Anniversaries 2 March

Birth

Benedict of Nursia3

Christian saint and monk 480–547

Girard Desargues4

French mathematician and engineer 1591–1661

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield7

British judge 1705–1793

Sam Houston11

nineteenth-century American statesman, politician, and sold… 1793–1863

Pope Leo XIII4

256th Pope of the Catholic Church 1810–1903

János Arany1

Hungarian writer 1817–1882

Multatuli5

Dutch author 1820–1887

Carl Schurz10

Union Army general, politician 1829–1906

William Croswell Doane4

American bishop 1832–1913

John Jay Chapman9

American author 1862–1933

Pope Pius XII7

260th Pope of the Catholic Church 1876–1958

Mitsumasa Yonai6

Prime Minister of Japan 1880–1948

Moe Berg4

baseball player, spy 1902–1972

Edward Condon3

physicist 1902–1974

Dr. Seuss185

American children's writer and illustrator, co-founder of B… 1904–1991

David Goodis1

Novelist, screenwriter 1917–1967

Arnold Hano34

American writer 1922

Basil Hume4

Catholic cardinal 1923–1999

Charles C. Ryrie1

Dispensationalist theologian 1925–2016

Murray N. Rothbard43

American economist of the Austrian School, libertarian poli… 1926–1995

Tom Wolfe12

American author and journalist 1930–2018

Mikhail Gorbachev65

General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1931

Ira Schneider2

American artist 1939

Lothar de Maizière1

German politician 1940

John Irving97

American novelist and screenwriter 1942

Lou Reed31

American musician 1942–2013

Jackson C. Frank5

American musician 1943–1999

Elaine Brown2

American activist 1943

Michael Schmidt (poet)10

American poet 1947

Rory Gallagher3

Blues rock musician from Ireland 1948–1995

JPR Williams1

Welsh rugby union player 1949

David Blanchflower3

British economist 1952

Russ Feingold16

Wisconsin politician; three-term U.S. Senator 1953

Philip E. Tetlock5

American political science writer 1954

Melody Carlson6

American writer 1956

Jim Baggott4

British writer 1957

Peter F. Hamilton11

English novelist 1960

Jon Bon Jovi26

American singer and musician 1962

Anthony Albanese1

31st Prime Minister of Australia 1963

Eric Ripert1

French chef 1965

Ann Leckie13

American science-fiction author 1966

Matt Taibbi14

author and journalist 1970

Dave Gorman1

English author, comedian, and television presenter 1971

Johnny Chiang2

Taiwanese politician 1972

Mari Mancusi2

American writer 1974

Chris Martin40

musician, co-founder of Coldplay 1977

Robert Cheeke4

American bodybuilder 1980

Bryce Dallas Howard3

American actress 1981

Lee Sedol1

South Korean Go player 1983

Matthew Mitcham2

Australian diver 1988

Lai Pin-yu3

Taiwanese social activist 1992

Death

John Wesley77

Christian theologian 1703–1791

Horace Walpole33

English art historian, man of letters, antiquarian and Whig… 1717–1797

Heinrich Wilhelm Matthäus Olbers1

German physician and astronomer 1758–1840

Jose Cecilio del Valle7

Honduran politician- 1777–1996

George Abernethy1

American merchant and politician 1807–1877

John Stuart Blackie3

Scottish scholar and man of letters 1809–1895

Francis Wayland Parker5

Union Army officer 1837–1902

Berthe Morisot36

painter from France 1841–1895

Logan Pearsall Smith37

British American-born writer 1865–1946

Emily Carr2

Canadian painter and writer 1871–1945

Howard Carter6

British egyptologist 1874–1939

Sarojini Naidu20

Indian politician, governor of the United Provinces of Agra… 1879–1949

D.H. Lawrence131

English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary crit… 1885–1930

Helen Cruickshank4

British poet 1886–1975

Karl Bowman1

American psychiatric researcher 1888–1973

Henry Steele Commager27

American historian 1902–1998

Frederick Seitz2

American physicist 1911–2008

Donald M. MacKinnon1

British philosopher 1913–1994

Serge Gainsbourg1

French musician and actor 1928–1991

William Stringfellow11

American theologian 1928–1985

Philip K. Dick278

American author 1928–1982

Rudolph Rummel57

American academic 1932–2014

Dusty Springfield6

English singer and record producer 1939–1999

Lou Sullivan1

American author and activist known for his work on behalf o… 1951–1991