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March 7
is the 66th day of the year (67th in
leap years
) in the
Gregorian calendar
. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.
- 189
-
Publius Septimius Geta
, Roman Emperor (d.
211
)
- 1481
-
Baldassare Peruzzi
, Italian
architect
and painter (d.
1537
)
- 1556
-
Guillaume du Vair
, French
writer
(d.
1621
)
- 1663
-
Tomaso Antonio Vitali
, Italian
composer
and
violinist
(d.
1745
)
- 1671
-
Rob Roy MacGregor
, Scottish folk hero (d.
1734
)
- 1671
-
Ellis Wynne
, Welsh clergyman and writer (d.
1734
)
- 1678
-
Filippo Juvarra
, Italian
architect
(d.
1736
)
- 1693
-
Pope Clement XIII
(d.
1769
)
- 1715
-
Ewald Christian von Kleist
, German
poet
(d.
1759
)
- 1715
-
Ephraim Williams
, American philanthropist (d.
1755
)
- 1730
-
Baron de Breteuil
, French
statesman
(d.
1807
)
- 1765
-
Nicephore Niepce
, French
inventor
of
photography
(d.
1833
)
- 1785
-
Alessandro Manzoni
, Italian
writer
(d.
1873
)
- 1788
-
Antoine Cesar Becquerel
, French
physicist
(d.
1878
)
- 1792
-
John Herschel
, English
mathematician
and
astronomer
(d.
1871
)
- 1802
-
Edwin Henry Landseer
, English painter (d.
1873
)
- 1835
-
Daniel Giraud Elliot
, American
zoologist
(d.
1915
)
- 1837
-
Henry Draper
, American
physician
and
astronomer
(d.
1882
)
- 1849
-
Luther Burbank
, American
botanist
,
horticulturist
and agricultural scientist (d.
1926
)
- 1850
-
Tomas Garrigue Masaryk
, 1st
President
of
Czechoslovakia
(d.
1937
)
- 1850
-
Champ Clark
, 41st Speaker of the
United States House of Representatives
(d.
1921
)
- 1857
?
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
,
Austrian
doctor
, won the 1927
Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
(d.
1940
)
- 1866
-
Hans Fruhstorfer
, German
explorer
and
entomologist
(d.
1922
)
- 1868
-
Giovanni Giacometti
, Swiss painter (d.
1933
)
- 1872
-
Piet Mondrian
, Dutch artist (d.
1944
)
- 1875
?
Maurice Ravel
,
French
composer
(d.
1937
)
- 1878
-
Boris Kustodiev
, Russian painter (d.
1927
)
- 1886
-
Virginia Pearson
, American silent movie
actress
(d.
1958
)
- 1888
-
Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer
, Dutch
lawyer
and
politician
(d.
1978
)
- 1901
-
Beatrice Roberts
,
American
actress (d.
1970
)
- 1902
-
Heinz Ruhmann
, German
actor
(d.
1994
)
- 1904
-
Ivar Ballangrud
, Norwegian speed skater (d.
1969
)
- 1904
-
Reinhard Heydrich
, German
SS
officer (d.
1942
)
- 1908
-
Anna Magnani
, Italian
actress
(d.
1973
)
- 1911
-
Nikolai Baibakov
,
Soviet
politician
(d.
2008
)
- 1914
-
John Rodney
, American
actor
(d.
1996
)
- 1914
-
Lee Young
, American
jazz
drummer and singer (d.
2008
)
- 1915
-
Jacques Chaban-Delmas
,
Prime Minister of France
(d.
2000
)
- 1917
-
Betty Holberton
, American engineer and programmer (d.
2004
)
- 1922
-
Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
, Russian
mathematician
(d.
2004
)
- 1922
-
Umberto Betti
, Italian
cardinal
(d.
2009
)
- 1924
-
Eduardo Paolozzi
, Scottish
sculptor
and
artist
(d.
2005
)
- 1924
-
Kobo Abe
, Japanese
writer
,
playwright
,
photographer
and
inventor
(d.
1993
)
- 1925
-
Rene Gagnon
, American
navy
officer (d.
1979
)
- 1927
-
James Broderick
, American
actor
(d.
1982
)
- 1927
-
Philippe Clay
, French
singer
and
actor
(d.
2007
)
- 1930
- Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
- 1930
-
Stanley Miller
, American
biologist
and
chemist
(d.
2007
)
- 1930
-
Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon
, British
photographer
and husband of
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon
(d.
2017
)
- 1933
-
Hannelore Kohl
, wife of
Chancellor of Germany
Helmut Kohl
(d.
2001
)
- 1933
-
Gordon Walgren
, American politician and convicted fraudster (d.
2018
)
- 1933
-
Jackie Blanchflower
, Northern Irish
footballer
(d.
1998
)
- 1934
-
Douglas Cardinal
, Canadian
architect
- 1935
-
Antonios Naguib
, Coptic Catholic Church
Patriarch
and
cardinal
- 1936
-
Julio Terrazas Sandoval
,
Bolivian
archbishop
and
cardinal
(d.
2015
)
- 1938
-
Albert Fert
, French
physicist
- 1938
-
David Baltimore
, American
biologist
- 1938
-
Petr Skoumal
, Czech
musician
and
composer
(d.
2014
)
- 1939
-
Panajot Pano
,
Albanian
footballer
(d.
2010
)
- 1940
-
Rudi Dutschke
, German student leader (d.
1979
)
- 1940
-
Daniel J. Travanti
, American actor
- 1942
-
Michael Eisner
, American
movie
studio executive
- 1942
-
Tammy Faye Messner
, American televangelist (d.
2007
)
- 1943
-
Chris White
, English
bass
player and
songwriter
(
The Zombies
)
- 1944
-
Ranulph Fiennes
, British explorer
- 1944
-
Michael Rosbash
, American biologist and
Nobel
laureate
- 1944
-
Townes Van Zandt
, American
musician
and
songwriter
(d.
1997
)
- 1945
-
John Heard
, American
actor
- 1945
-
Bob Herbert
, American
journalist
- 1945
-
Nicholas Kraemer
, English
harpsichord
player and
conductor
- 1947
-
Richard Lawson
, American
actor
- 1947
-
Walter Rohrl
, German rally driver
- 1949
-
Ghulam Nabi Azad
, Indian
politician
- 1949
-
Genyo Takeda
, Japanese video game developer
- 1950
-
Iris Chacon
, Puerto Rican
singer
and
dancer
- 1952
-
William Boyd
, Scottish
writer
,
screenwriter
and
producer
- 1952
-
Viv Richards
,
Antiguan
West Indies
cricketer
- 1952
-
Ernie Isley
, American
guitarist
and
songwriter
(
The Isley Brothers
)
- 1953
-
Bernard Voyer
, Canadian explorer and
mountaineer
- 1954
-
Eva Brunne
, Swedish
clergywoman
and first openly
lesbian
bishop
- 1955
-
Anupam Kher
, Indian actor
- 1956
-
Bryan Cranston
, American
actor
- 1956
-
Andrea Levy
, British writer (d.
2019
)
- 1958
-
Alan Hale
, American
astronomer
- 1958
-
Rik Mayall
, British
actor
and
comedian
(d.
2014
)
- 1959
-
Tom Lehman
, American
golfer
- 1959
-
Donna Murphy
, American
actress
and
singer
- 1960
-
Ivan Lendl
, Czech-American
tennis
player and coach of
Andy Murray
- 1960
-
Kazuo Ozaki
, Japanese
footballer
- 1961
-
Mary Beth Evans
, American
actress
- 1962
?
Taylor Dayne
,
American
singer
- 1963
-
Mike Eagles
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1963
-
E. L. James
, English writer (
Fifty Shades of Grey
)
- 1964
-
Bret Easton Ellis
, American
writer
and
screenwriter
- 1964
-
Wanda Sykes
, American
actress
and comedienne
- 1964
-
Tommy Sheridan
, Scottish
politician
- 1965
-
Jesper Parnevik
, Swedish
golfer
- 1966
-
Terry Carkner
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1967
-
Ruthie Henshall
, British
theatre
actress
and
singer
- 1967
-
Ai Yazawa
, Japanese
manga
artist
- 1969
-
Massimo Lotti
, Italian
footballer
- 1970
-
Petra Mede
, Swedish comedienne, dancer and
television
host
- 1970
-
Rachel Weisz
, British actress
- 1971
-
Peter Sarsgaard
, American
actor
- 1971
-
Matthew Vaughn
, British
movie producer
and
director
- 1972
-
Jang Dong-Gun
, South Korean
actor
and
musician
- 1972
- Simon Pryce, Australian musician (
The Wiggles
)
- 1973
-
Sebastien Izambard
, Swiss
operatic
singer (
Il Divo
)
- 1973
-
Ray Parlour
, English
footballer
- 1974
-
Jenna Fischer
, American
actress
- 1974
-
Darryl Stephens
, American
actor
- 1975
-
Audrey Marie Anderson
, American actress and model
- 1977
-
Paul Cattermole
, English
singer
and
actor
- 1977
-
Gianluca Grava
, Italian
footballer
- 1977
-
Ronan O'Gara
, Irish
rugby
player
- 1977
-
Jerome Fernandez
, French
handball
player
- 1980
-
Murat Boz
, Turkish
singer-songwriter
and
actor
- 1980
-
Eric Godard
, Canadian
ice hockey
player
- 1980
-
Laura Prepon
, American actress
- 1982
-
Marc Planus
, French
footballer
- 1983
-
Manucho
,
Angolan
footballer
- 1984
-
Mathieu Flamini
, French
footballer
- 1986
-
Ben Griffin
, Australian
footballer
- 1987
-
Hatem Ben Arfa
, French
footballer
- 1987
-
Niclas Bergfors
, Swedish
ice hockey
player
- 1987
-
Eleni Foureira
, Albanian-Greek singer
- 1988
-
Larry Asante
,
American football
player
- 1989
-
Gerald Anderson
, Filipino-American
actor
and
model
- 1990
?
Abigail and Brittany Hensel
, American
conjoined twins
- 1990
-
Lefteris Matsoukas
, Greek
footballer
- 1991
-
Quenten Martinus
,
Curacaoan
footballer
- 1991
-
Michele Rigione
, Italian
footballer
- 1992
-
Bel Powley
, English
actress
- 1994
-
An-Sophie Mestach
, Belgian
tennis
player
- 1994
-
Jordan Pickford
, English
footballer
- 2009
-
Prince Umberto of Savoy
- 322 BC
?
Aristotle
, Greek philosopher (b.
384 BC
)
- 161
-
Antoninus Pius
, Roman Emperor (b.
86
)
- 203
-
Felicity and Perpetua
, early Christian martyrs
- 413
-
Heraclianus
, Roman politician
- 851
-
Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1274
- Saint
Thomas Aquinas
, Italian
philosopher
(b.
1225
)
- 1550
-
William IV, Duke of Bavaria
(b.
1493
)
- 1625
-
Johann Bayer
, German
astronomer
(b.
1572
)
- 1724
-
Pope Innocent XIII
(b.
1655
)
- 1778
-
Charles De Geer
, Swedish industrialist (b.
1720
)
- 1786
-
Franz Benda
, Bohemian
composer
(b.
1709
)
- 1809
-
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
, French balloonist (b.
1753
)
- 1875
-
John Edward Gray
, British
zoologist
(b.
1800
)
- 1920
-
Jaan Poska
, Estonian
lawyer
,
diplomat
and
politician
(b.
1866
)
- 1932
-
Aristide Briand
, French politician and diplomat (b.
1862
)
- 1938
-
Andreas Michalakopoulos
,
Prime Minister
of
Greece
(b.
1876
)
- 1942
-
Lucy Parsons
, American
anarchist
,
Communist
and
labor
organizer (b.
1853
)
- 1952
-
Paramahansa Yogananda
, Indian
Guru
(b.
1893
)
- 1954
-
Otto Diels
, German
chemist
(b.
1876
)
- 1957
-
Wyndham Lewis
, British writer (b.
1882
)
- 1961
-
Govind Ballabh Pant
, Indian
politician
, 2nd
Chief Minister
of
Uttar Pradesh
(b.
1887
)
- 1965
-
Louise Mountbatten
,
Queen
of
Sweden
(b.
1889
)
- 1967
-
Alice B. Toklas
, American companion to
Gertrude Stein
(b.
1877
)
- 1969
-
Sampurnanand
, Indian politician (b.
1910
)
- 1974
-
Alberto Rabagliati
, Italian
singer
and
actor
(b.
1906
)
- 1975
-
Mikhail Bakhtin
, Russian
philosopher
(b.
1895
)
- 1981
-
Kiril Kondrashin
, Russian
conductor
(b.
1914
)
- 1983
-
Igor Markevitch
, Ukrainian
conductor
and
composer
(b.
1912
)
- 1986
-
Jacob J. Javits
, American politician (b.
1904
)
- 1988
-
Robert Livingston
, American actor (b.
1914
)
- 1988
-
Divine
, American
actor
and
singer
(b.
1945
)
- 1991
-
Cool Papa Bell
, American
baseball
player (b.
1903
)
- 1997
-
Edward Mills Purcell
, American
physicist
(b.
1912
)
- 1999
?
Stanley Kubrick
, American movie director (b.
1928
)
- 1999
-
Sidney Gottlieb
, American
CIA
official (b.
1918
)
- 2000
-
Pee Wee King
, American
country musician
,
songwriter
and
producer
(b.
1914
)
- 2000
-
Hirokazu Ninomiya
, Japanese
footballer
(b.
1917
)
- 2001
-
Frankie Carle
, American
pianist
and
bandleader
(b.
1903
)
- 2004
-
Paul Winfield
, American
actor
(b.
1941
)
- 2005
-
John Box
, British
movie
production designer
and
art director
(b.
1920
)
- 2005
-
Debra Hill
, American
screenwriter
and
movie producer
(b.
1950
)
- 2006
-
John Junkin
, British performer (b.
1930
)
- 2006
-
Gordon Parks
, American
actor
,
director
and
photographer
(b.
1912
)
- 2006
-
Ali Farka Toure
,
Malian
musician
(b.
1939
)
- 2010
-
Kenneth Dover
, British classicist (b.
1920
)
- 2012
-
Wlodzimierz Smolarek
, Polish
footballer
(b.
1957
)
- 2012
-
Felicien Marceau
, French
novelist
,
playwright
and essayist (b.
1913
)
- 2013
-
Peter Banks
, English musician (b.
1947
)
- 2013
-
Damiano Damiani
, Italian
director
and
screenwriter
(b.
1922
)
- 2013
-
Frederick B. Karl
, American politician (b.
1924
)
- 2014
-
Heiko Bellmann
, German biologist, writer and photographer (b.
1950
)
- 2014
-
Uwe Timm
, German writer and anarchist (b.
1932
)
- 2014
-
Hal Douglas
, American
voice
actor
and announcer (b.
1924
)
- 2014
-
Ned O'Gorman
, American
poet
(b.
1929
)
- 2015
-
Gregorio Bundio
, Argentine
footballer
and manager (
El Salvador national football team
) (b.
1928
)
- 2015
-
Edmond Malinvaud
, French economist (b.
1923
)
- 2015
-
F. Ray Keyser, Jr.
, American politician, 72nd
Governor
of
Vermont
(b.
1927
)
- 2016
-
Adrian Hardiman
, Irish judge (b.
1950
)
- 2016
-
Jean-Bernard Raimond
, French politician (b.
1926
)
- 2016
-
Michael White
, Scottish theatre and film producer (b.
1936
)
- 2017
-
Ron Bass
, American
professional wrestler
(b.
1948
)
- 2017
-
Syed Sajjad Ali Shah
,
Chief Justice of Pakistan
(b.
1933
)
- 2017
-
Helen Sommers
, American politician (b.
1932
)
- 2017
-
Lynne Stewart
, American
attorney
(b.
1939
)
- 2017
-
Hans Georg Dehmelt
, German-American
physicist
(b.
1922
)
- 2017
-
Ronald Drever
, Scottish
physicist
(b.
1931
)
- 2017
-
Peter M. Gruber
, Austrian
mathematician
(b.
1941
)
- 2017
-
Juan Carlos Tourino
, Spanish
footballer
(b.
1944
)
- 2018
-
Reynaldo Bignone
,
President
of
Argentina
(b.
1928
)
- 2018
-
Woody Durham
, American
basketball
radio announcer (b.
1941
)
- 2018
-
Charles Thone
, American politician, 34th
Governor
of
Nebraska
(b.
1924
)
- 2018
-
Antonia La Negra
, Spanish singer and dancer (b.
1936
)
- 2019
-
Dick Beyer
, American
professional wrestler
(b.
1930
)
- 2019
-
Joseph M. Boardman
, American railroad executive (b.
1948
)
- 2019
-
Robert Braithwaite
, British
marine
engineer and
entrepreneur
(b.
1943
)
- 2019
-
Guillaume Faye
, French journalist and writer (b.
1941
)
- 2019
-
Ralph Hall
, American politician (b.
1923
)
- 2019
-
Dick Nichols
, American banker and politician (b.
1926
)
- 2019
-
Sid Sheinberg
, American lawyer and studio executive (b.
1935
)