Birthdates Which Occur on March 26:
1479 Vasili III great prince of Moscow (1505-33)/son of Ivan III
1516 Konrad von Gesner Zrich Switz, naturalist (Bibliotheca Universalis)
1577 Elisabeth of Nassau daughter of Willem I & Charlotte of Bourbon
1671 Giacomo Cesare Predieri composer
1684 Johann Graf composer
1717 Manuel Jeronimo Romero de Avila composer
1758 Johann Daniel Ferstenberg composer
1773 Nathaniel Bowditch mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1783 Johann Baptist Weigl composer
1806 Josef Slavik composer
1813 Thomas West Sherman Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 Herman Haupt Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 Francisco Eduardo da Costa composer
and Louise Otto Germany, author/feminist
1821 Earnest Angel German statistician (Law of Angel)
1827 Emanuel Kania composer
1830 Eliza Laurillard Dutch vicar/poet/writer
and John Rogers Thomas composer
1833 Betsy Perk [Christina E], Dutch journalist/writer/feminist
1840 Carli Zoeller composer
and George Smith English assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 Edward Bellamy author (Looking Backward)
1854 Braulio Dueno Colon composer
1859 A E Housman England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
and Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov composer
1862 George William Louis Marshall-Hall composer
1868 Fuad I king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 Seraf¡n Alvarez Quint‚ro Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo)
1873 [Louise] Sophie de Vries actress (On Hope of Blessing)
1874 Oskar Nedbal composer
and Robert Frost SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 Syngman Rhee pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
1880 Duncan Hines US, restaurant guide writer (Out of Kentucky Kitchens)
1884 Wilhelm Backhaus German pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 Julius Harrison composer
and Robert Blackburn British aviation pioneer
1888 Elsa Br„ndstr”m [Angel of Siberia], Swedish philanthropist
and Sigurd Erixon Swedish etnologist (Atlas ”ver Svensk Folk culture)
1889 Vaclav Kapral composer
1890 Jozef Arras Flemish writer
1893 Palmiro Togliatti founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1894 Will Wright SF CA, actor (Living Christ Story)
1896 Richard Flury composer
1897 Jean Epstein French director (Sa tˆte/Eau vive)
1898 Renzo Massarani composer
1899 James B Connant chemist/college president (Yale)
and William Baines composer
19-- Philip Brown Coalinga Calif, actor (Doris Day Show, Colbys, Loving)
and Robert Shields mime (Shields & Yarnell)
1900 Isadore Freed composer
1904 Emilio Fernandez El Seco Mexico, director (La Choca, Flor Silvestre)
and Hermann Schroeder composer
and Joseph Campbell mythologist (Mythic Image)
1905 Pablo Garrido composer
1907 Leigh Harline composer
and Louis Saguer composer
1908 Betty MacDonald [Anne E Campbell Bard], US writer (Egg & I)
and Hank Sylvern Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
and Hilda Krahwinkel Sperling Essen Germany, tennis star (French 1935)
and Kenneth Mellanby entomologist
1909 Chips Rafferty Broken Hill Australia, actor (Desert Rats)
and Chris[tiaan R] Reumer Dutch opera singer
1911 Tennessee Williams Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1914 William Westmoreland army general (Vietnam era)
1916 Christian B Anfinsen US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
and Harry Rabinowitz British? composer/conductor
and Sterling Hayden NJ, actor (Dr Strangelove, Asphalt Jungle, Cobra)
and Vic Schoen Bkln NY, orch leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 Jean Graham Hall circuit court judge in England
and Rufus Thomas Miss, singer (Walking the Dog)
1919 Strother Martin Kokomo Ind, actor (Cool Hand Luke, Slapshot)
1920 George E Brown Jr (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1922 William Milliken actor (Drive-in)
1923 Bob Elliot Boston Mass, comedian (Bob & Ray, Get a Life)
and Clifton Williams Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
and Elizabeth Jane Howard British novelist (After Julius)
1925 Claudio Spies composer
and Lord Graham of Edmonton House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
and Lord Hooson QC crown court recorder
and Pierre Boulez Montbrison France, composer/conductor (Visage Nuptial)
1926 Ann Curtis US, 400m freestyle swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1930 Cristobal Halffter composer
and Gregory Corso beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
and Sandra Day O'Connor Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1931 Leonard Nimoy Boston, actor (Spock-Star Trek, Mission Impossible)
1934 Alan Arkin NYC, actor (Catch 22, In-Laws, Simon, Wait Until Dark)
and Gino Cappelletti ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1936 Erich Urbanner composer
and Fred Paris rocker (Five Satins)
1937 Barbara Pearl Jones Chic Ill, 4X100m relayer (Olympic-gold-1952, 60)
and Wayne Embry holder of seven basketball records at Miami of Ohio
1939 James Caan actor (Brian's Song, Killer Elite, Godfather)
and Phillip R Allen Pitts, actor (Harry-Hardy Boys Mystery, Mitch-Alice)
1940 Nancy Pelosi (Rep-D-California)
and Rod Lauren rocker (If I Had a Girl)
and Servaes [J S] Huys Dutch 2nd chamber member (PvdA)
1942 Erica Jong NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 Robert Woodward investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1944 Diana Ross [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1945 Mikhail Voronin USSR, horse vault gymnist (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 Johnny Crawford LA Calif, actor (Mark-The Rifleman)
1947 Carmen Krolis Suriname/Neth singer
1948 Kyung-Wha Chung Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
and Richard Tandy rocker (ELO)
and Steven Tyler NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 Vicki Lawrence Inglewood Ca, actress (Carol Burnette, Mama's Family)
1950 Ernest Thomas Gary Ind, actor (Roger-What's Happening!!)
and Graham Barlow cricketer
and Martin Short Hamilton Ontario, comedian (SNL, SCTV, 3 Amigos)
and Ronnie McDowell Fountain Head Tn, country singer (King is Gone)
and Teddy Pendergrass Phila, singer (Turn Off the Lights)
and Tony Papenfuss Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1951 Richard B Shull US actor (Hail to the Chief, Big Bus)
1953 Michael Bonagura Newark NJ, country singer (Baille & Boys-Oh Heart)
and Tatyana Providokhina Russian 1K runner (world record)
1955 Dean Dillon Lake City TN, country singer (Chair)
1956 Charly McClain Jackson Tn, country singer (Radio Heart)
and Tatyana Kochergina USSR, team handball (Olympic-gold-1976, 80)
1957 Leeza Gibbons SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1960 Billy Warlock Hawthorne Calif, actor (Flip-Happy Days, Baywatch)
and Marcus Allen NFL running back (LA Raiders)
and Michael Evans Fontana CA, US water polo player (Olympic-silver-88)
1962 John Stocton Spokane Wa, basketball player (Ut Jazz/Olympic-gold-92)
and Maarten de Young soccer player (SC Heerenveen)
and Richard Coles rocker (Communards-Don't Leave Me This Way)
and Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 Paul de Leeuw Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
and Rebecca Twigg Seattle Wash, 79K cyclist (Olympic-silver-1984)
1964 Ab Plugboer soccer player (FC Utrecht)
1969 Beth Howell Clinton Mississippi, Miss Mississippi-America (1991)
1970 Evan Richards LA Calif, actor (Frankie-Mama Malone)
and Paul Bosvelt soccer player (Go Ahead Eagles/FC Twente)
1971 Rennae Stubbs Sydney Australia, tennis star
1974 Hakeem Abdul-samad rocker (Boys)
and Irina Spirlea Bucharest Romania, tennis star
1979 Heidi Zeigler actress (Sherry-Just the 10 of Us)
1986 Jessica McClure baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
2228 James T Kirk science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)
Deaths Which Occured March 26:
809 Liudger missionary/1st bishop of Mnster/saint, dies at about 66
1258 Floris the Guardian, son of count Floris IV, dies
1350 Alfonso XI King of Castili‰ & Le¢n, dies
1638 Palamedes "Stevens" Palamedesz painter, dies at about 30
1657 Jacob van Eyck blindly flautist, dies at 69
1713 Pal Esterhazy composer, dies at 77
1726 John Vanbrugh Dutch/English playwright (Provoked Wife), dies
1736 Georg Balthasar Schott composer, dies at 49
1809 Gabriele Mario Piozzi composer, dies at 69
1820 Jean-Etienne Despreaux composer, dies at 71
1827 Ludwig von Beethoven German composer (Appassionata), dies at 56
1831 Richard Allen AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1837 Joseph Lincke composer, dies at 54
1871 Fran‡ois-Joseph F‚tis Belgian composer, dies at 87
1880 Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras composer, dies at 62
1892 Anton Wallerstein composer, dies at 78
Walt Whitman poet, dies in Camden, NJ
1900 Isaac Mayer Wise rabbi/found Amer Hebrew Congregations, dies at 80
1902 Cecil Rhodes conqueror (Rhodesia), dies
1909 Nikolai Arkas composer, dies at 56
1918 C‚sar A Cui Latvia fort architect/composer, dies at 83
1923 Sarah Bernhardt [Henriette R Bernard], actress (Qn Elizabeth), dies
1924 Augusto de Oliviera Machado composer, dies at 78
1926 Georges Vezina NHL hall of fame goalie, dies
Konstantin Fehrenbach German reichs chancellor (1920-21), dies
1932 Jean Cartan composer, dies at 25
1944 Benjamin Cr‚mieux French author (In Buchenwald), dies at 55
1945 David Lloyd George British politician, dies
Isaack Stouten resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1948 Helen Ernst German poster artist/resistance fighter, dies at about 43
1953 Albert Spalding composer, dies at 64
1956 Thomas Alexandrovich de Hartmann composer, dies at 70
1957 Max Ophls [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French director, dies
1959 Raymond T Chandler US detective writer (Long Goodbye), dies
1960 Ian Keith actor (Identity Unknown, Queen Christina), dies at 61
1962 Marjorie Colton inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1967 Max Ophls [Maximilian Oppenheimer], German/French actor, dies
1969 Bruno Traven writer (Sierra Madre), dies
Gnther Weisenborn German/Agrgentine writer (That's Illeagal), dies
1973 George Sisler hall of famer 1st baseman (257 hits-1920), dies at 80
Noel Coward actor (Surprise Package, Boom), dies at 73
Safford Cape composer, dies at 67
1975 Faisal ibn Abd al-Aziz king of Saudi-Arabia (1964-75), murdered
1976 Richard Arlen actor (Apache Uprising, Wings), dies at 75
1979 Jean Stafford US author (Boston Adventure), dies at 63
1980 Jon-Jon Poulos rocker (Buckinghams), dies from drugs at 32
1982 Henri‰tte [AgaHM] de Beaufort writer (Dolly of Arnhem), dies
1983 Anthony F Blunt British art historian/spy for USSR, dies
1986 Bartlett Robinson actor (Wendy & Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1987 Walter Abel actor (Suspicion), dies at 88
1990 International Chrysis Transvestite actor, dies of cancer at 38
Roy "Halston" Frowick fashion designer, dies of AIDs at 68
1991 Frans Dohmen Dutch union leader (Neth Catholic Mine Workers), dies
1993 Louis Falco US choreographer (Fame, Angel Heart), dies of AIDS at 50
1994 Constantine Koukouchkine Russ diplomat murdered in Algeria at 41
John Bor violinist/painter, dies at 83
Holidays Which Occur March 26:
Bangladesh Independence Day (1971)
Hampshire, England Tichborne Dole (1150)
Hawaii Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalanianole Day/Regatta Day
Lesotho, Spain Arbor Day/Fiesta del Arbol (1895)
Taiwan Birthday of Kuan Yin, Goddess of Mercy
Religious Observances on March 26:
Christian Commemoration of St Braulio of Aragon
RC Immanuel, martyr
RC Ludgerus, bishop of Mimigardeford (Mnster)
809 RC Commemoration of St Ludger, bishop, confessor
Things to Remember for March 26:
American Woman's History month
Flowers-jonquil, violet & daffodil Gems-bloodstone & aquamarine
International Hamburger & Pickle Month-Red Cross Month
Music in our Schools Month
Highlights in History Which Occur March 26:
752 Stephen II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1027 John XIX crowns Conrad II the Salier roman catholics-German emperor
1147 Jewish community in Cologne fast to commemorate anti-Jewish violence
1150 Tichborne family of Hampshire England started tradition of giving a
Gallon of flour to each resident to keep deathbed promise
1526 King Fran‡ois I returns Spanish captivity to France
1534 Lbeck accept free Dutch ships into East Sea
1636 University of Utrecht opening ceremony
1668 Bombay, India transferred to England
1692 King Maximilian installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1780 1st British Sunday newspaper appears (Brit Gazette & Sunday Monitor)
1790 Congress allows naturalization of alien free white persons
1793 Pro-royalist uprising in Vend‚e region of France
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1804 Congress orders removal of Indians east of Mississippi to Louisiana
and Territory of Orleans organized in Louisiana Purchase
1812 Earthquake hits Caracas; about 20,000 die
1821 Franz Grillparzer's "Das Goldene Vliess," premieres in Vienna
1824 1st performance of Beethoven's "Missa Solemnis"
1839 1st Henley Royal Regatta
1845 Joseph Francis, NYC, patents a corrugated sheet-iron lifeboat
and Patent awarded for adhesive medicated plaster, precusor of bandaid
1859 1st sighting of Vulcan, a planet thought to orbit inside Mercury
1862 Battle of La Glorieta Pass, NM Terr (Apache Canyon, Pigeon's Ranch)
1863 Voters in West Virginia approve gradual emancipation of slaves
1871 Paris Commune founded
1872 7.8 earthquake shakes Owens Valley, California
and Thomas J Martin awarded patent for fire extinguisher
1878 Hastings College of Law founded
1885 Eastman Film Co manufactures 1st commercial motion picture film
and Louis Riel's forces defeat Canadian forces at Duck Lake, Sask
1886 1st cremation in England
1895 King Alfonso plants pine sapling in Madrid, starts Spain's Arbor Day
1900 1st edition The (Free) People
1903 American Hotel opens in Amsterdam
1905 M Wolf discovers asteroid #561 Ingwelde
1909 August Strindberg's "Bjalb-jarle-ti," premieres in Stockholm
1910 US forbid immigration to criminals, anarchists, paupers & the sick
and William H Lewis appointed asst attorney general of US
1913 Bulgaria captures Adrianople, ending the 1st Balkan War
and Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River
reach flood stage simultaneously
1915 Vancouver Millionaires sweep Ottawa Senators in 3 for Stanley Cup
1916 Birdman of Alcatraz receives solitary
1917 Seat Metropolitans beat Mont Canadiens 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1923 Ottawa Senators beat Vanc Millionaires 3 games to 1 for Stanley Cup
1924 Premiere of Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan," in London
1926 ACD de Graeff appointed gov-gen of Dutch East-Indies
1927 Alfred Hugenberg purchases German film company UFA
and Gaumont-British Film Corporation forms
1930 Congress appropriates $50,000 for Inter-American highway
1931 Iraq & Trans-Jordan sign peace treaty
and Leo Bentley bowls 3 consecutive perfect games in Lorain, Ohio
and New Delhi replaces Calcutta as capital of British-Indies
1934 Driving tests introduced in Britain
1935 "RvJ" Mitchell & Mjr Sorley discuss armament of Spitfire
and Y Vaisala discovers asteroid #1548 Palomaa
1936 1st parliamentary debate on NZ radio
and 200" telescope lens shipped, Corning Glass Works, NY-Cal Tech
and Mary Joyce ends a 1,000 mile trip by dog in Alaska
1937 Spinach growers of Crystal City, Tx, erect statue of Popeye
and William H Hastie becomes 1st black federal judge (Virgin Islands)
1938 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
1940 Ernest Hemingway & Benjamin Glazer premiere in NYC
1942 1st "Eichmann transport" to Auschwitz & Birkenau Camps
and 1st 700 Jews from Polish Lvov-district reach concentration camp Belzec
and 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry at Easton Pa, kills 21
and German offensive in North-Africa under Col-general Rommel
1943 1st woman to receive air medal (US army nurse Elsie S Ott)
and Battle of Komandorski Islands, Pacific Ocean
1944 705 British bombers attack Essen
1945 British premier Churchill looks out at the Rhine
and De Paul wins NIT basketball championship, George Mikan scores 34
and Generals Eisenhower/Bradley/Patton attack at Remagen the Rhine
and Kamikazes attack US battle fleet near Kerama Retto
and US 7th Army strikes Worms on the Rhine
and Venray soccer team forms
1949 Kentucky beats Ohio State, 46-36, to win NCAA basketball championship
1951 USAF flag approved
1952 F Drrenmatt's "Die Ehe des Herrn Mississippi," premieres in Munich
1953 Dr Jonas Salk announces new vaccine against polio
and Kansas wins NCAA basketball championship
and Salk Polio vaccine announced
1954 US performs atmospheric nuclear test at Bikini Island
1955 "Ballad of Davy Crockett," becomes the #1 record in US
1958 Army launches 3rd successful US satellite, Explorer III
1960 Iraq sentences 30 to death after attack on Pres Kassem
1962 Supreme Court backs 1-man-1-vote apportionment of seats in state leg
1964 "Funny Girl" with Barbra Striesand opens on Broadway
1967 21st Tony Awards: Homecoming & Cabaret win
and Pope Paul VI publishes encyclical Populorum progressio
1969 Nuclear reactor Dodewaard goes into use
and Soviet weather satellite Meteor 1 launched
1970 500th nuclear explosion announced by the US since 1945
and Golden Gate Park Conservatory made city landmark
and Peter Yarrow (Peter, Paul & Mary) plead guilty to "taking immoral
liberties" with a 14 year old girl
1971 Bangladesh (East Pakistan) declares its independence
1972 LA Lakers set NBA record of 69 wins in a season (69-13)
1973 Soap "Young & Restless" premieres
and UCLA wins their 7th straight NCAA basketball title
1974 Romanian communist party names party leader Ceausescu president
1975 Washington Capitals play record NHL 37th road game without a win
& NHL record of 17 straight loses
1976 Wings release "Wings at the Speed of Sound" album
1977 Elvis Costello releases his 1st record "Less Than Zero"
1979 Camp David peace treaty between Israel & Egypt
and Michigan State Spartans snaps Indiana State's 33-game win streak
as Magic Johnson out scores Larry Bird, 24-19
1980 Bombay gets its 1st rock concert in 10 years (The Police)
1981 Police & Albanian demonstrators battle in Kosovo Yugoslavia
and Soyuz T-4 lands
1982 Ground-breaking in Washington, DC for Vietnam Veterans Memorial
and Paul McCartney & Stevie Wonder release "Ebony & Ivory" in the UK
and Soap opera "Capitol" premieres
1983 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 57th Academy Awards - Amadeus wins 8
1986 Geffen records signs Guns & Roses
1987 August Wilson's "Fences," premieres in NYC
and NASA launches Fltsatcom-6, it failed to reach orbit
1988 Janet B Evans swims 1500m freestyle female world record (15:52.10)
1989 1st free elections in USSR; 190 M votes cast; Boris Yeltsin wins
1991 Fuel pipe explodes under 58th street & Lexington Ave, NYC
and Marc Camoletti's "Don't Dress for Dinner," premieres in London
and Orlando Thunder beats San Antonio Riders in their 1st WLAF game 35-34
1992 Mike Tyson sentenced to 10 years in rape of Desiree Washington
and NHL NY Rangers clinch 1st NHL regular season championship in 50 years
1993 Daytime Emmy Awards
1994 Bonnie Blair skates world record 500 m ladies (38.99 sec)
and Gunda Niemann skates world record 5 km ladies (7:03.26)
and Gunda Niemann skates un-official world record 10 km ladies (14:22.60)
and Picture released showing 1st moon of an Asteroid (Ida)
and Yuka Sato of Japan wins world figure skating championship in Tokyo
1872 Largest Californian quake fractures earth along 100-mile line.
Displacements of 23 feet vertically & 20 horizontally occur.
1913 Dayton, Ohio almost destroyed when Scioto, Miami, & Muskingum River
nation established as a result.
and reach flood stage simultaneously. 1st flood control district in
1942 Premature explosion of 20 tons of gelignite in a stone quarry
at Easton, Pa. kills 21.
Your Special Reminders for March 26:
1922 76øF highest temperature for this date in NYC
and 1960 20øF lowest temperature for this date in NYC
and 85th day of the year with 280 days left (Numerology = 2)
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