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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 25 is the 84th day of the year (85th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
281 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
708 – Pope Constantine succeeds Pope Sisinnius as the 88th pope. ·
717 – Theodosius III resigns the throne to
the Byzantine Empire to
enter the clergy. ·
919 – Romanos Lekapenos seizes
the Boukoleon Palace in Constantinople and becomes regent of the Byzantine emperor Constantine VII. ·
1000 – Fatimid caliph al-Hakim bi-Amr
Allah assassinates the eunuch chief minister Barjawan and assumes control of the
government. ·
1306 – Robert the Bruce becomes King of Scots
(Scotland). ·
1409 – The Council of Pisa opens. ·
1555 – The city
of Valencia is
founded in present-day Venezuela. ·
1576 – Jerome Savage
takes out a sub-lease to start the Newington Butts
Theatre outside London. ·
1584 – Sir Walter Raleigh is granted a patent to
colonize Virginia. ·
1655 – Saturn's largest moon, Titan, is discovered by Christiaan Huygens. ·
1802 – The Treaty of Amiens is signed as a
"Definitive Treaty of Peace" between France and the United Kingdom. ·
1807 – The Slave Trade Act becomes
law, abolishing the slave trade in
the British Empire. ·
1807 – The Swansea and
Mumbles Railway, then known as the Oystermouth Railway, becomes
the first passenger-carrying railway in the world. ·
1811 – Percy Bysshe Shelley is
expelled from the University of Oxford for
publishing the pamphlet The Necessity of
Atheism. ·
1821 – Traditional
date of the start of the Greek War of
Independence. The war had actually begun on 23 March 1821 (Julian calendar). ·
1845 – New Zealand
Legislative Council pass the first Militia Act constituting the New Zealand Army.[1] ·
1865 – American Civil War:
In Virginia, Confederate forces
temporarily capture Fort Stedman from
the Union. ·
1894 – Coxey's Army, the first significant American
protest march, departs Massillon, Ohio for Washington, D.C. ·
1911 – In New York
City, the Triangle
Shirtwaist Factory fire kills 146 garment workers.[2] ·
1917 – The Georgian
Orthodox Church restores its autocephaly abolished by Imperial Russia in 1811. ·
1918 – The Belarusian
People's Republic is established. ·
1924 – On the
anniversary of Greek
Independence, Alexandros
Papanastasiou proclaims the Second Hellenic
Republic. ·
1931 – The Scottsboro Boys are arrested in Alabama and charged with rape. ·
1941 – The Kingdom of
Yugoslavia joins the Axis powers with the signing of
the Tripartite Pact. ·
1947 – An explosion in
a coal mine in Centralia, Illinois kills
111. ·
1948 – The first
successful tornado forecast predicts
that a
tornado will strike Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. ·
1949 – More than
92,000 kulaks are suddenly deported from the Baltic states to Siberia. ·
1957 – United States
Customs seizes copies of Allen Ginsberg's poem "Howl"
on obscenity grounds. ·
1957 – The European
Economic Community is established with West Germany, France,
Italy, Belgium, Netherlands and Luxembourg as the first members. ·
1965 – Civil rights activists
led by Martin Luther King
Jr. successfully complete their 4-day
50-mile march from Selma to the capitol in Montgomery, Alabama. ·
1969 – During their
honeymoon, John Lennon and Yoko Ono hold their first Bed-In for Peace at the Amsterdam
Hilton Hotel (until March 31). ·
1971 – The Army of
the Republic of Vietnam abandon an attempt to
cut off the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos. ·
1973 – Ireland gets a new newspaper
called Sunday World. ·
1975 – Faisal of Saudi
Arabia is shot and killed by a mentally ill nephew. ·
1979 – The first fully
functional Space Shuttle orbiter, Columbia,
is delivered to the John F.
Kennedy Space Center to be prepared for its first launch. ·
1988 – The Candle
demonstration in Bratislava is the first mass demonstration
of the 1980s against the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. ·
1995 – WikiWikiWeb, the world's first wiki, and
part of the Portland
Pattern Repository, is made public by Ward Cunningham. ·
1996 – The European Union's Veterinarian Committee bans
the export of British beef and its by-products as a result of mad cow disease
(Bovine
spongiform encephalopathy). ·
2006 – Capitol Hill
massacre: A gunman kills six people before taking his own life at
a party in Seattle's Capitol Hill neighborhood. ·
2006 – Protesters demanding a new election
in Belarus, following the rigged 2006
Belarusian presidential election, clash with riot police.
Opposition leader Aleksander Kozulin is
among several protesters arrested. Births[edit]
·
1252 – Conradin, Duke of Swabia (d. 1268) ·
1259 – Andronikos II
Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1332) ·
1297 – Andronikos III
Palaiologos, Byzantine emperor (d. 1341) ·
1297 – Arnošt of Pardubice,
Polish archbishop (d. 1364) ·
1345 – Blanche of Lancaster (d.
1369) ·
1347 – Catherine of Siena,
Italian philosopher, theologian, and saint (d. 1380) ·
1404 – John
Beaufort, 1st Duke of Somerset, English military leader (d. 1444) ·
1414 – Thomas
Clifford, 8th Baron de Clifford, English noble (d. 1455) ·
1434 – Eustochia
Smeralda Calafato, Italian saint (d. 1485) ·
1453 – Giuliano de' Medici (d.
1478) ·
1479 – Vasili III of Russia (d.
1533) ·
1491 – Marie
d'Albret, Countess of Rethel (d. 1549) ·
1510 – Guillaume Postel, French linguist (d. 1581) ·
1538 – Christopher Clavius,
German mathematician and astronomer (d. 1612) ·
1541 – Francesco I de' Medici, Grand Duke of Tuscany (d.
1587) ·
1545 – John II, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg (d.
1622) ·
1546 – Giacomo Castelvetro,
Italian writer (d. 1616) ·
1593 – Jean de Brébeuf,
French-Canadian missionary and saint (d. 1649) ·
1611 – Evliya Çelebi, Ottoman Turk traveller and
writer (d. 1682) ·
1636 – Henric Piccardt, Dutch lawyer (d. 1712) ·
1643 – Louis Moréri, French priest and scholar (d.
1680) ·
1661 – Paul de Rapin, French soldier and historian
(d. 1725) ·
1699 – Johann Adolph Hasse,
German singer and composer (d. 1783) ·
1741 – Jean-Antoine Houdon,
French sculptor and educator (d. 1828) ·
1745 – John Barry,
American naval officer and father of the American navy (d. 1803) ·
1767 – Joachim Murat, French general (d. 1815) ·
1782 – Caroline Bonaparte,
French daughter of Carlo Buonaparte (d. 1839) ·
1800 – Ernst
Heinrich Karl von Dechen, German geologist and academic (d. 1889) ·
1808 – José de Espronceda,
Spanish poet and author (d. 1842) ·
1824 – Clinton L. Merriam,
American banker and politician (d. 1900) ·
1840 – Myles Keogh, Irish-American colonel (d.
1876) ·
1863 – Simon Flexner, American physician and
academic (d. 1946) ·
1867 – Gutzon Borglum, American sculptor,
designed Mount Rushmore (d.
1941) ·
1867 – Arturo Toscanini, Italian-American cellist
and conductor (d. 1957) ·
1868 – Bill Lockwood,
English cricketer (d. 1932) ·
1871 – Louis Perrée, French fencer (d. 1924) ·
1872 – Horatio Nelson
Jackson, American race car driver and physician (d. 1955) ·
1873 – Rudolf Rocker, German-American author and
activist (d. 1958) ·
1874 – Selim
Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (d. 1957)[3] ·
1876 – Irving Baxter, American jumper and pole
vaulter (d. 1957) ·
1877 – Walter Little,
Canadian politician (d. 1961) ·
1878 – František Janda-Suk,
Czech discus thrower and shot putter (d. 1955) ·
1879 – Amedee Reyburn, American swimmer and water
polo player (d. 1920) ·
1881 – Béla Bartók, Hungarian pianist and composer
(d. 1945) ·
1881 – Patrick Henry Bruce,
American painter and educator (d. 1936) ·
1881 – Mary Webb, English author and poet (d. 1927) ·
1893 – Johannes Villemson,
Estonian runner (d. 1971) ·
1895 – Siegfried Handloser,
German general and physician (d. 1954) ·
1885 – Jimmy Seed, English international
footballer, inside forward and manager (d. 1966)[4] ·
1897 – Leslie Averill, New Zealand doctor and
soldier (d. 1981) ·
1899 – François Rozet,
French-Canadian actor (d. 1994) ·
1901 – Ed Begley, American actor (d. 1970) ·
1903 – Binnie Barnes, English-American actress (d.
1998) ·
1903 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and
bandleader (d. 2001) ·
1903 – Nahum Norbert
Glatzer, Ukrainian-American theologian and scholar (d. 1990) ·
1904 – Pete Johnson, American boogie-woogie and
jazz pianist (d. 1967) ·
1905 – Albrecht
Mertz von Quirnheim, German colonel (d. 1944) ·
1906 – Jean Sablon, French singer and actor (d.
1994) ·
1906 – A. J. P. Taylor, English historian and
academic (d. 1990) ·
1908 – David Lean, English director, producer, and
screenwriter (d. 1991) ·
1910 – Magda Olivero, Italian soprano (d. 2014) ·
1910 – Benzion Netanyahu,
Polish-Israeli historian and academic (d. 2012) ·
1912 – Melita Norwood, English civil servant and
spy (d. 2005) ·
1912 – Jean Vilar, French actor and director (d.
1971) ·
1913 – Reo Stakis, Cypriot-Scottish businessman,
founded Stakis Hotels (d.
2001) ·
1914 – Norman Borlaug, American agronomist and
humanitarian, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2009) ·
1915 – Dorothy Squires, Welsh singer (d. 1998) ·
1916 – S. M. Pandit, Indian painter and educator
(d. 1993) ·
1918 – Howard Cosell, American soldier, journalist,
and author (d. 1995) ·
1920 – Paul Scott,
English author, poet, and playwright (d. 1978) ·
1920 – Patrick Troughton,
English actor (d. 1987) ·
1920 – Usha Mehta, Gandhian and freedom fighter of
India (d. 2000) ·
1921 – Nancy Kelly, American actress (d. 1995) ·
1921 – Simone Signoret, French actress (d. 1985) ·
1922 – Eileen Ford, American businesswoman,
co-founded Ford Models (d.
2014) ·
1923 – Bonnie Guitar, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2019) ·
1923 – Wim van Est, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) ·
1924 – Roberts Blossom, American actor (d. 2011) ·
1924 – Machiko Kyō, Japanese actress (d. 2019) ·
1925 – Flannery O'Connor,
American short story writer and novelist (d. 1964) ·
1925 – Anthony
Quinton, Baron Quinton, English physician and philosopher (d.
2010) ·
1925 – Kishori Sinha, Indian politician, social
activist and advocate (d. 2016) ·
1926 – Riz Ortolani, Italian composer and conductor
(d. 2014) ·
1926 – László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003) ·
1926 – Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet and politician
(d. 1999) ·
1926 – Gene Shalit, American journalist and critic ·
1927 – P. Shanmugam, Indian politician, 13th Chief
Minister of Puducherry (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Jim Lovell, American captain, pilot, and
astronaut ·
1928 – Gunnar Nielsen,
Danish runner and typographer (d. 1985) ·
1928 – Hans
Steinbrenner, German sculptor (d. 2008) ·
1929 – Cecil Taylor, American pianist and composer
(d. 2018) ·
1930 – David Burge, American pianist, composer, and
conductor (d. 2013) ·
1930 – Carlo Mauri, Italian mountaineer and
explorer (d. 1982) ·
1930 – Rudy Minarcin, American baseball player and
coach (d. 2013) ·
1931 – Humphrey Burton, English radio and
television host ·
1932 – Penelope Gilliatt,
English novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 1993) ·
1932 – Wes Santee, American runner (d. 2010) ·
1934 – Johnny Burnette, American singer-songwriter
(d. 1964) ·
1934 – Bernard King,
Australian actor and chef (d. 2002) ·
1934 – Karlheinz Schreiber,
German-Canadian businessman ·
1934 – Gloria Steinem, American feminist activist,
co-founded the Women's Media Center ·
1935 – Gabriel Elorde, Filipino boxer (d. 1985) ·
1936 – Carl Kaufmann, American-German sprinter (d.
2008) ·
1937 – Tom Monaghan, American businessman,
founded Domino's Pizza ·
1938 – Hoyt Axton, American singer-songwriter and
actor (d. 1999) ·
1938 – Daniel Buren, French sculptor and painter ·
1938 – Fritz d'Orey, Brazilian race car driver ·
1939 – Toni Cade Bambara,
American author, academic, and activist (d. 1995) ·
1939 – D. C. Fontana, American screenwriter and producer
(d. 2019) ·
1941 – Gudmund Hernes, Norwegian sociologist and
politician, Norwegian
Minister of Education and Research ·
1942 – Aretha Franklin, American singer-songwriter
and pianist (d. 2018) ·
1942 – Richard O'Brien, English actor and
screenwriter ·
1942 – Kim Woodburn, English television host ·
1943 – Paul Michael Glaser,
American actor and director ·
1945 – Leila Diniz, Brazilian actress (d. 1972) ·
1946 – Cliff Balsom, English footballer ·
1946 – Daniel Bensaïd,
French philosopher and author (d. 2010) ·
1946 – Stephen Hunter, American author and critic ·
1946 – Maurice Krafft, French volcanologist (d.
1991) ·
1947 – Richard Cork, English historian and critic ·
1947 – Elton John, English singer-songwriter,
pianist, producer, and actor ·
1948 – Bonnie Bedelia, American actress ·
1948 – Michael Stanley, American singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1949 – Ronnie Flanagan, Northern Irish Chief
Constable (Royal Irish
Constabulary, Police
Service of Northern Ireland) ·
1949 – Sue Klebold, American activist ·
1950 – Chuck
Greenberg, American saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (d.
1995) ·
1950 – Ronnie McDowell, American singer-songwriter ·
1950 – David Paquette, American-New Zealander
pianist ·
1951 – Jumbo Tsuruta, Japanese wrestler (d. 2000) ·
1952 – Stephen Dorrell, English soldier and
politician, Secretary
of State for Health ·
1952 – Antanas Mockus, Colombian mathematician,
philosopher, and politician, Mayor of Bogotá ·
1953 – Robert Fox,
English producer and manager ·
1953 – Vesna Pusić, Croatian sociologist and
politician, Deputy
Prime Minister of Croatia ·
1953 – Haroon Rasheed, Pakistani cricketer and
coach ·
1954 – Thom Loverro, American journalist and author ·
1955 – Daniel Boulud, French chef and author ·
1955 – Lee Mazzilli, American baseball player,
coach, and manager ·
1957 – Christina Boxer, English runner and
journalist ·
1957 – Jonathan Michie, English economist and
academic ·
1957 – Aleksandr Puchkov,
Russian hurdler ·
1957 – Jim Uhls, American screenwriter and producer ·
1958 – Lorna Brown, Canadian artist, curator, and
writer ·
1958 – Susie Bright, American journalist, author,
and critic ·
1958 – Sisy Chen, Taiwanese journalist and
politician ·
1958 – María Caridad Colón,
Cuban javelin thrower and shot putter ·
1958 – John Ensign, American physician and
politician ·
1958 – Ray Tanner, American baseball player and
coach ·
1958 – Åsa Torstensson,
Swedish politician, 3rd Swedish
Minister for Infrastructure ·
1960 – Steve Norman, English saxophonist,
songwriter, and producer ·
1960 – Peter O'Brien,
Australian actor ·
1960 – Brenda Strong, American actress ·
1961 – Mark Brooks,
American golfer ·
1962 – Marcia Cross, American actress ·
1962 – David Nuttall, English lawyer and politician ·
1963 – Karen Bruce, English dancer and
choreographer ·
1963 – Velle Kadalipp, Estonian architect ·
1963 – Andrew O'Connor,
British actor, comedian, magician, television presenter and executive
producer ·
1964 – René Meulensteen,
Dutch footballer and coach ·
1964 – Ken Wregget, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1964 – Norm Duke, American bowler ·
1965 – Avery Johnson, American basketball player
and coach ·
1965 – Stefka Kostadinova,
Bulgarian high jumper ·
1965 – Sarah Jessica Parker,
American actress, producer, and designer ·
1966 – Tom Glavine, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 – Humberto Gonzalez,
Mexican boxer ·
1966 – Jeff Healey, Canadian singer-songwriter and
guitarist (d. 2008) ·
1966 – Anton Rogan, Northern Irish footballer ·
1967 – Matthew Barney, American sculptor and
photographer ·
1967 – Doug Stanhope, American comedian and actor ·
1967 – Debi Thomas, American figure skater and
physician ·
1969 – George Chlitsios, Greek conductor and
composer ·
1969 – Dale Davis,
American basketball player ·
1969 – Cathy Dennis, English singer-songwriter,
record producer and actress ·
1969 – Jeffrey Walker, English singer-songwriter
and bass player ·
1970 – Magnus Larsson, Swedish golfer ·
1971 – Stacy Dragila, American pole vaulter and
coach ·
1971 – Cammi Granato, American ice hockey player
and sportscaster ·
1971 – Sheryl Swoopes, American basketball player
and coach ·
1972 – Giniel de Villiers,
South African race car driver ·
1972 – Phil
O'Donnell, Scottish footballer (d. 2007) ·
1973 – Michaela Dorfmeister,
Austrian skier ·
1973 – Anders Fridén, Swedish singer-songwriter and
producer ·
1973 – Bob Sura, American basketball player ·
1974 – Serge Betsen, Cameroonian-French rugby
player ·
1974 – Lark Voorhies, American actress and singer ·
1975 – Ladislav Benýšek,
Czech ice hockey player ·
1975 – Melanie Blatt, English singer-songwriter and
actress ·
1975 – Erika Heynatz, Papua New Guinean-Australian
model and actress ·
1976 – Francie Bellew, Irish footballer ·
1976 – Lars Figura, German sprinter ·
1976 – Wladimir Klitschko,
Ukrainian boxer ·
1976 – Rima Wakarua, New Zealand-Italian rugby
player ·
1977 – Natalie Clein, English cellist and educator ·
1977 – Andrew Lindsay, Scottish rower ·
1978 – Gennaro Delvecchio,
Italian footballer ·
1979 – Muriel
Hurtis-Houairi, French sprinter ·
1980 – Kathrine Sørland,
Norwegian fashion model and television presenter ·
1982 – Danica Patrick, American race car driver ·
1982 – Álvaro Saborío,
Costa Rican footballer ·
1982 – Jenny Slate, American comedian, actress and
author[5] ·
1983 – Mickaël Hanany,
French high jumper ·
1984 – Katharine McPhee, American singer-songwriter
and actress ·
1984 – Liam Messam, New Zealand rugby player ·
1985 – Carmen Rasmusen, Canadian-American
singer-songwriter and actress ·
1985 – Diana Rennik, Estonian figure skater ·
1986 – Marco Belinelli, Italian basketball player ·
1986 – Megan Gibson, American softball player ·
1986 – Kyle Lowry, American basketball player ·
1986 – Mickey Paea, Australian rugby league player ·
1987 – Jacob Bagersted, Danish handball player ·
1987 – Victor Obinna, Nigerian footballer ·
1987 – Nobunari Oda, Japanese figure skater ·
1988 – Big Sean, American rapper, singer and
songwriter[6] ·
1988 – Mitchell Watt, Australian long jumper ·
1988 – Arthur Zeiler, German rugby player ·
1989 – Aly Michalka, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1989 – Scott Sinclair, English footballer ·
1990 – Mehmet Ekici, Turkish footballer ·
1990 – Alexander Esswein,
German footballer ·
1991 – Scott Malone, English footballer, left-back[7] ·
1993 – Jacob Gagan, Australian rugby league player ·
1993 – Sam Johnstone, English footballer ·
1994 – Justine
Dufour-Lapointe, Canadian skier Deaths[edit]
·
908 – Li Kening, Chinese general ·
940 – Taira no Masakado,
Japanese samurai ·
990 – Nicodemus of Mammola,
Italian monk and saint[8] ·
1005 – Kenneth III,
king of Scotland ·
1051 – Hugh IV,
French nobleman ·
1189 – Frederick,
duke of Bohemia ·
1223 – Alfonso II,
king of Portugal (b. 1185) ·
1351 – Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai ·
1351 – Kō no Moroyasu,
Japanese samurai ·
1392 – Hosokawa Yoriyuki,
Japanese samurai ·
1458 – Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana,
Spanish poet and politician (b. 1398) ·
1558 – Marcos de Niza, French friar and explorer
(b. 1495) ·
1603 – Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyō (b.
1526) ·
1609 – Olaus Martini, Swedish archbishop (b. 1557) ·
1609 – Isabelle de Limeuil,
French noble (b. 1535) ·
1620 – Johannes Nucius, German composer and
theorist (b. 1556) ·
1625 – Giambattista Marino,
Italian poet and author (b. 1569) ·
1658 – Herman
IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, German nobleman (b. 1607) ·
1677 – Wenceslaus Hollar,
Czech-English painter and etcher (b. 1607) ·
1701 – Jean Regnault de
Segrais, French poet and novelist (b. 1624) ·
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English anatomist and
physiologist (b. 1641) ·
1732 – Lucy Filippini, Italian teacher and saint
(b. 1672) ·
1736 – Nicholas Hawksmoor,
English architect, designed Easton Neston and Christ Church (b.
1661) ·
1738 – Turlough O'Carolan,
Irish harp player and composer (b. 1670) ·
1801 – Novalis, German poet and author (b. 1772) ·
1818 – Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish
mathematician and cartographer (b. 1745) ·
1857 – William Colgate, English-American
businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (b.
1783) ·
1860 – James Braid,
Scottish-English surgeon (b. 1795) ·
1869 – Edward Bates, American politician and lawyer
(b. 1793) ·
1873 – Wilhelm Marstrand,
Danish painter and illustrator (b. 1810) ·
1907 – Ernst von Bergmann,
Latvian-German surgeon and academic (b. 1836) ·
1908 – Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851) ·
1914 – Frédéric Mistral,
French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1830) ·
1917 – Elizabeth Storrs
Mead, American academic (b. 1832) ·
1918 – Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862) ·
1918 – Peter
Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (b. 1875) ·
1927 – Marie-Alphonsine
Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (b.
1843) ·
1931 – Ganesh Shankar
Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (b. 1890) ·
1931 – Ida B. Wells, American journalist and
activist (b. 1862) ·
1932 – Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (b.1845) ·
1942 – William Carr,
American rower (b. 1876) ·
1951 – Eddie Collins, American baseball player and
manager (b. 1887) ·
1956 – Lou Moore, American race car driver (b.
1904) ·
1956 – Robert Newton, English actor (b. 1905) ·
1957 – Max Ophüls, German-American director and
screenwriter (b. 1902) ·
1958 – Tom Brown,
American trombonist (b. 1888) ·
1964 – Charles Benjamin
Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1885) ·
1965 – Viola Liuzzo, American civil rights activist
(b. 1925) ·
1969 – Billy Cotton, English singer, drummer, and
bandleader (b. 1899) ·
1969 – Max Eastman, American poet and activist (b.
1883) ·
1973 – Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and
director (b. 1883) ·
1973 – Edward Steichen, Luxembourgian-American
photographer, painter, and curator (b. 1879) ·
1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentinian race car driver
(b. 1893) ·
1975 – Faisal of Saudi
Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (b. 1906) ·
1975 – Deiva Zivarattinam,
Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1894) ·
1976 – Josef Albers, German-American painter and
educator (b. 1888) ·
1976 – Benjamin Miessner,
American radio engineer and inventor (b. 1890) ·
1979 – Robert Madgwick, Australian colonel and
academic (b. 1905) ·
1979 – Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the
37th Yokozuna (b. 1914) ·
1980 – Milton H. Erickson,
American psychiatrist and psychologist (b. 1901) ·
1980 – Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor and
educator (b. 1913) ·
1982 – Goodman Ace, American comedian and writer
(b. 1899) ·
1983 – Bob Waterfield, American football player and
coach (b. 1920) ·
1986 – Gloria Blondell, American actress (b. 1910) ·
1987 – A. W. Mailvaganam,
Sri Lankan physicist and academic (b. 1906) ·
1988 – Robert Joffrey, American dancer,
choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (b. 1930) ·
1991 – Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop (b.
1905) ·
1992 – Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and
director (b. 1922) ·
1994 – Angelines Fernández,
Spanish-Mexican actress (b. 1922) ·
1994 – Bernard Kangro, Estonian poet and journalist
(b. 1910) ·
1994 – Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician
(b. 1899) ·
1995 – James Samuel Coleman,
American sociologist and academic (b. 1926) ·
1995 – John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer (b. 1914) ·
1996 – John Snagge, English journalist (b. 1904) ·
1998 – Max Green,
Australian lawyer (b. 1952) ·
1998 – Steven Schiff, American lawyer and
politician (b. 1947) ·
1999 – Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1936) ·
2000 – Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909) ·
2001 – Brian Trubshaw, English cricketer and pilot
(b. 1924) ·
2002 – Kenneth Wolstenholme,
English journalist and sportscaster (b. 1920) ·
2005 – Paul Henning, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1911) ·
2006 – Bob Carlos Clarke,
Irish photographer (b. 1950) ·
2006 – Rocío Dúrcal,
Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944) ·
2006 – Richard Fleischer,
American film director (b. 1916) ·
2006 – Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1929) ·
2007 – Andranik Margaryan,
Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister
of Armenia (b. 1951) ·
2008 – Ben Carnevale, American basketball player
and coach (b. 1915) ·
2008 – Thierry Gilardi, French journalist and
sportscaster (b. 1958) ·
2008 – Abby Mann, American screenwriter and
producer (b. 1927) ·
2008 – Herb Peterson, American businessman, created
the McMuffin (b. 1919) ·
2009 – Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player
(b. 1933) ·
2009 – Kosuke Koyama, Japanese-American theologian
and academic (b. 1929) ·
2009 – Dan Seals, American musician (b. 1948) ·
2009 – Muhsin
Yazıcıoğlu, Turkish politician and member of the
Parliament of Turkey (b. 1954) ·
2012 – Priscilla Buckley,
American journalist and author (b. 1921) ·
2012 – Hal E. Chester, American actor, director,
and producer (b. 1921) ·
2012 – John Crosfield, English businessman,
founded Crosfield
Electronics (b. 1915) ·
2012 – Edd Gould, English animator and voice actor,
founded Eddsworld (b.
1988) ·
2012 – Antonio Tabucchi, Italian author and
academic (b. 1943) ·
2013 – Léonce Bernard,
Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant
Governor of Prince Edward Island (b. 1943) ·
2013 – Ben Goldfaden, American basketball player
and educator (b. 1913) ·
2013 – Anthony Lewis, American journalist and
academic (b. 1927) ·
2013 – Jean Pickering, English runner and long
jumper (b. 1929) ·
2013 – Jean-Marc Roberts,
French author and screenwriter (b. 1954) ·
2013 – John F. Wiley, American lieutenant, football
player, and coach (b. 1920) ·
2014 – Lorna Arnold, English historian and author
(b. 1915) ·
2014 – Hank Lauricella, American football player
and politician (b. 1930) ·
2014 – Jon Lord,
Canadian businessman and politician (b. 1956) ·
2014 – Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player,
coach, and manager (b. 1946) ·
2014 – Jonathan Schell, American journalist and
author (b. 1943) ·
2014 – Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded
the Buffalo Bills (b.
1918) ·
2015 – George Fischbeck, American journalist and
educator (b. 1922) ·
2016 – Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer
(b. 1917) ·
2017 – Cuthbert Sebastian,
St. Kitts and Nevis politician (b. 1921) ·
2018 – Zell Miller, American author and politician
(b. 1932) ·
2019 – Scott Walker,
American-born British singer-songwriter (b. 1943)[9] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Anniversary of the Arengo and the Feast of the
Militants (San Marino) ·
Christian feast days: o Blessed Marie-Alphonsine
Danil Ghattas o Omelyan Kovch (Ukrainian
Greek Catholic Church) o Dismas, the "Good Thief" o March
25 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Cultural Workers Day (Russia) ·
Earliest day on which Seward's Day can fall, while March 31
is the latest; celebrated on the last Monday in March. (Alaska) ·
Empress Menen's
Birthday (Rastafari) ·
EU Talent Day (European Union) ·
Feast of the
Annunciation (Christianity), and its related observances (if
March 25 falls in Holy Week or Easter Week, the feast is moved to the Monday
after the 2nd Sunday of Easter): o Historic
start of the new year (Lady Day) in England,
Wales, Ireland, and the future United
States until the adoption of the Gregorian calendar in 1752.
(The year 1751 began on 25 March; the year 1752 began
on 1 January.) It is one of the four Quarter days in Ireland and England. o International
Day of the Unborn Child (international) o Mother's Day (Slovenia) o Vårfrudagen or Våffeldagen,
"Waffle Day" (Sweden, Norway & Denmark) ·
International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of
Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade (international) ·
International Day of Solidarity with Detained and
Missing Staff Members (United
Nations General Assembly) ·
Maryland Day (Maryland, United States) ·
Medal of Honor Day (United States) ·
Independence
Day, celebrates the start of Greek War of
Independence from the Ottoman Empire, in 1821. (Greece) ·
Struggle
for Human Rights Day (Slovakia) |
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