Anniversaries 5 October
Birth
![Thomas Goodwin photo]()
English clergyman
1600–1680
![Jonathan Edwards photo]()
Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian
1703–1758
![Denis Diderot photo]()
French Enlightenment philosopher and encyclopædist
1713–1784
![James Iredell photo]()
one of the first Justices of the Supreme Court of the Unite…
1751–1799
![Chester A. Arthur photo]()
American politician, 21st President of the United States (i…
1829–1886
![John Addington Symonds photo]()
English poet and literary critic
1840–1893
![Philipp Mainländer photo]()
German poet and philosopher
1841–1876
![Thomas Little Heath photo]()
British civil servant and academic
1861–1940
![John Erskine photo]()
American educator
1879–1951
![Teresa de la Parra photo]()
Venezuelan novelist
1889–1936
![Georges Bidault photo]()
French politician
1899–1983
![Ray Kroc photo]()
American businessman
1902–1984
![M. King Hubbert photo]()
American geoscientist
1903–1989
![Jagadguru Kripaluji Maharaj photo]()
spiritual leader
1922–2013
![Jock Stein photo]()
Scottish footballer and manager
1922–1985
![Philip Berrigan photo]()
Priest and anti-war activist
1923–2002
![Louise Fitzhugh photo]()
American children's writer
1928–1974
![Reinhard Selten photo]()
German economist
1930–2016
![Václav Havel photo]()
playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of …
1936–2011
![Barry Switzer photo]()
American football player and coach
1937
![Teresa Heinz Kerry photo]()
Portuguese–American businesswoman, widow of Sen. H. John He…
1938
![Michael Morpurgo photo]()
British children's writer
1943
![Robin Lane Fox photo]()
Historian, educator, writer, gardener
1946
![Bill James photo]()
American baseball writer and statistician
1949
![Bob Geldof photo]()
Irish singer-songwriter, author and political activist
1951
![Imran Khan photo]()
Prime Minister of Pakistan
1952
![Clive Barker photo]()
author, film director and visual artist
1952
![Kancha Ilaiah photo]()
Indian scholar, activist and writer
1952
![Neil deGrasse Tyson photo]()
American astrophysicist and science communicator
1958
![D.M. Turner photo]()
American drug researcher
1962–1996
![Jatuporn Prompan photo]()
Thai television activist
1965
![Sean Carroll photo]()
American theoretical cosmologist
1966
![Grant Hill photo]()
retired American basketball player
1972
![Cédric Villani photo]()
French mathematician
1973
![Kate Winslet photo]()
English actress and singer
1975
![Ramzan Kadyrov photo]()
President of Chechnya, former militia leader
1976
![Craig Benzine photo]()
Filmmaker, comedian, presenter
1980
![Mashrafe Mortaza photo]()
Bangladeshi international cricketer and politician
1983
![Christian Canlubo photo]()
Filipino Internet Entrepreneur
2002
Death
![Henry Carey photo]()
English composer and playwright
1687–1743
![Tecumseh photo]()
Native American leader of the Shawnee
1768–1813
![Richard F. Pettigrew photo]()
American politician
1848–1926
![Ingram Crockett photo]()
American writer
1856–1936
![Louis Brandeis photo]()
American Supreme Court Justice
1856–1941
![Dwight Morrow photo]()
American politician
1873–1931
![Harry Emerson Fosdick photo]()
American pastor
1878–1969
![Hussain Ahmed Madani photo]()
19th century Islamic scholar of India
1879–1957
![Helena Roerich photo]()
Russian philosopher
1879–1955
![Solomon Lefschetz photo]()
American mathematician
1884–1972
![Jogendra Nath Mandal photo]()
Pakistani politician
1904–1968
![Ramnath Goenka photo]()
Indian politician
1904–1991
![Grace Lee Boggs photo]()
social activist and feminist
1915–2015
![James H. Wilkinson photo]()
English mathematician
1919–1986
![Rodney Dangerfield photo]()
American actor and comedian
1921–2004
![Lois Gladys Leppard photo]()
American writer
1924–2008
![Seymour Cray photo]()
Applied mathematician, computer scientist, and electrical e…
1925–1996
![Neil Postman photo]()
American writer and academic
1931–2003
![Keith Roberts photo]()
British writer and artist
1935–2000
![Bavua Ntinu André photo]()
Spiritual master of the PSV
1939–2013
![Miguel Enríquez photo]()
Chilean politician
1944–1974
![Henning Mankell photo]()
Swedish crime writer, children's author, leftist activist a…
1948–2015
![Steve Jobs photo]()
American entrepreneur and co-founder of Apple Inc.
1955–2011
