Anniversaries 7 April
Birth
![John Sheffield, 1st Duke of Buckingham and Normanby photo]()
English poet and notable Tory politician of the late Stuart…
1648–1721
![Hugh Blair photo]()
British philosopher
1718–1800
![Charles Burney photo]()
English music historian
1726–1814
![William Wordsworth photo]()
English Romantic poet
1770–1850
![Charles Fourier photo]()
French utopian socialist and philosopher
1772–1837
![William Ellery Channing photo]()
United States Unitarian clergyman
1780–1842
![Gustav Landauer photo]()
German anarchist
1870–1919
![Epifanio de los Santos photo]()
Filipino politician
1871–1928
![John McGraw photo]()
American baseball player, manager
1873–1934
![Gino Severini photo]()
Italian painter
1883–1966
![Bronisław Malinowski photo]()
Polish anthropologist and ethnographer based in England and…
1884–1942
![Gabriela Mistral photo]()
Chilean poet-diplomat, writer, educator and feminist.
1889–1957
![David Low (cartoonist) photo]()
British cartoonist
1891–1963
![A. A. Thomson photo]()
cricketer and author
1894–1968
![Walter Winchell photo]()
American gossip journalist
1897–1972
![Lê Duẩn photo]()
former General Secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam
1907–1986
![Harry Hay photo]()
American gay rights activist
1912–2002
![Henry Kuttner photo]()
American author
1915–1958
![Billie Holiday photo]()
American jazz singer and songwriter
1915–1959
![Albert O. Hirschman photo]()
German-American economist; member of the French Resistance
1915–2012
![Ravi Shankar photo]()
Indian musician and sitar player
1920–2012
![Roy Amara photo]()
American researcher, scientist
1925–2007
![Edward S. Herman photo]()
American journalist
1925–2017
![Hugh Iltis photo]()
Czech-American botanist and environmentalist
1925–2016
![James Garner photo]()
American film and television actor
1928–2014
![Donald Barthelme photo]()
American writer, editor, and professor
1931–1989
![Daniel Ellsberg photo]()
American economist and whistleblower
1931
![Shantananda Saraswati photo]()
Hindu spiritual teacher
1934–2005
![Jerry Brown photo]()
American politician/lawyer and current governor of Californ…
1938
![David Frost photo]()
English journalist, comedian, writer, media personality and…
1939–2013
![Gerhard Schröder photo]()
German politician (SPD)
1944
![David Clark photo]()
American computer scientist
1944
![Hung Hsiu-chu photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1948
![Jackie Chan photo]()
Hong Kong actor and martial artist
1954
![Bill Whittle photo]()
author, director, screenwriter, editor
1959
![Russell Crowe photo]()
New Zealand-born Australian actor, film producer and musici…
1964
Death
![Jesus photo]()
Jewish preacher and religious leader, central figure of Chr…
-7–30 BC
![El Greco photo]()
Greek painter, sculptor and architect
1541–1614
![William Davenant photo]()
English poet and playwright
1606–1668
![Toussaint Louverture photo]()
Leader of the Haitian Revolution
1743–1803
![William Godwin photo]()
English journalist, political philosopher and novelist
1756–1836
![William Lisle Bowles photo]()
English priest, poet and critic
1762–1850
![P.T. Barnum photo]()
American showman and businessman
1810–1891
![Thomas D'Arcy McGee photo]()
Canadian politician
1825–1868
![A. V. Dicey photo]()
British jurist and constitutional theorist
1835–1922
![Henry Ford photo]()
American industrialist
1863–1947
![Alexander Bogdanov photo]()
Physician, philosopher, writer
1873–1928
![George S. Clason photo]()
British businessman and writer
1874–1957
![Theda Bara photo]()
Silent film actress
1885–1955
![Carl Schmitt photo]()
German jurist, political theorist and professor of law
1888–1985
![Maxwell Maltz photo]()
Plastic surgeon, self-help author
1889–1975
![Elizabeth Bibesco photo]()
writer, actress; Romanian princess
1897–1945
![Jim Thompson photo]()
American writer
1906–1977
![Robert Aaron Gordon photo]()
American economist
1908–1978
![Golo Mann photo]()
German historian
1909–1994
![Leonid Kantorovich photo]()
Russian mathematician
1912–1986
![Miss Read photo]()
English novelist
1913–2012
![Lilly Pulitzer photo]()
American fashion designer
1931–2013
![Johnny Hart photo]()
American cartoonist
1931–2007
![Jim Clark photo]()
British racecar driver
1936–1968
![John Prine photo]()
American country singer/songwriter
1946–2020
![Yvonne Vera photo]()
Zimbabwean writer
1964–2005
![Peaches Geldof photo]()
British journalist, television presenter and model
1989–2014
