Anniversaries 3 April

Birth

William Wallace6

Scottish landowner and leader in the Wars for Scottish Inde… 1270–1305

George Herbert216

Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

Theodoros Kolokotronis8

Greek general 1770–1843

Washington Irving46

writer, historian and diplomat from the United States 1783–1859

Dionysius Lardner4

Irish science writer 1793–1859

Lorenzo Snow2

President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 1814–1901

Edward Everett Hale19

American author and Unitarian clergyman 1822–1909

William M. Tweed2

United States politician 1823–1878

Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford5

American author 1835–1921

John Burroughs41

American naturalist and essayist 1837–1921

Talbot Baines Reed2

English author 1852–1893

Mistinguett1

French actress and singer 1875–1956

Tomáš Baťa7

Czech businessman 1876–1932

Otto Weininger41

austrian philosopher and writer 1880–1903

Neville Cardus9

English writer 1888–1975

Nikita Khrushchev22

First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1894–1971

Dora Russell13

author, feminist, socialist campaigner 1894–1986

Ramnath Goenka13

Indian politician 1904–1991

Isaac Deutscher3

British historian 1907–1967

Sam Manekshaw15

First Field marshal of the Indian Army 1914–2008

Piet de Jong4

Prime Minister of the Netherlands 1915–2016

Herb Caen10

American newspaper columnist 1916–1997

Doris Day6

American actress, singer, and animal rights activist 1922–2019

Marlon Brando35

American screen and stage actor 1924–2004

Tony Benn69

British Labour Party politician 1925–2014

Gus Grissom2

American astronaut 1926–1967

Mark Blaug3

British economist 1927–2011

Lawton Chiles2

Chairman of the Senate Special Committee on Aging 1930–1998

Helmut Kohl19

former chancellor of West Germany (1982-1990) and then the … 1930–2017

Jane Goodall48

British primatologist, ethologist, and anthropologist 1934

Гарольд Кушнер1

1935

Paul Craig Roberts4

American economist 1939

Bernie Parent4

Canadian ice hockey player 1945

Boris Berman16

Russian/American musician 1948

A. C. Grayling24

English philosopher 1949

Louis Sachar24

American writer of children's books 1954

Michael Burleigh17

American historian and writer 1955

Eliot A. Cohen1

American neoconservative military historian 1956

Francesca Woodman2

American photographer 1958–1981

Vanna Bonta205

Italian-American writer, poet, inventor, actress, voice art… 1958–2014

David Pearce (philosopher)28

British transhumanist 1959

Yu Hua1

Chinese writer 1960

Eddie Murphy1

American stand-up comedian, actor, and singer 1961

Ricardo Baccay1

1961

Mike Ness1

Musician, singer, songwriter, guitarist 1962

Nigel Farage43

British politician and former commodity broker 1964

Sebastian Bach5

Canadian singer 1968

Aleksey Mozgovoy5

pro-Russian rebel and warlord in Eastern Ukraine 1975–2015

Sofia Boutella1

Algerian dancer and actress 1982

Leona Lewis17

British singer-songwriter 1985

Dylann Roof2

American mass murderer 1994

NasserTone4

Nasser Ali Albahrani is a director, cinematographer, photog… 1994

Death

Richard of Chichester1

Bishop of Chichester, Saint 1197–1253

Shivaji3

founder of Maratha Empire 1627–1680

Jacques Ozanam10

French mathematician 1640–1718

Reginald Heber21

English clergyman 1783–1826

John Wilson2

Scottish advocate, literary critic and author (1785-1854) 1785–1854

Johannes Brahms6

German composer and pianist 1833–1897

Richard D'Oyly Carte1

English theatre manager and producer 1844–1901

James Jeffrey Roche5

American journalist 1847–1908

Gerald Stanley Lee12

Americna minister 1862–1944

Carter G. Woodson15

African-American historian and writer 1875–1950

Wilson Mizner20

American writer 1876–1933

Уилсон Мизнер1

1876–1933

Aristides de Sousa Mendes8

Portuguese diplomat 1885–1954

Isaac Rosenberg5

English poet 1890–1918

Graham Greene164

English writer, playwright and literary critic 1904–1991

Marston Bates1

American entomologist 1906–1974

Sarah Vaughan8

American jazz singer 1924–1990

Ruth Prawer Jhabvala1

German-born British-American author 1927–2013

Lionel Bart3

composer 1930–1999

Adnan al-Dulaimi1

Iraqi politician 1932–2017

Wolf Vostell3

German painter and sculptor 1932–1998

Eugène Terre'Blanche4

South African police officer, farmer, political activist, w… 1941–2010

Terence McKenna111

American ethnobotanist 1946–2000