Anniversaries 9 March
Birth
1st Baron Lansdowne
1666–1735
English pamphleteer, farmer and journalist
1763–1835
Russian composer
1839–1881
Austrian writer and poet
1859–1919
American writer
1870–1943
British labour leader, politician, and statesman
1881–1951
World War I sniper
1891–1952
English writer and gardener
1892–1962
Mexican architect
1902–1988
American visual artist (1906-1965)
1906–1965
Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer and philosop…
1907–1986
American politician, founder of the American Nazi Party
1918–1967
American writer
1918–2006
American physicist
1923–2016
American jazz musician
1930–2015
Japanese film director and screenwriter
1931
Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, the first human in space
1934–1968
Canadian politician
1937–2018
Welsh composer, singer-songwriter and record producer
1942
American chess prodigy, chess player, and chess writer
1943–2008
American computer scientist
1943–2005
Indian tabla player, musical producer, film actor and compo…
1951
American political journalist, commentator television host
1951
Irish volunteer of the Provisional Irish Republican Army
1954–1981
an award-winning American author of science fiction and fan…
1955
Indian politician, diplomat, author
1956
President of Guatemala
1956
American scientist and associate professor of biology
1957
English television journalist
1962
Technology writer, journalist and commentator
1963
Nigerian accountant, investment banker and politician (born…
1967
American musician and songwriter
1970
American writer and blogger
1984
American rapper from Compton, California
1990
American artistic gymnast; first Hmong American Olympic gol…
2003
Death
Danish physicist and chemist
1777–1851
German Emperor and King of Prussia
1797–1888
United States clergyman and abolitionist
1818–1879
Austrian author
1836–1895
Political activist and Islamic ideologist
1837–1897
British economic historian
1852–1883
Indian yogi and guru
1855–1936
American journalist, critic, essayist and Christian apologi…
1864–1937
German playwright
1864–1918
Soviet diplomat
1872–1952
American public relations consultant, marketing pioneer
1891–1995
American comedian, actor, and writer
1896–1996
British naval historian
1909–1993
American political activist
1910–2010
Israeli politician and Prime Minister
1913–1992
American astronomer
1919–1997
American writer
1920–1994
American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist
1929–2011
French journalist, author and editor of the French fashion …
1952–1997
American rapper
1972–1997