Anniversaries 8 July
Birth
![Jean De La Fontaine photo]()
French poet, fabulist and writer.
1621–1695
![Lucy Mack Smith photo]()
American religious leader
1775–1856
![Fitz-Greene Halleck photo]()
American writer
1790–1867
![Joseph Chamberlain photo]()
British businessman, politician, and statesman
1836–1914
![John D. Rockefeller photo]()
American business magnate and philanthropist
1839–1937
![Alfred Binet photo]()
French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intell…
1857–1911
![Daniel Salamanca photo]()
President of Bolivia (1863-1935)
1863–1935
![William Vaughn Moody photo]()
United States dramatist and poet
1869–1910
![Percy Grainger photo]()
Australian composer, arranger and pianist
1882–1961
![Ernst Bloch photo]()
German philosopher
1885–1977
![Stanton Macdonald-Wright photo]()
American artist
1890–1973
![Richard Aldington photo]()
English writer and poet
1892–1962
![Anirvan photo]()
Indian Hindu philosopher
1896–1978
![Austin Bradford Hill photo]()
English epidemiologist and statistician
1897–1991
![Alec Waugh photo]()
British novelist
1898–1981
![George Antheil photo]()
American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor
1900–1959
![Philip Johnson photo]()
American architect
1906–2005
![Albert Caraco photo]()
French-Uruguayan philosopher
1919–1971
![John Money photo]()
psychologist, sexologist and author
1921–2006
![Myles Rudge photo]()
English songwriter and scriptwriter
1926–2007
![Elisabeth Kübler-Ross photo]()
American psychiatrist
1926–2004
![John Dingell photo]()
American politician
1926–2019
![Frank Slay photo]()
American record producer
1930–2017
![Kurien Kunnumpuram photo]()
Indian theologian
1931–2018
![Marty Feldman photo]()
British actor and comedian
1934–1982
![Anna Quindlen photo]()
journalist, Novelist
1952
![A. Whitney Brown photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1952
![Jack Lambert photo]()
American football player
1952
![Isabelo Caiban Abarquez photo]()
Filipino Roman Catholic priest
1959
![Andrew Fletcher photo]()
English musician, member of Depeche Mode
1961–2022
![Toby Keith photo]()
American country music singer and actor
1961
![George Fisher (musician) photo]()
vocalist for Cannibal Corpse
1970
![Beck photo]()
American Musician (b.1970)
1970
![TotalBiscuit photo]()
British game commentator
1984–2018
Death
![Christiaan Huygens photo]()
Dutch mathematician and natural philosopher
1629–1695
![Robert South photo]()
English theologian
1634–1716
![Percy Bysshe Shelley photo]()
English Romantic poet
1792–1822
![H. Havelock Ellis photo]()
British physician, writer, and social reformer
1859–1939
![Генри Хэвлок Эллис photo]()
British physician, writer, and social reformer
1859–1939
![Anthony Hope photo]()
English novelist and playwright
1863–1933
![Hyman George Rickover photo]()
United States admiral
1900–1986
![Shin'ichirō Tomonaga photo]()
Japanese physicist
1906–1979
![Flower A. Newhouse photo]()
American mystic
1909–1994
![Kim Il-sung photo]()
President of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
1912–1994
![John Marks Templeton photo]()
stock investor, businessman and philanthropist
1912–2008
![Robert Burns Woodward photo]()
American chemist
1917–1979
![William H. McNeill photo]()
Canadian historian
1917–2016
![Howard Raiffa photo]()
American academic
1924–2016
![Chandra Shekhar photo]()
Indian politician
1927–2007
![Abdul Sattar Edhi photo]()
Pakistani philanthropist, social activist, ascetic and huma…
1928–2016
![Jack B. Sowards photo]()
American screenwriter
1929–2007
![FM-2030 photo]()
author, teacher, transhumanist philosopher, futurist and co…
1930–2000
![Paula Danziger photo]()
American children's writer
1945–2004
![Vanna Bonta photo]()
Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art…
1958–2014
