Anniversaries 5 March

Birth

Gerardus Mercator3

cartographer, philosopher and mathematician 1512–1594

Charles Sedley2

English politician 1639–1701

Jacques Babinet1

French physicist, mathematician and astronomer 1794–1872

Georg Friedrich Daumer1

German philosopher and poet 1800–1875

John Wentworth1

American newspaper editor and politician 1815–1888

Austen Henry Layard2

British politician (1817–1894) 1817–1894

Lucy Larcom25

American teacher, poet, author 1824–1893

Howard Pyle4

American illustrator and author 1853–1911

Mikhail Vrubel1

Russian painter 1856–1910

Siegbert Tarrasch10

German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician 1862–1934

Michael von Faulhaber15

German Roman Catholic Cardinal 1869–1952

Rosa Luxemburg56

Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolut… 1871–1919

William Beveridge10

Economist and social reformer 1879–1963

Soong Mei-ling6

Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China 1897–2003

Zhou Enlai8

1st Premier of the People's Republic of China 1898–1976

Cecil Roth3

British historian 1899–1970

Karl Rahner5

German Catholic theologian 1904–1984

Irving Fiske3

American writer 1908–1990

Gangubai Hangal18

Indian singer 1913–2009

Jiang Qing6

Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong 1914–1991

Laurent Schwartz4

mathematician 1915–2002

James Tobin22

American economist 1918–2002

Virginia Christine4

actress 1920–1996

Pier Paolo Pasolini3

Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual 1922–1975

Jacques Verges1

French lawyer 1925–2013

Richard Arnold Epstein27

American physicist 1927

Edgar H. Schein12

Psychologist 1928

Daniel Kahneman51

Israeli-American psychologist 1934

Larry Bossidy1

American businessman 1935

Lynn Margulis24

American evolutionary biologist 1938–2011

Charles Fuller2

American playwright 1939–2022

Chögyam Trungpa20

Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer 1939–1987

Mike Resnick1

American writer 1942–2020

Stuart A. Umpleby7

American scientist 1944

Thomas Flanagan (political scientist)16

author, academic, and political activist 1944

Mem Fox1

Australian academic and children's writer known for picture… 1946

Esther Hicks9

American writer 1948

Leslie Marmon Silko6

American writer 1948

Elaine Paige19

English singer and actress 1948

Eddy Grant1

Guyana born British reggae musician 1948

William R. Looney III1

28th Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Randolp… 1949

Willis Allan Ramsey5

American singer-songwriter 1951

Gleb Pavlovsky5

Russian political scientist 1951

Robin Hobb76

American fiction writer (pseudonym) 1952

Tokyo Sexwale2

South African politician 1953

Michael J. Sandel21

American political philosopher 1953

Penn Jillette49

American magician 1955

Mark E. Smith1

English spoken-word artist, singer, songwriter & bandleader… 1957–2018

Andy Gibb1

British–Australian singer 1958–1988

Gregg Olsen1

American writer 1959

Joel Osteen65

American televangelist and author 1963

Mark Z. Danielewski47

Novelist 1965

Charlene Wong2

Canadian figure skater 1966

John Frusciante24

American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer 1970

Aleksandar Vučić5

President of Serbia 1970

Yuri Lowenthal1

American voice actor 1971

Skee-Lo1

American rapper 1973

Eva Mendes3

American actress 1974

Jolene Blalock1

actress 1975

Daniela Sea3

American filmmaker, actor, and musician 1977

Death

John Holt (Lord Chief Justice)36

English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England 1642–1710

Pierre-Simon Laplace15

French mathematician and astronomer 1749–1827

Hermann Friedrich Kohlbrügge10

Dutch minister 1803–1874

Octavius Winslow3

English theologian 1808–1878

Hippolyte Taine3

French critic and historian 1828–1893

Alfred von Waldersee37

Prussian Field Marshal 1832–1904

Edgar Lee Masters12

American writer 1868–1950

Joseph Stalin95

General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union 1879–1953

Mohammad Mosaddegh3

Prime Minister of Iran 1882–1967

Anna Akhmatova99

Russian modernist poet 1889–1966

Mary Butts1

Novelist 1890–1937

Brenda Ueland9

Journalist and writer 1891–1985

Sergei Prokofiev7

Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer 1891–1953

Yip Harburg32

American song lyricist 1896–1981

Herman J. Mankiewicz3

American screenwriter 1897–1953

Alfred Denning, Baron Denning27

British judge 1899–1999

Roman Shukhevych1

Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1907-1950) 1907–1950

Alun Lewis7

Welsh poet 1915–1944

Duane Gish4

American biochemist 1921–2013

Joseph Weizenbaum1

German-American computer scientist 1923–2008

Hayden White7

American historian 1928–2018

Roger Lea MacBride2

American writer, TV producer, and politician; 1976 Libertar… 1929–1995

Patsy Cline5

American country music singer 1932–1963

Richard Kuklinski1

American contract killer 1935–2006

Trevor Baylis4

English inventor 1937–2018

Vivian Stanshall37

English musician, artist and author 1943–1995

John Belushi4

American comedian, actor, and musician 1949–1982

Hugo Chávez60

48th President of Venezuela 1954–2013

Stephen H. Webb2

American theologian 1961–2016