On This Day

American writer

American writer, futurist and businessman

American actor

Japanese chemist

Chilean musician and folklorist

Russian physicist

Austrian SS official, a major perpetrator of the Holocaust and convicted war criminal

American actor, comedian, and director

Austrian Christian Social and Patriotic Front statesman

German field marshal

president of the United States from 1877 to 1881

French painter

French historian, orator and statesman

King of Sweden in 1604–1611

President of the Republic of Haiti

Vietnamese general and communist politician

Argentine singer

Canadian Nobel laureate in chemistry

English actor, comedian and writer

Canadian composer and pianist

Iraqi president

American singer

German theoretical physicist

Austrian philosopher and writer

Swiss physician, philosopher, theologian, and alchemist (c. 1493–1541)