Anniversaries 5 September
Birth
![Abu Hanifa photo]()
Founder of Hanafi school of thought
699–767
![Al-Biruni photo]()
Persian scholar and polymath
973–1048
![Ignace-Gaston Pardies photo]()
French physicist
1636–1673
![Louis XIV of France photo]()
King of France and Navarra, from 1643 to 1715
1638–1715
![Jean-Étienne Montucla photo]()
French mathematician
1725–1799
![Christoph Martin Wieland photo]()
German writer, poet and publisher
1733–1813
![Caspar David Friedrich photo]()
Swedish painter
1774–1840
![Konstantin Tsiolkovsky photo]()
Russian and Soviet rocket scientist and pioneer of the astr…
1857–1935
![Walter Raleigh (professor) photo]()
British academic
1861–1922
![Frank B. Jewett photo]()
American physicist
1879–1949
![Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan photo]()
Indian philosopher and statesman who was the first Vice Pre…
1888–1975
![Arthur Koestler photo]()
Hungarian-British author and journalist
1905–1983
![John Cage photo]()
American avant-garde composer
1912–1992
![Nicanor Parra photo]()
writer, poet, matematician, fisic
1914–2018
![Jack Valenti photo]()
President of the MPAA
1921–2007
![Paul Volcker photo]()
American economist
1927–2019
![Bob Newhart photo]()
American stand-up comedian and actor
1929
![Werner Erhard photo]()
Critical Thinker and Author
1935
![Jonathan Kozol photo]()
American activist and educator
1936
![Claudette Colvin photo]()
African-American civil rights movement leader
1939
![Raquel Welch photo]()
American actress
1940–2023
![Werner Herzog photo]()
German film director, producer, screenwriter, actor and ope…
1942
![Freddie Mercury photo]()
British singer, songwriter and record producer
1946–1991
![Loudon Wainwright III photo]()
American singer-songwriter, humorist, and actor
1946
![Victor Davis Hanson photo]()
American military historian, essayist, university professor
1953
![Tom Kean, Jr. photo]()
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly and State Senate
1968
![Mercy chinwo photo]()
Nigerian Gospel Singer
1990
Death
![John Home photo]()
Minister of religion and dramatist
1722–1808
![Pierre Choderlos de Laclos photo]()
French novelist, official and army general
1741–1803
![Hannah Flagg Gould photo]()
American writer
1788–1865
![Auguste Comte photo]()
French philosopher
1798–1857
![Zuo Zongtang photo]()
Qing dynasty general
1812–1885
![John Sullivan Dwight photo]()
American minister
1813–1893
![Rudolf Virchow photo]()
German doctor, anthropologist, public health activist, path…
1821–1902
![Crazy Horse photo]()
Oglala Sioux chief
1840–1877
![Ludwig Boltzmann photo]()
Austrian physicist
1844–1906
![Charles Péguy photo]()
French poet, essayist, and editor
1873–1914
![Carl Panzram photo]()
American serial killer
1891–1930
![Earl Long photo]()
American politician and the 45th Governor of Louisiana for …
1895–1960
![Richard Walther Darré photo]()
Nazi SS General
1895–1953
![Matka Tereza photo]()
Roman Catholic saint of Albanian origin
1910–1997
![Douglas Bader photo]()
British World War II flying ace
1910–1982
![Fritz Leiber photo]()
American writer of fantasy, horror, and science fiction
1910–1992
![Georg Solti photo]()
Hungarian orchestral and operatic conductor
1912–1997
![Nicolaas Bloembergen photo]()
Dutch-born American physicist
1920–2017
![Albert Rees photo]()
American economist
1921–1992
![Phyllis Schlafly photo]()
American activist
1924–2016
![Alan Clark photo]()
British politician
1928–1999
![Jane Roberts photo]()
American Writer
1929–1984
![James Kennedy (televangelist) photo]()
American evangelist
1930–2007
![Christopher Trace photo]()
British television presenter
1933–1992
![James Rachels photo]()
American philosopher
1941–2003
