Anniversaries 4 March

Birth

Antonio Vivaldi1

Italian composer 1678–1741

John Lyon (poet)4

Scottish Latter Day Saint poet and hymn writer 1803–1889

Arthur Frederick Bettinson4

Manager and promoter of the National Sporting Club 1862–1926

Thomas Sturge Moore6

British playwright, poet and artist 1870–1944

P. D. Ouspensky41

Russian esotericist 1878–1947

Knute Rockne6

American college football player and college football coach… 1888–1931

George Gamow8

Russian-American physicist and science writer 1904–1968

Meindert DeJong18

American children's writer 1906–1991

Patrick Moore2

English writer, broadcaster and astronomer 1923–2012

Alan Sillitoe9

British writer 1928–2010

Robert Orben40

American magician and writer 1928

Miriam Makeba19

South African singer and civil rights activist 1932–2008

Arnold Berleant1

American philosopher 1932

Ryszard Kapuściński6

Polish historian 1932–2007

Jim Clark1

British racecar driver 1936–1968

James Gustave Speth1

American environmental lawyer and advocate 1942

Gloria Gaither1

American gospel songwriter, author & scholar 1942

Jock Young4

British sociologist and criminologist 1942–2013

Julia Cameron45

American writer 1948

James Ellroy6

Novelist, short story writer, essayist, memoirist 1948

Rick Perry21

14th and current United States Secretary of Energy 1950

Ken Robinson24

UK writer 1950

Barbara De Angelis10

American psychologist 1951

Detlef Dürr1

German mathematician and physicist 1951

Kenny Dalglish6

Scottish association football player and manager 1951

Chris Rea13

English singer-songwriter 1951

Daniel Woodrell6

Novelist 1953

Chris Smith2

New Jersey politician from the United States 1953

Patricia Heaton1

American actress 1958

Vicky Jenson4

American animator 1960

Ed Colligan1

Former president and CEO of Palm, Inc 1961

Khaled Hosseini226

novelist 1965

Patsy Kensit1

British actress 1968

Penny Mordaunt1

British politician (born 1973) 1973

Amanda Stevens4

1977

Mamady Doumbouya1

Guinean military officer and politician (1980-) 1980

Nikita Gokhale9

Indian Actress, Indian Model 1990

Gaurav Sharma (author)27

Author and novelist 1992

Luisito Pié2

Dominican taekwondo athlete 1994

AJ Tracey1

British rapper from London 1994

Death

Amos Bronson Alcott14

American teacher and writer 1799–1888

Noah Porter2

American academic 1811–1892

Alexander H. Stephens29

Vice President of the Confederate States (in office from 18… 1812–1883

Joseph Henry Shorthouse3

British writer 1834–1903

Ira Remsen1

American chemist 1846–1927

Charles Scott Sherrington3

English neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient 1857–1952

Bert Williams2

American comedian and actor 1874–1922

Felix Ehrenhaft2

Austrian physicist 1879–1952

Franz Marc35

German painter 1880–1916

William Carlos Williams83

American poet 1883–1963

Elmer Eric Schattschneider8

American political scientist 1892–1971

Antonin Artaud44

French-Occitanian poet, playwright, actor and theatre direc… 1896–1948

Adolph Gottlieb27

American artist 1903–1974

Harry Blackmun4

Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States 1908–1999

Eden ahbez11

American songwriter and recording artist 1908–1995

Elizabeth Smart1

Canadian poet and novelist 1913–1986

Elyne Mitchell1

Australian writer 1913–2002

Horton Foote2

American playwright and screenwriter 1916–2009

Robert H. Dicke2

American astronomer 1916–1997

Albert L. Lehninger19

American biochemist 1917–1986

Jean Starobinski1

Swiss writer 1920–2019

Simon van der Meer1

Dutch physicist 1925–2011

Ted Lindsay2

Canadian ice hockey player 1925–2019

Marilyn Stokstad27

art historian 1929–2016

Syed Shahabuddin2

Indian politician 1935–2017

Gary Gygax16

American writer and game designer 1938–2008

Pat Conroy85

American novelist 1945–2016

Shane Warne3

Australian former international cricketer 1969–2022