Anniversaries 9 April
Birth
![Philippe Néricault Destouches photo]()
French playwright
1680–1754
![Camillo Federici photo]()
Italian actor and playwright (1749-1802)
1749–1802
![Fisher Ames photo]()
American politician
1758–1808
![George Peacock photo]()
Scottish mathematician
1791–1858
![Leopold II of Belgium photo]()
King of the Belgians
1835–1909
![Erich Ludendorff photo]()
German Army officer and later Nazi leader in Adolf Hitler's…
1865–1937
![Charles Proteus Steinmetz photo]()
Mathematician and electrical engineer
1865–1923
![Léon Blum photo]()
French politician
1872–1950
![Paul Robeson photo]()
American singer and actor
1898–1976
![J. William Fulbright photo]()
American politician
1905–1995
![Hugh Gaitskell photo]()
British politician
1906–1963
![Leonard Wibberley photo]()
Irish-American author
1915–1983
![Linda Goodman photo]()
American astrologer
1925–1995
![Hugh Hefner photo]()
American businessman and magazine publisher
1926–2017
![Tom Lehrer photo]()
American singer-songwriter and mathematician
1928
![Fred Hollows photo]()
New Zealand–Australian ophthalmologist
1929–1993
![Jim Fowler photo]()
American zoologist
1930–2019
![Nathaniel Branden photo]()
Canadian–American psychotherapist and writer
1930–2014
![Aloysius Pieris photo]()
Sri Lankan Jesuit priest
1934
![Valerie Solanas photo]()
American radical feminist and writer. Attempted to assassin…
1936–1988
![Viktor Chernomyrdin photo]()
Russian diplomat
1938–2010
![Martin Berkofsky photo]()
American classical pianist
1943–2013
![Stefan Szczesny photo]()
German painter and sculptor
1951
![Nigel Slater photo]()
English food writer, journalist and broadcaster
1958
![Fred Dekker photo]()
American film director and writer
1959
![Marc Jacobs photo]()
American fashion designer
1963
![Lambert Wiesing photo]()
German archaeologist, humanities scholar and art historian
1963
![Sam Harris photo]()
American author, philosopher and neuroscientist
1967
![Jenna Jameson photo]()
American entrepreneur, webcam model, and pornographic actre…
1974
![Gerard Way photo]()
American musician and comic book writer
1977
![Halyna Hutchins photo]()
Ukrainian-American cinematographer and investigative journa…
1979–2021
![Lilia Buckingham photo]()
American actress, author and dancer
2003
Death
![William of Ockham photo]()
medieval philosopher and theologian
1285–1349
![Francois Rabelais photo]()
major French Renaissance writer
1494–1553
![Francis Bacon photo]()
English philosopher, statesman, scientist, jurist, and auth…
1561–1626
![William Law photo]()
English cleric, nonjuror and theological writer
1686–1761
![James Saurin photo]()
Bishop of Dromore; Irish Anglican bishop
1759–1842
![Stephen Johnson Field photo]()
American politician
1816–1899
![Dante Gabriel Rossetti photo]()
English poet, illustrator, painter and translator
1828–1882
![Francis Marion Crawford photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
1854–1909
![Frank Lloyd Wright photo]()
American architect (1867-1959)
1867–1959
![Edward Thomas photo]()
Poet and journalist
1878–1917
![W. Douglas P. Hill photo]()
British Indologist
1884–1962
![Wilhelm Canaris photo]()
German admiral, head of military intelligence service
1887–1945
![Benno Moiseiwitsch photo]()
British musician
1890–1963
![Hans Reichenbach photo]()
American philosopher
1891–1953
![Mrs Patrick Campbell photo]()
British stage actress
1895–1940
![Gordon H. Clark photo]()
American philosopher and Calvinist theologian
1902–1985
![Joseph B. Soloveitchik photo]()
American theologian
1903–1993
![Dietrich Bonhoeffer photo]()
German Lutheran pastor, theologian, dissident anti-Nazi
1906–1945
![Richard E. Cole photo]()
career officer in the United States Air Force and participa…
1915–2019
![Helene Hanff photo]()
Screenwriter, writer
1916–1997
![George Forsythe photo]()
Stanford University computer scientist
1917–1972
![Colin Jordan photo]()
British holocaust denier
1923–2009
![Sidney Lumet photo]()
American director, producer and screenwriter
1924–2011
![Tony Conrad photo]()
American filmmaker, violinist and composer
1940–2016
![Phil Ochs photo]()
American protest singer and songwriter
1940–1976
![Andrea Dworkin photo]()
Feminist writer
1946–2005
