Anniversaries 7 May
Birth
![Plato photo]()
Classical Greek philosopher
-427–-347 BC
![Joseph Joubert photo]()
French moralist and essayist
1754–1824
![Robert Browning photo]()
English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
1812–1889
![Johannes Brahms photo]()
German composer and pianist
1833–1897
![Joseph Gurney Cannon photo]()
American politician
1836–1926
![Gustave Le Bon photo]()
French psychologist
1841–1931
![Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery photo]()
British politician
1847–1929
![Rabindranath Tagore photo]()
Bengali polymath
1861–1941
![Margaret Barber photo]()
English Christian writer
1869–1901
![Pandurang Vaman Kane photo]()
Indian Indologist and Sanskrit scholar
1880–1972
![Archibald Macleish photo]()
American poet and Librarian of Congress
1892–1982
![Josip Broz Tito photo]()
Yugoslav revolutionary and statesman
1892–1980
![Edwin H. Land photo]()
American scientist and inventor
1909–1991
![Taubie Kushlick photo]()
South African actor and director
1910–1991
![Ishirō Honda photo]()
Japanese film director
1911–1993
![Anne Baxter photo]()
American actress
1923–1985
![Ruth Prawer Jhabvala photo]()
German-born British-American author
1927–2013
![Gene Wolfe photo]()
American science fiction and fantasy writer
1931–2019
![Angela Carter photo]()
English novelist
1940–1992
![Orest Subtelny photo]()
Canadian-Ukrainian historian
1941–2016
![Michael Rosen photo]()
British children's writer
1946
![Deborah Wiles photo]()
American children's writer
1953
![Anne Dudley photo]()
English composer and pop musician
1956
![Traci Lords photo]()
American mainstream and pornographic actress, producer, fil…
1968
![Matt Gaetz photo]()
American politician and member of the United States House o…
1982
Death
![Antonio Salieri photo]()
Italian classical composer and conductor
1750–1825
![Caspar David Friedrich photo]()
Swedish painter
1774–1840
![Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux photo]()
English barrister, politician, and Lord Chancellor of Great…
1778–1868
![James Nasmyth photo]()
Scottish mechanical engineer and inventor
1808–1890
![Salmon P. Chase photo]()
Chief Justice of the United States
1808–1873
![William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme photo]()
English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician
1851–1925
![James Frazer photo]()
Scottish social anthropologist
1854–1941
![Elbert Hubbard photo]()
American writer, publisher, artist, and philosopher fue el …
1856–1915
![Alice Moore Hubbard photo]()
American activist
1861–1915
![Josef Hoffmann photo]()
Austrian architect and product designer
1870–1956
![Clement Greenberg photo]()
American writer and artist
1909–1994
![Albert Meltzer photo]()
British anarchist
1920–1996
![Ray Harryhausen photo]()
American animator
1920–2013
![Willard Boyle photo]()
Canadian physicist and inventor
1924–2011
![Allan McLeod Cormack photo]()
American physicist
1924–1998
![Jean Vanier photo]()
Canadian humanitarian
1928–2019
![Rigby Graham photo]()
British author and illustrator
1931–2015
![Kevyn Aucoin photo]()
American make-up artist and photographer
1962–2002
