Events

Pre-1600

• 1199 King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.

• 1387 English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.

• 1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.

1601–1900

• 1603 James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

• 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.

• 1663 The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.

• 1720 Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.

• 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 10461051.

• 1765 Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

• 1794 In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko 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 passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.

• 1832 In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

• 1854 President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.

• 1860 Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese chief minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.

• 1869 The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrender to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

• 1870 A Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert, leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.

• 1878 The British frigate sinks, killing more than 300.

• 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

• 1900 Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

• 1900 Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date.

1901–present

• 1921 The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.

• 1922 The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.

• 1927 Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.

• 1934 The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.

• 1939 The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany.

• 1944 German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

• 1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied 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 to Indian leadership.

• 1949 Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.

• 1972 Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.

• 1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.

• 1977 Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.

• 1980 El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

• 1982 Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.

• 1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.

• 1989 In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of crude oil after running aground.

• 1990 Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.

• 1992 Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.

• 1998 Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

• 1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.

• 1998 Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.

• 1999 Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia 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, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.

• 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

• 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

• 2018 Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.

• 2018 Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.

• 2023 An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.

• 2024 The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.

• 2026 OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1103 Yue Fei, Chinese military general (died 1142)

• 1441 Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (died 1486)

• 1494 Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)

• 1577 Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (died 1620)

1601–1900

• 1607 Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1667)

• 1628 Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1685)

• 1657 Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (died 1725)

• 1693 John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (died 1776)

• 1725 Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th governor of North Carolina (died 1813)

• 1725 Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (died 1788)

• 1755 Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1827)

• 1762 Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1830)

• 1775 Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (died 1835)

• 1782 Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (died 1836)

• 1796 Zulma Carraud, French author (died 1889)

• 1796 John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1878)

• 1803 Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (died 1882)

• 1808 Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (died 1836)

• 1809 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (died 1837)

• 1809 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (died 1882)

• 1816 Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (died 1891)

• 1820 Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (died 1891)

• 1820 Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (died 1915)

• 1823 Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (died 1887)

• 1826 Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (died 1898)

• 1828 Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (died 1902)

• 1829 George Francis Train, American businessman (died 1904)

• 1829 Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (died 1862)

• 1830 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (died 1889)

• 1834 William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (died 1896)

• 1834 John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (died 1902)

• 1835 Joseph Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 1893)

• 1848 Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th mayor of Montreal (died 1906)

• 1850 Silas Hocking, English minister and author (died 1935)

• 1854 Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th premier of Western Australia (died 1930)

• 1855 Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937)

• 1855 Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (died 1920)

• 1862 Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (died 1951)

• 1869 Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (died 1955)

• 1871 Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (died 1913)

• 1874 Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd president of the Italian Republic (died 1961)

• 1874 Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (died 1926)

• 1875 William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (died 1953)

• 1879 Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (died 1953)

• 1882 Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (died 1951)

• 1882 George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th governor-general of New Zealand (died 1943)

• 1883 Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (died 1945)

• 1884 Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)

• 1884 Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (died 1968)

• 1884 Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (died 1972)

• 1885 Charles Daniels, American swimmer (died 1973)

• 1885 Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1978)

• 1886 Edward Weston, American photographer (died 1958)

• 1886 Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (died 1945)

• 1887 Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1933)

• 1888 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (died 1922)

• 1889 Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (died 1969)

• 1890 Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (died 1954)

• 1891 Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (died 1951)

• 1892 Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (died 1977)

• 1893 Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (died 1960)

• 1893 George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (died 1973)

• 1897 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (died 1957)

1901–present

• 1901 Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (died 1971)

• 1901 José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (died 1968)

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

• 1903 Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

• 1903 Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (died 1990)

• 1905 Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (died 2007)

• 1907 Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th premier of Quebec (died 1960)

• 1909 Clyde Barrow, American criminal (died 1934)

• 1909 Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (died 2001)

• 1910 Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (died 1975)

• 1911 Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (died 2006)

• 1912 Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (died 2010)

• 1915 Eugène Martin, French racing driver (died 2006)

• 1916 Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (died 2006)

• 1916 Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (died 2010)

• 1917 Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (died 2007)

• 1917 John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)

• 1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (died 2021)

• 1919 Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (died 2005)

• 1920 Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996)

• 1920 Mary Stolz, American author (died 2006)

• 1921 Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (died 1987)

• 1921 Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (died 2010)

• 1922 Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (died 2005)

• 1923 Murray Hamilton, American actor (died 1986)

• 1923 Michael Legat, English author and publisher (died 2011)

• 1924 Norman Fell, American actor (died 1998)

• 1926 Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (died 2017)

• 1926 Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)

• 1926 William Porter, American hurdler (died 2000)

• 1927 John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (died 2014)

• 1927 Martin Walser, German author and playwright (died 2023)

• 1928 Byron Janis, American pianist and composer (died 2024)

• 1929 Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (died 2012)

• 1930 David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003)

• 1930 Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (died 1980)

• 1931 Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 2003)

• 1933 Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (died 2011)

• 1933 Lee Mendelson, American television producer (died 2019)

• 1935 Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist

• 1936 Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)

• 1936 Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (died 2020)

• 1937 Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (died 1970)

• 1938 Holger Czukay, German musician (died 2017)

• 1938 David Irving, English historian and author

• 1938 Larry Wilson, American football player (died 2020)

• 1940 Bob Mackie, American fashion designer

• 1941 Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (died 2015)

• 1942 Jesús Alou, Dominican baseball player (died 2023)

• 1944 R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (died 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 (died 2016)

• 1945 Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter

• 1946 Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)

• 1946 Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (died 2018)

• 1947 Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach

• 1947 Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd governor of Washington

• 1947 Mick Jones, English footballer and coach (died 2022)

• 1947 Alan Sugar, English businessman

• 1948 Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (died 2013)

• 1948 Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (died 1989)

• 1949 Tabitha King, American author and poet

• 1949 Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1949 Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (died 2017)

• 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 (died 2011)

• 1951 Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (died 2013)

• 1951 Pat Bradley, American golfer

• 1951 Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation

• 1951 Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach

• 1952 Greg McCrary, American football player (died 2013)

• 1953 Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic

• 1953 Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (died 2022)

• 1954 Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (died 1992)

• 1955 Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1955 Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

• 1956 Steve Ballmer, American businessman

• 1956 Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter

• 1957 Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier

• 1958 Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach

• 1959 Emmit King, American sprinter (died 2021)

• 1959 Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player

• 1959 Derek Statham, English footballer

• 1960 Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist

• 1960 Barry Horowitz, American wrestler

• 1960 Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress

• 1960 Scott Pruett, American race car driver

• 1960 Annabella Sciorra, American actress

• 1961 Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2020)

• 1961 Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance

• 1962 Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist

• 1962 Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower

• 1963 Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2015)

• 1963 Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach

• 1963 Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder

• 1964 Patterson Hood, American singer-songwriter

• 1966 Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach

• 1966 Rico Hizon, Filipino broadcast journalist

• 1967 Diann Roffe, American skier

• 1968 Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player

• 1969 Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier

• 1969 Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent president of Albania

• 1970 Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer

• 1970 Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (died 2012)

• 1970 Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player

• 1972 Christophe Dugarry, French footballer

• 1972 Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach

• 1973 Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer

• 1973 Jim Parsons, American actor

• 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

• 1974 Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper

• 1975 Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player

• 1976 Aaron Brooks, American football player

• 1976 Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach

• 1976 Annette Dasch, German soprano

• 1976 Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer

• 1977 Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player

• 1978 Amir Arison, American actor

• 1978 Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach

• 1978 Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager

• 1978 José Valverde, Dominican baseball player

• 1979 Norris Hopper, American baseball player

• 1979 Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler

• 1979 Graeme Swann, English cricketer

• 1980 Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1980 Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player

• 1980 Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer

• 1981 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 Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler

• 1982 Jake Hager, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler

• 1982 Corey Hart, American baseball player

• 1982 Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer

• 1982 Dustin McGowan, American baseball player

• 1983 Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer

• 1983 T. J. Ford, American basketball player

• 1983 Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer

• 1983 Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1984 Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer

• 1984 Park Bom, South Korean singer

• 1984 Chris Bosh, American basketball player

• 1984 Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player

• 1984 Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner

• 1984 Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player

• 1985 Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer

• 1985 CJ Perry, American wrestler, manager, and actress

• 1987 Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer

• 1987 Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer

• 1987 Billy Jones, English footballer

• 1987 Ramires, Brazilian footballer

• 1988 Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete

• 1988 Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer

• 1988 Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer

• 1988 Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer

• 1988 Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player

• 1989 Zyzz, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and internet personality (died 2011)

• 1990 Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor

• 1990 Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress

• 1990 Starlin Castro, American baseball player

• 1990 Lacey Evans, American wrestler

• 1990 Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer

• 1990 JonTron, American YouTuber

• 1991 Nick Browne, English cricketer

• 1991 Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player

• 1993 Daniel Sazonov, Finnish politician

• 1995 Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer

• 1996 Myles Turner, American basketball player

• 1997 Mina, Japanese singer and dancer

• 1998 Christopher Briney, American actor

• 1998 Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model

• 1998 Damar Hamlin, American football player

• 1999 Katie Swan, English tennis player

• 2001 Clara Burel, French tennis player

• 2004 Gonzalo García, Spanish footballer

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 809 Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (born 763)

• 832 Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury

• 1284 Hugh III of Cyprus (born 1235)

• 1296 Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

• 1381 Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1332)

• 1396 Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (born 1340)

• 1399 Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (bornc. 1320)

• 1443 James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)

• 1455 Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)

• 1499 Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)

• 1563 Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)

• 1575 Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488)

1601–1900

• 1603 Elizabeth I of England (born 1533)

• 1653 Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)

• 1684 Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 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 (born 1694)

• 1776 John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (born 1693)

• 1824 Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (born 1753)

• 1838 Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (born 1748/49)

• 1866 Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (born 1782)

• 1869 Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (born 1779)

• 1881 Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (born 1817)

• 1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (born 1807)

• 1887 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (born 1837)

• 1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)

1901–present

• 1905 Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1828)

• 1909 John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (born 1871)

• 1915 Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (born 1848)

• 1915 Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (born 1846)

• 1916 Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1867)

• 1926 Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (born 1872)

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

• 1938 Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (born 1870)

• 1940 Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (born 1844)

• 1944 Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (born 1903)

• 1946 Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (born 1892)

• 1946 Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (born 1869)

• 1948 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1885)

• 1950 James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1865)

• 1951 Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (born 1887)

• 1953 Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1867)

• 1956 E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (born 1873)

• 1962 Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (born 1899)

• 1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (born 1884)

• 1968 Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873)

• 1971 Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (born 1902)

• 1971 Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (born 1895)

• 1973 Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th premier of New South Wales (born 1889)

• 1976 Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887)

• 1978 Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (born 1916)

• 1980 Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)

• 1984 Sam Jaffe, American actor (born 1891)

• 1988 Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th deputy prime minister of Turkey (born 1922)

• 1990 Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (born 1922)

• 1991 John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th governor-general of Australia (born 1914)

• 1993 Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (born 1905)

• 1993 John Hersey, American journalist and author (born 1914)

• 1995 Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (born 1900)

• 1999 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (born 1902)

• 1999 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (born 1912)

• 2001 Muriel Young, English television host and producer (born 1928)

• 2002 César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

• 2002 Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932)

• 2003 Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (born 1919)

• 2006 Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (born 1926)

• 2007 Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (born 1913)

• 2008 Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (born 1955)

• 2008 Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (born 1941)

• 2008 Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (born 1926)

• 2008 Richard Widmark, American actor (born 1914)

• 2008 Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (born 1939)

• 2009 George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)

• 2009 Hans Klenk, German racing driver (born 1919)

• 2009 Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)

• 2010 Robert Culp, American actor (born 1930)

• 2010 Jim Marshall, American photographer (born 1936)

• 2012 Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947)

• 2012 Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

• 2013 Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (born 1926)

• 2013 Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)

• 2013 Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)

• 2013 Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (born 1972)

• 2013 Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (born 1974)

• 2013 Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (born 1912)

• 2014 Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (born 1962)

• 2014 John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (born 1922)

• 2014 David A. Trampier, American illustrator (born 1954)

• 2015 Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928)

2015 notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:

• Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (born 1960)

• Maria Radner, German opera singer (born 1981)

• 2016 Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (born 1947)

• 2016 Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1949)

• 2018 Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924)

• 2018 Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (born 1966)

• 2019 Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (born 1949)

• 2020 Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (born 1927)

• 2020 Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933)

• 2021 Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (born 1941)

• 2022 Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (born 1912)

• 2023 Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929)

• 2023 Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (born 1955)

• 2024 Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman (born 1929)

• 2025 Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (born 1941)

• 2026 Biruté Galdikas, Canadian primatologist and conservationist (born 1946)

• 2026 Tracy Kidder, American writer (born 1945)

• 2026 Mel Schilling, Australian TV personality and coach (born 1972)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

• Catherine of Vadstena

• Hildelith of Barking

• Mac Cairthinn of Clogher

• Maria Karłowska

• Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)

• Paul Couturier (Church of England)

• Walter Hilton (Church of England)

• March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)

• International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims

• National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)

• World Tuberculosis Day (International)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on March 24