Events

Pre-1600

• 509 BC Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.

• 293 Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesarss. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").

• 350 Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do so by Constantina, sister of Constantius II.

• 834 Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire.

• 1290 - University of Coimbra, in Portugal, is officially chartered by King Denis.

• 1476 Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.

• 1562 Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.

1601–1900

• 1628 Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.

• 1633 Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.

• 1692 Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne, and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.

• 1781 The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.

• 1796 The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.

• 1805 Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate.

• 1811 Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.

• 1815 Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.

• 1836 A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.

• 1845 United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.

• 1867 Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.

• 1870 Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.

• 1871 The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.

• 1872 Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.

• 1893 Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.

• 1896 Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.

• 1896 Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.

1901–present

• 1901 The Australian Army is formed.

• 1910 The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.

• 1914 China joins the Universal Postal Union.

• 1917 The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.

• 1919 March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.

• 1921 The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.

• 1921 Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.

• 1932 Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.

• 1939 An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.

• 1941 World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.

• 1942 World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).

• 1946 The Bank of England is nationalised.

• 1947 The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.

• 1950 Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.

• 1953 Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.

• 1954 Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.

• 1954 Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.

• 1956 The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.

• 1956 Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.

• 1958 Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.

• 1961 Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.

• 1962 American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.

• 1964 Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.

• 1964 Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.

• 1966 Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.

• 1966 The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.

• 1971 President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.

• 1973 Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.

• 1974 Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.

• 1981 Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.

• 1990 Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

• 1991 Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.

• 1992 Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.

• 1998 Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.

• 2002 U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.

• 2002 The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.

• 2002 Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.

• 2003 Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security.

• 2005 In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.

• 2006 English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.

• 2007 Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.

• 2008 The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed.

• 2014 Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.

Births

Pre-1600

• 1105 Alfonso VII, king of León and Castile (died 1157)

• 1389 Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop and saint (died 1459)

• 1432 Isabella of Coimbra (died 1455)

• 1456 Vladislaus II of Hungary (died 1516)

• 1547 Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (died 1628)

• 1554 William Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (died 1612)

• 1577 Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (died 1635)

• 1597 Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (died 1652)

1601–1900

• 1611 John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (died 1685)

• 1629 Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (died 1670)

• 1647 John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (died 1693)

• 1657 Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author (died 1740)

• 1683 Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama (died 1706)

• 1683 Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent (died 1737)

• 1724 Manuel do Cenáculo, Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (died 1814)

• 1732 William Cushing, American lawyer and judge (died 1810)

• 1760 François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (died 1794)

• 1769 François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (died 1796)

• 1807 Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1898)

• 1810 Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (died 1849)

• 1812 Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (died 1852)

• 1817 Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1882)

• 1821 Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (died 1896)

• 1835 Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (died 1919)

• 1837 William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, and critic (died 1920)

• 1842 Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (died 1901)

• 1848 Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (died 1907)

• 1852 Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1923)

• 1863 Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (died 1930)

• 1870 E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (died 1944)

• 1876 Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (died 1942)

• 1880 Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (died 1932)

• 1886 Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright (died 1980)

• 1888 Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player (died 1948)

• 1888 Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer (died 1949)

• 1889 Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (died 1960)

• 1890 Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author (died 2002)

• 1891 Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (died 1940)

• 1892 Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1927)

• 1893 Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1968)

• 1896 Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1960)

• 1896 Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (died 1942)

• 1899 Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (died 1972)

• 1900 Basil Bunting, British poet (died 1985)

1901–present

• 1904 Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1973)

• 1904 Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1944)

• 1905 Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer (died 2000)

• 1906 Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (died 2000)

• 1909 Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (died 1942)

• 1909 Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer (died 1978)

• 1910 Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002)

• 1910 David Niven, English soldier and actor (died 1983)

• 1912 Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (died 2003)

• 1912 Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (died 2011)

• 1914 Harry Caray, American sportscaster (died 1998)

• 1914 Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (died 1994)

• 1917 Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977)

• 1917 Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (died 1994)

• 1918 João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (died 1976)

• 1918 Gladys Spellman, American educator and politician (died 1988)

• 1920 Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1984)

• 1920 Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic (died 1991)

• 1921 Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (died 2008)

• 1921 Terence Cooke, American cardinal (died 1983)

• 1921 Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (died 2017)

• 1922 William Gaines, American publisher (died 1992)

• 1922 Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)

• 1922 Fred Scolari, American basketball player (died 2002)

• 1924 Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (died 2007)

• 1924 Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (died 1993)

• 1926 Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (died 2022)

• 1926 Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (died 1992)

• 1926 Pete Rozelle, American businessman and 3rd National Football League Commissioner (died 1996)

• 1926 Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013)

• 1927 George O. Abell, American astronomer, academic, and skeptic (died 1983)

• 1927 Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2023)

• 1927 Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (died 2012)

• 1928 Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (died 2016)

• 1929 Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (died 1978)

• 1930 Monu Mukhopadhyay, Indian Bengali actor (died 2020)

• 1930 Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (died 1980)

• 1934 Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (died 2005)

• 1934 Joan Hackett, American actress (died 1983)

• 1935 Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman (died 2020)

• 1936 Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (died 1997)

• 1939 Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor

• 1939 Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Pakistani author

• 1940 Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania

• 1940 Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (died 2018)

• 1941 Robert Hass, American poet

• 1941 Dave Marcis, American stock car racing driver

• 1942 Richard Myers, American general

• 1943 Gil Amelio, American businessman

• 1943 José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager

• 1943 Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist

• 1944 Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal

• 1944 John Breaux, American lawyer and politician

• 1944 Mike d'Abo, English singer

• 1944 Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor

• 1945 Dirk Benedict, American actor and director

• 1946 Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1990)

• 1946 Jim Crace, English author and academic

• 1947 Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (died 2016)

• 1951 Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (died 1973)

• 1952 Dave Barr, Canadian golfer

• 1952 Nevada Barr, American actress and author

• 1952 Janice Burgess, American television executive, screenwriter, and producer (died 2024)

• 1952 Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster

• 1952 Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (died 2009)

• 1952 Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager

• 1952 Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach

• 1953 Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer

• 1953 Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager

• 1953 M. K. Stalin, Indian Tamil politician, 8th and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu

• 1954 Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer

• 1955 – Catherine Bach, American actress

• 1955 Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, member of the British royal family and Royal Navy officer

• 1956 Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer

• 1956 Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuania

• 1958 Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

• 1958 Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer and coach

• 1958 Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and aviator

• 1959 Nick Griffin, English politician

• 1961 Mike Rozier, American football player

• 1963 Bryan Batt, American actor

• 1963 Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager

• 1963 Magnus Svensson, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1963 Russell Wong, American actor

• 1965 Booker T, American professional wrestler and sportscaster

• 1965 Chris Eigeman, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer

• 1965 Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey

• 1966 Don Lemon, American journalist

• 1966 Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter

• 1967 George Eads, American actor

• 1967 Aron Winter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and manager

• 1969 Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer

• 1970 Yolanda Griffith, American basketball player and coach

• 1971 Ma Dong-seok, South Korean-American actor

• 1971 Brad Falchuk, American screenwriter, director, and producer

• 1973 Jack Davenport, English actor

• 1973 Ryan Peake, Canadian musician and songwriter

• 1973 Emiliya Vacheva, Bulgarian judoka

• 1973 Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster

• 1974 Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor

• 1977 Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter

• 1978 Jensen Ackles, American actor and musician

• 1978 Donovan Patton, American actor and television host

• 1979 Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer

• 1979 Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist

• 1980 Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer

• 1980 Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer

• 1980 Djimi Traoré, French-Malian footballer

• 1981 Will Power, Australian race car driver

• 1982 Travis Diener, American-Italian basketball player

• 1983 Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer

• 1983 Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress

• 1984 Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player

• 1984 Claudio Bieler, Argentinian footballer

• 1985 Andreas Ottl, German footballer

• 1986 Big E, American professional wrestler

• 1986 Jonathan Spector, American soccer player

• 1986 Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-English actor

• 1987 Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress

• 1987 Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler

• 1988 Trevor Cahill, American baseball player

• 1988 Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player

• 1989 Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler

• 1989 Daniella Monet, American actress

• 1989 Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress

• 1989 Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer

• 1991 Joe Mantiply, American baseball player

• 1992 Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer

• 1992 Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete

• 1993 Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer

• 1993 Michael Conforto, American baseball player

• 1993 Josh McEachran, English footballer

• 1993 Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player

• 1993 Jordan Veretout, French footballer

• 1994 Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter

• 1994 Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler

• 1994 Tyreek Hill, American football player

• 1994 Maximilian Philipp, German footballer

• 1999 Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player

• 1999 Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer

• 2000 Ja'Marr Chase, American football player

• 2001 Wander Franco, Dominican baseball player

• 2001 Sapnap, American YouTuber

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 492 Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church

• 589 David, Welsh bishop and saint

• 965 Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church

• 977 Rudesind, Galician bishop (born 907)

• 991 En'yū, Japanese emperor (born 959)

• 1058 Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (born 972)

• 1131 Stephen II, king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1101)

• 1233 Thomas, count of Savoy (born 1178)

• 1244 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (born 1200)

• 1320 Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Chinese emperor (born 1286)

• 1383 Amadeus VI, count of Savoy (born 1334)

• 1510 Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1450)

• 1546 George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr (born 1513)

1601–1900

• 1620 Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (born 1567)

• 1633 George Herbert, English poet and orator (born 1593)

• 1643 Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboardist and composer (born 1583)

• 1661 Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (born 1590)

• 1697 Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (born 1626)

• 1734 Roger North, English lawyer and author (born 1653)

• 1768 Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and author (born 1694)

• 1773 Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (born 1700)

• 1792 Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1747)

• 1792 Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1731)

• 1841 Claude-Victor Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1764)

• 1862 Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (born 1776)

• 1875 Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (born 1845)

• 1882 Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (born 1818)

• 1884 Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (born 1820)

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

• 1890 Rafael Campo, President of El Salvador from 1856 to 1858 (born 1813)

1901–present

• 1906 José María de Pereda, Spanish author (born 1833)

• 1911 Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

• 1914 Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (born 1845)

• 1920 John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (born 1842)

• 1922 Pichichi, Spanish footballer (born 1892)

• 1925 Homer Plessy, American political activist (born 1862 or 1863)

• 1932 Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (born 1906)

• 1936 Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (born 1871)

• 1938 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (born 1863)

• 1940 A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (born 1878)

• 1942 George S. Rentz, American commander (born 1882)

• 1943 Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)

• 1952 Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (born 1873)

• 1966 Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1903)

• 1974 Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (born 1935)

• 1976 Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (born 1910)

• 1978 Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)

• 1979 Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (born 1903)

• 1980 Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (born 1940)

• 1980 Dixie Dean, English footballer (born 1907)

• 1983 Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (born 1905)

• 1984 Jackie Coogan, American actor (born 1914)

• 1988 Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (born 1907)

• 1989 Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1917)

• 1991 Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)

• 1993 Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)

• 1995 César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)

• 1995 Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)

• 1998 Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (born 1937)

• 2004 Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (born 1914)

• 2006 Peter Osgood, English footballer (born 1947)

• 2006 Jack Wild, English actor (born 1952)

• 2006 Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (born 2003)

• 2010 Kristian Digby, English television host and director (born 1977)

• 2012 Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (born 1969)

• 2012 Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (born 1932)

• 2013 Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

• 2014 Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

• 2015 Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (born 1922)

• 2016 Carole Achache, French writer, photographer and actress (born 1952)

• 2018 María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (born 1934)

• 2019 Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (born 1942)

• 2020 Jack Welch, American business executive (born 1935)

• 2023 Just Fontaine, French footballer (born 1933)

• 2024 Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (born 1921)

• 2024 Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (born 1955)

• 2025 Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poet and television presenter (born 1942)

• 2025 Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)

• 2025 Angie Stone, American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1961)

Holidays and observances

• Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)

• Chalandamarz, traditional Alpine spring festival (Switzerland)

Christian feast day:

• Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China)

• Albin

• Eudokia of Heliopolis

• Pope Felix III

• Leoluca

• Luperculus

• Monan

• Rudesind

• Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (Wales and Welsh communities)

• Suitbert

• March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan)

• Day of the Balearic Islands (Spain)

• Disability Day of Mourning

• Heroes' Day (Paraguay)

• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.

• National "Cursed Soldiers" Remembrance Day (Poland)

• National Pig Day (United States)

• New Year's Day in the more veneto, the calendric system of the Republic of Venice until 1797

• Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)

• Samiljeol (South Korea)

• Self-injury Awareness Day (international)

Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring:

• Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)

• Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)

• The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí Faith)

• World Seagrass Day

• Yap Day (Yap State)

• Zero Discrimination Day

References

External links

• BBC: On This Day

• Historical Events on March 1