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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, March 15


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Births

* 1972 Mike Tomlin American football head coach for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League.
* 1940 Judith Krug American librarian, supporter of freedom of speech, and prominent critic against censorship.
* 1935 Jimmy Swaggart Pentecostal preacher and pioneer of televangelism.
* 1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
* 1930 Cecil Taylor American pianist and poet now generally acknowledged to be one of the great innovative sources of free jazz.
* 1911 Wilhelm Mohnke One of the original 120 members of the SS-Staff Guard "Berlin" formed in March 1933.
* 1902 Wolcott Gibbs Editor, humorist, parodist, drama critic, and short story writer for The New Yorker magazine from 1927 until his death.
* 1874 Harold L. Ickes American politician.
* 1867 Lionel Johnson English poet, essayist and critic.
* 1863 Leslie Stuart English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs.
* 1855 C. V. Boys British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
* 1767 Andrew Jackson Seventh President of the United States (1829-1837), hero of the Battle of New Orleans (1815), a founder of the Democratic Party, and the eponym of the era of Jacksonian democracy.

Deaths

† 2007 Harold Powers American musicologist.
† 2004 John Pople Theoretical chemist.
† 1998 Benjamin Spock American pediatrician and author.
† 1990 Jim Ede Also known as 'Jim' Ede, was a British collector of art and friend to artists.
† 1983 Rebecca West Pseudonym of Cecily Isabel Fairfield, an Anglo-Irish feminist and author.
† 1975 Aristotle Onassis Greek shipping magnate.
† 1962 Arthur Compton American physicist and Nobel laureate in physics for his discovery of the Compton effect.
† 1941 Alexej von Jawlensky Russian Expressionist painter active in Germany.
† 1938 Nikolai Bukharin Bolshevik revolutionary and theorist.
† 1937 H. P. Lovecraft American author of fantasy, horror, and science fiction, noted for combining these three genres within single narratives and possibly best known for the creation of the Cthulhu Mythos.
† 1921 Mehmed Talat Also known as "Talat Pasha", was one of the first important members of the Committee of Union and Progress.
† 1897 James Joseph Sylvester English mathematician, and a leader in American mathematics in the second half of the 19th century.
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