Anniversaries 9 March

Birth

George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne9

1st Baron Lansdowne 1666–1735

William Cobbett58

English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist 1763–1835

Modest Mussorgsky3

Russian composer 1839–1881

Peter Altenberg1

Austrian writer and poet 1859–1919

Albert Schinz3

American writer 1870–1943

Ernest Bevin17

British labour leader, politician, and statesman 1881–1951

Francis Pegahmagabow3

World War I sniper 1891–1952

Vita Sackville-West39

English writer and gardener 1892–1962

Luis Barragán5

Mexican architect 1902–1988

David Smith24

American visual artist (1906-1965) 1906–1965

Mircea Eliade42

Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosop… 1907–1986

George Lincoln Rockwell24

American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party 1918–1967

Mickey Spillane59

American writer 1918–2006

Walter Kohn1

American physicist 1923–2016

Ornette Coleman4

American jazz musician 1930–2015

Masahiro Shinoda1

Japanese film director and screenwriter 1931

Yuri Gagarin11

Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space 1934–1968

Robert Barry3

American artist 1936

Bernard Landry4

Canadian politician 1937–2018

Benjamin Zander1

English conductor 1939

John Cale13

Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer 1942

Bobby Fischer58

American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer 1943–2008

Jef Raskin29

American computer scientist 1943–2005

Keri Hulme6

New Zealand writer 1947

Zakir Hussain (musician)25

Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and compo… 1951

Michael Kinsley6

American political journalist, commentator television host 1951

Amir Peretz7

Israeli politician 1952

Bobby Sands23

Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army 1954–1981

Michelle Herman1

American writer 1955

Pat Murphy15

an award-winning American author of science fiction and fan… 1955

Shashi Tharoor43

Indian politician, diplomat, author 1956

Alejandro Giammattei1

President of Guatemala 1956

PZ Myers13

American scientist and associate professor of biology 1957

Mona Sahlin5

Swedish politician 1957

Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi3

Iranian politician 1960

Richard Quest3

English television journalist 1962

David Pogue8

Technology writer, journalist and commentator 1963

Juliette Binoche3

French actress 1964

Kemi Adeosun6

Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born… 1967

Shannon Leto2

American musician and songwriter 1970

Mark Manson50

American writer and blogger 1984

YG (rapper)1

American rapper from Compton, California 1990

Sunisa Lee8

American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gol… 2003

Death

Henry Pemberton4

British doctor 1694–1771

Anna Laetitia Barbauld16

English author 1743–1825

Hans Christian Ørsted1

Danish physicist and chemist 1777–1851

William I, German Emperor1

German Emperor and King of Prussia 1797–1888

John Weiss2

United States clergyman and abolitionist 1818–1879

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch10

Austrian author 1836–1895

Jamal-al-Din Afghani2

Political activist and Islamic ideologist 1837–1897

Arnold Toynbee20

British economic historian 1852–1883

Yukteswar Giri15

Indian yogi and guru 1855–1936

Paul Elmer More1

American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologi… 1864–1937

Frank Wedekind2

German playwright 1864–1918

Alexandra Kollontai32

Soviet diplomat 1872–1952

Edward Bernays28

American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer 1891–1995

George Burns22

American comedian, actor, and writer 1896–1996

C. Northcote Parkinson7

British naval historian 1909–1993

Doris Haddock5

American political activist 1910–2010

Menachem Begin9

Israeli politician and Prime Minister 1913–1992

Robert B. Leighton1

American astronomer 1919–1997

Charles Bukowski555

American writer 1920–1994

David S. Broder1

American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist 1929–2011

Howard Hodgkin2

British artist 1932–2017

Jean-Dominique Bauby7

French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion … 1952–1997

The Notorious B.I.G.19

American rapper 1972–1997