Born on March 17, 1990

Ric Grech redefined the role of the rock bassist by smoothly blending jazz improvisation with hard-driving blues in bands like Blind Faith and Traffic. His death in 1990 silenced a musician whose virtuosic, multi-instrumental style bridged the gap between psychedelic experimentation and the polished sound of late-sixties British rock.

He bought his first oil lamp at a village fair in 1920, and couldn't stop. Dinkar Kelkar spent seven decades obsessing over everyday objects—water pots, nutcrackers, writing instruments—that other collectors ignored completely. His wife Muralidhar encouraged the madness until her death in 1962, when he built an entire museum in Pune as a memorial to her. By 1990, he'd amassed over 20,000 pieces: ivory combs, musical instruments, a collection of 700 lamps alone. Most museums showcase what rulers owned. His displayed what ordinary Indians actually used, turning kitchen tools and children's toys into chronicles of how people really lived.

She'd survived poverty in occupied France, modeled for Givenchy, and held her own opposite Peter Sellers and William Holden in Hollywood's golden age. But Capucine — born Germaine Lefebvre in a working-class Toulon neighborhood — couldn't escape the depression that shadowed her for decades. On March 17, 1990, she jumped from her eighth-floor Lausanne apartment at 59. She'd returned to Europe years earlier, walking away from Hollywood after rejecting the studio system's demands. Her friends remembered a woman who spoke five languages fluently and loved animals more than film sets, who'd once told a reporter that modeling haute couture felt more honest than reading scripted lines.