march

• 1 Lytton Strachey, writer, b. London 1880
• 2 Samuel Houston, soldier, b. Virginia 1793
• 3 Alexnder Graham Bell, b. Edinburgh, 1847
• 4 Marlon Brando, b. Omaha, Nebraska, 1924
• 5 Gerhardus Mercator, cartographer, b. Rupelmonde, Flanders 1512
• 6 Cyrano de Bergerac, dramatist, b. Paris 1619
• 7 Piet Mondrian, painter, b. Netherlands 1872
• 8 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., jurist, US Supreme Court, b. Boston, Mass. 1841
• 9 Victoria Sackville-West, novelist, b. Kent 1892
• 10 Tamara Karsavina, dancer, b. St Petersubrg 1885
• 11 Dorothy Gish, actor, b. Ohio 1898
• 12 Jack Kerouac, novelist, b. Lowell, Mass. 1922
• 13 Henry Hathaway, film director, b. Sacramanto Cal. 1898
• 14 Albert Einstein, physicist, b. Germany 1879
• 15 Lady Augusta Gregory, dramatist and writer, b. County Galway, Ireland 1852
• 16 Maksim Gorky, novelist and dramatist, b. New York 1908
• 17 Kate Greenaway, writer and illustrator, b. London 1846
• 18 Marie, Comtesse de LaFayette, novelist, b. Paris 1634
• 19 Georges de La Tour, painter, b. France 1593
• 20 Hugh MacLennan, novelist, b. Canada 1907
• 21 Florenz Ziegfeld, theatrical producer and impresario, b. Chicago 1869
• 22 Marcel Marceau, mime and actor, b. Strasbourg 1923
• 23 Joan Crawford, actor, b. Texas 1908
• 24 Olive Schreiner, novelist, b. Cape Colony 1855
• 25 Simone Signoret, actor, b. Germany 1921
• 26 Tennessee Williams, dramatist, b. Columbus, Mississippi 1911
• 27 Ludvig Mies van der Rohe, architect, b. Aachen, Germany 1886
• 28 Raphael, artist, Urbino, b. Italy 1483
• 29 Sir Edwin Landseer Lutyens, architect, b. London 1869
• 30 Sean O’Casey, dramatist and writer, b. Dublin 1880
• 31 Rene Descartes, philosopher, b. 1596