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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 2 is the 61st day of the year (62nd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
304 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
537 – Siege of Rome:
The Ostrogoth army under king Vitiges begins the siege of the capital. Belisarius conducts a delaying action
outside the Flaminian Gate;
he and a detachment of his bucellarii are almost cut off. ·
986 – Louis V becomes
King of the Franks. ·
1444 – Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhë. ·
1458 – George of
Poděbrady is chosen as the king of Bohemia. ·
1476 – Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss
Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a
major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in Canton of Neuchâtel. ·
1484 – The College of Arms is formally
incorporated by Royal Charter signed
by King Richard III of
England. ·
1498 – Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique. ·
1561 – Mendoza, Argentina,
is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo. ·
1657 – Great Fire of
Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo), Japan, caused more than 100,000
deaths; it lasted three days ·
1717 – The Loves of
Mars and Venus is the first ballet performed in England. ·
1776 – American
Revolutionary War: Patriot militia
units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia James Wright and
attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of the
Rice Boats. ·
1791 – Long-distance
communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris. ·
1797 – The Bank of England issues the
first one-pound and two-pound banknotes. ·
1807 – The U.S. Congress passes
the Act
Prohibiting Importation of Slaves, disallowing the importation of
new slaves into the country. ·
1808 – The inaugural
meeting of the Wernerian
Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh. ·
1811 – Argentine
War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San
Nicolás on the River Plate. ·
1815 – Signing of
the Kandyan Convention treaty
by British invaders and the leaders of the Kingdom of Kandy. ·
1825 – Roberto Cofresí,
one of the last successful Caribbean pirates, is defeated in
combat and captured by authorities. ·
1836 – Texas Revolution: The Declaration
of independence of the Republic of Texas from
Mexico is adopted. ·
1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of
Russia. ·
1859 – The
two-day Great Slave
Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, begins. ·
1865 – East Cape War: The Völkner Incident in
New Zealand. ·
1867 – The U.S.
Congress passes the first Reconstruction Act. ·
1877 – Just two days
before inauguration, the U.S. Congress declares Rutherford B. Hayes the
winner of the 1876 U.S.
presidential election even though Samuel J. Tilden had won the popular
vote. ·
1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an
assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor. ·
1896 – The Battle of Adwa: The Italian Army defeated by
the Ethiopian Army in Adwa, Tigray, Ethiopia. ·
1901 – United States Steel Corporation is
founded as a result of a merger between Carnegie Steel
Company and Federal Steel Company which
became the first corporation in the world with a market capital over $1
billion. ·
1901 – The U.S. Congress passes the Platt Amendment limiting the autonomy
of Cuba, as a condition of the withdrawal of
American troops. ·
1903 – In New York
City the Martha Washington
Hotel opens, becoming the first hotel exclusively for women. ·
1917 – The enactment
of the Jones–Shafroth Act grants Puerto Ricans United States
citizenship. ·
1919 – The first Communist
International meets in Moscow. ·
1933 – The film King Kong opens
at New York's Radio City Music
Hall. ·
1937 – The Steel
Workers Organizing Committee signs a collective
bargaining agreement with U.S. Steel, leading to unionization of the
United States steel industry. ·
1939 – Cardinal Eugenio
Pacelli is elected Pope
and takes the name Pius XII. ·
1941 – World War II: First German military units
enter Bulgaria after it joins the Axis Pact. ·
1943 – World War II:
Allied aircraft defeat a
Japanese attempt to ship troops to New Guinea. ·
1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected the President
of North Vietnam. ·
1949 – Captain James
Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II in Fort Worth, Texas,
after completing the first non-stop around-the-world airplane flight in 94
hours and one minute. ·
1955 – Norodom Sihanouk, king of Cambodia, abdicates the throne in favor of
his father, Norodom Suramarit. ·
1961 – John F. Kennedy announces the creation
of the Peace Corps in
a nationally televised broadcast. ·
1962 – In Burma, the army led by General Ne Win seizes power in a coup d'état. ·
1962 – Wilt Chamberlain sets the single-game
scoring record in the National
Basketball Association by scoring
100 points. ·
1965 – The US and Republic of
Vietnam Air Force begin Operation
Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam. ·
1968 – Baggeridge Colliery closes
marking the end of over 300 years of coal mining in the Black Country.[1] ·
1969 – In Toulouse, France, the first test flight of
the Anglo-French Concorde is
conducted. ·
1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a republic, breaking its last links with the
British crown. ·
1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched
from Cape Canaveral, Florida with a mission to explore the
outer planets. ·
1977 – Libya becomes the Socialist
People's Libyan Arab Jamahiriya as the General
People's Congress adopted the "Declaration on the Establishment of the Authority of
the People". ·
1978 – Czech Vladimír Remek becomes
the first non-Russian or non-American to go into space, when he is launched aboard Soyuz 28. ·
1983 – Compact discs and players are released
for the first time in the United States and other markets. They had
previously been available only in Japan. ·
1989 – Twelve European Community nations
agree to ban the production of all chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs)
by the end of the century. ·
1990 – Nelson Mandela is elected deputy
President of the African
National Congress. ·
1991 – Battle at Rumaila oil field brings
an end to the 1991 Gulf War. ·
1992 – Start of
the war in Transnistria. ·
1992 – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, San Marino, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan join the United Nations. ·
1995 – Researchers
at Fermilab announce the discovery of
the top quark. ·
1995 – Yahoo! is incorporated. ·
1998 – Data sent from
the Galileo spacecraft indicates
that Jupiter's moon Europa has a liquid ocean under a thick
crust of ice. ·
2002 – U.S.
invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins,
(ending on March 19 after
killing 500 Taliban and al-Qaeda fighters, with 11 Western
troop fatalities). ·
2004 – War in Iraq: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Iraq,
killing 170 and wounding over 500. ·
2012 – A tornado
outbreak occurred over a large section of the Southern United
States and into the Ohio Valley region,
resulting in 40 tornado-related fatalities. ·
2017 – The
elements Moscovium, Tennessine, and Oganesson were officially added to
the periodic table at
a conference in Moscow, Russia. Births[edit]
·
480 – Benedict of Nursia,
Italian Christian saint (d. 543 or 547) ·
1316 – Robert II of
Scotland (d. 1390) ·
1409 – Jean II, Duke of
Alençon (d. 1476) ·
1432 – Countess
Palatine Margaret of Mosbach, countess consort of Hanau (d. 1457) ·
1453 – Johannes Engel, German doctor, astronomer
and astrologer (d. 1512) ·
1459 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523) ·
1481 – Franz von Sickingen,
German knight (d. 1523) ·
1545 – Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and scholar,
founded the Bodleian Library (d.
1613) ·
1577 – George Sandys, English traveller, colonist
and poet (d. 1644) ·
1628 – Cornelis Speelman,
Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (d. 1684) ·
1651 – Carlo Gimach, Maltese architect, engineer
and poet (d. 1730) ·
1705 – William
Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish lawyer, judge, and
politician, Chancellor of
the Exchequer (d. 1793) ·
1740 – Nicholas Pocock, English naval painter
(d.1821) ·
1760 – Camille Desmoulins,
French journalist and politician (d. 1794) ·
1769 – DeWitt Clinton, American lawyer and
politician, 6th Governor of New York (d.
1828) ·
1770 – Louis-Gabriel Suchet,
French general (d. 1826) ·
1779 – Joel Roberts
Poinsett, American physician and politician, 15th United
States Secretary of War (d. 1851) ·
1793 – Sam Houston, American soldier and
politician, 1st President
of the Republic of Texas (d. 1863) ·
1800 – Yevgeny Baratynsky,
Russian-Italian poet and philosopher (d. 1844) ·
1810 – Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903) ·
1816 – Alexander Bullock,
American lawyer and politician, 26th Governor of
Massachusetts (d. 1882) ·
1817 – János Arany, Hungarian journalist and poet
(d. 1882) ·
1820 – Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887) ·
1824 – Bedřich Smetana,
Czech pianist and composer (d. 1884) ·
1829 – Carl Schurz, German-American general,
lawyer, and politician, 13th United
States Secretary of the Interior (d. 1906) ·
1836 – Henry Billings Brown,
American lawyer and judge (d. 1913) ·
1842 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer, art collector,
and philanthropist (d. 1914) ·
1846 – Marie Roze, French soprano (d. 1926) ·
1849 – Robert Means
Thompson, American commander, lawyer, and businessman (d. 1930) ·
1859 – Sholem Aleichem, Ukrainian-American author
and playwright (d. 1916) ·
1860 – Susanna M. Salter,
American activist and politician (d. 1961) ·
1862 – John Jay Chapman, American lawyer, author,
and poet (d. 1933) ·
1876 – Pope Pius XII (d. 1958) ·
1878 – William
Kissam Vanderbilt II, American sailor and race car driver (d.
1944) ·
1886 – Willis H. O'Brien,
American animator and director (d. 1962) ·
1886 – Kurt Grelling, German logician and
philosopher (d. 1942) ·
1900 – Kurt Weill, German-American pianist and
composer (d. 1950) ·
1901 – Grete Hermann, German mathematician and
philosopher (d. 1984) ·
1902 – Moe Berg, American baseball player and spy
(d. 1972) ·
1902 – Edward Condon, American physicist and
academic (d. 1974) ·
1904 – Dr. Seuss, American children's book writer,
poet, and illustrator (d. 1991) ·
1905 – Marc Blitzstein, American composer and
songwriter (d. 1964) ·
1905 – Geoffrey Grigson, English poet and critic
(d. 1985) ·
1908 – Walter Bruch, German engineer (d. 1990) ·
1909 – Mel Ott, American baseball player, manager,
and sportscaster (d. 1958) ·
1912 – Henry Katzman, American pianist, composer,
and painter (d. 2001) ·
1913 – Godfried Bomans, Dutch television host and
author (d. 1971) ·
1913 – Mort Cooper, American baseball player (d.
1958) ·
1914 – Martin Ritt, American actor and film
director (d. 1990) ·
1915 – John Burton,
Australian public servant and diplomat, Australian High Commissioner to Ceylon (d.
2010) ·
1917 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-American actor, singer,
and producer (d. 1986) ·
1917 – David Goodis, American author and
screenwriter (d. 1967) ·
1917 – Jim Konstanty, American baseball player and
coach (d. 1976) ·
1919 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009) ·
1919 – Eddie Lawrence, American actor, singer, and playwright
(d. 2014) ·
1919 – Tamara Toumanova, Russian-American ballerina
and actress (d. 1996) ·
1921 – Kazimierz Górski,
Polish footballer and coach (d. 2006) ·
1921 – Ernst Haas, Austrian-American photographer
and journalist (d. 1986) ·
1922 – Eddie
"Lockjaw" Davis, American saxophonist (d. 1986) ·
1922 – Bill Quackenbush, Canadian-American ice
hockey player and coach (d. 1999) ·
1922 – Frances Spence, American computer programmer
(d. 2012) ·
1923 – Basil Hume, English cardinal (d. 1999) ·
1923 – Robert H. Michel, American soldier and
politician (d. 2017) ·
1923 – Dave Strack, American basketball player and
coach (d. 2014) ·
1924 – Cal Abrams, American baseball player (d.
1997) ·
1924 – Renos Apostolidis,
Greek philologist, author, and critic (d. 2004) ·
1926 – Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (d. 2014) ·
1926 – Murray Rothbard, American economist and
historian (d. 1995) ·
1927 – Roger Walkowiak, French cyclist and
economist (d. 2017) ·
1930 – John Cullum, American actor and singer ·
1930 – Emma Penella, Spanish actress (d. 2007) ·
1930 – Tom Wolfe, American journalist and author
(d. 2018) ·
1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev,
Russian lawyer and politician, President
of the Soviet Union, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1932 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish journalist and
translator (d. 2011) ·
1934 – Dottie Rambo, American singer-songwriter (d.
2008) ·
1935 – Gene Stallings, American football player and
coach ·
1936 – Haroon Ahmed, Pakistani-English engineer and
academic ·
1936 – John Tusa, Czech-English journalist and
academic ·
1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika,
Algerian soldier and politician, 5th President of Algeria ·
1938 – Ricardo Lagos, Chilean economist, lawyer,
and politician, 33rd President of Chile ·
1938 – Lawrence Payton, American singer-songwriter
and producer (d. 1997) ·
1938 – Clark Gesner, American author and composer
(d. 2002) ·
1939 – Jan Howard Finder,
American author and academic (d. 2013) ·
1940 – Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer (d. 2019) ·
1941 – John Cornell, Australian actor, director,
and producer ·
1941 – David Satcher, American admiral and
physician, 16th Surgeon
General of the United States ·
1942 – John Irving, American novelist and
screenwriter ·
1942 – Claude
Larose, Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1942 – Mir-Hossein Mousavi,
Iranian architect and politician, 79th Prime Minister of
Iran ·
1942 – Lou Reed, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, and actor (d. 2013) ·
1942 – Derek Woodley, English footballer (d. 2002) ·
1943 – George Layton, English actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1943 – Peter Straub, American author and poet ·
1943 – Robert Williams,
American painter and cartoonist ·
1945 – Derek Watkins,
English trumpet player and composer (d. 2013) ·
1947 – Nelson Ned, Brazilian singer-songwriter (d.
2014) ·
1947 – Harry Redknapp, English footballer and
manager ·
1948 – Larry Carlton, American guitarist and
songwriter ·
1948 – Rory Gallagher, Irish singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1995) ·
1948 – Jeff Kennett, Australian journalist and
politician, 43rd Premier of Victoria ·
1948 – Carmen Lawrence, Australian politician,
25th Premier of
Western Australia ·
1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983) ·
1952 – Mark Evanier, American author and
screenwriter ·
1952 – Laraine Newman, American actress and
comedian ·
1953 – Russ Feingold, American lawyer and politician ·
1954 – Ed Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1955 – Dale Bozzio, American pop-rock
singer-songwriter ·
1955 – Jay Osmond, American singer, drummer, actor,
and TV/film producer ·
1955 – Ken Salazar, American lawyer and politician,
50th United
States Secretary of the Interior ·
1955 – Steve Small, Australian cricketer ·
1956 – John Cowsill, American musician, songwriter,
and producer ·
1956 – Mark Evans,
Australian rock bass player ·
1957 – Hossein Dehghan, Iranian general and
politician, Iranian Minister of Defense ·
1957 – Dito Tsintsadze, Georgian film director and
screenwriter ·
1957 – Mark Dean,
American inventor and computer engineer ·
1958 – Kevin Curren, South African-American tennis
player ·
1958 – Ian Woosnam, English-Welsh golfer ·
1959 – Larry Stewart,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1961 – Simone Young, Australian conductor,
director, and composer ·
1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, producer, and actor ·
1962 – Paul Farrelly, English journalist and
politician ·
1962 – Tom Nordlie, Norwegian footballer and coach ·
1962 – Brendan
O'Connor, Australian politician, Australian
Minister for Employment ·
1962 – Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player
and coach ·
1962 – Gabriele Tarquini,
Italian race car driver ·
1963 – Alvin Youngblood
Hart, American singer and guitarist ·
1963 – Anthony Albanese, Australian politician,
15th Deputy
Prime Minister of Australia ·
1963 – Vidyasagar
(composer), Indian composer, musician and singer ·
1964 – Laird Hamilton, American surfer and actor ·
1964 – Mike Von Erich, American wrestler (d. 1987) ·
1965 – Ron Gant, American baseball player and
journalist ·
1965 – Lembit Öpik, Northern Irish politician ·
1966 – Ann Leckie, American author ·
1966 – Simon Reevell, English lawyer and politician ·
1968 – Daniel Craig, English actor and producer ·
1970 – James Purnell, English politician, Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions ·
1970 – Ciriaco Sforza, Swiss footballer and manager ·
1970 – Wibi Soerjadi, Dutch pianist and composer ·
1971 – Dave Gorman, English comedian, author and
television presenter ·
1971 – Method Man, American rapper, record producer
and actor ·
1972 – Mauricio Pochettino,
Argentinian footballer and manager ·
1973 – Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player ·
1973 – Trevor Sinclair, English footballer and
manager ·
1974 – Hayley Lewis, Australian swimmer and
television host ·
1975 – Daryl Gibson, New Zealand rugby player ·
1977 – Dominique Canty, American basketball player
and coach ·
1977 – Chris Martin, English singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1977 – Stephen Parry,
English swimmer and sportscaster ·
1977 – Andrew Strauss, South African-English
cricketer ·
1978 – Gabby Eigenmann, Filipino actor and singer ·
1978 – Lee
Hodges, English footballer and manager ·
1978 – Tomáš Kaberle,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1979 – Damien Duff, Irish international footballer,
winger[2] ·
1979 – Gayatri Asokan, Indian playback singer ·
1979 – Jim Troughton, English cricketer ·
1979 – Nicky Weaver, English footballer ·
1980 – Chris Barker, English footballer and manager
(d. 2020) ·
1980 – Rebel Wilson, Australian actress and
screenwriter ·
1981 – Lance Cade, American wrestler (d. 2010) ·
1981 – Bryce Dallas Howard,
American actress ·
1982 – Kevin Kurányi, German footballer ·
1982 – Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player ·
1982 – Ben Roethlisberger,
American football player ·
1982 – Corey Webster, American football player ·
1983 – Deuce, American singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1983 – Lisandro López,
Argentinian footballer ·
1983 – Jay McClement, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 – Glen Perkins, American baseball player ·
1983 – Ryan Shannon, American ice hockey player ·
1985 – Reggie Bush, American football player ·
1985 – Suso Santana, Spanish footballer ·
1986 – Jonathan D'Aversa,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1987 – Jonas Jerebko, Swedish basketball player ·
1988 – Édgar Andrade, Mexican footballer ·
1988 – James Arthur, English singer-songwriter ·
1988 – Laura Kaeppeler, Miss America 2012 ·
1988 – Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver ·
1988 – Chris Rainey, American football player ·
1988 – Geert Arend Roorda,
Dutch footballer ·
1989 – Alemão,
Brazilian footballer ·
1989 – Toby Alderweireld,
Belgian international footballer, defender[3] ·
1989 – André Bernardes
Santos, Portuguese footballer ·
1989 – Marcel Hirscher, Austrian skier ·
1989 – Shane Vereen, American football player ·
1989 – Chris Woakes, English cricketer ·
1990 – Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer ·
1990 – Malcolm Butler, American football player ·
1990 – Josh McGuire, Australian rugby league player ·
1990 – Tiger Shroff, Indian actor ·
1991 – Nick Franklin,
American baseball player ·
1992 – Jack Stockwell, Australian rugby league
player ·
1995 – Ange-Freddy Plumain,
French footballer ·
1997 – Becky G, American singer and actress ·
2010 – Hailey Dawson, American with a 3D-printed robotic hand ·
2016 – Prince Oscar,
duke of Skåne and prince of Sweden Deaths[edit]
·
274 – Mani, Persian prophet and founder of
Manichaeism (b. 216) ·
672 – Chad of Mercia, English bishop and saint (b.
634) ·
986 – Lothair,
king of West Francia (b.941) ·
968 – William,
archbishop of Mainz (b. 929) ·
1009 – Mokjong,
king of Goryeo (b. 980) ·
1127 – Charles the
Good, Count of Flanders (b. 1084)[4] ·
1316 – Marjorie Bruce, Scottish daughter of Robert the Bruce (b. 1296) ·
1333 – Wladyslaw
I, king of Poland (b. 1261) ·
1589 – Alessandro
Farnese, Italian cardinal and diplomat (b. 1520) ·
1619 – Anne of Denmark, queen of Scotland (b. 1574) ·
1729 – Francesco Bianchini,
Italian astronomer and philosopher (b. 1662) ·
1755 – Louis
de Rouvroy, French duke and diplomat (b. 1675) ·
1791 – John Wesley, English cleric and theologian
(b. 1703) ·
1793 – Carl Gustaf Pilo, Swedish-Danish painter and
academic (b. 1711) ·
1797 – Horace Walpole, English historian and
politician (b. 1717) ·
1829 – Josefa Ortiz de
Domínguez, Mexican revolutionary (b. ca. 1773)[5] ·
1830 – Samuel
Thomas von Sömmerring, German physician, anatomist, and
anthropologist (b. 1755) ·
1835 – Francis II,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768) ·
1840 – Heinrich
Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758) ·
1855 – Nicholas I,
Russian emperor (b. 1796) ·
1864 – Ulric Dahlgren, American colonel (b. 1842) ·
1865 – Carl Sylvius Völkner,
German-New Zealand priest and missionary (b. 1819) ·
1880 – John Benjamin
Macneill, Irish engineer (b. 1790) ·
1895 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841) ·
1895 – Isma'il Pasha, Egyptian politician (b. 1830) ·
1896 – Jubal Early, American general (b. 1816) ·
1921 – Champ Clark, American lawyer and politician,
41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (b.
1850) ·
1930 – D. H. Lawrence, English novelist, poet,
playwright, and critic (b. 1885) ·
1938 – Ben Harney, American pianist and composer
(b. 1871) ·
1939 – Howard Carter, English archaeologist and
historian (b. 1874) ·
1943 – Gisela Januszewska,
Jewish-Austrian physician (b.1867) ·
1944 – Ida Maclean, British biochemist, the first
woman admitted to the London Chemical Society (b. 1877)[6] ·
1945 – Emily Carr, Canadian painter and author (b.
1871) ·
1946 – Fidél Pálffy,
Hungarian politician, Hungarian
Minister of Agriculture (b. 1895) ·
1946 – George E. Stewart,
American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient
(b. 1872) ·
1947 – Frans Johan
Louwrens Ghijsels, Dutch architect and urban planner (b. 1882) ·
1949 – Sarojini Naidu, Indian poet and activist (b.
1879) ·
1953 – James Lightbody, American runner (b. 1882) ·
1957 – Selim
Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (b. 1874) ·
1958 – Fred Merkle, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1888) ·
1962 – Charles
Jean de la Vallée-Poussin, Belgian mathematician and academic (b.
1866) ·
1967 – José Martínez Ruiz,
Spanish author and critic (b. 1873) ·
1972 – Léo-Ernest Ouimet,
Canadian director and producer (b. 1877) ·
1979 – Christy Ring, Irish hurler (b. 1920) ·
1982 – Philip K. Dick, American philosopher and
author (b. 1928) ·
1987 – Randolph Scott, American actor and director
(b. 1898) ·
1987 – Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian geographer and
academic (b. 1935) ·
1991 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer-songwriter,
actor, and director (b. 1928) ·
1992 – Sandy Dennis, American actress (b. 1937) ·
1994 – Anita Morris, American actress, singer, and
dancer (b. 1943) ·
1999 – Dusty Springfield,
English singer (b. 1939) ·
2000 – Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963) ·
2003 – Hank Ballard, American singer-songwriter (b.
1927) ·
2003 – Malcolm Williamson,
Australian pianist and composer (b. 1931) ·
2004 – Cormac McAnallen, Irish footballer (b. 1980) ·
2004 – Mercedes McCambridge,
American actress (b. 1916) ·
2004 – Marge Schott, American businesswoman (b.
1928) ·
2005 – Martin Denny, American pianist and composer
(b. 1911) ·
2007 – Thomas S. Kleppe, American soldier and
politician, 41st United
States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1919) ·
2007 – Clem Labine, American baseball player (b.
1926) ·
2007 – Ivan Safronov, Russian colonel and
journalist (b. 1956) ·
2007 – Henri Troyat, Russian-French historian and
author (b. 1911) ·
2008 – Jeff Healey, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1966) ·
2009 – João Bernardo Vieira,
Bissau-Guinean politician, President of
Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939) ·
2010 – Winston
Churchill, English journalist and politician (b. 1940) ·
2012 – Lawrence Anthony, South African
environmentalist, explorer, and author (b. 1950) ·
2012 – Van T. Barfoot, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919) ·
2012 – Norman St
John-Stevas, English academic and politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster (b. 1929) ·
2012 – James Q. Wilson, American political
scientist and academic (b. 1931) ·
2013 – Peter Harvey, Australian journalist (b.
1944) ·
2013 – Giorgos Kolokithas,
Greek basketball player (b. 1945) ·
2013 – Shabnam Shakeel, Pakistani poet and author
(b. 1942) ·
2014 – Ryhor Baradulin, Belarusian poet and translator
(b. 1935) ·
2015 – Dean Hess, American minister and colonel (b.
1917) ·
2015 – Dave Mackay, Scottish-English footballer and
manager (b. 1934) ·
2015 – Mal Peet, English author and illustrator (b.
1947) ·
2016 – Benoît Lacroix,
Canadian priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1915) ·
2016 – Aubrey McClendon, American businessman (b.
1959) ·
2018 – Billy Herrington, American actor (b. 1969) ·
2018 – Lin Hu, Chinese lieutenant general (b. 1927) ·
2019 – Mike
Oliver, British sociologist, disability rights activist (b. 1945) [7] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Baloch Culture Day (Balochistan) ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed
Charles the Good, Count of Flanders o Chad of Mercia (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Eastern Orthodox
Church) o March
2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Feast of 'Alá (Loftiness), First day of the
19th month of the Bahá'í calendar (Bahá'í Faith) and
first day of the Baha'i Nineteen Day Fast ·
Jamahiriya Day (Libya) ·
Peasants' Day (Myanmar) ·
Victory at Adwa Day (Ethiopia) |
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