March 7th, 1947

Born on March 7th, 1947

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What happened on March 7th?

March 7th, 2009

Dissident Irish republican campaign: Two off-duty British Army soldiers were shot dead by Real IRA paramilitaries outside Massereene Barracks in Antrim, Northern Ireland.

March 7th, 1968

Vietnam War: The United States and South Vietnam began Operation Truong Cong Dinh to sweep the area surrounding the Mekong Delta town of Mỹ Tho to root out Viet Cong forces in the area.

March 7th, 1965

Unarmed civil rights activists marching from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, were attacked by police (pictured) on "Bloody Sunday".

March 7th, 1945

World War II: At the beginning of the Battle of Remagen, Allied forces unexpectedly captured the Ludendorff Bridge, which possibly hastened the war's conclusion.

March 7th, 1941

The German submarine U-47, one of the most successful U-boats of World War II, disappeared with 45 men on board.

March 7th, 1936

Nazi German forces re-occupied the demilitarized Rhineland, violating both the Treaty of Versailles and the Locarno Treaties that were signed after World War I.

March 7th, 1900

The German ocean liner SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse became the first ship to send a wireless telegraph message to an onshore receiver.

March 7th, 1871

José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco, began a four-year premiership as Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil, the longest in the state's history.

March 7th, 1850

United States senator Daniel Webster delivered a speech advocating compromise on slavery, which proved to be unpopular with abolitionists in his home state.

March 7th, 1814

War of the Sixth Coalition: Napoleon's army forced Mikhail Semyonovich Vorontsov's Russian troops to withdraw from the Chemin des Dames, but French casualties exceeded Russian losses.

March 7th, 1573

A peace treaty brought the Ottoman–Venetian War to an end, ceding Cyprus from the Republic of Venice to the Ottoman Empire.

March 7th, 0321

Emperor Constantine I decreed that Sunday, the day honoring the sun god Sol Invictus (disc pictured), would be the Roman day of rest.

March 7th, 2007

Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 crashes at Adisutjipto International Airport in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 21 people.

March 7th, 2006

The terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba coordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.

March 7th, 1993

The tugboat Thomas Hebert sank off the coast of New Jersey, USA.

Birthdays
... of famous people, actors, celebrities and stars on March 7th

Born on March 7th, 1947

77

Michel Mercier

French politician

*March 7th, 1947, Bourg-de-Thizy

77

Lewis J. Stadlen

American character and comedic actor

*March 7th, 1947, Brooklyn

77

Wolfgang Grotthaus

German politician

*March 7th, 1947, Kalkhorst

77

Ollie Taylor

American basketball player

*March 7th, 1947, New York City

77

Giuseppe Zenti

Italian bishop

*March 7th, 1947, San Martino Buon Albergo

77

Austin Gary

American novelist, songwriter, and playwright

*March 7th, 1947, St. Joseph

77

Donna Loren

American singer and actress

*March 7th, 1947, Boston

77

Walter Röhrl

German rally driver

*March 7th, 1947, Regensburg

66

Helen Eadie

British politician (1947-2013)

*March 7th, 1947, Stenhousemuir †November 9th, 2013, Dunfermline

77

Jean-Loup Puget

French astrophysicist

*March 7th, 1947, Chalon-sur-Saône

77

Ginny Duenkel

American swimmer

*March 7th, 1947, Orange

72

Rubén Suñé

Argentine footballer (1947-2019)

*March 7th, 1947, Buenos Aires †June 20th, 2019, Buenos Aires

77

Richard Lawson

Actor

*March 7th, 1947, Loma Linda

76

Ed Swillms

German pianist and songwriter (1947–2023)

*March 7th, 1947, Berlin †June 27th, 2023

77

Andrzej Krauze

British-Polish writer and artist

*March 7th, 1947, Dawidy Bankowe

77

Tom Buckman

Former professional American football tight end

*March 7th, 1947, Fort Worth

77

Lyndon Lowell Olson, Jr.

American politician

*March 7th, 1947, Waco

77

Jim Howarth

American baseball player

*March 7th, 1947, Biloxi

77

David Heckler

American politician

*March 7th, 1947, Abington Township

77

Chick Donovan

American professional wrestler

*March 7th, 1947, LaGrange

77

Laila Riksaasen Dahl

Norwegian bishop

*March 7th, 1947, Oslo

77

Greg Fillmore

Professional basketball player

*March 7th, 1947, Philadelphia

77

Andrea Roncato

Italian actor and comedian

*March 7th, 1947, Bologna

77

Jane Relf

British singer

*March 7th, 1947, Richmond

77

Srinivas Kishanrao Saidapur

Indian reproductive biologist (born 1947)

*March 7th, 1947, Karnataka

77

Aurelio Oliver

Spanish skier

*March 7th, 1947, Madrid

77

Nívea Maria

Actress

*March 7th, 1947, São Paulo

77

Steve Cassano

American politician

*March 7th, 1947, Boston

77

James A. Russell

Psychologist

*March 7th, 1947, Santa Monica

77

Mamadou Philippe Karambiri

Burkinabè evangelical Christian pastor

*March 7th, 1947, Tougan

77

Zsolt Detre

Hungarian skipper

*March 7th, 1947, Budapest

77

Szabolcs Detre

Hungarian sailor

*March 7th, 1947, Budapest

77

Pete Edochie

Nigerian actor

*March 7th, 1947, Enugu

77

Thom Eberhardt

Film director, screenwriter

*March 7th, 1947, Los Angeles

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69

Lasse Lindtner

Norwegian actor

*March 7th, 1955, Bergen

27

Bad Gyal

Spanish singer

*March 7th, 1997, Vilassar de Mar

68

Bryan Cranston

American actor, director, and producer

*March 7th, 1956, Hollywood

79

Gerta Keller

American geologist and paleontologist

*March 7th, 1945, Schaan

80

Michael Rosbash

American geneticist and chronobiologist

*March 7th, 1944, Kansas City

80

Ranulph Fiennes

British explorer (born 1944)

*March 7th, 1944, Windsor

58

Ludwig Kögl

German footballer

*March 7th, 1966, Penzberg

64

Ivanna Lie

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1960, Bandung City

82

Michael Eisner

American business executive

*March 7th, 1942, New York City

29

Fajar Alfian

Indonesian badminton player

*March 7th, 1995, Bandung City

54

Rachel Weisz

British actress

*March 7th, 1970, Westminster

65

Donna Murphy

American actress, singer

*March 7th, 1959, New York City

63

Nicolas Dupont-Aignan

French politician (born 1961)

*March 7th, 1961, 15th arrondissement of Paris

46

Rebecca Bellingham

New Zealand badminton player

*March 7th, 1978, Auckland

70

Panajot Pano

Albanian association football player (1939–2010)

*March 7th, 1939, Durrës †January 19th, 2010, Jacksonville

72

John Heard

American film and television actor (1946-2017)

*March 7th, 1945, Washington, D.C. †July 21st, 2017, Palo Alto

86

Albert Fert

French physicist, Nobel laureate in physics

*March 7th, 1938, Carcassonne

94

Elin Reimer

Danish actress (1928-2022)

*March 7th, 1928, Frederiksberg †September 17th, 2022, Virum

38

Kowi Chandra

Badminton player

*March 7th, 1986, Palembang

49

Ulrica Persson

Swedish female cross-country skier

*March 7th, 1975, Torsby

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Born in 1947

76

Rodney Williams

Governor-General of Antigua and Barbuda (born 1947)

*November 2nd, 1947, Swetes

76

Hillary Clinton

American politician and diplomat (born 1947)

*October 26th, 1947, Edgewater Hospital

77

Ulf Brunnberg

Actor

*April 7th, 1947, Bromma parish

69

Gregg Allman

American musician

*December 8th, 1947, Saint Thomas Hospital †May 27th, 2017, Richmond Hill

76

Hans-Jürgen Kreische

German association football player and manager

*July 19th, 1947, Dresden

69

David Bowie

English musician and actor (1947–2016)

*January 8th, 1947, Brixton †January 10th, 2016, Manhattan

77

Wiranto

Indonesian politician

*April 4th, 1947, Yogyakarta City

76

Stephen King

American writer (born 1947)

*September 21st, 1947, Portland

76

Angry Anderson

Australian rock singer

*August 5th, 1947, Melbourne

76

Kjell Magne Bondevik

33rd Prime Minister of Norway

*September 3rd, 1947, Molde Municipality

76

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Austrian and American actor, bodybuilder, and politician (born 1947)

*July 30th, 1947, Thal

76

Paul Yule

German-American archaeologist

*August 18th, 1947, Minneapolis

77

Mitt Romney

United States Senator from Utah since 2019

*March 12th, 1947, Detroit

76

Dilma Rousseff

President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 (born 1947)

*December 14th, 1947, Belo Horizonte

77

Ulrich Manthe

German legal scientist and legal historian

*April 8th, 1947, Homburg

76

Françoise Barré-Sinoussi

French virologist and Nobel laureate, co-discoverer of HIV

*July 30th, 1947, Paris

77

Robert Kiyosaki

American finance author and investor

*April 8th, 1947, Hilo

68

Johan Cruyff

Dutch footballer and manager (1947–2016)

*April 25th, 1947, Amsterdam †March 24th, 2016, Barcelona

77

Glenn Close

American actress

*March 19th, 1947, Greenwich

77

Edward James Olmos

American actor

*February 24th, 1947, Los Angeles

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No: With 365 days 1947 is a normal year and no leap year.

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