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Freethought events in history. Birthdays and quotes of famous freethinkers.
Unless otherwise indicated, these are birthdates.

ALL JAN FEB MAR APR MAY JUN JUL AUG SEPT OCT NOV DEC

JANUARY

1: 'Wall of Separation' Phrase Coined · Ouida · E.M. Forster · Michel Onfray · Gustave Tridon
2: Isaac Asimov · Steve Benson · Dax Shepard
3: Marcus Tullius Cicero (Quote)
4: J.R. Simplot · Michael Stipe
5: Felix Manz (Died) · Iris DeMent
6: Carl Sandburg · Nick Clegg · Nigella Lawson
7: Zora Neale Hurston · John E. Remsburg · Giuliano Ferrara · Ralph Miliband
8: Butterfly McQueen · Stephen Hawking · Thomas Aikenhead (Died) · Carl Rogers · Lewis Lapham · David Bowie
9: Simone de Beauvoir · Dave Matthews · Linda Greenhouse
10: Col. Ethan Allen · Francisco Ferrer
11: Aldo Leopold · Alice Paul · G.W. Foote
12: Ruth Hurmence Green · Jack London · Cleo Fellers Kocol
13: Ernestine L. Rose
14: Steven Soderbergh · Andy Rooney · Julian Bond
15: Martin Luther King Jr. · Molière · Jean Meslier
16: Statute for Religious Freedom Enacted · Martin Luther King Jr. Federal Holiday
17: Benjamin Franklin · Sebastian Junger · Sean Danielsen · Javed Akhtar · Desmond M. Clarke
18: A.A. Milne · Montesquieu · Peter Annet (Died) · Niall Shanks · James F. Crow · Gilles Deleuze
19: Edgar Allan Poe · Auguste Comte · Julian Barnes
20: Bill Maher · Fred Whitehead
21: Helen H. Gardener
22: Beatrice Webb · Lord Byron · Johan August Strindberg · Roe v. Wade Issued · David Bazan
23: Arthur Schopenhauer (Quote) · Marie-Henri Beyle (Stendhal)
24: Frederick the Great · Joseph Mazzini Wheeler · Garrett Lisi
25: Virginia Woolf · Robert Burns · Sherwin Wine · W. Somerset Maugham
26: Paul Newman · Jules Feiffer
27: Jerome Kern · David Friedrich Strauss · Mikhail Baryshnikov · Patton Oswalt
28: John Baskerville · Alan Alda
29: Freethinkers Day · Thomas Paine · Robin Morgan · W.C. Fields · Albert Gallatin · Frederick Delius · Victor Stenger · Edward Paul Abbey
30: Saul Alinsky · Olof Palme · Jack Germond
31: Rupert Hughes · Oksana Shachko · John Lydon (Johnny Rotten)

FEBRUARY

1: Langston Hughes · Terry Jones · Barry Duke
2: James Joyce · Ayn Rand · Havelock Ellis · Talleyrand · Burton Lane
3: James A. Michener · Michael Martin
4: Eugene M. MacDonald · Georg Brandes · Bill Haywood
5: Michel de Montaigne (Quote)
6: Christopher Marlowe · Alice Greczyn
7: Charles Dickens · Sinclair Lewis · Madison Arnold · Eddie Izzard · G.H. Hardy · Emo Philips · Chris Rock
8: John Ruskin · Philip Appleman · Elizabeth Bishop · William Jackson Harper · Cecily Strong
9: Alice Walker · Amy Lowell · James Parton · Giulio Cesare Vanini (Died) · Aletta Jacobs · Jacques Monod
10: Eliza Lynn Linton
11: Thomas Alva Edison · Lydia Maria Child · Leslie Nielsen · Natalie Dormer · Momus · Flo Kennedy · Sikivu Hutchinson
12: Charles Darwin · Abraham Lincoln · George Meredith · François-Désiré Bancel
13: Henry Rollins · Marriage of Robert Green Ingersoll and Eva Parker
14: Frederick Douglass · Teller · Simon Pegg
15: Matt Groening · Galileo Galilei · Jeremy Bentham · Susan B. Anthony · Bill T. Jones
16: Christopher Eccleston · Sir Francis Galton · Natalie Angier · Octave Mirbeau · Elizabeth Olsen
17: Giordano Bruno (Executed)
18: Matt Dillon · Jared Huffman
19: Svante August Arrhenius · Nicolaus Copernicus · André Breton
20: E.B. Foote · Robert Altman · James A. Haught · Julian Scheer
21: Thomas Huxley (Quote)
22: Luis Buñuel · George Washington · Arthur Schopenhauer · Josephine K. Henry · James Russell Lowell · August Bebel · Edna St. Vincent Millay (Quote)
23: W.E.B. Du Bois · Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
24: George Augustus Moore · Grant Allen · Joan Konner
25: Anthony Burgess · Hemant Mehta
26: Tony Randall · Victor Hugo
27: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · John Steinbeck · Sonia Johnson · Charles Watts · Peter De Vries
28: Michel de Montaigne · Linus Pauling · Robin Cook · Daniel Handler
29: Ed Schempp

MARCH

1: Robert Lowell · Queen Caroline · Javier Bardem · Nuala O'Faolain · Scott Dikkers
2: John Irving · Gerald H.F. Gardner · Matt Taibbi · Daniel Craig
3: William Godwin · Ira Glass · Sir Edward Herbert · Brian Cox
4: Indianapolis Freethinkers (Minutes)
5: Rosa Luxemburg · Penn Jillette · Matt Lucas
6: David Gilmour · John Stossel
7: Luther Burbank · Alan Hale · Jo Kotula · Maurice Ravel · Lucy Parsons
8: International Women's Day · Amy Alkon · Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. · McCollum v. Board of Education Decision (Anniversary) · Ed Buckner
9: Michael Kinsley · PZ Myers · Óscar Isaac
10: H.L. Mencken (Quote) · John Rechy
11: Douglas Adams
12: James Taylor · Edward Albee · Harry Harrison
13: Joseph Priestley
14: Albert Einstein · Arnold Krekel
15: David Cronenberg
16: Maxim Gorky · James Madison · Rosa Bonheur · Richard Stallman · Jack Nichols · Jorge Ramos · Don Carpenter · J.B. Stallo
17: Kate Greenaway · Moncure Daniel Conway · Madame Roland · Alexander McQueen · Patrick Duffy · Robert Blatchford · Andrew Hozier-Byrne
18: Marilla Ricker · Weiss v. District Board
19: Bruce Willis · Sir Richard F. Burton · Jean Astruc · Philip Roth · Henry Morgentaler
20: B.F. Skinner · Henrik Ibsen · Pamela Sargent · William Stewart Ross · The Woman Rebel Founded · Carl Reiner
21: Cenk Uygur · Benito Juárez
22: Stephen Sondheim · Stephen Pearl Andrews · William Shatner
23: Erich Fromm · William Smith · Richard Proctor
24: Robert Louis Heilbroner · Joel Barlow · Harry Houdini · David Suzuki · Tig Notaro
25: Robbie Fulks · Elton John · Gloria Steinem · Matilda Joslyn Gage · Courtlandt Palmer · Béla Bartók
26: Richard Dawkins · A.E. Housman · Robert Frost · Edward Sorel · Keira Knightley
27: John Ballance
28: Daniel C. Dennett · Ishmael Jaffree · Jane Rule · Neil Kinnock · Corliss Lamont
29: Eric Idle · Ludwig Buchner
30: Charles Booth
31: John Fowles · Hypatia Bradlaugh Bonner · Olive Schreiner · Matt Dillahunty

APRIL

1: Milan Kundera · Abraham Maslow · Vladimir Pozner Jr.
2: Émile Zola · Lloyd Morain · Léon Gambetta
3: Mathilde Franziska Giesler Anneke · John Burroughs · Marlon Brando · Rachel Bloom · A.C. Grayling
4: David Cross · Robert Scheer
5: Thomas Hobbes · Algernon Charles Swinburne · Arthur Hailey
6: James D. Watson · Robert M. Sapolsky
7: Elihu Palmer · Abner Kneeland · Jack Lawrence · Marjory Stoneman Douglas
8: E.Y. (Yip) Harburg · Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon · Joseph Cunningham · Nell Newman
9: Paul Robeson · Charles Baudelaire · Tom Lehrer · Paul Krassner · Hugh Hefner · Sam Harris
10: Thomas Allsop
11: George E. Macdonald · Leo Rosten · Mark Strand
12: Friedrich Nietzsche (Quote) · Henry "Hank" Zumach · Henry Clay
13: Mattie Parry Krekel · Christopher Hitchens · Thomas Jefferson · George Jacob Holyoake · Thomas Beddoes · Nella Larsen
14: Rod Steiger · Bruce Sterling · Richard Jeni · Joseph Fletcher · Patrick Somerville
15: Thomas Szasz · Emma Thompson · Emile Durkheim · A. Philip Randolph · Elizabeth Montgomery
16: Charlie Chaplin · Anatole France
17: Isak Dinesen
18: Clarence Darrow
19: Bertrand Russell (Quote)
20: David Chalmers
21: Clémence Royer
22: Jack Nicholson · "Mme. de Stael" · Robert Patterson · Amber Heard
23: William Shakespeare · J.M.W. Turner · Peter Watson · Sergei Prokofiev
24: Clarence Darrow (Quote) · Barbra Streisand
25: William J. Brennan (Quote)
26: David Hume · Eugène Delacroix
27: Edward Gibbon · Mary Wollstonecraft · Herbert Spencer · Ulysses S. Grant · Russell T Davies · Hubert Harrison
28: Thomas Scott · Sir Terence (Terry) Pratchett · Jessica Alba
29: Uma Thurman · Robert Gottlieb · Derek Humphry
30: Cloris Leachman · Claude Shannon · Annie Dillard (Quote)

MAY

1: Joseph Heller · Bob Mankoff
2: Anthony B. Pinn · Catherine the Great · Yoram Kaniuk
3: Steven Weinberg · Pete Seeger
4: Thomas Huxley · George Will
5: John Scopes (Arrested) · Karl Marx · Richard E. Grant
6: George Clooney · Sigmund Freud · Margaret Cole
7: Johannes Brahms · Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky · Robert Browning
8: Ella E. Gibson · David Attenborough
9: Billy Joel
10: Charles Knowlton · Jonathan Edwards · Ariel Durant
11: Richard Feynman · Irving Berlin
12: Katharine Hepburn · George Carlin · Florence Nightingale · Dante Gabriel Rossetti
13: Roger Zelazny
14: Robert Owen · Robyn Blumner · Erwin Chemerinsky
15: Seymour Hersh (Quote) · L. Frank Baum
16: Louis "Studs" Terkel · Henry Fonda · Brian Eno
17: Ralph Waldo Emerson (Quote)
18: Bertrand Russell · Juan Mendez
19: Lorraine Hansberry · Nora Ephron
20: Stephen Girard · Honoré de Balzac · John Stuart Mill · José Mujica · Ron Reagan
21: Alexander Pope · Robert Creeley
22: G.A. Wells · Harvey Milk
23: Margaret Fuller · Pär Lagerkvist · Joan Collins
24: Rufus King Noyes · Stanley Baxter
25: Ralph Waldo Emerson · Sir Ian McKellen
26: Jack Kevorkian · Matt Stone · Sanal Edamaraku
27: Isadora Duncan · Harlan Ellison · Adam Carolla
28: Epicurus (Quote)
29: John F. Kennedy (Quote) · Peter Higgs · Amy Schneider
30: Mikhail Bakunin · A. Stone Freedberg
31: Walt Whitman · Graham Wallas

JUNE

1: Marilyn Monroe
2: Barbara Smoker · Edward Elgar · Thomas Hardy
3: Edward Livingston Youmans · James Hutton · Rafael Nadal
4: Wallace v. Jaffree · Angelina Jolie · Susan Jacoby
5: Adam Smith · Ken Follett
6: Harvey Fierstein · Sam Simon · Maxine Kumin · Aram Khachaturian
7: Alice Hubbard · Charles Strouse · Nikki Giovanni
8: Robert Schumann · Frank Lloyd Wright · Francis Crick · Tim Berners-Lee · Sara Paretsky
9: Cole Porter · Natalie Portman · Johnny Depp · Michael J. Fox
10: Saul Bellow · E.O. Wilson · Maurice Sendak · Nat Hentoff · Treaty of Tripoli
11: Richard Strauss · Joseph Lewis · Hugh Laurie · Robert Munsch · Anne Royall · Ingrid Newkirk · Gene Wilder
12: Harriet Martineau · Loving v. Virginia Decided
13: Ann Druyan
14: Robert M. "Fighting Bob" La Follette Sr. · Margaret Bourke-White · Wafa Sultan · Mary Morain · Ernesto "Che" Guevara
15: Mark Twain (Quote)
16: Joyce Carol Oates
17: Bible Reading in Public Schools Halted · Jello Biafra
18: Barack Hussein Obama Sr. · Roger Ebert · Lisa Randall
19: Salman Rushdie · Elbert Hubbard · Supreme Court Affirms No Religious Test for Public Office · Juneteenth
20: Ira Cardiff
21: Edward Snowden · Ian McEwan · Jean-Paul Sartre · Summer Solstice
22: Julian Huxley · Bill Blass · Meryl Streep · Erich Maria Remarque · Dan Brown · Ignacio Ramírez · Octavia Butler
23: Daniel Henry Chamberlain · Alan Turing · Jon Steingard
24: Ambrose Bierce · Michael Newdow
25: George Orwell · Dan Barker · Ricky Gervais · Engel v. Vitale · Anthony Bourdain
26: Phil Zuckerman · Pearl S. Buck · Nick Offerman
27: Emma Goldman
28: Richard Rodgers · Ashley Montagu · Jean-Jacques Rousseau · Paul Broca · Lalla Ward · Donald C. Johanson · Mel Brooks
29: Amanda Donohoe · Frank Loesser · Stokely Carmichael
30: J.B.S. Haldane (Quote) · Harry Weese

JULY

1: Edward Clodd
2: Larry David · Barbara G. Walker · Civil Rights Act Enacted · George Sand
3: Charlotte Perkins Gilman · Leoš Janáček · Tom Stoppard
4: Declaration of Independence Adopted · Giuseppe Garibaldi · Kay Nolte Smith · Stephen Foster · Christopher Cameron
5: Ernst Mayr
6: Alexander Pushkin · Benjamin Underwood · Frida Kahlo · Peter Singer
7: Robert A. Heinlein · Josiah P. Mendum · Gustav Mahler · Eleanor Clift
8: Harriet Johnson · Kevin Bacon · Ernst Bloch · Faye Wattleton
9: Sherry Matulis · Oliver Sacks
10: Marcel Proust · Camille Pissarro · Ernie Chambers
11: John Quincy Adams · Mark Fisher · Pauline McLynn
12: Henry David Thoreau · Pablo Neruda · Phillip Adams
13: Harrison Ford · Sidney Webb · Jack Ziegler
14: Jane Lynch · Ingmar Bergman · Woody Guthrie
15: Iris Murdoch · Jesse Ventura · Adam Savage · David Miliband · Linda Ronstadt · Jacques Derrida
16: Tony Kushner
17: Phyllis Diller · Josh Barro
18: William Makepeace Thackeray · Donald B. Ardell · Kristen Bell
19: Anniversary of Seneca Falls Convention · Fred Edwords · José Manuel Balmaceda
20: E. Haldeman-Julius
21: Anthony Collins · Robin Williams
22: Tom Robbins · Steve Albini · Marci Hamilton · John Leguizamo
23: Samuel Porter Putnam · Daniel Radcliffe · Woody Harrelson · Hendrik Hertzberg · Alfred "Dilly" Knox
24: Vern Bullough · Rose Byrne · Mara Wilson
25: Eric Hoffer · Rosalind Franklin
26: George Bernard Shaw · Daniel Everett · Stanley Kubrick · Aldous Huxley · Lucy Colman · Mick Jagger
27: Maya Rudolph · Helen Taylor
28: 14th Amendment Adopted · Anne Hutchinson (Banished) · Meg Bowman
29: Wil Wheaton
30: Thorstein Veblen
31: Paul D. Boyer · Jean-Baptiste LaMarck

AUGUST

1: Herman Melville
2: Peter O'Toole · James Baldwin
3: Rupert Brooke · Michael Terence Wogan · John Landis
4: Percy Bysshe Shelley · Helen Thomas
5: Ellery Schempp · Clara Bewick Colby · Guy de Maupassant · Alfred, Lord Tennyson · Robert Taylor
6: Lawrence Lader · Janet Jeppson Asimov
7: The Amazing James Randi · Charles Southwell · Charlize Theron
8: Tom Brazaitis · Paul Dirac
9: Sigmund Freud (Quote)
10: Antonio Banderas · Frances "Poppy" Northcutt · Walter Plywaski
11: Robert G. Ingersoll · Steve Wozniak · Lyle Stuart
12: Lillie Devereux Blake · George Soros
13: Felix Adler
14: John Galsworthy
15: Julia Child
16: Matthew Tindal · James Cameron · Vanessa Carlton · Margaret Downey
17: Maria Deraismes · Alex Honnold · V. S. Naipaul
18: Robert Redford · Tom Flynn
19: Pierre-Jean de Béranger · Gene Roddenberry · Ron Darling
20: Barry Goldwater (Quote)
21: Bo Burnham
22: Claude Debussy · Diana Nyad · Annie Proulx
23: Anatole France (Quote)
24: Howard Zinn · Stephen Fry · Arian Foster
25: Horace Seaver · Taslima Nasrin
26: Anniversary of Women's Equality Day · Barbara Ehrenreich · Zona Gale · Robert Walpole · Shirley Manson
27: Granville Stuart
28: C. Wright Mills · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · Bwambale Robert Musubaho
29: Xenophanes of Colophon (Quote) · Charlie Parker
30: Ted Williams · Mary Godwin Shelley · Warren Buffett
31: Anatole France (Quote)

SEPTEMBER

1: Freethought Today Debuts · Chapman Cohen · Edgar Rice Burroughs · Alan Dershowitz · Patricia Duffy Hutcheon
2: Claire Eglin Culhane · Keanu Reeves
3: Viktor E. Lennstrand (Swedish freethought rally)
4: Richard Wright · Mandisa Thomas
5: Jean de la Bruyère (Quote) · Carter Warden
6: Rosie Perez · Frances Wright · Jane Addams · Bruno Bauer · Roger Waters · Robert M. Pirsig
7: Malcolm Bradbury
8: Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Quote)
9: Leo Tolstoy · Michel de Montaigne (Quote)
10: Stephen J. Gould
11: Jessica Mitford · Daniel Sloss
12: Neil Peart · H.L. Mencken · Catherine Fahringer · Avijit Roy
13: Don Addis · Alain Locke
14: Margaret Sanger · Ted Gup · Alexander von Humboldt
15: James Fenimore Cooper
16: Viscount Bolingbroke
17: Theodore Schroeder · Sean B. Carroll · Jerry DeWitt · Constitution Day
18: Steven Pinker · Greta Garbo
19: Frances Farmer · Jean Baptiste Delambre · Twiggy · Simon Singh
20: Upton Sinclair · Robert Emmet · George R.R. Martin · Malachy McCourt · Rosemary Matson
21: H.G. Wells · Etta Semple · James Watson · Stephen King
22: Parker Pillsbury · Eva Ingersoll
23: Ani DiFranco · Victoria Woodhull · Walter Lippmann
24: F. Scott Fitzgerald
25: Theophile de Viau (Died) · Dmitri Shostakovich · Christopher Reeve · Paul MacCready · Donald Glover
26: George Gershwin · Charles Bradlaugh · Ivan Pavlov · Ryan Bell
27: Albert Ellis · Bhagat Singh
28: Georges Clemenceau · Robert Stout · Prosper Merimee · Janeane Garofalo · Greydon Square
29: Michelle Bachelet · Julia Gillard · Barbara Mertz
30: Phil Plait · Ta-Nehisi Coates · Truman Capote · International Blasphemy Day

OCTOBER

1: Annie Besant · Charlie McDonnell
2: Sting · Graham Greene · Christian de Duve · Wallace Stevens · Gene Weingarten
3: Gore Vidal · Denis Villeneuve
4: Vitaly Ginzburg · Rutherford B. Hayes (Quote)
5: Denis Diderot · Bob Geldof · Sean M. Carroll · Neil deGrasse Tyson
6: Alfred Naquet · Emily Palmer Cape · Matthew Sweet · John McWhorter
7: Harry Kroto · Joe Hill · Tim Minchin · Joy Behar · Dan Savage · Roy Zimmerman
8: James Fergus · Hector Avalos
9: John Lennon · Giuseppe Verdi · Roger Williams (Banished) · Peter Lipton · Chris O'Dowd
10: Julia Sweeney · Harold Pinter · Henry Cavendish · Fridtjof Nansen · Thelonious Monk
11: Eleanor Roosevelt
12: Ralph Vaughan Williams · Freethought Day
13: Lenny Bruce (Quote)
14: Katha Pollitt · E. E. Cummings · Hannah Arendt
15: Friedrich Nietzsche · John Kenneth Galbraith · P.G. Wodehouse · Arthur Schlesinger Jr. · Roxane Gay
16: Eugene O'Neill · Oscar Wilde · Lilian Leland · Mary Daly
17: John Wilkes · Georg Buchner · William Anders · Arthur Miller · Michael McKean
18: James Madison (Quote)
19: Alton Lemon · Philip Pullman · Trey Parker · Lewis Wolpert · Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar · Neal Brennan · Cara Santa Maria
20: John Dewey · Tom Petty
21: Carl Brandes · Martin Gardner · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · Ursula K. Le Guin · Tariq Ali · Mary Ann Masterton
22: Doris Lessing
23: George Santayana (Quote) · Johnny Carson · Ned Rorem
24: Kevin Kline · Lakshmi Sahgal
25: Georges Bizet · Marcellin Berthelot · Alexander Buchner · Max Stirner · Anne Tyler
26: Seth MacFarlane
27: Michael Servetus (Executed) · Sharlot Hall · Niccolo Paganini · Klas Pontus Arnoldson · Warren Allen Smith · William Maclure · Sylvia Plath · Malcolm Margolin · Fran Lebowitz
28: Bill Gates (Quote) · Joaquin Phoenix · Elsa Lanchester · Matt Smith · Norma Cunningham · Andy Richter
29: Edward Truelove · Alfred Jules Ayer · Lee Child
30: John Adams · MC Paul Barman
31: John Keats

NOVEMBER

1: Hermann Bondi · Robert R. Tiernan
2: Burt Lancaster · Annie Laurie Gaylor
3: Steven Wilson · André Malraux · Ludovic Kennedy
4: Maud Ingersoll · Kathy Griffin
5: Ella Wheeler Wilcox · Eugene V. Debs · Harriet Law · Will Durant
6: Pat Tillman · Vashti Cromwell McCollum · Francis Ellingwood Abbot · Thandiwe Newton · Greg Graffin · Robert Ellis · Mike Nichols
7: Marie Curie · Albert Camus · Andrew Dickson White · Culbert Olson · Joni Mitchell · Sasha Sagan
8: Ben Bova · Edmund Halley · Bonnie Raitt
9: Carl Sagan · Ivan Turgenev · Robert Dale Owen
10: Mark Twain (Quote)
11: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · Joseph McCabe · Pete Stark · Hugh Everett III · Veterans Day · Andy Partridge
12: Elizabeth Cady Stanton · Auguste Rodin · Norm Allen
13: Robert Louis Stevenson · Ayaan Hirsi Ali · Roy Torcaso · Jaime Gil de Biedma · John de Lancie
14: Aaron Copland · Jawaharlal Nehru · J.M. Robertson
15: Gora · William Pitt · Ed Asner · George Hahn
16: George Seldes · José Saramago · Shriram Lagoo
17: Voltairine de Cleyre · Stephen Symonds Foster
18: Margaret Atwood · Pierre Bayle · Chalmers Roberts · Ben Winter
19: Indira Gandhi · Jodie Foster · Myla Goldberg · Larry King
20: Thomas Chatterton · Edwin Hubble
21: Bjork · Voltaire
22: George Eliot · Rodney Dangerfield · Nate Phelps
23: Marie Bashkirtseff · Margaret K. Knight · Jennifer Michael Hecht
24: Scott Joplin · Benedict Spinoza · Billy Connolly · Amol Palekar
25: Anne Nicol Gaylor · Andrew Carnegie · Nikolai Vavilov
26: Charles Schulz · Edwin Kagin
27: Bill Nye · Bruce Lee
28: William Blake · Friedrich Engels · Sir Leslie Stephen · Randy Newman · Claude Levi-Strauss
29: Percy Bysshe Shelley (Quote)
30: Mark Twain · John Toland · Louise-Victorine Ackermann · Gael García Bernal

DECEMBER

1: Sarah Silverman
2: Kristin Lems · Aaron Rodgers · T.C. Boyle
3: Julianne Moore · Joseph Conrad
4: Thomas Carlyle · Samuel Butler · Candace R.M. Gorham
5: Sonia Johnson (Excommunicated) · 'Witches Bull' Issued · Carolyn Hax · Joan Didion
6: Ira Gershwin
7: Noam Chomsky · Heywood C. Broun
8: Baron d'Holbach · James Thurber · Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson · Diego Rivera · Bill Bryson
9: Kirk Douglas · John Malkovich · Richard Carlile · Hermione Gingold · Kate Smurthwaite
10: William Lloyd Garrison · Thomas Gore
11: Ellen Key · Hector Berlioz
12: Gustave Flaubert · Jay Gorney · Frank Sinatra (Quotes)
13: Queen Silver · John Davidson · Christopher Plummer
14: Titus Voelkel
15: Bill of Rights Adoption · Oscar Niemeyer · Maxwell Anderson
16: George Santayana · Ludwig van Beethoven · Arthur C. Clarke · Bill Hicks
17: Frances Hamerstrom · Marquise du Châtelet · Kerry Packer
18: Pedro Pablo Abarca Aranda · Susan Sackett
19: Richard Leakey
20: Sidney Hook · Edward Tabash
21: Frank Zappa · Rebecca West · Winter Solstice (Northern Hemisphere) · David Randolph · Paul Winchell · Paul Kurtz
22: Anthony Jeselnik
23: Elmina D. Slenker · D.M. Bennett · Francisco Manoel de Nascimento · Eddie Vedder
24: Matthew Arnold · John Morley · Christopher Buckley · Ed Miliband · Ava Gardner · Chris Kluwe · Anthony Fauci
25: Leo Pfeffer · Quentin Crisp · Clara Barton · Rod Serling · Annie Lennox
26: Steve Allen · James Mercer
27: Marlene Dietrich · Sarah Vowell
28: Linus Torvalds · Maarten Schmidt · Wendy Kaminer · John Legend
29: Paula Poundstone · Danny McBride
30: Jerry Coyne
31: Henri Matisse