Famous Birthdays in March

Albert Einstein

Nobel Prize-winning physicist whose theories of special and general relativity, and the equation E=mc², transformed our understanding of space, time and energy

Theoretical physicist who developed the theories of special and general relativity and won the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics.

Photo: Oren Jack Turner · Public domain

Yuri Gagarin

Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human in space, orbiting the Earth aboard Vostok 1 on 12 April 1961

Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space aboard Vostok 1.

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Vincent van Gogh

Dutch Post-Impressionist painter of The Starry Night and Sunflowers, who sold little in his lifetime but became one of art's most loved figures

Vincent Willem van Gogh (Dutch:; 30 March 1853 – 29 July 1890) was a Dutch Post-Impressionist painter who is among the most famous and influential figures in the history of Western art.

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Photo: Vincent van Gogh · CC BY-SA 4.0

Johann Sebastian Bach

German Baroque composer of the Brandenburg Concertos, the St Matthew Passion and The Well-Tempered Clavier

Johann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period.

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Michelangelo

Italian Renaissance sculptor, painter and architect who created the statue of David and painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling

Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (6 March 1475 – 18 February 1564), known mononymously as Michelangelo, was an Italian sculptor, painter, architect, and poet of the High Renaissance. He was born in the Republic of Florence but was mostly active in Rome from his 30s onwards.

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René Descartes

French philosopher and mathematician who wrote I think, therefore I am and invented the Cartesian coordinate system

René Descartes ( day-KART, also DAY-kart; French:; 31 March 1596 – 11 February 1650) was a French philosopher, mathematician, and scientist whose work was foundational to mathematics and modern philosophy.

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Gabriel García Márquez

Colombian Nobel laureate who popularised magical realism in One Hundred Years of Solitude and Love in the Time of Cholera

Gabriel José García Márquez (Latin American Spanish:; 6 March 1927 – 17 April 2014) was a Colombian writer and journalist, known affectionately as Gabo or Gabito throughout Latin America.

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Yuri Gagarin

becoming the first human to journey into outer space during his historic Vostok 1 orbital flight in 1961

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin (9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968) was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first person to journey into outer space during the first successful crewed spaceflight. He was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in the Kazakh SSR.

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