Anniversaries 16 March

Birth

James Madison145

4th president of the United States (1809 to 1817) 1751–1836

Georg Ohm1

German physicist and mathematician 1789–1854

Maxim Gorky10

Russian and Soviet writer 1868–1936

Clemens August Graf von Galen4

German count, Bishop of Münster, and cardinal, important fi… 1878–1946

César Vallejo5

Peruvian writer 1892–1938

Henny Youngman18

American comedian 1906–1998

René Daumal12

French poet and writer 1908–1944

Josef Mengele4

Nazi officer and physician 1911–1979

Vernon Howard53

American writer 1918–1992

Traudl Junge7

secretary to Adolf Hitler 1920–2002

Jerry Lewis3

American comedian, actor, film producer, writer and film di… 1926–2017

Daniel Patrick Moynihan11

American politician 1927–2003

William Mayne2

English writer of children's fiction 1928–2010

Anthony Kenny2

British philosopher 1931

Augusto Boal14

Brazilian writer 1931–2009

Sanford I. Weill1

American banker and philantrhopist 1933

Amos Tversky5

Israeli psychologist 1937–1996

Peter Kreeft8

American philosopher 1937

David Frith3

cricket writer and historian 1937

James Soong3

Chairman of People First Party, former Governor of Taiwan P… 1942

Ursula Goodenough64

American biologist 1943

Granville Van Dusen1

American actor 1944

Andrew S. Tanenbaum22

Dutch computer scientist 1944

Jung Myung Seok12

South Korean Leader of New Religious Movement, Poet, Author… 1945

Victor Sperandeo1

American businessman 1945

Margaret Weis8

American fantasy novelist 1948

Philippe Kahn27

Entrepreneur, camera phone creator 1952

Alice Hoffman85

Novelist, young-adult writer, children's writer 1952

Richard Stallman130

American software freedom activist, short story writer and … 1953

Nancy Wilson3

American rock musician, member of Heart 1954

David Lubar4

Children's writer and game programmer 1954

Jens Stoltenberg6

Norwegian politician, 13th Secretary-General of NATO, 27th … 1959

Flavor Flav4

American rapper 1959

Anita Moorjani3

writer 1959

As'ad AbuKhalil3

professor 1960

Eiji Aonuma2

Japanese video game designer 1963

Yvette Herrell1

American politician, businesswoman, and real estate agent 1964

Giles Andreae1

British artist, poet 1966

Lauren Graham1

American actress, producer and novelist 1967

Sienna Guillory22

British actress 1975

MJ Hegar1

American Air Force veteran, politician, author 1976

Lar Corbett1

Irish sportsman 1981

Jhené Aiko2

American singer-songwriter and recording artist 1988

Theo Walcott6

English association football player 1989

Death

Tiberius9

2nd Emperor of Ancient Rome, member of the Julio-Claudian d… -42–37 BC

Robert Smith Surtees16

English writer 1805–1864

Edward Augustus Freeman5

English historian (1823-1892) 1823–1892

Modest Mussorgsky3

Russian composer 1839–1881

Selma Lagerlöf3

Swedish female writer 1858–1940

Thomas Little Heath46

British civil servant and academic 1861–1940

Aubrey Beardsley19

English illustrator and author 1872–1898

Constantin Brâncuși7

French-Romanian artist 1876–1957

Harold Monro4

British poet 1879–1932

William Beveridge10

Economist and social reformer 1879–1963

Aron Nimzowitsch1

chess player and theoretician 1886–1935

Jean Monnet5

French political economist regarded by many as a chief arch… 1888–1979

Hans Kohn2

American historian 1891–1971

Лесли Хор-Белиша1

1893–1957

Marjorie Grene1

American philosopher 1910–2009

Lawrence H. Aller1

astronomer 1913–2003

Derek Barton1

English organic chemist 1918–1998

Natália Correia1

Portuguese writer 1923–1993

Rachel Corrie1

American anti-war and human rights activist 1979–2003