Anniversaries 5 April
Birth
![Catherine of Genoa photo]()
Italian author and nurse
1447–1510
![Thomas Hobbes photo]()
English philosopher, born 1588
1588–1679
![Algernon Charles Swinburne photo]()
English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
1837–1909
![Booker T. Washington photo]()
African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor
1856–1915
![Basil Hood photo]()
British dramatist and army officer
1864–1917
![Chester Bowles photo]()
American politician
1901–1986
![Lord Buckley photo]()
American actor and comedian
1906–1960
![Bette Davis photo]()
film and television actress from the United States
1908–1989
![Ernestine Gilbreth Carey photo]()
Author, memoirist
1908–2006
![Herbert von Karajan photo]()
Austrian conductor
1908–1989
![Nguyễn Văn Thiệu photo]()
president of South Vietnam from 1965–75
1923–2001
![Ernest Mandel photo]()
Belgian economist and Marxist philosopher
1923–1995
![Roger Corman photo]()
American film director and film producer
1926
![Colin Powell photo]()
Former U.S. Secretary of State and retired four-star general
1937
![Marilyn Ferguson photo]()
American writer
1938–2008
![Bas van Fraassen photo]()
American philosopher
1941
![Peter Greenaway photo]()
British film director
1942
![Tommy Smith (footballer, born 1945) photo]()
Former English professional association footballer
1945–2019
![Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo photo]()
The 14th President of the Philippines from 2001 to 2010
1947
![Agnetha Fältskog photo]()
Swedish recording artist and entertainer
1950
![Dean Kamen photo]()
American businessman
1951
![Venkatraman Ramakrishnan photo]()
Nobel prize winning American and British structural biologi…
1952
![John C. Dvorak photo]()
US journalist and radio broadcaster
1952
![Anthony Horowitz photo]()
English novelist and screenwriter
1955
![Akira Toriyama photo]()
manga artist and video game character designer
1955
![Lazarus Chakwera photo]()
Malawi religious figure and politician
1955
![Stewart Lee photo]()
English stand-up comedian, writer, director and musician
1968
![Ravindra Prabhat photo]()
Hindi poet, scholar, journalist, novelist and short story w…
1969
![Nima Arkani-Hamed photo]()
American-Canadian physicist
1972
![Фаррелл Уильямс photo]()
American singer, rapper, songwriter and record producer
1973
![Juicy J photo]()
American rapper and record producer from Tennessee; co-foun…
1975
![James Wilks photo]()
English martial artist
1978
Death
![Christian Scriver photo]()
German hymnwriter
1629–1693
![George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax photo]()
English politician
1633–1695
![Georges Danton photo]()
French revolutionary
1759–1794
![Barend Cornelis Koekkoek photo]()
painter from the Northern Netherlands
1803–1862
![Frances Power Cobbe photo]()
Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist an…
1822–1904
![Chauncey Depew photo]()
American politician
1834–1928
![Johan Falkberget photo]()
Norwegian politician
1879–1967
![Douglas MacArthur photo]()
U.S. Army general of the army, field marshal of the Army of…
1880–1964
![Chiang Kai-shek photo]()
Chinese politician and military leader
1887–1975
![Arthur Travers Harris photo]()
Royal Air Force air marshal
1892–1984
![Brother Theodore photo]()
German-American monologuist and comedian
1906–2001
![Richard Crossman photo]()
British Member of Parliament
1907–1974
![Karel Zeman photo]()
Czech film director, artist and animator
1910–1989
![August Heckscher II photo]()
American writer
1913–1997
![Saul Bellow photo]()
Canadian-born American writer
1915–2005
![I. J. Good photo]()
British statistician, cryptographer
1916–2009
![Sam Walton photo]()
Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
1918–1992
![Baruch Samuel Blumberg photo]()
American doctor
1925–2011
![Robert S. Mendelsohn photo]()
American pediatrician
1926–1988
![Allan Kaprow photo]()
American artist
1927–2006
![Sydney Brenner photo]()
South African biologist, Nobel prize in Physiology or Medic…
1927–2019
![Peter Matthiessen photo]()
American novelist
1927–2014
![Cecil Taylor photo]()
American pianist and poet
1929–2018
![Bingu wa Mutharika photo]()
politician and economist (1934-2012)
1934–2012
![Herb Goldberg photo]()
American psychologist
1937–2019
![Layne Staley photo]()
American singer
1967–2002
![Kurt Cobain photo]()
American musician and artist
1967–1994
