Anniversaries 6 August
Birth
![François Fénelon photo]()
Catholic bishop
1651–1715
![Luc de Clapiers, Marquis de Vauvenargues photo]()
French writer, a moralist
1715–1747
![Daniel O'Connell photo]()
Irish political leader
1775–1847
![Friedrich List photo]()
German economist with dual American citizenship
1789–1846
![William Alcott photo]()
American physician and author
1798–1859
![Alfred, Lord Tennyson photo]()
British poet laureate
1809–1892
![Judah P. Benjamin photo]()
American politician and lawyer
1811–1884
![Andrew Taylor Still photo]()
Founder of Osteopathic Medicine
1828–1917
![Robert Charles (scholar) photo]()
Biblical scholar, theologian
1855–1931
![Paul Claudel photo]()
French diplomat
1868–1955
![Frank I. Cobb photo]()
American newspaper editor
1869–1923
![Charles Fort photo]()
American writer
1874–1932
![Alexander Fleming photo]()
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man
1881–1955
![Scott Nearing photo]()
American activist
1883–1983
![John Middleton Murry photo]()
English writer (1889–1957)
1889–1957
![William Slim, 1st Viscount Slim photo]()
former Governor-General of Australia
1891–1970
![Cecil Howard Green photo]()
American businessman
1900–2003
![Dutch Schultz photo]()
American mobster
1902–1935
![Lucille Ball photo]()
American actress and businesswoman
1911–1989
![Richard Hofstadter photo]()
American historian
1916–1970
![Barbara Cooney photo]()
American writer and illustrator of children's books
1917–2000
![Robert Mitchum photo]()
American film actor, author, composer and singer
1917–1997
![Donald Hill photo]()
British historian and engineer
1922–1994
![Paul Hellyer photo]()
engineer, politician, writer
1923–2021
![Andy Warhol photo]()
American artist
1928–1987
![Roger Lea MacBride photo]()
American writer, TV producer, and politician; 1976 Libertar…
1929–1995
![Chalmers Johnson photo]()
American political scientist
1931–2010
![Piers Anthony photo]()
English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy …
1934
![Jon Postel photo]()
American computer scientist
1943–1998
![Ko Wen-je photo]()
Taiwanese politician and physician
1959
![José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero photo]()
Former Prime Minister of Spain
1960
![Michelle Yeoh photo]()
Malaysian-born actress of Chinese ethnicity
1962
![Kevin Mitnick photo]()
American computer security consultant, author, convicted cr…
1963–2023
![Elliott Smith photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1969–2003
![Paolo Bacigalupi photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1972
![Nat Friedman photo]()
American computer programmer
1977
![Ralph Torres photo]()
an American Republican politician from Saipan, Northern Mar…
1979
Death
![Fracastorius photo]()
Italian physician
1478–1553
![Eduard Hanslick photo]()
austrian musician and musicologist
1825–1904
![Hiram Johnson photo]()
Governor of California
1866–1945
![F. Tennyson Jesse photo]()
British criminologist
1888–1958
![Pope Paul VI photo]()
262nd Pope of the Catholic Church
1897–1978
![Marino Marini photo]()
Italian sculptor
1901–1980
![Theodor W. Adorno photo]()
German sociologist, philosopher and musicologist known for …
1903–1969
![André Weil photo]()
French mathematician
1906–1998
![Jorge Amado photo]()
Brazilian writer
1912–2001
![Cordwainer Smith photo]()
American author
1913–1966
![Ben Klassen photo]()
American engineer, author and politician
1918–1993
![Edsger W. Dijkstra photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1930–2002
![Robert Hughes photo]()
Australian critic, historian, writer
1938–2012
![Tony Judt photo]()
British historian
1948–2010
![Sushma Swaraj photo]()
Indian politician
1952–2019
