March 26
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Art and culture
- 1484 - William Caxton printed his translation of Aesop's Fables.
- 1871 - Paris Commune, official start of the brief rule of Paris by the "Paris Commune"
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Births
- 1516 - Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
- 1911 - Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983)
- 1917 - Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001)
- 1925 - Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (d. 2016)
- 1925 - James Moody, American jazz musician, composer, and actor (d. 2010)
- 1930 - Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Tinto Brass, Italian filmmaker
- 1934 - Alan Arkin, American actor (d. 2023)
- 1941 - Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
- 1942 - Erica Jong, American author
- 1944 - Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes)
- 1949 - Patrick Süskind, German writer
- 1950 - Teddy Pendergrass, American singer (d. 2010)
- 1957 - Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician
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Deaths
- 1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
- 1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
- 1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
- 1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
- 1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American novelist (A Confederacy of Dunces) (b. 1937)
- 1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
- 1976 - Josef Albers, German artist
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