On This Day — March 21
4440 noted people were born and 1968 died on March 21 in our archive, including Joseph Fourier, Scott E. Fahlman and Adolf von Koenen.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 21
Joseph Fourier
1768 – 1830
Scott E. Fahlman
b. 1948
Adolf von Koenen
1837 – 1915
Albert Allen Bartlett
1923 – 2013
Chang Dae-hwan
b. 1952
Changjoon Justin Lee
b. 1966
David Keilin
1887 – 1963
David Nualart
b. 1951
Dorothea Beale
1831 – 1906
Ed Broadbent
1936 – 2024
Edvīns Šnore
b. 1974
Fredrick Chien
b. 1935
Fritz Pleitgen
1938 – 2022
Georg von Wendt
1876 – 1954
George David Birkhoff
1884 – 1944
Giovanni Alberti
b. 1965
Halton Arp
1927 – 2013
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
1927 – 2016
Heinrich Waentig
1870 – 1943
Herbert Fisher
1865 – 1940
Hitoshi Murayama
b. 1964
James Harbord
1866 – 1947
Jean-Pierre Mahé
b. 1944
Joe Sutter
1921 – 2016
Joseph Hutchinson
1902 – 1988
Kilien Stengel
b. 1972
Larisa Krasavchikova
b. 1955
Louis-Edmond Hamelin
1923 – 2020
Michelle Monje
b. 1978
Nigel Gilbert
b. 1950
Paul A. Weiss
1898 – 1989
Paul Gochet
1932 – 2011
Peter Kohlgraf
b. 1967
Portonovo S. Ayyaswamy
b. 1942
Robert T. Watson
b. 1948
Russell Stothard
b. 1970
Sergey Lavrov
b. 1950
Steve Furber
b. 1953
Stewart Butterfield
b. 1973
Sándor Csernus
b. 1950
Wakatsuki Reijirō
1866 – 1949
Walter Gilbert
b. 1932
Werner Nahm
b. 1949
Władysław Wróblewski
1875 – 1951
Adam Rudawski
b. 1966
Alan Renouf
1919 – 2008
Alessandro Codivilla
1861 – 1912
Alexander Wrabetz
b. 1960
Allan Serlachius
1870 – 1935
Andrey Rostovtsev
b. 1960
Anne Bouverot
b. 1966
Anne Neville
1970 – 2022
Anton Pfeifer
b. 1937
Antonia Maury
1866 – 1952
Arja Alho
b. 1954
Arnold Reymond
1874 – 1958
Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg
1889 – 1963
Bernhard Getz
1850 – 1901
Bertha Tammelin
1836 – 1915
Birgit Meyer
b. 1960
Bjarne Kallis
b. 1945
Brian Mackenzie, Baron Mackenzie of Framwellgate
b. 1943
Carwyn Jones
b. 1967
Cenk Uygur
b. 1970
Charles Pratt, 1st Earl Camden
1714 – 1794
Chassar Moir
1900 – 1977
Christine Downing
b. 1931
Chung Un-chan
b. 1947
Claire L. Parkinson
b. 1948
Claude W. Hibbard
1905 – 1973
David Bates Douglass
1790 – 1849
David W. Blight
b. 1949
Denise Moreno Ducheny
b. 1952
Dimitri Hadzi
1921 – 2006
Dirk Frimout
b. 1941
Eeva Jalavisto
1909 – 1966
Elías Regules
1861 – 1929
Encarnación Cabré Herreros
1911 – 2005
Erich Kunzel
1935 – 2009
Erich Mendelsohn
1887 – 1953
Eustace Percy, 1st Baron Percy of Newcastle
1887 – 1958
Exequiel Ezcurra
b. 1950
Francis Channing, 1st Baron Channing of Wellingborough
1841 – 1926
François Patriat
1943 – 2026
Frederick Booth-Tucker
1853 – 1929
Fredrik Georg Gade
1855 – 1933
Garry Tan
b. 1981
Georg Ots
1920 – 1975
Georg Waaler
1895 – 1983
George Edgar Vincent
1864 – 1941
Ghazi of Iraq
1912 – 1939
Gilbert Thompson
1839 – 1909
Gonzalo Fernández Domínguez
b. 1952
Gunnar Eklund
1920 – 2010
Harrison White
1930 – 2024
Harry Marshall Ward
1854 – 1906
Hartmut Haenchen
b. 1943
Harvey Mansfield
b. 1932
Haydn Gwynne
1957 – 2023
Hedwig Jahnow
1879 – 1944
Helena Wong
b. 1959
Henri Massis
1886 – 1970
Hernán Siles Zuazo
1914 – 1996
Hiroshi Nishihara
b. 1955
Hugo Kaun
1863 – 1932
Ioannis Sarmas
b. 1957
Jaime Arancibia
b. 1975
Jair Bolsonaro
b. 1955
James Withycombe
1854 – 1919
Jaroslav Naď
b. 1981
Jarosław Szymczyk
b. 1970
Jean-André-Tiburce Sébastiani
1786 – 1871
Jessica Helfand
b. 1960
Jim Matheson
b. 1960
Joan Coromines
1905 – 1997
Johann Sebastian Bach
1685 – 1750
John Hammersley
1920 – 2004
John Heslop
1925 – 2014
John Robinson McClean
1813 – 1873
Joseph Chevillon
1849 – 1910
Joseph Garcia
b. 1957
Joseph Poelaert
1817 – 1879
Joseph Raz
1939 – 2022
Jules Émile Planchon
1823 – 1888
Julian Bushoff
b. 1997
Jurij Muschketyk
1929 – 2019
Kaitlyn Greenidge
b. 1921
Karl Bonhoeffer
1868 – 1948
Karl Kraus
1938 – 1988
Katherine Ralls
b. 1939
Lajos Kassák
1887 – 1967
Lewis M. Haupt
1844 – 1937
Lori Rader-Day
b. 1973
Marietta Shaginyan
1888 – 1982
Mario Iceta
b. 1965
Mart Nutt
1962 – 2019
Martin Barnaby Madden
1855 – 1928
Martin T. McMahon
1838 – 1906
Matthew Foreman
b. 1957
Michael David Jackson
1944 – 2024
Michael Heseltine
b. 1933
Mikalai Ladutska
b. 1959
Mikee Romero
b. 1971
Mohamed Ennaceur
b. 1934
Mohammad Mehdi Tehranchi
1965 – 2025
Mohammad Sal Moslehian
b. 1966
Mohsen Fakhrizadeh
1961 – 2020
Oleg Shein
b. 1972
Palina Sharenda-Panasiuk
b. 1975
Panagiotis Pipinelis
1899 – 1970
Pascale Cossart
b. 1948
Pavlo Zhebrivskyi
b. 1962
Peter Brook
1925 – 2022
Peter Hacks
1928 – 2003
Philaret
1935 – 2021
Pierre-Jean Rémy
1937 – 2010
Pietro Tacchini
1838 – 1905
Prayut Chanocha
b. 1954
Raul Khadjimba
b. 1958
Raúl Figueroa
b. 1975
Rezső Nyers
1923 – 2018
Ricardo Baeza-Yates
b. 1961
Richard Ratsimandrava
1931 – 1975
Roger Holeindre
1929 – 2020
Roger Köppel
b. 1965
Ronald Whittam
1925 – 2023
Rudolf Jettel
1903 – 1981
Samad Vurgun
1906 – 1956
Samuel Luke
1603 – 1670
Scott E. Page
b. 1963
Simon Lazenby
b. 1975
Simon Shnoll
1930 – 2021
Slavoj Žižek
b. 1949
Song Young-gil
b. 1962
Stanislaw Noakowski
1867 – 1928
Steven George West
b. 1961
Steven Van Weyenberg
b. 1973
Sōichirō Itō
1924 – 2001
Tadahiko Okada
1878 – 1958
Ted Kravitz
b. 1974
Trevor Soar
b. 1957
Trish Crossin
1956 – 2026
Verna Fields
1918 – 1982
Victoriano Guisasola y Menéndez
1852 – 1920
Vladimir Sharpatov
b. 1940
Wolfgang Jüttner
b. 1948
Yadollah Mortazavi
b. 1958
Yngve Holmberg
1925 – 2011
Zackie Achmat
b. 1962
Éric Rohmer
1920 – 2010
Şebnem Korur Fincancı
b. 1959
Aaron Hill
b. 1982
Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
b. 1966
Abolghasem Khazali
1925 – 2015
Adolph Brodsky
1851 – 1929
Adrian Chiles
b. 1967
Agha Mehdiyev
1920 – 2003
Ahmed Hill
b. 1995
Alan Nakanishi
b. 1940
Albert Edward McPhillips
1861 – 1938
… and 4,240 more
Died on March 21
Andrew Grove
1936 – 2016
Enrico D'Ovidio
1843 – 1933
Algernon West
1832 – 1921
Ambrosius Hubrecht
1853 – 1915
Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915
Frédéric Mitterrand
1947 – 2024
George Jessel
1824 – 1883
Hughe Knatchbull-Hugessen
1886 – 1971
John C. Sheehan
1915 – 1992
Kevin Burke
1929 – 2018
Nicolas Louis de Lacaille
1713 – 1762
Pietro Mennea
1952 – 2013
Roger Moore
1939 – 2019
Thomas Muir
1844 – 1934
Thomas Sanderson, 1st Baron Sanderson
1841 – 1923
Abram Penn Staples
1885 – 1951
Adam Zagajewski
1945 – 2021
Adolph Bowler
1889 – 1962
Akira Aoyama
1878 – 1963
Albrecht Dietz
1926 – 2012
Alexander Zaveryukha
1940 – 2015
Alfred Einhorn
1856 – 1917
Alfred Jolson
1928 – 1994
Allen Thomson
1809 – 1884
Anders Fryxell
1795 – 1881
Andrzej Mazurkiewicz
1963 – 2008
André Lavagne
1913 – 2014
Anna Alchuk
1955 – 2008
Annibale de Gasparis
1819 – 1892
Ariosto Holanda
1938 – 2026
Arthur Nebe
1894 – 1945
Bolton Eyres-Monsell, 1st Viscount Monsell
1881 – 1969
Boris K. Schischkin
1886 – 1963
Bradford Leslie
1831 – 1926
Campegius Vitringa
1659 – 1722
Carl Benedict Hase
1780 – 1864
Carl Goresky
1932 – 1996
Charles Liedts
1802 – 1878
Charles Waldstein
1856 – 1927
Charles d'Amondans de Tinseau
1748 – 1822
Chinua Achebe
1930 – 2013
Claude H. Van Tyne
1869 – 1930
Claude Lorius
1932 – 2023
Constantin Bosianu
1815 – 1882
Cornelis H. A. Koster
1943 – 2013
Dov Ben-Meir
1927 – 2020
Erhard Weigel
1625 – 1699
Eugene G. Rochow
1909 – 2002
Eugène Pereire
1831 – 1908
Ezra Abbot
1819 – 1884
Franciszek Bujak
1875 – 1953
Frank Fetter
1863 – 1949
Frank Finnan
1897 – 1966
Frank Herman Schofield
1869 – 1942
Gabriel París Gordillo
1910 – 2008
Galina Ulanova
1909 – 1998
George Ramsay, 9th Earl of Dalhousie
1770 – 1838
Gerhart Eisler
1897 – 1968
Gerrit Blaauw
1924 – 2018
Gonzalo Portocarrero
1949 – 2019
Hippolyte Flandrin
1809 – 1864
J. S. Woodsworth
1874 – 1942
Jacques Oudin
1939 – 2020
Jan Marcin Szancer
1902 – 1973
Jeong Ju-yung
1915 – 2001
Johannes Schilling
1828 – 1910
John Bates Clark
1847 – 1938
John C. West
1922 – 2004
Josep Baselga
1959 – 2021
Joseph Barcroft
1872 – 1947
Lucien Gallois
1857 – 1941
Léon Labbé
1832 – 1916
Mark Donskoy
1901 – 1981
Marston T. Bogert
1868 – 1954
Matthew Maty
1718 – 1776
Matthias Jarke
1952 – 2024
Maurice Franck
1897 – 1983
Nawal El Saadawi
1931 – 2021
Nikolai Wagner
1829 – 1907
Otto Liebe
1860 – 1929
Paulin Talabot
1799 – 1885
Piotr Pawlukiewicz
1960 – 2020
Ralph George Hawtrey
1879 – 1975
Ricardo Larraín
1957 – 2016
Robert Klapisch
1932 – 2020
Roy Fisher
1930 – 2017
Sardar Singh I of Marwar
1880 – 1911
Shmuel Agmon
1922 – 2025
Sir Edward Hamilton, 1st Baronet
1772 – 1851
Stefan Matuszewski
1905 – 1985
Thierry Aubin
1942 – 2009
Thomas Cranmer
1489 – 1556
Tonino Guerra
1920 – 2012
Victor Henri Hutinel
1849 – 1933
Walter J. Kohler, Jr.
1904 – 1976
Walter L. Gordon
1906 – 1987
Wilhelm Uhthoff
1853 – 1927
William Cavendish-Bentinck, 7th Duke of Portland
1893 – 1977
William Scoresby
1789 – 1857
Zhang Shaozeng
1879 – 1928
Štefan Kvietik
1934 – 2025
Absalon
1128 – 1201
Aileen Baviera
1959 – 2020
Akio Kaminaga
1936 – 1993
Albert Ernst Renold
1923 – 1988
Alexander Glazunov
1865 – 1936
Alexander MacDuff
1816 – 1866
Alexander Macklin
1889 – 1967
Alexandra Tegleva
1884 – 1955
Alfred A. Foucher
1865 – 1952
Alfred I, Prince of Windisch-Grätz
1787 – 1862
Alfredo Reichlin
1925 – 2017
Ali Hikmet Ayerdem
1877 – 1939
Allie Paine
1919 – 2008
Amir H. Jamal
1922 – 1995
Amédée Dunois
1878 – 1945
Andrew Archibald Macdonald
1829 – 1912
Archbishop Spyridon of Athens
1873 – 1956
Arthur Rosenheim
1865 – 1942
Arthur W. Ryder
1877 – 1938
Assheton Curzon, 1st Viscount Curzon
1730 – 1820
August Wöhler
1819 – 1914
Axel Salto
1889 – 1961
Bai Shouyi
1909 – 2000
Bishoy Kamel
1931 – 1979
Bobby Short
1924 – 2005
Carl Hammerich
1888 – 1945
Carolyn Squires
1940 – 2016
Cearbhall Ó Dálaigh
1911 – 1978
Cesare Musatti
1897 – 1989
Charles Booth
1925 – 1997
Charles Douglas Carpendale
1874 – 1968
Charles Linnaeus Ives
1831 – 1879
Charles M. Kurtz
1855 – 1909
Charles de Dompierre d'Hornoy
1816 – 1901
Charley Shipp
1913 – 1988
Chen Yu
1901 – 1974
Christian Wilhelm Franz Hübschmann
1817 – 1880
Chuck Bednarik
1925 – 2015
Clemens Starck
1937 – 2024
Constantin Erbiceanu
1838 – 1913
Courtney Whitney
1897 – 1969
Célestin Bourragué
1886 – 1955
David Beaglehole
1938 – 2014
David J. Foster
1857 – 1912
David Sholtz
1891 – 1953
Denzil Roberts Onslow
1839 – 1908
Derick Thomson
1921 – 2012
Digby Tatham-Warter
1917 – 1993
Divaldo Suruagy
1937 – 2015
Dmitri Alekseyevich Gallitzin
1734 – 1803
Donald R. Johnston
1947 – 1969
Douglas Mercer-Henderson
E. Alexander Bergstrom
1919 – 1973
Edward B. Evans
1846 – 1922
Edward Walter Maunder
1851 – 1928
Eric Manvers Shooter
1924 – 2018
Ernest Billiet
1873 – 1939
Ernie Wise
1925 – 1999
Esther Fischer-Homberger
1940 – 2019
Evert Endt
1933 – 2025
Felix Linnemann
1882 – 1948
Fernand J. Cheri
1952 – 2023
Filiz Akın
1943 – 2025
Francesco Maselli
1930 – 2023
Francis Quinn
1921 – 2019
Francisco de Arango y Parreño
1765 – 1837
Franz Schreker
1878 – 1934
Friedrich Weber
1781 – 1823
George Anthony Denison
1805 – 1896
George Boyle
1828 – 1901
George Foreman
1949 – 2025
George Hyde Fallon
1902 – 1980
George Villiers
1759 – 1827
Georges Paulin
1902 – 1942
Giuseppe Accoramboni
1672 – 1747
Grigol Orbeliani
1804 – 1883
Guilford Wiley Wells
1840 – 1909
Guillermo Tell Villegas
1823 – 1907
Gustav Morelli
1848 – 1909
Hans Ehrenberg
1883 – 1958
Hans Erni
1909 – 2015
Hardi Tiidus
1918 – 1999
Harry Clay Hale
1861 – 1946
Harry Orlinsky
1908 – 1992
Henri Emmanuelli
1945 – 2017
Henry E. Barbour
1877 – 1945
Henry V. Graham
1916 – 1999
Herbert Molson
1875 – 1938
Herm Schaefer
1918 – 1980
Herman Talmadge
1913 – 2002
Honoré III, Prince of Monaco
1720 – 1795
Howard L. Vickery
1892 – 1946
I. S. O. Playfair
1894 – 1972
Ignatius Zakka I Iwas
1933 – 2014
Ingelbrecht Knudssøn
1776 – 1826
Inés Puyó
1906 – 1996
Ioan Grigore Ghica
1830 – 1881
Ira Allen Eastman
1809 – 1881
James Brown
1862 – 1939
… and 1,768 more