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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
282 days remain until the end of the year. March
24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations
of the Julian calendar. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1199 – King Richard I of England is
wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France,[1] leading to his death
on April 6. ·
1387 – English victory
over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off
the coast of Margate.[2] ·
1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus. ·
1603 – James VI of Scotland is
proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland,
upon the death of Elizabeth I.[3] ·
1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title
of shōgun from Emperor
Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo,
Japan. ·
1663 – The Province of Carolina is
granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their
assistance in restoring Charles II of
England to the throne. ·
1720 – Count Frederick of
Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the
Estates, after his consort Ulrika
Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 March ·
1721 – Johann Sebastian
Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt,
now commonly called the Brandenburg
Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. ·
1731 – Naturalization
of Hieronimus de
Salis Parliamentary Act is passed. ·
1765 – Great Britain passes
the Quartering Act,
which requires the Thirteen Colonies to
house British troops. ·
1794 – In
Kraków, Tadeusz
Kościuszko announces a general uprising against
Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the
Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. ·
1829 – The Parliament
of the United Kingdom passes the Roman
Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in
Parliament. ·
1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith. ·
1854 – President José Gregorio
Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela. ·
1860 – Sakuradamon
Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke. ·
1869 – The last
of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New
Zealand government, ending his uprising. ·
1878 – The British
frigate HMS Eurydice sinks,
killing more than 300. ·
1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery
of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis. ·
1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in
the Battle
of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border. ·
1900 – Mayor of New
York City Robert Anderson
Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit
Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn. ·
1907 – The first issue
of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is
published. ·
1921 – The 1921 Women's
Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event. ·
1927 – Nanking Incident:
Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in
defense of the foreign citizens within the city. ·
1934 – United States
Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act,
allowing the Philippines to
become a self-governing commonwealth. ·
1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian
civilians in Rome. ·
1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized
in the movie The Great Escape,
76 Allied prisoners
of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. ·
1946 – A British Cabinet
Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer
of power from the British Raj to
Indian leadership. ·
1958 – Rock 'n' roll
teen idol Elvis Presley is
drafted in the U.S. Army. ·
1961 – Quebec
Board of the French Language is established. ·
1965 – Images from
the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live
on network television. ·
1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional
track meet in Los Angeles. ·
1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the
constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year
dictatorial period self-styled the National
Reorganization Process. ·
1977 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of
India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National
Congress. ·
1980 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while
celebrating Mass in San Salvador. ·
1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads
to new UK laws on landfill gas
migration and gas protection on landfill sites. ·
1989 – In Prince William Sound in
Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills
240,000 barrels (38,000 m3)
of crude oil after running aground. ·
1993 – Discovery
of Comet
Shoemaker–Levy 9. ·
1998 – Mitchell
Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon
teachers and students at Westside
Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas;
five people are killed and ten are wounded. ·
1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and
injuring 3,000 others. ·
1998 – First computer-assisted Bone Segment
Navigation, performed at the University of
Regensburg, Germany ·
1999 – Kosovo war: NATO began
attacks on Yugoslavia without
United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO
has attacked a sovereign country. ·
1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour
catches fire inside
the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
The resulting inferno kills 38 people. ·
2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a
resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and
British soldiers from Iraq. ·
2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first
ever general election. ·
2015 – Germanwings
Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass
murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. ·
2019 ‐ Jakarta MRT began operation.[4] Births[edit]
·
1103 – Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)[5] ·
1441 – Ernest, Elector
of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)[6] ·
1494 – Georgius Agricola,
German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)[7] ·
1577 – Francis, Duke
of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1620) ·
1607 – Michiel de Ruyter,
Dutch admiral (d. 1667)[8] ·
1628 – Sophie
Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685) ·
1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and
politician (d. 1725) ·
1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and
clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d.
1776) ·
1725 – Samuel Ashe,
American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of
North Carolina (d. 1813) ·
1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and
politician, 1st Lieutenant
Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788) ·
1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and
politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d.
1827) ·
1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and
composer (d. 1830) ·
1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar,
Indian poet and composer (d. 1835) ·
1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d.
1836) ·
1796 – Zulma Carraud, French author (d. 1889)[9] ·
1796 – John Corry Wilson
Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878) ·
1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister,
educator, and politician (d. 1882) ·
1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d.
1836) ·
1809 – Mariano José de
Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837) ·
1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and
academic (d. 1882) ·
1816 – Pelagio
Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who
served as regent during the Second Mexican
Empire (1863-1864) (d. 1891)[10] ·
1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and
academic (d. 1891) ·
1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d.
1915) ·
1823 – Thomas Spencer
Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887) ·
1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage,
American activist and author (d. 1898) ·
1828 – Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (d.
1902) ·
1829 – George Francis Train,
American businessman (d. 1904) ·
1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862) ·
1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and
playwright (d. 1889) ·
1834 – William Morris, English textile designer,
poet, and author (d. 1896) ·
1834 – John Wesley Powell,
American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902) ·
1835 – Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist,
mathematician, and poet (d. 1893) ·
1848 – Honoré Beaugrand,
Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d.
1906) ·
1850 – Silas Hocking, English minister and author
(d. 1935) ·
1854 – Henry Lefroy, Australian politician,
11th Premier of
Western Australia (d. 1930) ·
1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker,
financier, and diplomat, 49th United
States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937) ·
1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and
activist (d. 1920) ·
1862 – Frank Weston Benson,
American painter and educator (d. 1951) ·
1869 – Émile Fabre, French author and playwright
(d. 1955) ·
1871 – Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d.
1913) ·
1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician,
2nd President
of the Italian Republic (d. 1961) ·
1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American
magician and actor (d. 1926) ·
1875 – William Burns,
Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953) ·
1879 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet,
and composer (d. 1953) ·
1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951) ·
1882 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English
politician, 5th Governor-General
of New Zealand (d. 1943) ·
1883 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer
(d. 1945) ·
1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and
chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1966) ·
1884 – Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (d. 1968)[11] ·
1884 – Eugčne Tisserant,
French cardinal (d. 1972) ·
1885 – Charles Daniels,
American swimmer (d. 1973) ·
1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and
composer (d. 1978) ·
1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d.
1958) ·
1886 – Robert
Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (d. 1945) ·
1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director,
and screenwriter (d. 1933) ·
1888 – Viktor Kingissepp,
Estonian politician (d. 1922) ·
1889 – Albert Hill,
English-Canadian runner (d. 1969) ·
1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and
politician (d. 1954) ·
1891 – Sergey Ivanovich
Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951) ·
1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician and
academic (d. 1977) ·
1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer and author
(d. 1960) ·
1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player and
scout (d. 1973) ·
1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American
psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957) ·
1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and
producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d.
1971) ·
1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and
politician, 47th Governor of New York (d.
1971) ·
1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1995) ·
1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge,
English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990) ·
1905 – Pura
Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007) ·
1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician,
17th Premier of Quebec (d.
1960) ·
1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934) ·
1909 – Richard Wurmbrand,
Romanian Pastor and Evangelist (d. 2001) ·
1910 – Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and
director (d. 1975) ·
1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director,
and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006) ·
1912 – Dorothy Height, African-American educator
and activist (d. 2010) ·
1915 – Eugčne Martin, French racing driver (d.
2006) ·
1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier
and author (d. 2006) ·
1916 – Harry B. Whittington,
English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010) ·
1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and
crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1997) ·
1919 – Lawrence
Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights
Bookstore ·
1919 – Robert Heilbroner,
American economist and historian (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and
screenwriter (d. 1996) ·
1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006) ·
1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d.
2010) ·
1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and
choreographer (d. 2005) ·
1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986) ·
1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher
(d. 2011) ·
1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998) ·
1925 – Puig Aubert, German-French rugby league
player and coach (d. 1994) ·
1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017) ·
1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor,
director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2016) ·
1926 – William Porter,
American hurdler (d. 2000) ·
1927 – John Woodland
Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014) ·
1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright ·
1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist and composer ·
1929 – Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d.
2012) ·
1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician,
1st President
of the Central African Republic (d. 2003) ·
1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer
(d. 1980) ·
1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German educator and
politician, Mayor of
Marburg (d. 2003) ·
1933 – Stephen De Staebler,
American sculptor and educator (d. 2011) ·
1933 – Lee Mendelson, American television producer
(d. 2019) [12] ·
1936 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d.
2015) ·
1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player ·
1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist
(d. 1970) ·
1938 – David Irving, English historian and author ·
1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer ·
1941 – Michael Masser, American songwriter,
composer and producer (d. 2015) ·
1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor
(d. 2018) ·
1944 – Vojislav Koštunica,
Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister
of Serbia ·
1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
and academic ·
1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (d. 2016) ·
1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and
screenwriter ·
1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and
songwriter (d. 2008) ·
1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018) ·
1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player
and coach ·
1947 – Christine Gregoire,
American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of
Washington ·
1947 – Mick
Jones, English footballer and coach ·
1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman ·
1948 – Javier Diez Canseco,
Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013) ·
1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989) ·
1948 – Lee Oskar, Jewish-Danish musician ·
1949 – Tabitha King, American author and poet ·
1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach ·
1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (April Wine) (d. 2017) ·
1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass
player, and producer ·
1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and
politician, 36th Foreign
Affairs Minister of Iran ·
1949 – Ranil Wickremesinghe,
Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime
Minister of Sri Lanka ·
1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and
agent (d. 2011) ·
1951 – Peter
Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013) ·
1951 – Pat Bradley,
American golfer ·
1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer,
founded the Tommy Hilfiger
Corporation ·
1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player ·
1951 – Anna Włodarczyk,
Polish long jumper and coach ·
1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (d.
2013) ·
1953 – Anita L. Allen, African-American lawyer,
philosopher, and academic ·
1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian ·
1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach ·
1955 – Pat Price,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman ·
1956 – Bill Wray,
American cartoonist and painter ·
1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier ·
1957 – Pat Jarvis,
Australian rugby league player ·
1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and
coach ·
1959 – Emmit King, American sprinter ·
1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and
football player ·
1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer ·
1960 – Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist ·
1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler ·
1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and
model ·
1960 – Nena,
German singer-songwriter and actress ·
1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver ·
1960 – Annabella Sciorra,
American actress ·
1961 – Dean Jones,
Australian cricketer and coach ·
1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and
politician, Greek
Minister of Finance ·
1962 – Angčle Dubeau, Canadian violinist ·
1962 – Star Jones, African-American lawyer,
journalist, and talk show host ·
1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower ·
1963 – Raimond van der Gouw,
Dutch footballer and coach ·
1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and
manager (d. 2015) ·
1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and
bobsledder ·
1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor ·
1966 – Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach ·
1967 – Diann Roffe, American skier ·
1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player ·
1969 – Stephan Eberharter,
Austrian skier ·
1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress ·
1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and
violinist ·
1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer ·
1970 – Erica Kennedy, African-American journalist
and author (d. 2012) ·
1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football
player ·
1971 – Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor ·
1972 – Christophe Dugarry,
French footballer ·
1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player and
coach ·
1973 – Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer ·
1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player
and manager ·
1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer and
coach ·
1973 – Jure Ivanušič,
Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier ·
1973 – Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer ·
1973 – Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer ·
1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor ·
1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress ·
1974 – Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper ·
1974 – Tado, Filipino comedian and activist (d.
2014) ·
1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monacan tennis
player ·
1976 – Aaron
Brooks, American football player ·
1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach ·
1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas,
Greek footballer ·
1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and
entrepreneur ·
1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress ·
1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player ·
1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player
and sportscaster ·
1978 – Michael Braun,
Australian footballer and coach ·
1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši,
Czech footballer and manager ·
1978 – José Valverde, Dominican baseball player ·
1979 – Lake Bell, Jewish-American actress,
director, and screenwriter ·
1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player ·
1979 – Periklis Iakovakis,
Greek hurdler ·
1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer ·
1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer ·
1981 – Mike Adams,
American football player ·
1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player ·
1981 – Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player ·
1981 – Mark Looms, Dutch footballer ·
1981 – Gary Paffett, English racing driver ·
1982 – Corey Hart,
American baseball player ·
1982 – Jack Swagger, American mixed martial artist
and professional wrestler ·
1982 – Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional
wrestler ·
1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer ·
1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player ·
1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer ·
1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer ·
1983 – Pierre-Alexandre
Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1983 – T.J. Ford, American basketball player ·
1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto,
French born Cameroonian international footballer, left-back[13] ·
1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player ·
1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player ·
1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu,
Kenyan runner ·
1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer ·
1984 – Philipp Petzschner,
German tennis player ·
1985 – Lana, American wrestler and manager ·
1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer ·
1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer ·
1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer ·
1987 – Billy
Jones, English footballer ·
1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer ·
1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete ·
1988 – Ryan
Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer ·
1988 – Matías Martínez,
Argentinian footballer ·
1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer ·
1988 – Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player ·
1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player ·
1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor ·
1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes,
Australian-New Zealand actress ·
1990 – Lacey Evans, American wrestler ·
1991 – Nick Browne,
English cricketer ·
1991 – Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player ·
1995 – Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer Deaths[edit]
·
809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763) ·
832 – Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury ·
1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b.
1235) ·
1296 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights
Hospitaller ·
1381 – Catherine of
Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332) ·
1394 – Constance
of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile ·
1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b.
1340) ·
1399 – Margaret,
Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320) ·
1443 – James
Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371) ·
1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397) ·
1499 – Edward
Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470) ·
1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto,
Japanese daimyō (b. 1514) ·
1575 – Joseph ben
Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488) ·
1603 – Elizabeth I of
England (b. 1533)[14] ·
1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer
(b. 1587) ·
1684 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629) ·
1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway,
English woman convicted of poisoning her husband[15] ·
1773 – Philip
Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain
of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694) ·
1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and
clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b.
1693) ·
1824 – Louis
Marie de La Révelličre-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753) ·
1838 – Abraham
Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician
(b. 1748/49) ·
1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini,
French-Russian general (b. 1779) ·
1881 – Achille
Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b.
1817) ·
1882 – Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807) ·
1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic
(b. 1837) ·
1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855) ·
1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and
playwright (b. 1828) ·
1909 – John Millington
Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871) ·
1915 – Margaret Lindsay
Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848) ·
1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist,
mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846) ·
1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and
composer (b. 1867) ·
1926 – Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b.
1872) ·
1940 – Édouard Branly,
French physicist and academic (b. 1844) ·
1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b.
1903) ·
1946 – Alexander Alekhine,
Russian chess player (b. 1892) ·
1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter,
and jumper (b. 1869) ·
1948 – Sigrid Hjertén,
Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885) ·
1950 – James Rudolph
Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United
States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865) ·
1951 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian
educator and educational
psychologist (b. 1887) ·
1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867) ·
1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and
bandleader (b. 1899) ·
1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and
explorer (b. 1884) ·
1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché,
American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)[16] ·
1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed
the Radisson
Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902) ·
1971 – Arthur
Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) ·
1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,
English field marshal (b. 1887) ·
1978 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and
academic (b. 1916) ·
1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b.
1917) ·
1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891) ·
1985 – Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor,
photographer and engraver (b. 1910) ·
1988 – Turhan
Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy
Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922) ·
1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio
host (b. 1922) ·
1991 – John Kerr,
Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General
of Australia (b. 1914) ·
1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer,
actor, and playwright (b. 1905) ·
1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author
(b. 1914) ·
1995 – Joseph Needham, English historian and
academic (b. 1900) ·
1999 – Gertrud
Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902) ·
1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player
and manager (b. 1912) ·
2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and
producer (b. 1928) ·
2002 – César Milstein,
Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (b. 1927) ·
2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and
bobsledder (b. 1932) ·
2003 – Hans Hermann Groër,
Austrian cardinal (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Rudra Rajasingham,
Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926) ·
2007 – Shripad Narayan
Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913) ·
2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b.
1955) ·
2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer
and manager (b. 1941) ·
2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and
screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914) ·
2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and
sportscaster (b. 1922) ·
2009 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919) ·
2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player
(b. 1975) ·
2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930) ·
2010 – Jim Marshall,
American photographer (b. 1936) ·
2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and
academic (b. 1947) ·
2012 – Nick Noble,
American singer-songwriter (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Barbara
Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926) ·
2013 – Inge Lřnning, Norwegian theologian,
academic, and politician (b. 1938) ·
2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist,
mathematician, and academic (b. 1925) ·
2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972) ·
2013 – Mohamed Yousri
Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974) ·
2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow,
English diplomat (b. 1912) ·
2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko,
Ukrainian activist (b. 1962) ·
2014 – John Rowe Townsend,
English author and scholar (b. 1922) ·
2014 – David A. Trampier,
American illustrator (b. 1954) ·
2015 – Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b.
1928) ·
2015 – notable deaths of the Germanwings
Flight 9525 crash: o Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer
(b. 1960) o Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981) ·
2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947) ·
2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor,
and screenwriter (b. 1949) ·
2018 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of
the Eurovision Song
Contest (b. 1924) ·
2019 – Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor
(b.1949) [17] ·
2020 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b.
1927)[18] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Hildelith of Barking o Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism) o Paul Couturier (Church
of England) o Walter Hilton (Church of England) o March
24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Day
of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina) ·
National
Tree Planting Day (Uganda) ·
World Tuberculosis
Day (International) |
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