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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 26 is the 85th day of the year (86th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
280 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
590 Emperor Maurice proclaims
his son Theodosius as
co-emperor of the Byzantine Empire.[1] ·
1027 Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. ·
1169 Saladin becomes the emir of Egypt. ·
1344 The Siege of
Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where
gunpowder was used, comes to an end. ·
1351 Combat of the Thirty:
Thirty Breton knights
call out and defeat thirty English knights. ·
1484 William Caxton prints his translation
of Aesop's Fables. ·
1552 Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh guru. ·
1636 Utrecht University is
founded in the Netherlands. ·
1697 Safavid government troops take
control of Basra ·
1812 An earthquake devastates Caracas, Venezuela. ·
1812 A political cartoon in the Boston Gazette coins the term
"gerrymander" to describe oddly
shaped electoral districts designed
to help incumbents win reelection. ·
1830 The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New
York. ·
1839 The first Henley Royal Regatta is
held. ·
1871 The elections
of Commune council of the Paris Commune are held. ·
1885 The Mιtis people
of the District of
Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North-West Rebellion against Canada. ·
1913 First Balkan War: Bulgarian forces capture Adrianople. ·
1915 The Vancouver
Millionaires win the 1915 Stanley Cup
Finals, the first championship played between the Pacific
Coast Hockey Association and the National
Hockey Association. ·
1917 World War I: First Battle of Gaza:
British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. ·
1922 The German
Social Democratic Party is founded in Poland. ·
1931 Swissair is founded as the national airline of Switzerland. ·
1931 Ho Chi
Minh Communist Youth Union is founded in Vietnam. ·
1934 The United
Kingdom driving test is introduced. ·
1939 Spanish Civil War: Nationalists begin their final
offensive of the war. ·
1942 World War II: The first female prisoners
arrive at Auschwitz concentration
camp in German-occupied
Poland. ·
1945 World War II:
The Battle of Iwo Jima ends
as the island is officially secured by American forces. ·
1954 Nuclear weapons
testing: The Romeo shot of Operation Castle is detonated at Bikini Atoll. Yield: 11 megatons. ·
1958 The United
States Army launches Explorer 3. ·
1958 The African Regroupment
Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. ·
1967 Ten thousand
people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City. ·
1970 South Vietnamese President Nguyễn
Văn Thiệu implements a land
reform program to solve the problem of land tenancy. ·
1971 East Pakistan declares its independence
from Pakistan to form Bangladesh and the Bangladesh
Liberation War begins. ·
1975 The Biological
Weapons Convention comes into force. ·
1979 Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the EgyptIsrael
Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C. ·
1981 Social
Democratic Party (UK) is founded as a party. ·
1982 A
groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam
Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C. ·
1991 Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asunciσn,
establishing Mercosur, the South
Common Market. ·
1997 Thirty-nine
bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate mass suicides. ·
1998 During
the Algerian Civil War,
the Oued Bouaicha
massacre sees fifty-two people, mostly infants, killed with
axes and knives. ·
2005 Around 200,000
to 300,000 Taiwanese demonstrate in Taipei in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of China. ·
2010 The South
Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed,
killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames
North Korea. ·
2017 Russia-wide
anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of
surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin
personally responsible for high-level corruption. Births[edit]
·
1031 Malcolm III,
king of Scotland (d. 1093) ·
1516 Conrad Gessner, Swiss botanist and zoologist
(d. 1565) ·
1554 Charles of
Lorraine, duke of Mayenne (d. 1611) ·
1584 John
II, duke of Zweibrόcken (d. 1635) ·
1633 Mary Beale, British artist (d. 1699) ·
1634 Domenico Freschi, Italian priest and
composer (d. 1710) ·
1656 Nicolaas Hartsoeker,
Dutch mathematician and physicist (d. 1725) ·
1687 Sophia
Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Prussia (d. 1757) ·
1698 Prokop Divi, Czech priest, scientist and
inventor (d. 1765) ·
1749 William Blount, American politician (d.
1800) ·
1753 Benjamin Thompson,
American-French physicist and politician, Under-Secretary
of State for the Colonies (d. 1814) ·
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch,
American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838) ·
1794 Julius
Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) ·
1804 David Humphreys
Storer, American physician and academic (d. 1891) ·
1824 Julie-Victoire
Daubiι, French journalist (d. 1874)[2] ·
1829 Thιodore Aubanel,
French poet (d. 1886) ·
1842 Alexandre
Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, French occultist (d. 1909) ·
1850 Edward Bellamy, American author, socialist,
and utopian visionary (d. 1898) ·
1852 Ιlιmir Bourges,
French author (d. 1925) ·
1854 Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter (d.
1925) ·
1856 William Massey, Irish-New Zealand farmer and
politician, 19th Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1925) ·
1857 Thιodore Tuffier,
French surgeon (d. 1929) ·
1859 A. E. Housman, English poet and scholar (d.
1936) ·
1859 Adolf Hurwitz, Jewish German-Swiss
mathematician and academic (d. 1919) ·
1860 Andrι Prιvost,
French tennis player (d. 1919) ·
1866 Fred Karno, English producer and manager (d.
1941) ·
1868 King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936) ·
1873 Dorothea Bleek, South African-German
anthropologist and philologist (d. 1948) ·
1874 Robert Frost, American poet and playwright
(d. 1963) ·
1875 Max Abraham, Polish-German physicist and
academic (d. 1922) ·
1875 Syngman Rhee, South Korean journalist and
politician, 1st President of
South Korea (d. 1965) ·
1876 William of
Wied, prince of Albania (d. 1945) ·
1876 Kate Richards O'Hare,
American Socialist Party activist and editor (d. 1948) ·
1879 Othmar Ammann, Swiss-American engineer,
designed the George
Washington Bridge and Verrazzano-Narrows
Bridge (d. 1965) ·
1879 Waldemar Tietgens,
German rower (d. 1917) ·
1881 Guccio Gucci, Italian fashion designer,
founded Gucci (d. 1953) ·
1882 Hermann Obrecht, Swiss politician (d. 1940) ·
1884 Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist and
educator (d. 1969) ·
1884 Georges Imbert, French chemical engineer and
inventor (d. 1950) ·
1886 Hugh Mulzac, Vincentian-American soldier and
politician (d. 1971) ·
1888 Elsa Brδndstrφm,
Swedish nurse and philanthropist (d. 1948) ·
1893 James Bryant Conant,
American chemist, academic, and diplomat, 1st United
States Ambassador to West Germany (d. 1978) ·
1893 Palmiro Togliatti,
Italian journalist and politician, Italian
Minister of Justice (d. 1964) ·
1894 Viorica Ursuleac, Ukrainian-Romanian soprano
and actress (d. 1985) ·
1895 Vilho Tuulos, Finnish triple jumper (d.
1967) ·
1898 Rudolf Dassler, German businessman,
founded Puma SE (d. 1974) ·
1898 Charles
Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979) ·
1900 Angela Maria Autsch,
German nun, died in Auschwitz helping Jewish prisoners (d. 1941) [3] ·
1904 Joseph Campbell, American mythologist and
author (d. 1987) ·
1904 Emilio Fernαndez,
Mexican actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1986) ·
1904 Attilio Ferraris, Italian footballer (d.
1947) ·
1905 Monty Berman, English cinematographer and
producer (d. 2006) ·
1905 Andrι Cluytens,
Belgian-French conductor and director (d. 1967) ·
1905 Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and
psychiatrist (d. 1997) ·
1906 Rafael Mιndez, Mexican trumpet player and
composer (d. 1981) ·
1907 Azellus Denis, Canadian lawyer and
politician, Postmaster
General of Canada (d. 1991) ·
1907 Mahadevi Varma, Indian poet and activist (d.
1987) ·
1908 Franz Stangl, Austrian-German SS officer
(d. 1971) ·
1909 Chips Rafferty, Australian actor (d. 1971) ·
1910 K. W. Devanayagam,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 10th Sri
Lankan Minister of Justice (d. 2002) ·
1911 Lennart Atterwall,
Swedish javelin thrower (d. 2001) ·
1911 J. L. Austin, English philosopher and
academic (d. 1960) ·
1911 Bernard Katz, German-English
biophysicist, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2003) ·
1911 Tennessee Williams,
American playwright, and poet (d. 1983) ·
1913 Jacqueline de
Romilly, Jewish Franco-Greek philologist, author, and scholar
(d. 2010) ·
1913 Paul Erdős, Hungarian-Polish
mathematician and academic (d. 1996) ·
1914 Toru Kumon, Japanese mathematician and
academic (d. 1995) ·
1914 William Westmoreland,
American general (d. 2005) ·
1915 Lennart Strandberg,
Swedish sprinter (d. 1989) ·
1915 Hwang Sun-won, North Korean author and poet
(d. 2000) ·
1916 Christian B.
Anfinsen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1995) ·
1916 Bill Edrich, English cricketer and footballer
(d. 1986) ·
1916 Sterling Hayden, American actor and author
(d. 1986) ·
1917 Rufus Thomas, American R&B
singer-songwriter (d. 2001) ·
1919 Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980) ·
1919 Roger Leger, Canadian ice hockey player (d.
1965) ·
1920 Sergio Livingstone,
Chilean footballer and journalist (d. 2012) ·
1922 William Milliken, American politician,
44th Governor of Michigan (d.
2019) ·
1922 Oscar Sala, Italian-Brazilian physicist and
academic (d. 2010) ·
1922 Guido Stampacchia,
Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1978) ·
1923 Gert Bastian, German general and politician
(d. 1992) ·
1923 Bob Elliott,
American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1925 Maqsood Ahmed, Pakistani cricketer (d. 1999) ·
1925 Pierre Boulez, French pianist, composer, and
conductor (d. 2016) ·
1925 Vesta Roy, American politician, Governor of New
Hampshire (d. 2002) ·
1925 Edward
Graham, Baron Graham of Edmonton, English soldier and politician
(d. 2020) ·
1925 Ben Mondor, Canadian-American businessman
(d. 2010) ·
1925 James Moody,
American saxophonist and composer (d. 2010) ·
1927 Harold Chapman, English photographer ·
1929 Edward Sorel, American illustrator and
caricaturist ·
1929 Edwin Turney, American businessman,
co-founded Advanced Micro
Devices (d. 2008) ·
1930 Sandra Day O'Connor,
American lawyer and jurist ·
1930 Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001) ·
1931 Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015) ·
1932 Leroy Griffith, American businessman ·
1932 James Andrew Harris,
American chemist and academic (d. 2000) ·
1933 Tinto Brass, Italian director and
screenwriter ·
1934 Alan Arkin, American actor ·
1934 Edvaldo Alves
de Santa Rosa, Brazilian footballer (d. 2002) ·
1937 Wayne Embry, American basketball player and
manager ·
1937 Barbara Jones,
American sprinter ·
1937 James Lee,
Canadian businessman and politician, 26th Premier
of Prince Edward Island ·
1938 Norman Ackroyd, English painter and
illustrator ·
1938 Anthony James
Leggett, English-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1940 James Caan, American actor and singer ·
1940 Nancy Pelosi, American lawyer and
politician, 60th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives ·
1941 Richard Dawkins, Kenyan-English ethologist,
biologist, and academic[4] ·
1941 Lella Lombardi, Italian racing driver (d.
1992) ·
1942 Erica Jong, American novelist and poet ·
1943 Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish physician and
politician, Turkish
Minister of the Interior ·
1943 Bob Woodward, American journalist and author ·
1944 Diana Ross, American singer-songwriter,
producer, and actress ·
1945 Paul Bιrenger, Mauritian politician, Prime
Minister of Mauritius ·
1945 Mikhail Voronin, Russian gymnast and coach
(d. 2004) ·
1946 Johnny Crawford, American actor and singer ·
1946 Alain Madelin, French politician, French
Minister of Finance[5] ·
1947 Subhash Kak, Indian-American professor and
author ·
1947 John Rowles, New Zealand-Australian
singer-songwriter ·
1948 Kyung-wha Chung, South Korean violinist and
educator ·
1948 Richard Tandy, English pianist and keyboard
player (Electric Light
Orchestra) ·
1948 Steven Tyler, American singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1949 Jon English, English-Australian
singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2016) ·
1949 Rudi Koertzen, South African cricketer and
umpire ·
1949 Vicki Lawrence, American actress, comedian,
talk show host, and singer ·
1949 Fran Sheehan, American bass player ·
1949 Patrick Sόskind,
German author and screenwriter ·
1949 Ernest Lee Thomas,
American actor ·
1950 Teddy Pendergrass,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2010) ·
1950 Graham Barlow, English cricketer ·
1950 Martin Short, Canadian-American actor,
screenwriter, and producer ·
1950 Alan Silvestri, American composer and
conductor ·
1951 eljko
Pavličević, Croatian professional basketball coach and
former professional player ·
1951 Carl Wieman, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1952 Didier Pironi, French racing driver (d. 1987)[6] ·
1953 Lincoln Chafee, American academic and
politician, 74th Governor of Rhode
Island ·
1953 Elaine Chao, Taiwanese-American banker and
politician, 24th United
States Secretary of Labor ·
1953 Tatyana Providokhina,
Russian runner ·
1954 Clive Palmer, Australian businessman and
politician ·
1954 Curtis Sliwa, American talk show host and
activist, founded Guardian Angels ·
1954 Dorothy Porter, Australian poet and
playwright (d. 2008) ·
1956 Charly McClain, American country singer ·
1956 Park Won-soon, South Korean lawyer and
politician, 35th Mayor of Seoul ·
1957 Fiona Bruce,
Scottish lawyer and politician ·
1957 Leeza Gibbons, American talk show host and
television personality ·
1957 Paul Morley, English journalist, producer,
and author ·
1957 Shirin Neshat, Iranian visual artist ·
1958 Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d.
1986) ·
1960 Marcus Allen, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1960 Jennifer Grey, American actress and dancer[7] ·
1960 Graeme Rutjes, Australian-Dutch footballer ·
1961 William Hague, English historian and
politician, First Secretary
of State ·
1962 Richard Coles, English pianist, saxophonist,
and priest ·
1962 Kevin Seitzer, American baseball player and
coach ·
1962 Yuri Gidzenko, Russian pilot and cosmonaut ·
1962 John Stockton, American basketball player
and coach ·
1962 Eric Allan Kramer,
American-Canadian actor ·
1963 Natsuhiko Kyogoku,
Japanese author ·
1964 Martin Bella, Australian rugby league player ·
1964 Martin
Donnelly, Irish racing driver ·
1964 Maria Miller, English businessman and
politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport ·
1964 Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish-American ice hockey
player and coach ·
1965 Trey Azagthoth, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1965 Violeta Szekely, Romanian runner ·
1966 Michael Imperioli,
American actor and screenwriter ·
1967 Jason Chaffetz, American politician ·
1968 Laurent Brochard, French cyclist ·
1968 Kenny Chesney, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1968 James Iha, American guitarist and songwriter ·
1969 Alessandro Moscardi,
Italian rugby player ·
1970 Paul Bosvelt, Dutch footballer ·
1970 Jelle Goes, Dutch footballer and coach ·
1970 Thomas Kyparissis,
Greek footballer ·
1970 Martin McDonagh, English-born Irish
playwright, screenwriter, and director ·
1971 Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist ·
1971 Martyn Day,
Scottish politician ·
1971 Erick Morillo, Colombian-American DJ and
producer ·
1971 Rennae Stubbs, Australian tennis player and
sportscaster ·
1971 Paul
Williams, English footballer and manager ·
1972 Leslie Mann, American actress ·
1972 Jason Maxwell, American baseball player ·
1973 Larry Page, American computer scientist and
businessman, co-founder of Google ·
1973 T. R. Knight, American actor ·
1973 Matt Burke, Australian rugby player and
sportscaster ·
1974 Irina Spξrlea, Romanian tennis player ·
1974 Vadimas Petrenko, Lithuanian footballer ·
1974 Michael Peca, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1976 Amy Smart, American actress and former model ·
1976 Alex Varas, Chilean footballer ·
1976 Eirik Verεs Larsen,
Norwegian sprint kayaker[8] ·
1977 Kevin Davies, English footballer ·
1977 Bianca Kajlich, American actress ·
1977 Sylvain Grenier, Canadian wrestler ·
1978 Anastasia Kostaki,
Greek basketball player ·
1979 Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer ·
1979 Ben Blair, New Zealand rugby union
footballer ·
1979 Hiromi Uehara, Japanese pianist and composer ·
1979 Pierre Womι, Cameroonian footballer ·
1979 Juliana Paes, Brazilian actress ·
1980 Margaret Brennan, American journalist ·
1980 Son Ho-young, South Korean singer ·
1980 Richie Wellens, English footballer ·
1981 Sιbastien Centomo,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1981 Baruch Dego, Ethiopian-Israeli footballer ·
1981 Massimo Donati, Italian footballer ·
1981 Josh Wilson,
American baseball player ·
1982 Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer ·
1982 Brendan Ryan,
American baseball player ·
1982 Nate Kaeding, American football player ·
1983 Andreas Hinkel, German footballer ·
1983 Floriana Lima, American actress ·
1983 Roman Bednαř,
Czech footballer ·
1983 Mike Mondo, American wrestler ·
1984 Jimmy Howard, American ice hockey player ·
1984 Drew Mitchell, Australian rugby player ·
1984 Felix Neureuther, German skier ·
1984 Marco Stier, German footballer ·
1984 Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1984 Sara Jean Underwood,
American model, television host, and actress ·
1985 Keira Knightley, English actress ·
1985 Matt Grevers, American swimmer ·
1985 Jonathan Groff, American actor and singer ·
1985 Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1986 Maxime Biset, Belgian footballer ·
1986 Rob Kearney, Irish rugby player ·
1986 Emma Laine, Finnish tennis player ·
1987 Kim Dong-suk, South Korean footballer ·
1987 Jermichael Finley,
American football player ·
1987 Steven
Fletcher, Scottish footballer ·
1989 Simon Kjζr, Danish footballer ·
1990 Choi Woo-shik, South Korean actor ·
1990 Patrick Ekeng, Cameroonian footballer (d.
2016) ·
1990 Yuya Takaki, Japanese idol, singer, dancer,
model and actor ·
1990 Xiumin, South Korean singer and actor,
member of South Korean boy band EXO ·
1991 Matt Davidson,
American baseball player ·
1992 Nina Agdal, Danish model ·
1992 Stoffel Vandoorne,
Belgian racing driver ·
1994 Jed Wallace, English footballer ·
1996 Zane Musgrove, New Zealand rugby league
player ·
1996 Kathryn Bernardo, Filipino actress ·
1998 Satoko Miyahara, Japanese figure skater ·
2003 Bhad Bhabie, American rapper and social
media personality[9] Deaths[edit]
·
809 Ludger, Frisian missionary ·
903 Sugawara no Michizane,
Japanese poet ·
908 Ai, emperor
of the Tang Dynasty (b.
892) ·
922 Mansur Al-Hallaj, Persian mystic and poet
(b. 858) ·
929 Wang Du, Chinese warlord and governor (jiedushi) ·
973 Guntram ("the Rich"),
Frankish nobleman ·
983 'Adud al-Dawla, Iranian ruler (b. 936) ·
1091 Wallada bint
al-Mustakfi, Andalusian poet[10] ·
1130 Sigurd the Crusader,
Norwegian king (b. 1090) ·
1132 Geoffrey of Vendτme,
French cardinal and theologian (b. 1065) ·
1212 Sancho I of Portugal (b.
1154) ·
1242 William
de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle ·
1324 Marie
de Luxembourg, Queen of France (b. 1304) ·
1326 Alessandra Giliani,
anatomist (b. c. 1307) ·
1402 David
Stewart, Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (b.
1378) ·
1437 Walter
Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Scottish nobleman and regicide ·
1517 Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer (b. 1450) ·
1535 Georg Tannstetter,
Austrian mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (b. 1482) ·
1546 Thomas Elyot, English scholar and diplomat
(b. 1490) ·
1566 Antonio de Cabezσn,
Spanish organist and composer (b. 1510) ·
1625 Giambattista Marini,
Italian poet (b. 1569) ·
1649 John Winthrop, English lawyer and
politician, 2nd Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony ·
1679 Johannes Schefferus,
Swedish historian and author (b. 1621) ·
1697 Godfrey McCulloch,
Scottish politician (b. 1640) ·
1726 John Vanbrugh, English playwright and architect,
designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard (b. 1664) ·
1772 Charles Pinot Duclos,
French author and politician (b. 1704) ·
1776 Samuel
Ward, American jurist and politician, 31st Governor
of the Colony of Rhode Island (b. 1725) ·
1780 Charles
I, Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbόttel (b. 1713) ·
1793 John Mudge, English physician and engineer
(b. 1721) ·
1797 James Hutton, Scottish geologist and physician
(b. 1726) ·
1814 Joseph-Ignace
Guillotin, French physician and politician (b. 1738) ·
1827 Ludwig van Beethoven,
German pianist and composer (b. 1770) ·
1858 John Addison Thomas,
American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United
States Assistant Secretary of State (b. 1811) ·
1862 Uriah P. Levy, American commander (b. 1792) ·
1881 Roman Sanguszko, Polish general and activist
(b. 1800) ·
1885 Anson Stager, American general and businessman,
co-founded Western Union (b.
1825) ·
1888 Barghash
bin Said of Zanzibar (b. 1837) ·
1892 Walt Whitman, American poet, essayist, and
journalist (b. 1819) ·
1902 Cecil Rhodes, English-South African
colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime
Minister of the Cape Colony (b. 1853) ·
1905 Maurice Barrymore,
American actor (b. 1849) ·
1910 Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b.
1864) ·
1920 William Chester
Minor, American surgeon and lexicographer (b. 1834) ·
1923 Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and
screenwriter (b. 1844) ·
1926 Constantin
Fehrenbach, German lawyer and politician, Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1852) ·
1932 Henry M. Leland, American machinist,
inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founded of Cadillac and Lincoln (b.
1843) ·
1934 John Biller, American jumper and discus
thrower (b. 1877) ·
1940 Wilhelm Anderson, German-Estonian
astrophysicist (b. 1880) ·
1940 Spyridon Louis, Greek runner (b. 1873) ·
1942 Jimmy Burke,
American baseball player and manager (b. 1874) ·
1942 Carolyn Wells, American novelist and poet
(b. 1862)[11] ·
1945 David Lloyd George,
English-Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863) ·
1951 James F. Hinkle, American banker and
politician, 6th Governor of New
Mexico (b. 1864) ·
1954 Charles Perrin, French rower (b. 1875) ·
1957 Ιdouard Herriot,
French politician, Prime Minister
of France (b. 1872) ·
1958 Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer
(b. 1887) ·
1959 Raymond Chandler, American crime novelist
and screenwriter (b. 1888) ·
1966 Victor Hochepied, French swimmer (b. 1883) ·
1969 John Kennedy Toole,
American novelist (b. 1937) ·
1973 Noλl Coward, English playwright, actor, and
composer (b. 1899) ·
1973 Johnny Drake, American football player (b.
1916) ·
1979 Beauford Delaney, American-French painter
(b. 1901) ·
1979 Jean Stafford, American author and academic
(b. 1915) ·
1980 Roland Barthes, French linguist and critic
(b. 1915) ·
1983 Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (b.
1907) ·
1984 Ahmed Sιkou Tourι,
Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (b.
1922) ·
1987 Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902) ·
1987 Walter Abel, American actor (b. 1898) ·
1990 Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932) ·
1992 Barbara Frum, American-Canadian journalist
and radio host (b. 1937) ·
1993 Louis Falco, American dancer and
choreographer (b. 1942) ·
1995 Eazy-E, American rapper and producer (b.
1964) ·
1996 Edmund Muskie, American lieutenant, lawyer,
and politician, 58th United
States Secretary of State (b. 1914) ·
1996 David Packard, American engineer and
businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (b. 1912) ·
2000 Alex Comfort, English physician and author
(b. 1920) ·
2002 Randy Castillo, American drummer and
songwriter (b. 1950) ·
2003 Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (b.
1927) ·
2004 Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921) ·
2005 James Callaghan, English lieutenant and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912) ·
2005 Frederick
Rotimi Williams, Nigerian lawyer and politician (b. 1920) ·
2006 Anil Biswas,
Indian journalist and politician (b. 1944) ·
2006 Paul Dana, American racing driver (b. 1975) ·
2006 Nikki Sudden, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1956) ·
2008 Robert Fagles, American poet and academic
(b. 1933) ·
2008 Manuel Marulanda, Colombian rebel leader (b.
1930) ·
2009 Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper (b. 1969) ·
2009 Arne Bendiksen, Norwegian singer and
composer (b. 1926) ·
2010 Charles Ryskamp, American art collector and
curator (b. 1928) ·
2011 Roger Abbott, English-Canadian actor,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1946) ·
2011 Geraldine Ferraro,
American lawyer and politician (b. 1935) ·
2011 Diana Wynne Jones,
English author (b. 1934) ·
2012 Sisto Averno, American football player (b.
1925) ·
2012 Michael
Begley, Irish carpenter and politician (b. 1932) ·
2012 Thomas M. Cover, American theorist and
academic (b. 1938) ·
2012 David Craighead, American organist and
educator (b. 1924) ·
2012 Manik Godghate, Indian poet and educator (b.
1937) ·
2012 Helmer Ringgren, Swedish theologian and
academic (b. 1917) ·
2013 Tom Boerwinkle, American basketball player
and sportscaster (b. 1945) ·
2013 Krzysztof
Kozłowski, Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Interior (b. 1931) ·
2013 Dave Leggett, American baseball player (b.
1933) ·
2013 Don Payne,
American screenwriter and producer (b. 1964) ·
2014 Roger Birkman, American psychologist and
author (b. 1919) ·
2014 Dick Guidry, American businessman and
politician (b. 1929) ·
2014 Marcus
Kimball, Baron Kimball, English politician (b. 1928) ·
2015 Dinkha IV, Iraqi patriarch (b. 1935) ·
2015 Friedrich L. Bauer,
German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (b. 1924) ·
2015 Tomas Transtrφmer,
Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1931) ·
2016 Jim Harrison, American novelist, essayist,
and poet (b. 1937) ·
2018 Fabrizio Frizzi, Italian television
presenter (b. 1958) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast days: o Castulus o Harriet Monsell (Church of England) o Larissa o Ludger o Richard Allen (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o March
26 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Independence
Day and National Day (Bangladesh), celebrates the declaration of
independence from Pakistan in 1971. ·
Martyr's Day or
Day of Democracy (Mali) ·
Prince
Kūhiō Day (Hawaii, United States) ·
Purple Day (Canada and United States) ·
Synaxis of the Archangel Gabriel (Eastern Christianity) |
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