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March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar ; 300 days remain until the end of the year.
Events Pre-1600 1601–1900 1665 – The first joint Secretary of the Royal Society , Henry Oldenburg , publishes the first issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement .1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe . The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state , brings Maine into the Union as a free state , and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.1834 – York, Upper Canada , is incorporated as Toronto .1836 – Texas Revolution : Battle of the Alamo : After a thirteen-day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie , defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules 7–2 in the Dred Scott v. Sandford 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin " as a trademark .1901–present 1901 – Anarchist assassin tries to kill German Emperor Wilhelm II .[5] 1912 – Italo-Turkish War : Italian forces become the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles drop bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur , from an altitude of 6,000 feet.1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern.1933 – Great Depression : President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday ", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want The Saturday Evening Post Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms 1943 – World War II : Generalfeldmarschall Erwin Rommel launches the Battle of Medenine in an attempt to slow down the British Eight Army. It fails, and he leaves Africa three days later.[6] 1943 – World War II: The Battle of Fardykambos , one of the first major battles between the Greek Resistance and the occupying Royal Italian Army , ends with the surrender of an entire Italian battalion, the bulk of the garrison of the town of Grevena , leading to its liberation a fortnight later.[7] 1944 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces bomb an evacuated town of Narva in German-occupied Estonia , destroying the entire historical Swedish-era town.1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American troops. On the same day, Operation Spring Awakening , the last major German offensive of the war, begins.[8] 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union .1951 – Cold War : The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union .1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British.1964 – Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali .1964 – Constantine II becomes the last King of Greece. 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.1967 – Cold War: Joseph Stalin 's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.1968 – Three rebels are executed by Rhodesia , the first executions since UDI , prompting international condemnation.1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory .1975 – Algiers Accord : Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute. 1984 – In the United Kingdom, a walkout at Cortonwood Colliery in Brampton Bierlow signals the start of a strike that lasted almost a year and involved the majority of the country's miners.1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds, killing 193.[9] 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are shot dead by the SAS in Gibraltar in Operation Flavius .1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.2003 – Air Algérie Flight 6289 crashes at the Aguenar – Hadj Bey Akhamok Airport in Tamanrasset , Algeria , killing 102 out of the 103 people on board.[10] 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem .2018 – Forbes names Jeff Bezos as the world's richest person, for the first time, at $112 billion net worth.[11] Births Pre-1600 1601–1900 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac , French author and playwright (d. 1655)[13] 1663 – Francis Atterbury , English bishop and poet (d. 1732)1706 – George Pocock , English admiral (d. 1792)1716 – Pehr Kalm , Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)1724 – Henry Laurens , English-American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1792)1761 – Antoine-François Andréossy , French general and diplomat (d. 1828)1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini , Swiss-French general (d. 1869)1780 – Lucy Barnes , American writer (d. 1809)[14] 1785 – Karol Kurpiński , Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857)1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer , German physicist and astronomer (d. 1826)1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning , English-Italian poet and translator (d. 1861)1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison , American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (d. 1895)1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)1818 – William Claflin , American businessman and politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)1823 – Charles I of Württemberg (d. 1891)1826 – Annie Feray Mutrie , British painter (d. 1893)[15] 1831 – Philip Sheridan , Irish-American general (d. 1888)1834 – George du Maurier , French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)[16] 1841 – Viktor Burenin , Russian author, poet, playwright, and critic (d. 1926)1849 – Georg Luger , Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (d. 1923)1864 – Richard Rushall , British businessman (d. 1953)1870 – Oscar Straus , Viennese composer and conductor (d. 1954)[17] 1871 – Afonso Costa , Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)1872 – Ben Harney , American pianist and composer (d. 1938)1877 – Rose Fyleman , English writer and poet (d. 1957)[18] 1879 – Jimmy Hunter , New Zealand rugby player (d. 1962)1882 – F. Burrall Hoffman , American architect, co-designed Villa Vizcaya (d. 1980)1882 – Guy Kibbee , American actor and singer (d. 1956) 1884 – Molla Mallory , Norwegian-American tennis player (d. 1959)1885 – Ring Lardner , American journalist and author (d. 1933)[19] 1892 – Bert Smith , English international footballer (d. 1969)[20] 1893 – Furry Lewis , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)1893 – Ella P. Stewart , pioneering Black American pharmacist (d. 1987)[21] 1895 – Albert Tessier , Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976)1898 – Gus Sonnenberg , American football player and wrestler (d. 1944)1900 – Gina Cigna , French-Italian soprano and actress (d. 2001)1900 – Lefty Grove , American baseball player (d. 1975) 1900 – Henri Jeanson , French journalist and author (d. 1970) 1901–present 1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)1904 – José Antonio Aguirre , Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)1905 – Bob Wills , American Western swing musician, songwriter, and bandleader (d. 1975)1906 – Lou Costello , American actor and comedian (d. 1959)1909 – Obafemi Awolowo , Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 1987)1909 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec , Polish poet and author (d. 1966) 1910 – Emma Bailey , American auctioneer and author (d. 1999)[22] 1912 – Mohammed Burhanuddin , Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)1913 – Ella Logan , Scottish-American singer and actress (d. 1969)1917 – Donald Davidson , American philosopher and academic (d. 2003)1917 – Will Eisner , American illustrator and publisher (d. 2005) 1917 – Frankie Howerd , English comedian (d. 1992) 1918 – Howard McGhee , American trumpeter (d. 1987)1920 – Lewis Gilbert , English director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2018)1921 – Leo Bretholz , Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)1923 – Ed McMahon , American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009)1923 – Wes Montgomery , American guitarist and songwriter (d. 1968) 1924 – Ottmar Walter , German footballer (d. 2013)1924 – William H. Webster , American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director of Central Intelligence 1926 – Ann Curtis , American swimmer (d. 2012)1926 – Alan Greenspan , American economist and politician 1926 – Ray O'Connor , Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013) 1926 – Andrzej Wajda , Polish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016) 1927 – William J. Bell , American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)1927 – Gordon Cooper , American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004) 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez , Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014) 1929 – Tom Foley , American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2013)1929 – David Sheppard , English cricketer and bishop (d. 2005) 1930 – Lorin Maazel , French-American violinist, composer, and conductor (d. 2014)1932 – Marc Bazin , Haitian lawyer and politician, 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010)1932 – Bronisław Geremek , Polish historian and politician, Polish Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2008) 1933 – Ted Abernathy , American baseball player (d. 2004)1933 – William Davis , German-English journalist and economist (d. 2019) 1933 – Augusto Odone , Italian economist and inventor of Lorenzo's oil (d. 2013) 1934 – Red Simpson , American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)1935 – Ron Delany , Irish runner and coach1935 – Derek Kevan , English footballer (d. 2013) 1936 – Bob Akin , American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)1936 – Marion Barry , American lawyer and politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia (d. 2014) 1936 – Choummaly Sayasone , Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos 1937 – Ivan Boesky , American businessman1937 – Valentina Tereshkova , Russian general, pilot, and astronaut 1938 – Keishu Tanaka , Japanese politician, 17th Japanese Minister of Justice 1939 – Kit Bond , American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of Missouri 1939 – Adam Osborne , Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003) 1940 – Ken Danby , Canadian painter (d. 2007)1940 – Joanna Miles , French-born American actress 1940 – R. H. Sikes , American golfer 1940 – Willie Stargell , American baseball player and coach (d. 2001) 1940 – Jeff Wooller , English accountant and banker 1941 – Peter Brötzmann , German saxophonist and clarinet player1941 – Marilyn Strathern , Welsh anthropologist and academic 1942 – Ben Murphy , American actor1944 – Richard Corliss , American journalist and critic (d. 2015)1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa , New Zealand soprano and actress 1944 – Mary Wilson , American singer (d. 2021) 1945 – Angelo Castro Jr. , Filipino actor and journalist (d. 2012)1946 – David Gilmour , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1946 – Richard Noble , Scottish race car driver and businessman 1947 – Kiki Dee , English singer-songwriter1947 – Dick Fosbury , American high jumper 1947 – Anna Maria Horsford , American actress 1947 – Rob Reiner , American actor, director, producer, and activist 1947 – Jean Seaton , English historian and academic 1947 – John Stossel , American journalist and author 1948 – Stephen Schwartz , American composer and producer1949 – Shaukat Aziz , Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan 1949 – Martin Buchan , Scottish footballer and manager 1950 – Arthur Roche , English archbishop1951 – Gerrie Knetemann , Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)1952 – Denis Napthine , Australian politician, 47th Premier of Victoria [23] 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal , Nepali banker and politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal 1953 – Carolyn Porco , American astronomer and academic 1953 – Phil Alvin , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1954 – Jeff Greenwald , American author, photographer, and monologist1954 – Harald Schumacher , German footballer and manager 1955 – Cyprien Ntaryamira , Burundian politician, 5th President of Burundi (d. 1994)1955 – Alberta Watson , Canadian actress (d. 2015) 1956 – Peter Roebuck , English cricketer, journalist, and sportcaster (d. 2011)1956 – Steve Vizard , Australian television host, actor, and producer 1960 – Sleepy Floyd , American basketball player and coach1962 – Alison Nicholas , British golfer1963 – D. L. Hughley , American actor, producer, and screenwriter1964 – Linda Pearson , Scottish sport shooter[24] 1965 – Allan Bateman , Welsh rugby player1965 – Jim Knight , English politician 1966 – Alan Davies , English comedian, actor and screenwriter1967 – Julio Bocca , Argentinian ballet dancer and director1967 – Connie Britton , American actress 1967 – Glenn Greenwald , American journalist and author 1967 – Shuler Hensley , American actor and singer 1968 – Moira Kelly , American actress and director1971 – Darrick Martin , American basketball player and coach1972 – Shaquille O'Neal , American basketball player, actor, and rapper1972 – Jaret Reddick , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor 1973 – Michael Finley , American basketball player1973 – Peter Lindgren , Swedish guitarist and songwriter 1973 – Greg Ostertag , American basketball player 1973 – Trent Willmon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist 1974 – Guy Garvey , English singer-songwriter and guitarist1974 – Matthew Guy , Australian politician 1974 – Brad Schumacher , American swimmer 1974 – Beanie Sigel , American rapper 1975 – Aracely Arámbula , Mexican actress and singer1975 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin , Canadian pianist and conductor 1976 – Ken Anderson , American wrestler and actor1977 – Nantie Hayward , South African cricketer1977 – Giorgos Karagounis , Greek international footballer[25] 1977 – Shabani Nonda , DR Congolese footballer 1977 – Marcus Thames , American baseball player and coach 1978 – Sage Rosenfels , American football player1978 – Chad Wicks , American wrestler 1979 – Clint Barmes , American baseball player1979 – Érik Bédard , Canadian baseball player 1979 – David Flair , American wrestler 1979 – Tim Howard , American soccer player 1980 – Emílson Cribari , Brazilian footballer1981 – Ellen Muth , American actress1983 – Andranik Teymourian , Armenian-Iranian footballer1984 – Daniël de Ridder , Dutch footballer[26] 1984 – Eskil Pedersen , Norwegian politician 1984 – Chris Tomson , American drummer 1985 – Bakaye Traoré , French-Malian footballer1986 – Jake Arrieta , American baseball player1986 – Francisco Cervelli , Venezuelan-Italian baseball player 1986 – Ross Detwiler , American baseball player 1986 – Eli Marienthal , American actor 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew , Scottish footballer 1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng , Ghanaian-German footballer1987 – Chico Flores , Spanish footballer 1988 – Agnes Carlsson , Swedish singer1988 – Marina Erakovic , New Zealand tennis player 1988 – Simon Mignolet , Belgian footballer 1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska , Polish tennis player1990 – Derek Drouin , Canadian athlete[27] 1991 – Lex Luger , American keyboard player and producer1991 – Emma McDougall , English footballer (d. 2013) 1991 – Tyler Gregory Okonma , American rapper 1993 – Andrés Rentería , Colombian footballer1994 – Marcus Smart , American basketball player1995 – Georgi Kitanov , Bulgarian footballer1996 – Christian Coleman , American sprinter[28] 1996 – Tyrell Fuimaono , Australian rugby player 1996 – Timo Werner , German footballer Deaths Pre-1600 190 – Liu Bian (poisoned by Dong Zhuo ) (b. 176)653 – Li Ke , prince of the Tang Dynasty (b. 619)766 – Chrodegang , Frankish bishop and saint903 – Lu Guangqi , Chinese official and chancellor 903 – Su Jian , Chinese official and chancellor 1070 – Ulric I, Margrave of Carniola 1251 – Rose of Viterbo , Italian saint (b. 1235)1353 – Roger Grey, 1st Baron Grey de Ruthyn 1466 – Alvise Loredan , Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1393)1490 – Ivan the Young , Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)1491 – Richard Woodville, 3rd Earl Rivers 1531 – Pedro Arias Dávila , Spanish explorer and diplomat (b. 1440)1601–1900 1616 – Francis Beaumont , English playwright (b. 1584)1754 – Henry Pelham , English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington , English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1705)1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke , English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1690)1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal , French historian and author (b. 1713)1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo :1854 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry , Irish colonel and diplomat, Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies (b. 1778)1866 – William Whewell , English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)1867 – Charles Farrar Browne , American-English author and educator (b. 1834)1888 – Louisa May Alcott , American novelist and poet (b. 1832)[29] 1895 – Camilla Collett , Norwegian novelist and activist (b. 1813)1899 – Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)1900 – Gottlieb Daimler , German engineer and businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)1901–present 1905 – John Henninger Reagan , American surveyor, judge, and politician, 3rd Confederate States of America Secretary of the Treasury (b. 1818)1905 – Makar Yekmalyan , Armenian composer (b. 1856) 1919 – Oskars Kalpaks , Latvian colonel (b. 1882)1920 – Ömer Seyfettin , Turkish author and educator (b. 1884)1932 – John Philip Sousa , American conductor and composer (b. 1854)1933 – Anton Cermak , Czech-American lawyer and politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. , American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (b. 1841)1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann , German mathematician and academic (b. 1852)1941 – Francis Aveling , Canadian priest, psychologist, and author (b. 1875)1941 – Gutzon Borglum , American sculptor and academic, designed Mount Rushmore (b. 1867) 1948 – Ross Lockridge Jr. , American author, poet, and academic (b. 1914)1948 – Alice Woodby McKane , First Black woman doctor in Savannah, Georgia (b. 1865)[30] 1950 – Albert François Lebrun , French engineer and politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)1951 – Ivor Novello , Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1893)1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko , Ukrainian playwright and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1880) 1952 – Jürgen Stroop , German general (b. 1895)1955 – Mammad Amin Rasulzade , Azerbaijani scholar and politician (b. 1884)1961 – George Formby , English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)1964 – Paul of Greece (b. 1901)1965 – Margaret Dumont , American actress (b. 1889)1967 – John Haden Badley , English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)1967 – Nelson Eddy , American actor and singer (b. 1901) 1967 – Zoltán Kodály , Hungarian composer, linguist, and philosopher (b. 1882) 1970 – William Hopper , American actor (b. 1915)1973 – Pearl S. Buck , American novelist, essayist, short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)1974 – Ernest Becker , American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom , American boxer (b. 1903)1977 – Alvin R. Dyer , American religious leader (b. 1903)1978 – Dennis Viollet , English-American soccer player and manager (b. 1933)1981 – George Geary , English cricketer and coach (b. 1893)1981 – Rambhau Mhalgi , Indian politician and member of the Lok Sabha (b. 1921)[31] 1982 – Ayn Rand , Russian-American philosopher, author, and playwright (b. 1905)1984 – Billy Collins Jr. , American boxer (b. 1961)1984 – Martin Niemöller , German pastor and theologian (b. 1892) 1984 – Homer N. Wallin , American admiral (b. 1893) 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon , Dominican-American actor and producer (b. 1905) 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe , American painter (b. 1887)1988 – Mairéad Farrell , Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957)1988 – Daniel McCann , Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1957) 1988 – Seán Savage , Provisional IRA volunteer (b. 1965) 1994 – Melina Mercouri , Greek actress and politician, 9th Greek Minister of Culture (b. 1920)1997 – Cheddi Jagan , Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)1997 – Michael Manley , Jamaican soldier, pilot, and politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924) 1997 – Ursula Torday , English author (b. 1912) 1999 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa , Bahrain king (b. 1933)2000 – John Colicos , Canadian actor (b. 1928)2002 – Bryan Fogarty , Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)2004 – Hercules , American wrestler (b. 1957)2004 – Frances Dee , American actress (b. 1909) 2005 – Hans Bethe , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)2005 – Danny Gardella , American baseball player and trainer (b. 1920) 2005 – Tommy Vance , English radio host (b. 1943) 2005 – Teresa Wright , American actress (b. 1918) 2005 – Gladys Marín , Chilean activist and political figure (b.1938) 2006 – Anne Braden , American journalist and activist (b. 1924)2006 – Kirby Puckett , American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1960) 2007 – Jean Baudrillard , French photographer and theorist (b. 1929)2007 – Ernest Gallo , American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (b. 1909) 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery , Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)2009 – Francis Magalona , Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1964)2010 – Endurance Idahor , Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)2010 – Mark Linkous , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (b. 1962) 2010 – Betty Millard , American philanthropist and activist (b. 1911) 2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral , East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)2012 – Donald M. Payne , American businessman and politician (b. 1934) 2012 – Helen Walulik , American baseball player (b. 1929) 2013 – Chorão , Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr. ) (b. 1970)2013 – Stompin' Tom Connors , Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936) 2013 – Alvin Lee , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1944) 2013 – W. Wallace Cleland , American biochemist and academic (b. 1930) 2014 – Alemayehu Atomsa , Ethiopian educator and politician (b. 1969)2014 – Frank Jobe , American soldier and surgeon (b. 1925) 2014 – Sheila MacRae , English-American actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921) 2014 – Martin Nesbitt , American lawyer and politician (b. 1946) 2014 – Manlio Sgalambro , Italian philosopher, author, and poet (b. 1924) 2015 – Fred Craddock , American minister and academic (b. 1928)2015 – Ram Sundar Das , Indian lawyer and politician, 18th Chief Minister of Bihar (b. 1921) 2015 – Enrique "Coco" Vicéns , Puerto Rican-American basketball player and politician (b. 1926) 2016 – Nancy Reagan , American actress, 42nd First Lady of the United States (b. 1921)2016 – Sheila Varian , American horse trainer and breeder (b. 1937) 2017 – Robert Osborne , American actor and historian (b. 1932)2018 – Peter Nicholls , Australian science fiction critic and encyclopedist (b. 1939)2021 – Lou Ottens , Dutch engineer and inventor (b.1926)[32] 2021 – Graham Pink , British nurse (b. 1929)[33] Holidays and observances Christian feast day :Chrodegang Colette Fridolin Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba Marcian of Tortona William W. 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