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NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Walter Abel
Actor
6-Jun-1898 26-Mar-1987 The Three Musketeers
Richard Allen
Religion
14-Feb-1760 26-Mar-1831 Founder, African Episcopal Methodist Church
Marshall Applewhite
Religion
17-May-1931 26-Mar-1997 Led the Heaven's Gate cult to suicide
William Henry Ashley
Business
1778 26-Mar-1838 Fur trader turned Congressman
Paul Baran
Engineer
29-Apr-1926 26-Mar-2011 Packet-sharing in computer communications
Paul A. Baran
Economist
8-Dec-1910 26-Mar-1964 Marxist economist
Ludwig van Beethoven
Composer
17-Dec-1770 26-Mar-1827 Prominent composer
Sarah Bernhardt
Actor
22-Oct-1844 26-Mar-1923 French theatre actress
Jan Berry
Musician
3-Apr-1941 26-Mar-2004 Jan and Dean
Steen Steensen Blicher
Author
11-Oct-1782 26-Mar-1848 Fragments from the Diary of a Parish Clerk
Anthony Blunt
Historian
26-Sep-1907 26-Mar-1983 Art historian, Soviet spy
J. Caleb Boggs
Politician
15-May-1909 26-Mar-1993 Governor and Senator from Delaware
James Callaghan
Head of State
27-Mar-1912 26-Mar-2005 UK Prime Minister, 1976-79
Randy Castillo
Drummer
18-Dec-1950 26-Mar-2002 Drummer for Ozzy Osbourne
Raymond Chandler
Author
23-Jul-1888 26-Mar-1959 Invented hard-boiled detective novel
Selden Chapin
Diplomat
19-Sep-1899 26-Mar-1963 US Ambassador to the Netherlands, 1949-53
Alex Comfort
Doctor
10-Feb-1920 26-Mar-2000 The Joy of Sex
Edward Condon
Physicist
2-Mar-1902 26-Mar-1974 Quantum Mechanics
Noel Coward
Playwright
16-Dec-1899 26-Mar-1973 Design for Living
John Dee
Mathematician
13-Jul-1527 26-Mar-1609 Mathematician and mystic
Eazy-E
Rapper
7-Sep-1963 26-Mar-1995 N.W.A. member died of AIDS
Augustus Egg
Painter
2-May-1816 26-Mar-1863 Life and Death of Buckingham
Patricia Ellis
Actor
20-May-1916 26-Mar-1970 Picture Snatcher
Sir Thomas Elyot
Scholar
c. 1490 26-Mar-1546 Boke named the Governour
Robert Fagles
Translator
11-Sep-1933 26-Mar-2008 Translator of Greek literature
Konstantin Fehrenbach
Head of State
11-Jan-1852 26-Mar-1926 German Chancellor 1920-21
Geraldine Ferraro
Politician
26-Aug-1935 26-Mar-2011 Walter Mondale's VP candidate in 1984
David Lloyd George
Head of State
17-Jan-1863 26-Mar-1945 UK Prime Minister, 1916-22
T. H. Green
Philosopher
7-Apr-1836 26-Mar-1882 Prolegomena to Ethics
Pope Gregory XI
Religion
1329 26-Mar-1378 Roman Catholic Pope, 1370-78
Chuck Hansen
Activist
13-May-1947 26-Mar-2003 Nuclear historian and archivist
James Hutton
Geologist
3-Jun-1726 26-Mar-1797 Theory of the Earth
Fred Karlin
Musician
16-Jun-1936 26-Mar-2004 Won Oscar for For All We Know
Ian Keith
Actor
27-Feb-1899 26-Mar-1960 It Came from Beneath the Sea
Julius Albert Krug
Government
23-Nov-1907 26-Mar-1970 US Secretary of the Interior, 1946-49
Ben B. Lindsey
Judge
25-Nov-1869 26-Mar-1943 Created the first juvenile court
Frederick L. Maytag
Business
14-Jul-1857 26-Mar-1937 Founder of Maytag Corporation
J. P. McGowan
Actor
24-Feb-1880 26-Mar-1952 Somewhere in Sonora
W. C. Minor
Scholar
Jun-1834 26-Mar-1920 Prolific OED contributor
Daniel Patrick Moynihan
Politician
16-Mar-1927 26-Mar-2003 US Senator from New York, 1977-2001
Ed Muskie
Politician
28-Mar-1914 26-Mar-1996 US Senator from Maine, 1959-80
David Packard
Business
7-Sep-1912 26-Mar-1996 Co-Founder of Hewlett Packard
Cecil Rhodes
Business
5-Jul-1853 26-Mar-1902 De Beers
Roy Riegels
Football
4-Apr-1908 26-Mar-1993 Ran wrong way in 1929 Rose Bowl
Charles Ryskamp
Administrator
21-Oct-1928 26-Mar-2010 Frick Collection Director, 1987-97
Joe Schermie
Bassist
12-Feb-1946 26-Mar-2002 Bass player for Three Dog Night
George Sisler
Baseball
24-Mar-1893 26-Mar-1973 Batted .420 in 1921
Jean Stafford
Novelist
1-Jul-1915 26-Mar-1979 The Catherine Wheel
Jan Sterling
Actor
3-Apr-1921 26-Mar-2004 Ace in the Hole
John Kennedy Toole
Novelist
7-Dec-1937 26-Mar-1969 A Confederacy of Dunces
B. Traven
Novelist
c. 1890 26-Mar-1969 Treasure of the Sierra Madre
John Vanbrugh
Playwright
24-Jan-1664 26-Mar-1726 The Provok'd Wife
Walt Whitman
Poet
31-May-1819 26-Mar-1892 Leaves of Grass
John Winthrop
Politician
12-Jan-1588 26-Mar-1649 Governor of Massachusetts Colony




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