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March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 294 days remain until the end of the year.
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Events
Pre-1600
- 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.[1]
- 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.[2]
- 1158 – German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.[3]
- 1579 – Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.[4]
1601–1900
- 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.[5]
- 1689 – James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.[6]
- 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.[7]
1901–present
- 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.[8]
- 1913 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.[9]
- 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.[10]
- 1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.[11]
- 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.[12]
- 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.[13]
- 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".[8]
- 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.[14]
- 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.[15]
- 1940 – The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.[16]
- 1942 – The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.[17]
- 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.[18]
- 1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.[19]
- 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.[20]
- 1968 – Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.[21]
- 1971 – The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.[22]
- 1989 – Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.[23]
- 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.[24]
- 1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.[25]
- 1993 – North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.[26]
- 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.[27]
- 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.[28]
- 2003 – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).[29]
- 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.[30]
- 2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.[31]
- 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[32]
- 2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.[33]
- 2018 – US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.[34]
- 2019 – In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.[35]
- 2020 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[36]
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Births
Pre-1600
- 1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (died 1325)[37]
- 1515 – Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (died 1553)[38]
1601–1900
- 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (died 1676)[39]
- 1613 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (died 1700)[40]
- 1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (died 1697)[41]
- 1637 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (died 1671)[42]
- 1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (died 1729)[43]
- 1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)[44]
- 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (died 1778)[45]
- 1735 – François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (died 1821)[46]
- 1753 – Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (died 1827)[47]
- 1766 – Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (died 1815)[48]
- 1781 – Frederica of Baden, Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1826)[49]
- 1784 – William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (died 1856)[50]
- 1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (died 1861)[51]
- 1795 – George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (died 1858)[52]
- 1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (died 1863)[53]
- 1807 – James Abbott, Indian Army officer (died 1896)[54]
- 1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (died 1896)[55]
- 1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)[56]
- 1821 – Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (died 1882)[57]
- 1823 – Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (died 1899)[58]
- 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)[59]
- 1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (died 1897)[60]
- 1834 – Hilary A. Herbert, American politician, Secretary of the Navy (died 1919)[61]
- 1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (died 1909)[8]
- 1835 – Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (died 1908)[62]
- 1837 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (died 1911)[63]
- 1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (died 1907)[64]
- 1843 – Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (died 1904)[65]
- 1855 – Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (died 1920)[66]
- 1857 – William V. Ranous, American actor and director (died 1915)[67]
- 1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (died 1935)[68]
- 1859 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (died 1906)[69]
- 1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (died 1895)[70]
- 1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)[71]
- 1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (died 1945)[72]
- 1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (died 1922)[73]
- 1864 – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (died 1943)[74]
- 1869 – George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1947)[75]
- 1874 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (died 1949)[76]
- 1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 1946)[77]
- 1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (died 1903)[78]
- 1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (died 1952)[79]
- 1881 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (died 1966)[80]
- 1882 – Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (died 1943)[81]
- 1883 – Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (died 1961)[82]
- 1888 – Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (died 1965)[83]
- 1888 – Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (died 1965)[84]
- 1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1976)[85]
- 1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1976)[86]
- 1898 – Tian Han, Chinese playwright (died 1968)[87]
- 1898 – Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (died 1984)[88]
- 1899 – Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (died 1955)[89]
- 1900 – Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (died 1972)[90]
- 1900 – Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (died 1974)[91]
- 1900 – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (died 1975)[92]
1901–present
- 1904 – Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (died 1976)[93]
- 1905 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (died 1982)[94]
- 1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (died 2007)[95]
- 1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (died 1970)[96]
- 1908 – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (died 1995)[97]
- 1909 – Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (died 1947)[98]
- 1910 – László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (died 1986)[99]
- 1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1980)[100]
- 1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (died 1979)[101]
- 1912 – Willie Hall, English footballer (died 1967)[102]
- 1912 – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (died 2006)[103]
- 1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1984)[104]
- 1913 – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (died 2010)[105]
- 1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1995)[106]
- 1915 – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (died 1991)[107]
- 1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (died 1969)[108]
- 1917 – Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (died 2009)[109]
- 1917 – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (died 2011)[110]
- 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (died 1989)[111]
- 1918 – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (died 2012)[112]
- 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (died 2001)[110]
- 1921 – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (died 1986)[113]
- 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)[8]
- 1922 – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (died 1999)[114]
- 1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (died 2013)[115]
- 1923 – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (died 2005)[110]
- 1923 – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2007)[8]
- 1923 – Mae Young, American wrestler (died 2014)[116]
- 1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[117]
- 1925 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (died 2012)[118]
- 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
- 1926 – Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (died 2015)[119]
- 1926 – John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (died 1988)[120]
- 1926 – David Nadien, American violinist (died 2014)[121]
- 1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (died 2009)[122]
- 1927 – Emmett Leith, American professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (died 2005)[123]
- 1927 – Sudharmono, Indonesian politician, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (died 2006)[124]
- 1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (died 2016)[110]
- 1929 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (died 2014)[125]
- 1930 – Antony Acland, English former diplomat and Provost of Eton College (died 2021)[110]
- 1930 – Vern Law, American baseball player and manager[126]
- 1931 – Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (died 2000)[127]
- 1932 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (died 2014)[128]
- 1932 – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations[8]
- 1933 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (died 1973)[129]
- 1933 – Barbara Feldon, American actress[130]
- 1934 – Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher (died 2023)[131][132]
- 1935 – Chiam See Tong, Singaporean lawyer and politician[133]
- 1936 – Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (died 2002)[134]
- 1936 – Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy[135]
- 1936 – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)[136]
- 1937 – Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer[137]
- 1937 – Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (died 2017)[138]
- 1938 – Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor (died 2010)[139]
- 1938 – Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster[140]
- 1938 – Ken Spears, American writer (died 2020)[141]
- 1938 – Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop[142]
- 1938 – Ron Tutt, American drummer (died 2021)[143]
- 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (died 2017)[144]
- 1941 – Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer[145]
- 1942 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (died 2020)[146]
- 1943 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general[147]
- 1944 – Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (died 2018)[148]
- 1945 – Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant[149]
- 1946 – Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director[150]
- 1946 – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer[130]
- 1946 – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer[151]
- 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician[152]
- 1947 – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician[153]
- 1947 – David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter[154]
- 1947 – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts[8]
- 1948 – Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport[155]
- 1948 – Kent Conrad, American politician[156]
- 1948 – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[130]
- 1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter[8]
- 1949 – Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist[157]
- 1949 – David Mellor, British politician[110]
- 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager[158]
- 1952 – André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher[159]
- 1952 – John Mitchell, English footballer[160]
- 1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer[161]
- 1953 – Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion[162]
- 1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor[163]
- 1956 – Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier[164]
- 1956 – Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (died 2010)[165]
- 1956 – Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter[130]
- 1956 – Lesley Manville, English actress[130]
- 1956 – Dale Murphy, American baseball player[8]
- 1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (died 2019)[166]
- 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach[167]
- 1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer[168]
- 1957 – Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (died 2022)[169]
- 1958 – Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist[170]
- 1959 – Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska[171]
- 1959 – Luenell, American comedian and actress[172]
- 1959 – Michael Walter, German luger (died 2016)[173]
- 1960 – Jason Beghe, American actor[130]
- 1960 – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter[130]
- 1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress[130]
- 1962 – Andreas Köpke, German footballer[174]
- 1962 – Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor[175]
- 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister[8]
- 1962 – Titus Welliver, American actor[176]
- 1963 – John Andretti, American race car driver (died 2020)[177]
- 1963 – Candy Costie, American swimmer[178]
- 1963 – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach[179]
- 1963 – Reiner Gies, German boxer[180]
- 1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager[181]
- 1963 – Paul Way, English golfer[182]
- 1963 – Jake Weber, English actor[183]
- 1964 – Dieter Eckstein, German footballer[184]
- 1964 – Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna[185]
- 1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player[186]
- 1965 – Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party[187]
- 1966 – David Daniels, American countertenor[8]
- 1966 – Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster[188]
- 1967 – Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager[189]
- 1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician[190]
- 1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer[130]
- 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[191]
- 1969 – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author[8]
- 1970 – Karen Bradley, English politician[192]
- 1970 – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter[193][194]
- 1970 – Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer[195]
- 1970 – Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach[196]
- 1971 – Raúl Mondesí, Dominican baseball player and politician[197]
- 1971 – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper[198]
- 1971 – Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper[199]
- 1972 – Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player[200]
- 1974 – Charles Akonnor, Ghanaian footballer[201]
- 1974 – Walid Badir, Israeli footballer[202]
- 1975 – Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer[203]
- 1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer[204]
- 1975 – Valérie Nicolas, French handball player[205]
- 1975 – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer[206]
- 1976 – Deron Quint, American ice hockey player[207]
- 1976 – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer[208]
- 1977 – Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete[209]
- 1977 – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player[210]
- 1977 – Amdy Faye, Senegalese footballer[211]
- 1977 – Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player[212]
- 1978 – Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer[213]
- 1978 – Casey Mears, American race car driver[214]
- 1978 – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator[215]
- 1979 – Charlie Bell, American basketball player and coach[216]
- 1979 – Rhys Coiro, American actor[130]
- 1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist[217]
- 1979 – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach[218]
- 1979 – Gerard López, Spanish footballer[219]
- 1979 – Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer[220]
- 1979 – Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer[221]
- 1979 – Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer[222]
- 1980 – Césinha, Brazilian footballer[223]
- 1980 – Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter[224]
- 1980 – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist[225]
- 1980 – Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player[226]
- 1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer[227]
- 1981 – Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player[228]
- 1981 – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[229]
- 1982 – Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress[230]
- 1982 – Samm Levine, American actor and comedian[130]
- 1982 – Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player[231]
- 1982 – Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer[232]
- 1982 – Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer[233]
- 1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer[234]
- 1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor[235]
- 1983 – Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player[236]
- 1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress[237]
- 1984 – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer[238]
- 1985 – Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver[239]
- 1985 – Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer[240]
- 1985 – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist[241]
- 1986 – Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player[242]
- 1986 – Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer[243]
- 1986 – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[244]
- 1986 – Ben Offereins, Australian runner[245]
- 1986 – František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (died 2017)[246][247]
- 1987 – Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist[248]
- 1987 – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer[249]
- 1987 – Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player[250]
- 1987 – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player[251]
- 1987 – Chris Seitz, American soccer player[252]
- 1987 – Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player[253]
- 1987 – Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer[254]
- 1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer[255]
- 1988 – Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer[256]
- 1988 – Titi, Brazilian footballer[257]
- 1989 – Jordan Adéoti, French footballer[258]
- 1989 – Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer[259]
- 1989 – Tyler Clary, American swimmer[260]
- 1989 – Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player[261]
- 1989 – Richard Eckersley, English footballer[262]
- 1989 – Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player[263]
- 1989 – Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player[264]
- 1989 – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer[265]
- 1990 – Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player[266]
- 1990 – Marvin Jones, American football player[267]
- 1990 – Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer[268]
- 1990 – Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper[269]
- 1990 – Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer[270]
- 1990 – Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player[271]
- 1990 – Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer[272]
- 1990 – Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer[273]
- 1990 – Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer[274]
- 1991 – Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer[275]
- 1991 – Felix Kroos, German footballer[276]
- 1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer[277]
- 1992 – Jordan Ferri, French footballer[278]
- 1992 – Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner[279]
- 1992 – Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer[280]
- 1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer[281]
- 1993 – Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer[282]
- 1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist[283]
- 1994 – Jerami Grant, American basketball player[284]
- 1994 – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)[285]
- 1994 – Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor[176]
- 1996 – Serhou Guirassy, French footballer[286]
- 1996 – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer[287]
- 1996 – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer[288]
- 1996 – Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper[289]
- 1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer[290]
- 1997 – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer[291]
- 1997 – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer[292]
- 1998 – Carsen Edwards, American basketball player[293]
- 1998 – Mecole Hardman, American football player[294]
- 1998 – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater[295]
- 1998 – Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater[296]
- 2001 – Max Duggan, American football player[297]
- 2001 – Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor[298]
- 2003 – Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model[299]
- 2003 – Malina Weissman, American actress and model[300]
- 2004 – DannyLux, American singer-songwriter[301]
- 2008 – Emma Kok, Dutch singer[302]
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Deaths
Pre-1600
- 417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church[303]
- 604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)[304]
- 1022 – Symeon the New Theologian (born 949)[305]
- 1160 – Al-Muqtafi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (born 1096)[306]
- 1316 – Stefan Dragutin (born c. 1244)[307]
- 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1276)[308]
- 1539 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)[309]
1601–1900
- 1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (born 1635)[310]
- 1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (born 1818)[311]
1901–present
- 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)[312]
- 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)[313]
- 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (born 1851)[314]
- 1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (born 1858)[315]
- 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)[316]
- 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)[317]
- 1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (born 1897)[318]
- 1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (born 1879)[319]
- 1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (born 1870)[320]
- 1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)[321]
- 1955 – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (born 1892)[322]
- 1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (born 1877)[323]
- 1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (born 1873)[324]
- 1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)[325]
- 1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (born 1904)[326]
- 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)[327]
- 1989 – Maurice Evans, English-American actor (born 1901)[328]
- 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)[329]
- 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (born 1900)[330]
- 1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (born 1890)[331]
- 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (born 1893)[332]
- 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1916)[333]
- 1999 – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (born 1902)[334]
- 2000 – Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (born 1924)[335]
- 2001 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (born 1933)[336]
- 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American author (born 1927)[337]
- 2001 – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (born 1916)[338]
- 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (born 1932)[339]
- 2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)[340]
- 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)[341]
- 2003 – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1914)[342]
- 2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (born 1948)[343]
- 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (born 1917)[344]
- 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (born 1947)[345]
- 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (born 1949)[346]
- 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (born 1897)[347]
- 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)[348]
- 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)[349]
- 2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)[350]
- 2012 – Michael Hossack, American drummer (born 1946)[351]
- 2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)[352]
- 2013 – Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)[353]
- 2013 – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)[354]
- 2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)[355]
- 2014 – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)[356]
- 2014 – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)[357]
- 2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)[358]
- 2015 – Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (born 1934)[359]
- 2015 – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)[360]
- 2015 – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)[361]
- 2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)[362]
- 2016 – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)[363]
- 2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)[364]
- 2021 – Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)[365]
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Holidays and observances
- Arbor Day (China)[366]
- Arbor Day (Taiwan)[367]
- Aztec New Year[368]
- Christian feast day:
- Alphege[369]
- Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)[370]
- Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia[371]
- Mura (McFeredach)[372]
- Fina[371]
- Maximilian of Tebessa[371]
- Paul Aurelian[373]
- Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)[374]
- Theophanes the Confessor[375]
- March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- National Day (Mauritius)[376]
- World Day Against Cyber Censorship[377]
- Youth Day (Zambia)[378]
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References
External links
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