March 14

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2006 Calendar

[edit] Births

1681 - Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (d. 1767)
1804 - Johann Strauß, Sr., Austrian composer (d. 1849)
1813 - Joseph Philo Bradley, associate justice of the United States Supreme Court (d. 1892)
1823 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
1835 - Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (d. 1910)
1853 - Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1854 - Paul Ehrlich, physician, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1915)
1869 - Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1879 - Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, winner of the Nobel Prize in physics (d. 1955)
1882 - Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
1885 - Raoul Lufbery, American World War I flying ace (d. 1918)
1887 - Sylvia Beach, American expatriate publisher (d. 1962)
1903 - Mustafa Barzani, leader of Kurdistan Democratic Party, (d. 1979)
1912 - Les Brown, band leader (d. 2001)
1914 - Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
1914 - Lee Petty, American stock car driver (d. 2000)
1915 - Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
1916 - Horton Foote, American writer
1918 - Dennis Patrick, American actor (d. 2002)
1920 - Hank Ketcham, cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001)
1923 - Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
1925 - Reverend Francis Marzen, Roman Catholic prelate
1928 - Frank Borman, astronaut and former Eastern Airlines president
1933 - Michael Caine, British actor
1933 - Quincy Jones, music producer, composer
1934 - Eugene Cernan, Gemini and Apollo astronaut, last human to leave his footprints on the moon
1941 - Wolfgang Petersen, German director, Das Boot
1943 - Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
1945 - Jasper Carrott (born Bob Davies), British comedian
1946 - Steve Kanaly, actor
1947 - Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian
1947 - Pam Ayres, British poet
1950 - Rick Dees, American disk jockey
1958 - Albert II of Monaco
1961 - Kirby Puckett, baseball player
1961 - Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
1963 - Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
1965 - Aamir Khan, Bollywood actor
1965 - Kevin Brown, American baseball player
1965 - Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
1976 - Catherine Dent, American actress
1976 - Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
1979 - Chris Klein, American actor
1982 - Vincent N. Vuong, violist and law student
1983 - Taylor Hanson, musician in the group Hanson, record producer
1986 - Jamie Bell, British actor
1987 - John W. Meyers, pianist

[edit] Deaths

752 - Pope Zacharias
1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author
1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1682 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter
1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1698 - Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
1757 - John Byng, British admiral (b. 1704)
1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
1883 - Karl Marx, German political theorist (b. 1818)
1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1932 - George Eastman, American inventor (b. 1854)
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1989 - Edward Abbey, American author (b. 1927)
1991 - Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
1991 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist (b. 1950)
1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1997 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher
2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)