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March 7

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82nd Academy Awards

16 years ago

Born this day

1785

Alessandro Manzoni

Died aged 88

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1865th

Antoninus Pius

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Famous births29

AD 189 · 1837 yrs

Geta

Publius Septimius Geta ( GHET-ə; 7 March 189 – 26 December 211) was Roman emperor with his father Septimius Severus and older brother Caracalla from 209 to 211. Severus died in February 211 and intended for his sons to rule together, but proving incapable of sharing power, Geta was murdered in December of that year.

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RoyaltyDied aged 22

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1693 · 333 yrs

Clement XIII

Pope Clement XIII (Latin: Clemens XIII; Italian: Clemente XIII; 7 March 1693 – 2 February 1769), born Carlo della Torre di Rezzonico, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 6 July 1758 to his death in February 1769. He was installed on 16 July 1758.

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ReligionDied aged 75

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1765 · 261 yrs

Nicéphore Niépce

Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (French:; 7 March 1765 – 5 July 1833) was a French inventor and one of the pioneers of photography. Niépce developed heliography, a technique he used to create the world's oldest surviving products of a photographic process.

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TechnologyDied aged 68

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1785 · 241 yrs

Alessandro Manzoni

Alessandro Francesco Tommaso Antonio Manzoni (UK:, US:, Italian:; 7 March 1785 – 22 May 1873) was an Italian philosopher, poet, playwright, and novelist. He is best known for the novel The Betrothed (Italian: I promessi sposi), generally ranked among the masterpieces of world literature.

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LiteratureDied aged 88

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1792 · 234 yrs

John Frederick William Herschel

Sir John Frederick William Herschel, 1st Baronet (7 March 1792 – 11 May 1871) was an English polymath active as a mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and experimental photographer who invented the blueprint and did botanical work. Herschel originated the use of the Julian day system in astronomy.

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ScienceDied aged 79

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1850 · 176 yrs

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk

Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk (7 March 1850 – 14 September 1937) was a Czechoslovak statesman, political activist and philosopher who served as the first president of Czechoslovakia from 1918 to 1935. He is regarded as the founding father of Czechoslovakia.

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PoliticsDied aged 87

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1857 · 169 yrs

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Austrian German:; 7 March 1857 – 27 September 1940) was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so.

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ScienceDied aged 83

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1872 · 154 yrs

Piet Mondrian

Pieter Cornelis Mondriaan (Dutch:; 7 March 1872 – 1 February 1944), known after 1911 as Piet Mondrian (US also; Dutch:), was a Dutch painter and art theoretician, who is regarded as one of the greatest artists of the 20th century.

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ArtDied aged 71

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1875 · 151 yrs

Maurice Ravel

Joseph Maurice Ravel (7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937) was a French composer, pianist and conductor. He is often associated with Impressionism along with his elder contemporary Claude Debussy, although both composers rejected the term.

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MusicDied aged 62

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1904 · 122 yrs

Reinhard Heydrich

Reinhard Tristan Eugen Heydrich (German:; 7 March 1904 – 4 June 1942) was a high-ranking SS and police official in Nazi Germany as well as one of the principal architects of the Holocaust. He held the rank of SS-Obergruppenführer und General der Polizei.

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1908 · 118 yrs

Anna Magnani

Anna Maria Magnani (Italian:; 7 March 1908 – 26 September 1973) was an Italian actress. She was the first Italian woman to win an Academy Award.

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1915 · 111 yrs

Sviatoslav Richter

Sviatoslav Teofilovich Richter (20 March 1915 – August 1, 1997) was a Soviet and Russian classical pianist. Widely considered one of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, he has been praised for the "depth of his interpretations, his virtuoso technique, and his vast repertoire".

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Famous deaths16

AD 161 · 1865 yrs

Antoninus Pius

Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius (Latin:; 19 September 86 – 7 March 161) was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty and also the fourth of the six adoptive emperors.

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RoyaltyDied aged 74

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AD 664 · 1362 yrs

Xuanzang

Xuanzang (Chinese: 玄奘; Wade–Giles: Hsüen Tsang;; 6 April 602 – 5 February 664), born Chen Hui or Chen Yi (陳褘 / 陳禕), also known by his Sanskrit Dharma name Mokṣadeva, was a 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator.

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LiteratureDied aged 61

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1274 · 752 yrs

Thomas Aquinas

Thomas Aquinas ( ə-KWY-nəs; Italian: Tommaso d'Aquino, lit. 'Thomas of Aquino'; c. 1225 – 7 March 1274) was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy.

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ReligionDied aged 49

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1724 · 302 yrs

Innocent XIII

Pope Innocent XIII (Latin: Innocentius XIII; Italian: Innocenzo XIII; 13 May 1655 – 7 March 1724), born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He remains the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Innocent".

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ReligionDied aged 68

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1875 · 151 yrs

John Edward Gray

John Edward Gray (12 February 1800 – 7 March 1875) was a British zoologist. He was the elder brother of zoologist George Robert Gray and son of the pharmacologist and botanist Samuel Frederick Gray (1766–1828).

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Notable PeopleDied aged 75

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1925 · 101 yrs

Georgy Lvov

Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (2 November 1861 – 7/8 March 1925) was a Russian aristocrat, statesman and the first prime minister of the Russian Republic from 15 March to 20 July 1917.

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PoliticsDied aged 63

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1931 · 95 yrs

Theo van Doesburg

Theo van Doesburg (Dutch:; born Christian Emil Marie Küpper; 30 August 1883 – 7 March 1931) was a Dutch painter, writer, poet, and architect. He is best known as the founder and leader of De Stijl.

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1931 · 95 yrs

Akseli Gallen-Kallela

Akseli Gallen-Kallela (born Axel Waldemar Gallén; 26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter and a leading figure of Finnish romantic nationalism around the turn of the 20th century.

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ArtDied aged 65

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1932 · 94 yrs

Aristide Briand

Aristide Pierre Henri Briand (French:; 28 March 1862 – 7 March 1932) was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation politics during the interwar period (1918–1939).

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PoliticsDied aged 69

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1952 · 74 yrs

Paramahansa Yogananda

Paramahansa Yogananda (born Mukunda Lal Ghosh; January 5, 1893 – March 7, 1952) was an Indian and American Hindu monk, yogi, and guru who founded the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF)/Yogoda Satsanga Society of India (YSS), a religious meditation and Kriya Yoga organization, to disseminate his teachings.

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1954 · 72 yrs

Otto Diels

Otto Paul Hermann Diels (German:; 23 January 1876 – 7 March 1954) was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis.

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1975 · 51 yrs

Mikhail Bakhtin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin (Russian: Михаи́л Миха́йлович Бахти́н, IPA:; 16 November 1895 – 7 March 1975) was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory.

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Events5

1617 · 409 yrs

Treaty of Stolbovo

The Treaty of Stolbovo (Russian: Столбовский мир; Swedish: Freden i Stolbova) was a peace treaty that ended the Ingrian War (Ingermanländska kriget), which had been fought between the Swedish Empire and the Russian Tsardom between 1610 and 1617.

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Politics

1936 · 90 yrs

Remilitarization of the Rhineland

The remilitarisation of the Rhineland (German: Rheinlandbesetzung, pronounced) began on 7 March 1936, when military forces of Nazi Germany entered the Rhineland, which directly contravened the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties.

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History

1946 · 80 yrs

18th Academy Awards

The 18th Academy Awards were held on March 7, 1946, at Grauman's Chinese Theatre to honor the films of 1945.

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Culture

2010 · 16 yrs

82nd Academy Awards

The 82nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 2009 and took place on March 7, 2010, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles, beginning at 5:30 p.m. PST / 8:30 p.m.

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Culture

2014 · 12 yrs

2014 Winter Paralympics

The 2014 Winter Paralympics (Russian: Зимние Паралимпийские игры 2014, romanized: Zimniye Paralimpiyskiye igry 2014), the 11th Paralympic Winter Games, and also more generally known as the Sochi 2014 Paralympic Winter Games, were an international multi-sport event for athletes with disabilities governed by the…

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