March 26th, 1908

Born on March 26th, 1908

Age in days, weeks and months
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What happened on March 26th?

March 26th, 2010

An explosion, allegedly caused by a North Korean torpedo, sank the South Korean warship ROKS Cheonan near Baengnyeongdo in the Yellow Sea, killing 46 sailors.

March 26th, 1999

A jury began deliberations in the trial of Jack Kevorkian, an American practitioner of physician-assisted suicide who was charged with murder in the death of a terminally ill patient.

March 26th, 1997

Police in Rancho Santa Fe, California, discovered the bodies of 39 members of the religious group Heaven's Gate who had died in an apparent cult suicide.

March 26th, 1979

With the signing of a peace treaty in Washington, D.C., Egypt became the first Arab country officially to recognize Israel.

March 26th, 1975

The Biological Weapons Convention, the first multilateral disarmament treaty banning the production of an entire category of weapons, entered into force.

March 26th, 1953

Jonas Salk announced the successful test of his polio vaccine on a small group of adults and children.

March 26th, 1939

Spanish Civil War: Nationalists began their final offensive of the war, at the end of which they controlled almost the entire country.

March 26th, 1917

First World War: Attempting to advance into Palestine, the British were defeated by Ottoman troops at the First Battle of Gaza.

March 26th, 1913

First Balkan War: After a five-month siege, Bulgarian and Serbian forces (artillery pictured) captured the Ottoman city of Adrianople.

March 26th, 1896

An explosion at the Brunner Mine in New Zealand killed 65 coal miners in the country's deadliest mining accident.

March 26th, 1885

Perceiving that the Canadian government was failing to protect their rights, the Métis people led by Louis Riel began the North-West Rebellion.

March 26th, 1873

A Dutch military expedition was launched to bombard Banda Aceh, the capital of the Aceh Sultanate in present-day Indonesia, beginning the Aceh War.

March 26th, 1812

The Boston Gazette printed a cartoon coining the term "gerrymander", named after Governor Elbridge Gerry (pictured), who approved the legislation that created oddly shaped electoral districts.

March 26th, 1697

The Safavid Empire began a four-year occupation of the Ottoman city of Basra on the Persian Gulf.

March 26th, 1484

William Caxton (pictured) printed the first English translation of Aesop's Fables.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 26th

Born on March 26th, 1908

49

Betty MacDonald

American writer

*March 26th, 1908, Boulder †February 7th, 1958, Seattle

63

Franz Stangl

Austrian-born SS officer, commandant at first Sobibór extermination camp and then Treblinka extermination camp (1908-1971)

*March 26th, 1908, Altmünster †June 28th, 1971, Düsseldorf

100

Madeleine Cheminat

French actress

*March 26th, 1908, Nancy †December 12th, 2008, Nérac

72

Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling

German-Danish tennis player

*March 26th, 1908, Essen †March 7th, 1981, Helsingborg

85

Samuel Bronston

American film producer

*March 26th, 1908, Chișinău †January 12th, 1994, Sacramento

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Who's birthday is on March 26th?

71

Tennessee Williams

American playwright (1911–1983)

*March 26th, 1911, Columbus †February 25th, 1983, New York City

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

*March 26th, 1940, The Bronx †July 6th, 2022, Los Angeles

84

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

83

Paul Erdős

Hungarian mathematician (1913–1996)

*March 26th, 1913, Budapest †September 20th, 1996, Warsaw

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

83

Joseph Campbell

American mythologist, writer and lecturer (1904-1987)

*March 26th, 1904, White Plains †October 30th, 1987, Honolulu

83

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

74

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

27

Ruthvika Shivani

Indian badminton player

*March 26th, 1997, Vijayawada

83

Leonard Nimoy

American actor (1931–2015)

*March 26th, 1931, West End †February 27th, 2015, Bel Air

25

Fabio Caponio

Italian badminton player

*March 26th, 1999, Santeramo in Colle

75

Uwe Beckmeyer

German politician

*March 26th, 1949, Bremerhaven

62

Chips Rafferty

Australian actor (1909–1971)

*March 26th, 1909, Broken Hill †May 27th, 1971, Sydney

88

Robert Frost

American poet; 4x recipient of Pulitzer Prize for Poetry

*March 26th, 1874, San Francisco †January 29th, 1963, Boston

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

51

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

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Born in 1908

78

Simone de Beauvoir

French philosopher, social theorist and activist (1908–1986)

*January 9th, 1908, Paris †April 14th, 1986, 14th arrondissement of Paris

64

Lyndon B. Johnson

President of the United States from 1963 to 1969

*August 27th, 1908, Stonewall †January 22nd, 1973, Stonewall

78

Arnaldo Momigliano

Italian historian of classical antiquity (1908–1987)

*September 5th, 1908, Caraglio †September 1st, 1987, London

88

Wolfram von Soden

German Assyriologist

*June 19th, 1908, Berlin †October 6th, 1996, Münster

97

Myron Waldman

American animator (1908-2006)

*April 23rd, 1908, Brooklyn †February 4th, 2006, Bethpage

100

Claude Lévi-Strauss

French anthropologist and ethnologist (1908–2009)

*November 28th, 1908, City of Brussels †October 30th, 2009, 16th arrondissement of Paris

66

Louis Jordan

American jazz, blues and rhythm and blues musician, songwriter and bandleader (1908–1975)

*July 8th, 1908, Arkansas †February 4th, 1975, Los Angeles

65

Salvador Allende

28th president of Chile (1908–1973)

*June 26th, 1908, Valparaíso †September 11th, 1973, Santiago

96

Simon Wiesenthal

Jewish Austrian Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter

*December 31st, 1908, Buchach †September 20th, 2005, Vienna

52

Richard Wright

American writer (1908-1960)

*September 4th, 1908, Natchez †November 28th, 1960, Paris

83

Olivier Messiaen

French composer, organist and ornithologist (1908–1992)

*December 10th, 1908, Avignon †April 27th, 1992, Clichy

89

James Stewart

American actor (1908–1997)

*May 20th, 1908, Indiana †July 2nd, 1997, Beverly Hills

81

Bette Davis

American actress (1908–1989)

*April 5th, 1908, Lowell †October 6th, 1989, Neuilly-sur-Seine

76

Ethel Merman

American actress and singer (1908-1984)

*January 16th, 1908, Astoria †February 15th, 1984, Manhattan

97

John Mills

English actor (1908-2005)

*February 22nd, 1908, Felixstowe †April 23rd, 2005, Denham

91

Amintore Fanfani

Italian politician statesman (1908–1999)

*February 6th, 1908, Pieve Santo Stefano †November 20th, 1999, Rome

84

Robert Morley

British actor (1908–1992)

*May 26th, 1908, Semley †June 3rd, 1992, Reading

82

Robert Cummings

American actor (1910–1990)

*June 9th, 1908, Joplin †December 2nd, 1990, Woodland Hills

85

Raymond Scott

American composer, bandleader, pianist, record producer and inventor (1908-1994)

*September 10th, 1908, Brooklyn †February 8th, 1994, North Hills

82

Jill Esmond

British actress (1908–1990)

*January 26th, 1908, London †July 28th, 1990, Wimbledon

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Public holidays on March 26th

Fixed holidays (Christian feast days) which are celebrated on March 26th.

Date as a Roman numeral / digit

Leap year

Yes: 1908 is a leap year, therefore has a 29th of February with an additional leap day and a total of 366 days (instead of the usual 365 days in a normal year).

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