List of holidays commemorating individuals
This is a list of government-sanctioned holidays commemorating individuals.
| Person | Holiday | Observing government | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bhanubhakta Acharya | Bhanu Jayanti | Nepal, India | 13 July[1] |
| B. R. Ambedkar | Ambedkar Jayanti | India | 14 April[2] |
| Susan B. Anthony | Susan B. Anthony Day | United States | 15 February[3] |
| Errol Barrow | Errol Barrow Day | Barbados | 21 January |
| Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose | Netaji Jayanti | India | 23 January[4] |
| Robert Burns | Burns Night (or Day) | Scotland | 25 January[5] |
| Cesar Chavez | Cesar Chavez Day | United States | 31 March[6] |
| Jesus Christ | Christmas | Various | 25 December |
| Christopher Columbus | Columbus Day | Various | second Monday in October (US); 12 October (elsewhere) |
| Leif Erikson | Leif Erikson Day | United States, parts of Canada | 9 October[7] |
| Guy Fawkes | Guy Fawkes Night (or Day) | United Kingdom | 5 November |
| Mahatma Gandhi | Gandhi Jayanti | India | 2 October |
| Martin Luther King Jr. | Martin Luther King Jr. Day | United States | third Monday in January |
| Fred Korematsu | Fred Korematsu Day | Parts of the United States | 30 January[8] |
| Abraham Lincoln | Lincoln's Birthday | Parts of the United States | 12 February |
| Nelson Mandela | Mandela Day | Various | 18 July |
| Harvey Milk | Harvey Milk Day | California / United States / New York | 22 May |
| John Muir | John Muir Day | California | 21 April[9] |
| Barack Obama | Obama Day | Kenya, parts of the United States | 6 November |
| Rosa Parks | Rosa Parks Day | Four states of the United States | 4 February (California and Missouri); 1 December (Ohio and Oregon) |
| Maharana Pratap | Pratap Jayanti | Rajasthan | 9 May[10] |
| Casimir Pulaski | General Pulaski Memorial Day | United States | 11 October |
| Casimir Pulaski Day | Illinois, Wisconsin public schools, etc. | first Monday in March[11] | |
| Shivaji | Shiv Jayanti | Maharashtra | 19 February |
| Mother Teresa | Mother Teresa Day | Albania | 5 September |
| Harriet Tubman | Harriet Tubman Day | United States | 10 March[12] |
| Pierre-Théodore Verhaegen | Saint Verhaegen | Brussels | 20 November[13] |
| Queen Victoria | Victoria Day | Canada | last Monday before 25 May |
| George Washington | Washington's Birthday | United States | third Monday in February[14] |
| Wright brothers | Wright Brothers Day | United States | 17 December[15] |
| Malcolm X | Malcolm X Day | Berkeley, California | either Malcolm's birthday on 19 May or the third Sunday of May[16] |
References
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- ^ NEWS, SA (2025-04-10). "Ambedkar Jayanti 2025: Date, History, Quotes, Significance". SA News Channel. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ Holly Matthews. "Susan B. Anthony Day". TeacherLINK @ Utah State University. Retrieved 29 March 2010.
- ^ "23rd JANUARY: NETAJI JAYANTI". Vivekananda Mission School. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ "Global appeal of the Bard endures with 2,500 Burns Suppers plotted on world map". The Scotsman. 2021-01-18. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ "Presidential Proclamation – Cesar Chavez Day". whitehouse.gov. March 28, 2014. Retrieved March 30, 2016 – via National Archives.
- ^ Little, Becky (2015-10-11). "Why Do We Celebrate Columbus Day and Not Leif Erikson Day?". National Geographic. Archived from the original on 2019-08-07. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ "AB 1775 Assembly Bill - CHAPTERED". www.leginfo.ca.gov. Archived from the original on 2010-11-24. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ "Ronald Reagan, John Muir, Harvey Milk: The Californian trinity". The Economist. July 8, 2010.
- ^ Köpping, Klaus-Peter; Leistle, Bernhard; Rudolph, Michael (2006). Ritual and Identity: Performative Practices as Effective Transformations of Social Reality. LIT Verlag Münster. ISBN 978-3-8258-8042-2.
- ^ Greenberg, Julia (March 5, 2012). "Casimir Pulaski Day Closings: Chicago Public Schools, Government Agencies Closed for Holiday". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016.
- ^ "Proclamation 6107 - Harriet Tubman Day, 1990". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2016-04-22.
- ^ "Saint Verhaegen — Patrimoine - Erfgoed". erfgoed.brussels. Retrieved 2026-02-23.
- ^ Strauss, Valerie (February 16, 2014). "Why Presidents' Day Is slightly strange". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on February 18, 2014. Retrieved February 17, 2014.
- ^ "Proclamation 3315—Wright Brothers Day, 1959 | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 1 September 2023.
- ^ Knobel, Lance (2010-05-17). "Malcolm X Day -- more than a day off?". Berkeleyside. Retrieved 2025-11-10.