FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS

Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)

David Farragut

David Farragut, American admiral (born 1801)

Czesław Miłosz

Czesław Miłosz, Polish-born American novelist, essayist, and poet, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911)

Duncan I of Scotland

Duncan I of Scotland

Elias Canetti

Elias Canetti, Bulgarian-Swiss author, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1905)

Jonathan Daniels

Christian feast day: Jonathan Myrick Daniels (Episcopal Church)

Maximilian Kolbe

Christian feast day: Maximilian Kolbe

Falklands Day

Falklands Day is the celebration of the first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis in 1592.

Independence Day (Pakistan)

Independence Day celebrates the independence of Pakistan from the United Kingdom in 1947.

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day

Partition Horrors Remembrance Day commemorates the victims and sufferings of people during the Partition of India in 1947.

Clifford Odets

Clifford Odets, American director, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1906)