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March 8

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109

February Revolution

109 years ago

Born this day

1929

Hebe Camargo

Would be 97

Oldest record

672nd

Bayezid I

birth anniversary

Famous births26

1354 · 672 yrs

Bayezid I

Bayezid I (Ottoman Turkish: بايزيد اول; Turkish: I. Bayezid), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (Ottoman Turkish: یلدیرم بايزيد; Turkish: Yıldırım Bayezid; c. 1360 – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402.

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LiteratureWould be 672

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1714 · 312 yrs

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (8 March 1714 – 14 December 1788), commonly abbreviated C. P. E. Bach, was a German composer and musician of the Baroque and Classical eras. He was the fifth child and second surviving son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach.

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MusicWould be 312

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1822 · 204 yrs

Ignacy Łukasiewicz

Jan Józef Ignacy Łukasiewicz (Polish pronunciation:; 8 March 1822 – 7 January 1882) was a Polish pharmacist, engineer, businessman, inventor, and philanthropist. He was one of the most prominent philanthropists in the Kingdom of Galicia and Lodomeria, crown land of Austria-Hungary.

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PoliticsWould be 204

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1859 · 167 yrs

Kenneth Grahame

Kenneth Grahame ( GRAY-əm; 8 March 1859 – 6 July 1932) was a Scottish writer. He is best remembered for the classic of children's literature The Wind in the Willows (1908).

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LiteratureWould be 167

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1879 · 147 yrs

Otto Hahn

Otto Hahn (German:; 8 March 1879 – 28 July 1968) was a German chemist who was a pioneer in the field of radiochemistry. He is referred to as the father of nuclear chemistry and discoverer of nuclear fission, the science behind nuclear reactors and nuclear weapons.

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ScienceWould be 147

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1886 · 140 yrs

Edward Calvin Kendall

Edward Calvin Kendall (March 8, 1886 – May 4, 1972) was an American biochemist. In 1950, Kendall was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine along with Swiss chemist Tadeusz Reichstein and Mayo Clinic physician Philip S. Hench, for their work with the hormones of the adrenal glands.

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ScienceWould be 140

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1894 · 132 yrs

Wäinö Aaltonen

Wäinö Valdemar Aaltonen (8 March 1894 – 30 May 1966) was a Finnish artist and sculptor. The Chambers Biographical Dictionary describes him as "one of the leading Finnish sculptors".

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ArtWould be 132

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1897 · 129 yrs

Josep Pla

Josep Pla i Casadevall (Catalan:; 8 March 1897 – 23 April 1981) was a Spanish journalist and a popular author. As a journalist he worked in France, Italy, Britain, Germany, and the Soviet Union, from where he wrote political and cultural chronicles in Catalan and Spanish.

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MediaWould be 129

Photo: Amadeu Mariné Vadalaco · CC BY-SA 3.0

1907 · 119 yrs

Konstantinos Karamanlis

Konstantinos G. Karamanlis (Greek: Κωνσταντίνος Γ. Καραμανλής, pronounced; 8 March 1907 – 23 April 1998) was a Greek statesman who was the four-time Prime Minister of Greece and two-term president of the Third Hellenic Republic, serving in the former role from 1955 to 1963 and from 1974 to 1980.

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PoliticsWould be 119

Photo: Bert Verhoeff for Anefo · CC0

1910 · 116 yrs

Claire Trevor

Claire Trevor (née Wemlinger; March 8, 1910 – April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She appeared in 65 feature films from 1933 to 1982, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Key Largo (1948), and received nominations for her roles in The High and the Mighty (1954) and Dead End (1937).

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FilmWould be 116

Photo: New York Sunday News · Public domain

1921 · 105 yrs

Cyd Charisse

Cyd Charisse (born Tula Ellice Finklea; March 8, 1922 – June 17, 2008) was an American dancer and actress. After recovering from polio as a child and studying ballet, Charisse entered films in the 1940s.

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FilmWould be 105

Photo: John Mathew Smith & www.celebrity-photos.com from Laurel Maryland, USA · CC BY-SA 2.0

1929 · 97 yrs

Hebe Camargo

Hebe Maria Monteiro de Camargo Ravagnani (Portuguese pronunciation:; 8 March 1929 – 29 September 2012) was a Brazilian television host, singer and actress. She is considered the "Queen of Brazilian Television" (Portuguese: Rainha da Televisão Brasileira).

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TelevisionWould be 97

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Famous deaths20

1403 · 623 yrs

Bayezid I

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LiteratureWould be 672

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1702 · 324 yrs

William III of England

William III and II (William Henry; Dutch: Willem Hendrik; 4 November 1650 – 8 March 1702), also known as William of Orange, was the sovereign Prince of Orange from birth, Stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel in the Dutch Republic from 1672, and King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from…

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RoyaltyWould be 375

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1844 · 182 yrs

Charles XIV John of Sweden

Charles XIV John (Swedish: Karl XIV Johan; 26 January 1763 – 8 March 1844) was King of Sweden and Norway from 1818 until his death in 1844 and the first monarch of the Bernadotte dynasty.

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RoyaltyWould be 263

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1869 · 157 yrs

Hector Berlioz

Louis-Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869) was a French Romantic composer, conductor and critic.

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MusicWould be 222

Photo: Pierre Petit · Public domain

1874 · 152 yrs

Millard Fillmore

Millard Fillmore (January 7, 1800 – March 8, 1874) was the 13th president of the United States, serving from 1850 to 1853. He was the last president to be a member of the Whig Party while in the White House, and the last to be neither a Democrat nor a Republican.

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PoliticsWould be 226

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1898 · 128 yrs

Ivan Shishkin

Ivan Ivanovich Shishkin (Russian: Иван Иванович Шишкин; 25 January 1832 – 20 March 1898) was a Russian Realist painter and draughtsman, best known for his landscape subjects. One of the most notable artisans to emerge during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he was among founding members of the Peredvizhniki company.

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ArtWould be 195

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1917 · 109 yrs

Ferdinand von Zeppelin

Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin (German: Ferdinand Adolf Heinrich August Graf von Zeppelin; 8 July 1838 – 8 March 1917) was a German general and later inventor of the Zeppelin rigid airships. His name became synonymous with airships and dominated long-distance flight until the 1930s.

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MilitaryWould be 188

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1923 · 103 yrs

Johannes Diderik van der Waals

Johannes Diderik van der Waals (Dutch:; 23 November 1837 – 8 March 1923) was a Dutch theoretical physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1910 "for his work on the equation of state for gases and liquids." Van der Waals started his career as a schoolteacher, before becoming the first physics professor of…

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ScienceWould be 188

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1930 · 96 yrs

William Howard Taft

William Howard Taft (September 15, 1857 – March 8, 1930) was the 27th president of the United States from 1909 to 1913 and the tenth chief justice of the United States from 1921 to 1930. He is the only person to have held both offices.

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PoliticsWould be 169

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1941 · 85 yrs

Sherwood Anderson

Sherwood Anderson (September 13, 1876 – March 8, 1941) was an American novelist and short story writer, known for subjective and self-revealing works. Self-educated, he rose to become a successful copywriter and business owner in Cleveland and Elyria, Ohio.

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LiteratureWould be 150

Photo: Alfred Stieglitz · Public domain

1942 · 84 yrs

José Raúl Capablanca

José Raúl Capablanca y Graupera (19 November 1888 – 8 March 1942) was a Cuban chess player who was the third world chess champion from 1921 to 1927. A chess prodigy, he was widely renowned for his exceptional endgame skill and speed of play.

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SportsWould be 137

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1971 · 55 yrs

Harold Lloyd

Harold Clayton Lloyd Sr. (April 20, 1893 – March 8, 1971) was an American actor, comedian, and stunt performer who appeared in many silent comedy films.

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FilmWould be 133

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Events5

1702 · 324 yrs

Queen Anne's War

Queen Anne's War (1702–1713) was the second in a series of French and Indian Wars fought in North America involving the colonial empires of Great Britain, France, and Spain. In the United States, it is regarded as a standalone conflict.

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War

1917 · 109 yrs

February Revolution

The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution, and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Politics

1926 · 100 yrs

Giselle

Giselle ( jiz-EL, French: ), originally titled Giselle, ou les Wilis (French:; Giselle, or The Wilis), is a romantic ballet (ballet-pantomime) in two acts with music by Adolphe Adam.

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History

2013 · 13 yrs

Death of Hugo Chávez

The death of Hugo Chávez, president of Venezuela, was announced by government officials to have been on 5 March 2013 at 16:25 VET (20:55 UTC) in Caracas, Venezuela, from cancer at the age of 58. Chávez was first elected as president in 1998 and was re-elected in 2000, 2006 and 2012.

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History

2014 · 12 yrs

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 (MH370 / MAS370) was an international passenger flight operated by Malaysia Airlines that disappeared from radar on 8 March 2014 while flying from Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia to its planned destination, Beijing Capital International Airport in China, with the 227…

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