Anniversaries 25 March
Birth
![Catherine of Siena photo]()
Italian Dominican saint
1347–1380
![François-Joseph Fétis photo]()
Belgian composer
1784–1871
![Auguste, Baron Lambermont photo]()
Belgian politician
1819–1905
![George Sutherland photo]()
Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States …
1862–1942
![Rudolf Rocker photo]()
anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist
1873–1958
![Béla Bartók photo]()
Hungarian composer and pianist
1881–1945
![Robert Quillen photo]()
American journalist
1887–1948
![Chuichi Nagumo photo]()
Japanese admiral
1887–1944
![Norman Borlaug photo]()
American biologist
1914–2009
![Howard Cosell photo]()
American sportscaster
1918–1995
![John R. Platt photo]()
American physicist
1918–1992
![Mary Douglas photo]()
British anthropologist
1921–2007
![Flannery O’Connor photo]()
American novelist, short story writer
1925–1964
![Cecil Taylor photo]()
American pianist and poet
1929–2018
![John A. Keel photo]()
American writer
1930–2009
![John A. Eddy photo]()
American astronomer
1931–2009
![Gloria Steinem photo]()
American feminist and journalist
1934
![Hoyt Axton photo]()
American country singer
1938–1999
![Daniel Buren photo]()
sculptor from France
1938
![Toni Cade Bambara photo]()
author, activist, professor
1939–1995
![Aretha Franklin photo]()
American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist
1942–2018
![Victor H. Mair photo]()
American sinologist and linguist
1943
![Elton John photo]()
English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist
1947
![Bob Ezrin photo]()
Canadian music producer and keyboardist
1949
![Govinda K.C. photo]()
Nepalese philanthropic activist and orthopaedic surgeon
1957
![Susie Bright photo]()
American writer and feminist
1958
![Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist) photo]()
American political scientist
1959
![Linda Sue Park photo]()
American author of young adult fiction
1960
![Reggie Fils-Aimé photo]()
American businessman
1961
![Kate DiCamillo photo]()
American children's writer
1964
![Melina Marchetta photo]()
Australian teen writer
1965
![Tom Crean (basketball coach) photo]()
American college basketball coach
1966
![Doug Stanhope photo]()
American stand-up comedian, actor, and author
1967
![Naftali Bennett photo]()
Prime Minister of Israel
1972
![Katharine McPhee photo]()
American pop singer, songwriter, and actress
1984
![Bruce Djite photo]()
Australian soccer player
1987
![Alyson Michalka photo]()
American actress and singer
1989
Death
![Henry Lee III photo]()
American politician, governor and representative
1756–1818
![Novalis photo]()
German poet and writer
1772–1801
![James Braid photo]()
Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist
1795–1860
![Owen Lovejoy photo]()
American politician
1811–1864
![Ida B. Wells-Barnett photo]()
African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, …
1862–1931
![Claude Debussy photo]()
French composer
1862–1918
![Edward Steichen photo]()
American photographer, artist and curator
1879–1973
![Wilhelm Lehmbruck photo]()
German sculptor
1881–1919
![Max Eastman photo]()
American activist
1883–1969
![Josef Albers photo]()
German-American artist and educator
1888–1976
![Goodman Ace photo]()
Comedian, television writer and columnist
1899–1982
![Milton H. Erickson photo]()
American psychiatrist
1901–1980
![Faisal of Saudi Arabia photo]()
King of Saudi Arabia
1906–1975
![John Hope Franklin photo]()
American historian
1915–2009
![Earl Nightingale photo]()
American motivational speaker
1921–1989
![James Samuel Coleman photo]()
American sociologist
1926–1995
![Anthony Lewis photo]()
American journalist
1927–2013
![Buck Owens photo]()
American country singer-songwriter
1929–2006
![Jonathan Schell photo]()
American author
1943–2014
![Antonio Tabucchi photo]()
writer and literary scholar
1943–2012
![Angelo Moreschi photo]()
Italian Catholic Bishop
1952–2020
