deaths
March 7, 1982
Ida Barney, American astronomer (born 1886)

Ida Barney
Ida Barney was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yale University Observatory. She was the 1952 recipient of the Annie J. Cannon Award in Astronomy.
March 7
March 7 is the 66th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 299 days remain until the end of the year.