Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 15

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[edit] Births

• 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) (pictured)
• 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
• 1813 - John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)
• 1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut

[edit] Deaths

• 44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
• 493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
• 1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
• 1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
• 2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)