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Today's Anniversary – Tuesday, March 19


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Births

* 1973 Bun B Better known by his stage name Bun B, is an American rapper.
* 1955 Bruce Willis American actor.
* 1933 Philip Roth American novelist.
* 1933 Michel Sabbah Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.
* 1930 Ornette Coleman American jazz saxophonist and composer.
* 1928 Hans Kung Swiss Catholic priest, theologian, and prolific author.
* 1928 Patrick McGoohan Irish actor and director, most famous for playing the title role in the Prisoner and John Drake in Danger Man as well as playing the murderer in many Columbo films.
* 1927 Allen Newell American researcher in computer science and cognitive psychology at the RAND corporation and at Carnegie Mellon University's School of Computer Science and Turing Award laureates in 1957 with Herbert Simon.
* 1922 Hiroo Onoda Former Japanese army intelligence officer who fought in World War II, and did not surrender until 1974, having spent almost thirty years holding out in the Philippines.
* 1912 Adolf Galland World War II German fighter pilot and commander of Germany's fighter force from 1941 to 1945.
* 1906 Adolf Eichmann High-ranking Nazi and SS-Obersturmbannführer.
* 1905 Albert Speer Commonly known as Albert Speer, was an architect, author and high-ranking Nazi German government official, sometimes called "the first architect of the Third Reich".
* 1894 Moms Mabley African American comedienne.
* 1891 Earl Warren 30th Governor of California (1943–1953) and 14th Chief Justice of the United States (1953–1969).
* 1888 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.
* 1873 Max Reger German composer, conductor, pianist, organist, and academic teacher.
* 1866 Emilio De Bono Italian general who fought in World War I and fascist activist who helped organize the Italian Fascist Party.
* 1860 William Jennings Bryan American lawyer, statesman, and politician.
* 1848 Wyatt Earp Officer of the law, gambler and saloon keeper in the Wild West.
* 1824 William Allingham Irish man of letters and poet.
* 1821 Sir Richard Francis Burton British consul, explorer, translator, writer, poet, Orientalist and swordsman known for his often-unprecedented exploits of travel and exploration as well as his extraordinary knowledge of languages and cultures.
* 1813 David Livingstone Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, "Dr Livingstone, I presume?".
* 1590 William Bradford Leader of the Pilgrim settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts, and became Governor of the Plymouth Colony.

Deaths

† 2008 Arthur C. Clarke British author, inventor and futurist, famous for his short stories and novels, among them 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), and as a host and commentator in the British television series Mysterious World.
† 2008 Paul Scofield Award-winning English actor of stage and screen.
† 1997 Willem de Kooning Abstract expressionist painter, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
† 1996 W. H. Murray Mountain climber and Scottish author.
† 1996 Virginia Henderson American nurse, researcher, theorist and author.
† 1987 Louis de Broglie French physicist became a Nobel laureate in 1929 for his theory on wave–particle duality.
† 1967 Frederick E. Morgan British army officer in the Second World War, famous as the original planner of Operation Overlord.
† 1957 Burton Rascoe American journalist, editor and literary critic.
† 1955 Leonid Govorov Soviet military commander, was appointed as instructor in tactics at the Dzerzhinskiy Artillery Academy in 1938.
† 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs American author of science-fiction and adventure stories, most famous for the creation of the jungle-born hero Tarzan.
† 1930 Arthur Balfour British Conservative statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 until 1905.
† 1907 Thomas Bailey Aldrich Poet and novelist born in Portsmouth, USA.
† 1711 Thomas Ken English churchman, was the most eminent of the English non-juring bishops, and one of the fathers of modern English hymnology.
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