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March 1

9 births · 4 deaths · 1 events

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105

Kronstadt rebellion

105 years ago

Born this day

1922

Yitzhak Rabin

Would be 104

Oldest record

168th

Georg Simmel

birth anniversary

Famous births9

1858 · 168 yrs

Georg Simmel

Georg Simmel (German:; 1 March 1858 – 26 September 1918) was a German sociologist, philosopher, and critic. A founding figure of sociology, his neo-Kantian approach helped establish sociological antipositivism, asking "What is society?" in analogy to Kant's "What is nature?".

PhilosophyWould be 168

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1892 · 134 yrs

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa (芥川龍之介, Akutagawa Ryūnosuke; Japanese pronunciation:, 1 March 1892 – 24 July 1927), art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan.

LiteratureWould be 134

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1922 · 104 yrs

Yitzhak Rabin

Yitzhak Rabin (Hebrew: יִצְחָק רַבִּין, IPA:; 1 March 1922 – 4 November 1995) was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served from 1974 to 1977 and again from 1992 until his assassination in 1995.

PoliticsWould be 104

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1927 · 99 yrs

Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte ( BEL-ə-FON-tee; born Harold George Bellanfanti Jr.; March 1, 1927 – April 25, 2023) was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s.

MusicWould be 99

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1955 · 71 yrs

Denis Mukwege

Denis Mukwege (born 1 March 1955) is a Congolese humanitarian, gynecologist and Pentecostal pastor. He founded and works in Panzi Hospital in Bukavu, where he specializes in the treatment of women who have been raped.

ScienceAge 71

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1956 · 70 yrs

Dalia Grybauskaitė

Dalia Grybauskaitė (born 1 March 1956) is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term.

PoliticsAge 70

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1969 · 57 yrs

Javier Bardem

Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem (born 1 March 1969) is a Spanish actor.

FilmAge 57

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1983 · 43 yrs

Lupita Nyong'o

Lupita Amondi Nyong'o (born 1 March 1983) is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, an Actor Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award.

FilmAge 43

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1987 · 39 yrs

Kesha

Kesha Rose Sebert (born March 1, 1987), stylized as Ke$ha until 2014, is an American singer, rapper, and songwriter. She has attained two number-one albums on the US Billboard 200 to date, with Animal (2010) and Rainbow (2017), and the top-ten records Warrior (2012) and High Road (2020).

MusicAge 39

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Famous deaths4

1881 · 145 yrs

Alexander II of Russia

Alexander II (29 April 1818 – 13 March 1881) was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is also known as Alexander the Liberator because of his historic Edict of Emancipation, which officially abolished Russian serfdom in 1861.

RoyaltyWould be 208

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1911 · 115 yrs

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. (Dutch:; 30 August 1852 – 1 March 1911) was a Dutch physical chemist.

ScienceWould be 174

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1938 · 88 yrs

Gabriele D'Annunzio

General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso (12 March 1863 – 1 March 1938), sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I.

LiteratureWould be 163

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2019 · 7 yrs

Zhores Alferov

Zhores Ivanovich Alferov (15 March 1930 – 1 March 2019) was a Soviet and Russian physicist who contributed significantly to the creation of modern heterostructure physics and electronics. In 2000, Alferov shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for the development of the semiconductor heterojunction for optoelectronics.

ScienceWould be 96

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Events1

1921 · 105 yrs

Kronstadt rebellion

The Kronstadt rebellion (Russian: Кронштадтское восстание, romanized: Kronshtadtskoye vosstaniye) was a 1921 insurrection of Soviet sailors, naval infantry, and civilians against the Bolshevik government in the Russian port city of Kronstadt.

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