Anniversaries 5 November
Birth
![Sidonius Apollinaris photo]()
Gaulish poet, aristocrat and bishop
430–489
![John Brown (essayist) photo]()
English divine and author
1715–1766
![Washington Allston photo]()
American artist
1779–1843
![Benjamin Butler (politician) photo]()
Union Army general, lawyer, politician
1818–1893
![James Whitbread Lee Glaisher photo]()
English mathematician and astronomer
1848–1928
![Ella Wheeler Wilcox photo]()
American author and poet
1850–1919
![Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield photo]()
American theologian
1851–1921
![Eugene V. Debs photo]()
American labor and political leader
1855–1926
![Chittaranjan Das photo]()
Indian politician and leader of the Swaraj Party
1870–1925
![Will Durant photo]()
American historian, philosopher and writer
1885–1981
![J. B. S. Haldane photo]()
Geneticist and evolutionary biologist
1892–1964
![Raymond Loewy photo]()
industrial designer
1893–1986
![Harold Innis photo]()
Canadian professor of political economy
1894–1952
![Mikhail Bakhtin photo]()
Philosopher, scholar
1895–1975
![Lev Vygotsky photo]()
Soviet psychologist
1896–1934
![Herbert Schiller photo]()
American media critic
1919–2000
![Richard Taylor (philosopher) photo]()
American philosopher, born 1919
1919–2003
![Douglass C. North photo]()
American Economist
1920–2015
![John Berger photo]()
British painter, writer and art critic
1926–2017
![Charles Taylor photo]()
Canadian philosopher
1931
![Bao Tong photo]()
Policy secretary of former Chinese Premier Zhao Ziyang
1932–2022
![Art Garfunkel photo]()
American singer, poet, and actor
1941
![Sam Shepard photo]()
American playwright and actor
1943–2017
![Peter Pace photo]()
16th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
1945
![Bob Barr photo]()
Republican and Libertarian politician
1948
![Bernard-Henri Lévy photo]()
French film director and philosopher
1948
![Thorbjørn Jagland photo]()
Norwegian politician
1950
![Bernard Chazelle photo]()
French computer scientist
1955
![Daniel T. Gilbert photo]()
American psychologist
1957
![Bryan Adams photo]()
Canadian singer-songwriter
1959
![Dariusz Kałuża photo]()
Polish religious servant and bishop
1967
![Mark Batterson photo]()
American pastor and writer
1969
![Andrew Sean Greer photo]()
Novelist, short story writer
1970
![Johnny Damon photo]()
American professional baseball outfielder
1973
![Jerry Stackhouse photo]()
American basketball player
1974
![Ryan Adams photo]()
American alt-country/rock singer-songwriter
1974
![Kenichiro Takaki photo]()
Japanese video game producer
1976
![Eliud Kipchoge photo]()
Kenyan long-distance runner
1984
![Bailey Jay photo]()
American pornographic actress
1988
![Virat Kohli photo]()
Indian cricket player
1988
![Berta Castañé photo]()
Spanish actress and model
2002
Death
![Koho Kenichi photo]()
Japanese sangha of Rinzai school in Kamakura era
1241–1316
![Hemu photo]()
General and Chief Minister of Adil Shah Suri
1501–1556
![`Abd al-Qadir Bada'uni photo]()
Indian historian
1540–1615
![Daniel Drake photo]()
American physician and writer
1785–1852
![Antoinette Brown Blackwell photo]()
American minister
1825–1921
![James Clerk Maxwell photo]()
Scottish physicist
1831–1879
![William Torrey Harris photo]()
American philosopher
1835–1909
![Auberon Herbert photo]()
British politician
1838–1906
![Alexis Carrel photo]()
French surgeon and biologist
1873–1944
![Joseph Stella photo]()
American artist
1877–1946
![Spencer W. Kimball photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1895–1985
![Richard Hartshorne photo]()
American Geographer
1899–1992
![Jan Oort photo]()
Dutch astronomer
1900–1992
![Joseph Kesselring photo]()
American writer and playwright
1902–1967
![Vladimir Horowitz photo]()
American classical pianist and composer
1903–1989
![Arndt Pekurinen photo]()
Finnish pacifist
1905–1941
![Lionel Trilling photo]()
American academic
1905–1975
![Elliott Carter photo]()
American composer
1908–2012
![Isaiah Berlin photo]()
Russo-British Jewish social and political theorist, philoso…
1909–1997
![Ernest Gellner photo]()
Czech anthropologist, philosopher and sociologist
1925–1995
![Bülent Ecevit photo]()
former Prime Minister of Turkey (1925-2006)
1925–2006
![Meir Kahane photo]()
American/Israeli political activist and rabbi
1932–1990
![Ernest J. Gaines photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, teacher
1933–2019
![John Leonard photo]()
American critic, writer, and commentator
1939–2008
