Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 8

Births

 * 1841 - Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1935) (pictured)
 * 1921 - Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
 * 1922 - Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
 * 1943 - Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010)
 * 1976 - Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor

Deaths

 * 1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
 * 1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
 * 1930 - William Howard Taft, President of the United States (b. 1857)
 * 1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)