Anniversaries 1 March

Birth

Hasan ibn Ali9

Shia Imam 624–669

Tsangyang Gyatso, 6th Dalai Lama15

sixth Dalai Lama of Tibet 1683–1706

Samuel Romilly3

British politician 1757–1818

John Ramsay McCulloch5

Scottish economist, author and editor 1789–1864

Wilford Woodruff2

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1807–1898

William Dean Howells18

author, critic and playwright from the United States 1837–1920

Georg Simmel27

German sociologist, philosopher, and critic 1858–1918

Aleksandar Stamboliyski1

Bulgarian prime minister 1879–1923

Manfred Kyber3

German playwright and translator 1880–1933

Lytton Strachey11

British writer 1880–1932

Oskar Kokoschka4

Austrian dramatic, painter and writer 1886–1980

F. Tennyson Jesse1

British criminologist 1888–1958

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa2

Japanese writer 1892–1927

Yeghishe Charents3

Armenian poet 1897–1937

Erich von dem Bach6

German politician and SS functionary 1899–1972

Basil Bunting11

Poet 1900–1985

David Niven1

English actor and novelist 1910–1983

I. Bernard Cohen9

American historian of science 1914–2003

Ralph Ellison82

American novelist, literary critic, scholar and writer 1914–1994

Robert Lowell5

Poet 1917–1977

João Goulart4

24th President of Brazil 1918–1976

Richard Wilbur24

American poet 1921–2017

Yitzhak Rabin8

Israeli politician, statesman and general 1922–1995

Michael Flanders8

English writer and performer 1922–1975

Sidiq Koya1

Fijian politician 1923–1993

Theodore Levitt8

American economist and professor at Harvard Business School 1925–2006

Harry Belafonte14

American singer 1927

Robert Bork4

American legal scholar 1927–2012

Michael Kurland35

American writer 1938

Tzvetan Todorov9

Bulgarian historian, philosopher, structuralist literary cr… 1939–2017

Nuala O'Faolain1

Irish writer 1940–2008

Robert Hass2

American poet 1941

Louis Gerstner2

American businessman 1942

Josephine Hart6

Irish writer 1942–2011

Richard H. Price1

American physicist 1943

Jim Crace3

English novelist, short story writer and playwright 1946

Dave Marsh2

American music critic, author, editor and radio talk show h… 1950

Steven Barnes5

American writer and author 1952

Charlie Ergen4

American businessman 1953

Denis Mukwege1

Congolese gynecologist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate 1955

Tim Daly1

American actor, director and producer 1956

Nick Griffin12

British politician 1959

Stéphane Valeri1

Monaco politician 1962

Mark Kingwell21

Canadian philosopher 1963

Miss Shangay Lily7

Spanish artivist and drag queen 1963–2016

Scott Dikkers7

American comic writer 1965

Zack Snyder1

American film director, film producer, and screenwriter 1966

Phillip Blond7

British philosopher 1966

Darin Strauss1

writer 1970

Brendan Brazier4

Canadian triathlete, publisher, writer, editor 1975

Lupita Nyong'o3

Mexican-Kenyan actress and film director 1983

Brandon Stanton3

American photographer 1984

Sophia Montecarlo1

Filipino musician 1986

Kesha1

American singer, songwriter, rapper, and actress 1987

Daniella Monet1

American actress, singer and dancer 1989

Griff Whalen2

American Football player 1990

Justin Bieber35

Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer, and actor 1994

Death

Thomas Campion5

English composer, poet and physician 1567–1620

George Herbert216

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

Sultan Bahu2

Punjabi poet 1630–1691

Hermann Samuel Reimarus12

German philosopher 1694–1768

Edward Moore8

English dramatist and writer 1712–1757

Peter Barlow (mathematician)2

British mathematician and physicist 1776–1862

Alexander II of Russia2

Emperor of Russia 1818–1881

Andrew Kennedy Hutchison Boyd4

British writer and minister 1825–1899

Tristan Corbière2

French poet 1845–1875

George Grossmith3

English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer 1847–1912

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff3

Dutch physical and organic chemist 1852–1911

Charles Webster Leadbeater37

English theosophist 1854–1934

Giacomo Balla15

Italian artist 1871–1958

Richard Wilhelm1

German sinologist 1873–1930

Alfred Korzybski15

Polish scientist and philosopher 1879–1950

L. Onerva1

Finnish poet 1882–1972

Fritz Houtermans1

German physicist 1903–1966

Ferdinand Lundberg4

American journalist 1905–1995

Arthur Koestler25

Hungarian-British author and journalist 1905–1983

Edwin H. Land44

American scientist and inventor 1909–1991

Lev Artsimovich3

Soviet physicist 1909–1973

Freddie Green1

American musician 1911–1987

Tommy Farr1

British boxer 1913–1986

Paula Fox3

Amercian book author 1923–2017

Gustav Metzger6

Artist and political activist 1926–2017

Jean Miotte1

French painter 1926–2016

Harry Browne18

American politician and writer 1933–2006

Archie Goodwin1

writer 1937–1998

Barry Hannah2

Short story writer, novelist, professor 1942–2010

Campbell Black1

Scottish author 1944–2013

Andrew Breitbart4

American writer and publisher 1969–2012