Anniversaries 25 March

Birth

Catherine of Siena3

Italian Dominican saint 1347–1380

Richard Edwardes2

English writer 1525–1566

François-Joseph Fétis1

Belgian composer 1784–1871

Alexander Herzen9

Russian author 1812–1870

Auguste, Baron Lambermont4

Belgian politician 1819–1905

Robert J. Morgan1

1826–1899

George Sutherland10

Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, United States … 1862–1942

Rudolf Rocker39

anarcho-syndicalist writer and activist 1873–1958

Bessie Anderson Stanley1

American poet 1879–1952

Béla Bartók3

Hungarian composer and pianist 1881–1945

Robert Quillen4

American journalist 1887–1948

Chuichi Nagumo4

Japanese admiral 1887–1944

A.J.P. Taylor15

Historian 1906–1990

Norman Borlaug5

American biologist 1914–2009

Howard Cosell14

American sportscaster 1918–1995

John R. Platt12

American physicist 1918–1992

Mary Douglas1

British anthropologist 1921–2007

Flannery O’Connor82

American novelist, short story writer 1925–1964

Cecil Taylor3

American pianist and poet 1929–2018

John A. Keel3

American writer 1930–2009

John A. Eddy12

American astronomer 1931–2009

Gloria Steinem97

American feminist and journalist 1934

Hoyt Axton21

American country singer 1938–1999

Daniel Buren11

sculptor from France 1938

Toni Cade Bambara3

author, activist, professor 1939–1995

Anita Bryant6

American singer 1940

Robert J. Birgeneau5

Canadian physicist 1942

Aretha Franklin7

American musician, singer, songwriter, and pianist 1942–2018

Victor H. Mair5

American sinologist and linguist 1943

Jack Mapanje1

Malawian poet 1944

Robin Hahnel5

American economist 1946

Elton John80

English rock singer-songwriter, composer and pianist 1947

Bob Ezrin1

Canadian music producer and keyboardist 1949

Jung Chang3

writer from China 1952

Govinda K.C.1

Nepalese philanthropic activist and orthopaedic surgeon 1957

Susie Bright15

American writer and feminist 1958

John Ensign1

US politician 1958

Jeffrey Friedman (political scientist)6

American political scientist 1959

Linda Sue Park4

American author of young adult fiction 1960

Reggie Fils-Aimé34

American businessman 1961

Marcia Cross1

American actress 1962

Kate DiCamillo74

American children's writer 1964

Melina Marchetta204

Australian teen writer 1965

Sarah Jessica Parker9

American actress 1965

Tom Crean (basketball coach)11

American college basketball coach 1966

Matthew Barney2

American artist 1967

Doug Stanhope28

American stand-up comedian, actor, and author 1967

Naftali Bennett2

Prime Minister of Israel 1972

Rafael Márquez (boxer)2

Mexican boxer 1975

Katharine McPhee2

American pop singer, songwriter, and actress 1984

Bruce Djite1

Australian soccer player 1987

Alyson Michalka2

American actress and singer 1989

Death

Henry Lee III4

American politician, governor and representative 1756–1818

Novalis102

German poet and writer 1772–1801

James Braid18

Scottish surgeon, hypnotist, and hypnotherapist 1795–1860

Owen Lovejoy37

American politician 1811–1864

Robert Murray M'Cheyne10

British writer 1813–1843

Ida B. Wells-Barnett2

African-American journalist, newspaper editor, suffragist, … 1862–1931

Claude Debussy34

French composer 1862–1918

Edward Steichen2

American photographer, artist and curator 1879–1973

Wilhelm Lehmbruck2

German sculptor 1881–1919

Max Eastman15

American activist 1883–1969

Josef Albers33

German-American artist and educator 1888–1976

Goodman Ace2

Comedian, television writer and columnist 1899–1982

Milton H. Erickson1

American psychiatrist 1901–1980

Faisal of Saudi Arabia10

King of Saudi Arabia 1906–1975

John Hope Franklin1

American historian 1915–2009

Earl Nightingale15

American motivational speaker 1921–1989

James Samuel Coleman2

American sociologist 1926–1995

Anthony Lewis13

American journalist 1927–2013

Buck Owens3

American country singer-songwriter 1929–2006

Grace Alele-Williams6

mathematician 1932–2022

Jonathan Schell3

American author 1943–2014

Antonio Tabucchi1

writer and literary scholar 1943–2012

Angelo Moreschi2

Italian Catholic Bishop 1952–2020