March 26th, 1944

Born on March 26th, 1944

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 29,000 days old!

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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, 1944

80

Diana Ross

American vocalist, music artist and actress

*March 26th, 1944, Detroit

80

Bernie Machen

American university president, professor of pediatric dentistry, dental surgeon

*March 26th, 1944, Greenwood

80

Reinhold Andert

German author

*March 26th, 1944, Sömmerda

80

Walter Van Renterghem

Belgian athletics competitor

*March 26th, 1944, Poperinge

80

Piermaria Oddone

American physicist

*March 26th, 1944, Arequipa

80

Raymond Poe

American politician

*March 26th, 1944, Lincoln

80

Moslem Eskandar-Filabi

Iranian wrestler

*March 26th, 1944, Quchan

80

Mako Midori

Japanese actress

*March 26th, 1944, Taiwan

80

Lee Hansen

American actor

*March 26th, 1944, Spokane

80

Jan Fajstavr

Czech cross-country skier

*March 26th, 1944, Jilemnice

80

Per Werenskiold

Norwegian sailor

*March 26th, 1944, Bærum Municipality

80

Janusz Kowalik

Polish footballer

*March 26th, 1944, Nowy Sącz

80

Vlasta Kodešová

Czechoslovakian female tennis player

*March 26th, 1944, Prague

77

D. Michael Quinn

American religious historian

*March 26th, 1944, Glendale †April 21st, 2021, Rancho Cucamonga

79

Gérard Charasse

French politician

*March 26th, 1944, Le Vernet †June 18th, 2023, Le Vernet

71

Francisco Domingo Barbosa Da Silveira

Roman Catholic bishop

*March 26th, 1944, Tambores †June 17th, 2015, Madrid

73

Tone Gale

Yugoslav and Slovenian ice hockey player

*March 26th, 1944, Jesenice †February 28th, 2018, Ljubljana

70

Franklin Dennis Jones

Actor (1944-2015)

*March 26th, 1944, Danville †February 15th, 2015

Same Day
Who's birthday is on March 26th?

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

76

Bärbel Kramer

German papyrologist

*March 26th, 1948, Mülheim an der Ruhr

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

81

Roland Göhler

East German rower

*March 26th, 1943, Meissen

75

Uwe Beckmeyer

German politician

*March 26th, 1949, Bremerhaven

81

Bob Woodward

American journalist

*March 26th, 1943, Geneva

31

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

77

John Rowles

New Zealand singer

*March 26th, 1947, Whakatāne

52

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

71

Lincoln Chafee

American politician and former United States Senator from Rhode Island

*March 26th, 1953, Providence

46

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

75

Joachim Hörster

German politician

*March 26th, 1945, Lautzenbrücken †December 30th, 2020

76

Steven Tyler

American singer

*March 26th, 1948, New York City

86

Anthony James Leggett

British physicist

*March 26th, 1938, Camberwell

73

Carl Wieman

Nobel prize winning US physicist

*March 26th, 1951, Corvallis

37

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

82

Erica Jong

American novelist, poet, memoirist, critic

*March 26th, 1942, New York City

60

Michael Frontzeck

German association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1964, Mönchengladbach

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Born in 1944

79

Udo Kier

German actor

*October 14th, 1944, Cologne

79

Poul Michelsen

Faroese businessperson and politician

*July 22nd, 1944, Tórshavn

79

Nils Ole Oftebro

Norwegian actor

*December 1st, 1944, Sarpsborg Municipality

73

Jonathan Demme

American film director (1944–2017)

*February 22nd, 1944, Baldwin †April 26th, 2017, Manhattan

79

John Rhys-Davies

British actor

*May 5th, 1944, Ammanford

80

Syed Mohammed Arif

Badminton player and trainer

*January 29th, 1944, Hyderabad

80

Joachim Schimpke

Badminton player

*March 8th, 1944, Hohenstein-Ernstthal

79

Michael Douglas

American actor and film producer

*September 25th, 1944, New Brunswick

80

Gerhard Schröder

Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005

*April 7th, 1944, Mossenberg-Wöhren

80

Gert Audring

German historian of classical antiquity

*February 6th, 1944, Śrem

79

Dieter Planck

German archaeologist

*August 14th, 1944, Rottenburg am Neckar

80

Alice Walker

American author and activist (1944- )

*February 9th, 1944, Eatonton

79

Ban Ki-moon

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations

*June 13th, 1944, Eumseong County

77

Judi Rollick

Badminton player

*August 17th, 1944, Seattle †April 5th, 2022

80

Alexander Van der Bellen

President of Austria since 2017

*January 18th, 1944, Vienna

77

Volker Lechtenbrink

German actor and singer

*August 18th, 1944, Zelenogradsk †November 22nd, 2021, Hamburg

72

David Chandler

American chemist (1944-2017)

*October 15th, 1944, New York City †April 18th, 2017, Berkeley

72

Helena Štáchová

Czech actress, theatre director, manager and puppeteer

*November 18th, 1944, Prague †March 22nd, 2017, Prague

79

Serge Haroche

French physicist, Nobel laureate

*September 11th, 1944, Casablanca

79

Dieter Hertrampf

German musician, singer and guitarist

*November 29th, 1944, Berlin

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Leap year

Yes: 1944 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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