On This Day — March 31
4144 noted people were born and 2001 died on March 31 in our archive, including Beno Eckmann, Carlo Rubbia and Kanysh Satpayev.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on March 31
Beno Eckmann
1917 – 2008
Carlo Rubbia
b. 1934
Kanysh Satpayev
1899 – 1964
Thomas Kirkman
1806 – 1895
William Lawrence Bragg
1890 – 1971
Adolphe Vuitry
1813 – 1885
Al Gore
b. 1948
Angus King
b. 1944
Bailey Willis
1857 – 1949
Barney Frank
1940 – 2026
Claude Allègre
1937 – 2025
David Eisenhower
b. 1948
Diederik Korteweg
1848 – 1941
Dénes Gulyás
b. 1954
Edwin Catmull
b. 1945
Ernesto Capocci
1798 – 1864
Evan Williams
b. 1972
Grzegorz Kozłowski
b. 1974
Gustaf Mauritz Armfelt
1757 – 1814
Heinrich Fink
1935 – 2020
Ian Goldberg
b. 1973
Isaac Bayley Balfour
1853 – 1922
Jim Marshall
b. 1948
John C. Butcher
b. 1933
John Ugelstad
1921 – 1997
Leonardo López Luján
b. 1964
Louis Cordier
1777 – 1861
Masayoshi Tomizuka
b. 1946
Mei Li Vos
b. 1970
Márta Görög
b. 1975
Nathan Rotenstreich
1914 – 1993
Octavio Paz
1914 – 1998
Oleksandr Turchynov
b. 1964
Pangeran Adipati Soejono
1886 – 1943
Pascale Ehrenfreund
b. 1960
Peter St Clair-Erskine, 7th Earl of Rosslyn
b. 1958
Peter Wilson
b. 1968
Roderic M. J. Lyne
b. 1948
Ronny Reich
b. 1947
Shinichiro Tomonaga
1906 – 1979
Sietse Fritsma
b. 1972
Svein Rosseland
1894 – 1985
Tadeusz Kotarbiński
1886 – 1981
Tim O'Brien
b. 1964
Tullio De Mauro
1932 – 2017
Vinay Gupta
b. 1972
Yves Le Grand
1908 – 1986
Zviad Gamsakhurdia
1939 – 1993
A. Kollontaĭ
1872 – 1952
Abdul Ilah Khatib
b. 1953
Adriaan Gilles Camper
1759 – 1820
Adriaan van Maanen
1884 – 1946
Alan Duncan
b. 1957
Alex Kotlowitz
b. 1955
Alexei Osipov
b. 1938
Amy Edmondson
b. 1959
Anders Johan von Höpken
1712 – 1789
Andrea Kuntzl
b. 1958
Andriy Livytskyi
1879 – 1954
Andrzej Kosztowniak
b. 1976
Ang Wei Neng
b. 1967
Artak Davtyan
b. 1970
Barbara Baker
b. 1958
Bernhard Bauknecht
1900 – 1985
Bill Maurer
b. 1968
Bob Hagan
b. 1949
Bob Russell
b. 1946
Brian John Marples
1907 – 1997
Catherine Bertini
b. 1950
Charles Braibant
1889 – 1976
Charles Doolittle Walcott
1850 – 1927
Charles Henry Smyth, Jr.
1866 – 1937
Chung Shu Kun Christopher
b. 1957
Clemens Krauss
1893 – 1954
Clifford L. Stanley
b. 1947
Coenraad Jacob Temminck
1778 – 1858
Craig McCracken
b. 1971
César Gaviria
b. 1947
Dai Bingguo
b. 1941
Daniel Vincent
1874 – 1946
David Steel
b. 1938
Dennis S. Charney
b. 1951
Dietmar Bartsch
b. 1958
Dietrich Brandis
1824 – 1907
Don Foster
b. 1947
Dugald Clerk
1854 – 1932
Eduardo Martínez Somalo
1927 – 2021
Edward Trifonov
b. 1937
Elof Westergaard
b. 1962
Emilian Voiutschi
1850 – 1920
Endō Kinsuke
1836 – 1893
Ewan McGregor
b. 1971
F'Murr
1946 – 2018
Firdausi Qadri
b. 1951
Francis Bell
1851 – 1936
François Brottes
b. 1956
Fred Forbát
1897 – 1972
Frederick Warner
1910 – 2010
Frederick William Andrewes
1859 – 1932
George Lyttelton, 4th Baron Lyttelton
1817 – 1876
Greg Ganske
b. 1949
Hassan Katsina
1933 – 1995
Henrik Ramsay
1886 – 1951
Heribert Hirte
b. 1958
Hermann Höcherl
1912 – 1989
Hippolyte Le Bas
1782 – 1867
Hiroyuki Yoshiie
b. 1971
Immanuel Estermann
1900 – 1973
Jaime Bassa
b. 1977
Jane Wells
b. 1961
Januário Correia de Almeida
1829 – 1901
Joan Feynman
1927 – 2020
Joaquín Fernández Prida
1863 – 1942
John Astle
b. 1943
John Gaddum
1900 – 1965
John H. McArthur
1934 – 2019
John Hays Hammond Sr.
1855 – 1936
John J. McCloy
1895 – 1989
John La Farge
1835 – 1910
John P. Fishwick, Jr.
b. 1957
Juan Luis Beigbeder y Atienza
1888 – 1957
Julián Herranz Casado
b. 1930
Jyotsna Dhawan
b. 1959
Kazuko Kōri
b. 1957
Kelly O'Dwyer
b. 1977
Kent Beck
b. 1961
Klaus Wagner
1910 – 2000
Knut Frydenlund
1927 – 1987
Kodendera Subayya Thimayya
1906 – 1965
Kuupik Kleist
b. 1958
Kyösti Järvinen
1869 – 1957
Laurent Guimier
b. 1971
Leonid Klimov
b. 1953
Lisette Burrows
b. 1963
Luigi Padovese
1947 – 2010
Lőrinc Szabó
1900 – 1957
Marc Delafontaine
1838 – 1911
Mari Beyleryan
1877 – 1915
Marion Dewar
1928 – 2008
Mark (Golovkov)
b. 1964
Mark Fainaru-Wada
b. 1965
Mark Gertler
b. 1951
Max Fesca
1846 – 1917
Merry Aart
b. 1953
Milán Václavík
1928 – 2007
Mirtha Vásquez
b. 1975
Murat Gülsoy
b. 1967
Muriel Pénicaud
b. 1955
Mustafa Hadzhi
b. 1962
Natalia Boytsun
b. 1960
Nicholas Winterton
b. 1938
Nikolay Epple
b. 1977
Ottomar Maddison
1879 – 1959
P. P. Lazarev
1878 – 1942
Patrick Leahy
b. 1940
Patrick Malrieu
1945 – 2019
Paul G. Richards
b. 1943
Paul Talalay
1923 – 2019
Paula Bieler
b. 1988
Peter Coulson
b. 1958
Philip Dimitrov
b. 1955
Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester
1900 – 1974
Pál Mácsai
b. 1961
Rajendra Narayan Singh Deo
1912 – 1975
Ralph Hunt
1928 – 2011
Richard Cannings
b. 1954
Robert Brasillach
1909 – 1945
Robert Morier
1826 – 1893
Roger Black
b. 1966
Roh Soh-yeong
b. 1961
Sandra Beckerman
b. 1983
Saskia Noorman-den Uyl
b. 1946
Sergei Zhigarev
b. 1969
Sergey Barkhin
1938 – 2020
Sergey Kalashnik
b. 1978
Sergey Neklyudov
b. 1941
Severin Eskeland
1880 – 1964
Sheila Dikshit
1938 – 2019
Theodor Wisén
1835 – 1892
Uma Pemmaraju
1958 – 2022
Valeriu Matei
b. 1959
Vice Ganda
b. 1976
Vlad Batrîncea
b. 1981
Vladimir Vinokur
b. 1948
Volker Schlöndorff
b. 1939
Volodymyr Ariev
b. 1975
Willem van Zwet
1934 – 2020
William Daniels
b. 1927
William F. Gannon
1859 – 1916
William Ralph Meredith
1840 – 1923
Włodzimierz Marciniak
b. 1954
Yury Shulyeika
b. 1968
Ze Frank
b. 1972
Étienne Bézout
1730 – 1783
Štefan Osuský
1899 – 1973
Ade Padmo Sarwono
b. 1962
Adrian Oliver
b. 1988
Afonso Celso de Assis Figueiredo Júnior
1860 – 1938
Ahmed ‘Urabi
1841 – 1911
Alasdair Cochrane
b. 1978
… and 3,944 more
Died on March 31
Alexander Bakulev
1890 – 1967
Antoine Augustin Cournot
1801 – 1877
Friedrich Hund
1896 – 1997
Gonzalo Anes
1931 – 2014
Isaac Newton
1642 – 1727
Lyman Spitzer
1914 – 1997
Arthur Curley
1938 – 1998
Aven Nelson
1859 – 1951
Charles Herbert Best
1899 – 1978
Clifford Shull
1915 – 2001
Denise Robertson
1932 – 2016
Emil von Behring
1854 – 1917
Franz Ehrle
1845 – 1934
George L. Brown
1926 – 2006
Gleb Krzhizhanovsky
1872 – 1959
Hans-Dietrich Genscher
1927 – 2016
John Stainer
1840 – 1901
Klaus Tschira
1940 – 2015
Lucio D. San Pedro
1913 – 2002
Marie-Henriette Alimen
1900 – 1996
Nora Lilian Alcock
1874 – 1972
Paul Landowski
1875 – 1961
Paula Hertwig
1889 – 1983
Peter Coleman
1928 – 2019
Philip Potter
1921 – 2015
Pierre Bénichou
1938 – 2020
Rabbie Namaliu
1947 – 2023
Ramón de la Fuente Muñiz
1921 – 2006
Robert F. Goheen
1919 – 2008
Stanley J. Korsmeyer
1950 – 2005
Stephen Lewis
1937 – 2026
Thomas Fortin
1853 – 1933
Tom Butters
1938 – 2016
William J. Youden
1900 – 1971
William McMahon
1908 – 1988
Abul Kashem Khan
1905 – 1991
Ahmet İzzet Furgaç
1864 – 1937
Aleksandra Piłsudska
1882 – 1963
Alfred Biesiadecki
1839 – 1889
Antoni Tyzenhaus
1733 – 1785
Arthur Bigge, 1st Baron Stamfordham
1849 – 1931
Arthur David Hall III
1925 – 2006
August Maximilian Myhrberg
1797 – 1867
Bella Abzug
1920 – 1998
Betty Churcher
1931 – 2015
Bolesław Drobner
1883 – 1968
Boris Ulianich
1925 – 2023
Carlos Gaviria Díaz
1937 – 2015
Charles Amarin Brand
1920 – 2013
Charles Barbier de Meynard
1826 – 1908
Charles Maurice Donnay
1859 – 1945
Dale R. Corson
1914 – 2012
Dante Giacosa
1905 – 1996
Edgar C. Erickson
1896 – 1989
Eduardo Alonso Colmenares
1820 – 1888
Elly Ney
1882 – 1968
Enid Bagnold
1889 – 1981
Fedir Shpyh
1956 – 2020
Fernando Pereira Soler
1930 – 2018
Gene Lockhart
1891 – 1957
George Tomkyns Chesney
1830 – 1895
Georges Cottier
1922 – 2016
Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli Calvino
1886 – 1978
Granville Leveson-Gower, 2nd Earl Granville
1815 – 1891
Gustave Ador
1845 – 1928
Hans Fischer
1881 – 1945
Harold Scott MacDonald Coxeter
1907 – 2003
Harriet Boyd-Hawes
1871 – 1945
Hedi Turki
1922 – 2019
Heinrich Bebel
1472 – 1518
Herbert Ames
1863 – 1954
Ivan Klajn
1937 – 2021
Ivan Seleznyov
1856 – 1936
Izabella Sierakowska
1946 – 2021
Jacques-Joseph Ebelmen
1814 – 1852
James Gordon, Baron Gordon of Strathblane
1936 – 2020
Janric Craig, 3rd Viscount Craigavon
1944 – 2025
Jerald terHorst
1922 – 2010
Jerrier A. Haddad
1922 – 2017
John Constable
1776 – 1837
John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort
1886 – 1946
José Antonio Gurriarán López
1938 – 2019
Kadammanitta Ramakrishnan
1935 – 2008
Keith Arthur John Wise
1926 – 2012
Kurt Thomas
1904 – 1973
Kyösti Järvinen
1869 – 1957
Louis Adolphe Bonard
1805 – 1867
Léon Degrelle
1906 – 1994
Margarita Carrera
1929 – 2018
Michel Etcheverry
1919 – 1999
Myron Timothy Herrick
1854 – 1929
Nikolai Baibakov
1911 – 2008
Nilo Peçanha
1867 – 1924
Paul Chocheprat
1855 – 1928
Paul Watzlawick
1921 – 2007
Pavel Milyukov
1859 – 1943
Pierre de Brabandere
1828 – 1895
Pieter Burman the Elder
1668 – 1741
Raúl Alfonsín
1927 – 2009
Richard Moody
1813 – 1887
Robert Finch
1944 – 2016
Robert Payne Smith
1818 – 1895
Rodion Malinovsky
1898 – 1967
Semyon Timoshenko
1895 – 1970
Viktar Dashkevich
1945 – 2020
Vladimir Bochkov
1946 – 2022
Willard H. Dow
1897 – 1949
William Copeland Borlase
1848 – 1899
William Lethbridge
1825 – 1901
William Robertson Smith
1846 – 1894
William Thaddeus Coleman, Jr.
1920 – 2017
William Walton Butterworth
1903 – 1975
Zaha Hadid
1950 – 2016
Zsuzsa Radnóti
1938 – 2026
Abdul Halim Khaddam
1932 – 2020
Abdul-bey Tabasaransky
1870 – 1918
Achille Rivarde
1865 – 1940
Ada Bello
1933 – 2023
Alauddin Sulaiman Shah of Selangor
1863 – 1938
Alfred Delacour
1817 – 1883
Andrea Checchi
1916 – 1974
André Hennebicq
1836 – 1904
Andrés Narvarte
1781 – 1853
Antonio Martorell Lacave
1960 – 2023
Arsenio Frugoni
1914 – 1970
Arthur Christensen
1875 – 1945
Arthur Geoffrey Walker
1909 – 2001
August von Stockhausen
1793 – 1861
Augustus Romaldus Wright
1813 – 1891
Axel Fredrik Enström
1875 – 1948
Baltasar Brum
1883 – 1933
Bede Okigbo
1929 – 2017
Botong Francisco
1912 – 1969
Brander Matthews
1852 – 1929
Béla Biszku
1921 – 2016
Carlo Bugatti
1856 – 1940
Cesare Dujany
1920 – 2019
Chang Je-won
1967 – 2025
Charles Hopper Gibson
1842 – 1900
Charles Q. Hildebrant
1864 – 1953
Charles Rochat
1892 – 1975
Charlotte Brontë
1816 – 1855
Christian Stockfleth
1639 – 1704
Compton I. White
1877 – 1956
Cyril Joe Barton
1921 – 1944
Dalrymple Arbuthnot
1867 – 1941
David Adler
1935 – 1987
David L. Sleeper
1856 – 1914
Doug Roby
1898 – 1992
Edgar Fredricks
1942 – 2016
Eduard Gurk
1801 – 1841
Eduard Koksharov
1975 – 2026
Eduard Orth
1902 – 1968
Edward Augustus Holyoke
1728 – 1829
Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon
1661 – 1723
Edward Meyrick
1854 – 1938
Edward Patrick Tivnan
1882 – 1937
Edwin Warfield
1848 – 1920
Elena Marinucci
1928 – 2023
Ellen Fries
1855 – 1900
Ernie Bridge
1936 – 2013
Ernst Valenta
1912 – 1944
Eugene Davenport
1856 – 1941
Eugenie Anderson
1909 – 1997
Evaristo Lucidi
1866 – 1929
Feliks Turski
1729 – 1800
Fortunato Calcagno
1900 – 1966
Francis I of France
1494 – 1547
Frank Oliver
1853 – 1933
Franz Abt
1819 – 1885
Frederick E. Turneaure
1866 – 1951
Friedrich Julius Richelot
1808 – 1875
Galusha A. Grow
1822 – 1907
Georg Elwert
1947 – 2005
Georg Ledebour
1850 – 1947
Georg von Dollmann
1830 – 1895
George Hogarth Pringle
1830 – 1872
George Llewellen Palmer
1857 – 1932
George Nagobads
1921 – 2023
George Norlin
1871 – 1942
Gilbert Baker
1951 – 2017
Gita Ramjee
1956 – 2020
Gordon Flowerdew
1885 – 1918
Gustave de Beaumont
1802 – 1866
H. L. Carnahan
1879 – 1941
Halit Akçatepe
1938 – 2017
Hallett Sydney Ward
1870 – 1956
Harold Franklyn
1885 – 1963
Hassan Kamel Al-Sabbah
1894 – 1935
Hector Hodler
1887 – 1920
Henri Gouhier
1898 – 1994
Henri Wieniawski
1835 – 1880
Henry Boyle, 1st Baron Carleton
1669 – 1725
Henry Dudley Ryder
1777 – 1836
Henry Greffulhe
1848 – 1932
Henry Howard, 18th Earl of Suffolk
1833 – 1898
Homer D. Angell
1875 – 1968
Horace Lyman
1815 – 1887
Hsu Shui-te
1931 – 2021
Hubert von Herkomer
1849 – 1914
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