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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
277 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
845 – Paris is sacked by Viking raiders, probably under Ragnar Lodbrok, who collects a huge ransom
in exchange for leaving. ·
1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures Thessalonica from the Republic of Venice. ·
1461 – Battle of Towton: Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to
become King Edward IV of England,
bringing a temporary stop to the Wars of the Roses.[1] ·
1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain
General and Gonfalonier by
his father Rodrigo Borgia after
returning from his conquests in the Romagna. ·
1549 – The city
of Salvador da Bahia,
the first capital of Brazil, is founded. ·
1632 – Treaty
of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the
English had seized it in 1629. ·
1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies
after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13
days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. ·
1806 – Construction is
authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United
States federal highway. ·
1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf
of Sweden abdicates after
a coup d'état.
At the Diet of Porvoo,
Finland's four Estates pledge
allegiance to Alexander I of
Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of
Finland from Sweden. ·
1831 – Great Bosnian
uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. ·
1847 – Mexican–American War:
United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. ·
1849 – The United
Kingdom annexes the Punjab. ·
1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native
Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and
inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion
of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. ·
1865 – American Civil War:
Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank
Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins. ·
1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British
North America Act which establishes Canada on July 1. ·
1871 – Royal Albert Hall is
opened by Queen Victoria. ·
1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula:
British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. ·
1882 – The Knights of Columbus is
established. ·
1886 – John Pemberton brews the first batch
of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta. ·
1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official
U.S. Army side arm. ·
1927 – Sunbeam 1000hp breaks the land speed
record at Daytona Beach, Florida.[2] ·
1930 – Heinrich Brüning is
appointed German Reichskanzler. ·
1936 – Adolf Hitler
receives 99% of the votes in the 1936 German parliamentary election and referendum. ·
1941 – The North American Regional Broadcasting Agreement goes
into effect at 03:00 local time. ·
1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian
Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in
the Battle of Cape
Matapan. ·
1942 – The Bombing
of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for
the RAF Bomber Command against
Germany and a German city. ·
1945 – World War II:
Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks
on England. ·
1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by
the Soviet Red Army. ·
1946 – Instituto
Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading
universities, is founded. ·
1947 – Malagasy Uprising against
French colonial rule in Madagascar. ·
1951 – Ethel and
Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. ·
1957 – The New
York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the
first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. ·
1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is
ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential
elections. ·
1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces,
ending an 111⁄2 day
constitutional crisis. ·
1971 – My Lai Massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of
premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. ·
1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat
soldiers leave South Vietnam. ·
1973 – Operation Barrel
Roll, a covert American bombing campaign in Laos to
stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. ·
1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury. ·
1974 – Terracotta Army was discovered in Shaanxi province, China. ·
1982 – The Canada Act 1982 receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for
the Queen of Canada to
proclaim the Constitution Act,
1982. ·
1984 – The Baltimore Colts load
its possessions onto fifteen Mayflower moving
trucks in the early morning hours and transfer
its operations to Indianapolis. ·
1990 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to
reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. ·
1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and
the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian
province. ·
1999 – The Dow Jones
Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78)
for the first time, during the height of the dot-com bubble. ·
1999 – A magnitude 6.8
earthquake in India strikes the Chamoli district in Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. ·
2002 – In reaction to
the Passover massacre two
days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive
Shield against Palestinian
militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War. ·
2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia join NATO as
full members. ·
2010 – Two suicide
bombers hit the Moscow
Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing
40. ·
2013 – At least 36
people are killed when a 16-floor building
collapses in the commercial capital Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. ·
2014 – The first same-sex
marriages in England and Wales are performed. Births[edit]
·
1001 – Sokkate, king of the Pagan dynasty of Burma (d. 1044) ·
1187 – Arthur I, Duke
of Brittany (d. 1203) ·
1373 – Marie d'Alençon,
French princess (d. 1417) ·
1517 – Carlo Carafa, Italian cardinal (d. 1561) ·
1553 – Vitsentzos Kornaros,
Greek poet and playwright (d. 1614) ·
1561 – Santorio Santorio,
Italian biologist (d. 1636) ·
1584 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron,
English general and politician (d. 1648) ·
1602 – John Lightfoot, English priest, scholar, and
academic (d. 1675) ·
1620 – Edward Digges, English barrister and
colonist ·
1629 – Alexis of Russia, Tsar of Russia (d. 1676) ·
1713 – John Ponsonby,
Irish politician (d. 1789) ·
1735 – Johann Karl
August Musäus, German author (d. 1787) ·
1747 – Johann Wilhelm
Hässler, German pianist and composer (d. 1822) ·
1769 – Nicolas
Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister
of France (d. 1851) ·
1780 – Jørgen Jørgensen,
Danish adventurer (d. 1841) ·
1790 – John Tyler, American lawyer and politician,
10th President
of the United States (d. 1862) ·
1799 – Edward
Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869) ·
1802 – Johann Moritz
Rugendas, German landscape painter of Spanish America (d. 1858) ·
1816 – 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837) ·
1824 – Ludwig Büchner,
German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899) ·
1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht,
German journalist and politician (d. 1900) ·
1862 – Adolfo Müller-Ury,
Swiss-American painter (d. 1947) ·
1863 – Walter James, Australian politician,
5th Premier of
Western Australia (d. 1943) ·
1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player and
manager (d. 1955) ·
1869 – Aleš Hrdlička,
Czech-American anthropologist and scholar (d. 1943) ·
1869 – Sir Edwin Lutyens, British architect (d.
1944) ·
1870 – Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (d. 1904) ·
1871 – Tom Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1939) ·
1872 – Hal Colebatch, English-Australian
politician, 12th Premier of
Western Australia (d. 1953) ·
1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita,
Jewish-Italian mathematician and academic (d. 1941) ·
1874 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First
Lady of the United States (d. 1944) ·
1876 – Friedrich Traun, German sprinter and tennis
player (d. 1908) ·
1884 – Ed Archibald,
Canadian pole vaulter (d. 1965) ·
1885 – Dezső
Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet (d. 1936) ·
1888 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer,
designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi
Pedaliante (d. 1963) ·
1889 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951) ·
1889 – Howard Lindsay, American producer, playwright,
librettist, director and actor (d. 1968) ·
1890 – Bert Bliss, English international
footballer, inside forward (d. 1968)[3] ·
1891 – Yvan Goll, French-German poet and playwright
(d. 1950) ·
1891 – Alfred Neubauer, Austrian race car driver
and manager (d. 1980) ·
1892 – József Mindszenty,
Hungarian cardinal (d. 1975) ·
1893 – Astrid Holm, Danish actress (d. 1961) ·
1895 – Ernst Jünger, German philosopher and author
(d. 1998) ·
1896 – Wilhelm Ackermann,
German mathematician (d. 1962) ·
1899 – Lavrentiy Beria, Georgian-Russian general
and politician (d. 1953) ·
1900 – Bill Aston, English race car driver (d.
1974) ·
1900 – John McEwen, Australian farmer and
politician, 18th Prime
Minister of Australia (d. 1980) ·
1902 – Marcel Aymé, French author, playwright, and
screenwriter (d. 1967) ·
1902 – Don Miller,
American football player and coach (d. 1979) ·
1902 – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) ·
1903 – Douglas Harkness, Canadian colonel and
politician, 14th Canadian
Minister of National Defence (d. 1999) ·
1906 – James Bausch, American decathlete and
football player (d. 1974) ·
1907 – Braguinha,
Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2006) ·
1908 – Arthur O'Connell,
American actor (d. 1981) ·
1908 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor and
screenwriter (d. 1968) ·
1909 – Moon Mullican, American country and western
singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1967) ·
1912 – Hanna Reitsch, German soldier and pilot (d.
1979) ·
1914 – Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985) ·
1914 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English historian,
journalist, and author (d. 2014) ·
1916 – Peter Geach, English philosopher and
academic (d. 2013) ·
1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American poet and
politician (d. 2005) ·
1917 – Tommy Holmes, American baseball player (d.
2008)[4] ·
1918 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer
(d. 1990)[5] ·
1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm,
Vietnamese mathematician and academic (d. 1991) ·
1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman,
founded Walmart and Sam's Club (d. 1992) ·
1919 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001) ·
1920 – John M. Belk, American businessman and
politician (d. 2007) ·
1920 – Clarke Fraser, American-Canadian geneticist
and academic (d. 2014) ·
1920 – Pierre Moinot, French author (d. 2007) ·
1920 – Theodore Trautwein,
American lawyer and judge (d. 2000) ·
1921 – Sam Loxton, Australian cricketer,
footballer, and politician (d. 2011) ·
1923 – Geoff Duke, English-Manx motorcycle racer
(d. 2015) ·
1923 – Betty Binns Fletcher,
American lawyer and judge (d. 2012) ·
1923 – Bob Haymes, American singer-songwriter, and
actor (d. 1989) ·
1926 – Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli banker and
economist (d. 2012) ·
1927 – John McLaughlin,
American journalist and producer (d. 2016) ·
1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2004) ·
1928 – Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian
politician, 13th Foreign
Secretary of India (d. 2013) ·
1928 – Keith Botsford, Belgian-American journalist,
author, and academic (d. 2018) ·
1928 – Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster
(d. 2005) ·
1929 – Sheila Kitzinger, English activist, author,
and academic (d. 2015) ·
1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist,
geneticist, and academic ·
1929 – Lennart Meri, Estonian director and
politician, 2nd President of Estonia (d.
2006) ·
1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian Bengali actor, director
and playwright (d. 1993) ·
1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian lawyer and
politician, 4th President of
Mauritius ·
1931 – Ștefan Andrei, Romanian politician,
87th Romanian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 2014) ·
1931 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and
politician (d. 2002) ·
1931 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian general, pilot, and
astronaut (d. 2015) ·
1931 – Norman Tebbit, English journalist and
politician, Chancellor
of the Duchy of Lancaster ·
1933 – Jacques Brault, Canadian poet and academic ·
1934 – Shahryar Khan, Indian-Pakistani politician
and diplomat, 20th Foreign
Secretary of Pakistan ·
1936 – Richard Rodney
Bennett, English-American composer and educator (d. 2012) ·
1936 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician (d. 2016) ·
1936 – John A. Durkin, American lawyer and
politician (d. 2012) ·
1936 – Judith Guest, American author and
screenwriter ·
1936 – Joseph P. Teasdale,
American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Missouri (d.
2014) ·
1937 – Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and
sculptor (d. 2013) ·
1937 – Smarck Michel, Haitian businessman and
politician, 6th Prime Minister of
Haiti (d. 2012) ·
1937 – Gordon Milne, English footballer ·
1938 – Bert de Vries, Dutch politician ·
1939 – Roland Arnall, French-American businessman
and diplomat, 63rd United
States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 2008) ·
1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor, director, and
producer ·
1939 – Hanumant Singh, Indian cricketer (d. 2006) ·
1940 – Ray Davis,
American bass singer (d. 2005) ·
1940 – Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer-songwriter ·
1940 – John Suchet, English journalist and game
show host ·
1941 – Joseph Hooton
Taylor Jr., American astrophysicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate ·
1942 – Bob Lurtsema, American football player ·
1942 – Scott Wilson,
American actor (d. 2018) ·
1943 – Vangelis, Greek keyboard player and
songwriter ·
1943 – Chad Allan,
Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1943 – Eric Idle, English actor and comedian ·
1943 – John Major, English banker and
politician, Prime
Minister of the United Kingdom ·
1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1944 – Denny McLain, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1944 – Lynne Segal, Australian-British feminist
academic and activist ·
1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1945 – Speedy Keen, English singer-songwriter,
keyboard player, and producer (d. 2002) ·
1946 – Billy Thorpe, English-Australian
singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 2007) ·
1946 – Segun Bucknor, Nigerian musician and
journalist (d. 2017) ·
1947 – Inge Bödding, German sprinter ·
1947 – Robert Gordon,
American singer and actor ·
1947 – Bobby Kimball, American singer-songwriter ·
1948 – Bud Cort, American actor, director, and
screenwriter ·
1948 – Piet Souer, Dutch record producer,
songwriter and arranger ·
1949 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and
composer (d. 2007) ·
1949 – Dave Greenfield, English musician (d. 2020) ·
1949 – Pauline Marois, Canadian social worker and
politician, 30th Premier of Quebec ·
1949 – Keith Simpson,
English historian and politician ·
1951 – William Clarke,
American harmonica player (d. 1996) ·
1951 – Geoff Howarth, New Zealand cricketer ·
1951 – Tina Monzon-Palma,
Filipino journalist ·
1952 – Rainer Bonhof, German footballer ·
1952 – Russell Fairfax, Australian rugby player and
coach ·
1952 – John Hendricks, American businessman,
founded Discovery
Communications ·
1952 – Teófilo Stevenson,
Cuban boxer and engineer (d. 2012) ·
1953 – Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician, 39th Mayor of Tallinn ·
1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player ·
1955 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor ·
1955 – Marina Sirtis, British-American actress ·
1956 – Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996) ·
1957 – Elizabeth Hand, American author ·
1957 – Christopher Lambert,
American-born French actor ·
1958 – Pedro Bial, Brazilian journalist and
producer ·
1958 – Travis Childers, American businessman and
politician ·
1958 – Nouriel Roubini, Turkish-American economist
and academic ·
1958 – Victor Salva, American director, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1958 – Marc Silvestri, American publisher,
founded Top Cow Productions ·
1959 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer ·
1959 – Perry Farrell, American singer-songwriter ·
1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player
and coach (d. 2011) ·
1960 – Wayne Pearce, Australian rugby league
player, coach, and sportscaster ·
1961 – Gary Brabham, English-Australian race car
driver ·
1961 – Mike Kingery, American baseball player ·
1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian ·
1961 – Michael Winterbottom,
English director and producer ·
1962 – Billy Beane, American baseball player and
manager ·
1962 – Ted Failon, Filipino journalist and
politician ·
1962 – Kirk Triplett, American golfer ·
1964 – Catherine Cortez
Masto, American attorney and politician ·
1964 – Jill Goodacre, American model and actress ·
1964 – Elle Macpherson, Australian model and
actress ·
1964 – Ming Tsai, American chef and television host ·
1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis,
Greek astrophysicist, astronomer, and academic (d. 2005) ·
1965 – William Oefelein, American commander, pilot,
and astronaut ·
1965 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek hurdler, long
jumper, and politician ·
1966 – Krasimir Balakov, Bulgarian footballer and
manager ·
1966 – Jeroen Dijsselbloem,
Dutch politician ·
1966 – Eric Gunderson, American baseball player ·
1966 – Sigrid Kirchmann, Austrian high jumper ·
1967 – Ainars Bagatskis, Latvian basketball player
and coach ·
1967 – Michel Hazanavicius,
French director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1967 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player and
sportscaster ·
1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress ·
1969 – Kim Batten, American hurdler ·
1969 – Shinichi Mochizuki,
Japanese mathematician ·
1969 – Jimmy
Spencer, American football player and coach ·
1971 – Robert Gibbs, American political adviser,
28th White House
Press Secretary ·
1971 – Lara Logan, South African television and
radio journalist and war correspondent ·
1971 – Hidetoshi
Nishijima, Japanese actor ·
1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer ·
1972 – Piet-Hein Geeris, Dutch field hockey player ·
1972 – Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player
and coach ·
1972 – Priti Patel, British Indian
politician, Secretary
of State for the Home Department ·
1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer and coach ·
1973 – Sebastiano Siviglia,
Italian footballer ·
1973 – Steve Smith,
English high jumper ·
1974 – Miguel Gómez,
Colombian-American photographer and educator ·
1976 – Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist ·
1976 – Jennifer Capriati,
American tennis player ·
1978 – Aaron Persico, New Zealand-Italian rugby player ·
1980 – Bill Demong, American skier ·
1980 – Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer ·
1981 – Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer (d.
2018) ·
1982 – Jēkabs
Rēdlihs, Latvian ice hockey player ·
1983 – Darius Draudvila, Lithuanian decathlete ·
1984 – Juan Mónaco, Argentinian tennis player ·
1985 – Fernando Amorebieta,
Venezuelan international footballer, central defender[6] ·
1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1985 – Mickey Pimentel, American football player ·
1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake,
English footballer ·
1986 – Ivan Ukhov, Russian high jumper ·
1987 – Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer ·
1987 – Dimitri Payet, French footballer ·
1987 – Romain Hamouma, French footballer ·
1988 – Esther Cremer, German runner ·
1988 – Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer ·
1988 – Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player ·
1989 – James Tomkins,
English footballer ·
1990 – Carlos
Peña, Mexican footballer ·
1990 – Teemu Pukki, Finnish footballer ·
1990 – Lyle Taylor, English footballer[7] ·
1991 – Irene, South Korean idol, actress and television host ·
1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian footballer ·
1991 – N'Golo Kanté, French footballer ·
1993 – Thorgan Hazard, Belgian footballer[8] Deaths[edit]
·
87 BC – Emperor Wu of Han of
China (b. 157 BC) ·
AD 57 – Emperor Guangwu of
Han (b. 5 BC) ·
500 – Gwynllyw, Welsh king and religious figure ·
1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020) ·
1075 – Ottokar I of Styria,
German noble ·
1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami of
Japan (b. 1328) ·
1461 – Henry
Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421) ·
1461 – Lionel
de Welles, 6th Baron Welles ·
1467 – Matthew
Palaiologos Asen, Byzantine aristocrat and official ·
1578 – Louis I,
Cardinal of Guise (b. 1527) ·
1578 – Arthur Champernowne,
English admiral and politician (b. 1524) ·
1628 – Tobias Matthew, English archbishop and
academic (b. 1546) ·
1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II,
Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1565) ·
1692 – Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist,
violinist, and composer (b. 1665) ·
1703 – George Frederick II, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach,
(b. 1678) ·
1751 – Thomas Coram, English captain and
philanthropist, founded Foundling Hospital (b.
1668) ·
1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg,
Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (b. 1688) ·
1788 – Charles Wesley, English missionary and poet
(b. 1707) ·
1792 – Gustav III of Sweden (b.
1746) ·
1800 – Marc
René, marquis de Montalembert, French general and engineer (b.
1714) ·
1803 – Gottfried van
Swieten, Dutch-Austrian librarian and diplomat (b. 1733) ·
1826 – Johann Heinrich Voss,
German poet, translator, and academic (b. 1751) ·
1829 – Cornelio Saavedra,
Argentinian general and politician (b. 1759) ·
1848 – John Jacob Astor, German-American
businessman (b. 1763) ·
1855 – Henri Druey, Swiss politician, 2nd President of the Swiss Confederation (b. 1799) ·
1873 – Francesco
Zantedeschi, Italian priest and physicist (b. 1797) ·
1877 – Inazuma Raigorō,
Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802) ·
1888 – Charles-Valentin
Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813) ·
1891 – John Plankinton, American businessman and
industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (b. 1820) ·
1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859) ·
1900 – Cyrus K. Holliday,
American businessman (b. 1826) ·
1905 – William Plankinton,
American businessman, industrialist and banker (b. 1843) ·
1906 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878) ·
1911 – Alexandre Guilmant,
French organist and composer (b. 1837) ·
1912 – Henry Robertson
Bowers, Scottish lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883) ·
1912 – Robert Falcon Scott,
English lieutenant and explorer (b. 1868) ·
1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson,
English physician and explorer (b. 1872) ·
1924 – Charles
Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852) ·
1934 – Otto Hermann Kahn,
German-American banker and philanthropist (b. 1867) ·
1937 – Karol Szymanowski,
Polish pianist and composer (b. 1882) ·
1940 – Alexander Obolensky,
Russian-English rugby player and soldier (b. 1916) ·
1948 – Harry Price, English parapsychologist and
author (b. 1881) ·
1957 – Joyce Cary, Anglo-Irish novelist (b. 1888) ·
1959 – Barthélemy Boganda,
African priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (b.
1910) ·
1963 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian dentist and
politician, 19th Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (b. 1898) ·
1963 – August Rei, Estonian soldier, journalist,
and politician, 12th Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1886) ·
1970 – Anna Louise Strong,
American journalist and author (b. 1885) ·
1971 – Dhirendranath Datta,
Pakistani lawyer and politician (b. 1886) ·
1972 – J. Arthur Rank, English businessman,
founded Rank Organisation (b.
1888) ·
1980 – Mantovani, Italian-English conductor and
composer (b. 1905) ·
1981 – Eric Williams, Trinidadian historian and
politician, 1st Prime
Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911) ·
1982 – Walter Hallstein, German academic and
politician, 1st President
of the European Commission (b. 1901) ·
1982 – Carl Orff, German composer and educator (b.
1895) ·
1982 – Nathan Farragut
Twining, American general (b. 1897) ·
1985 – Luther Terry, American physician and
academic, 9th Surgeon
General of the United States (b. 1911) ·
1988 – Maurice
Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1914) ·
1988 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1924) ·
1991 – Guy Bourdin, French photographer (b. 1928) ·
1992 – Paul Henreid, American actor (b. 1908) ·
1994 – Bill Travers, English actor, director, and
screenwriter (b. 1922) ·
1995 – Mort Meskin, American illustrator (b. 1916) ·
1995 – Terry Moore,
American baseball player and coach (b. 1912) ·
1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-American director,
producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926) ·
1996 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player
(b. 1944) ·
1997 – Hans-Walter
Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (b. 1935) ·
1999 – Gyula Zsengellér,
Hungarian footballer (b. 1915) ·
1999 – Joe Williams,
American jazz singer (b. 1918) ·
2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian lawyer, academic,
and explorer (b. 1899) ·
2001 – John Lewis,
American pianist and composer (b. 1920) ·
2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician and
microbiologist (b. 1956) ·
2004 – Lise de Baissac, Mauritian-born SOE agent,
war hero (b. 1905)[9] ·
2004 – Joel Feinberg, American philosopher and
academic (b. 1926) ·
2005 – Miltos Sachtouris,
Greek poet and author (b. 1919) ·
2006 – Salvador Elizondo,
Mexican author and poet (b. 1932) ·
2007 – Larry L'Estrange,
English rugby player and soldier (b. 1934) ·
2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and
manager (b. 1943) ·
2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b.
1975) ·
2011 – Ângelo de Sousa,
Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938) ·
2011 – Iakovos Kambanellis,
Greek author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter (b. 1921) ·
2012 – Pap Cheyassin Secka,
Gambian lawyer and politician (b. 1942) ·
2012 – Bill Jenkins,
American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930) ·
2013 – Reginald Gray,
Irish-French painter (b. 1930) ·
2013 – Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist
and actor (b. 1931) ·
2013 – Liu Kang,
Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) ·
2013 – Ralph Klein, Canadian journalist and
politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b.
1942) ·
2013 – Art Phillips, Canadian businessman and
politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b.
1930) ·
2014 – Marc Platt,
American actor and dancer (b. 1913) ·
2014 – Ruth A. M. Schmidt,
American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1916) ·
2015 – William Delafield
Cook, Australian-English painter (b. 1926) ·
2015 – Gerry Hardstaff, English cricketer (b. 1940) ·
2016 – Patty Duke, American actress (b. 1946) ·
2017 – Alexei
Alexeyevich Abrikosov, Russian physicist (b. 1928) ·
2019 – Agnès Varda, French film director (b. 1928) Holidays and observances[edit]
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Christian feast day: o Berthold o Gwladys o Gwynllyw o Hans Nielsen Hauge (Lutheran) o John Keble (commemoration, Anglicanism) o March
29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which the Octave Day of Easter can fall, while
May 2 is the latest; observed on the Sunday after Easter. (Christianity) ·
Boganda Day (Central African
Republic) ·
Commemoration
of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar) ·
National
Vietnam War Veterans Day (United States of America) ·
Day of the
Young Combatant (Chile) |
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