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2012 Russian presidential election

14 years ago

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1678

Antonio Vivaldi

Died aged 63

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838th

Blanche of Castile

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Famous births29

1188 · 838 yrs

Blanche of Castile

Blanche of Castile (Spanish: Blanca de Castilla; French: Blanche de Castille; 4 March 1188 – 27 November 1252) was Queen of France by marriage to Louis VIII. She acted as regent twice during the reign of her son, Louis IX: during his minority from 1226 until 1234, and during his absence from 1248 until 1252.

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RoyaltyDied aged 64

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1394 · 632 yrs

Prince Henry the Navigator

Prince Henry the Navigator (4 March 1394 – 13 November 1460), was a Portuguese prince, a central figure in the early days of the Portuguese Empire and often credited as one of the main initiators of the Age of Discovery. Henry was the third child of King John I of Portugal, who founded the House of Aviz.

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RoyaltyDied aged 66

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1678 · 348 yrs

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.

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MusicDied aged 63

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1769 · 257 yrs

Muhammad Ali

Muhammad Ali (4 March 1769 – 2 August 1849) was the Ottoman viceroy and governor of Albanian origin, who became the de facto ruler of Egypt from 1805 to 1848, widely considered the founder of modern Egypt.

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PoliticsDied aged 80

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1798 · 228 yrs

Carlo Alberto I of Sardinia

Charles Albert (Italian: Carlo Alberto I; 2 October 1798 – 28 July 1849) was the King of Sardinia and ruler of the Savoyard state from 27 April 1831 until his abdication in 1849. His name is bound up with the first Italian constitution, the Statuto Albertino, and with the First Italian War of Independence (1848–1849).

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RoyaltyDied aged 51

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1859 · 167 yrs

Aleksandr Popov

Alexander Stepanovich Popov (sometimes spelled Popoff; Russian: Александр Степанович Попов; 16 March 1859 – 13 January 1906) was a Russian physicist who was one of the first people to invent a radio receiving device.

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ScienceDied aged 46

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1898 · 128 yrs

Georges Dumézil

Georges Edmond Raoul Dumézil (French:; 4 March 1898 – 11 October 1986) was a French philologist, linguist, and religious studies scholar who specialized in comparative linguistics and mythology.

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1898 · 128 yrs100 Club

Soong May-ling

Soong Mei-ling (also spelled Soong May-ling; March 4, 1898 – October 23, 2003), also known as Madame Chiang (Chinese: 蔣夫人), was the First Lady of the Republic of China as the wife of Chiang Kai-shek.

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PoliticsWould be 128

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1904 · 122 yrs

George Gamow

George Gamow (sometimes Gammoff; born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov; Russian: Гео́ргий Анто́нович Га́мов; 4 March 1904 – August 19, 1968) was a Soviet and American polymath, theoretical physicist and cosmologist. He was an early advocate and developer of Georges Lemaître's Big Bang theory.

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ScienceWould be 122

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1916 · 110 yrs

Hans Eysenck

Hans Jürgen Eysenck ( EYE-zenk; 4 March 1916 – 4 September 1997) was a German-born British psychologist. He is best remembered for his work on intelligence and personality, although he worked on other issues in psychology.

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ScienceWould be 110

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1932 · 94 yrs

Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba ( mə-KAY-bə, Xhosa:; 4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.

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MusicWould be 94

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1932 · 94 yrs

Ryszard Kapuściński

Ryszard Kapuściński (Polish:; 4 March 1932 – 23 January 2007) was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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LiteratureWould be 94

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Famous deaths12

1832 · 194 yrs

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion (French:), also known as Champollion le jeune ('the Younger'; 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology.

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Notable PeopleDied aged 41

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1916 · 110 yrs

Franz Marc

Franz Moritz Wilhelm Marc (8 February 1880 – 4 March 1916) was a German painter and printmaker, one of the key figures of German Expressionism. He was a founding member of Der Blaue Reiter (The Blue Rider), a journal whose name later became synonymous with the circle of artists collaborating in it.

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1941 · 85 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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1948 · 78 yrs

Antonin Artaud

Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (French:; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud (French pronunciation:), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema.

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LiteratureWould be 130

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1952 · 74 yrs

Charles Scott Sherrington

Sir Charles Scott Sherrington (27 November 1857 – 4 March 1952) was a British neurophysiologist and academic.

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SportsDied aged 94

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1963 · 63 yrs

William Carlos Williams

William Carlos Williams (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet and physician closely associated with modernism and imagism. His Spring and All (1923) was written in the wake of T. S. Eliot's The Waste Land (1922).

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1967 · 59 yrs

Mohammad Mosaddegh

Mohammad Mosaddegh (16 June 1882 – 5 March 1967) was an Iranian politician, author and lawyer who served as the prime minister of Iran from 1951 to 1953, elected by the 16th Majlis.

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PoliticsWould be 144

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1977 · 49 yrs

Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk

Johann Ludwig "Lutz" Graf Schwerin von Krosigk (born Johann Ludwig von Krosigk; 22 August 1887 – 4 March 1977) was a German senior government official who served as the minister of finance of Germany from 1932 to 1945 and de facto chancellor of Germany during May 1945.

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2011 · 15 yrs

Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.

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ScienceWould be 100

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2019 · 7 yrs

Luke Perry

Coy Luther "Luke" Perry III (October 11, 1966 – March 4, 2019) was an American actor. He became a teen idol for playing Dylan McKay on the Fox television series Beverly Hills, 90210 from 1990 to 1995, and again from 1998 to 2000.

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FilmWould be 60

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2020 · 6 yrs100 Club

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra (Spanish:; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as prime minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.

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2023 · 3 yrs

Judith Heumann

Judith Ellen Heumann (December 18, 1947 – March 4, 2023) was an American disability rights activist, known as the "Mother of the Disability Rights Movement". She was recognized internationally as a leader in the disability community.

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Events5

1665 · 361 yrs

Second Anglo-Dutch War

The Second Anglo-Dutch War began on 4 March 1665 and concluded with the signing of the Treaty of Breda on 31 July 1667.

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War

1951 · 75 yrs

1951 Asian Games

The 1951 Asian Games, officially known as the First Asian Games (Hindi: प्रथम एशियाई खेल), were a multi-sport event celebrated in New Delhi, India from 4 to 11 March 1951. The Games received names like First Asiad, 1951 Asiad, and New Delhi 1951 (Hindi: नई दिल्ली 1951).

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Sports

2012 · 14 yrs

2012 Russian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 4 March 2012. There were five officially registered candidates: four representatives of registered parties, and one nominal independent.

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Politics

2018 · 8 yrs

2018 Italian general election

The 2018 Italian general election was held on 4 March 2018 after the Italian Parliament was dissolved by President Sergio Mattarella on 28 December 2017.

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Politics

2022 · 4 yrs

2022 Winter Paralympics

The 2022 Winter Paralympics (Chinese: 2022年冬季残疾人奥林匹克运动会; pinyin: 2022 Nián Dōngjì Cánjí Rén Àolínpǐkè Yùndònghuì), also known as XIII Paralympic Winter Games, commonly known as Beijing 2022 (Chinese: 北京2022), were an international winter multi-sport parasports event held in Beijing, China, from 4 to 13 March 2022.

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