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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
294 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
538 – Vitiges, king of
the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and
retreats to Ravenna, leaving the
city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.[1] ·
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic
Church.[2] ·
1689 – James II of England landed
at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War
in Ireland.[3] ·
1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully
delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force
at the Battle of Redinha.[4] ·
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the
USA) are founded in the United States.[5] ·
1913 – The future
capital of Australia is
officially named Canberra.[6] ·
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for
most of the period since 1713.[7] ·
1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade
Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.[8] ·
1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting
floods kill 431 people.[9] ·
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile march to the sea
to protest the British monopoly
on salt in India.[10] ·
1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D.
Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President
of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".[5] ·
1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and absorb Austria.[11] ·
1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with
the Soviet Union,
ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.[12] ·
1942 – The Battle of Java ends
with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian
Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.[13] ·
1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help
stem the spread of Communism.[14] ·
1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills
80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's
deadliest air disaster.[15] ·
1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's
Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President
of Indonesia.[16] ·
1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from
the United Kingdom.[17] ·
1971 – The 1971
Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government
of Turkey and the government resigns.[18] ·
1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits
his proposal to CERN for an information management
system, which subsequently develops into the world wide web.[19] ·
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of
the Commonwealth of
Nations.[20] ·
1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and
injuring hundreds more.[21] ·
1993 – North Korea announces that it will
withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and
refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.[22] ·
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.[23] ·
2003 – Zoran
Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.[24] ·
2003 – The World Health
Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks
of Severe
acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).[25] ·
2004 – The President of
South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National
Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.[26] ·
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty to one of
the largest frauds in Wall Street's
history.[27] ·
2011 – A reactor at
the Fukushima
Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases
radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011
Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[28] ·
2014 – A gas
explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70
others.[29] ·
2019 – In the House of
Commons, the revised EU
Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.[30] Births[edit]
·
1270 – Charles, Count
of Valois (d. 1325)[31] ·
1515 – Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and
composer (d. 1553)[32] ·
1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d.
1676)[33] ·
1613 – André Le Nôtre,
French gardener and architect (d. 1700)[34] ·
1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and
philosopher (d. 1697)[35] ·
1637 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1671)[36] ·
1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and
politician (d. 1729)[37] ·
1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and
philosopher (d. 1753)[38] ·
1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)[39] ·
1735 – François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest,
French politician and diplomat (d. 1821)[40] ·
1753 – Jean Denis,
French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (d. 1827)[41] ·
1766 – Claudius Buchanan,
Scottish theologian (d. 1815)[42] ·
1781 – Frederica of Baden,
Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf
of Sweden (d. 1826)[43] ·
1784 – William Buckland, English geologist and
paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (d.
1856)[44] ·
1795 – William Lyon
Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)[45] ·
1795 – George Tyler Wood,
American military officer and politician (d. 1858)[46] ·
1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First
Lady of the United States (d. 1863)[47] ·
1807 – James
Abbott, Indian Army officer (d. 1896)[48] ·
1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu,
French military leader and politician (d. 1896)[49] ·
1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician,
3rd Prime Minister
of Canada (d. 1893)[50] ·
1821 – Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and
politician (d. 1882)[51] ·
1823 – Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (d.
1899)[52] ·
1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist
and academic (d. 1887)[53] ·
1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent
(d. 1897)[54] ·
1834 – Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the
Navy (d. 1919)[55] ·
1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer
and mathematician (d. 1909)[5] ·
1837 – Alexandre Guilmant,
French organist and composer (d. 1911)[56] ·
1838 – William Henry Perkin,
English chemist and academic (d. 1907)[57] ·
1843 – Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and
criminologist (d. 1904)[58] ·
1855 – Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor
(d. 1920)[59] ·
1857 – William V. Ranous,
American actor and director (d. 1915)[60] ·
1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935)[61] ·
1859 – Ernesto Cesàro,
Italian mathematician (d. 1906)[62] ·
1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d.
1895)[63] ·
1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio,
Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)[64] ·
1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky,
Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)[65] ·
1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist,
neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)[66] ·
1869 – George
Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)[67] ·
1874 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (d. 1949)[68] ·
1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and
politician, German
Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)[69] ·
1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d.
1903)[70] ·
1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin,
English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)[71] ·
1881 – Väinö Tanner,
Finnish politician of Social
Democratic Party of Finland (d. 1966)[72] ·
1882 – Carlos Blanco
Galindo, Bolivian politician (d. 1943)[73] ·
1883 – Sándor Jávorka,
Hungarian botanist (d. 1961)[74] ·
1888 – Walter Hermann
Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1965)[75] ·
1888 – Hans Knappertsbusch,
German conductor (d. 1965)[76] ·
1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and
lute player (d. 1976)[77] ·
1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and
musician (d. 1976)[78] ·
1898 – Tian Han, Chinese playwright (d. 1968)[79] ·
1898 – Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and
politician (d. 1984)[80] ·
1899 – Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (d. 1955)[81] ·
1900 – Rinus van den Berge,
Dutch athlete (d. 1972)[82] ·
1900 – Gustavo Rojas
Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)[83] ·
1904 – Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (d.
1976)[84] ·
1905 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982)[85] ·
1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and
academic (d. 2007)[86] ·
1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)[87] ·
1908 – David
Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief
Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)[88] ·
1909 – Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (d. 1947)[89] ·
1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira,
Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of
Japan (d. 1980)[90] ·
1910 – László Lékai,
Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986)[91] ·
1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz,
Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d.
1979)[92] ·
1912 – Willie
Hall, English international footballer (d. 1967)[93] ·
1912 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and
academic (d. 2006)[94] ·
1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan,
Indian politician, 5th Deputy
Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)[95] ·
1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer
and author (d. 2010)[96] ·
1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor
(d. 1995)[97] ·
1915 – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (d. 1991)[98] ·
1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company
executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)[99] ·
1917 – Millard Kaufman, American author and
screenwriter (d. 2009)[100] ·
1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress
(d. 2011)[101] ·
1918 – Pádraig Faulkner,
Irish Fianna Fáil politician
(d. 2012)[102] ·
1918 – Elaine de Kooning,
American painter and academic (d. 1989)[103] ·
1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)[101] ·
1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d.
1986)[104] ·
1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d.
1969)[5] ·
1922 – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union
leader (d. 1999)[105] ·
1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and
cyclist (d. 2013)[106] ·
1923 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)[101] ·
1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 2007)[5] ·
1923 – Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)[107] ·
1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate[108] ·
1925 – Harry Harrison,
American author and illustrator (d. 2012)[109] ·
1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and
politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii[110] ·
1926 – Arthur A. Hartman,
American career diplomat (d. 2015)[111] ·
1926 – John Clellon Holmes,
American author and professor (d. 1988)[112] ·
1926 – David Nadien, American violinist (d. 2014)[113] ·
1927 – Raúl Alfonsín,
Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of
Argentina (d. 2009)[114] ·
1927 – Emmett Leith, professor of electrical
engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (d. 2005)[115] ·
1927 – Sudharmono, 5th Vice President of Indonesia
(d. 2006)[116] ·
1928 – Edward Albee, American director and
playwright (d. 2016)[101] ·
1929 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician,
co-founded the National
League for Democracy (d. 2014)[117] ·
1930 – Antony Acland, British former diplomat and
Provost of Eton College[101] ·
1931 – Józef Tischner,
Polish priest and philosopher (d. 2000)[118] ·
1932 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d.
2014)[119] ·
1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and
politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations[5] ·
1933 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973)[120] ·
1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress[121] ·
1934 – Francisco J. Ayala,
Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher[122] ·
1936 – Virginia Hamilton,
American children's books author (d. 2002)[123] ·
1936 – Michał Heller, Polish professor of
philosophy[124] ·
1936 – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and
coach[125] ·
1937 – Zoltán Horvath,
Hungarian sabre fencer[126] ·
1937 – Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (d.
2017)[127] ·
1938 – Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor, (d. 2010)[128] ·
1938 – Johnny Rutherford,
American race car driver and sportscaster[129] ·
1938 – Juan Horacio Suárez,
Argentine bishop[130] ·
1938 – Ron Tutt, American drummer[131] ·
1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)[132] ·
1941 – Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer[133] ·
1942 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (d.
2020)[134] ·
1943 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general[135] ·
1944 – Erwin Mueller, former American basketball
player (d. 2018)[136] ·
1945 – Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer,
editor, publisher and public servant[137] ·
1946 – Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and
film director[138] ·
1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and
dancer[121] ·
1946 – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer[139] ·
1947 – Peter Harry
Carstensen, German educator and politician[140] ·
1947 – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician[141] ·
1947 – David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter[142] ·
1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and
politician, 70th Governor of
Massachusetts[5] ·
1948 – Virginia Bottomley,
Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport[143] ·
1948 – Kent Conrad, American politician[144] ·
1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist[121] ·
1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and
screenwriter[5] ·
1949 – David Mellor, British politician[101] ·
1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and
manager[145] ·
1952 – André
Comte-Sponville, French philosopher[146] ·
1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer[147] ·
1952 – John
Mitchell, English footballer, forward[148] ·
1953 – Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and
Olympic champion[149] ·
1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor[150] ·
1956 – Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country
skier[151] ·
1956 – Stanisław Bobak,
Polish ski jumper (d. 2010)[152] ·
1956 – Steve Harris,
English bass player and songwriter[121] ·
1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress[121] ·
1956 – Dale Murphy, American baseball player,
coach, and sportscaster[5] ·
1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (d. 2019)[153] ·
1957 – Patrick Battiston,
French footballer and coach[154] ·
1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter
and dancer[121] ·
1957 – Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player[155] ·
1958 – Phil Anderson,
English-Australian cyclist[156] ·
1959 – Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president
of Republika Srpska[157] ·
1959 – Luenell, American comedian and actress[158] ·
1959 – Michael Walter,
German luger (d. 2016)[159] ·
1960 – Jason Beghe, American actor[121] ·
1960 – Courtney B. Vance,
American actor and painter[121] ·
1961 – Titus Welliver, American actor[121] ·
1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress[121] ·
1962 – Andreas Köpke, former German footballer[160] ·
1962 – Chris Sanders, American illustrator and
voice actor[161] ·
1962 – Darryl Strawberry,
American baseball player and minister[5] ·
1963 – John Andretti, American race car driver (d.
2020)[162] ·
1963 – Candy Costie, American swimmer[163] ·
1963 – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach[164] ·
1963 – Reiner Gies, German boxer[165] ·
1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager[166] ·
1963 – Paul Way, English golfer[167] ·
1964 – Dieter Eckstein, retired German footballer[168] ·
1964 – Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna[169] ·
1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player[170] ·
1965 – Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and
Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian
Social Democratic Party[171] ·
1966 – David
Daniels, American countertenor[5] ·
1966 – Grant Long, American basketball player and
sportscaster[172] ·
1967 – Julio Dely Valdés,
Panamanian footballer and manager[173] ·
1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel,
pilot, and politician[174] ·
1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer[121] ·
1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist[175] ·
1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author[5] ·
1970 – Karen Bradley, British politician[176] ·
1970 – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter[177][178] ·
1970 – Mathias Grönberg,
Swedish golfer[179] ·
1970 – Rex Walters, American basketball player and
coach[180] ·
1971 – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and
rapper[181] ·
1971 – Dragutin Topić,
Serbian high jumper[182] ·
1972 – Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player[183] ·
1974 – Charles Akonnor, former Ghanaian footballer[184] ·
1974 – Walid Badir, former Israeli footballer[185] ·
1974 – Steve
Price, Australian rugby league player[186] ·
1975 – Nicolae
Grigore, former Romanian footballer[187] ·
1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas,
former Lithuanian footballer[188] ·
1975 – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer[189] ·
1976 – Deron Quint, American ice hockey defenseman[190] ·
1976 – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director,
producer and pop singer[191] ·
1977 – Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete[192] ·
1977 – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player[193] ·
1977 – Amdy Faye, former Senegalese footballer[194] ·
1977 – Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player[195] ·
1978 – Casey Mears, American race car driver[196] ·
1978 – Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer[197] ·
1978 – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and
illustrator[198] ·
1979 – Rhys Coiro, American actor[121] ·
1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter,
actor, poet, writer, and artist[199] ·
1979 – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player
and coach[200] ·
1979 – Gerard López, former Spanish footballer[201] ·
1979 – Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer[202] ·
1979 – Tim Wieskötter,
German sprint canoer[203] ·
1979 – Edwin Villafuerte,
Ecuadorian goalkeeper[204] ·
1980 – Césinha, Brazilian footballer[205] ·
1980 – Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter[206] ·
1980 – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist[207] ·
1980 – Douglas
Murray, Swedish ice hockey player[208] ·
1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and
kick-boxer[209] ·
1981 – Katarina Srebotnik,
Slovenian tennis player[210] ·
1981 – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist[211] ·
1982 – Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress[212] ·
1982 – Samm Levine, American actor and comedian[121] ·
1982 – Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player[213] ·
1982 – Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer[214] ·
1982 – Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer[215] ·
1982 – Tobias
Schweinsteiger, German footballer[216] ·
1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor[217] ·
1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer[218] ·
1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress[219] ·
1985 – Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver[220] ·
1985 – Aleksandr Bukharov,
Russian footballer[221] ·
1985 – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist[222] ·
1985 – Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer[223] ·
1986 – Martynas
Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player[224] ·
1986 – Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer[225] ·
1986 – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor[226] ·
1986 – Ben Offereins, Australian runner[227] ·
1986 – František Rajtoral,
Czech footballer (d. 2017)[228][229] ·
1987 – Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist[230] ·
1987 – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer[231] ·
1987 – Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player[232] ·
1987 – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player[233] ·
1987 – Chris Seitz, American soccer player[234] ·
1987 – Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player[235] ·
1987 – Pablo Velázquez,
Paraguayan footballer[236] ·
1988 – Sebastian Brendel,
German canoe racer[237] ·
1988 – Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer[238] ·
1988 – Cristian Chagas
Tarouco, Brazilian footballer[239] ·
1989 – Jordan Adéoti, French footballer[240] ·
1989 – Vytautas
Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer[241] ·
1989 – Tyler Clary, former American swimmer[242] ·
1989 – Richard
Eckersley, English footballer[243] ·
1989 – Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player[244] ·
1989 – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer[245] ·
1989 – Gareth Widdop, English rugby league player[246] ·
1990 – Alexander Kröckel,
German skeleton racer[247] ·
1990 – Irakli Kvekveskiri,
Georgian footballer[248] ·
1990 – Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper[249] ·
1990 – Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player[250] ·
1990 – Ilija Nestorovski,
Macedonian footballer[251] ·
1990 – Milena
Raičević, Montenegrin handballer[252] ·
1990 – Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer[253] ·
1991 – Felix Kroos, German footballer[254] ·
1991 – Niclas Heimann, German footballer[255] ·
1991 – Leandro
Fernandez, Argentine footballer[256] ·
1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer[257] ·
1992 – Jordan Ferri, French footballer[258] ·
1992 – Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner[259] ·
1992 – Jiří Skalák,
Czech footballer[260] ·
1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer[261] ·
1993 – Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer[262] ·
1993 – Anton Shramchenko,
Belarusian footballer[263] ·
1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist[264] ·
1994 – Jerami Grant, American basketball player[265] ·
1994 – Christina Grimmie,
American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)[266] ·
1996 – Sehrou Guirassy, French footballer[267] ·
1996 – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer[268] ·
1996 – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer[269] ·
1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer[270] ·
1997 – Allan Saint-Maximin,
French footballer[271] ·
1997 – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer[272] ·
1998 – Mecole Hardman, American football player[273] ·
1998 – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater[274] ·
1998 – Elizaveta Ukolova,
Czech figure skater[275] Deaths[edit]
·
417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church[276] ·
604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
540)[277] ·
1022 – Symeon the New
Theologian (b. 949)[278] ·
1316 – Stefan Dragutin (b. c. 1244)[279] ·
1539 – Thomas
Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b.1477)[280] ·
1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish monk and poet (b.
1571)[281] ·
1699 – Peder Griffenfeld,
Danish politician (b. 1635)[282] ·
1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish
journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)[283] ·
1916 – Marie von
Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)[284] ·
1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and
politician, 1st President
of the Republic of China (b. 1866)[285] ·
1929 – Asa Griggs Candler,
American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of
Atlanta (b. 1851)[286] ·
1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist
and chemist (b. 1858)[287] ·
1942 – William Henry Bragg,
English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1862)[288] ·
1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)[289] ·
1946 – Ferenc Szálasi,
Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of
State of Hungary (b. 1897)[290] ·
1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf,
German chemist (b. 1879)[291] ·
1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and
suffragist (b. 1870)[292] ·
1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and
composer (b. 1920)[293] ·
1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known
for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)[294] ·
1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)[295] ·
1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie,
American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)[296] ·
1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1898)[297] ·
1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and
businessman (b. 1904)[298] ·
1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist
and conductor (b. 1899)[299] ·
1989 – Maurice Evans,
English-American actor (b. 1901)[300] ·
1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish
neuroscientist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1900)[301] ·
1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and
author (b. 1900)[302] ·
1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)[303] ·
1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter
(b. 1893)[304] ·
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and
conductor (b. 1916)[305] ·
1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b.
1902)[306] ·
2000 – Aleksandar
Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924)[307] ·
2001 – Morton Downey Jr.,
American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)[308] ·
2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)[309] ·
2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic
(b. 1916)[310] ·
2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician,
2nd President of Cyprus (b.
1932)[311] ·
2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle,
Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)[312] ·
2003 – Zoran
Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician,
6th Prime Minister
of Serbia (b. 1952)[313] ·
2003 – Howard Fast, American novelist and
screenwriter (b. 1914)[314] ·
2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer
(b. 1948)[315] ·
2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b.
1917)[316] ·
2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and
journalist (b. 1947)[317] ·
2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and
producer (b. 1949)[318] ·
2008 – Lazare Ponticelli,
Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897)[319] ·
2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and
author (b. 1920)[320] ·
2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)[321] ·
2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and
coach (b. 1930)[322] ·
2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)[323] ·
2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka,
German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)[324] ·
2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter
(b. 1957)[325] ·
2013 – Michael Grigsby, English director and
producer (b. 1936)[326] ·
2013 – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator
(b. 1937)[327] ·
2014 – Věra Chytilová,
Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)[328] ·
2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and
engineer (b. 1923)[329] ·
2014 – José Policarpo,
Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)[330] ·
2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and
activist (b. 1924)[331] ·
2015 – Michael Graves, American architect and
academic, designed the Portland Building and
the Humana Building (b.
1934)[332] ·
2015 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b.
1924)[333] ·
2015 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author,
and screenwriter (b. 1948)[334] ·
2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b.
1942)[335] ·
2016 – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and
politician, Governor
of Delta State (b. 1935)[336] ·
2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and
economist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1923)[337] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Bernard of Carinola
(or of Capua)[342] o Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of
Nicomedia[343] o Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox
Church, Eastern Catholic
Church, and Anglican Communion)[346] o Theophanes the
Confessor[347] o March
12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
National Day
(Mauritius)[348] ·
World
Day Against Cyber Censorship[349] |
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