Anniversaries 2 March
Birth
![Benedict of Nursia photo]()
Christian saint and monk
480–547
![Girard Desargues photo]()
French mathematician and engineer
1591–1661
![Sam Houston photo]()
nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and sold…
1793–1863
![Pope Leo XIII photo]()
256th Pope of the Catholic Church
1810–1903
![János Arany photo]()
Hungarian writer
1817–1882
![Carl Schurz photo]()
Union Army general, politician
1829–1906
![William Croswell Doane photo]()
American bishop
1832–1913
![John Jay Chapman photo]()
American author
1862–1933
![Pope Pius XII photo]()
260th Pope of the Catholic Church
1876–1958
![Mitsumasa Yonai photo]()
Prime Minister of Japan
1880–1948
![Moe Berg photo]()
baseball player, spy
1902–1972
![Dr. Seuss photo]()
American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B…
1904–1991
![David Goodis photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter
1917–1967
![Basil Hume photo]()
Catholic cardinal
1923–1999
![Charles C. Ryrie photo]()
Dispensationalist theologian
1925–2016
![Murray N. Rothbard photo]()
American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian poli…
1926–1995
![Tom Wolfe photo]()
American author and journalist
1930–2018
![Mikhail Gorbachev photo]()
General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1931
![John Irving photo]()
American novelist and screenwriter
1942
![Lou Reed photo]()
American musician
1942–2013
![Jackson C. Frank photo]()
American musician
1943–1999
![Rory Gallagher photo]()
Blues rock musician from Ireland
1948–1995
![JPR Williams photo]()
Welsh rugby union player
1949
![Russ Feingold photo]()
Wisconsin politician; three-term U.S. Senator
1953
![Philip E. Tetlock photo]()
American political science writer
1954
![Jon Bon Jovi photo]()
American singer and musician
1962
![Anthony Albanese photo]()
31st Prime Minister of Australia
1963
![Ann Leckie photo]()
American science-fiction author
1966
![Matt Taibbi photo]()
author and journalist
1970
![Dave Gorman photo]()
English author, comedian, and television presenter
1971
![Johnny Chiang photo]()
Taiwanese politician
1972
![Chris Martin photo]()
musician, co-founder of Coldplay
1977
![Robert Cheeke photo]()
American bodybuilder
1980
![Lee Sedol photo]()
South Korean Go player
1983
![Lai Pin-yu photo]()
Taiwanese social activist
1992
Death
![John Wesley photo]()
Christian theologian
1703–1791
![Horace Walpole photo]()
English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig…
1717–1797
![Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers photo]()
German physician and astronomer
1758–1840
![Jose Cecilio del Valle photo]()
Honduran politician-
1777–1996
![George Abernethy photo]()
American merchant and politician
1807–1877
![John Stuart Blackie photo]()
Scottish scholar and man of letters
1809–1895
![Francis Wayland Parker photo]()
Union Army officer
1837–1902
![Berthe Morisot photo]()
painter from France
1841–1895
![Logan Pearsall Smith photo]()
British American-born writer
1865–1946
![Emily Carr photo]()
Canadian painter and writer
1871–1945
![Howard Carter photo]()
British egyptologist
1874–1939
![Sarojini Naidu photo]()
Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra…
1879–1949
![D.H. Lawrence photo]()
English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit…
1885–1930
![Karl Bowman photo]()
American psychiatric researcher
1888–1973
![Henry Steele Commager photo]()
American historian
1902–1998
![Frederick Seitz photo]()
American physicist
1911–2008
![Donald M. MacKinnon photo]()
British philosopher
1913–1994
![Serge Gainsbourg photo]()
French musician and actor
1928–1991
![William Stringfellow photo]()
American theologian
1928–1985
![Philip K. Dick photo]()
American author
1928–1982
![Rudolph Rummel photo]()
American academic
1932–2014
![Dusty Springfield photo]()
English singer and record producer
1939–1999
![Lou Sullivan photo]()
American author and activist known for his work on behalf o…
1951–1991
