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What happend on 4. March in History
In our data base we found 969 events happened on 4. March:
• 51: Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth). [category: Events]
• 251: Pope Lucius I [category: Deaths]
• 306: Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia. [category: Events]
• 480: Saint Landry, bishop of Sées [category: Deaths]
• 561: Pope Pelagius I [category: Deaths]
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• 852: Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources. [category: Events]
• 932: Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs. [category: Events]
• 1152: Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans. [category: Events]
• 1172: Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147) [category: Deaths]
• 1188: Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252) [category: Births]
• 1193: Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137) [category: Deaths]
• 1238: Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210) [category: Deaths]
• 1238: Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189) [category: Deaths]
• 1238: The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia. [category: Events]
• 1303: Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261) [category: Deaths]
• 1351: Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam. [category: Events]
• 1386: Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland. [category: Events]
• 1394: Henry the Navigator, Portuguese sponsor of exploration (d. 1460) [category: Births]
• 1461: Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV. [category: Events]
• 1484: George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543) [category: Births]
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• 1484: Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458) [category: Deaths]
• 1492: Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540) [category: Births]
• 1493: Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. [category: Events]
• 1496: Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427) [category: Deaths]
• 1519: Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth. [category: Events]
• 1583: Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517) [category: Deaths]
• 1602: Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674) [category: Births]
• 1604: Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539) [category: Deaths]
• 1610: William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646) [category: Births]
• 1615: Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552) [category: Deaths]
• 1619: Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574) [category: Deaths]
• 1628: The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. [category: Events]
• 1651: John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716) [category: Births]
• 1655: Frá Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743) [category: Births]
• 1665: Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694) [category: Births]
• 1665: English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War. [category: Events]
• 1675: John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England. [category: Events]
• 1678: Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741) [category: Births]
• 1681: Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania. [category: Events]
• 1702: Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724) [category: Births]
• 1706: Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759) [category: Births]
• 1710: Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668) [category: Deaths]
• 1715: James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763) [category: Births]
• 1719: George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777) [category: Births]
• 1729: Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794) [category: Births]
• 1733: Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656) [category: Deaths]
• 1744: John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669) [category: Deaths]
• 1745: Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814) [category: Births]
• 1745: Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779) [category: Births]
• 1756: Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823) [category: Births]
• 1762: Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702) [category: Deaths]
• 1770: Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840) [category: Births]
• 1776: American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston. [category: Events]
• 1781: Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869) [category: Births]
• 1782: Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830) [category: Births]
• 1789: In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect. [category: Events]
• 1790: David "Robber" Lewis, American criminal. (d. 1820) [category: Births]
• 1790: France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility. [category: Events]
• 1791: A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario). [category: Events]
• 1791: Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state. [category: Events]
• 1792: Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861) [category: Births]
• 1793: Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851) [category: Births]
• 1793: Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1794: The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress. [category: Events]
• 1795: John Collins, American politician (b. 1717) [category: Deaths]
• 1797: In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington. [category: Events]
• 1804: Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales. [category: Events]
• 1805: Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725) [category: Deaths]
• 1807: Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754) [category: Deaths]
• 1811: Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (b. 1778) [category: Deaths]
• 1814: Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario. [category: Events]
• 1815: Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864) [category: Births]
• 1817: Edwards Pierrepont, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892) [category: Births]
• 1820: Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856) [category: Births]
• 1821: Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1822: Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880) [category: Births]
• 1823: George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902) [category: Births]
• 1826: Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887) [category: Births]
• 1826: John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863) [category: Births]
• 1826: Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863) [category: Births]
• 1828: Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870) [category: Births]
• 1832: Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 1837: The city of Chicago is incorporated. [category: Events]
• 1838: Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920) [category: Births]
• 1847: Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1848: Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia [category: Events]
• 1851: Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911) [category: Births]
• 1851: James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1852: Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774) [category: Deaths]
• 1853: Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral (b. 1776) [category: Deaths]
• 1854: Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1856: Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921) [category: Births]
• 1856: Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877) [category: Births]
• 1858: Matthew C. Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794) [category: Deaths]
• 1861: Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1861: The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted. [category: Events]
• 1862: Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1863: John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943) [category: Births]
• 1863: Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1864: David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940) [category: Births]
• 1864: Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824) [category: Deaths]
• 1865: The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress. [category: Events]
• 1866: Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1866: Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788) [category: Deaths]
• 1868: Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805) [category: Deaths]
• 1870: Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944) [category: Births]
• 1871: Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1872: Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790) [category: Deaths]
• 1873: Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904) [category: Births]
• 1873: John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1875: Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1875: Mihály Károlyi, Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955) [category: Births]
• 1876: Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1876: Theodore Hardeen, Founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1877: Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957) [category: Births]
• 1877: Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934) [category: Births]
• 1877: Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963) [category: Births]
• 1878: Arishima Takeo, Japanese writer (d. 1923) [category: Births]
• 1878: Egbert van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1878: Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1879: Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (d. 1951) [category: Births]
• 1879: Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901) [category: Births]
• 1880: Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946) [category: Births]
• 1881: Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948) [category: Births]
• 1881: Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1881: Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924) [category: Births]
• 1882: Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941) [category: Births]
• 1882: Britain's first electric trams run in east London. [category: Events]
• 1883: Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1883: Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956) [category: Births]
• 1883: Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812) [category: Deaths]
• 1884: Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1886: Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958) [category: Births]
• 1887: John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1887: Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1888: Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1888: Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931) [category: Births]
• 1888: Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1888: Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1889: Oren E. Long, American politician (d. 1965) [category: Births]
• 1889: Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967) [category: Births]
• 1889: Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938) [category: Births]
• 1889: Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1890: The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII. [category: Events]
• 1891: Charles Arthur "Dazzy" Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961) [category: Births]
• 1891: Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1893: Adolph Lowe, German sociologist and economist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1893: Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1895: Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1895: Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953) [category: Births]
• 1896: Kai Holm, Danish actor (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1897: Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1898: Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1898: Hans Krebs, German Army General (d. 1945) [category: Births]
• 1899: Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1899: Liana Del Balzo, Italian actress (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1899: Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300. [category: Events]
• 1900: Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971) [category: Births]
• 1901: Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1901: Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1901: Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1902: Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1902: Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theatre actress (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1902: Russell Reeder, American Army officer and author (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1903: Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1903: Dorothy Mackaill, English-born American actress (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1903: John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1903: Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1903: Merwin Graham, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1903: William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1903: Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834) [category: Deaths]
• 1904: Chief Tahachee (Jeff Davis Tahchee Cypert), American actor (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1904: George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1904: Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942) [category: Births]
• 1904: Luis Carrero Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1906: Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1906: Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980) [category: Births]
• 1906: Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1906: Fionn MacColla, Scottish novelist (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1906: Georges Ronsse, Belgian bicycle racer (d. 1969) [category: Births]
• 1906: Horace Roye, English photographer (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1906: Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1906: John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831) [category: Deaths]
• 1907: Edgar Barrier, American actor (d. 1964) [category: Births]
• 1907: Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1908: T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1908: Thomas Shaw, American blues musician (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1908: The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people. [category: Events]
• 1909: George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1909: Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1909: U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State [category: Events]
• 1910: Miriam Kressyn, Polish-born actor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1910: Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1910: Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1911: Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, British peer and actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1911: Christer Boucht, Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1912: Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1912: Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1912: Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1912: Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974) [category: Births]
• 1912: Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Guatemalan sculptor (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1913: John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952) [category: Births]
• 1913: John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1913: Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976) [category: Births]
• 1913: First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later. [category: Events]
• 1914: Barbara Newhall Follett, American child prodigy novelist (disappeared 1939) [category: Births]
• 1914: Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1914: Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1914: Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1915: Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1915: Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, English politician and businessman (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1915: Frank Sleeman, Australian administrator and politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1915: László Csizsik-Csatáry, Hungarian nazi criminal [category: Births]
• 1915: Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1915: William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time (b. 1856) [category: Deaths]
• 1916: Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1916: Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1916: Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1916: Michael Howard, English actor and comedian (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1916: William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1916: Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1917: Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives. [category: Events]
• 1918: Kurt Dahlmann, retired German pilot, attorney, journalist, newspaper editor and political activist [category: Births]
• 1918: Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1918: The USS Cyclops (AC-4) departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle. [category: Events]
• 1918: The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic. [category: Events]
• 1919: Buck Baker, American race car driver (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1919: Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1920: Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1920: Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1921: Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986) [category: Births]
• 1921: Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer [category: Births]
• 1921: Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1922: Dina Pathak, Gujarati actress (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1922: Martha O'Driscoll, American actress (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1922: Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1922: Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg [category: Births]
• 1923: Francis King, English novelist, poet and short story writer (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1923: Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television presenter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1923: Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider [category: Births]
• 1923: Russell Freeburg, American newspaper editor and author [category: Births]
• 1923: Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995) [category: Births]
• 1924: Kenneth O'Donnell, American politician (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1925: Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1925: James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854) [category: Deaths]
• 1925: Roger de Barbarin, French trap shooter (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1926: Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger (Oscar Rabin Band) [category: Births]
• 1926: Fran Warren (Frances Wolfe), American singer [category: Births]
• 1926: Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and researcher [category: Births]
• 1926: James J. Eagan, American politician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1926: Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1926: Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author [category: Births]
• 1926: Richard DeVos, American businessman [category: Births]
• 1926: Samuel Poyntz, Irish clergyman and author [category: Births]
• 1927: Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1927: Dick Savitt, American tennis player [category: Births]
• 1927: Jacques Dupin, French poet [category: Births]
• 1927: Philip Batt, American politician [category: Births]
• 1927: Robert Orben, American magician [category: Births]
• 1927: Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1927: Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846) [category: Deaths]
• 1928: Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1928: Samuel Adler, American composer [category: Births]
• 1929: Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor [category: Births]
• 1929: Darrett B. Rutman, American historian (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1929: Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1929: Harold Hassall, former English professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1929: Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer [category: Births]
• 1929: Peter Swerling, American theoretician (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1929: Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter [category: Births]
• 1931: Alice Rivlin, American economist [category: Births]
• 1931: Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991) [category: Births]
• 1931: Larry Keith, American actor (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1931: Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997) [category: Births]
• 1931: William Henry Keeler, American Archbishop [category: Births]
• 1932: Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1932: Frank Wells, American businessman (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1932: Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1932: Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1932: Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor [category: Births]
• 1933: Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1933: John W. Mills, English sculptor [category: Births]
• 1933: Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver [category: Births]
• 1933: Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet. [category: Events]
• 1933: The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree. [category: Events]
• 1934: Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1934: Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1934: Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident [category: Births]
• 1934: Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist [category: Births]
• 1934: John Duffey, American musician (The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene) (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1934: Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer [category: Births]
• 1934: Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player [category: Births]
• 1935: Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1935: Edward Dębicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer (Terno) [category: Births]
• 1935: Nancy Whiskey (Anne Alexandra Young Wilson), Scottish folk singer (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1936: Aribert Reimann, German composer [category: Births]
• 1936: Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (The Foundations) (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1936: Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1936: John Burland, English Engineering professor [category: Births]
• 1936: Robert Garrow, American serial killer (d. 1978) [category: Births]
• 1937: Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1937: Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1937: José Araquistáin, former Spanish football goalkeeper [category: Births]
• 1937: Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor [category: Births]
• 1937: Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist [category: Births]
• 1937: William Deverell, Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer [category: Births]
• 1937: Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1938: Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher [category: Births]
• 1938: Allan Kornblum, American federal judge (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1938: Alpha Condé, Guinean politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1938: Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, Political strategist and negotiator (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1938: Don Perkins, American football player [category: Births]
• 1938: Marshall Cooke, Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Marshall Cooke, retired Australian politician [category: Births]
• 1938: Paula Prentiss, American actress [category: Births]
• 1938: Roy Hazelwood, former FBI profiler of sex crimes [category: Births]
• 1938: George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852) [category: Deaths]
• 1938: Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874) [category: Deaths]
• 1939: Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor [category: Births]
• 1939: Jack Fisher, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1939: Keith Skues, English radio personality [category: Births]
• 1939: Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat [category: Births]
• 1940: Arild Lund, Norwegian politician [category: Births]
• 1940: David Plante, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1940: Edward Burke, American Olympic athlete [category: Births]
• 1940: Tamara Wilcox, American actress (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1940: Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1940: Vladimir Ivanovich Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer [category: Births]
• 1940: Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German Federal Constitutional Court judge [category: Births]
• 1940: Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: Adrian Lyne, English film director [category: Births]
• 1941: Bobby Shew, American jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1941: James Zagel, American judge and novelist [category: Births]
• 1941: John Aprea, American actor [category: Births]
• 1941: Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1941: Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858) [category: Deaths]
• 1941: World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands. [category: Events]
• 1942: Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps [category: Births]
• 1942: Christopher Shackle, English Modern Languages professor [category: Births]
• 1942: David Matthews, American keyboardist (Manhattan Jazz Quintet) [category: Births]
• 1942: Gloria Gaither, American gospel singer songwriter [category: Births]
• 1942: Henk van der Kroon, Dutch politician [category: Births]
• 1942: James Gustave Speth, American lawyer and advocate [category: Births]
• 1942: Ji-Tu Cumbuka, American stage and screen actor [category: Births]
• 1942: Lynn Sherr, American journalist and author [category: Births]
• 1942: Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian-born Hungarian musician, singer and composer (Metro) [category: Births]
• 1943: Aldo Rico, Argentine politician [category: Births]
• 1943: Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1943: Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history [category: Births]
• 1943: Ron O'Quinn, American radio disc jockey [category: Births]
• 1943: Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer [category: Births]
• 1943: World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end. [category: Events]
• 1944: Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-born American physicist [category: Births]
• 1944: Bobby Womack, American singer (The Valentinos) [category: Births]
• 1944: Glen Baxter, English cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1944: Greg Weld, American race car driver (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1944: Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999) [category: Births]
• 1944: Len Walker, English footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1944: Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1944: Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin. [category: Events]
• 1945: Dieter Meier, Swiss singer (Yello) [category: Births]
• 1945: Femi Benussi, Italian film actress [category: Births]
• 1945: Frank Novak, American actor [category: Births]
• 1945: Gary Williams, American basketball coach [category: Births]
• 1945: Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama [category: Births]
• 1945: Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1945: Tim Weigel, American broadcaster (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1945: Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager [category: Births]
• 1945: Tony Allen, English comedian and writer [category: Births]
• 1945: Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1945: Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany. [category: Events]
• 1946: Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977) [category: Births]
• 1946: Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker [category: Births]
• 1946: Jean-Claude Schmitt, prominent French medievalist [category: Births]
• 1946: Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1946: Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1946: Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author [category: Births]
• 1946: Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1947: Aura Lewis, South African singer [category: Births]
• 1947: Bob Lewis, American musician (Devo) [category: Births]
• 1947: David Franzoni, American screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1947: Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor [category: Births]
• 1947: Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician [category: Births]
• 1947: John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University [category: Births]
• 1947: Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist [category: Births]
• 1948: Brian Cummings, American voice actor [category: Births]
• 1948: Chris Squire, English bassist (The Syn, Yes, XYZ, Conspiracy) [category: Births]
• 1948: James Ellroy, American writer [category: Births]
• 1948: Jean O'Leary, American activist and politician (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1948: Leron Lee, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author [category: Births]
• 1948: Shakin' Stevens (Michael Barratt), Welsh singer (Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets) [category: Births]
• 1948: Tom Grieve, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1948: Veljko Despot, Croatian music journalist and record business entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1948: Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1949: Carroll Baker, Canadian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1949: Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1949: Sergei Bagapsh, former President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia (d. 2011) [category: Births]
• 1949: Tomislav Trifić, Serbian graphic artist [category: Births]
• 1949: Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1950: Barrie Cassidy, Australian journalist [category: Births]
• 1950: Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1950: Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter [category: Births]
• 1950: Rick Perry, American politician [category: Births]
• 1950: Ron Climie, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1950: Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright [category: Births]
• 1950: Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Chris Rea, English singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Glenis Willmott, British politician [category: Births]
• 1951: Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993) [category: Births]
• 1951: Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager [category: Births]
• 1951: Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer [category: Births]
• 1951: Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1951: Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer (Climax Blues Band and Electric Light Orchestra Part II) [category: Births]
• 1951: Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager [category: Births]
• 1951: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American author (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1951: Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1952: Peter Kuhfeld, English painter [category: Births]
• 1952: Ronn Moss, American actor [category: Births]
• 1952: Serge Fiori, Canadian singer-songwriter (Harmonium) [category: Births]
• 1952: Svend Robinson, Canadian politician [category: Births]
• 1952: Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer [category: Births]
• 1952: Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1953: Chris Smith, American politician [category: Births]
• 1953: Daniel Woodrell, American crime fiction writer [category: Births]
• 1953: Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist [category: Births]
• 1953: Geoff Nicholson, English novelist [category: Births]
• 1953: John Edwards, Australian television producer [category: Births]
• 1953: KRK Ryden (Keith Ryden), American visual artist [category: Births]
• 1953: Kay Lenz, American actress [category: Births]
• 1953: Nicholas Campion, English historian [category: Births]
• 1953: Paweł Janas, Polish football manager [category: Births]
• 1953: Peggy Rathmann, American author and illustrator [category: Births]
• 1953: Reinhold Roth, German motorcycle road racer [category: Births]
• 1953: Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1953: Scott Hicks, Australian film director [category: Births]
• 1954: Adrian Zmed, American actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor [category: Births]
• 1954: Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1954: François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France [category: Births]
• 1954: Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident [category: Births]
• 1954: Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1954: Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer [category: Births]
• 1954: Ricky Ford, American saxophonist [category: Births]
• 1954: Timur Apakidze, Russian Hero of the Russian Federation (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1954: Willie Thorne, English snooker player [category: Births]
• 1954: Yvan Lachaud, French politician [category: Births]
• 1954: Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1955: Boon Gould (Rowland Charles Gould), English musician (Level 42) [category: Births]
• 1955: Dominique Pinon, French actor [category: Births]
• 1955: Farhad Daneshjoo, Iranian academic and the current president of Azad University [category: Births]
• 1955: James Weaver, English race car driver [category: Births]
• 1955: Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1955: Tim Costello, Australian minister and CEO [category: Births]
• 1956: Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist [category: Births]
• 1957: Edouard Vermeulen, Belgian fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1957: Jim Dwyer, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1957: Nicholas Coleridge, English entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1957: Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1957: Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver [category: Births]
• 1957: Ron Fassler, American actor [category: Births]
• 1957: The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90. [category: Events]
• 1958: Lennie Lee, British artist [category: Births]
• 1958: Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach [category: Births]
• 1958: Patricia Heaton, American actress [category: Births]
• 1959: Plamen Getov, Bulgarian footballer [category: Births]
• 1959: Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter [category: Births]
• 1959: Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Christina Sussiek, German athlete [category: Births]
• 1960: Iain Hesford, Zambian born English footballer [category: Births]
• 1960: John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer [category: Births]
• 1960: Kazimierz Matuszny, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1960: Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1960: Mykelti Williamson, American actor [category: Births]
• 1960: Thierry Pastor, French singer [category: Births]
• 1960: Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1960: The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. [category: Events]
• 1961: Alain Coumont, Belgian chef and restaurateur [category: Births]
• 1961: Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor and narrator [category: Births]
• 1961: Ray Mancini, American boxer [category: Births]
• 1961: Roger Wessels, South African golfer [category: Births]
• 1961: Sabine Everts, German track athlete [category: Births]
• 1961: Steven Weber, American actor [category: Births]
• 1961: Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1961: Tinker Juarez, bike racer [category: Births]
• 1962: Claire Voisin, French professor of mathematics at the University of Paris VI: Pierre et Marie Curie [category: Births]
• 1962: David Sparrow, English actor [category: Births]
• 1962: Greg Kragen, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday) [category: Births]
• 1962: Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer [category: Births]
• 1962: Paul Canoville, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1962: Simon Bisley, British comic artist [category: Births]
• 1962: Stephan Reimertz, German art historian and novelist [category: Births]
• 1962: George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889) [category: Deaths]
• 1963: Barbara Bubula, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1963: Daniel Roebuck, American actor [category: Births]
• 1963: Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey [category: Births]
• 1963: Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod) [category: Births]
• 1963: William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883) [category: Deaths]
• 1964: Brian Crowley, Irish politician [category: Births]
• 1964: Cheryl Fergison, English actress [category: Births]
• 1964: David Colclough, Welsh professional poker player [category: Births]
• 1964: Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer (The Seekers) [category: Births]
• 1964: Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1964: Scott Baker, American journalist [category: Births]
• 1964: Tom Lampkin, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1965: Andrew Collins, English journalist [category: Births]
• 1965: Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway [category: Births]
• 1965: Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician [category: Births]
• 1965: Maximillian Lenz (WestBam), German rave techno DJ [category: Births]
• 1965: Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker [category: Births]
• 1965: Stacy Edwards, American actress [category: Births]
• 1965: Viktor Shapovalov, Russian auto racing driver [category: Births]
• 1965: Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut [category: Births]
• 1966: Daniela Amavia, American actress and model [category: Births]
• 1966: Dav Pilkey, American author [category: Births]
• 1966: Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater [category: Births]
• 1966: Fiona Ma, American politician [category: Births]
• 1966: Grand Puba (Maxwell Dixon), American rapper (Brand Nubian) [category: Births]
• 1966: Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and Mayor of Sacramento, California [category: Births]
• 1966: Mike Small, American professional golfer [category: Births]
• 1966: Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1966: Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays) [category: Births]
• 1966: Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor [category: Births]
• 1966: Wash West (Wash Westmoreland), English film director [category: Births]
• 1966: A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people. [category: Events]
• 1967: Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist [category: Births]
• 1967: Andrew Osmond, English writer [category: Births]
• 1967: Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1967: Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1967: Derek Mooney, Irish radio and television personality and radio producer [category: Births]
• 1967: Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads) [category: Births]
• 1967: Ivan Lewis, English politician [category: Births]
• 1967: Kubilay Türkyılmaz, Turkish-Swiss footballer [category: Births]
• 1967: Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist [category: Births]
• 1967: Terry Matterson, Australian rugby league football coach [category: Births]
• 1967: Tim Vine, English actor and comedian [category: Births]
• 1967: Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1967: Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1968: Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer [category: Births]
• 1968: Dionna Harris, American softball player and Olympic champion [category: Births]
• 1968: Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Graham Westley, English football manager [category: Births]
• 1968: Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer [category: Births]
• 1968: Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician [category: Births]
• 1968: Patsy Kensit, English actress [category: Births]
• 1968: Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player [category: Births]
• 1969: Annie Yi (Annie Shizuka Inoh), Chinese singer, writer and actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Chaz Bono, American actor and activist [category: Births]
• 1969: Frank Nicotero, American comedian [category: Births]
• 1969: Lacy Rose, American pornographic actress [category: Births]
• 1969: Matt Tilley, Australian radio personality and comedian [category: Births]
• 1969: Patrick Roach, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1969: Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager [category: Births]
• 1969: Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician [category: Births]
• 1969: Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881) [category: Deaths]
• 1970: Andrea Bendewald, American actress [category: Births]
• 1970: Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player [category: Births]
• 1970: Edward Gal, Dutch dressage rider [category: Births]
• 1970: Àlex Crivillé, Spanish motorcycle road racer [category: Births]
• 1970: French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew. [category: Events]
• 1971: Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat) [category: Births]
• 1971: Claire Baker, Scottish politician [category: Births]
• 1971: Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries) [category: Births]
• 1971: Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player [category: Births]
• 1971: Jason Sellers, American country musician [category: Births]
• 1971: Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Nick Stabile, American actor [category: Births]
• 1971: Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver [category: Births]
• 1971: Shavar Ross, American filmmaker [category: Births]
• 1972: Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South) [category: Births]
• 1972: Brittney Powell, German-American actress [category: Births]
• 1972: Buck 65 (Richard Terfry), Canadian hip hop artist and radio host [category: Births]
• 1972: Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer [category: Births]
• 1972: Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer [category: Births]
• 1972: Ivy Queen (Martha Ivelisse Pesante), American composer and singer [category: Births]
• 1972: Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver [category: Births]
• 1972: Katherine Center, contemporary American fiction author [category: Births]
• 1972: Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician (Darkthrone) [category: Births]
• 1972: Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast [category: Births]
• 1972: Robert Smith, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director [category: Births]
• 1973: Jennifer Cole, American model, actress and game show/talk show host [category: Births]
• 1973: Len Wiseman, American director [category: Births]
• 1973: Linus of Hollywood (Kevin Dotson), American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer (Size 14 and Nerf Herder) [category: Births]
• 1973: Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1973: Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player [category: Births]
• 1973: Phillip Daniels, American footballer [category: Births]
• 1973: Sadik Harchaoui, Moroccan-Dutch legal academic [category: Births]
• 1973: Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper [category: Births]
• 1973: Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Crowbar (Christopher Ford), American professional wrestler [category: Births]
• 1974: David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player [category: Births]
• 1974: Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper [category: Births]
• 1974: ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus and Borknagar) [category: Births]
• 1974: Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player [category: Births]
• 1974: Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Peggy Clydesdale, American artist and painter [category: Births]
• 1974: Tommy Phelps, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: People magazine is published for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1975: Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Eva Martincová, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1975: Hawksley Workman (Ryan Corrigan), Canadian rock singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1975: Jacqueline Anderson, American actress and entrepreneur [category: Births]
• 1975: Jerod Turner, American professional golfer [category: Births]
• 1975: Julie Dibens, British triathlete [category: Births]
• 1975: Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress [category: Births]
• 1975: Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler [category: Births]
• 1975: Kristi Harrower, Australian professional basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1975: Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player [category: Births]
• 1975: Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler [category: Births]
• 1976: Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Cho In-Chul, South Korean judoka champion [category: Births]
• 1976: Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower [category: Births]
• 1976: Gary Shortland, English figure skater [category: Births]
• 1976: Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris) [category: Births]
• 1976: Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer (Milk Inc. and Sylver) [category: Births]
• 1976: Robbie Blake, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1976: Sabrina Sabrok, Argentine television host, singer, and producer [category: Births]
• 1976: Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director [category: Births]
• 1976: Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim and Leftöver Crack) [category: Births]
• 1976: Sean Covel, American film producer [category: Births]
• 1976: Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player [category: Births]
• 1976: Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Vic Wunderle, American archer [category: Births]
• 1976: Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (b. 1882) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament. [category: Events]
• 1977: Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete [category: Births]
• 1977: Christian Jessen, English doctor and television presenter [category: Births]
• 1977: Dan Wells, American horror fiction author [category: Births]
• 1977: Daniel Klewer, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player [category: Births]
• 1977: Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Jason Marsalis, American jazz musician [category: Births]
• 1977: Jeremiah Green, American drummer (Modest Mouse) [category: Births]
• 1977: Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player [category: Births]
• 1977: Laura Jansen, Dutch singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1977: Mike Kinsella, American musician (Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz and American Football) [category: Births]
• 1977: Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player [category: Births]
• 1977: Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1977: Ron Horsley, American author and artist [category: Births]
• 1977: Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player [category: Births]
• 1977: Traver Rains, American designer [category: Births]
• 1977: Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, novelist and literary art critic (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist (b. 1885) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged Bucharest in Romania. [category: Events]
• 1978: César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer [category: Births]
• 1978: Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1978: Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1978: Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1978: Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Ariel Carreño, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist [category: Births]
• 1979: Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1979: Günter Friesenbichler, Austrian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis and Codeine Velvet Club) [category: Births]
• 1979: Karima Delli, French politician [category: Births]
• 1979: Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer and activist [category: Births]
• 1979: Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Paul Terry, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Sarah Stock, Canadian wrestler [category: Births]
• 1979: Trenton Hassell, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1979: Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer [category: Births]
• 1979: Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1979: Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Arash Markazi, American sportswriter [category: Births]
• 1980: Ben Briand, Australian film director [category: Births]
• 1980: Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Jack Hannahan, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1980: Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007) [category: Births]
• 1980: Kamalinee Mukherjee, Indian film actress [category: Births]
• 1980: Michael Henrich, American-born ice hockey player [category: Births]
• 1980: Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1980: Phil McGuire, Scottish football player [category: Births]
• 1980: Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player [category: Births]
• 1980: Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby player [category: Births]
• 1980: Alan Hardaker, English football administrator (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Alfred Plé, French Olympic rower (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1980: Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister. [category: Events]
• 1981: Aketza Peña, Spanish road bicycle racer [category: Births]
• 1981: Alastair Ross, Northern Ireland Unionist politician [category: Births]
• 1981: Ariza Makukula, Portuguese footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Carol Banawa, Filipino singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London) [category: Births]
• 1981: Gareth Knapman, English theatre actor and director [category: Births]
• 1981: Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer [category: Births]
• 1981: Helen Wyman, British cyclist [category: Births]
• 1981: Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer [category: Births]
• 1981: Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer [category: Births]
• 1981: Franz Kapus, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1981: Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Cate Edwards, American attorney and author [category: Births]
• 1982: Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer [category: Births]
• 1982: Landon Donovan, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1982: Ludmila Ezhova, Russian Olympic gymnast [category: Births]
• 1982: Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen [category: Births]
• 1982: Yasemin Mori, Turkish alternative rock singer [category: Births]
• 1982: Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: Adam Deacon, English actor [category: Births]
• 1983: Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Dante Senger, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Jessica Heap, American actress [category: Births]
• 1983: Ryan Lonie, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater [category: Births]
• 1983: Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada. [category: Events]
• 1984: Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress [category: Births]
• 1984: Anders Grøndal, Norwegian rally and hill climb driver [category: Births]
• 1984: Artyom Rebrov, Russian professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Marin Čolak, Croatian auto racing driver [category: Births]
• 1984: Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player [category: Births]
• 1984: Phillip Inzerillo, American musician (Suburban Legends) [category: Births]
• 1984: Raven Quinn, American musician, singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1984: Spencer Larsen, American football player [category: Births]
• 1984: Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Zak Whitbread, American soccer player [category: Births]
• 1984: Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1984: Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Davey Morgan, American illustrator and photographer [category: Births]
• 1985: Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jake Buxton, English professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1985: Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player [category: Births]
• 1985: Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1985: Scott Michael Foster, American actor [category: Births]
• 1985: Whitney Port, American reality television personality [category: Births]
• 1985: The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States. [category: Events]
• 1986: Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Dominic Telo, South African cricketer [category: Births]
• 1986: Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen [category: Births]
• 1986: José Antonio Olvera, Mexican footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: K.Michelle (Kimberly Michelle Pate), American singer and songwriter [category: Births]
• 1986: Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby league player [category: Births]
• 1986: Margo Harshman, American actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Shraddha Das, Indian actress [category: Births]
• 1986: Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer [category: Births]
• 1986: Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist (b. 1887) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: John Spence, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 1986: The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus. [category: Events]
• 1987: Ben McKinley, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Cameron Wood, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1987: Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess [category: Births]
• 1987: William Njovu, Zambian footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Adam Watts, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1988: Cody Longo, American film actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Josh Bowman, English actor [category: Births]
• 1988: Laura Siegemund, German tennis player [category: Births]
• 1988: Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol [category: Births]
• 1988: Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Bradley Middleton, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1989: Erin Heatherton, American fashion model [category: Births]
• 1989: Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Andrea Bowen, American actress [category: Births]
• 1990: Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Marco Martina Rini, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Paddy Madden, Irish footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete (b. 1891) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model [category: Births]
• 1991: Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Viktor Lundberg, Swedish footballer [category: Births]
• 1991: Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician (b. 1897) [category: Deaths]
• 1991: Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion. [category: Events]
• 1992: Bernd Leno, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1992: Daniel Lloyd, British racing car driver [category: Births]
• 1992: Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco [category: Births]
• 1992: Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Peter Judge, English cricketer (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Abigail Mavity, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Jenna Boyd, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Richard Peniket, English professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1993: Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor [category: Births]
• 1993: Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1911) [category: Deaths]
• 1993: Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Callum Harriott, English professional footballer [category: Births]
• 1994: Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician(b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 1994: Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Bill Milner, English actor [category: Births]
• 1995: Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Iftekhar, Indian actor (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (b. 1919) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days. [category: Events]
• 1997: Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer (b. 1901) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 1998: Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex. [category: Events]
• 1999: Del Close, American actor (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Eddie Dean, American western singer and actor (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Kyi Kyi Htay, actress, singer, opera performer and dancer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2000: Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Jim Rhodes, American politician (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: Martin Wright, British bioengineer (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 2001: 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA. [category: Events]
• 2001: Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people. [category: Events]
• 2002: Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2002: Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission. [category: Events]
• 2003: Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist. (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Magazine, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Public Image Ltd.) (b. 1955) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: August Bischof, last living Austrian World War I veteran (b. 1900) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (Breakout) (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: 14-year-old schoolgirl Charlotte Shaw drowned on Dartmoor, becoming the first person to die in connection with the annual Ten Tors challenge. [category: Events]
• 2007: Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet. [category: Events]
• 2008: Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Leonard Rosenman, American film composer (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: George McAfee, American football player (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Horton Foote, American playwright (b. 1916) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (Cephas & Wiggins) (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002. [category: Events]
• 2010: Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934) [category: Deaths]
• 2010: Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b. 1926) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b. 1921) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Don Mincher, American baseball player (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Joan Taylor, American actress and writer (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: John C. Reiss, American Roman Catholic prelate, former Bishop of Trenton (b. 1922) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Paul McBride, British lawyer (b. c. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Runako Morton, West Indian cricketer (b. 1978) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Shmuel Tankus, Israeli naval officer, fifth commander of the Israeli Navy (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Russian presidential election, 2012: Voters in Russia go to the polls for a presidential election with Prime Minister Vladimir Putin claiming victory despite allegations of voter fraud. [category: Events]
• _: Adrian of Nicomedia [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Basinus [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Blessed Humbert III of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Casimir [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Peter of Pappacarbone [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania) [category: Holidays and observances]