Anniversaries 5 March
Birth
![Gerardus Mercator photo]()
cartographer, philosopher and mathematician
1512–1594
![Charles Sedley photo]()
English politician
1639–1701
![Jacques Babinet photo]()
French physicist, mathematician and astronomer
1794–1872
![Georg Friedrich Daumer photo]()
German philosopher and poet
1800–1875
![John Wentworth photo]()
American newspaper editor and politician
1815–1888
![Austen Henry Layard photo]()
British politician (1817–1894)
1817–1894
![Lucy Larcom photo]()
American teacher, poet, author
1824–1893
![Howard Pyle photo]()
American illustrator and author
1853–1911
![Mikhail Vrubel photo]()
Russian painter
1856–1910
![Siegbert Tarrasch photo]()
German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician
1862–1934
![Michael von Faulhaber photo]()
German Roman Catholic Cardinal
1869–1952
![Rosa Luxemburg photo]()
Polish Marxist theorist, socialist philosopher, and revolut…
1871–1919
![William Beveridge photo]()
Economist and social reformer
1879–1963
![Soong Mei-ling photo]()
Chiang Kai-shek's wife, First Lady of the Republic of China
1897–2003
![Zhou Enlai photo]()
1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
1898–1976
![Cecil Roth photo]()
British historian
1899–1970
![Karl Rahner photo]()
German Catholic theologian
1904–1984
![Irving Fiske photo]()
American writer
1908–1990
![Jiang Qing photo]()
Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong
1914–1991
![James Tobin photo]()
American economist
1918–2002
![Pier Paolo Pasolini photo]()
Italian film director, poet, writer and intellectual
1922–1975
![Daniel Kahneman photo]()
Israeli-American psychologist
1934
![Larry Bossidy photo]()
American businessman
1935
![Lynn Margulis photo]()
American evolutionary biologist
1938–2011
![Charles Fuller photo]()
American playwright
1939–2022
![Chögyam Trungpa photo]()
Tibetan Buddhist lama and writer
1939–1987
![Mike Resnick photo]()
American writer
1942–2020
![Thomas Flanagan (political scientist) photo]()
author, academic, and political activist
1944
![Mem Fox photo]()
Australian academic and children's writer known for picture…
1946
![Elaine Paige photo]()
English singer and actress
1948
![Eddy Grant photo]()
Guyana born British reggae musician
1948
![William R. Looney III photo]()
28th Commander, Air Education and Training Command, Randolp…
1949
![Willis Allan Ramsey photo]()
American singer-songwriter
1951
![Gleb Pavlovsky photo]()
Russian political scientist
1951
![Robin Hobb photo]()
American fiction writer (pseudonym)
1952
![Tokyo Sexwale photo]()
South African politician
1953
![Michael J. Sandel photo]()
American political philosopher
1953
![Mark E. Smith photo]()
English spoken-word artist, singer, songwriter & bandleader…
1957–2018
![Andy Gibb photo]()
British–Australian singer
1958–1988
![Joel Osteen photo]()
American televangelist and author
1963
![Charlene Wong photo]()
Canadian figure skater
1966
![John Frusciante photo]()
American guitarist, singer, songwriter and record producer
1970
![Yuri Lowenthal photo]()
American voice actor
1971
![Daniela Sea photo]()
American filmmaker, actor, and musician
1977
Death
![John Holt (Lord Chief Justice) photo]()
English lawyer and Lord Chief Justice of England
1642–1710
![Pierre-Simon Laplace photo]()
French mathematician and astronomer
1749–1827
![Octavius Winslow photo]()
English theologian
1808–1878
![Hippolyte Taine photo]()
French critic and historian
1828–1893
![Alfred von Waldersee photo]()
Prussian Field Marshal
1832–1904
![Edgar Lee Masters photo]()
American writer
1868–1950
![Joseph Stalin photo]()
General secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union
1879–1953
![Mohammad Mosaddegh photo]()
Prime Minister of Iran
1882–1967
![Anna Akhmatova photo]()
Russian modernist poet
1889–1966
![Brenda Ueland photo]()
Journalist and writer
1891–1985
![Sergei Prokofiev photo]()
Ukrainian & Russian Soviet pianist and composer
1891–1953
![Yip Harburg photo]()
American song lyricist
1896–1981
![Herman J. Mankiewicz photo]()
American screenwriter
1897–1953
![Roman Shukhevych photo]()
Commander of the Ukrainian Insurgent Army (1907-1950)
1907–1950
![Duane Gish photo]()
American biochemist
1921–2013
![Joseph Weizenbaum photo]()
German-American computer scientist
1923–2008
![Hayden White photo]()
American historian
1928–2018
![Roger Lea MacBride photo]()
American writer, TV producer, and politician; 1976 Libertar…
1929–1995
![Patsy Cline photo]()
American country music singer
1932–1963
![Richard Kuklinski photo]()
American contract killer
1935–2006
![Trevor Baylis photo]()
English inventor
1937–2018
![Vivian Stanshall photo]()
English musician, artist and author
1943–1995
![John Belushi photo]()
American comedian, actor, and musician
1949–1982
![Hugo Chávez photo]()
48th President of Venezuela
1954–2013
![Stephen H. Webb photo]()
American theologian
1961–2016
