Anniversaries 20 March

Birth

Ovid120

Roman poet -43–17 BC

Elagabalus6

Roman Emperor 203–222

Anne Bradstreet14

Anglo-American poet 1612–1672

Dara Shukoh3

Indian prince 1615–1659

Friedrich Hölderlin16

German poet 1770–1843

James Tod5

1782-1835, English officer of the British East India Compan… 1782–1835

Bogumil Goltz1

German humorist and satirist 1801–1870

Henrik Ibsen69

Norwegian playwright, theatre director, and poet 1828–1906

Charles William Eliot2

President of Harvard 1834–1926

Frederick Winslow Taylor22

American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856–1915

William J. Locke2

British writer 1863–1930

Ernest Bramah26

English author 1868–1942

Sergei Rachmaninoff12

Russian composer, pianist, and conductor 1873–1943

Paul Sophus Epstein1

Russian-American mathematician 1883–1966

B.F. Skinner30

American behaviorist 1904–1990

Raymond Cattell10

British-American psychologist 1905–1998

Carl Reiner1

American actor, film director, producer, writer, and comedi… 1922

James Barr6

British bible scholar 1924–2006

John Ehrlichman1

Lawyer, Watergate co-conspirator, writer 1925–1999

Fred Rogers19

American television personality 1928–2003

Jack Cady22

American writer 1932–2004

David Malouf2

Australian writer 1934

Evelyn Fox Keller1

American physicist, author and feminist 1936

Lois Lowry59

American writer 1937

Brian Mulroney6

18th Prime Minister of Canada 1939

Sapardi Djoko Damono1

Indonesian poet 1940

Richard Rohr43

American spiritual writer, speaker, teacher, Catholic Franc… 1943

Pat Riley2

American basketball player, coach, executive 1945

Marshall Goldsmith8

American author of leadership and management literature 1949

Nina Kiriki Hoffman6

American writer 1955

Mary Roach13

American science writer 1959

John Norris (reporter)2

American reporter 1959

Kathryn Harrison2

Author 1961

Michael O'Leary (businessman)4

businessman, CEO of Ryanair 1961

Gianni Sarcone11

Italian author, artist, designer, and researcher in visual … 1962

Stephen Sommers1

American film director 1962

Kathy Ireland1

American model and businesswoman 1963

William Dalrymple11

author and historian 1965

Yukito Kishiro1

Japanese manga artist 1967

Paul Merson2

English footballer and manager 1968

Yvette Cooper7

British politician 1969

Emily Giffin84

American writer 1972

Chester Bennington1

American singer-songwriter 1976–2017

Barron Trump2

son of Donald and Melania Trump 2006

Death

Muhammad bin Tughluq13

Turkic Sultan of Delhi 1290–1351

William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield7

British judge 1705–1793

Thomas Erskine4

Scottish theologian 1788–1870

Lajos Kossuth2

Hungarian politician 1802–1894

Francisco Palau8

Beatified Spanish Discalced Carmelite friar and priest 1811–1872

Robert Mayer5

German physicist 1814–1878

John Mitchel3

Irish politician 1815–1875

Charles Godfrey Leland4

Union Army soldier 1824–1903

Sina Mesdag-van Houten1

Dutch painter 1834–1909

Charles Henry Fowler6

American bishop 1837–1908

Ferdinand Foch32

French soldier and military theorist 1851–1929

George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston21

British politician 1859–1925

Heinrich Robert Zimmer4

German historian 1890–1943

V.S. Pritchett23

British writer and critic 1900–1997

Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild3

senior executive with Royal Dutch Shell and N M Rothschild … 1910–1990

David Rockefeller10

American banker and philanthropist 1915–2017

Khushwant Singh39

Indian novelist and journalist 1915–2014

C. Wright Mills55

American sociologist 1916–1962

Liz Carpenter1

American writer 1920–2010

Brendan Behan14

Irish poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright 1923–1964

Mary Warnock1

Philosopher of morality, education and mind, and writer on … 1924–2019

Lev Yashin1

Soviet association football player 1929–1990

Malcolm Fraser3

Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia 1930–2015

Lewis Grizzard12

American journalist 1946–1994