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March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 290 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 934Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
  • 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.[1]
  • 1244 – Over 200 Cathars who refuse to recant are burned to death after the Fall of Montségur.[2]
  • 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge takes place in the Despenser Wars.
  • 1521Ferdinand Magellan reaches the island of Homonhon in the Philippines.
  • 1621Samoset, a Mohegan, visited 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.
  • 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, is founded.
  • 1782American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
  • 1782 – Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782.
  • 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
  • 1797French Revolutionary Wars: An Austrian column is defeated by the French in the Battle of Valvasone.
  • 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
  • 1812 – The Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat the French garrison during the Peninsular War.
  • 1815Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
  • 1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
  • 1864American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
  • 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
  • 1870 – The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
  • 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won 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.
  • 1894Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
  • 1898 – In Melbourne the representatives of five colonies adopted a constitution, which would become the basis of the Commonwealth of Australia.[3]
  • 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
  • 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
  • 1917World War I: A German auxiliary cruiser is sunk in the Action of 16 March 1917.
  • 1918Finnish Civil War: Battle of Länkipohja is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the Whites executed 70–100 capitulated Reds.
  • 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
  • 1925 – An earthquake occurs in Yunnan, China.
  • 1926History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
  • 1935Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself 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.
  • 1940 – First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
  • 1945World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
  • 1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
  • 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
  • 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
  • 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with an Agena Target Vehicle.
  • 1968Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
  • 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
  • 1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
  • 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
  • 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.[4]
  • 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.
  • 1979Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
  • 1983 – Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
  • 1984William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by Hezbollah. (He later dies in captivity.)
  • 1985Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
  • 1988Iran–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.
  • 1991 – The airplane carrying eight members of Reba McEntire's touring band crashed on the side of Otay Mountain.
  • 1995Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
  • 2001A series of bomb blasts that took place in the city of Shijiazhuang, China killed 108 people and injured 38 others, was the biggest mass murder in China in decades.
  • 2003 – American activist Rachel Corrie is killed in Rafah trying to obstruct the demolition of a home by being run over by a bulldozer.
  • 2005Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
  • 2014Crimea 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 54.
  • 2016 – Two suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and injuring 18.

Births[]

  • 1399 – The Xuande Emperor, ruler of Ming China (d. 1435)
  • 1445Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (d. 1510)
  • 1465Kunigunde of Austria, Archduchess of Austria (d. 1520)
  • 1473Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
  • 1559Amar Singh I, successor of Maharana Pratap of Mewar (d. 1620)
  • 1581Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (d. 1647)
  • 1585Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618)
  • 1590Ii Naotaka, Japanese daimyō (d. 1659)
  • 1596Ebba Brahe, Swedish countess (d. 1674)
  • 1609Michael Franck, German baker, teacher, poet, and composer (d. 1667)
  • 1609 – Agostino Mitelli, Italian painter (d. 1660)
  • 1621Georg Neumark, German poet and composer (d. 1681)
  • 1631René Le Bossu, French critic (d. 1680)
  • 1638François Crépieul, Jesuit missionary (d. 1702)
  • 1654Andreas Acoluthus, German scholar (d. 1704)
  • 1670François de Franquetot de Coigny, French general (d. 1759)
  • 1673Jean Bouhier, French jurist and scholar (d. 1746)
  • 1687Sophia Dorothea of Hanover, queen consort of Frederick William I (d. 1757)
  • 1693Malhar Rao Holkar, Indian nobleman (d. 1766)
  • 1701Daniel Lorenz Salthenius, Swedish theologian (d. 1750)
  • 1729Maria Louise Albertine (d. 1818)
  • 1741Carlo Amoretti, Italian scientist (d. 1816)
  • 1744Nicolas-Germain Léonard, French poet and novelist (d. 1793)
  • 1750Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)[5]
  • 1751James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
  • 1753François Amédée Doppet, French general (d. 1799)
  • 1760Johann Heinrich Meyer, Swiss painter and writer (d. 1832)
  • 1766Jean-Frédéric Waldeck, French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (d. 1875)
  • 1771Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835)
  • 1773Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 1836)
  • 1774Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814)
  • 1789Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872)
  • 1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854)
  • 1794Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer (d. 1881)
  • 1797Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864)
  • 1799Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (d. 1871)
  • 1800Emperor Ninkō of Japan (d. 1846)
  • 1805Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (d. 1861)
  • 1806Félix De Vigne, Belgian painter (d. 1862)
  • 1808Hannah T. King, British-born American writer and pioneer (d. 1886)[6]
  • 1813Gaëtan de Rochebouët, French prime minister (d. 1899)
  • 1819José Paranhos, Brazilian politician (d. 1880)
  • 1820Enrico Tamberlik, Italian tenor (d. 1889)
  • 1821Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (d. 1881)
  • 1822Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
  • 1822 – John Pope, American general (d. 1892)
  • 1823William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (d. 1889)
  • 1825Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer (d. 1890)
  • 1828Émile Deshayes de Marcère, French politician (d. 1918)
  • 1834James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon (d. 1907)
  • 1836Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900)
  • 1839Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
  • 1839 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1922)
  • 1840Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1931)
  • 1840 – Georg von der Gabelentz, German linguist and sinologist (d. 1893)
  • 1845Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928)
  • 1846Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
  • 1846 – Rebecca Cole, American physician and social reformer (d. 1922)
  • 1846 – Jurgis Bielinis, Lithuanian book smuggler (d. 1918)
  • 1848Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and diplomat (d. 1932)
  • 1851Otto Bardenhewer, German patrologist (d. 1935)
  • 1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
  • 1856Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (d. 1879)
  • 1857Charles Harding Firth, English historian and academic (d. 1936)
  • 1859Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1906)
  • 1865Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
  • 1869Willy Burmester, German violinist (d. 1933)
  • 1871Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951)
  • 1871 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (d. 1932)
  • 1874Frédéric François-Marsal, French prime minister (d. 1958)
  • 1877Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (d. 1972)
  • 1878Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (d. 1946)
  • 1878 – Paul Jouve, French painter (d. 1973)
  • 1881Fannie Charles Dillon, American composer (d. 1947)
  • 1882James Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
  • 1883Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (d. 1958)
  • 1884Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (d. 1960)
  • 1885Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943)
  • 1885 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor (d. 1965)
  • 1886Herbert Lindström, Swedish tug of war player (d. 1951)
  • 1887Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner (d. 1925)
  • 1887 – S. Stillman Berry, American marine zoologist (1984)
  • 1889Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
  • 1892César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, playwright, and journalist (d. 1938)
  • 1895Ernest Labrousse, French historian (d. 1988)
  • 1897Antonio Donghi, Italian painter (d. 1963)
  • 1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
  • 1900Cyril Hume, American novelist (d. 1966)
  • 1900 – Mencha Karnicheva, Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (d. 1964) [7]
  • 1901Alexis Chantraine, Belgian footballer (d. 1987)
  • 1903Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 2001)
  • 1906Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (d. 2009)
  • 1906 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1944)
  • 1906 – Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian (d. 1998)
  • 1908René Daumal, French author and poet (d. 1944)
  • 1908 – Ernest Rogez, French water polo player (d. 1986)
  • 1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1966)
  • 1910Aladár Gerevich, Hungarian fencer (d. 1991)
  • 1910 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi (d. 1952)
  • 1911Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009)
  • 1911 – Josef Mengele, German physician and captain (d. 1979)
  • 1911 – Philip Pavia, American painter and sculptor (d.2005)
  • 1912Pat Nixon, First Lady of the United States (d. 1993)
  • 1913Rémy Raffalli, French soldier (d. 1952)
  • 1915Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
  • 1916Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
  • 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010)
  • 1917Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002)
  • 1917 – Laure Pillay, Mauritian lawyer and jurist (d. 2017)[8]
  • 1917 – Mehrdad Pahlbod, Iranian politician (d. 2018)
  • 1918Aldo van Eyck, Dutch architect (d. 1999)
  • 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
  • 1920John Addison, English-American soldier and composer (d. 1998)
  • 1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2010)
  • 1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary (d. 2002)
  • 1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002)
  • 1922Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright (d. 2018)
  • 1923Heinz Wallberg, German conductor (d. 2004)
  • 1925Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014)
  • 1925 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
  • 1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (d. 2012)
  • 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004)
  • 1926Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician (d. 1987)
  • 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor and comedian (d. 2017)
  • 1927Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
  • 1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2003)
  • 1927 – Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (d. 2009)
  • 1928Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (d. 2010)
  • 1928 – Christa Ludwig, German soprano and actress
  • 1929Betty Johnson, American singer
  • 1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
  • 1929 – Nadja Tiller, Austrian actress
  • 1930Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
  • 1930 – Minoru Miki, Japanese composer (d. 2011)
  • 1931Augusto Boal, Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician (d. 2009)
  • 1931 – Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer (d. 2014)
  • 1931 – Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and academic
  • 1931 – John Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2003)
  • 1932Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
  • 1932 – Walter Cunningham, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
  • 1932 – Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author
  • 1932 – Herbert Marx, Canadian politician (d. 2020)
  • 1933Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy
  • 1933 – Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist
  • 1934Jean Cournoyer, Canadian politician
  • 1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (d. 2002)
  • 1934 – Roger Norrington, English violinist and conductor
  • 1935Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress
  • 1935 – Pepe Cáceres, Colombian bullfighter (d. 1987)
  • 1936Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI
  • 1936 – Fred Neil, American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
  • 1937David Frith, English historian, journalist, and author
  • 1937 – Attilio Nicora, Italian cardinal (d. 2017)
  • 1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist and academic (d. 1996)
  • 1938Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 1939Yvon Côté, Canadian teacher
  • 1940Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter (d. 2018)
  • 1940 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer (d. 1979)
  • 1940 – Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
  • 1940 – Keith Rowe, English guitarist
  • 1941Robert Guéï, Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
  • 1941 – Chuck Woolery, American game show host and television personality
  • 1942Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1996)
  • 1942 – Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver
  • 1942 – Jean-Pierre Schosteck, French politician
  • 1942 – James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese politician, Governor of Taiwan Province
  • 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1943Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author
  • 1943 – Hans Heyer, German racing driver
  • 1943 – Álvaro de Soto, Peruvian diplomat
  • 1944Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and academic
  • 1946Sigmund 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
  • 1948Michael Owen Bruce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer-songwriter and director
  • 1948 – Catherine Quéré, French politician
  • 1949Erik Estrada, American actor
  • 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer
  • 1949 – Elliott Murphy, American-French singer-songwriter and journalist
  • 1950Peter Forster, English bishop
  • 1950 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
  • 1950 – Edhem Šljivo, Bosnian footballer
  • 1951Ray 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
  • 1953Claus Peter Flor, German conductor
  • 1953 – Isabelle Huppert, French actress
  • 1953 – Rainer Knaak, German chess player
  • 1953 – Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer
  • 1954David Heath, English politician
  • 1954 – Colin Ireland, English serial killer (d. 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
  • 1955Svetlana 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 (d. 2013)
  • 1955 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
  • 1956Ozzie Newsome, American football player and manager
  • 1956 – Clifton Powell, American actor, director, and producer
  • 1956 – Yoriko Shono, Japanese writer
  • 1956 – Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf, Swiss lawyer and politician
  • 1958Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist and composer
  • 1958 – Kate Worley, American author (d. 2004)
  • 1958 – Jorge Ramos, Mexican-American journalist and author[9]
  • 1959Michael 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
  • 1960John Hemming, English businessman and politician[10]
  • 1960 – Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1960 – Jenny Eclair, English comedian, actress and screenwriter
  • 1961Brett Kenny, Australian rugby league player and coach
  • 1961 – Todd McFarlane, Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys
  • 1962Franck Fréon, French race car driver
  • 1962 – Liliane Gaschet, French athlete
  • 1963Jerome Flynn, English actor and singer
  • 1963 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor and singer (d. 2002)
  • 1964Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter
  • 1964 – Jaclyn Jose, Filipino actress
  • 1964 – Pascal Richard, Swiss racing cyclist
  • 1964 – Gore Verbinski, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1965Steve Armstrong, American wrestler
  • 1965 – Cindy Brown, American basketball player
  • 1965 – Mark Carney, Canadian-English economist and banker
  • 1965 – Cristiana Reali, Italian-Brazilian actress
  • 1966Chrissy Redden, Canadian cross-country cyclist[11]
  • 1967Tracy 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
  • 1968Trevor Wilson, American basketball player and police officer
  • 1969Judah 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
  • 1970Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1971Franck Comba, French rugby player
  • 1971 – Alan Tudyk, American actor
  • 1972Ismaïl Sghyr, French-Moroccan long-distance runner
  • 1973Andrey Mizurov, Kazakhstani road bicycle racer
  • 1973 – Vonda Ward, American boxer
  • 1974Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician
  • 1974 – Anne Charrier, French actress
  • 1974 – Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer
  • 1975Luciano Castro, Argentine actor
  • 1975 – Sienna Guillory, English model and actress
  • 1975 – Lionel Torres, French archer
  • 1976Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and producer
  • 1976 – Leila Lejeune, French handballer
  • 1976 – Susanne Ljungskog, Swedish cyclist
  • 1976 – Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
  • 1976 – Zhu Chen, Qatari chess Grandmaster
  • 1977Mónica Cruz, Spanish actress and dancer
  • 1977 – Thomas Rupprath, German swimmer
  • 1978Brooke Burns, American fashion model and actress
  • 1978 – Annett Renneberg, German actress and singer
  • 1979Christina 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
  • 1980Todd Heap, American football player
  • 1980 – Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
  • 1981Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
  • 1981 – Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
  • 1981 – Julien Mazet, French road bicycle racer
  • 1981 – Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter
  • 1982Miguel 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
  • 1983Stephen Drew, American baseball player
  • 1983 – Brandon League, American baseball player
  • 1983 – Nicolas Rousseau, French road bicycle racer
  • 1983 – Tramon Williams, American football player
  • 1984Levi Brown, American football player
  • 1984 – Aisling Bea, Irish comedienne and actress
  • 1984 – Sharon Cherop, Kenyan long-distance runner
  • 1984 – Michael Ennis, Australian rugby player
  • 1984 – Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1984 – Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1985Teddy Atine-Venel, French athlete
  • 1985 – Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter
  • 1985 – Aleksei Sokirskiy, Russian hammer thrower
  • 1986Alexandra 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
  • 1987Fabien Lemoine, French football player
  • 1988Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater
  • 1988 – Patrick Herrmann, German footballer
  • 1989Blake Griffin, American basketball player
  • 1989 – Jung So-min, South Korean actress
  • 1989 – Magalie Pottier, French racing cyclist
  • 1989 – Theo Walcott, English footballer
  • 1990Andre Young, American basketball player
  • 1991Reggie Bullock, American basketball player
  • 1991 – Wolfgang Van Halen, American bassist
  • 1993George Ford, English rugby union player
  • 1993 – Marine Lorphelin, Miss France
  • 1994Joel Embiid, Cameroonian basketball player
  • 1995Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
  • 1997Florian Neuhaus, German football player

Deaths[]

  • AD 37Tiberius, Roman emperor (b. 42 BC)[12]
  • 455Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated;[13] b. 419)
  • 455 – Heraclius, Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )
  • 842Xiao Mian, chancellor of the Tang Dynasty
  • 933Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt
  • 943Pi Guangye, Chinese official and chancellor (b. 877)
  • 1021Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop and saint (b. 970)
  • 1072Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (b. 1000)
  • 1181Henry I, Count of Champagne
  • 1185Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (b. 1161)
  • 1279Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (b. 1216)
  • 1322Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1276)
  • 1405Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (b. 1350)
  • 1410John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1373)[14]
  • 1457Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (b. 1433)
  • 1485Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
  • 1559Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
  • 1649Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593)
  • 1679John Leverett, English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
  • 1721James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1657)
  • 1736Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710)
  • 1737Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (b. 1670)
  • 1738George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (b. 1666)
  • 1747Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690)
  • 1838Nathaniel Bowditch, American captain and mathematician (b. 1773)
  • 1841Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791)
  • 1868David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (b. 1814)
  • 1884Art Croft, American baseball player (b. 1855)
  • 1888Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
  • 1892Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
  • 1898Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
  • 1899Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
  • 1903Roy Bean, American lawyer and judge (b. 1825)
  • 1907John O'Leary, Irish politician (b. 1830)
  • 1912Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
  • 1914Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
  • 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
  • 1914 – John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)
  • 1925August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
  • 1930Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
  • 1935John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
  • 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
  • 1936Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
  • 1937Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
  • 1940Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)[15]
  • 1945Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
  • 1955Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
  • 1957Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876)
  • 1958Leon Cadore, American baseball player (b. 1891)
  • 1961Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903)
  • 1961 – Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (b. 1883)
  • 1963Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
  • 1965Alice Herz, German activist (b. 1882)
  • 1967Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (b. 1893)
  • 1968Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
  • 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
  • 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1945)
  • 1971Bebe Daniels, American actress (b. 1901)
  • 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
  • 1972Pie Traynor, American baseball player (b. 1898)
  • 1975T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
  • 1977Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
  • 1979Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
  • 1980Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898)
  • 1983Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
  • 1983 – Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
  • 1985Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (b. 1896)
  • 1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • 1988Jigger Statz, American baseball player (b.1897)
  • 1988 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
  • 1990Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
  • 1991Chris Austin, American country singer (b .1964)
  • 1991 – Jean Bellette, Australian artist (b. 1908)
  • 1992Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
  • 1994Eric Show, American baseball player (b. 1956)
  • 1998Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
  • 1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
  • 1999Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
  • 2000Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
  • 2000 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
  • 2000 – Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
  • 2000 – Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (b. 1948)
  • 2001Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
  • 2003Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
  • 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)
  • 2004Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
  • 2005Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
  • 2005 – Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
  • 2007Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
  • 2008Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1912)
  • 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942)
  • 2010Ksenija Pajčin, Serbian singer, dancer and model (b. 1977)
  • 2011Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader (b. 1931)
  • 2012Donald E. Hillman, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
  • 2012 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (b. 1924)
  • 2013Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
  • 2013 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (b. 1925)
  • 2013 – Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (b. 1986)
  • 2013 – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914)
  • 2013 – Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952)
  • 2013 – Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921)
  • 2014Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941)
  • 2014 – Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937)
  • 2014 – Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936)
  • 2014 – Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949)
  • 2014 – Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
  • 2015Jack Haley, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1964)
  • 2015 – Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
  • 2016Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924)
  • 2016 – Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944)
  • 2017Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (b. 1925)
  • 2018Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (b. 1929)
  • 2019Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (b. 1937) [16]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Abbán
    • Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)
    • Heribert of Cologne
    • Hilarius of Aquileia
    • 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)
  • Austin 3:16 Day (Not official, but leisure day)

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