Anniversaries 9 October
Birth
![Ambrose Philips photo]()
Anglo-Irish poet and politician
1674–1749
![Elizabeth Chase Allen photo]()
American author, journalist, poet
1832–1911
![Camille Saint-Saëns photo]()
French composer, organist, conductor, and pianist of the Ro…
1835–1921
![Francis Wayland Parker photo]()
Union Army officer
1837–1902
![L. P. Jacks photo]()
British educator, philosopher, and Unitarian minister
1860–1955
![Max von Laue photo]()
German physicist
1879–1960
![Victor Klemperer photo]()
Philologist, author of LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii
1881–1960
![B. Traven photo]()
German novelist
1890–1969
![Ivo Andrič photo]()
novelist, short story writer
1892–1975
![Marion Sinclair photo]()
Australian music teacher and songwriter
1896–1988
![Henry Calvert Simons photo]()
American economist
1899–1946
![Sayyid Qutb photo]()
Egyptian author, educator, Islamic theorist, poet, and poli…
1906–1966
![Quintin Hogg, Baron Hailsham of St Marylebone photo]()
British judge, politician, life peer and Cabinet minister
1907–2001
![Jill Ker Conway photo]()
American historian
1934–2018
![John Pilger photo]()
Australian journalist
1939
![John Lennon photo]()
English singer and songwriter
1940–1980
![Manto Tshabalala-Msimang photo]()
South African politician
1940–2009
![Trent Lott photo]()
United States Senator from Mississippi
1941
![Jackson Browne photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1948
![Paul LePage photo]()
American businessman, Republican Party politician, and the …
1948
![Peter Lipton photo]()
American philosopher
1954–2007
![Paul DiLascia photo]()
American software developer
1959–2008
![Guillermo del Toro photo]()
Mexican film director
1964
![Will Ferguson photo]()
Canadian writer, especially humor about Canada
1964
![David Cameron photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1966
![Cintra Wilson photo]()
American writer, performer and cultural critic
1967
![Steve Burns photo]()
American entertainer
1973
![Simon Sinek photo]()
British/American author and motivational speaker
1973
![Chris O'Dowd photo]()
Irish actor and comedian (born 1979)
1979
![Marie Kondo photo]()
Japanese organizing consultant, author and television show …
1984
Death
![Robert Grosseteste photo]()
English bishop and philosopher
1175–1253
![Girard Desargues photo]()
French mathematician and engineer
1591–1661
![Richard Blackmore photo]()
English poet and physician
1654–1729
![Vilna Gaon photo]()
Polish-Lithuanian rabbi; Mitnagdim leader in opposition to …
1720–1797
![Benjamin Banneker photo]()
free African American scientist, surveyor, almanac author a…
1731–1806
![Ioannis Kapodistrias photo]()
Greek politician and diplomat, first Governor of the modern…
1776–1831
![Karl Friedrich Schinkel photo]()
Prussian architect, city planner, and painter
1781–1841
![Howell Cobb photo]()
American politician
1815–1868
![John Cunningham McLennan photo]()
Canadian physicist
1867–1935
![Pope Pius XII photo]()
260th Pope of the Catholic Church
1876–1958
![Joseph Pilates photo]()
German inventor of pilates
1883–1967
![Henry Tizard photo]()
British chemist
1885–1959
![J. R. Partington photo]()
British chemist
1886–1965
![Anna Freud photo]()
Austrian-British psychoanalyst & essayist
1895–1982
![Gordon W. Allport photo]()
American psychologist
1897–1967
![Cyril Norman Hinshelwood photo]()
English physical chemist
1897–1967
![Clare Boothe Luce photo]()
American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and ant…
1903–1987
![Alec Douglas-Home photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1903–1995
![Oskar Schindler photo]()
German industrialist and Holocaust rescuer
1908–1974
![Maurice Allais photo]()
French economist; 1988 winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize i…
1911–2010
![Morris West photo]()
Australian writer
1916–1999
![Carolyn G. Heilbrun photo]()
Academic, novelist
1926–2003
![Geoffrey Howe photo]()
British Conservative politician
1926–2015
![Ernesto Che Guevara photo]()
Argentine Marxist revolutionary
1928–1967
![Jacques Brel photo]()
Belgian singer-songwriter
1929–1978
![Jacques Derrida photo]()
French philosopher (1930-2004)
1930–2004
![Penny Lernoux photo]()
American writer and journalist
1940–1989
