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March 24

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Germanwings Flight 9525

11 years ago

Born this day

1954

Rafael Orozco Maestre

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1217th

Harun al-Rashid

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Famous births30

1583 · 443 yrs

Tirso de Molina

Gabriel Téllez, O. de M. (24 March 1583 – 20 February 1648), also known as Tirso de Molina, was a Spanish Baroque dramatist and poet, as well as a Mercedarian friar, and Catholic priest.

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LiteratureDied aged 64

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1834 · 192 yrs

William Morris

William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditional British textile arts and methods of production.

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ArtDied aged 62

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1835 · 191 yrs

Josef Stefan

Josef Stefan (Slovene: Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was a Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire.

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ScienceDied aged 57

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1874 · 152 yrs

Harry Houdini

Erik Weisz (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926), known professionally as Harry Houdini ( hoo-DEE-nee), was an American escapologist, illusionist, and stunt performer noted for his escape acts.

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FilmDied aged 52

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1874 · 152 yrs

Luigi Einaudi

Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (Italian:; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician, economist and banker who served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955 and is considered one of the founding fathers of the Italian Republic.

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PoliticsDied aged 87

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1884 · 142 yrs

Peter Debye

Peter Joseph William Debye ( dib-EYE; born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije, Dutch:; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry.

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ScienceWould be 142

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1893 · 133 yrs

Walter Baade

Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959.

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ScienceWould be 133

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1897 · 129 yrs

Wilhelm Reich

Wilhelm Reich (Austrian German:; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian doctor of medicine and a psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud.

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ScienceWould be 129

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1903 · 123 yrs

Adolf Butenandt

Adolf Friedrich Johann Butenandt (German pronunciation:; 24 March 1903, Lehe near Bremerhaven – 18 January 1995, Munich) was a German biochemist.

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ScienceWould be 123

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1917 · 109 yrs

John Kendrew

Sir John Cowdery Kendrew, (24 March 1917 – 23 August 1997) was an English biochemist, crystallographer, and science administrator. Kendrew shared the 1962 Nobel Prize in Chemistry with Max Perutz, for their work at the Cavendish Laboratory to investigate the structure of haem-containing proteins.

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ScienceWould be 109

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1921 · 105 yrs

Vasily Smyslov

Vasily Vasilyevich Smyslov (Russian: Васи́лий Васи́льевич Смысло́в, romanized: Vasíliy Vasíl'yevich Smyslóv; 24 March 1921 – 27 March 2010) was a Soviet and Russian chess grandmaster who was the seventh World Chess Champion from 1957 to 1958.

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SportsWould be 105

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1926 · 100 yrs

Dario Fo

Dario Luigi Angelo Fo (Italian:; 24 March 1926 – 13 October 2016) was an Italian playwright, actor, theatre director, stage designer, songwriter, political campaigner for the Italian left wing and the recipient of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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MusicWould be 100

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Famous deaths19

AD 809 · 1217 yrs

Harun al-Rashid

Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī (c. 763 or 766 – 24 March 809), famously known as The Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth of the Abbasid caliphs, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809. His reign is traditionally regarded to be the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age.

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PoliticsDied aged 43

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1455 · 571 yrs

Nicholas V

Pope Nicholas V (Latin: Nicolaus V; Italian: Niccolò V; 15 November 1397 – 24 March 1455), born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455.

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ReligionDied aged 57

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1603 · 423 yrs

Elizabeth I of England

Elizabeth I (7 September 1533 – 24 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor.

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RoyaltyDied aged 69

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1773 · 253 yrs

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield (22 September 1694 – 24 March 1773) was a British politician, diplomat and writer.

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PoliticsDied aged 78

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1844 · 182 yrs

Bertel Thorvaldsen

Bertel Thorvaldsen (Danish:; 19 November 1770 – 24 March 1844) was a Danish-Icelandic sculptor and medalist of international fame, who spent most of his life (1797–1838) in Italy.

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ArtDied aged 75

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1849 · 177 yrs

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner

Johann Wolfgang Döbereiner (13 December 1780 – 24 March 1849) was a German chemist who is known best for work that was suggestive of the periodic law for the chemical elements, and for inventing the first lighter, which was known as the Döbereiner's lamp.

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ScienceDied aged 68

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1882 · 144 yrs

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline.

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LiteratureDied aged 75

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1887 · 139 yrs

Ivan Kramskoi

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi (Russian: Иван Николаевич Крамской; 8 June 1837 – 5 April 1887) was a Russian Realist painter and art critic. One of the most prominent artisans during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he is remembered as co-founding member and public frontman of the Peredvizhniki movement.

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ArtDied aged 49

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1905 · 121 yrs

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne ( VURN; French:; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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LiteratureDied aged 77

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1909 · 117 yrs

John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge (16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909), popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, and collector of folklores.

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LiteratureDied aged 37

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1946 · 80 yrs

Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alexandrovich Alekhine (31 October 1892 – March 24, 1946) was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns. By the age of 22, Alekhine was already among the strongest chess players in the world.

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SportsWould be 134

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1953 · 73 yrs

Mary of Teck

Mary of Teck (Victoria Mary Augusta Louise Olga Pauline Claudine Agnes; 26 May 1867 – 24 March 1953) was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King George V.

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RoyaltyDied aged 85

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Events5

1794 · 232 yrs

Kościuszko Uprising

The Kościuszko Uprising, also known as the Polish Uprising of 1794, Second Polish War, Polish Campaign of 1794, and the Polish Revolution of 1794, was an uprising against the Russian and Prussian influence on the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth, led by Tadeusz Kościuszko in Poland–Lithuania and the Prussian partition…

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War

1925 · 101 yrs

World Animal Day

World Animal Day is an international day of action for animal welfare celebrated annually on October 4, the feast day of Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of animals. The World Animal Day movement is supported and endorsed by a number of celebrities.

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History

1999 · 27 yrs

NATO bombing of Yugoslavia

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) carried out an aerial bombing campaign against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia during the Kosovo War. The air strikes lasted from 24 March 1999 to 10 June 1999.

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War

2002 · 24 yrs

74th Academy Awards

The 74th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), took place on March 24, 2002, 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 2001.

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Culture

2015 · 11 yrs

Germanwings Flight 9525

Germanwings Flight 9525 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Barcelona–El Prat Airport in Spain to Düsseldorf Airport in Germany. The flight was operated by Germanwings, a low-cost carrier owned by the German airline Lufthansa.

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