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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
288 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
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. ·
1241 – First
Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies
in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and
plunder the city. ·
1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand
Master of the Knights Templar,
is burned at the stake. ·
1438 – Albert II of
Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ·
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor
of Ethiopia. ·
1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan
War begins in the Colony of Virginia. ·
1741 – New York
governor George Clarke's
complex at Fort George is
burned in an arson attack, starting the New York
Conspiracy of 1741. ·
1766 – American Revolution:
The British Parliament repeals
the Stamp Act. ·
1793 – The first
modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz,
is declared by Andreas Joseph
Hofmann. ·
1793 – Flanders Campaign of
the French Revolution, Battle of
Neerwinden. ·
1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be
transported to Australia for forming a trade union. ·
1848 – March
Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and
military, costing about 300 lives. ·
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. ·
1865 – American Civil War:
The Congress
of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. ·
1871 – Declaration of
the Paris Commune;
President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of
Paris. ·
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United
States granting exclusive trade rights. ·
1892 – Former Governor
General Lord
Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for
the best hockey team in
Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup. ·
1900 – AFC Ajax Amsterdam,
The Netherlands's biggest and most successful football club, was founded. ·
1902 – Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order
No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic.[1] ·
1913 – King George I of Greece is
assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. ·
1915 – World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli,
three battleships are
sunk during a failed British and French naval
attack on the Dardanelles. ·
1921 – The
second Peace of Riga is
signed between Poland and the Soviet Union. ·
1921 – The Kronstadt rebellion is
suppressed by the Red Army.[2] ·
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six
years in prison for civil disobedience,
of which he serves only two. ·
1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits
the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. ·
1937 – The New London
School explosion in New London, Texas,
kills 300 people, mostly children. ·
1937 – Spanish Civil War:
Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of
Guadalajara. ·
1938 – Mexico
creates Pemex by expropriating all
foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities. ·
1940 – World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and
agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. ·
1942 – The War Relocation
Authority is established in the United States to take
Japanese Americans into custody. ·
1944 – Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts, killing
26 people, causing thousands to flee their homes, and destroying dozens of
Allied bombers. ·
1948 – Soviet
consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split. ·
1953 – An earthquake hits
western Turkey, killing 265 people. ·
1959 – The Hawaii Admission Act is
signed into law. ·
1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War
of Independence, which had begun in 1954. ·
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the
first person to walk in space. ·
1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the
Cornish coast. ·
1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals
the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. ·
1969 – The United
States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to
infiltrate South Vietnam. ·
1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. ·
1971 – Peru:
a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the
mining camp of Chungar. ·
1980 – A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk
Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes
during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. ·
1990 – Germans in
the German
Democratic Republic vote in the first
democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. ·
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings,
collectively worth around $500 million, are
stolen from the Isabella
Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston.[3] ·
1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement,
ending war between the Croatian
Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic
of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation
of Bosnia and Herzegovina. ·
1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. ·
1997 – The tail of a
Russian Antonov An-24 charter
plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the
plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. ·
2014 – The parliaments
of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. ·
2015 – The Bardo
National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by
gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other
people are wounded. Births[edit]
·
1075 – Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and
theologian (d. 1144) ·
1395 – John
Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military commander (d. 1447)[4] ·
1495 – Mary Tudor,
Queen of France (d. 1533)[5] ·
1548 – Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616) ·
1552 – Polykarp Leyser
the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610) ·
1555 – Francis, Duke of
Anjou (d. 1584) ·
1578 – Adam Elsheimer, German painter (d. 1610) ·
1590 – Manuel de Faria e
Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) ·
1597 – Jérôme
le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded
the Société
Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659) ·
1603 – Simon Bradstreet, English colonial
magistrate (d. 1697) ·
1609 – Frederick III of
Denmark (d. 1670) ·
1634 – Madame de La Fayette,
French author (d. 1693) ·
1640 – Philippe de La Hire,
French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719) ·
1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio
Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743) ·
1690 – Christian Goldbach,
Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764) ·
1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and
philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East
India Company (d. 1776) ·
1733 – Christoph
Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811) ·
1780 – Miloš Obrenović,
Serbian prince (d. 1860) ·
1782 – John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and
politician, 7th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1850) ·
1789 – Charlotte Elliott,
English poet, hymn writer, editor (d. 1871)[6] ·
1798 – Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and
philosopher (d. 1872) ·
1800 – Harriet Smithson, Irish actress, the first
wife and muse of Hector Berlioz (d.
1854) ·
1813 – Christian
Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864) ·
1814 – Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897) ·
1819 – James McCulloch, Scottish-Australian
politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d.
1893)[7] ·
1820 – John Plankinton, American businessman and
industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (d. 1891)[8] ·
1823 – Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883) ·
1828 – Randal Cremer, English activist and
politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1908) ·
1837 – Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and
politician, 22nd and 24th President
of the United States (d. 1908) ·
1840 – William Cosmo
Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901) ·
1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé,
French poet and critic (d. 1898) ·
1844 – Nikolai
Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908) ·
1846 – Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader
(d. 1904) ·
1848 – Nathanael
Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (d. 1938) ·
1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented
the Diesel engine (d.
1913) ·
1862 – Eugène Jansson,
Swedish painter (d. 1915) ·
1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and
politician, 39th Governor of New York (d.
1941) ·
1869 – Neville Chamberlain,
English businessman and politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940) ·
1870 – Agnes Sime Baxter,
Canadian mathematician (d. 1917) ·
1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian-French philosopher
and theologian (d. 1948) ·
1877 – Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d.
1945) ·
1877 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer
(d. 1945) ·
1878 – Percival
Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (d. 1956) ·
1882 – Gian Francesco
Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973) ·
1884 – Bernard Cronin, English-Australian
journalist and author (d. 1968) ·
1886 – Edward Everett
Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970) ·
1890 – Henri Decoin, French director and
screenwriter (d. 1969) ·
1893 – Costante Girardengo,
Italian cyclist (d. 1978) ·
1893 – Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d. 1918) ·
1901 – Manly Palmer Hall,
Canadian mystic, author and philosopher (d. 1990) ·
1901 – William Johnson,
American painter (d. 1970) ·
1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and
politician, Italian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944) ·
1903 – E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist (d. 1944) ·
1904 – Srečko Kosovel,
Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926) ·
1904 – Margaret Tucker, Australian author and
activist (d. 1996) ·
1905 – Thomas Townsend
Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985) ·
1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958) ·
1907 – John Zachary Young,
English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997) ·
1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995) ·
1909 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman,
co-founded the E & J Gallo
Winery (d. 2007) ·
1909 – C. Walter Hodges, English author and
illustrator (d. 2004) ·
1911 – Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter
and actor (d. 1967) ·
1912 – Art Gilmore, American voice actor and
announcer (d. 2010) ·
1913 – René Clément,
French director and screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1913 – Werner Mölders,
German colonel and pilot (d. 1941) ·
1915 – Richard Condon, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1922 – Egon Bahr, German journalist and
politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d.
2015) ·
1922 – Seymour Martin
Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006) ·
1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth,
American activist, co-founded the Southern
Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011) ·
1923 – Andy Granatelli, American race car driver
and businessman (d. 2013) ·
1925 – Alessandro
Alessandroni, Italian musician (d. 2017) ·
1925 – James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer,
and judge (d. 2010) ·
1926 – Peter Graves, American actor and director
(d. 2010) ·
1927 – John Kander, American pianist and composer ·
1927 – George Plimpton, American journalist and
actor (d. 2003) ·
1927 – Lillian
Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded
the Lillian Vernon
Company (d. 2015) ·
1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and
politician, 12th President of
the Philippines ·
1929 – Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and
author (d. 2015) ·
1930 – James J.
Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998) ·
1931 – John Fraser,
Scottish actor ·
1932 – John Updike, American novelist, short story
writer, and critic (d. 2009) ·
1933 – Unita Blackwell, American civil rights
activist and politician (d. 2019) ·
1934 – Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager
(d. 1983) ·
1934 – Charley Pride, American country music singer
and musician ·
1935 – Ole
Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician ·
1935 – Frances Cress
Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016) ·
1936 – F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and
politician, 2nd State
President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster
(d. 2016) ·
1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d.
1975) ·
1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter ·
1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer (d.
2017) ·
1938 – Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 2019) ·
1938 – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver (d.
2017) ·
1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006) ·
1939 – Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager ·
1939 – Jean-Pierre Wallez,
French violinist and conductor ·
1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter
(d. 2006) ·
1942 – Kathleen Collins, African-American filmmaker
and playwright (d. 1988) ·
1943 – Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d.
2006) ·
1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak,
Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation
Minister of Israel (d. 2012) ·
1944 – Frank McRae, American football player and
actor ·
1944 – Dick Smith,
Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith
Electronics and Australian
Geographic ·
1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer ·
1945 – Michael Reagan, American journalist and
radio host ·
1945 – Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012) ·
1945 – Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter,
pianist, and producer (d. 2009) ·
1946 – Michel Leclère,
French race car driver ·
1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright ·
1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director,
and screenwriter ·
1947 – David Lloyd,
English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster ·
1947 – B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (d. 1990) ·
1948 – Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer ·
1948 – Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2005) ·
1949 – Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and
politician, Norwegian
Minister of Culture ·
1950 – James Conlon, American conductor and
educator ·
1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor ·
1950 – Linda Partridge, English geneticist and
academic ·
1950 – Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver ·
1951 – Paul Barber,
English actor ·
1951 – Ben Cohen,
American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's ·
1951 – Bill Frisell, American guitarist and
composer ·
1951 – Timothy N. Philpot,
American lawyer, author, and judge ·
1952 – Will Durst, American journalist and actor ·
1952 – Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (d.
2015) ·
1952 – Bernie Tormé, Irish singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2019) ·
1952 – Mike Webster, American football player (d.
2002) ·
1953 – Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and
translator (d. 2015) ·
1953 – Takashi Yoshimatsu,
Japanese composer ·
1955 – Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and
politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis ·
1955 – Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game
show host ·
1956 – Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler ·
1956 – Deborah Jeane
Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008) ·
1956 – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier ·
1957 – Christer Fuglesang,
Swedish physicist and astronaut ·
1958 – Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and
author (d. 1990) ·
1959 – Luc Besson, French director, producer, and
screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp ·
1960 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004) ·
1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach ·
1960 – James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player ·
1961 – Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2017) ·
1962 – Michael
Andrews, Australian rugby league player ·
1962 – Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter,
actress, and producer ·
1962 – Brian Fisher,
American baseball player ·
1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith,
American actor and martial artist ·
1962 – James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor ·
1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and
director ·
1962 – Volker Weidler, German race car driver and
engineer ·
1963 – Jeff LaBar, American guitarist ·
1963 – Vanessa L. Williams,
American model, actress, and singer ·
1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater ·
1964 – Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver ·
1964 – Jo Churchill, British politician ·
1964 – Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and
clarinet player ·
1964 – Isabel Noronha, Mozambican film director[9] ·
1966 – Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1966 – Peter Jones,
English businessman ·
1966 – Brian Watts, Canadian golfer ·
1967 – Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1968 – Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Temur Ketsbaia, Georgian footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Paul Marsden, English businessman and
politician ·
1969 – Andy Cutting, English accordion player and
composer ·
1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player ·
1969 – Shaun Udal, English cricketer ·
1970 – Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer,
and actress ·
1971 – Wayne Arthurs,
Australian tennis player ·
1971 – Mike Bell,
American wrestler (d. 2008) ·
1971 – Mariaan de Swardt,
South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1971 – Kitty Ussher, English economist and
politician ·
1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian, actor,
director, and producer ·
1972 – Reince Priebus, American lawyer and
politician ·
1973 – Luci Christian, American voice actress and
screenwriter ·
1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player,
coach, and sportscaster ·
1974 – Stuart Zender, English bass player,
songwriter, and producer ·
1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and
dancer ·
1975 – Brian Griese, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player ·
1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas,
Lithuanian footballer ·
1976 – Giovanna Antonelli,
Brazilian actress and producer ·
1976 – Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player ·
1976 – Scott Podsednik, American baseball player ·
1976 – Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler,
trainer, and author, founded Chikara
wrestling promotion ·
1977 – Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player ·
1977 – Danny
Murphy, English international footballer, midfielder and
sportscaster[10] ·
1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball
player ·
1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager ·
1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and
coach ·
1978 – Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager
(d. 2014) ·
1978 – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer ·
1978 – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball
player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt,
Swedish footballer, coach, and manager ·
1979 – Adam Levine, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and television personality ·
1980 – Sébastien Frey,
French footballer ·
1980 – Sophia Myles, English actress ·
1980 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater ·
1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete ·
1981 – Fabian Cancellara,
Swiss cyclist ·
1981 – Leslie Djhone, French sprinter ·
1981 – Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress ·
1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player ·
1981 – Tom Starke, German footballer ·
1981 – Doug Warren, American soccer player ·
1981 – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player ·
1982 – Mantorras, Angolan footballer ·
1982 – Chad Cordero, American baseball player ·
1982 – Timo Glock, German race car driver ·
1982 – Adam Pally, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1983 – Ethan Carter III, American wrestler ·
1983 – Stéphanie
Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player ·
1983 – Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player ·
1983 – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer ·
1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer ·
1984 – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player[11] ·
1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress ·
1985 – Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver ·
1985 – Marvin Humes, English singer ·
1985 – Vince Lia, Australian footballer ·
1986 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter ·
1986 – Abdennour
Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer ·
1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer ·
1989 – Francesco Checcucci,
Italian footballer ·
1989 – Lily Collins, English-American actress ·
1989 – Shreevats Goswami,
Indian cricketer ·
1989 – Kana Nishino, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1989 – Paul Marc Rousseau,
Canadian guitarist and producer ·
1989 – Ming Xi, Chinese model ·
1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1991 – Sam Williams,
Australian rugby league player ·
1992 – Ryan Truex, American race car driver ·
1992 – Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and
model ·
1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress ·
1997 – Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player Deaths[edit]
·
978 – Edward the Martyr,
English king (b. 962) ·
1076 – Ermengarde
of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1018) ·
1086 – Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036) ·
1227 – Pope Honorius III (b.
1148) ·
1272 – John
FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246) ·
1314 – Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244) ·
1314 – Geoffroy de Charney,
Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar ·
1321 – Matthew III Csák,
Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5) ·
1582 – Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b.
1562) ·
1675 – Arthur
Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606) ·
1689 – John Dixwell, English soldier and politician
(b. 1607) ·
1745 – Robert Walpole, English scholar and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676) ·
1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and
clergyman (b. 1713) ·
1781 – Anne Robert
Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General
of Finances (b. 1727) ·
1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval,
French cellist and composer (b. 1753) ·
1835 – Christian
Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat
(b. 1769) ·
1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and
missionary (b. 1774) ·
1871 – Augustus De Morgan,
Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) ·
1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage,
American author and activist (b. 1826) ·
1900 – Hjalmar Kiærskou,
Danish botanist (b. 1835) ·
1907 – Marcellin Berthelot,
French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b.
1827) ·
1913 – George I of Greece (b.
1845) ·
1918 – Henry Janeway
Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847) ·
1930 – Jean Leon Gerome
Ferris, American painter (b. 1863)[12] ·
1936 – Eleftherios
Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister
of Greece (b. 1864) ·
1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn,
English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859) ·
1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884) ·
1947 – William C. Durant,
American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861) ·
1954 – Walter Mead,
English cricketer (b. 1868) ·
1956 – Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist
and author (b. 1896) ·
1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and
politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b.
1880) ·
1964 – Sigfrid Edström,
Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b.
1870) ·
1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920) ·
1973 – Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and
poet (b. 1880) ·
1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President
of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938) ·
1977 – Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b.
1944) ·
1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author and
screenwriter (b. 1915) ·
1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892) ·
1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and
philosopher (b. 1900) ·
1982 – Patrick Smith,
Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b.
1901) ·
1983 – Umberto II of Italy (b.
1904) ·
1984 – Charley Lau, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1933) ·
1986 – Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short
story writer (b. 1914) ·
1988 – Billy Butterfield,
American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917) ·
1990 – Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953) ·
1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding,
English-American economist and activist (b. 1910) ·
1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and
critic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1911) ·
2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and
academic (b. 1909) ·
2001 – John Phillips,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas &
the Papas) (b. 1935) ·
2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author
(b. 1914) ·
2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910) ·
2003 – Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and
businessman, founded the Osborne
Computer Corporation (b. 1939) ·
2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman,
co-founded McCain Foods (b.
1927) ·
2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and
cinematographer (b. 1922) ·
2007 – Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer,
coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948) ·
2008 – Anthony Minghella,
English director and screenwriter (b. 1954) ·
2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi,
Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980) ·
2009 – Natasha Richardson,
English-American actress (b. 1963) ·
2010 – Fess Parker, American actor and businessman
(b. 1924) ·
2011 – Warren Christopher,
American lawyer and politician, 63rd United
States Secretary of State (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Furman Bisher, American journalist and
author (b. 1918) ·
2012 – William R. Charette,
American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1932) ·
2012 – William G. Moore Jr.,
American general (b. 1920) ·
2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948) ·
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood
Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935) ·
2013 – Henry Bromell, American novelist,
screenwriter, and director (b. 1947) ·
2013 – Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician
(b. 1938) ·
2014 – Catherine
Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b.
1951) ·
2014 – Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach,
and manager (b. 1953) ·
2014 – Lucius Shepard, American author and critic
(b. 1943) ·
2015 – Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager
(b. 1961) ·
2015 – Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian
(b. 1939) ·
2015 – Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and
politician (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter
(b. 1939) ·
2016 – Jan Němec, Czech director and
screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
2016 – Tray Walker, American football player (b.
1992) ·
2016 – Guido Westerwelle,
German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1961) ·
2017 – Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and
songwriter (b. 1926) ·
2020 – Alfred Worden, Apollo 15 command module
pilot (b. 1932)[13] Holidays and observances[edit]
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Anniversary of
the Oil Expropriation (Mexico) ·
Christian feast day: o Salvator o March
18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest date on which Holy Wednesday can fall, while April 21
is the latest; celebrated on the week before Easter. (Christianity) ·
Gallipoli Memorial
Day (Turkey) ·
Men's and
Soldiers' Day (Mongolia) ·
Ordnance
Factories' Day (India) ·
Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia) ·
Teacher's Day (Syria) |
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