American psychic and author (born 1877)

Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce was an American clairvoyant who reported and chronicled an ability to diagnose diseases and recommend treatments for ailments while asleep. During thousands of transcribed sessions, Cayce answered questions on subjects including healing, reincarnation, dreams, the afterlife, past lives, nutrition, Atlantis, and future events. Cayce said he was a devout Christian and was not a spiritualist or communicating with spirits. Cayce is regarded as a founder of the New Age movement and a principal source of many of the movement's characteristic beliefs.

Born

1877

March 18

Died

1945

Era

1870s

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Edgar, in brief

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1877 Born
1945 Died

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What else happened on this day, through history

37 Roman Senate annuls Tiberius' will and proclaims Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula = Little Boots) emperor.
417 Pope Zosimus is elected following the death of Pope Innocent I.
1068 An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula leaves up to 20,000 dead.
1229 Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade.

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The world in 1945

When Edgar departed

april 1 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
april 11 World War II: American forces liberate the Buchenwald concentration camp.
april 12 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies in office; Vice President Harry S. Truman succeeds him.
april 12 World War II: The U.S. Ninth Army under General William H. Simpson crosses the Elbe River astride Magdeburg, and reaches Tangermünde—only 80 kilometres from Berlin.

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Same-day contemporaries

Also born on March 18

Christian Goldbach 1690–1764 Prussian-German mathematician and academic (died 1764) F. W. de Klerk 1936–2021 South African lawyer and politician, former State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2021) Jacob Bunn 1814– American businessman (died 1897) John C. Calhoun 1782–1850 American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (died 1850) Katy Gallagher 1970– Australian politician Kris Dunn 1994– American basketball player Lillian Vernon 1927–2015 German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (born 1927) Miguel Poblet 1928– Spanish cyclist (died 2013) Mike Bell 1971– American wrestler (died 2008)

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Same-year contemporaries

Also born in 1877

Eddie Cochems 1877–1953 American football player and coach (born 1877) Frederick Soddy 1877–1956 English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1956) Jakob Ehrlich 1877–1938 Czech-Austrian academic and politician (born 1877) James Agate 1877–1947 English author and critic (born 1877) Lewis Terman 1877– American psychologist, eugenicist, and academic (died 1956) Pascual Ortiz Rubio 1877– Mexican diplomat and president (1930–1932) (died 1963) Paul Ladmirault 1877– French pianist, violinist, and composer (died 1944) Plutarco Elías Calles 1877–1945 Mexican general and politician, 40th President of Mexico (born 1877) Stanley Lord 1877– English captain (died 1962)

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