March 19

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2006 Calendar

[edit] Births

1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shogun (b. 1443)
1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
1813 - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
1848 - Wyatt Earp, American policeman and gunfighter (d. 1929)
1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier (d. 1930)
1864 - Charles Marion Russell, artist (d. 1926)
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Schofield Haigh, English cricketer (d. 1921)
1873 - Max Reger, composer (d. 1916)
1883 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
1883 - Joseph Stilwell, U.S. general (d. 1946)
1888 - Josef Albers, artist (d. 1976)
1891 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
1892 - James Van Fleet, American general (d. 1992)
1894 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist (d. 1978)
1894 - Moms Mabley, comedienne (d. 1975)
1900 - Frédéric Joliot, French physicist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry (d. 1958)
1904 - John Sirica, American judge (d. 1992)
1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official (d. 1981)
1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official (d. 1962)
1909 - Louis Hayward, actor (d. 1985)
1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy (d. 2002)
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1916 - Irving Wallace, novelist (d. 1990)
1917 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist (d. 1950)
1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author (d. 2002)
1921 - Tommy Cooper, comedy magician (d. 1984)
1923 - Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
1927 - Richie Ashburn, American baseball player (d. 1997)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, former United States National Security Advisor
1928 - Hans Küng, theologian
1928 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
1930 - Ornette Coleman, musician
1933 - Philip Roth, author
1935 - Renée Taylor, American actress
1936 - Ursula Andress, actress
1937 - Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American musician
1939 - Joe Kapp, American football star
1943 - Mario Monti, aka "Super Mario"
1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin
1947 - Glenn Close, actress
1953 - Ricky Wilson, American musician (The B-52's) (d. 1985)
1955 - Bruce Willis, actor
1968 - Khaled Mardam-Bey, software developer
1969 - Connor Trinneer, actor
1986 - Rachel Lee, astronomical engineer, goat farmer

[edit] Deaths

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (executed) (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian historian (b. 1332)
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1637 - Peter Pazmany, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor, screenwriter and novelist (b. 1889)
1976 - Paul Kossoff, British guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish painter (b. 1898)
1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot) (b. 1956)
1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American musician (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch artist (b. 1904)
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)