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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 23 is the 82nd day of the year (83rd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
283 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1400 – The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred
and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official. ·
1540 – Waltham Abbey is
surrendered to King Henry VIII of
England; the last religious community to be closed during
the Dissolution
of the Monasteries. ·
1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is
signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion. ·
1708 – James Francis
Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth as part of the planned
French invasion of Britain.[1] ·
1775 – American
Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech –
"Give
me liberty, or give me death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia. ·
1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a
sword, then strangled, and finally
trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. ·
1806 – After traveling
through the Louisiana Purchase and
reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery"
begin their arduous journey home. ·
1821 – Greek War of
Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata. ·
1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives
at Port Chalmers carrying
the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. ·
1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New
York City. ·
1862 – American Civil War:
The First Battle of
Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign.
Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to
capture Richmond. ·
1868 – The University of
California is founded in Oakland, California when
the Organic Act is
signed into law. ·
1879 – War of the Pacific:
The Battle of Topáter,
the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. ·
1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in
the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near
Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam. ·
1888 – In
England, The Football
League, the world's oldest professional association football league,
meets for the first time. ·
1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is
established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India. ·
1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of
the First
Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of
General Frederick Funston. ·
1905 – Eleftherios
Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what
is to be known as the Theriso revolt. ·
1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves
New York for a post-presidency safari in
Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian
Institution and National
Geographic Society. ·
1918 – First World War: On the third day of the
German Spring Offensive,
the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent
Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war ·
1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. ·
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the
killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian
independence movement. ·
1933 – The Reichstag passes
the Enabling Act of 1933,
making Adolf Hitler dictator
of Germany. ·
1935 – Signing of
the Constitution of
the Commonwealth
of the Philippines. ·
1939 – The Hungarian air
force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air
force in Spišská Nová Ves,
killing 13 people and beginning the Slovak–Hungarian War. ·
1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore)
is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim
League. ·
1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. This
date is now celebrated as Republic Day in
Pakistan. ·
1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man
space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). ·
1977 – The first
of The Nixon Interviews (12
will be recorded over four weeks) is videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United
States President Richard Nixon about
the Watergate scandal and
the Nixon tapes. ·
1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping
mission along the Blue Line. ·
1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech
appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the
Salvadorans. ·
1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando
Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by
right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt. ·
1983 – Strategic
Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial
proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. ·
1991 – The Revolutionary
United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles
Taylor's National
Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to
overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh,
sparking the 11-year Sierra Leone Civil
War. ·
1994 – At an election
rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential
candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is
assassinated by Mario Aburto
Martínez. ·
1994 – A United States Air Force
(USAF) F-16 aircraft
collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and
then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This
later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. ·
1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed
into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75. ·
1996 – Taiwan holds its first
direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. ·
1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argańa. ·
2001 – The
Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere
before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. ·
2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah,
first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq. ·
2008 – Official
opening of Rajiv
Gandhi International Airport in Hyderabad, India ·
2009 – FedEx Express
Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas
MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita
International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot. ·
2018 – President of Peru Pedro Pablo
Kuczynski resigns from the presidency amid a mass corruption
scandal before certain impeachment by the opposition-majority Congress
of Peru. ·
2019 – The Kazakh
capital of Astana was renamed to Nur-Sultan. ·
2019 – The
US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces declared military victory
over the Islamic
State of Iraq and the Levant after four years of fighting,
although the group maintains a scattered presence and sleeper cells across
Syria and Iraq.[2] Births[edit]
·
1338 – Emperor
Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374) ·
1430 – Margaret of Anjou (d.
1482)[3] ·
1514 – Lorenzino de' Medici,
Italian writer and assassin (d. 1548) ·
1599 – Thomas Selle, German composer (d. 1663) ·
1614 – Jahanara Begum, Mughal princess (d. 1681)[4] ·
1643 – Mary of
Jesus de León y Delgado, Spanish Dominican lay sister and mystic
(d. 1731) ·
1699 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer
(d. 1777) ·
1732 – Princess
Marie Adélaďde of France (d. 1800) ·
1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace,
French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827) ·
1750 – Johannes
Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (d. 1812) ·
1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist
and artillery officer (d. 1802) ·
1769 – Augustin Daniel
Belliard, French general and diplomat (d. 1832) ·
1769 – William Smith,
English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839) ·
1823 – Schuyler Colfax, American journalist and
politician, 17th Vice
President of the United States (d. 1885) ·
1826 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and
composer (d. 1917) ·
1834 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer
(d. 1858) ·
1838 – Marie Adam-Doerrer,
Swiss women's rights activist and unionist (d. 1908) ·
1842 – Friedrich Amelung,
Estonian-German historian, businessman and composer (d. 1909) ·
1842 – Susan Jane
Cunningham, American mathematician (d. 1921) ·
1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist and
politician, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1941) ·
1862 – Nathaniel Reed,
American criminal (d. 1950) ·
1868 – Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and
politician (d. 1923) ·
1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and
politician, 1st President of
the Philippines (d. 1964) ·
1869 – Calouste Gulbenkian,
Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955) ·
1872 – Michael Joseph
Savage, Australian-New Zealand union leader and politician,
23rd Prime
Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940) ·
1874 – Grantley Goulding,
English hurdler (d. 1947) ·
1874 – J. C. Leyendecker,
German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951) ·
1876 – Ziya Gökalp, Turkish sociologist, poet and
activist (d. 1924) ·
1876 – Thakin Kodaw Hmaing,
Burmese poet, writer and political leader (d. 1964) ·
1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and
conductor (d. 1934) ·
1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and
politician, Finnish
Minister of the Interior (d. 1922) ·
1881 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (d. 1969) ·
1881 – Roger Martin du Gard,
French novelist and paleographer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1958) ·
1881 – Hermann Staudinger,
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1965) ·
1882 – Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American
mathematician, physicist and academic (d. 1935)[5] ·
1884 – Joseph Boxhall, English sailor (d. 1967) ·
1885 – Platt Adams, American jumper and politician
(d. 1961) ·
1885 – Roque González Garza,
Mexican general and acting president (1915) (d. 1962)[6] ·
1886 – Frank Irons, American long jumper (d. 1942) ·
1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (d.
1945) ·
1887 – Rudolf Kinau, German author (d. 1975) ·
1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (d.
1927) ·
1887 – Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-born American
labor leader (d. 1946) ·
1891 – Po Kya, Burmese author and educationist (d.
1942) ·
1893 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American art director
and production designer (d. 1960) ·
1893 – Gopalswamy
Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer and businessman (d. 1974) ·
1894 – Arthur Grimsdell, English international
footballer wing half and cricketer (d. 1963)[7] ·
1895 – Encarnacion Alzona,
Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001) ·
1895 – Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer,
author and composer (d. 1985) ·
1898 – Louis Adamic, Slovenian-American author,
translator and politician (d. 1951) ·
1898 – Madeleine de
Bourbon-Busset, Duchess of Parma (d. 1984) ·
1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d.
1943) ·
1900 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and
sociologist (d. 1980) ·
1901 – Bon Maharaja, Indian guru and religious
writer (d. 1982) ·
1903 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand author (d. 1982) ·
1904 – Joan Crawford, American film actress (d.
1977) ·
1905 – Lale Andersen, German chanson
singer-songwriter (d. 1972) ·
1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist
and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1992) ·
1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d.
1997) ·
1910 – Jerry Cornes, English runner, colonial
officer and educator (d. 2001) ·
1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer
and screenwriter (d. 1998) ·
1912 – Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author
and critic (d. 1996)[8] ·
1912 – Neil McCorkell, English-South African
cricketer and coach (d. 2013) ·
1912 – Wernher von Braun,
German-American physicist and engineer (d. 1977) ·
1913 – Abidin Dino, Turko-French painter and
illustrator (d. 1993) ·
1914 – Milbourne
Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984) ·
1915 – Mary
Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (d. 2014) ·
1915 – Vasily Zaytsev,
Russian captain (d. 1991) ·
1917 – Harry Cranbrook
Allen, English historian (d. 1998) ·
1918 – Stanley Armour
Dunham, American sergeant (d. 1992) ·
1918 – Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)[9] ·
1918 – Naoki Kazu, Japanese football player
(d.1940s) ·
1919 – Carl Graffunder, American architect and
educator (d. 2013) ·
1920 – Neal Edward Smith,
American pilot, lawyer and politician ·
1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami,
Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2013) ·
1921 – Donald Campbell, English race car driver (d.
1967) ·
1921 – Peter
Lawler, Australian public servant (d. 2017) ·
1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor (d.
2018) ·
1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor (d. 1990) ·
1923 – Angelo Ingrassia, American soldier and judge
(d. 2013) ·
1924 – Rodney Mims Cook,
Sr., American lieutenant and politician (d. 2013) ·
1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham,
American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)[10] ·
1924 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer and
academic[11] ·
1924 – John Madin, English architect (d. 2012) ·
1925 – David
Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008) ·
1929 – Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist
and academic (d. 2018) ·
1929 – Michael Manser, English architect and
engineer (d. 2016) ·
1931 – Yevgeny
Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005) ·
1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and
author (d. 2016) ·
1931 – Yevdokiya Mekshilo,
Russian skier (d. 2013) ·
1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1933 – Norman
Bailey, English opera singer and educator ·
1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and
academic ·
1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and
physicist (d. 2017) ·
1934 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director and
producer ·
1935 – Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor and
screenwriter ·
1936 – Jannis Kounellis, Greek painter and sculptor
(d. 2017) ·
1937 – Craig Breedlove, American race car driver ·
1937 – Tony Burton, American actor, comedian, boxer
and football player (d. 2016) ·
1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician and
academic ·
1938 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and
screenwriter (d. 2012) ·
1942 – Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer
and screenwriter ·
1942 – Jimmy Miller, American record producer and
musician (d. 1994) ·
1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar
and activist (d. 1980) ·
1943 – Andrew Crockett,
Scottish-English economist and banker (d. 2012) ·
1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää,
Finnish singer, author and director (d. 2001) ·
1944 – B. P. Gavrilov, Russian rugby player (d.
2006) ·
1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1944 – Michael Nyman, English composer of
minimalist music and pianist ·
1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter
and director ·
1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and
composer ·
1946 – Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and
producer ·
1947 – Elizabeth Ann
Scarborough, American author ·
1948 – Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer ·
1948 – Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and
politician ·
1949 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter,
guitarist and producer (d. 2019)[12] ·
1950 – Corinne Cléry, French actress ·
1950 – Phil Lanzon, English keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1950 – Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author and translator ·
1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and
sportscaster ·
1951 – Adrian Reynard, English businessman,
founded Reynard Motorsport ·
1952 – Francesco Clemente,
Italian painter and illustrator ·
1952 – Kent Lambert,
New Zealand rugby player ·
1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson,
American author ·
1952 – Rex Tillerson, American businessman,
engineer and diplomat; 69th United
States Secretary of State ·
1953 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d.
1990) ·
1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter ·
1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw,
Indian zoologist and businesswoman[13] ·
1954 – Geno Auriemma, Italian-American basketball
player and coach ·
1954 – Kenneth Cole,
American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole
Productions ·
1954 – Paul Price,
English born, Welsh international footballer, defender and manager[14] ·
1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player and
sportscaster (d. 2015) ·
1956 – José Manuel Barroso,
Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister
of Portugal[15] ·
1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez,
Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador ·
1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer and manager
(d. 1998) ·
1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress ·
1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist ·
1958 – Bengt-Ĺke Gustafsson,
Swedish ice hockey player and coach ·
1958 – Hugh
Grant, Scottish business executive ·
1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress ·
1960 – Nicol
Stephen, Baron Stephen, Scottish lawyer and politician, 2nd Deputy
First Minister of Scotland ·
1961 – Roger Crisp, English philosopher and
academic ·
1961 – Craig Green, New Zealand rugby player ·
1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian journalist and
producer ·
1962 – Steve Redgrave, English rower[16] ·
1963 – Míchel,
Spanish footballer and manager ·
1963 – Juan Ramón López
Caro, Spanish footballer and manager ·
1963 – Ana Fidelia Quirot,
Cuban runner ·
1964 – Hope Davis, American actress ·
1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter ·
1966 – Lorenzo Daniel, American sprinter ·
1966 – Vasilis Vouzas, Greek footballer and manager ·
1968 – Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter,
producer and actor ·
1968 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer and
journalist ·
1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer and
manager ·
1968 – Pierre Palmade, French actor and
screenwriter ·
1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model ·
1971 – Gail Porter, Scottish model and television
host ·
1971 – Alexander Selivanov,
Russian ice hockey player ·
1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler ·
1972 – Jonas Björkman,
Swedish-Monégasque tennis player and coach ·
1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer ·
1972 – Judith Godrčche,
French actress and author ·
1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer ·
1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian race car driver ·
1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player and
coach ·
1974 – Randall Park, American actor, director and
screenwriter ·
1975 – Burak Gürpınar,
Turkish drummer ·
1975 – Andy Turner,
English footballer, winger and manager[17] ·
1976 – Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist and race car
driver ·
1976 – Smriti Irani, Indian actress, producer and
politician, Indian Minister of Human Resource Development ·
1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle racer ·
1976 – Michelle Monaghan,
American actress[18] ·
1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player[19] ·
1976 – Keri Russell, American actress ·
1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver ·
1976 – Sa Beining, Chinese host ·
1977 – Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and
screenwriter ·
1978 – Simon Gärdenfors,
Swedish illustrator ·
1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentinian footballer ·
1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player ·
1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan,
Irish rugby player ·
1981 – Erin Crocker, American race car driver ·
1981 – Tony Peńa, Jr.,
Dominican baseball player ·
1981 – Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder ·
1981 – Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer ·
1981 – Brett Young,
American country music singer ·
1982 – José Contreras Arrau,
Chilean footballer ·
1982 – Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer ·
1982 – Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer ·
1983 – Hakan Balta, Turkish footballer ·
1983 – Mo Farah, Somali-English runner ·
1983 – Sascha Riether, German international
footballer[20] ·
1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer ·
1984 – Ryan Arańa, Filipino basketball player ·
1984 – Brandon Marshall, American football player ·
1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew,
American football player ·
1985 – Bethanie
Mattek-Sands, American tennis player ·
1986 – Patrick Bordeleau,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer ·
1986 – Brett Eldredge, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1986 – Kangana Ranaut, Indian actress ·
1987 – Alan Toovey, Australian footballer ·
1988 – Dellin Betances, American baseball player ·
1988 – Jason Kenny, English cyclist ·
1988 – Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player ·
1989 – Ayesha Curry, Canadian-American chef, author
and television personality ·
1989 – Nikola Gulan, Serbian footballer ·
1989 – Sarah McKenna, English rugby player[21] ·
1989 – Luis Fernando Silva,
Mexican footballer ·
1990 – Jaime Alguersuari,
Spanish race car driver ·
1990 – Robert Zickert, German footballer ·
1991 – Linline Matauatu, Vanuatuan beach volleyball
player[22] ·
1991 – Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer ·
1992 – Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish
footballer ·
1992 – Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball
player ·
1993 – Kyle Lovett, Australian rugby league player ·
1993 – Aytaç Kara, Turkish footballer ·
1994 – Nick Powell, English footballer ·
1995 – Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer ·
1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist ·
1995 – Ozan Tufan, Turkish footballer ·
1996 – Alexander Albon, Thai-British race car
driver ·
1996 – Joel Kiviranta, Finnish ice hockey player[23] Deaths[edit]
·
851 – Zhou Chi, Chinese historian and politician
(b. 793) ·
1022 – Zhen Zong, Chinese emperor (b. 968) ·
1103 – Eudes I,
duke of Burgundy (b. 1058) ·
1361 – Henry
of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of
England (b. 1310) ·
1369 – Peter, king of Castile and León (b. 1334) ·
1483 – Yolande,
duchess of Lorraine (b. 1428) ·
1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese samurai (b. 1489) ·
1555 – Julius III, pope of the Catholic Church (b.
1487) ·
1559 – Gelawdewos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1521) ·
1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557) ·
1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish philologist and
scholar (b. 1547) ·
1618 – James
Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish police officer and
politician (b. 1575) ·
1629 – Francis
Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, English landowner and politician
(b. 1580) ·
1675 – Anthoni van Noordt,
Dutch organist and composer (b. 1619) ·
1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French politician (b. 1615) ·
1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos,
French historian and author (b. 1670) ·
1747 – Claude
Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (b. 1675) ·
1748 – Johann Gottfried
Walther, German organist and composer (b. 1684) ·
1754 – Johann Jakob
Wettstein, Swiss theologian and critic (b. 1693) ·
1783 – Charles
Carroll, English barrister and politician (b. 1723) ·
1792 – Luís António Verney,
Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (b. 1713) ·
1801 – Paul I, Russian emperor (b. 1754) ·
1842 – Stendhal, French novelist (b. 1783) ·
1862 – Manuel Robles
Pezuela, Unconstitutional Mexican interim president, 1858–1859 (b.
1817)[24] ·
1883 – Arthur Macalister,
Scottish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of
Queensland (b. 1818) ·
1884 – Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b.
1824) ·
1910 – Nadar,
French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820) ·
1914 – Rafqa Pietra
Choboq Ar-Rayčs, Lebanese saint (b. 1832) ·
1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan,
Armenian poet and author (b. 1869) ·
1927 – Paul César Helleu,
French painter and etcher (b. 1859) ·
1931 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908) ·
1931 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907) ·
1931 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907) ·
1946 – Gilbert N. Lewis, American chemist (b. 1875)[25] ·
1953 – Raoul Dufy, French painter and illustrator
(b. 1877) ·
1953 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright
(b. 1887) ·
1955 – Arthur Bernardes, Brazilian politician,
12th President of Brazil (b.
1875) ·
1960 – Franklin Pierce
Adams, American journalist and author (b. 1881) ·
1960 – Said Nursî, Turkish theologian and scholar
(b. 1878) ·
1961 – Albert Bloch, American painter and educator
(b. 1882) ·
1961 – Jack
Russell, English cricketer (b. 1887) ·
1963 – Thoralf Skolem, Norwegian mathematician and
logician (b. 1887) ·
1964 – Peter Lorre, American actor (b. 1904) ·
1965 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1885) ·
1968 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and
author (b. 1918) ·
1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga,
Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895) ·
1973 – Bertram
Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New
South Wales (b. 1889) ·
1978 – Haim Ernst
Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist and academic (b. 1893) ·
1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911) ·
1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun,
American economist and academic (b. 1928) ·
1981 – Beatrice Tinsley, English-New Zealand
astronomer and cosmologist (b. 1941) ·
1981 – Mike Hailwood, English motorcyclist (b.
1940) ·
1985 – Richard
Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913) ·
1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and
educator (b. 1908) ·
1986 – Moshe Feinstein, American Orthodox Rabbi
and posek (b. 1895) ·
1987 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist
(b. 1901) ·
1990 – John Dexter, English director and producer
(b. 1925) ·
1991 – Margaret Atwood
Judson, American historian and author (b. 1899)[26] ·
1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1913) ·
1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian-German economist,
philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1899) ·
1992 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1949) ·
1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio,
Mexican economist and politician (b. 1950) ·
1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921) ·
1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer and coach
(b. 1956) ·
1999 – Luis María Argańa,
Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President
of Paraguay (b. 1932) ·
1999 – Osmond Borradaile,
Canadian director and cinematographer (b. 1898) ·
2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921) ·
2001 – Margaret Jones, British archaeologist (b. 1916) ·
2001 – Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923) ·
2001 – David McTaggart, Canadian badminton player
and environmentalist (b. 1932) ·
2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920) ·
2002 – Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer
(b. 1977) ·
2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English flute player
and journalist (b. 1926) ·
2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian soldier, lawyer,
and politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b.
1916) ·
2006 – David B. Bleak, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932) ·
2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and
dancer (b. 1918) ·
2007 – Paul Cohen,
American mathematician and theorist (b. 1934) ·
2007 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b.
1973) ·
2008 – Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author,
and playwright (b. 1940) ·
2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b.
1923) ·
2009 – Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer and trainer (b.
1934) ·
2011 – Jean Bartik, American computer scientist and
engineer (b. 1924) ·
2011 – Rosario Morales, Puerto Rican poet and
writer (b.1930)[27] ·
2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, American-British actress,
socialite and humanitarian (b. 1932) ·
2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf
Ahmed, Somalian politician, President of Somalia (b.
1934) ·
2012 – Jim Duffy,
American animator, director, and producer (b. 1937) ·
2012 – Naji Talib, Iraqi politician, 52nd Prime Minister of
Iraq (b. 1917) ·
2012 – Lonnie Wright, American basketball and
football player (b. 1945) ·
2013 – Boris
Berezovsky, Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and
businessman (b. 1946) ·
2013 – Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist,
historian, and academic (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1917) ·
2013 – Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder
and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (b.
1919) ·
2014 – Dave Brockie, Canadian-American
singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1963) ·
2014 – Jaroslav Šerých,
Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1928) ·
2014 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and
politician, 1st Prime Minister of
Spain (b. 1932) ·
2015 – Gian Vittorio Baldi,
Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Lee Kuan Yew, Singaporean lawyer and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Singapore (b. 1923) ·
2015 – Bobby Lowther, American basketball player
and lieutenant (b. 1923) ·
2015 – Lil' Chris, English singer-songwriter,
actor, and television personality (b. 1990) ·
2016 – Joe Garagiola, Sr.,
American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1926) ·
2016 – Ken Howard, American actor (b. 1944) Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Gregory the
Illuminator (Episcopal
Church) o Gwinear o Rafqa Pietra
Choboq Ar-Rayčs (Maronite Church) o Victorian,
Frumentius and Companions o March
23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day of
Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland) ·
Earliest day on which Easter Monday can fall, while April 26
is the latest; celebrated on Monday after Easter. (Western Christianity) o Śmigus-Dyngus (Poland, Ukraine), Polish diaspora communities) ·
Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan) ·
Pakistan Day (Pakistan) ·
Promised Messiah Day (Ahmadiyya) |
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