Events

Pre-1600

• 1205 Latin forces under Henry of Flanders defeat a Nicaean army under Constantine Laskaris in the Battle of Adramyttion.

• 1227 Election of Ugolino di Conti as Pope Gregory IX following the death of Pope Honorius III.

• 1277 The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.

• 1279 A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.

• 1284 The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.

• 1452 Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V.

• 1563 The Edict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of the French Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to the Huguenots.

1601–1900

• 1649 The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".

• 1687 Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.

• 1808 Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palace Aranjuez. His son, Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.

• 1812 The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.

• 1824 American explorer Benjamin Morrell departs Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.

• 1831 First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars steal $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street. Most of the money was recovered.

• 1865 American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.

• 1885 Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.

1901–present

• 1918 The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.

• 1920 The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).

• 1921 Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.

• 1932 The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.

• 1943 Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.

• 1944 World War II: The German army occupies Hungary.

• 1945 World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier , killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.

• 1945 World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.

• 1946 French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique, and Réunion become overseas départements of France.

• 1958 The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.

• 1962 The Algerian War of Independence ends.

• 1964 Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.

• 1965 The wreck of the , valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.

• 1969 The TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.

• 1979 The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.

• 1982 Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.

• 1989 The Egyptian flag is raised at Taba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since the Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.

• 1990 The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.

• 1998 An Ariana Afghan Airlines Boeing 727 crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.

• 2003 United States President George W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing the invasion of Iraq.

• 2004 Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.

• 2004 March 19 Shooting Incident: The Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.

• 2004 The Konginkangas bus disaster kills 23 and injures 14 people in Äänekoski, Finland.

• 2008 GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.

• 2011 Libyan Civil War: After the failure of Muammar Gaddafi's forces to take Benghazi, the French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya.

• 2013 A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.

• 2016 Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.

• 2016 An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.

• 2019 The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.

• 2023 – The Swiss Government brokers a deal for UBS to buy out rival Credit Suisse in an attempt to calm the 2023 banking crisis.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1206 Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rd Great Khan of the Mongol Empire (died 1248)

• 1434 Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (died 1443)

• 1488 Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (died 1544)

• 1534 José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (died 1597)

• 1542 Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (died 1605)

1601–1900

• 1601 Alonso Cano, Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect (died 1667)

• 1604 John IV of Portugal (died 1656)

• 1641 Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (died 1731)

• 1661 Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (died 1727)

• 1684 Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (died 1766)

• 1721 Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (died 1771) (baptised on this day)

• 1734 Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania (died 1817)

• 1739 Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance, French lawyer and politician (died 1824)

• 1742 Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (died 1781)

• 1748 Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and theologian (died 1830)

• 1778 Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (died 1815)

• 1784 José Prudencio Padilla López, Colombian naval commander and politician (died 1828)

• 1809 Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (died 1891)

• 1813 David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (died 1873)

• 1816 Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor (died 1891)

• 1821 Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (died 1890)

• 1823 Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (died 1891)

• 1824 William Allingham, Irish poet, author, and scholar (died 1889)

• 1829 Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman (died 1901)

• 1844 Minna Canth, Finnish journalist, playwright, and activist (died 1897)

• 1847 Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (died 1917)

• 1848 Wyatt Earp, American police officer (died 1929)

• 1849 Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral and politician (died 1930)

• 1858 Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and politician (died 1927)

• 1860 William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (died 1925)

• 1861 Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (died 1929)

• 1864 Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor (died 1926)

• 1865 William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (died 1937)

• 1868 Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator (died 1954)

• 1871 Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (died 1921)

• 1872 Anna Held, Polish singer (died 1918)

• 1873 Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1916)

• 1875 Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (died 1928)

• 1876 Felix Jacoby, German philologist (died 1959)

• 1880 Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate (died 1961)

• 1881 Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician (died 1960)

• 1882 Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (died 1935)

• 1883 Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1950)

• 1883 Joseph Stilwell, American general (died 1946)

• 1885 Attik, Greek composer (died 1944)

• 1888 Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (died 1976)

• 1888 Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (died 1969)

• 1891 Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (died 1974)

• 1892 Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (died 1967)

• 1892 Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (died 1961)

• 1892 James Van Fleet, American general and diplomat (died 1992)

• 1893 Gertrud Dorka, German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director (died 1976)

• 1894 Moms Mabley, American comedian and singer (died 1975)

• 1900 Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (died 1988)

• 1900 Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1958)

1901–present

• 1901 Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer (died 1976)

• 1905 Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer (died 2010)

• 1905 Albert Speer, German architect and politician, convicted Nuremberg war criminal (died 1981)

• 1906 Clara Breed, American librarian and activist (died 1994)

• 1906 Adolf Eichmann, German SS officer, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust (died 1962)

• 1907 Elizabeth Maconchy, British/Irish composer (died 1994)

• 1909 Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (died 1985)

• 1909 Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (died 1997)

• 1910 Joseph Carroll, American general (died 1991)

• 1912 Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician, Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1980)

• 1914 Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (died 1981)

• 1914 Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach (died 2002)

• 1915 Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (died 1944)

• 1915 Patricia Morison, American actress and singer (died 2018)

• 1916 Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (died 2000)

• 1916 Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (died 1990)

• 1917 Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (died 1998)

• 1919 Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator (died 1978)

• 1920 Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter (died 2002)

• 1921 Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop comedian (died 1984)

• 1922 Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach (died 2015)

• 1922 Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (died 2014)

• 1923 Pamela Britton, American actress (died 1974)

• 1923 Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator (died 1997)

• 1923 Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (died 2013)

• 1924 Joe Gaetjens, Haitian footballer (died 1964)

• 1925 Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat, 9th United States National Security Advisor (died 2020)

• 1927 Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (died 1997)

• 1928 Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author (died 2021)

• 1928 Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2009)

• 1931 Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet, writer and painter

• 1932 Gay Brewer, American golfer (died 2007)

• 1932 Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (died 2014)

• 1932 Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (died 2013)

• 1933 Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter (died 2019)

• 1935 Nancy Malone, American actress, director, and producer (died 2014)

• 1936 Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (died 1988)

• 1937 Egon Krenz, German politician, briefly leader of East Germany

• 1938 Joe Kapp, American football player, coach, and actor (died 2023)

• 1942 Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (died 2014)

• 1943 Nate Bowman, American basketball player (died 1984)

• 1943 Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2020)

• 1943 Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy

• 1943 Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver

• 1944 Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Belize

• 1944 Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-Jordanian assassin of Robert F. Kennedy

• 1945 John Holder, English cricketer and umpire

• 1945 Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach

• 1946 Ruth Pointer, American musician

• 1947 Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer and coach (died 2023)

• 1948 David Schnitter, American saxophonist and educator

• 1949 Blase J. Cupich, American theologian and cardinal

• 1950 José S. Palma, Filipino archbishop

• 1952 Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach

• 1952 Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic (died 2022)

• 1953 Ian Blair, English police officer (died 2025)

• 1953 Peter Hendy, English businessman, Minister of State for Rail

• 1953 Ricky Wilson, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1985)

• 1954 Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager

• 1954 Scott May, American basketball player

• 1956 Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (died 2009)

• 1957 Dudley Bradley, American basketball player

• 1958 Andy Reid, American football player and coach

• 1960 Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist

• 1963 Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter

• 1964 Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer

• 1966 Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician

• 1966 Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager

• 1966 Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager

• 1967 Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee

• 1967 Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player

• 1968 Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach

• 1970 Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (died 2011)

• 1970 Michael Krumm, German race car driver

• 1970 Janne Laukkanen, Finnish ice hockey player

• 1973 Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach

• 1975 Antonio Daniels, American basketball player

• 1976 Derek Chauvin, American criminal and former police officer

• 1976 Andre Miller, American basketball player

• 1976 Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager

• 1977 David Ross, American baseball player and manager

• 1978 Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter

• 1979 Sheldon Brown, American football player

• 1979 Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player

• 1979 Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer

• 1979 Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player

• 1980 Luca Ferri, Italian footballer

• 1980 Taichi Ishikari, Japanese wrestler

• 1980 Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer-songwriter

• 1980 Theo Von, American stand-up comedian

• 1981 Steve Cummings, English cyclist

• 1981 Casey Jacobsen, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1981 Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer

• 1982 Jonathan Fanene, American football player

• 1982 Brad Jones, Australian footballer

• 1982 Hana Kobayashi, Venezuelan singer

• 1982 Landon Powell, American baseball player and manager

• 1986 Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player

• 1986 Ahmad Bradshaw, American football player

• 1987 AJ Lee, American wrestler and author

• 1987 Michal Švec, Czech footballer

• 1987 Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player

• 1988 Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player

• 1988 Ben Uzoh, Nigerian-American basketball player

• 1990 EJ Manuel, American football player

• 1990 Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1991 Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer

• 1993 Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer

• 1995 Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer

• 1995 Julia Montes, Filipino actress

• 1996 Yung Gravy, American rapper

• 1996 Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player

• 1996 Quenton Nelson, American football player

• 1998 Caylee Cowan, American actress

• 1998 Julian Love, American football player

• 1998 Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer

• 1999 Nico Collins, American football player

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 235 Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (born 208)

• 953 al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah, caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (born 913)

• 968 Emma of Paris, duchess of Normandy (born 943)

• 1238 Henry the Bearded, Polish duke and son of Bolesław I the Tall (born 1163)

• 1263 Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal (born 1200)

• 1279 Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (born 1271)

• 1286 Alexander III, king of Scotland (born 1241)

• 1330 Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1301)

• 1372 John II, marquess of Montferrat (born 1321)

• 1533 John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English baron and statesman (born 1467)

• 1534 Michael Weiße, German theologian (born c. 1488)

• 1539 Lord Edmund Howard, English nobleman (born c. 1478)

• 1563 Arthur Brooke, English poet

• 1568 Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (bornc. 1518)

• 1581 Francis I, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (born 1510)

1601–1900

• 1612 Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (born 1585)

• 1637 Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (born 1570)

• 1649 Gerhard Johann Vossius, German scholar and theologian (born 1577)

• 1683 Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and manager (born 1612)

• 1687 René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (born 1643)

• 1697 Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (born 1665)

• 1711 Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (born 1637)

• 1717 John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish soldier (born 1636)

• 1721 Pope Clement XI (born 1649)

• 1783 Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (born 1713)

• 1790 Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 182nd Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1713)

• 1797 Philip Hayes, English organist and composer (born 1738)

• 1816 Filippo Mazzei, Italian-American physician and philosopher (born 1730)

• 1871 Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (born 1795)

• 1884 Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (born 1802)

• 1897 Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (born 1810)

• 1900 John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7th United States Ambassador to Japan (born 1815)

• 1900 Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (born 1819)

1901–present

• 1914 Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (born 1850)

• 1919 Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (born 1879)

• 1930 Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1848)

• 1930 Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (born 1854)

• 1942 Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (born 1855)

• 1944 William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (born 1869)

• 1947 James A. Gilmore, American businessman and baseball executive (born 1887)

• 1948 Maud Howe Elliott, American novelist (born 1854)

• 1949 James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (born 1882)

• 1949 James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (born 1881)

• 1950 Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (born 1875)

• 1950 Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1883)

• 1951 Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (born 1882)

• 1976 Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (born 1889)

• 1976 Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1950)

• 1977 William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (born 1888)

• 1978 M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (born 1891)

• 1982 J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1888)

• 1982 Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1956)

• 1984 Garry Winogrand, American photographer (born 1928)

• 1986 Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1922)

• 1987 Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)

• 1988 Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1904)

• 1990 Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (born 1966)

• 1993 Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (born 1915)

• 1996 Lise Østergaard, Danish psychologist and politician (born 1924)

• 1996 Alan Ridout, English composer and teacher. (born 1934)

• 1996 Virginia Henderson, American nurse, researcher, theorist and author (born 1897)

• 1997 Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (born 1904)

• 1997 Eugène Guillevic, French poet and author (born 1907)

• 1998 E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Kerala (born 1909)

• 1999 Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (born 1924)

• 2000 Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (born 1935)

• 2000 Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Pakistani physician and author (born 1920)

• 2003 Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (born 1926)

• 2004 Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (born 1911)

• 2005 John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (born 1925)

• 2008 Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (born 1917)

• 2008 Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and playwright (born 1929)

• 2008 Paul Scofield, English actor (born 1922)

• 2009 Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect and interior designer (born 1914)

• 2011 Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio host (born 1920)

• 2012 Jim Case, American director and producer (born 1927)

• 2012 Ulu Grosbard, Belgian-American director and producer (born 1929)

• 2012 Hugo Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian intelligence agent (born 1922)

• 2014 Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (born 1937)

• 2014 Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (born 1929)

• 2014 Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (born 1942)

• 2014 Robert S. Strauss, American diplomat, United States Ambassador to Russia (born 1918)

• 2014 Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (born 1912)

• 2014 Joseph F. Weis, Jr., American lawyer and judge (born 1923)

• 2015 Gus Douglass, American farmer and politician (born 1927)

• 2015 Safet Plakalo, Bosnian author and playwright (born 1950)

• 2015 Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1942)

• 2016 Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (born 1959)

• 2016 Jack Mansell, English footballer and manager (born 1927)

• 2019 William Whitfield, British architect (born 1920)

• 2021 Glynn Lunney, American engineer (born 1936)

• 2026 Chuck Norris, American martial artist and actor (born 1940)

Holidays and observances

Christian Observances:

• Alkmund of Derby

• Blessed Andrea Gallerani

Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20)

Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion) related observances:

• Falles, celebrated on the week leading to March 19 (Valencia)

• Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia)

• "Return of the Swallow", annual observance of the swallows' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California

• Blessed Marcel Callo

• Blessed Sibyllina Biscossi

• March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter (Christianity)

• Minna Canth's Birthday and the Day of Equality (Finland)

• Kashubian Unity Day (Poland)

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on March 19