Anniversaries 8 November
Birth
![Musa al-Kadhim photo]()
Seventh of the Twelve Imams and regarded by Sunnis as a ren…
745–799
![Julian of Norwich photo]()
English theologian and anchoress
1342–1416
![John Dickinson photo]()
American politician
1732–1808
![Richard Cecil (clergyman) photo]()
British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer
1748–1810
![Pierre Bosquet photo]()
Marshal of France
1810–1861
![Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton photo]()
English statesman and poet
1831–1891
![Bram Stoker photo]()
Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for…
1847–1912
![Gottlob Frege photo]()
mathematician, logician, philosopher
1848–1925
![A.C. Cuza photo]()
Romanian politician
1857–1947
![Charles Demuth photo]()
American painter
1883–1935
![Tomoyuki Yamashita photo]()
general in the Imperial Japanese Army
1885–1946
![Dorothy Day photo]()
Social activist
1897–1980
![Margaret Mitchell photo]()
American author and journalist
1900–1949
![Martha Gellhorn photo]()
journalist from the United States
1908–1998
![George Dantzig photo]()
American mathematician
1914–2005
![Peter Weiss photo]()
Swedish-German playwright and author
1916–1982
![Hermann Zapf photo]()
German type-designer, calligrapher, author and artist
1918–2015
![P. L. Deshpande photo]()
Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist
1919–2000
![Jürg Niehans photo]()
Swiss economist
1919–2007
![Christiaan Barnard photo]()
South-African physician
1922–2001
![Jack Kilby photo]()
American electrical engineer
1923–2005
![Dmitry Yazov photo]()
Soviet minister of defence
1924–2020
![Nguyen Khanh photo]()
South Vietnamese soldier
1927–2013
![Ken Dodd photo]()
English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
1927–2018
![Jona Senilagakali photo]()
Prime Minister of Fiji
1929–2011
![George Maciunas photo]()
Lithuanian artist
1931–1978
![Ben Bova photo]()
American science fiction and science writer
1932
![Huang Kun-huei photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1936
![Nancy Kopell photo]()
American mathematician
1942
![Lou Leon Guerrero photo]()
Guamanian politician
1950
![Alfre Woodard photo]()
American film, stage, and television actress
1952
![Rickie Lee Jones photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1954
![Kazuo Ishiguro photo]()
Japanese-born British author
1954
![Caroline Knapp photo]()
American writer
1959–2002
![Gordon Ramsay photo]()
British chef, writer and TV presenter
1966
![Masashi Kishimoto photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1974
![Brandon Mull photo]()
American fiction writer
1974
![Jack Osbourne photo]()
Son of Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
1985
![Aaron Swartz photo]()
computer programmer and internet-political activist
1986–2013
Death
![Duns Scotus photo]()
Scottish Franciscan friar, philosopher and Catholic blessed
1265–1308
![John Milton photo]()
English epic poet
1608–1674
![Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière photo]()
French revolutionary
1754–1793
![Edward Dorr Griffin photo]()
American academic administrator
1770–1837
![George Peacock photo]()
Scottish mathematician
1791–1858
![César Franck photo]()
Belgian-French composer, organist and music teacher
1822–1890
![Francis Parkman photo]()
American historian
1823–1893
![Anton Rubinstein photo]()
Russian pianist, composer and conductor
1829–1894
![Abraham Kuyper photo]()
Dutch politician
1837–1920
![Napoleon Hill photo]()
American author
1883–1970
![Vyacheslav Molotov photo]()
Soviet politician and diplomat
1890–1986
![Milutin Bojić photo]()
Serbian playwright and poet (1892-1917)
1892–1917
![Harold Innis photo]()
Canadian professor of political economy
1894–1952
![Eli Siegel photo]()
Latvian-American poet, philosopher
1902–1978
![Anya Seton photo]()
American writer
1904–1990
![Peter Laslett photo]()
English historian
1915–2001
![Jack Levine photo]()
American artist
1915–2010
![Vitaly Ginzburg photo]()
Russian Physicist
1916–2009
![Kingman Brewster, Jr. photo]()
American diplomat
1919–1988
![Emilio Massera photo]()
Argentine military officer
1925–2010
![Umberto Veronesi photo]()
Italian oncologist and politician
1925–2016
![Michael O'Donoghue photo]()
American actor and writer
1940–1994
