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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 282 days remain until the end of the year.

March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.

Events[]

  • 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France,[1] leading to his death on April 6.
  • 1387English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.[2]
  • 1401Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
  • 1603James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.[3]
  • 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
  • 1721Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
  • 1731Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
  • 1765Great 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.
  • 1860Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
  • 1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
  • 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
  • 1882Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
  • 1885Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the TonkinGuangxi border.
  • 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.
  • 1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
  • 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
  • 1927Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
  • 1934United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  • 1944Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 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.
  • 1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
  • 1961Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
  • 1965 – Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
  • 1973Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
  • 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
  • 1977Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
  • 1980El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
  • 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 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
  • 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
  • 1998Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, 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 – First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
  • 1999Kosovo war: NATO began 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. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
  • 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
  • 2008Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
  • 2015Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

Births[]

  • 1103Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)[4]
  • 1441Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)[5]
  • 1494Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)[6]
  • 1577Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1620)
  • 1607Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)[7]
  • 1628Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)
  • 1657Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725)
  • 1693John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776)
  • 1725Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
  • 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
  • 1755Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
  • 1762Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830)
  • 1775Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
  • 1782Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836)
  • 1796Zulma Carraud, French author (d. 1889)[8]
  • 1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878)
  • 1803Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882)
  • 1808Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836)
  • 1809Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)
  • 1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)
  • 1816Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire (1863-1864) (d. 1891)[9]
  • 1820Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891)
  • 1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d. 1915)
  • 1823Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887)
  • 1826Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (d. 1898)
  • 1828Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1902)
  • 1829George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
  • 1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
  • 1830Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889)
  • 1834William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (d. 1896)
  • 1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)
  • 1835Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)
  • 1848Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)
  • 1850Silas Hocking, English minister and author (d. 1935)
  • 1854Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1930)
  • 1855Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
  • 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920)
  • 1862Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (d. 1951)
  • 1869Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955)
  • 1871Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d. 1913)
  • 1874Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
  • 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor (d. 1926)
  • 1875William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953)
  • 1879Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1953)
  • 1882Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951)
  • 1882 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)
  • 1883Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945)
  • 1884Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
  • 1884 – Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (d. 1968)[10]
  • 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)
  • 1885Charles Daniels, American swimmer (d. 1973)
  • 1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1978)
  • 1886Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
  • 1886 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (d. 1945)
  • 1887Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)
  • 1888Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (d. 1922)
  • 1889Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (d. 1969)
  • 1890Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954)
  • 1891Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)
  • 1892Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977)
  • 1893Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (d. 1960)
  • 1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973)
  • 1897Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957)
  • 1901Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971)
  • 1902Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971)
  • 1903Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
  • 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990)
  • 1905Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007)
  • 1907Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)
  • 1909Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
  • 1909Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist (d. 2001)
  • 1910Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975)
  • 1911Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)
  • 1912Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist (d. 2010)
  • 1915Eugène Martin, French racing driver (d. 2006)
  • 1916Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006)
  • 1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010)
  • 1917John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
  • 1919Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore
  • 1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005)
  • 1920Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
  • 1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)
  • 1921Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
  • 1922Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005)
  • 1923Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
  • 1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (d. 2011)
  • 1924Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
  • 1925Puig Aubert, German-French rugby league player and coach (d. 1994)
  • 1926Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)
  • 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)
  • 1926 – William Porter, American hurdler (d. 2000)
  • 1927John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright
  • 1928Byron Janis, American pianist and composer
  • 1929Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d. 2012)
  • 1930David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
  • 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980)
  • 1931Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003)
  • 1933Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (d. 2011)
  • 1933 – Lee Mendelson, American television producer (d. 2019) [11]
  • 1936Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)
  • 1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player
  • 1937Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (d. 1970)
  • 1938David Irving, English historian and author
  • 1940Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
  • 1941Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (d. 2015)
  • 1944R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (d. 2018)
  • 1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia
  • 1945Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
  • 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)
  • 1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
  • 1946Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)
  • 1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018)
  • 1947Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
  • 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington
  • 1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach
  • 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
  • 1948Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013)
  • 1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
  • 1948 – Lee Oskar, Jewish-Danish musician
  • 1949Tabitha King, American author and poet
  • 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
  • 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (April Wine) (d. 2017)
  • 1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
  • 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
  • 1950Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)
  • 1951Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
  • 1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer
  • 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
  • 1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player
  • 1951 – Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach
  • 1952Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013)
  • 1953Anita L. Allen, African-American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
  • 1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian
  • 1955Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1955 – Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1956Steve Ballmer, American businessman
  • 1956 – Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
  • 1957Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
  • 1957 – Pat Jarvis, Australian rugby league player
  • 1958Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
  • 1959Emmit King, American sprinter
  • 1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
  • 1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer
  • 1960Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
  • 1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
  • 1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model
  • 1960 – Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
  • 1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver
  • 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress
  • 1961Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach
  • 1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
  • 1962Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
  • 1962 – Star Jones, African-American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host
  • 1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
  • 1963Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
  • 1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2015)
  • 1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
  • 1965The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor
  • 1966Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
  • 1967Diann Roffe, American skier
  • 1968Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
  • 1969Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
  • 1970Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
  • 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist
  • 1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
  • 1970 – Erica Kennedy, African-American journalist and author (d. 2012)
  • 1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
  • 1971Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor
  • 1972Christophe Dugarry, French footballer
  • 1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach
  • 1973Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
  • 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
  • 1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor
  • 1974Alyson Hannigan, American actress
  • 1974 – Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
  • 1974 – Tado, Filipino comedian and activist (d. 2014)
  • 1975Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monacan tennis player
  • 1976Aaron Brooks, American football player
  • 1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
  • 1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
  • 1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur
  • 1977Jessica Chastain, American actress
  • 1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
  • 1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
  • 1978Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
  • 1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
  • 1978 – José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
  • 1979Lake Bell, Jewish-American actress, director, and screenwriter
  • 1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
  • 1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
  • 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
  • 1980Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
  • 1981Mike 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
  • 1982Corey Hart, American baseball player
  • 1982 – Jack Swagger, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
  • 1982 – Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
  • 1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
  • 1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
  • 1983Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
  • 1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
  • 1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1983 – T.J. Ford, American basketball player
  • 1984Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French born Cameroonian international footballer, left-back[12]
  • 1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
  • 1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
  • 1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
  • 1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer
  • 1984 – Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
  • 1985Lana, American wrestler and manager
  • 1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
  • 1987Ramires, Brazilian footballer
  • 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
  • 1987 – Billy Jones, English footballer
  • 1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer
  • 1988Aiga 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
  • 1990Starlin Castro, American baseball player
  • 1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
  • 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
  • 1990 – Lacey Evans, American wrestler
  • 1991Nick Browne, English cricketer
  • 1991 – Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
  • 1995Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer

Deaths[]

  • 809Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)
  • 832Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury
  • 1284Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
  • 1296Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  • 1381Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
  • 1394Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
  • 1396Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340)
  • 1399Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320)
  • 1443James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)
  • 1455Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
  • 1499Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)
  • 1563Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)
  • 1575Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)
  • 1603Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)[13]
  • 1653Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)
  • 1684Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)
  • 1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband[14]
  • 1773Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)
  • 1776John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)
  • 1824Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)
  • 1838Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)
  • 1869Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
  • 1881Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
  • 1882Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
  • 1887Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
  • 1888Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
  • 1905Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)
  • 1909John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)
  • 1915Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)
  • 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
  • 1916Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
  • 1926Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
  • 1940Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)
  • 1944Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
  • 1946Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
  • 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)
  • 1948Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)
  • 1950James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
  • 1951Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)
  • 1953Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
  • 1962Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
  • 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
  • 1968Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)[15]
  • 1971Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)
  • 1971 – Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)
  • 1976Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)
  • 1978Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)
  • 1980Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
  • 1984Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
  • 1985Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver (b. 1910)
  • 1988Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)
  • 1990Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)
  • 1991John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
  • 1993Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
  • 1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)
  • 1995Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)
  • 1999Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
  • 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
  • 2001Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
  • 2002César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
  • 2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)
  • 2003Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
  • 2006Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)
  • 2007Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)
  • 2008Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
  • 2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)
  • 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
  • 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
  • 2009George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
  • 2009 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919)
  • 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
  • 2010Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
  • 2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
  • 2012Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)
  • 2012 – Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)
  • 2013Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)
  • 2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)
  • 2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)
  • 2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)
  • 2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974)
  • 2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)
  • 2014Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)
  • 2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)
  • 2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)
  • 2015Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928)
  • 2015 – notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
    • Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960)
    • Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981)
  • 2016Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)
  • 2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949)
  • 2018Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924)
  • 2019Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b.1949) [16]
  • 2020Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)[17]

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Catherine of Vadstena
    • Hildelith of Barking
    • Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
    • 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)
  • National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
  • Student Day (Scientology)
  • World Tuberculosis Day (International)

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