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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 3 is the 62nd day of the year (63rd
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
303 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
473 – Gundobad (nephew of Ricimer) nominates Glycerius as emperor of the Western Roman Empire.[1] ·
724 – Empress Genshō abdicates
the throne in favor of her nephew Shōmu who becomes emperor of Japan. ·
1575 – Mughal Emperor Akbar defeats Sultan of Bengal Daud Khan Karrani's
army at the Battle of Tukaroi. ·
1585 – The Olympic Theatre, designed by Andrea Palladio, is inaugurated in Vicenza.[2] ·
1776 – American
Revolutionary War: The first amphibious landing of
the United States
Marine Corps begins the Battle of Nassau. ·
1779 – American
Revolutionary War: The Continental Army is routed at the Battle of Brier
Creek near Savannah, Georgia. ·
1799 – The Russo-Ottoman
siege of Corfu ends with the surrender of the French
garrison. ·
1820 – The U.S. Congress passes
the Missouri Compromise. ·
1845 – Florida is admitted as the 27th U.S.
state.[3] ·
1849 – The Territory of
Minnesota is created.[4] ·
1857 – Second Opium War: France and the United
Kingdom declare war on China. ·
1859 – The
two-day Great Slave
Auction, the largest such auction in United States history, concludes. ·
1861 – Alexander II of
Russia signs the Emancipation
Manifesto, freeing serfs. ·
1865 – Opening
of The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation, the
founding member of the HSBC Group. ·
1873 – Censorship
in the United States: The U.S. Congress enacts the Comstock Law, making it illegal to send any
"obscene literature and articles of immoral use" through the mail. ·
1875 – Georges Bizet's opera Carmen receives its premičre at
the Opéra-Comique in
Paris. ·
1875 – The first ever
organized indoor game of ice hockey is played in Montreal, Quebec, Canada as recorded in the Montreal Gazette. ·
1878 – The Russo-Turkish
War ends with Bulgaria regaining its
independence from the Ottoman Empire according to the Treaty of San
Stefano. ·
1885 – The American
Telephone & Telegraph Company is incorporated in New York. ·
1891 – Shoshone
National Forest is established as the first national forest
in the US and world. ·
1910 – Rockefeller
Foundation: John D.
Rockefeller Jr. announces his retirement from managing his
businesses so that he can devote all his time to philanthropy. ·
1913 – Thousands of
women march in the Woman Suffrage
Procession in Washington, D.C. ·
1918 – Russia signs
the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, agreeing to
withdraw from World War I, and
conceding German control of the Baltic States, Belarus and Ukraine. It also conceded Turkish control
of Ardahan, Kars and Batumi. ·
1923 – TIME magazine is published for the
first time. ·
1924 – The
407-year-old Islamic caliphate is abolished, when Caliph Abdülmecid II of the Ottoman Caliphate is
deposed. The last remnant of the old regime gives way to the reformed Turkey of Kemal Atatürk. ·
1924 – The Free State of Fiume is
annexed by the Kingdom of Italy. ·
1931 – The United
States adopts The
Star-Spangled Banner as its national anthem. ·
1938 – Oil is discovered in Saudi Arabia. ·
1939 – In Bombay, Mohandas
Gandhi begins a hunger strike in protest at the autocratic
rule in British India. ·
1940 – Five people are
killed in an arson attack on the offices of the communist newspaper Flamman in Luleĺ, Sweden. ·
1942 – World War II: Ten Japanese warplanes raid Broome, Western Australia, killing more
than 100 people. ·
1943 – World War II:
In London, 173 people are killed in a crush while trying to enter an air-raid
shelter at Bethnal Green
tube station. ·
1944 – The Order of Nakhimov and Order of Ushakov are instituted
in USSR as the highest naval awards. ·
1945 – World War II:
American and Filipino troops recapture Manila. ·
1945 – World War II: The RAF accidentally
bombs the Bezuidenhout area of The Hague, Netherlands, killing 511 people. ·
1951 – Jackie Brenston, with Ike Turner and his band, records "Rocket 88", often cited as
"the first rock and
roll record", at Sam Phillips's recording studios in Memphis, Tennessee. ·
1953 – A De Havilland Comet (Canadian
Pacific Air Lines) crashes in Karachi, Pakistan, killing 11. ·
1958 – Nuri al-Said becomes Prime Minister of
Iraq for the eighth time. ·
1969 – Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 to test the lunar module. ·
1972 – Mohawk
Airlines Flight 405 crashes as a result of a control
malfunction and insufficient training in emergency procedures. ·
1974 – Turkish
Airlines Flight 981 crashes at Ermenonville near Paris, France killing
all 346 aboard. ·
1980 – The USS Nautilus is decommissioned and
stricken from the Naval Vessel
Register. ·
1985 – Arthur Scargill declares that the National Union of Mineworkers' national executive voted
to end the longest-running industrial dispute in Great Britain without any
peace deal over pit closures. ·
1985 – A magnitude 8.3
earthquake strikes the Valparaíso Region of Chile, killing 177 and leaving nearly a
million people homeless. ·
1986 – The Australia Act 1986 commences,
causing Australia to
become fully independent from the United Kingdom. ·
1991 – An amateur video captures the beating
of Rodney King by Los Angeles
police officers. ·
2005 – James Roszko murders
four Royal
Canadian Mounted Police constables during a drug bust at his
property in Rochfort Bridge,
Alberta, then commits suicide. This is the deadliest peace-time
incident for the RCMP since 1885 and the North-West Rebellion. ·
2005 – Steve Fossett becomes the first person
to fly an airplane non-stop around the world solo without refueling. ·
2005 – Margaret Wilson is elected as Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives,
beginning a period lasting until August 23, 2006 where all the highest
political offices (including Elizabeth II as Head of State), were
occupied by women, making New Zealand the first country for this to occur. ·
2013 – A bomb blast in Karachi, Pakistan, kills at least 45 people
and injured 180 others in a predominately Shia Muslim area. Births[edit]
·
1455 – John II of Portugal (d.
1495)[5] ·
1455 – Ascanio Sforza, Catholic cardinal (d. 1505)[6] ·
1506 – Luís of
Portugal, Duke of Beja (d. 1555)[7] ·
1520 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian and
reformer (d. 1575)[8] ·
1583 – Edward Herbert, 1st Baron Herbert of Cherbury,
English-Welsh soldier, historian, and diplomat (d. 1648)[9] ·
1589 – Gisbertus Voetius,
Dutch minister, theologian, and academic (d. 1676)[10] ·
1606 – Edmund Waller, English poet and politician
(d. 1687)[11] ·
1652 – Thomas Otway, English playwright and author
(d. 1685)[12] ·
1678 – Madeleine de
Verchčres, Canadian rebel leader (d. 1747) ·
1756 – William Godwin, English journalist and
author (d. 1836) ·
1778 – Frederica
of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (d. 1841) ·
1793 – William Macready, English actor and manager
(d. 1873) ·
1800 – Heinrich Georg Bronn,
German geologist and paleontologist (d. 1862) ·
1803 – Thomas Field Gibson,
English manufacturer who aided the welfare of the Spitalfields silk weavers (d. 1889) ·
1805 – Jonas Furrer, Swiss politician (d. 1861) ·
1816 – William James
Blacklock, English-Scottish painter (d. 1858) ·
1819 – Gustave de Molinari,
Dutch-Belgian economist and theorist (d. 1912) ·
1825 – Shiranui Kōemon,
Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1879) ·
1831 – George Pullman, American engineer and
businessman, founded the Pullman Company (d. 1897) ·
1839 – Jamsetji Tata, Indian businessman,
founded Tata Group (d.
1904) ·
1841 – John Murray,
Canadian-Scottish oceanographer and biologist (d. 1914) ·
1845 – Georg Cantor, Russian-German mathematician
and philosopher (d. 1918) ·
1847 – Alexander Graham
Bell, Scottish-American engineer and academic, invented the telephone (d. 1922) ·
1860 – John Montgomery Ward,
American baseball player and manager (d. 1925) ·
1866 – Fred A. Busse, American lawyer and
politician, 39th Mayor of Chicago (d.
1914) ·
1868 – Émile Chartier,
French philosopher and journalist (d. 1951) ·
1869 – Henry Wood, English conductor (d. 1944) ·
1871 – Maurice Garin, Italian-French cyclist (d.
1957) ·
1873 – William
Green, American union leader and politician (d. 1952) ·
1880 – Florence Auer, American actress and
screenwriter (d. 1962) ·
1880 – Yōsuke Matsuoka,
Japanese politician, Japanese
Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1946) ·
1882 – Elisabeth Abegg, German anti-Nazi resistance
fighter (d. 1974)[13] ·
1882 – Charles Ponzi, Italian businessman (d. 1949) ·
1883 – Cyril Burt, English psychologist and
geneticist (d. 1971) ·
1883 – Paul Marais de
Beauchamp, French zoologist (d. 1977) ·
1887 – Lincoln J. Beachey,
American pilot (d. 1915) ·
1891 – Damaskinos of Athens,
Greek archbishop (d. 1949) ·
1893 – Beatrice Wood, American illustrator and
potter (d. 1998) ·
1895 – Ragnar Frisch, Norwegian economist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1973) ·
1895 – Matthew Ridgway, American general (d. 1993) ·
1898 – Emil Artin, Austrian-German mathematician
and academic (d. 1962) ·
1900 – Edna Best, British stage and film actress,
appeared on early television in 1938 (d. 1974) [14] ·
1902 – Ruby Dandridge, African-American film and
radio actress (d. 1987)[15] ·
1901 – Claude Choules, English-Australian soldier
(d. 2011) ·
1903 – Vasily Kozlov,
Belarusian general and politician (d. 1967) ·
1906 – Artur Lundkvist, Swedish poet and critic (d.
1991) ·
1911 – Jean Harlow, American actress (d. 1937) ·
1911 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian lawyer and
politician, 22nd Lieutenant
Governor of Quebec (d. 1982) ·
1913 – Margaret Bonds, American pianist and
composer (d. 1972) ·
1913 – Harold J. Stone, American actor (d. 2005) ·
1914 – Asger Jorn, Danish painter and sculptor (d.
1973) ·
1916 – Paul Halmos, Hungarian-American
mathematician (d. 2006) ·
1917 – Sameera Moussa, Egyptian physicist and
academic (d. 1952) ·
1918 – Arthur Kornberg, American biochemist and
academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 2007) ·
1920 – Julius Boros, American golfer and accountant
(d. 1994) ·
1920 – James Doohan, Canadian-American actor and
soldier (d. 2005) ·
1920 – Ronald Searle, English-French soldier and
illustrator (d. 2011) ·
1921 – Diana Barrymore, American actress (d. 1960) ·
1922 – Nándor Hidegkuti,
Hungarian footballer and manager (d. 2002) ·
1923 – Barney Martin, American police officer and
actor (d. 2005) ·
1923 – Doc Watson, American bluegrass
singer-songwriter and musician (d. 2012) ·
1924 – Tomiichi Murayama,
Japanese soldier and politician, 52nd Prime Minister of
Japan ·
1926 – James Merrill, American poet and playwright
(d. 1995) ·
1927 – Pierre Aubert, Swiss lawyer and politician
(d. 2016) ·
1930 – Ion Iliescu, Romanian engineer and
politician, 2nd President of Romania ·
1934 – Peter Brooke, Baron Brooke of Sutton Mandeville,
English politician, Secretary
of State for Northern Ireland ·
1934 – Jimmy Garrison, American bassist and
educator (d. 1976)[16] ·
1935 – Mal Anderson, Australian tennis player ·
1935 – Michael Walzer, American philosopher and
academic ·
1935 – Zhelyu Zhelev, Bulgarian philosopher and
politician, 2nd President
of Bulgaria (d. 2015) ·
1939 – Larry Burkett, American author and radio
host (d. 2003) ·
1939 – M. L. Jaisimha, Indian cricketer (d. 1999) ·
1940 – Germán Castro
Caycedo, Colombian author and journalist ·
1940 – Perry Ellis, American fashion designer,
founded Perry Ellis (d.
1986) ·
1940 – Jean-Paul Proust, French-Monacan police
officer and politician, 21st Minister of
State of Monaco (d. 2010) ·
1941 – Mike Pender, English singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1945 – George Miller,
Australian director, producer, and screenwriter ·
1945 – Hattie Winston, American actress ·
1947 – Clifton Snider, American author, poet, and
critic ·
1947 – Jennifer Warnes, American singer-songwriter
and producer ·
1948 – Snowy White, English guitarist ·
1949 – Ron Chernow, American historian, journalist,
and author ·
1949 – Bonnie J. Dunbar, American engineer,
academic, and astronaut ·
1949 – Jesse Jefferson, American baseball player
(d. 2011) ·
1950 – Kamal Ahmed Majumder,
Bangladeshi politician ·
1951 – Andy Murray,
Canadian ice hockey player and coach ·
1951 – Heizō Takenaka,
Japanese economist and politician ·
1952 – Rudy Fernandez,
Filipino actor and producer (d. 2008) ·
1953 – Robyn Hitchcock, English singer-songwriter
and guitarist ·
1953 – Zico,
Brazilian footballer and coach ·
1954 – Keith Fergus, American golfer ·
1954 – John Lilley, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1954 – Édouard Lock, Moroccan-Canadian dancer and
choreographer ·
1955 – Darnell Williams, English-American actor and
director ·
1956 – Zbigniew Boniek, Polish footballer and
manager ·
1956 – John Fulton Reid, New Zealand cricketer ·
1957 – Stephen Budiansky,
American historian, journalist, and author ·
1957 – Thom Hoffman, Dutch actor and photographer ·
1958 – Miranda Richardson,
English actress ·
1959 – Ira Glass, American radio host and producer ·
1959 – Duško Vujošević,
Montenegrin basketball player and coach ·
1960 – Neal Heaton, American baseball player and
coach ·
1961 – Mary Page Keller, American actress and
producer ·
1961 – John Matteson, American biographer ·
1961 – Perry McCarthy, English race car driver ·
1961 – Fatima Whitbread, English javelin thrower ·
1962 – Glen E. Friedman, American photographer ·
1962 – Jackie Joyner-Kersee,
American heptathlete and long jumper ·
1962 – Herschel Walker, American football player
and mixed martial artist ·
1963 – Martín Fiz, Spanish runner ·
1963 – Khaltmaagiin
Battulga, 5th President of Mongolia ·
1964 – Raúl Alcalá, Mexican cyclist ·
1964 – Laura Harring, Mexican-American model and
actress, Miss USA 1985 ·
1964 – Glenn Kulka, Canadian ice hockey player and
wrestler ·
1965 – Dragan
Stojković, Serbian footballer and manager ·
1966 – Tone Lōc, American rapper, producer,
and actor ·
1966 – Timo Tolkki, Finnish guitarist, songwriter,
and producer ·
1968 – Brian Cox,
English keyboard player and physicist ·
1968 – Brian Leetch, American ice hockey player ·
1970 – Julie Bowen, American actress ·
1970 – Inzamam-ul-Haq, Pakistani cricketer and
coach ·
1971 – Charlie Brooker, English journalist,
producer, and author ·
1971 – Tyler Florence, American chef and author ·
1972 – Darren Anderton, English international
footballer, midfielder and sportscaster[17] ·
1973 – Xavier Bettel, Luxembourger lawyer and
politician, Prime
Minister of Luxembourg ·
1973 – Matthew Marsden, English actor and martial
artist ·
1974 – David Faustino, American actor, producer,
and screenwriter ·
1976 – Fraser Gehrig, Australian footballer ·
1976 – Isabel Granada, Filipino-Spanish actress (d.
2017) ·
1976 – Keit
Pentus-Rosimannus, Estonian politician, 28th Estonian
Minister of Foreign Affairs ·
1976 – Kampamba
Mulenga Chilumba, Zambian politician[18] ·
1977 – Ronan Keating, Irish singer-songwriter and
actor ·
1977 – Stéphane Robidas,
Canadian ice hockey player ·
1977 – Buddy Valastro, American chef and television
host ·
1978 – Matt Diaz, American baseball player ·
1979 – Albert Jorquera, Spanish footballer ·
1980 – Mason Unck, American football player ·
1981 – David Bailey,
American basketball player ·
1981 – Julius Malema, South African politician ·
1981 – Emmanuel Pappoe, Ghanaian footballer ·
1982 – Jessica Biel, American actress, singer, and
producer ·
1982 – Colton Orr, Canadian ice hockey player ·
1982 – Tolu Ogunlesi, Nigerian journalist and
writer ·
1982 – Brent Tate, Australian rugby league player ·
1983 – Ashley Hansen, Australian footballer ·
1983 – Sarah Poewe, South African swimmer ·
1984 – Valerio Bernabň,
Italian rugby player ·
1984 – Santonio Holmes, American football player ·
1984 – Alexander Semin, Russian ice hockey player ·
1986 – Jed Collins, American football player ·
1986 – Stacie Orrico, American singer-songwriter ·
1986 – Mehmet Topal, Turkish footballer ·
1987 – Jesús Padilla, Mexican footballer ·
1987 – Shraddha Kapoor, Indian actress, singer, and
designer ·
1988 – Teodora
Mirčić, Serbian tennis player ·
1988 – Michael
Morrison, English footballer ·
1988 – Jan-Arie van der
Heijden, Dutch footballer ·
1988 – Max Waller, English cricketer ·
1989 – Erwin Mulder, Dutch footballer ·
1990 – Vladimir
Janković, Greek-Serbian basketball player ·
1991 – Anri Sakaguchi, Japanese actress ·
1991 – Cho-rong, South Korean singer ·
1993 – Gabriela Cé, Brazilian tennis player ·
1993 – Josef Dostál,
Czech kayaker[19] ·
1993 – James
Roberts, Australian rugby league player ·
1994 – Umika Kawashima, Japanese singer and actress ·
1996 – Cameron Johnson, American basketball player[20] ·
1997 – Camila Cabello, Cuban-American singer ·
1998 – Jayson Tatum, American basketball player[21] Deaths[edit]
·
532 – Winwaloe, founder of Landévennec Abbey (b.
c. 460) ·
1009 – Abd al-Rahman
Sanchuelo, Umayyad chief minister (b. 983) ·
1111 – Bohemond I,
Italo-Norman nobleman (b. 1058) ·
1195 – Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (b. c.
1125) ·
1239 – Vladimir IV
Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (b. 1187) ·
1311 – Antony Bek,
bishop of Durham ·
1323 – Andrew
Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English military leader ·
1383 – Hugh III,
Italian nobleman ·
1459 – Ausiŕs March, Catalan knight and poet (b.
1397) ·
1542 – Arthur
Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of Edward IV ·
1554 – John
Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (b. 1503) ·
1578 – Sebastiano Venier,
doge of Venice (b. 1496) ·
1578 – Michael
Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu, Ottoman Greek magnate ·
1588 – Henry XI,
duke of Legnica (b. 1539) ·
1592 – Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499) ·
1605 – Clement VIII,
pope of the Catholic Church (b. 1536) ·
1611 – William
Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman (b. 1552) ·
1616 – Matthias de l'Obel,
Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1538) ·
1700 – Chhatrapati Rajaram, 3rd Chhatrapati
of Maratha Empire (b. 1670)[22] ·
1703 – Robert Hooke, English architect and
philosopher (b. 1635) ·
1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist and
composer (b. 1653) ·
1744 – Jean Barbeyrac, French scholar and jurist
(b. 1674) ·
1765 – William Stukeley, English archaeologist and
historian (b. 1687) ·
1768 – Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and
educator (b. 1686) ·
1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish-English architect and
politician, designed the Culzean Castle (b. 1728) ·
1850 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader
(b. 1806) ·
1894 – Ned Williamson, American baseball player (b.
1857) ·
1901 – George Gilman, American businessman,
founded The
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (b. 1826) ·
1905 – Antonio Annetto
Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (b. 1830) ·
1927 – Mikhail Artsybashev,
Ukrainian author and playwright (b. 1878) ·
1927 – J. G. Parry-Thomas,
Welsh race car driver and engineer (b. 1884) ·
1929 – Katharine Wright, American educator (b.
1874) ·
1932 – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and
composer (b. 1864) ·
1943 – George
Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (b. 1877) ·
1959 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian
(b. 1906) ·
1961 – Paul Wittgenstein,
Austrian-American pianist (b. 1887) ·
1966 – Joseph Fields, American playwright,
director, and producer (b. 1895) ·
1966 – William Frawley, American actor and
vaudevillian (b. 1887) ·
1966 – Alice Pearce, American actress (b. 1917) ·
1981 – Rebecca Lancefield,
American microbiologist and researcher (b. 1895) ·
1982 – Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian poet and critic (b.
1896) ·
1982 – Georges Perec, French author and
screenwriter (b. 1936) ·
1983 – Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (b.
1907) ·
1987 – Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and
dancer (b. 1911) ·
1988 – Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and
composer (b. 1918) ·
1988 – Sewall Wright, American biologist and
geneticist (b. 1889) ·
1990 – Charlotte Moore
Sitterly, American astronomer (b. 1898) ·
1991 – Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator
(b. 1895) ·
1991 – William
Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltar-born English mathematician,
physicist, and academic (b. 1909) ·
1993 – Mel Bradford, American author and critic (b.
1934) ·
1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss
(b. 1910) ·
1993 – Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and
composer (b. 1903) ·
1993 – Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and
virologist (b. 1906) ·
1994 – John Edward Williams,
American author and academic (b. 1922) ·
1995 – Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader,
14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day
Saints (b. 1907) ·
1996 – Marguerite Duras, French author and director
(b. 1914) ·
1996 – John Krol, American cardinal (b. 1910) ·
1998 – Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and
broadcaster (b. 1915) ·
1999 – Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist
and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1904) ·
1999 – Lee Philips, American actor and director (b.
1927) ·
2000 – Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor
(b. 1904) ·
2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923) ·
2001 – Eugene Sledge, American soldier, author, and
academic (b. 1923) ·
2002 – G. M. C. Balayogi,
Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Speaker of the
Lok Sabha (b. 1951) ·
2003 – Horst Buchholz, German actor (b. 1933) ·
2003 – Luis Marden, American linguist,
photographer, and explorer (b. 1913) ·
2003 – Goffredo Petrassi,
Italian composer and conductor (b. 1904) ·
2005 – Max Fisher, American businessman and
philanthropist (b. 1928) ·
2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet and songwriter
(b. 1923) ·
2006 – Else Fisher, Australian-Swedish dancer,
choreographer, and director (b. 1918) ·
2006 – William Herskovic,
Hungarian-American humanitarian (b. 1914) ·
2007 – Osvaldo Cavandoli,
Italian cartoonist (b. 1920) ·
2008 – Giuseppe Di Stefano,
Italian tenor and actor (b. 1921) ·
2008 – Norman
Smith, English drummer and producer (b. 1923) ·
2009 – Gilbert Parent, Canadian educator and
politician, 33rd Speaker
of the House of Commons of Canada (b. 1935) ·
2010 – Keith
Alexander, English footballer and manager (b. 1956) ·
2010 – Michael Foot, English journalist and
politician, Secretary
of State for Employment (b. 1913) ·
2011 – May Cutler, Canadian journalist, author, and
politician (b. 1923) ·
2012 – Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual
designer and illustrator (b. 1929) ·
2012 – Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist, songwriter,
and producer (b. 1947) ·
2012 – Alex
Webster, American football player and coach (b. 1931) ·
2013 – Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and
manager (b. 1940) ·
2013 – Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (b.
1940) ·
2013 – James
Strong, Qantas CEO from 1993
to 2001 (b. 1944)[23] ·
2014 – Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer
(b. 1930) ·
2014 – Sherwin B. Nuland,
American surgeon, author, and educator (b. 1930) ·
2014 – William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot,
and astronaut (b. 1930) ·
2015 – Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and
academic (b. 1925) ·
2015 – M. Stanton Evans, American journalist and
author (b. 1934) ·
2016 – Hayabusa,
Japanese wrestler (b. 1968) ·
2016 – Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (b.
1973) ·
2016 – Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and
sportscaster (b. 1962) ·
2016 – Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and
diplomat, Deputy
Prime Minister of Thailand (b. 1914) ·
2016 – Sarah Tait, Australian Olympic rower (b.
1983)[24] ·
2017 – René Préval, Haitian politician (b. 1943) ·
2018 – Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete,
first man to run a four-minute mile (b. 1929) ·
2018 – Mal Bryce, Australian politician (b. 1943)[25] ·
2018 – Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (b.
1969)[26] ·
2018 – David Ogden Stiers,
American actor, voice actor and musician (b. 1942) ·
2019 – Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and
composer (b. 1930)[27] ·
2020 – Charles J. Urstadt,
American real estate executive and investor (b. 1928)[28] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o John and Charles Wesley (Episcopal Church
(USA)) o Marinus and Asterius of Caesarea[29] o Winwaloe o March
3 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Hinamatsuri or "Girl's Day" (Japan) ·
Liberation and
Freedom Day (Charlottesville,
Virginia, USA) ·
Sportsmen's Day (Egypt) |
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