Arnold J. Toynbee

Arnold Joseph Toynbee was an English historian, a philosopher of history, an author of numerous books and a research professor of international history at the London School of Economics and King's College London. From 1918 to 1950, Toynbee was considered a leading specialist on international affairs; from 1929 to 1956 he was the Director of Studies at Chatham House, in which position he also produced 34 volumes of the Survey of International Affairs, a "bible" for international specialists in Britain.

14 April 1889

Born on the same birth day (14 April): Anderson Silva • Arkady and Boris Strugatsky • Blake Costanzo • Bob Massie • Craig McDermott • Erich von Däniken • Harriett Ellen Arey • Jean Fournet • Jeff Hopkins • Julian Lloyd Webber • Peter Capaldi • Princess Beatrice of the United Kingdom • Susan Cunliffe-Lister, Baroness Masham of Ilton • Win Butler

Born in the same month (April 1889): Albert Jean Amateau • António de Oliveira Salazar • Efrem Zimbalist • Herbert Yardley • Jessie Street • Karel Doorman • Louis Rougier • Ludwig Wittgenstein • Marie-Antoinette de Geuser • Otto Georg Thierack • Richard Glücks • Thomas Hart Benton (painter) • Vicente Ferreira Pastinha