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Best known
Rupert of Salzburg
Medieval Catholic bishop and saint
Hermann Billung
Margrave of the Billung March from 936 to 973
George III of Georgia
King of Georgia from 1156 to 1184
Pope Gregory XI
Head of the Catholic Church from 1370 to 1378
Janus Pannonius
Croatian-Hungarian poet
Mary of Burgundy
Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 to 1482
Rupert of Salzburg — Medieval Catholic bishop and saint, who died on March 27 710.
Hermann Billung — Margrave of the Billung March from 936 to 973, who died on March 27 973.
George III of Georgia — King of Georgia from 1156 to 1184, who died on March 27 1184.
Pope Gregory XI — Head of the Catholic Church from 1370 to 1378, who died on March 27 1378.
Janus Pannonius — Croatian-Hungarian poet, who died on March 27 1472.
Mary of Burgundy — Duchess of Burgundy from 1477 to 1482, who died on March 27 1482.
All entries
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- 913DDu Xiao
- 913EEmpress Zhang (Later Liang)
- 916AAlduin I of AngoulêmeCount of Angoulême from 886
- 965
Arnulf I of FlandersCount of Flanders from 918 to 964 - 1045AAli ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'iFatimid vizir
- 1248MMaud MarshalAnglo-Norman noblewoman
- 1462
Vasily II of MoscowGrand Prince of Moscow from 1425 to 1462 - 1564
Lütfi PashaGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire from 1539 to 1541 - 1572GGirolamo MaggiItalian scholar, jurist, and poet
- 1598
Theodor de BryWalloon engraver and publisher - 1613
Sigismund BáthoryPrince of Transylvania - 1615
Margaret of ValoisQueen of France (1589–1599) and Navarre - 1621
Benedetto GiustinianiItalian clergyman - 1624
Ulrik of Denmark (1578–1624)Prince-Bishop of Schwerin - 1625
James VI and IKing of Scotland from 1567 to 1625, King of England and Ireland from 1603 - 1635
Robert NauntonEnglish writer and politician - 1676
Bernardino de Rebolledo - 1679
Abraham MignonDutch painter - 1697
Simon BradstreetEnglish-born merchant and politician - 1729
Leopold, Duke of LorraineDuke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to 1729 - 1757
Johann StamitzCzech composer and violinist - 1770
Giovanni Battista TiepoloItalian painter - 1848
Gabriel BibronFrench zoologist and herpetologist - 1849
Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of GosfordIrish politician - 1850
Wilhelm BeerPrussian astronomer and banker - 1864
Jean-Jacques AmpèreFrench philologist - 1869
James Harper (publisher)American publisher and politician - 1875
Juan Crisóstomo Torrico - 1875
Edgar QuinetFrench writer, historian and politician - 1878
George Gilbert ScottEnglish architect - 1886
Henry Taylor (dramatist)English playwright and poet - 1889
John BrightBritish Radical and Liberal statesman - 1890
Carl Jacob LöwigGerman chemist - 1897
Andreas AnagnostakisGreek ophthalmologist
- 1898
Syed Ahmad KhanIndian reformer and social activist - 1900
Joseph A. CampbellAmerican entrepreneur - 1910
Alexander AgassizAmerican scientist and engineer - 1913
Richard Montgomery GanoConfederate general of the American Civil War - 1918
Henry AdamsAmerican historian - 1918
Martin SheridanAthletics competitor - 1921
Harry BarronBritish Australian state governor - 1922NNikolay Sokolov (composer)Russian composer
- 1923
James DewarBritish chemist and physicist - 1925
Carl NeumannPrussian mathematician - 1926
Kick KellyAmerican baseball umpire - 1926
Georges VézinaCanadian ice hockey player
- 1927
Joe StartAmerican baseball player - 1927
Klaus BerntsenDanish politician - 1928
Leslie StuartEnglish composer - 1931
Arnold BennettEnglish author - 1934
Francis William ReitzSouth African politician and statesman - 1938
William Stern (psychologist)German psychologist and philosopher - 1940
Michael Joseph SavagePrime Minister of New Zealand from 1935 to 1940 - 1940
Dan KolovBulgarian professional wrestler - 1942
Julio González (sculptor)Spanish sculptor and painter - 1943
George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount GalwayBritish politician - 1945VVincent Hugo BendixAmerican inventor and industrialist
- 1945
Halid Ziya UşaklıgilTurkish author, poet, and playwright - 1946KKarl GroosGerman psychologist and philosopher
- 1949
Elisheva BikhovskiRussian and Israeli writer - 1952
Kiichiro ToyodaJapanese businessman - 1956
Évariste Lévi-ProvençalFrench historian - 1958
Leon C. PhillipsAmerican politician - 1960
Gregorio MarañónSpanish academic - 1967
Jaroslav HeyrovskýCzech chemist and inventor - 1968
Yuri GagarinSoviet cosmonaut - 1968
Vladimir SeryoginSoviet test pilot - 1972LLorenzo WrightAmerican sprinter
- 1973
Mikhail KalatozovSoviet film director - 1974
Eduardo Santos MontejoPresident of Colombia from 1938 to 1942 - 1975
Arthur BlissEnglish composer and conductor - 1976
Georg August ZinnGerman politician - 1977
Shirley Graham Du BoisAmerican-Ghanaian writer and activist - 1977
Diana HylandAmerican actress - 1977
Jacob Veldhuyzen van ZantenDutch pilot - 1978
Nat BaileyAmerican-born Canadian restaurateur - 1978KK. D. Singh (field hockey)Indian field hockey player
- 1978
Sverre FarstadNorwegian speed skater - 1980SSteve Fisher (writer)American author
- 1981
Jakob AckeretSwiss aeronautical engineer - 1982
Fazlur Rahman KhanBangladeshi architect - 1987WWilliam BowersAmerican writer
- 1988
Charles WillefordAmerican writer - 1989
May AllisonAmerican actress - 1989
Malcolm CowleyAmerican writer - 1990PPercy BeardAmerican athlete
- 1991
Aldo RayAmerican actor - 1992CColin Gibson (footballer, born 1923)English footballer
- 1992LLang HancockAustralian businessman
- 1992
James E. WebbAmerican government official - 1993
Kamal Hassan AliEgyptian politician and war hero - 1993
Paul LászlóHungarian-American architect - 1994EElisabeth SchmidGeologist, paleontologist, archaeologist and prehistorian
- 1994
Lawrence WetherbyAmerican politician - 1995RRené AllioFrench film and theater director
- 1997
Lane DwinellAmerican manufacturer and politician - 1997
Ella MaillartSwiss adventurer and travel writer - 1998
David McClellandAmerican psychologist - 1999
Michael ArisBritish historian - 2000
George Allen (ice hockey)Canadian ice hockey player - 2000
Ian DuryBritish new wave singer - 2002
Milton BerleAmerican comedian and actor - 2002
Dudley MooreEnglish actor, comedian and musician - 2002
Billy WilderAustrian and American filmmaker - 2003
Edwin Carr (composer)New Zealand composer - 2004
Robert MerleFrench novelist
- 2005WWilfred Gordon BigelowCanadian heart surgeon
- 2006
Dan CurtisAmerican television and film director, writer, and producer
- 2006
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- 2007NNancy AdamsNew Zealand botanical illustrator
- 2007
Paul LauterburAmerican chemist - 2008
Jean-Marie BalestreFrench motorsport administrator - 2009IIrving R. LevineAmerican journalist
- 2010
Dick GiordanoAmerican comic book artist and editor - 2011
Clement ArrindellGovernor of Saint Kitts and Nevis - 2011
Farley GrangerAmerican actor - 2012
Adrienne RichAmerican poet, essayist and feminist - 2013
Hjalmar AndersenNorwegian speed skater - 2013
Yvonne BrillCanadian-American Rocket and Jet Propulsion Engineer - 2013
Fay KaninAmerican screenwriter - 2014
Richard N. FryeAmerican historian - 2014
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- 2015
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- 2024
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