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Today's Anniversary – Thursday, March 26


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Births

* 1988 Suvi Koponen Finnish fashion model.
* 1985 Keira Knightley British actress.
* 1973 Larry Page Founder of the Google company and search engine.
* 1962 John Stockton Former NBA player.
* 1961 William Hague British politician, the Member of Parliament for Richmond, North Yorkshire, former leader of the Conservative Party, and currently First Secretary of State and Foreign Secretary.
* 1950 Martin Short Canadian actor, writer, comedian, impressionist, singer and dancer.
* 1947 Subhash Kak Indian American philosopher, poet, and scientist.
* 1944 Diana Ross American singer and actress, who first became prominent as lead singer of The Supremes.
* 1943 Bob Woodward One of the best-known journalists in the United States, thanks largely to his work in helping uncover the Watergate scandal that led to President Richard Nixon's resignation, in a historical partnership with Carl Bernstein, while working as a reporter for The Washington Post.
* 1942 Erica Jong American author and educator.
* 1941 Richard Dawkins Oxford zoologist, author, and media commentator, famous for his popular science books on evolution and his views on religion, atheism, and memetics, or "cultural evolution".
* 1940 Nancy Pelosi Speaker of the United States House of Representatives.
* 1938 Anthony James Leggett John D and Catherine T MacArthur Chair and Center for Advanced Study Professor of Physics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
* 1936 Eder Jofre Brazilian former boxer, whom many consider to be the best Brazilian boxer of all time, aswell as the 2nd greatest bantam weight fighter of all time behind Ruben Olivares.
* 1935 Mahmoud Abbas Commonly known as Abu Mazen, was elected President of the Palestinian National Authority on January 9, 2005 and took office on January 15, 2005.
* 1931 Leonard Nimoy Best known as "Mr Spock" in Star Trek, is an American actor and poet.
* 1925 Pierre Boulez French composer and conductor of contemporary classical music.
* 1916 Sterling Hayden American actor, writer and seaman.
* 1916 Bill Edrich English cricketer.
* 1913 Paul Erdos Immensely prolific and famously eccentric mathematician who, with hundreds of collaborators, worked on problems in combinatorics, graph theory, number theory, classical analysis, approximation theory, set theory and probability theory.
* 1911 Tennessee Williams American playwright.
* 1911 Bernard Katz German-born biophysicist, noted for his work on nerve biochemistry.
* 1908 Franz Stangl SS officer, commandant of the Sobibór and of Treblinka extermination camp.
* 1904 Joseph Campbell American professor, writer, and orator most famous for his work in the fields of comparative mythology and comparative religion.
* 1874 Robert Frost American poet; winner of four Pulitzer Prizes.
* 1859 A. E. Housman Usually known as A E Housman, was an English poet and classical scholar, now best known for his cycle of poems A Shropshire Lad.
* 1854 Harry Furniss Artist and illustrator.
* 1850 Edward Bellamy American novelist.
* 1838 William Edward Hartpole Lecky Irish historian.

Deaths

† 2011 Diana Wynne Jones English author notable for her fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
† 2011 Diana Wynne Jones English author notable for her fantasy novels for children and adults, as well as a small amount of non-fiction.
† 2005 James Callaghan UK politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976–1979).
† 2003 Daniel Patrick Moynihan Four-term U S Senator, ambassador, administration official, and academic.
† 1995 Eazy-E Better known by his stage name Eazy-E, was an American rapper who performed solo and in the hip hop group N W A, Wright was born to Richard and Kathie Wright in Compton, California.
† 1976 Lin Yutang Chinese writer and translator.
† 1976 Joseph Albers German artist, mathematician and educator whose work, both in Europe and in the United States, formed the basis of some of the most influential and far-reaching art education programs of the 20th century.
† 1974 Edward Condon Distinguished nuclear physicist, a pioneer in quantum mechanics, a participant in the development of radar and nuclear weapons in World War II, research director of Corning Glass, director of the National Bureau of Standards, and president of the American Physical Society (as well as, late in his life, professor of physics at the University of Colorado.
† 1973 Noel Coward English actor, playwright, and composer of popular music.
† 1969 John Kennedy Toole American novelist best known for his posthumously published comic novel A Confederacy of Dunces, which won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981.
† 1964 Paul A. Baran American economist known for his Marxist views.
† 1959 Raymond Chandler Author of crime stories and novels.
† 1945 David Lloyd George British politician, who served as Prime Minister of United Kingdom (1916–1922).
† 1923 Sarah Bernhardt Born Marie Henriette Bernardt, was a French stage actress.
† 1920 Mary Augusta Ward British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs.
† 1902 Cecil Rhodes British businessman and effective founder of the state of Rhodesia.
† 1892 Walt Whitman American journalist and poet, most famous for his lifelong work on his book Leaves of Grass.
† 1890 African Spir Russian Neo-Kantian philosopher of German descent, whose book Denken und Wirklichkeit [Thought and Reality] exerted a "lasting impact" on the writings of Friedrich Nietzsche.
† 1871 Francois-Joseph Fetis Belgian musicologist, composer, critic and teacher.
† 1827 Ludwig van Beethoven German composer who lived predominantly in Vienna, Austria.
† 1726 John Vanbrugh English architect and dramatist, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace.
† 1649 John Winthrop Led a group of Puritans to the New World and joined the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629.
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