March 8 is the 67th day of the year (68th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 298 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
1010 – Ferdowsi completes his epic poem Shahnameh.
1126 – Following the death of his mother Urraca, Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León.
1576 – Spanish explorer Diego García de Palacio first sights the ruins of the ancient Mayan city of Copán.
1618 – Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion.
1655 – John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in England's North American colonies where a crime was not committed.
1658 – Treaty of Roskilde: After a devastating defeat in the Northern Wars (1655–1661), Frederick III, the King of Denmark–Norway is forced to give up nearly half his territory to Sweden to save the rest.
1702 – Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1722 – The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at the Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1736 – Nader Shah, founder of the Afsharid dynasty, is crowned Shah of Iran.
1775 – An anonymous writer, thought by some to be Thomas Paine, publishes "African Slavery in America", the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery.
1777 – Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 – Gnadenhutten massacre: Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indian tribes.
1801 – War of the Second Coalition: At the Battle of Abukir, a British force under Sir Ralph Abercromby lands in Egypt with the aim of ending the French campaign in Egypt and Syria.
1817 – The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1844 – King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1862 – American Civil War: The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1868 – Sakai incident: Japanese samurai kill 11 French sailors in the port of Sakai, Osaka.
1910 – French aviatrix Raymonde de Laroche becomes the first woman to receive a pilot's license.
1914 – First flights (for the Royal Thai Air Force) at Don Mueang International Airport in Bangkok.
1916 – World War I: A British force unsuccessfully attempts to relieve the siege of Kut (present-day Iraq) in the Battle of Dujaila.
1917 – International Women's Day protests in St. Petersburg mark the beginning of the February Revolution (February 23rd in the Julian calendar).
1917 – The United States Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1920 – The Arab Kingdom of Syria, the first modern Arab state to come into existence, is established.
1921 – Spanish Prime Minister Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 – A mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1936 – Daytona Beach and Road Course holds its first oval stock car race.
1937 – Spanish Civil War: The Battle of Guadalajara begins.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army forces complete the Dutch East Indies campaign. KNIL Commander in Chief, Lieutenant General Hein Ter Poorten, represented the Dutch colonial government unconditionally surrendered to the Japanese forces in Kalijati, Subang, West Java.
1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Army captured Rangoon, Burma from British.
1947 – Thirteen thousand troops of the Republic of China Army arrive in Taiwan after the February 28 Incident and launch crackdowns which kill thousands of people, including many elites. This turns into a major root of the Taiwan independence movement.
1949 – Mildred Gillars ("Axis Sally") is condemned to prison for treason.
1949 – President of France Vincent Auriol and ex-emperor Bảo Đại sign the Élysée Accords, giving Vietnam greater independence from France and creating the State of Vietnam to oppose Viet Minh-led Democratic Republic of Vietnam.
1957 – Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 – The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th and 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the U.S. state of Georgia.
1957 – Ghana joins the United Nations.
1963 – The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1965 – Thirty-five hundred United States Marines are the first American land combat forces committed during the Vietnamni
1971 – The Fight of the Century between Joe Frazier and Muhammad Ali commences. Frazier wins in 15 rounds via unanimous decision.
1974 – Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France.
1978 – The first radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 – Philips demonstrates the compact disc publicly for the first time.
1983 – While addressing a convention of Evangelicals, U.S. President Ronald Reagan labels the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 – A supposed failed assassination attempt on Islamic cleric Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
2004 – A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2014 – Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappears en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The aircraft is believed to have crashed into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Australia with the loss of all 239 people aboard.
Births
1286 – John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1293 – Beatrice of Castile (d. 1359)
1495 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (d. 1550)
1514 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1566 – Carlo Gesualdo, Italian lute player and composer (d. 1613)
1659 – Isaac de Beausobre, French pastor (d. 1738)
1617 – Tito Livio Burattini, Italian architect, historian, and engineer (d. 1681)
1702 – Anne Bonny, Irish pirate (d. 1782)
1712 – John Fothergill, English physician and botanist (d. 1780)
1714 – Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German pianist and composer (d. 1788)
1726 – Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe, English admiral and politician, Treasurer of the Navy (d. 1799)
1746 – André Michaux, French botanist and explorer (d. 1802)
1748 – William V, Prince of Orange (d. 1806)
1761 – Jan Potocki Polish ethnologist, historian, and linguist (d. 1815)
1783 – Hannah Van Buren, American wife of Martin Van Buren (d. 1819)
1799 – Simon Cameron, American journalist and politician, 26th United States Secretary of War (d. 1889)
1804 – Alvan Clark, American astronomer and optician (d. 1887)
1814 – Ede Szigligeti, Romanian-Hungarian playwright and author (d. 1878)
1822 – Ignacy Łukasiewicz, Polish inventor and businessman, invented the Kerosene lamp (d. 1882)
1825 – Jules Barbier, French poet and playwright (d. 1901)
1826 – Johann Köler, Estonian painter and academic (d. 1899)
1827 – Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist and anthropologist (d. 1875)
1830 – João de Deus, Portuguese poet and educator (d. 1896)
1839 – Josephine Cochrane, American inventor (d. 1913)
1841 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American colonel, lawyer, and jurist (d. 1935)
1848 – LaMarcus Adna Thompson, American engineer and businessman, developed the roller coaster (d. 1917)
1856 – Bramwell Booth, English 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
1856 – Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (d. 1937)
1859 – Kenneth Grahame, Scottish-English banker and author (d. 1932)
1865 – Frederic Goudy, American type designer, created Copperplate Gothic and Goudy Old Style (d. 1947)
1879 – Otto Hahn, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1968)
1886 – Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1972)
1892 – Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet and author (d. 1979)
1896 – Charlotte Whitton, Canadian journalist and politician, 46th Mayor of Ottawa (d. 1975)
1897 – Margot Bryant, English actress (d. 1988)
1897 – Damerla Rama Rao, Indian painter (d. 1925)
1899 – Elmer Keith, American gun designer and author (d. 1984)
1900 – Howard H. Aiken, American physicist and computer scientist, created the Harvard Mark I (d. 1973)
1902 – Louise Beavers, American actress and singer (d. 1962)
1902 – Jennings Randolph, American journalist and politician (d. 1998)
1907 – Konstantinos Karamanlis, Greek lawyer and politician, 3rd President of Greece (d. 1998)
1908 – Lucio and Simplicio Godina, Filipino conjoined twins (d. 1936)
1909 – Beatrice Shilling, English motorcycle racer and engineer (d. 1990)
1910 – Bernard Benjamin, English statistician and demographer (d. 2002)
1910 – Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1911 – Alan Hovhaness, Armenian-American pianist and composer (d. 2000)
1911 – Hüseyin Hilmi Işık, Turkish, Sunni Islamic scholar (d. 2001)
1912 – Preston Smith, American businessman and politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1912 – Meldrim Thomson, Jr., American publisher and politician, 73rd Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2001)
1914 – Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Belarusian-Russian physicist and astronomer (d. 1987)
1915 – Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish javelin thrower (d. 1979)
1918 – Jacques Baratier, French director and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1920 – Douglass Wallop, American author and playwright (d. 1985)
1921 – Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1921 – Sahir Ludhianvi, Indian poet and songwriter (d. 1980)
1922 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (d. 2014)
1922 – Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
1922 – Carl Furillo, American baseball player (d. 1989)
1922 – Yevgeny Matveyev, Russian actor and director (d. 2003)
1922 – Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese author and illustrator (d. 2015)
1924 – Anthony Caro, English sculptor and illustrator (d. 2013)
1924 – Georges Charpak, Ukrainian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
1924 – Sean McClory, Irish-American actor and director (d. 2003)
1925 – Warren Bennis, American scholar, author, and academic (d. 2014)
1926 – Grigori Kromanov, Estonian director and screenwriter (d. 1984)
1926 – Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
1927 – Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
1927 – Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
1927 – Irene Tinker, American economist and academic
1929 – Hebe Camargo, Brazilian actress and singer (d. 2012)
1930 – Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1930 – Douglas Hurd, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs
1931 – Neil Adcock, South African cricketer and sportscaster (d. 2013)
1931 – John McPhee, American essayist and writing instructor
1931 – Gerald Potterton, English-Canadian animator, director, and producer
1931 – Neil Postman, American author and critic (d. 2003)
1933 – Luca Ronconi, Italian actor and director (d. 2015)
1933 – Evelyn Ay Sempier, American model, Miss America 1954 (d. 2008)
1934 – Marv Breeding, American baseball player and scout (d. 2006)
1935 – George Coleman, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader
1936 – Sue Ane Langdon, American actress and singer
1936 – Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist and composer (d. 1982)
1937 – Richard Fariña, American singer-songwriter and author (d. 1966)
1937 – Juvénal Habyarimana, Rwandan politician, 3rd President of Rwanda (d. 1994)
1938 – Pete Dawkins, American football player, colonel, and politician
1938 – Hans Fogh, Danish-Canadian sailor (d. 2014)
1938 – George Innes, English actor
1938 – Juris Kalniņš, Latvian basketball player (d. 2010)
1938 – Bruno Pizzul, Italian footballer and journalist
1939 – Jim Bouton, American baseball player and journalist
1939 – Lynn Seymour, Canadian ballerina and choreographer
1939 – Lidiya Skoblikova, Russian speed skater and coach
1939 – Robert Tear, Welsh tenor and conductor (d. 2011)
1940 – Susan Clark, Canadian actress and producer
1940 – Jacques Doucet, Canadian sportscaster
1941 – Norman Stone, Scottish-English historian, author, and academic
1942 – Dick Allen, American baseball player and tenor
1942 – Palito Ortega, Argentinian singer, actor, and politician
1942 – Ann Packer, English sprinter, hurdler, and long jumper
1943 – Michael Grade, English businessman
1943 – Lynn Redgrave, English-American actress and singer (d. 2010)
1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer
1944 – Buzz Hargrove, Canadian union leader
1944 – Sergey Nikitin, Russian singer-songwriter and guitarist
1944 – Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist and composer (The Romeros)
1945 – Bruce Broughton, American composer
1945 – Jim Chapman, American lawyer and politician
1945 – Micky Dolenz, American singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Monkees)
1945 – Anselm Kiefer, German painter and sculptor
1945 – Sylvia Wiegand, American mathematician and professor
1946 – Robert Jaworski, Filipino basketball player, coach, and politician
1946 – Randy Meisner, American singer-songwriter and bass player (The Eagles and Poco)
1946 – Yiannis Parios, Greek singer
1947 – Michael Allsup, American guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1947 – Carole Bayer Sager, American singer-songwriter and painter
1947 – Michael S. Hart, American author, founded Project Gutenberg (d. 2011)
1947 – Vladimír Mišík, Czech singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Matadors, Blue Effect, Flamengo, and Etc...)
1947 – Florentino Pérez, Spanish engineer and businessman
1948 – Robert W. Boyd, American physicist
1948 – Gyles Brandreth, English writer, broadcaster, actor and politician
1948 – Sam Lacey, American basketball player (d. 2014)
1948 – Peggy March, American singer
1948 – Jonathan Sacks, English rabbi and scholar
1949 – Natalia Kuchinskaya, Russian gymnast and coach
1949 – Karel Lismont, Belgian runner
1949 – Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
1950 – Richard Ouzounian, Canadian director and critic
1951 – Ian Brown, English director and producer
1951 – Phil Edmonds, Zambian-English cricketer and businessman
1952 – George Allen, American lawyer and politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
1953 – Angelos Anastasiadis, Greek footballer and coach
1953 – Pepper MaShay, American singer-songwriter
1953 – Jim Rice, American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1953 – Don Werner, American baseball player and coach
1954 – Cheryl Baker, English singer (Bucks Fizz and Co-Co)
1954 – Bob Brozman, American guitarist (R. Crumb & His Cheap Suit Serenaders) (d. 2013)
1954 – David Wilkie, Sri Lankan-Scottish swimmer
1955 – Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1956 – Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
1956 – John Kapelos, Canadian actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Clive Burr, English drummer and songwriter (Iron Maiden, Samson, and Trust) (d. 2013)
1957 – William Edward Childs, American pianist and composer
1957 – Cynthia Rothrock, American actress and martial artist
1957 – Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
1958 – Nick Capra, American baseball player and manager
1958 – Andy McDonald, English lawyer and politician
1958 – Gary Numan, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Tubeway Army)
1959 – Lester Holt, American journalist and actor
1959 – Aidan Quinn, Irish-American actor
1960 – Jeffrey Eugenides, American author and academic
1960 – Max Metzker, South African-Australian swimmer
1960 – Irek Mukhamedov, Russian ballet dancer
1960 – Buck Williams, American basketball player and coach
1961 – Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961 – Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player and journalist
1961 – Mark Salas, American baseball player and coach
1962 – Leon Robinson, American actor
1962 – Shaun Gayle, American footballer
1963 – Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player
1964 – Kate Betts, American journalist and author
1964 – Thomas Bezucha, American director and screenwriter
1964 – Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1965 – Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1965 – Kenny Smith, American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Gregory Barker, English politician
1966 – Jaime Levy, American computer scientist and academic
1967 – Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1968 – Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968 – Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1968 – Rob Dukes, American singer-songwriter (Exodus and Generation Kill)
1968 – Ellen Forney, American author and illustrator
1968 – Shawn Mullins, American singer-songwriter (The Thorns)
1968 – Joanna Read, English director and playwright
1969 – Juan de Dios Ramírez Perales, Mexican footballer
1970 – Jason Elam, American football player
1970 – Nazario Moreno González, Mexican drug lord (d. 2014)
1970 – Andrea Parker, American actress and former ballet dancer
1970 – Meredith Scott Lynn, American actress, producer and director
1971 – Kit Symons, English-Welsh footballer and manager
1972 – Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer and manager
1972 – Angie Hart, Australian singer (Frente! and Splendid)
1972 – Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
1972 – Matthew Nable, Australian rugby player and actor
1973 – Mickey Ferriols, American-Filipino actress
1973 – Boris Kodjoe, Austrian-American actor
1973 – Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
1973 – Kurt Mollekens, Belgian race car driver
1973 – Justin Thompson, American baseball player
1973 – Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Gathering and The Gentle Storm)
1974 – Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1974 – Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
1974 – Stefan Müller, German footballer
1975 – Mauro Briano, Italian footballer
1975 – Peggy Zina, Greek singer and actress
1976 – Gaz Coombes, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Supergrass, The Jennifers, and The Hotrats)
1976 – Juan Encarnación, Dominican baseball player
1976 – Ryan Freel, American baseball player (d. 2012)
1976 – Freddie Prinze, Jr., American actor, producer, and screenwriter
1976 – Hines Ward, American football player and sportscaster
1977 – James Van Der Beek, American actor
1977 – Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1978 – Nick Zano, American actor and producer
1979 – Apathy, American rapper and producer (Army of the Pharaohs and Get Busy Committee)
1979 – Tom Chaplin, English singer-songwriter (Keane)
1979 – Andy Ross, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (OK Go)
1979 – Jessica Jaymes, American porn actress
1980 – Stephen Milne, Australian footballer
1980 – Simon Peddie, Montserrat footballer
1980 – Charli Robinson, Australian actress and singer (Hi-5)
1981 – Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
1981 – Glenda Gilson, Irish model and television host
1981 – Timothy Jordan II, American guitarist and songwriter (Jonezetta) (d. 2005)
1981 – Joost Posthuma, Dutch cyclist
1982 – Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver
1982 – Leonidas Kampantais, Greek footballer
1982 – Yuko Mizuno, Japanese entertainer, actress, and sportscaster
1982 – Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
1982 – Isak Strand, Norwegian drummer and electronica artist
1982 – Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
1983 – André Santos, Brazilian footballer
1983 – Mark Worrell, American baseball player
1984 – Rafik Djebbour, Algerian footballer
1984 – Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
1984 – Sasha Vujačić, Slovenian basketball player
1985 – Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and singer
1985 – Mio Takeuchi, Japanese actress
1986 – Princess Tsuguko of Takamado
1988 – Benny Blanco, American rapper and producer
1988 – Armanti Edwards, American football player
1988 – Elly Jackson, English singer-songwriter and producer (La Roux)
1988 – Bryan Termulo, Filipino singer and actor
1988 – Laura Unsworth, English field hockey player
1989 – Robbie Hummel, American basketball player
1990 – Kristinia DeBarge, American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress
1990 – Asier Illarramendi, Spanish footballer
1990 – Petra Kvitová, Czech tennis player
1990 – Nico Salva, Filipino basketball player
1990 – Ben Tozer, English footballer
1991 – Miriam Bryant, Swedish-Finnish singer-songwriter
1991 – Tom English, Australian rugby player
1992 – Uki Satake, Japanese idol, singer, actress, and radio host (9nine)
1993 – Stephanie Davis, English actress
1994 – Pablo Dyego, Brazilian footballer
1994 – Dylan Tombides, Australian footballer (d. 2014)
1997 – Jurina Matsui, Japanese singer and actress (AKB48 and SKE48)
Deaths
1126 – Urraca of León and Castile (b. 1079)
1144 – Pope Celestine II
1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish bishop and historian (b. 1161)
1403 – Bayezid I, Ottoman sultan (b. 1360)
1550 – John of God, Portuguese friar and saint (b. 1495)
1641 – Xu Xiake, Chinese geographer and explorer (b. 1587)
1702 – William III of England (b. 1650)
1717 – Abraham Darby I, English blacksmith (b1678)
1731 – Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1771 – Louis August le Clerc, French-Danish sculptor and academic (b. 1688)
1819 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American colonel and politician (b. 1739)
1844 – Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
1855 – William Poole, American criminal (b. 1821)
1869 – Hector Berlioz, French composer, conductor and music critic (b. 1803)
1872 – Cornelius Krieghoff, Dutch-Canadian painter (b. 1815)
1874 – Millard Fillmore, American lawyer and politician, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1887 – Henry Ward Beecher, American minister and activist (b. 1813)
1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer, designed the Eads Bridge (b. 1820)
1889 – John Ericsson, Swedish-American engineer, designed the USS Monitor (b. 1803)
1907 – Marinos Antypas, Greek lawyer and journalist (b. 1872)
1917 – Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German general and businessman, founded the Zeppelin Company (b. 1838)
1923 – Krišjānis Barons, Latvian linguist and author (b. 1835)
1923 – Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
1925 – Juliette Wytsman, Belgian painter (b. 1866)
1930 – William Howard Taft, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
1930 – Edward Terry Sanford, American lawyer, jurist, and politician, United States Assistant Attorney General (b. 1865)
1935 – Hachikō, Japanese dog (b. 1923)
1937 – Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1902)
1941 – Sherwood Anderson, American author and poet (b. 1876)
1942 – José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
1943 – Léon Thiébaut, French fencer (b. 1878)
1944 – Hüseyin Rahmi Gürpınar, Turkish writer and politician (b. 1864)
1945 – Frederick Bligh Bond, English archaeologist and architect (b. 1864)
1948 – Hulusi Behçet, Turkish dermatologist and seismologist (b. 1889)
1951 – Martha Beck, American murderer (b. 1920)
1951 – Raymond Fernandez, American murderer (b. 1914)
1957 – Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
1961 – Thomas Beecham, English conductor and composer (b. 1879)
1971 – Harold Lloyd, American actor and producer (b. 1893)
1972 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (b. 1899)
1973 – Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American keyboard player and songwriter (Grateful Dead) (b. 1945)
1975 – George Stevens, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1904)
1976 – Alfons Rebane, Estonian colonel (b. 1908)
1981 – Joseph Henry Woodger, English biologist and philosopher (b. 1894)
1983 – Chabuca Granda, Peruvian-American singer-songwriter (b. 1920)
1983 – Alan Lennox-Boyd, 1st Viscount Boyd of Merton, English lieutenant and politician, Secretary of State for the Colonies (b. 1904)
1983 – William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
1985 – Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
1986 – Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author and poet (b. 1913)
1988 – Amar Singh Chamkila, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist and academic (b. 1912)
1989 – Charles Exbrayat, French author (b. 1906)
1991 – John Bellairs, American author and academic (b. 1938)
1993 – Billy Eckstine, American singer and trumpet player (b. 1914)
1993 – Johannes Türn, Estonian chess and draughts player (b. 1899)
1995 – Paul Horgan, American historian and author (b. 1903)
1995 – Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (Helloween) (b. 1965)
1996 – Jack Churchill, Hong Kong-English colonel (b. 1906)
1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player and actor (b. 1936)
1999 – Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinian journalist and author (b. 1914)
1999 – Peggy Cass, American actress and game show panelist (b. 1924)
1999 – Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player and coach (b. 1914)
1999 – William Wrigley III, American businessman (b. 1933)
2001 – Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 – Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 – Karen Morley, American actress and singer (b. 1909)
2004 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2004 – Muhammad Zaidan, Syrian terrorist, founded the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
2005 – César Lattes, Brazilian physicist and academic (b. 1924)
2005 – Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen commander and politician, 3rd President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria (b. 1951)
2006 – Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand surgeon (b. 1924)
2007 – John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
2007 – Vicky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
2007 – John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
2008 – Carol Barnes, English journalist and actress (b. 1944)
2009 – Ali Bongo, Indian-English magician (b. 1929)
2009 – Hank Locklin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1918)
2009 – Zbigniew Religa, Polish surgeon and politician, Polish Minister of Health (b. 1938)
2011 – St. Clair Lee, American singer (The Hues Corporation) (b. 1944)
2011 – Mike Starr, American bass player (Alice in Chains, Sun Red Sun, and Days of the New) (b. 1966)
2012 – Leslie Cochran, American activist (b. 1951)
2012 – Simin Daneshvar, Iranian author and academic (b. 1921)
2012 – Mike Fetchick, American golfer (b. 1922)
2012 – Bugs Henderson, American guitarist (Mouse and the Traps) (b. 1943)
2012 – Minoru Mori, Japanese businessman, founded the Mori Art Museum (b. 1934)
2012 – Steven Rubenstein, American anthropologist and academic (b. 1962)
2013 – Haseeb Ahsan, Pakistani cricketer and manager (b. 1939)
2013 – John O'Connell, Irish journalist and politician (b. 1927)
2013 – George Saimes, American football player (b. 1941)
2013 – Raymond Telles, American politician and diplomat, United States Ambassador to Costa Rica (b. 1915)
2013 – Ewald-Heinrich von Kleist-Schmenzin, German soldier and publisher (b. 1922)
2014 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (b. 1921)
2014 – James Ellis, Irish-English actor (b. 1931)
2014 – Buren Fowler, American guitarist (Drivin N Cryin) (b. 1959)
2014 – William Guarnere, American sergeant (b. 1923)
2014 – Wendy Hughes Australian actress (b. 1952)
2014 – Larry Scott, American bodybuilder (b. 1938)
2015 – Inezita Barroso, Brazilian singer-songwriter and actress (b. 1925)
2015 – Pavlo Khudzik, Ukrainian footballer (b. 1985)
2015 – Tjol Lategan, South African rugby player (b. 1925)
2015 – Sam Simon, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1955)
2015 – Lew Soloff, American trumpet player, composer, and actor (Blood, Sweat & Tears and Mingus Big Band) (b. 1944)
Holidays and observances
Christian feast day:
John of God
Philemon the actor
Geoffrey Studdert Kennedy, Edward King, Felix of Burgundy (Church of England)
Earliest day on which Canberra Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Australian Capital Territory)
Earliest day on which Commonwealth Day can fall, while March 14 is the latest; celebrated on the second Monday in March (Commonwealth of Nations)
Earliest day on which Passion Sunday can fall, while April 17 is the latest; observed on the fifth Sunday of Lent (Christianity)
International Women's Day or Mother's Day (primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc)
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