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This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Magician & Escape Artist                         Bank Robber Clyde Barrow (1909)          Computer Entrepreneur
Harry Houdini (1874)                                                                                              Alan Sugar (1947)


1188 - Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1441 - Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)
1494 - Georgius Agricola, Germany, mineralogist (De Re Metallica)
1607 - Michiel A de Ruyter, Dutch rear admiral (St Vincent, Dune)
1628 - Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1630 - Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 - John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1703 - Jose F de Isla, [Francisco de Salazar], Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 - Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1725 - Samuel Ashe, Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 - Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts
           (d. 1788)
1732 - Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
1740 - John Antes, composer
1749 - Bernard Jumentier, composer
1755 - Rufus King, framer of US constitution
1762 - Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1797 - Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
1802 - Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP
1808 - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 - Joseph Liouville, France, discover of transcendental numbers
1814 - Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
1817 - Aime Maillart, composer
1820 - A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 - Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1821 - Elisa Felix, [Rachel], tragedienne
1821 - [George] Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1829 - George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 - Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 - John Wesley Powell, US, geologist/explorer/ethnologist
1834 - William Morris, England, designer/craftsman/poet/socialist
1835 - Josef Stefan, Austria, physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law)
1837 - Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
1848 - Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 - Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 - Andrew W Mellon, founder (Mellon Bank)/US Sec of Treasury
1855 - Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman)
1866 - Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1874 - Harry Houdini, [Erich Weiss], Budapest, magician/escape artist
1874 - Luigi Einaudi, economist/1st president of Italy (1948-55)
1878 - Top Naeff, [Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff], Dutch writer
1883 - James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1884 - Gino Marinuzzi, composer
1884 - Peter Debye, Holland, physical chemist (Nobel 1936)
1885 - Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1886 - Athenagoras I, Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 - Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 - Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, San Jose CA, actor (Keystone comedies)
1888 - Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 - Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1891 - Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1891 - John Knittel, writer
1891 - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 - George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1895 - Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
1895 - Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 - Gianna Manzini, writer
1897 - Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor
1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-US psycho analysist (character analysis)
1898 - Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)
1898 - George Alpert, railroad executive
1900 - June [Algeria Junius] Clark, musician trumpet
1901 - Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 - Thomas E Dewey, Oh, 1st Catholic Pres candidate 1944, 1948 (R)
1903 - Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939)
1903 - John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha)
1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, English writer (Observer of Life)
1905 - Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
1905 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 - John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex) [OS]
1906 - Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 - Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 - Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1907 - Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
1907 - Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1907 - Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
1907 - Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 - Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1909 - Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
1910 - Jacques Chailley, composer
1910 - Richard Conte, Jersey City NJ, actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel)
1911 - Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)
1911 - Jane Beverly Drew, architect
1911 - Joseph Barbera, animator (Hanna-Barbera)
1914 - Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1915 - Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917 - John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1917 - Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1918 - Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, US, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 - John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965- )
1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005
1920 - Gene Nelson, [Berg], Seattle Wash, actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma)
1921 - Wilson Harris, Guayanese author
1922 - Dave Appell, singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour)
1922 - Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1922 - Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 - Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
1923 - Murray Hamilton, Washington NC, actor (Rich Man Poor Man)
1924 - Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
1924 - Lorraine Gourley, LA CA
1924 - Norman Fell, Phila, actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate)
1925 - Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925 - Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 - Dario Fo, Leggiuno Sangiano VA, playwright (Nobel-1997)
1927 - Janos Decsenyi, composer
1927 - Martin Walser, writer
1928 - Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
1928 - Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 - Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1930 - Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1930 - Steve McQueen, Slater Mo, actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt)
1931 - Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1932 - William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0)
1932 - Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1933 - David Harries, composer
1934 - William Smith, American actor
1935 - Peter Bichsel, writer
1936 - Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1936 - David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1937 - Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1937 - Bill Tillman, basebal player
1937 - Billy Stewart, US R&B singer (I Do Love You)
1937 - Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987-94)
1938 - Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
1938 - Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938 - David Irving, British historian
1940 - Bob Mackie, Monterey Parks California, designer (Streisand, Cher)
1940 - Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1943 - H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943 - Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943 - Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1944 - Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1945 - Curtis Hanson, American film director
1946 - Lee Oskar, Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends)
1946 - Paul Williams, climber
1946 - Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk)
1947 - Alan Sugar, English multi-millionaire/computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1947 - Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1947 - Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
1947 - Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1947 - Christine Gregoire, American politician, current governor of Washington
1947 - Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1949 - Steve Lang, Montreal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine)
1949 - Nick Lowe, England, rock vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1951 - Dougie Thompson, rocker (Supertramp-Bloody Well Right)
1951 - Earl Williams, NBAer
1951 - Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1951 - Pat Bradley, Westford MA, LPGA golfer (1981 US Women's Open)
1952 - Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-Insiders)
1953 - Steve Lubbers, cricketer (capt of Dutch World Cup team 1996)
1954 - Donna Pescow, Brooklyn, actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1954 - Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1954 - Robert Carradine, LA California, actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
1955 - Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
1957 - Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82)
1959 - Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers)
1960 - Kelly LeBrock, NYC, actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red)
1960 - Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 - Nena, German pop singer
1961 - Dean Jones, cricketer (dashing Australian batsman & fielder 1984-92)
1961 - James T Gallagher Jr, Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milw)
1962 - Penny Hammel, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89)
1962 - Star Jones, attorney/TV hostess (NBC, Inside Edition)
1962 - Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1963 - Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester)
1963 - Sammy Giammatva, Houston Tex, tennis star
1964 - Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1965 - Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965 - Ben Torriero, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1965 - Jeff Reese, Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 - Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1965 - Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 - Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 - The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1966 - Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1966 - Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun)
1967 - Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel, Fla, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark 1987)
1967 - Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1969 - Yoko Zetterlund, SF California, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1969 - Houston, American pornographic actress
1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, Davenport Iowa, actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks)
1970 - Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 - Mike Vanderjagt, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 - Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
1970 - Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1971 - Megyn Price, American actress
1972 - Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 - Atle Larsen, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1973 - Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1973 - David Moravec, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 - Josh Lakatos, Pasadena California, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996)
1973 - Philippe Boucher, St Apollinaire Ca, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1973 - Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
1974 - Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1974 - Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1975 - Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 - Julia Bikbova, Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee)
1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1975 - Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1976 - Danielle Garrett, Camp Hill Penn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 - Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 - Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 - Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 - Olivia Burnette, San Clemente California, actress (Torkelsons)
1977 - Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1977 - Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1978 - Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1979 - Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1979 - Lake Bell, American actress
1979 - Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 - Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 - Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1980 - Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie)
1980 - Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 - Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 - Nivea, American singer
1983 - T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1985 - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986 - Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 - Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1988 - Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
1992 - Thomas Law, English actor

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This Day in History for 24th March


Famous Deaths

English Monarch
Queen Elizabeth I (1603)


809 - Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809), dies at 44
1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus
1381 - Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic
1400 - Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion, dies
1455 - Nicholas V, [Tommaso Parentucelli], Italian Pope (1447-55), dies at 57
1455 - Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55), dies
1471 - Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
1558 - Anna van Buren, countess of Egmond/Buren/Lingen, dies
1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 - Elizabeth I Tudor, [Virgin Queen], of England and Ireland (1558-1603), dies at 69
1631 - Philipp Dulichius, composer, dies at 68
1635 - Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver, dies at about 42
1644 - Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria, dies
1654 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri), dies at 66
1661 - William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston
1755 - Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer, dies at 72
1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1823 - Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar), dies at 66
1825 - Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer, dies at 64
1838 - Thomas Attwood, composer, dies at 72
1866 - Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria, dies
1867 - Mary, [Victoria Mary] of Teck, Queen of Great Britain and consort of George V, dies at 85
1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1877 - Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker, dies at 51
1878 - Albin Masek, composer, dies at 73
1881 - Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician, dies at 69
1881 - Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, US poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1894 - Robert Prescott Stewart, composer, dies at 68
1899 - Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England), dies
1905 - Jules Verne, sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days), dies at 77
1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish dramatist/playwright/poet, dies at 37
1911 - Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals), dies
1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 - Enrique y Campina Granados, Sp opera composer (Goyescas), drowns at 48
1918 - Theophile Ysaye, composer, dies at 53
1921 - Deodat de Severac, composer, dies at 48
1921 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1932 - George Robert Canning, cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris), dies
1945 - J S Nicklin, Lt-Col/Canada's 1st parachutist, dies
1945 - Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division), dies
1946 - Alexander A Aljechin, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46), dies at 53
1946 - Gustaf Heintze, composer, dies at 66
1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 - Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar, dies at 74
1953 - Mary, queen of Great-Britain/North-Ireland, dies at 85
1960 - Paul Joostens, Flemish painter, dies at 70
1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven), dies at 59
1967 - Marc Lavry, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter), dies at 61
1968 - Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1969 - Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65), dies at about 55
1974 - Doris Deane, dies at 74
1974 - Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style), dies at 79
1975 - Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man), dies at 60
1975 - Oscar Rasbach, composer, dies at 86
1976 - Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel, dies at 88
1976 - Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
1977 - Saburo Moroi, composer, dies at 73
1978 - Brackett Hamilton Leigh, [Douglass], author (Ginger Star), dies at 62
1979 - Yvonne Mitchell, writer, dies at 53
1980 - Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, murdered during mass
1982 - Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 83
1984 - Sam Jaffe, actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey), dies of cancer at 93
1986 - Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD), dies at 67
1990 - Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation), dies
1990 - An Wang, computer manufacturer (Wang), dies at 70 of cancer
1990 - Ray Goulding, comedian (Bob & Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
1990 - Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
1991 - Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1993 - Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons), dies at 35
1993 - John Hersey, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima), dies at 78
1993 - Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments), dies at 90
1993 - Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money), dies of heart attack at 60
1994 - Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist, dies at 81
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
1994 - Tommy Benford, jazz drummer, dies at 88
1995 - Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman, dies at 88
1995 - Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist, dies at 62
1995 - Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor, dies at 75
1996 - Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer, dies at 66
1997 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 - Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b.
           1927)
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2008 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2009 - George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2010 - Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
2010 - Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
2010 - Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)
2012 - Jocky Wilson, Scottish world champion darts player, dies at 62

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This Day in History for 25th March


Historical Events

                                   
Philosophe Voltaire                           First US President George Washington          Baseball Great Babe Ruth

                                   
Beat Poet Allen Ginsberg                        Singer & Cultural Icon Elvis Presley         Singer Tom Jones

                                   
NHL all-time top scorer                       Singer & Actress Barbra Streisand             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
Wayne Gretzky                                                                                                                 Mike Tyson


1 - Origin of Dionysian Incarnation of the Word
31 - 1st Easter, according to calendar-maker Dionysius Exiguus
421 - Friday at 12 PM - city of Venice founded
708 - Constantine begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1199 - Richard I is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting France which leads to his death on
           April 6.
1306 - Robert the Bruce crowned King of Scots
1409 - Council of Pisa opens
1571 - Catholic Italian businessman Roberto Ridolfi leaves Enngeland
1581 - Portugese Cortes calls Philip II king of Portugal
1584 - Sir Walter Raleigh renews Humphrey Gilbert's patent to explore North America
1598 - Cornelis de Houtman's fleet departs for East-Indies
1609 - Henry Hudson embarks on an exploration for Dutch East India Co
1634 - Under charter granted to Lord Baltimore and led by his brother Leonard Calvert first settlers
           found Catholic colony of Maryland
1647 - Cape of Good Hope: tour ship Haerlem stranded in Tafel Bay
1655 - Christiaan Huygens discovers Titan, (Saturn's largest satellite)
1668 - 1st horse race in America takes place
1669 - Mount Etna in Sicily erupts, destroying Nicolosi, killing 20,000
1700 - England, France & Netherlands ratify 2nd Extermination treaty
1753 - Voltaire leaves the court of Frederik II of Prussia
1774 - English Parliament passes Boston Port Bill
1776 - Continental Congress authorized a medal for George Washington
1802 - France, Netherlands, Spain & England signs Peace of Amiens
1807 - 1st railway passenger service began in England
1807 - British Parliament abolishes slave trade
1807 - George Canning becomes British minister of Foreign affairs
1811 - Percy Bysshe Shelley is expelled from the University of Oxford for his publication of the
           pamphlet The Necessity of Atheism.
1813 - 1st US flag flown in battle on the Pacific, frigate Essex
1814 - Netherlands Bank established
1817 - Tsar Alexander I recommends formation of Society of Israeli Christians
1820 - Greece freedom revolt against anti Ottoman attack
1821 - Greece gains independence from Turkey (National Day)
1847 - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On aid for Ireland"
1852 - Friedrich Hebbel's "Agnes Bernauer," premieres in Munich
1856 - A E Burnside patents Burnside carbine
1857 - Frederick Laggenheim takes 1st photo of a solar eclipse
1863 - 1st Army Medal of Honor awarded
1863 - Skirmish at Brentwood Tennessee
1864 - Battle of Paducah, KY (Forrest's raid)
1865 - Battle of Bluff Spring, FL
1865 - Battle of Fort Stedman, VA - in front of Petersburg
1865 - Battle of Mobile, AL (Spanish Fort, Fort Morgan, Fort Blakely)
1865 - SS General Lyon at Cape Hatteras catches fire & sinks, killing 400
1876 - Glasgow 1st soccer match Scotland-Wales (4-0)
1882 - 1st demonstration of pancake making (Dept store in NYC)
1888 - Socialist leader Domela Nieuwenhuis elected to Dutch 2nd chamber
1889 - 1st Test Cricket match played at Newlands, Cape Town v England
1894 - Coxey's Army of the unemployed sets out from Massillon Oh for Wash
1895 - Italian troops invade Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1896 - Modern Olympics began in Athens, Greece [NS=Apr 6]
1898 - Intercollegiate Trapshooting Association formed in NYC
1900 - US Socialist Party forms in Indianapolis
1901 - 55 die as Rock Island train derailed near Marshalltown Iowa
1902 - Irving W Colburn patents sheet glass drawing machine
1903 - Racing Club de Avellaneda, one of the big five of Argentina, is founded.
1905 - Rebel battle flags captured during war are returned to South
1907 - Stanley Cup: Montreal Wanderers lose to Kenora Thistles but outscore them in 2 game set
           but outscore them 12-8 and win cup
1908 - Clube Atletico Mineiro, Founded in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
1910 - Chalmers Auto Co offers a new car to each leagues' batting champ
1911 - L D Swamikannu publishes "Manual of Indian Chronology" in Bombay
1911 - Triangle Shirtwaist Factory catches fire 145 die, all but 13 girls
1913 - Great Dayton Flood
1913 - Home of vaudeville, Palace Theatre, opens (NYC) starring Ed Wynn
1915 - 1st submarine disaster; a US F-4 sank off Hawaii, killing 21
1915 - German U boat torpedoes Neth merchant ship Medea
1916 - Heavyweight Jess Willard & Franc Moran fight to no decision in NYC
1916 - Jess Willard fights Frank Moran to no decision in 10 for boxing title
1916 - Women are allowed to attend a boxing match
1918 - The Belarusian People's Republic is established.
1920 - Greek Independence Day
1923 - British government grants Trans-Jordan autonomy
1924 - Greek parliament selects admiral Paul Koundouriotis as premier
1924 - Stanley Cup: Mont Canadiens (NHL) sweep Calgary Tigers (WCHL) in 2
1931 - Hal Kemp & his orchestra record Whistles, with Skinnay Ennis
1931 - Scottsboro Boys (accused of raping a white woman) arrested in Alabama
1934 - 1st Golf Masters Championship: Horton Smith wins, shooting a 284
1935 - 1st Belgium government of Van Zealand resigns
1936 - 200" mirror blank leaves for California to be ground
1936 - Detroit Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in NHL longest game (2h56m30s)
1937 - It's revealed Quaker Oats pays Babe Ruth $25,000 per year for ads
1937 - Italy & Yugoslavia sign no-attack treaty (Pact of Belgrade)
1937 - Lionel Conacher misses on 1st Stanley Cup penalty shot
1937 - Wash Daily News is 1st US newspaper with perfumed advertising page
1938 - 1st US bred horse (Battleship) to win Grand National Steeplechase
1939 - Billboard Magazine introduces hillbilly (country) music chart
1941 - Carolina Paprika Mills in Dillon SC, incorporated
1942 - 700 Jews of Polish Lvov-district reach Belzec Concentration camp
1943 - 97% of all Dutch physicians strike againt nazi registration
1943 - Jimmy Durante & Garry Moore premiere on radio
1944 - Germany troop executes 335 residents of Rome
1944 - RAF Sgt Nickolas Alkemade survives a jump from his Lancaster bomber from 18,000 feet
           without a parachute
1945 - US 1st army breaks out bridgehead near Remagen
1945 - US 4th Armored div arrives at Hanau & Aschaffenburg
1945 - US Northern Tractor Flotilla departs Ulithi to Okinawa
1946 - 1st performance of Igor Stravinsky's "Ebony Concerto"
1947 - 9th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Holy Cross beats Oklahoma 58-47
1947 - Agreement of Linggadjati ratified in Batavia
1947 - Coal mine explosion in Centralia, Ill, claims 111
1947 - Last day of Test cricket for Walter Hammond (v NZ, Christchurch)
1949 - SS police chief Rauter request for a pardon, denied
1951 - 5th Tony Awards: Guys & Dolls & Rose Tattoo win
1951 - E Purcell & EM Ewen detect 21-cm radiation at Harvard physics lab
1954 - 26th Academy Awards - "From Here to Eternity," Holden & A Hepburn win
1954 - Pope Pius XII encyclical "Sacra virginitas" (On consecrated virginity)
1954 - RCA manufactures 1st color TV set (12½" screen at $1,000)
1955 - E Germany granted full sovereignty by occupying power, USSR
1955 - United States Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl" as obscene.
1957 - NBA modifies the free-throw rule
1957 - Treaty of Rome establishes European Economic Community (Common Mkt)
1958 - Sugar Ray Robinson is 1st boxing champ to win 5 times
1958 - West German parliament desires German atomic weapons
1959 - Bill White traded to St Louis for pitchers Sam Jones & Don Choate
1959 - French pres De Gaulle acknowledges Oder-Neisse boundary
1960 - 1st guided missile launched from nuclear powered sub (Halibut)
1960 - DH Lawrence' "Lady Chatterley's Lover" ruled not obscene (NYC)
1960 - Ford Frick voids Indians-Red Sox deal as Sam White retires
1960 - Italian government Tambroni forms
1961 - "13 Daughters" closes at 54th St Theater NYC after 28 performances
1961 - "Gypsy" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 702 performances
1961 - 23rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 70-65 (OT)
1961 - Elvis Presley performs live on the USS Arizona
1961 - Explorer 10 launched into elongated Earth orbit (177/181,000 km)
1961 - Sputnik 10 carries a dog into Earth orbit; later recovered
1961 - 3rd place game is one of the wildest contests in NCAA Tournament history as St Joseph's
           defeats Utah 127-120 in 4 overtimes
1962 - "Family Affair" closes at Billy Rose Theater NYC after 65 performances
1962 - French OAS-leader ex-general Jouhaud arrested
1963 - KWHY TV channel 22 in Los Angeles, CA (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 - Britain sets memorial for the late Pres John F Kennedy
1964 - Egypt ends state of siege (1952-64)
1965 - Martin Luther King Jr led 25,000 to state capitol in Montgomery, Al
1965 - West German Bondsdag extends war crimes retribution
1966 - US Supreme court rules "poll tax" unconstitutional
1966 - Beatles pose with mutilated dolls & butchered meat for the cover of the "Yesterday & Today"
           album, It is later pulled
1967 - 29th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Dayton 79-64
1967 - The Turtle's "Happy Together" goes #1
1967 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1967 - Who & Cream make US debut at Murray the K's Easter Show
1968 - KLVX TV channel 10 in Las Vegas, NV (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 - Andes Pact signed in Peru
1969 - John & Yoko stage their 1st bed-in for peace (Amsterdam)
1969 - Pakistan Gen Agha Mohammed Jagja Khan succeeds Ayub Chan as pres
1970 - Concorde makes its 1st supersonic flight (700 MPH/1,127 KPH)
1971 - Boston Patriots become New England Patriots
1971 - European council accepts Mansholt plan laying off 5 million farmers
1971 - Tom Jones, "She's a Lady," goes gold
1972 - "Selling of the President" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 5 perfs
1972 - 34th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Florida 81-76
1972 - America's LP "America" goes #1
1972 - Bobby Hull becomes the 2nd NHLer to score 600 goals
1972 - UCLA wins its 6th consecutive national basketball title
1973 - 27th Tony Awards: That Championship Season & Little Night Music win
1973 - Carol Mann wins LPGA Sears Women's Golf Classic
1973 - Majid Khan & Mushtaq Mohammad both out for 99 in Test v Eng
1974 - Barbra Streisand records the album "Butterfly"
1976 - "My Fair Lady" opens at St James Theater NYC for 384 performances
1976 - "Rex" opens at Lunt-Fontaine Theater NYC for 48 performances
1976 - Argentine milt junta bans leftist political parties
1979 - Major riot at Bourda prevents day's play in WSC Supertest
1979 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sahara National Pro-Am Golf Tournament
1982 - Wayne Gretzky becomes 1st NHL to score 200 points in a season
1983 - Christa Rothenburger skates world record 500 m ladies (39.69 sec)
1983 - Pavel Pegov skates world record 1000m (1:12.58)
1984 - Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 - 57th Academy Awards - "Amadeus," F Murray Abraham & Sally Field win
1985 - Edwin Meese III becomes US Attorney General
1986 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Geneva won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1986 - Supreme Court rules Air Force could ban wearing of yarmulkes
1986 - Kurt Browning (Canada) becomes 1st skater to land a quadruple jump
1987 - Supreme Court rules women/minorities may get jobs if less qualified
1988 - "Les Miserables," opens at Chunichi Theatre, Nagoya Japan
1988 - NASA launches space vehicle S-206
1988 - Robin Givens demands full access to husband Mike Tyson's money
1989 - "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1990 - "Lettice & Lovage" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 284 performances
1990 - 10th Golden Raspberry Awards: Star Trek V wins
1990 - Fire in illegal NYC social club, kills 87
1990 - Pat Bradley wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1991 - 63rd Academy Awards - "Dance with Wolves," Kathy Bates & J Irons win
1991 - Allan Border takes 5-68 v WI at Bourda (!), Georgetown
1992 - British scientists find new largest perfect # (2 756839 -1 * 2 756839)
1992 - Imran Khan scores 72 & takes 1-43 off 6 2 overs in last ODI
1992 - Pakistan defeats England by 22 runs to win World Cup
1992 - Russian manned space craft TM-14, lands
1992 - Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev returns to Earth after a 10-month stay aboard the Mir space
           station.
1993 - "Candida" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 45 performances
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates ladies world record 3 km (4:09.32)
1994 - Yasunori Miyabe skates world record 1000 m (1:12.37)
1995 - Boxer Mike Tyson released from jail after serving 3 years
1996 - 68th Academy Awards - "Braveheart," Nicholas Cage & Susan Sarandon win
1996 - Comet C/1996 B2 (Hyakutake) approaches within 0.1018 AUs of Earth
1996 - Freedom Shoemakers on Maryport's Solway Estate closes
1996 - Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1996 - Ice Pairs Championship at Edmonton won by Eltsova & Bushkov (RUS)
1996 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Michelle Kwan (USA)
1996 - Men's Fig Skating Championship in Edmonton won by Todd Eldredge (USA)
1996 - US issues newly-redesigned $100 bill
1996 - The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans the export of British beef and its by-
           products as a result of mad cow disease (BSE).
1997 - "Barrymore," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 240 performances
1997 - Indians trade Lofton & Embree to Braves for Grissom & Justice
2006 - Capitol Hill massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at a party in
           Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood.
2006 - Protesters demanding a re-election in Belarus following the rigged Belarusian presidential
           election, 2006 clash with riot police. Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is among several
           protesters arrested.
2012 - Peter Cruddas, treasurer of Britain's Conservative Party, resigns after being caught on film
           selling access to British Prime Minister David Cameron

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This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Weddings

1734 - William IV, Prince of Orange-Nassau marries princess Anne of Great Britain, eldest daughter of
           King George II at St. James' Palace
2003 - Actress-model Liv Tyler (25) weds rock band vocalist Royston Langdon (30) at a private villa
           in St James, Barbados
2006 - Cowboy Crush singer Darla Perlozzi weds musician Timmy Lee Patterson at Southern Belle
           Wedding Chapel in Murfreesboro, Tennessee
2006 - Olympic gold medal freestyle skier Jonny Moseley (30) weds Malia Rich in Telluride, Colorado

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This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Divorces

2005 - American actress Jennifer Aniston (36) files for divorce from actor and film producer Brad Pitt
           (41) due to irreconcilable differences after 4 and a half years of marriage

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This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Modeling Agency Head                           Singer Elton John (1947)                    Actress Sarah Jessica Parker (1965)
Eileen Ford (1922)


1133 - Henry II, King of England (1154-89)
1252 - Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268), son of Conradin IV
1259 - Andronikos II Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332)
1297 - Andronicus III Palaeologus, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341)
1297 - Arnost of Pardubice, Archbishop of Prague (d. 1364)
1345 - Blanche of Lancaster, wife of John of Gaunt (d. 1369)
1347 - Catherine of Siena, Italian saint (d. 1380)
1404 - John Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444)
1495 - Leonhard Paminger, composer
1532 - Pietro Pontio, composer
1539 - Christopher Clavius, German mathematician (d. 1612)
1541 - Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d. 1587)
1593 - Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1649)
1594 - Maria Tesselschade Roemers Visscher, Dutch writer
1643 - Louis Moréri, French encylopedist (d. 1680)
1653 - Joseph Sauveur, French physicist/mathematician
1661 - Paul de Rapin, French historian (d. 1725)
1688 - Johann Gotthilf Ziegler, composer
1699 - Johann Adolf Hasse, composer
1702 - Christian Gottlieb Ziegler, composer
1702 - Pieter Teyler Van der Hulst, Dutch silk merchant (Teyler's Museum)
1713 - Jean-Baptiste Canavas, composer
1723 - Kaat Mussel, [Catharina Mulder], Dutch demonstrater
1745 - Nicolas Etienne Framery, composer
1762 - Francesco Giuseppi Pollini, composer
1767 - Joachim Murat, marshal of France/King of Naples (1808-15)
1769 - Salvatore Vigano, composer
1770 - Carl Friedrich Ebers, composer
1782 - Caroline Bonaparte, Queen of Naples (d. 1839) and sister of Napoleon
1786 - Giovanni B Amia, Italian astronomer/physicist/botanist
1797 - John Winebrenner, US, clergyman, founded Church of God
1800 - Paulin Paris, French historian
1808 - Jose de Espronceda y Delgado, Spanish revolutionary/poet (Cortes)
1818 - Isaac Ingalls Stevens, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1862
1820 - Xavier F M G, Earl of Merode, Belgian minister to Pope (in Rome)
1823 - William Thompson Martin, Mjr General (Confederate Army), died in 1910
1824 - Clinton L. Merriam, American politician (d. 1900)
1830 - Julius Caesar, cricketer (prominent batsman for Surrey)
1839 - William Bell Wait, US, educated the blind
1840 - Myles Keogh, U.S. Soldier in U.S. 7th Cavalry Regiment & Irish Soldier of Fortune (d. 1876)
1863 - Simon Flexner, American pathologist (d. 1946)
1867 - Arturo Toscanini, Parma Italy, temperamental conductor (NBC)
1867 - Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1868 - Bill Lockwood, cricketer (England all-rounder in 12 Tests 1893-1902)
1869 - Gustaaf DFL Schamelhout, Flemish physician/writer
1871 - John Gutzon Borglum, sculptor (Mt Rushmore)
1872 - Vito Pardo, Italian sculptor (Columbus monument in Argentina)
1873 - Rudolf Rocker, German/US anarchist
1875 - Spencer Charters, Duncannon PA, actor (3 Faces West)
1877 - Walter Little, Canadian politician (d. 1961)
1878 - Henry graaf de Baillet-Latour, Belgian pres of IOC (1925-42)
1878 - Theodore Samuel Holland, composer
1879 - Otakar Zich, composer
1881 - Béla Bartok, Hungary, composer/pianist (Concerto for Orchestra)
1881 - Louis Dosfel, Flemish lawyer/writer (Assault!)
1881 - Mary Gladys Webb, English writer (d. 1927)
1882 - Haydn Wood, composer
1884 - Georges Imbert, Alsatian chemist (d. 1950)
1885 - Veit Valentin, German/US historian (Deutsche Revolution)
1886 - Athenagoras, Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1890 - Marten Baersma, [MH Bottema], Friesan author (De ljochte kimen)
1892 - Andy Clyde, Scotland, actor (George-Real McCoys, Cully-Lassie)
1893 - Edward Hart, (Rep-D-NJ)/1st chairman of Com on Un-American Activities
1894 - Erik William Gustav Leidzen, composer
1895 - Siegfried Handloser, German physician (d. 1954)
1897 - John Laurie, Dumfries Scotland, actor (Jericho, Island of Desire)
1899 - Bella Spewack, Hungary, playwright (Kiss Me Kate)
1899 - Jacques Audiberti, French poet (Race of Men)
1899 - Burt Munro, New Zealand motorcycle racer (d. 1978)
1901 - Ed Begley, Hartford Ct, actor (Mr Koppel-Leave it to Larry)
1902 - Sten Broman, composer
1903 - Frankie Carle, Providence RI, orchestra leader (Golden Touch)
1903 - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (d. 1990)
1905 - Binnie Barnes, London, actress (Last of the Mohicans, 3 Musketeers)
1906 - Alan J P Taylor, British historian (English history 1914-1915)
1906 - Howard Pyle, (Gov-R-Az, 1951-55)
1906 - Jean Sablon, crooner
1908 - Bridget D'Oyly Carte, British theater & hotel director
1908 - David Lean, Croydon England, director (Dr Zhivago, Ryan's Daughter)
1909 - Dutch (Emil) Leonard, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, 1.01 ERA 1914)
1909 - Jay Blackton, NYC, conductor/arranger (Guys & Dolls)
1910 - Mario Peragallo, Italian composer
1910 - Magda Olivero, Italian soprano
1911 - Willy Anthoons, Flemish sculptor (Mystic verheffing)
1911 - Jack Ruby, killer of Lee Harvey Oswald (d. 1967)
1912 - Jean Vilar, French stage and film actor (d. 1971)
1913 - Sir Reo Stakis, Anglo-Cypriot hotel magnate (d. 2001)
1914 - Marthe Robert, essayist/translator
1914 - Norman E Borlaug, US agriculture scientist (Nobel 1970)
1916 - Nikolay Ivanovich Peyko, composer
1918 - Howard Cosell, Winston-Salem NC, sportscaster (Monday Night Football)
1919 - Jeanne Cagney, actress (Lion is in the Streets, Quicksand)
1920 - Patrick Troughton, actor (Doctor Who)
1920 - Arthur Wint, Jamaican runner (d. 1992)
1921 - Nancy Kelly, Lowell Mass, actress (Double Exposure, Jesse James)
1921 - Simone Signoret, Weisbaden Germany, (Casque d'Or, Room at the Top)
1921 - Alexandra of Greece and Denmark, Queen of Yugoslavia (d. 1993)
1922 - Bruno VeSota, Ill, actor/director (Chopper, Teenage Doll, Wild Rovers)
1922 - Eileen Ford, modeling agency head (Ford Modeling Agency)
1922 - Tobias Schneebaum, New York City, American writer, anthropologist and explorer (d. 2005)
1923 - Lee Hale, Tacoma Wash, choral director (The Entertainers)
1923 - Wim Van Est, [Locomotief/Pletmolen], Dutch cyclist
1923 - Bonnie Guitar, American singer
1924 - Julia A Perry, US composer (Cask of Amontillado)
1924 - Julia Perry, Lexington Kentucky, composer (Selfish Giant)
1924 - Machiko Kyo, Osaka Japan, actor (Gate of Hell, Rashomon, Ugetsu)
1925 - Flannery O'Connor, GA, novelist (A Good Man is Hard to Find)
1926 - Hans Rausing, Swedish/British industrial/billionaire (Tetra Pak)
1926 - Laszlo Papp, Hungary, Olympic Boxer (Gold-1948, 1952, 1956)
1927 - Leslie Claudius, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1928 - Hilton Kramer, Gloucester, Massachusetts, art critic, (d. 2012)
1928 - James A Lovell Jr, Cleveland Ohio, American astronaut (Gemini 7, 12, Apollo 8, 13)
1929 - Harris W Fawell, (Rep-R-IL, 1985- )
1929 - Kenneth Haigh, Yorkshire England, actor (Search for the Nile)
1929 - Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003)
1930 - David Russell Burge, composer
1931 - Paul Motian, American jazz drummer and composer
1932 - Wes Santee, miler
1932 - Woody (Woodson) Held, baseball player
1934 - Gloria Steinem, Toledo Ohio, US feminist/publisher (Ms Magazine)
1934 - Johnny Burnette, Memphis, guitarist (Trains Kept A-Rollin, You're 16)
1935 - Susan Engel, Vienna Austria, actress (Ascendancy)
1935 - Flash Elorde, Filipino boxer
1936 - Lawrence Bernard "Larry" Gales, bassist
1937 - Tom Monaghan, founder of Dominos pizza
1938 - Hoyt Axton, Duncan Oklahoma, actor (Black Stallion, Junkman, Rousters)
1938 - Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian racing driver
1939 - Toni Cade Bambara, director
1940 - Anita Bryant, Barnsdall Oklahoma, homophobe/singer (George Gobel Show)
1941 - Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian politician
1942 - Aretha Franklin, Memphis Tenn, Soul Sister #1/singer (Respect)
1942 - Jacqueline Lichtenberg, US, sci-fi author (Star Trek Lives!, Dreamspy)
1942 - Paul Michael Glaser, Cambridge Mass, actor (Starsky-Starsky & Hutch)
1942 - Richard O'Brien, English actor and writer (Rocky Horror Show)
1942 - Kim Woodburn, English television personality
1943 - Pavel Lednev, USSR, pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1980)
1943 - Ronald Jeffers, composer
1944 - Ross Duncan, cricketer (one Test Australia v England 1971, 0-30)
1944 - Terry L Bruce, (Rep-D-IL, 1985- )
1946 - Bonnie Bedelia, [Culkin], NYC, actress (Die Hard, Heart Like a Wheel)
1946 - Cliff Balsam, English footballer
1946 - Maurice Krafft, French vulcanologist (d. 1991)
1946 - Gerard John Schaefer, American serial killer (d. 1995)
1947 - Claudine Schneider, (Rep-R-RI, 1981- )
1947 - Elton John, [Reginald Kenneth Dwight], England, singer (Rocketman)
1948 - Kelly Garrett, actress/singer (Holdin)
1948 - Michael Stanley, Cleveland OH, rocker (Michael Stanley Band)
1948 - Richard Lundy, horse trainer
1948 - Bonnie Bedelia, American actress
1948 - Lynn Faulds Wood, Scottish television presenter
1949 - Jean Potvin, NHLer
1949 - Neil Jones, musician (Bend Me Shape Me)
1950 - Chuck Greenberg, American musician (Shadowfax) (d. 1995)
1951 - Bob Pelander, rock keyboardist/vocalist (Michael Stanley Band)
1951 - Maisie Williams, Montserrat, rock vocalist (Boney M)
1952 - Ken Boyd, basketball
1952 - Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician
1953 - Haroon Rashid, cricketer (Pakistani & WSC batsman late 70's)
1953 - Mary Gross, Chicago Ill, actress/comedian (SNL, Club Paradise, Feds)
1954 - Elli Stai, Greek journalist and TV presenter
1954 - Thom Loverro, American sportswriter
1955 - Daniel Boulud, French chef and restaurateur
1955 - Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player
1956 - Sonia M Lannaman, England, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1956 - Matthew Garber, English actor (d. 1977)
1957 - Jim Uhls, American screenwriter
1958 - James McDaniel, Wash DC, actor (Arthur Fancy-NYPD Blue)
1958 - Maria Caridad Colón, Cuba, javelin thrower, (Olympic-gold-1980)
1958 - Yograj Singh, cricketer (Indian pace bowler early 80's)
1958 - Sisy Chen, Taiwanese politician and television commentator
1958 - Åsa Torstensson, Swedish politician
1959 - Vince Guerra, jockey
1960 - Haywood Nelson, NYC, actor (Haywood-Grady, Dwayne-What's Happening)
1960 - Robert Green, Omaha Neb, tennis star
1960 - Steve Norman, London, rock sax (Spandau Ballet-True)
1960 - Idy Chan Yuk-Lin, Hong Kong actress
1961 - John Stockwell, Galveston TX, actor (Born to Ride, City Limits)
1961 - Mark David Brooks, Fort Worth TX, PGA golfer (1994 Kemper Open)
1961 - Fred Goss, American actor, comedian, and writer
1964 - Alex Solls, jockey
1964 - Eric Woods, California, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Xerox BC Open)
1964 - Ken Wregget, Brandon, NHL goalie (Pitts Penguins)
1965 - Avery Johnson, NBA guard (San Antonio Spurs)
1965 - Sarah Jessica Parker, Nelsonville Ohio, American actress (Square Pegs, Sex and the City)
1965 - Sean "Hollywood" Hamilton, DJ (Hangin' With Hollywood, Z-100)
1966 - David Hohl, Winnipeg Manitoba, freestyle wrestler (Olympics-9-92, 96)
1966 - Jeff Cross, NFL defensive end (Miami Dolphins)
1966 - Jeff Healey, Canada, blind pop guitarist (See the Light)
1966 - Tom Glavine, Concord MA, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, Cy Young 1991)
1966 - Anton Rogan, Irish footballer
1967 - Debi Thomas, US, figure skater (Olympic-bronze-1988)
1967 - Takayuki Miura, hockey defenseman (Team Japan 1998)
1967 - Matthew Barney, American media artist
1967 - Doug Stanhope, American comedian
1968 - Dixon Edwards, NFL linebacker (Dallas Cowboys, Minnesota Vikings)
1968 - Errol Martin, CFL linebacker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1968 - Peter Blackburn, Australia, badminton player (Olympics-96)
1969 - Dale Davis, NBA forward (Indiana Pacers)
1969 - Dan Wilson, Arlington Height IL, catcher (Seattle Mariners)
1969 - Guy Newman, Australian water polo goalie (Olympics-96)
1969 - Scott Sanders, Hannibal MO, pitcher (San Diego Padres)
1969 - Cathy Dennis, English singer, songwriter, and actress
1970 - Magnus Larsson, Sweden, tennis star
1970 - Shawn Antoski, Brantford, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1971 - Aashish Kapoor, cricketer (Indian off-spin batsman 1994- )
1971 - Andre Bolduc, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1971 - Cammi Granato, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-98)
1971 - Perry Klein, NFL quarterback (Atlanta Falcons)
1971 - Sheryl Swoopes, Texas, WNBA forward (Houston Comets. Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Demet Edwards, WLAF defensive tackle (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 - Howard Battle, Biloxi MS, infielder (Philadelphia Phillies)
1972 - Lawrence Moten, NBA guard (Vancouver Grizzlies)
1973 - Andrei Nikolishin, Vorkuta Russia, NHL center (Hartford Whalers)
1973 - Bob Sura, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1973 - Ray Zellars, NFL fullback (NO Saints)
1973 - Anthony Barness, English footballer
1973 - Anders Fridén, Swedish singer (In Flames)
1974 - Mike Adams, wide reciever (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1974 - Vyninka Arlow, Australia, diver (Olympics-96)
1974 - Lark Voorhies, American actress
1975 - Miguel Mejia, San Pedro de Macoris, outfielder (St Louis Cardinals)
1975 - Melanie Blatt, British singer (All Saints)
1976 - Monica Croscicka-Wnetrzak, Miss Universe-Poland (1996)
1976 - Francis Bellew, Irish Gaelic footballer
1976 - Cha Tae-hyun, South Korean actor
1976 - Juvenile, American rapper
1976 - Wladimir Klitschko, Ukrainian boxer
1976 - Baek Ji Young, South Korean singer
1979 - Lee Pace, American actor
1979 - Natasha Yi, American supermodel
1980 - Carrie Lam, Hong Kong actress
1980 - Joe King, Guitarist and Co-Founder for the band The Fray
1982 - Sergey Yakovlev, russian musical artist and painter
1982 - Álvaro Saborío, Costa Rican footballer
1982 - Danica Patrick, American race car driver
1982 - Sean Faris, American actor and model
1984 - Katharine McPhee, American singer/actress
1986 - Megan Gibson, American softball player
1987 - Jason Castro, American Idol contestant
1987 - Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater
1989 - Chicken Kentucky, 1st partial birth in space (chicken)
1989 - Alyson Michalka, American actress/singer
1989 - Scott Sinclair, English footballer
2184 - Pavel Andreivich Chekov, Leningrad, USSR (Star Trek-character)

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This Day in History for 25th March


Famous Deaths

                 
Provencal Poet                                       Composer Claude Debussy (1918)
Frederic Mistral (1914) 


1223 - Afonso II, 3rd King of Portugal (1211-23), dies at 36
1345 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 - Inigo Lopez de Mendoza, Spanish marquis of Santillana/poet, dies
1510 - Georges d'amboise, French archbishop of Narbonne/Rouen, dies at 49
1558 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1692 - Gerardus L Blasius, Flemish anatomist, dies at about 66
1697 - Hendrik Casimir II, King of Nassau-Dietzstadhouder, dies
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 - Frederick of Hessen Kassel, King of Sweden (1720-51), dies at 74
1766 - Johannes Ritschel, composer, dies at 26
1799 - Constantin Reindl, composer, dies at 60
1801 - Anthony Ziesenis, architect/sculptor (Camper), dies at 69
1801 - Novalis, writer, dies at 28
1818 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1823 - Coelestin Jungbauer, composer, dies at 75
1825 - Rutger Jan Schimmelpenninck, Dutch patriot/earl, dies at 63
1835 - Friederike Blum, writer, dies
1852 - Alexis Garaude, composer, dies at 73
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1880 - Joseph Rummel, composer, dies at 61
1880 - Ludmilla Assing, writer, dies
1908 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1909 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer, dies at 57
1914 - Frederic Mistral, French poet (Nobel-1904), dies at 83
1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer (Iberia/La mer), dies in Paris at 55
1924 - John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 & 4, 1 for 24), dies
1937 - John Drinkwater, English poet/playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1940 - Ion Nonna Otescu, composer, dies at 51
1948 - Warren Hymer, actor (Show Them No Mercy), dies at 42
1949 - Hanns A Rauter, German SS-commandant in Netherland, executed at 54
1951 - Edward Collins, Hall of Fame infielder (White Sox, A's), dies at 63
1951 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1956 - George Luther Foote, composer, dies at 70
1956 - Robert Newton, actor (Henry V, Odd Man Out), dies at 50
1957 - Fud Livingston, composer, dies at 50
1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 - Emerson Whithorne, composer, dies at 73
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1959 - Billy Mayerl, composer, dies at 56
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss explorer/balloonist, dies at 78
1963 - David Moore, US feather weight boxer, dies at 29
1965 - Giorgio Federico Ghedini, composer, dies at 72
1965 - Viola Gregg Liuzzo, US civil rights activist, murdered
1966 - Colin Campbell, actor (Leather Boys), dies at 83
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1968 - Douglas Evans, actor (South Pacific Trail), dies in Hollywood
1969 - Alan Mowbray, actor (Dante, Colonel Flack), dies at 72
1969 - Max Eastman, American critic/essayist (Love and Revolution), dies at 86
1969 - Norman Gallichan, cricketer (one Test for NZ, 30 & 2, 3-113), dies
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1973 - Edward Steichen, pioneer of US photography, dies at 93
1974 - Otto Waldis, actor (Unknown World, Whip Hand), dies at 72
1975 - Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, king of Saudi-Arab (1964-75), shot by nephew at 68
1975 - Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1978 - Jack Hulbert, actor (Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1979 - ... Sykes, British ambassador in The Hague, murdered
1979 - Anton Heiller, composer, dies at 55
1980 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1983 - Martha Sleeper, actress (Spitfire), dies of a heart attack at 72
1983 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1987 - Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1991 - Eileen Joyce, pianist, dies at 78
1991 - Lee Donn, pianist, dies of stroke at 96
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 - Nancy Walker, actress (Ida Morgenstern-Rhoda), dies of cancer at 69
1994 - David Miles Bensuan Economist-Butt, , dies at 79
1994 - Michel R Vassallucci, French/Neth publisher (Arena), dies at 32
1995 - James Gardner, designer, dies at 87
1995 - Peter Herbert Penwarden, priest, dies at 73
1995 - Warren E Burger, chief justice of US (1969-86), dies
1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1996 - John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge, news commentator (BBC), dies at 91
1997 - Roberto Sanchez Vilella, governor of Puerto Rico in (1965-69), dies
1998 - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 - Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 - Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 - Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
2009 - Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (b. 1933)
2009 - Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian hockey player (b. 1975)
2009 - Giovanni Parisi, Italian boxer (b. 1967)
2009 - Kosuke Koyama, Japanese theologian (b. 1929)
2010 - Pål Bang-Hansen, Norwegian film critic and television personality (b. 1937)
2012 - Bert Sugar, American sports writer, dies from a cardiac arrest at 74
2012 - Larry Stevenson [Richard], American skateboard innovator, dies from pneumonia and
           Alzheimer's disease at 81

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This Day in History for 26th March


Historical Events

                                   
Nobel Laureate Author                            US General George S Patton                  Boxing Champ George Foreman
Ernest Hemingway

                                   
Queen Elizabeth II                                   Russian President Boris Yeltsin             Heavyweight Boxing Champion
                                                                                                                                 Mike Tyson


1027 - John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier Roman German emperor
1147 - Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 - Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a Gallon of flour to each
           resident to keep deathbed promise
1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
1526 - King Francois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 - Lubeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
1636 - University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 - England takes control of Bombay India
1692 - King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 - 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 - Congress passes Naturalization Act, requires 2-year residency
1793 - Pro-royalist uprising in Vendée region of France
1799 - Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 - Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
1804 - Territory of Orleans organizes in Louisiana Purchase
1808 - Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII.
1812 - Earthquake destroys 90% of Caracas Venezuela; about 20,000 die
1821 - Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 - 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1830 - The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
1839 - 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 - Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
1845 - Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1852 - Decree regarding streets of Paris passed
1856 - NSW's 1st 1st-class game, v Victoria at Melbourne NSW won
1859 - 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 - Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 - Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 - Paris Commune founded
1872 - 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
1872 - Thomas J Martin patents fire extinguisher
1878 - Hastings College of Law founded
1878 - Sabi Game Reserve, world's 1st official designated game reserve, opens
1881 - Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again.
1885 - Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
1885 - Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 - 1st cremation in England
1889 - Bernard Tancred carries bat for 26* out of 47! South Africa v England
1889 - Johnny Briggs took 15-26 (7-17 & 8-11) v South Africa at Newlands
1889 - South Africa all out 47, then follow-on all out 43 v England
1895 - King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 - 1st edition The (Free) People (Neth, probably Amsterdam)
1903 - American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1909 - August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 - US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
1910 - William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 - Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
1913 - Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River reach flood stage
           simultaneously
1915 - Stanley Cup: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Ottawa Senators
1916 - Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 - Stanley Cup: Seattle Metropolitans (PCHA) beat Montreal Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1 -
           Seattle is 1st US team to win Stanley Cup
1923 - Stanley Cup: Ott Senators beat Vanc Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 1
1924 - Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 - ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1926 - The 1st lip-reading tournament held in America
1927 - Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
1927 - Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 - Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 - Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
1931 - Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
1931 - New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 - Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 - "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
1936 - 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
1936 - 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
1936 - Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 - Joe DiMaggio takes Ty Cobb's advice & replace his 40 with 36 oz bat
1937 - Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
1937 - William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 - NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 - Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 - 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
1942 - 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
1942 - 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
1942 - German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 - 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
1943 - Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1943 - Elsie S Ott becomes 1st woman awarded US Air Force Medal
1944 - 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 - British premier Churchill looks over at the Rhine (near Ginsberg)
1945 - De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
1945 - Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
1945 - Japanese resistance ends on Iwo Jima
1945 - Kamikaze attack on US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
1945 - US 7th Army crosses Rhine at Worms
1945 - Venray soccer team forms
1949 - 11th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Oklahoma State 46-36
1951 - Patty Berg wins LPGA Sandhills Women's Golf Open
1951 - USAF flag approved
1952 - 14th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kansas beats St Johns 80-63
1952 - F Durrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 - Dr Jonas Salk announces vaccine to prevent polio[myelitis]
1953 - Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 - US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 - "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1956 - Medic Alert Foundation forms
1956 - Red Buttons debuts on TV in Studio One
1958 - 30th Academy Awards-"Bridge over River Kwai," Woodward & Guinness win
1958 - Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1958 - US Army launched America's third successful satellite, "Explorer III"
1958 - The African Regroupment Party (PRA) is launched at a meeting in Paris.
1959 - Test debut for Mushtaq Mohammad v WI age 15 yrs 124 days
1960 - Iraq executes 30 after attack on Pres Kassem
1960 - Orioles-Reds series for Havana, is moved to Miami
1960 - USC captures NCAA swimming title
1961 - Louise Suggs wins LPGA Golden Circle of Golf Festival
1962 - Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 - "Funny Girl" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 1,348 performances
1965 - A truck loses control down Moosic Street, Scranton, Pennsylvania, killing the driver. This
           accident later inspired the 1974 Harry Chapin song, "30,000 Pounds of Bananas."
1967 - 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
1967 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Venice Ladies' Golf Open
1967 - Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 - Marcus Welby MD, a TV movie is shown on ABC-TV
1969 - Nuclear reactor Dodewaard Neth goes into use
1969 - Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 - "Minnie's Boys" opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 80 performances
1970 - 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
1970 - Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
1970 - Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral liberties" with a 14 year old
           girl
1971 - "Benny Hill Show" tops TV ratings
1971 - "Cannon" with William Conrad premieres on CBS-TV
1971 - Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 - "Only Fools Are Sad" closes at Edison Theater NYC after 144 perfs
1972 - Betsy Cullen wins LPGA Sears Women's World Golf Classic
1972 - LA Lakers broke NBA record by winning 69 of 82 games (69-13)
1973 - 35th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Memphis 81-76
1973 - Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
1973 - Susan Shaw, is 1st woman in 171 years in London's Stock exchange
1973 - UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
1974 - George Foreman TKOs Ken Norton in 2 for heavyweight boxing title
1974 - Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 - "Tommy" premieres in London
1975 - Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win & NHL record of 17
           straight loses
1975 - The Biological Weapons Convention enters into force.
1976 - AL approves purchase of Toronto franchise by LaBatt Brewing for $7M
1976 - Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1976 - Queen Elizabeth II sent out the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar
           Establishment.
1977 - Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1977 - Focus on the Family is founded by Dr. James Dobson
1979 - 41st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Mich State beats Indiana St 75-64
1979 - Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
1979 - Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
1979 - Padres & Giants announce plans to play exhibition series in Tokyo but Giant players reject it
1980 - Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 - Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
1981 - Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 - Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
1982 - Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
1982 - Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 - Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 - August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
1987 - Hyderabad beat Delhi on 1st innings to win Ranji Trophy
1987 - NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1987 - Natl Fed of High School adopts college 3 point shot (21 feet)
1988 - Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 - 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1989 - Allison Finney wins LPGA Standard Register Turquoise Golf Classic
1990 - 62nd Academy Awards - "Driving Miss Daisy," D Day-Lewis, J Tandy win
1991 - Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
1991 - Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
1991 - Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1991 - Victoria beat NSW by 7 wickets to win Sheffield Shield Final
1992 - Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
1992 - NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1994 - Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
1994 - Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
1994 - Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1995 - "Defending the Caveman," opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 671 perf
1995 - "Moliere Comedies" closes at Criterion Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1995 - 15th Golden Raspberry Awards: Color of Night wins
1995 - 24th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Nanci Bowen
1995 - Mashonaland beat Mashonaland U-24 by 165 runs to win Logan Cup
1995 - The Schengen Treaty goes into effect.
1996 - Last day of 1st-class cricket for Allan Border (Qld v Vic)
1996 - The International Monetary Fund approves a $10.2 billion loan for Russia.
1997 - "Annie," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1997 - NHL announce Might Ducks & Vancouver Canucks to open 1998 in Japan
1997 - Thirty-nine bodies found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides.
1998 - Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria; 52 people killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies
           under the age of 2.
1999 - The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world.
1999 - A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a
           lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
2005 - The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in
           opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to
           300,000 attend the walk.
2006 - In Scotland, the prohibition of smoking in all substantially enclosed public places comes into
           force.
2006 - The military junta ruling Burma officially named Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as
           the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital.
2012 - Macky Sall elected as President of Senegal
2012 - Canadian Film maker, James Cameron, becomes the first person to visit Challenger Deep, the
           deepest point on Earth in over 50 years

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Weddings

1994 - Talk show hostess Ricki Lake weds Rob Sussman
1994 - Half-brother of former President Bill Clinton and rodeo clown Roger Clinton (37) weds Molly
           Martin (25) in Dallas
2011 - Oscar winning actress Reese Witherspoon (36) weds talent agent Jim Toth (34) at Libbey
           Ranch in Ojai, California

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Playwright Tennessee Williams (1911)     Actor Leonard Nimoy (1931)                 Actress Keira Knightley (1985)


603 - Pacal II ruler of the Maya polity of Palenque
1479 - Vasili III, great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
1554 - Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
1577 - Elisabeth of Nassau, daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1659 - William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
1671 - Giacomo Cesare Predieri, composer
1684 - Johann Graf, composer
1698 - Václav Prokop Diviš, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
1717 - Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila, composer
1749 - William Blount, American Statesman (d. 1800)
1753 - Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1758 - Johann Daniel Ferstenberg, composer
1773 - Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 - Johann Baptist Weigl, composer
1794 - Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872)
1806 - Josef Slavik, composer
1813 - Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 - Herman Haupt, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 - Francisco Eduardo da Costa, composer
1819 - Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 - Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 - Emanuel Kania, composer
1830 - Eliza Laurillard, Dutch vicar/poet/writer
1830 - John Rogers Thomas, composer
1833 - Betsy Perk, [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 - Carli Zoeller, composer
1840 - George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 - Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1854 - Braulio Dueno Colon, composer
1856 - David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 - A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1859 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer
1859 - Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
1862 - George William Louis Marshall-Hall, composer
1868 - Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 - Prince Jonah Kūhiō Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922)
1873 - [Louise] Sophie de Vries, actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 - Gerald du Maurier, London Engld, actor (Power, Escape, Masks & Faces)
1874 - Oskar Nedbal, composer
1874 - Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 - Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
1876 - Prince William of Wied (d. 1945)
1879 - Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965)
1880 - Duncan Hines, US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1882 - Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940)
1884 - Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 - Julius Harrison, composer
1885 - Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1886 - Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971)
1888 - Elsa Brändström, Swedish nurse (d. 1948)
1889 - Vaclav Kapral, composer
1890 - Jozef Arras, Flemish writer
1893 - Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 - Will Wright, SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1894 - Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985)
1896 - Richard Flury, composer
1896 - Rudolf Dassler, Founder of PUMA AG (d. 1974)
1898 - Renzo Massarani, composer
1898 - Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979)
1899 - James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
1899 - William Baines, composer
1900 - Isadore Freed, composer
1902 - Leslie Melville, economist
1904 - Emilio Fernandez, El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
1904 - Hermann Schroeder, composer
1904 - Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
1904 - Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist, Prime Minister of Greece (d. 2004)
1905 - Pablo Garrido, composer
1905 - Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1906 - Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpetist (d. 1981)
1907 - Leigh Harline, composer
1907 - Louis Saguer, composer
1908 - Betty MacDonald, [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
1908 - Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 - Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling, Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
1908 - Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
1908 - Robert William Paine, architect
1909 - Chips Rafferty, Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
1909 - Chris[tiaan R] Reumer, Dutch opera singer
1911 - Bernard Katz, biophysicist
1911 - Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1911 - T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988)
1913 - Paul Erdos, mathematician
1914 - Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 - William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1914 - Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995)
1916 - Bill Edrich, cricketer (Middlesex & England bat, Compton's mate)
1916 - Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 - Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 - Sterling Hayden, NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
1916 - Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orchestra leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 - Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England)
1917 - Rufus Thomas, Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 - Strother Martin, Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1919 - Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965)
1920 - George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1920 - Sergio Livingstone, Santiago, Chile , football player and journalist (52 caps), (d. 2012)
1921 - George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921 - Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 - Peter Horsley, CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1922 - William Milliken, actor (Drive-in)
1922 - Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist
1923 - Bob Elliot, Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
1923 - Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 - Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1923 - Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
1923 - Bob Elliott, American comedian
1925 - Claudio Spies, composer
1925 - Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 - Baron Hooson [Hugh Emlyn], British politician and peer (MP for Montgomeryshire 1962-79),
          (d. 2012)
1925 - Maqsood Ahmed, cricketer (Pakistani batsman in 16 Tests 1952-56)
1925 - Pierre Boulez, Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1927 - Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
1928 - Carole Carr, singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
1929 - Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1929 - Edwin Turney, American businessman
1930 - Cristobal Halffter, composer
1930 - Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 - Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 - Leonard Nimoy, Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1932 - Dick Nolan, football coach
1934 - Alan Arkin, NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
1934 - G T Pryce, CEO (Dalgety)
1934 - Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 - Earl of Kinnoull
1935 - Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestine National Authority
1936 - Erich Urbanner, composer
1936 - Fred Paris, rocker (Five Satins)
1937 - Barbara Pearl Jones, Chic Ill, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60)
1937 - Lord Chetwode
1937 - Wayne Embry, holder of 7 basketball records (Miami of Ohio)
1938 - Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate
1939 - Colin Webb, general manager (Press Association)
1939 - Phillip R Allen, Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1939 - Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus (Sussex U)
1940 - James Caan, Bronx NY, American actor (Misery, Godfather)
1940 - Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 - Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 - Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
1940 - Rod Lauren, rocker (If I Had a Girl)
1940 - Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1941 - Barclay Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Bob Plager
1941 - Bob Plager, hockey player/twin brother of hockey's Barclay Plager
1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
1941 - Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician
1942 - Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 - Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1943 - Bob Woodward, American journalist
1944 - Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1945 - Mikhail Voronin, USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 - Johnny Crawford, LA California, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1946 - Alain Madelin, French politician
1947 - Carmen Krolis, Suriname/Neth singer
1947 - Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986)
1948 - Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 - Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
1948 - Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 - Baroness Hayman
1949 - Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1949 - Vicki Lawrence, Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
1950 - Ernest Thomas, Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
1950 - Graham Barlow, cricketer (England batsman in 3 Tests 1976-77)
1950 - Martin Short, Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
1950 - Ronnie McDowell, Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
1950 - Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1950 - Alan Silvestri, American film score composer
1951 - Richard B Shull, US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1952 - David Amess, MP
1952 - Didier Pironi, French Formula One driver (d. 1987)
1953 - Michael Bonagura, Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
1953 - Tatyana Providokhina, Russian 1K runner (world record)
1953 - Elaine Chao, U.S. Secretary of Labor
1953 - Lincoln Chafee, American Senator from Rhode Island
1953 - Youssouf Togoïmi, Chadian rebel (d. 2002)
1954 - Curtis Sliwa, founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1954 - Piers Gardner, director (Brit Institute of Intl & Comparative Law)
1954 - Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese seiyu (voice actor)
1955 - Dean Dillon, Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1955 - Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 - Charly McClain, Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
1956 - Tatyana Kochergina, USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1957 - Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1957 - Walter Rohlfing, Dusseldorf, WLAF defensive line coach (Rhein Fire)
1958 - Chris Codiroli, American baseballer
1959 - David Delong, Portland Ore, Canadian Tour golfer (1988 BC Open)
1959 - Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent
1960 - Billy Warlock, Hawthorne California, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
1960 - Debbie Hall, LPGA golfer
1960 - Marcus Allen, NFL running back (LA Raiders, KC Chiefs, Heisman 1981)
1960 - Michael Evans, Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88)
1961 - Leigh Bowery, designer
1961 - William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales
1962 - John Stockton, Spokane Wash, NBA guard (Utah Jazz, Olympics-gold-96)
1962 - Kevin Seitzer, Springfield IL, infielder (Milwaukee Brewers)
1962 - Maarten de Young, soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
1962 - Richard Coles, rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
1962 - Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 - Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1963 - Rebecca Twigg, Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984, 92, 96)
1963 - Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer
1963 - Amparo Larrañaga, Spanish actress
1964 - Ab Plugboer, soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1964 - Ulf Samuelsson, Fagersta SWE, NHL defenseman (Team Sweden, NY Rangers)
1964 - Martin Donnelly, Irish racecar driver
1964 - Baz Warne, English Guitarist (The Stranglers)
1966 - Lee Porter, Greensboro NC, Nike golfer (1992 Texarkana Open-5th)
1966 - Mike Remlinger, Middletown NY, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1966 - Wesley Walls, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1966 - Michael Imperioli, American actor
1967 - Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer
1968 - Edward Kaminski, KC Kansas, javelin thrower
1968 - Ian Hutchings, Zimbabwe, Canadian Tour golfer (1994 Klondike Klassic)
1968 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)
1968 - Kari Gronroos, WLAF kicker (Scotland Claymores)
1968 - Mike Trevathan, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1968 - Shane Reynolds, Bastrop LA, pitcher (Houston Astros)
1968 - Kenny Chesney, American singer
1968 - James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle)
1968 - Laurent Brochard, French cyclist
1969 - Beth Howell, Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991)
1969 - Luke Richardson, Ottawa, NHL defenseman (Edmonton Oilers)
1969 - Vikram Rathour, cricketer (Indian Test opening batsman 1996-)
1970 - Evan Richards, LA California, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
1970 - Paul Bosvelt, soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1970 - Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director
1971 - Dave DeGraaf, Lansing Mich, team handball circle (Olympics-1996)
1971 - Jesus Tavarez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Florida Marlins)
1971 - Rennae Stubbs, Sydney Australia, tennis star
1971 - Tommy Fagan, CFL/NFL defensive end (Atl Falcons, Winn Blue Bombers)
1971 - Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist
1972 - Naoko Kijimuta, Yokohama Kanagawa Japan, tennis star (1996 Jakarta)
1972 - Steve Anderson, CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 - Jon Reep, American comedian and actor
1973 - Marshall Faulk, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1973 - Heather Goldenhersh, American actress
1973 - Lawrence E. Page, American search engine pioneer
1973 - T.R. Knight, American actor
1973 - Matt Burke, Australian rugby player
1974 - Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1974 - Hakeem Abdul-samad, rocker (Boys)
1974 - Irina Spirlea, Bucharest Romania, tennis star (1996 Amelia Island)
1974 - Mike Peca, Toronto, NHL center (Buffalo Sabres)
1976 - Amy Smart, American actress
1976 - Natalia Livingston, American actress
1976 - Nurgül Yeşilçay, Turkish actress
1976 - Ufuk Talay, Australian soccer player
1977 - Kevin Davies, English footballer
1977 - Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler
1978 - Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player
1979 - Heidi Zeigler, actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1979 - Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist
1979 - Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer
1979 - Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
1980 - Son Ho Young, Korean singer
1981 - Baruch Dego, Israeli football player
1981 - Jay Sean, British Asian R&B singer
1981 - Josh Wilson, American baseball player
1982 - Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
1983 - David Bennett, Canadian powerlifter and steamfitter
1983 - Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler
1984 - Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean crickaeter
1984 - Sara Jean Underwood, American model
1984 - Stéphanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer
1985 - Keira Knightley, London, English actress (Bend It Like Beckham, Pirates of the Caribbean)
1985 - Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain
1985 - Jonathan Groff, American stage actor
1986 - Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
1987 - Yui, Japanese musician
1988 - Jose Vizcaino, San Cristobal Dom Rep, infielder (NY Mets)

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This Day in History for 26th March


Famous Deaths

Composer Ludwig van Beethoven (1827)

304 - Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
752 - Stephen II, Catholic Pope (3/22-26/752), dies
809 - Liudger, missionary/1st bishop of Munster/saint, dies at about 66
1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)
1212 - Sancho I, King of Portugal (1185-1212), dies at 58
1258 - Floris, the Guardian, count-regent of Holland, dies
1350 - Alfonso XI, King of Castile & Leon, dies
1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
1546 - Thomas Elyot, British diplomat, dies
1566 - Antonio de Cabezon, composer, dies
1638 - Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz, painter, dies at about 30
1649 - John Winthrop, Puritan & 1st Governor (Mass), dies
1657 - Jacob van Eyck, Dutch blind flautist/carillonneur, dies at 69
1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
1713 - Pal Esterhazy, composer, dies at 77
1726 - John Vanbrugh, Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies at 62
1736 - Georg Balthasar Schott, composer, dies at 49
1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
1797 - James Hutton, geologist, dies
1809 - Gabriele Mario Piozzi, composer, dies at 68
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1820 - Jean-Etienne Despreaux, composer, dies at 71
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1831 - Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1837 - Joseph Lincke, composer, dies at 53
1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
1865 - Thomas Hancock, pioneer of rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies
1880 - Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, composer, dies at 62
1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
1888 - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
1892 - Anton Wallerstein, composer, dies at 78
1892 - Walt Whitman, poet, dies in Camden, NJ at 72
1896 - Nanny v Hof, writer, dies
1900 - Isaac Mayer Wise, rabbi/found American Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
1902 - Cecil Rhodes, Prime Minister of Cape Colony (1890-96) dies at 48
1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1909 - Nikolai Arkas, composer, dies at 56
1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
1910 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
1918 - Caesar A Cui, Lithuanian fort builder/composer, dies at 83
1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b.
           1834)
1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, [Henriette], actress (Queen Elizabeth), dies at 77
1924 - Augusto de Oliviera Machado, composer, dies at 78
1926 - Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies
1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies at 74
1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1932 - Jean Cartan, composer, dies at 25
1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1934 - Grete Gulbransson, writer, dies at 51
1937 - Albert Relf, cricketer (13 Tests for England 1903-14), commits suicide
1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
1942 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1945 - David Lloyd George, British (L) premier (1916-22), dies at 82
1945 - Isaack Stouten, resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 - Helen Ernst, German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1951 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
1953 - Albert Spalding, composer, dies at 64
1956 - Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann, composer, dies at 70
1957 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
1958 - Phil Mead, cricketer (55061 1st-class runs 1905-36), dies
1959 - Raymond T Chandler, US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies at 71
1960 - Ian Keith, actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61
1962 - Marjorie Colton, inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1969 - B[runo] Traven, writer (Sierra Madre), dies at 87
1969 - Gunther Weisenborn, German/Argentine writer (Illegals), dies at 66
1973 - George Sisler, hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
1973 - Noel Coward, English playwright (Private Letters), dies at 73
1973 - Safford Cape, US/Belgian conductor/composer/musicologist, dies at 67
1973 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
1976 - Richard Arlen, actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1979 - Jean Stafford, US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
1980 - Jon-Jon Poulos, rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1981 - Cyril Dean Darlington, biologist (hereditary mechanisms), dies at 77
1981 - Tim Wall, cricketer (SA v NSW 1933 is Sheffield Shield record), dies
1982 - Agathe "Henriette" de Beaufort, writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies at 91
1983 - Anthony F Blunt, British art historian/spy for USSR, dies at 75
1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
1986 - Bartlett Robinson, actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1987 - Walter Abel, actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1990 - International Chrysis, Transvestite actor (Q&A), dies of cancer at 38
1990 - Roy "Halston" Frowick, fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
1991 - Frans Dohmen, union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies at 81
1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
1993 - Luis Falco, US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies at 50
1993 - Roy Riegels, University of California football player who ran wrong way, dies at 84
1994 - Constantine Koukouchkine, Russ diplomat. murdered in Algeria at 41
1994 - Jan Bor, Dutch violinist/painter, dies at 83
1995 - Rapper-E (Eazy Eric Wright), dies at 31
1996 - (Elizabeth Cissie) Charlton, football matriarch, dies at 83
1996 - David Packard, electronic engineer/businessman, dies at 83
1996 - Edmund S Muskie, vice pres candidate/(Gov-D-Maine), dies at 81
1996 - Thomas Wakefield, writer, dies at 60
1997 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
2005 - Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)
2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005 - Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
2008 - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
2008 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
2008 - Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group
           FARC-EP (b. 1930)
2011 - Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee (b. 1935)
2011 - Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (b. 1946)
2011 - Diana Wynne Jones, British fantasy writer (b. 1934)
2011 - Paul Baran, internet pioneer who helped create the technical underpinnings of Arpanet, dies at
          84

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This Day in History for 27th March


Historical Events

                                   
King of England King Charles I                  US President & General                         Comedian Charlie Chaplin
                                                                   Andrew Jackson

                                   
Comedian Groucho Marx                        Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald                        Singer/Actor Frank Sinatra

                                   
First Secretary of the                               Actor Marlon Brando                           Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber
Communist Party of the
Soviet Union
Nikita Khrushchev

                 
Actor Billy Dee Williams                            Actor Tom Hanks


196 BC - Ptolemy V ascends to the throne of Egypt.
1309 - Pope Clement V excommunicates Venice and all its population.
1329 - Pope John XXII issues his 'In Agro Dominico' condemning some writings of Meister Eckhart as
           heretical.
1513 - Spaniard Juan Ponce de Leon discovers Florida
1599 - Robert Devereux becomes lt-general of Ireland
1613 - The first English child born in Canada at Cuper's Cove, Newfoundland to Nicholas Guy.
1625 - Charles I, King Of England, Scotland & Ireland, ascends English throne
1642 - The sixth Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Joseph takes office.
1668 - English king Charles II gives Bombay to East India Company
1708 - English pretender to the throne James III flees to Dunkerk
1709 - Dike at Hardinxveld breaks (Alblasserwaard flooded)
1713 - Spain losses Menorca & Gibraltar
1721 - France & Spain sign Treaty of Madrid
1758 - Battle at Emmerich: British army floats around France the Rhine
1782 - Charles Watson-Wentworth, 2nd Marquess of Rockingham becomes Prime Minister of the
           United Kingdom.
1790 - The modern shoestring (string and shoe holes) invented in England
1794 - The United States Government establishes a permanent navy and authorizes the building of
           six frigates.
1794 - Denmark and Sweden form a neutrality compact.
1802 - Treaty of Amiens-French Revolutionary War ends
1808 - Joseph Haydns oratorio "Die Schopfung" premieres in Vienna
1814 - Battle at Horseshoe Bend: General Andrew Jackson defeats the Red Sticks, part of the Creek
           Indian tribe near Dadeville, Alabama
1836 - 1st Mormon temple dedicated (Kirtland Ohio)
1841 - 1st US steam fire engine tested, NYC
1848 - John Parker Paynard originates medicated adhesive plaster
1849 - Joseph Couch patents steam-powered percussion rock drill
1855 - Abraham Gesner patents kerosene
1860 - M L Byrn patents "covered gimlet screw with a 'T' handle" (corkscrew)
1863 - President Davis calls for this to be a day of fasting & prayer
1865 - Siege of Spanish Fort, AL-captured by Federals
1866 - Andrew Rankin patents the urinal
1866 - Pres Johnson vetoes civil rights bill; it later becomes 14th amend
1868 - The Lake Ontario Shore Railroad Company is organized in Oswego, New York.
1871 - 1st international rugby game-Scotland 1, England 0
1879 - Longest championship fight (136 rounds)
1881 - Rioting takes place in Basingstoke in protest against the daily vociferous promotion of rigid
           Temperance by the Salvation Army.
1884 - 1st long-distance telephone call, Boston-NY
1890 - A tornado strikes Louisville, Kentucky, killing 76 and injuring 200.
1906 - Founding of the Alpine Club of Canada in Winnipeg, Manitoba
1910 - Fire during a barn-dance in Ököritófülpös, Hungary, killed 312
1912 - 1st Japanese cherry blossom trees planted in Wash DC
1914 - 1st successful blood transfusion (in Brussels)
1918 - Moldova and Bessarabia join Romania.
1920 - Hermann Muller becomes German chancellor (SPD)
1924 - Canada recognizes USSR
1924 - New French government of Poincaré begins
1928 - KGB-AM in San Diego CA begins radio transmissions
1928 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1928 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1929 - US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Maribel Vinson
1929 - US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1930 - 1st US radio broadcast from a ship at sea
1931 - Charlie Chaplin receives France's distinguished Legion of Honor
1931 - John McGraw says night baseball will not catch on
1932 - De Bataven soccer team forms in Gendt
1933 - Farm Credit Administration (US) authorized
1933 - Japan leaves League of Nations
1933 - Polythene discovered by Reginald Gibson & Eric William Fawcett
1936 - WOS-AM in Jefferson City Missouri goes off the air
1937 - Feyenoord-stadium official opens in Rotterdam
1938 - The Battle of Taierzhuang takes place.
1939 - 1st NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Oregon beats OH State 46-33
1940 - Himmler orders building of Auschwitz concentration camp, at Katowice
1941 - Britain leases defense bases in Trinidad to US for 99 years
1941 - Hitler signs Directive 27 (assault on Yugoslavia)
1941 - Yugoslavian coup gets rid of pro-German Prince Paul
1942 - -28] Allies raid German submarine base in St Nazaire
1942 - Japan forces Java to use "Tokyo time" 1½ hour forward
1942 - Joe Louis KOs Abe Simon in 6 to retain heavyweight boxing title (NYC)
1943 - Assassination attempt on Van de Peat at Amsterdams census bureau
1943 - Blue Ribbon Town (with Groucho Marx) 1st heard on CBS Radio
1943 - US begins assault on Fondouk-pass, Tunisia
1944 - 1,000 Jews leave Drancy France for Auschwitz Concentration Camp
1944 - 2,000 Jews are murdered in Kaunas Lithuania
1944 - 40 Jewish policemen in Riga Latvia ghetto are shot by the gestapo
1944 - Children's Aktion-Nazis collect all the Jewish children of Lovno
1945 - 7th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Oklahoma State beats NYU 49-44
1945 - British premier Churchill sails to eastern banks of Rhine
1945 - DePaul beats Bowling Green for NIT title
1945 - Ella Fitzgerald & Delta Rhythm Boys record "It's Only a Paper Moon"
1945 - Gen Eisenhower declares German defenses on Western Front broken
1945 - Iwo Jima occupied, after 22,000 Japanese & 6,000 US killed
1945 - US 20th Army corps captures Wiesbaden
1945 - World War II: Operation Starvation, the aerial mining of Japan's ports and waterways begins.
1948 - The Second Congress of the Workers Party of North Korea is convened.
1950 - Jazz pianist, Erroll Garner's solo concert (Cleve OH)
1950 - Netherlands recognizes People's Republic of China
1950 - WHAS TV channel 11 in Louisville, KY (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 - 13th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Kansas 68-58
1951 - Frank Sinatra recorded "I'm a Fool to Want You"
1952 - Failed assassination attempt of German Chancellor Adenauer
1952 - Sun Records of Memphis begins releasing records
1953 - 21 die in a train crash in Conneaut Ohio
1955 - 9th Tony Awards: Desperate Hours & Pajama Game win
1955 - Steve McQueen makes his network TV debut (Goodyear Playhouse)
1955 - WPRI TV channel 12 in Providence, RI (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 - French commandos land in Algeria
1956 - US seizes US communist newspaper "Daily Worker"
1957 - 29th Academy Awards - "Around World in 80 Days," Bergman, Brynner win
1958 - CBS Labs announce new stereophonic records
1958 - Havana Hilton opens
1958 - Nikita Khrushchev becomes Soviet premier & 1st sect of Communist Party
1960 - Wiffi Smith wins LPGA Royal Crown Golf Open
1961 - Black demonstrators in Charleston staged ride-ins on street cars
1961 - Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1961 - Failed assassination attempt on King Saif al-Islam Achmad of Yemen
1962 - Ann Jellicoe's "Knack," premieres in London
1962 - Archbishop Rummel ends race segregation in New Orlean Catholic school
1962 - Jacques Plante ties record winning 6th NHL Vezina trophy
1963 - Beeching axe: Dr. Richard Beeching issues a report calling for huge cuts to the United
           Kingdom's rail network.
1964 - 1st true Pirate Radio station, Radio Caroline (England)
1964 - Earthquake strikes Alaska, 8.4 on Richter scale, 118 die
1964 - Great Train Robbers sentenced to a total of 307 years behind bars
1964 - UN troops arrive on Cyprus
1966 - Anit Vietnam war demonstrations in US, Europe & Australia
1966 - Marilynn Smith wins LPGA Louise Suggs Delray Beach Golf Invitational
1968 - Japanese Trade & Cultural Center (Japan Center) dedicated in SF
1968 - Suharto succeeds Sukarno as president of Indonesia
1969 - Black Academy of Arts & Letters forms in Boston
1969 - Launch of Mariner 7, flies 2,190-mi above southern Mars
1970 - Ringo releases his 1st solo album "Sentimental Journey"
1970 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1971 - 33rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: UCLA beats Villanova 68-62 UCLA wins their 5th
           consecutive NCAA basketball title
1972 - Adolph Rupp retires after 42 years of coaching U of Kentucky
1972 - Venera 8 launched to Venus
1973 - Dennis Amiss out for 99 v Pakistan, 3rd 99 in Test Cricket
1973 - Jerry Garcia (Grateful Dead) stopped for speeding & LSD possession
1973 - 45th Academy Awards - "Godfather," Marlon Brando & Liza Minnelli win Marlon Brando turns
          down Oscar for best actor in support of Indians
1976 - Delta States beat Immaculata, 69-64, for AIWA basketball title
1976 - Washington DC underground Metro opens
1977 - 583 die in aviation's worst disaster KLM-Pan Am 747 crash on Tenerife
1977 - Sandra Palmer wins LPGA Kathryn Crosby/Honda Civic Golf Classic
1978 - 40th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Duke 94-88
1978 - Bob Fosse's "Dancin'" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 1,774 perfs
1978 - Rutles "All You Need is Cash" is shown on British TV
1979 - Supreme Court rules, 8-1, cops can't randomly stop cars
1980 - "Happy New Year" opens at Morosco Theater NYC for 17 performances
1980 - "Reggae" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 21 performances
1980 - Elevator in Vaal Reef S Afr gold mine crash 1900m down (23 die)
1980 - Mount St Helens becomes active after 123 years
1980 - The Norwegian oil platform Alexander Kielland collapses in the North Sea, killing 123 of its
           crew of 212.
1981 - John Lennon releases "Watching the Wheels" in UK
1982 - "Best Little Whorehouse..." closes at 46th St NYC after 1577 perfs
1982 - Imran takes 14-116 for cricket match v Sri Lanka at Lahore
1982 - Randy Holt sets Wash Cap record of 34 penalty minutes
1983 - 13th Easter Seal Telethon
1983 - Larry Holmes beats Lucien Rodriguez in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 - Neil Simon's "Brighton Beach Memoirs," premieres in NYC
1984 - Andrew Lloyd Webber/Richard Stilgoe's "Starlight Express," premieres
1985 - Billy Dee Williams receives a star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
1986 - Disney-MGM Studio Tour ground breaking
1987 - President Habre's troops reconquer Faya Largeau Chad
1988 - Ice Dance Championship at Budapest won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1988 - Ice Pairs Championship at Budapest won by E Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1988 - Ladies Fig Skating Championship in Budapest won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1988 - Men's Figure Skating Champions in Budapest won by Brian Boitano (USA)
1988 - Ok-Hee Ku wins Standard Register Turquoise Classic Golf Tournament
1988 - Wrestlemania IV at Trump Plaza, "Macho Man" Savage pins Ted Dibiase
1989 - 1st half-black soap opera, "Generations," premieres on NBC-TV
1989 - Delhi beat Bengal by innings & 210 to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1990 - Bus accidentally touches high voltage wire in Karagpur India; 21 die
1990 - NSW beat Queensland by 345 runs to win Sheffield Shield Final
1990 - The United States begins broadcasting TV Martí to Cuba in an effort to bridge the information
           blackout imposed by the Castro regime.
1991 - NCAA bans U of Minn football team from postseason play in 1992
1991 - New Kid Donnie Wahlberg, arrested on arson charges in Kentucky
1991 - Scotty Bowman & Neil Armstrong elected to NHL Hall of Fame
1992 - Bruce Springsteen releases "Human Touch" & "Lucky Town"
1993 - Jiang Zemin is appointed President of the People's Republic of China.
1994 - 23rd Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Donna Andrews
1994 - Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 - Ice Dance Championship at Chiba Japan won by Gritschuk & Platov (RUS)
1994 - Ice Pairs Championship at Chiba won by Shishkova/Vadim Naumov (RUS)
1994 - Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Yuka Sato (JPN)
1994 - Men's Figure Skating Championship in Chiba won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1994 - The Eurofighter takes its first flight in Manching, Germany.
1995 - 67th Academy Awards - "Forest Gump," Jessica Lange & Tom Hanks win
1996 - "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
1997 - "Young Man From Atlanta," opens at Longacre NYC for 85 performances
1997 - 39 cult memebers in California commit mass suicide (Hale-Bopp)
1997 - Martin Luther King's son meets with James Earl Ray
2000 - Phillips explosion of 2000 kills 1 and injures 71 in Pasadena, Texas.
2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
2004 - HMS Scylla, a decommissioned Leander frigate, is sunk as an artificial reef off Cornwall, the
           first of its kind in Europe.
2006 - The United Nations Commission on Human Rights holds its final meeting.
2009 - Situ Gintung, an artificial lake in Indonesia, fails killing at least 99 people.
2134 - 32nd recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet

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This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Weddings

1958 - Latin American and magic realism leading novelist and short story writer "One Hundred years of
           Solitude" Gabriel Garc

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This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Actress Gloria Swanson (1899)                 Film Director & Screenwriter                    Singer Mariah Carey (1971)
                                                                    Quentin Tarantino (1963)


972 - King Robert II of France (d. 1031)
1416 - Antonio Squarcialupi, composer
1554 - Everhardus van Bronchorst, Dutch lawyer
1627 - Stephen Fox, English politician (d. 1716)
1665 - Benjamin Neukirch, German poet (Herrn von Hofmannswaldau)
1676 - Francis II Rákóczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburg (d. 1735)
1696 - Antoine Court, French Huguenot minister (d. 1760)
1702 - Johann Ernst Eberlin, composer
1710 - Joseph Marie Clement dall' Abaco, composer
1712 - Claude Bourgelat, French veterinary surgeon (d. 1779)
1714 - Francesco Antonio Zaccaria, Italian theologian and historian (d. 1795)
1730 - Thomas Tyrwhitt, English classical scholar (d. 1786)
1746 - Augustin Ullinger, composer
1746 - Carlo Bonaparte, Corsican attorney/father of emperor Napoleon
1746 - Michael Bruce, Scottish poet (d. 1767)
1757 - Richard John Samuel Stevens, composer
1760 - Ishmail Spicer, composer
1760 - MJ Auguste Vestrius, French ballet dancers
1765 - Franz Xaver von Baader, German philosopher/theologist
1772 - Giovanni Liverati, composer
1780 - August L Crelle, German inventor/mathematician (1st Prussian Railway)
1785 - Louis XVII Charles, king of France (1793-95)
1797 - Alfred V Comte de Vigny, French musketeer/writer (Moise, Chatterton)
1809 - Georges Eugene Haussmann, Paris France, architect
1810 - A Glabbrenner, writer
1810 - William Hepworth Thompson, English classical scholar (d. 1886)
1813 - Nathaniel Currier, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1816 - George Elvey, composer
1817 - Karl Wilhelm von Nägeli, Swiss biologist (d. 1891)
1818 - Jakob Axel Josephson, composer
1823 - Samuel Kosciusko Zook, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers)
1844 - Alophus Washington Greely, US, Arctic explorer
1845 - Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen, Germany, discovered X-rays (Nobel 1901)
1847 - Otto Wallach, Germany, chemist (Nobel 1910)
1851 - Ruperto Chapi y Lorente, composer
1851 - Vincent d'Indy, French composer and teacher (d. 1931)
1857 - Karl Pearson, London England, mathematician
1858 - Peter Christian Lutkin, composer
1859 - George Giffen, cricketer (one of Australia's greatest all-rounders)
1860 - Frank Frost Abbott, American classical scholar (d. 1924)
1863 - Henry Royce, automobile founder (Rolls-Royce)
1867 - Edyth Walker, US singer
1868 - Patty Smith Hill, author/songwriter (Happy Birthday To You)
1869 - James McNeill, Irish politician (d. 1938)
1871 - Heinrich Mann, Germany, novelist/essayist (Blue Angel); bros of Thomas
1871 - Petrus J M Aalberse, Dutch minister of Labor (1918-25)
1879 - Edward Steichen, pioneered American photography
1879 - Miller Huggins, American baseball player and manager (d. 1929)
1883 - Jan Kunc, composer
1883 - Marie Under, Estonian author and poet (d. 1980)
1886 - Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe, German/US architect (Bauhaus)
1886 - Sergey Kirov, Russian bolshevik leader (d. 1934)
1889 - Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoglu, Turkish writer/diplomat
1892 - Ferde (Ferdinand Rudolf von) Grofe, NY, composer
1892 - Thorne Smith, author (Topper, Rain in the Doorway, Stray Lamb)
1893 - Dragoljub "Draza" Mihailovic, Yugoslavian general/nazi collaborator
1893 - Karl Mannheim, Hung/German/British sociologist (Ideology & Utopia)
1894 - William Harrigan, NYC
1897 - Douglas Hartree, English mathematician and physicist
1897 - Carlo Mierendorff, German politician/anti-fascist
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1915 - Selma Rubin, Toledo, Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), (d. 2012)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1934 - Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1936 - Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 - Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1938 - A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 - Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 - Lord Lyell
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 - Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 - June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1941 - Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1941 - Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
1942 - Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 - Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 - M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1945 - Briton Selby, NHLer
1946 - Bill Sudakis, baseball player
1946 - Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1946 - Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 - Dough Wilkerson, football
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1949 - Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 - Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1950 - Vic Harris, baseball
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1951 - Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1951 - Tony Banks, rocker
1952 - Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 - Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 - Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 - Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
1955 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1957 - Nicholas Hawkins, MP
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1958 - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
1958 - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1960 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1960 - Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 - Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 - Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 - Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist
1963 - Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1899 - Gloria Swanson, Chicago Illinois, American actress (Sunset Boulevard, Queen Kelly)
1901 - Albert Henneberg, composer
1901 - Erich Ollenhauer, German politician (SPD)
1901 - Sato Eisaku, (Lib) Japanese PM (1964-72) (Nobel 1974)
1901 - Wilhelm Conrad von Roentgen, physicist (Nobel)
1901 - Carl Barks, American illustrator (d. 2000)
1902 - Mary Armour, artist
1902 - Charles Lang, American cinematographer (d. 1998)
1903 - Walt Kiesling, NFL guard/coach (HOF)
1905 - Elsie MacGill, Canadian aeronautical engineer (d. 1980)
1906 - Pee Wee Russell, American musician (d. 1969)
1907 - Mary Treen, St Louis Mo, actress (Emily-Willy)
1908 - Jacques [Izaak] den Haan, Dutch writer (Dangerous Book)
1909 - Ben[jamin F] Webster, US tenor saxophonist
1909 - Golo Mann, [Gottfried], German/US historian (Antisemitism)
1910 - Rudi Ball, Germany, Jewish ice hockey star (Olympic-bronze-1932)
1912 - James Callaghan, (L) British PM (1976-79)
1912 - Reuel Lahmer, composer
1912 - Robert Watson Hughes, composer
1913 - Godfrey Turner, composer
1913 - Theodor Dannecker, SS officer (d. 1945)
1914 - Budd Schulberg, NYC, novelist (On the Waterfront)
1914 - Richard Denning, Poughkeepsie NY, actor (Steve-Karen, Hawaii Five-0)
1914 - Snooky Lanson, Memphis Tn, singer (Your Hit Parade, 5 Star Jubilee)
1915 - Richard Sharp, civil servant
1915 - Selma Rubin, Toledo, Ohio, environmental activist (Earth Day co-founder), (d. 2012)
1917 - Cyrus R Vance, US Secretary of State (1977-80)
1917 - Harry West, Unionist party leader (Unionist)
1919 - Julian Amery, conservative minister
1919 - Simon van Collem, Dutch journalist/TV host (Amsterdamned)
1920 - Richard Hayman, bandleader/conductor/pianist (Theme of 3 Penny Opera)
1920 - Robin Jacques, illustrator (d. 1995)
1921 - Tom Bevill, (Rep-D-AL, 1967- )
1921 - Harold Nicholas, American dancer (d. 2000)
1922 - Margaret Stacey, sociologist
1922 - Stefan Wul, French author (d. 2003)
1923 - Louis Simpson, Jamaican/US poet (Good News of Death), (d. 2012)
1923 - Shusaku Endo, writer
1923 - Victor Hochhauser, British impresario (Israeli Philharmonic Orch)
1924 - Harold Nicholas, US actor (Tap, 5 Heartbeats, Stormy Weather)
1924 - Sarah L Vaughan, Newark NJ, jazz scat singer (Broken Hearted Melody)
1925 - Lord Plumb, MEP
1925 - R P Cohan, choreographer
1925 - Robert Cohan, artistic director (Contemporary Dance Trust)
1926 - Louis Blom-Cooper QC/press arbiter
1927 - Anthony Lewis, columnist (NY Times)/author (Gideon's Trumpet)
1927 - Lord Fanshawe of Richmond, MP
1927 - Mstislav Leopold Rostropovich, Baku USSR, cellist/conductor
1928 - Douglas Applegate, (Rep-D-OH, 1977- )
1930 - Bob den Uyl, Dutch journalist/writer (Bird Watching)
1930 - David Janssen, [Meyer], Naponee Nebraska, actor (Fugitive, Harry O)
1930 - Richard Hayman, Cambridge Mass, orchestra leader (Vaughn Monroe Show)
1931 - Burt Collins, trumpeter
1931 - R P Bauman, CEO (British Aerospace)
1931 - Yoriaki Matsudaira, composer
1932 - Wes Covington, baseball player (Philadelphia Phillies)
1933 - DRG Andrews, CEO (Land Rover-Leyland)
1933 - Frank Taylor, Chief Constable (Durham)
1933 - J Geoffrey Parker, high master (Manchestrer Grammar School)
1934 - Arthur Mitchell, choreographer (Dance Theater of Harlem)
1934 - David Hancock, secretary (British Dept of Education & Science)
1934 - Istvan Csurka, Budapest, Hungary, politician and writer, (d. 2012)
1935 - Earl of Suffolk & Berkshire
1935 - Julian Glover, London England, actor (QED, Heat & Dust, Mandela)
1935 - Abelardo Castillo, Argentine writer
1935 - Fr. Stanley Rother, Roman Catholic Priest, Martyr and Missionary to Guatemala (d. 1981)
1936 - Jerry Lacy, Sioux City Iowa, actor (Play it Again Sam)
1936 - Malcolm Goldstein, composer
1937 - Johnny "Clyde" Copeland, US blues guitarist/singer (Lion's Den)
1937 - Thomas Aquinas Daly, American painter
1938 - A J Bellingham, president (Royal College of Pathologists)
1938 - Jock Slater, admiral
1938 - P Daubeny, CEO (Electricity Association)
1939 - Cale Yarborough, auto racer (Daytona 500-1968, 77, 83, 84)
1939 - Jay C Kim, (Rep-R-California)
1939 - Judy Carne, comedienne (Laugh-In, Love on a Rooftop)
1939 - Lord Lyell
1939 - Ruth Ashton, general secretary (Royal College of Midwives)
1940 - Austin Pendleton, Warren OH, actor (Short Circuit, Simon, Hello Again)
1940 - June Wilkinson, Eastbourne England, actress (Absolutely Glamarous)
1940 - Janis Martin, American singer (d. 2007)
1941 - Charles Pashayan Jr, (Rep-R-CA, 1979- )
1941 - Liese Prokop, Austria, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1968)
1941 - Ivan Gašparovič, President of Slovakia
1942 - Michael York, England, actor (Cabaret, Logan's Run, 3 Musketeers)
1942 - Raymond J McGrath, (Rep-R-NY, 1981- )
1942 - John E. Sulston, British chemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1942 - Michael Jackson, English writer (d. 2007)
1943 - M Robert Carr, (Rep-D-Michigan, 1975-81, 83- )
1943 - Phil Frank, American cartoonist (d. 2007)
1944 - Khosrow Shakibai, Iranian actor (d. 2008)
1945 - Briton Selby, NHLer
1946 - Bill Sudakis, baseball player
1946 - Carl Weintraub, actor (Harry-Executive Suite)
1946 - Jerry Lacy, actor (Rev Trask-Dark Shadows)
1946 - Olaf Malolepski, German musician (Die Flippers)
1947 - Daphne Todd, president (Royal Society of Portrait Painters)
1947 - Dough Wilkerson, football
1947 - Tom Sullivan, Boston MA, blind actor (If You Could See What I Hear)
1947 - Walt Mossberg, the highest-paid journalist at the Wall Street Journal
1949 - Patrick Deuchar, CEO (Albert Hall)
1950 - Maria Ewing, opera singer
1950 - Tony Banks, rock keyboardist (Genesis-Against All Odds)
1950 - Vic Harris, baseball
1950 - Petros Efthimiou, Greek politician
1951 - Bobby Lalonde, NHLer (Boston Bruins)
1951 - Tony Banks, rocker
1952 - Chick Vennera, Herkimer NY, actor (High Risk, Milagro Beanfield War)
1952 - Maria Schneider, Paris, actress (Last Tango in Paris, Crime of Honor)
1952 - Rocky Maffit, rocker (Champaign)
1953 - Pamela Roylance, Seattle Wash, actress (Sarah-Little House on Prairie)
1955 - Kim Brassey, racehorse trainer
1955 - Patrick McCabe, novelist
1956 - Brian Kelly, CFL wide receiver (Edmonton Eskimos)
1956 - Thomas Wassberg, Sweden, 15K/50K cross country skier (Oly-gold-1980)
1957 - Billy MacKenzie, rock vocalist (The Associates-Affectionate Punch)
1957 - Duncan Goodhew, England, 100m breast stroke swimmer (Oly-Gold-1980)
1957 - Nicholas Hawkins, MP
1957 - Nick Hawkins, British politician
1958 - Bart Connor, gymnast/sportscaster (Olympic-gold-1984)
1958 - Susan Molinari, (Rep-R-NY)
1960 - Clare Lucy Madeleine Evans, historian
1960 - Jennifer Grey, actress (Dirty Dancing); Joel Grey's daughter
1960 - Steve Jarvin, Australian soling yachter (Olympics-96)
1960 - Hans Pflügler, German footballer
1961 - Clark Datchler, vocalist (Johnny Hates Jazz-Don't Say it's Love)
1961 - Ellery Hanley, rugby league player
1961 - Tak Matsumoto, Japanese guitarist (B'z)
1961 - Tony Rominger, Swiss cyclist
1963 - Dave Koz, saxophonist
1963 - Ed Pinckney, NBA forward (Phila 76ers)
1967 - Paul Adams, American celebrity
1968 - Irina Belova, Russian pentathelete (world record 1992)
1969 - Tom Beer, NFL running back (Detroit Lions)
1969 - Kevin Corrigan, American actor
1969 - Pauley Perrette, American actress, photographer, poet, writer
1970 - Anthony Prior, NFL cornerback/safety (NY Jets, Minnesota Vikings)
1970 - Corey Page, actor (Richard Wilkins-Loving/City)
1970 - Ed Philion, NFL nose tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1970 - Brendan Hill, British drummer (Blues Traveler)
1970 - Princess Leila of Iran (d. 2001)
1970 - Elizabeth Mitchell, American actress
1971 - Mariah Carey, NYC, singer (Love Takes Time, Hero)
1971 - Nathan Fillion, Canadian actor
1972 - Kirby Dar Dar, wide reciever (Miami Dolphins)
1972 - Charlie Haas, professional wrestler
1972 - Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink, Dutch footballer
1973 - Serge Tremblay, La Malbaie Quebec, weightlifter (Olympics-96)
1974 - Rosanna Gimenez, Miss Paraguay Universe (1997)
1974 - Russ Haas, wrestler (d. 2001)
1974 - Gaizka Mendieta, Spanish footballer
1975 - B J Gallis, CFL linebacker (BC Lions)
1975 - Gregory DuBois, hockey defenseman (Team France 1998)
1975 - Stacy Ferguson, American pop singer (The Black Eyed Peas)
1975 - Tom Goegebuer, Belgian weightlifter
1975 - Chakrit Yamnam, Thai film and television actor
1976 - Danny Fortson, NBA forward (Denver Nuggets)
1976 - Roberta Alma Anastase, Miss Universe-Romania (1996)
1976 - Djamel Belmadi, Algerian footballer
1977 - Tom van der Leegte, Dutch soccer player (PSV)
1977 - Vitor Meira, Brazilian racing driver
1979 - Michael Cuddyer, Minnesota Twins baseball player
1981 - Lin Jun Jie, Chinese Singer
1981 - Terry McFlynn, Northern Irish footballer
1981 - Carey Davis, National Football League fullback
1982 - Kurara Chibana, Japanese beauty queen, first runner-up Miss Universe 2006
1984 - Emily Ann Lloyd, actress (Sarah Kramer-Something So Right)
1984 - J P Steur, actor (Grace Under Fire)
1985 - Dario Baldauf, Austrian footballer
1985 - Stijn De Smet, Belgian footballer
1985 - Caroline Winberg, Swedish supermodel
1986 - Melissa Stern, [Baby M]/[Sara Whitehead], surrogate baby
1986 - Valerie "So Cal Val" Wyndham, American professional wrestling valet
1986 - Ramani, Indian Girl
1987 - Chad Denny, Canadian ice hockey player
1988 - Kerri Ann Darling, actress (Alli Fowler-Another World)
1988 - Brenda Song, American actress
1990 - Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
1995 - Taylor Atelian, American actress

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 27th March


Famous Deaths 

                                   
King of Great Britain                              Cosmonaut & First Man in Space              Actor Dudley Moore (2002)
James I Stuart (1625)                                        Yuri Gagarin (1968)


710 - Rupert of Salzburg
922 - Al-Hallaj al-Mughith-al-Hsayn Mansur, Persian mystic, beheaded at 64
965 - Arnulf I, the Elder/the Great, count of Flanders (918-65), dies
973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony
1378 - Gregory XI, [Pierre R the Beaufort], last French Pope (1370-78), dies
1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1472 - Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet/translator, dies at 37
1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold and his successor, dies falling off her horse
           (b. 1457)
1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
1625 - James I Stuart, king of Scotland (1567)/England (1603-25), dies at 58
1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1668 - Clemens Thieme, composer, dies at 36
1679 - Abraham Mignon, Dutch still life painter, dies at 38
1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1701 - Anne Hilarion de Cotentin, count of Tourville/Fr admiral, dies at 58
1714 - Anton Ulrich, German duke of Brunswick/poet, dies at 80
1757 - Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz, composer, dies at 39
1761 - Johann Ludwig Steiner, composer, dies at 72
1769 - Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
1770 - Giovanni B Tiepolo, Italian painter (Banquet of Cleopatra), dies at 73
1809 - Joseph M Vien, French (court)painter/etcher, dies at 92
1826 - Jakob Haibel, composer, dies at 63
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 - Wilhelm Bear, German banker/astronomer (Moon Map), dies at 53
1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 - Dobri Voynikov, composer, dies at 44
1878 - George Gilbert Scott, architect, dies
1889 - Moritz Furstenau, composer, dies at 64
1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1894 - Verney L Cameron, English explorer (Tanganyika), dies at 49
1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual and one of the founding fathers of Pakistan
           dies at 80
1900 - Pieter J Joubert [Smart Piet], South African general, dies at 69
1910 - Alexander E Agassiz, US businessman/biologist/geologist, dies at 74
1910 - David Duffle Wood, composer, dies at 72
1920 - Johan G Danser, Dutch poet (Meetings), dies at 26
1922 - Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov, composer, dies at 63
1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 - Walter Parratt, composer, dies at 83
1925 - Carl G Neumann, German mathematician/physicist, dies at 92
1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1928 - Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
1929 - Samuil Shatunovsky, Ukrainian mathematician, dies at 70
1931 - Arnold Bennett, novelist, dies
1933 - Lionel Palairet, cricketer (49 runs in 2 Tests for England 1902), dies
1934 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1938 - Louis William Stern, German/US philosopher/psychologist, dies at 66
1939 - Constance Lindsay Skinner, author (Rivers of America), dies at 57
1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1943 - Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, test pilot (BI-1), killed in crash
1945 - Jorgen Nielsen, Danish writer (romance), dies at 42
1947 - Charles Smith, cricketer (batted for S Afr in 1902-03), dies
1948 - Karel Candael, Flemish composer, dies at 64
1953 - Narciso Garay, composer, dies at 76
1956 - Frans Beelaerts van Blokland, minister of Foreign affairs, dies at 84
1959 - Grant Withers, actor (Oklahoma Annie), suicide with sleeping pills at 54
1960 - Ian Whyte, composer, dies at 58
1961 - Jack Kane, orchestra leader (Steve & Eydie, Andy Williams Show), dies at 37
1966 - Mien Labberton, Dutch poet, dies at 82
1967 - Gerardus H de Vet, the Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67), dies at 49
1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, 1st man to orbit Earth, & Seryogin, in plane crash at 34
1972 - Maurits C Escher, Dutch lithograph carver (Praedestinatie), dies at 73
1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1973 - Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, composer, dies at 72
1975 - Arthur Bliss, English composer/conductor (Checkmate), dies at 83
1975 - Gertrude Niesen, actress (Start Cheering), dies at 63
1977 - Diana Hyland, actress (Peyton Place, 8 is Enough), dies at 41
1977 - Eve Meyer, X actress (Immoral Mr Teas), dies in a plane crash at 46
1977 - Lodewijk de Vocht, composer, dies at 89
1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
1978 - Wilfred Pickles, actor (Billy Liar, Gay Dog), dies at 73
1979 - Ronald Adam, actor (Phantom Shot), dies at 82
1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1983 - James Hayter, actor (Pickwick Papers, Trio, Great Game), dies at 75
1983 - Janis Ivanovs, composer, dies at 76
1986 - Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1987 - Lloyd Goodrich, American Arts Museum director, dies at 90
1988 - Jan van den Weghe, Flemish writer, dies at about 67
1989 - May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1991 - Aldo Ray, western actor (Battle Cry), dies at 64 of cancer
1991 - Elinor Remick Warren, composer, dies at 91
1991 - Leueen McGrath, actress (Edward My Son, Saint's Vacation), dies at 77
1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1992 - Anita Colby, US model/actress/author (Pepsi Coke), dies at 77
1992 - Easley Blackwood, expert bridge player, dies at 89
1992 - Gerry Duggan, dies at 82
1992 - James E Webb, head of NASA (1961-68), dies at 84
1992 - Martin Engelman, Dutch cartoonist/painter/graphic artist, dies
1993 - Carlos Gimenez, director (Theater Festival of Caracas), dies at 47
1993 - Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophonist, dies of cancer at 61
1993 - Kate Reid, British actress (Lil-Dallas), dies of cancer at 62
1993 - Katherine Hynes De Groot, dies of stroke at 88
1993 - Wilhelmus M J Russell, Dutch MP (KVP, CDA), dies at 74
1994 - Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
1995 - Albert Drach, writer, dies
1995 - Bernard Cornfeld, Romanian/US financier (Fund of Funds), dies at 67
1995 - Chet Gierlach, music publisher/composer, dies at 75
1995 - Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
2009 - Jack Dreyfus, American businessman (b. 1913)
2010 - Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2012 - Hilton Kramer, American art critic, dies from heart failure at 84
2012 - Adrienne Rich, American feminist poet/essayist, dies from complications of rheumatoid
           arthritis at 82
2012 - Warren Stevens, American actor, dies from lung disease at 92