Anniversaries 30 March

Birth

Maimónides180

rabbi, physician, philosopher 1138–1204

Mehmed II15

Ottoman sultan 1432–1481

Henry Wotton13

English ambassador 1568–1639

Francisco De Goya40

Spanish painter and printmaker (1746–1828) 1746–1828

Friedrich Tholuck3

German theologian 1799–1877

Anna Sewell21

English novelist 1820–1878

Julius Bahnsen4

German philosopher 1830–1881

Paul Verlaine11

French poet 1844–1896

Vincent Van Gogh238

Dutch post-Impressionist painter (1853-1890) 1853–1890

Charles Lightoller2

British sailor 1874–1952

Sean O`Casey13

Irish writer 1880–1964

Melanie Klein1

British psychoanalyst 1882–1960

Frances Cornford3

English poet 1886–1960

Erhard Milch5

German general 1892–1972

Stefan Banach1

Polish &Ukrainian mathematician 1892–1945

Fortunato Depero6

Italian painter, writer, sculptor and graphic designer 1892–1960

Jean Giono1

French writer 1895–1970

Brooke Astor3

Socialite, writer, Philanthropist 1902–2007

Philip Birnbaum3

American translator and writer 1904–1988

Albert Pierrepoint3

English executioner 1905–1992

Ernst Gombrich16

art historian 1909–2001

Ingvar Kamprad5

Entrepreneur 1926–2018

Tom Sharpe1

English satirical novelist 1928–2013

Rolf Harris3

Australian-born, British-based entertainer and convicted se… 1930–2023

Paul Crouch3

American broadcster 1934–2013

David Mermin8

American physicist 1935

Eric Clapton18

English musician, singer, songwriter, and guitarist 1945

Robbie Coltrane1

Scottish actor 1950–2022

Cherry Adair2

South African-American writer 1951

Paul Reiser1

American actor and comedian 1957

Matthew Scully7

American political writer and speechwriter 1959

Pavan Sukhdev1

Indian environmental economist 1960

Yōko Ogawa4

Japanese writer 1962

Paul Hackett3

American lawyer and activist 1962

Yaroslav Pryriz2

Ukrainian Eastern Catholic bishop 1963

Tsakhiagiin Elbegdorj9

Mongolian politician 1963

Tracy Chapman1

American singer-songwriter 1964

Ian Ziering2

American actor 1964

Nicola Barker1

English novelist 1966

Vincenzo Amato1

Italian actor and sculptor 1966

Albert-László Barabási1

Hungarian-Eomanian physicist 1967

Megumi Hayashibara1

Japanese voice actress and singer 1967

Céline Dion5

Canadian singer 1968

Tim Hawkins2

Christian comedian, songwriter, and singer 1968

Adam Goldstein15

American DJ 1973–2009

Norah Jones9

American singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist 1979

Anatoliy Tymoshchuk16

Ukrainian footballer 1979

Hebe Tien1

Taiwanese singer, actress 1983

Richard Sherman (American football)17

American football player 1988

João Sousa5

Portuguese tennis player 1989

Cassie Scerbo3

American actress, singer and dancer 1990

Death

Joachim of Fiore1

Italian abbot 1135–1202

John King1

Bishop of London in the Church of England 1559–1621

John M. Sandidge2

American politician 1817–1890

James Matthews Legaré2

American writer 1823–1859

Karl May1

German writer 1842–1912

John Henry Poynting2

physicist 1852–1914

C. V. Boys3

British physicist 1855–1944

Rudolf Steiner20

Austrian esotericist 1861–1925

Maxfield Parrish11

American painter and illustrator 1870–1966

Léon Blum2

French politician 1872–1950

Edmund Clerihew Bentley27

British writer 1875–1956

Nella Larsen3

Novelist, librarian, nurse 1891–1964

Jean Toomer4

American poet and novelist 1894–1967

James Cagney2

American actor and dancer 1899–1986

Fritz London1

American physicist 1900–1954

Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon13

Queen consort of King George VI, mother of Queen Elizabeth … 1900–2002

Karl Rahner5

German Catholic theologian 1904–1984

Eric Roll, Baron Roll of Ipsden24

British economist 1907–2005

Cyrus H. Gordon73

American linguist 1908–2001

Alistair Cooke13

British journalist and broadcaster 1908–2004

J. V. Cunningham9

American writer 1911–1985

Edith Schaeffer2

American writer 1914–2013

John Ciardi4

American poet, professor, translator 1916–1986

Mengistu Neway3

Commander of the Ethiopian Imperial Bodyguard 1919–1961

Manolis Glezos1

Greek politician 1922–2020

Yuri Knorozov2

Soviet and Russian mesoamericanist (1922-1999) 1922–1999

Robert Creeley1

American poet 1926–2005

John McGahern1

writer 1934–2006

Bill Withers7

American singer-songwriter and musician 1938–2020

Dith Pran3

Cambodian photojournalist 1942–2008

Michael Dibdin1

British writer 1947–2007