On This Day

President of Nigeria

Japanese association football player

Japanese association football player

German-American writer

Israeli politician and former Prime Minister

American biochemist and virologist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1946)

British archaeologist, army officer and diplomat

Luxembourgish physicist nationalized French

German physician, physiologist, philosopher and professor

17th-century French writer and philosopher

American actor and filmmaker

Prime Minister of India (1996, 1988-2004)

American singer, songwriter, and pianist

Brazilian businessman and athlete

Japanese farmer and philosopher

President of Uganda

Pakistani musician, primarily a singer of qawwali

13th Prime Minister of Canada

American singer and actor

American scientist, biochemist, microbiologist who discovered Streptomycin and many antibiotics

American chemist and physicist

Hungarian-American actor

American author and journalist

American baseball player

American blues singer and guitarist

French neurologist

American pharmacist, inventor of Coca-Cola

Swiss mathematician