Anniversaries 9 January
Birth
![Robert-François Damiens photo]()
French domestic servant and attempted assassin
1715–1757
![Thomas Warton photo]()
English literary historian, critic, poet
1728–1790
![William Johnson Cory photo]()
English educator and poet
1823–1892
![Francisco Perea photo]()
Union Army officer
1830–1913
![Carrie Chapman Catt photo]()
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
1859–1947
![John Flanagan photo]()
Irish-American hammer thrower
1873–1938
![Robert Michels photo]()
German sociologist
1876–1936
![Bernard Groethuysen photo]()
French literary historian, translator and writer
1880–1946
![Lascelles Abercrombie photo]()
Poet, academic, literary critic
1881–1938
![Kurt Tucholský photo]()
German-Jewish journalist, satirist and writer
1890–1935
![Lucian Truscott photo]()
Recipient of the Purple Heart medal
1895–1965
![Karl Löwith photo]()
German philosopher
1897–1973
![Richard Halliburton photo]()
American writer
1900–1939
![Josemaría Escrivá photo]()
Spanish theologian
1902–1975
![Simone de Beauvoir photo]()
French writer, intellectual, existentialist philosopher, po…
1908–1986
![Gypsy Rose Lee photo]()
American burlesque performer, actress, author
1911–1970
![Richard Nixon photo]()
37th President of the United States of America
1913–1994
![Vic Mizzy photo]()
American composer
1916–2009
![Claud William Wright photo]()
British paleontologist
1917–2010
![Brian Friel photo]()
Irish dramatist, author and theatre director
1929–2015
![Algis Budrys photo]()
American writer
1931–2008
![Bob Casey Sr. photo]()
American politician (1932-2000)
1932–2000
![Anne Rivers Siddons photo]()
novelist from the United States
1936–2019
![Merrill McPeak photo]()
United States Air Force general
1936
![Joseph Epstein photo]()
American essayist, short story writer and editor
1937–1944
![Jimmy Page photo]()
British guitarist of Led Zeppelin
1944
![Javad Alizadeh photo]()
cartoonist, journalist and humorist
1953
![Danny Morrison photo]()
British writer and politician
1953
![Mark Rathbun photo]()
American whistleblower
1957
![Dave Matthews photo]()
American singer-songwriter, musician and actor
1967
![Lara Fabian photo]()
Belgo-Canadian singer
1970
![MF Doom photo]()
hip hop artist from America
1971
![Zoya Akhtar photo]()
Indian film director
1974
![Chad Johnson photo]()
American football player, wide receiver
1978
![Jake Shields photo]()
American mixed martial artist
1979
![Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge photo]()
Wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
1982
Death
![Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle photo]()
French writer, satirist and philosopher of enlightenment
1657–1757
![Friedrich Wilhelm Schulz photo]()
German politician and publisher
1797–1860
![Napoleon III photo]()
French emperor, president, and member of the House of Bonap…
1808–1873
![Houston Stewart Chamberlain photo]()
English author of books on political philosophy
1855–1927
![Frederick Cornwallis Conybeare photo]()
British orientalist
1856–1924
![Katherine Mansfield photo]()
New Zealand author
1888–1923
![R. G. Collingwood photo]()
British historian and philosopher
1889–1943
![Karl Mannheim photo]()
Hungarian sociologist
1893–1947
![Arnold Tustin photo]()
British engineer
1899–1994
![Norberto Bobbio photo]()
Italian legal scholar
1909–2004
![W. Cleon Skousen photo]()
ex FBI agent, conservative United States author and faith-b…
1913–2006
![James M. Buchanan photo]()
American economist
1919–2013
![Walter M. Miller, Jr. photo]()
American fiction writer
1923–1996
![Zygmunt Bauman photo]()
Polish philosopher and sociologist
1925–2017
![Amiri Baraka photo]()
African-American writer
1934–2014
![Peter Cook photo]()
British architect
1937–1995
![Mike Resnick photo]()
American writer
1942–2020
![Rynn Berry photo]()
American historian of vegetarianism
1945–2014
![Felix Gonzalez-Torres photo]()
American artist
1957–1996
