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This month’s anniversaries      

2 Mar 1836 birth of Theodor Nöldeke, German Orientalist and Islamologist
2 Mar 1890 birth of Ján Bakoš, Slovak Arabist and Semitist
2 Mar 1939 death of Howard Carter, British archaeologist and Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of pharaoh Tutankhamun (4 Nov 1922)
2 Mar 1956 independence of Morocco (from France)
4 Mar 1832 death of Jean François Champollion, French philologist and Orientalist, decipherer of Egyptian hieroglyphs (1822)
4 Mar 1932 birth of Miriam Makeba, South African singer and civil rights activist, nicknamed Mama Africa
6 Mar 1957 independence of Ghana (from the United Kingdom)
12 Mar 1968 independence of Mauritius (from the United Kingdom)
13 Mar 1941 birth of Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian poet and author, recipient of numerous awards
17 Mar 1733 birth of Carsten (Karsten) Niebuhr, German explorer of Mesopotamia, Arabian Peninsula, Syria, Egypt, and Turkey
17 Mar 1981 death of Felix Tauer, Czech Arabist, Iranologist and Turkologist, translator of One Thousand and One Nights into Czech
18 Mar 1936 birth of Frederic Willem de Klerk, former president of South Africa, recipient of Nobel Peace Prize 1993
19 Mar 1813 birth of David Livingstone, British explorer of Africa
19 Mar 1821 birth of Richard Francis Burton, British Orientalist, explorer of Africa and Asia
20 Mar 1956 independence of Tunisia (from France)
20 Mar 1993 death of Ivan Hrbek, Czech Arabist, Islamologist and Africanist, translator of the Koran into Czech
21 Mar 1990 independence of Namibia (from South Africa)
26 Mar 1902 death of Cecil John Rhodes, South African businessman and politician of English descent, founder of De Beers diamond company
26 Mar 1834 death of Ahmed Sékou Touré, first president of Guinea (1958–1984)