Anniversaries 3 March

Birth

Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury9

Anglo-Welsh soldier, diplomat, historian, poet and religiou… 1583–1648

Edmund Waller25

English poet and politician 1606–1687

Thomas Otway5

English writer 1652–1685

William Godwin36

English journalist, political philosopher and novelist 1756–1836

John Austin (legal philosopher)6

legal philosopher 1790–1859

Gustave de Molinari28

Belgian political economist and classical liberal theorist 1819–1912

James Fitzjames Stephen12

Indian judge 1829–1894

Chief Joseph17

Nez Percé Chieftain 1840–1904

Alexander Graham Bell20

scientist and inventor known for his work on the telephone 1847–1922

Arthur Machen10

Welsh author and mystic 1863–1947

Alain35

French philosopher 1868–1951

Edward Thomas7

Poet and journalist 1878–1917

Lyndall Urwick16

British management consultant 1891–1983

Ragnar Frisch26

Norwegian economist 1895–1973

Thomas Charles Lethbridge1

British explorer and archaeologist 1901–1971

Isabel Bishop3

American painter 1902–1988

Richard M. Weaver110

American scholar 1910–1963

Asger Jorn48

Danish artist 1914–1973

Paul R. Halmos9

American mathematician 1916–2006

Denis Mack Smith12

British historian 1920–2017

Richard M. DeVos4

American businessman 1926–2018

John M. Rodgers1

American politician 1928–2012

Dinanath Batra2

Indian school teacher 1930

Eugene N. Borza12

American historian 1935

Michael Walzer3

American philosopher 1935

Patricia MacLachlan2

American writer of children's books 1938

Nicolas Bratza5

British judge 1945

Mike Lange23

Canadian sportscaster 1948

Max Allan Collins2

writer 1948

Ron Chernow1

American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer 1949

Ali Gomaa5

Egyptian imam 1951

Stephen Jay Berg2

Fifth bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pueblo 1951

Robyn Hitchcock2

English singer-songwriter and guitarist 1953

Ira Glass7

American radio personality 1959

Jim Stanford21

Canadian economist 1961

Ian Mulder1

Dutch pianist, composer and conductor (*1963) 1963

Tedros Adhanom9

Director-General of the World Health Organization, former M… 1965

Brian Cox (physicist)10

English physicist and former musician 1968

Charlie Brooker58

journalist, broadcaster and writer from England 1971

Julius Malema24

South African political activist 1981

Shraddha Kapoor5

Indian film actress & Singer 1987

Andrea Brooks3

Canadian actor 1989

Ire Aderinokun3

Nigerian front end developer 1991

Death

Aurangzeb65

Sixth Mughal Emperor 1618–1707

Robert Hooke11

English natural philosopher, architect and polymath 1635–1703

William Stukeley3

English antiquarian 1687–1765

William Howitt2

British writer 1792–1879

Oliver Cowdery10

American Mormon leader 1806–1850

William Kingdon Clifford48

English mathematician and philosopher 1845–1879

Sidney Lee8

English biographer and critic 1859–1926

Alfred George Gardiner2

British journalist and writer 1865–1946

G. L. S. Shackle8

British economist 1903–1992

Yoshimi Takeuchi1

Japanese academic 1910–1977

Pierre Stephen Robert Payne28

British lecturer, novelist, historian, poet and biographer 1911–1983

Michael Foot54

British politician 1913–2010

Danny Kaye4

American actor, singer, dancer, and comedian 1913–1987

Marguerite Duras42

French writer and film director 1914–1996

Fred W. Friendly7

President of CBS News 1915–1998

John Edward Williams1

American author 1922–1994

Ivor Cutler1

Scottish poet, humorist 1923–2006

Kyril Bonfiglioli19

British art dealer 1928–1985

Roger Bannister1

English physician and athlete 1929–2018

Robert Ashley2

American composer 1930–2014

Sherwin B. Nuland7

American surgeon 1930–2014

Georges Perec3

French writer 1936–1982

Jackson C. Frank5

American musician 1943–1999

René Préval1

President of Haiti 1943–2017

Pedro Pietri1

Puerto Rican writer 1944–2004

John H. Freeman2

(1944-2008) US-American sociologist and organizational theo… 1944–2008

Roy Porter6

British historian 1946–2002

Kenneth Gärdestad7

Swedish song lyricist, architect and lecturer 1948–2018