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This article is about the day. For the 1993 novel, see The Fifth of March.

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March 5 is the 64th day of the year (65th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. 301 days remain until the end of the year.

Events[]

  • 363Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sasanian Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
  • 1046Nasir Khusraw begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
  • 1279 – The Livonian Order is defeated in the Battle of Aizkraukle by the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
  • 1496 – King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
  • 1616Nicolaus Copernicus's book On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres is added to the Index of Forbidden Books 73 years after it was first published.
  • 1766Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
  • 1770Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including Crispus Attucks, are fatally shot by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War (also known as the American War of Independence) five years later.
  • 1811Peninsular War: A French force under the command of Marshal Victor is routed while trying to prevent an Anglo-Spanish-Portuguese army from lifting the Siege of Cádiz in the Battle of Barrosa.
  • 1824First Anglo-Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
  • 1836Samuel Colt patents the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
  • 1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the island of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
  • 1860Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
  • 1868Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito, receives its premiere performance at La Scala.
  • 1872George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
  • 1906Moro Rebellion: United States Army troops bring overwhelming force against the native Moros in the First Battle of Bud Dajo, leaving only six survivors.
  • 1912Italo-Turkish War: Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
  • 1931 – The British Raj: Gandhi–Irwin Pact is signed.
  • 1933 – Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party receives 43.9% at the Reichstag elections, which allows the Nazis to later pass the Enabling Act and establish a dictatorship.
  • 1936 – First flight of K5054, the first prototype Supermarine Spitfire advanced monoplane fighter aircraft in the United Kingdom.
  • 1940 – Six high-ranking members of Soviet politburo, including Joseph Stalin, sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, in what will become known as the Katyn massacre.
  • 1942World War II: Japanese forces capture Batavia, capital of Dutch East Indies, which is left undefended after the withdrawal of the KNIL garrison and Australian Blackforce battalion to Buitenzorg and Bandung.
  • 1943 – First Flight of the Gloster Meteor, Britain's first combat jet aircraft.
  • 1944 – World War II: The Red Army begins the Uman–Botoșani Offensive in the western Ukrainian SSR.
  • 1946Cold War: Winston Churchill coins the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
  • 1953Joseph Stalin, the longest serving leader of the Soviet Union, dies at his Volynskoe dacha in Moscow after suffering a cerebral hemorrhage four days earlier.
  • 1960Indonesian President Sukarno dismissed the Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR), 1955 democratically elected parliament, and replaced with DPR-GR, the parliament of his own selected members.
  • 1963 – American country music stars Patsy Cline, Hawkshaw Hawkins, Cowboy Copas and their pilot Randy Hughes are killed in a plane crash in Camden, Tennessee.
  • 1965March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
  • 1966BOAC Flight 911, a Boeing 707 aircraft, breaks apart in mid-air due to clear-air turbulence and crashes into Mount Fuji, Japan, killing all 124 people on board.[1]
  • 1970 – The Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
  • 1974Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
  • 1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
  • 1979 – Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the German-American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
  • 1981 – The ZX81, a pioneering British home computer, is launched by Sinclair Research and would go on to sell over 1​12 million units around the world.
  • 1982 – Soviet probe Venera 14 lands on Venus.
  • 2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed in the Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing.
  • 2012Tropical Storm Irina kills over 75 as it passes through Madagascar.

Births[]

  • 1133Henry II of England (d. 1189)[2]
  • 1224 – Saint Kinga of Poland (d. 1292)
  • 1324David II of Scotland (d. 1371)[3]
  • 1326Louis I of Hungary (d. 1382)
  • 1340Cansignorio della Scala, Lord of Verona (d. 1375)
  • 1451William Herbert, 2nd Earl of Pembroke, English Earl (d. 1491)
  • 1512Gerardus Mercator, Flemish mathematician, cartographer, and philosopher (d. 1594)
  • 1523Rodrigo de Castro Osorio, Spanish cardinal (d. 1600)
  • 1527Ulrich, Duke of Mecklenburg (d. 1603)
  • 1539Christoph Pezel, German theologian (d. 1604)
  • 1563John Coke, English civil servant and politician (d. 1644)
  • 1575William Oughtred, English minister and mathematician (d. 1660)
  • 1585John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
  • 1585 – Frederick I, Landgrave of Hesse-Homburg (d. 1638)
  • 1637Jan van der Heyden, Dutch painter and engineer (d. 1712)
  • 1658Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac, French explorer and politician, 3rd Colonial Governor of Louisiana (d. 1730)
  • 1693Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and scholar (d. 1754)
  • 1696Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
  • 1703Vasily Trediakovsky, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1768)
  • 1713Edward Cornwallis, English general and politician, Governor of Gibraltar (d. 1776)
  • 1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (d. 1783)
  • 1723Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
  • 1733Vincenzo Galeotti, Italian-Danish dancer and choreographer (d. 1816)
  • 1739Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and physician (d. 1819)
  • 1748Jonas Carlsson Dryander, Swedish botanist and biologist (d. 1810)
  • 1748 – William Shield, English violinist and composer (d. 1829)
  • 1750Jean-Baptiste-Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French scholar and academic (d. 1805)
  • 1751Jan Křtitel Kuchař, Czech organist, composer, and educator (d. 1829)
  • 1774Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, Danish organist and composer (d. 1842)
  • 1779Benjamin Gompertz, English mathematician and statistician (d. 1865)
  • 1785Carlo Odescalchi, Italian cardinal (d. 1841)
  • 1794Jacques Babinet, French physicist, mathematician, and astronomer (d. 1872)
  • 1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1870)
  • 1814Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian and academic (d. 1889)
  • 1800Georg Friedrich Daumer, German poet and philosopher (d. 1875)
  • 1815John Wentworth, American journalist and politician, 19th Mayor of Chicago (d. 1888)
  • 1817Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist, academic, and politician, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (d. 1894)
  • 1830Étienne-Jules Marey, French physiologist and chronophotographer (d. 1904)
  • 1830 – Charles Wyville Thomson, Scottish historian and zoologist (d. 1882)
  • 1834Félix de Blochausen, Luxembourgian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Luxembourg (d. 1915)
  • 1834 – Marietta Piccolomini, Italian soprano (d. 1899)
  • 1853Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
  • 1862Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player and theoretician (d. 1934)
  • 1867Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Canadian lawyer and politician, 14th Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
  • 1869Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal (d. 1952)
  • 1870Frank Norris, American journalist and author (d. 1902)
  • 1870 – Evgeny Paton, French-Ukrainian engineer (d. 1953)
  • 1871Rosa Luxemburg, Polish-Russian economist and philosopher (d. 1919)
  • 1871 – Konstantinos Pallis, Greek general and politician, Minister Governor-General of Macedonia (d. 1941)
  • 1873Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian skier and explorer (d. 1961)
  • 1874Henry Travers, English-American actor (d. 1965)
  • 1875Harry Lawson, Australian politician, 27th Premier of Victoria (d. 1952)
  • 1876Thomas Inskip, 1st Viscount Caldecote, English lawyer and politician, 8th Lord Chief Justice of England (d. 1947)
  • 1876 – Elisabeth Moore, American tennis player (d. 1959)
  • 1879William Beveridge, Bangladeshi-English economist and academic (d. 1963)
  • 1879 – Andres Larka, Estonian general and politician, 1st Estonian Minister of War (d. 1943)
  • 1880Sergei Natanovich Bernstein, Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1968)
  • 1882Dora Marsden, English author and activist (d. 1960)[4]
  • 1883Pauline Sperry, American mathematician (d. 1967)[5]
  • 1885Marius Barbeau, Canadian ethnographer and academic (d. 1969)
  • 1886Dong Biwu, Chinese judge and politician, Chairman of the People's Republic of China (d. 1975)
  • 1886 – Freddie Welsh, Welsh boxer (d. 1927)
  • 1887Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian guitarist and composer (d. 1959)
  • 1894Henry Daniell, English-American actor (d. 1963)
  • 1898Zhou Enlai, Chinese politician, 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
  • 1898 – Misao Okawa, Japanese super-centenarian (d. 2015)
  • 1900Lilli Jahn, Jewish German doctor (d. 1944) [6]
  • 1900 – Johanna Langefeld, German guard and supervisor of three Nazi concentration camps (d. 1974)
  • 1901Friedrich Günther, Prince of Schwarzburg (d. 1971)
  • 1901 – Julian Przyboś, Polish poet, essayist and translator (d. 1970)
  • 1904Karl Rahner, German priest and theologian (d. 1984)
  • 1905László Benedek, Hungarian-American director and cinematographer (d. 1992)
  • 1908Fritz Fischer, German historian and author (d. 1999)
  • 1908 – Irving Fiske, American author and playwright (d. 1990)
  • 1908 – Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
  • 1910Momofuku Ando, Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, founded Nissin Foods (d. 2007)
  • 1910 – Ennio Flaiano, Italian author, screenwriter, and critic (d. 1972)
  • 1912Jack Marshall, New Zealand colonel, lawyer, and politician, 28th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1988)
  • 1915Henry Hicks, Canadian academic and politician, 16th Premier of Nova Scotia (d. 1990)
  • 1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician and academic (d. 2002)
  • 1918Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach, and manager (d. 2017)
  • 1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player, referee, and sportscaster (d. 2006)
  • 1918 – James Tobin, American economist and academic (d. 2002)
  • 1920José Aboulker, Algerian surgeon and activist (d. 2009)
  • 1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
  • 1920 – Rachel Gurney, English actress (d. 2001)
  • 1920 – Wang Zengqi, Chinese writer (d. 1997)
  • 1921Elmer Valo, American baseball player and coach (d. 1998)
  • 1922James Noble, American actor (d. 2016)[7]
  • 1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1975)
  • 1923Juan A. Rivero, Puerto Rican biologist and academic (d. 2014)
  • 1923 – Laurence Tisch, American businessman, co-founded the Loews Corporation (d. 2003)
  • 1924Roger Marche, French footballer (d. 1997)
  • 1927Jack Cassidy, American actor and singer (d. 1976)
  • 1927 – Robert Lindsay, 29th Earl of Crawford, Scottish businessman and politician
  • 1928J. Hillis Miller, American academic and critic
  • 1929Erik Carlsson, Swedish race car driver (d. 2015)
  • 1929 – J. B. Lenoir, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1967)
  • 1930John Ashley, Canadian ice hockey player and referee (d. 2008)
  • 1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player and manager
  • 1931Fred, French author and illustrator (d. 2013)
  • 1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player and educator (d. 2020)[8]
  • 1932Paul Sand, American actor
  • 1933Walter Kasper, German cardinal and theologian
  • 1934Daniel Kahneman, Israeli-American economist and psychologist, Nobel Prize laureate
  • 1935Letizia Battaglia, Italian photographer and journalist
  • 1935 – Philip K. Chapman, Australian-American astronaut and engineer
  • 1936Canaan Banana, Zimbabwean minister and politician, 1st President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
  • 1936 – Dale Douglass, American golfer
  • 1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor
  • 1937Olusegun Obasanjo, Nigerian general and politician, 5th President of Nigeria
  • 1938Paul Evans, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1938 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist and academic (d. 2011)
  • 1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1939Samantha Eggar, English actress
  • 1939 – Tony Rundle, Australian politician, 40th Premier of Tasmania
  • 1939 – Benyamin Sueb, Indonesian actor and comedian (d. 1995)
  • 1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer (d. 2010)
  • 1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
  • 1940Tom Butler, English bishop
  • 1940 – Ken Irvine, Australian rugby league player (d. 1990)
  • 1940 – Graham McRae, New Zealand race car driver
  • 1940 – Sepp Piontek, German footballer and manager
  • 1941Des Wilson, New Zealand-English businessman and activist
  • 1942Felipe González, Spanish lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Spain
  • 1942 – Mike Resnick, American author and editor (d. 2020)
  • 1942 – David Watkins, Welsh rugby player
  • 1943Lucio Battisti, Italian singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1998)
  • 1944Peter Brandes, Danish painter and sculptor
  • 1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist and author
  • 1945Wilf Tranter, English footballer[9]
  • 1946Richard Bell, Canadian pianist (d. 2007)
  • 1946 – Guerrino Boatto, Italian illustrator and painter (d. 2018)
  • 1946 – Graham Hawkins, English footballer and manager (d. 2016)
  • 1946 – Murray Head, English actor and singer
  • 1947Clodagh Rodgers, Northern Irish singer and actress
  • 1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player and sportscaster
  • 1948Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
  • 1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyanese-British singer-songwriter and musician
  • 1948 – Richard Hickox, English conductor and scholar (d. 2008)
  • 1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
  • 1948 – Jan van Beveren, Dutch footballer and coach (d. 2011)
  • 1949Bernard Arnault, French businessman, philanthropist, and art collector
  • 1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of Defence
  • 1949 – Tom Russell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
  • 1951Rodney Hogg, Australian cricketer and coach
  • 1952Petar Borota, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2010)
  • 1952 – Mike Squires, American baseball player and scout[10]
  • 1953Katarina Frostenson, Swedish poet and author
  • 1953 – Michael J. Sandel, American philosopher and academic
  • 1953 – Tokyo Sexwale, South African businessman and politician, 1st Premier of Gauteng[11]
  • 1954Marsha Warfield, American actress
  • 1954 – João Lourenço, Angolan president[12]
  • 1955Penn Jillette, American magician, actor, and author
  • 1956Teena Marie, American singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2010)
  • 1956 – Christopher Snowden, English engineer and academic
  • 1957Mark E. Smith, English singer, songwriter and musician (d. 2018)
  • 1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
  • 1958Volodymyr Bezsonov, Ukrainian footballer and manager
  • 1958 – Bob Forward, American director, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1958 – Andy Gibb, English-Australian singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1988)
  • 1959Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian colonel and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Armenia (d. 1999)
  • 1960Paul Drayson, Baron Drayson, English businessman and politician, Minister for Defence Equipment, Support and Technology
  • 1963Joel Osteen, American pastor, author, and television host
  • 1964Bertrand Cantat, French singer-songwriter
  • 1964 – Gerald Vanenburg, Dutch footballer and manager
  • 1965José Semedo, Portuguese footballer and coach
  • 1966Oh Eun-sun, South Korean mountaineer
  • 1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  • 1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player, sportscaster, and actor
  • 1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-American actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1966 – Zachery Stevens, American singer-songwriter
  • 1968Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian businessman and politician, 7th Prime Minister of Hungary
  • 1968 – Theresa Villiers, English lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
  • 1969Paul Blackthorne, English actor and producer
  • 1969 – Danny King, English author and playwright
  • 1969 – Moussa Saïb, Algerian footballer and manager
  • 1969 – M.C. Solaar, Afro-French rapper
  • 1970Mike Brown, American basketball player and coach
  • 1970 – John Frusciante, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
  • 1970 – Yuu Watase, Japanese illustrator
  • 1971Greg Berry, English footballer and coach
  • 1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player and scout
  • 1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American voice actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian cyclist
  • 1971 – Mark Protheroe, Australian rugby league player
  • 1973Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer and manager
  • 1973 – Nelly Arcan, Canadian author (d. 2009)
  • 1973 – Juan Esnáider, Argentinian footballer and manager
  • 1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
  • 1973 – Nicole Pratt, Australian tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
  • 1973 – Špela Pretnar, Slovenian skier
  • 1974Kevin Connolly, American actor and director
  • 1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
  • 1974 – Eva Mendes, American model and actress
  • 1975Luciano Burti, Brazilian race car driver and sportscaster
  • 1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian footballer
  • 1975 – Chris Silverwood, English cricketer and coach
  • 1976Neil Jackson, English actor, producer, and screenwriter
  • 1976 – Šarūnas Jasikevičius, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
  • 1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player
  • 1976 – Norm Maxwell, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1977Taismary Agüero, Cuban-Italian volleyball player
  • 1978Jared Crouch, Australian footballer
  • 1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player and coach
  • 1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress, singer, and dancer
  • 1978 – Carlos Ochoa, Mexican footballer
  • 1979Martin Axenrot, Swedish drummer
  • 1979 – Lee Mears, English rugby player
  • 1980Shay Carl, American businessman, co-founded Maker Studios
  • 1981Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
  • 1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
  • 1982Dan Carter, New Zealand rugby player
  • 1982 – Philipp Haastrup, German footballer
  • 1983Édgar Dueñas, Mexican footballer
  • 1984Branko Cvetković, Serbian basketball player
  • 1984 – Guillaume Hoarau, French footballer
  • 1985David Marshall, Scottish footballer
  • 1985 – Brad Mills, American baseball player
  • 1985 – Kenichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
  • 1986Alexandre Barthe, French footballer
  • 1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer
  • 1987Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
  • 1987 – Chris Cohen, English footballer
  • 1988Liassine Cadamuro-Bentaïba, Algerian footballer
  • 1990Danny Drinkwater, English footballer
  • 1990 – Mason Plumlee, American basketball player[13]
  • 1990 – Alex Smithies, English footballer
  • 1991Ramiro Funes Mori, Argentinian footballer
  • 1991 – Daniil Trifonov, Russian pianist and composer
  • 1993El Hadji Ba, French footballer
  • 1993 – Joshua Coyne, American violinist and composer
  • 1993 – Harry Maguire, English footballer
  • 1994Daria Gavrilova, Russian-Australian tennis player
  • 1994 – Kyle Schwarber, American baseball player
  • 1996Taylor Hill, American model
  • 1996 – Emmanuel Mudiay, Congolese basketball player
  • 1997Milena Venega, Cuban rower[14]
  • 1998Bo Bichette, American baseball player
  • 1999Madison Beer, American singer, songwriter and producer. [15][16]
  • 2007Roman Griffin Davis, British actor, second youngest Golden Globe recipient.[17][18]

Deaths[]

  • 254Pope Lucius I (b. 200)
  • 824Suppo I, Frankish nobleman
  • 1239Hermann Balk, German knight
  • 1410Matthew of Kraków, Polish reformer (b. 1335)
  • 1417Manuel III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1364)
  • 1534Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter and educator (b. 1489)
  • 1539Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese admiral and politician, Governor of Portuguese India (b. 1487)
  • 1599Guido Panciroli, Italian historian and jurist (b. 1523)
  • 1611Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese daimyō (b. 1533)
  • 1622Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
  • 1695Henry Wharton, English writer and librarian (b. 1664)
  • 1726Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician, Lord President of the Council (b. 1655)
  • 1770Crispus Attucks, American slave (b. 1723)
  • 1778Thomas Arne, English composer and educator (b. 1710)
  • 1815Franz Mesmer, German physician and astrologist (b. 1734)
  • 1827Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (b. 1749)
  • 1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist and academic (b. 1745)
  • 1829John Adams, English sailor and mutineer (b. 1766)
  • 1849David Scott, Scottish historical painter (b. 1806)
  • 1876Marie d'Agoult, German-French historian and author (b. 1805)
  • 1893Hippolyte Taine, French historian and critic (b. 1828)
  • 1895Nikolai Leskov, Russian author, playwright, and journalist (b. 1831)
  • 1895 – Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet, English general and scholar (b. 1810)
  • 1907Friedrich Blass, German philologist, scholar, and academic (b. 1843)
  • 1925Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician and engineer (b. 1859)
  • 1927Franz Mertens, Polish-Austrian mathematician and academic (b. 1840)
  • 1929David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-American businessman, founded Buick (b. 1854)
  • 1934Reşit Galip, Turkish academic and politician, 6th Turkish Minister of National Education (b. 1893)
  • 1935Roque Ruaño, Spanish priest and engineer (b. 1877)
  • 1940Cai Yuanpei, Chinese philosopher and academic (b. 1868)
  • 1944Max Jacob, French poet and author (b. 1876)
  • 1945Lena Baker, African American maid and murderer (b. 1900)
  • 1947Alfredo Casella, Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1883)
  • 1950Edgar Lee Masters, American poet, author, and playwright (b. 1868)
  • 1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian general and politician (b. 1907)
  • 1953Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1897)
  • 1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1891)
  • 1953 – Joseph Stalin, Soviet dictator and politician of Georgian descent, 2nd leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1878)
  • 1955Antanas Merkys, Lithuanian lawyer and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Lithuania (b. 1888)
  • 1963Patsy Cline, American singer-songwriter (b. 1932)
  • 1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1913)
  • 1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1921)
  • 1965Chen Cheng, Chinese general and politician, 27th Premier of the Republic of China (b. 1897)
  • 1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player and manager (b. 1904)
  • 1966Anna Akhmatova, Ukrainian-Russian poet, author, and translator (b. 1889)
  • 1967Mischa Auer, Russian-American actor (b. 1905)
  • 1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Iranian political scientist and politician, 60th Prime Minister of Iran (b. 1882)
  • 1967 – Georges Vanier, Canadian general and politician, 19th Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
  • 1971Allan Nevins, American journalist and author (b. 1890)
  • 1973Robert C. O'Brien, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
  • 1974John Samuel Bourque, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1894)
  • 1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
  • 1974 – Sol Hurok, Ukrainian-American businessman (b. 1888)
  • 1976Otto Tief, Estonian lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Estonia (b. 1889)
  • 1977Tom Pryce, Welsh race car driver (b. 1949)
  • 1980Jay Silverheels, Canadian-American actor (b. 1912)
  • 1981Yip Harburg, American songwriter and composer (b. 1896)
  • 1982John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
  • 1984Pierre Cochereau, French organist and composer (b. 1924)
  • 1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian operatic baritone (b. 1913)
  • 1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
  • 1988Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian and actor (b. 1933)
  • 1990Gary Merrill, American actor and director (b. 1915)
  • 1995Vivian Stanshall, English singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
  • 1996Whit Bissell, American character actor (b. 1909)
  • 1997Samm Sinclair Baker, American writer (b. 1909)
  • 1997 – Jean Dréville, French director and screenwriter (b. 1906)
  • 1999Richard Kiley, American actor and singer (b. 1922)
  • 2000Lolo Ferrari, French dancer, actress and singer (b. 1963)
  • 2005David Sheppard, English cricketer and bishop (b. 1929)
  • 2008Joseph Weizenbaum, German computer scientist and author (b. 1923)
  • 2010Charles B. Pierce, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1938)
  • 2010 – Richard Stapley, British actor and writer (b. 1923)
  • 2011Manolis Rasoulis, Greek singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
  • 2012Paul Haines, New Zealand-Australian author (b. 1970)
  • 2012 – Philip Madoc, Welsh-English actor (b. 1934)
  • 2012 – Robert B. Sherman, American songwriter and screenwriter (b. 1925)
  • 2012 – William O. Wooldridge, American sergeant (b. 1922)
  • 2013Paul Bearer, American wrestler and manager (b. 1954)
  • 2013 – Hugo Chávez, Venezuelan colonel and politician, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
  • 2013 – Duane Gish, American biochemist and academic (b. 1921)
  • 2014Geoff Edwards, American actor and game show host (b. 1931)
  • 2014 – Ailsa McKay, Scottish economist and academic (b. 1963)
  • 2014 – Leopoldo María Panero, Spanish poet and translator (b. 1948)
  • 2014 – Ola L. Mize, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)[19]
  • 2015Vlada Divljan, Serbian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1958)
  • 2015 – Edward Egan, American cardinal (b. 1932)
  • 2016Hassan Al-Turabi, Sudanese activist and politician (b. 1932)
  • 2016 – Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer and engineer (b. 1941)
  • 2016 – Al Wistert, American football player and coach (b. 1920)
  • 2017Kurt Moll, German opera singer (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances[]

  • Christian feast day:
    • Ciarán of Saigir
    • John Joseph of the Cross
    • Piran
    • Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
    • Thietmar of Minden
    • March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Custom Chief's Day (Vanuatu)
  • Day of Physical Culture and Sport (Azerbaijan)
  • Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)
  • St Piran's Day (Cornwall)

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