Anniversaries 7 August
Birth
![Joseph Rodman Drake photo]()
Early American poet
1795–1820
![Tryon Edwards photo]()
American theologian
1809–1894
![Frederic William Farrar photo]()
British clergyman and author
1831–1903
![Alice James photo]()
American diarist
1848–1892
![Edward de Veaux Morrell photo]()
American politician
1863–1917
![Herman Vandenburg Ames photo]()
American author and academic
1865–1935
![Hermann Rauschning photo]()
German politician
1887–1982
![Léon Brillouin photo]()
French physicist
1889–1969
![Margaret Way photo]()
Australian romance fiction writer
1900
![Konrad Heiden photo]()
German journalist and historian
1901–1966
![Ralph Bunche photo]()
American diplomat
1904–1971
![John R. P. French photo]()
American psychologist
1913–1995
![Betsy Byars photo]()
American children's writer
1928
![James Randi photo]()
Canadian-American stage magician and scientific skeptic
1928
![Jerry Pournelle photo]()
American science fiction writer and journalist
1933–2017
![Elinor Ostrom photo]()
American political economist
1933–2012
![Garrison Keillor photo]()
American radio host and writer
1942
![Caetano Veloso photo]()
Brazilian composer, singer, guitarist, writer, and politica…
1942
![Robert Mueller photo]()
Sixth director of the FBI; American attorney
1944
![Ed Seykota photo]()
American commodities trader
1946
![Sofia Rotaru photo]()
Ukrainain soviet and Ukrainian musician, singer, songwriter…
1947
![Greg Chappell photo]()
Australian cricketer
1948
![Walid Jumblatt photo]()
Leader of the Progressive Socialist Party of Lebanon
1949
![Anne Fadiman photo]()
American essayist, journalist and magazine editor
1953
![Christiana Figueres photo]()
Costa Rican politician
1956
![Alberto Salazar photo]()
American track coach and long-distance runner born in Cuba
1958
![Bruce Dickinson photo]()
English musician, airline pilot, and broadcaster
1958
![John Horgan photo]()
36th Premier of British Columbia
1959
![Kristen Hersh photo]()
American rock singer
1966
![Jimmy Wales photo]()
Wikipedia co-founder and American Internet entrepreneur
1966
![Lynn Strait photo]()
American musician
1968–1998
![Bruce Friedrich photo]()
Member of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
1969
![Charlize Theron photo]()
film actress and producer, former fashion model
1975
![Jacob Tobia photo]()
american LGBTIQ activist
1991
Death
![Jane Brereton photo]()
Welsh writer (b. Flintshire 1685)
1685–1740
![Jöns Jacob Berzelius photo]()
Swedish chemist
1779–1848
![Wilhelm Liebknecht photo]()
German socialist politician
1826–1900
![Elizabeth Chase Allen photo]()
American author, journalist, poet
1832–1911
![Rabindranath Tagore photo]()
Bengali polymath
1861–1941
![Virchand Gandhi photo]()
Jain scholar who represented Jainism at the first World Par…
1864–1901
![Basil Hood photo]()
British dramatist and army officer
1864–1917
![Frank Buchman photo]()
Evangelical theologist
1878–1961
![Janusz Korczak photo]()
Polish physician and writer
1878–1942
![Karunanidhi photo]()
Indian politician who has served as Chief Minister of Tamil…
1924–2018
![Brigid Brophy photo]()
novelist, essayist
1929–1995
![Gerald M. Weinberg photo]()
American computer scientist
1933–2018
![Kary Mullis photo]()
American biochemist
1944–2019
![Jonathan P. Jackson photo]()
American kidnapper
1953–1970
