Anniversaries 15 March

Birth

Giovanni Maria Cecchi11

Italian poet, playwright, writer and notary 1518–1587

Cesare Beccaria2

jurist, philosopher and politician from Italy 1738–1794

Charles Dibdin5

British musician, songwriter, dramatist, novelist and actor 1745–1814

Andrew Jackson41

American general and politician, 7th president of the Unite… 1767–1845

William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne8

British Whig statesman 1779–1848

Élisée Reclus1

French geographer and writer 1830–1905

Charles H. Fernald1

American entomologist, zoologist, naturalist 1838–1921

C. V. Boys3

British physicist 1855–1944

Leslie Stuart2

British composer 1863–1928

Vladimir Barsky1

Russian film director 1866–1936

Lionel Johnson20

English poet 1867–1902

Harold L. Ickes7

American politician 1874–1952

Rezā Shāh3

Shah of the Imperial State of Iran 1878–1944

Leon C. Marshall1

American economist 1879–1966

Bertrand Collins1

1893–1964

Henno Martin5

German geologist 1910–1998

Wilhelm Mohnke3

German general 1911–2001

Charlton Ogburn2

American journalist and author 1911–1998

Alan Bean7

American astronaut and painter 1932–2018

Ruth Bader Ginsburg16

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1933

Jimmy Swaggart1

pastor, musician, teacher, television host, televangelist 1935

Dick Higgins7

English composer and poet 1938–1998

Robin Hartshorne2

American mathematician 1938

Judith Krug17

librarian and freedom of speech proponent 1940–2009

James N. Frey1

American writer 1943

Rosabeth Moss Kanter2

American economist 1943

David Cronenberg19

Canadian film director, screenwriter and actor 1943

Mark J. Green2

American lawyer 1945

Kate Bornstein8

American author, playwright, performance artist, and gender… 1948

Gholam-Reza Aghazadeh2

politician 1949

Lin Yu-fang2

Taiwanese politician 1951

David Silverman13

American animator and director 1957

Ben Okri13

Nigerian writer 1959

Renny Harlin1

Finnish film director and film producer 1959

Fabio Lanzoni3

Italian model, actor and author 1961

Naoko Takeuchi12

Japanese manga artist 1967

Xavier Leroy5

French computer scientistand programmer 1968

Scott Kurtz8

American comics creator 1971

Mike Tomlin8

head coach of the National Football League's Pittsburgh Ste… 1972

Eva Longoria1

American actress 1975

Bonnie-Jill Laflin2

American actor, model 1976

Giovanni Morassutti25

Italian actor, theatre director and cultural entrepreneur. 1980

Death

Julius Caesar18

Roman politician and general -100–-44 BC

Cao Cao6

Chinese warlord during the Eastern Han Dynasty 155–220

Moinuddin Chishti5

Sufi saint 1142–1236

James Joseph Sylvester7

English mathematician 1814–1897

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet3

British politician 1826–1902

Hollow Horn Bear5

19th century Lakota chief and policeman 1850–1913

Sergei Zubatov1

Russian politician 1864–1917

Alexej von Jawlensky23

Russian painter 1864–1941

Mehmed Talat8

Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire and Minister of the Inte… 1874–1921

Nikolai Bukharin18

Soviet politician 1888–1938

Arkady Rosengolts1

Belarusian politician 1889–1938

H.P. Lovecraft203

American author 1890–1937

Rebecca West38

British feminist and author 1892–1983

Arthur Compton2

American physicist 1892–1962

Jim Ede3

art collector 1895–1990

Tarjei Vesaas3

Norwegian poet 1897–1970

Benjamin Spock19

American pediatrician and author of Baby and Child Care 1903–1998

W. Sterling Cole2

American politician 1904–1987

Aristotle Onassis9

Greek shipping magnate 1906–1975

Deane Montgomery2

American mathematician 1909–1992

John Pople1

Nobel prize winning British chemist 1925–2004

W.S. Merwin17

American poet 1927–2019

Harold Powers8

American academic 1928–2007