Born on this day – Katharine Whitehorn:

Katharine Whitehorn

Writer

Radio presenter

March 2, 1928 – January 8, 2021

Credits:

Cooking in a Bedsitter (aka Kitchen in the Corner: A Complete Guide to Bedsitter Cookery) (1961); Observations (1970); Only on Sundays (1966); Roundabout (1962); Selective Memory by Katharine Whitehorn (2007); Sunday Best (1976); View from a Column (1981).

Born on this day – Jennifer Jones:

Jennifer Jones

Actress

March 2, 1919 – December 17, 2009

Credits:

The Towering Inferno (1974); Angel, Angel, Down We Go (1969); The Idol (1966); Tender Is the Night (1962); A Farewell to Arms (1957); The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957); The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956); Good Morning, Miss Dove (1955); Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955); Beat the Devil (1953); Terminal Station (1953); Ruby Gentry (1952); Carrie (1952); Gone to Earth (1950); Madame Bovary (1949); We Were Strangers (1949); Portrait of Jennie (1948); Duel in the Sun (1946); Cluny Brown (1946); Love Letters (1945); The Fighting Generation (1944); Since You Went Away (1944); The Song of Bernadette (1943); Dick Tracy's G-Men (1939); The Streets of New York (1939); New Frontier (1939).

Born on this day – David Goodis:

David Goodis

Writer

March 2, 1917 – January 7, 1967

Credits:

Retreat from Oblivion (1939); Dark Passage (1946); Behold This Woman (1947); Nightfall / Missing Believed Murdered / The Dark Chase / Convicted (1947); Of Missing Persons (1950); Cassidy's Girl (1951); Of Tender Sin (1952); Street of the Lost (1952); The Burglar (1953); The Moon in the Gutter (1953); Black Friday (1954); The Blonde on the Street Corner (1954); Street of No Return (1954); The Wounded and the Slain (1955); Down There / Shoot the Piano Player (1956); Fire in the Flesh (1957); Night Squad (1961); Somebody's Done For (1967); Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories (1996).

Born on this day – Marjorie Weaver:

Marjorie Weaver

Actress

March 2, 1913 – October 1, 1994

Credits:

Ethel Barrymore Theater (1956); Boston Blackie (1952); We're Not Married! (1952); Big Town (1952); Hollywood Victory Caravan (1945); Fashion Model (1945); Leave It to Blondie (1945); Shadow of Suspicion (1944); Pardon My Rhythm (1944); The Great Alaskan Mystery (1944); You Can't Ration Love (1944); Let's Face It (1943); Just Off Broadway (1942); The Mad Martindales (1942); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942); Man at Large (1941); For Beauty's Sake (1941); Murder Among Friends (1941); Michael Shayne: Private Detective (1940); Murder Over New York (1940); Maryland (1940); Charlie Chan's Murder Cruise (1940); Shooting High (1940); The Cisco Kid and the Lady (1939); The Honeymoon's Over (1939); Chicken Wagon Family (1939); Young Mr. Lincoln (1939); Hold That Co-ed (1938); I'll Give a Million (1938); Three Blind Mice (1938); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Second Honeymoon (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Life Begins in College (1937); Danger - Love at Work (1937); Hot Water (1937); The Californian (1937); Big Business (1937); This Is My Affair (1937); Melody for Two (1937); On the Avenue (1937); Gold Diggers of 1937 (1936); Polo Joe (1936); Here Comes Carter (1936); China Clipper (1936).

Born on this day – Dr. Seuss:

Dr. Seuss

Writer

Illustrator

Animator

Director

March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991

Credits:

Horton Hatches the Egg (1940); Horton Hears a Who! (1954); The Cat in the Hat (1957); The Cat in the Hat Comes Back (1958); The Cat in the Hat Songbook (1967); The Cat's Quizzer (1976); I Can Read With My Eyes Shut! (1978); And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street (1937); The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins (1938); The Seven Lady Godivas (1939); The King's Stilts (1939); McElligot's Pool (1947); Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose (1948); Bartholomew and the Oobleck (1949); If I Ran the Zoo (1950); Scrambled Eggs Super! (1953); On Beyond Zebra! (1955); If I Ran the Circus (1956); How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1957); Happy Birthday to You! (1959); Green Eggs and Ham (1960); One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish (1960); Ten Apples Up on Top! (1961); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Book (1962); Hop on Pop (1963); Dr. Seuss's ABC (1963); Fox in Socks (1965); I Had Trouble in Getting to Solla Sollew (1965); I Wish That I Had Duck Feet (1965); Come over to My House (1966); The Foot Book (1968); The Eye Book (1968); My Book about Me (1969); Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You? (1970); The Lorax (1971); I Can Write! (1971); In a People House (1972); Marvin K. Mooney Will You Please Go Now! (1972); The Shape of Me and Other Stuff (1973); Did I Ever Tell You How Lucky You Are? (1973); There's a Wocket in my Pocket! (1974); Great Day for Up (1974); The Many Mice of Mr. Brice (1974); Wacky Wednesday (1974); Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog? (1975); Because a Little Bug Went Ka-CHOO! (1975); Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (1975); Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him! (1976); Please Try to Remember the First of Octember! (1977); Oh Say Can You Say? (1979); Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! (1980); Hunches in Bunches (1982); The Butter Battle Book (1984); The Tooth Book (1984); You're Only Old Once! (1986); I Am Not Going to Get up Today! (1987); Oh, the Places You'll Go! (1990); Daisy-Head Mayzie (1994); My Many Colored Days (1996); Seuss-isms (1997); Hooray for Diffendoofer Day! (1998); Dr. Seuss's Clever Creatures (2008); What Was I Scared Of? (2009); Fox in Socks, Bricks and Blocks (2011); Sneetches on Beaches (2012); Dr. Seuss's Sleep Softly Book (2012); My, Oh My--A Butterfly! (2014); The Grinch's Great Big Flap Book (2014); What Pet Should I Get? (2015); Oh, the Places I'll Go! (2016); My Book About Christmas (2016); Happy Birthday to Me! by Me, Myself (2017); Gerald McBoing Boing (2017); Dr. Seuss's 1 2 3 (2019); Dr. Seuss's I Love Pop! (2019); Dr. Seuss's People, Places, and Things (2019); Dr. Seuss's Oh, What I've Learned: Thanks to My Teachers! (2022); I Can Draw It Myself, By Me, Myself (1970); Yertle the Turtle and Other Stories (1958); The Sneetches and Other Stories (1961); A Hatful of Seuss (1967); I Can Lick 30 Tigers Today! and Other Stories (1969); The Tough Coughs As He Ploughs the Dough (1987); The Bippolo Seed and Other Lost Stories (2011); Dr. Seuss on the Loose (2011); A Who's Who of the Dr. Seuss Crew (2013); Horton and the Kwuggerbug and more Lost Stories (2014).

Catherine Drinker Bowen, on writing:

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he has come upon the right word.

- Catherine Drinker Bowen.

On this day in music history - Story of Ghosts, by Fiona Joy Hawkins (2018):

The album Story of Ghosts,

by Fiona Joy Hawkins,

was released on March 1, 2018.