January
- 1 Michel Onfray Ā· E.M. Forster Ā· Gustave Tridon Ā· ‘Wall of Separation’ Phrase Coined Ā· Ouida Ā·
- 2 Isaac Asimov Ā· Steve Benson Ā· Dax Shepard Ā· Barry Goldwater (Quotes) Ā·
- 3 Marcus Tullius Cicero (Quote) Ā· Betty Rollin Ā·
- 4 J.R. Simplot Ā· Michael Stipe Ā·
- 5 Felix Manz (Died) Ā· Iris DeMent Ā·
- 6 Nick Clegg Ā· Nigella Lawson Ā· Carl Sandburg Ā·
- 7 Zora Neale Hurston Ā· Giuliano Ferrara Ā· Ralph Miliband Ā· John E. Remsburg Ā·
- 8 Lewis Lapham Ā· David Bowie Ā· Sarah Polley Ā· Butterfly McQueen Ā· Stephen Hawking Ā· Thomas Aikenhead (Died) Ā· Carl Rogers Ā·
- 9 Dave Matthews Ā· Linda Greenhouse Ā· Simone de Beauvoir Ā·
- 10 Francisco Ferrer Ā· Col. Ethan Allen Ā·
- 11 Aldo Leopold Ā· Alice Paul Ā· G.W. Foote Ā· Jim Hightower Ā·
- 12 Cleo Fellers Kocol Ā· Ruth Hurmence Green Ā· Jack London Ā·
- 13 Ernestine L. Rose Ā·
- 14 Julian Bond Ā· Steven Soderbergh Ā· Andy Rooney Ā·
- 15 MoliĆØre Ā· Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Ā· Martin Luther King Jr. Ā·
- 16 Statute for Religious Freedom Enacted Ā·
- 17 Sean Danielsen Ā· Javed Akhtar Ā· Desmond M. Clarke Ā· Sebastian Junger Ā· Benjamin Franklin Ā·
- 18 Niall Shanks Ā· James F. Crow Ā· Gilles Deleuze Ā· A.A. Milne Ā· Montesquieu Ā· Peter Annet (Died) Ā·
- 19 Edgar Allan Poe Ā· Julian Barnes Ā· Auguste Comte Ā·
- 20 Bill Maher Ā· Fred Whitehead Ā·
- 21 Helen H. Gardener Ā·
- 22 Beatrice Webb Ā· David Bazan Ā· Lord Byron Ā· Johan August Strindberg Ā· Roe v. Wade Issued Ā·
- 23 Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Ā· Arthur Schopenhauer (Quote) Ā·
- 24 Garrett Lisi Ā· Frederick the Great Ā· Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Ā·
- 25 Sherwin Wine Ā· W. Somerset Maugham Ā· Virginia Woolf Ā· Robert Burns Ā·
- 26 Paul Newman Ā· Jules Feiffer Ā·
- 27 Patton Oswalt Ā· Jerome Kern Ā· David Friedrich Strauss Ā· Mikhail Baryshnikov Ā·
- 28 Alan Alda Ā· Jason Aaron Ā· John Baskerville Ā·
- 29 W.C. Fields Ā· Victor Stenger Ā· Edward Paul Abbey Ā· Freethinkers Day Ā· Thomas Paine Ā· Robin Morgan Ā· Albert Gallatin Ā· Frederick Delius Ā·
- 30 Saul Alinsky Ā· Jack Germond Ā· Olof Palme Ā·
- 31 Rupert Hughes Ā· Oksana Shachko Ā· John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Ā· Cecilia Gentili Ā· Peter Sagal Ā· Megan Phelps-Roper Ā·
February
- 1 Langston Hughes Ā· Terry Jones Ā· Barry Duke Ā· Yevgeny Zamyatin Ā·
- 2 Burton Lane Ā· James Joyce Ā· Ayn Rand Ā· Havelock Ellis Ā· Talleyrand Ā· Tom Smothers (Quote) Ā·
- 3 Michael Martin Ā· James A. Michener Ā·
- 4 Bill Haywood Ā· Georg Brandes Ā· Eugene M. MacDonald Ā·
- 5 Michel de Montaigne (Quote) Ā·
- 6 Christopher Marlowe Ā· Alice Greczyn Ā·
- 7 Charles Dickens Ā· Sinclair Lewis Ā· Madison Arnold Ā· Suzy Eddie Izzard Ā· G.H. Hardy Ā· Emo Philips Ā· Chris Rock Ā·
- 8 John Ruskin Ā· Philip Appleman Ā· Elizabeth Bishop Ā· William Jackson Harper Ā· Cecily Strong Ā·
- 9 Alice Walker Ā· Amy Lowell Ā· James Parton Ā· Giulio Cesare Vanini (Died) Ā· Aletta Jacobs Ā· Jacques Monod Ā·
- 10 Eliza Lynn Linton Ā· Larry Adler Ā· George H. Smith Ā·
- 11 Thomas Alva Edison Ā· Lydia Maria Child Ā· Leslie Nielsen Ā· Natalie Dormer Ā· Momus Ā· Flo Kennedy Ā· Sikivu Hutchinson Ā·
- 12 Charles Darwin Ā· Abraham Lincoln Ā· George Meredith Ā· FranƧois-DĆ©sirĆ© Bancel Ā· Judy Blume Ā· Cliff Bleszinski Ā·
- 13 Henry Rollins Ā· Marriage of Robert Green Ingersoll and Eva Parker Ā·
- 14 Frederick Douglass Ā· Teller Ā· Simon Pegg Ā·
- 15 Matt Groening Ā· Galileo Galilei Ā· Jeremy Bentham Ā· Susan B. Anthony Ā· Bill T. Jones Ā·
- 16 Christopher Eccleston Ā· Sir Francis Galton Ā· Natalie Angier Ā· Octave Mirbeau Ā· Elizabeth Olsen Ā·
- 17 Giordano Bruno (Executed) Ā·
- 18 Jared Huffman Ā·
- 19 Svante August Arrhenius Ā· Nicolaus Copernicus Ā· AndrĆ© Breton Ā· Beth Ditto Ā·
- 20 E.B. Foote Ā· Robert Altman Ā· James A. Haught Ā· Julian Scheer Ā·
- 21 Thomas Huxley (Quote) Ā·
- 22 Luis BuƱuel Ā· George Washington Ā· Arthur Schopenhauer Ā· Josephine K. Henry Ā· James Russell Lowell Ā· August Bebel Ā· Edna St. Vincent Millay (Quote) Ā·
- 23 W.E.B. Du Bois Ā· Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Ā· S.E. Cupp Ā·
- 24 George Augustus Moore Ā· Grant Allen Ā· Joan Konner Ā·
- 25 Anthony Burgess Ā· Hemant Mehta Ā·
- 26 Tony Randall Ā· Victor Hugo Ā·
- 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ā· John Steinbeck Ā· Sonia Johnson Ā· Charles Watts Ā· Peter De Vries Ā·
- 28 Michel de Montaigne Ā· Linus Pauling Ā· Ed Schempp Ā· Robin Cook Ā· Daniel Handler Ā·
March
- 1 Robert Lowell Ā· Queen Caroline Ā· Javier Bardem Ā· Nuala O’Faolain Ā· Scott Dikkers Ā· Harry Belafonte Ā·
- 2 John Irving Ā· Gerald H.F. Gardner Ā· Matt Taibbi Ā· Daniel Craig Ā· Pamela Paul Ā·
- 3 William Godwin Ā· Ira Glass Ā· Sir Edward Herbert Ā· Brian Cox Ā·
- 4 Indianapolis Freethinkers (Minutes) Ā·
- 5 Rosa Luxemburg Ā· Penn Jillette Ā· Matt Lucas Ā·
- 6 David Gilmour Ā· John Stossel Ā· Rob Reiner Ā· Carolyn Porco Ā·
- 7 Luther Burbank Ā· Alan Hale Ā· Maurice Ravel Ā· Lucy Parsons Ā· Jo Kotula Ā·
- 8 International Women’s Day Ā· Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Ā· McCollum v. Board of Education Decision (Anniversary) Ā· Ed Buckner Ā· Amy Alkon Ā·
- 9 Michael Kinsley Ā· PZ Myers Ā· Ćscar Isaac Ā·
- 10 H.L. Mencken (Quote) Ā· John Rechy Ā·
- 11 Douglas Adams Ā·
- 12 James Taylor Ā· Edward Albee Ā· Harry Harrison Ā· Carl Hiaasen Ā·
- 13 Joseph Priestley Ā·
- 14 Albert Einstein Ā· Arnold Krekel Ā·
- 15 David Cronenberg Ā·
- 16 Maxim Gorky Ā· James Madison Ā· Rosa Bonheur Ā· Richard Stallman Ā· Jack Nichols Ā· Jorge Ramos Ā· Don Carpenter Ā· J.B. Stallo Ā·
- 17 Kate Greenaway Ā· Moncure Daniel Conway Ā· Madame Roland Ā· Alexander McQueen Ā· Patrick Duffy Ā· Robert Blatchford Ā· Andrew Hozier-Byrne Ā·
- 18 Marilla Ricker Ā· Weiss v. District Board Ā· James McMurtry Ā·
- 19 Bruce Willis Ā· Sir Richard F. Burton Ā· Jean Astruc Ā· Henry Morgentaler Ā· Philip Roth Ā·
- 20 B.F. Skinner Ā· Henrik Ibsen Ā· Pamela Sargent Ā· William Stewart Ross Ā· The Woman Rebel Founded Ā· Carl Reiner Ā· John de Lancie Ā·
- 21 Cenk Uygur Ā· Benito JuĆ”rez Ā· M.N. Roy Ā·
- 22 Stephen Sondheim Ā· Stephen Pearl Andrews Ā· William Shatner Ā·
- 23 Erich Fromm Ā· William Smith Ā· Richard Proctor Ā·
- 24 Robert Louis Heilbroner Ā· Joel Barlow Ā· Harry Houdini Ā· David Suzuki Ā· Tig Notaro Ā·
- 25 Elton John Ā· Gloria Steinem Ā· Matilda Joslyn Gage Ā· Robbie Fulks Ā· Courtlandt Palmer Ā· BĆ©la BartĆ³k Ā·
- 26 Richard Dawkins Ā· A.E. Housman Ā· Robert Frost Ā· Keira Knightley Ā·
- 27 John Ballance Ā·
- 28 Daniel C. Dennett Ā· Ishmael Jaffree Ā· Jane Rule Ā· Neil Kinnock Ā· Corliss Lamont Ā·
- 29 Eric Idle Ā· Ludwig Buchner Ā·
- 30 Charles Booth Ā·
- 31 John Fowles Ā· Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Ā· Olive Schreiner Ā· Matt Dillahunty Ā·
April
- 1 Milan Kundera Ā· Abraham Maslow Ā· Vladimir Pozner Jr. Ā·
- 2 Ćmile Zola Ā· Lloyd Morain Ā· LĆ©on Gambetta Ā·
- 3 Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke Ā· John Burroughs Ā· Marlon Brando Ā· Rachel Bloom Ā· A.C. Grayling Ā·
- 4 David Cross Ā· Robert Scheer Ā·
- 5 Thomas Hobbes Ā· Algernon Charles Swinburne Ā· Arthur Hailey Ā·
- 6 Robert M. Sapolsky Ā·
- 7 Elihu Palmer Ā· Abner Kneeland Ā· Marjory Stoneman Douglas Ā· Jack Lawrence Ā·
- 8 E.Y. (Yip) Harburg Ā· Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Ā· Nell Newman Ā· Joseph Cunningham Ā· Craig Mazin Ā·
- 9 Paul Robeson Ā· Charles Baudelaire Ā· Tom Lehrer Ā· Paul Krassner Ā· Hugh Hefner Ā· Sam Harris Ā·
- 10 Thomas Allsop Ā·
- 11 George E. Macdonald Ā· Leo Rosten Ā· Mark Strand Ā·
- 12 Henry “Hank” Zumach Ā· Jon Krakauer Ā· Henry Clay Ā·
- 13 Mattie Parry Krekel Ā· Christopher Hitchens Ā· Thomas Jefferson Ā· George Jacob Holyoake Ā· Thomas Beddoes Ā· Nella Larsen Ā· Stanley Donen Ā·
- 14 Rod Steiger Ā· Bruce Sterling Ā· Richard Jeni Ā· Joseph Fletcher Ā· Patrick Somerville Ā·
- 15 Thomas Szasz Ā· Emma Thompson Ā· Emile Durkheim Ā· A. Philip Randolph Ā· Elizabeth Montgomery Ā·
- 16 Charlie Chaplin Ā· Anatole France Ā·
- 17 Isak Dinesen Ā·
- 18 Clarence Darrow Ā· Bonnie Garmus Ā·
- 19 Bertrand Russell (Quote) Ā· Dana Nessel Ā·
- 20 David Chalmers Ā·
- 21 ClĆ©mence Royer Ā· Narges Mohammadi Ā·
- 22 Jack Nicholson Ā· “Mme. de Stael” Ā· Robert Patterson Ā· Amber Heard Ā· Vladimir Nabokov Ā·
- 23 William Shakespeare Ā· J.M.W. Turner Ā· Peter Watson Ā· Sergei Prokofiev Ā· John Oliver Ā·
- 24 Clarence Darrow (Quote) Ā· Barbra Streisand Ā·
- 25 William J. Brennan (Quote) Ā·
- 26 David Hume Ā· EugĆØne Delacroix Ā· Samantha Cristoforetti Ā·
- 27 Edward Gibbon Ā· Mary Wollstonecraft Ā· Herbert Spencer Ā· Ulysses S. Grant Ā· Russell T Davies Ā· Hubert Harrison Ā·
- 28 Thomas Scott Ā· Sir Terence (Terry) Pratchett Ā· Jessica Alba Ā·
- 29 Uma Thurman Ā· Robert Gottlieb Ā· Derek Humphry Ā·
- 30 Cloris Leachman Ā· Claude Shannon Ā· Annie Dillard (Quote) Ā·
May
- 1 Joseph Heller Ā· Bob Mankoff Ā·
- 2 Catherine the Great Ā· Yoram Kaniuk Ā· Anthony B. Pinn Ā·
- 3 Steven Weinberg Ā· Pete Seeger Ā· Mary L. Trump Ā·
- 4 Thomas Huxley Ā· George Will Ā·
- 5 John Scopes (Arrested) Ā· Karl Marx Ā· Richard E. Grant Ā·
- 6 George Clooney Ā· Sigmund Freud Ā· Margaret Cole Ā· Madame Restell Ā·
- 7 Johannes Brahms Ā· Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ā· Robert Browning Ā·
- 8 Ella E. Gibson Ā· David Attenborough Ā·
- 9 Billy Joel Ā· Megan Hunt Ā·
- 10 Charles Knowlton Ā· Jonathan Edwards Ā· Ariel Durant Ā· Elie Mystal Ā·
- 11 Richard Feynman Ā· Irving Berlin Ā·
- 12 Katharine Hepburn Ā· George Carlin Ā· Florence Nightingale Ā· Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ā·
- 13 Roger Zelazny Ā·
- 14 Robert Owen Ā· Robyn Blumner Ā· Erwin Chemerinsky Ā· Cate Blanchett Ā·
- 15 Seymour Hersh (Quote) Ā· L. Frank Baum Ā·
- 16 Louis “Studs” Terkel Ā· Henry Fonda Ā· Brian Eno Ā·
- 17 Ralph Waldo Emerson (Quote) Ā·
- 18 Bertrand Russell Ā· Juan Mendez Ā·
- 19 Lorraine Hansberry Ā· Nora Ephron Ā· Kate Cohen Ā·
- 20 Stephen Girard Ā· HonorĆ© de Balzac Ā· John Stuart Mill Ā· JosĆ© Mujica Ā·
- 21 Alexander Pope Ā· Robert Creeley Ā· Andrei Sakharov Ā·
- 22 G.A. Wells Ā· Harvey Milk Ā·
- 23 Margaret Fuller Ā· PƤr Lagerkvist Ā· Joan Collins Ā·
- 24 Rufus King Noyes Ā· Stanley Baxter Ā·
- 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson Ā· Sir Ian McKellen Ā· Towel Day Ā·
- 26 Jack Kevorkian Ā· Matt Stone Ā· Sanal Edamaraku Ā·
- 27 Isadora Duncan Ā· Harlan Ellison Ā· Adam Carolla Ā· Paul Bettany Ā·
- 28 Epicurus (Quote) Ā·
- 29 John F. Kennedy (Quote) Ā· Peter Higgs Ā· Amy Schneider Ā·
- 30 Mikhail Bakunin Ā· A. Stone Freedberg Ā·
- 31 Walt Whitman Ā· Graham Wallas Ā·
June
- 1 Marilyn Monroe Ā·
- 2 Barbara Smoker Ā· Edward Elgar Ā· Thomas Hardy Ā·
- 3 Edward Livingston Youmans Ā· James Hutton Ā· Rafael Nadal Ā·
- 4 Wallace v. Jaffree Ā· Angelina Jolie Ā· Susan Jacoby Ā·
- 5 Adam Smith Ā· Ken Follett Ā·
- 6 Harvey Fierstein Ā· Sam Simon Ā· Maxine Kumin Ā· Aram Khachaturian Ā·
- 7 Alice Hubbard Ā· Charles Strouse Ā· Nikki Giovanni Ā·
- 8 Robert Schumann Ā· Frank Lloyd Wright Ā· Francis Crick Ā· Tim Berners-Lee Ā· Sara Paretsky Ā·
- 9 Cole Porter Ā· Natalie Portman Ā· Johnny Depp Ā· Michael J. Fox Ā· Pat Maginnis Ā· Eddie Marsan Ā·
- 10 E.O. Wilson Ā· Maurice Sendak Ā· Nat Hentoff Ā· Saul Bellow Ā· Treaty of Tripoli Ā· Alexandra LĆŗgaro Ā·
- 11 Richard Strauss Ā· Joseph Lewis Ā· Hugh Laurie Ā· Robert Munsch Ā· Anne Royall Ā· Ingrid Newkirk Ā· Gene Wilder Ā·
- 12 Harriet Martineau Ā· Loving v. Virginia Decided Ā·
- 13 Ann Druyan Ā·
- 14 Robert M. La Follette Sr. Ā· Margaret Bourke-White Ā· Wafa Sultan Ā· Mary Morain Ā· Ernesto “Che” Guevara Ā·
- 15 Mark Twain (Quote) Ā· Jean Meslier Ā·
- 16 Joyce Carol Oates Ā·
- 17 Bible Reading in Public Schools Halted Ā· Jello Biafra Ā·
- 18 Barack Hussein Obama Sr. Ā· Roger Ebert Ā· Lisa Randall Ā· Paul McCartney Ā·
- 19 Salman Rushdie Ā· Elbert Hubbard Ā· Supreme Court Affirms No Religious Test for Public Office Ā· Juneteenth Ā·
- 20 Summer Solstice Ā· Ira Cardiff Ā·
- 21 Ian McEwan Ā· Jean-Paul Sartre Ā· Edward Snowden Ā·
- 22 Julian Huxley Ā· Bill Blass Ā· Meryl Streep Ā· Erich Maria Remarque Ā· Dan Brown Ā· Ignacio RamĆrez Ā· Octavia Butler Ā·
- 23 Daniel Henry Chamberlain Ā· Alan Turing Ā· Jon Steingard Ā·
- 24 Ambrose Bierce Ā· Michael Newdow Ā· Kelda Roys Ā·
- 25 George Orwell Ā· Dan Barker Ā· Ricky Gervais Ā· Engel v. Vitale Ā· Anthony Bourdain Ā· Thomas Eisner Ā·
- 26 Pearl S. Buck Ā· Nick Offerman Ā· Phil Zuckerman Ā·
- 27 Emma Goldman Ā·
- 28 Richard Rodgers Ā· Ashley Montagu Ā· Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ā· Paul Broca Ā· Lalla Ward Ā· Donald C. Johanson Ā· Mel Brooks Ā·
- 29 Amanda Donohoe Ā· Frank Loesser Ā· Stokely Carmichael Ā·
- 30 J.B.S. Haldane (Quote) Ā· Harry Weese Ā·
July
- 1 Edward Clodd Ā·
- 2 Barbara G. Walker Ā· Civil Rights Act Enacted Ā· George Sand Ā· Larry David Ā· Harriet Hall Ā·
- 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ā· LeoÅ” JanĆ”Äek Ā· Tom Stoppard Ā· Dave Barry Ā·
- 4 Declaration of Independence Adopted Ā· Giuseppe Garibaldi Ā· Kay Nolte Smith Ā· Stephen Foster Ā· Christopher Cameron Ā·
- 5 Ernst Mayr Ā·
- 6 Alexander Pushkin Ā· Benjamin Underwood Ā· Frida Kahlo Ā· Peter Singer Ā·
- 7 Robert A. Heinlein Ā· Josiah P. Mendum Ā· Gustav Mahler Ā· Eleanor Clift Ā·
- 8 Harriet Johnson Ā· Kevin Bacon Ā· Ernst Bloch Ā· Faye Wattleton Ā·
- 9 Sherry Matulis Ā· Oliver Sacks Ā·
- 10 Marcel Proust Ā· Camille Pissarro Ā· Ernie Chambers Ā·
- 11 John Quincy Adams Ā· Mark Fisher Ā· Pauline McLynn Ā·
- 12 Henry David Thoreau Ā· Pablo Neruda Ā· Phillip Adams Ā·
- 13 Harrison Ford Ā· Sidney Webb Ā· Jack Ziegler Ā·
- 14 Ingmar Bergman Ā· Jane Lynch Ā· Woody Guthrie Ā·
- 15 Iris Murdoch Ā· Jesse Ventura Ā· Adam Savage Ā· David Miliband Ā· Linda Ronstadt Ā· Jacques Derrida Ā· Cecile Richards Ā·
- 16 Tony Kushner Ā·
- 17 Phyllis Diller Ā· Josh Barro Ā·
- 18 William Makepeace Thackeray Ā· Donald B. Ardell Ā· Kristen Bell Ā·
- 19 Anniversary of Seneca Falls Convention Ā· Fred Edwords Ā· JosĆ© Manuel Balmaceda Ā·
- 20 E. Haldeman-Julius Ā· Chris Cornell Ā·
- 21 Anthony Collins Ā· Robin Williams Ā·
- 22 Tom Robbins Ā· Steve Albini Ā· Marci Hamilton Ā· John Leguizamo Ā· Albert Brooks Ā·
- 23 Samuel Porter Putnam Ā· Daniel Radcliffe Ā· Hendrik Hertzberg Ā· Alfred “Dilly” Knox Ā·
- 24 Vern Bullough Ā· Rose Byrne Ā· Mara Wilson Ā·
- 25 Eric Hoffer Ā· Rosalind Franklin Ā· Woody Harrelson Ā·
- 26 George Bernard Shaw Ā· Daniel Everett Ā· Stanley Kubrick Ā· Aldous Huxley Ā· Lucy Colman Ā· Mick Jagger Ā·
- 27 Helen Taylor Ā· Maya Rudolph Ā· Norman Lear Ā·
- 28 14th Amendment Adopted Ā· Anne Hutchinson (Banished) Ā· Meg Bowman Ā·
- 29 Wil Wheaton Ā·
- 30 Thorstein Veblen Ā·
- 31 Paul D. Boyer Ā· Jean-Baptiste LaMarck Ā·
August
- 1 Herman Melville Ā·
- 2 Peter O’Toole Ā· James Baldwin Ā· Lawrence Wright Ā·
- 3 Rupert Brooke Ā· Michael Terence Wogan Ā· John Landis Ā· John T. Scopes Ā·
- 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ā· Helen Thomas Ā·
- 5 Ellery Schempp Ā· Clara Bewick Colby Ā· Guy de Maupassant Ā· Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ā· Robert Taylor Ā· Lizz Winstead Ā·
- 6 Lawrence Lader Ā· Janet Jeppson Asimov Ā·
- 7 The Amazing James Randi Ā· Charles Southwell Ā· Charlize Theron Ā·
- 8 Tom Brazaitis Ā· Paul Dirac Ā·
- 9 Sigmund Freud (Quote) Ā·
- 10 Frances “Poppy” Northcutt Ā· Antonio Banderas Ā· Walter Plywaski Ā·
- 11 Robert G. Ingersoll Ā· Steve Wozniak Ā· Lyle Stuart Ā·
- 12 Lillie Devereux Blake Ā· George Soros Ā·
- 13 Felix Adler Ā·
- 14 John Galsworthy Ā· David Crosby Ā·
- 15 Julia Child Ā·
- 16 Matthew Tindal Ā· James Cameron Ā· Vanessa Carlton Ā· Margaret Downey Ā· Taika Waititi Ā· Paul Morantz Ā·
- 17 Maria Deraismes Ā· Alex Honnold Ā· V. S. Naipaul Ā·
- 18 Robert Redford Ā· Tom Flynn Ā·
- 19 Pierre-Jean de BĆ©ranger Ā· Gene Roddenberry Ā· Ron Darling Ā·
- 20 Andrew Garfield Ā·
- 21 Bo Burnham Ā·
- 22 Claude Debussy Ā· Diana Nyad Ā· Annie Proulx Ā·
- 23 Anatole France (Quote) Ā·
- 24 Howard Zinn Ā· Stephen Fry Ā· Arian Foster Ā·
- 25 Horace Seaver Ā·
- 26 Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day Ā· Barbara Ehrenreich Ā· Zona Gale Ā· Robert Walpole Ā· Shirley Manson Ā·
- 27 Granville Stuart Ā·
- 28 C. Wright Mills Ā· Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ā· Bwambale Robert Musubaho Ā·
- 29 Xenophanes of Colophon (Quote) Ā· Charlie Parker Ā·
- 30 Ted Williams Ā· Mary Godwin Shelley Ā· Warren Buffett Ā· Paul “Jody” Gaylor Ā·
- 31 Anatole France (Quote) Ā·
September
- 1 Freethought Today Debuts Ā· Chapman Cohen Ā· Edgar Rice Burroughs Ā· Patricia Duffy Hutcheon Ā· Lily Tomlin Ā·
- 2 Claire Eglin Culhane Ā· Keanu Reeves Ā· Keir Starmer Ā·
- 3 Viktor E. Lennstrand (Swedish freethought rally) Ā·
- 4 Richard Wright Ā· Mandisa Thomas Ā·
- 5 Jean de la BruyĆØre (Quote) Ā· Carter Warden Ā· Michael Hakeem Ā·
- 6 Frances Wright Ā· Jane Addams Ā· Bruno Bauer Ā· Roger Waters Ā· Robert M. Pirsig Ā· Rosie Perez Ā·
- 7 Malcolm Bradbury Ā·
- 8 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Quote) Ā·
- 9 Leo Tolstoy Ā· Michel de Montaigne (Quote) Ā·
- 10 Stephen J. Gould Ā·
- 11 Jessica Mitford Ā· Daniel Sloss Ā·
- 12 H.L. Mencken Ā· Catherine Fahringer Ā· Avijit Roy Ā· Neil Peart Ā·
- 13 Don Addis Ā· Alain Locke Ā· Herb Grosch Ā·
- 14 Margaret Sanger Ā· Ted Gup Ā· Alexander von Humboldt Ā·
- 15 James Fenimore Cooper Ā·
- 16 Viscount Bolingbroke Ā· Richard Marx Ā·
- 17 Theodore Schroeder Ā· Sean B. Carroll Ā· Jerry DeWitt Ā· Constitution Day Ā· Periyar Ā·
- 18 Greta Garbo Ā· Sabine Hossenfelder Ā·
- 19 Frances Farmer Ā· Jean Baptiste Delambre Ā· Simon Singh Ā· Twiggy Ā·
- 20 Upton Sinclair Ā· Robert Emmet Ā· George R.R. Martin Ā· Malachy McCourt Ā· Rosemary Matson Ā· Lesley Hazleton Ā·
- 21 H.G. Wells Ā· Etta Semple Ā· James Watson Ā· Sir Bernard Williams Ā· Stephen King Ā· Nancy Travis Ā·
- 22 Parker Pillsbury Ā· Eva Ingersoll Ā· Linda LaScola Ā· Bobby Hinds Ā·
- 23 Ani DiFranco Ā· Victoria Woodhull Ā· Walter Lippmann Ā· Michelle Goldberg Ā·
- 24 F. Scott Fitzgerald Ā·
- 25 Theophile de Viau (Died) Ā· Dmitri Shostakovich Ā· Christopher Reeve Ā· Paul MacCready Ā· Donald Glover Ā·
- 26 George Gershwin Ā· Charles Bradlaugh Ā· Ivan Pavlov Ā· Ryan Bell Ā·
- 27 Albert Ellis Ā· Bhagat Singh Ā· Robert Phillips Ā·
- 28 Georges Clemenceau Ā· Robert Stout Ā· Prosper Merimee Ā· Janeane Garofalo Ā· Greydon Square Ā·
- 29 Michelle Bachelet Ā· Julia Gillard Ā· Barbara Mertz Ā· Colin Dexter Ā·
- 30 Phil Plait Ā· Ta-Nehisi Coates Ā· Truman Capote Ā· International Blasphemy Day Ā·
October
- 1 Annie Besant Ā· Charlie McDonnell Ā·
- 2 Sting Ā· Graham Greene Ā· Christian de Duve Ā· Wallace Stevens Ā· Gene Weingarten Ā·
- 3 Gore Vidal Ā· Denis Villeneuve Ā· Philippa Foot Ā·
- 4 Vitaly Ginzburg Ā· Rutherford B. Hayes (Quote) Ā· Carl Brandes Ā·
- 5 Denis Diderot Ā· Bob Geldof Ā· Sean M. Carroll Ā· Neil deGrasse Tyson Ā· Bart Ehrman Ā·
- 6 Alfred Naquet Ā· Emily Palmer Cape Ā· Matthew Sweet Ā· John McWhorter Ā·
- 7 Harry Kroto Ā· Joe Hill Ā· Tim Minchin Ā· Joy Behar Ā· Dan Savage Ā· Roy Zimmerman Ā·
- 8 James Fergus Ā· Hector Avalos Ā·
- 9 John Lennon Ā· Giuseppe Verdi Ā· Roger Williams (Banished) Ā· Peter Lipton Ā· Chris O’Dowd Ā· Annika Sƶrenstam Ā·
- 10 Julia Sweeney Ā· Harold Pinter Ā· Henry Cavendish Ā· Fridtjof Nansen Ā· Thelonious Monk Ā·
- 11 Eleanor Roosevelt Ā·
- 12 Ralph Vaughan Williams Ā· Freethought Day Ā·
- 13 Lenny Bruce (Quote) Ā·
- 14 Katha Pollitt Ā· E. E. Cummings Ā· Hannah Arendt Ā·
- 15 Friedrich Nietzsche Ā· John Kenneth Galbraith Ā· P.G. Wodehouse Ā· Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Ā· Roxane Gay Ā· Michael Lewis Ā·
- 16 Oscar Wilde Ā· Eugene O’Neill Ā· Lilian Leland Ā· Mary Daly Ā·
- 17 John Wilkes Ā· Georg Buchner Ā· William Anders Ā· Arthur Miller Ā· Michael McKean Ā·
- 18 James Madison (Quote) Ā·
- 19 Alton Lemon Ā· Philip Pullman Ā· Trey Parker Ā· Lewis Wolpert Ā· Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ā· Neal Brennan Ā· Cara Santa Maria Ā·
- 20 John Dewey Ā· Tom Petty Ā·
- 21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ā· Martin Gardner Ā· Ursula K. Le Guin Ā· Tariq Ali Ā· Mary Ann Masterton Ā·
- 22 Doris Lessing Ā· Bob Odenkirk Ā· Baba Brinkman Ā·
- 23 George Santayana (Quote) Ā· Johnny Carson Ā· Ned Rorem Ā· Jon Huertas Ā·
- 24 Kevin Kline Ā· Lakshmi Sahgal Ā· Eugenie Scott Ā·
- 25 Georges Bizet Ā· Marcellin Berthelot Ā· Alexander Buchner Ā· Max Stirner Ā· Anne Tyler Ā· Zadie Smith Ā·
- 26 Seth MacFarlane Ā·
- 27 Michael Servetus (Executed) Ā· Sharlot Hall Ā· Niccolo Paganini Ā· Klas Pontus Arnoldson Ā· Warren Allen Smith Ā· William Maclure Ā· Sylvia Plath Ā· Malcolm Margolin Ā· Fran Lebowitz Ā·
- 28 Bill Gates (Quote) Ā· Joaquin Phoenix Ā· Elsa Lanchester Ā· Matt Smith Ā· Norma Cunningham Ā· Andy Richter Ā·
- 29 Edward Truelove Ā· Alfred Jules Ayer Ā· Lee Child Ā·
- 30 John Adams Ā· MC Paul Barman Ā·
- 31 John Keats Ā·
November
- 1 Hermann Bondi Ā· Robert R. Tiernan Ā· Narendra Dabholkar Ā·
- 2 Burt Lancaster Ā· Annie Laurie Gaylor Ā·
- 3 AndrĆ© Malraux Ā· Ludovic Kennedy Ā· Steven Wilson Ā· Scott Galloway Ā· Amartya Sen Ā·
- 4 Maud Ingersoll Ā· Kathy Griffin Ā· Taylor Tomlinson Ā·
- 5 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ā· Eugene V. Debs Ā· Harriet Law Ā· Will Durant Ā·
- 6 Pat Tillman Ā· Vashti Cromwell McCollum Ā· Francis Ellingwood Abbot Ā· Thandiwe Newton Ā· Greg Graffin Ā· Robert Ellis Ā· Mike Nichols Ā·
- 7 Marie Curie Ā· Albert Camus Ā· Andrew Dickson White Ā· Culbert Olson Ā· Joni Mitchell Ā· Sasha Sagan Ā·
- 8 Ben Bova Ā· Edmund Halley Ā· Bonnie Raitt Ā·
- 9 Carl Sagan Ā· Ivan Turgenev Ā· Robert Dale Owen Ā·
- 10 Mark Twain (Quote) Ā· Terence Davies Ā·
- 11 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Ā· Joseph McCabe Ā· Pete Stark Ā· Hugh Everett III Ā· Veterans Day Ā· Andy Partridge Ā·
- 12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Ā· Auguste Rodin Ā· Norm Allen Ā·
- 13 Robert Louis Stevenson Ā· Roy Torcaso Ā· Jaime Gil de Biedma Ā·
- 14 Aaron Copland Ā· Jawaharlal Nehru Ā· J.M. Robertson Ā·
- 15 Gora Ā· William Pitt Ā· Ed Asner Ā· George Hahn Ā·
- 16 George Seldes Ā· JosĆ© Saramago Ā· Shriram Lagoo Ā·
- 17 Voltairine de Cleyre Ā· Stephen Symonds Foster Ā·
- 18 Margaret Atwood Ā· Pierre Bayle Ā· Chalmers Roberts Ā· Ben Winter Ā·
- 19 Indira Gandhi Ā· Jodie Foster Ā· Myla Goldberg Ā· Larry King Ā·
- 20 Thomas Chatterton Ā· Edwin Hubble Ā·
- 21 Bjork Ā· Voltaire Ā·
- 22 George Eliot Ā· Rodney Dangerfield Ā· Nate Phelps Ā·
- 23 Marie Bashkirtseff Ā· Margaret K. Knight Ā· Jennifer Michael Hecht Ā·
- 24 Scott Joplin Ā· Benedict Spinoza Ā· Billy Connolly Ā· Amol Palekar Ā·
- 25 Anne Nicol Gaylor Ā· Andrew Carnegie Ā· Nikolai Vavilov Ā·
- 26 Charles Schulz Ā· Edwin Kagin Ā·
- 27 Bill Nye Ā· Bruce Lee Ā·
- 28 William Blake Ā· Friedrich Engels Ā· Sir Leslie Stephen Ā· Randy Newman Ā· Claude Levi-Strauss Ā·
- 29 Percy Bysshe Shelley (Quote) Ā·
- 30 Mark Twain Ā· John Toland Ā· Louise-Victorine Ackermann Ā· Gael GarcĆa Bernal Ā·
December
- 1 Sarah Silverman Ā·
- 2 Kristin Lems Ā· Aaron Rodgers Ā· T.C. Boyle Ā·
- 3 Julianne Moore Ā· Joseph Conrad Ā·
- 4 Thomas Carlyle Ā· Samuel Butler Ā· Candace R.M. Gorham Ā· Fred Armisen Ā·
- 5 Sonia Johnson (Excommunicated) Ā· ‘Witches Bull’ Issued Ā· Carolyn Hax Ā· Joan Didion Ā·
- 6 Ira Gershwin Ā· Peter Buck Ā·
- 7 Noam Chomsky Ā· Heywood C. Broun Ā·
- 8 Baron d’Holbach Ā· James Thurber Ā· BjĆørnstjerne BjĆørnson Ā· Diego Rivera Ā· Bill Bryson Ā·
- 9 John Malkovich Ā· Richard Carlile Ā· Hermione Gingold Ā· Kate Smurthwaite Ā· Kirk Douglas Ā·
- 10 William Lloyd Garrison Ā· Thomas Gore Ā·
- 11 Ellen Key Ā· Hector Berlioz Ā·
- 12 Gustave Flaubert Ā· Jay Gorney Ā· Frank Sinatra (Quotes) Ā·
- 13 Queen Silver Ā· John Davidson Ā· Christopher Plummer Ā·
- 14 Titus Voelkel Ā·
- 15 Bill of Rights Adoption Ā· Oscar Niemeyer Ā· Maxwell Anderson Ā· Sue Lines Ā· Edna O’Brien Ā·
- 16 George Santayana Ā· Ludwig van Beethoven Ā· Arthur C. Clarke Ā· Bill Hicks Ā·
- 17 Frances Hamerstrom Ā· Marquise du ChĆ¢telet Ā· Kerry Packer Ā·
- 18 Pedro Pablo Abarca Aranda Ā· Susan Sackett Ā·
- 19 Richard Leakey Ā·
- 20 Sidney Hook Ā· Edward Tabash Ā·
- 21 Frank Zappa Ā· Rebecca West Ā· Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere) Ā· David Randolph Ā· Paul Winchell Ā· Paul Kurtz Ā·
- 22 Anthony Jeselnik Ā·
- 23 Elmina D. Slenker Ā· D.M. Bennett Ā· Francisco Manoel de Nascimento Ā· Eddie Vedder Ā·
- 24 Matthew Arnold Ā· John Morley Ā· Christopher Buckley Ā· Ed Miliband Ā· Ava Gardner Ā· Chris Kluwe Ā· Anthony Fauci Ā·
- 25 Leo Pfeffer Ā· Quentin Crisp Ā· Clara Barton Ā· Rod Serling Ā· Annie Lennox Ā·
- 26 Steve Allen Ā· James Mercer Ā·
- 27 Marlene Dietrich Ā· Sarah Vowell Ā·
- 28 Linus Torvalds Ā· Maarten Schmidt Ā· Wendy Kaminer Ā· John Legend Ā·
- 29 Paula Poundstone Ā· Danny McBride Ā·
- 30 Henri Matisse Ā·
- 31 Freethought of the Day – Browse by Name Ā·
January
- 1 Michel Onfray Ā· E.M. Forster Ā· Gustave Tridon Ā· ‘Wall of Separation’ Phrase Coined Ā· Ouida Ā·
- 2 Isaac Asimov Ā· Steve Benson Ā· Dax Shepard Ā· Barry Goldwater (Quotes) Ā·
- 3 Marcus Tullius Cicero (Quote) Ā· Betty Rollin Ā·
- 4 J.R. Simplot Ā· Michael Stipe Ā·
- 5 Felix Manz (Died) Ā· Iris DeMent Ā·
- 6 Nick Clegg Ā· Nigella Lawson Ā· Carl Sandburg Ā·
- 7 Zora Neale Hurston Ā· Giuliano Ferrara Ā· Ralph Miliband Ā· John E. Remsburg Ā·
- 8 Lewis Lapham Ā· David Bowie Ā· Sarah Polley Ā· Butterfly McQueen Ā· Stephen Hawking Ā· Thomas Aikenhead (Died) Ā· Carl Rogers Ā·
- 9 Dave Matthews Ā· Linda Greenhouse Ā· Simone de Beauvoir Ā·
- 10 Francisco Ferrer Ā· Col. Ethan Allen Ā·
- 11 Aldo Leopold Ā· Alice Paul Ā· G.W. Foote Ā· Jim Hightower Ā·
- 12 Cleo Fellers Kocol Ā· Ruth Hurmence Green Ā· Jack London Ā·
- 13 Ernestine L. Rose Ā·
- 14 Julian Bond Ā· Steven Soderbergh Ā· Andy Rooney Ā·
- 15 MoliĆØre Ā· Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday Ā· Martin Luther King Jr. Ā·
- 16 Statute for Religious Freedom Enacted Ā·
- 17 Sean Danielsen Ā· Javed Akhtar Ā· Desmond M. Clarke Ā· Sebastian Junger Ā· Benjamin Franklin Ā·
- 18 Niall Shanks Ā· James F. Crow Ā· Gilles Deleuze Ā· A.A. Milne Ā· Montesquieu Ā· Peter Annet (Died) Ā·
- 19 Edgar Allan Poe Ā· Julian Barnes Ā· Auguste Comte Ā·
- 20 Bill Maher Ā· Fred Whitehead Ā·
- 21 Helen H. Gardener Ā·
- 22 Beatrice Webb Ā· David Bazan Ā· Lord Byron Ā· Johan August Strindberg Ā· Roe v. Wade Issued Ā·
- 23 Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal) Ā· Arthur Schopenhauer (Quote) Ā·
- 24 Garrett Lisi Ā· Frederick the Great Ā· Joseph Mazzini Wheeler Ā·
- 25 Sherwin Wine Ā· W. Somerset Maugham Ā· Virginia Woolf Ā· Robert Burns Ā·
- 26 Paul Newman Ā· Jules Feiffer Ā·
- 27 Patton Oswalt Ā· Jerome Kern Ā· David Friedrich Strauss Ā· Mikhail Baryshnikov Ā·
- 28 Alan Alda Ā· Jason Aaron Ā· John Baskerville Ā·
- 29 W.C. Fields Ā· Victor Stenger Ā· Edward Paul Abbey Ā· Freethinkers Day Ā· Thomas Paine Ā· Robin Morgan Ā· Albert Gallatin Ā· Frederick Delius Ā·
- 30 Saul Alinsky Ā· Jack Germond Ā· Olof Palme Ā·
- 31 Rupert Hughes Ā· Oksana Shachko Ā· John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) Ā· Cecilia Gentili Ā· Peter Sagal Ā· Megan Phelps-Roper Ā·
February
- 1 Langston Hughes Ā· Terry Jones Ā· Barry Duke Ā· Yevgeny Zamyatin Ā·
- 2 Burton Lane Ā· James Joyce Ā· Ayn Rand Ā· Havelock Ellis Ā· Talleyrand Ā· Tom Smothers (Quote) Ā·
- 3 Michael Martin Ā· James A. Michener Ā·
- 4 Bill Haywood Ā· Georg Brandes Ā· Eugene M. MacDonald Ā·
- 5 Michel de Montaigne (Quote) Ā·
- 6 Christopher Marlowe Ā· Alice Greczyn Ā·
- 7 Charles Dickens Ā· Sinclair Lewis Ā· Madison Arnold Ā· Suzy Eddie Izzard Ā· G.H. Hardy Ā· Emo Philips Ā· Chris Rock Ā·
- 8 John Ruskin Ā· Philip Appleman Ā· Elizabeth Bishop Ā· William Jackson Harper Ā· Cecily Strong Ā·
- 9 Alice Walker Ā· Amy Lowell Ā· James Parton Ā· Giulio Cesare Vanini (Died) Ā· Aletta Jacobs Ā· Jacques Monod Ā·
- 10 Eliza Lynn Linton Ā· Larry Adler Ā· George H. Smith Ā·
- 11 Thomas Alva Edison Ā· Lydia Maria Child Ā· Leslie Nielsen Ā· Natalie Dormer Ā· Momus Ā· Flo Kennedy Ā· Sikivu Hutchinson Ā·
- 12 Charles Darwin Ā· Abraham Lincoln Ā· George Meredith Ā· FranƧois-DĆ©sirĆ© Bancel Ā· Judy Blume Ā· Cliff Bleszinski Ā·
- 13 Henry Rollins Ā· Marriage of Robert Green Ingersoll and Eva Parker Ā·
- 14 Frederick Douglass Ā· Teller Ā· Simon Pegg Ā·
- 15 Matt Groening Ā· Galileo Galilei Ā· Jeremy Bentham Ā· Susan B. Anthony Ā· Bill T. Jones Ā·
- 16 Christopher Eccleston Ā· Sir Francis Galton Ā· Natalie Angier Ā· Octave Mirbeau Ā· Elizabeth Olsen Ā·
- 17 Giordano Bruno (Executed) Ā·
- 18 Jared Huffman Ā·
- 19 Svante August Arrhenius Ā· Nicolaus Copernicus Ā· AndrĆ© Breton Ā· Beth Ditto Ā·
- 20 E.B. Foote Ā· Robert Altman Ā· James A. Haught Ā· Julian Scheer Ā·
- 21 Thomas Huxley (Quote) Ā·
- 22 Luis BuƱuel Ā· George Washington Ā· Arthur Schopenhauer Ā· Josephine K. Henry Ā· James Russell Lowell Ā· August Bebel Ā· Edna St. Vincent Millay (Quote) Ā·
- 23 W.E.B. Du Bois Ā· Rebecca Newberger Goldstein Ā· S.E. Cupp Ā·
- 24 George Augustus Moore Ā· Grant Allen Ā· Joan Konner Ā·
- 25 Anthony Burgess Ā· Hemant Mehta Ā·
- 26 Tony Randall Ā· Victor Hugo Ā·
- 27 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ā· John Steinbeck Ā· Sonia Johnson Ā· Charles Watts Ā· Peter De Vries Ā·
- 28 Michel de Montaigne Ā· Linus Pauling Ā· Ed Schempp Ā· Robin Cook Ā· Daniel Handler Ā·
March
- 1 Robert Lowell Ā· Queen Caroline Ā· Javier Bardem Ā· Nuala O’Faolain Ā· Scott Dikkers Ā· Harry Belafonte Ā·
- 2 John Irving Ā· Gerald H.F. Gardner Ā· Matt Taibbi Ā· Daniel Craig Ā· Pamela Paul Ā·
- 3 William Godwin Ā· Ira Glass Ā· Sir Edward Herbert Ā· Brian Cox Ā·
- 4 Indianapolis Freethinkers (Minutes) Ā·
- 5 Rosa Luxemburg Ā· Penn Jillette Ā· Matt Lucas Ā·
- 6 David Gilmour Ā· John Stossel Ā· Rob Reiner Ā· Carolyn Porco Ā·
- 7 Luther Burbank Ā· Alan Hale Ā· Maurice Ravel Ā· Lucy Parsons Ā· Jo Kotula Ā·
- 8 International Women’s Day Ā· Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Ā· McCollum v. Board of Education Decision (Anniversary) Ā· Ed Buckner Ā· Amy Alkon Ā·
- 9 Michael Kinsley Ā· PZ Myers Ā· Ćscar Isaac Ā·
- 10 H.L. Mencken (Quote) Ā· John Rechy Ā·
- 11 Douglas Adams Ā·
- 12 James Taylor Ā· Edward Albee Ā· Harry Harrison Ā· Carl Hiaasen Ā·
- 13 Joseph Priestley Ā·
- 14 Albert Einstein Ā· Arnold Krekel Ā·
- 15 David Cronenberg Ā·
- 16 Maxim Gorky Ā· James Madison Ā· Rosa Bonheur Ā· Richard Stallman Ā· Jack Nichols Ā· Jorge Ramos Ā· Don Carpenter Ā· J.B. Stallo Ā·
- 17 Kate Greenaway Ā· Moncure Daniel Conway Ā· Madame Roland Ā· Alexander McQueen Ā· Patrick Duffy Ā· Robert Blatchford Ā· Andrew Hozier-Byrne Ā·
- 18 Marilla Ricker Ā· Weiss v. District Board Ā· James McMurtry Ā·
- 19 Bruce Willis Ā· Sir Richard F. Burton Ā· Jean Astruc Ā· Henry Morgentaler Ā· Philip Roth Ā·
- 20 B.F. Skinner Ā· Henrik Ibsen Ā· Pamela Sargent Ā· William Stewart Ross Ā· The Woman Rebel Founded Ā· Carl Reiner Ā· John de Lancie Ā·
- 21 Cenk Uygur Ā· Benito JuĆ”rez Ā· M.N. Roy Ā·
- 22 Stephen Sondheim Ā· Stephen Pearl Andrews Ā· William Shatner Ā·
- 23 Erich Fromm Ā· William Smith Ā· Richard Proctor Ā·
- 24 Robert Louis Heilbroner Ā· Joel Barlow Ā· Harry Houdini Ā· David Suzuki Ā· Tig Notaro Ā·
- 25 Elton John Ā· Gloria Steinem Ā· Matilda Joslyn Gage Ā· Robbie Fulks Ā· Courtlandt Palmer Ā· BĆ©la BartĆ³k Ā·
- 26 Richard Dawkins Ā· A.E. Housman Ā· Robert Frost Ā· Keira Knightley Ā·
- 27 John Ballance Ā·
- 28 Daniel C. Dennett Ā· Ishmael Jaffree Ā· Jane Rule Ā· Neil Kinnock Ā· Corliss Lamont Ā·
- 29 Eric Idle Ā· Ludwig Buchner Ā·
- 30 Charles Booth Ā·
- 31 John Fowles Ā· Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner Ā· Olive Schreiner Ā· Matt Dillahunty Ā·
April
- 1 Milan Kundera Ā· Abraham Maslow Ā· Vladimir Pozner Jr. Ā·
- 2 Ćmile Zola Ā· Lloyd Morain Ā· LĆ©on Gambetta Ā·
- 3 Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke Ā· John Burroughs Ā· Marlon Brando Ā· Rachel Bloom Ā· A.C. Grayling Ā·
- 4 David Cross Ā· Robert Scheer Ā·
- 5 Thomas Hobbes Ā· Algernon Charles Swinburne Ā· Arthur Hailey Ā·
- 6 Robert M. Sapolsky Ā·
- 7 Elihu Palmer Ā· Abner Kneeland Ā· Marjory Stoneman Douglas Ā· Jack Lawrence Ā·
- 8 E.Y. (Yip) Harburg Ā· Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon Ā· Nell Newman Ā· Joseph Cunningham Ā· Craig Mazin Ā·
- 9 Paul Robeson Ā· Charles Baudelaire Ā· Tom Lehrer Ā· Paul Krassner Ā· Hugh Hefner Ā· Sam Harris Ā·
- 10 Thomas Allsop Ā·
- 11 George E. Macdonald Ā· Leo Rosten Ā· Mark Strand Ā·
- 12 Henry “Hank” Zumach Ā· Jon Krakauer Ā· Henry Clay Ā·
- 13 Mattie Parry Krekel Ā· Christopher Hitchens Ā· Thomas Jefferson Ā· George Jacob Holyoake Ā· Thomas Beddoes Ā· Nella Larsen Ā· Stanley Donen Ā·
- 14 Rod Steiger Ā· Bruce Sterling Ā· Richard Jeni Ā· Joseph Fletcher Ā· Patrick Somerville Ā·
- 15 Thomas Szasz Ā· Emma Thompson Ā· Emile Durkheim Ā· A. Philip Randolph Ā· Elizabeth Montgomery Ā·
- 16 Charlie Chaplin Ā· Anatole France Ā·
- 17 Isak Dinesen Ā·
- 18 Clarence Darrow Ā· Bonnie Garmus Ā·
- 19 Bertrand Russell (Quote) Ā· Dana Nessel Ā·
- 20 David Chalmers Ā·
- 21 ClĆ©mence Royer Ā· Narges Mohammadi Ā·
- 22 Jack Nicholson Ā· “Mme. de Stael” Ā· Robert Patterson Ā· Amber Heard Ā· Vladimir Nabokov Ā·
- 23 William Shakespeare Ā· J.M.W. Turner Ā· Peter Watson Ā· Sergei Prokofiev Ā· John Oliver Ā·
- 24 Clarence Darrow (Quote) Ā· Barbra Streisand Ā·
- 25 William J. Brennan (Quote) Ā·
- 26 David Hume Ā· EugĆØne Delacroix Ā· Samantha Cristoforetti Ā·
- 27 Edward Gibbon Ā· Mary Wollstonecraft Ā· Herbert Spencer Ā· Ulysses S. Grant Ā· Russell T Davies Ā· Hubert Harrison Ā·
- 28 Thomas Scott Ā· Sir Terence (Terry) Pratchett Ā· Jessica Alba Ā·
- 29 Uma Thurman Ā· Robert Gottlieb Ā· Derek Humphry Ā·
- 30 Cloris Leachman Ā· Claude Shannon Ā· Annie Dillard (Quote) Ā·
May
- 1 Joseph Heller Ā· Bob Mankoff Ā·
- 2 Catherine the Great Ā· Yoram Kaniuk Ā· Anthony B. Pinn Ā·
- 3 Steven Weinberg Ā· Pete Seeger Ā· Mary L. Trump Ā·
- 4 Thomas Huxley Ā· George Will Ā·
- 5 John Scopes (Arrested) Ā· Karl Marx Ā· Richard E. Grant Ā·
- 6 George Clooney Ā· Sigmund Freud Ā· Margaret Cole Ā· Madame Restell Ā·
- 7 Johannes Brahms Ā· Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky Ā· Robert Browning Ā·
- 8 Ella E. Gibson Ā· David Attenborough Ā·
- 9 Billy Joel Ā· Megan Hunt Ā·
- 10 Charles Knowlton Ā· Jonathan Edwards Ā· Ariel Durant Ā· Elie Mystal Ā·
- 11 Richard Feynman Ā· Irving Berlin Ā·
- 12 Katharine Hepburn Ā· George Carlin Ā· Florence Nightingale Ā· Dante Gabriel Rossetti Ā·
- 13 Roger Zelazny Ā·
- 14 Robert Owen Ā· Robyn Blumner Ā· Erwin Chemerinsky Ā· Cate Blanchett Ā·
- 15 Seymour Hersh (Quote) Ā· L. Frank Baum Ā·
- 16 Louis “Studs” Terkel Ā· Henry Fonda Ā· Brian Eno Ā·
- 17 Ralph Waldo Emerson (Quote) Ā·
- 18 Bertrand Russell Ā· Juan Mendez Ā·
- 19 Lorraine Hansberry Ā· Nora Ephron Ā· Kate Cohen Ā·
- 20 Stephen Girard Ā· HonorĆ© de Balzac Ā· John Stuart Mill Ā· JosĆ© Mujica Ā·
- 21 Alexander Pope Ā· Robert Creeley Ā· Andrei Sakharov Ā·
- 22 G.A. Wells Ā· Harvey Milk Ā·
- 23 Margaret Fuller Ā· PƤr Lagerkvist Ā· Joan Collins Ā·
- 24 Rufus King Noyes Ā· Stanley Baxter Ā·
- 25 Ralph Waldo Emerson Ā· Sir Ian McKellen Ā· Towel Day Ā·
- 26 Jack Kevorkian Ā· Matt Stone Ā· Sanal Edamaraku Ā·
- 27 Isadora Duncan Ā· Harlan Ellison Ā· Adam Carolla Ā· Paul Bettany Ā·
- 28 Epicurus (Quote) Ā·
- 29 John F. Kennedy (Quote) Ā· Peter Higgs Ā· Amy Schneider Ā·
- 30 Mikhail Bakunin Ā· A. Stone Freedberg Ā·
- 31 Walt Whitman Ā· Graham Wallas Ā·
June
- 1 Marilyn Monroe Ā·
- 2 Barbara Smoker Ā· Edward Elgar Ā· Thomas Hardy Ā·
- 3 Edward Livingston Youmans Ā· James Hutton Ā· Rafael Nadal Ā·
- 4 Wallace v. Jaffree Ā· Angelina Jolie Ā· Susan Jacoby Ā·
- 5 Adam Smith Ā· Ken Follett Ā·
- 6 Harvey Fierstein Ā· Sam Simon Ā· Maxine Kumin Ā· Aram Khachaturian Ā·
- 7 Alice Hubbard Ā· Charles Strouse Ā· Nikki Giovanni Ā·
- 8 Robert Schumann Ā· Frank Lloyd Wright Ā· Francis Crick Ā· Tim Berners-Lee Ā· Sara Paretsky Ā·
- 9 Cole Porter Ā· Natalie Portman Ā· Johnny Depp Ā· Michael J. Fox Ā· Pat Maginnis Ā· Eddie Marsan Ā·
- 10 E.O. Wilson Ā· Maurice Sendak Ā· Nat Hentoff Ā· Saul Bellow Ā· Treaty of Tripoli Ā· Alexandra LĆŗgaro Ā·
- 11 Richard Strauss Ā· Joseph Lewis Ā· Hugh Laurie Ā· Robert Munsch Ā· Anne Royall Ā· Ingrid Newkirk Ā· Gene Wilder Ā·
- 12 Harriet Martineau Ā· Loving v. Virginia Decided Ā·
- 13 Ann Druyan Ā·
- 14 Robert M. La Follette Sr. Ā· Margaret Bourke-White Ā· Wafa Sultan Ā· Mary Morain Ā· Ernesto “Che” Guevara Ā·
- 15 Mark Twain (Quote) Ā· Jean Meslier Ā·
- 16 Joyce Carol Oates Ā·
- 17 Bible Reading in Public Schools Halted Ā· Jello Biafra Ā·
- 18 Barack Hussein Obama Sr. Ā· Roger Ebert Ā· Lisa Randall Ā· Paul McCartney Ā·
- 19 Salman Rushdie Ā· Elbert Hubbard Ā· Supreme Court Affirms No Religious Test for Public Office Ā· Juneteenth Ā·
- 20 Summer Solstice Ā· Ira Cardiff Ā·
- 21 Ian McEwan Ā· Jean-Paul Sartre Ā· Edward Snowden Ā·
- 22 Julian Huxley Ā· Bill Blass Ā· Meryl Streep Ā· Erich Maria Remarque Ā· Dan Brown Ā· Ignacio RamĆrez Ā· Octavia Butler Ā·
- 23 Daniel Henry Chamberlain Ā· Alan Turing Ā· Jon Steingard Ā·
- 24 Ambrose Bierce Ā· Michael Newdow Ā· Kelda Roys Ā·
- 25 George Orwell Ā· Dan Barker Ā· Ricky Gervais Ā· Engel v. Vitale Ā· Anthony Bourdain Ā· Thomas Eisner Ā·
- 26 Pearl S. Buck Ā· Nick Offerman Ā· Phil Zuckerman Ā·
- 27 Emma Goldman Ā·
- 28 Richard Rodgers Ā· Ashley Montagu Ā· Jean-Jacques Rousseau Ā· Paul Broca Ā· Lalla Ward Ā· Donald C. Johanson Ā· Mel Brooks Ā·
- 29 Amanda Donohoe Ā· Frank Loesser Ā· Stokely Carmichael Ā·
- 30 J.B.S. Haldane (Quote) Ā· Harry Weese Ā·
July
- 1 Edward Clodd Ā·
- 2 Barbara G. Walker Ā· Civil Rights Act Enacted Ā· George Sand Ā· Larry David Ā· Harriet Hall Ā·
- 3 Charlotte Perkins Gilman Ā· LeoÅ” JanĆ”Äek Ā· Tom Stoppard Ā· Dave Barry Ā·
- 4 Declaration of Independence Adopted Ā· Giuseppe Garibaldi Ā· Kay Nolte Smith Ā· Stephen Foster Ā· Christopher Cameron Ā·
- 5 Ernst Mayr Ā·
- 6 Alexander Pushkin Ā· Benjamin Underwood Ā· Frida Kahlo Ā· Peter Singer Ā·
- 7 Robert A. Heinlein Ā· Josiah P. Mendum Ā· Gustav Mahler Ā· Eleanor Clift Ā·
- 8 Harriet Johnson Ā· Kevin Bacon Ā· Ernst Bloch Ā· Faye Wattleton Ā·
- 9 Sherry Matulis Ā· Oliver Sacks Ā·
- 10 Marcel Proust Ā· Camille Pissarro Ā· Ernie Chambers Ā·
- 11 John Quincy Adams Ā· Mark Fisher Ā· Pauline McLynn Ā·
- 12 Henry David Thoreau Ā· Pablo Neruda Ā· Phillip Adams Ā·
- 13 Harrison Ford Ā· Sidney Webb Ā· Jack Ziegler Ā·
- 14 Ingmar Bergman Ā· Jane Lynch Ā· Woody Guthrie Ā·
- 15 Iris Murdoch Ā· Jesse Ventura Ā· Adam Savage Ā· David Miliband Ā· Linda Ronstadt Ā· Jacques Derrida Ā· Cecile Richards Ā·
- 16 Tony Kushner Ā·
- 17 Phyllis Diller Ā· Josh Barro Ā·
- 18 William Makepeace Thackeray Ā· Donald B. Ardell Ā· Kristen Bell Ā·
- 19 Anniversary of Seneca Falls Convention Ā· Fred Edwords Ā· JosĆ© Manuel Balmaceda Ā·
- 20 E. Haldeman-Julius Ā· Chris Cornell Ā·
- 21 Anthony Collins Ā· Robin Williams Ā·
- 22 Tom Robbins Ā· Steve Albini Ā· Marci Hamilton Ā· John Leguizamo Ā· Albert Brooks Ā·
- 23 Samuel Porter Putnam Ā· Daniel Radcliffe Ā· Hendrik Hertzberg Ā· Alfred “Dilly” Knox Ā·
- 24 Vern Bullough Ā· Rose Byrne Ā· Mara Wilson Ā·
- 25 Eric Hoffer Ā· Rosalind Franklin Ā· Woody Harrelson Ā·
- 26 George Bernard Shaw Ā· Daniel Everett Ā· Stanley Kubrick Ā· Aldous Huxley Ā· Lucy Colman Ā· Mick Jagger Ā·
- 27 Helen Taylor Ā· Maya Rudolph Ā· Norman Lear Ā·
- 28 14th Amendment Adopted Ā· Anne Hutchinson (Banished) Ā· Meg Bowman Ā·
- 29 Wil Wheaton Ā·
- 30 Thorstein Veblen Ā·
- 31 Paul D. Boyer Ā· Jean-Baptiste LaMarck Ā·
August
- 1 Herman Melville Ā·
- 2 Peter O’Toole Ā· James Baldwin Ā· Lawrence Wright Ā·
- 3 Rupert Brooke Ā· Michael Terence Wogan Ā· John Landis Ā· John T. Scopes Ā·
- 4 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ā· Helen Thomas Ā·
- 5 Ellery Schempp Ā· Clara Bewick Colby Ā· Guy de Maupassant Ā· Alfred, Lord Tennyson Ā· Robert Taylor Ā· Lizz Winstead Ā·
- 6 Lawrence Lader Ā· Janet Jeppson Asimov Ā·
- 7 The Amazing James Randi Ā· Charles Southwell Ā· Charlize Theron Ā·
- 8 Tom Brazaitis Ā· Paul Dirac Ā·
- 9 Sigmund Freud (Quote) Ā·
- 10 Frances “Poppy” Northcutt Ā· Antonio Banderas Ā· Walter Plywaski Ā·
- 11 Robert G. Ingersoll Ā· Steve Wozniak Ā· Lyle Stuart Ā·
- 12 Lillie Devereux Blake Ā· George Soros Ā·
- 13 Felix Adler Ā·
- 14 John Galsworthy Ā· David Crosby Ā·
- 15 Julia Child Ā·
- 16 Matthew Tindal Ā· James Cameron Ā· Vanessa Carlton Ā· Margaret Downey Ā· Taika Waititi Ā· Paul Morantz Ā·
- 17 Maria Deraismes Ā· Alex Honnold Ā· V. S. Naipaul Ā·
- 18 Robert Redford Ā· Tom Flynn Ā·
- 19 Pierre-Jean de BĆ©ranger Ā· Gene Roddenberry Ā· Ron Darling Ā·
- 20 Andrew Garfield Ā·
- 21 Bo Burnham Ā·
- 22 Claude Debussy Ā· Diana Nyad Ā· Annie Proulx Ā·
- 23 Anatole France (Quote) Ā·
- 24 Howard Zinn Ā· Stephen Fry Ā· Arian Foster Ā·
- 25 Horace Seaver Ā·
- 26 Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day Ā· Barbara Ehrenreich Ā· Zona Gale Ā· Robert Walpole Ā· Shirley Manson Ā·
- 27 Granville Stuart Ā·
- 28 C. Wright Mills Ā· Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Ā· Bwambale Robert Musubaho Ā·
- 29 Xenophanes of Colophon (Quote) Ā· Charlie Parker Ā·
- 30 Ted Williams Ā· Mary Godwin Shelley Ā· Warren Buffett Ā· Paul “Jody” Gaylor Ā·
- 31 Anatole France (Quote) Ā·
September
- 1 Freethought Today Debuts Ā· Chapman Cohen Ā· Edgar Rice Burroughs Ā· Patricia Duffy Hutcheon Ā· Lily Tomlin Ā·
- 2 Claire Eglin Culhane Ā· Keanu Reeves Ā· Keir Starmer Ā·
- 3 Viktor E. Lennstrand (Swedish freethought rally) Ā·
- 4 Richard Wright Ā· Mandisa Thomas Ā·
- 5 Jean de la BruyĆØre (Quote) Ā· Carter Warden Ā· Michael Hakeem Ā·
- 6 Frances Wright Ā· Jane Addams Ā· Bruno Bauer Ā· Roger Waters Ā· Robert M. Pirsig Ā· Rosie Perez Ā·
- 7 Malcolm Bradbury Ā·
- 8 Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Quote) Ā·
- 9 Leo Tolstoy Ā· Michel de Montaigne (Quote) Ā·
- 10 Stephen J. Gould Ā·
- 11 Jessica Mitford Ā· Daniel Sloss Ā·
- 12 H.L. Mencken Ā· Catherine Fahringer Ā· Avijit Roy Ā· Neil Peart Ā·
- 13 Don Addis Ā· Alain Locke Ā· Herb Grosch Ā·
- 14 Margaret Sanger Ā· Ted Gup Ā· Alexander von Humboldt Ā·
- 15 James Fenimore Cooper Ā·
- 16 Viscount Bolingbroke Ā· Richard Marx Ā·
- 17 Theodore Schroeder Ā· Sean B. Carroll Ā· Jerry DeWitt Ā· Constitution Day Ā· Periyar Ā·
- 18 Greta Garbo Ā· Sabine Hossenfelder Ā·
- 19 Frances Farmer Ā· Jean Baptiste Delambre Ā· Simon Singh Ā· Twiggy Ā·
- 20 Upton Sinclair Ā· Robert Emmet Ā· George R.R. Martin Ā· Malachy McCourt Ā· Rosemary Matson Ā· Lesley Hazleton Ā·
- 21 H.G. Wells Ā· Etta Semple Ā· James Watson Ā· Sir Bernard Williams Ā· Stephen King Ā· Nancy Travis Ā·
- 22 Parker Pillsbury Ā· Eva Ingersoll Ā· Linda LaScola Ā· Bobby Hinds Ā·
- 23 Ani DiFranco Ā· Victoria Woodhull Ā· Walter Lippmann Ā· Michelle Goldberg Ā·
- 24 F. Scott Fitzgerald Ā·
- 25 Theophile de Viau (Died) Ā· Dmitri Shostakovich Ā· Christopher Reeve Ā· Paul MacCready Ā· Donald Glover Ā·
- 26 George Gershwin Ā· Charles Bradlaugh Ā· Ivan Pavlov Ā· Ryan Bell Ā·
- 27 Albert Ellis Ā· Bhagat Singh Ā· Robert Phillips Ā·
- 28 Georges Clemenceau Ā· Robert Stout Ā· Prosper Merimee Ā· Janeane Garofalo Ā· Greydon Square Ā·
- 29 Michelle Bachelet Ā· Julia Gillard Ā· Barbara Mertz Ā· Colin Dexter Ā·
- 30 Phil Plait Ā· Ta-Nehisi Coates Ā· Truman Capote Ā· International Blasphemy Day Ā·
October
- 1 Annie Besant Ā· Charlie McDonnell Ā·
- 2 Sting Ā· Graham Greene Ā· Christian de Duve Ā· Wallace Stevens Ā· Gene Weingarten Ā·
- 3 Gore Vidal Ā· Denis Villeneuve Ā· Philippa Foot Ā·
- 4 Vitaly Ginzburg Ā· Rutherford B. Hayes (Quote) Ā· Carl Brandes Ā·
- 5 Denis Diderot Ā· Bob Geldof Ā· Sean M. Carroll Ā· Neil deGrasse Tyson Ā· Bart Ehrman Ā·
- 6 Alfred Naquet Ā· Emily Palmer Cape Ā· Matthew Sweet Ā· John McWhorter Ā·
- 7 Harry Kroto Ā· Joe Hill Ā· Tim Minchin Ā· Joy Behar Ā· Dan Savage Ā· Roy Zimmerman Ā·
- 8 James Fergus Ā· Hector Avalos Ā·
- 9 John Lennon Ā· Giuseppe Verdi Ā· Roger Williams (Banished) Ā· Peter Lipton Ā· Chris O’Dowd Ā· Annika Sƶrenstam Ā·
- 10 Julia Sweeney Ā· Harold Pinter Ā· Henry Cavendish Ā· Fridtjof Nansen Ā· Thelonious Monk Ā·
- 11 Eleanor Roosevelt Ā·
- 12 Ralph Vaughan Williams Ā· Freethought Day Ā·
- 13 Lenny Bruce (Quote) Ā·
- 14 Katha Pollitt Ā· E. E. Cummings Ā· Hannah Arendt Ā·
- 15 Friedrich Nietzsche Ā· John Kenneth Galbraith Ā· P.G. Wodehouse Ā· Arthur Schlesinger Jr. Ā· Roxane Gay Ā· Michael Lewis Ā·
- 16 Oscar Wilde Ā· Eugene O’Neill Ā· Lilian Leland Ā· Mary Daly Ā·
- 17 John Wilkes Ā· Georg Buchner Ā· William Anders Ā· Arthur Miller Ā· Michael McKean Ā·
- 18 James Madison (Quote) Ā·
- 19 Alton Lemon Ā· Philip Pullman Ā· Trey Parker Ā· Lewis Wolpert Ā· Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar Ā· Neal Brennan Ā· Cara Santa Maria Ā·
- 20 John Dewey Ā· Tom Petty Ā·
- 21 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Ā· Martin Gardner Ā· Ursula K. Le Guin Ā· Tariq Ali Ā· Mary Ann Masterton Ā·
- 22 Doris Lessing Ā· Bob Odenkirk Ā· Baba Brinkman Ā·
- 23 George Santayana (Quote) Ā· Johnny Carson Ā· Ned Rorem Ā· Jon Huertas Ā·
- 24 Kevin Kline Ā· Lakshmi Sahgal Ā· Eugenie Scott Ā·
- 25 Georges Bizet Ā· Marcellin Berthelot Ā· Alexander Buchner Ā· Max Stirner Ā· Anne Tyler Ā· Zadie Smith Ā·
- 26 Seth MacFarlane Ā·
- 27 Michael Servetus (Executed) Ā· Sharlot Hall Ā· Niccolo Paganini Ā· Klas Pontus Arnoldson Ā· Warren Allen Smith Ā· William Maclure Ā· Sylvia Plath Ā· Malcolm Margolin Ā· Fran Lebowitz Ā·
- 28 Bill Gates (Quote) Ā· Joaquin Phoenix Ā· Elsa Lanchester Ā· Matt Smith Ā· Norma Cunningham Ā· Andy Richter Ā·
- 29 Edward Truelove Ā· Alfred Jules Ayer Ā· Lee Child Ā·
- 30 John Adams Ā· MC Paul Barman Ā·
- 31 John Keats Ā·
November
- 1 Hermann Bondi Ā· Robert R. Tiernan Ā· Narendra Dabholkar Ā·
- 2 Burt Lancaster Ā· Annie Laurie Gaylor Ā·
- 3 AndrĆ© Malraux Ā· Ludovic Kennedy Ā· Steven Wilson Ā· Scott Galloway Ā· Amartya Sen Ā·
- 4 Maud Ingersoll Ā· Kathy Griffin Ā· Taylor Tomlinson Ā·
- 5 Ella Wheeler Wilcox Ā· Eugene V. Debs Ā· Harriet Law Ā· Will Durant Ā·
- 6 Pat Tillman Ā· Vashti Cromwell McCollum Ā· Francis Ellingwood Abbot Ā· Thandiwe Newton Ā· Greg Graffin Ā· Robert Ellis Ā· Mike Nichols Ā·
- 7 Marie Curie Ā· Albert Camus Ā· Andrew Dickson White Ā· Culbert Olson Ā· Joni Mitchell Ā· Sasha Sagan Ā·
- 8 Ben Bova Ā· Edmund Halley Ā· Bonnie Raitt Ā·
- 9 Carl Sagan Ā· Ivan Turgenev Ā· Robert Dale Owen Ā·
- 10 Mark Twain (Quote) Ā· Terence Davies Ā·
- 11 Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Ā· Joseph McCabe Ā· Pete Stark Ā· Hugh Everett III Ā· Veterans Day Ā· Andy Partridge Ā·
- 12 Elizabeth Cady Stanton Ā· Auguste Rodin Ā· Norm Allen Ā·
- 13 Robert Louis Stevenson Ā· Roy Torcaso Ā· Jaime Gil de Biedma Ā·
- 14 Aaron Copland Ā· Jawaharlal Nehru Ā· J.M. Robertson Ā·
- 15 Gora Ā· William Pitt Ā· Ed Asner Ā· George Hahn Ā·
- 16 George Seldes Ā· JosĆ© Saramago Ā· Shriram Lagoo Ā·
- 17 Voltairine de Cleyre Ā· Stephen Symonds Foster Ā·
- 18 Margaret Atwood Ā· Pierre Bayle Ā· Chalmers Roberts Ā· Ben Winter Ā·
- 19 Indira Gandhi Ā· Jodie Foster Ā· Myla Goldberg Ā· Larry King Ā·
- 20 Thomas Chatterton Ā· Edwin Hubble Ā·
- 21 Bjork Ā· Voltaire Ā·
- 22 George Eliot Ā· Rodney Dangerfield Ā· Nate Phelps Ā·
- 23 Marie Bashkirtseff Ā· Margaret K. Knight Ā· Jennifer Michael Hecht Ā·
- 24 Scott Joplin Ā· Benedict Spinoza Ā· Billy Connolly Ā· Amol Palekar Ā·
- 25 Anne Nicol Gaylor Ā· Andrew Carnegie Ā· Nikolai Vavilov Ā·
- 26 Charles Schulz Ā· Edwin Kagin Ā·
- 27 Bill Nye Ā· Bruce Lee Ā·
- 28 William Blake Ā· Friedrich Engels Ā· Sir Leslie Stephen Ā· Randy Newman Ā· Claude Levi-Strauss Ā·
- 29 Percy Bysshe Shelley (Quote) Ā·
- 30 Mark Twain Ā· John Toland Ā· Louise-Victorine Ackermann Ā· Gael GarcĆa Bernal Ā·
December
- 1 Sarah Silverman Ā·
- 2 Kristin Lems Ā· Aaron Rodgers Ā· T.C. Boyle Ā·
- 3 Julianne Moore Ā· Joseph Conrad Ā·
- 4 Thomas Carlyle Ā· Samuel Butler Ā· Candace R.M. Gorham Ā· Fred Armisen Ā·
- 5 Sonia Johnson (Excommunicated) Ā· ‘Witches Bull’ Issued Ā· Carolyn Hax Ā· Joan Didion Ā·
- 6 Ira Gershwin Ā· Peter Buck Ā·
- 7 Noam Chomsky Ā· Heywood C. Broun Ā·
- 8 Baron d’Holbach Ā· James Thurber Ā· BjĆørnstjerne BjĆørnson Ā· Diego Rivera Ā· Bill Bryson Ā·
- 9 John Malkovich Ā· Richard Carlile Ā· Hermione Gingold Ā· Kate Smurthwaite Ā· Kirk Douglas Ā·
- 10 William Lloyd Garrison Ā· Thomas Gore Ā·
- 11 Ellen Key Ā· Hector Berlioz Ā·
- 12 Gustave Flaubert Ā· Jay Gorney Ā· Frank Sinatra (Quotes) Ā·
- 13 Queen Silver Ā· John Davidson Ā· Christopher Plummer Ā·
- 14 Titus Voelkel Ā·
- 15 Bill of Rights Adoption Ā· Oscar Niemeyer Ā· Maxwell Anderson Ā· Sue Lines Ā· Edna O’Brien Ā·
- 16 George Santayana Ā· Ludwig van Beethoven Ā· Arthur C. Clarke Ā· Bill Hicks Ā·
- 17 Frances Hamerstrom Ā· Marquise du ChĆ¢telet Ā· Kerry Packer Ā·
- 18 Pedro Pablo Abarca Aranda Ā· Susan Sackett Ā·
- 19 Richard Leakey Ā·
- 20 Sidney Hook Ā· Edward Tabash Ā·
- 21 Frank Zappa Ā· Rebecca West Ā· Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere) Ā· David Randolph Ā· Paul Winchell Ā· Paul Kurtz Ā·
- 22 Anthony Jeselnik Ā·
- 23 Elmina D. Slenker Ā· D.M. Bennett Ā· Francisco Manoel de Nascimento Ā· Eddie Vedder Ā·
- 24 Matthew Arnold Ā· John Morley Ā· Christopher Buckley Ā· Ed Miliband Ā· Ava Gardner Ā· Chris Kluwe Ā· Anthony Fauci Ā·
- 25 Leo Pfeffer Ā· Quentin Crisp Ā· Clara Barton Ā· Rod Serling Ā· Annie Lennox Ā·
- 26 Steve Allen Ā· James Mercer Ā·
- 27 Marlene Dietrich Ā· Sarah Vowell Ā·
- 28 Linus Torvalds Ā· Maarten Schmidt Ā· Wendy Kaminer Ā· John Legend Ā·
- 29 Paula Poundstone Ā· Danny McBride Ā·
- 30 Henri Matisse Ā·
- 31 Freethought of the Day – Browse by Name Ā·