What happened on March 7 ?

322 BC - Aristotle, philosopher (b. 384 BC)

161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)

308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr

851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany

1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader

1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Italian scholastic philosopher (b. 1225)

1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)

1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)

1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)

1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana (b. 1680)

1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist and entomologist (b. 1720)

1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)

1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)

1932 - Aristide Briand, French statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1862)

1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)

1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)

1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author and painter (b. 1882)

1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)

1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)

1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)

1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)

1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)

1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)

1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)

1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)

1991 - Cool Papa Bell, baseball player (b. 1903)

1995 - Paul-ÿmile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)

1997 - Rabbi Emanuel Bronner, German-American soap magnate and philosopher (b. 1908)

1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1912)

1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American Central Intelligence Agency official (b. 1918)

1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)

2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)

2000 - Jack Sanford, baseball player (b. 1929)

2002 - Doris Allen, American psychologist (b. 1901)

2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (heart attack) (b. 1941)

2006 - Ali Farka Touré Malian musician (b. 1939)

2006 - Gordon Parks, famed Life photographer (b. 1912)

2006 - John Junkin, British radio, television and film comedy performer and scriptwriter (b. 1930)