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Birthdays of Personalities 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
1659 : William Wollaston, Coton England, philosopher
1753 : Benjamin Thompson, physicist (Royal Inst of Great Britain, Woburn MA)
1773 : Nathaniel Bowditch, mathematician/astronomer/author (Marine Sextant)
1813 : Thomas West Sherman, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1879
1817 : Herman Haupt, Brig General (Union volunteers), died in 1905
1819 : Louise Otto, Germany, author/feminist
1821 : Earnest Angel, German statistician (Law of Angel)
1840 : George Smith, London England, assyriologist (cuneiform (script))
1850 : Edward Bellamy, author (Looking Backward)
1856 : David Alfred Thomas, Glamorganshire UK, 1st Viscount Rhondda
1859 : A[lfred] E[dward] Housman, England, poet (Shropshire Lad)
1863 : Henry Royce, founder (Rolls-Royce Limited in 1884)
1868 : Fuad I, king of Egypt (1922-36)
1871 : Seraf¡n Alvarez Quint‚ro, Spanish dramatist/playwright (El Flechazo)
1874 : Robert Frost, SF, poet (Mending Wall, Road Not Taken)
1875 : Syngman Rhee, pres of South Korea (1948-60) [or Apr 26]
1884 : Wilhelm Backhaus, Leipzig Germany, pianist (Rubinstein 1905)
1885 : Robert Blackburn, British aviation pioneer
1888 : Sigurd Erixon, Swedish etnologist (Atlas ”ver Svensk Folk culture)
1893 : Palmiro Togliatti, founder (Communist Party of Italy)
1899 : James B Connant, chemist/college president (Yale)
xxxx : Robert Shields, mime (Shields & Yarnell)
1902 : Leslie Melville, economist
1904 : Joseph Campbell, mythologist (Mythic Image)
1905 : Viktor Emil Frankl, pyschiatrist (Man's Search for Meaning)
1908 : Hank Sylvern, Bkln NY, orch leader (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1908 : Kenneth Mellanby, entomologist
1908 : Robert William Paine, architect
1911 : Bernard Katz, biophysicist
1911 : Tennessee Williams, Columbus Miss, playwright (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof)
1913 : Paul Erdos, mathematician
1914 : Ian McGeoch, Vice-Admiral
1914 : William Westmoreland, Saxon SC, army general (Vietnam era)
1916 : Christian B Anfinsen, US chemist (cell physiology, Nobel 1972)
1916 : Mort Abrahams, producer (Dr Doolittle, Planet Of Apes)
1916 : Vic Schoen, Bkln NY, orch leader (Patti Page Olds Show)
1917 : Jean Graham Hall, circuit court judge (England)
1920 : George E Brown Jr, (Rep-D-CA, 1963-71, 73- )
1921 : George Jefferson, CEO (British Telecom)
1921 : Joe Loco, [Jose Esteves, Jr], musician
1921 : Peter Horsley, CEO (Osprey Aviation)
1923 : Clifton Williams, Traskwood Arkansas, band master (Sinfonians)
1923 : Elizabeth Jane Howard, British novelist (After Julius)
1925 : Lord Graham of Edmonton, House of Lords (chief opposition whip)
1925 : Lord Hooson QC, crown court recorder
1927 : Jonathan Tod, Vice-Admiral (England)
1929 : Am‚d‚e Turner, QC/MEP
1929 : Maurice Simon, jazz musician
1930 : Gregory Corso, beat poet (Happy Birthday of Death, Long Live Man)
1930 : Sandra Day O'Connor, Texas, 1st woman Supreme Court Justice (1981- )
1932 : Dick Nolan, football coach
1934 : G T Pryce, CEO (Dalgety)
1934 : Gino Cappelletti, ORFU, AFL running back (AFL Player of Year 1964)
1935 : Earl of Kinnoull
1937 : Lord Chetwode
1939 : Colin Webb, general manager (Press Assn)
1939 : Stuart Sutherland, Professor Emeritus (Sussex U)
1940 : Bill Ind, Bishop-designate (Truro)
1940 : Braulio Baeza, jockey (National Horse Racing Hall of Famer)
1940 : Nancy Pelosi, (Rep-D-California)
1940 : Servaes [J S] Huys, Dutch MP (PvdA)
1942 : Erica Jong, [Mann], NYC, author (Fear of Flying)
1943 : Robert Woodward, investigative reporter (Watergate, CIA crimes)
1944 : Diana Ross, [Earle], Detroit, (Supremes, Lady Sings Blues, Mahogany)
1948 : Kyung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, violinist (Chung Sisters)
1948 : Richard Tandy, rock bassist (ELO)
1948 : Steven Tyler, NYC, rock vocalist (Aerosmith-Janie Got a Gun)
1949 : Baroness Hayman
1949 : Fran Sheehan, rock bassist (Boston-More than a Feeling)
1950 : Tony Papenfuss, Minneapolis Minn, (Daryl-Newhart)
1952 : David Amess, MP
1954 : Curtis Sliwa, founder (Guardian Angels)/radio personality (WABC)
1957 : Leeza Gibbons, SC, TV host (Entertainment Tonight, Leeza)
1961 : Leigh Bowery, designer
1961 : William Hague, Secretary of State for Wales
1962 : Yuri Pavlovich Gidzenko, Russia, lt-colonel/cosmonaut
1963 : Paul de Leeuw, Dutch TV host (Cry of the Lion)
1968 : Edward Kaminski, KC Kansas, javelin thrower
1968 : Mike Trevathan, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1972 : Steve Anderson, CFL defensive linebacker (Calgary Stampeders)
1973 : Marshall Faulk, running back (Indianapolis Colts)
1974 : Alfred Shipman, CFL slot back (BC Lions)
1986 : Jessica McClure, baby trapped in Texas well in 1988
2228 : James T Kirk, science fiction captain of USS Enterprise (Star Trek)

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