Events

Pre-1600

• 597 BC The first siege of Jerusalem by the Neo-Babylonian Empire ends with the city surrendering to king Nebuchadnezzar II.

• 445 Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated while practising on the Campus Martius on behalf of Petronius Maximus.

• 1190 Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.

• 1244 Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the Fall of Montségur.

• 1355 Amidst the Red Turban Rebellions, Han Lin'er, a claimed descendant of Emperor Huizong of Song, is proclaimed emperor of the restored Song dynasty in Bozhou.

1601–1900

• 1621 Samoset, an Abenaki, visits the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."

• 1660 The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.

• 1696 The Dutch bombard Givet during the Nine Years' War.

• 1792 King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.

• 1802 The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.

• 1815 Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.

• 1872 The Wanderers F.C. win the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.

• 1898 In Melbourne, the representatives of five colonies adopt a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.

1901–present

• 1916 The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.

• 1918 Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites execute 70–100 capitulated Reds.

• 1924 In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.

• 1925 An earthquake (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in Dali, China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.

• 1926 History of rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.

• 1935 Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.

• 1936 Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers, leading to a major flood in Pittsburgh.

• 1939 From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.

• 1941 Operation Appearance takes place to re-establish British Somaliland.

• 1945 World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.

• 1945 World War II: Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.

• 1962 Flying Tiger Line Flight 739 disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.

• 1966 Launch of Gemini 8 with astronauts Neil Armstrong and David Scott. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.

• 1968 Vietnam War: My Lai massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers are killed by American troops.

• 1969 A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.

• 1977 Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.

• 1978 Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.

• 1978 A Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 crashes near Gabare, Bulgaria, killing 73.

• 1978 Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.

• 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ending the war.

• 1984 William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah; he later dies in captivity.

• 1985 Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut; he is not released until December 1991.

• 1988 Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.

• 1988 Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.

• 1988 The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.

• 1995 Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.

• 2001 A series of bomb blasts in the city of Shijiazhuang, China kill 108 people and injure 38 others, the biggest mass murder in China in decades.

• 2002 Sofia Gubaidulina's Johannes-Ostern is premiered, together with her earlier Johannes-Passion, at Hamburg's Michaeliskirche, performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the Mariinsky Theatre combined with NDR choir and orchestra, conducted by Valery Gergiev.

• 2003 American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.

• 2005 Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.

• 2010 The Kasubi Tombs, Uganda's only cultural World Heritage Site, are destroyed in a fire.

• 2012 Indian cricketer Sachin Tendulkar becomes the first batter in history to score 100 centuries in international cricket.

• 2014 Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.

• 2016 A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.

• 2016 Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.

• 2020 The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls by 2,997.10, the single largest point drop in history and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than Black Monday (1929). This follows the U.S. Federal Reserve announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.

• 2021 Atlanta spa shootings: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near Atlanta, Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.

• 2022 A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.

• 2022 Mariupol theatre airstrike during the siege of Mariupol.

• 2025 A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.

• 2026 A series of Boko Haram bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in Maiduguri, Nigeria.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1399 The Xuande Emperor, ruler of Ming China (died 1435)

• 1445 Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (died 1510)

• 1465 Kunigunde of Austria, Duchess of Bavaria (died 1520)

• 1473 Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (died 1541)

• 1559 Amar Singh I, successor of Maharana Pratap of Mewar (died 1620)

• 1581 Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (died 1647)

• 1585 Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)

• 1590 Ii Naotaka, Japanese daimyō (died 1659)

• 1596 Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (died 1674)

1601–1900

• 1609 Michael Franck, German poet and composer of hymns (died 1667)

• 1609 Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter (died 1660)

• 1621 Georg Neumark, German poet and composer of hymns (died 1681)

• 1631 René Le Bossu, French literary critic (died 1680)

• 1638 François Crépieul, Jesuit missionary (died 1702)

• 1654 Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (died 1704)

• 1670 François de Franquetot de Coigny, French general (died 1759)

• 1673 Jean Bouhier, French jurist and scholar (died 1746)

• 1687 Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (died 1757)

• 1693 Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (died 1766)

• 1701 Daniel Lorenz Salthenius, Swedish theologian (died 1750)

• 1729 Maria Louise Albertine (died 1818)

• 1741 Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (died 1816)

• 1744 Nicolas-Germain Léonard, Guadeloupean poet and novelist (died 1793)

• 1750 Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (died 1848)

• 1751 James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (died 1836)

• 1753 François Amédée Doppet, French general (died 1799)

• 1760 Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and writer (died 1832)

• 1766 Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (died 1875)

• 1771 Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (died 1835)

• 1773 Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (died 1836)

• 1774 Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (died 1814)

• 1776 Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen, Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1845)

• 1789 Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer (died 1872)

• 1789 Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (died 1854)

• 1794 Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer (died 1881)

• 1797 Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (died 1864)

• 1799 Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (died 1871)

• 1800 Emperor Ninkō of Japan (died 1846)

• 1805 Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (died 1861)

• 1806 Félix De Vigne, Belgian painter (died 1862)

• 1808 Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer (died 1886)

• 1813 Gaëtan de Rochebouët, French prime minister (died 1899)

• 1819 José Paranhos, Brazilian politician (died 1880)

• 1820 Enrico Tamberlik, Italian tenor (died 1889)

• 1821 Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (died 1881)

• 1822 Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (died 1899)

• 1822 John Pope, American general (died 1892)

• 1823 William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (died 1889)

• 1825 Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer (died 1890)

• 1828 Émile Deshayes de Marcère, French politician (died 1918)

• 1834 James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon (died 1907)

• 1836 Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and inventor (died 1900)

• 1839 Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1907)

• 1839 John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (died 1922)

• 1840 Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese industrialist (died 1931)

• 1840 Georg von der Gabelentz, German linguist and sinologist (died 1893)

• 1845 Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (died 1928)

• 1846 Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (died 1927)

• 1846 Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (died 1922)

• 1846 Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (died 1918)

• 1848 Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and diplomat (died 1932)

• 1851 Otto Bardenhewer, German theologian (died 1935)

• 1851 Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (died 1931)

• 1856 Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (died 1879)

• 1857 Charles Harding Firth, English historian (died 1936)

• 1859 Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and inventor (died 1906)

• 1865 Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (died 1953)

• 1869 Willy Burmester, German violinist (died 1933)

• 1871 Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (died 1951)

• 1871 Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (died 1932)

• 1874 Frédéric François-Marsal, French prime minister (died 1958)

• 1877 Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (died 1972)

• 1878 Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (died 1946)

• 1878 Paul Jouve, French painter (died 1973)

• 1881 Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (died 1947)

• 1882 James Lightbody, American runner (died 1953)

• 1883 Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (died 1958)

• 1884 Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (died 1960)

• 1884 J. Alfred Tanner, Finnish singer and songwriter (died 1927)

• 1885 Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (died 1943)

• 1885 Sydney Chaplin, English actor (died 1965)

• 1886 Herbert Lindström, Swedish tug of war player (died 1951)

• 1887 Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner (died 1925)

• 1887 S. Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist (1984)

• 1889 Reggie Walker, South African athlete (died 1951)

• 1892 César Vallejo, Peruvian poet (died 1938)

• 1895 Ernest Labrousse, French historian (died 1988)

• 1897 Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (died 1963)

• 1897 Conrad Nagel, American actor (died 1970)

• 1900 Cyril Hume, American novelist and screenwriter (died 1966)

• 1900 Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (died 1964)

1901–present

• 1901 Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer (died 1987)

• 1903 Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (died 2001)

• 1904 Buddy Myer, American baseball player (died 1974)

• 1906 Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (died 2009)

• 1906 Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player (died 1944)

• 1906 Lloyd Waner, American baseball player (died 1982)

• 1906 Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian (died 1998)

• 1908 René Daumal, French author and poet (died 1944)

• 1908 Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (died 1986)

• 1908 Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1966)

• 1909 Don Raye, American songwriter (died 1985)

• 1910 Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (died 1991)

• 1910 Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi (died 1952)

• 1911 Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and diplomat, Prime Minister of Belgium (died 2009)

• 1911 Josef Mengele, German physician, SS captain and mass-murderer (died 1979)

• 1911 Philip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (died 2005)

• 1912 Pat Nixon, American teacher, First Lady of the United States (died 1993)

• 1913 Rémy Raffalli, French soldier (died 1952)

• 1915 Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician (died 1997)

• 1916 Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (died 2004)

• 1916 Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (died 2010)

• 1917 Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (died 2018)

• 1917 Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist (died 2017)

• 1917 Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (died 2002)

• 1918 Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1998)

• 1918 Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (died 1999)

• 1920 John Addison, English-American soldier and composer (died 1998)

• 1920 Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter (died 2010)

• 1920 Traudl Junge, German secretary (died 2002)

• 1920 Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (died 2002)

• 1922 Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright (died 2018)

• 1923 Heinz Wallberg, German conductor (died 2004)

• 1925 Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (died 2014)

• 1925 Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (died 2014)

• 1925 Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (died 2012)

• 1925 Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (died 2004)

• 1926 Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician (died 1987)

• 1926 Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (died 2017)

• 1927 Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (died 1967)

• 1927 Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (died 2003)

• 1927 Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (died 2009)

• 1928 Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (died 2010)

• 1928 Christa Ludwig, German opera singer (died 2021)

• 1929 Betty Johnson, American singer (died 2022)

• 1929 Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (died 2015)

• 1929 Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress (died 2023)

• 1930 Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (died 2001)

• 1930 Minoru Miki, Japanese composer (died 2011)

• 1931 Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician (died 2009)

• 1931 Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer (died 2014)

• 1931 Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and academic (died 2026)

• 1931 John Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Labour (died 2003)

• 1932 Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (died 2005)

• 1932 Walter Cunningham, American astronaut (died 2023)

• 1932 Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author

• 1932 Herbert Marx, Canadian politician (died 2020)

• 1933 Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy (died 2020)

• 1933 Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist

• 1934 Jean Cournoyer, Canadian politician

• 1934 Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (died 2002)

• 1934 Roger Norrington, English violinist and conductor (died 2025)

• 1934 Howard Schnellenberger, American football player and coach (died 2021)

• 1935 Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress (died 2022)

• 1935 Pepe Cáceres, Colombian bullfighter (died 1987)

• 1936 Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI (died 2022)

• 1936 Fred Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)

• 1937 David Frith, English historian, journalist, and author

• 1937 Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (died 2017)

• 1937 Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist and academic (died 1996)

• 1938 Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and manager

• 1939 Yvon Côté, Canadian politician and teacher

• 1940 Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer (died 1979)

• 1940 Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment

• 1940 Keith Rowe, English guitarist

• 1940 Kaak, Indian cartoonist (died 2025)

• 1941 Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter (died 2018)

• 1941 Robert Guéï, Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (died 2002)

• 1941 Chuck Woolery, American game show host and television personality (died 2024)

• 1942 Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 1996)

• 1942 Jean-Pierre Schosteck, French politician

• 1942 James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese politician, Governor of Taiwan Province

• 1942 Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver

• 1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)

• 1943 Álvaro de Soto, Peruvian diplomat

• 1943 Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author

• 1943 Hans Heyer, German race car driver

• 1943 Harry van Hoof, Dutch conductor, composer, and music arranger (died 2024)

• 1944 Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and academic

• 1945 Douglas Ahlstedt, American tenor (died 2023)

• 1946 Sigmund Groven, Norwegian harmonica player and composer

• 1946 Mary Kaldor, English economist and academic

• 1946 J. Z. Knight, American New Age teacher and author

• 1946 Guesch Patti, French singer

• 1948 Michael Owen Bruce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1948 Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer-songwriter and director

• 1948 Catherine Quéré, French politician

• 1949 Erik Estrada, American actor

• 1949 Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer

• 1949 Elliott Murphy, American-French singer-songwriter and journalist

• 1950 Peter Forster, English bishop

• 1950 Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress

• 1950 Edhem Šljivo, Bosnian footballer

• 1951 Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1951 Abdelmajid Bourebbou, Algerian footballer

• 1951 Oddvar Brå, Norwegian skier

• 1951 Joe DeLamielleure, American football player

• 1951 Alexandre Gonzalez, French long-distance runner

• 1953 Claus Peter Flor, German conductor

• 1953 Isabelle Huppert, French actress

• 1953 Rainer Knaak, German chess player

• 1953 Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer

• 1954 David Heath, English politician

• 1954 Colin Ireland, English serial killer (died 2012)

• 1954 Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

• 1954 Tim O'Brien, American singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1954 Dav Whatmore, Sri Lankan-Australian cricketer and coach

• 1954 Nancy Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress

• 1955 Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach

• 1955 Rimantas Astrauskas, Lithuanian physicist

• 1955 Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1955 Linda Lepomme, Belgian actress and singer

• 1955 Bob Ley, American sports anchor and reporter

• 1955 Andy Scott, Canadian politician (died 2013)

• 1955 Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer

• 1956 Ozzie Newsome, American football player and executive

• 1956 Clifton Powell, American actor, director, and producer

• 1956 Yoriko Shono, Japanese writer

• 1956 Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss lawyer and politician

• 1958 Jorge Ramos, Mexican-American journalist and author

• 1958 Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist and composer

• 1958 Kate Worley, American author (died 2004)

• 1959 Michael J. Bloomfield, American astronaut

• 1959 Sebastian Currier, American composer and educator

• 1959 Greg Dyer, Australian cricketer

• 1959 Flavor Flav, American rapper and actor

• 1959 Charles Hudson, American baseball player

• 1959 Steve Marker, American musician

• 1959 Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway, 13th Secretary General of NATO

• 1959 Scott L. Schwartz, American actor stuntman and wrestler (died 2024)

• 1960 Jenny Eclair, English comedian, actress and screenwriter

• 1960 John Hemming, English businessman and politician

• 1960 Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1961 Todd McFarlane, Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys

• 1962 Franck Fréon, French race car driver

• 1962 Liliane Gaschet, French athlete

• 1963 Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer

• 1963 Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor and singer (died 2002)

• 1964 Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter

• 1964 Jaclyn Jose, Filipino actress (died 2024)

• 1964 Pascal Richard, Swiss racing cyclist

• 1964 Gore Verbinski, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1965 Steve Armstrong, American wrestler

• 1965 Sergei Bazarevich, Russian basketball player and coach

• 1965 Cindy Brown, American basketball player

• 1965 Mark Carney, Canadian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Canada

• 1965 Cristiana Reali, Italian-Brazilian actress

• 1966 H.P. Baxxter, German musician

• 1966 Chrissy Redden, Canadian cross-country cyclist

• 1967 Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist

• 1967 John Darnielle, American musician and novelist

• 1967 Lauren Graham, American actress and producer

• 1967 Ronnie McCoury, American bluegrass mandolin player, singer and songwriter

• 1967 Heidi Zurbriggen, Swiss alpine skier

• 1969 Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor

• 1969 Ottis Gibson, Barbadian cricketer and coach

• 1969 Alina Ivanova, Russian athlete

• 1969 Evangelos Koronios, Greek basketball player and coach

• 1970 Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist

• 1971 Greg Johnson, Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)

• 1971 Alan Tudyk, American actor

• 1972 Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner

• 1973 Tim Kang, American actor

• 1973 Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer

• 1973 Vonda Ward, American boxer

• 1974 Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician

• 1974 Anne Charrier, French actress

• 1974 Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer (died 2023)

• 1975 Luciano Castro, Argentine actor

• 1975 Sienna Guillory, English model and actress

• 1975 Lionel Torres, French archer

• 1976 Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and producer

• 1976 Zhu Chen, Qatari chess Grandmaster

• 1976 Kim Johnsson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1976 Leila Lejeune, French handballer

• 1976 Susanne Ljungskog, Swedish cyclist

• 1976 Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player

• 1977 Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer

• 1977 Thomas Rupprath, German swimmer

• 1978 Brooke Burns, American fashion model, television personality, and actress

• 1978 Annett Renneberg, German actress and singer

• 1979 Tyler Arnason, American ice hockey player

• 1979 Hee-seop Choi, South Korean baseball player

• 1979 Christina Liebherr, Swiss equestrian

• 1979 Rashad Moore, American football player

• 1979 Sébastien Ostertag, French handball player

• 1979 Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboard player and songwriter

• 1979 Andrei Stepanov, Estonian footballer

• 1980 Todd Heap, American football player

• 1980 Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player

• 1981 Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer

• 1981 Danny Brown, American rapper

• 1981 Curtis Granderson, American baseball player

• 1982 – Julia Letlow, American politician

• 1981 Julien Mazet, French road bicycle racer

• 1981 Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter

• 1982 Miguel Comminges, Guadeloupean footballer

• 1982 Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1982 Jesús Del Nero, Spanish road bicycle racer

• 1982 Brian Wilson, American baseball player

• 1983 Stephen Drew, American baseball player

• 1983 Brandon League, American baseball player

• 1983 Nicolas Rousseau, French road bicycle racer

• 1983 Tramon Williams, American football player

• 1984 Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress

• 1984 Levi Brown, American football player

• 1984 Sharon Cherop, Kenyan long-distance runner

• 1984 Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player

• 1984 Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1985 Teddy Atine-Venel, French athlete

• 1985 Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter

• 1985 Aleksei Sokirskiy, Russian hammer thrower

• 1986 Alexandra Daddario, American actress

• 1986 Toney Douglas, American basketball player

• 1986 Kenny Dykstra, American wrestler

• 1986 T. J. Jordan, American basketball player

• 1986 Boaz Solossa, Indonesian footballer

• 1986 Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater

• 1987 Fabien Lemoine, French football player

• 1988 Jhené Aiko, American singer-songwriter and rapper

• 1988 Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater

• 1988 Patrick Herrmann, German footballer

• 1988 Agustín Marchesín, Argentinian footballer

• 1988 Jiří Tlustý, Czech ice hockey player

• 1989 Blake Griffin, American basketball player

• 1989 Jung So-min, South Korean actress

• 1989 Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist

• 1989 Theo Walcott, English footballer

• 1990 Josh Johnson, American comedian and writer

• 1990 Andre Young, American basketball player

• 1991 Chris Boswell, American football player

• 1991 Reggie Bullock, American basketball player

• 1991 Admir Mehmedi, Swiss footballer

• 1991 Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist

• 1992 Tim Hardaway Jr., American basketball player

• 1992 Brett Davern, American actor

• 1993 George Ford, English rugby union player

• 1993 Marine Lorphelin, French model and beauty queen, Miss France 2013

• 1994 Camilo, Colombian singer

• 1994 Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player

• 1994 Sierra McClain, American actress

• 1995 Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater

• 1996 Ajiona Alexus, American actress and singer

• 1996 Ivan Toney, English footballer

• 1996 Tim David, Singaporean-born Australian cricketer

• 1997 Dominic Calvert-Lewin, English footballer

• 1997 Florian Neuhaus, German footballer

• 1997 Tyrel Jackson Williams, American actor

• 1999 Vladimir Guerrero Jr., Canadian baseball player

• 2000 Jalen Smith, American basketball player

• 2001 Kyle Hamilton, American football player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• AD 37 Tiberius, Roman emperor (born 42 BC)

• 455 Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated; b. 419)

• 455 Heraclius, Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )

• 842 Xiao Mian, chancellor of the Tang dynasty

• 933 Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt

• 943 Pi Guangye, Chinese official and chancellor (born 877)

• 1021 Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop and saint (born 970)

• 1072 Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (born 1000)

• 1181 Henry I, Count of Champagne

• 1185 Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)

• 1279 Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (born 1216)

• 1405 Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (born 1350)

• 1410 John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1373)

• 1457 Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (born 1433)

• 1485 Anne Neville, Queen Consort of Richard III of England (born 1456)

• 1559 Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1496)

1601–1900

• 1649 Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (born 1593)

• 1679 John Leverett, English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1616)

• 1698 Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess, author of Jammers Minde (born 1621)

• 1721 James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1657)

• 1736 Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born 1710)

• 1737 Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (born 1670)

• 1738 George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (born 1666)

• 1747 Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (born 1690)

• 1804 Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Finnish professor and historian (born 1739)

• 1838 Nathaniel Bowditch, American ocean navigator and mathematician (born 1773)

• 1841 Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (born 1791)

• 1868 David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (born 1814)

• 1884 Art Croft, American baseball player (born 1855)

• 1888 Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (born 1801)

• 1892 Samuel F. Miller, American politician (born 1827)

• 1898 Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (born 1872)

• 1899 Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (born 1823)

1901–present

• 1903 Roy Bean, American justice of the peace (born 1825)

• 1907 John O'Leary, Irish republican and journalist (born 1830)

• 1912 Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (born 1854)

• 1914 Gaston Calmette, French journalist (born 1858)

• 1914 Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)

• 1914 John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (born 1841)

• 1925 August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (born 1866)

• 1930 Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)

• 1935 John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)

• 1935 Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)

• 1936 Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (born 1864)

• 1937 Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)

• 1937 Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (born 1877)

• 1940 Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)

• 1945 Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (born 1874)

• 1955 Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)

• 1957 Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)

• 1958 Leon Cadore, American baseball player (born 1891)

• 1961 Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (born 1903)

• 1961 Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (born 1883)

• 1963 Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (born 1874)

• 1965 Alice Herz, German activist (born 1882)

• 1967 Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (born 1893)

• 1968 Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (born 1895)

• 1968 Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (born 1907)

• 1970 Tammi Terrell, American singer (born 1945)

• 1971 Bebe Daniels, American actress (born 1901)

• 1971 Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (born 1902)

• 1972 Pie Traynor, American baseball player (born 1898)

• 1975 T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1910)

• 1977 Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1917)

• 1979 Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (born 1888)

• 1983 Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (born 1903)

• 1983 Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (born 1907)

• 1985 Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (born 1896)

• 1985 Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1902)

• 1988 Jigger Statz, American baseball player (born 1897)

• 1988 Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (born 1928)

• 1990 Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1898)

• 1991 Chris Austin, American country singer (born 1964)

• 1991 Jean Bellette, Australian artist (born 1908)

• 1992 Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (born 1903)

• 1994 Eric Show, American baseball player (born 1956)

• 1998 Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

• 1998 Esther Bubley, American photographer (born 1921)

• 1999 Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (born 1909)

• 2000 Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (born 1918)

• 2000 Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (born 1911)

• 2000 Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (born 1910)

• 2000 Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (born 1948)

• 2001 Bob Wollek, French race car driver (born 1943)

• 2003 Rachel Corrie, American activist (born 1979)

• 2003 Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (born 1931)

• 2004 Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (born 1910)

• 2005 Todd Bell, American football player (born 1958)

• 2005 Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (born 1914)

• 2005 Dick Radatz, American baseball player (born 1937)

• 2007 Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)

• 2008 Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1912)

• 2008 Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)

• 2008 Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (born 1942)

• 2010 Ksenija Pajčin, Serbian singer, dancer and model (born 1977)

• 2011 Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader (born 1931)

• 2012 Donald E. Hillman, American colonel and pilot (born 1918)

• 2012 Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1924)

• 2013 Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)

• 2013 José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)

• 2013 Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (born 1986)

• 2013 Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (born 1914)

• 2013 Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)

• 2013 Frank Thornton, English actor (born 1921)

• 2014 Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (born 1941)

• 2014 Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (born 1937)

• 2014 Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (born 1936)

• 2014 Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (born 1949)

• 2014 Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (born 1958)

• 2015 Jack Haley, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)

• 2015 Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (born 1922)

• 2016 Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (born 1924)

• 2016 Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (born 1944)

• 2017 Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (born 1925)

• 2018 Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (born 1929)

• 2019 Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)

• 2025 Émilie Dequenne, Belgian actress (born 1981)

• 2025 Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (born 1941)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Eusebia of Hamage

• Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)

• Heribert of Cologne

• Hilarius of Aquileia

• Jean de Brébeuf

• Blessed John Amias and Robert Dalby

• Julian of Antioch

• March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of the Book Smugglers (Lithuania)

• Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires (Latvia)

• Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on March 16