Anniversaries 21 March
Birth
![Ippen photo]()
Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Jishu school.
1239–1289
![Henry Suso photo]()
Dominican friar and mystic
1295–1366
![Johann Sebastian Bach photo]()
German late baroque era composer
1685–1750
![Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden photo]()
English lawyer, judge and Whig politician
1714–1794
![Jean Paul photo]()
German novelist
1763–1825
![Joseph Fourier photo]()
French mathematician and physicist
1768–1830
![Benito Juárez photo]()
President of Mexico during XIX century
1806–1872
![Albert Chevalier photo]()
English music hall comedian and singer
1861–1923
![H. A. L. Fisher photo]()
British politician
1865–1940
![Hans Hofmann photo]()
American artist
1880–1966
![Lajos Kassák photo]()
Hungarian artist, poet, writer, politician
1887–1967
![Phyllis McGinley photo]()
writer and poet
1905–1978
![Bismillah Khan photo]()
Indian musician
1916–2006
![Peter Brook photo]()
English theatre and film director and innovator
1925
![Christopher Trace photo]()
British television presenter
1933–1992
![Margaret Mahy photo]()
New Zealand children's writer
1936–2012
![Munir Butt photo]()
British diplomat
1940–2015
![Fausto Cercignani photo]()
Italian scholar, essayist and poet
1941
![Arthur Green photo]()
American rabbi and theologian
1941
![Vivian Stanshall photo]()
English musician, artist and author
1943–1995
![Timothy Dalton photo]()
British actor of stage, film and television
1944
![Pedro Pietri photo]()
Puerto Rican writer
1944–2004
![Ali Abdullah Saleh photo]()
President of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990; President of Ye…
1947–2017
![Sergey Lavrov photo]()
Russian politician and Foreign Minister
1950
![Prayut Chan-o-cha photo]()
Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician
1954
![Jair Bolsonaro photo]()
Brazilian president elect
1955
![Teresa Nielsen Hayden photo]()
American editor and writer
1956
![Gary Oldman photo]()
English actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician
1958
![Ayrton Senna photo]()
Brazilian racing driver
1960–1994
![Mark Waid photo]()
American comics writer
1962
![Matthew Broderick photo]()
American film, stage and voice actor
1962
![Rosie O'Donnell photo]()
American comedienne, television personality and actress
1962
![Lauren Slater photo]()
American psychologist
1963
![Shawn Lane photo]()
American musician
1963–2003
![Thomas Frank photo]()
American political analyst, historian and writer
1965
![Jonah Goldberg photo]()
American political writer and pundit
1969
![Cenk Uygur photo]()
Turkish-American online news show host
1970
Death
![Thomas Cranmer photo]()
leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterb…
1489–1556
![Henry Englefield photo]()
British antiquarian
1752–1822
![Nadezhda Durova photo]()
Russian Army officer
1783–1866
![Edward Thomson photo]()
American bishop
1810–1870
![William Arthur (minister) photo]()
Wesleyan Methodist minister and author
1819–1901
![George Jessel (jurist) photo]()
British politician
1824–1883
![Edward Walter Maunder photo]()
English astronomer studying sunspots
1851–1928
![William Quan Judge photo]()
American occult writer
1851–1896
![Isaac Leib Peretz photo]()
Yiddish language author and playwright
1852–1915
![Frederick Winslow Taylor photo]()
American mechanical engineer and tennis player
1856–1915
![Ralph George Hawtrey photo]()
British economist
1879–1975
![C. West Churchman photo]()
American philosopher and systems scientist
1913–2004
![Gerrit Blaauw photo]()
Dutch computer scientist
1924–2018
![Chuck Barris photo]()
American game show creator, producer, and host
1929–2017
![Chinua Achebe photo]()
Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic
1930–2013
![Andrew S. Grove photo]()
Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author
1936–2016
![Pietro Mennea photo]()
Italian sprinter and politician
1952–2013
