Anniversaries 8 October
Birth
![Harriet Taylor Mill photo]()
British philosopher
1807–1858
![Edmund Clarence Stedman photo]()
American poet, critic, and essayist
1833–1908
![John Hay photo]()
American statesman, diplomat, author and journalist
1838–1905
![Rose Scott photo]()
Australian suffragist
1847–1925
![John Cowper Powys photo]()
British writer, lecturer and philosopher
1872–1963
![Paul Lewis Anderson photo]()
American photographer and writer
1880–1956
![Mark Oliphant photo]()
Governor of South Australia (1971-76)
1901–2000
![John W. Gardner photo]()
American politician
1912–2002
![Bob Pierce photo]()
American evangelical charity founder
1914–1978
![Frank Herbert photo]()
American writer
1920–1986
![Louise L. Hay photo]()
American writer
1926–2017
![Charles V. Willie photo]()
American sociologist
1927
![Jim Elliot photo]()
Martyred Christian missionary to Ecuador
1927–1956
![Clayton Williams photo]()
American businessman
1931–2020
![Jay W. Lorsch photo]()
American organizational theorist
1932
![Jesse Jackson photo]()
African-American civil rights activist and politician
1941
![Nguyen Minh Triet photo]()
President of Vietnam
1942
![R.L. Stine photo]()
American writer and producer
1943
![Chevy Chase photo]()
American comedian, writer, and television and film actor
1943
![William Broyles Jr. photo]()
American screenwriter
1944
![Gottfried Helnwein photo]()
Austrian photographer and painter
1948
![Chen Shui-tsai photo]()
Magistrate of Kinmen County
1948
![Shannon C. Stimson photo]()
American political theorist
1951
![Tom Price (U.S. politician) photo]()
former United States Secretary of Health and Human Services…
1954
![Darrell Hammond photo]()
American actor and comedian
1955
![Chang Ching-sen photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1959
![Guy P. Harrison photo]()
American skeptic author
1963
![Kai Ryssdal photo]()
Radio host, United States Navy officer
1963
![Matt Damon photo]()
American actor, screenwriter, and producer
1970
Death
![Ennius photo]()
Roman writer
-239–-169 BC
![Yongzheng Emperor photo]()
Qing Dynasty emperor
1678–1735
![Henry Fielding photo]()
English novelist and dramatist
1707–1754
![John Hancock photo]()
American Patriot and statesman during the American Revoluti…
1737–1793
![Vittorio Alfieri photo]()
Italian dramatist and poet
1749–1803
![Richard Whately photo]()
English rhetorician, logician, economist, and theologian
1787–1863
![Franklin Pierce photo]()
American politician, 14th President of the United States (i…
1804–1869
![George du Maurier photo]()
French-British cartoonist and author
1834–1896
![Adelaide Crapsey photo]()
American writer
1878–1914
![William Trufant Foster photo]()
American economist
1879–1950
![Clement Attlee photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1883–1967
![Gabriel Marcel photo]()
French philosopher, playwright, music critic and leading Ch…
1889–1973
![Wendell Willkie photo]()
American businessman
1892–1944
![Willy Brandt photo]()
German social-democratic politician; Chancellor of the Fede…
1913–1992
![Nur Muhammad Taraki photo]()
Prime Minister of Afghanistan
1917–1979
![Constantine Andreou photo]()
painter and Sculptor
1917–2007
![Harvey Dwight Dash photo]()
American art educator
1924–2002
![Zilpha Keatley Snyder photo]()
American writer of children's fiction
1927–2014
![Varsha Bhosle photo]()
Singer, Columnist
1956–2012
