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Today's Anniversary – Friday, March 27


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Births

* 1975 Fergie American pop/R&B singer, songwriter, and actress.
* 1970 Mariah Carey American singer-songwriter and actress.
* 1963 Quentin Tarantino American screenwriter, film director and actor.
* 1952 Dana Stabenow American author who has produced science fiction, mystery, and suspense/thriller.
* 1944 Miguel Enriquez Chilean physician and leader of the Movimiento de Izquierda Revolucionaria from 1967 until 1974.
* 1927 Anthony Lewis Prominent liberal intellectual, writing for The New York Times op-ed page and The New York Review of Books, among other publications.
* 1923 Louis Simpson Jamaican poet.
* 1922 Alex Agase American football player and coach.
* 1912 James Callaghan UK politician; Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1976–1979).
* 1899 Gloria Swanson Academy Award-nominated, Golden Globe-winning American Hollywood actress.
* 1897 Wilhelm (pastor) Busch German Lutheran pastor, youth evangelist, writer and activist of the Confessing Church during the Nazi period in Germany.
* 1893 Karl Mannheim Hungarian-born social philosopher and sociologist, influential with his development of the sociology of knowledge.
* 1886 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies, was an architect and designer.
* 1845 Wilhelm Rontgen German physicist, who, on 8 November 1895, produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as x-rays or Rφntgen rays, an achievement that earned him the first Nobel Prize in Physics in 1901.
* 1814 Charles Mackay Scottish poet, journalist, and song writer.
* 1797 Alfred de Vigny Poet, playwright, and novelist.
* 1746 Michael Bruce Scottish poet and hymnist.

Deaths

† 2011 Henry Schriver Republican represantive in the Ohio House of Representatives from 3 January 1967 to 31 December 1968, referred to as "the farmer philosopher".
† 2009 Arnold Meri Estonian veteran of World War II and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
† 2006 Stanislaw Lem Polish satirical, philosophical, and science fiction writer.
† 2002 Billy Wilder Austro-Hungarian born American filmmaker, screenwriter, producer, artist, and journalist, whose career spanned more than 50 years and 60 films.
† 2002 Dudley Moore British musician, actor and comedian.
† 2002 Milton Berle American comedian and actor.
† 1985 Christopher Vokes Canadian soldier.
† 1972 M. C. Escher Dutch artist; most famous for his woodcuts, lithographs and mezzotints, which tend to feature impossible constructions, explorations of infinity, and tessellations.
† 1968 Yuri Gagarin Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (12 April 1961).
† 1931 Arnold Bennett English novelist and playwright.
† 1928 Leslie Stuart English composer of early musical theatre, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs.
† 1918 Henry Adams U S historian, journalist, novelist and educator.
† 1898 Syed Ahmed Khan Also known as Sir Syed and also Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian educator and politician, and an Islamic reformer and modernist.
† 1889 John Bright British politician and orator.
† 1886 Henry Taylor English author and dramatist.
† 1874 Edward Norris Kirk Christian missionary, pastor, teacher, evangelist and writer in the Presbyterian, Congregational and revivalist traditions in the USA.
† 1716 George Keith Scottish missionary.
† 1625 James I of England King who ruled over England, Scotland, and Ireland, and was the first Sovereign to reign in the three realms simultaneously.
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