On This Day

German composer

American author and screenwriter

American blues musician (1912 or 1917–2001)

Chinese politician and paramount leader from 1978 to 1989

French photographer

German filmmaker

American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist

German nobleman, jurist, and senior Nazi government official

German philosopher

French classical composer

French historian; popularized the historical concept of the Renaissance

Russian Tsar

king of Denmark and Norway

Italian recording artist; musician, songwriter, record producer

President of Azerbaijan from 1992 to 1993

3rd President of the Republic of Turkey

first Prime Minister (1963 to 1964) and President (1964 to 1978) of self-governing Kenya

President of Brazil from 1956 to 1961

French writer

Swedish painter and engraver

French painter