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Today's Anniversary – Monday, March 30


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Births

* 1979 Anatoliy Tymoshchuk Ukrainian footballer who plays for w:Russian Premier League club w:Zenit St Petersburg and the Ukrainian national team as a holding midfielder.
* 1979 Norah Jones American singer-songwriter, and a Grammy Award winner.
* 1973 Adam Goldstein American club DJ better known as DJ AM Goldstein was a former member of the rock band Crazy Town, and scratched on albums for Papa Roach, Madonna, and Will Smith, among others.
* 1967 Daniel Theaker Neoclassical composer, conductor and instrumentalist.
* 1962 Paul Hackett Trial lawyer and veteran of the Iraq War who unsuccessfully sought election to the United States Congress from the Second District of Ohio in the 2 August 2005, special election.
* 1945 Eric Clapton British musician of blues, rock and jazz.
* 1935 David Mermin Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University.
* 1902 Brooke Astor American socialite and philanthropist who was the chairwoman of the Vincent Astor Foundation, which had been established by her third husband.
* 1892 Erhard Milch German field marshal who oversaw the development of the Luftwaffe as part of the re-armament of Germany following World War I Milch was sentenced to life imprisonment at Landsberg prison.
* 1886 Frances Cornford English poet in the Georgian tradition.
* 1874 Charles Lightoller Second officer on board the Titanic and the most senior officer to survive the disaster.
* 1853 Vincent van Gogh Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history.
* 1853 Vincent Van Gogh Dutch painter, generally considered one of the greatest painters in European art history.
* 1844 Paul Verlaine French Symbolist poet.
* 1799 Friedrich Tholuck Known as August Tholuck, was a German Protestant theologian and church leader.
* 1568 Henry Wotton English author and diplomat.
* 1135 Maimonides Commonly known as Moses Maimonides, was a Jewish rabbi, physician, and philosopher.

Deaths

† 2008 Dith Pran Photojournalist best known as a refugee and Cambodian Genocide survivor and was the subject of the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields.
† 2005 Mitch Hedberg American stand-up comedian known for his odd subject matter, subdued delivery and memorable routines that often consisted of a string of one-line non sequiturs.
† 2005 Eric Roll Academic economist, public servant, and banker.
† 2004 Alistair Cooke Journalist and broadcaster.
† 2002 the Queen Mother Elizabeth Or Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, and popularly known as The Queen Mum, was Queen consort of George VI of the United Kingdom (1936–1952) and the mother of Queen Elizabeth II.
† 1993 Richard Diebenkorn Well-known 20th century American painter.
† 1986 James Cagney American film actor who won acclaim for a wide variety of roles and won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1942 for his role in Yankee Doodle Dandy.
† 1986 John Ciardi American poet, translator, and etymologist.
† 1985 J. V. Cunningham American poet, sometimes described as a neo-classicist or anti-modernist.
† 1984 Karl Rahner German theologian, one of the most influential Roman Catholic theologians of the 20th century.
† 1967 Jean Toomer American poet and novelist and an important figure of the Harlem Renaissance.
† 1966 Maxfield Parrish American fantasy art painter and illustrator.
† 1961 Mengistu Neway Commander of the Ethiopian Imperial Bodyguard during the reign of Emperor Haile Selassie.
† 1956 Edmund Clerihew Bentley Popular English novelist and humorist of the early 20th century, and the inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.
† 1954 Fritz London German-born American theoretical physicist.
† 1944 C. V. Boys British physicist, known for his careful and innovative experimental work.
† 1925 Rudolf Steiner Austrian philosopher, literary scholar, architect, playwright, educator, and social thinker.
† 1890 John M. Sandidge Member of the Louisiana State House of Representatives (1846 - 1855), serving as its speaker (1854 - 1855), as a delegate to the state constitutional convention (1852) and as a U S Representative from Louisiana (1855 - 1859).
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