Anniversaries 10 March

Birth

Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor2

king of Bohemia and Hungary 1503–1564

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel67

German poet, critic and scholar 1772–1829

Willem Roelofs32

Dutch painter and entomologist (1822-1897) 1822–1897

Alexander III of Russia1

Emperor of Russia 1845–1894

Pauline Johnson2

Canadian poet and performer 1861–1913

Maxwell Maltz9

Plastic surgeon, self-help author 1889–1975

Arthur Honegger1

Swiss composer 1892–1955

Margaret Fishback2

American writer 1900–1985

Michel Seuphor9

designer, draughtsman, painter 1901–1999

Clare Boothe Luce7

American writer, politician, ambassador, journalist and ant… 1903–1987

Adam Schaff13

Polish Marxist philosopher and theorist 1913–2006

Boris Vian1

French polymath: writer, poet, musician, singer, translator… 1920–1959

Val Logsdon Fitch2

American physicist 1923–2015

Asghar Ali Engineer3

Indian activist 1939–2013

Chuck Norris6

American martial artist and actor 1940

Jim Valvano1

American basketball player-coach 1946–1993

Catherine Pugh1

American politician 1950

David Lin3

Taiwanese politician 1950

Colin McGinn1

British philosopher 1950

Johanna Lindsey8

American writer 1952–2019

Morgan Tsvangirai3

former Prime Minister of Zimbabwe 1952–2018

Helmut Lang (artist)2

Austrian artist and fashion designer 1956

Osama bin Laden55

founder of al-Qaeda 1957–2011

Sharon Stone3

American actress and fashion model 1958

Jasmine Guy1

American actor, director and singer 1962

Neneh Cherry1

Swedish singer-songwriter 1964

Edie Brickell15

singer from the United States 1966

Omar Abdullah1

Indian politician 1970

Timbaland2

American record producer, rapper, record executive and sing… 1972

Liu Qiangdong2

Chinese businessman 1973

Nick Bostrom24

Swedish philosopher 1973

Biz Stone4

American blogger; co-founder of Twitter 1974

Carrie Underwood25

American country music singer 1983

Janet Mock1

American writer, director, producer, TV host and transgende… 1983

Emily Osment1

American actress 1992

Uriah Shelton2

American actor and singer 1997

Death

Samuel Hartlib3

German-British polymath 1600–1662

John Denham18

English poet and courtier 1615–1669

Giuseppe Mazzini14

Italian patriot, politician and philosopher 1805–1872

George Müller49

German-English clergyman 1805–1898

Taras Shevchenko1

Ukrainian poet and painter 1814–1861

Harriet Tubman17

African-American abolitionist and humanitarian 1820–1913

F. Anstey18

English novelist and journalist 1856–1934

Herman Klein1

British musical critic journalist and singing teacher 1856–1934

Laurence Binyon2

English poet, dramatist, and art scholar 1869–1943

Philip Gibbs1

English journalist and novelist 1877–1962

Manfred Kyber3

German playwright and translator 1880–1933

Yevgeny Zamyatin34

Russian author 1884–1937

Frits Zernike1

Dutch physicist 1888–1966

Mikhail Bulgakov63

Russian author primarily known for his novel "Master and Ma… 1891–1940

Zelda Fitzgerald33

Novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald 1900–1948

Max Delbrück4

biophysicist 1906–1981

Konstantin Chernenko7

Soviet politician 1911–1985

Barbara Cooney2

American writer and illustrator of children's books 1917–2000

Frank Sherwood Rowland1

American chemist 1927–2012

Anita Brookner9

British novelist and art historian. 1928–2016

Dave Allen4

Irish comedian and satirist 1936–2005

Robert James Waller15

American writer 1939–2017

Richard Jeni13

American comedian 1957–2007

Andy Gibb1

British–Australian singer 1958–1988

Corey Haim2

Canadian actor 1971–2010