Anniversaries 24 March

Birth

Joel Barlow29

American diplomat 1754–1812

Fanny J. Crosby3

American poet, lyricist and composer 1820–1915

Matilda Joslyn Gage11

American abolitionist, writer 1826–1898

William Morris119

author, designer, and craftsman 1834–1896

Nawab Waqar-ul-Mulk Kamboh3

Politician for India's independence 1841–1917

Harry Houdini4

Austro-Hungarian born American magician, escapologist, and … 1874–1926

Robert Frost265

American poet 1874–1963

Peter Debye1

Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist 1884–1966

Edward Weston1

American photographer 1886–1958

Roscoe Arbuckle3

American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenw… 1887–1933

Charley Toorop1

Dutch painter 1891–1955

Marston Morse2

American mathematician 1892–1977

Wilhelm Reich89

Austrian-American psychoanalyst 1897–1957

Malcolm Muggeridge37

English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist 1903–1990

Dwight Macdonald5

journalist 1906–1982

Richard Wurmbrand18

Romanian Christian minister of Jewish descent 1909–2001

Constantine Andreou1

painter and Sculptor 1917–2007

Krafft Arnold Ehricke3

German aerospace engineer 1917–1984

Lawrence Ferlinghetti16

American artist, writer and activist 1919

Robert L. Heilbroner39

American historian and economist 1919–2005

Balachandra Rajan1

Indian writer 1920–2009

Wilson Harris15

Guyanese writer 1921–2018

David Suzuki8

Canadian popular scientist and environmental activist 1936

David Irving9

British writer and Holocaust denier 1938

Norman K. Denzin2

American sociologist 1941

Kalle Lasn7

Estonian-Canadian film maker, author, magazine editor and a… 1942

Mary Balogh25

Welsh-Canadian novelist 1944

Robert T. Bakker30

American paleontologist 1945

Alan Sugar23

British business magnate, media personality, and political … 1947

Roberto Mangabeira Unger94

Brazilian philosopher and politician 1947

Alan Weisman1

American writer 1947

Ranil Wickremesinghe10

Former Prime Minister of Sri Lanka 1949

Nick Lowe10

British singer 1949

Томми Хилфигер1

American fashion designer 1951

Ray Hudson5

English footballer 1955

Steve Ballmer23

American businessman who was the chief executive officer of… 1956

Sebouh Chouldjian8

Archbishop Sebouh Chouldjian is the primate of the Diocese … 1959

Yanis Varoufakis12

Greek-Australian political economist and author, Greek fina… 1961

Mark Calaway1

American professional wrestler 1965

Richard Pyle1

American ichthyologist 1967

Alyson Hannigan5

American actress 1974

Albin Kurti1

Prime Minister of Kosovo 1975

Kaori Ozaki1

Japanese mangaka 1976

Peyton Manning2

American football quarterback 1976

Jessica Chastain6

American actress 1977

Tim Shieff2

American freerunner 1988

Keisha Castle-Hughes1

Australian actress 1990

Death

Walter Hilton11

English Augustinian mystic. 1340–1396

Elizabeth I of England29

Queen regnant of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 … 1533–1603

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield65

British statesman and man of letters 1694–1773

François Mignet1

French historian and journalist 1796–1884

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow202

American poet 1807–1882

William Tappan Thompson3

American humorist 1812–1882

Jan Hendrik Weissenbruch10

Dutch painter of the Hague School (1824-1903) 1824–1903

Walter Bagehot42

British journalist, businessman, and essayist 1826–1877

Jules Verne44

French novelist, poet and playwright 1828–1905

Edwin Arnold6

British poet and journalist 1832–1904

Mary Augusta Ward4

British novelist 1851–1920

Mary of Teck2

Queen consort of the United Kingdom Empress of India 1867–1953

John Millington Synge16

Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folk… 1871–1909

Nikolai Berdyaev33

Russian philosopher 1874–1948

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein9

British Army officer, Commander of Allied forces at the Bat… 1887–1976

Alexander Alekhine6

Russian / French chess player, chess writer, and chess theo… 1892–1946

Harold J. Laski1

British academic 1893–1950

Richard Halliburton5

American writer 1900–1939

Orde Charles Wingate1

British Army General 1903–1944

N. G. L. Hammond12

British classical scholar 1907–2001

Joseph Kasa-Vubu1

President of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (1910-196… 1910–1969

John Hersey3

American journalist, novelist, professor 1914–1993

Óscar Romero2

Fourth Archbishop of San Salvador 1917–1980

An Wang1

American businessman 1920–1990

William Mayne2

English writer of children's fiction 1928–2010

Tibor R. Machan13

Hungarian-American philosopher 1939–2016

Johan Cruyff25

Dutch association football player 1947–2016