Anniversaries 29 March
Birth
![John Tyler photo]()
American politician, 10th President of the United States (i…
1790–1862
![Wilhelm Liebknecht photo]()
German socialist politician
1826–1900
![Elihu Thomson photo]()
American inventor
1853–1937
![Edwin Lutyens photo]()
British architect
1869–1944
![Uuno Kailas photo]()
Finnish poet and writer
1901–1933
![Kenneth Arnold photo]()
American aviator and businessman
1915–1984
![Eugene McCarthy photo]()
American politician
1916–2005
![Sam Walton photo]()
Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club
1918–1992
![Pearl Bailey photo]()
American singer
1918–1990
![Sheldon Kopp photo]()
American psychotherapist
1929–1999
![Richard C. Lewontin photo]()
American evolutionary biologist
1929
![Richard Rodney Bennett photo]()
English composer and pianist
1936–2012
![Judith Guest photo]()
Novelist, screenwriter
1936
![Manuel Monteiro de Castro photo]()
secretary of the Congregation for Bishops
1938
![John Major photo]()
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
1943
![Vangelis photo]()
Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, p…
1943
![Eric Idle photo]()
British comedian, actor, singer and writer
1943
![Lauren Tom photo]()
actress, voice actress
1970
![Robert Gibbs photo]()
28th White House Press Secretary
1971
Death
![Emperor Wu of Han photo]()
emperor Wu-Ti
-156–-87 BC
![Samuel Rutherford photo]()
Scottish Reformed theologian
1600–1661
![Emanuel Swedenborg photo]()
Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian
1688–1772
![Charles Wesley photo]()
English Methodist and hymn writer
1707–1788
![John Jacob Astor photo]()
German-American businessman
1763–1848
![William Drummond of Logiealmond photo]()
Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philos…
1770–1828
![John Keble photo]()
English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement
1792–1866
![William Alcott photo]()
American physician and author
1798–1859
![John Martin photo]()
(1812-1875) Irish nationalist activist
1812–1875
![Charles-Valentin Alkan photo]()
French composer and pianist
1813–1888
![John Burroughs photo]()
American naturalist and essayist
1837–1921
![Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé photo]()
French diplomat, orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist,…
1848–1910
![Robert Falcon Scott photo]()
Royal Navy officer and explorer
1868–1912
![Carl Orff photo]()
German composer
1895–1982
![Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov photo]()
Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist
1928–2017
![Gordon Pask photo]()
British psychologist
1928–1996
![Sheldon Kopp photo]()
American psychotherapist
1929–1999
![Johnnie Cochran photo]()
American lawyer
1937–2005
![Ralph Klein photo]()
Canadian politician
1942–2013
![Anita Shreve photo]()
American writer
1946–2018
![Patty Duke photo]()
American actress
1946–2016
![Lee Atwater photo]()
American political consultant and strategist
1951–1991
![Mitch Hedberg photo]()
American stand-up comedian
1968–2005
