March 23rd, 1857

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Born on March 23rd, 1857 – Weekday, Age & Zodiac
Age in days, weeks and months
What happened on March 23rd, 1857?
Birthdays of famous people
Public holidays on March 23rd
Date as a Roman numeral / digit
Calendar (March 1857)

Born on March 23rd, 1857

Weekday

Monday

March 23rd, 1857 was a Monday.

Age

167

People born on March 23rd, 1857 (assuming the person is still alive) would have turned 167 years old this year (2024).

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

March 21st, 1857 - April 20th, 1857

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Why not celebrate an alternative birthday? In 973 days, exactly on December 22nd, 2026, people who were born on March 23rd, 1857 will be 62,000 days old!

61,027 Days

8,718 Weeks

2,005 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

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What happened on March 23rd, 1857?

March 23rd, 1857

Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elisha_Otis

What else happened on March 23rd?

March 23rd, 2007

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

March 23rd, 1996

Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

March 23rd, 1994

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

March 23rd, 1993

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

March 23rd, 1989

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

March 23rd, 1977

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

March 23rd, 1933

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

March 23rd, 1931

Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.

March 23rd, 1919

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

March 23rd, 1908

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

March 23rd, 1905

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

March 23rd, 1889

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

March 23rd, 1888

Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.

March 23rd, 1862

American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Born on March 23rd, 1857

Léopold Duzas

French tenor

*March 23rd, 1857, Connaux †August 24th, 1918, Nîmes

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Ludwig Quidde

German politician (1858-1941)

*March 23rd, 1858, Bremen †March 4th, 1941, Geneva

Paul Valentine

American actor (1919-2006)

*March 23rd, 1919, New York City †January 27th, 2006, Los Angeles

Cedric Gibbons

American art director (1890–1960)

*March 23rd, 1893, Dublin †July 26th, 1960, Hollywood

Joan Crawford

American actress (1904–1977)

*March 23rd, 1904, San Antonio †May 10th, 1977, New York City

Roger Martin du Gard

French writer

*March 23rd, 1881, Neuilly-sur-Seine †August 22nd, 1958, Château du Tertre

Marin Hinkle

American actress

*March 23rd, 1966, Dar es Salaam

JP Saxe

Canadian musician and singer

*March 23rd, 1994, Toronto

Gianni Infantino Riovaldi

Swiss-Italian football administrator

*March 23rd, 1970, Brig-Glis

Hans Thirring

Austrian physicist (1888-1976)

*March 23rd, 1888, Vienna †March 22nd, 1976, Vienna

Wernher von Braun

German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)

*March 23rd, 1912, Wyrzysk †June 16th, 1977, Alexandria

Steve Redgrave

British rower

*March 23rd, 1962, Marlow

Amanda Plummer

American actress

*March 23rd, 1957, New York City

Ísak Bergmann Jóhannesson

Icelandic association football player

*March 23rd, 2003, Sutton Coldfield

Hope Davis

American actress

*March 23rd, 1964, Englewood

Hermann Staudinger

German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

*March 23rd, 1881, Worms †September 8th, 1965, Freiburg im Breisgau

Mo Farah

British track and field athlete

*March 23rd, 1983, Gabiley

Roger Bannister

English physician and athlete

*March 23rd, 1929, London Borough of Harrow †March 3rd, 2018, Oxford

Pierre-Simon Laplace

French mathematician and astronomer (1749-1827)

*March 23rd, 1749, Beaumont-en-Auge †March 5th, 1827, Paris

Dietrich Eckart

German journalist and politician (1868-1923)

*March 23rd, 1868, Neumarkt in der Oberpfalz †December 26th, 1923, Berchtesgaden

Horatio Bottomley

English financier, journalist, editor, newspaper proprietor, swindler, and Member of Parliament (1860-1933)

*March 23rd, 1860, Metropolitan Borough of Bethnal Green †May 26th, 1933, London

Same year
Born in 1857

Ernst Fabricius

German historian, archaeologist and scholar (1857–1942)

*September 6th, 1857, Darmstadt †March 22nd, 1942, Freiburg im Breisgau

William Howard Taft

President of the United States from 1909 to 1913

*September 15th, 1857, Cincinnati †March 8th, 1930, Washington metropolitan area

Ferdinand de Saussure

Swiss linguist (1857-1913)

*November 26th, 1857, Geneva †February 22nd, 1913, Vufflens-le-Château

Friedrich August Emil Heuer

*December 27th, 1857, Rammenau †March 29th, 1934, Dresden

Heinrich Hertz

German physicist (1857–1894)

*February 22nd, 1857, Hamburg †January 1st, 1894, Bonn

Joseph Conrad

Polish-British writer (1857–1924)

*December 3rd, 1857, Terekhove †August 3rd, 1924, Bishopsbourne

Pius XI

Pope of the Catholic Church from 1922 to 1939

*May 31st, 1857, Desio †February 10th, 1939, Vatican City

Henrik Pontoppidan

Writer, Nobel Laureate

*July 24th, 1857, Fredericia †August 21st, 1943, Copenhagen

Ronald Ross

British doctor, Nobel laureate, writer, and artist (1857 – 1932)

*May 13th, 1857, Almora †September 16th, 1932, London

Otto Sidow

German politician (SPD)

*May 1st, 1857, Friesack †September 6th, 1927, Brandenburg an der Havel

Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell

Lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, founder and Chief Scout of the Scout Movement (1857-1941)

*February 22nd, 1857, Paddington †January 8th, 1941, Nyeri

Eugène Regnault

French diplomat (1857-1941)

*December 28th, 1857, Boulogne-sur-Mer †September 25th, 1941, Gorre

Mario Méndez Bejarano

Spanish author

*December 5th, 1857, Seville †January 16th, 1931, Madrid

Julien Tiersot

French musicologist, composer and pioneer in ethnomusicology (1857-1936)

*July 5th, 1857, Bourg-en-Bresse †August 10th, 1936, 13th arrondissement of Paris

Margaret Deland

American writer and poet (1857–1945)

*February 23rd, 1857, Allegheny †January 13th, 1945, Boston

Ruggero Leoncavallo

Italian composer

*April 23rd, 1857, Naples †August 9th, 1919, Montecatini Terme

Edward Elgar

English composer (1857-1934)

*June 2nd, 1857, Lower Broadheath †February 23rd, 1934, Worcester

Alfred Binet

French psychologist and inventor of the first usable intelligence test

*July 8th, 1857, Nice †October 18th, 1911, Paris

Charles Scott Sherrington

English footballer, neurophysiologist and Nobel Prize recipient (1857–1952)

*November 27th, 1857, Islington †March 4th, 1952, Eastbourne

Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist

*March 7th, 1857, Wels †September 27th, 1940, Vienna

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 23rd

Fixed holidays (Christian feast day) which are celebrated on March 23rd.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

XXIII.III.MDCCCLVII

23.3.1857

Legend

M = 1000

D = 500

C = 100

L = 50

X = 10

V = 5

I = 1

Leap year

No: With 365 days 1857 is a normal year and no leap year.

Calendar
March 1857

March 1857

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March 23rd, 1857

Born on March 23rd, 1857

Weekday

Monday

Age

Zodiac

♈

Aries (The Ram)

Age in days, weeks and months Wow, over 61,000 days old!

61,027 Days

8,718 Weeks

2,005 Months

... in seconds, minutes and hours

Seconds

Minutes

Hours

What happened on March 23rd, 1857?

Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.

What else happened on March 23rd?

The Iranian military arrested 15 Royal Navy personnel, claiming that they had entered Iran's territorial waters.

Lee Teng-hui (pictured) was elected President of the Republic of China in the first direct presidential election in Taiwan.

Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into a hillside in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast, killing all 75 people on board, after the pilot's 15-year-old son had unknowingly disabled the autopilot while seated at the controls.

The demolition of Kowloon Walled City (pictured), a densely crowded slum in Hong Kong, began.

Two researchers announced the discovery of cold fusion, a claim which was later discredited.

British journalist David Frost began a series of interviews with former U.S. president Richard Nixon, starting with the Watergate scandal.

The Nazi Party took the first step in the Gleichschaltung process by having the Enabling Act passed, giving the government the right to make laws without the involvement of the Reichstag.

Bhagat Singh (pictured), one of the most influential revolutionaries of the Indian independence movement, and two others were executed by the British authorities.

Benito Mussolini and his supporters founded the Fasci Italiani di Combattimento, the predecessor of the National Fascist Party.

American diplomat Durham Stevens, an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, was fatally shot in San Francisco by two Korean immigrants unhappy with his support of increased Japanese presence in Korea.

About 1,500 Cretans, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, met at the village of Theriso to call for the island's unification with Greece, beginning the Theriso revolt.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad founded the Ahmadiyya Islamic religious movement in British India.

Chaired by William McGregor, a meeting of ten English football clubs was held in London, which would eventually result in the establishment of the Football League.

American Civil War: General Stonewall Jackson of the Confederate States Army lost the First Battle of Kernstown, but was still able to prevent the Union Army from reinforcing the Peninsula campaign.

Birthdays ... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 23rd

Born on March 23rd, 1857

French tenor

Same Day Who's birthday is on March 23rd?

Same year Born in 1857

Birthdays of famous people

Public holidays on March 23rd

Gregory the Illuminator (Episcopal Church)

Gwinear

Joseph Oriol

Ottone Frangipane

Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Maronite Church)

Turibius of Mogrovejo

Victorian, Frumentius and Companions

March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)

Day of the Sea (Bolivia)

Family Day (South Africa)

Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan)

Pakistan Day (Pakistan)

Promised Messiah Day (Ahmadiyya)

World Meteorological Day

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

23.3.1857

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Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 61,000 days old!

Birthdays
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Born in 1857

Calendar
March 1857

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9							1
10	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
11	9	10	11	12	13	14	15
12	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
13	23	24	25	26	27	28	29
14	30	31