Birthdays occurring on March, 26

1925

Pierre Boulez was born on March 26, 1925 The aim of music is not to express feelings but to express music. It is not a vessel into which the composer distills his soul drop by drop, but a labyrinth with no beginning and no end, full of new paths to discover, where mystery remains eternal. More quotations from Pierre Boulez

1930

Gregory Corso was born on March 26, 1930 They, that unnamed "they," they've knocked me down but I got up. I always get up-and I swear when I went down quite often I took the fall; nothing moves a mountain but itself. They, I've long ago named them me. More quotations from Gregory Corso

1933

Vine Deloria, Jr. was born on March 26, 1933 American educator, writer, lawyer and activist, b.1933 Western civilization, unfortunately, does not link knowledge and morality but rather, it connects knowledge and power and makes them equivalent. More quotations from Vine Deloria, Jr.

Deaths occurring on March, 26

1902

Cecil Rhodes died on March 26, 1902 We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories. More quotations from Cecil Rhodes

1914

Jacob Riis died on March 26, 1914 American newspaper reporter and photographer, 1849-1914 When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before. More quotations from Jacob Riis

1923

Sarah Bernhardt died on March 26, 1923 The greatest French actress of the 19th century, and one of the best-known figures in the history of the stage. 1844-1923 Your words are my food, your breath my wine. You are everything to me. More quotations from Sarah Bernhardt

1942

Carolyn Wells died on March 26, 1942 American author 1862-1942 Youth is a silly, vapid state, Old age with fears and ills is rife; This simple boon I beg of Fate - A thousand years of Middle Life More quotations from Carolyn Wells