Anniversaries 6 January
Birth
![Richard II of England photo]()
King of England
1367–1400
![Francesco Maria Zanotti photo]()
Italian philosopher
1692–1777
![Edward Dorr Griffin photo]()
American academic administrator
1770–1837
![Charles Sumner photo]()
American abolitionist and politician
1811–1874
![Owen Lovejoy photo]()
American politician
1811–1864
![Eugene Lee-Hamilton photo]()
English poet and translator
1845–1907
![Eduard Bernstein photo]()
German politician
1850–1932
![Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar photo]()
Scottish Distiller and Conservative Party politician
1864–1930
![Carl Sandburg photo]()
American writer and editor
1878–1967
![Sam Rayburn photo]()
lawmaker from Bonham, Texas
1882–1961
![Khalil Gibran photo]()
Lebanese artist, poet, and writer
1883–1931
![Tim Buck photo]()
Canadian politician
1891–1973
![G. Ledyard Stebbins photo]()
American botanist and geneticist
1906–2000
![Joey Adams photo]()
American comedian, newspaper columnist
1911–1999
![Jacques Ellul photo]()
French sociologist, technology critic, and Christian anarch…
1912–1994
![John Lilly photo]()
American physician
1915–2001
![Alan Watts photo]()
British philosopher, writer and speaker
1915–1973
![Sun Myung Moon photo]()
Korean religious leader
1920–2012
![John Maynard Smith photo]()
British theoretical evolutionary biologist and geneticist
1920–2004
![Kim Dae-jung photo]()
South Korean politician
1924–2009
![E.L. Doctorow photo]()
novelist, editor, professor
1931–2015
![Lou Holtz photo]()
American college football coach, professional football coac…
1937
![Underwood Dudley photo]()
American mathematician
1937
![Penny Lernoux photo]()
American writer and journalist
1940–1989
![Syd Barrett photo]()
English musician
1946–2006
![Rowan Atkinson photo]()
English actor, comedian, and screenwriter
1955
![Justin Welby photo]()
British Anglican bishop; the 105th Archbishop of Canterbury
1956
![Nigella Lawson photo]()
British food writer, journalist and broadcaster
1960
![Peter Whittle (politician) photo]()
British author, politician, and journalist
1961
![Tony Halme photo]()
Finnish boxer and politician
1963–2010
![Anthony Scaramucci photo]()
American financier and political figure
1964
![A. R. Rahman photo]()
Indian singer and composer
1966
![Karin Slaughter photo]()
US-american crime writer
1971
![Adrianne Wadewitz photo]()
academic and Wikipedian
1977–2014
![Eric Trump photo]()
American businessman and philanthropist
1984
![Derrick Morgan (American football) photo]()
Player of American football
1989
Death
![John Dennis photo]()
British dramatist
1658–1734
![Tyagaraja photo]()
Carnatic musician and composer
1767–1847
![Hartley Coleridge photo]()
British poet, biographer, essayist, and teacher
1796–1849
![Richard Henry Dana Jr. photo]()
United States author and lawyer
1815–1882
![Gregor Mendel photo]()
Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar
1822–1884
![Georg Cantor photo]()
mathematician, inventor of set theory
1845–1918
![André Bessette photo]()
Canadian Catholic brother and saint
1845–1937
![Theodore Roosevelt photo]()
American politician, 26th president of the United States
1858–1919
![Elizabeth Bisland Whetmore photo]()
American writer and journalist
1861–1929
![Max Heindel photo]()
American asrologer and occultist
1865–1919
![Burton K. Wheeler photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1882–1975
![A. J. Cronin photo]()
Scottish novelist and physician
1896–1981
![Edmund Leach photo]()
British anthropologist
1910–1989
![Robert L. Kahn photo]()
American psychologist
1918–2019
![George R. Price photo]()
American population geneticist
1922–1975
![Basil John Mason photo]()
British meteorologist
1923–2015
![Florence King photo]()
American writer
1936–2016
![Rudolf Nureyev photo]()
Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
1938–1993
![Robert Haugen photo]()
American economist
1942–2013
![Hugh Thompson, Jr. photo]()
United States helicopter pilot during the Vietnam War
1943–2006
![Michel Petrucciani photo]()
French jazz pianist
1962–1999
