Anniversaries 7 October

Birth

William Laud11

Archbishop of Canterbury 1573–1645

John Marston6

English writer 1576–1634

Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden9

British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King… 1762–1832

George Abernethy1

American merchant and politician 1807–1877

Henry Alford4

English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe… 1810–1871

Джеймс Уиткомб Райли1

1849–1916

James Whitcomb Riley4

American poet from Indianapolis 1849–1916

Margaret Cousins1

Suffragist and feminist 1878–1954

Joe Hill57

Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of … 1879–1915

Niels Bohr37

Danish physicist 1885–1962

Stella Wolfe Murray1

British journalist and writer 1886–1935

Henry A. Wallace3

Vice President of the United States 1888–1965

Herman Dooyeweerd1

Dutch philosopher 1894–1977

Elijah Muhammad3

American religious leader 1897–1975

Heinrich Himmler24

Nazi officer, Commander of the SS 1900–1945

Herbert Butterfield11

British historian 1900–1979

Will Lang, Jr.2

American journalist 1914–1968

Begum Akhtar7

Indian musician 1914–1974

Walter Keane7

American plagiarist 1915–2000

Charles Templeton2

Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, news… 1915–2001

Harry V. Jaffa171

American historian and collegiate professor 1918–2015

Henriette Avram8

American computer programmer and system analyst. She develo… 1919–2006

William Zinsser30

writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor 1922–2015

Ronald David Laing30

Scottish psychiatrist and author 1927–1989

Sohrab Sepehri1

Iranian poet and painter 1928–1980

Desmond Tutu85

South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Priz… 1931

Ulrike Meinhof6

German left-wing militant 1934–1976

Amiri Baraka6

African-American writer 1934–2014

Thomas Keneally6

Australian novelist 1935

Clive James151

Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an… 1939–2019

Harold Kroto1

British chemist 1939–2016

Paul Weyrich2

American political activist 1942–2008

Joy Behar2

US comedian, writer and actress 1942

Oliver North3

US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, claimed partial respons… 1943

Donald Tsang5

Hong Kong politician 1944

Catharine A. MacKinnon28

American feminist and legal activist 1946

Anita Shreve15

American writer 1946–2018

Diane Ackerman30

Author, poet, naturalist 1948

Charles Barron5

American politician 1950

Jakaya Kikwete23

Tanzanian politician and president 1950

Natsuo Kirino10

Japanese writer 1951

Vladimir Putin110

President of Russia, former Prime Minister 1952

Yo-Yo Ma1

American cellist 1955

Simon Cowell7

English reality television judge, television producer and m… 1959

Steven Erikson136

Canadian fantasy author 1959

Ha-Joon Chang44

Economist 1963

Dan Savage17

American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner 1964

Sherman Alexie82

Native American author and filmmaker 1966

Anthony Randazzo1

Australian bishop 1966

Luke Haines4

English musician and songwriter 1967

Michelle Alexander3

American lawyer, civil rights activist and writer 1967

Thom Yorke99

English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter 1968

Neil Halstead2

British musician 1970

Tim Minchin2

Australian comedian, actor, singer, songwriter, music comp… 1975

Alesha Dixon3

English singer, dancer, rapper, model and television presen… 1978

Jared Yates Sexton2

1981

Jermain Defoe2

English association football player 1982

Li Yundi5

Chinese pianist 1982

Tom Van Grieken4

Belgian politician 1986

Death

Al-Mansur2

the second Abbasid Caliph 714–775

George Gascoigne7

English politician and poet 1525–1577

Giovanni Battista Guarini2

Italian poet 1538–1612

Guru Govind Singh4

The tenth and last human Guru of Sikhism 1666–1708

Thomas Reid1

Scottish philosopher 1710–1796

John Woolman7

American Quaker preacher 1720–1772

George Mason54

American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional … 1725–1792

Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann1

Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician 1728–1795

Robert Holmes2

Irish writer 1765–1859

William Barnes3

English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist 1801–1886

Edgar Allan Poe126

American author, poet, editor and literary critic 1809–1849

Oliver Wendell Holmes135

Poet, essayist, physician 1809–1894

William Wetmore Story5

American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor 1819–1895

Henry Timrod4

Poet from the American South 1828–1867

Henry Mills Alden1

American magazine editor 1836–1919

Paul Sérusier6

French painter 1864–1927

Seebohm Rowntree2

British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer 1871–1954

Norman Angell44

British politician 1872–1967

Radclyffe Hall1

Poet and author 1880–1943

Ture Nerman7

Swedish socialist 1886–1969

D. V. Gundappa26

Indian writer 1887–1975

Paul Tournier2

Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor 1898–1986

Agnes de Mille3

American dancer and choreographer 1905–1993

Ovadia Yosef11

Israeli rabbi 1920–2013

Richard Cyert7

American economist 1921–1998

Francis Minah1

Sierra Leonean politician 1929–1989

Allan Bloom29

American philosopher, classicist, and academician 1930–1992

Anna Politkovskaya2

Russian journalist 1958–2006