Anniversaries 31 March
Birth
The second Guru of Sikhism
1504–1552
French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist
1596–1650
English metaphysical poet and politician
1621–1678
Austrian composer
1732–1809
English poet and writer
1809–1883
American artist
1812–1884
American writer
1833–1896
Scots poet, novelist and literary critic
1844–1912
American composer, musician, and pianist
1868–1917
Soviet diplomat
1872–1952
Russian art critic
1872–1929
Soviet musician
1888–1964
Japanese physicist
1906–1979
American musician
1911–1987
Mexican writer laureated with the 1990 Nobel Prize for Lite…
1914–1998
Japanese World War II Soldier
1915–1997
folk singer, artist, marine biologist
1917–2009
Motivational speaker, writer
1924–1998
cardinal of the Catholic Church
1927–2021
American farm worker, labor leader, and civil rights activi…
1927–1993
American historical novelist and fantasy writer
1932
Italian linguist
1932–2017
Italian particle physicist
1934
American economist, commentator, and academic
1936
American novelist and poet
1936
American politician, former member of the House of Represen…
1940
U.S. radio talk show host, Commentator, and Author
1942
American psychiatrist
1942
United States Senator from Maine
1944
Israeli physicist and management guru
1947–2011
Roman Catholic priest
1948
45th Vice President of the United States
1948
Scottish Australian guitarist
1955
Italian bishop and apostolic nuncio
1957
British science fiction novelist
1960
Malaysian politician
1964
American online performance artist
1972
Jamaican deejay and singer
1976
Chinese film director, screenwriter, and film producer
1982
Death
British physicist and mathematician and founder of modern c…
1643–1727
clergyman, religious writer
1701–1784
African abolitionist
1745–1797
French botanist (1748-1814)
1748–1814
English Romantic painter
1776–1837
7th Vice President of the United States
1782–1850
French economist and mathematician
1801–1877
systematizer of Spiritism
1804–1869
English novelist and poet
1816–1855
Dean of Canterbury
1818–1895
American financier, banker, philanthropist and art collector
1837–1913
French writer and philosopher
1854–1888
Second Woman's Christian Temperance Union round-the-world m…
1857–1951
American college football player and college football coach…
1888–1931
English dramatist, playwright, memoirist
1889–1981
Soviet military commander
1895–1970
Soviet military commander and politician
1898–1967
Twentieth-century expatriate Australian novelist
1902–1983
American track and field athlete
1913–1980
Bulgarian mineralogist
1913–2004
American politician
1920–1998
American academic
1923–2017
American electrical engineer
1925–2006
Hungarian writer
1929–2016
American artist
1933–2017
Iraqi-British architect
1950–2016
American actor and martial artist
1965–1993
Mexican-American singer, songwriter, actress, and fashion d…
1971–1995