Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 7
Births
[edit]- 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871) (pictured)
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American evangelist (d. 2007)
Deaths
[edit]- 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)
- 1274 - Thomas Aquinas, philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)