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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 20 is the 79th day of the year (80th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
286 days remain until the end of the year. Typically the March equinox falls on this date,
marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and
the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. ·
673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at
the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka. ·
1206 – Michael IV
Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical
Patriarch of Constantinople. ·
1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes
place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping, Sweden: five Swedish noblemen
are publicly beheaded in
the aftermath of the War against
Sigismund (1598–1599).[1] ·
1602 – The Dutch East India
Company is established. ·
1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of
imprisonment. ·
1760 – The Great Boston
Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings. ·
1815 – After escaping
from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular
army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. ·
1848 – German
revolutions of 1848–49: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. ·
1852 – Harriet Beecher
Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is
published. ·
1854 – The Republican
Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US. ·
1861 – An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina. ·
1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial
Property is signed. ·
1888 – The premiere of
the very first Romani language operetta is
staged in Moscow, Russia. ·
1890 – Prime Minister
of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is
dismissed by Emperor
Wilhelm II. ·
1896 – With the
approval of Emperor Guangxu, the Qing dynasty post office is opened,
marking the beginning of a postal service in China. ·
1913 – Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an
assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. ·
1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of
relativity. ·
1921 – The Upper Silesia
plebiscite was a plebiscite mandated by the Versailles Treaty to
determine a section of the border between Weimar Germany and Poland. ·
1922 – The USS Langley is
commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. ·
1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts
the opening of Pablo Picasso's
first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo
Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. ·
1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation
of Dachau
concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant. ·
1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur,
at Terowie, South
Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of
the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". ·
1948 – With a Musicians
Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in
the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. ·
1951 – Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture,
Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded. ·
1952 – The US Senate
ratifies the Security Treaty Between the United States and Japan. ·
1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France. ·
1964 – The precursor of the European Space
Agency, ESRO (European
Space Research Organisation) is established per an agreement
signed on June 14, 1962. ·
1972 – The Troubles: The first Provisional
IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures
148 others in Northern Ireland. ·
1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman
to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod
Trail Sled Dog Race. ·
1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a
wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. ·
1987 – The Food and
Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT. ·
1988 – Eritrean War
of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean
People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. ·
1990 – Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. ·
1993 – The Troubles: A Provisional IRA bomb kills two
children in Warrington, England. It leads to mass
protests in both Britain and Ireland. ·
1995 – The Japanese
cult Aum Shinrikyo carries
out a sarin
gas attack on the Tokyo subway, killing 13 and wounding over 6,200
people. ·
1999 – Legoland California,
the first Legoland outside
of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California,
US. ·
2000 – Jamil Abdullah
Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once
known as H. Rap Brown, is
captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's
deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English. ·
2003 – Invasion of Iraq:
In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other
countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq. ·
2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in
eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC.
The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby. ·
2012 – At least 52
people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror
attacks across ten cities in Iraq. ·
2014 – Four
suspected Taliban members attack the Kabul Serena Hotel,
killing at least nine people. ·
2015 – A Solar
eclipse, equinox, and a supermoon all occur on the same day. Births[edit]
·
43 BC – Ovid,
Roman poet (d. 17) ·
1253 – Magadu,
renamed Wareru, founder of Ramanya Kingdom, renamed
Hanthawady Kingdom of Pegu (b. a commoner; d. on a Saturday in January 1307) ·
1319 – Laurence
Hastings, 1st Earl of Pembroke (d. 1348) ·
1469 – Cecily of York (d. 1507) ·
1477 – Jerome Emser, German theologian and scholar
(d. 1527) ·
1479 – Ippolito d'Este, Italian cardinal (d. 1520) ·
1502 – Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist
(d. 1575) ·
1532 – Juan de Ribera, Roman Catholic archbishop
(d. 1611) ·
1612 – Anne Bradstreet, Puritan American poet (d.
1672) ·
1615 – Dara Shikoh, Indian prince (d. 1659) ·
1639 – Ivan Mazepa, Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of
Ukraine (d. 1709) ·
1725 – Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1789) ·
1737 – Rama I, Thai king (d. 1809) ·
1771 – Heinrich Clauren, German author (d. 1854) ·
1796 – Edward Gibbon
Wakefield, English politician (d. 1862) ·
1799 – Karl August Nicander,
Swedish poet and author (d. 1839) ·
1800 – Braulio Carrillo
Colina, Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of
Costa Rica (d. 1845) ·
1805 – Thomas Cooper,
British poet (d. 1892) ·
1811 – Napoleon II, French emperor (d. 1832) ·
1811 – George Caleb Bingham,
American painter and politician, State
Treasurer of Missouri (d. 1879) ·
1821 – Ned Buntline, American journalist, author,
and publisher (d. 1886) ·
1824 – Theodor von Heuglin,
German explorer and ornithologist (d. 1876) ·
1828 – Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian poet, playwright,
and director (d. 1906) ·
1831 – Patrick Jennings, Northern Irish-Australian
politician, 11th Premier of New
South Wales (d. 1897) ·
1831 – Solomon L. Spink, American lawyer and
politician (d. 1881) ·
1834 – Charles William
Eliot, American mathematician and academic (d. 1926) ·
1836 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr.,
American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886) ·
1836 – Edward Poynter, English painter,
illustrator, and curator (d. 1919) ·
1840 – Illarion
Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894) ·
1851 – Ismail Gasprinski,
Ukrainian educator, publisher, and politician (d. 1914) ·
1856 – John Lavery, Irish painter (d. 1941) ·
1856 – Frederick
Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer (d. 1915) ·
1870 – Paul von
Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)[2] ·
1874 – Börries von
Münchhausen, German poet and activist (d. 1945) ·
1876 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 1927) ·
1879 – Maud Menten, Canadian physician and
biochemist (d. 1960)[3] ·
1882 – René Coty, French lawyer and politician,
17th President of France (d.
1962) ·
1882 – Harold Weber, American golfer (d. 1933) ·
1884 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist,
mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1966) ·
1884 – John Jensen,
Australian public servant (d. 1970) ·
1885 – Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer (d.
1958) ·
1888 – Amanda Clement, American baseball player,
umpire, and educator (d. 1971) ·
1890 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and
actor (d. 1973) ·
1894 – Amalie Sara
Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (d. 1974) ·
1895 – Fredric Wertham, German-American
psychologist and author (d. 1981) ·
1898 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (d. 1954) ·
1900 – Amelia Chopitea
Villa, Bolivia's first female physician (d. 1942)[4] ·
1903 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979) ·
1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and
author (d. 1990) ·
1905 – Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer
(d. 1949) ·
1906 – Abraham Beame, American accountant and
politician, 104th Mayor of New York
City (d. 2001) ·
1906 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader
(d. 1975) ·
1907 – Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator
(d. 1990) ·
1908 – Michael Redgrave, English actor and director
(d. 1985) ·
1910 – Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower (d. 1999) ·
1911 – Alfonso García
Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1991) ·
1912 – Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and
philanthropist (d. 2016) ·
1913 – Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (d.
1968) ·
1914 – Wendell Corey, American actor and politician
(d. 1968) ·
1915 – Rudolf Kirchschläger,
Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (d.
2000) ·
1915 – Sviatoslav Richter,
Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997) ·
1915 – Sister Rosetta
Tharpe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973) ·
1916 – Pierre Messmer, French lieutenant and
politician, Prime Minister
of France (d. 2007) ·
1917 – Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and
actress (d. 2020) ·
1917 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist,
general, and politician, Deputy Prime
Minister of Israel (d. 1984) ·
1918 – Jack Barry,
American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry
& Enright Productions (d. 1984) ·
1918 – Donald
Featherstone, English soldier and author (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Marian McPartland,
English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Bernd Alois
Zimmermann, German composer (d. 1970) ·
1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter ace (d. 1983) ·
1920 – Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat,
58th United
States Ambassador to France (d. 1997) ·
1920 – Rosemary Timperley,
English author and screenwriter (d. 1988) ·
1921 – Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker (d. 1971) ·
1921 – Dušan Pirjevec,
Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977) ·
1921 – Alfréd Rényi,
Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970) ·
1922 – Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and
bandleader (d. 2017) ·
1922 – Ray Goulding, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1990) ·
1922 – Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2020) ·
1923 – Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (d.
2013) ·
1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist,
author, and activist (d. 2006) ·
1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d.
1999) ·
1927 – John Joubert,
South African-English composer and academic (d. 2019) ·
1928 – Jerome Biffle, American long jumper and
coach (d. 2002) ·
1928 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and
engineer (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Fred Rogers, American television host and
producer (d. 2003) ·
1929 – William Andrew
MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013) ·
1929 – Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and
director (d. 2015) ·
1930 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian,
author, and academic (d. 1998) ·
1931 – Hal Linden, American actor, singer, and
director ·
1931 – Rein Raamat, Estonian director and
screenwriter ·
1933 – Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian lawyer and
politician (d. 2012) ·
1933 – George Altman, American baseball player ·
1933 – Ian Walsh,
Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2013) ·
1934 – Willie Brown,
American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San
Francisco ·
1934 – David Malouf, Australian author and
playwright ·
1935 – Ted Bessell, American actor and director (d.
1996) ·
1935 – Bettye
Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995) ·
1936 – Lee
"Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer, songwriter, music
producer, and inventor ·
1936 – Mark
Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer,
and judge ·
1937 – Lois Lowry, American author ·
1937 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and actor (d. 2008) ·
1938 – Sergei
Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic ·
1939 – Gerald Curran, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2013) ·
1939 – Don Edwards,
American singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring,
Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014) ·
1939 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 18th Prime Minister
of Canada ·
1940 – Stathis Chaitas, Greek footballer and
manager ·
1940 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and
journalist (d. 2015) ·
1940 – Giampiero Moretti,
Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (d. 2012) ·
1941 – Pat Corrales, American baseball player and
manager ·
1941 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese runner ·
1943 – Gerard Malanga, American poet and
photographer ·
1943 – Douglas Tompkins, American businessman,
co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (d. 2015) ·
1943 – Paul Junger Witt, American director and
producer (d. 2018) ·
1944 – John Cameron,
English composer and conductor ·
1944 – Camille Cosby, American author, producer,
and philanthropist ·
1944 – Alan Harper,
English-Irish archbishop ·
1945 – Henry Bartholomay,
American soldier and pilot (d. 2015) ·
1945 – Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and
author ·
1945 – Pat Riley, American basketball player and
coach ·
1945 – Tim Yeo, English politician, Shadow
Secretary of State for Health ·
1946 – Douglas B. Green, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1946 – Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer
(d. 2014) ·
1947 – John Boswell, American historian,
philologist, and academic (d. 1994) ·
1948 – John de Lancie, American actor ·
1948 – Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1948 – Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer-songwriter
and producer (d. 2011) ·
1949 – Marcia Ball, American blues
singer-songwriter and pianist ·
1949 – Richard Dowden, English journalist and
educator ·
1950 – William Hurt, American actor ·
1950 – Carl Palmer, English drummer, percussionist,
and songwriter ·
1951 – Jimmie Vaughan, American blues-rock
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1952 – Geoff Brabham, Australian race car driver ·
1952 – David
Greenaway, English economist and academic ·
1953 – Phil Judd, New Zealand singer-songwriter,
guitarist and painter ·
1954 – Mike Francesa, American radio talk show host
and television commentator ·
1954 – Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and
politician ·
1954 – Paul Mirabella, American baseball player ·
1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman,
American author ·
1955 – Ian Moss, Australian guitarist and
singer-songwriter ·
1955 – Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1956 – Catherine Ashton, English politician, Vice-President
of the European Commission ·
1956 – Anne Donahue, American lawyer and politician ·
1956 – Naoto Takenaka, Japanese actor, comedian,
singer, and director ·
1957 – Vanessa Bell
Calloway, American actress ·
1957 – David Foster,
Australian woodchopper ·
1957 – Spike Lee, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress ·
1957 – Chris Wedge, American animator, producer,
screenwriter, and voice actor ·
1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress and producer ·
1958 – Rickey Jackson, American football player ·
1958 – Joe Reaiche, Australian rugby player ·
1959 – Dave Beasant, English footballer and coach ·
1959 – Mary Roach, American author ·
1959 – Sting, American wrestler ·
1959 – Peter
Truscott, Baron Truscott, British Labour Party politician and peer[5] ·
1960 – Norm Magnusson, American painter and
sculptor ·
1960 – Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist
and academic ·
1960 – Yuri Shargin, Russian colonel, engineer, and
astronaut ·
1961 – Ingrid Arndt-Brauer,
German politician ·
1961 – Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer and manager ·
1961 – Sara Wheeler, English author and journalist ·
1962 – Stephen Sommers, American director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1963 – Paul Annacone, American tennis player and
coach ·
1963 – Kathy Ireland, American model, actress, and
furniture designer ·
1963 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (d. 2007) ·
1963 – David Thewlis, English-French actor,
director, and screenwriter ·
1964 – Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer-songwriter ·
1965 – William
Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author ·
1967 – Xavier Beauvois, French actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1967 – Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player ·
1968 – Carlos Almeida,
Cape Verdean runner ·
1968 – A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author ·
1968 – Paul Merson, English footballer and manager ·
1968 – Ultra Naté, American singer, songwriter,
record producer, DJ, and promoter ·
1969 – Yvette Cooper, English economist and
politician, Secretary
of State for Work and Pensions ·
1969 – Fabien Galthie, French rugby player ·
1970 – Edoardo Ballerini,
American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1970 – Josephine Medina, Filipino Paralympic table
tennis player[6] ·
1970 – sj Miller, American academic, public
speaker, and social justice activist [7] ·
1970 – Michael Rapaport, American actor, podcast
host, and director ·
1971 – Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player ·
1971 – Touré,
American journalist and author ·
1972 – Chilly Gonzales, Canadian-German
singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer ·
1972 – Alex Kapranos, English-Scottish
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1972 – Greg Searle, English rower ·
1972 – Marco Sejna, German footballer ·
1972 – Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier ·
1973 – Nicky Boje, South African cricketer ·
1973 – Natalya
Khrushcheleva, Russian runner ·
1973 – Talal Khalifa Aljeri,
Kuwaiti businessman ·
1974 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer ·
1975 – Ramin Bahrani, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1975 – Isolde Kostner, Italian skier ·
1976 – Chester Bennington,
American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2017) ·
1978 – Kevin Betsy, English born Seychelles
international footballer, midfielder and manager[8] ·
1978 – Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league
player ·
1979 – Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player ·
1979 – Freema Agyeman, English actress ·
1979 – Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player ·
1980 – Jamal Crawford, American basketball player ·
1980 – Robertas Javtokas,
Lithuanian basketball player ·
1981 – Ian Murray,
Scottish footballer ·
1981 – Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player ·
1982 – Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1982 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer ·
1982 – José Moreira, Portuguese footballer ·
1983 – Carolina Padrón,
Venezuelan journalist ·
1983 – Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer ·
1984 – Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer ·
1984 – Christy Carlson
Romano, American actress and singer ·
1984 – Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer ·
1985 – Morgan Amalfitano,
French footballer ·
1985 – Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player ·
1985 – Nicolas Lombaerts,
Belgian footballer ·
1986 – Dean Geyer, South African-Australian
singer-songwriter and actor ·
1986 – Julián Magallanes,
Argentinian footballer ·
1986 – Ruby Rose, Australian actress and model ·
1986 – Román Torres, Panamanian footballer ·
1987 – Daniel Maa Boumsong,
Cameroonian footballer ·
1987 – Jô, Brazilian footballer[9] ·
1987 – Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer ·
1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey
player ·
1989 – Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director ·
1989 – Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer ·
1990 – Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league
player ·
1990 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer ·
1991 – Mattia Destro, Italian footballer ·
1991 – Michał
Kucharczyk, Polish footballer ·
1991 – Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player ·
1993 – Sloane Stephens, American tennis player ·
1995 – Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player Deaths[edit]
·
687 – Cuthbert, Northumbrian (English) monk,
bishop, and saint (b. 634) ·
703 – Wulfram, archbishop
of Sens ·
842 – Alfonso II,
king of Asturias (Spain) (b. 759) ·
851 – Ebbo,
archbishop of Reims ·
1181 – Taira no Kiyomori,
Japanese general (b. 1118) ·
1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130) ·
1239 – Hermann von Salza,
German knight and diplomat (b. 1179) ·
1302 – Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich ·
1336 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b.
1270)[10] ·
1351 – Muhammad bin Tughluq,
Sultan of Delhi ·
1390 – Alexios III
Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b.
1338) ·
1413 – Henry IV of England (b.
1367) ·
1440 – Sigismund I of
Lithuania ·
1475 – Georges Chastellain,
Burgundian chronicler and poet ·
1549 – Thomas
Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English general and
politician, Lord
Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508) ·
1568 – Albert, Duke of
Prussia (b. 1490) ·
1619 – Matthias,
Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557) ·
1673 – Augustyn Kordecki,
Polish monk (b. 1603) ·
1688 – Maria
of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642) ·
1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur,
French actress (b. 1692) ·
1746 – Nicolas de
Largilličre, French painter and academic (b. 1656) ·
1780 – Benjamin Truman, English brewer and
businessman (b. 1699) ·
1793 – William
Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and
politician, Attorney
General for England and Wales (b. 1705) ·
1835 – Louis Léopold Robert,
French painter (b. 1794) ·
1849 – James Justinian
Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780) ·
1855 – Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788) ·
1865 – Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833) ·
1874 – Hans Christian
Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810) ·
1878 – Julius Robert von
Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814) ·
1894 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist
and politician (b. 1802) ·
1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright
(b. 1821) ·
1899 – Franz Ritter von
Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822) ·
1909 – Friedrich Amelung,
Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842) ·
1918 – Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer
(b. 1828) ·
1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston,
English politician, 35th Governor-General
of India (b. 1859) ·
1929 – Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b.
1851) ·
1930 – Arthur F. Andrews,
American cyclist (b. 1876) ·
1931 – Hermann
Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor
of Germany (b. 1876) ·
1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin
of Anton Cermak (b.
1900; executed)[11] ·
1940 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist,
and eugenicist (b. 1860) ·
1945 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer
(b. 1883) ·
1946 – Amadeus William
Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic
(b. 1870) ·
1947 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director
(b. 1884) ·
1952 – Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (b. 1892) ·
1958 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian merchant,
journalist, and politician (b. 1915) ·
1964 – Brendan Behan, Irish republican and
playwright (b. 1923) ·
1965 – Daniel Frank,
American long jumper (b. 1882) ·
1966 – Johnny
Morrison, American baseball player (b. 1895) ·
1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer,
Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889) ·
1969 – Henri Longchambon,
French politician (b. 1896) ·
1971 – Falih
Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894) ·
1972 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921) ·
1974 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911) ·
1977 – Charles
Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General
of New Zealand (b. 1909) ·
1977 – Terukuni Manzō,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919) ·
1978 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b.
1895) ·
1981 – Gerry Bertier, American football player (b.
1953) ·
1983 – Ivan
Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b.
1891) ·
1990 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1907) ·
1990 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929) ·
1992 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925) ·
1993 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1911) ·
1994 – Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist
(b. 1946) ·
1997 – V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer,
essayist, and critic (b. 1900) ·
1999 – Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920) ·
2000 – Gene Eugene, Canadian-American
singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961) ·
2001 – Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American
baseball player (b. 1949) ·
2004 – Juliana of the
Netherlands (b. 1909) ·
2004 – Pierre Sévigny,
Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917) ·
2005 – Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director
and screenwriter (b. 1912) ·
2007 – Raynald Fréchette,
Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933) ·
2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan,
Iraqi politician, Vice President of
Iraq (b. 1938) ·
2007 – Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948) ·
2010 – Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947) ·
2010 – Girija Prasad
Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of
Nepal (b. 1924) ·
2010 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and
politician, 37th United
States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920) ·
2011 – Johnny Pearson, English pianist, conductor,
and composer (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Lincoln Hall,
Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955) ·
2012 – Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animator and
director (b. 1938) ·
2012 – Chaim Pinchas
Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910) ·
2012 – Jim Stynes, Irish-Australian footballer (b.
1966) ·
2013 – James Herbert, English author (b. 1943) ·
2013 – George Lowe,
New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924) ·
2013 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and
politician, 19th President
of Bangladesh (b. 1929)[12] ·
2014 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author,
and academic (b. 1934) ·
2014 – Hilderaldo Bellini,
Brazilian footballer (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Tonie Nathan, American politician (b. 1923) ·
2014 – Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and
author (b. 1915) ·
2015 – Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of
The Salvation Army (b. 1929) ·
2015 – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician,
22nd Prime
Minister of Australia (b. 1930) ·
2016 – Anker Jřrgensen,
Danish politician, Prime Minister
of Denmark (b. 1922) ·
2017 – David Rockefeller,
American billionaire and philanthropist (b. 1915) ·
2018 – C. K. Mann, a Ghanaian Highlife musician and producer (b.
1936) ·
2019 – Mary Warnock, English philosopher &
writer (b. 1924) [13] ·
2020 – Kenny Rogers, American singer (b. 1938) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Blessed John of Parma o María
Josefa Sancho de Guerra o Wulfram o March
20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest date for the vernal equinox in
the Northern hemisphere: o Bahá'í Naw-Rúz,
started at sunset on March 20. The end of the 19-day
sunrise-to-sunset fast. (Bahá'í Faith) o Nowruz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians, and other Iranian people and
countries with an Iranian influence) o Ostara in the northern hemisphere, Mabon in
the southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druidic Wheel of the Year) o Shunbun no Hi (Japan) o Sun-Earth Day (United States) o Vernal Equinox Day/Kōreisai (Japan) ·
Earliest day on which Good Friday can fall, while April 23 is
the latest; celebrated on Friday before Easter. (Christianity) ·
Great
American Meatout (United States) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the independence of Tunisia from France in 1956. ·
International
Day of Happiness (United Nations) ·
International
Francophonie Day (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie),
and its related observances: o UN French Language
Day (United Nations) ·
National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States) |
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