Anniversaries 11 March

Birth

Torquato Tasso94

Italian poet 1544–1595

Henry Jacob Bigelow7

American surgeon 1818–1890

Edward Rydz-Śmigły1

Polish general 1886–1941

Vannevar Bush57

American electrical engineer and science administrator 1890–1974

Michael Polanyi15

Hungarian-British polymath 1891–1976

Ronald Syme7

New Zealand-born historian and classicist 1903–1989

J. C. R. Licklider7

American psychologist and computer scientist 1915–1990

Harold Wilson42

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1916–1995

Ezra Jack Keats1

American children's writer and illustrator 1916–1983

Hans Keller2

Austrian-British musician and writer 1919–1985

Nicolaas Bloembergen1

Dutch-born American physicist 1920–2017

Cornelius Castoriadis6

Greek-French philosopher 1922–1997

Robert Muller1

Civil servant with the United Nations 1923–2010

Ralph Abernathy2

American Civil Rights Movement leader 1926–1990

Geoffrey Blainey72

Australian historian 1930

Rupert Murdoch12

Australian-American media mogul 1931

Janosch1

German author 1931

Nigel Lawson22

British Conservative politician and journalist 1932

Walter Brueggemann1

American theologian 1933

Sam Donaldson4

American journalist 1934

Antonin Scalia100

former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United… 1936–2016

Robert Grudin2

American writer 1938

Douglas Adams317

English writer and humorist 1952–2001

Jimmy Iovine1

American music executive 1953

D.J. MacHale50

American television director and producer 1955

Qasem Soleimani6

Iranian senior military officer 1957–2020

Flemming Rose1

journalist 1958

Dejan Stojanovic278

poet, writer, and businessman 1959

Marcos Pontes4

Brazilian astronaut 1963

Azem Hajdari1

Albanian politician 1963–1998

Libba Bray254

American teen writer 1964

John Barrowman11

Scottish-American actor, singer, dancer, musical theatre pe… 1967

Terrence Howard2

American actor 1969

Soraya1

Singer-songwriter 1969–2006

Sylvia Day136

American writer 1973

Kieran Scott8

American writer 1974

Múte Bourup Egede1

Prime Minister of Greenland 1987

Death

Elagabalus6

Roman Emperor 203–222

John Toland12

Irish philosopher 1670–1722

Charles Sumner16

American abolitionist and politician 1811–1874

James Fitzjames Stephen12

Indian judge 1829–1894

Henry Drummond3

Scottish evangelist, writer and lecturer 1851–1897

Heinrich Mann1

German poet 1871–1950

David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty1

Royal Navy officer 1871–1936

Margaret Cousins1

Suffragist and feminist 1878–1954

Alexander Fleming5

Scottish biologist, pharmacologist and sexiest man 1881–1955

Hendrik Willem van Loon1

Dutch-American historian, journalist and author 1882–1944

Roy Chapman Andrews2

American explorer, adventurer and naturalist 1884–1960

C. D. Broad11

English philosopher 1887–1971

Richard Evelyn Byrd21

Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer 1888–1957

Erle Stanley Gardner2

Lawyer, novelist, travel writer 1889–1970

Ahmad Kasravi1

Iranian academic 1890–1946

Walter A. Shewhart10

American statistician 1891–1967

Edgar Zilsel1

Austrian historian and philosopher 1891–1944

Tim Buck14

Canadian politician 1891–1973

Maud Hart Lovelace13

American writer 1892–1980

Gladys Taber1

American writer 1899–1980

John Wyndham21

British author 1903–1969

Philo Farnsworth4

American inventor 1906–1971

Fredric Brown22

American novelist, short story author 1906–1972

Алекс Дрейер1

American reporter, commentator and actor 1916–2000

James Tobin22

American economist 1918–2002

Edmund Cooper52

British writer 1926–1982

Ken Dodd10

English comedian, singer-songwriter and actor 1927–2018

Peter Franken2

American physicist 1928–1999

Desmond Ford1

Australian theologian 1929–2019

Asesela Ravuvu4

He loved nature and the outdoors. He 3 main principles in … 1931–2008

Slobodan Milošević14

Yugoslavian and Serbian politician 1941–2006

François-Eudes Chanfrault8

Composer and musician 1974–2016