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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 19 is the 78th day of the year (79th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
287 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian
treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and
renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.[1] ·
1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China. ·
1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates
the Principality of
Wales into England.[2] ·
1563 – The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the
first phase of the French Wars of
Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots. ·
1649 – The House of
Commons of England passes an act abolishing
the House of Lords,
declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of
England". ·
1687 – Explorer Robert
Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River,
is murdered by his own men. ·
1812 – The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates
the Spanish
Constitution of 1812. ·
1853 – The Taiping reform movement occupies
and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864. ·
1861 – The First Taranaki War ends
in New Zealand. ·
1863 – The SS Georgiana, said to have been
the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of
munitions, medicines, and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000. ·
1865 – American Civil War:
The Battle of
Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later,
Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks,
North Carolina. ·
1885 – Louis Riel declares a provisional
government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion. ·
1895 – Auguste and
Louis Lumière record their first footage using their newly
patented cinematograph. ·
1918 – The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time. ·
1920 – The United States Senate rejects
the Treaty of Versailles for
the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919). ·
1921 – Irish War of
Independence: One of the biggest engagements of
the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish
Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over
1,300 British forces to encircle them. ·
1931 – Gambling is legalized in Nevada. ·
1932 – The Sydney Harbour
Bridge is opened. ·
1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago
Central Railyard. ·
1944 – World War II: The German army occupies Hungary. ·
1945 – World War II:
Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin,
killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US
under her own power. ·
1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries,
military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications
facilities in Germany to
be destroyed. ·
1946 – French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of
France. ·
1954 – Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory
in round seven at Madison
Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour. ·
1954 – Willie Mosconi sets a world record by
running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool
exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio,
setting a record that remains unbroken. ·
1958 – The Monarch
Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured. ·
1962 – Highly
influential artist Bob Dylan releases
his first album, Bob Dylan,
for Columbia Records. ·
1962 – The Algerian War
of Independence ends. ·
1964 – Over 500,000
Brazilians attend the March
of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the
government of João Goulart and
against communism. ·
1965 – The wreck of
the SS Georgiana,
valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and
pioneer underwater
archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its
destruction. ·
1966 – 1965–66 Texas Western Miners men's basketball team wins
the NCAA
Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. ·
1969 – The
385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley
Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice
build-up. ·
1979 – The United
States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its
day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN. ·
1982 – Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island,
precipitating war with the United Kingdom. ·
1987 –
Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns
as head of the PTL Club due to
a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell. ·
1989 – The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation
since the Six Days War in 1967 and
the Egypt–Israel
Peace Treaty in 1979. ·
1990 – The ethnic
clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the
anniversary of the Revolutions
of 1848 in the Austrian Empire. ·
1998 – An Ariana Afghan
Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on
approach to Kabul
International Airport, killing all 45 on board.[3] ·
2002 – Zimbabwe is suspended from
the Commonwealth on
charges of human rights abuses
and of electoral fraud,
following a turbulent presidential election. ·
2004 – Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by
a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years
of work. ·
2004 – March 19 Shooting
Incident: The Republic of China(Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian was shot just before the
country's presidential election on March 20. ·
2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the
farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed. ·
2011 – Libyan Civil War:
After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take
Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan,
beginning foreign
military intervention in Libya. ·
2013 – A series of
bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures
240 others across Iraq. ·
2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes
while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport,
killing all 62 on board. ·
2016 – An explosion occurs
in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and
injuring 36. ·
2018 – The last
male northern white
rhinoceros, Sudan,
dies, ensuring a chance of extinction for the species. Births[edit]
·
1206 – Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (d.
1248) ·
1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu,
Japanese shōgun (d. 1443) ·
1488 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and
theologian (d. 1544) ·
1534 – José de Anchieta,
Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1597) ·
1542 – Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1605) ·
1601 – Alonzo Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, and
architect (d. 1667) ·
1604 – John IV of Portugal (d.
1656) ·
1641 – Abd al-Ghani
al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731) ·
1661 – Francesco Gasparini,
Italian composer and educator (d. 1727) ·
1684 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar
(d. 1766) ·
1721 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and
author (d. 1771) (baptised on this day) ·
1734 – Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician,
2nd Governor of
Pennsylvania (d. 1817) ·
1739 – Charles-François
Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (d. 1824) ·
1742 – Túpac Amaru II,
Peruvian rebel leader (d. 1781) ·
1748 – Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and
theologian (d. 1830) ·
1778 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and
politician (d. 1815) ·
1809 – Fredrik Pacius, German composer and
conductor (d. 1891) ·
1813 – David Livingstone,
Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873) ·
1816 – Johannes Verhulst,
Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1891) ·
1821 – Richard Francis
Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (d. 1890) ·
1823 – Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician,
9th Premier of
South Australia (d. 1891) ·
1824 – William Allingham,
Irish poet, author, and scholar (d. 1889) ·
1829 – Carl Frederik
Tietgen, Danish businessman (d. 1901) ·
1844 – Minna Canth, Finnish journalist, playwright,
and activist (d. 1897) ·
1847 – Albert Pinkham Ryder,
American painter (d. 1917) ·
1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (d.
1929) ·
1849 – Alfred von Tirpitz,
German admiral and politician (d. 1930) ·
1858 – Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and politician
(d. 1927) ·
1860 – William Jennings
Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United
States Secretary of State (d. 1925) ·
1861 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician,
13th Premier of Quebec (d.
1929) ·
1864 – Charles Marion
Russell, American painter and sculptor (d. 1926) ·
1865 – William Morton
Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (d.
1937) ·
1868 – Senda Berenson
Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator (d.
1954) ·
1871 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach
(d. 1921) ·
1872 – Anna Held, Polish singer (d. 1918) ·
1873 – Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and
conductor (d. 1916) ·
1875 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (d. 1928) ·
1876 – Felix Jacoby, German philologist (d. 1959) ·
1880 – Ernestine Rose,
American librarian and advocate (d. 1961) [4] ·
1881 – Edith Nourse Rogers,
American social worker and politician (d. 1960) ·
1882 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor
(d. 1935) ·
1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1950) ·
1883 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946) ·
1885 – Attik, Greek composer (d. 1944) ·
1888 – Josef Albers, German-American painter and
educator (d. 1976) ·
1888 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969) ·
1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist,
and politician, 14th Chief
Justice of the United States (d. 1974) ·
1892 – Theodore
Sizer, American professor of the history of art (d. 1967) ·
1892 – Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (d. 1961) ·
1892 – James Van Fleet, American general and
diplomat (d. 1992) ·
1894 – Moms Mabley, American comedian and singer
(d. 1975) ·
1900 – Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film
actress (d. 1988)[5] ·
1900 – Frédéric
Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1958) ·
1901 – Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer
(d. 1976) ·
1904 – John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (d.
1992) ·
1905 – Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer
(d. 2010) ·
1905 – Albert Speer, German architect and
politician (d. 1981) ·
1906 – Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer
(d. 1962) ·
1906 – Clara Breed, American librarian and activist
(d. 1994) ·
1909 – Louis Hayward, South African-born American
actor (d. 1985) ·
1909 – Marjorie Linklater,
Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (d. 1997)[6] ·
1910 – Joseph Carroll,
American general (d. 1991) ·
1912 – Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer
and politician, Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1980) ·
1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American
mathematician and theorist (d. 1981) ·
1914 – Jay Berwanger, American football player and
coach (d. 2002) ·
1915 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944) ·
1915 – Patricia Morison, American actress and
singer (d. 2018) ·
1916 – Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (d.
2000) ·
1916 – Irving Wallace, American journalist, author,
and screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1917 – Laszlo Szabo,
Hungarian chess player (d. 1998) ·
1919 – Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer,
and educator (d. 1978) ·
1920 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and
painter (d. 2002) ·
1921 – Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop
comedian (d. 1984) ·
1922 – Guy Lewis, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2015) ·
1922 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (d. 2014) ·
1923 – Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974) ·
1923 – Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator (d.
1997) ·
1923 – Henry Morgentaler,
Polish-Canadian physician and activist (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Joe Gaetjens, Haitian footballer (d. 1964) ·
1925 – Brent Scowcroft, American general and
diplomat, 9th United
States National Security Advisor (d. 2020) ·
1927 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and
sportscaster (d. 1997) ·
1928 – Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author ·
1928 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor,
director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009) ·
1931 – Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet, writer and
painter ·
1932 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007) ·
1932 – Peter Hall,
English geographer, author, and academic (d. 2014) ·
1932 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (d.
2013) ·
1933 – Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer
(d. 2019) ·
1933 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018) ·
1933 – Renée Taylor, American actress, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1933 – Richard
Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter
(d. 2019) ·
1935 – Nancy Malone, American actress, director,
and producer (d. 2014) ·
1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress ·
1936 – Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect
(d. 1988) ·
1937 – Clarence
"Frogman" Henry, American R&B singer and pianist ·
1937 – Egon Krenz, German politician ·
1938 – Joe Kapp, American football player, coach,
and actor ·
1942 – Heather Robertson,
Canadian journalist and author (d. 2014) ·
1943 – Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1943 – Mario Monti, Italian economist and
politician, Prime Minister of
Italy ·
1943 – Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver ·
1944 – Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician,
5th Prime Minister
of Belize ·
1945 – John Holder,
English cricketer and umpire ·
1945 – Modestas Paulauskas,
Lithuanian basketball player and coach ·
1946 – Ruth Pointer, American musician[7] ·
1947 – Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and
producer ·
1947 – Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer and coach ·
1948 – David Schnitter, American saxophonist and
educator ·
1949 – Blase J. Cupich, American theologian and
cardinal ·
1950 – José S. Palma, Filipino archbishop ·
1952 – Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach ·
1952 – Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and
academic ·
1952 – Harvey Weinstein, American director and
producer ·
1953 – Ian Blair, English police officer ·
1953 – Peter Hendy, English businessman ·
1953 – Ricky
Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1985) ·
1954 – Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer,
coach, and manager ·
1955 – Bruce Willis, German-American actor and
producer ·
1956 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and
politician, First
Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2009) ·
1958 – Andy Reid, American football player and
coach ·
1960 – Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter
and pianist[8] ·
1962 – Iván Calderón,
Puerto Rican-American baseball player (d. 2003) ·
1963 – Neil LaBute, American director and
screenwriter[9] ·
1964 – Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer ·
1964 – Jake Weber, English actor[10] ·
1966 – Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer
and politician ·
1966 – Olaf Marschall, German footballer and
manager ·
1966 – Andy Sinton, English international
footballer, midfielder and manager[11] ·
1967 – Vladimir
Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player ·
1968 – Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and
coach ·
1970 – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and
composer (d. 2011) ·
1970 – Michael Krumm, German race car driver ·
1973 – Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach ·
1975 – Antonio Daniels, American basketball player ·
1975 – Matthew
Richardson, Australian footballer and sportscaster ·
1976 – Andre Miller, American basketball player ·
1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and
manager ·
1978 – Cydonie Mothersille,
Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter ·
1979 – Sheldon
Brown, American football player ·
1979 – Hee-seop Choi, South Korean-American
baseball player ·
1979 – Ivan
Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player ·
1979 – Christos
Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer ·
1979 – Hedo Türkoğlu,
Turkish basketball player ·
1980 – Luca Ferri, Italian footballer ·
1980 – Taichi Ishikari, Japanese wrestler ·
1980 – Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1981 – Steve Cummings, English cyclist ·
1981 – Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer ·
1982 – Jonathan Fanene, American football player ·
1982 – Brad Jones,
Australian footballer ·
1982 – Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian-Singaporean
businessman ·
1982 – Yoshikaze Masatsugu,
Japanese sumo wrestler ·
1985 – Inesa
Jurevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater ·
1986 – Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987 – Michal Švec, Czech footballer ·
1987 – Miloš Teodosić,
Serbian basketball player ·
1988 – Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player ·
1991 – Aleksandr Kokorin,
Russian footballer ·
1993 – Mateusz Szwoch, Polish footballer ·
1993 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer ·
1995 – Alexei Sintsov, Russian figure skater ·
1995 – Héctor Bellerín,
Spanish footballer ·
1996 – Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player Deaths[edit]
·
235 – Severus Alexander,
Roman emperor (b. 208) ·
953 – al-Mansur bi-Nasr
Allah, caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (b. 913) ·
968 – Emma
of Paris, duchess of Normandy (b. 943) ·
1238 – Henry the Bearded,
Polish duke and son of Bolesław I
the Tall (b. 1163) ·
1263 – Hugh of Saint-Cher,
French cardinal (b. 1200) ·
1279 – Zhao Bing,
Chinese emperor (b. 1271) ·
1286 – Alexander III,
king of Scotland (b. 1241) ·
1330 – Edmund
of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1301) ·
1372 – John II,
marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321) ·
1533 – John
Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English baron and statesman (b.
1467) ·
1534 – Michael Weiße, German theologian (b. c.
1488) ·
1539 – Lord Edmund Howard,
English nobleman (b. c. 1478) ·
1563 – Arthur Brooke,
English poet ·
1568 – Elizabeth
Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (b.c. 1518) ·
1581 – Francis
I, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1510) ·
1612 – Sophia
Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585) ·
1637 – Péter Pázmány,
Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570) ·
1649 – Gerhard Johann
Vossius, German scholar and theologian (b. 1577) ·
1683 – Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and
manager (b. 1612) ·
1687 – René-Robert
Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (b. 1643) ·
1697 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and
composer (b. 1665) ·
1711 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer
(b. 1637) ·
1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland,
Scottish soldier (b. 1636) ·
1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649) ·
1783 – Frederick Cornwallis,
English archbishop (b. 1713) ·
1790 – Cezayirli Gazi
Hasan Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 182nd Grand
Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1713) ·
1797 – Philip Hayes,
English organist and composer (b. 1738) ·
1816 – Philip Mazzei, Italian-American physician
and philosopher (b. 1730) ·
1871 – Wilhelm
Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and
physicist (b. 1795) ·
1897 – Antoine Thomson
d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and
astronomer (b. 1810) ·
1900 – John Bingham, American lawyer and
politician, 7th United
States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815) ·
1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon,
French pianist and composer (b. 1819) ·
1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli,
Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850) ·
1919 – Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and
artist of Appalachia (b.
1879) ·
1930 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848) ·
1930 – Henry Lefroy, Australian politician,
11th Premier of
Western Australia (b. 1854) ·
1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam,
American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855) ·
1944 – William Hale
Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869) ·
1949 – James Somerville, English admiral and
politician, Lord Lieutenant
of Somerset (b. 1882) ·
1949 – James Newland, Australian soldier and
policeman (b. 1881)[12] ·
1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs,
American soldier and author (b. 1875) ·
1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1883) ·
1951 – Dmytro Doroshenko,
Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister
of Ukraine (b. 1882) ·
1976 – Albert Dieudonné,
French actor and author (b. 1889) ·
1976 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and
songwriter (b. 1950) ·
1977 – William L. Laurence,
Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888) ·
1978 – M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and
politician, 2nd Speaker of the
Lok Sabha (b. 1891) ·
1982 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and
politician (b. 1888) ·
1982 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist,
songwriter, and producer (b. 1956) ·
1984 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b.
1928) ·
1986 – Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and
manager (b. 1922) ·
1987 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1892) ·
1988 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1904) ·
1990 – Andrew Wood,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1966) ·
1993 – Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager
and producer (b. 1915) ·
1996 – Lise Østergaard,
Danish psychologist and politician (b. 1924) ·
1996 – Virginia Henderson,
American nurse, researcher, theorist and author (b. 1897) ·
1997 – Willem de Kooning,
Dutch-American painter and educator (b. 1904) ·
1997 – Eugène Guillevic,
French poet and author (b. 1907) ·
1998 – E. M. S.
Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister
of Kerala (b. 1909) ·
1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana,
Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of
Samoa (b. 1924) ·
2000 – Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b.
1935) ·
2000 – Shafiq-ur-Rahman,
Pakistani physician and author (b. 1920) ·
2003 – Michael Mathias
Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926) ·
2004 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and
politician, 23rd Canadian
Minister of Finance (b. 1911) ·
2005 – John DeLorean, American engineer and
businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor
Company (b. 1925) ·
2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, British science fiction
writer (b. 1917) ·
2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and
playwright (b. 1929) ·
2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922) ·
2009 – Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect
and interior designer (b. 1914) ·
2011 – Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio
host (b. 1920) ·
2012 – Jim Case, American director and producer (b.
1927) ·
2012 – Ulu Grosbard, Belgian-American director and
producer (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Hugo Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian intelligence
agent (b. 1922) ·
2014 – Patrick Joseph McGovern,
American businessman, founded IDG (b.
1937) ·
2014 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and
activist, founded the Westboro Baptist
Church (b. 1929) ·
2014 – Heather Robertson,
Canadian journalist and author (b. 1942) ·
2014 – Robert S. Strauss,
American diplomat, United
States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1918) ·
2014 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer,
judge, and politician, 4th United
States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1912) ·
2014 – Joseph F. Weis, Jr.,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1923) ·
2015 – Gus Douglass, American farmer and politician
(b. 1927) ·
2015 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian author and playwright
(b. 1950) ·
2015 – Danny Schechter, American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942) ·
2016 – Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and
businessman (b. 1959) ·
2016 – Jack Mansell, English footballer and manager
(b. 1927) ·
2019 – William
Whitfield, British architect (b. 1920) [13] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Saint Joseph (Western Christianity;
if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20) o March
19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April
22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter (Christianity) ·
Minna Canth's Birthday (Finland) ·
Kashubian Unity Day (Poland) ·
St Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion)
related observances: o Falles, celebrated on the week leading to
March 19 (Valencia) o Father's Day (Spain, Portugal,
Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia) o "Return
of the Swallow", annual observance of the swallows'
return to Mission San
Juan Capistrano in California |
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