Anniversaries 14 March

Birth

Giovanni Schiaparelli1

Italian astronomer and science historian 1835–1910

Arthur O'Shaughnessy15

British poet 1844–1881

Ferdinand Hodler8

Swiss artist 1853–1918

Thomas R. Marshall11

American politician who served as the 28th Vice President o… 1854–1925

Algernon Blackwood2

English short story writer and novelist 1869–1951

Harold Monro4

British poet 1879–1932

Albert Einstein702

German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativi… 1879–1955

János Esterházy10

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, ru… 1901–1957

Adolph Gottlieb27

American artist 1903–1974

Raymond Aron1

French philosopher, sociologist, journalist, and political … 1905–1983

Maurice Merleau-Ponty24

French phenomenological philosopher 1908–1961

William Montgomery Watt3

Scottish historian 1909–2006

W. Willard Wirtz1

American Secretary of Labor 1912–2010

Sadik Kaceli6

Albanian artist 1914–2000

Horton Foote2

American playwright and screenwriter 1916–2009

Diane Arbus16

American photographer and author 1923–1971

John Wain4

British writer 1925–1994

Frank Borman10

NASA astronaut 1928

Michael Caine2

English actor and author 1933

T. Colin Campbell3

American biochemist 1934

Eugene Cernan2

United States Navy officer and former NASA astronaut 1934–2017

Michael Hudson (economist)13

American economist 1939

James Clapper11

US government official 1941

Edward R. Tufte3

American statistician (b.1942) noted for his writings on in… 1942

Pam Ayres3

English poet, songwriter and presenter of radio and televis… 1947

Billy Crystal7

American actor 1948

Valerie Martin1

American writer 1948

Tom Coburn1

Medical doctor, politician 1948

James Nachtwey2

American photographer 1948

Martin Dempsey2

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1952

Maurizio Viroli1

Italian essayist and philosopher 1952

Tad Williams79

novelist 1957

Franco Frattini3

Italian politician 1957

Mike Lazaridis3

Canadian businessman 1961

Po Bronson5

American writer 1964

Aamir Khan5

Indian film actor, director, and producer of Hindi Cinema 1965

Jean Jullien5

french graphic designer, illustrator, video artist and phot… 1983

Dan Crenshaw1

U.S. Representative from Texas 1984

Stephen Curry1

American basketball player 1988

Simone Biles7

American gymnast 1997

Death

Thomas Malory22

English writer, author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'' 1405–1471

Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock2

German poet, writer and linguist 1724–1803

Karl Marx290

German philosopher, economist, sociologist, journalist and … 1818–1883

Zenas Ferry Moody1

American politician 1832–1917

Werner von Blomberg6

German field marshal 1878–1946

Howard H. Aiken4

pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind I… 1900–1973

William Alfred Fowler1

American nuclear physicist 1911–1995

Fannie Lou Hamer7

American civil rights activist (October 6, 1917 – March 14,… 1917–1977

Tony Benn69

British Labour Party politician 1925–2014

Edward Abbey146

American author and essayist 1927–1989

Farrokh Tamimi7

Iranian poet and translator 1934–2003

Stephen Hawking122

British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author 1942–2018