1697 Anne Bonny (8 March 1697 – unknown;…

1697 Anne Bonny (8 March 1697 – unknown; possibly Dec. 29, 1733) was an Irish pirate operating in the Caribbean, and one of the most famous female pirates of all time. The little that is known of her life comes largely from Captain Charles Johnson’s (it is probable that this work was actually written by Daniel Defoe) A General History of the Pyrates. Bonny was born in Ireland around 1700 and moved to London and then to the Province of Carolina when she was about 10 years old. She then married around 1715 and moved to Nassau in the Bahamas, a sanctuary for pirates. It was there that she met Calico Jack Rackham and became his pirate partner and lover. She was captured alongside Rackham and Mary Read in October 1720. All three were sentenced to death, but Bonny and Read had their executions stayed because both of them were pregnant. Read died of a fever in jail in April 1721 (likely due to complications from the pregnancy), but Bonny’s fate is unknown.
1726 Richard Howe, Earl Howe, also called (1758–82)4th Viscount Howe, or (1782–88) Viscount Howe of Langar, (born March 8, 1726, London—died Aug. 5, 1799), British admiral who commanded the Channel fleet at the Battle of the First of June (1794) during the French Revolutionary Wars.
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Gräfe, (born March 8, 1787, Warsaw—died July 4, 1840, Hannover, Hanover, Ger.), German surgeon who helped to create modern plastic surgery. A superintendent of German military hospitals during the Napoleonic Wars (1800–15), he also served as professor of surgery and director of the surgical clinic at the University of Berlin (1810–40).
1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler (March 8, 1836 – April 14, 1909) was an American military commander and attorney and politician from South Carolina. He served as a major general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War, postbellum three-term United States Senator, and a major general in the United States Army during the Spanish–American War.
1921 ALAN HALE, JR. Served in the Coast Guard during World War II between 1942 and 1945 and held the rank of E-3. After his death in 1990, his ashes were over the Pacific Ocean as a tribute.
1958 Peter Miller Dawkins is an American business executive and former college football player, military officer, and political candidate. Dawkins attended the United States Military Academy, where he played as halfback on the Army Cadets football team from 1956 to 1958. As a senior in 1958 he won the Heisman Trophy, the Maxwell Award, and was a consensus All-America selection. After graduating from the Military Academy in 1959, he studied at the University of Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. Dawkins served as an officer in the United States Army until he retired in 1983 with the rank of brigadier general.
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