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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, April 21


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Births

* 1966 Michael Franti American poet, musician, and composer best known for being the lead vocalist of the band Michael Franti & Spearhead.
* 1959 Robert Smith Guitarist, vocalist and songwriter.
* 1947 Iggy Pop More widely know by his stage name Iggy Pop, is an American punk rock singer and actor considered to be one of the most important innovators of punk rock and related styles.
* 1944 Guity Novin Iranian-Canadian painter best known for her style of painting, called Transpressionism.
* 1927 Robert Brustein American theatrical director, producer, playwright, theatre critic for The New Republic since 1959, and Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University.
* 1926 Elizabeth II of England Queen of the the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Jamaica, Barbados, The Bahamas, Grenada, Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and Grenadines, Belize, Antigua and Barbuda, and Saint Kitts and Nevis.
* 1923 John Mortimer English barrister and writer, most famous for his Rumpole of the Bailey series of books.
* 1915 Garrett Hardin Leading and controversial ecologist from Dallas, Texas who was most known for his 1968 paper, The Tragedy of the Commons.
* 1915 Anthony Quinn Two-time Academy Award-winning Mexican/American actor, as well as a painter and writer.
* 1909 Rollo May American existential psychologist, authoring the influential books Psychology and the Human Dilemma and Love and Will along with several other volumes explaining and expanding on his theories.
* 1904 Odilo Globocnik Prominent Austrian Nazi and later an SS leader.
* 1900 Hans Fritzsche Senior Nazi official, ending the war as Ministerialdirektor at the Propagandaministerium.
* 1897 Aiden Wilson Tozer Also known as A W Tozer, was an American Protestant pastor, preacher, author, magazine editor, Bible conference speaker and spiritual mentor.
* 1883 Kyuzo Mifune Has been categorized as one of the greatest exponents of the art of judo after the founder, Jigoro Kano.
* 1864 Max Weber German sociologist and political economist.
* 1838 John Muir Scottish born American environmentalist, naturalist, traveler, writer, and scientist.
* 1828 Hippolyte Taine French critic and historian.
* 1818 Josh Billings Better known by his pen name Josh Billings, was an American humorist.
* 1816 Charlotte Bronte English novelist and the eldest of the three Brontλ sisters whose novels have become enduring classics of English literature.
* 1805 James Martineau English philosopher.
* 1783 Reginald Heber English bishop, now remembered chiefly as a hymn-writer.
* 1783 Asahel Nettleton American theologian and pastor from Connecticut who was highly influential during the Second Great Awakening.
* 1774 Jean-Baptiste Biot French physicist, astronomer and mathematician who established the reality of meteorites.
* 1729 Catherine II of Russia Reigned as Empress of Russia for more than three decades; born Sophie Augusta Fredericka of Anhalt-Zerbst.

Deaths

† 2012 Charles Colson Chief counsel for President Richard Nixon from 1969 to 1973, during which he organized the burglary of a psychiatrist's office that developed into the Watergate scandal.
† 1998 Jean-Francois Lyotard French philosopher and literary theorist.
† 1997 Diosdado Macapagal 9th President of the Philippines, serving from 1961 to 1965, and the 6th Vice President of the Philippines, serving from 1957 to 1961.
† 1971 Francois Duvalier President of Haiti from 1957 until his death in 1971.
† 1965 Pedro Albizu Campos Leader and president of the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party and avid advocate of Puerto Rican independence from the United States by whatever means necessary.
† 1952 Stafford Cripps British Labour politician.
† 1948 Aldo Leopold United States wildlife biologist and conservationist.
† 1946 John Maynard Keynes British economist whose ideas, known as Keynesian economics, had a major impact on modern economic and political theory and on many governments' fiscal policies.
† 1945 Walter Model German general and later field marshal during World War II He is noted for his defensive battles in the latter half of the war, mostly on the Eastern Front but also in the west, and for his close association with Adolf Hitler and Nazism.
† 1938 Muhammad Iqbal Indian- and Urdu-language poet, philosopher and politician of the Indian subcontinent whose vision of an independent state for the Muslims of British India was to inspire the creation of Pakistan.
† 1930 Robert Bridges English poet.
† 1910 Mark Twain Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
† 1910 Samuel Langhorne (Mark Twain) Clemens Better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American humorist, novelist, writer, and lecturer.
† 1866 Jane Welsh Carlyle Wife of Thomas Carlyle and a well-known writer of letters.
† 1699 Jean Racine French dramatist, one of the "big three" of 17th century France.
† 1509 Henry VII of England King of England, and the first monarch of the Tudor dynasty.
† 1142 Peter Abelard French scholastic philosopher and theologian.
† 1109 Anselm of Canterbury Italian-born prelate and scholastic theologian, who moved first to Normandy and then to England.
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