Anniversaries 31 March
Birth
![Guru Angad Dev photo]()
The second Guru of Sikhism
1504–1552
![René Descartes photo]()
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1596–1650
![Andrew Marvell photo]()
English metaphysical poet and politician
1621–1678
![Joseph Haydn photo]()
Austrian composer
1732–1809
![Edward FitzGerald photo]()
English poet and writer
1809–1883
![Thomas Gold Appleton photo]()
American artist
1812–1884
![Mary Abigail Dodge photo]()
American writer
1833–1896
![Andrew Lang photo]()
Scots poet, novelist and literary critic
1844–1912
![Scott Joplin photo]()
American composer, musician, and pianist
1868–1917
![Alexandra Kollontai photo]()
Soviet diplomat
1872–1952
![Sergei Diaghilev photo]()
Russian art critic
1872–1929
![Heinrich Neuhaus photo]()
Soviet musician
1888–1964
![Shin'ichirō Tomonaga photo]()
Japanese physicist
1906–1979
![Freddie Green photo]()
American musician
1911–1987
![Octavio Paz photo]()
Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite…
1914–1998
![Shoichi Yokoi photo]()
Japanese World War II Soldier
1915–1997
![Sam Hinton photo]()
folk singer, artist, marine biologist
1917–2009
![Leo Buscaglia photo]()
Motivational speaker, writer
1924–1998
![Eduardo Martínez Somalo photo]()
cardinal of the Catholic Church
1927–2021
![Cesar Chavez photo]()
American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activi…
1927–1993
![John Jakes photo]()
American historical novelist and fantasy writer
1932
![Tullio De Mauro photo]()
Italian linguist
1932–2017
![Carlo Rubbia photo]()
Italian particle physicist
1934
![Walter E. Williams photo]()
American economist, commentator, and academic
1936
![Marge Piercy photo]()
American novelist and poet
1936
![Barney Frank photo]()
American politician, former member of the House of Represen…
1940
![Michael Savage photo]()
U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, and Author
1942
![Judith Lewis Herman photo]()
American psychiatrist
1942
![Angus King photo]()
United States Senator from Maine
1944
![Eliyahu M. Goldratt photo]()
Israeli physicist and management guru
1947–2011
![Gregory J. Studerus photo]()
Roman Catholic priest
1948
![Al Gore photo]()
45th Vice President of the United States
1948
![Angus Young photo]()
Scottish Australian guitarist
1955
![Franco Coppola photo]()
Italian bishop and apostolic nuncio
1957
![Ian McDonald photo]()
British science fiction novelist
1960
![Teresa Kok photo]()
Malaysian politician
1964
![Ze Frank photo]()
American online performance artist
1972
![Anthony B photo]()
Jamaican deejay and singer
1976
![Chloé Zhao photo]()
Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film producer
1982
Death
![Isaac Newton photo]()
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern c…
1643–1727
![Thomas Adam photo]()
clergyman, religious writer
1701–1784
![Olaudah Equiano photo]()
African abolitionist
1745–1797
![Pierre Sonnerat photo]()
French botanist (1748-1814)
1748–1814
![John Constable photo]()
English Romantic painter
1776–1837
![John C. Calhoun photo]()
7th Vice President of the United States
1782–1850
![Antoine Augustin Cournot photo]()
French economist and mathematician
1801–1877
![Allan Kardec photo]()
systematizer of Spiritism
1804–1869
![Charlotte Brontë photo]()
English novelist and poet
1816–1855
![Robert Payne Smith photo]()
Dean of Canterbury
1818–1895
![J. P. Morgan photo]()
American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector
1837–1913
![Jean-Marie Guyau photo]()
French writer and philosopher
1854–1888
![Jessie Ackermann photo]()
Second Woman's Christian Temperance Union round-the-world m…
1857–1951
![Knute Rockne photo]()
American college football player and college football coach…
1888–1931
![Enid Bagnold photo]()
English dramatist, playwright, memoirist
1889–1981
![Semyon Timoshenko photo]()
Soviet military commander
1895–1970
![Rodion Malinovsky photo]()
Soviet military commander and politician
1898–1967
![Christina Stead photo]()
Twentieth-century expatriate Australian novelist
1902–1983
![Jesse Owens photo]()
American track and field athlete
1913–1980
![Ivan Kostov Nikolov photo]()
Bulgarian mineralogist
1913–2004
![Bella Abzug photo]()
American politician
1920–1998
![Roland W. Schmitt photo]()
American academic
1923–2017
![Arthur D. Hall photo]()
American electrical engineer
1925–2006
![Imre Kertész photo]()
Hungarian writer
1929–2016
![James Rosenquist photo]()
American artist
1933–2017
![Zaha Hadid photo]()
Iraqi-British architect
1950–2016
![Brandon Lee photo]()
American actor and martial artist
1965–1993
![Selena photo]()
Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion d…
1971–1995
