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Today's Anniversary – Saturday, March 21


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Births

* 1980 Ronaldinho Commonly known as Ronaldinho, is a Brazilian footballer who currently plays as an attacking midfielder for Atletico Mineiro and the Brazilian national team.
* 1978 Rani Mukerji Indian actress who works in Bollywood movies.
* 1975 Bethany Kennedy Scanlon Author of Christian fiction, and public lecturer.
* 1963 Shawn Lane American musician.
* 1962 Mark Waid Eisner Award-winning American comic book writer.
* 1960 Ayrton Senna Brazilian racing driver and three-time Formula One world champion.
* 1958 Gary Oldman English actor, born in London.
* 1956 Teresa Nielsen Hayden American science fiction editor, fanzine writer, essayist, and teacher.
* 1949 Slavoj Zizek Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic.
* 1947 Terry Dowling Sydney, New South Wales), is an Australian writer, freelance journalist, award-winning critic, editor,.
* 1946 Timothy Dalton Welsh-born British actor of stage and screen, famous for being chosen as the fourth official James Bond.
* 1946 Ali Abdullah Saleh Has been the president of Yemen since 1990.
* 1943 Vivian Stanshall Born Victor Anthony Stanshall, was an English singer-songwriter, painter, musician, author, poet and wit, best known for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, for his surreal exploration of the British upper classes in Sir Henry at Rawlinson End, and for narrating Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells.
* 1932 Walter Gilbert American physicist, biochemist, entrepreneur, and molecular biology pioneer.
* 1925 Peter Brook British theatre and film director and innovator.
* 1923 Mataji Nirmala Srivastava Founder of Sahaja Yoga.
* 1887 Lajos Kassak Hungarian poet, novelist and painter.
* 1880 Hans Hofmann One of the older abstract expressionist painters working in New York.
* 1865 Herbert Fisher English historian, educator, and Liberal politician.
* 1861 Albert Chevalier English comedian, actor and songwriter.
* 1806 Benito Juarez Known primarily as Benito Juαrez, was a Mexican politician; a full-blooded Zapotec, he became the first indigenous national to serve as President of Mexico, from 1861 to 1863 and from 1867 to 1872.
* 1768 Joseph Fourier French mathematician and physicist who is best known for initiating the investigation of Fourier series and their application to problems of heat flow.
* 1763 Jean Paul Influential German novelist and short-story writer.
* 0 Modest Mussorgsky Russian composer who, along with the other members of the Five, created a Russian nationalist form of classical music.

Deaths

† 2013 Chinua Achebe Nigerian novelist, poet, and critic.
† 1928 Edward Walter Maunder English astronomer best remembered for his study of sunspots and the solar magnetic cycle that led to his identification of the period from 1645 to 1715 that is now known as the Maunder Minimum.
† 1901 William (minister) Arthur Wesleyan Methodist minister.
† 1883 George Jessel British judge.
† 1870 Edward Thomson American Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, elected in 1864.
† 1866 Nadezhda Durova Also known as Alexander Durov, Alexander Sokolov and Alexander Andreevich Alexandrov, was a woman who became a decorated soldier in the Russian cavalry during the Napoleonic wars.
† 1843 Robert Southey English poet of the Romantic school, one of the so-called Lake Poets, and Poet Laureate.
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