
1568–1639
![Robert South photo]()
English theologian
1634–1716
![François-René de Chateaubriand photo]()
French writer, politician, diplomat and historian
1768–1848
![Phoebe Cary photo]()
American writer
1824–1871
![Anton Bruckner photo]()
Austrian composer
1824–1896
![Dadabhai Naoroji photo]()
Indian politician
1825–1917
![Daniel Burnham photo]()
American architect and urban designer
1846–1912
![Eugene M. Kulischer photo]()
American sociologist
1881–1956
![Fritz Todt photo]()
German engineer and senior Nazi figure
1891–1942
![Darius Milhaud photo]()
French composer and teacher
1892–1974
![Antonin Artaud photo]()
French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre direc…
1896–1948
![Gus Arnheim photo]()
American musician
1897–1955
![Mary Renault photo]()
English novelist
1905–1983
![Richard Wright photo]()
African-American writer
1908–1960
![Henry Ford II photo]()
American automotive industry executive; longtime president,…
1917–1987
![Paul Harvey photo]()
American broadcaster
1918–2009
![Craig Claiborne photo]()
Journalist and book author
1920–2000
![Joan Aiken photo]()
English fiction writer
1924–2004
![Forrest Carter photo]()
Political speechwriter, politician, novelist, memoirist
1925–1979
![Ivan Illich photo]()
austrian philosopher and theologist
1926–2002
![John McCarthy photo]()
American computer scientist and cognitive scientist
1927–2011
![Jan Švankmajer photo]()
Czech animator, photographer and director
1934
![Dallas Willard photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2013
![Brian Swimme photo]()
American cosmologist
1950
![Bernard Kerik photo]()
American police chief
1955
![Blackie Lawless photo]()
musician, songwriter and actor
1956
![Karl Schroeder photo]()
Author. Technology consultant
1962
![John DiMaggio photo]()
American voice actor and comedian
1968
![Pat Neshek photo]()
American baseball player
1980
![Beyoncé photo]()
American singer, songwriter and actress
1981
![José Baroja photo]()
Chilean author and editor
1983
![James Bay photo]()
British singer-songwriter
1990
Death
![Ali al-Rida photo]()
eighth of the Twelve Imams
770–818
![John Ogilby photo]()
Scottish academic
1600–1676
![George Robert Sims photo]()
English journalist, poet, dramatist, novelist
1847–1922
![Herbert N. Casson photo]()
Canadian journalist and writer
1869–1951
![Albert Schweitzer photo]()
French-German physician, theologian, musician and philosoph…
1875–1965
![Charles D. B. King photo]()
President of Liberia
1875–1961
![Herbert Dingle photo]()
British astronomer
1890–1978
![Henri de Lubac photo]()
Jesuit theologian and cardinal
1896–1991
![Irene Dunne photo]()
American actress
1898–1990
![Ronald Syme photo]()
New Zealand-born historian and classicist
1903–1989
![E. F. Schumacher photo]()
British economist
1911–1977
![Kenneth R. Andrews photo]()
Business scholar
1916–2005
![Béla H. Bánáthy photo]()
Hungarian linguist and systems scientist
1919–2003
![William Kunstler photo]()
American lawyer and civil rights activist
1919–1995
![Walter Kaufmann photo]()
American philosopher
1921–1980
![Claus Moser, Baron Moser photo]()
British statistician and Civil Servant
1922–2015
![Paul Conrad photo]()
German theologian
1924–2010
![Wolfhart Pannenberg photo]()
German theologian
1928–2014
![Dottie West photo]()
American country music singer
1932–1991
![Jeffrey Bernard photo]()
British journalist
1932–1997
![Joan Rivers photo]()
American comedian, actress, and television host
1933–2014
![Steve Irwin photo]()
Australian environmentalist and television personality
1962–2006
