13
Apr
2021
Joseph Bramah – English artificer
Joseph Bramah was born on April 13, 1748 in Stanborough, Yorkshire. At a very early...
12
Apr
2021
Jan Tinbergen economist, Nobel laureate
Jan Tinbergen was born in The Hague on April 12, 1903. The Tinbergen family gave...
11
Apr
2021
International Labor Organization established
On April 11, 1919, the International Labor Organization (ILO) was created under the League of...
10
Apr
2021
Joseph Pulitzer – publisher and journalist
Joseph Pulitzer was born on April 10, 1847 in the city of Mako (Hungary), in...
09
Apr
2021
Charles Baudelaire – French poet and critic
Charles Pierre Baudelaire was born in Paris on April 9, 1821. His father, François Baudelaire,...
08
Apr
2021
Edmund Husserl – philosopher, founder of phenomenology
Edmund Husserl was born on April 8, 1859 in Prosnica (Moravia). He was educated in...
07
Apr
2021
William Wordsworth – romantic poet
William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, England. After the death...
06
Apr
2021
Alexander Herzen – writer-publicist
Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born (March 25) on April 6, 1812 in Moscow. He was...
05
Apr
2021
Thomas Hobbes – materialist philosopher
Thomas Hobbes was born on April 5, 1588 in Gloucestershire (England), his father was a...
04
Apr
2021
Mine Reed – adventure novel writer
Thomas Mayne Reid was born in Ireland on April 4, 1818. His parents were Catholic...
03
Apr
2021
Leonid Pasternak – painter and graphic artist
Leonid Osipovich Pasternak, father of the poet Boris Pasternak, was born (March 22) on April...
02
Apr
2021
Hans Christian Andersen – storyteller
Hans Christian Andersen was born on April 2, 1805 in the city of Odense on...
01
Apr
2021
Nikolai Gogol – a classic of world literature
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol was born (March 20) on April 1, 1809 in the town of...
31
Mar
2021
Rene Descartes – philosopher, mathematician, physicist
René Descartes was born on March 31, 1596 in the city of Lae (now Descartes),...
30
Mar
2021
Alaska sale agreement signed
Alaska, discovered by a Russian expedition led by M. Gvozdev and I. Fedorov in 1732,...
29
Mar
2021
John Tyler – 10th President of the United States
John Tyler was born on March 29, 1790 in Virginia near Williamsburg, where his father,...
28
Mar
2021
Jan Amos Comenius – humanist teacher
Jan Amos Komenský (Czech Jan Amos Komenský), a great Czech teacher, was born on March...
27
Mar
2021
Wilhelm Roentgen – physicist, Nobel laureate
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen (German Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen), the great German physicist, was born on March...
26
Mar
2021
Robert Frost – American poet
Robert Lee Frost was born on March 26, 1874 in San Francisco (USA). His father...
25
Mar
2021
Alexey von Yavlensky – expressionist painter
Alexey Georgievich von Yavlensky was born (13) on March 25, 1864 in Torzhok. He was...