Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 7

Births

 * 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

 * 322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)
 * 1274 - Thomas Aquinas, philosopher (b. 1225)
 * 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)