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March 9, 2013

ROYAL BIRTHDAYS

Wittekind, Prince of Waldeck + Pyrmont, Head of the House of Waldeck + Pyrmont   {1936}
                                                              (pictured here with his wife)

Princess Athena Joy Hanimefendi   {1944} (wife of Prince Osman Selaheddin Osmanoglu, great-great grandson of Sultan Murad V of the Ottoman Empire & great-grandson of Sultan Mehmed V of the Ottoman Empire)

Sheikh Jabir bin Mubarak Al-Sabah of Kuwait   {1954}



ROYAL WEDDING

the future Emperor Napoleon I of the French (1804-1814; 1815) & Josephine Tascher de la Pagerie   {1796} [CIVIL] [divorced 1809; annulled 1810]

the future King Maximilian I of Bavaria & Princess Karoline of Baden   {1797}


HISTORICAL ROYAL BIRTHDAY

Prince Aimone of Savoy, Duke of Aosta, King (as Tomislav II) of Croatia (1941-1943)   {1900}



DEATHS

1867   Duchess Sophie in Bavaria, Princess of Saxony, Duchess of Saxony 


1881   Queen consort Karoline/Caroline Amalie of Denmark, Princess of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg  



1888   King Wilhelm I of Prussia (1861-1888), German Emperor (1871-1888), Margrave of Brandenburg, Burgrave of Nuremberg, Count of Hohenzollern, Sovereign + Supreme Duke of Silesia & the County of Glatz, Grand Duke of the Lower Rhine + Posen, Duke of Saxony, Westphalia, Angria, Pomerania, Lunenburg, Holstein + Schleswig, Madgeburg, Bremen, Guelders, Cleves, Julich & Berg, Duke of the Wends + the Kassubes, Crossen, Lauenburg + Mecklenburg, Landgrave of Hesse + Thuringia, Margrave of Upper + Lower Lusatia, Prince of Orange, Prince of Rugen, East Friesland, Paderborn + Pyrmont, Halberstadt, Munster, Minden, Osnabruck, Hildesheim, Verden, Cammin, Fulda, Nassau + Moers, Princely Count of Henneberg, Count of Mark, Ravensberg, Hohenstein, Tecklenburg + Lingen, Mansfield, Sigmaringen + Veringen, Lord of Frankfurt


1991   Luis Gomez-Acebo y Duque de Estrada, Viscount de la Torre, Grandee of Spain [husband of Infanta Pilar of Spain, Duchess of Badajoz, Dowager Countess de la Torre, Grandee of Spain (sister of King Juan Carlos I of Spain)]


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