Anniversaries 8 September
Birth
![Gregory St. Vincent photo]()
Jesuit, mathematician
1584–1667
![Pierre Polinière photo]()
French physicist
1671–1734
![John Martin photo]()
(1812-1875) Irish nationalist activist
1812–1875
![Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain photo]()
Union Army general and Medal of Honor recipient
1828–1914
![Leonard Trelawny Hobhouse photo]()
British sociologist
1864–1929
![David O. McKay photo]()
President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
1873–1970
![Siegfried Sassoon photo]()
English poet, diarist and memoirist
1886–1967
![Swami Sivananda photo]()
Indian philosopher
1887–1963
![Robert A. Taft photo]()
politician from the United States, son of 27th US President…
1889–1953
![Sara García photo]()
Mexican actress
1895–1980
![Hendrik Verwoerd photo]()
Prime Minister of South Africa from 1958 until his assassin…
1901–1966
![James Harvey Young photo]()
American historian
1915–2006
![Derek Barton photo]()
English organic chemist
1918–1998
![Harry Secombe photo]()
British entertainer
1921–2001
![Lyndon LaRouche photo]()
American political activist and founder of the LaRouche mov…
1922–2019
![Peter Sellers photo]()
British film actor, comedian and singer
1925–1980
![Patsy Cline photo]()
American country music singer
1932–1963
![Sam Nunn photo]()
American lawyer and politician
1938
![Bernie Sanders photo]()
American politician, senator for Vermont
1941
![Michael Lai photo]()
Taiwanese virologist (born 1942)
1942
![Ann Beattie photo]()
Short story writer, novelist, professor
1947
![Philip Naameh photo]()
Ghanaian Catholic archbishop
1948
![James Mattis photo]()
26th and current United States Secretary of Defense; United…
1950
![John McDonnell photo]()
British politician (born 1951)
1951
![David R. Ellis photo]()
American film director and actor
1952–2013
![Michael Shermer photo]()
American science writer
1954
![Valery Gerasimov photo]()
chief of the General Staff of the armed forces of the Russi…
1955
![Stefano Casiraghi photo]()
Italian businessman
1960–1990
![Aimee Mann photo]()
American indie rock singer-songwriter (born 1960)
1960
![Corrado Maria Daclon photo]()
Italian journalist and scientist
1963
![Michael Johns photo]()
American businessman
1964
![Chad Zielinski photo]()
Catholic bishop in the United States
1964
![Félicien Ntambue Kasembe photo]()
roman-catholic clergyman
1970
![Vico C photo]()
American rapper and singer of Puerto Rican descent
1971
![Pink (singer) photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1979
![Wiz Khalifa photo]()
American rapper and actor
1987
![Tyler Eifert photo]()
American football player, tight end
1990
![Park So-dam photo]()
South Korean actress
1991
Death
![Robert Fludd photo]()
British mathematician and astrologer
1574–1637
![Ann Lee photo]()
English Shaker leader
1736–1784
![Hermann von Helmholtz photo]()
physicist and physiologist
1821–1894
![George C. Lorimer photo]()
American minister
1838–1904
![Christian von Ehrenfels photo]()
Austrian philosopher
1859–1932
![Richard Strauss photo]()
German composer and orchestra director
1864–1949
![Alexandra David-Néel photo]()
French explorer, spiritualist, Buddhist, anarchist and writ…
1868–1969
![André Derain photo]()
French painter and engraver
1880–1954
![Fred M. Vinson photo]()
American politician and Supreme Court justice
1890–1953
![Leni Riefenstahl photo]()
German film director, photographer, actress and dancer
1902–2003
![Julius Fučík (journalist) photo]()
Czech journalist and revolutionary
1903–1943
![William Barrett (philosopher) photo]()
American academic
1913–1992
![Herbert Stein photo]()
American economist
1916–1999
![Thomas Szasz photo]()
Hungarian psychiatrist
1920–2012
![Eileen Chang photo]()
Chinese writer and screenwriter
1920–1995
![Aage Niels Bohr photo]()
Danish physicist
1922–2009
![Isabel II do Reino Unido photo]()
queen of the UK, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, and he…
1926–2022
![Jerry Pournelle photo]()
American science fiction writer and journalist
1933–2017
