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Birthdays occurring on March, 23
| 1912 |
Werner von Braun was born on March 23, 1912
Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft, and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor More quotations from Werner von Braun |  |
| 1926 |
Martha Wright was born on March 23, 1926
We asked them to stop submitting to us because our system was getting full and we didn't want to risk losing anything, More quotations from Martha Wright |
| 1929 |
Roger Bannister was born on March 23, 1929
Doctors and scientists said that breaking the four-minute mile was impossible, that one would die in the attempt. Thus, when I got up from the track after collapsing at the finish line, I figured I was dead. More quotations from Roger Bannister |
Deaths occurring on March, 23
| 1971 |
Simon Vestdijk died on March 23, 1971
Allowing for all the restrictions involved when trying to rank individual artists by using general criteria, we have to say it is a measure of inscrutability and hardness, mostly already perceptible in their craftsmanship, an elusive asceticism, a stubbornness which manifests itself most clearly in a total lack of accommodation to public taste. More quotations from Simon Vestdijk |
| 1981 |
Claude Auchinleck died on March 23, 1981
To commit troops to a campaign in which they cannot be provided with adequate air support is to court disaster. More quotations from Claude Auchinleck |
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