Anniversaries 17 March
Birth
![Thomas Boston photo]()
Scottish church leader, theologian and philosopher
1676–1732
![Marie-Jeanne Roland de la Platière photo]()
French revolutionary
1754–1793
![Thomas Chalmers photo]()
Scottish mathematician and a leader of the Free Church of S…
1780–1847
![Robert Blatchford photo]()
British writer and activist
1851–1943
![Benjamin Franklin King, Jr. photo]()
American humorist and poet
1857–1894
![Stephen Samuel Wise photo]()
American rabbi (1874-1949)
1874–1949
![Lawrence Oates photo]()
British explorer
1880–1912
![Lavrentiy Beria photo]()
Georgian Soviet NKVD police chief under fellow Georgian and…
1899–1953
![John Fire Lame Deer photo]()
American activist
1903–1976
![Bayard Rustin photo]()
American civil rights activist and gay rights activist
1912–1987
![Nat King Cole photo]()
American singer and jazz pianist
1919–1965
![Sheikh Mujibur Rahman photo]()
Bengali revolutionary, founder ("father") of Bangladesh
1920–1975
![Patrick Suppes photo]()
philosopher from United States of America
1922–2014
![Patrick Allen photo]()
Film, television and voice actor
1927–2006
![Peter L. Berger photo]()
Austrian-born American sociologist
1929–2017
![James Irwin photo]()
American astronaut
1930–1991
![Rudolf Nureyev photo]()
Soviet ballet dancer and choreographer
1938–1993
![John Wayne Gacy photo]()
American serial killer and torturer
1942–1994
![Michael Hayden (general) photo]()
United States Air Force four-star general
1945
![James K. Morrow photo]()
(1947-) science fiction author
1947
![Irina Dunn photo]()
Australian writer, documentary maker and Nuclear Disarmamen…
1948
![William Gibson photo]()
American-Canadian speculative fiction novelist and founder …
1948
![Dana Reeve photo]()
Actress, singer, activist
1961–2006
![Kalpana Chawla photo]()
American astronaut
1962–2003
![Billy Corgan photo]()
American musician, songwriter, producer, and author
1967
![Bruce Parry photo]()
British documentarian
1969
![Alexander McQueen photo]()
British fashion designer and couturier
1969–2010
![Kolas Yotaka photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1974
![Jack Monroe photo]()
British writer, journalist and political campaigner
1988
![Sania Nehwal photo]()
Indian badminton player
1990
![John Boyega photo]()
British Nigerian actor
1992
Death
![Marcus Aurelius photo]()
Emperor of Ancient Rome
121–180
![Saint Patrick photo]()
5th-century Romano-British Christian missionary and bishop …
385–461
![Ibn Khaldun photo]()
Arab historiographer and historian
1332–1406
![François de La Rochefoucauld photo]()
French author of maxims and memoirs
1613–1680
![Leopold Zunz photo]()
German Reform Rabbi
1794–1886
![Robert Chambers (publisher, born 1802) photo]()
Scottish publisher and writer
1802–1871
![Christian Doppler photo]()
mathematician, physicist
1803–1853
![Franz Brentano photo]()
Austrian philosopher
1838–1917
![Johann Most photo]()
German-American anarchist politician, newspaper editor, and…
1846–1906
![Henry Scott Holland photo]()
British theologian
1847–1918
![Antoni Lange photo]()
Polish writer and philosopher
1862–1929
![Austen Chamberlain photo]()
British politician
1863–1937
![Lawrence Oates photo]()
British explorer
1880–1912
![Malvina Reynolds photo]()
American folk singer
1900–1978
![Quentin Reynolds photo]()
American journalist and war correspondent
1902–1965
![George F. Kennan photo]()
American advisor, diplomat, political scientist and histori…
1904–2005
![Andre Norton photo]()
American writer of science fiction and fantasy
1912–2005
![Robert Monroe photo]()
American founder of The Monroe Institute
1915–1995
![Anthony Storr photo]()
English psychiatrist
1920–2001
![John Backus photo]()
American computer scientist
1924–2007
![Derek Walcott photo]()
Saint Lucian–Trinidadian poet and playwright
1930–2017
![Tanya Reinhart photo]()
Israeli journalist
1943–2007
