Anniversaries 8 April
Birth
![Gautama Buddha photo]()
philosopher, reformer and the founder of Buddhism
-563–-483 BC
![David Rittenhouse photo]()
American astronomer
1732–1796
![Alfred Bunn photo]()
British businessman, librettist
1796–1860
![Alfred von Waldersee photo]()
Prussian Field Marshal
1832–1904
![Frederick Brotherton Meyer photo]()
English Baptist pastor and evangelist
1847–1929
![Edmund Husserl photo]()
German philosopher, known as the father of phenomenology
1859–1938
![Sergei Zubatov photo]()
Russian politician
1864–1917
![Arthur Streeton photo]()
Australian artist
1867–1943
![Albert I of Belgium photo]()
third King of the Belgians
1875–1934
![Hope Mirrlees photo]()
British translator, poet and novelist
1887–1978
![Mary Pickford photo]()
Canadian-American actress
1892–1979
![Yip Harburg photo]()
American song lyricist
1896–1981
![Yves Congar photo]()
Dominican priest and cardinal
1904–1995
![John Hicks photo]()
British economist
1904–1989
![John Fante photo]()
1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screen…
1909–1983
![Emil M. Cioran photo]()
Romanian philosopher and essayist
1911–1995
![Ian Smith photo]()
Prime Minister of Rhodesia
1919–2007
![Jürgen Moltmann photo]()
German Reformed theologian
1926
![Jacques Brel photo]()
Belgian singer-songwriter
1929–1978
![Oscar Zeta Acosta photo]()
American attorney, politician, novelist and activist
1935–1974
![Kofi Annan photo]()
7th Secretary-General of the United Nations
1938–2018
![Lim Keng Yaik photo]()
Minister of Energy, Water and Member of ParliamentCommunica…
1939–2012
![Vivienne Westwood photo]()
English fashion designer and businesswoman
1941–2022
![Tony Banks photo]()
British politician
1942–2006
![Tom DeLay photo]()
American Republican politician
1947
![Robert T. Kiyosaki photo]()
American finance author , investor
1947
![Eva Heller photo]()
German writer (1948-2008)
1948–2008
![Barbara Kingsolver photo]()
American author, poet and essayist
1955
![Andrej Plenković photo]()
Prime Minister of Croatia
1970
![Bryan Caplan photo]()
American political scientist
1971
![Nnedi Okorafor photo]()
Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction
1974
![Ezra Koenig photo]()
American rock musician
1984
Death
![Wilhelm Von Humboldt photo]()
German (Prussian) philosopher, government functionary, dipl…
1767–1835
![William Augustus Muhlenberg photo]()
United States Anglican Episcopal clergyman
1796–1877
![Susanna Moodie photo]()
Canadian writer
1803–1885
![Helena Modjeska photo]()
Polish-American actress
1840–1909
![Langdon Smith photo]()
American journalist
1858–1908
![Pablo Picasso photo]()
Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stag…
1881–1973
![George Jean Nathan photo]()
American drama critic and magazine editor
1882–1958
![Vaslav Nijinsky photo]()
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
1889–1950
![Omar Bradley photo]()
United States Army field commander during World War II
1893–1981
![David Noel Freedman photo]()
American biblical scholar, author, editor, archaeologist (1…
1922–2008
![Valentine Telegdi photo]()
American physicist
1922–2006
![Antony Flew photo]()
British analytic and evidentialist philosopher
1923–2010
![Karlheinz Deschner photo]()
German writer and activist
1924–2014
![Margaret Thatcher photo]()
British stateswoman and politician
1925–2013
![Sol LeWitt photo]()
American artist
1928–2007
![Alexander Dalgarno photo]()
British physicist
1928–2015
![Jay R. Galbraith photo]()
American business theorist
1939–2014
![Laura Nyro photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1947–1997
![Breece D'J Pancake photo]()
American writer
1952–1979
![Ben Johnson (sprinter) photo]()
Canadian sprinter
1961–1996
![Adrianne Wadewitz photo]()
academic and Wikipedian
1977–2014
