March 26th, 1972

Born on March 26th, 1972

Age in days, weeks and months
Wow, over 18,000 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's approval of 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, 1972

51

Marleve Mainaky

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1972, Ternate City

51

Leslie Mann

American actress

*March 26th, 1972, San Francisco

51

Tor Graves

Thai racing driver

*March 26th, 1972, Nakhon Pathom

51

Gregor Cvijič

Slovenian handball player

*March 26th, 1972, Basel

51

Maria Nayler

Singer

*March 26th, 1972, United Kingdom

51

Bernie Herms

Canadian composer, songwriter, and music producer

*March 26th, 1972, Canada

51

Alfredo Hoyos

Colombian plastic surgeon

*March 26th, 1972, Bogotá

51

Justin Rhodes

American psychologist

*March 26th, 1972, New York City

51

Arkady Dvorkovich

Russian economist

*March 26th, 1972, Moscow

51

Sendai Tanaka

Japanese boxing trainer

*March 26th, 1972, Higashimatsushima

51

Satoshi Saida

Japanese wheelchair tennis player

*March 26th, 1972, Yokkaichi

51

Anatoliy Seryohin

Ukrainian footballer and manager

*March 26th, 1972, Kharkiv

51

Naoko Kijimuta

Japanese tennis player

*March 26th, 1972, Ebina

51

Willem Jackson

South African footballer

*March 26th, 1972, Bloemfontein

51

Daniella Ribeiro

Politician from Brazil

*March 26th, 1972, Campina Grande

51

Asma Nadia

Indonesian writer

*March 26th, 1972, Jakarta

51

Jason Maxwell

American baseball player

*March 26th, 1972, Lewisburg

51

Jon Reep

American actor

*March 26th, 1972, Hickory

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Who's birthday is on March 26th?

50

Larry Page

American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur

*March 26th, 1973, East Lansing

45

Dicky Palyama

Dutch badminton player

*March 26th, 1978, Gouda

73

Martin Short

Canadian actor and comedian (born 1950)

*March 26th, 1950, Hamilton

49

Erick Morillo

American DJ, music producer, and record label owner

*March 26th, 1971, New York City †September 1st, 2020, Miami Beach

53

Martin McDonagh

British-Irish filmmaker and playwright

*March 26th, 1970, London

59

Maria Miller

British politician

*March 26th, 1964, Wolverhampton

30

Suci Rizky Andini

Indonesia badminton player

*March 26th, 1993, Bandung City

83

Nancy Pelosi

American politician (born 1940)

*March 26th, 1940, Baltimore

26

Ruthvika Shivani

Indian badminton player

*March 26th, 1997, Vijayawada

41

Mikel Arteta

Spanish association football player and manager

*March 26th, 1982, San Sebastián

36

Nic Strange

Badminton player

*March 26th, 1987, Bangor

46

Morgan De Sanctis

Italian association football player

*March 26th, 1977, Guardiagrele

31

Daniel Eaton

American ice dancer

*March 26th, 1992, Titusville

34

Simon Kjær

Danish association football player

*March 26th, 1989, Horsens

38

Jonathan Groff

American actor and singer

*March 26th, 1985, Lancaster

27

Alaine Chartrand

Canadian figure skater

*March 26th, 1996, Brockville

82

Richard Dawkins

English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author

*March 26th, 1941, Nairobi

70

Lincoln Chafee

American politician and former United States Senator from Rhode Island

*March 26th, 1953, Warwick

39

Luca James Lee

Australian actor

*March 26th, 1984, Subiaco

82

James Caan

American actor (1940–2022)

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

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Born in 1972

51

Stephen Barclay

British politician

*May 3rd, 1972, Lytham St Annes

47

Ari Behn

Norwegian author and artist (1972-2019)

*September 30th, 1972, Aarhus †December 25th, 2019, Lommedalen

51

Maia Sandu

President of Moldova since 2020

*May 24th, 1972, Risipeni

51

Roland Møller

Danish actor

*May 28th, 1972, Odense

51

Mauricio Pochettino

Argentine association football player and manager

*March 2nd, 1972, Santa Fe Province

51

Crispin Freeman

Voice actor originally from the Midwestern United States

*February 9th, 1972, Chicago

51

Toni Collette

Australian actress and musician

*November 1st, 1972, Glebe

51

Jessica Hynes

English actress and writer

*October 30th, 1972, Lewisham

51

Anika Noni Rose

American actor-singer

*September 6th, 1972, Bloomfield

51

Jennifer Garner

American actress

*April 17th, 1972, Houston

50

Grégory Coupet

French association football player

*December 31st, 1972, Le Puy-en-Velay

51

Danny Alexander

British banker and former Liberal Democrat politician

*May 15th, 1972, Edinburgh

51

Andrzej Duda

Polish lawyer and politician, President of Poland (b. 1972)

*May 16th, 1972, Kraków

51

Zinedine Zidane

French association football player and manager

*June 23rd, 1972, Marseille

51

Dwayne Johnson

American actor and professional wrestler

*May 2nd, 1972, Hayward

51

Eminem

American rapper, songwriter and actor

*October 17th, 1972, St. Joseph

51

Gwendal Peizerat

French ice dancer

*April 21st, 1972, Lyon

51

James Cracknell

British rower

*May 5th, 1972, Sutton

51

Alessandro Nivola

American actor

*June 28th, 1972, Boston

51

Robbie McEwen

Australian cyclist

*June 24th, 1972, Brisbane

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Leap year

Yes: 1972 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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