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* 1199 – King
Richard I of England Richard I (8 September 1157 – 6 April 1199) was King of England from 1189 until his death in 1199. He also ruled as Duke of Normandy, Aquitaine and Gascony, Lord of Cyprus, and Count of Poitiers, Anjou, Maine, and Nantes, and was ...
is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in
France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac ...
, leading to his death on
April 6 Events Pre–1600 *46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato (Cato the Younger) at the Battle of Thapsus. * 402 – Stilicho defeats the Visigoths under Alaric in the Battle of Pollentia. *13 ...
. *
1387 Year 1387 ( MCCCLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * Elizabeta Kotromanic, mother of Mary, Queen of Hungary and the regent of Hungar ...
English English usually refers to: * English language * English people English may also refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * ''English'', an adjective for something of, from, or related to England ** English national ide ...
victory over a
Franco Franco may refer to: Name * Franco (name) * Francisco Franco (1892–1975), Spanish general and dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975 * Franco Luambo (1938–1989), Congolese musician, the "Grand Maître" Prefix * Franco, a prefix used when ref ...
- Castilian-
Flemish Flemish (''Vlaams'') is a Low Franconian dialect cluster of the Dutch language. It is sometimes referred to as Flemish Dutch (), Belgian Dutch ( ), or Southern Dutch (). Flemish is native to Flanders, a historical region in northern Belgium; ...
fleet Fleet may refer to: Vehicles *Fishing fleet *Naval fleet *Fleet vehicles, a pool of motor vehicles *Fleet Aircraft, the aircraft manufacturing company Places Canada * Fleet, Alberta, Canada, a hamlet England * The Fleet Lagoon, at Chesil Beach ...
in the
Battle of Margate The Battle of Margate (), also known as the Battle of Cadzand (not to be confused with the 1337 Battle of Cadzand), was a naval battle that took place 24–25 March 1387 during the Caroline War phase of the Hundred Years' War between an Engli ...
off the coast of
Margate Margate is a seaside resort, seaside town on the north coast of Kent in south-east England. The town is estimated to be 1.5 miles long, north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay, UK, Palm Bay and Westbrook, Kent, ...
. *
1401 Year 1401 ( MCDI) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. Events January–December * January 6 – Rupert, King of Germany, is crowned King of the Romans at Cologne. * ...
Turco-Mongol The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was an ethnocultural synthesis that arose in Asia during the 14th century, among the ruling elites of the Golden Horde and the Chagatai Khanate. The ruling Mongol elites of these Khanates eventually ...
emperor
Timur Timur ; chg, ''Aqsaq Temür'', 'Timur the Lame') or as ''Sahib-i-Qiran'' ( 'Lord of the Auspicious Conjunction'), his epithet. ( chg, ''Temür'', 'Iron'; 9 April 133617–19 February 1405), later Timūr Gurkānī ( chg, ''Temür Kür ...
sacks
Damascus )), is an adjective which means "spacious". , motto = , image_flag = Flag of Damascus.svg , image_seal = Emblem of Damascus.svg , seal_type = Seal , map_caption = , ...
.


1601–1900

* 1603James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of
England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Wales to its west and Scotland to its north. The Irish Sea lies northwest and the Celtic Sea to the southwest. It is separated from continental Europe b ...
and
Ireland Ireland ( ; ga, Éire ; Ulster Scots dialect, Ulster-Scots: ) is an island in the Atlantic Ocean, North Atlantic Ocean, in Northwestern Europe, north-western Europe. It is separated from Great Britain to its east by the North Channel (Grea ...
, upon the death of
Elizabeth I Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was List of English monarchs, Queen of England and List of Irish monarchs, Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. Elizabeth was the last of the five House of Tudor monarchs and is ...
. * 1603 –
Tokugawa Ieyasu was the founder and first ''shōgun'' of the Tokugawa Shogunate of Japan, which ruled Japan from 1603 until the Meiji Restoration in 1868. He was one of the three "Great Unifiers" of Japan, along with his former lord Oda Nobunaga and fellow ...
is granted the title of ''
shōgun , officially , was the title of the military dictators of Japan during most of the period spanning from 1185 to 1868. Nominally appointed by the Emperor, shoguns were usually the de facto rulers of the country, though during part of the Kamakur ...
'' from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the
Tokugawa shogunate The Tokugawa shogunate (, Japanese 徳川幕府 ''Tokugawa bakufu''), also known as the , was the military government of Japan during the Edo period from 1603 to 1868. Nussbaum, Louis-Frédéric. (2005)"''Tokugawa-jidai''"in ''Japan Encyclopedia ...
in Edo, Japan. * 1663 – The
Province of Carolina Province of Carolina was a province of England (1663–1707) and Great Britain (1707–1712) that existed in North America and the Caribbean from 1663 until partitioned into North and South on January 24, 1712. It is part of present-day Alaba ...
is granted by charter to eight
Lords Proprietor A lord proprietor is a person granted a royal charter for the establishment and government of an English colony in the 17th century. The plural of the term is "lords proprietors" or "lords proprietary". Origin In the beginning of the European ...
in reward for their assistance in restoring
Charles II of England Charles II (29 May 1630 – 6 February 1685) was King of Scotland from 1649 until 1651, and King of England, Scotland and Ireland from the 1660 Restoration of the monarchy until his death in 1685. Charles II was the eldest surviving child of ...
to the throne. * 1720 – Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of
Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden,The United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names states that the country's formal name is the Kingdom of SwedenUNGEGN World Geographical Names, Sweden./ref> is a Nordic country located on ...
by the
Riksdag of the Estates Riksdag of the Estates ( sv, Riksens ständer; informally sv, Ståndsriksdagen) was the name used for the Estates of Sweden when they were assembled. Until its dissolution in 1866, the institution was the highest authority in Sweden next to t ...
, after his consort
Ulrika Eleonora Ulrika Eleonora or Ulrica Eleanor (23 January 1688 – 24 November 1741), known as Ulrika Eleonora the Younger, was Queen of Sweden, reigning in her own right from 5 December 1718 until her abdication on 29 February 1720 in favour of her husband ...
abdicated the throne on 29 February. * 1721
Johann Sebastian Bach Johann Sebastian Bach (28 July 1750) was a German composer and musician of the late Baroque period. He is known for his orchestral music such as the '' Brandenburg Concertos''; instrumental compositions such as the Cello Suites; keyboard w ...
dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051. * 1765
Great Britain Great Britain is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean off the northwest coast of continental Europe. With an area of , it is the largest of the British Isles, the largest European island and the ninth-largest island in the world. It is ...
passes the
Quartering Act The Quartering Acts were two or more Acts of British Parliament requiring local governments of Britain's North American colonies to provide the British soldiers with housing and food. Each of the Quartering Acts was an amendment to the Mutiny A ...
, which requires the
Thirteen Colonies The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies, the Thirteen American Colonies, or later as the United Colonies, were a group of Kingdom of Great Britain, British Colony, colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America. Fo ...
to house
British troops The British Army is the principal land warfare force of the United Kingdom, a part of the British Armed Forces along with the Royal Navy and the Royal Air Force. , the British Army comprises 79,380 regular full-time personnel, 4,090 Gurkhas ...
. * 1794 – In
Kraków Kraków (), or Cracow, is the second-largest and one of the oldest cities in Poland. Situated on the Vistula River in Lesser Poland Voivodeship, the city dates back to the seventh century. Kraków was the official capital of Poland until 1596 ...
,
Tadeusz Kościuszko Andrzej Tadeusz Bonawentura Kościuszko ( be, Andréj Tadévuš Banavientúra Kasciúška, en, Andrew Thaddeus Bonaventure Kosciuszko; 4 or 12 February 174615 October 1817) was a Polish Military engineering, military engineer, statesman, an ...
announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces. * 1829 – The
Parliament of the United Kingdom The Parliament of the United Kingdom is the supreme legislative body of the United Kingdom, the Crown Dependencies and the British Overseas Territories. It meets at the Palace of Westminster, London. It alone possesses legislative suprema ...
passes the
Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 The Catholic Relief Act 1829, also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, was passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom in 1829. It was the culmination of the process of Catholic emancipation throughout the United Kingdom of Great Br ...
, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament. * 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and
tar and feather Tarring and feathering is a form of public torture and punishment used to enforce unofficial justice or revenge. It was used in feudal Europe and its colonies in the early modern period, as well as the early American frontier, mostly as a t ...
Mormon Mormons are a religious and cultural group related to Mormonism, the principal branch of the Latter Day Saint movement started by Joseph Smith in upstate New York during the 1820s. After Smith's death in 1844, the movement split into several ...
leader
Joseph Smith Joseph Smith Jr. (December 23, 1805June 27, 1844) was an American religious leader and founder of Mormonism and the Latter Day Saint movement. When he was 24, Smith published the Book of Mormon. By the time of his death, 14 years later, he ...
. * 1854
President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
José Gregorio Monagas José Gregorio Monagas (4 May 1795 – 15 July 1858) was the president of Venezuela 1851–1855 and brother of José Tadeo Monagas.
abolishes slavery in Venezuela. * 1860Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (
Tairō ''Tairō'' (, "great elder") was a high-ranking official position in the Tokugawa shogunate government of Japan, roughly comparable to the office of prime minister. The ''tairō'' presided over the governing '' rōjū'' council in the event of an ...
)
Ii Naosuke was ''daimyō'' of Hikone (1850–1860) and also Tairō of the Tokugawa shogunate, Japan, a position he held from April 23, 1858, until his death, assassinated in the Sakuradamon Incident on March 24, 1860. He is most famous for signing the ...
is assassinated by ''
rōnin A ''rōnin'' ( ; ja, 浪人, , meaning 'drifter' or 'wanderer') was a samurai without a lord or master during the feudal period of Japan (1185–1868). A samurai became masterless upon the death of his master or after the loss of his master's ...
'' ''
samurai were the hereditary military nobility and officer caste of medieval and early-modern Japan from the late 12th century until their abolition in 1876. They were the well-paid retainers of the '' daimyo'' (the great feudal landholders). They h ...
'' outside the
Sakurada Gate is a gate at Tokyo Imperial Palace, in Tokyo, Japan. It was the location of the Sakuradamon Incident in 1860. Opposite the gate of Sakurada Gate is the headquarters of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, which shares "Sakurada Gate" as a ...
of Edo Castle. * 1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising. * 1878 – The British frigate sinks, killing more than 300. * 1882
Robert Koch Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch ( , ; 11 December 1843 – 27 May 1910) was a German physician and microbiologist. As the discoverer of the specific causative agents of deadly infectious diseases including tuberculosis, cholera (though the Vibrio ...
announces the discovery of ''
Mycobacterium tuberculosis ''Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (M. tb) is a species of pathogenic bacteria in the family Mycobacteriaceae and the causative agent of tuberculosis. First discovered in 1882 by Robert Koch, ''M. tuberculosis'' has an unusual, waxy coating on its c ...
'', the
bacterium Bacteria (; singular: bacterium) are ubiquitous, mostly free-living organisms often consisting of one biological cell. They constitute a large domain of prokaryotic microorganisms. Typically a few micrometres in length, bacteria were among ...
responsible for
tuberculosis Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease usually caused by '' Mycobacterium tuberculosis'' (MTB) bacteria. Tuberculosis generally affects the lungs, but it can also affect other parts of the body. Most infections show no symptoms, in ...
. * 1900
Mayor of New York City The mayor of New York City, officially Mayor of the City of New York, is head of the executive branch of the government of New York City and the chief executive of New York City. The mayor's office administers all city services, public property ...
Robert Anderson Van Wyck Robert Anderson Van Wyck ( ;Paumgarten, Nick"The Van Wyck Question" ''The New Yorker'', June 11, 2001. Accessed September 12, 2008. July 20, 1849November 14, 1918) was the first mayor of New York City after the consolidation of the five boroughs ...
breaks ground for a new underground " Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link
Manhattan Manhattan (), known regionally as the City, is the most densely populated and geographically smallest of the five boroughs of New York City. The borough is also coextensive with New York County, one of the original counties of the U.S. state ...
and
Brooklyn Brooklyn () is a borough of New York City, coextensive with Kings County, in the U.S. state of New York. Kings County is the most populous county in the State of New York, and the second-most densely populated county in the United States, be ...
. * 1900
Carnegie Steel Company Carnegie Steel Company was a steel-producing company primarily created by Andrew Carnegie and several close associates to manage businesses at steel mills in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area in the late 19th century. The company was form ...
is formed in
New Jersey New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north and east by the state of New York; on the east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on the west by the Delaware ...
; its capitalization of $160 mil. is the largest to date.


1901–present

* 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in
Monte Carlo Monte Carlo (; ; french: Monte-Carlo , or colloquially ''Monte-Carl'' ; lij, Munte Carlu ; ) is officially an administrative area of the Principality of Monaco, specifically the ward of Monte Carlo/Spélugues, where the Monte Carlo Casino is ...
, becoming the first international
women's sports The participation of women and girls in sports, physical fitness and exercise, has been recorded to have existed throughout history. However, participation rates and activities vary in accordance with nation, era, geography, and stage of econ ...
event. * 1927Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard
Nanjing Nanjing (; , Mandarin pronunciation: ), alternately romanized as Nanking, is the capital of Jiangsu province of the People's Republic of China. It is a sub-provincial city, a megacity, and the second largest city in the East China region. T ...
,
China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city. * 1934 – The
Tydings–McDuffie Act The Tydings–McDuffie Act, officially the Philippine Independence Act (), is an Act of Congress that established the process for the Philippines, then an American territory, to become an independent country after a ten-year transition period. ...
is passed by the
United States Congress The United States Congress is the legislature of the federal government of the United States. It is bicameral, composed of a lower body, the House of Representatives, and an upper body, the Senate. It meets in the U.S. Capitol in Washing ...
, allowing the
Philippines The Philippines (; fil, Pilipinas, links=no), officially the Republic of the Philippines ( fil, Republika ng Pilipinas, links=no), * bik, Republika kan Filipinas * ceb, Republika sa Pilipinas * cbk, República de Filipinas * hil, Republ ...
to become a self-governing commonwealth. *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
German German(s) may refer to: * Germany (of or related to) ** Germania (historical use) * Germans, citizens of Germany, people of German ancestry, or native speakers of the German language ** For citizens of Germany, see also German nationality law **Ge ...
troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in
Rome , established_title = Founded , established_date = 753 BC , founder = King Romulus (legendary) , image_map = Map of comune of Rome (metropolitan city of Capital Rome, region Lazio, Italy).svg , map_caption ...
. * 1944 –
World War II World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...
: In an event later dramatized in the movie '' The Great Escape'', 76
Allied An alliance is a relationship among people, groups, or states that have joined together for mutual benefit or to achieve some common purpose, whether or not explicit agreement has been worked out among them. Members of an alliance are called ...
prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III. * 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the
British Raj The British Raj (; from Hindi ''rāj'': kingdom, realm, state, or empire) was the rule of the British Crown on the Indian subcontinent; * * it is also called Crown rule in India, * * * * or Direct rule in India, * Quote: "Mill, who was himsel ...
to Indian leadership. * 1949
Hanns Albin Rauter Johann Baptist Albin Rauter (4 February 1895 – 24 March 1949) was a high-ranking Austrian-born SS functionary and war criminal during the Nazi era. He was the highest SS and Police Leader in the occupied Netherlands and therefore the leading ...
, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the
Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...
, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity. * 1961 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established. * 1972
Direct rule Direct rule is when an imperial or central power takes direct control over the legislature, executive and civil administration of an otherwise largely self-governing territory. Examples Chechnya In 1991, Chechen separatists declared independence ...
is imposed on
Northern Ireland Northern Ireland ( ga, Tuaisceart Éireann ; sco, label= Ulster-Scots, Norlin Airlann) is a part of the United Kingdom, situated in the north-east of the island of Ireland, that is variously described as a country, province or region. Nort ...
by the
Government of the United Kingdom ga, Rialtas a Shoilse gd, Riaghaltas a Mhòrachd , image = HM Government logo.svg , image_size = 220px , image2 = Royal Coat of Arms of the United Kingdom (HM Government).svg , image_size2 = 180px , caption = Royal coat of arms of t ...
under
Edward Heath Sir Edward Richard George Heath (9 July 191617 July 2005), often known as Ted Heath, was a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1970 to 1974 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1965 to 1975. Heath a ...
. *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– In
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
, the
armed forces A military, also known collectively as armed forces, is a heavily armed, highly organized force primarily intended for warfare. It is typically authorized and maintained by a sovereign state, with its members identifiable by their distinct ...
overthrow the constitutional government of
President President most commonly refers to: *President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university *President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ful ...
Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the '' National Reorganization Process''. * 1977
Morarji Desai Morarji Ranchhodji Desai (29 February 1896 – 10 April 1995) was an Indian independence activist and politician who served as the 4th Prime Minister of India between 1977 to 1979 leading the government formed by the Janata Party. During his ...
became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
. * 1980
El Salvador El Salvador (; , meaning " The Saviour"), officially the Republic of El Salvador ( es, República de El Salvador), is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south b ...
ian
Archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
Óscar Romero Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago ...
is assassinated while celebrating
Mass Mass is an intrinsic property of a body. It was traditionally believed to be related to the quantity of matter in a physical body, until the discovery of the atom and particle physics. It was found that different atoms and different elementar ...
in
San Salvador San Salvador (; ) is the capital and the largest city of El Salvador and its eponymous department. It is the country's political, cultural, educational and financial center. The Metropolitan Area of San Salvador, which comprises the capital i ...
. * 1982 – Bangladeshi President
Abdus Sattar ʻAbd al-Sattār (ALA-LC romanization of ar, عبد الستّار) is an Arabic Muslim male given name, built on the Arabic words '' ʻabd'' and ''al-Sattār''. The name means "servant of the Veiler (of sins)". Because the letter s is a sun lett ...
is deposed in a
bloodless coup A nonviolent revolution is a revolution conducted primarily by unarmed civilians using tactics of civil resistance, including various forms of nonviolent protest, to bring about the departure of governments seen as entrenched and authoritari ...
led by Army Chief Lieutenant general
Hussain Muhammad Ershad Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad ( bn, হুসেইন মুহাম্মদ এরশাদ; 1 February 1930 – 14 July 2019) was a Bangladeshi Army Chief politician who served as the President of Bangladesh from 1983 to 1990, a time ma ...
, who suspends the
Constitution A constitution is the aggregate of fundamental principles or established precedents that constitute the legal basis of a polity, organisation or other type of Legal entity, entity and commonly determine how that entity is to be governed. When ...
and imposes
martial law Martial law is the imposition of direct military control of normal civil functions or suspension of civil law by a government, especially in response to an emergency where civil forces are overwhelmed, or in an occupied territory. Use Marti ...
. * 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on
landfill gas migration Landfill gas migration is a complex process in which gases produced by waste in a landfill move from the site of original deposition to other places via diffusion, usually from areas of high concentration to low. The process is also affected by t ...
and gas protection on
landfill A landfill site, also known as a tip, dump, rubbish dump, garbage dump, or dumping ground, is a site for the disposal of waste materials. Landfill is the oldest and most common form of waste disposal, although the systematic burial of the waste ...
sites. * 1989 – In
Prince William Sound Prince William Sound ( Sugpiaq: ''Suungaaciq'') is a sound of the Gulf of Alaska on the south coast of the U.S. state of Alaska. It is located on the east side of the Kenai Peninsula. Its largest port is Valdez, at the southern terminus of the T ...
in Alaska, the ''
Exxon Valdez ''Oriental Nicety'', formerly ''Exxon Valdez'', ''Exxon Mediterranean'', ''SeaRiver Mediterranean'', ''S/R Mediterranean'', ''Mediterranean'', and ''Dong Fang Ocean'', was an oil tanker that gained notoriety after running aground in Prince Wi ...
'' spills of
crude oil Petroleum, also known as crude oil, or simply oil, is a naturally occurring yellowish-black liquid mixture of mainly hydrocarbons, and is found in geological formations. The name ''petroleum'' covers both naturally occurring unprocessed crude ...
after running aground. *
1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...
Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War The Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War was the deployment of the Indian Peace Keeping Force in Sri Lanka intended to perform a peacekeeping role. The deployment followed the Indo-Sri Lankan Accord between India and Sri Lanka of 198 ...
ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving
Sri Lanka Sri Lanka (, ; si, ශ්‍රී ලංකා, Śrī Laṅkā, translit-std=ISO (); ta, இலங்கை, Ilaṅkai, translit-std=ISO ()), formerly known as Ceylon and officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an ...
. * 1993
Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 ( formally designated D/1993 F2) broke apart in July 1992 and collided with Jupiter in July 1994, providing the first direct observation of an extraterrestrial collision of Solar System objects. This generated a l ...
is discovered by Carolyn and
Eugene Shoemaker Eugene Merle Shoemaker (April 28, 1928 – July 18, 1997) was an American geologist. He co-discovered Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 with his wife Carolyn S. Shoemaker and David H. Levy. This comet hit Jupiter in July 1994: the impact was televise ...
, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in
California California is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States, located along the West Coast of the United States, Pacific Coast. With nearly 39.2million residents across a total area of approximately , it is the List of states and territori ...
. * 1998Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in
Jonesboro, Arkansas Jonesboro is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. According to the 2020 Census, the city had a population of 78,576 and is the f ...
; five people are killed and ten are wounded. * 1998 – A
tornado A tornado is a violently rotating column of air that is in contact with both the surface of the Earth and a cumulonimbus cloud or, in rare cases, the base of a cumulus cloud. It is often referred to as a twister, whirlwind or cyclone, altho ...
sweeps through
Dantan Dantan is a village in the Dantan I CD block in the Kharagpur subdivision of the Paschim Medinipur district in the state of West Bengal, India. Geography Location Dantan is located at . Area overview Kharagpur subdivision, shown partly in ...
in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others. * 1998 – Dr.
Rüdiger Marmulla Rüdiger Marmulla (born 19 December 1963, in Frankfurt am Main) is a German cranio-maxillofacial surgeon. Career On 24 March, 1998, Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted bone segment navigation at the University of Regensburg, ...
performed the first
computer-assisted Computer-aided or computer-assisted is an adjectival phrase that hints of the use of a computer as an indispensable tool in a certain field, usually derived from more traditional fields of science and engineering. Instead of the phrase computer-ai ...
Bone Segment Navigation Bone segment navigation is a surgical method used to find the anatomical position of displaced bone fragments in fractures, or to position surgically created fragments in craniofacial surgery. Such fragments are later fixed in position by osteosynt ...
at the
University of Regensburg The University of Regensburg (german: link=no, Universität Regensburg) is a public research university located in the medieval city of Regensburg, Bavaria, a city that is listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The university was founded on 18 ...
,
Germany Germany,, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It is the second most populous country in Europe after Russia, and the most populous member state of the European Union. Germany is situated betwe ...
. * 1999
Kosovo War The Kosovo War was an armed conflict in Kosovo that started 28 February 1998 and lasted until 11 June 1999. It was fought by the forces of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (i.e. Serbia and Montenegro), which controlled Kosovo before the war ...
:
NATO The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO, ; french: Organisation du traité de l'Atlantique nord, ), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states – 28 European and two No ...
began attacks on
Yugoslavia Yugoslavia (; sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Jugoslavija, Југославија ; sl, Jugoslavija ; mk, Југославија ;; rup, Iugoslavia; hu, Jugoszlávia; rue, label=Pannonian Rusyn, Югославия, translit=Juhoslavija ...
without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country. * 1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the
Mont Blanc Tunnel The Mont Blanc Tunnel is a highway tunnel between France and Italy, under the Mont Blanc mountain in the Alps. It links Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France with Courmayeur, Aosta Valley, Italy, via the French Route Nationale 205 and the Italian T ...
, creating an inferno that kills 38 people. * 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the
2003 invasion of Iraq The 2003 invasion of Iraq was a United States-led invasion of the Republic of Iraq and the first stage of the Iraq War. The invasion phase began on 19 March 2003 (air) and 20 March 2003 (ground) and lasted just over one month, including 26 ...
. * 2008
Bhutan Bhutan (; dz, འབྲུག་ཡུལ་, Druk Yul ), officially the Kingdom of Bhutan,), is a landlocked country in South Asia. It is situated in the Eastern Himalayas, between China in the north and India in the south. A mountainous ...
officially becomes a
democracy Democracy (From grc, δημοκρατία, dēmokratía, ''dēmos'' 'people' and ''kratos'' 'rule') is a form of government in which the people have the authority to deliberate and decide legislation (" direct democracy"), or to choose gov ...
, with its first ever general election. * 2015
Germanwings Flight 9525 Germanwings Flight 9525 PDF of the English translation of the final report and thoriginal French version(which the BEA notes on PDF p. 2/110 of the English PDF is the primary work of reference) was a scheduled international passenger flight fr ...
crashes in the
French Alps The French Alps are the portions of the Alps mountain range that stand within France, located in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions. While some of the ranges of the French Alps are entirely in France, others, such as ...
in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board. * 2018Syrian civil war: The
Turkish Armed Forces The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF; tr, Türk Silahlı Kuvvetleri, TSK) are the military forces of the Republic of Turkey. Turkish Armed Forces consist of the General Staff, the Land Forces, the Naval Forces and the Air Forces. The current Chi ...
(TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of
Afrin District Afrin District ( ar, منطقة عفرين, manṭiqat Afrīn) is a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin. At the 2004 census, the district had a population of 172,095. Also available i ...
, marking the end of the
Afrin offensive Afrin may refer to: Places * Afrin Canton, one of the cantons of the de facto autonomous Democratic Federation of Northern Syria * Afrin District, a district of Aleppo Governorate in northern Syria. The administrative centre is the city of Afrin ...
. * 2018 – Students across the
United States The United States of America (U.S.A. or USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states, a federal district, five major unincorporated territorie ...
stage the
March for Our Lives March for Our Lives (MFOL) was a student-led demonstration in support of gun control legislation. It took place in Washington, D.C., on March 24, 2018, with over 880 sibling events throughout the United States and around the world, and wa ...
demanding gun control in response to the
Stoneman Douglas High School shooting On February 14, 2018, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz opened fire on students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in the Miami suburban town of Parkland, Florida, murdering 17 people and injuring 17 others. Cruz, a former student at t ...
. * 2019
Jakarta MRT The Jakarta Mass Rapid Transit ( id, Moda Raya Terpadu ''Jakarta'') or Jakarta MRT (, stylized as ''mrt jakarta'') is a rapid transit system in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia. The system is operated by PT Mass Rapid Transit Jakarta (Per ...
, a
rapid transit system Rapid transit or mass rapid transit (MRT), also known as heavy rail or metro, is a type of high-capacity public transport generally found in urban areas. A rapid transit system that primarily or traditionally runs below the surface may be c ...
in
Jakarta Jakarta (; , bew, Jakarte), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta ( id, Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta) is the capital and largest city of Indonesia. Lying on the northwest coast of Java, the world's most populous island, Jakarta ...
, began operation.


Births


Pre-1600

* 1103
Yue Fei Yue Fei ( zh, t=岳飛; March 24, 1103 – January 28, 1142), courtesy name Pengju (), was a Chinese military general who lived during the Song dynasty, Southern Song dynasty and a national hero of China, known for leading Southern Song force ...
, Chinese military general (d. 1142) * 1441
Ernest, Elector of Saxony Ernest (24 March 144126 August 1486) was Elector of Saxony from 1464 to 1486. Ernst was the founder and progenitor of the ''Ernestine line'' of Saxon princes. Biography Ernst was born in Meissen, the second son (but fourth in order of birth) ...
, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486) * 1494
Georgius Agricola Georgius Agricola (; born Georg Pawer or Georg Bauer; 24 March 1494 – 21 November 1555) was a German Humanist scholar, mineralogist and metallurgist. Born in the small town of Glauchau, in the Electorate of Saxony of the Holy Roman Empir ...
, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555) * 1577
Francis, Duke of Pomerania Francis of Pomerania (in the older literature sometimes referred to as ''Francis I of Pomerania''; german: Franz von Pommern; 24 March 1577, in Barth – 27 November 1620, in Stettin (Szczecin)) was Duke of Pomerania-Stettin and Bishop of Cammin ...
-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1620)


1601–1900

* 1607
Michiel de Ruyter Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter (; 24 March 1607 – 29 April 1676) was a Dutch admiral. Widely celebrated and regarded as one of the most skilled admirals in history, De Ruyter is arguably most famous for his achievements with the Dutch N ...
, Dutch admiral (d. 1667) * 1628
Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Calenberg (24 March 1628 – 20 February 1685) was Queen of Denmark and Norway as the consort of the King Frederick III of Denmark. She is known for her political influence, as well as for her cultural impact: she act ...
(d. 1685) * 1657
Arai Hakuseki was a Confucianist, scholar-bureaucrat, academic, administrator, writer and politician in Japan during the middle of the Edo period, who advised the ''shōgun'' Tokugawa Ienobu. His personal name was Kinmi or Kimiyoshi (君美). Hakuseki (白 ...
, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725) * 1693
John Harrison John Harrison ( – 24 March 1776) was a self-educated English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of calculating longitude while at sea. Harrison's solution revol ...
, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the
Marine chronometer A marine chronometer is a precision timepiece that is carried on a ship and employed in the determination of the ship's position by celestial navigation. It is used to determine longitude by comparing Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), or in the modern ...
(d. 1776) * 1725Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813) * 1725 –
Thomas Cushing Thomas Cushing III (March 24, 1725 – February 28, 1788) was an American lawyer, merchant, and statesman from Boston, Massachusetts. Active in Boston politics, he represented the city in the provincial assembly from 1761 to its dissolution ...
, American lawyer and politician, 1st
Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts The lieutenant governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts. The constitutional honorific title for the office is His ...
(d. 1788) * 1755Rufus King, American lawyer and politician,
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom The United States ambassador to the United Kingdom (known formally as the ambassador of the United States to the Court of St James's) is the official representative of the president of the United States and the Federal government of the United S ...
(d. 1827) * 1762
Marcos Portugal Marcos António da Fonseca Portugal (24 March 1762 – 17 February 1830), known as Marcos Portugal, or Marco Portogallo, was a Portuguese-born Brazilian classical composer, who achieved great international fame for his operas. Biography Marc ...
, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830) * 1775
Muthuswami Dikshitar Muthuswami Dikshitar (Mudduswamy Dikshitar)(, 24 March 1776 – 21 October 1835), mononymously Dikshitar, was a South Indian poet, singer and veena player, and a legendary composer of Indian classical music, who is considered one of the musical ...
, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835) * 1782
Orest Kiprensky Orest Adamovich Kiprensky (russian: Орест Адамович Кипренский -) was a leading Russian portraitist in the Age of Romanticism. His most familiar work is probably his portrait of Alexander Pushkin (1827), which prompted the ...
, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836) *
1796 Events January–March * January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.) * February 1 – The capital ...
Zulma Carraud Zulma Carraud (24 March 1796 – 24 April 1889) was a French author. She is best known for her children's books and textbooks particularly ''La Petite Jeanne ou le devoir'' and ''Maurice ou le travail''. Early and family life Carraud was born o ...
, French author (d. 1889) * 1796 –
John Corry Wilson Daly Lieutenant-Colonel John Corry Wilson Daly (24 March 1796 – 1 April 1878) was a Canadian politician, businessperson, militia officer, and the first Mayor of Stratford, Ontario. Daly was born in Liverpool, England, and educated in Ireland. ...
, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878) * 1803Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882) * 1808
Maria Malibran Maria Felicia Malibran (24 March 1808 – 23 September 1836) was a Spanish singer who commonly sang both contralto and soprano parts, and was one of the best-known opera singers of the 19th century. Malibran was known for her stormy personality ...
, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836) * 1809
Mariano José de Larra Mariano José de Larra y Sánchez de Castro (24 March 1809 – 13 February 1837) was a Spanish romantic writer and journalist best known for his numerous essays and his infamous suicide. His works were often satirical and critical of the 19th- ...
, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837) * 1809 –
Joseph Liouville Joseph Liouville (; ; 24 March 1809 – 8 September 1882) was a French mathematician and engineer. Life and work He was born in Saint-Omer in France on 24 March 1809. His parents were Claude-Joseph Liouville (an army officer) and Thérèse ...
, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882) *
1816 This year was known as the ''Year Without a Summer'', because of low temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere, possibly the result of the Mount Tambora volcanic eruption in Indonesia in 1815, causing severe global cooling, catastrophic in s ...
Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos (March 21, 1816, Zamora, Michoacán — February 4, 1891, Oacalco, Morelos) was a Mexican Roman Catholic prelate, lawyer and doctor of canon law, and politician. He was a member of the imperial regen ...
, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic
archbishop In Christian denominations, an archbishop is a bishop of higher rank or office. In most cases, such as the Catholic Church, there are many archbishops who either have jurisdiction over an ecclesiastical province in addition to their own archdi ...
,
regent A regent (from Latin : ruling, governing) is a person appointed to govern a state '' pro tempore'' (Latin: 'for the time being') because the monarch is a minor, absent, incapacitated or unable to discharge the powers and duties of the monarchy ...
during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1891) * 1820Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891) * 1820 –
Fanny Crosby Frances Jane van Alstyne (née Crosby; March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), more commonly known as Fanny J. Crosby, was an American mission worker, poet, lyricist, and composer. She was a prolific hymnist, writing more than 8,000 hymns ...
, American poet and composer (d. 1915) * 1823
Thomas Spencer Baynes Thomas Spencer Baynes (24 March 1823 – 31 May 1887) was an English philosopher. Life Baynes was born in Wellington, Somerset to a Baptist minister. He intended to study for Baptist ministry, and was at a theological seminary at Bath with that ...
, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887) * 1826
Matilda Joslyn Gage Matilda Joslyn Gage (March 24, 1826 – March 18, 1898) was an American writer and activist. She is mainly known for her contributions to women's suffrage in the United States (i.e. the right to vote) but she also campaigned for Native Ameri ...
, American activist and author (d. 1898) * 1828
Horace Gray Horace Gray (March 24, 1828 – September 15, 1902) was an American jurist who served on the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, and then on the United States Supreme Court, where he frequently interpreted the Constitution in ways that increa ...
, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1902) * 1829
George Francis Train George Francis Train (March 24, 1829 – January 18, 1904) was an American entrepreneur who organized the clipper ship line that sailed around Cape Horn to San Francisco; he also organized the Union Pacific Railroad and the Credit Mobilier in th ...
, American businessman (d. 1904) * 1829 –
Ignacio Zaragoza Ignacio Zaragoza Seguín (; March 24, 1829September 8, 1862) was a Mexican general and politician. He led the Mexican army of 600 men that defeated 6,500 invading French forces, including the elite French legionnaires at the Battle of Puebla ...
, Mexican general (d. 1862) * 1830
Robert Hamerling Robert Hamerling (March 24, 1830July 13, 1889) was an Austrian poet. Biography Hamerling was born into a poor family at Kirchberg am Walde in Lower Austria. He displayed an early genius for poetry; his youthful attempts at drama excited the inte ...
, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889) * 1834
William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...
, English textile designer, poet, and author (d. 1896) * 1834 –
John Wesley Powell John Wesley Powell (March 24, 1834 – September 23, 1902) was an American geologist, U.S. Army soldier, explorer of the American West, professor at Illinois Wesleyan University, and director of major scientific and cultural institutions. He ...
, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902) * 1835
Joseph Stefan Josef Stefan ( sl, Jožef Štefan; 24 March 1835 – 7 January 1893) was an ethnic Carinthian Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet of the Austrian Empire. Life and work Stefan was born in an outskirt village of St. Peter (Slovene: ; to ...
, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893) * 1848
Honoré Beaugrand Honoré Beaugrand (24 March 1848 – 7 October 1906) was a French Canadian journalist, politician, author and folklorist, born in Berthier County, Quebec. As a young graduate from military school Beaugrand joined the French military forces und ...
, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th
Mayor of Montreal The mayor of Montreal is head of the executive branch of the Montreal City Council. The current mayor is Valérie Plante, who was elected into office on November 5, 2017, and sworn in on November 16. The office of the mayor administers all ci ...
(d. 1906) * 1850
Silas Hocking Silas Kitto Hocking (24 March 1850 – 15 September 1935) was a British novelist and Methodist preacher. He is known for his novel for youth called '' Her Benny'' (1879), which was a best-seller. Biography Hocking was born at St Stephen-in-Br ...
, English minister and author (d. 1935) * 1854
Henry Lefroy Sir Henry Bruce Lefroy (24 March 1854 – 19 March 1930) was the eleventh Premier of Western Australia. Biography Lefroy was born in Perth, Western Australia on 24 March 1854. His father was Anthony O'Grady Lefroy, Colonial Treasurer of Weste ...
, Australian politician, 11th
Premier of Western Australia The premier of Western Australia is the head of government of the state of Western Australia. The role of premier at a state level is similar to the role of the prime minister of Australia at a federal level. The premier leads the executive bra ...
(d. 1930) * 1855
Andrew W. Mellon Andrew William Mellon (; March 24, 1855 – August 26, 1937), sometimes A. W. Mellon, was an American banker, businessman, industrialist, philanthropist, art collector, and politician. From the wealthy Mellon family of Pittsburgh, Pennsylv ...
, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th
United States Secretary of the Treasury The United States secretary of the treasury is the head of the United States Department of the Treasury, and is the chief financial officer of the federal government of the United States. The secretary of the treasury serves as the principal a ...
(d. 1937) * 1855 –
Olive Schreiner Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel ''The Story of an African Farm'' (1883), which has been highly acclaimed. It deal ...
, South African author and activist (d. 1920) * 1862Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (d. 1951) * 1869Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955) * 1871Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d. 1913) * 1874
Luigi Einaudi Luigi Numa Lorenzo Einaudi (; 24 March 1874 – 30 October 1961) was an Italian politician and economist. He served as the president of Italy from 1948 to 1955. Early life Einaudi was born to Lorenzo and Placida Fracchia in Carrù, in the prov ...
, Italian economist and politician, 2nd
President of the Italian Republic President most commonly refers to: * President (corporate title) *President (education), a leader of a college or university * President (government title) President may also refer to: Automobiles * Nissan President, a 1966–2010 Japanese ...
(d. 1961) * 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor (d. 1926) * 1875William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953) * 1879
Neyzen Tevfik Tevfik Kolaylı (March 24, 1879 – January 28, 1953), better known by his pen name Neyzen Tevfik, was a Turkish poet, satirist, and ''neyzen'' (a " ney performer" in Turkish). He was born in Bodrum and died in Istanbul. His name is occasio ...
, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1953) * 1882
Marcel Lalu Marcel Lalu (24 March 1882 in Limoges – 3 May 1951 in Limoges) was a French gymnast who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics, in the 1908 Summer Olympics, and in the 1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 191 ...
, French gymnast (d. 1951) * 1882 –
George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway George Vere Arundel Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, (24 March 1882 – 27 March 1943) was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941. Early life and family George Vere Arundell Monc ...
, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943) *
1883 Events January–March * January 4 – ''Life'' magazine is founded in Los Angeles, California, United States. * January 10 – A fire at the Newhall Hotel in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States, kills 73 people. * Ja ...
Dorothy Campbell Dorothy Lee Campbell (24 March 1883 – 20 March 1945) was a Scottish amateur golfer. Campbell was the first woman to win the American, British and Canadian Women's Amateurs. Early life She was born into a golfing family in North Berwick, Mi ...
, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945) * 1884
Peter Debye Peter Joseph William Debye (; ; March 24, 1884 – November 2, 1966) was a Dutch-American physicist and physical chemist, and Nobel laureate in Chemistry. Biography Early life Born Petrus Josephus Wilhelmus Debije in Maastricht, Netherlands, D ...
, Dutch-American physicist and chemist,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1966) * 1884 –
Chika Kuroda Chika Kuroda (黒田チカ; 24 March 1884 – 8 November 1968) was a Japanese chemist whose research focused on natural pigments. She was the first woman in Japan to receive a Bachelor of Science. Biography Chika Kuroda was born in Saga, Kyushu ...
, Japanese chemist (d. 1968) * 1884 –
Eugène Tisserant Eugène-Gabriel-Gervais-Laurent Tisserant (; 24 March 1884 – 21 February 1972) was a French prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. Elevated to the cardinalate in 1936, Tisserant was a prominent and long-time member of the Roman Curia. ...
, French cardinal (d. 1972) * 1885Charles Daniels, American swimmer (d. 1973) * 1885 –
Dimitrie Cuclin Dimitrie Cuclin (  – February 7, 1978) was a Romanian classical music composer, musicologist, philosopher, translator, and writer. Biography Early life Dimitrie Cuclin was born in the city of Galaţi, a port on the left shore of the Da ...
, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1978) * 1886
Edward Weston Edward Henry Weston (March 24, 1886 – January 1, 1958) was a 20th-century American photographer. He has been called "one of the most innovative and influential American photographers..." and "one of the masters of 20th century photography." ...
, American photographer (d. 1958) * 1886 –
Robert Mallet-Stevens Robert Mallet-Stevens (March 24, 1886 – February 8, 1945) was an influential French architect and designer. Early life Mallet-Stevens was born in Paris in a house called Maison-Laffitte (designed by François Mansart in the 17th century). H ...
, French architect and designer (d. 1945) * 1887
Roscoe Arbuckle Roscoe Conkling "Fatty" Arbuckle (; March 24, 1887 – June 29, 1933) was an American silent film actor, comedian, director, and screenwriter. He started at the Selig Polyscope Company and eventually moved to Keystone Studios, where he worked ...
, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933) * 1888
Viktor Kingissepp Viktor Eduard Kingissepp ( in Karmel (now ) – 4 May 1922 in Tallinn) was an Estonian communist politician, the leader of the Estonian Communist Party. The son of a factory worker, he joined a Marxist circle as a schoolboy in Arensburg (no ...
, Estonian politician (d. 1922) * 1889Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (d. 1969) *
1890 Events January–March * January 1 ** The Kingdom of Italy establishes Eritrea as its colony, in the Horn of Africa. ** In Michigan, the wooden steamer ''Mackinaw'' burns in a fire on the Black River. * January 2 ** The steamship ...
Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954) * 1891
Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov (russian: Серге́й Ива́нович Вави́лов ( – January 25, 1951) was a Soviet physicist, the President of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union from July 1945 until his death. His elder brothe ...
, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951) * 1892
Marston Morse Harold Calvin Marston Morse (March 24, 1892 – June 22, 1977) was an American mathematician best known for his work on the ''calculus of variations in the large'', a subject where he introduced the technique of differential topology now known a ...
, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977) * 1893
Walter Baade Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade (March 24, 1893 – June 25, 1960) was a German astronomer who worked in the United States from 1931 to 1959. Biography The son of a teacher, Baade finished school in 1912. He then studied maths, physics and astr ...
, German astronomer and author (d. 1960) * 1893 –
George Sisler George Harold Sisler (March 24, 1893 – March 26, 1973), nicknamed "Gorgeous George", was an American professional baseball first baseman and player-manager. From 1915 through 1930, he played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis B ...
, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973) * 1897
Wilhelm Reich Wilhelm Reich ( , ; 24 March 1897 – 3 November 1957) was an Austrian Doctor of Medicine, doctor of medicine and a psychoanalysis, psychoanalyst, along with being a member of the second generation of analysts after Sigmund Freud. The author ...
, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957)


1901–present

* 1901
Ub Iwerks Ubbe Ert Iwwerks (March 24, 1901 – July 7, 1971), known as Ub Iwerks ( ), was an American animator, cartoonist, character designer, inventor, and special effects technician. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Iwerks grew up with a contentiou ...
, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971) * 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971) *1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1995) * 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990) *1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007) *1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960) *1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934) *1909 – Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (d. 2001) *1910 – Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975) *1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006) *1912 – Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist (d. 2010) *1915 – Eugène Martin, French racing driver (d. 2006) *1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006) * 1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010) *1917 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007) * 1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer,
Nobel Prize The Nobel Prizes ( ; sv, Nobelpriset ; no, Nobelprisen ) are five separate prizes that, according to Alfred Nobel's will of 1895, are awarded to "those who, during the preceding year, have conferred the greatest benefit to humankind." Alfr ...
laureate (d. 1997) *1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (d. 2021) * 1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005) *1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996) * 1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006) * 1921 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987) * 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010) *1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005) *1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986) * 1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (d. 2011) *1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998) *1925 – Puig Aubert, German-French rugby league player and coach (d. 1994) *1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017) * 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016) * 1926 – William Porter (athlete), William Porter, American hurdler (d. 2000) * 1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014) * 1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright *1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist and composer *1929 – Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d. 2012) *1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003) * 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980) *1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, List of mayors of Marburg, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003) *1933 – Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (d. 2011) * 1933 – Lee Mendelson, American television producer (d. 2019) *1936 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015) * 1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (d. 2020) *1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (d. 1970) *1938 – David Irving, English historian and author *1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer *1941 – Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (d. 2015) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (d. 2018) * 1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia *1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic * 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016) * 1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter * 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008) * 1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018) *1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach * 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington * 1947 – Mick Jones (footballer, born 1947), Mick Jones, English footballer and coach * 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman *1948 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013) * 1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989) * 1948 – Lee Oskar, Jewish-Danish musician * 1949 – Tabitha King, American author and poet * 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach * 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (d. 2017) * 1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer * 1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran * 1949 – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka *1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)"Suspended NFL Agent Gary Wichard Dies At 60" ''NBC-17''
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*1951 – Peter Boyle (footballer, born 1951), Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013) * 1951 – Pat Bradley (golfer), Pat Bradley, American golfer * 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation * 1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player * 1951 – Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach *1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013) *1953 – Anita L. Allen, African-American lawyer, philosopher, and academic * 1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (d. 2022) *1954 – Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (d. 1992) *1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1955 – Pat Price (ice hockey), Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach *1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman * 1956 – William Wray (artist), Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter *1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier * 1957 – Pat Jarvis (rugby league), Pat Jarvis, Australian rugby league player *1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach *1959 – Emmit King, American sprinter * 1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player * 1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer *1960 – Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist * 1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler * 1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model * 1960 – Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress * 1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver * 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress * 1961 – Dean Jones (cricketer), Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2020) * 1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Ministry of Finance (Greece), Greek Minister of Finance *1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist * 1962 – Star Jones, African-American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host * 1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower *1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach * 1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2015) * 1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder *1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor *1966 – Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach *1967 – Diann Roffe, American skier *1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player *1969, 1969 – Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent Presidents of Albania, President of Albania *1969 – S. S. Sivasankar, S.S. Sivasankar, Indian Politics of Tamil Nadu, Tamil politician, incumbent Department of Transport (Tamil Nadu), Minister for Transport, Tamil Nadu *1969 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier *1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress * 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist * 1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer * 1970 – Erica Kennedy, African-American journalist and author (d. 2012) * 1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player *1971 – Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor * 1972 – Christophe Dugarry, French footballer * 1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach *1973 – Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer * 1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and manager * 1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach * 1973 – Jure Ivanušič, Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier * 1973 – Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer * 1973 – Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer * 1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor *1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress * 1974 – Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper * 1974 – Tado (comedian), Tado, Filipino comedian and activist (d. 2014) *1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monacan tennis player *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– Aaron Brooks (American football), Aaron Brooks, American football player * 1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach * 1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer * 1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur * 1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress * 1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player * 1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster *1978 – Michael Braun (footballer), Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach * 1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager * 1978 – José Valverde, Dominican baseball player *1979 – Lake Bell, Jewish-American actress, director, and screenwriter * 1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player * 1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler * 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer * 1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer *1981 – Mike Adams (safety), Mike Adams, American football player * 1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player * 1981 – Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player * 1981 – Mark Looms, Dutch footballer * 1981 – Gary Paffett, English racing driver * 1982 – Corey Hart (baseball), Corey Hart, American baseball player * 1982 – Jack Swagger, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler * 1982 – Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler * 1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer * 1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player *1983 – Luca Ceccarelli (footballer, born 24 March 1983), Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer * 1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer * 1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player * 1983 – T.J. Ford, American basketball player *1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-born Cameroonian international footballer * 1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player * 1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player * 1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner * 1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer * 1984 – Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player *1985 – Lana (wrestling), Lana, American wrestler and manager * 1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer *1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer * 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer * 1987 – Billy Jones (footballer, born 1987), Billy Jones, English footballer * 1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer *1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete * 1988 – Ryan Higgins (Zimbabwean cricketer), Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer * 1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer * 1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer * 1988 – Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player * 1989 – Aziz Shavershian, Russian-born Australian bodybuilder (d. 2011) *
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– Starlin Castro, American baseball player * 1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor * 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress * 1990 – Lacey Evans, American wrestler * 1990 – Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer *1991 – Nick Browne (cricketer), Nick Browne, English cricketer * 1991 – Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player *1995 – Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer *1997 – Mina (Japanese singer), Mina Myōi, Japanese singer and dancer * 1999 – Katie Swan, British tennis player *2001 – Clara Burel, French tennis player


Deaths


Pre-1600

* 809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763) * 832 – Wulfred, archbishop of Diocese of Canterbury, Canterbury *1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235) *1296 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller *1381 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332) *1394 – Constance of Castile, Duchess of Lancaster, Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Crown of Castile, Castile *1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340) *1399 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320) *1443 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371) *1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397) *1499 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470) *1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514) *1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)


1601–1900

* 1603 – Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533) *1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587) *1684 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629) * 1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband *1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694) *1776 –
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, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the
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(b. 1693) *1824 – Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753) *1838 – Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet, Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory (British political party), Tory politician (b. 1748/49)See wikisource:Hume, Abraham (1749-1838) (DNB00), ''Hume, Abraham (1749–1838)'', in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28. *1866 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (b. 1782) * 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779) *1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817) * 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807) * 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837) * 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)


1901–present

*1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828) *1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871) *1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848) * 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846) *1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867) *1926 – Phan Chu Trinh, Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872) *1932 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871) *1938 – Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (b. 1870) *1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844) *
1944 Events Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix. January * January 2 – WWII: ** Free French General Jean de Lattre de Tassigny is appointed to command French Army B, part of the Sixth United States Army Group in Nor ...
– Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903) * 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892) * 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869) *1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885) *1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865) *1951 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887) *1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867) *1956 – E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (b. 1873) *1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)www.impulsebrass.com
* 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884) *1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873) *1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel, Copenhagen, Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902) * 1971 – Arthur Metcalfe (public servant), Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895) *1973 – Bertram Stevens (politician), Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889) *
1976 Events January * January 3 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 11 – The 1976 Phila ...
– Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887) *1978 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916) * 1980
Óscar Romero Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago ...
, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917) *1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891) *1988 – Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th List of Deputy Prime Ministers of Turkey, Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922) *
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– Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922) *1991 – John Kerr (governor-general), John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914) * 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905) * 1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914) *1995 – Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900) * 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902) * 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912) *2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928) *2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927) * 2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932) * 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)Gerhard Heger, ''Hans Hermann Groër'', Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 26 (2006), pp. 529–534. *2006 – Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926) *2007 – Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi language, Marathi novelist (b. 1913) * 2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955) * 2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941) * 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926) * 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914) *2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922) * 2009 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919) * 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975) *2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930) * 2010 – Jim Marshall (photographer), Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936) *2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947) * 2012 – Nick Noble (singer), Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)Thedeadrockstarsclub.com
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*2013 – Barbara Anderson (writer), Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926) * 2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938) * 2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925) * 2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972) * 2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974) * 2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912) *2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962) * 2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922) * 2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954) * 2015 – Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928) * 2015 – notable deaths of the
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crash: **Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960) **Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981) *2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947) * 2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949) * 2018 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924) * 2018 – Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (b. 1966) * 2019 – Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b. 1949) *2020 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927) * 2020 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (b. 1933) *2021 – Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (b. 1941) *2022 – Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (b. 1912)


Holidays and observances

*Christian feast day: **Catherine of Vadstena **Hildelith of Barking **Mac Cairthinn of Clogher **
Óscar Romero Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez (15 August 1917 – 24 March 1980) was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago ...
(Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism) **Paul Couturier (Calendar of saints (Church of England), Church of England) **Walter Hilton (Church of England) **March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) *Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (
Argentina Argentina (), officially the Argentine Republic ( es, link=no, República Argentina), is a country in the southern half of South America. Argentina covers an area of , making it the second-largest country in South America after Brazil, th ...
) *International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims *National Tree Planting Day (Uganda) *Scientology holidays, Student Day (Scientology) *World Tuberculosis Day (International observance, International)


References


External links


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