Anniversaries 11 March
Birth
![Henry Jacob Bigelow photo]()
American surgeon
1818–1890
![Vannevar Bush photo]()
American electrical engineer and science administrator
1890–1974
![Michael Polanyi photo]()
Hungarian-British polymath
1891–1976
![Ronald Syme photo]()
New Zealand-born historian and classicist
1903–1989
![J. C. R. Licklider photo]()
American psychologist and computer scientist
1915–1990
![Harold Wilson photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1916–1995
![Ezra Jack Keats photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator
1916–1983
![Hans Keller photo]()
Austrian-British musician and writer
1919–1985
![Nicolaas Bloembergen photo]()
Dutch-born American physicist
1920–2017
![Cornelius Castoriadis photo]()
Greek-French philosopher
1922–1997
![Robert Muller photo]()
Civil servant with the United Nations
1923–2010
![Ralph Abernathy photo]()
American Civil Rights Movement leader
1926–1990
![Geoffrey Blainey photo]()
Australian historian
1930
![Rupert Murdoch photo]()
Australian-American media mogul
1931
![Nigel Lawson photo]()
British Conservative politician and journalist
1932
![Antonin Scalia photo]()
former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
1936–2016
![Douglas Adams photo]()
English writer and humorist
1952–2001
![Jimmy Iovine photo]()
American music executive
1953
![D.J. MacHale photo]()
American television director and producer
1955
![Qasem Soleimani photo]()
Iranian senior military officer
1957–2020
![Dejan Stojanovic photo]()
poet, writer, and businessman
1959
![Azem Hajdari photo]()
Albanian politician
1963–1998
![Libba Bray photo]()
American teen writer
1964
![John Barrowman photo]()
Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre pe…
1967
![Soraya photo]()
Singer-songwriter
1969–2006
![Múte Bourup Egede photo]()
Prime Minister of Greenland
1987
Death
![John Toland photo]()
Irish philosopher
1670–1722
![Charles Sumner photo]()
American abolitionist and politician
1811–1874
![Henry Drummond photo]()
Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer
1851–1897
![David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty photo]()
Royal Navy officer
1871–1936
![Margaret Cousins photo]()
Suffragist and feminist
1878–1954
![Alexander Fleming photo]()
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man
1881–1955
![Hendrik Willem van Loon photo]()
Dutch-American historian, journalist and author
1882–1944
![Roy Chapman Andrews photo]()
American explorer, adventurer and naturalist
1884–1960
![C. D. Broad photo]()
English philosopher
1887–1971
![Richard Evelyn Byrd photo]()
Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer
1888–1957
![Erle Stanley Gardner photo]()
Lawyer, novelist, travel writer
1889–1970
![Ahmad Kasravi photo]()
Iranian academic
1890–1946
![Walter A. Shewhart photo]()
American statistician
1891–1967
![Edgar Zilsel photo]()
Austrian historian and philosopher
1891–1944
![Tim Buck photo]()
Canadian politician
1891–1973
![Maud Hart Lovelace photo]()
American writer
1892–1980
![Gladys Taber photo]()
American writer
1899–1980
![Philo Farnsworth photo]()
American inventor
1906–1971
![Fredric Brown photo]()
American novelist, short story author
1906–1972
![Алекс Дрейер photo]()
American reporter, commentator and actor
1916–2000
![James Tobin photo]()
American economist
1918–2002
![Ken Dodd photo]()
English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor
1927–2018
![Peter Franken photo]()
American physicist
1928–1999
![Desmond Ford photo]()
Australian theologian
1929–2019
![Asesela Ravuvu photo]()
He loved nature and the outdoors. He 3 main principles in …
1931–2008
![Slobodan Milošević photo]()
Yugoslavian and Serbian politician
1941–2006
![François-Eudes Chanfrault photo]()
Composer and musician
1974–2016
