Anniversaries 7 February
Birth
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English Renaissance humanist
1478–1535
![Charles Fenno Hoffman photo]()
United States poet and novelist
1806–1884
![Charles Dickens photo]()
English writer and social critic and a Journalist
1812–1870
![Jacob Mendes Da Costa photo]()
American physician
1833–1900
![Laura Ingalls Wilder photo]()
American children's writer, diarist, and journalist
1867–1957
![Alfred Adler photo]()
Medical Doctor, Psychologist, Psychiatrist, Psychotherapist…
1870–1937
![G. H. Hardy photo]()
British mathematician
1877–1947
![Eric Temple Bell photo]()
mathematician and science fiction author born in Scotland w…
1883–1960
![Sinclair Lewis photo]()
American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright
1885–1951
![Helder Camara photo]()
Brazilian Catholic priest, archbishop of Olinda and Recife
1909–1999
![An Wang photo]()
American businessman
1920–1990
![Leslie Lamport photo]()
American computer scientist
1941
![Karen Joy Fowler photo]()
American novelist, short story writer, editor
1950
![Andrew Linzey photo]()
British theologian and divine
1952
![Francesco Salvi photo]()
Italian actor, writer, comedian, singer and architect
1953
![Allen West (politician) photo]()
American politician; retired United States Army officer
1961
![Garth Brooks photo]()
American country music artist
1962
![Eddie Izzard photo]()
British stand-up comedian, actor and writer
1962
![Chris Rock photo]()
American comedian, actor, screenwriter, television producer…
1965
![Nicolae Ciucă photo]()
Romanian politician and military personnel
1967
![Omotola Jalade Ekeinde photo]()
Nigerian actress and singer
1978
![Tawakkol Karman photo]()
Yemeni journalist, politician, human rights activist, and N…
1979
![Vasco Rossi photo]()
Italian singer-songwriter
1980
Death
![Qianlong Emperor photo]()
emperor of the Qing Dynasty
1711–1799
![Ann Radcliffe photo]()
English author and a pioneer of the Gothic novel
1764–1823
![Pope Pius IX photo]()
255th Pope of the Catholic Church
1792–1878
![J. Sheridan Le Fanu photo]()
Irish writer of Gothic tales and mystery novels
1814–1873
![Parteniy Zografski photo]()
Bulgarian bishop
1818–1876
![Samuel Fielden photo]()
American anarchist
1847–1922
![Samuel Fielden photo]()
American anarchist
1847–1922
![Herman Vandenburg Ames photo]()
American author and academic
1865–1935
![Clarence Stein photo]()
American architect
1882–1975
![Charles Seeger photo]()
American musicologist
1886–1979
![Anne Morrow Lindbergh photo]()
American aviator and author
1906–2001
![Josef Mengele photo]()
Nazi officer and physician
1911–1979
![Dale Evans photo]()
American actress, singer and writer
1912–2001
![Wilfred Cantwell Smith photo]()
Canadian academic
1916–2000
![Bobby Troup photo]()
American actor and musician
1918–1999
![Ibrahim Kodra photo]()
father of Albanian contemporary art
1918–2006
![Alan Perlis photo]()
American computer scientist
1922–1990
![Gilbert Simondon photo]()
20th century French philosopher
1924–1989
![John Dingell photo]()
American politician
1926–2019
![Lin Carter photo]()
American fantasy writer, editor, critic
1930–1988
![Marshall B. Rosenberg photo]()
American psychologist
1934–2015
![Tzvetan Todorov photo]()
Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary cr…
1939–2017
![John Perry Barlow photo]()
American poet and essayist
1947–2018
![Hans Rosling photo]()
Swedish medical doctor, academic, statistician and public s…
1948–2017
![Li Wenliang photo]()
Chinese physician known for warning about the coronavirus i…
1986–2020
