Anniversaries 8 March
Birth
![Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach photo]()
German harpsichordist and composer
1714–1788
![Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet photo]()
Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856)
1788–1856
![Edwin Percy Whipple photo]()
American writer
1819–1886
![Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet photo]()
British politician
1826–1902
![Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. photo]()
United States Supreme Court justice
1841–1935
![Kenneth Grahame photo]()
British novelist
1859–1932
![Stuart Chase photo]()
American economist
1888–1985
![Gene Fowler photo]()
American journalist
1890–1960
![Charlotte Whitton photo]()
Canadian politician
1896–1975
![Howard H. Aiken photo]()
pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind I…
1900–1973
![Alan Hovhaness photo]()
Armenian-American composer
1911–2000
![Ernst von Glasersfeld photo]()
German philosopher
1917–2010
![Warren Bennis photo]()
American leadership expert
1925–2014
![Hebe Camargo photo]()
Brazilian television host
1929–2012
![Douglas Hurd photo]()
British Conservative politician and novelist
1930
![Neil Postman photo]()
American writer and academic
1931–2003
![Samy Vellu photo]()
Malaysian politician
1936
![Jim Bouton photo]()
American baseball player, writer
1939–2019
![Valerio Massimo Manfredi photo]()
Italian writer and archaeologist
1943
![Waldemar Łysiak photo]()
Polish art historian
1944
![Anselm Kiefer photo]()
German painter and sculptor
1945
![Gyles Brandreth photo]()
British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament
1948
![Yemi Osinbajo photo]()
14th Vice President of Nigeria
1957
![Jeffrey Eugenides photo]()
Novelist, short story writer, teacher
1960
![Alison Becker photo]()
American actress and comedian
1977
Death
![Christopher Wren photo]()
English architect
1632–1723
![William III of England photo]()
Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland
1650–1702
![Millard Fillmore photo]()
American politician, 13th President of the United States (i…
1800–1874
![Hector Berlioz photo]()
French Romantic composer
1803–1869
![Henry Ward Beecher photo]()
American clergyman and activist
1813–1887
![Gerard Bilders photo]()
painter from the Netherlands
1838–1865
![William Howard Taft photo]()
American politician, 27th President of the United States (i…
1857–1930
![Frederick W. Lanchester photo]()
British polymath
1868–1946
![Thomas Beecham photo]()
British conductor and impresario
1879–1961
![José Raúl Capablanca photo]()
Cuban chess player
1888–1942
![Harold Lloyd photo]()
American film actor and producer
1893–1971
![Erich von dem Bach photo]()
German politician and SS functionary
1899–1972
![Jack Lindsay photo]()
Australian writer in the United Kingdom
1900–1990
![János Esterházy photo]()
Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, ru…
1901–1957
![Rab Butler photo]()
British politician
1902–1982
![Adolfo Bioy Casares photo]()
Argentine novelist
1914–1999
![Wilson Harris photo]()
Guyanese writer
1921–2018
![John Bellairs photo]()
American novelist, primarily speculative fiction for childr…
1938–1991
![Aslan Maskhadov photo]()
Chechen warlord
1951–2005
