Anniversaries 8 March

Birth

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach3

German harpsichordist and composer 1714–1788

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet6

Scottish metaphysician (1788–1856) 1788–1856

Edwin Percy Whipple2

American writer 1819–1886

Sir Richard Temple, 1st Baronet3

British politician 1826–1902

Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.107

United States Supreme Court justice 1841–1935

Kenneth Grahame83

British novelist 1859–1932

Otto Hahn1

German chemist 1879–1968

Stuart Chase2

American economist 1888–1985

Gene Fowler9

American journalist 1890–1960

Шарлотта Элизабет Уиттон1

1896–1975

Charlotte Whitton2

Canadian politician 1896–1975

Howard H. Aiken4

pioneer in computing, original conceptual designer behind I… 1900–1973

Alan Hovhaness4

Armenian-American composer 1911–2000

Ernst von Glasersfeld9

German philosopher 1917–2010

Warren Bennis11

American leadership expert 1925–2014

Hebe Camargo3

Brazilian television host 1929–2012

Douglas Hurd3

British Conservative politician and novelist 1930

Neil Postman106

American writer and academic 1931–2003

John McPhee4

American writer 1931

Christian Wolff2

American composer 1934

Samy Vellu2

Malaysian politician 1936

Jim Bouton2

American baseball player, writer 1939–2019

Ina May Gaskin3

American midwife 1940

Steven Lukes1

British sociologist 1941

Valerio Massimo Manfredi1

Italian writer and archaeologist 1943

Waldemar Łysiak4

Polish art historian 1944

Anselm Kiefer20

German painter and sculptor 1945

Jonathan Sacks13

British rabbi 1948

Gyles Brandreth10

British writer, broadcaster and former Member of Parliament 1948

Ethlie Ann Vare2

American journalist 1953

Patrick Califia-Rice2

American writer 1954

Yemi Osinbajo1

14th Vice President of Nigeria 1957

Jeffrey Eugenides96

Novelist, short story writer, teacher 1960

David Klass4

American writer 1960

Maurice Glasman, Baron Glasman49

British philosopher 1961

Alison Becker1

American actress and comedian 1977

James Van Der Beek2

actor 1977

Кэт Фон Ди1

1982

Joshua King Madrid1

1998

Rahul verma (Rv)4

2004

Death

Khwaja Abdullah Ansari2

Persian writer 1006–1089

Christopher Wren2

English architect 1632–1723

William III of England1

Prince of Orange, King of England, Scotland and Ireland 1650–1702

Millard Fillmore6

American politician, 13th President of the United States (i… 1800–1874

Hector Berlioz9

French Romantic composer 1803–1869

Henry Ward Beecher75

American clergyman and activist 1813–1887

Gerard Bilders14

painter from the Netherlands 1838–1865

Charles Follen Adams3

American poet 1842–1918

William Howard Taft32

American politician, 27th President of the United States (i… 1857–1930

Frederick W. Lanchester2

British polymath 1868–1946

Sherwood Anderson19

writer 1876–1941

Thomas Beecham12

British conductor and impresario 1879–1961

George Bailey Sansom1

japanologist 1883–1965

Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy2

British saint 1883–1929

José Raúl Capablanca2

Cuban chess player 1888–1942

Harold Lloyd6

American film actor and producer 1893–1971

Erich von dem Bach6

German politician and SS functionary 1899–1972

Jack Lindsay1

Australian writer in the United Kingdom 1900–1990

János Esterházy10

Czechoslovak member of Czechoslovak national parliament, ru… 1901–1957

Rab Butler18

British politician 1902–1982

Adolfo Bioy Casares16

Argentine novelist 1914–1999

Wilson Harris15

Guyanese writer 1921–2018

John Bellairs1

American novelist, primarily speculative fiction for childr… 1938–1991

Aslan Maskhadov4

Chechen warlord 1951–2005