Name | Occupation | Birth | Death | Known for |
Bella Abzug |
Politician |
24-Jul-1920 |
31-Mar-1998 |
Feminist and former Congresswoman |
Raúl Alfonsín |
Head of State |
13-Mar-1927 |
31-Mar-2009 |
President of Argentina, 1983-89 |
Astrid Allwyn |
Actor |
27-Nov-1905 |
31-Mar-1978 |
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington |
Eugenie Anderson |
Diplomat |
26-May-1909 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Second female US Ambassador |
Francis Asbury |
Religion |
20-Aug-1745 |
31-Mar-1816 |
Father of American Methodism |
Enid Bagnold |
Novelist |
27-Oct-1889 |
31-Mar-1981 |
National Velvet |
Emil von Behring |
Doctor |
15-Mar-1854 |
31-Mar-1917 |
Created diptheria innoculation |
Charlotte Brontë |
Novelist |
21-Apr-1816 |
31-Mar-1855 |
Jane Eyre |
W. Walton Butterworth |
Diplomat |
7-Sep-1903 |
31-Mar-1975 |
US Ambassador to Canada, 1962-68 |
John C. Calhoun |
Politician |
18-Mar-1782 |
31-Mar-1850 |
US Vice President, champion of the South |
George Connor |
Football |
21-Jan-1925 |
31-Mar-2003 |
Chicago Bears tackle, Hall of Famer |
John Constable |
Painter |
11-Jun-1776 |
31-Mar-1837 |
English landscape painter |
Melville Cooper |
Actor |
15-Oct-1896 |
31-Mar-1973 |
The Adventures of Robin Hood |
Jules Dassin |
Film Director |
18-Dec-1911 |
31-Mar-2008 |
Topkapi |
Martin L. Davey |
Politician |
25-Jul-1884 |
31-Mar-1946 |
Governor of Ohio, 1935-39 |
William L. Dickinson |
Politician |
5-Jun-1925 |
31-Mar-2008 |
Congressman from Alabama, 1965-93 |
John Donne |
Poet |
1572 |
31-Mar-1631 |
Anniversaries |
Eleanor of Aquitaine |
Royalty |
c. 1121 |
31-Mar-1204 |
12th-century Queen of France, England |
Hans Fischer |
Chemist |
27-Jul-1881 |
31-Mar-1945 |
Synthesized hemin |
Ralph Forbes |
Actor |
30-Sep-1896 |
31-Mar-1951 |
The Hound of the Baskervilles |
Robert F. Goheen |
Educator |
15-Aug-1919 |
31-Mar-2008 |
President of Princeton University, 1957-72 |
Ragnar Granit |
Scientist |
30-Oct-1900 |
31-Mar-1990 |
Physiology of the retina |
Anne Gwynne |
Actor |
10-Dec-1918 |
31-Mar-2003 |
WWII pinup girl, also actress |
Myron T. Herrick |
Politician |
9-Oct-1854 |
31-Mar-1929 |
Governor of Ohio, 1904-06 |
Friedrich Hund |
Physicist |
4-Feb-1896 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Quantum tunneling |
Burton Joseph |
Attorney |
23-May-1930 |
31-Mar-2010 |
First Amendment lawyer |
Ivan Lebedeff |
Actor |
18-Jun-1895 |
31-Mar-1953 |
Russian-American character actor |
Brandon Lee |
Actor |
1-Feb-1965 |
31-Mar-1993 |
Actor son of Bruce Lee |
Gene Lockhart |
Actor |
18-Jul-1891 |
31-Mar-1957 |
Algiers |
Brander Matthews |
Critic |
21-Feb-1852 |
31-Mar-1929 |
The Study of American Literature |
William McMahon |
Head of State |
23-Feb-1908 |
31-Mar-1988 |
Prime Minister of Australia, 1971-72 |
J. Pierpont Morgan |
Business |
17-Apr-1837 |
31-Mar-1913 |
Railroad financier, J. P. Morgan & Co. |
Isaac Newton |
Physicist |
4-Jan-1643 |
31-Mar-1727 |
Father of the clockwork universe |
Jesse Owens |
Track and Field |
12-Sep-1913 |
31-Mar-1980 |
Four track and field medals in 1936 Olympics |
Doris Packer |
Actor |
30-May-1904 |
31-Mar-1979 |
The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis |
Jerry Paris |
Actor |
25-Jul-1925 |
31-Mar-1986 |
Jerry Helper on The Dick Van Dyke Show |
Mitchell Parish |
Songwriter |
10-Jul-1900 |
31-Mar-1993 |
Volare |
Frank Perdue |
Business |
9-May-1920 |
31-Mar-2005 |
A Tough Man for a Tender Chicken |
Philip III |
Royalty |
14-Apr-1578 |
31-Mar-1621 |
King of Spain, 1598-1621 |
Knute Rockne |
Football |
4-Mar-1888 |
31-Mar-1931 |
Notre Dame Head Coach, 1918-30 |
Terri Schiavo |
Victim |
3-Dec-1963 |
31-Mar-2005 |
Human vegetable, 1990-2005 |
Selena |
Singer |
16-Apr-1971 |
31-Mar-1995 |
Crossover Tejano music star |
Clifford G. Shull |
Physicist |
23-Sep-1915 |
31-Mar-2001 |
Neutron scattering |
Lyman Spitzer, Jr. |
Astronomer |
26-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1997 |
Father of space telescopes |
Christina Stead |
Novelist |
17-Jul-1902 |
31-Mar-1983 |
The Man Who Loved Children |
Joseph W. Stern |
Composer |
11-Jan-1870 |
31-Mar-1934 |
My Mother Was a Lady |
Henry Taub |
Business |
20-Sep-1927 |
31-Mar-2011 |
Founder of ADP |
Jerald F. ter Horst |
Government |
11-Jul-1922 |
31-Mar-2010 |
Gerald Ford's short-term press secretary |
Roland West |
Film Director |
20-Feb-1885 |
31-Mar-1952 |
The Bat Whispers |
Edward Noyes Westcott |
Novelist |
27-Sep-1846 |
31-Mar-1898 |
David Harum |
Leslie A. White |
Anthropologist |
19-Jan-1900 |
31-Mar-1975 |
The Science of Culture |
Wallace H. White, Jr. |
Politician |
6-Aug-1877 |
31-Mar-1952 |
US Senator from Maine, 1931-49 |
Bob Wian |
Business |
15-Jun-1914 |
31-Mar-1992 |
Founder of Bob's Big Boy |
Henryk Wieniawski |
Violinist |
10-Jul-1835 |
31-Mar-1880 |
Polish violinist and composer |