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March 22

26 births · 8 deaths · 5 events

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American Revolution

263 years ago

Born this day

1868

Robert Andrews Millikan

Died aged 85

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Ulugh Beg

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1394 · 632 yrs

Ulugh Beg

Mīrzā Muhammad Tarāghāy bin Shāhrukh (Chagatay: میرزا محمد تراغای بن شاهرخ; Persian: میرزا محمد طارق بن شاهرخ), better known as Ulugh Beg (Persian: الغ‌بیگ; 22 March 1394 – 27 October 1449), was a Timurid sultan, as well as an astronomer and mathematician.

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ScienceDied aged 55

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1459 · 567 yrs

Maximilian I

Maximilian I (22 March 1459 – 12 January 1519) was King of the Romans from 1486 and Holy Roman Emperor from 1508 until his death in 1519. He was never crowned by the Pope, as the journey to Rome was blocked by the Venetians.

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RoyaltyDied aged 59

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1599 · 427 yrs

Anthony van Dyck

Sir Anthony van Dyck (Dutch: Antoon van Dijck; 22 March 1599 – 9 December 1641) was a Flemish Baroque artist, who became the leading court painter in England after success in the Spanish Netherlands and Italy. The seventh child of Frans van Dyck, a wealthy silk merchant in Antwerp, Anthony painted from an early age.

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ArtDied aged 42

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1797 · 229 yrs

Wilhelm I

Wilhelm I (also known in English as William I; German: Wilhelm Friedrich Ludwig; 22 March 1797 – 9 March 1888) was King of Prussia from 1861 and German Emperor from 1871 until his death in 1888. A member of the House of Hohenzollern, he was the first head of state of a united Germany.

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RoyaltyDied aged 90

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1857 · 169 yrs

Paul Doumer

Joseph Athanase Doumer, commonly known as Paul Doumer (French:; 22 March 1857 – 7 May 1932), was a French politician who served as the President of France from June 1931 until his assassination in May 1932.

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PoliticsDied aged 75

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1868 · 158 yrs

Robert Andrews Millikan

Robert Andrews Millikan (March 22, 1868 – December 19, 1953) was an American experimental physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1923 "for his work on the elementary charge of electricity and on the photoelectric effect." As Chairman of the Executive Council of Caltech (the school's governing body at the…

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ScienceDied aged 85

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1869 · 157 yrs

Emilio Aguinaldo

Emilio Aguinaldo y Famy (Spanish:: March 22, 1869 – February 6, 1964) was a Filipino revolutionary, politician, and military leader who served as president of the Philippines from 1899 to 1901, and the president of the first constitutional republic in Asia.

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PoliticsDied aged 94

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1912 · 114 yrs

Karl Malden

Karl Malden (born Mladen George Sekulovich; March 22, 1912 – July 1, 2009) was an American stage, movie and television actor who first achieved acclaim in the original Broadway productions of Arthur Miller's All My Sons and Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire in 1946 and 1947.

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1913 · 113 yrs

Sabiha Gökçen

Sabiha Gökçen (Turkish:, born Ćorović; 22 March 1913 – 22 March 2001) was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations.

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1923 · 103 yrs

Marcel Marceau

Marcel Marceau (French:; born Marcel Mangel; 22 March 1923 – 22 September 2007) was a French mime artist and actor most famous for his stage persona, "Bip the Clown". He referred to mime as the "art of silence", performing professionally worldwide for more than 60 years.

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1929 · 97 yrs

Yayoi Kusama

Yayoi Kusama (草間彌生, Kusama Yayoi; 22 March 1929 – 14 August 2026) was a Japanese artist who worked primarily in sculpture and installation. She was also active in painting, performance, video art, fashion, poetry, fiction, and other arts.

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1929 · 97 yrs

P. Ramlee

Teuku Zakaria bin Teuku Nyak Puteh (22 March 1929 – 29 May 1973), better known by his stage name P. Ramlee (Puteh Ramlee), was a Malaysian actor, filmmaker, musician, and composer. Born in Penang, Malaya, he was one of the leading figures of the Malay film industry during its golden age.

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Famous deaths8

1687 · 339 yrs

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Jean-Baptiste Lully (born Giovanni Battista Lulli; 28 or 29 November 1632 – 22 March 1687) was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style.

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MusicDied aged 54

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1832 · 194 yrs

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language.

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LiteratureDied aged 82

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1998 · 28 yrs

Shōichi Nishimura

Shoichi Nishimura (西邑昌一, Nishimura Shōichi; 1912 – March 22, 1998) was a Japanese football player and manager. He played for Japan national team.

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2001 · 25 yrs

Sabiha Gökçen

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2001 · 25 yrs

William Hanna

William Denby Hanna (July 14, 1910 – March 22, 2001) was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the vocal effects for Tom and Jerry's title characters.

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2004 · 22 yrs

Ahmad Yasin

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin (Arabic: الشيخ أحمد إسماعيل حسن ياسين; June 1936/37 – 22 March 2004) was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, an Islamist political and military organization.

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2005 · 21 yrs

Kenzō Tange

Kenzō Tange (丹下健三, Tange Kenzō; 4 September 1913 – 22 March 2005) was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan.

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2026 · 0 yrs

Lionel Jospin

Lionel Robert Jospin (French:; 12 July 1937 – 22 March 2026) was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002. Jospin was first secretary of the Socialist Party from 1995 to 1997 and the party's candidate for president in the 1995 and 2002 elections.

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Events5

1763 · 263 yrs

American Revolution

The American Revolution (1765–1789) was a political movement in the Thirteen Colonies of Great Britain. It began as a rebellion and turned into a revolution eventually creating the sovereign United States, which was the outcome of the associated American Revolutionary War (1775–1783).

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Politics

2005 · 21 yrs

Tulip Revolution

The Tulip Revolution, also known as the First Kyrgyz Revolution, led to Kyrgyzstan's then-President Askar Akayev's fall from power. The revolution began after parliamentary elections on 27 February and 13 March 2005.

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Politics

2016 · 10 yrs

2016 Brussels bombings

On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS).

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Tragedy

2017 · 9 yrs

2017 Westminster attack

On 22 March 2017, a terrorist attack took place outside the Palace of Westminster in London, seat of the British Parliament. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton, drove a car into pedestrians on the pavement along the south side of Westminster Bridge and Bridge Street, injuring more than 50 people, four of them fatally.

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Tragedy

2024 · 2 yrs

Crocus City Hall attack

On 22 March 2024, a coordinated terrorist attack against civilians occurred at the Crocus City Hall music venue in Crocus City, Krasnogorsk, Moscow Oblast, Russia. The attack began at around 20:00 MSK (UTC+3), shortly before the Russian band Picnic was scheduled to play a sold-out show at the venue.

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