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What happend on 18. March in History
In our data base we found 392 events happened on 18. March:
• 37: The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor. [category: Events]
• 235: Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (b. 208) [category: Deaths]
• 235: Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends. [category: Events]
• 978: King Edward the Martyr of England [category: Deaths]
• 1227: Pope Honorius III (b. 1148) [category: Deaths]
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• 1229: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade. [category: Events]
• 1241: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city. [category: Events]
• 1314: Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244) [category: Deaths]
• 1314: Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. [category: Events]
• 1395: John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447) [category: Births]
• 1438: Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor. [category: Events]
• 1496: Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England; wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1533) [category: Births]
• 1555: François, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584) [category: Births]
• 1583: King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540) [category: Deaths]
• 1584: Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530) [category: Deaths]
• 1590: Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) [category: Births]
• 1597: Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659) [category: Births]
• 1602: Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679) [category: Births]
• 1603: King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and musicologist (d. 1656) [category: Births]
• 1603: Simon Bradstreet, British colonial magistrate (d. 1693) [category: Births]
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• 1608: Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. [category: Events]
• 1609: King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670) [category: Births]
• 1634: Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693) [category: Births]
• 1640: Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719) [category: Births]
• 1657: Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743) [category: Births]
• 1673: John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers. [category: Events]
• 1675: Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606) [category: Deaths]
• 1685: Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752) [category: Births]
• 1689: John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607) [category: Deaths]
• 1690: Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764) [category: Births]
• 1696: Robert Charnock, English conspirator [category: Deaths]
• 1701: Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776) [category: Births]
• 1715: William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish patriot politician and landowner. (b. 1654) [category: Deaths]
• 1733: Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller (d. 1811) [category: Births]
• 1741: New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, commencing the New York Conspiracy of 1741. [category: Events]
• 1745: Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676) [category: Deaths]
• 1746: Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718) [category: Deaths]
• 1766: American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. [category: Events]
• 1768: Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713) [category: Deaths]
• 1780: Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860) [category: Births]
• 1781: Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727) [category: Deaths]
• 1782: John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850) [category: Births]
• 1793: The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. [category: Events]
• 1798: Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and political philosopher (d. 1872) [category: Births]
• 1813: Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1814: Jacob Bunn, American industrialist and financier (d. 1897) [category: Births]
• 1816: Antonio Salviati, Italian glass manufacturer (d. 1890) [category: Births]
• 1823: Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (d. 1883) [category: Births]
• 1823: Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753) [category: Deaths]
• 1828: William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1834: Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. [category: Events]
• 1835: Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1840: William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1842: Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898) [category: Births]
• 1844: Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908) [category: Births]
• 1845: Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1848: Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1848: Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939) [category: Births]
• 1848: The March Revolution goes onin the German Confederation; in Berlin a struggle between citizens and military occurs, costing ca. 300 lives. This starts the revolution in Northern Germany. [category: Events]
• 1850: American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. [category: Events]
• 1853: Emilie Kempin-Spyri, first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree (d.1901) [category: Births]
• 1858: Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913) [category: Births]
• 1863: William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1865: American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. [category: Events]
• 1869: Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1871: Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born mathematician and logician (b. 1806) [category: Deaths]
• 1871: Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris. [category: Events]
• 1874: Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1874: Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights. [category: Events]
• 1877: Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1877: Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1882: Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1884: Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1886: Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1890: Henri Decoin, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1891: Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1893: Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1893: Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1893: Wilfred Owen, British poet (d. 1918) [category: Births]
• 1893: Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada. [category: Events]
• 1898: Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960) [category: Births]
• 1898: Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826) [category: Deaths]
• 1901: William H. Johnson, American artist (d. 1970) [category: Births]
• 1903: Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1904: Margaret Tucker, Australian indigenous-rights activist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1904: Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926) [category: Births]
• 1905: Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1905: Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1906: Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude. [category: Events]
• 1907: John Zachary Young, British biologist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1907: Rosita Moreno, Spanish film actress (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1907: Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1909: Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1911: Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1911: Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1912: Art Gilmore, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1913: Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander [category: Births]
• 1913: René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1913: Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1913: King George I of Greece (b. 1845) [category: Deaths]
• 1913: King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. [category: Events]
• 1915: Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1915: World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. [category: Events]
• 1918: Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1918: Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (b. 1847) [category: Deaths]
• 1919: Christopher Challis, British cinematographer [category: Births]
• 1921: Frank Searle, British Loch Ness Monster hoaxer (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1921: The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union. [category: Events]
• 1922: Egon Bahr, German politician [category: Births]
• 1922: Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1922: Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1922: In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years. [category: Events]
• 1923: Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1925: James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1925: The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. [category: Events]
• 1926: Akkitham Achuthan Namboothiri, Malayalam Poet [category: Births]
• 1926: Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1926: Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1927: George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: John Kander, American songwriter [category: Births]
• 1928: Fidel V. Ramos, Philippine politician [category: Births]
• 1928: Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea [category: Births]
• 1928: Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist [category: Births]
• 1929: John Macurdy, American operatic bass [category: Births]
• 1929: Michael Vincent Paschal Rowland, English-South African bishop (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1929: Samuel Pisar, Polish author and Holocaust survivor [category: Births]
• 1930: Pat Halcox, British jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1931: Howard Coble, American politician [category: Births]
• 1931: John Fraser, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1931: John Mollo, British costume designer [category: Births]
• 1932: John Updike, American author (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1933: Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer (b. 1873) [category: Deaths]
• 1934: Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1934: Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1935: Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician [category: Births]
• 1936: Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize [category: Births]
• 1936: Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime minister of Greece (b. 1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1937: Rudi Altig, German cyclist [category: Births]
• 1937: Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. [category: Events]
• 1937: The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children. [category: Events]
• 1937: The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan. [category: Events]
• 1938: Carl Gottlieb, American screenwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Charley Pride, American singer [category: Births]
• 1938: Kenny Lynch, British singer songwriter and actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1938: Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1938: Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver [category: Births]
• 1938: Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders. [category: Events]
• 1939: Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer [category: Births]
• 1939: Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1939: Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859) [category: Deaths]
• 1940: World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. [category: Events]
• 1941: John W. Derr, American politician [category: Births]
• 1941: Wilson Pickett, American singer (The Falcons) (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1941: Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1942: The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. [category: Events]
• 1943: Dennis Linde, American singer and songwriter (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1943: Kevin Dobson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1943: Toula Grivas, Greek actress [category: Births]
• 1944: Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military figure and politician [category: Births]
• 1944: Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur and adventurer [category: Births]
• 1944: The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes. [category: Events]
• 1945: Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer [category: Births]
• 1945: Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress [category: Births]
• 1945: Michael Reagan, American radio host; adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman [category: Births]
• 1945: William Grover-Williams, British racing driver (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1946: Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver [category: Births]
• 1946: Michel Leclère, French racing driver [category: Births]
• 1946: Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established. [category: Events]
• 1947: B.J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1947: Heather Ryan, American model [category: Births]
• 1947: Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright [category: Births]
• 1947: Patrick Chesnais, French actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician [category: Births]
• 1947: William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861) [category: Deaths]
• 1948: Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1948: Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1948: Lockwood Phillips, American radio host [category: Births]
• 1948: Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split. [category: Events]
• 1949: Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1949: Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete [category: Births]
• 1949: Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Brad Dourif, American actor [category: Births]
• 1950: Eiji Okuda, Japanese actor and film director [category: Births]
• 1950: James Conlon, American conductor [category: Births]
• 1950: John Hartman, American drummer (Doobie Brothers) [category: Births]
• 1950: Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1950: Rod Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1951: Ben Cohen, American businessman co-founder of Ben and Jerry's [category: Births]
• 1951: Bill Frisell, American jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1952: Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1952: Will Durst, American political satirist [category: Births]
• 1953: An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250. [category: Events]
• 1955: Francis G. Slay, American politician [category: Births]
• 1955: Jeff Stelling, English sports television presenter [category: Births]
• 1956: Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American escort agency operator (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1956: Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier [category: Births]
• 1956: Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler [category: Births]
• 1957: Christer Fuglesang, Swedish astronaut [category: Births]
• 1957: György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép) [category: Births]
• 1957: Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: Irene Cara, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director [category: Births]
• 1959: President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21. [category: Events]
• 1960: Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach [category: Births]
• 1960: James MacPherson, Scottish actor [category: Births]
• 1960: James Plaskett, British chess player [category: Births]
• 1960: Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1961: Grant Hart, American musician (Hüsker Dü) [category: Births]
• 1961: Todd Nelson, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1962: Brian Fisher, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1962: Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor [category: Births]
• 1962: James McMurtry, American folk singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1962: Mike Rowe, American television host [category: Births]
• 1962: Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954. [category: Events]
• 1963: Jeff LaBar, American guitarist (Cinderella) [category: Births]
• 1963: Keith Brown, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1963: Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer [category: Births]
• 1963: Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver [category: Births]
• 1964: Bonnie Blair, American speed skater [category: Births]
• 1964: Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist [category: Births]
• 1964: Paul Elliott, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1964: Rozalla Miller, Zambian singer [category: Births]
• 1964: Seymore Butts, American actor [category: Births]
• 1964: Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete [category: Births]
• 1965: Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Jack Quinlan, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1965: Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. [category: Events]
• 1966: Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi [category: Births]
• 1966: Jerry Cantrell, American musician (Alice in Chains) [category: Births]
• 1966: Peter Jones, British entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1967: Ken Edenfield, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1967: Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush) [category: Births]
• 1967: The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast. [category: Events]
• 1968: Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince [category: Births]
• 1968: Paul Marsden, British politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Shinichiro Miki, Japanese voice actor [category: Births]
• 1968: Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. [category: Events]
• 1969: Andy Cutting, English folk musician and composer [category: Births]
• 1969: J. David Shapiro, American screenwriter, actor and director [category: Births]
• 1969: Shaun Udal, English cricketer [category: Births]
• 1969: Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player [category: Births]
• 1969: Barbara Bates, American actress (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1969: The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam. [category: Events]
• 1970: Queen Latifah, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. [category: Events]
• 1971: Mariaan de Swardt, South African tennis player [category: Births]
• 1971: In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar. [category: Events]
• 1972: Anja Möllenbeck, German discus thrower [category: Births]
• 1972: Dane Cook, American comedian and actor [category: Births]
• 1972: Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman [category: Births]
• 1973: Luci Christian, American voice actress [category: Births]
• 1973: Max Barry, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1973: Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born opera singer (b. 1890) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Evan Lowenstein, American musician (Evan and Jaron) [category: Births]
• 1974: Jaron Lowenstein, American musician (Evan and Jaron and Jaron and the Long Road to Love) [category: Births]
• 1974: Laure Savasta, French basketball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Stuart Zender, English bassist, songwriter, and record producer (Jamiroquai) [category: Births]
• 1974: Tina Križan, Slovenian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1974: Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan. [category: Events]
• 1975: Brian Griese, American football player [category: Births]
• 1975: Kimmo Timonen, Finnish hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Rodleen Getsic, American singer and civil servant [category: Births]
• 1975: Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer [category: Births]
• 1975: Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress [category: Births]
• 1976: Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1976: Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1976: Scott Podsednik, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tomokazu Ohka, Japanese baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Danny Murphy, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Devin Lima, American singer (LFO) [category: Births]
• 1977: Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1977: Willy Sagnol, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1977: José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer [category: Births]
• 1978: Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1978: Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player [category: Births]
• 1978: Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5) [category: Births]
• 1979: Anthony Maher, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1979: Danneel Harris, American actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1980: Sebastien Frey, French footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Sophia Myles, English actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation. [category: Events]
• 1981: Doug Warren, American Soccer Player [category: Births]
• 1981: Fabian Cancellara, Swiss professional cyclist [category: Births]
• 1981: Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1981: Kasib Powell, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1981: Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1981: Tom Starke, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete [category: Births]
• 1982: Adam Pally, American actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1982: Chad Cordero, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Pedro Mantorras, Angolan footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Timo Glock, German Formula One driver [category: Births]
• 1983: Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Michael Hutter, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1983: Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player [category: Births]
• 1983: Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Gary Roberts, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Rajeev Ram, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1984: Simone Padoin, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1985: Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Marvin Humes, British singer (JLS and VS) [category: Births]
• 1985: Vince Lia, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1986: Lykke Li, Swedish singer [category: Births]
• 1986: Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1987: Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Mauro Zárate, Argentinian footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Rebecca Soni, American swimmer [category: Births]
• 1988: Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Lily Collins, British-American actress [category: Births]
• 1989: In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops. [category: Events]
• 1990: Corey Liuget, American football player [category: Births]
• 1990: Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. [category: Events]
• 1990: The Germans in the German Democratic Republic are called to the first democratic elections in this former communist dictaturship. [category: Events]
• 1991: Constantinos Hilas, Greek actor and director [category: Births]
• 1991: Dylan Mattingly, American composer and musician [category: Births]
• 1992: White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid. [category: Events]
• 1993: Maziah Mahusin, Bruneian hurdler [category: Births]
• 1993: Kenneth E. Boulding, American economist and activist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. [category: Events]
• 1995: Robin Jacques, British illustrator (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Madeline Carroll, American actress [category: Births]
• 1996: Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162. [category: Events]
• 1997: Ciara Bravo, American actress [category: Births]
• 1997: The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s. [category: Events]
• 1999: Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: R. A. Lafferty, American writer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Anthony Minghella, British film director (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Geoffrey Pearson, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Warren Christopher, American diplomat and politician (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: King George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: 2012 St. Patrick's Day beating, which occurred in the morning after St. Patrick's Day [category: Events]
• _: Alexander of Jerusalem [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Cyril of Jerusalem [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest date on which Holy Wednesday can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the week before Easter. (Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Edward the Martyr [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Flag Day (Aruba) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Fridianus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Mens and Soldiers Day (Mongolia) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Salvator [category: Holidays and observances]