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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
290 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent
of Later Tang. ·
1190 – Massacre of
Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.[1] ·
1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burned
to death after the Fall of Montségur.[2] ·
1322 – The Battle of
Boroughbridge takes place in the Despenser Wars. ·
1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reaches
the island of Homonhon in
the Philippines. ·
1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them,
"Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset." ·
1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved
so as to prepare for the new Convention
Parliament. ·
1689 – The 23rd
Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch
Fusiliers, is founded. ·
1782 – American
Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the
British-held island of Roatán. ·
1782 – Anglo-Spanish
War (1779): Action of 16
March 1782. ·
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is
shot; he dies on March 29. ·
1797 – French
Revolutionary Wars: An Austrian column is defeated by the French
in the Battle of
Valvasone. ·
1802 – The Army
Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate
the United
States Military Academy at West Point. ·
1812 – The Siege of Badajoz begins:
British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat the French garrison during
the Peninsular War. ·
1815 – Prince
Willem proclaims himself King of the United
Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional
monarch in the Netherlands. ·
1818 – In the Second
Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín. ·
1864 – American Civil War:
During the Red River Campaign, Union troops
reach Alexandria,
Louisiana. ·
1865 – American Civil
War: The Battle of
Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer
irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war. ·
1870 – The first
version of the overture
fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its premičre
performance. ·
1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition
in the world, beating Royal Engineers
A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London. ·
1894 – Jules Massenet's opera Thaďs is first performed. ·
1898 – In Melbourne the representatives of five
colonies adopted a constitution,
which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of
Australia.[3] ·
1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around
the ruins of Knossos, the
largest Bronze Age archaeological
site on Crete. ·
1916 – The 7th and
10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to
join the hunt for Pancho Villa. ·
1917 – World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is
sunk in the Action of 16
March 1917. ·
1918 – Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is
infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed 70–100
capitulated Reds. ·
1924 – In accordance
with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy. ·
1925 – An earthquake occurs
in Yunnan, China. ·
1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches
the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn,
Massachusetts. ·
1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm
herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles.
Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht. ·
1936 –
Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers,
leading to a major flood in
Pittsburgh. ·
1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia
and Moravia a German protectorate. ·
1940 – First person
killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II
during a raid on Scapa Flow in
the Orkney Islands. ·
1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended,
but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted. ·
1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg,
Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers,
resulting in around 5,000 deaths. ·
1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces
its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars
a year since the company's founding. ·
1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super
Constellation disappears in
the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead. ·
1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space
flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle. ·
1968 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and
500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and
children) are killed by American troops. ·
1968 – General Motors produces its 100
millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado. ·
1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas
DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155. ·
1976 – British Prime
Minister Harold Wilson resigns,
citing personal reasons. ·
1977 – Assassination
of Kamal Jumblatt,
the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War. ·
1978 – Former Italian
Prime Minister Aldo Moro is
kidnapped. (He is later murdered by his captors.) ·
1978 – A Balkan Bulgarian
Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near
Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.[4] ·
1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after
running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time. ·
1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War:
The People's
Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the
war. ·
1983 – Demolition of
the Ismaning radio
transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany. ·
1984 – William Buckley,
the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.) ·
1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is
taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on
December 4, 1991. ·
1988 – Iran–Contra affair:
Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and
Vice Admiral John Poindexter are
indicted on charges of conspiracy to
defraud the United States. ·
1988 – Halabja chemical
attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is
attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam
Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people. ·
1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades.
Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA are killed, and more than 60 others
are wounded. ·
1991 – The airplane
carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the
side of Otay Mountain. ·
1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last
state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was
officially ratified in 1865. ·
2001 – A series of bomb
blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38
others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades. ·
2003 – American
activist Rachel Corrie is
killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition
of a home by being run over by a bulldozer. ·
2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control. ·
2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to
secede from Ukraine to join
Russia. ·
2016 – A bomb detonates in
a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring
at least 54. ·
2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate
their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the
outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria,
killing 22 and injuring 18. Births[edit]
·
1399 – The Xuande Emperor, ruler of Ming China (d. 1435) ·
1445 – Johann
Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (d. 1510) ·
1465 – Kunigunde of Austria,
Archduchess of Austria (d. 1520) ·
1473 – Henry IV, Duke
of Saxony (d. 1541) ·
1559 – Amar Singh I, successor of Maharana Pratap
of Mewar (d. 1620) ·
1581 – Pieter
Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (d. 1647) ·
1585 – Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright
(d. 1618) ·
1590 – Ii Naotaka, Japanese daimyō (d. 1659) ·
1596 – Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (d. 1674) ·
1609 – Michael Franck, German baker, teacher, poet,
and composer (d. 1667) ·
1609 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter (d. 1660) ·
1621 – Georg Neumark, German poet and composer (d.
1681) ·
1631 – René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680) ·
1638 – François Crépieul,
Jesuit missionary (d. 1702) ·
1654 – Andreas Acoluthus,
German scholar (d. 1704) ·
1670 – François
de Franquetot de Coigny, French general (d. 1759) ·
1673 – Jean Bouhier,
French jurist and scholar (d. 1746) ·
1687 – Sophia
Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (d.
1757) ·
1693 – Malhar Rao Holkar,
Indian nobleman (d. 1766) ·
1701 – Daniel Lorenz
Salthenius, Swedish theologian (d. 1750) ·
1729 – Maria Louise Albertine (d. 1818) ·
1741 – Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (d. 1816) ·
1744 – Nicolas-Germain
Léonard, French poet and novelist (d. 1793) ·
1750 – Caroline Herschel,
German-English astronomer (d. 1848)[5] ·
1751 – James Madison, American academic and
politician, 4th President
of the United States (d. 1836) ·
1753 – François Amédée
Doppet, French general (d. 1799) ·
1760 – Johann Heinrich
Meyer, Swiss painter and writer (d. 1832) ·
1766 – Jean-Frédéric
Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (d.
1875) ·
1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros,
French painter (d. 1835) ·
1773 – Juan Ramón Balcarce,
Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor
of Buenos Aires Province (d. 1836) ·
1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and
cartographer (d. 1814) ·
1789 – Francis Rawdon
Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872) ·
1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and
mathematician (d. 1854) ·
1794 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and
ethnographer (d. 1881) ·
1797 – Alaric Alexander
Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864) ·
1799 – Anna Atkins, English botanist and
photographer (d. 1871) ·
1800 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (d. 1846) ·
1805 – Peter Ernst von
Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (d. 1861) ·
1806 – Félix De Vigne,
Belgian painter (d. 1862) ·
1808 – Hannah T. King, British-born American writer
and pioneer (d. 1886)[6] ·
1813 – Gaëtan de Rochebouët,
French prime minister (d. 1899) ·
1819 – José
Paranhos, Brazilian politician (d. 1880) ·
1820 – Enrico Tamberlik, Italian tenor (d. 1889) ·
1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician and
academic (d. 1881) ·
1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor
(d. 1899) ·
1822 – John Pope,
American general (d. 1892) ·
1823 – William Henry Monk,
English organist and composer (d. 1889) ·
1825 – Camilo Castelo
Branco, Portuguese writer (d. 1890) ·
1828 – Émile Deshayes
de Marcčre, French politician (d. 1918) ·
1834 – James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon
(d. 1907) ·
1836 – Andrew Smith
Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900) ·
1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and
critic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1907) ·
1839 – John Butler Yeats,
Irish painter (d. 1922) ·
1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (d.
1931) ·
1840 – Georg von der
Gabelentz, German linguist and sinologist (d. 1893) ·
1845 – Umegatani
Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928) ·
1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler,
Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927) ·
1846 – Rebecca Cole, American physician and social
reformer (d. 1922) ·
1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler
(d. 1918) ·
1848 – Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and
diplomat (d. 1932) ·
1851 – Otto Bardenhewer, German patrologist (d.
1935) ·
1851 – Martinus Beijerinck,
Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931) ·
1856 – Napoléon,
Prince Imperial of France (d. 1879) ·
1857 – Charles Harding
Firth, English historian and academic (d. 1936) ·
1859 – Alexander
Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1906) ·
1865 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball
player and manager (d. 1953) ·
1869 – Willy Burmester, German violinist (d. 1933) ·
1871 – Hans Merensky, South African geologist and
philanthropist (d. 1951) ·
1871 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and
hurdler (d. 1932) ·
1874 – Frédéric
François-Marsal, French prime minister (d. 1958) ·
1877 – Léo-Ernest Ouimet,
Canadian director and producer (d. 1972) ·
1878 – Clemens
August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (d. 1946) ·
1878 – Paul Jouve, French painter (d. 1973) ·
1881 – Fannie Charles
Dillon, American composer (d. 1947) ·
1882 – James Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953) ·
1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and
painter (d. 1958) ·
1884 – Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and
author (d. 1960) ·
1885 – Giacomo Benvenuti,
Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943) ·
1885 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor (d. 1965) ·
1886 – Herbert Lindström,
Swedish tug of war player (d. 1951) ·
1887 – Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner (d. 1925) ·
1887 – S. Stillman Berry,
American marine zoologist (1984) ·
1889 – Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d.
1951) ·
1892 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, playwright,
and journalist (d. 1938) ·
1895 – Ernest Labrousse, French historian (d. 1988) ·
1897 – Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (d. 1963) ·
1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970) ·
1900 – Cyril Hume, American novelist (d. 1966) ·
1900 – Mencha Karnicheva,
Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964) [7] ·
1901 – Alexis Chantraine,
Belgian footballer (d. 1987) ·
1903 – Mike Mansfield, American politician and
diplomat, 22nd United
States Ambassador to Japan (d. 2001) ·
1906 – Francisco
Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (d. 2009) ·
1906 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer
and rugby player (d. 1944) ·
1906 – Henny Youngman, English-American violinist
and comedian (d. 1998) ·
1908 – René Daumal, French author and poet (d.
1944) ·
1908 – Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (d.
1986) ·
1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1966) ·
1910 – Aladár Gerevich,
Hungarian fencer (d. 1991) ·
1910 – Iftikhar Ali
Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi (d. 1952) ·
1911 – Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and
politician, 40th Prime Minister
of Belgium (d. 2009) ·
1911 – Josef Mengele, German physician and captain
(d. 1979) ·
1911 – Philip Pavia, American painter and sculptor
(d.2005) ·
1912 – Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States
(d. 1993) ·
1913 – Rémy Raffalli, French soldier (d. 1952) ·
1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and
academic (d. 1997) ·
1916 – Mercedes McCambridge,
American actress (d. 2004) ·
1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi,
Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010) ·
1917 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2002) ·
1917 – Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist
(d. 2017)[8] ·
1917 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (d.
2018) ·
1918 – Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (d. 1999) ·
1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1998) ·
1920 – John Addison, English-American soldier and
composer (d. 1998) ·
1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author and
screenwriter (d. 2010) ·
1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary (d. 2002) ·
1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d.
2002) ·
1922 – Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and
playwright (d. 2018) ·
1923 – Heinz Wallberg, German conductor (d. 2004) ·
1925 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress
and singer (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and
choreographer (d. 2014) ·
1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player
and referee (d. 2012) ·
1925 – Luis E. Miramontes,
Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004) ·
1926 – Charles Goodell, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1987) ·
1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (d.
2017) ·
1927 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer,
and astronaut (d. 1967) ·
1927 – Daniel Patrick
Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d.
2003) ·
1927 – Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer
(d. 2009) ·
1928 – Wakanohana Kanji I,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (d. 2010) ·
1928 – Christa Ludwig, German soprano and actress ·
1929 – Betty Johnson, American singer ·
1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist
and academic (d. 2015) ·
1929 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress ·
1930 – Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and
composer (d. 2001) ·
1930 – Minoru Miki, Japanese composer (d. 2011) ·
1931 – Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director,
writer and politician (d. 2009) ·
1931 – Alan Heyman, American-South Korean
musicologist and composer (d. 2014) ·
1931 – Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and
academic ·
1931 – John
Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian
Minister of Labour (d. 2003) ·
1932 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player and
manager (d. 2005) ·
1932 – Walter Cunningham,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut ·
1932 – Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and
author ·
1932 – Herbert Marx,
Canadian politician (d. 2020) ·
1933 – Keith Critchlow, English architect and
academic, co-founded Temenos Academy ·
1933 – Sanford I. Weill, American banker,
financier, and philanthropist ·
1934 – Jean Cournoyer, Canadian politician ·
1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 24th Governor
General of Canada (d. 2002) ·
1934 – Roger Norrington, English violinist and
conductor ·
1935 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress ·
1935 – Pepe Cáceres, Colombian bullfighter (d.
1987) ·
1936 – Raymond Vahan
Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI ·
1936 – Fred Neil, American folk singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2001) ·
1937 – David Frith, English historian, journalist,
and author ·
1937 – Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (d. 2017) ·
1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist
and academic (d. 1996) ·
1938 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and
manager ·
1939 – Yvon Côté, Canadian teacher ·
1940 – Bernardo Bertolucci,
Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2018) ·
1940 – Vagif Mustafazadeh,
Azerbaijani pianist and composer (d. 1979) ·
1940 – Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and
politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the
Environment ·
1940 – Keith Rowe, English guitarist ·
1941 – Robert Guéď, Ivorian soldier and politician,
3rd President
of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002) ·
1941 – Chuck Woolery, American game show host and
television personality ·
1942 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey
player and coach (d. 1996) ·
1942 – Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver ·
1942 – Jean-Pierre
Schosteck, French politician ·
1942 – James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese
politician, Governor of
Taiwan Province ·
1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1943 – Ursula Goodenough,
American biologist, zoologist, and author ·
1943 – Hans Heyer, German racing driver ·
1943 – Álvaro de Soto,
Peruvian diplomat ·
1944 – Andrew S. Tanenbaum,
American computer scientist and academic ·
1946 – Sigmund Groven, Norwegian harmonica player
and composer ·
1946 – Mary Kaldor, English economist and academic ·
1946 – J. Z. Knight, American New Age teacher and
author ·
1946 – Guesch Patti, French singer ·
1948 – Michael Owen Bruce,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1948 – Richard Desjardins,
Canadian singer-songwriter and director ·
1948 – Catherine Quéré,
French politician ·
1949 – Erik Estrada, American actor ·
1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer ·
1949 – Elliott Murphy, American-French
singer-songwriter and journalist ·
1950 – Peter Forster, English bishop ·
1950 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress ·
1950 – Edhem Šljivo, Bosnian footballer ·
1951 – Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1951 – Abdelmajid Bourebbou,
Algerian footballer ·
1951 – Oddvar Brĺ, Norwegian skier ·
1951 – Joe DeLamielleure,
American football player ·
1951 – Alexandre Gonzalez,
French long-distance runner ·
1953 – Claus Peter Flor, German conductor ·
1953 – Isabelle Huppert, French actress ·
1953 – Rainer Knaak, German chess player ·
1953 – Richard Stallman, American computer
scientist and programmer ·
1954 – David Heath,
English politician ·
1954 – Colin Ireland, English serial killer (d.
2012) ·
1954 – Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1954 – Tim O'Brien,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1954 – Dav Whatmore, Sri Lankan-Australian
cricketer and coach ·
1954 – Nancy Wilson,
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress ·
1955 – Svetlana Alexeeva,
Russian ice dancer and coach ·
1955 – Rimantas Astrauskas,
Lithuanian physicist ·
1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1955 – Linda Lepomme, Belgian actress and singer ·
1955 – Bob Ley, American sports anchor and reporter ·
1955 – Andy Scott,
Canadian politician (d. 2013) ·
1955 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer ·
1956 – Ozzie Newsome, American football player and
manager ·
1956 – Clifton Powell, American actor, director,
and producer ·
1956 – Yoriko Shono, Japanese writer ·
1956 – Eveline
Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss lawyer and politician ·
1958 – Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist and
composer ·
1958 – Kate Worley, American author (d. 2004) ·
1958 – Jorge Ramos,
Mexican-American journalist and author[9] ·
1959 – Michael J.
Bloomfield, American astronaut ·
1959 – Sebastian Currier,
American composer and educator ·
1959 – Greg Dyer, Australian cricketer ·
1959 – Flavor Flav, American rapper and actor ·
1959 – Charles Hudson,
American baseball player ·
1959 – Steve Marker, American musician ·
1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and
politician, 27th Prime Minister
of Norway, 13th Secretary
General of NATO ·
1960 – John Hemming,
English businessman and politician[10] ·
1960 – Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1960 – Jenny Eclair, English comedian, actress and
screenwriter ·
1961 – Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player
and coach ·
1961 – Todd McFarlane, Canadian author,
illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys ·
1962 – Franck Fréon, French race car driver ·
1962 – Liliane Gaschet, French athlete ·
1963 – Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer ·
1963 – Kevin
Smith, New Zealand actor and singer (d. 2002) ·
1964 – Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter ·
1964 – Jaclyn Jose, Filipino actress ·
1964 – Pascal Richard, Swiss racing cyclist ·
1964 – Gore Verbinski, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1965 – Steve Armstrong, American wrestler ·
1965 – Cindy Brown,
American basketball player ·
1965 – Mark Carney, Canadian-English economist and
banker ·
1965 – Cristiana Reali, Italian-Brazilian actress ·
1966 – Chrissy Redden, Canadian cross-country
cyclist[11] ·
1967 – Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist ·
1967 – John Darnielle, American musician and
novelist ·
1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress and producer ·
1967 – Ronnie McCoury, American bluegrass mandolin
player, singer and songwriter ·
1967 – Heidi Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier ·
1968 – Trevor Wilson,
American basketball player and police officer ·
1969 – Judah Friedlander,
American comedian and actor ·
1969 – Ottis Gibson, Barbadian cricketer and coach ·
1969 – Alina Ivanova, Russian athlete ·
1969 – Evangelos Koronios,
Greek basketball player and coach ·
1970 – Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1971 – Franck Comba, French rugby player ·
1971 – Alan Tudyk, American actor ·
1972 – Ismaďl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance
runner ·
1973 – Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle
racer ·
1973 – Vonda Ward, American boxer ·
1974 – Georgios Anatolakis,
Greek footballer and politician ·
1974 – Anne Charrier, French actress ·
1974 – Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1975 – Luciano Castro, Argentine actor ·
1975 – Sienna Guillory, English model and actress ·
1975 – Lionel Torres, French archer ·
1976 – Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1976 – Leila Lejeune, French handballer ·
1976 – Susanne Ljungskog,
Swedish cyclist ·
1976 – Abraham Núńez,
Dominican baseball player ·
1976 – Zhu Chen, Qatari chess Grandmaster ·
1977 – Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer ·
1977 – Thomas Rupprath, German swimmer ·
1978 – Brooke Burns, American fashion model and
actress ·
1978 – Annett Renneberg, German actress and singer ·
1979 – Christina Liebherr,
Swiss equestrian ·
1979 – Rashad Moore, American football player ·
1979 – Sébastien Ostertag,
French handball player ·
1979 – Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1979 – Andrei
Stepanov, Estonian footballer ·
1980 – Todd Heap, American football player ·
1980 – Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player ·
1981 – Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer ·
1981 – Curtis Granderson,
American baseball player ·
1981 – Julien Mazet, French road bicycle racer ·
1981 – Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter ·
1982 – Miguel Comminges, Guadeloupean footballer ·
1982 – Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1982 – Jesús Del Nero,
Spanish road bicycle racer ·
1982 – Brian Wilson,
American baseball player ·
1983 – Stephen Drew, American baseball player ·
1983 – Brandon League, American baseball player ·
1983 – Nicolas Rousseau, French road bicycle racer ·
1983 – Tramon Williams, American football player ·
1984 – Levi Brown,
American football player ·
1984 – Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress ·
1984 – Sharon Cherop, Kenyan long-distance runner ·
1984 – Michael Ennis, Australian rugby player ·
1984 – Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player ·
1984 – Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Teddy Atine-Venel,
French athlete ·
1985 – Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter ·
1985 – Aleksei Sokirskiy,
Russian hammer thrower ·
1986 – Alexandra Daddario,
American actress ·
1986 – Toney Douglas, American basketball player ·
1986 – Kenny Dykstra, American wrestler ·
1986 – T. J. Jordan, American basketball player ·
1986 – Boaz Solossa, Indonesian footballer ·
1986 – Daisuke Takahashi,
Japanese figure skater ·
1987 – Fabien Lemoine, French football player ·
1988 – Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater ·
1988 – Patrick
Herrmann, German footballer ·
1989 – Blake Griffin, American basketball player ·
1989 – Jung So-min, South Korean actress ·
1989 – Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist ·
1989 – Theo Walcott, English footballer ·
1990 – Andre Young,
American basketball player ·
1991 – Reggie Bullock, American basketball player ·
1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen,
American bassist ·
1993 – George Ford,
English rugby union player ·
1993 – Marine Lorphelin, Miss France ·
1994 – Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player ·
1995 – Inga
Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater ·
1997 – Florian Neuhaus, German football player Deaths[edit]
·
AD 37 – Tiberius, Roman emperor (b. 42 BC)[12] ·
455 – Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated;[13] b. 419) ·
455 – Heraclius,
Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi ) ·
842 – Xiao Mian, chancellor
of the Tang Dynasty ·
933 – Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and
politician, Abbasid
Governor of Egypt ·
943 – Pi Guangye, Chinese official and chancellor
(b. 877) ·
1021 – Heribert of Cologne,
German archbishop and saint (b. 970) ·
1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg,
German archbishop (b. 1000) ·
1181 – Henry I,
Count of Champagne ·
1185 – Baldwin IV of
Jerusalem (b. 1161) ·
1279 – Jeanne of
Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216) ·
1322 – Humphrey
de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and
politician, Lord High
Constable of England (b. 1276) ·
1405 – Margaret
III, Countess of Flanders (b. 1350) ·
1410 – John
Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and
politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1373)[14] ·
1457 – Ladislaus Hunyadi,
Hungarian politician (b. 1433) ·
1485 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of
England (b. 1456) ·
1559 – Anthony
St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of
Ireland (b. 1496) ·
1649 – Jean de Brébeuf,
French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593) ·
1679 – John Leverett, English general and
politician, 19th Governor
of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616) ·
1721 – James Craggs the
Elder, English politician, Postmaster
General of the United Kingdom (b. 1657) ·
1736 – Giovanni
Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710) ·
1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth,
American minister and academic (b. 1670) ·
1738 – George Bähr, German architect, designed
the Dresden Frauenkirche (b.
1666) ·
1747 – Christian
August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690) ·
1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch,
American captain and mathematician (b. 1773) ·
1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and
psychologist (d. 1791) ·
1868 – David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor
of Wilmot Proviso (b.
1814) ·
1884 – Art Croft, American baseball player (b.
1855) ·
1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b.
1801) ·
1892 – Samuel
F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827) ·
1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and
illustrator (b. 1872) ·
1899 – Joseph Medill, American journalist and
politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b.
1823) ·
1903 – Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b.
1825) ·
1907 – John O'Leary,
Irish politician (b. 1830) ·
1912 – Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b.
1854) ·
1914 – Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858) ·
1914 – Charles Albert Gobat,
Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1843) ·
1914 – John Murray,
Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841) ·
1925 – August von
Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866) ·
1930 – Miguel Primo de
Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1870) ·
1935 – John James
Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1876) ·
1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess
player (b. 1886) ·
1936 – Marguerite Durand,
French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864) ·
1937 – Alexander
von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877) ·
1940 – Selma Lagerlöf,
Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1858)[15] ·
1945 – Börries von
Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874) ·
1955 – Nicolas de Staël,
French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914) ·
1957 – Constantin
Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer
(b. 1876) ·
1958 – Leon Cadore, American baseball player (b.
1891) ·
1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician
(b. 1903) ·
1961 – Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor
(b. 1883) ·
1963 – Laura Adams Armer,
American author and photographer (b. 1874) ·
1965 – Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882) ·
1967 – Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893) ·
1968 – Mario
Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b.
1895) ·
1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator
(b. 1907) ·
1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945) ·
1971 – Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901) ·
1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and
politician, 47th Governor of New York (b.
1902) ·
1972 – Pie Traynor, American baseball player (b.
1898) ·
1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1910) ·
1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and
politician (b. 1917) ·
1979 – Jean Monnet, French economist and politician
(b. 1888) ·
1980 – Tamara de Lempicka,
Polish-American painter (b. 1898) ·
1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and
television host (b. 1903) ·
1983 – Fred Rose,
Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907) ·
1985 – Roger Sessions, American composer, critic,
and educator (b. 1896) ·
1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey
player (b. 1902) ·
1988 – Jigger Statz, American baseball player
(b.1897) ·
1988 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver
(b. 1928) ·
1990 – Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and
conductor (b. 1898) ·
1991 – Chris Austin, American country singer (b
.1964) ·
1991 – Jean Bellette, Australian artist (b. 1908) ·
1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer
(b. 1903) ·
1994 – Eric Show, American baseball player (b.
1956) ·
1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1918) ·
1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (b.
1921) ·
1999 – Gratien Gélinas,
Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909) ·
2000 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot
(b. 1918) ·
2000 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author
(b. 1911) ·
2000 – Michael Starr,
Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian
Minister of Labour (b. 1910) ·
2000 – Carlos
Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (b. 1948) ·
2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943) ·
2003 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979) ·
2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo
player, and manager (b. 1931) ·
2004 – Vilém Tauský,
Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910) ·
2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b.
1958) ·
2005 – Ralph Erskine,
English architect, designed The London Ark (b. 1914) ·
2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b.
1937) ·
2007 – Manjural Islam Rana,
Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984) ·
2008 – Bill Brown,
Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1912) ·
2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and
producer (b. 1931) ·
2008 – Gary Hart,
American wrestler and manager (b. 1942) ·
2010 – Ksenija Pajčin,
Serbian singer, dancer and model (b. 1977) ·
2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader
(b. 1931) ·
2012 – Donald E. Hillman,
American colonel and pilot (b. 1918) ·
2012 – Takaaki Yoshimoto,
Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam,
Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939) ·
2013 – José Alfredo
Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister
of Economy of Argentina (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (b. 1986) ·
2013 – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and
author (b. 1914) ·
2013 – Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic
and politician (b. 1952) ·
2013 – Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921) ·
2014 – Gary Bettenhausen,
American race car driver (b. 1941) ·
2014 – Donald Crothers, American chemist and
academic (b. 1937) ·
2014 – Yulisa Pat Amadu
Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936) ·
2014 – Steve Moore,
English author and illustrator (b. 1949) ·
2014 – Alexander Pochinok,
Russian economist and politician (b. 1958) ·
2015 – Jack Haley,
American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1964) ·
2015 – Don Robertson,
American pianist and composer (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Alexander
Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924) ·
2016 – Frank Sinatra Jr.,
American singer and actor (b. 1944) ·
2017 – Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (b.
1925) ·
2018 – Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House
of Representatives from New York (b. 1929) ·
2019 – Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist,
singer, and songwriter (b. 1937) [16] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Abbán o Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper) o March
16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of the Book
Smugglers (Lithuania) ·
Remembrance
day of the Latvian legionnaires (Latvia) ·
Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians) ·
Austin 3:16 Day
(Not official, but leisure day) |
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