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T Calendar Gears Gregorian Calendar
Full Year 2020
March 8 is the 67th day of the year (68th
in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar.
298 days remain until the end of the year. Contents
·
1Events ·
2Births ·
3Deaths Events[edit]
·
1010 Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.[1] ·
1126 Following the
death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso
VII is proclaimed king of Castile and Leσn.[2] ·
1262 Battle of Hausbergen between
bourgeois militias and the army of the bishop of Strasbourg. ·
1576 Spanish
explorer Diego Garcνa de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city
of Copαn. ·
1618 Johannes Kepler discovers the third
law of planetary motion. ·
1655 John Casor becomes the first
legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where
a crime was not committed. ·
1658 Treaty of Roskilde:
After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (16551661), Frederick III,
the King of DenmarkNorway is
forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest. ·
1702 Queen Anne,
the younger sister of Mary II,
becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland,
and Ireland.[3] ·
1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is
defeated by an army from Afghanistan at
the Battle of Gulnabad,
pushing Iran into anarchy. ·
1736 Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. ·
1775 An anonymous
writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African
Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling
for the emancipation of
slaves and the abolition of slavery. ·
1777 Regiments
from Ansbach
and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American
Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. ·
1782 Gnadenhutten
massacre: Ninety-six Native
Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio,
who had converted to Christianity, are
killed by Pennsylvania militiamen
in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes. ·
1801 War of the
Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir,
a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with
the aim of ending the French
campaign in Egypt and Syria. ·
1817 The New York Stock
Exchange is founded. ·
1844 King Oscar I ascends
to the thrones of Sweden
and Norway. ·
1862 American Civil War:
The Naval Battle of Hampton
Roads begins. ·
1868 Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the
port of Sakai, Osaka. ·
1910 French aviator Raymonde de Laroche becomes
the first woman to receive a pilot's
license. ·
1914 First flights
(for the Royal Thai Air Force)
at Don
Mueang International Airport in Bangkok. ·
1916 World War I: A British force unsuccessfully
attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq)
in the Battle of Dujaila. ·
1917 International
Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of
the March Revolution (March
23rd in the Julian calendar). ·
1917 The United States Senate votes
to limit filibusters by
adopting the cloture rule. ·
1920 The Arab Kingdom of
Syria, the first modern Arab state
to come into existence, is established. ·
1921 Spanish Prime
Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is
assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. ·
1924 A mine disaster kills
172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. ·
1936 Daytona
Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. ·
1937 Spanish Civil War:
The Battle of
Guadalajara begins. ·
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese
Army forces gave ultimatum to Dutch East Indies Governor
General Jonkheer
Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer and KNIL Commander
in Chief Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, to unconditionally
surrender. ·
1942 World War II: Imperial Japanese Army
forces captured Rangoon, Burma from British. ·
1947 Thirteen
thousand troops of the Republic of China
Army arrive in Taiwan after the March 28 Incident and
launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This
turns into a major root of the Taiwan
independence movement. ·
1949 President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor of Annam Bảo Đại sign
the Ιlysιe Accords,
giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam. ·
1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. ·
1957 The 1957
Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to
declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S.
Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of
Georgia. ·
1963 The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'ιtat by
a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves
the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. ·
1965 Thirty-five
hundred United States
Marines are the first American land combat forces committed
during the Vietnam War. ·
1966 Nelson's Pillar in Dublin, Ireland,
destroyed by a bomb. ·
1971 The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in
15 rounds via unanimous decision. ·
1974 Charles de
Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. ·
1979 Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first
time. ·
1983 Cold War: While addressing a
convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union
an "evil empire". ·
1985 A supposed failed
assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed
Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon kills at least 45 and
injures 175 others. ·
2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. ·
2014 Malaysia
Airlines Flight 370, carrying a total of 239 people, disappears en
route from Kuala Lumpur to
Beijing. ·
2017 The Azure Window, a natural arch on the Maltese island of Gozo,
collapses in stormy weather. Births[edit]
·
1286 John III, Duke
of Brittany (d. 1341) ·
1293 Beatrice
of Castile (d. 1359) ·
1495 John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d.
1550) ·
1514 Amago Haruhisa, Japanese daimyō (d.
1562) ·
1518 Sidonie of Saxony,
Duchess of Brunswick-Calenberg (d. 1575) ·
1550 William
Drury, English politician (d. 1590) ·
1658 Thomas
Trevor, 1st Baron Trevor, British Baron (d. 1730) ·
1566 Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player
and composer (d. 1613) ·
1712 John
Fothergill, English physician and botanist (d. 1780) ·
1714 Carl Philipp
Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1788) ·
1726 Richard Howe,
1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the
Navy (d. 1799) ·
1746 Andrι Michaux, French botanist and explorer
(d. 1802) ·
1748 William V,
Prince of Orange (d. 1806) ·
1761 Jan Potocki, Polish ethnologist, historian,
linguist, and author (d. 1815) ·
1799 Simon Cameron, American journalist and
politician, 26th United
States Secretary of War (d. 1889) ·
1804 Alvan Clark, American astronomer and
optician (d. 1887) ·
1822 Ignacy
Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented
the Kerosene lamp (d.
1882) ·
1826 Johann Kφler, Estonian painter and academic
(d. 1899) ·
1827 Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and
anthropologist (d. 1875) ·
1830 Joγo de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator
(d. 1896) ·
1836 Harriet Samuel, English businesswoman and
founder the jewellery retailer H. Samuel (d. 1908)[4] ·
1839 Josephine Cochrane,
American inventor (d. 1913) ·
1841 Oliver Wendell
Holmes Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1935) ·
1848 LaMarcus Adna
Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster (d. 1917) ·
1856 Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of
The Salvation Army (d. 1929) ·
1856 Colin Campbell
Cooper, American painter and academic (d. 1937) ·
1859 Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and
author (d. 1932) ·
1865 Frederic Goudy, American type designer,
created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style (d. 1947) ·
1879 Otto Hahn, German chemist and
academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 1968) ·
1886 Edward Calvin
Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel
Prize laureate (d. 1972) ·
1892 Juana de Ibarbourou,
Uruguayan poet and author (d. 1979) ·
1896 Charlotte Whitton,
Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975) ·
1899 Elmer Keith, American gun designer and
author (d. 1984) ·
1900 Howard H. Aiken, American physicist and
computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I (d. 1973) ·
1902 Louise Beavers, American actress and singer
(d. 1962) ·
1902 Jennings Randolph,
American journalist and politician (d. 1998) ·
1907 Konstantinos
Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Greece (d.
1998) ·
1909 Beatrice Shilling,
English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990) ·
1909 Paula Strasberg, American actress and acting
coach (d. 1966) ·
1910 Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000) ·
1911 Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist
and composer (d. 2000) ·
1912 Preston Smith,
American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d.
2003) ·
1912 Meldrim Thomson Jr.,
American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New
Hampshire (d. 2001) ·
1914 Yakov
Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer
(d. 1987) ·
1918 Eileen Herlie, Scottish-American actress (d.
2008) ·
1920 Douglass Wallop, American author and
playwright (d. 1985) ·
1921 Alan Hale Jr., American actor (d. 1990) ·
1921 Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter
(d. 1980) ·
1922 Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game
designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014) ·
1922 Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer
(d. 2008) ·
1922 Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d.
1989) ·
1922 Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director
(d. 2003) ·
1922 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and
illustrator (d. 2015) ·
1924 Anthony Caro, English sculptor and
illustrator (d. 2013) ·
1924 Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist
and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(d. 2010) ·
1924 Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and
director (d. 2003) ·
1925 Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and
academic (d. 2014) ·
1926 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor, director,
and screenwriter (d. 2001) ·
1927 Ramon Revilla Sr.,
Filipino actor and politician (d. 2020) ·
1929 Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer
(d. 2012) ·
1930 Bob Grim,
American baseball player (d. 1996) ·
1930 Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs ·
1931 Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (d.
2013) ·
1931 John McPhee, American author and educator ·
1931 Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator,
director, and producer ·
1931 Neil Postman, American author and critic (d.
2003) ·
1934 Marv Breeding, American baseball player and
scout (d. 2006) ·
1935 George Coleman, American saxophonist,
composer, and bandleader ·
1936 Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer ·
1936 Gαbor Szabσ, Hungarian guitarist and
composer (d. 1982) ·
1937 Richard Fariρa,
American singer-songwriter and author (d. 1966) ·
1937 Juvιnal Habyarimana,
Rwandan politician, 2nd President of Rwanda (d.
1994) ·
1938 Pete Dawkins, American football player,
colonel, and politician ·
1939 Jim Bouton, American baseball player and
journalist (d. 2019) [5] ·
1939 Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and
choreographer ·
1939 Lidiya Skoblikova,
Russian speed skater and coach ·
1939 Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (d.
2011) ·
1941 Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian,
author, and academic (d. 2019) ·
1942 Dick Allen, American baseball player and
tenor ·
1942 Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and
long jumper ·
1943 Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer ·
1943 Michael Grade, English businessman ·
1943 Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and
singer (d. 2010) ·
1943 Dionysis Simopoulos,
Greek physicist and astronomer ·
1944 Sergey Nikitin,
Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1945 Jim Chapman,
American lawyer and politician ·
1945 Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter,
drummer, and actor ·
1945 Anselm Kiefer, German painter and sculptor ·
1945 Sylvia Wiegand, American mathematician ·
1946 Robert Jaworski, Filipino basketball player,
coach, and politician ·
1946 Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter
and bass player ·
1947 Carole Bayer Sager,
American singer-songwriter and painter ·
1947 Michael S. Hart, American author,
founded Project Gutenberg (d.
2011) ·
1947 Vladimνr Miνk,
Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1947 Florentino Pιrez,
Spanish engineer and businessman ·
1948 Robert W. Boyd, American physicist and
academic ·
1948 Gyles Brandreth, German-English actor,
screenwriter, and politician ·
1948 Mel Galley, English rock singer-songwriter
and guitarist (d. 2008) ·
1948 Sam Lacey, American basketball player (d.
2014) ·
1948 Peggy March, American pop singer ·
1948 Jonathan Sacks, English rabbi, philosopher,
and scholar ·
1949 Teofilo Cubillas, Peruvian footballer ·
1951 Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer and
businessman ·
1951 Dianne Walker, American tap dancer ·
1952 George
Allen, American lawyer and politician, 67th Governor of Virginia ·
1953 Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach,
and sportscaster ·
1954 Steve James,
American documentary filmmaker[6] ·
1954 David Wilkie,
Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer ·
1956 Laurie Cunningham,
English footballer (d. 1989)[7] ·
1956 David Malpass, American economist and
government official ·
1957 Clive Burr, English rock drummer (d. 2013) ·
1957 William Edward
Childs, American pianist and composer ·
1957 Bob Stoddard, American baseball player ·
1958 Andy McDonald,
English lawyer and politician ·
1958 Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1959 Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor ·
1960 Jeffrey Eugenides,
American author and academic ·
1960 Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer ·
1960 Buck Williams, American basketball player
and coach ·
1961 Camryn Manheim, American actress ·
1961 Larry Murphy,
Canadian ice hockey player and journalist ·
1962 Leon Robinson, American actor and producer ·
1964 Kate Betts, American journalist and author ·
1965 Kenny Smith, American basketball player and
sportscaster ·
1966 Greg
Barker, Baron Barker of Battle, English politician ·
1966 Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and
academic ·
1967 Joel Johnston, American baseball player ·
1968 Michael Bartels, German race car driver ·
1968 Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter ·
1969 Juan de Dios
Ramνrez Perales, Mexican footballer ·
1970 Jason Elam, American football player ·
1971 Kit Symons, English-Welsh footballer and
manager ·
1972 Georgios
Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager ·
1972 Matthew Nable, Australian rugby player and
actor ·
1972 Lena Sundstrφm,
Swedish journalist and author ·
1973 Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-born American actor
and producer ·
1973 Anneke van
Giersbergen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist ·
1975 Mauro Briano, Italian footballer ·
1976 Gaz Coombes, English singer-songwriter,
guitarist, and producer ·
1976 Juan Encarnaciσn,
Dominican baseball player ·
1976 Freddie Prinze Jr.,
American actor, producer, and screenwriter ·
1977 James Van Der Beek,
American actor ·
1977 Johann Vogel,
Swiss footballer ·
1978 Nick Zano, American actor and producer ·
1979 Apathy, American rapper and producer ·
1979 Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter ·
1979 Andy Ross, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist ·
1980 Stephen Milne, Australian footballer ·
1981 Michael Beauchamp,
Australian footballer ·
1981 Timothy Jordan II,
American guitarist and songwriter (d. 2005) ·
1981 Joost Posthuma, Dutch cyclist ·
1982 Nicolas Armindo, French racing driver ·
1982 Leonidas Kampantais,
Greek footballer ·
1982 Isak Strand, Norwegian drummer, composer,
and producer ·
1983 Andrι Santos, Brazilian footballer ·
1983 Mark Worrell, American baseball player ·
1984 Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer ·
1984 Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer ·
1984 Sasha
Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player ·
1987 Jonathan
Wright, Australian rugby league player ·
1988 Benny Blanco, American rapper and producer ·
1990 Asier Illarramendi,
Spanish footballer ·
1990 Petra Kvitovα, Czech tennis player ·
1990 Nico Salva, Filipino basketball player ·
1990 Ben Tozer, English footballer ·
1991 Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish
singer-songwriter ·
1991 Tom English,
Australian rugby player ·
1992 Uki Satake, Japanese singer, actress, and
radio host ·
1994 Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer ·
1994 Claire Emslie, Scottish footballer[8] ·
1994 Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d.
2014) ·
1996 Matthew Hammelmann,
Australian rules footballer[9] ·
1998 Tali Darsigny, Canadian weightlifter[10] Deaths[edit]
·
865 Rudolf of Fulda, German theologian ·
1126 Urraca of Leσn
and Castile (b. 1079)[11] ·
1137 Adela of Normandy,
by marriage countess of Blois (b. c. 1067) ·
1223 Wincenty
Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161) ·
1365 Queen Noguk of Korea ·
1403 Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1360) ·
1441 Margaret
of Burgundy, Duchess of Bavaria ·
1466 Francesco I Sforza,
Duke of Milan (b. 1401) ·
1550 John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b.
1495) ·
1619 Veit Bach, German baker and miller (b. 1550) ·
1641 Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer
(b. 1587) ·
1702 William III of
England (b. 1650) ·
1717 Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b.
1678) ·
1723 Christopher Wren, English architect,
designed St. Paul's Cathedral (b. 1632) ·
1731 Ferdinand Brokoff,
Czech sculptor (b. 1688) ·
1771 Louis August le
Clerc, French-Danish sculptor and academic (b. 1688) ·
1819 Benjamin
Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel, lawyer, and politician (b.
1739) ·
1844 Charles XIV
John of Sweden (b. 1763) ·
1869 Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor,
and critic (b. 1803) ·
1872 Cornelius Krieghoff,
Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815) ·
1874 Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and
politician, 13th President
of the United States (b. 1800) ·
1887 Henry Ward Beecher,
American minister and activist (b. 1813) ·
1887 James Buchanan Eads,
American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820) ·
1889 John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer,
designed the USS Monitor (b.
1803) ·
1917 Ferdinand von
Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838) ·
1923 Krijānis
Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835) ·
1923 Johannes
Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
(b. 1837) ·
1930 William Howard Taft,
American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President
of the United States (b. 1857) ·
1930 Edward Terry Sanford,
American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United
States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865) ·
1935 Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923) ·
1937 Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and
coach (b. 1902) ·
1941 Sherwood Anderson,
American novelist and short story writer (b. 1876) ·
1942 Josι Raϊl Capablanca,
Cuban chess player and theoretician (b. 1888) ·
1944 Fredy Hirsch, German Jewish athlete who
helped thousands of Jewish children in the Holocaust (b. 1916) ·
1945 Frederick Bligh Bond,
English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864) ·
1948 Hulusi Behηet, Turkish dermatologist and
scientist (b. 1889)[12] ·
1957 Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor
(b. 1886) ·
1961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor and
composer (b. 1879) ·
1971 Harold Lloyd, American actor, director, and
producer (b. 1893) ·
1973 Ron
"Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and
songwriter (b. 1945) ·
1975 George Stevens, American director, producer,
and screenwriter (b. 1904) ·
1976 Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908) ·
1983 Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American
singer-songwriter (b. 1920) ·
1983 Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English
lieutenant and politician, Secretary
of State for the Colonies (b. 1904) ·
1983 William Walton, English composer (b. 1902) ·
1985 Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914) ·
1988 Amar Singh Chamkila,
Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961) ·
1988 Werner
Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912) ·
1991 John Bellairs, American author and academic
(b. 1938) ·
1993 Billy Eckstine, American trumpet player (b.
1914) ·
1996 Jack Churchill, British colonel (b. 1906) ·
1997 Gershon Liebman, French rabbi (b. 1905) ·
1998 Ray Nitschke, American football player and
actor (b. 1936) ·
1999 Adolfo Bioy Casares,
Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914) ·
1999 Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian
(b. 1924)[13] ·
1999 Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1914)[14] ·
2001 Edward Winter,
American actor (b. 1937) ·
2003 Adam Faith, English singer (b. 1940) ·
2003 Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909) ·
2004 Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded
the Palestine
Liberation Front (b. 1948) ·
2005 Cιsar Lattes, Brazilian physicist and
academic (b. 1924) ·
2005 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and
politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b.
1951) ·
2007 John Inman, English actor (b. 1935) ·
2007 John Vukovich, American baseball player and
coach (b. 1947) ·
2009 Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and
guitarist (b. 1918) ·
2009 Zbigniew Religa, Polish surgeon and
politician, Polish
Minister of Health (b. 1938) ·
2011 Mike Starr,
American bass player (b. 1966) ·
2012 Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic
(b. 1921) ·
2012 Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman, founded
the Mori Art Museum (b.
1934) ·
2012 Steven Rubenstein,
American anthropologist and academic (b. 1962) ·
2013 Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer and
manager (b. 1939) ·
2013 John
O'Connell, Irish journalist and politician, 17th Irish
Minister of Health (b. 1927) ·
2013 Ewald-Heinrich
von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922) ·
2014 Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American Holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921) ·
2014 William Guarnere, American sergeant (b.
1923) ·
2015 Tjol Lategan, South African rugby player (b.
1925) ·
2015 Sam Simon, American director, producer, and
screenwriter (b. 1955) ·
2016 Aldo Ferrer, Argentinian economist and
diplomat (b. 1927) ·
2016 Ross Hannaford, Australian singer-songwriter
and guitarist (b. 1950) ·
2016 George Martin, English composer, conductor,
and producer (b. 1926) ·
2018 Kate Wilhelm, American author (b. 1928) ·
2019 Marshall Brodien, American actor (b. 1934)[15] ·
2019 Cedrick Hardman, American football player
and actor (b. 1948)[16] ·
2020 Max von Sydow, Swedish actor (b. 1929)[17] Holidays and observances[edit]
·
Christian feast day: o Edward
King (Church of England) o March
8 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) ·
Earliest day on which Canberra Day can fall, while March 14
is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Australian
Capital Territory) ·
Earliest day on which Commonwealth Day can fall, while March
14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Commonwealth of
Nations) ·
Earliest day on which Decoration Day can
fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Wednesday in
March (Liberia) ·
Earliest day on which Passion Sunday can fall, while April 17
is the latest; observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent (Christianity) ·
International
Women's Day, and its related observances: o International
Women's Collaboration Brew Day |
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