History of Today in India – 07 March

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📜 Important Events on 07 March in World History

07 Mar 2024: Sweden officially joins NATO, becoming its 32nd member. Read more
07 Mar 2024: Hannah Gutierrez-Reed is found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the death of Halyna Hutchins on the set of the movie Rust, the first time someone has been found guilty for causing a death on a movie set. Read more
07 Mar 2021: At least 108 die and 615 are injured in the 2021 Bata explosions in Bata, Equatorial Guinea. Read more
07 Mar 2009: Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. Read more
07 Mar 2007: Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. Read more
07 Mar 2007: Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people. Read more
07 Mar 2006: The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India. Read more
07 Mar 1989: Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a fight over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel, The Satanic Verses. Read more
07 Mar 1986: Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor. Read more
07 Mar 1965: Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. Read more
07 Mar 1965: Aeroflot Flight 542 crashes in the Yermakovsky District, killing all 31 aboard. Read more
07 Mar 1951: Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 crashes in Lynnhurst, Minneapolis, killing 15 people. Read more
07 Mar 1951: Korean War: Operation Ripper: United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgway begin an assault against Chinese forces. Read more
07 Mar 1951: Iranian prime minister Ali Razmara is assassinated by Khalil Tahmasebi, a member of the Islamic fundamentalist Fada'iyan-e Islam, outside a mosque in Tehran. Read more
07 Mar 1941: Günther Prien and the crew of German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappear without a trace. Read more
07 Mar 1931: The Parliament House of Finland is officially inaugurated in Helsinki, Finland. Read more
07 Mar 1921: The short-lived socialist Labin Republic is proclaimed. Read more
07 Mar 1902: Second Boer War: Boers, led by Koos de la Rey, defeat the British at the Battle of Tweebosch. Read more
07 Mar 1876: Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the "telephone". Read more
07 Mar 1850: Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war. Read more
07 Mar 1826: Shrigley abduction: 15-year old Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future figure in the establishment of colonies in South Australia and New Zealand. Read more
07 Mar 1814: Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 07 March in World History

07 Mar 2007: Kiyan Anthony, American basketball player Kiyan Carmelo Anthony is an American basketball player, for the Syracuse Orange of the Atlantic Coast Conference. He is the child of former National Basketball Association (NBA) player Carmelo Anthony and television personality La La Anthony. Anthony primarily plays the shooting guard position. Read more
07 Mar 2000: Rasmus Sandin, Swedish ice hockey player Carl Erik Rasmus Sandin is a Swedish professional ice hockey player who is a defenceman for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). He was selected in the first round, 29th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2018 NHL entry draft. Before joining the NHL, Sandin played five games for Rögle BK of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). Read more
07 Mar 2000: Sebastian Schwaighofer, Austrian politician Sebastian Schwaighofer is an Austrian politician of the Freedom Party serving as a member of the National Council since 2024. Since 2023, he has served as executive chairman of the Freedom Party's youth wing Ring Freiheitlicher Jugend. Read more
07 Mar 1998: Amanda Gorman, American poet and activist Amanda S. C. Gorman is an American poet, activist, and model. Her work focuses on issues of oppression, feminism, race, and marginalization, as well as the African diaspora. Gorman was the first person to be named National Youth Poet Laureate. She published the poetry book The One for Whom Food Is Not Enough in 2015. She rose to fame in 2021 for writing and delivering her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the inauguration of Joe Biden. Gorman's inauguration poem generated international acclaim and, shortly thereafter, two of her books achieved best-seller status and she obtained a professional management contract. Read more
07 Mar 1997: Taher Mohamed, Egyptian footballer Taher Mohamed Ahmed Taher Mohamed Mahmoud is an Egyptian professional footballer, who plays for Egyptian Premier League club Al Ahly and the Egypt national team as a winger. Read more
07 Mar 1997: Dylan Strome, Canadian ice hockey player Dylan William Strome is a Canadian professional ice hockey player who is a centre for the Washington Capitals of the National Hockey League (NHL). Ahead of the 2015 NHL entry draft, Strome was considered a top prospect, and was selected third overall by the Arizona Coyotes. He has also played for the Chicago Blackhawks. Read more
07 Mar 1996: Liam Donnelly, Northern Irish footballer Liam Francis Peadar Donnelly is a Northern Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Scottish Premiership club St Mirren. Read more
07 Mar 1996: Pablo López, Venezuelan baseball player Pablo José López Serra is a Venezuelan professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He has previously played in MLB for the Miami Marlins. López made his MLB debut in 2018 and was an All-Star in 2023. Read more
07 Mar 1995: Jerome Binnom-Williams, English footballer Jerome Craig Binnom-Williams is an English footballer who plays as a defender for Isthmian League South East Division club AFC Croydon Athletic. Read more
07 Mar 1995: Aboubakar Kamara, French footballer Aboubakar Kamara is a professional footballer who plays as a forward for Thai League 1 club Kanchanaburi Power. Born in France, he represents the Mauritania national team. Read more
07 Mar 1995: Haley Lu Richardson, American actress Haley Lu Richardson is an American actress and dancer. Following early television roles on the Disney Channel sitcom Shake It Up (2013) and the ABC Family supernatural drama Ravenswood (2013–14), she acted in the coming-of-age film The Edge of Seventeen (2016) and the psychological horror film Split (2016). Read more
07 Mar 1994: Chase Kalisz, American swimmer Chase Tyler Kalisz is an American swimmer who specializes in individual medley events. He is an Olympic gold medalist in the 400-meter individual medley at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, an Olympic silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and a two-time World Aquatics Championships gold medalist. Read more
07 Mar 1994: Jake Layman, American basketball player Jake Douglas Layman is an American professional basketball player for SeaHorses Mikawa of the Japanese B.League. He played college basketball for the Maryland Terrapins. Read more
07 Mar 1994: Jordan Pickford, English footballer Jordan Lee Pickford is an English professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Premier League club Everton and the England national team. Read more
07 Mar 1992: Bel Powley, English actress Isobel Dorothy Powley Booth is an English actress. Born and raised in London, Powley was educated at Holland Park School. She began acting as a teenager on television, starring on the CBBC action television series M.I. High (2007–2008). Read more
07 Mar 1991: Ian Clark, American basketball player Ian Patrick Clark is an American professional basketball player for the South East Melbourne Phoenix of the Australian National Basketball League (NBL). He played college basketball for the Belmont Bruins, where he earned Ohio Valley Conference Co-Player of the Year as a senior. Clark played six seasons in the NBA, including two with the Golden State Warriors, where he won an NBA championship in 2017. After two seasons in China, Clark debuted in the Australian NBL in 2022 and won a championship with the Sydney Kings. Read more
07 Mar 1990: Jeff Withey, American basketball player Jeffree David Withey is an American professional basketball player for the Pelita Jaya Jakarta of the Indonesian Basketball League (IBL). He played college basketball for the University of Kansas where he became known for his shot-blocking ability and his defensive presence. He was drafted 39th overall in the 2013 NBA draft by the Portland Trail Blazers. Read more
07 Mar 1987: Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player Niclas Bergfors is a Swedish professional ice hockey right winger currently an unrestricted free agent. He most recently played for Djurgårdens IF then of the Swedish Hockey League (SHL). He was drafted by the National Hockey League (NHL)'s New Jersey Devils in the first round, 23rd overall, at the 2005 NHL Entry Draft, playing for the organization for four-and-a-half seasons before joining the Atlanta Thrashers 2010, Florida Panthers in 2011 and Nashville Predators via free agency in 2011. He later joined the KHL's Ak Bars Kazan in late 2011 before signing with Severstal Cherepovets. In 2013, he joined Admiral Vladivostok, where he played for three seasons before joining Amur Khabarovsk in a mid-season trade. Read more
07 Mar 1986: Ryan Ciminelli, American bowler Ryan Ciminelli is a left-handed ten-pin bowler originally from Cheektowaga, New York. Since 2007, he has competed on the Professional Bowlers Association (PBA) Tour. Ciminelli has won eight PBA Tour titles, including one major championship, in addition to 14 PBA Regional Tour titles. He has earned over $700,000 on Tour through the 2020 season, and has rolled 15 perfect 300 games in PBA competition. Ciminelli was runner-up for PBA Player of the Year in the 2015 season. He was given the nickname "The Ryan Express" in the 2012 Tournament of Champions TV introductions, while his DV8 bio listed the nickname "Hit Man". Read more
07 Mar 1985: Cameron Prosser, Australian swimmer Cameron Colin Prosser is an Australian freestyle swimmer. Read more
07 Mar 1984: Steve Burtt Jr., American-Ukrainian basketball player Steven Dwayne Burtt Jr. is an American-born naturalized Ukrainian professional basketball player. Read more
07 Mar 1984: Mathieu Flamini, French footballer Mathieu Pierre Flamini is a French entrepreneur and former professional footballer. A midfielder, he played for French side Marseille, English sides Arsenal and Crystal Palace, Italian side Milan and Spanish side Getafe. At international level, he was capped by the France national team on three occasions. Read more
07 Mar 1984: Jacob Lillyman, Australian rugby league player Jacob Lillyman is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer. Throughout his career, he played for the North Queensland Cowboys, New Zealand Warriors and Newcastle Knights in the National Rugby League, while representing Queensland in State of Origin as a prop or second-row. Read more
07 Mar 1984: Brandon T. Jackson, American actor and comedian Brandon Timothy Jackson is an American actor and stand-up comedian. He is known for his roles in the films Roll Bounce (2005), Tropic Thunder (2008), Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The Lightning Thief (2010), Lottery Ticket (2010), Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011), Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013), and Roofie Jackson in Deadbeat (2014–2016). Read more
07 Mar 1983: Manucho, Angolan footballer Mateus Alberto Contreiras Gonçalves, commonly known as Manucho, is a former Angolan professional footballer who played as a striker. Read more
07 Mar 1980: Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player Eric Godard is a Canadian former professional ice hockey right winger who played in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Islanders, Calgary Flames and the Pittsburgh Penguins. He was known as an enforcer for his physical style of play and regularly dropping the gloves. His nickname is "the Hand of God", a nickname derived from the play on his surname. Read more
07 Mar 1980: Laura Prepon, American actress Laura Prepon is an American actress and television director. She rose to fame with her role as Donna Pinciotti in the Fox sitcom That '70s Show (1998–2006). She is also known for portraying Alex Vause in the Netflix comedy-drama series Orange Is the New Black (2013–2019). Prepon made her film debut in 2001 with the independent drama Southlander. Her other films include the romantic drama Come Early Morning (2006), the comedy Lay the Favorite (2012), the thriller The Girl on the Train (2016), and the drama The Hero (2017). Read more
07 Mar 1979: Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer Rodrigo Braña is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a midfielder. Read more
07 Mar 1977: Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor (died 2023) Paul Gerald Cattermole was an English singer and actor. He was a member of the pop group S Club 7 from 1998 until his departure in 2002. Cattermole returned to the line-up in 2014 for their reunion tour and was originally due to return in 2023 for a planned second reunion tour before his death. Read more
07 Mar 1977: Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player and coach Ronan John Ross O'Gara is an Irish rugby union coach and former player. O'Gara played as a fly-half and is Ireland's third most-capped player and second highest points scorer. He is currently head coach of La Rochelle in the French Top 14. Read more
07 Mar 1975: Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model Audrey Marie Anderson is an American actress and model. She is best known for her role as Kim Brown in the CBS action-drama series The Unit (2006–2009) and her recurring roles as DC character Lyla Michaels / Harbinger in the Arrowverse, primarily Arrow (2013–2020), and Lilly in The Walking Dead (2013). Read more
07 Mar 1975: T. J. Thyne, American actor Thomas Joseph Thyne is an American actor, best known for his role as Dr. Jack Hodgins in the television series Bones from 2005 to 2017. Read more
07 Mar 1974: Jenna Fischer, American actress Regina Marie Kirk, known professionally as Jenna Fischer, is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Pam Beesly on the NBC sitcom The Office (2005–2013), for which she was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series in 2007; she was also a producer for the series' ninth and final season. Read more
07 Mar 1974: Tobias Menzies, English actor Tobias Simpson Menzies is an English actor. He is known for playing Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, in the third and fourth seasons of the series The Crown, for which he won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series and received Golden Globe and British Academy Television Award nominations. Menzies also played Frank and Jonathan "Black Jack" Randall in Starz's Outlander, for which he received a Golden Globe Award nomination, in addition to his roles as Brutus in Rome and Edmure Tully in Game of Thrones. Read more
07 Mar 1974: Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer and manager Facundo Sava is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a centre forward. He is the current manager of Sarmiento. Read more
07 Mar 1973: Jason Bright, Australian race car driver Jason Paul Bright is a retired Australian racing driver who competed in the Virgin Australia Supercars Championship. He drove the No. 56 Ford FG X Falcon for Britek Motorsport, a satellite team of Prodrive Racing Australia, before retiring from full-time racing at the end of the 2017 season. Read more
07 Mar 1973: Jay Duplass, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter Lawrence Jay Duplass Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, and author widely known for his films The Puffy Chair (2005), Cyrus (2010), and Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2011), made in collaboration with his younger brother, Mark Duplass. Read more
07 Mar 1973: Sébastien Izambard, French tenor and producer Sébastien Izambard is a French singer, composer and record producer. His vocal range is classified as popular melody or vox populi with a tenor tessitura. Read more
07 Mar 1972: Craig Polla-Mounter, Australian rugby league player Craig Polla-Mounter is an Australian former professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1990s and 2000s for the Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs. He primarily played at halfback. Read more
07 Mar 1971: Tal Banin, Israeli footballer and manager Tal Banin is an Israeli football manager and former player who most recently was the manager of Maccabi Ahi Nazareth. Banin played as a defensive midfielder. A captain for the Israel national team for many years, Banin was also the only Israeli player to ever play in the Italian Serie A until 2011, when Palermo signed Eran Zahavi. Read more
07 Mar 1971: Peter Sarsgaard, American actor John Peter Sarsgaard is an American actor. He studied at the Actors Studio, before rising to prominence playing atypical and sometimes villainous roles in film and television. Read more
07 Mar 1971: Matthew Vaughn, English director and producer Sir Matthew Allard de Vere Drummond, also known as Sir Matthew Vaughn, is an English filmmaker. He has produced films including Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998) and Snatch (2000), and directed Layer Cake (2004), Stardust (2007), Kick-Ass (2010), X-Men: First Class (2011), and Argylle (2024). Vaughn also co-created the Kingsman comic book series and resulting franchise, directing, producing and co-writing the films Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014), Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017), and The King's Man (2021). Read more
07 Mar 1970: Rachel Weisz, English actress Rachel Hannah Weisz is an English actress. Known for her roles in independent films and blockbusters, she has received several awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a Laurence Olivier Award. Films in which she has appeared have grossed over $3.5 billion worldwide. Read more
07 Mar 1968: Jeff Kent, American baseball player Jeffrey Franklin Kent is an American former second baseman who played for 17 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1992 to 2008. He played for six teams in his career, becoming best known for his six seasons with the San Francisco Giants from 1997 to 2002. A five-time All-Star, he was one of the top power-hitting second basemen in major league history, with twelve seasons of 20 or more home runs and eight seasons with over 100 runs batted in (RBI). Read more
07 Mar 1967: Zheng Haixia, Chinese basketball player and coach Zheng Haixia is a Chinese retired professional women's basketball player for the China women's national basketball team and the Women's National Basketball Association. Read more
07 Mar 1967: Ruthie Henshall, English actress, singer, and dancer Valentine Ruth Henshall, known professionally as Ruthie Henshall, is an English actress, singer and dancer, known for her work in musical theatre. She began her professional stage career in 1986, before making her West End debut in Cats in 1987. A five-time Olivier Award nominee, she won the 1995 Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical for her role as Amalia Balash in the London revival of She Loves Me (1994). Read more
07 Mar 1966: Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Terry Kenneth Carkner is a Canadian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League (NHL) with the New York Rangers, Quebec Nordiques, Philadelphia Flyers, Detroit Red Wings and Florida Panthers. He was selected fourteenth overall in the 1984 NHL Entry Draft. Carkner was born in Smiths Falls, Ontario, but grew up in Winchester, Ontario. Carkner was a fearless, tough defensive defenseman. He got over 100 penalty minutes 8 times in his NHL career. Read more
07 Mar 1966: Jeff Feagles, American football player Jeffrey Allan Feagles is an American former professional football player who was a punter for 22 seasons in the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Miami Hurricanes. He was originally signed by the New England Patriots as an undrafted free agent in 1988, and retired in 2010 after last playing for the New York Giants. Read more
07 Mar 1965: Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer Jesper Bo Parnevik is a Swedish professional golfer. He spent 38 weeks in the top 10 of the Official World Golf Ranking in 2000 and 2001. Read more
07 Mar 1964: Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter Bret Easton Ellis is an American author and screenwriter. Ellis was one of the Literary Brat Pack and is a self-proclaimed satirist whose trademark technique as a writer is the expression of extreme acts and opinions in an affectless style. His novels often share recurring characters. Read more
07 Mar 1964: Wanda Sykes, American comedian, actress, and screenwriter Wanda Yvette Sykes is an American stand-up comedian, actress, and writer. She was first recognized for her work as a writer on The Chris Rock Show, for which she won a Primetime Emmy Award in 1999. In 2004, Entertainment Weekly named Sykes as one of the 25 funniest people in America. She is also known for her recurring roles on CBS's The New Adventures of Old Christine (2006–10), and HBO's Curb Your Enthusiasm (2001–2011). She received Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series nominations for her roles in ABC's Black-ish (2015–2022), and Amazon's The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (2020). She currently stars in the Netflix original series The Upshaws (2021–2026), the HBO Max comedy series The Other Two (2019–2023), and The Good Fight (2021). Read more
07 Mar 1963: Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player and coach Michael Bryant Eagles is a Canadian former professional ice hockey forward who played sixteen seasons in the National Hockey League. He is also the former Athletic Director of St. Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick. Read more
07 Mar 1963: E. L. James, English author Erika Mitchell, known by her pen name E. L. James, is a British author. She wrote the best-selling Fifty Shades series of erotic romance novels, which spawned a multimedia franchise including a film trilogy of the same name. Prior to this, she wrote the Twilight fan fiction "Master of the Universe" that served as the basis for the Fifty Shades series under the web name Snowqueens Icedragon. In 2019, she published her first book unconnected with the fictional world of Fifty Shades, The Mister, to negative critical reaction. Read more
07 Mar 1962: Taylor Dayne, American singer-songwriter and actress Taylor Dayne is an American singer who rose to fame after her first two albums were both certified 2× Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). Dayne achieved seven US Top 10 singles, including "Tell It to My Heart", "Prove Your Love", "I'll Always Love You", "Don't Rush Me", "With Every Beat of My Heart", "Love Will Lead You Back", and "I'll Be Your Shelter". Dayne also scored the US Top 20 hits "Heart of Stone" and "Can't Get Enough of Your Love". In the United States, she achieved three gold singles and has sold over 75 million albums and singles worldwide. Dayne has received two Grammy Award nominations, an American Music Award and multiple New York Music Awards. She has also been ranked by both Rolling Stone and Billboard on their lists of the most successful dance artists of all time. Read more
07 Mar 1961: Mary Beth Evans, American actress Mary Beth Evans is an American television actress, known for her role as Kayla Brady on the NBC daytime soap Days of Our Lives, and her role as Sierra Estaban on the CBS daytime soap As the World Turns. Read more
07 Mar 1960: Joe Carter, American baseball player Joseph Chris Carter is an American former professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as an outfielder and first baseman for the Chicago Cubs, Cleveland Indians, San Diego Padres, Toronto Blue Jays, Baltimore Orioles, and San Francisco Giants. Read more
07 Mar 1960: Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player and coach Ivan Lendl is a Czech–American former professional tennis player and coach. Widely regarded as one of the greatest tennis players of all time, he was ranked as the world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) for 270 weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 four times. Lendl won 94 career singles titles, including eight majors and seven year-end championships. He was runner-up at a further eleven majors, for a total of 19 major finals. Read more
07 Mar 1960: Jim Spivey, American runner and coach James Calvin Spivey is a former American middle-distance runner and Olympian. Spivey took up competitive running in Illinois where he became one of the best high school runners from his state. He was the 1982 NCAA DI men's 1500-meter champion with Indiana University. Spivey enjoyed a long Olympic career, in which he participated in the Olympic Summer Games in 1984, 1992, and 1996. Read more
07 Mar 1959: Tom Lehman, American golfer Thomas Edward Lehman is an American professional golfer. A former #1 ranked golfer, his tournament wins include one major title, the 1996 Open Championship. He is also the only golfer in history to have been awarded the Player of the Year honor on all three PGA Tours: the developmental Ben Hogan Tour, the regular PGA Tour, and the senior PGA Tour Champions. Read more
07 Mar 1959: Donna Murphy, American actress and singer Donna Murphy is an American actress and singer, best known for her work in musical theater. A five-time Tony Award nominee, she has twice won the Tony for Best Actress in a Musical: for her role as Fosca in Passion (1994–1995) and as Anna Leonowens in The King and I (1996–1997). She was also nominated for her roles as Ruth Sherwood in Wonderful Town (2003), Lotte Lenya in LoveMusik (2007), and Bubbie/Raisel in The People in the Picture (2011). Read more
07 Mar 1959: Nick Searcy, American actor Nicholas Alan Searcy is an American character actor best known for portraying Chief Deputy United States Marshal Art Mullen on FX's Justified. He also had a major role in the Tom Hanks–produced miniseries From the Earth to the Moon as Deke Slayton, and directed Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, a film released on October 12, 2018. Read more
07 Mar 1958: Rick Bass, American author and environmentalist Rick Bass is an American writer and an environmental activist. He has a Bachelor of Science in Geology with a focus in Wildlife from Utah State University. Right after he graduated, he interned for one year as a Wildlife Biologist at the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company in Arkansas. He then went onto working as an oil and gas geologist and consultant before becoming a writer and teacher. He has worked across the United States at various universities: University of Texas at Austin, Beloit College, University of Montana, Pacific University, Montana State University, Iowa State University. He teaches at the Stonecoast MFA low-residency program in Maine. He has done many workshops and lectures on writing and wildlife throughout his career. Texas Tech University, Texas State University, and University of Texas at Austin have collections of his written work. Read more
07 Mar 1958: Rik Mayall, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (died 2014) Richard Michael Mayall was an English comedian, actor and writer. He formed a close partnership with Adrian Edmondson while they were students at Manchester University, and was a pioneer of alternative comedy in the 1980s. Read more
07 Mar 1958: Merv Neagle, Australian footballer and coach (died 2012) Mervyn Neagle was an Australian rules footballer who represented Essendon and Sydney in the Australian Football League (AFL) during the 1970s and 1980s. Read more
07 Mar 1957: Robert Harris, English journalist and author Robert Dennis Harris CBE is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, he is best known for his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His later works are varied in settings but are mostly set after 1870. Read more
07 Mar 1957: Mark Richards, Australian surfer Mark Richards, known as MR, is an Australian surfer who became a four-time world champion (1979–1982). Read more
07 Mar 1956: Bryan Cranston, American actor, director, and producer Bryan Lee Cranston is an American actor. He established himself as a leading actor in both comedic and dramatic works on stage and screen. His accolades include seven Primetime Emmy Awards, two Tony Awards, a Laurence Olivier Award, and a Golden Globe Award, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and a British Academy Film Award. Read more
07 Mar 1956: Andrea Levy, English author (died 2019) Andrea Levy was an English author best known for the novels Small Island (2004) and The Long Song (2010). She was born in London to Jamaican parents, and her work explores topics related to British Jamaicans and how they negotiate racial, cultural and national identities. Read more
07 Mar 1954: Eva Brunne, Swedish bishop Gerd Eva Cecilia Brunne is a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She served as the Bishop of Stockholm from 2009 till 2019. She is the first openly lesbian bishop of a mainstream church in the world and the first bishop of the Church of Sweden to be in a registered same-sex partnership. Read more
07 Mar 1952: William Boyd, British author and screenwriter William Andrew Murray Boyd is a British novelist, short story writer screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his novels, which include A Good Man in Africa (1981), Any Human Heart (2002), and Restless (2006), many of which have received critical acclaim and literary awards. Boyd has also written screenplays for film and television, including Chaplin (1992), and directed the World War I drama The Trench (1999). His work is characterised by its narrative vitality and range, earning him numerous accolades including the Whitbread First Novel Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, and the Costa Book Award. A number of his works are what he describes as "whole-life" novels which follow a protagonist through the highs and lows of a varied and often remarkable life. He regularly fuses fact with fiction and his lead characters encounter well-known historical figures. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2005 for services to literature. John Self, writing for The Booker Prizes, described Boyd’s work as “vigorous, entertaining novels” produced by an “exceptionally fertile imagination,” and praised his fiction as “fully committed to his stories and characters.” Read more
07 Mar 1952: Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter Ernest Isley is an American musician best known as a member of the musical ensemble The Isley Brothers, and also the splinter group Isley-Jasper-Isley. Read more
07 Mar 1952: Viv Richards, Antiguan cricketer Sir Isaac Vivian Alexander Richards is a retired Antiguan cricketer who represented the West Indies cricket team between 1974 and 1991. Usually batting at number three in a dominant West Indies team, Richards is widely regarded as one of the greatest batters of all time. Richards was part of the squads that won the 1975 Cricket World Cup and 1979 Cricket World Cup and finished as runners-up in the 1983 Cricket World Cup. Read more
07 Mar 1952: Lynn Swann, American football player, sportscaster, and politician Lynn Curtis Swann is an American former professional football player, broadcaster, politician, and athletic director, best known for his association with the University of Southern California and the Pittsburgh Steelers. He served on the President's Council on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition from 2002 to 2005. In 2006, he was the Republican nominee for Governor of Pennsylvania. Read more
07 Mar 1950: Billy Joe DuPree, American football player Billy Joe DuPree is an American former professional football player who was a tight end in the National Football League (NFL) for the Dallas Cowboys. He played college football at Michigan State University. Read more
07 Mar 1950: Franco Harris, American football player and businessman (died 2022) Franco Harris was an American professional football player who was a fullback for 13 seasons in the National Football League (NFL), primarily with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He played college football for the Penn State Nittany Lions and was selected by the Steelers in the first round of the 1972 NFL draft. Harris spent his first 12 seasons with Pittsburgh, earning nine Pro Bowl selections, and was a member of the Seattle Seahawks in his last. Read more
07 Mar 1950: J. R. Richard, American baseball player and minister (died 2021) James Rodney Richard was an American professional baseball player. He played his entire career in Major League Baseball as a right-handed starting pitcher for the Houston Astros from 1971 to 1980. Richard led the National League (NL) twice in strikeouts and was named an NL All-Star player in 1980. Read more
07 Mar 1947: Helen Eadie, Scottish politician (died 2013) Helen Stirling Eadie was a Scottish Labour Co-operative politician who served as Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Cowdenbeath, previously Dunfermline East, from 1999 until her death in 2013. Read more
07 Mar 1946: Matthew Fisher, English musician, songwriter, and producer Matthew Charles Fisher is an English musician, songwriter and record producer. He is best known for his longtime association with the rock band Procol Harum, which included playing the Hammond organ on the 1967 single "A Whiter Shade of Pale", for which he subsequently won a songwriting credit. In his later life, he became a computer programmer, having qualified from Cambridge University. Read more
07 Mar 1946: John Heard, American actor and producer (died 2017) John Heard Jr. was an American actor. Heard made his debut appearance in film with the ensemble Between the Lines (1977). He appeared in a number of successful films, including Heart Beat (1980), Cutter's Way (1981), Cat People (1982), Beaches (1988), and Deceived (1991). He was nominated for an Emmy Award in 1999 for his recurring role as Vin Makazian on The Sopranos (1999–2004). Read more
07 Mar 1946: Peter Wolf, American singer-songwriter and musician Peter Wolf is an American musician best known as the lead vocalist of The J. Geils Band from 1967 to 1983 and as a solo artist. Read more
07 Mar 1945: Bob Herbert, American journalist Robert Herbert is an American journalist and former op-ed columnist for The New York Times. His column was syndicated to other newspapers around the country. Herbert frequently writes on poverty, the Iraq War, racism and American political apathy towards racism. He is now a fellow at Demos and was elected to serve on the Common Cause National Governing Board in 2015. Read more
07 Mar 1945: Arthur Lee, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 2006) Arthur Taylor Lee was an American musician, singer and songwriter who rose to fame as the leader of the Los Angeles rock band Love. Love's 1967 album Forever Changes was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame, and it is part of the National Recording Registry. Read more
07 Mar 1945: Elizabeth Moon, American author Elizabeth Moon is an American science fiction and fantasy writer. Her other writing includes newspaper columns and opinion pieces. Her novel The Speed of Dark won the 2003 Nebula Award. Prior to her writing career, she served in the United States Marine Corps. Read more
07 Mar 1944: Ranulph Fiennes, English soldier and explorer Sir Ranulph Twisleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, 3rd Baronet, commonly known as Sir Ranulph Fiennes and sometimes as Ran Fiennes, is an English explorer, writer and poet, who holds several endurance records. Read more
07 Mar 1944: Townes Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 1997) John Townes Van Zandt was an American singer-songwriter. He wrote numerous songs, such as "Pancho and Lefty", "If I Needed You", "Snake Mountain Blues", "Our Mother the Mountain", "Waitin' Round to Die", and "To Live's to Fly". His musical style has often been described as melancholic and features rich, poetic lyrics. During his early years, Van Zandt was respected for his guitar playing and fingerpicking ability. Read more
07 Mar 1943: Billy MacMillan, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2023) William Stewart MacMillan was a Canadian hockey coach and player. MacMillan played and later coached in the National Hockey League (NHL). After several years with the Canada national team, including playing at two World Championships and the 1968 Winter Olympics, winning a bronze medal, MacMillan made his NHL debut in 1970 with the Toronto Maple Leafs. He played for Toronto, the Atlanta Flames, and New York Islanders between 1970 and 1977, and retired from playing in 1978. He became a coach during his final year, spent in the minor CHL and moved to the NHL in 1979 when he became an assistant coach for the Islanders. He was named the head coach of the Colorado Rockies in 1980, also serving as general manager the next season. MacMillan stayed with the team as they relocated in 1982 to become the New Jersey Devils, and was let go early in the 1983–84 season. Billy is the brother of Bob MacMillan. Read more
07 Mar 1943: Chris White, English singer-songwriter and bass player Christopher Taylor White is an English musician. He came to prominence in the mid-1960s as the bass guitarist and occasional lead vocalist of the rock band The Zombies. White is one of the main composers of the Zombies' music, and made major lyrical contributions to the band's songs. He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2019 as a member of the Zombies. Read more
07 Mar 1942: Michael Eisner, American businessman Michael Dammann Eisner is an American businessman and media proprietor who served as chairman and chief executive officer (CEO) of the Walt Disney Company from September 1984 to September 2005. Prior to Disney, Eisner was president of rival film studio Paramount Pictures from 1976 to 1984, and had brief stints at the major television networks NBC, CBS, and ABC. Read more
07 Mar 1942: Tammy Faye Messner, American evangelist, television personality, and talk show host (died 2007) Tamara Faye Messner was an American evangelist. She co-founded the televangelist program The PTL Club with her then-husband Jim Bakker in 1974. They had hosted their own puppet-show series for local programming in the early 1960s; Messner also had a career as a recording artist. In 1978, she and Bakker built Heritage USA, a Christian theme park. Read more
07 Mar 1940: Daniel J. Travanti, American actor Daniel J. Travanti is an American actor. He is best known for playing police captain Frank Furillo in the television drama series Hill Street Blues (1981–1987) for which he received a Golden Globe Award from five nominations, and two consecutive Primetime Emmy Awards from five nominations. Read more
07 Mar 1938: David Baltimore, American biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2025) David Baltimore was an American biologist, university administrator, and 1975 Nobel laureate in Physiology or Medicine. He was a professor of biology at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), where he served as president from 1997 to 2006. He founded the Whitehead Institute and directed it from 1982 to 1990. In 2008, he served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Read more
07 Mar 1938: Janet Guthrie, American race car driver Janet Guthrie is an American former racing driver. She is the first female to qualify and race in either the Indianapolis 500, or the Daytona 500, both of which she competed in during 1977. She had first attempted to enter the Indianapolis 500 in 1976 but failed to qualify. She raced in three Indianapolis 500s: 1977 through 1979. She is also the first woman to lead a lap in NASCAR Cup Series competition. Read more
07 Mar 1936: Georges Perec, French author (died 1982) Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play. Read more
07 Mar 1934: Gray Morrow, American illustrator and comic book artist (died 2002) Dwight Graydon "Gray" Morrow was an American illustrator of comics, magazine covers and paperback books. He is co-creator of the Marvel Comics muck-monster the Man-Thing and of DC Comics Old West vigilante El Diablo. Read more
07 Mar 1934: Willard Scott, American television personality and actor (died 2021) Willard Herman Scott Jr. was an American weatherman, radio and television personality, actor, narrator, clown, comedian, and author, whose broadcast career spanned 68 years, 65 years with the NBC broadcast network. Scott was notable as a weather reporter on NBC's Today show where he also celebrated US centenarian birthdays and notable anniversaries. Scott was the creator and original performer of McDonald's mascot clown Ronald McDonald. Read more
07 Mar 1933: Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer and accountant (died 1998) John Blanchflower was a footballer from Northern Ireland. He graduated from Manchester United's youth system and played for the club on 117 occasions, winning one league title, before his career was cut short due to injuries sustained in the Munich air disaster. He was also capped 12 times at senior level by Northern Ireland. Read more
07 Mar 1933: Ed Bouchee, American baseball player (died 2013) Edward Francis Bouchee was an American professional baseball first baseman. He appeared in Major League Baseball (MLB) for three National League (NL) ballclubs – the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, and New York Mets – from 1956 to 1962. Read more
07 Mar 1930: Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, English photographer and politician (died 2017) Antony Charles Robert Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, was a British photographer. He was best known internationally for his portraits of prominent cultural and political figures, many of which were published in Vogue, Vanity Fair, The Sunday Times Magazine, The Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and other major outlets. More than 280 of his photographs are held in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery. Between 1968 and 1973, he directed several television documentaries and contributed to design and accessibility reforms. A committed advocate for disabled people, he helped shape policy and infrastructure across the United Kingdom. He married Princess Margaret, sister of Queen Elizabeth II, in 1960; he was created Earl of Snowdon the following year, and they divorced in 1978. Read more
07 Mar 1930: Robert Trotter, Scottish actor and photographer (died 2013) Robert Trotter was a Scottish actor, director, and photographer. Read more
07 Mar 1929: Dan Jacobson, South African-English author and critic (died 2014) Dan Jacobson was a South African novelist, short story writer, critic and essayist of Lithuanian Jewish descent. Read more
07 Mar 1927: James Broderick, American actor and director (died 1982) James Joseph Broderick III was an American actor. He is known for his role as Doug Lawrence in the television series Family, which ran from 1976 to 1980, and he played a pivotal role in the 1975 film Dog Day Afternoon. Read more
07 Mar 1925: Richard Vernon, British actor (died 1997) Richard Evelyn Vernon was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. For example as Colonel Loring, a misplaced idealist responsible for the disappearance of a whole village in the Pied Piper of Hambledown episode in the classic spy-fi Department S. Read more
07 Mar 1922: Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician and academic (died 2004) Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya was a Russian mathematician who worked on partial differential equations, fluid dynamics, and the finite-difference method for the Navier–Stokes equations. She received the Lomonosov Gold Medal in 2002. She authored more than two hundred scientific publications, including six monographs. Read more
07 Mar 1922: Peter Murphy, English footballer (died 1975) Peter Murphy, often referred to as Spud Murphy, was an English footballer who played as an inside left. He played professionally for three clubs, Coventry City, Tottenham Hotspur and Birmingham City. He is possibly best remembered for the incident in the 1956 FA Cup final when Manchester City's goalkeeper Bert Trautmann broke a bone in his neck when diving at Murphy's feet. Read more
07 Mar 1922: Andy Phillip, American basketball player and coach (died 2001) Andrew Michael "Handy Andy" Phillip was an American professional basketball player. Born in Granite City, Illinois, Phillip had an 11-year career and played for the Chicago Stags of the Basketball Association of America and the Philadelphia Warriors, Fort Wayne Pistons and Boston Celtics, of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Read more
07 Mar 1917: Janet Collins, American ballerina and choreographer (died 2003) Janet Faye Collins, OblSB was an African American prima ballerina, choreographer, and teacher. She performed on Broadway, in films, and appeared frequently on television. She was among the pioneers of black ballet dancing, one of the few classically trained Black dancers of her generation. She was a vowed oblate of the Benedictine order. Read more
07 Mar 1917: Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (died 2001) Frances Elizabeth Holberton was an American computer scientist who was one of the six original programmers of the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, ENIAC. The other five ENIAC programmers were Jean Bartik, Ruth Teitelbaum, Kathleen Antonelli, Marlyn Meltzer, and Frances Spence. Read more
07 Mar 1915: Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French general and politician, Prime Minister of France (died 2000) Jacques Chaban-Delmas was a French Gaullist politician. He served as Prime Minister under Georges Pompidou from 1969 to 1972. He was the Mayor of Bordeaux from 1947 to 1995 and a deputy for the Gironde département between 1946 and 1997. Read more
07 Mar 1908: Anna Magnani, Italian actress (died 1973) Anna Maria Magnani was an Italian actress. She was the first Italian and first non-native English speaking woman to win an Academy Award. Read more
07 Mar 1904: Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (died 1969) Ivar Eugen Ballangrud was a Norwegian speed skater, a four-time Olympic champion in speed skating. As the only triple gold medalist at the 1936 Winter Olympics, Ballangrud was the most successful athlete there. Read more
07 Mar 1904: Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer and a principle architect of the Holocaust (died 1942) Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei. Many historians regard Heydrich as one of the most sinister figures within the Nazi regime. Adolf Hitler described him as "the man with the iron heart." Read more
07 Mar 1904: Kurt Weitzmann, German-American historian and author (died 1993) Kurt Weitzmann was a German turned American art historian who was a leading figure in the study of Late Antique and Byzantine art in particular. Read more
07 Mar 1903: Maud Lewis, Canadian folk artist (died 1970) Maud Kathleen Lewis was a Canadian folk artist from Nova Scotia. She lived most of her life in poverty in a tiny house in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia. She achieved national recognition in 1964 and 1965 for her cheerful paintings of landscapes, animals and flowers, which offer a nostalgic and optimistic vision of her native province. Several books, plays and films have been produced about her. She remains one of Canada's most celebrated folk artists. Her works are displayed at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, as well as her restored house, whose walls she adorned with her art. Despite her recognition, Lewis never had a museum exhibition, nor was her work collected by art galleries or museums during her lifetime. Read more
07 Mar 1902: Heinz Rühmann, German actor (died 1994) Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film legend. Rühmann is best known for playing the part of a comic ordinary citizen in film comedies such as Three from the Filling Station and The Punch Bowl. During his later years, he was also a respected character actor in films such as The Captain from Köpenick and It Happened in Broad Daylight. His only English-speaking movie was the 1965 Ship of Fools. Read more
07 Mar 1895: Dorothy de Rothschild, English philanthropist and activist (died 1988) Dorothy de Rothschild was an English philanthropist and activist for Jewish affairs who married into the wealthy Rothschild banking family. Read more
07 Mar 1888: William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-American journalist (died 1977) William Leonard Laurence was a Jewish American science journalist best known for his work at The New York Times. Born in the Russian Empire, he won two Pulitzer Prizes. As the official historian of the Manhattan Project, he was the only journalist to witness the Trinity test and the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. He is credited with coining the iconic term "Atomic Age," which became popular in the 1950s. Infamously, he dismissed the destructive effects of radiation sickness as Japanese propaganda in The New York Times. Even though he had seen the effects first-hand, he moonlighted for the War Department's press office, and United States military officials instructed him to do so in order to discredit earlier reports by independent journalist Wilfred Burchett, the first Western reporter on-site after the bombings. Read more
07 Mar 1886: Virginia Pearson, American actress (died 1958) Virginia Belle Pearson was an American stage and film actress. She made 51 films in a career which extended from 1910 until 1932. Read more
07 Mar 1886: G. I. Taylor, English mathematician and physicist (died 1975) Sir Geoffrey Ingram Taylor OM FRS FRSE was a British physicist, who made instrumental contributions to fluid dynamics and wave theory. Read more
07 Mar 1886: Wilson Dallam Wallis, American anthropologist (died 1970) Wilson Dallam Wallis was an American anthropologist. He is remembered for his studies of "primitive" or nature-based science and religions. Read more
07 Mar 1885: Milton Avery, American painter (died 1965) Milton Clark Avery was an American modern painter. Born in Altmar, New York, he moved to Connecticut in 1898 and later to New York City. He was the husband of artist Sally Michel Avery and the father of artist March Avery. Read more
07 Mar 1885: John Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey, English admiral (died 1971) Admiral of the Fleet John Cronyn Tovey, 1st Baron Tovey,, sometimes known as Jack Tovey, was a Royal Navy officer. During the First World War he commanded the destroyer HMS Onslow at the Battle of Jutland and then commanded the destroyer Ursa at the Second Battle of Heligoland Bight. During the Second World War he initially served as Second-in-Command of the Mediterranean Fleet in which role he commanded the Mediterranean Fleet's Light Forces. He then served as Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet and was responsible for orchestrating the pursuit and destruction of the Bismarck. After that he became Commander-in-Chief, The Nore with responsibility for controlling the east coast convoys and organising minesweeping operations. Read more
07 Mar 1875: Maurice Ravel, French pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1937) Joseph Maurice Ravel was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term. In the 1920s and 1930s Ravel was internationally regarded as France's greatest living composer. Read more
07 Mar 1872: Piet Mondrian, Dutch-American painter (died 1944) Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan, known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian, was a Dutch painter and art theoretician who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. He was one of the pioneers of 20th-century abstract art, as he changed his artistic direction from figurative painting to an increasingly abstract style, until he reached a point where his artistic vocabulary was taken down to simple geometric elements. Read more
07 Mar 1858: Cecilie Thoresen Krog, Norwegian women's rights pioneer (died 1911) Ida Cecilie Thoresen Krog was a Norwegian women's rights pioneer and Liberal Party politician, and the first female university student in Norway. She became famous when she was allowed to submit to examen artium in 1882, after an Act amendment had taken place. She was the first president of the women's rights association Skuld and a co-founder and vice president of its successor, the Norwegian Association for Women's Rights. She was also a co-founder and board member of the Norwegian Women's Public Health Association. She was active in the Liberal Party and her liberal views also colored her involvement in the women's rights movement. She was elected a deputy representative in Christiania City Council for the Liberal Party in 1901, as one of the first women elected to a political office in Norway. Read more
07 Mar 1857: Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1940) Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica". Read more
07 Mar 1850: Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician, Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (died 1921) James Beauchamp Clark was an American politician and attorney who served as the 36th speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1911 to 1919. He was the only Democrat to serve as speaker during the Progressive Era when Republicans dominated the House, Senate, and presidency. Clark represented Missouri's 9th district between 1893 and 1921. Read more
07 Mar 1850: Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk, Austrian-Czech politician, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (died 1937) Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia. Read more
07 Mar 1849: Luther Burbank, American botanist (died 1926) Luther Burbank was an American botanist, horticulturist, and pioneer in agricultural science who developed more than 800 strains and varieties of plants over his 55-year career. Burbank primarily worked with fruits, flowers, grains, grasses, and vegetables. He developed a spineless cactus and the plumcot. Read more
07 Mar 1843: Marriott Henry Brosius, American senator (died 1901) Marriott Henry Brosius was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania. Read more
07 Mar 1841: William Rockhill Nelson, American businessman and publisher, founded The Kansas City Star (died 1915) William Rockhill Nelson was an American real estate developer and co-founder of The Kansas City Star in Kansas City, Missouri. Read more
07 Mar 1839: Ludwig Mond, German-born chemist and British industrialist who discovered the metal carbonyls (died 1909) Ludwig Mond FRS was a German-born British chemist and industrialist. He discovered an important, previously unknown, class of compounds called metal carbonyls. Read more
07 Mar 1837: Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (died 1882) Henry Draper was an American medical doctor and amateur astronomer. He is best known today as a pioneer of astrophotography. Read more
07 Mar 1811: Increase A. Lapham, American scientist (died 1875) Increase Allen Lapham was an American writer, scientist, and naturalist, whose work focused primarily on the what is now the U.S. state of Wisconsin. He made maps of the area and published numerous books on the archaeology, biology, and geology of the region, and discovered both the Panther Intaglio Effigy Mound and Milwaukee Formation. He founded the Wisconsin Natural History Association, and served as the state's Chief Geologist for two years. He also lobbied Congress and the Smithsonian Institution to establish an agency to predict the weather around the Great Lakes, and these efforts led to what is today the National Weather Service. Read more

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07 Mar 2025: D'Wayne Wiggins, American musical artist (born 1961) D'Wayne Patrice Wiggins was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer best known as a founding member of the R&B/soul band Tony! Toni! Toné!. He formed Tony! Toni! Toné! in 1986 with his younger half brother, Charles Ray Wiggins, and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley. The band achieved three platinum albums and a slew of hits in the 1980s and '90s. Read more
07 Mar 2024: Steve Lawrence, American actor and singer (born 1935) Steve Lawrence was an American singer, comedian, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop duo Steve and Eydie, with his wife Eydie Gormé. Lawrence also played the featured role of Maury Sline, the manager and friend of the main characters in the 1980 blockbuster film The Blues Brothers and its sequel. Lawrence and Gormé first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009. Read more
07 Mar 2017: Lynne Stewart, American attorney and activist (born 1939) Lynne Irene Stewart was an American defense attorney who was known for representing controversial, famous defendants. She herself was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in 2005, and sentenced to 28 months in prison. Her felony conviction led to her being automatically disbarred. She was convicted of helping pass messages from her client Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, an Egyptian cleric convicted of planning terror attacks, to his followers in al-Gama'a al-Islamiyya, an organization designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization by the United States Secretary of State. Read more
07 Mar 2016: Adrian Hardiman, Irish lawyer and judge (born 1951) Adrian Hardiman was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016. Read more
07 Mar 2016: Leonard Berney, Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (born 1920) Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney was a British soldier who was one of the first British officers at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He also testified in the Belsen trial. Read more
07 Mar 2015: G. Karthikeyan, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1949) Gopala Pillai Karthikeyan was an Indian politician and former speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Aruvikkara constituency, who represented the Indian National Congress. Read more
07 Mar 2015: F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (born 1927) Frank Ray Keyser Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1959 to 1961, and the 72nd governor of Vermont from 1961 to 1963. Read more
07 Mar 2015: Yoshihiro Tatsumi, Japanese author and illustrator (born 1935) Yoshihiro Tatsumi was a Japanese manga artist whose work was first published in his teens, and continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan, having allegedly coined the term in 1957. His work frequently illustrated the darker elements of life. Read more
07 Mar 2014: Ned O'Gorman, American poet and educator (born 1929) Edward Charles "Ned" O'Gorman was an American poet and educator. Read more
07 Mar 2013: Peter Banks, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947) Peter William Brockbanks, known professionally as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist. He was the original guitarist in the rock bands Yes, Flash, and Empire; he was also a guitarist for The Syn. Banks has been described as "the architect of progressive music". Read more
07 Mar 2013: Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922) Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said that his style made him "the most American of Italian directors". Read more
07 Mar 2013: Claude King, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923) Claude King was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1962 million-selling hit, "Wolverton Mountain". Read more
07 Mar 2006: Gordon Parks, American photographer, director, and composer (born 1912) Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. He is best remembered for his iconic photos of poor Americans during the 1940s, for his photographic essays for Life magazine, and as the director of the films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score, and the semiautobiographical The Learning Tree. Read more
07 Mar 2005: John Box, English production designer and art director (born 1920) John Allan Hyatt Box OBE was a British film production designer and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awards. Throughout his career he gained a reputation for recreating exotic locations in rather more mundane surroundings; he once created a walled Chinese city in Snowdonia. Read more
07 Mar 2005: Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (born 1950) Debra Hill was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for her films co-created with John Carpenter. Read more
07 Mar 2000: Pee Wee King, American singer-songwriter (born 1914) Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski, known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "Tennessee Waltz". Read more
07 Mar 1999: Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist and theorist (born 1918) Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra. Read more
07 Mar 1999: Stanley Kubrick, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928) Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer. A major figure of the post-war film industry, Kubrick is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. His films were nearly all adaptations of novels or short stories, spanning a number of genres and gaining recognition for their intense attention to detail, innovative cinematography, extensive set design, and dark humor. Read more
07 Mar 1997: Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912) Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has become widely used to study the molecular structure of pure materials and the composition of mixtures. Friends and colleagues knew him as Ed Purcell. Read more
07 Mar 1993: Tony Harris, South African cricketer (born 1916) Terence Anthony Harris known as Tony Harris, was a South African sportsman who was the last man to be a dual international of both cricket and rugby union for his country. He represented South Africa in five rugby union Tests during the 1930s as a fly-half, following World War II he played Test cricket three times between 1947 and 1949 as an attacking batsman. Read more
07 Mar 1993: J. Merrill Knapp, American musicologist (born 1914) John Merrill Knapp was an American musicologist and academic. He was considered an authority on the life and works of George Frideric Handel. Born in New York City, Knapp graduated from the Hotchkiss School before entering Yale University where he earned a Bachelor of Arts in 1936 and was a member of Skull and Bones. He then taught briefly at The Thacher School in Ojai, California before returning to Yale to assume the post of assistant director of the Yale Glee Club. He left there to pursue graduate studies at Columbia University where he earned a Master of Music degree. He served as an operations officer in the Third Fleet of United States Navy during World War II (1942-1946); earning two service stars and a commendation ribbon. Read more
07 Mar 1993: Martti Larni, Finnish writer (born 1909) Martti Larni was a Finnish writer. He was the chairman of the Union of Finnish Writers from 1964 to 1967. During his lifetime, Larni was one of Finland's most internationally known writers in the Soviet Union and other Eastern Bloc countries thanks to his book Neljäs nikama. Read more
07 Mar 1993: Eleanor Sanger, American television producer (born 1929) Eleanor Sanger was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer. Read more
07 Mar 1993: Josef Steindl, Austrian economist (born 1912) Josef Steindl was an Austrian-born post-Keynesian economist. Read more
07 Mar 1991: Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (born 1903) James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was an American center fielder and pitcher in Negro league baseball and the Mexican League from 1922 to 1946. He is considered to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game. He was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1974. He ranked 66th on a list of the greatest baseball players published by The Sporting News in 1999. Read more
07 Mar 1988: Divine, American drag queen and film actor (born 1945) Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by the stage name Divine, was an American actor, singer and drag queen. Closely associated with independent filmmaker John Waters, Divine was a character actor, usually performing female roles in cinematic and theatrical productions, and adopted a female drag persona for his music career. Read more
07 Mar 1988: Ülo Õun, Estonian sculptor (born 1940) Ülo Õun was an Estonian sculptor whose career began in the late 1960s and came to prominence in the 1970s. Õun mainly worked as a portrait and figural sculptor and was known for his works in colored plaster and bronze. Read more
07 Mar 1987: Karl Leichter, Estonian musicologist and academic (born 1902) Karl Leichter was an Estonian musicologist. In 1929 he graduated in theory and composition, studying under Heino Eller with pupils such as Eduard Tubin, Alfred Karindi, Eduard Oja and Olav Roots. Between 1929 and 1931 he worked in the Estonian Folklore Archives. Read more
07 Mar 1986: Jacob K. Javits, American colonel and politician, New York State Attorney General (born 1904) Jacob Koppel Javits was an American lawyer and politician from New York. During his time in politics, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1954 and a member of the United States Senate from 1957 to 1981. A member of the Republican Party, he also served as Attorney General of New York from 1955 to 1957. Generally considered a liberal Republican, he was often at odds with his own party. A supporter of labor unions, the Great Society, and the civil rights movement, he played a key role in the passing of civil rights legislation. An opponent of the Vietnam War, he drafted the War Powers Resolution in 1973. Read more
07 Mar 1983: Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (born 1912) Igor Borisovich Markevitch was a Russian composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano concerto by impresario Serge Diaghilev of the Ballets Russes. Read more
07 Mar 1982: Ida Barney, American astronomer (born 1886) Ida Barney was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yale University Observatory. She was the 1952 recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy. Read more
07 Mar 1981: Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir, Egyptian journalist and writer (born 1906) Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir was an Egyptian journalist and multi-topic writer. Although he graduated from Cairo University in law in 1928, he turned to journalism. One of the 100 founding members of the Syndicate of Journalists in 1941, collaborated with various Egyptian notable newspapers, such as Akhbār al-Yawm and Al-Ahram. Publicly known by "Nahw Al-Noor", a column he wrote in 1950s, which formed the core of his new-style journalism. He also wrote many books in literary and non-literary, fiction and non-fiction subjects and was elected a member of the Academy of the Arabic Language in Cairo.

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07 Mar 1976: Wright Patman, American politician (born 1893) John William Wright Patman was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1976. He was a member of the Democratic Party. From 1973 to 1976, he was Dean of the United States House of Representatives. Read more
07 Mar 1975: Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895) Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a number of different traditions and in disciplines as diverse as literary criticism, history, philosophy, sociology, anthropology, and psychology. Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s. Read more
07 Mar 1973: Lalo Ríos, Mexican actor (born 1927) Lalo Ríos was a Mexican-born American actor best known for his lead role in The Ring (1952) as Tommy. Read more
07 Mar 1971: Richard Montague, American mathematician and philosopher (born 1930) Richard Merritt Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics of natural language. As a student of Alfred Tarski, he also contributed early developments to axiomatic set theory (ZFC). For the latter half of his life, he was a professor at the University of California, Los Angeles until his early death, believed to be a homicide, at age 40. Read more
07 Mar 1967: Alice B. Toklas, American writer (born 1877) Alice Babette Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein. Read more
07 Mar 1957: Wyndham Lewis, English painter and critic (born 1882) Percy Wyndham Lewis was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists. Read more
07 Mar 1954: Otto Diels, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876) Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for their work. Their method of synthesizing cyclic organic compounds proved valuable for the manufacture of synthetic rubber and plastic. He completed his education at the University of Berlin, where he later worked. Diels was employed at the University of Kiel when he completed his Nobel Prize-winning work, and remained there until he retired in 1945. Diels was married, with five children. He died in 1954. He was survived by all five of his children and his wife. Read more
07 Mar 1949: Bradbury Robinson, American football player, physician, and politician (born 1884) Bradbury Norton Robinson Jr. was a pioneering American football player, physician, nutritionist, conservationist and local politician. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 and at Saint Louis University from 1904 to 1907. In 1904, through personal connections to Wisconsin governor Robert M. La Follette, Sr. and his wife, Belle Case, Robinson learned of calls for reforms to the game of football from President Theodore Roosevelt, and began to develop tactics for passing. After moving to Saint Louis University, Robinson threw the first legal forward pass in the history of American football on September 5, 1906, at a game at Carroll College in Waukesha, Wisconsin. He became the sport's first triple threat man, excelling at running, passing, and kicking. He was also a member of St. Louis' "Olympic World's Champions" football team in 1904. Read more
07 Mar 1932: Aristide Briand, French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862) Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939). Read more
07 Mar 1931: Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Finnish artist (born 1865) Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He finnicized his name from Gallén to Gallen-Kallela in 1907. Read more
07 Mar 1928: Robert Abbe, American surgeon and radiologist (born 1851) Robert Abbe was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University. Read more
07 Mar 1920: Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1866) Jaan Poska VR III/1 was a lawyer, politician and the foreign minister of Estonia in 1918–1919. Read more
07 Mar 1913: Pauline Johnson, Canadian poet and author (born 1861) Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief, and her mother was an English immigrant. Read more
07 Mar 1897: Harriet Ann Jacobs, African American Abolitionist and author (born 1813) Harriet Jacobs was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic". Read more
07 Mar 1838: Robert Townsend, American spy (born 1753) Robert Townsend was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution. He operated in New York City with the aliases "Samuel Culper, Jr." and "723" and gathered information as a service to General George Washington. He is one of the least-known operatives in the spy ring and once demanded that Abraham Woodhull never tell his name to anyone, even Washington. Read more
07 Mar 1810: Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (born 1748) Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a Royal Navy officer. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age, eventually rising from midshipman to lieutenant during the American Revolutionary War, where he saw action at the Battle of Bunker Hill during which he led a naval brigade. In the 1780s and 1790s Collingwood participated in the French Revolutionary Wars, during which time he captained several ships and reached the rank of post-captain. He took part in several key naval battles of the time, including the Glorious First of June and the Battle of Cape St. Vincent. Read more
07 Mar 1809: Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (born 1753) Jean-Pierre François Blanchard was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloon flight in Paris on 2 March 1784, Blanchard later moved to London and undertook flights with varying propulsion mechanisms. His historic achievement came on 7 January 1785, crossing the English Channel from Dover Castle to Guînes in about 2½ hours, receiving acclaim from Louis XVI and earning a substantial pension. Read more

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