We’re familiar with the Ides of March thanks to William Shakespeare and Julius Caesar, but what about the other eleven months? Do they have ides?
In fact, they do.
- 1832: Horatio Alger, Jr., American minister and author (Tattered Tom)
- 1886: Sophie Tucker, theater and film actress, singer
- 1850: Charlotte E. Ray, first female African-American lawyer in the U.S. in 1972
- 1891: Grant Wood, painter, educator (American Gothic)
- 1919: Tennessee Ernie Ford, American folk and country music artist (Sixteen Tons)
March 15
- 277: St. Nicholas (Nikolaos of Myra) Greek Bishop who became the model for Santa Claus
- 1767: Andrew Jackson, 7th U.S. President
- 1743: Thomas Jefferson, 3rd U.S. President
- 1866: Butch Cassidy, American outlaw legend (clip from the movie: https://youtu.be/1IbStIb9XXw )
- 1909: Eudora Welty, American author, photographer, journalist, Pulitzer winner
- 1859: Pierre Curie, chemist, physicist, scientist
- 1893: Dorothy L. Sayers, author, scholar
- 1892: Basil Rathbone, film actor, theatrical actor
- 1606: Rembrandt van Rijn, Dutch painter
- 1899: Alfred Hitchcock, British film director
- 1860: Annie Oakley, American folk legend
- 1911: Bill Monroe, American bluegrass and country music artist
- 1916: Roald Dahl, children’s author (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
- 70 BCE: Virgil [Publius Vergilius Maro], Roman poet of the Augustan period (Aeneid)
- 1844: Friedrick Nietzsche, philosopher, scholar, author (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
- 1920: Mario Puzo, author, screenwriter (The Godfather)
- 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author (Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, A Child’s Garden of Verses)
- 1969: Gerard Butler, actor *because this makes me happy* 🙂
- 1818: Mary Todd, wife of Abraham Lincoln, the 16th U.S. President
- 1925: Dick Van Dyke, actor, comedian, writer
- 1929: Christopher Plummer, film and theatrical actor