Anniversaries 26 March
Birth
![Lu Jiuyuan photo]()
Chinese scholar
1139–1193
![Michel Bréal photo]()
French philologist
1832–1915
![William Edward Hartpole Lecky photo]()
British politician
1838–1903
![John Churton Collins photo]()
British literary critic
1848–1908
![Edward Bellamy photo]()
American author and socialist
1850–1898
![Harry Furniss photo]()
Irish artist and illustrator
1854–1925
![A.E. Housman photo]()
English classical scholar and poet
1859–1936
![Syngman Rhee photo]()
first president of South Korea (1875-1965)
1875–1965
![Wilhelm Backhaus photo]()
German pianist, Knight Commander of Merit
1884–1969
![Joseph Campbell photo]()
American mythologist, writer and lecturer
1904–1987
![Viktor E. Frankl photo]()
Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist, and Holocaust surviv…
1905–1997
![Franz Stangl photo]()
Austrian-born SS officer, commandant at first Sobibór exter…
1908–1971
![J. L. Austin photo]()
English philosopher
1911–1960
![Tennessee Williams photo]()
American playwright
1911–1983
![Paul Erdős photo]()
Hungarian mathematician and freelancer
1913–1996
![William Westmoreland photo]()
United States Army general
1914–2005
![Bill Edrich photo]()
Cricket player of England.
1916–1986
![Baba Hari Dass photo]()
master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritu…
1923–2018
![Pierre Boulez photo]()
French composer, conductor, writer, and pianist
1925–2016
![Sandra Day O'Connor photo]()
Former Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United…
1930
![Gregory Corso photo]()
American writer
1930–2001
![Leonard Nimoy photo]()
American actor, film director, poet, musician and photograp…
1931–2015
![Vine Deloria Jr. photo]()
American writer
1933–2005
![Nancy Pelosi photo]()
American politician, first female Speaker of the House of R…
1940
![Richard Dawkins photo]()
English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
1941
![Erica Jong photo]()
Novelist, poet, memoirist, critic
1942
![Diana Ross photo]()
American vocalist, music artist and actress
1944
![Subhash Kak photo]()
Indian computer scientist
1947
![Steven Tyler photo]()
American singer, songwriter, keyboardist
1948
![Patrick Süskind photo]()
German writer and screenwriter
1949
![Martin Short photo]()
Canadian stand-up comedian
1950
![Elaine Chao photo]()
18th and current United States Secretary of Transporation a…
1953
![Alar Karis photo]()
President of Estonia
1958
![Michael Elmore-Meegan photo]()
British humanitarian
1959
![Larry Page photo]()
American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur
1973
Death
![Mansur Al-Hallaj photo]()
Persian mystic, revolutionary writer and teacher of Sufism
858–922
![John Winthrop photo]()
Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay, author of "C…
1588–1649
![John Vanbrugh photo]()
English architect and dramatist
1664–1726
![James Hutton photo]()
Scottish geologist and physician
1726–1797
![Ludwig Van Beethoven photo]()
German Romantic composer
1770–1827
![François-Joseph Fétis photo]()
Belgian composer
1784–1871
![Walt Whitman photo]()
American poet, essayist and journalist
1819–1892
![African Spir photo]()
Russian philosopher
1837–1890
![Henry M. Leland photo]()
American businessman
1843–1932
![Cecil Rhodes photo]()
British businessman, mining magnate and politician in South…
1853–1902
![David Lloyd George photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1863–1945
![Raymond Chandler photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter
1888–1959
![Tadamichi Kuribayashi photo]()
Japanese general
1891–1945
![Augusta Savage photo]()
American sculptor
1892–1962
![Noel Coward photo]()
English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer
1899–1973
![Paul A. Baran photo]()
American Marxist economist
1909–1964
![David Packard photo]()
American electrical engineer, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard…
1912–1996
![James Callaghan photo]()
Prime Minister of the United Kingdom; 1976-1979
1912–2005
![Roland Barthes photo]()
French philosopher, critic and literary theorist
1915–1980
![Andrew Marshall photo]()
the director of the United States Department of Defense's O…
1921–2019
![Friedrich Bauer photo]()
German computer scientist
1924–2015
![Daniel Patrick Moynihan photo]()
American politician
1927–2003
![Tomas Tranströmer photo]()
Swedish poet, psychologist and translator
1931–2015
![Diana Wynne Jones photo]()
English children's fantasy writer
1934–2011
![Jim Harrison photo]()
American novelist, poet, essayist
1937–2016
![John Kennedy Toole photo]()
American novelist
1937–1969
![Rolf Gindorf photo]()
German sexologist
1939–2016
![Eazy-E photo]()
American rapper and producer
1963–1995
