Today anniversaries
Birth
![Proclus photo]()
Greek philosopher
412–485
![Robert Burton photo]()
English scholar
1577–1640
![Louis Auguste Blanqui photo]()
French socialist and political activist
1805–1881
![John Ruskin photo]()
English writer and art critic
1819–1900
![William T. Sherman photo]()
American General, businessman, educator, and author.
1820–1891
![Jules Verne photo]()
French novelist, poet and playwright
1828–1905
![Kate Chopin photo]()
American author
1850–1904
![Martin Buber photo]()
German Jewish Existentialist philosopher and theologian
1878–1965
![Joseph Alois Schumpeter photo]()
Austrian economist
1883–1950
![Edith Evans photo]()
British actress
1888–1976
![Giuseppe Ungaretti photo]()
poet and writer from Italy
1888–1970
![Maurice Samuel photo]()
novelist, translator and lecturer
1895–1972
![Zakir Hussain (politician) photo]()
3rd President of India
1897–1969
![Tunku Abdul Rahman photo]()
Malaysian politician
1903–1990
![Bill Finger photo]()
American comic strip and comic book writer
1914–1974
![Evgeny Lifshitz photo]()
Soviet physicist
1915–1985
![Lana Turner photo]()
American actress
1921–1995
![Neal Cassady photo]()
American cultural figure of 1950s and 1960s
1926–1968
![John Williams photo]()
American composer, conductor and pianist
1932
![Bruce Wilshire photo]()
American philosopher
1932–2015
![Ted Koppel photo]()
television journalist
1940
![Paul Hawken photo]()
American environmentalist
1946
![John Grisham photo]()
American lawyer, politician, and author
1955
![Marina Silva photo]()
Brazilian environmentalist and politician
1958
![Benigno Aquino III photo]()
15th President of the Philippines (2010-2016)
1960
![Luigi Zingales photo]()
Professor at University of Chicago
1963
![Trinny Woodall photo]()
English fashion advisor and designer, television presenter …
1964
![Mary Robinette Kowal photo]()
American writer and puppeteer
1969
![Yuan Tengfei photo]()
history teacher in Beijing, China
1972
![Matkai Burmaster photo]()
Film Director and Co-Founder of the Fearless streaming serv…
1992
Death
![Al-Maqrizi photo]()
Egyptian Arab historian
1364–1445
![Baldassarre Castiglione photo]()
Italian Renaissance author (1478-1529)
1478–1529
![Mary, Queen of Scots photo]()
Scottish monarch and queen consort of France
1542–1587
![David Strauss photo]()
German theologian
1808–1874
![Peter Kropotkin photo]()
Russian zoologist, evolutionary theorist, philosopher, scie…
1842–1921
![William Bateson photo]()
British geneticist and biologist
1861–1926
![Josephine Bakhita photo]()
Italian saint and former slave
1868–1947
![Paul Sophus Epstein photo]()
Russian-American mathematician
1883–1966
![Zechariah Chafee photo]()
American judicial philosopher and civil libertarian
1885–1957
![Hermann Rauschning photo]()
German politician
1887–1982
![Kanaiyalal Maneklal Munshi photo]()
Indian independence movement activist, politician, writer a…
1887–1971
![Fritz Todt photo]()
German engineer and senior Nazi figure
1891–1942
![Fritz Zwicky photo]()
Swiss astronomer
1898–1974
![Halldór Laxness photo]()
Icelandic author
1902–1998
![Aaron Siskind photo]()
American photographer
1903–1991
![John Von Neumann photo]()
Hungarian-American mathematician and polymath
1903–1957
![Phyllis A. Whitney photo]()
American writer
1903–2008
![J. L. Austin photo]()
English philosopher
1911–1960
![Enoch Powell photo]()
British politician
1912–1998
![Akira Ifukube photo]()
Japanese composer
1914–2006
![Rousas John Rushdoony photo]()
American theologian
1916–2001
![Ian Stevenson photo]()
Canadian parapsychologist, reincarnation researcher
1918–2007
![Iris Murdoch photo]()
British writer and philosopher
1919–1999
![Robert Jastrow photo]()
American astronomer
1925–2008
![Lepa Radić photo]()
Serbian partisan
1925–1943
![Harriett Woods photo]()
American politician
1927–2007
![Julian Simon photo]()
American economist
1932–1998
![Ron McLarty photo]()
American actor and writer
1947–2020
![Anna Nicole Smith photo]()
American model, actress, and television personality
1967–2007
