Anniversaries 9 March
Birth
![George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne photo]()
1st Baron Lansdowne
1666–1735
![William Cobbett photo]()
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
1763–1835
![Modest Mussorgsky photo]()
Russian composer
1839–1881
![Peter Altenberg photo]()
Austrian writer and poet
1859–1919
![Albert Schinz photo]()
American writer
1870–1943
![Ernest Bevin photo]()
British labour leader, politician, and statesman
1881–1951
![Francis Pegahmagabow photo]()
World War I sniper
1891–1952
![Vita Sackville-West photo]()
English writer and gardener
1892–1962
![Luis Barragán photo]()
Mexican architect
1902–1988
![David Smith photo]()
American visual artist (1906-1965)
1906–1965
![Mircea Eliade photo]()
Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosop…
1907–1986
![George Lincoln Rockwell photo]()
American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
1918–1967
![Mickey Spillane photo]()
American writer
1918–2006
![Walter Kohn photo]()
American physicist
1923–2016
![Ornette Coleman photo]()
American jazz musician
1930–2015
![Masahiro Shinoda photo]()
Japanese film director and screenwriter
1931
![Yuri Gagarin photo]()
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
1934–1968
![Bernard Landry photo]()
Canadian politician
1937–2018
![John Cale photo]()
Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
1942
![Bobby Fischer photo]()
American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1943–2008
![Jef Raskin photo]()
American computer scientist
1943–2005
![Zakir Hussain (musician) photo]()
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and compo…
1951
![Michael Kinsley photo]()
American political journalist, commentator television host
1951
![Bobby Sands photo]()
Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
1954–1981
![Pat Murphy photo]()
an award-winning American author of science fiction and fan…
1955
![Shashi Tharoor photo]()
Indian politician, diplomat, author
1956
![Alejandro Giammattei photo]()
President of Guatemala
1956
![PZ Myers photo]()
American scientist and associate professor of biology
1957
![Richard Quest photo]()
English television journalist
1962
![David Pogue photo]()
Technology writer, journalist and commentator
1963
![Kemi Adeosun photo]()
Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born…
1967
![Shannon Leto photo]()
American musician and songwriter
1970
![Mark Manson photo]()
American writer and blogger
1984
![YG (rapper) photo]()
American rapper from Compton, California
1990
![Sunisa Lee photo]()
American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gol…
2003
Death
![Hans Christian Ørsted photo]()
Danish physicist and chemist
1777–1851
![William I, German Emperor photo]()
German Emperor and King of Prussia
1797–1888
![John Weiss photo]()
United States clergyman and abolitionist
1818–1879
![Leopold von Sacher-Masoch photo]()
Austrian author
1836–1895
![Jamal-al-Din Afghani photo]()
Political activist and Islamic ideologist
1837–1897
![Arnold Toynbee photo]()
British economic historian
1852–1883
![Yukteswar Giri photo]()
Indian yogi and guru
1855–1936
![Paul Elmer More photo]()
American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologi…
1864–1937
![Frank Wedekind photo]()
German playwright
1864–1918
![Alexandra Kollontai photo]()
Soviet diplomat
1872–1952
![Edward Bernays photo]()
American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
1891–1995
![George Burns photo]()
American comedian, actor, and writer
1896–1996
![C. Northcote Parkinson photo]()
British naval historian
1909–1993
![Doris Haddock photo]()
American political activist
1910–2010
![Menachem Begin photo]()
Israeli politician and Prime Minister
1913–1992
![Robert B. Leighton photo]()
American astronomer
1919–1997
![Charles Bukowski photo]()
American writer
1920–1994
![David S. Broder photo]()
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
1929–2011
![Jean-Dominique Bauby photo]()
French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion …
1952–1997
![The Notorious B.I.G. photo]()
American rapper
1972–1997
