Anniversaries 29 March

Birth

John Tyler8

American politician, 10th President of the United States (i… 1790–1862

Wilhelm Liebknecht53

German socialist politician 1826–1900

Elihu Thomson1

American inventor 1853–1937

Edwin Lutyens1

British architect 1869–1944

Ernst Jünger16

German writer 1895–1998

Uuno Kailas1

Finnish poet and writer 1901–1933

Hanna Reitsch1

German aviator 1912–1979

R.S. Thomas58

Welsh poet 1913–2000

Kenneth Arnold6

American aviator and businessman 1915–1984

Eugene McCarthy16

American politician 1916–2005

Sam Walton3

Founder of Wal-Mart and Sam's Club 1918–1992

Pearl Bailey4

American singer 1918–1990

Sheldon Kopp5

American psychotherapist 1929–1999

Richard C. Lewontin14

American evolutionary biologist 1929

Norman Tebbit29

English politician 1931

Folake Solanke8

Nigerian lawyer 1932

Richard Rodney Bennett1

English composer and pianist 1936–2012

Judith Guest5

Novelist, screenwriter 1936

Manuel Monteiro de Castro1

secretary of the Congregation for Bishops 1938

John Major28

Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1943

Vangelis37

Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, p… 1943

Eric Idle6

British comedian, actor, singer and writer 1943

Nana Akufo-Addo1

President of Ghana 1944

Robert J. Shiller4

American economist 1946

Harvey S. Rosen21

American economist 1949

William Poundstone33

American writer 1955

Elizabeth Hand33

American writer 1957

Nouriel Roubini9

American economist 1958

Mieczysław Mokrzycki1

Polish bishop 1961

Amy Sedaris11

American comedian 1961

Lucy Lawless15

New Zealand actress 1968

Lauren Tom3

actress, voice actress 1970

Robert Gibbs3

28th White House Press Secretary 1971

Priti Patel9

British politician 1972

Ernest Cline28

writer 1972

Ian Urbina4

American journalist 1972

Death

Emperor Wu of Han1

emperor Wu-Ti -156–-87 BC

Samuel Rutherford36

Scottish Reformed theologian 1600–1661

Emanuel Swedenborg13

Swedish 18th century scientist and theologian 1688–1772

Charles Wesley15

English Methodist and hymn writer 1707–1788

Jonathan M. Sewall1

American poet 1748–1808

John Jacob Astor2

German-American businessman 1763–1848

William Drummond of Logiealmond1

Scottish diplomat and Member of Parliament, poet and philos… 1770–1828

John Keble7

English churchman and poet, a leader of the Oxford Movement 1792–1866

William Alcott6

American physician and author 1798–1859

John Martin4

(1812-1875) Irish nationalist activist 1812–1875

Charles-Valentin Alkan1

French composer and pianist 1813–1888

Dora Greenwell1

English poet 1821–1882

John Burroughs41

American naturalist and essayist 1837–1921

Eugène-Melchior de Vogüé3

French diplomat, orientalist, travel writer, archaeologist,… 1848–1910

Georges Seurat20

French painter 1859–1891

Robert Falcon Scott8

Royal Navy officer and explorer 1868–1912

Joyce Cary3

Irish writer 1888–1957

Vera Brittain10

English writer 1893–1970

Carl Orff4

German composer 1895–1982

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov1

Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist 1928–2017

Gordon Pask30

British psychologist 1928–1996

Sheldon Kopp5

American psychotherapist 1929–1999

Johnnie Cochran2

American lawyer 1937–2005

Ralph Klein10

Canadian politician 1942–2013

Anita Shreve15

American writer 1946–2018

Patty Duke1

American actress 1946–2016

Lee Atwater2

American political consultant and strategist 1951–1991

Mitch Hedberg101

American stand-up comedian 1968–2005