Anniversaries 6 April
Birth
![Raphael photo]()
Italian painter and architect
1483–1520
![Francis Xavier photo]()
Navarrese Basque Roman Catholic saint and missionary
1506–1552
![Samuel Vince photo]()
British mathematician, astronomer and physicist
1749–1821
![James Mill photo]()
Scottish historian, economist, political theorist and philo…
1773–1836
![John Pierpont photo]()
American writer
1785–1866
![Jean Antoine Petit-Senn photo]()
Swiss poet (1792-1870)
1792–1870
![Edmund Sears photo]()
American minister
1810–1876
![Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney photo]()
American writer
1823–1908
![Arthur Wesley Dow photo]()
painter from the United States
1857–1922
![Lincoln Steffens photo]()
American journalist (1866-1936)
1866–1936
![Donald Wills Douglas Sr. photo]()
American businessman
1892–1981
![John Paton Davies, Jr. photo]()
American diplomat
1908–1999
![Leonora Carrington photo]()
Mexican artist, surrealist painter and novelist
1917–2011
![Armand V. Feigenbaum photo]()
American businessman
1922–2014
![Yehuda Bauer photo]()
Israeli historian of the Holocaust
1926
![Ian Paisley photo]()
Politician and former church minister
1926–2014
![James D. Watson photo]()
American molecular biologist, geneticist, and zoologist.
1928
![Peter Townsend (sociologist) photo]()
British sociologist
1928–2009
![Ram Dass photo]()
American contemporary spiritual teacher and the author of t…
1931–2019
![Merle Haggard photo]()
American country music song writer, singer and musician
1937–2016
![Anita Pallenberg photo]()
German actress, model and Rolling Stones groupie
1942–2017
![Celestino Aós Braco photo]()
Roman Catholic cardinal
1945
![Neal Boortz photo]()
American author, journalist, and radio host
1945
![Bert Blyleven photo]()
Major League Baseball player and broadcaster
1951
![Hilda Heine photo]()
Marshallese politician
1951
![Clayton M. Christensen photo]()
Mormon academic
1952–2020
![Robert M. Sapolsky photo]()
American endocrinologist
1957
![Rafael Correa photo]()
45th President of Ecuador
1963
![David Woodard photo]()
American writer, conductor and businessman
1964
![Vince Flynn photo]()
American writer of fiction
1966–2013
![Zach Braff photo]()
American actor, director, screenwriter, producer
1975
![Margarita Simonyan photo]()
Russian propagandist
1980
![Diora Baird photo]()
American actress and model
1983
Death
![Albrecht Dürer photo]()
German painter, printmaker, mathematician, and theorist
1471–1528
![Raphael photo]()
Italian painter and architect
1483–1520
![Francis Walsingham photo]()
English spy, diplomat and politician
1532–1590
![Niels Henrik Abel photo]()
Norwegian mathematician
1802–1829
![Moses Hess photo]()
German philosopher
1812–1875
![Florence Earle Coates photo]()
American writer and poet
1850–1927
![Igor Stravinsky photo]()
Russian composer, pianist and conductor
1882–1971
![Vítězslav Nezval photo]()
Czech poet, writer and translator
1900–1958
![Jimmy Kennedy photo]()
Irish songwriter
1902–1984
![Habib Bourguiba photo]()
Tunisian politician
1903–2000
![John D. Bulkeley photo]()
United States Navy Medal of Honor recipient
1911–1996
![Isaac Asimov photo]()
American writer and professor of biochemistry at Boston Uni…
1920–1992
![Ernest Hollings photo]()
politician from the United States
1922–2019
![Rainier III, Prince of Monaco photo]()
Prince of Monaco
1923–2005
![Jerzy Vetulani photo]()
Polish scientist
1936–2017
![Fang Lizhi photo]()
Professor of astrophysics; civil rights activist and dissid…
1936–2012
![Merle Haggard photo]()
American country music song writer, singer and musician
1937–2016
![Vladimir Zhirinovsky photo]()
Russian politician and political activist
1946–2022
![Ernest Debrah photo]()
Ghanian politician
1947–2016
![Thomas Kinkade photo]()
American painter of popular realistic, bucolic, and idyllic…
1958–2012
