Anniversaries 23 March
Birth
![Pierre-Simon Laplace photo]()
French mathematician and astronomer
1749–1827
![Richard Anthony Proctor photo]()
English astronomer
1837–1888
![Alfred Milner, 1st Viscount Milner photo]()
British statesman and colonial administrator
1854–1925
![Horatio Bottomley photo]()
English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor…
1860–1933
![Madison Cawein photo]()
poet from Louisville, Kentucky
1865–1914
![Emmy Noether photo]()
German mathematician
1882–1935
![Sidney Hillman photo]()
American labor leader
1887–1946
![Juan Gris photo]()
Spanish painter and sculptor
1887–1927
![Erich Fromm photo]()
German social psychologist and psychoanalyst
1900–1980
![Joan Crawford photo]()
American actress
1904–1977
![H. Beam Piper photo]()
American science fiction writer
1904–1964
![Akira Kurosawa photo]()
Japanese film maker
1910–1998
![Wernher von Braun photo]()
German, later an American, aerospace engineer and space arc…
1912–1977
![Milbourne Christopher photo]()
American magician
1914–1984
![Roger Bannister photo]()
English physician and athlete
1929–2018
![Philip G. Zimbardo photo]()
American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Exp…
1933
![Jannis Kounellis photo]()
Greek painter, sculptor and professor of arts
1936–2017
![Robert Gallo photo]()
American biomedical researcher
1937
![Michael Haneke photo]()
Austrian film director and screenwriter
1942
![Walter Rodney photo]()
Guyanese politician, activist and historian
1942–1980
![Winston Groom photo]()
American writer
1943–2020
![Franco Battiato photo]()
Italian singer-songwriter, composer, and filmmaker
1945
![Kim Stanley Robinson photo]()
American science fiction writer
1952
![Rex Tillerson photo]()
69th United States Secretary of State
1952
![Julia Glass photo]()
Novelist, journalist, editor
1956
![Eldon Hoke photo]()
Singer, musician
1958–1997
![Peter D. Schiff photo]()
American entrepreneur, economist and author
1963
![Larry Fessenden photo]()
American actor, producer, writer, director, film editor, an…
1963
![Jonathan Ames photo]()
American novelist, memoirist
1964
![Reggie Watts photo]()
singer, musician and comedian
1972
![Mark Hunt photo]()
New Zealand kickboxer and mixed martial artist
1974
![Kazuya Minekura photo]()
Japanese manga artist
1975
![Maurice Jones-Drew photo]()
All-American college football player, professional football…
1985
![Kyrie Irving photo]()
American basketball player
1992
![Ester Ledecká photo]()
Czech snowboarder and skier
1995
Death
![August von Kotzebue photo]()
German dramatist
1761–1819
![Anne Lynch Botta photo]()
writer, poet, socialite
1815–1891
![Morrison Waite photo]()
American politician
1816–1888
![Arthur Ponsonby photo]()
British Liberal and later Labour politician and pacifist
1871–1946
![Franklin Pierce Adams photo]()
United States humor writer
1881–1960
![Friedrich Hayek photo]()
Austrian and British economist and Nobel Prize for Economic…
1899–1992
![Léon Rosenfeld photo]()
Belgian physicist
1904–1974
![Bhagat Singh photo]()
Indian revolutionary
1907–1931
![Lee Kuan Yew photo]()
First Prime Minister of Singapore
1923–2015
![Elizabeth Taylor photo]()
British-American actress
1932–2011
![Zell Miller photo]()
Politician and United States Marine Corps officer
1932–2018
![Paul Cohen photo]()
American mathematician
1934–2007
![Jesús Gervasio Pérez Rodríguez photo]()
Spanish priest (1936-2021)
1936–2021
![Madeleine K. Albright photo]()
Former U.S. Secretary of State
1937–2022
![José Argüelles photo]()
American author and artist
1939–2011
![Boris Berezovsky photo]()
Russian mathematician
1946–2013
