Anniversaries 7 October
Birth
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Archbishop of Canterbury
1573–1645
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British barrister and judge, Lord Chief Justice of the King…
1762–1832
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American merchant and politician
1807–1877
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English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poe…
1810–1871
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American poet from Indianapolis
1849–1916
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Suffragist and feminist
1878–1954
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Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of …
1879–1915
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Danish physicist
1885–1962
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British journalist and writer
1886–1935
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Vice President of the United States
1888–1965
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Dutch philosopher
1894–1977
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American religious leader
1897–1975
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Nazi officer, Commander of the SS
1900–1945
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British historian
1900–1979
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American journalist
1914–1968
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Indian musician
1914–1974
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American plagiarist
1915–2000
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Canadian cartoonist, evangelist, agnostic, politician, news…
1915–2001
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American historian and collegiate professor
1918–2015
![Henriette Avram photo]()
American computer programmer and system analyst. She develo…
1919–2006
![William Zinsser photo]()
writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor
1922–2015
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Scottish psychiatrist and author
1927–1989
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Iranian poet and painter
1928–1980
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South African churchman, politician, archbishop, Nobel Priz…
1931
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German left-wing militant
1934–1976
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African-American writer
1934–2014
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Australian author, critic, broadcaster, poet, translator an…
1939–2019
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British chemist
1939–2016
![Paul Weyrich photo]()
American political activist
1942–2008
![Joy Behar photo]()
US comedian, writer and actress
1942
![Oliver North photo]()
US Marine Corps lieutenant colonel, claimed partial respons…
1943
![Donald Tsang photo]()
Hong Kong politician
1944
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American feminist and legal activist
1946
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American writer
1946–2018
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Author, poet, naturalist
1948
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Tanzanian politician and president
1950
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President of Russia, former Prime Minister
1952
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English reality television judge, television producer and m…
1959
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Canadian fantasy author
1959
![Dan Savage photo]()
American sex advice columnist and gay rights campaigner
1964
![Sherman Alexie photo]()
Native American author and filmmaker
1966
![Luke Haines photo]()
English musician and songwriter
1967
![Michelle Alexander photo]()
American lawyer, civil rights activist and writer
1967
![Thom Yorke photo]()
English musician, philanthropist and singer-songwriter
1968
![Tim Minchin photo]()
Australian comedian, actor, singer, songwriter, music comp…
1975
![Alesha Dixon photo]()
English singer, dancer, rapper, model and television presen…
1978
![Jermain Defoe photo]()
English association football player
1982
Death
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the second Abbasid Caliph
714–775
![George Gascoigne photo]()
English politician and poet
1525–1577
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The tenth and last human Guru of Sikhism
1666–1708
![Thomas Reid photo]()
Scottish philosopher
1710–1796
![John Woolman photo]()
American Quaker preacher
1720–1772
![George Mason photo]()
American delegate from Virginia to the U.S. Constitutional …
1725–1792
![Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann photo]()
Swiss philosophical writer, naturalist, and physician
1728–1795
![William Barnes photo]()
English writer, poet, clergyman, and philologist
1801–1886
![Edgar Allan Poe photo]()
American author, poet, editor and literary critic
1809–1849
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Poet, essayist, physician
1809–1894
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American sculptor, art critic, poet, translator and editor
1819–1895
![Henry Timrod photo]()
Poet from the American South
1828–1867
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American magazine editor
1836–1919
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British philanthropist industrialist and sociologist writer
1871–1954
![Norman Angell photo]()
British politician
1872–1967
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Poet and author
1880–1943
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Swedish socialist
1886–1969
![Paul Tournier photo]()
Swiss physician and author, pastoral counsellor
1898–1986
![Agnes de Mille photo]()
American dancer and choreographer
1905–1993
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American economist
1921–1998
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Sierra Leonean politician
1929–1989
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American philosopher, classicist, and academician
1930–1992
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Russian journalist
1958–2006
