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Today's Anniversary – Sunday, March 01


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Births

* 1994 Justin Bieber Pop and R&B singer from Canada.
* 1963 Mark Kingwell Canadian philosopher who is professor of philosophy and associate chair at the University of Toronto's Department of Philosophy.
* 1963 Miss Shangay Lily Best known for being Spain's first and most famous drag queen.
* 1959 Nicholas John Griffin British politician, chairman of the British National Party and Member of the European Parliament for North West England.
* 1950 Dave Marsh American music critic and historian.
* 1946 Jim Crace British novelist.
* 1943 Richard H. Price Leading American physicist, well known for his important work in general relativity.
* 1942 Louis V. Gerstner Chairman of the board of IBM from April 1993 until his retirement in December 2002.
* 1939 Tzvetan Todorov French philosopher of Bulgarian origin.
* 1928 Seymour Papert MIT mathematician, computer scientist, and prominent educator.
* 1925 Theodore Levitt American economist and professor at Harvard Business School.
* 1922 Yitzhak Rabin Israeli general, statesman and prime minister, who won the 1994 Nobel Peace Prize.
* 1922 Michael Flanders English actor, broadcaster, and writer and performer of comic songs.
* 1921 Richard Wilbur American poet, a former United States Poet Laureate and two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize.
* 1917 Robert Lowell American poet.
* 1913 Ralph Ellison American scholar and writer, most famous for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953.
* 1899 Erich von dem Bach Born Erich Julius Eberhard von Zelewski, was a Nazi official and a member of the SS, in which he reached the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer.
* 1886 Oskar Kokoschka Austrian artist and poet of Czech origin, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes.
* 1880 Manfred Kyber German writer, theater critic, playwright and poet.
* 1880 Lytton Strachey English biographer, critic and leading light of the Bloomsbury group.
* 1879 Aleksandar Stamboliyski Prime minister of Bulgaria from 1919 until 1923.
* 1837 William Dean Howells American realist author and literary critic.
* 1807 Wilford Woodruff Fourth President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, from 1889 until his death in 1898.

Deaths

† 2012 Andrew Breitbart American publisher, commentator for the Washington Times, author, an occasional guest commentator on various news programs who has served as an editor for the Drudge Report website.
† 2006 Harry Browne Free-market libertarian writer and investment analyst who was the Presidential candidate of the United States Libertarian Party in 1996 and 2000.
† 1991 Edwin H. Land American scientist and inventor.
† 1986 Tommy Farr One of the most famous Welsh boxers of the 20th century.
† 1983 Arthur Koestler Hungarian-Jewish novelist, philosopher, and political activist who lived much of his life in England.
† 1973 Lev Artsimovich Russian physicist, who worked on the field of nuclear fusion and plasma physics.
† 1966 Fritz Houtermans Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist who made important contributions to geochemistry and cosmochemistry.
† 1958 Giacomo Balla Italian painter born in Turin, in the Piedmont region of Italy, the son of an industrial chemist.
† 1950 Alfred Korzybski Polish engineer, mathematician, and philosopher, most famous for creating the theory of General Semantics.
† 1912 George Grossmith English comedian, writer, composer, actor, and singer.
† 1862 Peter (mathematician) Barlow English mathematician and physicist.
† 1757 Edward Moore English dramatist and miscellaneous writer, the son of a dissenting minister, born at Abingdon, Berkshire.
† 1734 Roger North English lawyer, biographer and amateur musician.
† 1633 George Herbert English poet and orator.
† 1620 Thomas Campion English composer, poet and physician.
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