March 12
Day of the year
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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.
| March 12 in recent years |
| 2026 (Thursday) |
| 2025 (Wednesday) |
| 2024 (Tuesday) |
| 2023 (Sunday) |
| 2022 (Saturday) |
| 2021 (Friday) |
| 2020 (Thursday) |
| 2019 (Tuesday) |
| 2018 (Monday) |
| 2017 (Sunday) |
Events
Pre-1600
- 538 â 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 â Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.[2]
- 1158 â German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.[3]
- 1391 â Konrad von Wallenrode is elected the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order (date is O.S.).[4]
- 1579 â Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.[5]
1601â1900
- 1622 â Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.[6]
- 1689 â James II of England lands at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.[7]
- 1811 â 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.[8]
- 1862 â Paddle steamer Brother Jonathan docks in Fort Victoria (now Victoria, British Columbia), carrying smallpox-infected passengers from San Francisco. The ensuing epidemic killed an estimated two-thirds of First Nations in the province of British Columbia.[9]
1901âpresent
- 1912 â The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.[10]
- 1913 â The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.[11]
- 1918 â Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.[12]
- 1920 â The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.[13]
- 1928 â In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.[14]
- 1930 â Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200-mile (320 km) march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.[15]
- 1933 â 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".[10]
- 1938 â Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.[16]
- 1940 â Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.[17]
- 1940 â The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.[18]
- 1942 â The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Empire of Japan in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.[19]
- 1947 â Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.[20]
- 1950 â 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.[21]
- 1967 â Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.[22]
- 1968 â Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.[23]
- 1971 â The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.[24]
- 1989 â Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.[25]
- 1992 â Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.[26]
- 1993 â Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.[27]
- 1993 â 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.[28]
- 1999 â Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.[29]
- 2003 â Zoran ÄinÄiÄ, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.[30]
- 2003 â The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).[31]
- 2004 â President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history.[32]
- 2006 â In Mahmoudiyah, Iraq, 14-year-old Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi is raped and murdered by five American soldiers of the 502nd Infantry Regiment, who also murder both of her parents and her sister.[33]
- 2009 â Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.[34]
- 2011 â A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 TÅhoku earthquake and tsunami.[35]
- 2014 â A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.[36]
- 2018 â US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.[37]
- 2019 â In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.[38]
- 2020 â The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.[39]
Births
Pre-1600
- 1270 â Charles, Count of Valois (died 1325)[40]
- 1515 â Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (died 1553)[41]
1601â1900
- 1607 â Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (died 1676)[42]
- 1613 â André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (died 1700)[43]
- 1626 â John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (died 1697)[44]
- 1637 â Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (died 1671)[45]
- 1672 â Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (died 1729)[46]
- 1685 â George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (died 1753)[47]
- 1710 â Thomas Arne, English composer (died 1778)[48]
- 1735 â François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (died 1821)[49]
- 1753 â Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (died 1827)[50]
- 1766 â Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (died 1815)[51]
- 1781 â Frederica of Baden, Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (died 1826)[52]
- 1784 â William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (died 1856)[53]
- 1795 â William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (died 1861)[54]
- 1795 â George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (died 1858)[55]
- 1806 â Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (died 1863)[56]
- 1807 â James Abbott, Indian Army officer (died 1896)[57]
- 1815 â Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (died 1896)[58]
- 1821 â John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (died 1893)[59]
- 1821 â Medo PuciÄ, Croatian writer and politician (died 1882)[60]
- 1823 â Katsu KaishÅ«, Japanese statesman (died 1899)[61]
- 1824 â Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (died 1887)[62]
- 1832 â Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (died 1897)[63]
- 1834 â Hilary A. Herbert, American politician, Secretary of the Navy (died 1919)[64]
- 1835 â Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (died 1909)[10]
- 1835 â Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (died 1908)[65]
- 1837 â Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (died 1911)[66]
- 1838 â William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (died 1907)[67]
- 1843 â Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (died 1904)[68]
- 1855 â Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (died 1920)[69]
- 1857 â William V. Ranous, American actor and director (died 1915)[70]
- 1858 â Adolph Ochs, American publisher (died 1935)[71]
- 1859 â Ernesto Cesà ro, Italian mathematician (died 1906)[72]
- 1860 â Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (died 1895)[73]
- 1863 â Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (died 1938)[74]
- 1863 â Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (died 1945)[75]
- 1864 â W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (died 1922)[76]
- 1864 â Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (died 1943)[77]
- 1868 â Mary Karadja, Swedish writer, spiritualist and princess (died 1943)[78]
- 1869 â George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (died 1947)[79]
- 1874 â Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (died 1949)[80]
- 1877 â Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (died 1946)[81]
- 1878 â Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (died 1903)[82]
- 1880 â Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (died 1952)[83]
- 1881 â Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (died 1966)[84]
- 1882 â Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (died 1943)[85]
- 1883 â Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (died 1961)[86]
- 1888 â Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (died 1965)[87]
- 1888 â Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (died 1965)[88]
- 1890 â Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (died 1976)[89]
- 1896 â Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (died 1976)[90]
- 1898 â Tian Han, Chinese playwright (died 1968)[91]
- 1898 â Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (died 1984)[92]
- 1899 â Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (died 1955)[93]
- 1900 â Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (died 1972)[94]
- 1900 â Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (died 1974)[95]
- 1900 â Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (died 1975)[96]
1901âpresent
- 1904 â Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (died 1976)[97]
- 1905 â Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (died 1982)[98]
- 1907 â Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (died 2007)[99]
- 1908 â Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (died 1970)[100]
- 1908 â David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (died 1995)[101]
- 1909 â Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (died 1947)[102]
- 1910 â László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (died 1986)[103]
- 1910 â Masayoshi Åhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (died 1980)[104]
- 1911 â Gustavo DÃaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (died 1979)[105]
- 1912 â Willie Hall, English footballer (died 1967)[106]
- 1912 â Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (died 2006)[107]
- 1913 â Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (died 1984)[108]
- 1913 â Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (died 2010)[109]
- 1915 â Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (died 1995)[110]
- 1915 â JiÅÃ Mucha, Czech journalist (died 1991)[111]
- 1917 â Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (died 1969)[112]
- 1917 â Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (died 2009)[113]
- 1917 â Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (died 2011)[114]
- 1918 â Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (died 1989)[115]
- 1918 â Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (died 2012)[116]
- 1921 â Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (died 2001)[114]
- 1921 â Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (died 1986)[117]
- 1922 â Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (died 1969)[10]
- 1922 â Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (died 1999)[118]
- 1923 â Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (died 2013)[119]
- 1923 â Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (died 2005)[114]
- 1923 â Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2007)[10]
- 1923 â Mae Young, American wrestler (died 2014)[120]
- 1925 â Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[121]
- 1925 â Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (died 2012)[122]
- 1926 â George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii (died 2026)
- 1926 â Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (died 2015)[123]
- 1926 â John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (died 1988)[124]
- 1926 â David Nadien, American violinist (died 2014)[125]
- 1927 â Raúl AlfonsÃn, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (died 2009)[126]
- 1927 â Emmett Leith, American professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (died 2005)[127]
- 1927 â Sudharmono, Indonesian politician, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (died 2006)[128]
- 1928 â Edward Albee, American director and playwright (died 2016)[114]
- 1929 â Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (died 2014)[129]
- 1930 â Antony Acland, English former diplomat and Provost of Eton College (died 2021)[114]
- 1930 â Vern Law, American baseball player and manager[130]
- 1931 â Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (died 2000)[131]
- 1932 â Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (died 2014)[132]
- 1932 â Andrew Young, American pastor, civil rights movement activist, politician, and 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations[10]
- 1933 â Myrna Fahey, American actress (died 1973)[133]
- 1933 â Barbara Feldon, American actress[134]
- 1934 â Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher (died 2023)[135][136]
- 1935 â Chiam See Tong, Singaporean lawyer and politician[137]
- 1936 â Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (died 2002)[138]
- 1936 â MichaÅ Heller, Polish professor of philosophy[139]
- 1936 â Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (died 2020)[140]
- 1937 â Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer[141]
- 1937 â Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (died 2017)[142]
- 1938 â Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor (died 2010)[143]
- 1938 â Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster[144]
- 1938 â Ken Spears, American writer (died 2020)[145]
- 1938 â Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop[146]
- 1938 â Ron Tutt, American drummer (died 2021)[147]
- 1940 â Al Jarreau, American singer (died 2017)[148]
- 1941 â Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer[149]
- 1942 â Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (died 2020)[150]
- 1943 â Ratko MladiÄ, Serbian general[151]
- 1944 â Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (died 2018)[152]
- 1945 â Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant[153]
- 1946 â Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director[154]
- 1946 â Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer[134]
- 1946 â Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer[155]
- 1947 â Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician[156]
- 1947 â Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician[157]
- 1947 â David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter[158]
- 1947 â Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts[10]
- 1948 â Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport[159]
- 1948 â Kent Conrad, American politician[160]
- 1948 â James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[134]
- 1949 â Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter[10]
- 1949 â Mary Catherine Lamb, American textile artist[161]
- 1949 â David Mellor, British politician[114]
- 1950 â Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager[162]
- 1952 â André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher[163]
- 1952 â John Mitchell, English footballer[164]
- 1952 â Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer[165]
- 1953 â Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion[166]
- 1954 â Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor[167]
- 1956 â Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier[168]
- 1956 â StanisÅaw Bobak, Polish ski jumper (died 2010)[169]
- 1956 â Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter[134]
- 1956 â Lesley Manville, English actress[134]
- 1956 â Dale Murphy, American baseball player[10]
- 1956 â Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (died 2019)[170]
- 1957 â Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach[171]
- 1957 â Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer[172]
- 1957 â Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (died 2022)[173]
- 1958 â Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist[174]
- 1959 â Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska[175]
- 1959 â Luenell, American comedian and actress[176]
- 1959 â Michael Walter, German luger (died 2016)[177]
- 1960 â Jason Beghe, American actor[134]
- 1960 â Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter[134]
- 1962 â Julia Campbell, American actress[134]
- 1962 â Andreas Köpke, German footballer[178]
- 1962 â Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor[179]
- 1962 â Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister[10]
- 1962 â Titus Welliver, American actor[180]
- 1963 â John Andretti, American race car driver (died 2020)[181]
- 1963 â Candy Costie, American swimmer[182]
- 1963 â Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach[183]
- 1963 â Reiner Gies, German boxer[184]
- 1963 â Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager[185]
- 1963 â Paul Way, English golfer[186]
- 1963 â Jake Weber, English actor[187]
- 1964 â Dieter Eckstein, German footballer[188]
- 1964 â Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna[189]
- 1965 â Steve Finley, American baseball player[190]
- 1965 â Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party[191]
- 1966 â David Daniels, American countertenor[10]
- 1966 â Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster[192]
- 1967 â Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager[193]
- 1968 â Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician[194]
- 1968 â Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer[134]
- 1969 â Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist[195]
- 1969 â Jake Tapper, American journalist and author[10]
- 1970 â Karen Bradley, English politician[196]
- 1970 â Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter[197][198]
- 1970 â Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer[199]
- 1970 â Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach[200]
- 1971 â Raúl MondesÃ, Dominican baseball player and politician[201]
- 1971 â Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper[202]
- 1971 â Dragutin TopiÄ, Serbian high jumper[203]
- 1972 â Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player[204]
- 1974 â Charles Akonnor, Ghanaian footballer[205]
- 1974 â Walid Badir, Israeli footballer[206]
- 1975 â Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer[207]
- 1975 â Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer[208]
- 1975 â Valérie Nicolas, French handball player[209]
- 1975 â SrÄan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer[210]
- 1976 â Deron Quint, American ice hockey player[211]
- 1976 â Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer[212]
- 1977 â Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete[213]
- 1977 â Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player[214]
- 1977 â Amdy Faye, Senegalese footballer[215]
- 1977 â Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player[216]
- 1978 â Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer[217]
- 1978 â Casey Mears, American race car driver[218]
- 1978 â Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator[219]
- 1979 â Charlie Bell, American basketball player and coach[220]
- 1979 â Rhys Coiro, American actor[134]
- 1979 â Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist[221]
- 1979 â Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach[222]
- 1979 â Gerard López, Spanish footballer[223]
- 1979 â Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer[224]
- 1979 â Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer[225]
- 1979 â Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer[226]
- 1980 â Césinha, Brazilian footballer[227]
- 1980 â Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter[228]
- 1980 â Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist[229]
- 1980 â Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player[230]
- 1981 â Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer[231]
- 1981 â Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player[232]
- 1981 â Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist[233]
- 1982 â Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress[234]
- 1982 â Samm Levine, American actor and comedian[134]
- 1982 â Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player[235]
- 1982 â Hisato SatÅ, Japanese footballer[236]
- 1982 â YÅ«to SatÅ, Japanese footballer[237]
- 1982 â Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer[238]
- 1983 â Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor[239]
- 1983 â Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player[240]
- 1984 â Jaimie Alexander, American actress[241]
- 1984 â Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer[242]
- 1985 â Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver[243]
- 1985 â Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer[244]
- 1985 â Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist[245]
- 1986 â Martynas AndriuÅ¡keviÄius, Lithuanian basketball player[246]
- 1986 â Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer[247]
- 1986 â Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor[248]
- 1986 â Ben Offereins, Australian runner[249]
- 1986 â FrantiÅ¡ek Rajtoral, Czech footballer (died 2017)[250][251]
- 1987 â Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist[252]
- 1987 â Jessica Hardy, American swimmer[253]
- 1987 â Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player[254]
- 1987 â Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player[255]
- 1987 â Chris Seitz, American soccer player[256]
- 1987 â Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player[257]
- 1987 â Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer[258]
- 1988 â Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer[259]
- 1988 â Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer[260]
- 1988 â Titi, Brazilian footballer[261]
- 1989 â Jordan Adéoti, French footballer[262]
- 1989 â Vytautas Äerniauskas, Lithuanian footballer[263]
- 1989 â Tyler Clary, American swimmer[264]
- 1989 â Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player[265]
- 1989 â Richard Eckersley, English footballer[266]
- 1989 â Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player[267]
- 1989 â Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player[268]
- 1989 â Siim Luts, Estonian footballer[269]
- 1990 â Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player[270]
- 1990 â Marvin Jones, American football player[271]
- 1990 â Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer[272]
- 1990 â Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper[273]
- 1990 â Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer[274]
- 1990 â Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player[275]
- 1990 â Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer[276]
- 1990 â Milena RaiÄeviÄ, Montenegrin handballer[277]
- 1990 â Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer[278]
- 1991 â Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer[279]
- 1991 â Felix Kroos, German footballer[280]
- 1992 â Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer[281]
- 1992 â Jordan Ferri, French footballer[282]
- 1992 â Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner[283]
- 1992 â JiÅà Skalák, Czech footballer[284]
- 1993 â Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer[285]
- 1993 â Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer[286]
- 1994 â Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist[287]
- 1994 â Jerami Grant, American basketball player[288]
- 1994 â Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (died 2016)[289]
- 1994 â Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor[180]
- 1996 â Serhou Guirassy, French-Guinean footballer[290]
- 1996 â Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer[291]
- 1996 â Robert MuriÄ, Croatian footballer[292]
- 1996 â Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper[293]
- 1997 â Dean Henderson, English footballer[294]
- 1997 â Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer[295]
- 1997 â Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer[296]
- 1998 â Carsen Edwards, American basketball player[297]
- 1998 â Mecole Hardman, American football player[298]
- 1998 â Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater[299]
- 1998 â Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater[300]
- 2001 â Max Duggan, American football player[301]
- 2001 â Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor[302]
- 2003 â Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model[303]
- 2003 â Malina Weissman, American actress and model[304]
- 2004 â DannyLux, American singer-songwriter[305]
- 2008 â Emma Kok, Dutch singer[306]
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 417 â Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church[307]
- 604 â Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (born 540)[308]
- 1022 â Symeon the New Theologian (born 949)[309]
- 1160 â Al-Muqtafi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (born 1096)[310]
- 1316 â Stefan Dragutin (born c. 1244)[311]
- 1322 â Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1276)[312]
- 1539 â Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)[313]
1601â1900
- 1699 â Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (born 1635)[314]
- 1898 â Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (born 1818)[315]
1901âpresent
- 1916 â Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (born 1830)[316]
- 1925 â Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (born 1866)[317]
- 1929 â Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (born 1851)[318]
- 1935 â Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (born 1858)[319]
- 1942 â William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)[320]
- 1943 â Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)[321]
- 1946 â Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (born 1897)[322]
- 1949 â Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (born 1879)[323]
- 1954 â Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (born 1870)[324]
- 1955 â Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)[325]
- 1955 â Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (born 1892)[326]
- 1957 â Josephine Hull, American actress (born 1877)[327]
- 1971 â Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (born 1873)[328]
- 1973 â Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (born 1898)[329]
- 1974 â George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (born 1904)[330]
- 1985 â Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)[331]
- 1989 â Maurice Evans, English-American actor (born 1901)[332]
- 1991 â Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)[333]
- 1991 â William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (born 1900)[334]
- 1992 â Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (born 1890)[335]
- 1998 â Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (born 1893)[336]
- 1999 â Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1916)[337]
- 1999 â Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (born 1902)[338]
- 2000 â Aleksandar NikoliÄ, Yugoslav basketball coach (born 1924)[339]
- 2001 â Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (born 1933)[340]
- 2001 â Robert Ludlum, American author (born 1927)[341]
- 2001 â Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (born 1916)[342]
- 2002 â Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (born 1932)[343]
- 2002 â Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)[344]
- 2003 â Zoran ÄinÄiÄ, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (born 1952)[345]
- 2003 â Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (born 1914)[346]
- 2003 â Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (born 1948)[347]
- 2004 â Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (born 1917)[348]
- 2006 â Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (born 1947)[349]
- 2008 â Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (born 1949)[350]
- 2008 â Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (born 1897)[351]
- 2010 â Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)[352]
- 2011 â Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (born 1919)[353]
- 2012 â Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (born 1930)[354]
- 2012 â Michael Hossack, American drummer (born 1946)[355]
- 2012 â Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (born 1938)[356]
- 2013 â Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (born 1936)[357]
- 2013 â Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (born 1937)[358]
- 2014 â VÄra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)[359]
- 2014 â Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (born 1923)[360]
- 2014 â José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (born 1936)[361]
- 2015 â Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (born 1924)[362]
- 2015 â Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (born 1934)[363]
- 2015 â Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)[364]
- 2015 â Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (born 1948)[365]
- 2016 â Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)[366]
- 2016 â Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)[367]
- 2016 â Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)[368]
- 2021 â Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (born 1951)[369]
Holidays and observances
- Arbor Day (China)[370]
- Arbor Day (Taiwan)[371]
- Aztec New Year[372]
- Christian feast day:
- Alphege[373]
- Angela Salawa[374]
- Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)[375]
- Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia[376]
- Mura (McFeredach)[377]
- Fina[376]
- Maximilian of Tebessa[376]
- Paul Aurelian[378]
- Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)[379]
- Theophanes the Confessor[380]
- March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- National Day (Mauritius)[381]
- World Day Against Cyber Censorship[382]
- Youth Day (Zambia)[383]
