Anniversaries 6 September
Birth
![Thomas Tryon photo]()
British hat maker
1634–1703
![Moses Mendelssohn photo]()
German Jewish philosopher and theologian
1729–1786
![Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette photo]()
French general and politician
1757–1834
![John Dalton photo]()
English chemist, meteorologist and physicist
1766–1844
![Frances Wright photo]()
American activist
1795–1852
![Bruno Bauer photo]()
German philosopher and historian
1809–1882
![Jane Addams photo]()
pioneer settlement social worker
1860–1935
![Julien Green photo]()
American author
1900–1998
![W. Ross Ashby photo]()
British psychiatrist
1903–1972
![Banesh Hoffmann photo]()
American mathematician and physicist
1906–1986
![Nicolas Schöffer photo]()
French sculptor and plastician
1912–1992
![Peter Hellings photo]()
Royal Marines general
1916–1990
![Moshe Goshen-Gottstein photo]()
Israeli linguist
1925–1991
![Alan Lindsay Mackay photo]()
British crystallographer
1926
![Robert M. Pirsig photo]()
American writer and philosopher
1928–2017
![Vera Mae Green photo]()
American anthropologist and academic
1928–1982
![George Klir photo]()
American computer scientist
1932–2016
![Roger Waters photo]()
English songwriter, bassist, and lyricist of Pink Floyd
1943
![Donna Haraway photo]()
scholar in the field of science and technology studies
1944
![Tommy Lee Wallace photo]()
American film director
1949
![Carly Fiorina photo]()
American corporate executive and politician
1954
![Jeff Foxworthy photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1958
![Chris Christie photo]()
55th Governor of New Jersey, former U.S. Attorney for the D…
1962
![Macy Gray photo]()
American singer-songwriter and actress
1967
![Ego Boyo photo]()
Nigerian actress and movie producer
1968
![Tony DiTerlizzi photo]()
American artist, writer and producer
1969
![Idris Elba photo]()
English actor, DJ and recording artist
1972
Death
![William Tyndale photo]()
Bible translator and agitator from England
1494–1536
![Jean-Baptiste Colbert photo]()
French politician
1619–1683
![Friedrich Albert Fallou photo]()
German jurist and lawyer
1794–1877
![Lord Charles Beresford photo]()
Royal Navy admiral
1846–1919
![Gilbert Parker photo]()
Canadian novelist and British politician
1862–1932
![Margaret Sanger photo]()
American birth control activist, educator and nurse
1879–1966
![John Edensor Littlewood photo]()
English Mathematician
1885–1977
![Olaf Stapledon photo]()
British novelist and philosopher
1886–1950
![Edwin Arthur Burtt photo]()
American philosopher
1892–1989
![Hendrik Verwoerd photo]()
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassin…
1901–1966
![Akira Kurosawa photo]()
Japanese film maker
1910–1998
![Bob Pierce photo]()
American evangelical charity founder
1914–1978
![Madeleine L'Engle photo]()
American writer
1918–2007
![Lotfi A. Zadeh photo]()
Electrical engineer and computer scientist
1921–2017
![Joan Vollmer photo]()
Common-law wife of William S. Burroughs
1923–1951
![Robert Mugabe photo]()
former President of Zimbabwe
1924–2019
![Richard M. DeVos photo]()
American businessman
1926–2018
![Luciano Pavarotti photo]()
Italian operatic tenor
1935–2007
![Burt Reynolds photo]()
American actor, director and producer.
1936–2018
![Kate Millett photo]()
American writer and activist
1937–2017
