Anniversaries 21 March

Birth

Ippen8

Japanese Buddhist monk, founder of the Jishu school. 1239–1289

Henry Suso22

Dominican friar and mystic 1295–1366

Johann Sebastian Bach10

German late baroque era composer 1685–1750

Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden4

English lawyer, judge and Whig politician 1714–1794

Jean Paul16

German novelist 1763–1825

Joseph Fourier4

French mathematician and physicist 1768–1830

Henry Kirke White9

English poet 1785–1806

Benito Juárez8

President of Mexico during XIX century 1806–1872

Albert Chevalier4

English music hall comedian and singer 1861–1923

H. A. L. Fisher5

British politician 1865–1940

Hans Hofmann67

American artist 1880–1966

Lajos Kassák2

Hungarian artist, poet, writer, politician 1887–1967

Phyllis McGinley4

writer and poet 1905–1978

Bismillah Khan15

Indian musician 1916–2006

Peter Brook2

English theatre and film director and innovator 1925

Walter Gilbert4

American biochemist 1932

Harvey Mansfield16

Author, professor 1932

Christopher Trace2

British television presenter 1933–1992

Ved Mehta1

Indian writer 1934

Margaret Mahy1

New Zealand children's writer 1936–2012

Munir Butt9

British diplomat 1940–2015

Fausto Cercignani65

Italian scholar, essayist and poet 1941

Arthur Green2

American rabbi and theologian 1941

Vivian Stanshall37

English musician, artist and author 1943–1995

Timothy Dalton8

British actor of stage, film and television 1944

Pedro Pietri1

Puerto Rican writer 1944–2004

Ali Abdullah Saleh3

President of North Yemen from 1978 to 1990; President of Ye… 1947–2017

Michael Dibdin1

British writer 1947–2007

Slavoj Žižek99

Slovene philosopher 1949

Sergey Lavrov31

Russian politician and Foreign Minister 1950

Prayut Chan-o-cha11

Thai military officer, junta chief, and politician 1954

Jair Bolsonaro118

Brazilian president elect 1955

Teresa Nielsen Hayden3

American editor and writer 1956

Gary Oldman2

English actor, screenwriter, director, producer, musician 1958

Tobsha Learner1

British writer 1959

Ayrton Senna16

Brazilian racing driver 1960–1994

Mark Waid8

American comics writer 1962

Matthew Broderick1

American film, stage and voice actor 1962

Rosie O'Donnell5

American comedienne, television personality and actress 1962

Lauren Slater1

American psychologist 1963

Shawn Lane3

American musician 1963–2003

Thomas Frank10

American political analyst, historian and writer 1965

Jonah Goldberg89

American political writer and pundit 1969

Cenk Uygur5

Turkish-American online news show host 1970

Bethany Kennedy Scanlon5

1975

Rani Mukerji24

Indian film actress 1978

Marjaneh Bakhtiari1

1980

Alyssa Campanella2

American model 1990

Death

Thomas Cranmer2

leader of the English Reformation and Archbishop of Canterb… 1489–1556

Henry Englefield2

British antiquarian 1752–1822

Robert Southey51

British poet 1774–1843

Nadezhda Durova1

Russian Army officer 1783–1866

Edward Thomson15

American bishop 1810–1870

William Arthur (minister)15

Wesleyan Methodist minister and author 1819–1901

George Jessel (jurist)8

British politician 1824–1883

Edward Walter Maunder1

English astronomer studying sunspots 1851–1928

William Quan Judge27

American occult writer 1851–1896

Isaac Leib Peretz61

Yiddish language author and playwright 1852–1915

Frederick Winslow Taylor22

American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856–1915

Ralph George Hawtrey11

British economist 1879–1975

C. West Churchman64

American philosopher and systems scientist 1913–2004

Gerrit Blaauw5

Dutch computer scientist 1924–2018

Chuck Barris1

American game show creator, producer, and host 1929–2017

Chinua Achebe63

Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic 1930–2013

Colin Dexter2

British writer 1930–2017

Andrew S. Grove22

Hungarian-born American businessman, engineer, and author 1936–2016

Pietro Mennea1

Italian sprinter and politician 1952–2013