Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 3

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[edit] Births

• 1606 - Edmund Waller, British poet (d. 1687)
• 1652 - Thomas Otway, British dramatist (d. 1685)
• 1847 - Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish inventor (d. 1922) (pictured)
• 1911 - Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937)
• 1926 - James Merrill, American poet (d. 1995)

[edit] Deaths

• 1703 - Robert Hooke, English scientist (b. 1635)
• 1706 - Johann Pachelbel, German composer (b. 1653)
• 1987 - Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and comedian (b. 1913)