Anniversaries 24 March
Birth
![Joel Barlow photo]()
American diplomat
1754–1812
![Fanny J. Crosby photo]()
American poet, lyricist and composer
1820–1915
![Matilda Joslyn Gage photo]()
American abolitionist, writer
1826–1898
![William Morris photo]()
author, designer, and craftsman
1834–1896
![Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh photo]()
Politician for India's independence
1841–1917
![Harry Houdini photo]()
Austro-Hungarian born American magician, escapologist, and …
1874–1926
![Peter Debye photo]()
Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist
1884–1966
![Edward Weston photo]()
American photographer
1886–1958
![Roscoe Arbuckle photo]()
American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenw…
1887–1933
![Marston Morse photo]()
American mathematician
1892–1977
![Wilhelm Reich photo]()
Austrian-American psychoanalyst
1897–1957
![Malcolm Muggeridge photo]()
English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist
1903–1990
![Richard Wurmbrand photo]()
Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent
1909–2001
![Constantine Andreou photo]()
painter and Sculptor
1917–2007
![Krafft Arnold Ehricke photo]()
German aerospace engineer
1917–1984
![Lawrence Ferlinghetti photo]()
American artist, writer and activist
1919
![Robert L. Heilbroner photo]()
American historian and economist
1919–2005
![Wilson Harris photo]()
Guyanese writer
1921–2018
![David Suzuki photo]()
Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist
1936
![David Irving photo]()
British writer and Holocaust denier
1938
![Norman K. Denzin photo]()
American sociologist
1941
![Kalle Lasn photo]()
Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and a…
1942
![Mary Balogh photo]()
Welsh-Canadian novelist
1944
![Robert T. Bakker photo]()
American paleontologist
1945
![Alan Sugar photo]()
British business magnate, media personality, and political …
1947
![Roberto Mangabeira Unger photo]()
Brazilian philosopher and politician
1947
![Ranil Wickremesinghe photo]()
Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
1949
![Томми Хилфигер photo]()
American fashion designer
1951
![Steve Ballmer photo]()
American businessman who was the chief executive officer of…
1956
![Sebouh Chouldjian photo]()
Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian is the primate of the Diocese …
1959
![Yanis Varoufakis photo]()
Greek-Australian political economist and author, Greek fina…
1961
![Mark Calaway photo]()
American professional wrestler
1965
![Richard Pyle photo]()
American ichthyologist
1967
![Albin Kurti photo]()
Prime Minister of Kosovo
1975
![Peyton Manning photo]()
American football quarterback
1976
Death
![Walter Hilton photo]()
English Augustinian mystic.
1340–1396
![Elizabeth I of England photo]()
Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 …
1533–1603
![Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield photo]()
British statesman and man of letters
1694–1773
![François Mignet photo]()
French historian and journalist
1796–1884
![William Tappan Thompson photo]()
American humorist
1812–1882
![Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch photo]()
Dutch painter of the Hague School (1824-1903)
1824–1903
![Walter Bagehot photo]()
British journalist, businessman, and essayist
1826–1877
![Jules Verne photo]()
French novelist, poet and playwright
1828–1905
![Edwin Arnold photo]()
British poet and journalist
1832–1904
![Mary Augusta Ward photo]()
British novelist
1851–1920
![Mary of Teck photo]()
Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India
1867–1953
![John Millington Synge photo]()
Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk…
1871–1909
![Nikolai Berdyaev photo]()
Russian philosopher
1874–1948
![Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein photo]()
British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Bat…
1887–1976
![Alexander Alekhine photo]()
Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo…
1892–1946
![Harold J. Laski photo]()
British academic
1893–1950
![Richard Halliburton photo]()
American writer
1900–1939
![Orde Charles Wingate photo]()
British Army General
1903–1944
![N. G. L. Hammond photo]()
British classical scholar
1907–2001
![Joseph Kasa-Vubu photo]()
President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1910-196…
1910–1969
![John Hersey photo]()
American journalist, novelist, professor
1914–1993
![Óscar Romero photo]()
Fourth Archbishop of San Salvador
1917–1980
![An Wang photo]()
American businessman
1920–1990
![William Mayne photo]()
English writer of children's fiction
1928–2010
![Tibor R. Machan photo]()
Hungarian-American philosopher
1939–2016
![Johan Cruyff photo]()
Dutch association football player
1947–2016
