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March 23

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1401

Battle of Uhud

1401 years ago

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1910

Akira Kurosawa

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Benedict of Nursia

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Famous births27

1429 · 597 yrs

Margaret of Anjou

Margaret of Anjou (French: Marguerite; 23 March 1430 – 25 August 1482) was Queen of England by marriage to King Henry VI from 1445 to 1461 and again from 1470 to 1471. Through marriage, she was also nominally Queen of France from 1445 to 1453.

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RoyaltyDied aged 53

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1749 · 277 yrs

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (French:; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy.

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ScienceDied aged 77

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1858 · 168 yrs

Ludwig Quidde

Ludwig Quidde (German pronunciation:; 23 March 1858 – 4 March 1941) was a German politician and pacifist who is mainly remembered today for his acerbic criticism of German Emperor Wilhelm II.

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PoliticsDied aged 82

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1881 · 145 yrs

Roger Martin du Gard

Roger Martin du Gard (French:; 23 March 1881 – 22 August 1958) was a French novelist, winner of the 1937 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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1881 · 145 yrs

Hermann Staudinger

Hermann Staudinger (German:; 23 March 1881 – 8 September 1965) was a German organic chemist who demonstrated the existence of macromolecules, which he characterized as polymers. For this work he received the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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1882 · 144 yrs

Emmy Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether (23 March 1882 – 14 April 1935) was a German mathematician who made many important contributions to abstract algebra and mathematical physics.

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1887 · 139 yrs

Josef Čapek

Josef Čapek (Czech pronunciation:; 23 March 1887 – April 1945) was a Czech artist who was best known as a painter, but who was also noted as a writer and poet. He invented the word 'robot', which was introduced into literature by his brother, Karel Čapek.

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1887 · 139 yrs

Juan Gris

José Victoriano González-Pérez (23 March 1887 – 11 May 1927), better known as Juan Gris (Spanish:; French:), was a Spanish painter born in Madrid who lived and worked in France for most of his active period. Closely connected to the innovative artistic genre Cubism, his works are among the movement's most distinctive.

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1891 · 135 yrs

Sergei Prokofiev

Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev (27 April 1891 – 5 March 1953) was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor who later worked in the Soviet Union. As the creator of acknowledged masterpieces across numerous music genres, he is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century.

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1900 · 126 yrs

Erich Fromm

Erich Seligmann Fromm (German:; March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980) was a German-American social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He was a German Jew who fled the Nazi regime and settled in the United States.

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1905 · 121 yrs

Joan Crawford

Joan Crawford (born Lucille Fay LeSueur; March 23, 1904–1908 – May 10, 1977) was an American actress. She began her career as a dancer in traveling theatrical companies before debuting on Broadway.

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1907 · 119 yrs

Daniel Bovet

Daniel Bovet (French:; Italian:; 23 March 1907 – 8 April 1992) was a Swiss-born Italian pharmacologist who won the 1957 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discovery of drugs that block the actions of specific neurotransmitters.

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Famous deaths14

AD 547 · 1479 yrs

Benedict of Nursia

Benedict of Nursia (Latin: Benedictus Nursiensis; Italian: Benedetto da Norcia; 2 March 480 – 21 March 547), often known as Saint Benedict, was an Italian monk and the founder of the Order of Saint Benedict.

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ReligionDied aged 67

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1555 · 471 yrs

Julius III

Pope Julius III (Latin: Iulius PP. III; Italian: Giulio III; 10 September 1487 – 23 March 1555), born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1550 to his death, in March 1555.

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ReligionDied aged 67

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1627 · 399 yrs

Luis de Góngora

Luis de Góngora y Argote (born Luis de Argote y Góngora; Spanish:; 11 July 1561 – 24 May 1627) was a Spanish Baroque lyric poet and a Catholic priest at Córdoba Cathedral. Góngora and his lifelong rival, Francisco de Quevedo, are widely considered the most prominent Spanish poets of all time.

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LiteratureDied aged 65

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1842 · 184 yrs

Stendhal

Marie-Henri Beyle (French:; 23 January 1783 – 23 March 1842), better known by his pen name Stendhal (UK:, US:, French:), was a French writer.

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LiteratureDied aged 59

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1923 · 103 yrs

Sarah Bernhardt

Sarah Bernhardt (French:; born Henriette-Rosine Bernard; 22 October 1844 – 26 March 1923) was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo, Fédora and La Tosca by…

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ArtDied aged 78

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1923 · 103 yrs

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Hovhannes Tumanyan (Armenian: Հովհաննես Թումանյան, classical spelling: Յովհաննէս Թումանեան, 19 February 1869 – March 23, 1923) was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the national poet of Armenia.

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LiteratureDied aged 54

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1946 · 80 yrs

Gilbert N. Lewis

Gilbert Newton Lewis (October 23 or October 25, 1875 – March 23, 1946) was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley.

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ScienceDied aged 70

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1948 · 78 yrs

Nikolai Berdyaev

Nikolai Alexandrovich Berdyaev (Russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Бердя́ев; 18 March 1874 – 24 March 1948) was a Russian philosopher, theologian, and Christian existentialist who emphasized the existential spiritual significance of human freedom and the human person.

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PhilosophyDied aged 74

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1964 · 62 yrs

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre (born László Löwenstein; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.

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1992 · 34 yrs

Friedrich Hayek

Friedrich August von Hayek (8 May 1899 – 23 March 1992) was an Austrian economist and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history.

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ScienceWould be 127

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2011 · 15 yrs

Elizabeth Taylor

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s.

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2013 · 13 yrs

Boris Berezovsky

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky (Russian: Борис Абрамович Березовский, Hebrew: בוריס ברזובסקי; 23 January 1946 – 23 March 2013), also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician.

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ScienceWould be 80

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Events5

AD 625 · 1401 yrs

Battle of Uhud

The Battle of Uhud (Arabic: غزوة أحد, romanized: Ghazwat ʾUḥud) was fought between the early Muslims and the Quraysh during the Muslim–Quraysh wars in a valley north of Medina near Mount Uhud on Saturday, 23 March 625 AD (7 Shawwal, 3 AH).

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War

1963 · 63 yrs

Eurovision Song Contest 1963

The Eurovision Song Contest 1963 was the eighth edition of the Eurovision Song Contest, held on Saturday 23 March 1963 at the BBC Television Centre in London, United Kingdom, and presented by Katie Boyle for a second time.

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Culture

1998 · 28 yrs

70th Academy Awards

The 70th Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 23, 1998, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m.

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Culture

2003 · 23 yrs

75th Academy Awards

The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 24 categories honoring films released in 2002.

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Culture

2021 · 5 yrs

2021 Suez Canal obstruction

The Suez Canal was blocked for six days from 23 to 29 March 2021 by the Ever Given, a container ship that had run aground in the canal.

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