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What happend on 8. March in History
In our data base we found 332 events happened on 8. March:
• 1010: Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shāhnāmeh. [category: Events]
• 1126: Urraca of León (b. 1082) [category: Deaths]
• 1126: Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León. [category: Events]
• 1144: Pope Celestine II [category: Deaths]
• 1223: Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161) [category: Deaths]
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• 1286: John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341) [category: Births]
• 1293: Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359) [category: Births]
• 1495: John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (d. 1550) [category: Births]
• 1514: Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562) [category: Births]
• 1550: John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (b. 1495) [category: Deaths]
• 1566: Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613) [category: Births]
• 1576: Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán. [category: Events]
• 1618: Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion. [category: Events]
• 1641: Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587) [category: Deaths]
• 1655: John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies. [category: Events]
• 1659: Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738) [category: Births]
• 1674: Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597) [category: Deaths]
• 1702: Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782) [category: Births]
• 1702: William III of England (b. 1650) [category: Deaths]
• 1702: Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland. [category: Events]
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• 1712: John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780) [category: Births]
• 1714: Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer (d. 1788) [category: Births]
• 1722: The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy. [category: Events]
• 1726: Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, Royal Navy admiral of the fleet (d. 1799) [category: Births]
• 1731: Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688) [category: Deaths]
• 1736: Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran. [category: Events]
• 1746: André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802) [category: Births]
• 1748: William V of Orange, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806) [category: Births]
• 1757: Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701) [category: Deaths]
• 1771: Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688) [category: Deaths]
• 1775: An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery. [category: Events]
• 1777: Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt. [category: Events]
• 1782: Gnadenhütten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians. [category: Events]
• 1783: Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819) [category: Births]
• 1799: Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (d. 1889) [category: Births]
• 1804: Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887) [category: Births]
• 1814: Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878) [category: Births]
• 1817: The New York Stock Exchange is founded. [category: Events]
• 1819: Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739) [category: Deaths]
• 1822: Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882) [category: Births]
• 1827: Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875) [category: Births]
• 1830: João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896) [category: Births]
• 1841: Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1935) [category: Births]
• 1844: Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763) [category: Deaths]
• 1844: King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway. [category: Events]
• 1847: John Lister, English politician (d. 1933) [category: Births]
• 1855: William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821) [category: Deaths]
• 1856: Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929) [category: Births]
• 1856: Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937) [category: Births]
• 1859: Kenneth Grahame, English author (d. 1932) [category: Births]
• 1862: American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia. [category: Events]
• 1865: Frederic Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947) [category: Births]
• 1868: Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai near Osaka. [category: Events]
• 1869: Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1872: Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815) [category: Deaths]
• 1874: Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800) [category: Deaths]
• 1879: Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1968) [category: Births]
• 1882: Charles de Vendeville, French swimmer (d. 1914) [category: Births]
• 1886: Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1972) [category: Births]
• 1887: Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813) [category: Deaths]
• 1887: James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820) [category: Deaths]
• 1889: John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (b. 1803) [category: Deaths]
• 1891: Sam Jaffe, American actor (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1892: Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1892: Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1896: Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975) [category: Births]
• 1897: Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, (d. 1925) [category: Births]
• 1897: Margot Bryant, British actress, (d. 1988) [category: Births]
• 1898: Kame Nakamura, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1899: Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1900: Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973) [category: Births]
• 1902: Jennings Randolph, America politician, United States Senator from West Virginia (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1902: Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962) [category: Births]
• 1907: Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek politician (d. 1998) [category: Births]
• 1907: Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist, one of the country's first socialists (b. 1872) [category: Deaths]
• 1908: Lucio and Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twins (b. 1936) [category: Births]
• 1910: Bernard Benjamin, British statistician (d. 2002) [category: Births]
• 1910: Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1910: French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license. [category: Events]
• 1911: Alan Hovhaness, American composer (d. 2000) [category: Births]
• 1911: International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany. [category: Events]
• 1912: Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American politician, 73rd governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1912: Preston Smith, America politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1914: Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1915: Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979) [category: Births]
• 1916: John W. Seybold, American businessman, father of computer typesetting (d. 2004) [category: Births]
• 1916: World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila. [category: Events]
• 1917: Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838) [category: Deaths]
• 1917: International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (so named because it was February on the Julian calendar). [category: Events]
• 1917: The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule. [category: Events]
• 1918: Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009) [category: Births]
• 1920: Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985) [category: Births]
• 1920: The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established. [category: Events]
• 1921: Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990) [category: Births]
• 1921: Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983) [category: Births]
• 1921: Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid. [category: Events]
• 1922: Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1922: Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1922: Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor [category: Births]
• 1922: Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and manga artist [category: Births]
• 1922: Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1923: Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel laureate (b. 1837) [category: Deaths]
• 1923: Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835) [category: Deaths]
• 1924: Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-born physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1924: The Castle Gate mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah. [category: Events]
• 1925: Warren Bennis, American educator and author [category: Births]
• 1926: Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001) [category: Births]
• 1926: Grigori Kromanov, Estonian film and theatre director (d. 1984) [category: Births]
• 1927: Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer [category: Births]
• 1927: Stanisław Kania, Polish politician [category: Births]
• 1929: Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1930: Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996) [category: Births]
• 1930: Nancy Burley, Australian figure skater (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1930: Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865) [category: Deaths]
• 1930: William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857) [category: Deaths]
• 1931: Gerald Potterton, British/Canadian director, producer and animator [category: Births]
• 1931: John McPhee, American writer and professor [category: Births]
• 1931: Neil Adcock, South African cricketer (d. 2013) [category: Births]
• 1931: Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003) [category: Births]
• 1933: Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008) [category: Births]
• 1933: Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director [category: Births]
• 1934: Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d. 2006) [category: Births]
• 1935: Hachiko, famous dog (b. 1923) [category: Deaths]
• 1936: Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist (d. 1982) [category: Births]
• 1936: Sue Ane Langdon, American actress [category: Births]
• 1936: Daytona Beach Road Course holds its first oval stock car race. [category: Events]
• 1937: Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (d. 1994) [category: Births]
• 1937: Richard Farina, American folksinger (d. 1966) [category: Births]
• 1937: Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1937: Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins. [category: Events]
• 1938: Bruno Pizzul, Italian sports journalist [category: Births]
• 1938: Hans Fogh, Canadian competition sailor [category: Births]
• 1938: Pete Dawkins, American football player [category: Births]
• 1939: Jim Bouton, American baseball player and author [category: Births]
• 1939: Lidia Skoblikova, Russian skater [category: Births]
• 1939: Robert Tear, Welsh tenor [category: Births]
• 1940: Jacques Doucet, radio play-by-play voice for the Montreal Expos (1972-2004) [category: Births]
• 1940: Susan Clark, Canadian actress [category: Births]
• 1941: Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987) [category: Births]
• 1941: Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: Ann Packer, British athlete [category: Births]
• 1942: Dick Allen, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1942: Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor [category: Births]
• 1942: José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888) [category: Deaths]
• 1942: World War II: The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java. [category: Events]
• 1943: Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer [category: Births]
• 1943: Lynn Redgrave, English actress (d. 2010) [category: Births]
• 1943: Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (b. 1878) [category: Deaths]
• 1944: Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader [category: Births]
• 1944: Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist [category: Births]
• 1944: Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer [category: Births]
• 1945: Anselm Kiefer, German painter [category: Births]
• 1945: Bruce Broughton, American composer [category: Births]
• 1945: Jim Chapman, American politician [category: Births]
• 1945: Micky Dolenz, American musician, singer, songwriter, actor. (The Monkees) [category: Births]
• 1945: Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (b.1864) [category: Deaths]
• 1946: Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles and Poco) [category: Births]
• 1947: Carole Bayer Sager, American composer [category: Births]
• 1947: Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive [category: Births]
• 1947: Mike Allsup, American musician (Three Dog Night) [category: Births]
• 1947: Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter (Blue Effect, Flamengo) [category: Births]
• 1948: Gyles Brandreth, British broadcaster and former Conservative Member of Parliament [category: Births]
• 1948: Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth [category: Births]
• 1948: Peggy March, American pop singer [category: Births]
• 1949: Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter [category: Births]
• 1949: Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete [category: Births]
• 1949: Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast [category: Births]
• 1949: Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason. [category: Events]
• 1950: Dimitris Spentzopoulos, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1950: Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic [category: Births]
• 1951: Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (b. 1920) [category: Deaths]
• 1951: Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1952: George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia [category: Births]
• 1953: Don Werner, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1953: Jim Rice, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1954: Bob Brozman, American musician (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) [category: Births]
• 1954: Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz) [category: Births]
• 1954: David Wilkie, Scottish swimmer [category: Births]
• 1955: Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981) [category: Births]
• 1955: Joellyn Auklandus, American writer [category: Births]
• 1956: John Kapelos, Canadian actor [category: Births]
• 1956: Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989) [category: Births]
• 1957: Billy Childs, American composer/pianist [category: Births]
• 1957: Bob Stoddard, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) [category: Births]
• 1957: Cynthia Rothrock, American actress [category: Births]
• 1957: John Butcher, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1957: Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886) [category: Deaths]
• 1957: Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis. [category: Events]
• 1957: Ghana joins the United Nations. [category: Events]
• 1957: The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia. [category: Events]
• 1958: Gary Numan, British singer (Tubeway Army) [category: Births]
• 1958: Nick Capra, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1959: Aidan Quinn, American actor [category: Births]
• 1959: Lester Holt, American television journalist [category: Births]
• 1960: Buck Williams, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1960: Jeffrey Eugenides, American novelist [category: Births]
• 1960: Max Metzker, Australian swimmer [category: Births]
• 1961: Camryn Manheim, American actress [category: Births]
• 1961: Larry Murphy, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1961: Mark Salas, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1961: Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879) [category: Deaths]
• 1962: Kim Ung-Yong, Korean child prodigy [category: Births]
• 1963: Mike Lalor, Canadian hockey player [category: Births]
• 1963: The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command. [category: Events]
• 1964: Kate Betts, American fashion editor [category: Births]
• 1964: Lance McCullers, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1964: Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director [category: Births]
• 1965: Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer [category: Births]
• 1965: Kenny Smith, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1966: Cheryl James, American rapper and actress (Salt-n-Pepa) [category: Births]
• 1966: A bomb planted by Irish Republicans destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin. [category: Events]
• 1967: Joel Johnston, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Ellen Forney, American cartoonist [category: Births]
• 1968: Jim Dougherty, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1968: Michael Bartels, German race car driver [category: Births]
• 1968: Shawn Mullins, American singer/songwriter [category: Births]
• 1970: Andrea Parker, American actress, ballet dancer [category: Births]
• 1970: Jason Elam, American football player [category: Births]
• 1971: Kit Symons, Welsh footballer [category: Births]
• 1971: Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893) [category: Deaths]
• 1972: Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid) [category: Births]
• 1972: Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player [category: Births]
• 1972: Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1972: Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German Nazi official (b. 1899) [category: Deaths]
• 1973: Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering) [category: Births]
• 1973: Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-born American actor and former model [category: Births]
• 1973: Justin Thompson, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Kurt Mollekens, Belgian race car driver [category: Births]
• 1973: Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1973: Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945) [category: Deaths]
• 1974: Fardeen Khan, Indian actor [category: Births]
• 1974: Mike Moriarty, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1974: Stefan Müller, German footballer [category: Births]
• 1974: Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France. [category: Events]
• 1975: Mauro Briano, Italian footballer [category: Births]
• 1975: Peggy Zina, Greek singer [category: Births]
• 1975: George Stevens, American director (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1976: Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor [category: Births]
• 1976: Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats) [category: Births]
• 1976: Hines Ward, American football player [category: Births]
• 1976: Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1976: Ryan Freel, American baseball player (d. 2012) [category: Births]
• 1976: Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908) [category: Deaths]
• 1977: James Van Der Beek, American actor [category: Births]
• 1977: Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer [category: Births]
• 1977: Michael Tarver, American wrestler [category: Births]
• 1978: Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan assassin [category: Births]
• 1978: Nick Zano, American actor [category: Births]
• 1978: The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4. [category: Events]
• 1979: Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go) [category: Births]
• 1979: Apathy (rapper), American rapper [category: Births]
• 1979: Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress [category: Births]
• 1979: Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane) [category: Births]
• 1979: Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time. [category: Events]
• 1980: Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5) [category: Births]
• 1980: Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Joost Posthuma, Dutch professional cyclist [category: Births]
• 1981: Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer [category: Births]
• 1981: Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (d. 2005) [category: Births]
• 1981: Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894) [category: Deaths]
• 1982: Craig Stansberry, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1982: Kat Von D, Mexican-born American tattoo artist [category: Births]
• 1982: Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer [category: Births]
• 1982: Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver [category: Births]
• 1983: André Santos, Brazilian footballer [category: Births]
• 1983: Mark Worrell, American baseball player [category: Births]
• 1983: Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, British politician (b. 1904) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: William Walton, English composer (b. 1902) [category: Deaths]
• 1983: U.S. President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire". [category: Events]
• 1984: Dave Moffatt, Canadian singer and actor (The Moffatts) [category: Births]
• 1984: Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer [category: Births]
• 1984: Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer [category: Births]
• 1984: Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player [category: Births]
• 1985: Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer [category: Births]
• 1985: Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1985: A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others. [category: Events]
• 1986: Princess Tsuguko of Takamado, Japanese princess [category: Births]
• 1986: Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author, poet (b. 1913) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Armanti Edwards, American college football player [category: Births]
• 1988: Elly Jackson, British singer and songwriter (La Roux) [category: Births]
• 1988: Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 1988: Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912) [category: Deaths]
• 1989: Robbie Hummel, American basketball player [category: Births]
• 1989: Charles Exbrayat, French novelist (b. 1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1990: Ben Tozer, English footballer [category: Births]
• 1990: Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer [category: Births]
• 1990: Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player [category: Births]
• 1991: Devon Werkheiser, American actor and musician [category: Births]
• 1991: John Bellairs, American mystery author (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 1992: Charlie Ray, American actress [category: Births]
• 1993: Billy Eckstine, American singer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1995: Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (b. 1965) [category: Deaths]
• 1996: Jack Churchill, eccentric British soldier (b.1906) [category: Deaths]
• 1997: Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer (AKB48, SKE48) [category: Births]
• 1998: Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentine writer (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: William Wrigley III, President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (b. 1933) [category: Deaths]
• 1999: The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing. [category: Events]
• 2001: Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940) [category: Deaths]
• 2003: Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954) [category: Deaths]
• 2004: A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council. [category: Events]
• 2005: Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2005: César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2006: Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Christopher Barrios Jr., American Murder Victim (b. 2001) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: John Inman, English actor (b. 1935) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947) [category: Deaths]
• 2007: Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948) [category: Deaths]
• 2008: Carol Barnes, British news presenter (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Ali Bongo, British magician (b. 1929) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Hank Locklin, American country music singer and songwriter (b. 1918) [category: Deaths]
• 2009: Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: Mike Starr, American Musician (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun and Days of the New) (b. 1966) [category: Deaths]
• 2011: St. Clair Lee, American vocalist (The Hues Corporation) (b. 1944) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Leslie Cochran, American peace activist (b.1951) [category: Deaths]
• 2012: Simin Daneshvar, Iranian academic, novelist, fiction writer and translator (b.1921) [category: Deaths]
• _: Christian Feast Day: [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Canberra Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March. (Australian Capital Territory) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Commonwealth Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March. (Commonwealth of Nations) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Earliest day on which Passion Sunday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent. (Christianity) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: International Women's Day or Mother's Day (primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: John of God [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Philemon the actor [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: Revolution Day (Syria) [category: Holidays and observances]
• _: World Kidney Day [category: Holidays and observances]