Anniversaries 7 March

Birth

Alessandro Manzoni6

Italian poet and novelist 1785–1873

John Herschel16

English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer 1792–1871

Francis Wayland3

President of Brown University 1796–1865

Luther Burbank30

American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultur… 1849–1926

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk9

First Czechoslovak president 1850–1937

Piet Mondrian95

Peintre Néerlandais 1872–1944

Maurice Ravel3

French composer 1875–1937

Fritz London1

American physicist 1900–1954

Reinhard Heydrich4

German Nazi official during World War II 1904–1942

Simon Ramo6

Father of the ICBM 1913–2016

Sviatoslav Richter2

Soviet pianist 1915–1997

Reginald Maudling3

British politician 1917–1979

Kóbó Abe16

Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor 1924–1993

Georges Perec3

French writer 1936–1982

Sidney Coleman3

American physicist 1937–2007

Jack Bamford1

Recipient of the George Cross 1937

Tony Conrad1

American filmmaker, violinist and composer 1940–2016

Irving Kirsch1

medical researcher 1943

Townes Van Zandt7

singer-songwriter 1944–1997

Elizabeth Moon3

American writer 1945

Daniel Goleman13

American psychologist & journalist 1946

Walter Röhrl1

rally driver, winner of the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champ… 1947

William Boyd3

British writer 1952

Andrea Levy1

British writer 1956–2019

Robert Harris9

novelist 1957

Rik Mayall6

British comedian and actor 1958–2014

E. L. James5

British writer 1963

Bret Easton Ellis76

American novelist 1964

Joy Tanner2

American actress 1966

Rachel Weisz3

English actress 1970

Arnab Goswami2

Indian news anchor 1973

Brent Weeks16

American fiction writer 1977

Nicole Lapin7

American journalist 1984

Amanda Gorman4

American poet and activist 1998

Death

Thomas Aquinas104

Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho… 1225–1274

Giles Rooke6

British judge (1743-1808) 1743–1808

John Muir (indologist)5

Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist 1810–1882

Louis Veuillot4

French journalist 1813–1883

Arthur Helps17

British writer 1813–1875

Harriet Jacobs1

American slave, writer, and abolitionist 1813–1897

Auguste, Baron Lambermont4

Belgian politician 1819–1905

Christian David Ginsburg2

Polish-British Bible scholar 1831–1914

Edwin Markham26

American poet 1852–1940

Lucy Parsons16

American communist anarchist labor organizer 1853–1942

Pauline Johnson2

Canadian poet and performer 1861–1913

Lena Guilbert Ford1

American lyricist, poet 1870–1918

Otto Diels1

German chemist 1876–1954

Arthur Cecil Pigou8

British economist 1877–1959

Alice B. Toklas1

American writer 1877–1967

Leonid Feodorov5

Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church 1879–1935

Wyndham Lewis15

writer and painter 1882–1957

Theo van Doesburg46

Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer 1883–1931

Paramahansa Yogananda65

Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization … 1893–1952

Mikhail Bakhtin3

Philosopher, scholar 1895–1975

Stevie Smith18

poet, novelist, illustrator, performer 1902–1971

Gordon Parks1

American photographer, musician, writer and film director 1912–2006

Edward M. Purcell3

American physicist 1912–1997

Hans Georg Dehmelt1

German physicist 1922–2017

Stanley Kubrick33

American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematogra… 1928–1999

Pino Caruso1

Italian actor 1934–2019

W. D. Hamilton1

British evolutionary biologist (1936-2000) 1936–2000

Cathie Linz1

American writer 1954–2015