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Today's Anniversary – Wednesday, March 18


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Births

* 1979 Adam Levine American singer-songwriter and guitarist.
* 1973 Max Barry Australian novelist, short-story writer and essayist.
* 1972 Dane Cook American observational stand-up comedian with dark humor, comedic violence, and excitable, high-energy stage presence.
* 1970 Queen Latifah Grammy-winning American rapper/singer and Academy Award-nominated actress.
* 1970 Eric Edmeades Canadian businessman and professional speaker, is best known for his international motivational speaking and philanthropy.
* 1970 Queen Latifah Grammy-winning American rapper/singer and Academy Award-nominated actress.
* 1947 Hal Varian Economist specialising in microeconomics and information economics.
* 1932 John Updike American novelist, poet, critic and short-story writer.
* 1927 George Plimpton Accomplished American actor, editor, journalist and writer.
* 1919 G. E. M. Anscombe Born Gertrude Elizabeth Margaret Anscombe, and also known as Elizabeth Anscombe, was an Irish-born British analytic philosopher.
* 1913 W. H. Murray Mountain climber and Scottish author.
* 1901 Manly Palmer Hall Canadian-born author and mystic.
* 1893 Wilfred Owen British poet and soldier.
* 1893 Bai Chongxi Hui, was born in was born in Guilin, Guangxi, China.
* 1891 Walter A. Shewhart American physicist, engineer and statistician, sometimes known as the father of statistical quality control.
* 1877 Edgar Cayce American psychic who channeled answers to questions on subjects such as astrology, reincarnation, and Atlantis while in trance.
* 1874 Bertha (a.k.a. Helen Diner) Diener Also known by her American pseudonym Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian, and intellectual.
* 1874 Helen Diner Also known by her American pseudonym Helen Diner, was an Austrian writer, travel journalist, feminist historian, and intellectual.
* 1874 Nikolai Berdyaev Russian religious and political philosopher.
* 1869 Neville Chamberlain British politician from a famous political dynasty.
* 1868 Wilhelm Stekel Austrian psychologist and psychoanalyst.
* 1842 Stephane Mallarme Born Ιtienne Mallarmι, was a poet and critic.
* 1837 Grover Cleveland 22nd (1885–1889) and 24th (1893–1897) President of the United States.
* 1837 Richard Maurice Bucke Often called Maurice Bucke, was an important Canadian progressive psychiatrist in the late nineteenth century.
* 1805 George Washington Bethune Preacher-pastor in the Dutch Reformed Church.
* 1789 Charlotte Elliott English poet and hymn writer.
* 1782 John C. Calhoun Prominent United States politician from South Carolina during the first half of the 19th century.
* 1634 Madame de La Fayette French writer, the author of La Princesse de Cl?ves, France's first historical novel and one of the earliest novels in literature.

Deaths

† 2004 Peter Ustinov Born Peter Alexander von Ustinov, was an Academy Award-winning English-German actor, writer, dramatist and raconteur.
† 2002 R. A. Lafferty American Absurdist science fiction and fantasy writer, famous for his humorous use of language, metaphor, and narrative structure, as well as for his etymological wit.
† 1993 Kenneth Boulding Economist, educator, poet, religious mystic, devoted Quaker, systems scientist and interdisciplinary philosopher.
† 1986 Bernard Malamud American novelist and short-story writer.
† 1982 Vasily Chuikov Lieutenant general in the Soviet Red Army during World War II who after the war became a Marshal of the Soviet Union.
† 1980 Erich Fromm German-American psychologist and humanistic philosopher.
† 1970 Robert Clarkson Clothier Fourteenth President of Rutgers University serving from 1932 to 1951.
† 1964 Norbert Wiener U S mathematician, and a pioneer in the study of stochastic processes and noise especially in the field of electronic communication and control systems.
† 1955 W. C. Allee American zoologist and ecologist known for his work in the behavioural sciences during the 1930s.
† 1936 Eleftherios Venizelos Greek politician.
† 1871 Augustus De Morgan Indian-born British mathematician and logician; he was the first professor of mathematics at University College London.
† 1781 Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Usually referred to as simply "Turgot", was a French economist and statesman.
† 1768 Laurence Sterne Anglo-Irish novelist and clergyman.
† 1745 Robert Walpole Normally known as "Sir Robert Walpole", was a British Whig statesman who is generally regarded as having been the first Prime Minister of Great Britain.
† 1314 Jacques de Molay Minor Frankish noble, served as the 23rd, and officially last, Grand Master of the Knights Templar, and is probably the best known Templar besides the order's founder and first grand master, Hugues de Payns.
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