Portal:Biography/Selected anniversaries/March 18

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Births

1496 - Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England and queen consort of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
1837 - Grover Cleveland, President of the United States (d. 1908) (pictured)
1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
1869 - Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1932 - John Updike, American author (d. 2009)

Deaths

978 - King Edward the Martyr of England
1745 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
1965 - King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)