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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
284 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events
·
106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province
of Arabia Petraea. ·
238 – Gordian I and his son Gordian II are proclaimed Roman emperors.[1] ·
871 – Æthelred of Wessex is
defeated by a Danish invasion army
at the Battle of Marton.[2] ·
1508 – Ferdinand II of
Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of
the Spanish Empire. ·
1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty
with Massasoit of the Wampanoags. ·
1622 – Jamestown
massacre: Algonquians kill
347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia,
a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan
War. ·
1630 – The Massachusetts
Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice,
and gaming tables. ·
1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts
Bay Colony for religious dissent.[3] ·
1713 – The Tuscarora War comes to an end with the
fall of Fort Neoheroka,
effectively opening up the interior of North Carolina to European
colonization. ·
1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city,
stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. ·
1765 – The British
Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be
levied directly on its American
colonies. ·
1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great
ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.[4] ·
1829 – In the London Protocol,
the three protecting powers (United
Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece. ·
1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at
the Battle of Novara. ·
1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes
the first governor of
a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment. ·
1872 – Illinois becomes the first state to
require gender equality in
employment. ·
1873 – The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery
in Puerto Rico. ·
1894 – The first
playoff game for the Stanley Cup starts. ·
1895 – Before the
Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and
Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology
publicly for the first time.[5] ·
1906 – The first England vs France rugby
union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris. ·
1913 – Mystic Phan Xích Long,
the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam,
was arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless
carried out by his supporters the following day.[6][7] ·
1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with
participation of Kurdish gangs attacked the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh). ·
1933 – Cullen–Harrison Act:
President Franklin Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act,
legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight,
approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines. ·
1939 – Germany takes
Memel from Lithuania. ·
1942 – World War II:
In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of
Sirte. ·
1943 – World War II:
The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the
present-day Republic of Belarus)
is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft
Battalion 118. ·
1945 – World War II:
The city of Hildesheim, Germany heavily damaged in a British
air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany
was on the verge of final defeat[8][9][10][11]. ·
1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter
is adopted in Cairo, Egypt. ·
1960 – Arthur Leonard
Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive
the first patent for a laser. ·
1972 – The United
States Congress sends the Equal Rights
Amendment to the states for ratification. ·
1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird,
the United States Supreme
Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to
possess contraceptives. ·
1975 – A fire at
the Browns
Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous
reduction in cooling water levels. ·
1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies
after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto
Rico. ·
1982 – NASA's Space
Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on
its third mission, STS-3. ·
1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after
takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport,
leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft. ·
1992 – Fall of
communism in Albania: The Democratic
Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary
election. ·
1993 – The Intel Corporation ships
the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a
60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS,
and a 64 bit data path. ·
1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after
setting a record of 438 days in space. ·
1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine
months, becomes the youngest women's World
Figure Skating Champion. ·
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of
the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian
bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles. ·
2006 – Three Christian
Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and
the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox. ·
2013 – At least 37
people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire
destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand. ·
2016 – Three suicide
bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels
bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek
metro station. ·
2017 – A terrorist attack in
London near the Houses
of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20
injured. ·
2019 - Robert S. Mueller
III delivers his report
on the Russian government's influence on the election
of Donald Trump in
the 2016
United States presidential election. ·
2019 – Two buses crashes in Kitampo, a town
north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.[12] ·
2020 – Indian Prime
Minister Narendra Modi announces
the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the
spread of COVID-19.[13] Births
·
841 – Bernard Plantapilosa,
Frankish son of Bernard of
Septimania (d. 885) ·
875 – William I,
Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918) ·
1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of
Japan (d. 1235) ·
1367 – Thomas
de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (probable;[14] d. 1399) ·
1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and
mathematician (d. 1449) ·
1459 – Maximilian
I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)[15] ·
1499 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and
chronicler (d. 1537) ·
1503 – Antonio
Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator (d. 1583) ·
1517 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (d. 1590) ·
1519 – Catherine
Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (d. 1580) ·
1582 – John
Williams, Archbishop of York (d. 1650) ·
1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter
and etcher (d. 1641) ·
1609 – John II Casimir Vasa,
Polish king (d. 1672) ·
1615 – Katherine
Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist (d. 1691) ·
1663 – August Hermann
Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (d. 1727) ·
1684 – William
Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (d. 1764) ·
1712 – Edward Moore,
English poet and playwright (d. 1757) ·
1720 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin,
French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace (d.
1799) ·
1723 – Charles
Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 1783) ·
1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs,
German painter and theorist (d. 1779) ·
1785 – Adam Sedgwick, English scientist (d. 1873) ·
1797 – William I,
German Emperor (d. 1888)[16] ·
1808 – Caroline Norton, English feminist, social
reformer, and author (d. 1877)[17] ·
1808 – David Swinson
Maynard, American physician and lawyer (d. 1873) ·
1812 – Stephen Pearl
Andrews, American author and activist (d. 1886) ·
1814 – Thomas
Crawford, American sculptor, designed the Statue of Freedom (d.
1857) ·
1817 – Braxton Bragg, American general (d. 1876) ·
1818 – John Ainsworth
Horrocks, English-Australian explorer, founded Penwortham (d.
1846) ·
1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha,
Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (d. 1895) ·
1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer,
and conductor (d. 1912) ·
1846 – Randolph Caldecott,
English illustrator and painter (d. 1886) ·
1846 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant,
police officer, and farmer (d. 1891) ·
1852 – Otakar Ševčík,
Czech violinist and educator (d. 1934) ·
1852 – Hector Sévin, French cardinal (d. 1916) ·
1855 – Dorothy Tennant, British painter (d. 1926) ·
1857 – Paul Doumer, French mathematician,
journalist, and politician, 14th President of France (d.
1932) ·
1866 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player and
umpire (d. 1913) ·
1868 – Robert Andrews
Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1953) ·
1869 – Tom
McInnes, Scottish-English footballer (d. 1939) ·
1873 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (d.
1939) ·
1880 – Ernest C. Quigley,
Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 1960) ·
1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg,
American journalist and politician (d. 1951) ·
1884 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (d. 1959) ·
1885 – Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and
educator (d. 1969) ·
1886 – August Rei, Estonian lawyer and
politician, Head of State of
Estonia (d. 1963) ·
1887 – Chico Marx, American actor (d. 1961) ·
1890 – George Clark,
American race car driver (d. 1978) ·
1892 – Charlie Poole, American country banjo player
(d. 1931) ·
1892 – Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar
(d. 1970) ·
1896 – He Long, Chinese general and politician,
1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d.
1969) ·
1896 – Joseph Schildkraut,
Austrian-American actor (d. 1964) ·
1899 – Ruth Page,
American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991) ·
1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d.
1991) ·
1902 – Johannes Brinkman,
Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory (d.
1949) ·
1902 – Madeleine Milhaud,
French actress and composer (d. 2008) ·
1903 – Bill Holman,
American cartoonist (d. 1987) ·
1907 – James M. Gavin, American general and
diplomat, United
States Ambassador to France (d. 1990) ·
1908 – Jack Crawford,
Australian tennis player (d. 1991) ·
1908 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short
story writer (d. 1988) ·
1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator
(d. 1983) ·
1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat,
English sailor and author (d. 1979) ·
1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor and performer
(d. 1985) ·
1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009) ·
1912 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and
educator (d. 2004) ·
1912 – Leslie
Johnson, English race car driver (d. 1959) ·
1913 – Tom McCall, American journalist and
politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (d.
1983) ·
1913 – Lew Wasserman, American businessman and
talent agent (d. 2002) ·
1913 – James Westerfield,
American actor (d. 1971) ·
1914 – John Stanley,
American author and illustrator (d. 1993) ·
1914 – Donald
Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman (d. 2008) ·
1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004) ·
1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician
and academic (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Paul Rogers,
English actor (d. 2013) ·
1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (d.
1997) ·
1919 – Bernard Krigstein,
American illustrator (d. 1990) ·
1920 – James Brown,
American actor and singer (d. 1992) ·
1920 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d.
2000) ·
1920 – Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and
politician, 23rd Lieutenant
Governor of Prince Edward Island (d. 1995) ·
1920 – Fanny Waterman, English pianist and
educator, founded the Leeds
International Pianoforte Competition ·
1920 – Katsuko Saruhashi,
Japanese geochemist (d. 2007) ·
1920 – Ross Martin, American actor (d. 1981) ·
1921 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 2004) ·
1922 – John J. Gilligan, American lieutenant and
politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (d.
2013) ·
1922 – Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (d.
2015) ·
1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and
actor (d. 2007) ·
1924 – Al Neuharth, American journalist and author,
founded USA Today (d.
2013) ·
1924 – Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot,
participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (d. 1960)[18] ·
1924 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 1998) ·
1924 – Bill Wendell, American television announcer
(d. 1999) ·
1927 – Marty Blake, American basketball player and
manager (d. 2013) ·
1927 – Nicolas Tikhomiroff,
Russian photographer (d. 2016) ·
1928 – Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d.
2001) ·
1928 – E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic, and
academic ·
1928 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player,
coach, and priest (d. 2011) ·
1929 – Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist ·
1929 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director,
singer, songwriter, composer, and producer. (d. 1973) ·
1930 – Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic ·
1930 – Pat Robertson, American minister and
broadcaster, founded the Christian
Broadcasting Network ·
1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and
songwriter ·
1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2018) ·
1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor ·
1931 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author
(d. 2014) ·
1932 – Els Borst, Dutch physician and
politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2014) ·
1932 – Larry
Evans, American chess player and journalist (d. 2010) ·
1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr,
Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran ·
1934 – May Britt, Swedish actress ·
1934 – Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judge ·
1934 – Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician ·
1935 – Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis player and
journalist ·
1935 – Frank Pulli, American baseball player and
umpire (d. 2013) ·
1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor ·
1936 – Ron Carey,
American trade union leader (d. 2008) ·
1936 – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English
singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1936 – Erol Büyükburç,
Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (d. 2015) ·
1937 – Angelo Badalamenti,
American pianist and composer ·
1937 – Armin Hary, German sprinter ·
1937 – Jon Hassell, American trumpet player and
composer ·
1938 – Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player (d. 2012) ·
1940 – Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician
and author (d. 1996) ·
1940 – George Edward
Alcorn, Jr. American physicist and inventor ·
1941 – Billy Collins, American poet ·
1941 – Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (d. 2019) ·
1941 – Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President
of Mauritius ·
1942 – Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
1942 – Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic ·
1943 – George Benson, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist[19] ·
1943 – Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and
manager (d. 2013) ·
1943 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer (d. 1976) ·
1945 – Eric Roth, American screenwriter and
producer ·
1946 – Don Chaney, American basketball player and
coach ·
1946 – Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and
composer ·
1946 – Rudy Rucker, American mathematician,
computer scientist, and author ·
1946 – Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer ·
1947 – George
Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol ·
1947 – James Patterson, American author and
producer ·
1947 – Maarten van Gent, Dutch basketball player
and coach ·
1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber,
English composer and director[20] ·
1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and
screenwriter ·
1949 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (d. 2010) ·
1952 – Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and
politician, Secretary
of State for Scotland ·
1953 – Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess
grandmaster ·
1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress ·
1955 – Pete Sessions, American politician ·
1955 – Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician,
7th President of Latvia ·
1956 – Maria
Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre
y Batista) ·
1957 – Jürgen Bucher, German footballer ·
1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer ·
1959 – Matthew Modine, American actor, director,
producer, and screenwriter ·
1960 – Tarmo Laht, Estonian architect ·
1960 – Lauri Vahtre, Estonian historian and
politician ·
1961 – Simon Furman, British comic book writer[21] ·
1963 – Deborah Bull, English ballerina ·
1963 – Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer (The Human League) ·
1963 – Martin Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and
politician, 67th President of Peru[22] ·
1964 – David Gillespie, Australian rugby league
player ·
1966 – Pia Cayetano, Filipino lawyer and politician ·
1966 – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (d. 2015) ·
1966 – Artis Pabriks, Latvian academic and
politician, 11th Minister
for Defence of Latvia ·
1966 – António Pinto,
Portuguese runner ·
1966 – Brian Shaw, American basketball player and
coach ·
1967 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist ·
1967 – Bernie Gallacher, Scottish-English
footballer (d. 2011) ·
1970 – Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer-songwriter ·
1970 – Leontien van Moorsel,
Dutch cyclist ·
1970 – Hwang Young-cho, South Korean runner ·
1971 – Keegan-Michael Key,
American actor, comedian, and writer ·
1972 – Shawn Bradley, German-American basketball
player, coach, and actor ·
1972 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d.
2006) ·
1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster ·
1973 – Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1974 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player ·
1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer ·
1974 – Geo Meneses, Mexican producer and singer ·
1975 – Cole Hauser, American actor and producer ·
1975 – Jiří Novák,
Czech-Monegasque tennis player ·
1976 – Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player ·
1976 – Kathryn Jean Lopez,
American journalist ·
1976 – Asako Toki, Japanese singer-songwriter ·
1976 – Kellie Shanygne
Williams, American actress ·
1976 – Reese Witherspoon,
American actress and producer ·
1977 – Joey Porter, American football player and
coach ·
1977 – Tom Poti, American ice hockey player ·
1979 – Aaron North, American guitarist ·
1979 – Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player ·
1981 – Arne Gabius, German runner ·
1982 – Piá,
Brazilian footballer ·
1982 – Enrico Gasparotto,
Italian cyclist ·
1982 – Michael Janyk, Canadian skier ·
1984 – Piotr Trochowski, German footballer ·
1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer ·
1985 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist ·
1985 – Mike
Jenkins, American football player ·
1985 – Justin Masterson, American baseball player ·
1985 – Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer ·
1986 – David Choi, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1986 – Dexter Fowler, American baseball player ·
1987 – Ike Davis, American baseball player ·
1987 – Jairo Mora Sandoval,
Costa Rican environmentalist (d. 2013) ·
1987 – Liam Doran, British rally cross driver ·
1989 – Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer ·
1989 – J. J. Watt, American football player ·
1989 – Tyler Oakley, American internet celebrity Deaths
·
880 – Carloman of Bavaria,
Frankish king ·
1144 – William of Norwich,
child murder victim ·
1322 – Thomas, 2nd
Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of
England (b. 1278) ·
1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim,
German bishop and historian (b. 1345) ·
1421 – Thomas
of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and
politician, Lord High Steward of
England (b. 1388) ·
1454 – John Kemp, Archbishop of
Canterbury ·
1471 – George of
Poděbrady (b. 1420) ·
1544 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and
theologian (b. 1488) ·
1602 – Agostino Carracci,
Italian painter and educator (b. 1557) ·
1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638) ·
1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully,
Italian-French composer and conductor (b. 1632) ·
1758 – Jonathan
Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1703) ·
1772 – John Canton, English physicist and academic
(b. 1718) ·
1820 – Stephen Decatur, American commander (b.
1779) ·
1832 – Johann
Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and
diplomat (b. 1749) ·
1840 – Étienne Bobillier,
French mathematician and academic (b. 1798) ·
1864 – Konstanty Kalinowski,
writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838) ·
1881 – Samuel
Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793) ·
1896 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician
(b. 1822) ·
1913 – Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and
politician (b. 1882) ·
1913 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and
anatomist (b.1864) ·
1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and
neuroscientist (b. 1848) ·
1931 – James
Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851) ·
1942 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b.
1875) ·
1942 – William Donne, English captain and cricketer
(b. 1875) ·
1945 – John Hessin Clarke,
American lawyer and judge (b. 1857) ·
1952 – D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime
Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883) ·
1955 – Ivan Šubašić,
Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime
Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892) ·
1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909) ·
1960 – José
Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President
of the Basque Country (b. 1904) ·
1966 – John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot
(b. 1935) ·
1971 – Johannes Villemson,
Estonian-American runner (b. 1893) ·
1971 – Nella Walker, American actress and
vaudevillian (b. 1886) ·
1974 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b.
1939) ·
1974 – Orazio Satta Puliga,
Italian automobile designer (b. 1910) ·
1976 – John Dwyer
McLaughlin, American painter (b. 1898) ·
1977 – A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and
politician (b. 1904) ·
1978 – Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and
tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (b.
1905) ·
1979 – Ben Lyon, American actor and studio
executive (b. 1901) ·
1981 – James Elliott,
American runner and coach (b. 1915) ·
1981 – Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and
politician, 13th President
of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1907) ·
1986 – Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918) ·
1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933) ·
1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and
politician (b. 1912) ·
1989 – Peta Taylor, English cricketer (b. 1912) ·
1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic
(b. 1928)[23] ·
1991 – Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician,
19th Solicitor
General of Canada (b. 1917) ·
1991 – Paul Engle, American novelist, poet,
playwright, and critic (b. 1908) ·
1991 – Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1934) ·
1991 – Gloria Holden, English-American actress (b.
1908) ·
1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b.
1965) ·
1994 – Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and
producer (b. 1950) ·
1994 – Walter Lantz, American animator, director,
and producer (b. 1899) ·
1996 – Don Murray,
American drummer (b. 1945) ·
1996 – Robert F. Overmyer,
American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936) ·
1996 – Billy
Williamson, American guitarist (b. 1925) ·
1999 – Max Beloff,
Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913) ·
1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969) ·
2000 – Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager
(b. 1921) ·
2001 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball
player and coach (b. 1925) ·
2001 – Sabiha Gökçen,
Turkish soldier and pilot (b. 1913) ·
2001 – William Hanna, American animator, director,
producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910) ·
2001 – Robert Fletcher Shaw,
Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910) ·
2002 – Rudolf Baumgartner,
Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1917) ·
2003 – Terry Lloyd, English journalist (b. 1952) ·
2004 – Janet Akyüz Mattei,
Turkish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1943) ·
2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas (b. 1937) ·
2004 – V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil
rights activist (b. 1909) ·
2005 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter
(b. 1947) ·
2005 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (b. 1920) ·
2005 – Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect,
designed the Yoyogi National
Gymnasium and Hiroshima
Peace Memorial Museum (b. 1913) ·
2006 – Pierre Clostermann,
French soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1921) ·
2006 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (b. 1917) ·
2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian
journalist and author (b. 1937) ·
2007 – U. G. Krishnamurti,
Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (b. 1918) ·
2008 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and
composer (b. 1918) ·
2010 – James Black,
Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1924) ·
2010 – Özhan Canaydın,
Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943) ·
2011 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (b.
1920) ·
2011 – Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and
composer (b. 1926) ·
2012 – Joe Blanchard, American football player and
wrestler (b. 1928) ·
2012 – John Payton, American lawyer and activist
(b. 1946) ·
2012 – Matthew
White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, English academic and
politician, Lord
Lieutenant of Northumberland (b. 1925) ·
2012 – Mickey Sullivan, American baseball player
and coach (b. 1932) ·
2012 – David Waltz, American computer scientist and
academic (b. 1943) ·
2012 – Neil L. Whitehead,
English anthropologist and author (b. 1956) ·
2013 – Vladimír Čech,
Czech actor and politician (b. 1951) ·
2013 – James Nabrit, American lawyer and academic
(b. 1932) ·
2013 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and
composer (b. 1918) ·
2013 – Derek Watkins,
English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945) ·
2013 – Ray Williams,
American basketball player and coach (b. 1954) ·
2014 – Yashwant Vithoba
Chittal, Indian author (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and
manager (b. 1929) ·
2014 – Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and
politician (b. 1938) ·
2014 – Tasos Mitsopoulos,
Cypriot politician, Cypriot
Minister of Defence (b. 1965) ·
2015 – Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and
playwright (b. 1933) ·
2015 – Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager
(b. 1923) ·
2015 – Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer,
and conductor (b. 1936) ·
2016 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (b. 1970) ·
2016 – Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and
politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (b.
1969) ·
2016 – Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927) ·
2018 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic
and author, Yad Vashem recipient
(b. 1911) Holidays and observances
·
Bihar Day (Bihar, India)[24] ·
Christian feast day: o Blessed Clemens
August Graf von Galen o Jonathan
Edwards (Lutheranism) o March
22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818,
will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest.
(Christianity) ·
Emancipation Day or Día
de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico) ·
World Water Day (International) |
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