Anniversaries 9 July
Birth
![Ann Radcliffe photo]()
English author and a pioneer of the Gothic novel
1764–1823
![Matthew Lewis (writer) photo]()
English novelist and dramatist
1775–1818
![Jacob Henle photo]()
German physician, anatomist, and zoologist
1809–1885
![Fanny Fern photo]()
American writer
1811–1872
![A. C. Gibbs photo]()
American politician
1825–1886
![Jan Neruda photo]()
Czech poet, theater reviewer, publicist and writer
1834–1891
![Franz Boas photo]()
German-American anthropologist
1858–1942
![Dorothy Thompson photo]()
American journalist and radio broadcaster
1893–1961
![Barbara Cartland photo]()
English writer and media personality
1901–2000
![Mervyn Peake photo]()
English writer, artist, poet and illustrator
1911–1968
![John Archibald Wheeler photo]()
American physicist
1911–2008
![Тед Грант photo]()
South African activist
1913–2006
![Edward Heath photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1970–1974)
1916–2005
![U.G. Krishnamurti photo]()
Indian philosopher
1918–2007
![Nile Kinnick photo]()
College football player
1918–1943
![Donald Rumsfeld photo]()
U.S. Secretary of Defense
1932
![Oliver Sacks photo]()
British neurologist and writer
1933–2015
![June Jordan photo]()
Poet, essayist, playwright, feminist and bisexual activist
1936–2002
![John Hirst photo]()
Australian historian
1942–2016
![Glen Cook photo]()
American fiction writer
1944
![Uladzimir Nyaklyayew photo]()
Belarusian politician and writer
1946
![Nigel Lythgoe photo]()
Executive producer and television director
1949
![Viktor Yanukovych photo]()
Ukrainian politician who was the President of Ukraine
1950
![Thomas Ligotti photo]()
American horror author
1953
![Janet Lee Carey photo]()
American children's writer
1954
![Lindsey Graham photo]()
United States Senator from South Carolina
1955
![Chris Anderson photo]()
American author and entrepreneur
1961
![Gian Domenico Borasio photo]()
physician, specialist of palliative medicine
1962
![Courtney Love photo]()
American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and art…
1964
![Masami Tsuda photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1970
![Marc Andreessen photo]()
American entrepreneur, investor, and software engineer
1971
![Jack White photo]()
American musician and record producer
1975
![Nicholas Ovcharov photo]()
Ukrainian writer and film director
1988
Death
![Edmund Burke photo]()
Anglo-Irish statesman
1729–1797
![Washington Allston photo]()
American artist
1779–1843
![Zachary Taylor photo]()
American general and politician, 12th President of the Unit…
1784–1850
![Báb photo]()
Iranian prophet; founder of the religion Bábism; venerated …
1819–1850
![Benjamin N. Cardozo photo]()
United States federal judge
1870–1938
![Earl Warren photo]()
United States federal judge
1891–1974
![Fatima Jinnah photo]()
Pakistani dental surgeon, biographer, stateswoman and one o…
1893–1967
![Henry Hazlitt photo]()
American journalist
1894–1993
![Pierre-Paul Grassé photo]()
French zoologist
1895–1985
![Georges Bataille photo]()
French intellectual and literary figure
1897–1962
![Whittaker Chambers photo]()
Defected Communist spy
1901–1961
![Loren Eiseley photo]()
US philosopher (1907-1977)
1907–1977
![Josephine Jacobsen photo]()
American-Canadian poet
1908–2003
![Eric Sevareid photo]()
American journalist
1912–1992
![Vinícius de Moraes photo]()
Brazilian composer
1913–1980
![Marion Woodman photo]()
Canadian writer
1928–2018
![Ross Perot photo]()
American businessman
1930–2019
![Facundo Cabral photo]()
Argentine singer and songwriter
1937–2011
