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March 4

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2012 Russian presidential election

14 years ago

Born this day

1678

Antonio Vivaldi

Would be 348

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348th

Antonio Vivaldi

birth anniversary

Famous births5

1678 · 348 yrs

Antonio Vivaldi

Antonio Lucio Vivaldi (4 March 1678 – 28 July 1741) was an Italian composer, virtuoso violinist, and impresario of Baroque music. Regarded as one of the greatest Baroque composers, Vivaldi's influence during his lifetime was widespread across Europe, giving origin to many imitators and admirers.

MusicWould be 348

Photo: Unknown author · Public domain

1932 · 94 yrs

Miriam Makeba

Zenzile Miriam Makeba ( mə-KAY-bə, Xhosa:; 4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist.

MusicWould be 94

Photo: Reprise Records · Public domain

1954 · 72 yrs

François Fillon

François Charles Amand Fillon (French:; born 4 March 1954) is a French retired politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 2007 to 2012 under President Nicolas Sarkozy.

PoliticsAge 72

Photo: Marie-Lan Nguyen · CC BY 3.0

1965 · 61 yrs

Khaled Hosseini

Khaled Hosseini or Khalid Husseini (Pashto/Persian: خالد حسینی, Dari:; born March 4, 1965) is an Afghan and American novelist, UNHCR goodwill ambassador, and former physician.

LiteratureAge 61

Photo: Counse · CC BY 2.0

1968 · 58 yrs

Kyriakos Mitsotakis

Kyriakos Mitsotakis (Greek: Κυριάκος Μητσοτάκης, IPA:; born 4 March 1968) is a Greek politician, and the prime minister of Greece since July 2019, except for a month between May and June 2023. Mitsotakis has been president of the New Democracy party since 2016.

PoliticsAge 58

Photo: Yorgos Karahalis · CC BY 4.0

Famous deaths5

1827 · 199 yrs

Pierre-Simon Laplace

Pierre-Simon, Marquis de Laplace (French:; 23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827) was a French polymath, a scholar whose work has been instrumental in the fields of physics, astronomy, mathematics, engineering, statistics, and philosophy.

ScienceWould be 277

Photo: Jean-Baptiste Paulin Guérin · Public domain

1832 · 194 yrs

Jean-François Champollion

Jean-François Champollion (French:), also known as Champollion le jeune ('the Younger'; 23 December 1790 – 4 March 1832), was a French philologist and orientalist, known primarily as the decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs and a founding figure in the field of Egyptology.

Notable PeopleWould be 235

Photo: Léon Cogniet · Public domain

1948 · 78 yrs

Antonin Artaud

Antoine Maria Joseph Paul Artaud (French:; 4 September 1896 – 4 March 1948), better known as Antonin Artaud (French pronunciation:), was a French artist who worked across a variety of media. He is best known for his writings, as well as his work in the theatre and cinema.

LiteratureWould be 130

Photo: Agence de presse Meurisse · Public domain

2011 · 15 yrs

Simon van der Meer

Simon van der Meer (24 November 1925 – 4 March 2011) was a Dutch particle accelerator physicist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1984 with Carlo Rubbia for contributions to the CERN project which led to the discovery of the W and Z particles, the two fundamental communicators of the weak interaction.

ScienceWould be 100

Photo: CERN · CC BY 4.0

2020 · 6 yrs

Javier Pérez de Cuéllar

Javier Felipe Ricardo Pérez de Cuéllar Guerra (Spanish:; 19 January 1920 – 4 March 2020) was a Peruvian diplomat and politician who served as the fifth secretary-general of the United Nations from 1982 to 1991. He later served as prime minister of Peru from 2000 to 2001.

MilitaryWould be 106

Photo: Rob Bogaerts for Anefo · CC BY-SA 3.0 nl

Events1

2012 · 14 yrs

2012 Russian presidential election

Presidential elections were held in Russia on 4 March 2012. There were five officially registered candidates: four representatives of registered parties, and one nominal independent.

Politics

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