Anniversaries 23 March

Birth

Pierre-Simon Laplace15

French mathematician and astronomer 1749–1827

Anselme Bellegarrigue6

French anarchist 1813

Richard Anthony Proctor3

English astronomer 1837–1888

Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner8

British statesman and colonial administrator 1854–1925

Horatio Bottomley3

English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor… 1860–1933

Madison Cawein6

poet from Louisville, Kentucky 1865–1914

Emmy Noether7

German mathematician 1882–1935

Sidney Hillman1

American labor leader 1887–1946

Juan Gris6

Spanish painter and sculptor 1887–1927

Erich Fromm119

German social psychologist and psychoanalyst 1900–1980

Joan Crawford16

American actress 1904–1977

H. Beam Piper11

American science fiction writer 1904–1964

Akira Kurosawa16

Japanese film maker 1910–1998

Wernher von Braun22

German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space arc… 1912–1977

Milbourne Christopher1

American magician 1914–1984

Vasily Zaytsev3

Soviet sniper 1915–1991

Roger Bannister1

English physician and athlete 1929–2018

Philip G. Zimbardo11

American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Exp… 1933

Jannis Kounellis2

Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts 1936–2017

Robert Gallo1

American biomedical researcher 1937

Michael Haneke9

Austrian film director and screenwriter 1942

David Medalla2

Filipino artist 1942

Ama Ata Aidoo1

Novelist, poet 1942

Walter Rodney50

Guyanese politician, activist and historian 1942–1980

Winston Groom7

American writer 1943–2020

Franco Battiato4

Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and filmmaker 1945

Jim Fergus1

American writer 1950

Ahdaf Soueif1

Egyptian novelist 1950

Kim Stanley Robinson98

American science fiction writer 1952

Rex Tillerson4

69th United States Secretary of State 1952

B. W. Powe26

Canadian writer 1955

Julia Glass6

Novelist, journalist, editor 1956

Eldon Hoke5

Singer, musician 1958–1997

Pekka Haavisto1

Finnish politician 1958

Peter D. Schiff40

American entrepreneur, economist and author 1963

Larry Fessenden3

American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, an… 1963

Jonathan Ames3

American novelist, memoirist 1964

Philip Ó Ceallaigh10

Irish writer 1968

Joe Calzaghe1

Welsh boxer 1972

Reggie Watts2

singer, musician and comedian 1972

Smriti Irani6

Indian politician 1972

Mark Hunt2

New Zealand kickboxer and mixed martial artist 1974

Kazuya Minekura4

Japanese manga artist 1975

Maurice Jones-Drew1

All-American college football player, professional football… 1985

Kyrie Irving1

American basketball player 1992

Ester Ledecká1

Czech snowboarder and skier 1995

Death

August von Kotzebue5

German dramatist 1761–1819

Stendhal50

French writer 1783–1842

Anne Lynch Botta2

writer, poet, socialite 1815–1891

Morrison Waite6

American politician 1816–1888

John Davidson9

Scottish poet 1857–1909

Arthur Ponsonby31

British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist 1871–1946

Franklin Pierce Adams6

United States humor writer 1881–1960

Friedrich Hayek79

Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economic… 1899–1992

Léon Rosenfeld1

Belgian physicist 1904–1974

Peter Lorre2

Austrian actor 1904–1964

Bhagat Singh16

Indian revolutionary 1907–1931

Lee Kuan Yew72

First Prime Minister of Singapore 1923–2015

Elizabeth Taylor33

British-American actress 1932–2011

Zell Miller9

Politician and United States Marine Corps officer 1932–2018

Paul Cohen5

American mathematician 1934–2007

Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez1

Spanish priest (1936-2021) 1936–2021

Madeleine K. Albright21

Former U.S. Secretary of State 1937–2022

José Argüelles1

American author and artist 1939–2011

Boris Berezovsky4

Russian mathematician 1946–2013