Anniversaries 8 May
Birth
![Muhammad al-Baqir photo]()
fifth of the Twelve Shia Imams
677–733
![Claude Louis Hector de Villars photo]()
Marshal General of France
1653–1734
![Beilby Porteus photo]()
Bishop of Chester; Bishop of London
1731–1809
![John Vianney photo]()
French priest and saint
1786–1859
![François Mignet photo]()
French historian and journalist
1796–1884
![William Henry Vanderbilt photo]()
American philanthropist
1821–1885
![Henry Dunant photo]()
Swiss businessman and founder of the Red Cross
1828–1910
![Charbel Makhlouf photo]()
Lebanese Maronite monk and saint
1828–1898
![Fern Hobbs photo]()
American lawyer
1883–1964
![Harry Truman photo]()
American politician, 33rd president of the United States (i…
1884–1972
![William Darling (politician) photo]()
Scottish politician
1885–1962
![Arnold Hauser photo]()
Hungarian art historian
1892–1978
![Benjamin Graham photo]()
American investor
1894–1976
![Edmund Wilson photo]()
American writer, literary and social critic, and noted man …
1895–1972
![Fulton J. Sheen photo]()
Catholic bishop and television presenter
1895–1979
![Friedrich Hayek photo]()
Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economic…
1899–1992
![George Woodcock photo]()
Canadian writer of political biography and history, an anar…
1912–1995
![Saima Harmaja photo]()
Finnish poet and writer
1913–1937
![Jens Risom photo]()
American furniture designer
1916–2016
![Chinmayananda Saraswati photo]()
Indian spiritual teacher
1916–1993
![Stanislav Andreski photo]()
Polish-British sociologist
1919–2007
![Leon Festinger photo]()
American psychologist
1919–1989
![Saul Bass photo]()
American graphic designer and filmmaker
1920–1996
![David Attenborough photo]()
British broadcaster and naturalist
1926
![Jane Roberts photo]()
American Writer
1929–1984
![H. Dieter Zeh photo]()
German physicist
1932–2018
![Ricky Nelson photo]()
American musician (1940-1985)
1940–1985
![Peter Benchley photo]()
American author and screenwriter
1940–2006
![James Traficant photo]()
Ohio politician
1941–2014
![Pablo Galimberti photo]()
Roman Catholic bishop of Salto
1941
![Meles Zenawi photo]()
Ethiopian politician; Prime Minister of Ethiopia
1955–2012
![Bill de Blasio photo]()
American politician and mayor of New York City
1961
![Michael Azerrad photo]()
American musician and writer
1961
![Fu Kun-chi photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1962
![Keiji Inafune photo]()
Japanese video game designer
1965
![Naomi Klein photo]()
Canadian author and activist
1970
![Brian Tyler photo]()
American composer, producer, conductor, and film producer
1972
![Darren Hayes photo]()
Australian singer-songwriter
1972
![Michael Simms (software developer) photo]()
Video game programmer
1973
![Hiromu Arakawa photo]()
award winning Japanese manga artist
1973
![Josie Maran photo]()
American model and actress
1978
![Carola Rackete photo]()
German merchant navy captain
1988
Death
![Luigi Cornaro photo]()
Italian philosopher
1484–1566
![Peter Heylin photo]()
English ecclesiastic and author of polemical, historical, p…
1599–1662
![Colin Mackenzie photo]()
Surveyor General of India
1754–1821
![John Stuart Mill photo]()
British philosopher and political economist
1806–1873
![Jones Very photo]()
American poet and essayist
1813–1880
![Enoch Fitch Burr photo]()
American astronomer
1818–1907
![Gustave Flaubert photo]()
French writer (1821–1880)
1821–1880
![Henry Jenner photo]()
British Celticist
1848–1934
![Frederick York Powell photo]()
British historian
1850–1904
![Harry Gordon Selfridge photo]()
America born English businessman
1858–1947
![Cassius Jackson Keyser photo]()
American mathematician and journalist of pronounced philoso…
1862–1947
![Charles Cooley photo]()
American sociologist
1864–1929
![Oswald Spengler photo]()
German historian and philosopher
1880–1936
![Alexander Vandegrift photo]()
United States Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient and Com…
1887–1973
![Talcott Parsons photo]()
American sociologist
1902–1979
![Robert A. Heinlein photo]()
American science fiction author
1907–1988
![John Fante photo]()
1909–1983; American novelist, short story writer and screen…
1909–1983
![Theodore Sturgeon photo]()
American speculative fiction writer
1918–1985
![Mordechai Anielewicz photo]()
Leader of the Jewish Combat Organization
1919–1943
![Géza Vermès photo]()
British scholar
1924–2013
![Maurice Sendak photo]()
American illustrator and writer of children's books
1928–2012
![Jim Fowler photo]()
American zoologist
1930–2019
![Dallas Willard photo]()
American philosopher
1935–2013
![Neil Bogart photo]()
American music executive
1943–1982
![Gilles Villeneuve photo]()
Canadian racecar driver
1950–1982
