Anniversaries 12 March
Birth
![Paul Gerhardt photo]()
German hymn writer
1607–1676
![John Aubrey photo]()
English writer and antiquarian
1626–1697
![Richard Steele photo]()
British politician
1672–1729
![John Theophilus Desaguliers photo]()
French-born British natural philosopher and clergyman
1683–1744
![George Berkeley photo]()
Anglo-Irish philosopher
1685–1753
![William Buckland photo]()
English clergyman, geologist and palaeontologist
1784–1856
![Mary Howitt photo]()
English poet, and author
1799–1888
![Albert Mackey photo]()
U.S. writer on freemasonry
1807–1881
![Thomas Buchanan Read photo]()
American artist
1822–1872
![Gustav Kirchhoff photo]()
German physicist
1824–1887
![Simon Newcomb photo]()
American astronomer
1835–1909
![Charles D. B. King photo]()
President of Liberia
1875–1961
![Wilhelm Frick photo]()
German Nazi official
1877–1946
![Geoffrey Hodson photo]()
New Zealand occultist
1886–1983
![Vaslav Nijinsky photo]()
Russian ballet dancer and choreographer
1889–1950
![Philip Guedalla photo]()
British historical writer
1889–1944
![Irving Layton photo]()
Romanian-born Canadian poet
1912–2006
![Elaine de Kooning photo]()
American painter
1918–1989
![Gianni Agnelli photo]()
Italian businessman
1921–2003
![Earl Nightingale photo]()
American motivational speaker
1921–1989
![Jack Kerouac photo]()
American writer
1922–1969
![Lane Kirkland photo]()
American labor leader
1922–1999
![Harry Harrison photo]()
American science fiction author
1925–2012
![Edward Albee photo]()
American playwright
1928–2016
![Jude Milhon photo]()
American hacker & author
1939–2003
![Ratko Mladić photo]()
Commander of the Bosnian Serb military
1943
![Liza Minnelli photo]()
American actress and singer
1946
![Mitt Romney photo]()
American businessman and politician
1947
![James Taylor photo]()
American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1948
![Rob Cohen photo]()
American film director, producer and writer
1949
![David Mellor photo]()
former British politician, non-practising barrister, broadc…
1949
![Rhonda Byrne photo]()
Australian writer and producer
1951
![Rich Koz photo]()
American actor and comedian
1952
![Carl Hiaasen photo]()
journalist, columnist and novelist from the United States
1953
![Ron Jeremy photo]()
Prolific American pornographic actor
1953
![Clive Hamilton photo]()
Australian economsit
1953
![Anish Kapoor photo]()
British contemporary artist of Indian birth
1954
![Ian Holloway photo]()
English association football player and manager
1963
![Tammy Duckworth photo]()
United States senator from Illinois
1968
![Dave Eggers photo]()
memoirist, novelist, short story writer, editor, publisher
1970
![Pete Doherty photo]()
English musician, writer, actor, poet and artist
1979
![Shreya Ghoshal photo]()
Indian playback singer
1984
![Big Mori photo]()
Iranian rapper and athlete
1996
Death
![Pope Gregory I photo]()
Pope from 590 to 604
540–604
![Symeon the New Theologian photo]()
Christian saint, monk, and theologian
949–1022
![Cesare Borgia photo]()
Duke of Romagna and former Catholic cardinal
1475–1507
![Alessandro Piccolomini photo]()
Italian writer and philosopher
1508–1579
![Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach photo]()
Austrian writer
1830–1916
![Carrie Chapman Catt photo]()
American social reformer, suffragist (1859-1947)
1859–1947
![Smith Wigglesworth photo]()
British evangelist
1859–1947
![Robert Bosch photo]()
German industrialist, inventor, engineer
1861–1942
![William Henry Bragg photo]()
British scientist
1862–1942
![Sun Yat-sen photo]()
Chinese physician, politician and revolutionary
1866–1925
![John Middleton Murry photo]()
English writer (1889–1957)
1889–1957
![Edwin C. Kemble photo]()
American physicist
1889–1984
![Arnold Ridley photo]()
Playwright, actor
1896–1984
![David Lack photo]()
British ornithologist and biologist
1910–1973
![Woody Hayes photo]()
American football player and coach
1913–1987
![Yehudi Menuhin photo]()
American violinist and conductor
1916–1999
![Charlie Parker photo]()
American jazz saxophonist and composer
1920–1955
![Jiang Yanyong photo]()
Chinese physician
1931–2023
![Zoran Đinđić photo]()
Serbian politician
1952–2003
![Kate Ross photo]()
Novelist, lawyer
1956–1998
