Anniversaries 7 March
Birth
![Alessandro Manzoni photo]()
Italian poet and novelist
1785–1873
![John Herschel photo]()
English mathematician, astronomer, chemist and photographer
1792–1871
![Francis Wayland photo]()
President of Brown University
1796–1865
![Luther Burbank photo]()
American botanist, horticulturist and pioneer in agricultur…
1849–1926
![Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk photo]()
First Czechoslovak president
1850–1937
![Piet Mondrian photo]()
Peintre Néerlandais
1872–1944
![Maurice Ravel photo]()
French composer
1875–1937
![Fritz London photo]()
American physicist
1900–1954
![Reinhard Heydrich photo]()
German Nazi official during World War II
1904–1942
![Simon Ramo photo]()
Father of the ICBM
1913–2016
![Reginald Maudling photo]()
British politician
1917–1979
![Kóbó Abe photo]()
Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
1924–1993
![Sidney Coleman photo]()
American physicist
1937–2007
![Jack Bamford photo]()
Recipient of the George Cross
1937
![Tony Conrad photo]()
American filmmaker, violinist and composer
1940–2016
![Townes Van Zandt photo]()
singer-songwriter
1944–1997
![Daniel Goleman photo]()
American psychologist & journalist
1946
![Walter Röhrl photo]()
rally driver, winner of the 1980 and 1982 World Rally Champ…
1947
![Rik Mayall photo]()
British comedian and actor
1958–2014
![Brent Weeks photo]()
American fiction writer
1977
![Amanda Gorman photo]()
American poet and activist
1998
Death
![Thomas Aquinas photo]()
Italian Dominican scholastic philosopher of the Roman Catho…
1225–1274
![Giles Rooke photo]()
British judge (1743-1808)
1743–1808
![John Muir (indologist) photo]()
Scottish Sanskrit scholar and Indologist
1810–1882
![Louis Veuillot photo]()
French journalist
1813–1883
![Harriet Jacobs photo]()
American slave, writer, and abolitionist
1813–1897
![Auguste, Baron Lambermont photo]()
Belgian politician
1819–1905
![Christian David Ginsburg photo]()
Polish-British Bible scholar
1831–1914
![Lucy Parsons photo]()
American communist anarchist labor organizer
1853–1942
![Pauline Johnson photo]()
Canadian poet and performer
1861–1913
![Lena Guilbert Ford photo]()
American lyricist, poet
1870–1918
![Arthur Cecil Pigou photo]()
British economist
1877–1959
![Alice B. Toklas photo]()
American writer
1877–1967
![Leonid Feodorov photo]()
Exarch of the Russian Catholic Church
1879–1935
![Wyndham Lewis photo]()
writer and painter
1882–1957
![Theo van Doesburg photo]()
Dutch architect, painter, draughtsman and writer
1883–1931
![Paramahansa Yogananda photo]()
Yogi, a guru of Kriya Yoga and founder of Self-Realization …
1893–1952
![Mikhail Bakhtin photo]()
Philosopher, scholar
1895–1975
![Stevie Smith photo]()
poet, novelist, illustrator, performer
1902–1971
![Gordon Parks photo]()
American photographer, musician, writer and film director
1912–2006
![Edward M. Purcell photo]()
American physicist
1912–1997
![Hans Georg Dehmelt photo]()
German physicist
1922–2017
![Stanley Kubrick photo]()
American film director, screenwriter, producer, cinematogra…
1928–1999
![W. D. Hamilton photo]()
British evolutionary biologist (1936-2000)
1936–2000
![Cathie Linz photo]()
American writer
1954–2015
