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Birthdays of Personalities on March 10

1452 : Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon/Sicily (expelled Jews)
1503 : Ferdinand I, German emperor (1558-64)
1538 : Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk; executed by Queen Elizabeth (1572)
1628 : Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1656 : Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician
1748 : John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1771 : Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1776 : Luise, queen of Prussia/wife of Frederik Willem III
1787 : William Etty, English painter (nudes)
1788 : Joseph Freiherr von Eichendorff, German poet (Das Marmorbild)
1809 : William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
1810 : John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
1812 : Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
1818 : George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
1822 : Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter/lithographer
1824 : Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 : William Henry Penrose, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1842 : Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
1845 : Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94)
1850 : Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College
1867 : Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
1873 : Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1877 : David M Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet
1877 : David Mendes Chumaceiro, Cura‡ao, poet (Cris lidas)
1880 : Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
1891 : Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
1892 : Eva Turner, British soprano
1900 : Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
1908 : Carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
1909 : Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
1916 : Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer
1918 : Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
1921 : Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1923 : Ara Parseghian, football coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame)
1925 : Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis)
1925 : M J J A [Sef] Imkamp, Dutch politician (D66)
1927 : Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orch leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1927 : Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor
1928 : James Earl Ray, assassin (Martin Luther King Jr)
1930 : Sandor Iharos, athlete
1935 : Gary Owens, announcer (Laugh-in)
1937 : Oscar Abrams, community organizer
1940 : David Rabe, Dubuque Iowa, playwright (Streamers)
1940 : Wayne Dyer, psychologist (Universe Within You)
1946 : Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1947 : Avril "Kim" Campbell, Canada's 1st female premier (1993- )
1947 : Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
1947 : Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
1952 : Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1955 : Mark David Chapman, assassin (John Lennon)
1961 : Laurel B Clark, Ames Iowa, Lt cmdr USN/astronaut
1964 : Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II grandson
1965 : Paul Masotti, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1967 : Derrick Graham, guard (Seattle Seahawks)
1971 : Morris Unutoa, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1977 : Shannon Miller, Rolla MO, gymnast (Oly2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)

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