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Date | Description | Type |
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10th of March 0298 | EVENT | Roman Emperor Maximian concludes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphal entry into Carthage. |
10th of March 1607 | EVENT | Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia. |
10th of March 1629 | EVENT | Charles I of England dissolves the Parliament, beginning the eleven-year period known as the Personal Rule. |
10th of March 1735 | EVENT | An agreement between Nadir Shah and Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku. |
10th of March 1762 | EVENT | French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform. |
10th of March 1804 | EVENT | Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States. |
10th of March 1814 | EVENT | Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France. |
10th of March 1830 | EVENT | The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created. |
10th of March 1831 | EVENT | The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria. |
10th of March 1848 | EVENT | The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War. |
10th of March 1861 | EVENT | El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali. |
10th of March 1864 | EVENT | American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana. |
10th of March 1876 | EVENT | Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you." |
10th of March 1891 | EVENT | Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching. |
10th of March 1906 | EVENT | The Courrieres mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France. |
10th of March 1909 | EVENT | By signing the Anglo-Siamese Treaty of 1909, Thailand relinquishes its sovereignty over the Malay states of Kedah, Kelantan, Perlis and Terengganu, which become British protectorates. |
10th of March 1917 | EVENT | Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas. |
10th of March 1922 | EVENT | Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation. |
10th of March 1933 | EVENT | An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage. |
10th of March 1944 | EVENT | Greek Civil War: The Political Committee of National Liberation is established in Greece by the National Liberation Front. |
10th of March 1945 | EVENT | The U.S. Army Air Force firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians. |
10th of March 1952 | EVENT | Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president". |
10th of March 1959 | EVENT | Tibetan uprising: Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal. |
10th of March 1966 | EVENT | Military Prime Minister of South Vietnam Nguyen Cao Ky sacked rival General Nguyen Chanh Thi, precipitating large-scale civil and military dissension in parts of the nation. |
10th of March 1969 | EVENT | In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his plea. |
10th of March 1970 | EVENT | Vietnam War: Captain Ernest Medina is charged by the U.S. Military with My Lai war crimes. |
10th of March 1975 | EVENT | Vietnam War: North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon. |
10th of March 1977 | EVENT | Rings of Uranus: Astronomers discover rings around Uranus. |
10th of March 1980 | EVENT | Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower |
10th of March 1980 | EVENT | Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing |
10th of March 1990 | EVENT | In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup. |
10th of March 2000 | EVENT | The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom. |
10th of March 2005 | EVENT | Tung Chee Hwa resigns from his post as the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong after widespread public dissatisfaction of his tenure. |
10th of March 2006 | EVENT | The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars. |
10th of March 2008 | EVENT | The New York Times reveals that Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer had patronized a prostitution service. |
10th of March 1415 | BIRTHDAY | Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462) |
10th of March 1452 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand II of Aragon (d. 1516) |
10th of March 1503 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1564) |
10th of March 1536 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician (d. 1572) |
10th of March 1628 | BIRTHDAY | Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694) |
10th of March 1709 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746) |
10th of March 1745 | BIRTHDAY | John Gunby, American soldier (d. 1807) |
10th of March 1749 | BIRTHDAY | Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838) |
10th of March 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist (d. 1840) |
10th of March 1772 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (d. 1829) |
10th of March 1776 | BIRTHDAY | Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia (d. 1810) |
10th of March 1787 | BIRTHDAY | William Etty, English painter (d. 1849) |
10th of March 1787 | BIRTHDAY | Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862) |
10th of March 1788 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (d. 1857) |
10th of March 1810 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886) |
10th of March 1842 | BIRTHDAY | Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912) |
10th of March 1844 | BIRTHDAY | Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist (d. 1908) |
10th of March 1845 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander III of Russia (d. 1894) |
10th of March 1846 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (d. 1850) |
10th of March 1847 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934) |
10th of March 1850 | BIRTHDAY | Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906) |
10th of March 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Goldenweiser, Russian pianist, teacher, and composer (d. 1961) |
10th of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Quinlan, musical impresario (d. 1951) |
10th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972) |
10th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (d. 1961) |
10th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (d. 1955) |
10th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952) |
10th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran (d. 2007) |
10th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1943) |
10th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931) |
10th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Betty Amann, German-American actress. (d. 1990) |
10th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985) |
10th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978) |
10th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Charles Groves, English conductor (d. 1992) |
10th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Perconte, American sergeant. |
10th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Gunther Rall, German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009) |
10th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987) |
10th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur (d. 2007) |
10th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959) |
10th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel laureate |
10th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005) |
10th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer |
10th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | James Earl Ray, American assassin (d. 1998) |
10th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Huey P. Meaux, American record producer (d. 2011) |
10th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Dor, Quebecois author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001) |
10th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer |
10th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Sepp Blatter, Swiss FIFA President |
10th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989) |
10th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004) |
10th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Ieronymos II, Archbishop of Athens |
10th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Chuck Norris, American actor, martial artist and internet meme |
10th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean) |
10th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | David Rabe, American playwright and screenwriter |
10th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Birgitta Sellen, Swedish politician |
10th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Hollands, Australian animator |
10th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d. 1993) |
10th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver |
10th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Condon, Baron Condon, former police commissioner |
10th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Greene, American journalist |
10th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada |
10th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist (Boston) |
10th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Park, British media consultant and broadcaster |
10th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Austin Carr, American basketball player |
10th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Buxton, Canadian computer scientist and designer |
10th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Mike O'Donnell, American Composer |
10th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe |
10th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Haggis, Canadian film director |
10th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver |
10th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer |
10th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor, son of Roy Lichtenstein |
10th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Llewellyn, Writer, Actor, Presenter |
10th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Knudsen, American actor |
10th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Tweed, Canadian actress and model |
10th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Jim White, American folk singer-songwriter |
10th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Osama bin Laden, Saudi Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda (d. 2011) |
10th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Howe, American baseball player (d. 2006) |
10th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sharon Stone, American actress |
10th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen, German keyboardist and songwriter |
10th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Anne MacKenzie, journalist and broadcaster |
10th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d. 2003) |
10th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Pam Oliver, American sportscaster |
10th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast |
10th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Petrino, American football coach |
10th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer |
10th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jasmine Guy, American actress |
10th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam) |
10th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Rick Rubin, American record producer |
10th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician |
10th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | David Faber, American television reporter |
10th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex |
10th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Rod Woodson, American football player |
10th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Grainne Mulvey, Irish composer |
10th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Timlin, American baseball player |
10th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Edie Brickell, American singer |
10th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Daichi Suzuki, Japanese swimmer |
10th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Felice Arena, Australian children's author |
10th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law professor and NMP |
10th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Paget Brewster, American actress |
10th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth) |
10th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer |
10th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Arnold, British racing driver |
10th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Hamm, American actor |
10th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Timbaland, American rapper |
10th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer |
10th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Paraskevi Tsiamita, Greek athlete |
10th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Kenseth, American race car driver |
10th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | John LeCompt, American guitarist |
10th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Herzigova, Czech model |
10th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sutton, English footballer |
10th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer |
10th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Swano, Swedish musician |
10th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian de la Fuente, Chilean model and actor |
10th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Horton, American guitarist (Papa Roach) |
10th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Lyne Bessette, Canadian bicycle racer |
10th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Kisaki, Japanese musician |
10th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Shannon Miller, American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Murray, British radio DJ |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Simons, English actress |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Bree Turner, American dancer and actress |
10th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Robin Thicke, American singer |
10th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin) |
10th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Neil Alexander, Scottish footballer |
10th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Edi Gathegi, American actor |
10th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Reid, Irish International footballer |
10th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer |
10th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer |
10th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Kwame Brown, American basketball player |
10th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian singer |
10th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997) |
10th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Carrie Underwood, American country singer |
10th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Rafe Spall, English actor |
10th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Nikos Arabatzis, Greek footballer |
10th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Olivia Wilde, American actress |
10th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Ben May, English footballer |
10th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Lassana Diarra, French footballer |
10th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter |
10th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | JC de Vera, Filipino actor |
10th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Martellus Bennett, American football player |
10th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Dunlop, Northern Irish motorbike racer |
10th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Rakitic, Croatian footballer |
10th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Osment, American actress and singer |
10th of March 1993 | BIRTHDAY | Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor |
10th of March 1291 | DEATH | Arghun, Persian ruler |
10th of March 1315 | DEATH | Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (Born c. 1244) |
10th of March 1391 | DEATH | Tvrtko I, first king of Bosnia (Born 1338) |
10th of March 1510 | DEATH | Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (Born 1445) |
10th of March 1513 | DEATH | John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (Born 1443) |
10th of March 1549 | DEATH | Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat |
10th of March 1584 | DEATH | Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (Born 1532) |
10th of March 1585 | DEATH | Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (Born 1517) |
10th of March 1588 | DEATH | Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (Born 1533) |
10th of March 1669 | DEATH | John Denham, English poet (Born 1615) |
10th of March 1670 | DEATH | Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (Born 1604) |
10th of March 1776 | DEATH | Elie Catherine Freron, French critic (Born 1719) |
10th of March 1776 | DEATH | Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (Born 1701) |
10th of March 1792 | DEATH | John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1713) |
10th of March 1823 | DEATH | George Elphinstone, 1st Viscount Keith, Royal Navy admiral (d. 1746) |
10th of March 1832 | DEATH | Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (Born 1752) |
10th of March 1861 | DEATH | Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (Born 1814) |
10th of March 1864 | DEATH | Jack Slade, American frontier figure (Born 1831) |
10th of March 1872 | DEATH | Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (Born 1805) |
10th of March 1895 | DEATH | Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (Born 1826) |
10th of March 1898 | DEATH | Marie-Eugenie de Jesus, Founder of the Religious of the Assumption (Born 1817) |
10th of March 1910 | DEATH | Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (Born 1844) |
10th of March 1910 | DEATH | Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (Born 1824) |
10th of March 1913 | DEATH | Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (Born 1820) |
10th of March 1937 | DEATH | Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (Born 1884) |
10th of March 1940 | DEATH | Mikhail Boulgakov, Russian writer (Born 1891) |
10th of March 1942 | DEATH | William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1862) |
10th of March 1948 | DEATH | Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (Born 1900) |
10th of March 1948 | DEATH | Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (Born 1886) |
10th of March 1949 | DEATH | James Rector, American athlete (Born 1884) |
10th of March 1950 | DEATH | Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (Born 1902) |
10th of March 1951 | DEATH | Kijuro Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (Born 1872) |
10th of March 1966 | DEATH | Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1888) |
10th of March 1967 | DEATH | Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (Born 1885) |
10th of March 1970 | DEATH | Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (Born 1904) |
10th of March 1973 | DEATH | Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (Born 1897) |
10th of March 1977 | DEATH | E. Power Biggs, English-born organist (Born 1906) |
10th of March 1982 | DEATH | Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (Born 1899) |
10th of March 1984 | DEATH | June Marlowe, American actress (Born 1903) |
10th of March 1985 | DEATH | Bob Nieman, American baseball player (Born 1927) |
10th of March 1985 | DEATH | Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Born 1911) |
10th of March 1986 | DEATH | Ray Milland, British actor (Born 1905) |
10th of March 1988 | DEATH | Andy Gibb, English-born singer (Born 1958) |
10th of March 1992 | DEATH | Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (Born 1925) |
10th of March 1994 | DEATH | Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (Born 1929) |
10th of March 1996 | DEATH | Ross Hunter, American film producer (Born 1920) |
10th of March 1997 | DEATH | La Vern Baker, American singer (Born 1929) |
10th of March 1998 | DEATH | Lloyd Bridges, American actor (Born 1913) |
10th of March 1999 | DEATH | Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (Born 1919) |
10th of March 1999 | DEATH | Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (Born 1922) |
10th of March 2001 | DEATH | Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (Born 1923) |
10th of March 2001 | DEATH | Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (Born 1958) |
10th of March 2003 | DEATH | Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (Born 1950) |
10th of March 2004 | DEATH | Dave Blood (David Schulthise), American musician (Born 1956) |
10th of March 2005 | DEATH | Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (Born 1951) |
10th of March 2005 | DEATH | Dave Allen, Irish comedian (Born 1936) |
10th of March 2006 | DEATH | Anna Moffo, American soprano (Born 1932) |
10th of March 2007 | DEATH | Ernie Ladd, American football player and wrestler (Born 1938) |
10th of March 2007 | DEATH | Richard Jeni, American comedian (Born 1957) |
10th of March 2008 | DEATH | Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (Born 1940) |
10th of March 2008 | DEATH | Vangelis Kazan, Greek actor (Born 1936) |
10th of March 2010 | DEATH | Corey Haim, Canadian actor (Born 1971) |
10th of March 2010 | DEATH | Muhammad Sayyid Tantawy, Egyptian Muslim cleric (Born 1928) |