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==Events==
===Pre-1600===
*[[597 BC]] &ndash; The [[Siege of Jerusalem (597 BC)|first siege of Jerusalem]] by the [[Neo-Babylonian Empire]] ends with the city surrendering to king [[Nebuchadnezzar II]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Johnson |first1=Paul |author1-link=Paul Johnson (writer) |title=A History of the Jews |date=1994 |publisher=Orion Books Limited, Orion House |location=London |isbn=1-85799-096-X}}</ref>
*[[445]] &ndash; [[Western Roman Emperor]] [[Valentinian III]] is assassinated  while practising on the [[Campus Martius]] on behalf of [[Petronius Maximus]].<ref>{{cite book |title=A Chronology of the Byzantine Empire |date=2006 |publisher=Palgrave Macmillan |location=Basingstoke [England] ; New York |isbn=978-1-4039-1774-4 |page=63}}</ref>
*[[1190]] &ndash; Massacre of Jews at [[York Castle|Clifford's Tower]], [[York]].<ref>{{cite web |title=The Massacre of the Jews at Clifford's Tower |url=https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/cliffords-tower-york/history-and-stories/massacre-of-the-jews/ |website=English Heritage |access-date=14 January 2020 |archive-date=5 November 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191105181332/https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/cliffords-tower-york/history-and-stories/massacre-of-the-jews/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1244]] &ndash; Over 200 [[Cathar]]s who refuse to recant are burnt to death after the [[Siege of Montségur|Fall of Montségur]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Fiona Duncan|title=France|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TJ3WAAAAMAAJ|date=1 February 2002|publisher=APA Publications|isbn=978-1-58573-291-3|page=298}}</ref>
*[[1355]] &ndash; Amidst the [[Red Turban Rebellions]], [[Han Lin'er]], a claimed descendant of [[Emperor Huizong of Song]], is proclaimed emperor of the restored [[Song dynasty]] in [[Bozhou]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Denis Twitchett|title=The Cambridge History of China, Volume 7: The Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644, Part 1|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tyhT9SZRLS8C|date=1988|publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn= 978-0-521-24332-2|page=42}}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Samoset]], an [[Abenaki]], visits the settlers of [[Plymouth Colony]] and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
*[[1660]] &ndash; The [[Long Parliament]] of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new [[Convention Parliament (1660)|Convention Parliament]].<ref>{{cite book |title=Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England: From the Norman Conquest, in 1066, to the Year, 1803. Volume 3 |date=1808 |publisher=R. Bagshaw |location=London |pages=1583–1584 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BRZDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1583 |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-09-07 |archive-date=2021-09-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210907000215/https://books.google.com/books?id=BRZDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA1583 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1696]] &ndash; The Dutch [[Bombardment of Givet|bombard Givet]] during the [[Nine Years' War]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Childs|first=John|title=The Nine Years' War and the British Army |publisher= Manchester University Press |year= 1991|isbn= 0-7190-3461-2}}</ref>
*[[1792]] &ndash; King [[Gustav III of Sweden]] is shot; he dies on [[March 29]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Elgán |first1=Elisabeth |last2=Scobbie |first2=Irene |title=Historical Dictionary of Sweden |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |location=Lanham, Maryland |isbn=978-1-4422-5071-0 |page=xxiii |edition=3rd |chapter=Chronology}}</ref>
*[[1802]] &ndash; The [[United States Army Corps of Engineers|Army Corps of Engineers]] is established to found and operate the [[United States Military Academy|United States Military Academy at West Point]].
*[[1815]] &ndash; [[William I of the Netherlands|Prince Willem]] proclaims himself King of the [[United Kingdom of the Netherlands]], the first [[constitutional monarchy|constitutional monarch]] in the Netherlands.
*[[1872]] &ndash; The [[Wanderers F.C.]] win the first [[FA Cup]], the oldest [[association football|football]] competition in the world, beating [[Royal Engineers A.F.C.]] 1–0 at [[The Oval]] in [[Kennington]], London.
*[[1898]] &ndash; In [[Melbourne]], the representatives of five colonies adopt a [[Constitution of Australia|constitution]], which would become the basis of the [[Commonwealth of Australia]].<ref>{{cite book |first=J.A. |last=La Nauze |title=The Making of the Australian Constitution |publisher=Melbourne University Press |year=1972 |location=Carlton, Vic. |isbn=0-522-84016-7}}</ref>{{Page needed|date=September 2021}}

===1901–present===
*[[1916]] &ndash; The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under [[John J. Pershing]] cross the [[US–Mexico border]] to join the hunt for [[Pancho Villa]].
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Finnish Civil War]]: [[Battle of Länkipohja]] is infamous for its bloody aftermath as the [[Whites (Finland)|Whites]] execute 70–100 capitulated [[Finnish Socialist Workers' Republic|Reds]].
*[[1924]] &ndash; In accordance with the [[Treaty of Rome (1924)|Treaty of Rome]], [[Rijeka|Fiume]] becomes annexed as part of Italy.
*[[1925]] &ndash; An [[1925 Dali earthquake|earthquake]] (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in [[Dali, Yunnan|Dali]], China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Chen|first=X.L.|author2=Zhou Q.|author3=Ran H.|author4=Dong R.|name-list-style=amp|year=2012|title=Earthquake-triggered landslides in southwest China|journal=Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences|volume=12|issue=2|pages=351–363|doi=10.5194/nhess-12-351-2012|bibcode=2012NHESS..12..351C|doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Rocket#Modern rocketry|History of rocketry]]: [[Robert H. Goddard|Robert Goddard]] launches the first liquid-fueled [[rocket]], at [[Auburn, Massachusetts]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kerrod |first1=Robin |title=Dawn of the space age |date=2005 |publisher=World Almanac Library |location=Milwaukee, WI |isbn=978-0-8368-5705-4 |page=11 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=srJDiIn5HvkC&pg=PA11}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Adolf Hitler]] orders Germany to rearm itself in violation of the [[Treaty of Versailles]]. Conscription is reintroduced to form the [[Wehrmacht]].
*[[1936]] &ndash; Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper [[Allegheny River|Allegheny]] and [[Monongahela River|Monongahela]] rivers, leading to [[Pittsburgh Flood of 1936|a major flood in Pittsburgh]].
*[[1939]] &ndash; From [[Prague Castle]], Hitler proclaims [[Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia|Bohemia and Moravia]] a German [[protectorate]].
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Operation Appearance]] takes place to re-establish [[British Somaliland]].<ref>[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/RIN-4.html Operations in the Red Sea] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109011749/http://ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/RIN-4.html|date=2014-11-09}}[http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201221150642/http://www.ibiblio.org/hyperwar/UN/India/RIN/index.html|date=2020-12-21}}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[World War II]]: The [[Battle of Iwo Jima]] ends, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persist.
*  1945   &ndash; World War II:  Ninety percent of [[Bombing of Würzburg in World War II|Würzburg, Germany]] is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in at least 4,000 deaths.<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Jabado |editor1-first=Salwa |title=Fodor's 2011 Germany |date=2011 |publisher=Fodor's Travel |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4000-0489-8 |page=144 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Tdw0l50lYa4C&pg=PA144 |chapter=Würzburg |access-date=2021-09-15 |archive-date=2021-09-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210915234626/https://books.google.com/books?id=Tdw0l50lYa4C&pg=PA144 |url-status=live }}</ref> 
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Flying Tiger Line Flight 739]] disappears in the western Pacific Ocean with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- no byline --> |title=Plane, 107 sought |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=bNgLAAAAIBAJ&sjid=8lYDAAAAIBAJ |access-date=4 September 2021 |work=[[Evening Independent]] |issue=95 |date=March 16, 1962 |page=1 |via=[[Google News]] }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Dowd |first1=Katie |title='He knew something': The Bay Area flight of Rangers that vanished |url=https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/flying-tiger-line-flight-739-vietnam-bay-area-16165978.php |access-date=4 September 2021 |work=[[SFGate]] |date=11 May 2021 |archive-date=3 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210903141507/https://www.sfgate.com/sfhistory/article/flying-tiger-line-flight-739-vietnam-bay-area-16165978.php |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1966]] &ndash; Launch of [[Gemini 8]] with astronauts [[Neil Armstrong]] and [[David Scott]]. It would perform the first docking of two spacecraft in orbit.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Wilkinson |first1=John |title=Probing the new solar system |date=2009 |publisher=[[CSIRO Publishing]] |location=Collingwood, Vic. |isbn=978-0-643-09949-4 |page=17 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=phJ-QQu-yc8C&pg=PA17 |chapter=Gemini program |access-date=2021-09-04 |archive-date=2021-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904151314/https://books.google.com/books?id=phJ-QQu-yc8C&pg=PA17 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Vietnam War]]: [[My Lai massacre]] occurs; between 347 and 500 [[Vietnam]]ese villagers are killed by American troops.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- no byline --> |title=Murder in the name of war - My Lai |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/64344.stm |access-date=4 September 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=20 July 1998 |archive-date=17 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180117201719/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/64344.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1969]] &ndash; A [[Viasa]] [[McDonnell Douglas DC-9]] [[Viasa Flight 742|crashes]] in [[Maracaibo]], Venezuela, killing 155.<ref>{{cite news |title=At least 150 die at least 150 die and 100 are injured as jet falls into a Venezuelan suburb |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/17/archives/at-least-150-die-and-100-are-injured-as-jet-falls-into-a-venezuelan.html |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |issue=40,595 |date=17 March 1969 |page=1 |archive-date=18 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918224427/https://www.nytimes.com/1969/03/17/archives/at-least-150-die-and-100-are-injured-as-jet-falls-into-a-venezuelan.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Crashed plane said overloaded |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=luMpAAAAIBAJ&sjid=f8wEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4302,2691145 |access-date=18 September 2021 |work=Daytona Beach Morning Journal |issue=166 |date=12 July 1969 |page=2 |via=[[Google News Archive]]}}</ref>
*[[1977]] &ndash; Assassination of [[Kamal Jumblatt]], the main leader of the anti-government forces in the [[Lebanese Civil War]].
*[[1978]] &ndash; Former Italian Prime Minister [[Aldo Moro]] is kidnapped; he is later murdered by his captors.<ref>{{cite news |title=The chronology of the Moro case |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/10/archives/the-chronology-of-the-moro-case.html |access-date=16 September 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=10 May 1978 |archive-date=16 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210916000302/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/05/10/archives/the-chronology-of-the-moro-case.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1978   &ndash; A [[Balkan Bulgarian Airlines]] [[Tupolev Tu-134]] [[Balkan Bulgarian Airlines Flight 107|crashes]] near Gabare, [[Bulgaria]], killing 73.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19780316-0|title=ASN Aircraft accident Tupolev Tu-134 LZ-TUB Gabare|last=Ranter|first=Harro|website=aviation-safety.net|access-date=2020-01-03|archive-date=2020-06-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200629034700/https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19780316-0|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1978   &ndash; Supertanker ''[[Amoco Cadiz]]'' splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of [[Brittany]], resulting in the largest [[oil spill]] in history at that time.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Jonathan |first1=Kandell |title=Oil spill's long-term effect could be slight |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/31/archives/new-jersey-pages-oil-spills-longterm-effect-could-be-slight-110.html |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=31 March 1978 |page=15 |archive-date=3 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003173528/https://www.nytimes.com/1978/03/31/archives/new-jersey-pages-oil-spills-longterm-effect-could-be-slight-110.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Sino-Vietnamese War]]: The [[People's Liberation Army]] crosses the border back into China, ending the war.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Goldstein |first1=Erik |title=Wars and peace treaties, 1816-1991 |date=1992 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-134-89912-8 |page=120 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KWWKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 |access-date=2021-10-03 |archive-date=2021-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003193429/https://books.google.com/books?id=KWWKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA120 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[William Francis Buckley|William Buckley]], the CIA station chief in Lebanon, is kidnapped by [[Hezbollah]]; he later dies in captivity.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=W. Thomas Jr. |title=Encyclopedia of the Central Intelligence Agency |date=2003 |publisher=Facts On File |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4381-3018-7 |pages=34–35 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jc9wBsImOIC&pg=PA35 |chapter=Buckley, William (1928–1985) |access-date=2021-10-03 |archive-date=2021-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003213840/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Jc9wBsImOIC&pg=PA35 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Associated Press]] newsman [[Terry A. Anderson|Terry Anderson]] is taken hostage in [[Beirut]]; he is not released until December 1991.<ref name="Hedges 1991">{{cite news |last1=Hedges |first1=Chris |title=Anderson, last U.S. hostage, is freed by captors in Beirut |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/05/world/the-last-us-hostage-anderson-last-us-hostage-is-freed-by-captors-in-beirut.html |access-date=15 September 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=5 December 1991 |archive-date=4 December 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201204123943/https://www.nytimes.com/1991/12/05/world/the-last-us-hostage-anderson-last-us-hostage-is-freed-by-captors-in-beirut.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Iran–Contra affair]]: Lieutenant Colonel [[Oliver North]] and Vice Admiral [[John Poindexter]] are indicted on charges of [[conspiracy (criminal)|conspiracy]] to defraud the United States.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Shenon |first1=Philip |title=North, Poindexter and 2 others indicted on Iran-contra fraud and theft charges |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/world/north-poindexter-and-2-others-indicted-on-iran-contra-fraud-and-theft-charges.html |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |issue=47447 |date=17 March 1988 |page=1 |archive-date=30 October 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171030064011/http://www.nytimes.com/1988/03/17/world/north-poindexter-and-2-others-indicted-on-iran-contra-fraud-and-theft-charges.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Halabja massacre|Halabja chemical attack]]: The [[Kurd]]ish town of [[Halabja]] in [[Iraq]] is attacked with a mix of [[List of highly toxic gases|poison gas]] and [[nerve agent]]s on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5,000 people and injuring about 10,000 people.<ref>{{cite news |title=1988: Thousands die in Halabja gas attack |url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm |access-date=17 September 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 March 1988 |archive-date=10 February 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180210230111/http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4304000/4304853.stm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[The Troubles]]: [[Ulster loyalism|Ulster loyalist]] militant [[Michael Stone (loyalist)|Michael Stone]] [[Milltown Cemetery attack|attacks]] a [[Provisional IRA]] funeral in [[Belfast]] with pistols and grenades. Three persons, one of them a member of PIRA, are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded.
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Mississippi]] formally ratifies the [[Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution]], becoming the last state to approve the abolition of [[slavery]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Waldron |first1=Ben |title=Mississippi officially abolishes slavery, ratifies 13th Amendment |url=https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/ |access-date=31 August 2021 |work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] |date=February 19, 2013 |language=en |archive-date=27 June 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130627203637/https://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2013/02/mississippi-officially-abolishes-slavery-ratifies-13th-amendment/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[2001 Shijiazhuang bombings|A series of bomb blasts]] in the city of [[Shijiazhuang]], China kill 108 people and injure 38 others,<ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2001-apr-19-mn-52954-story.html | title=4 Sentenced for blasts in China that killed 108 | work=[[Los Angeles Times]] | date=April 19, 2001 | access-date=2 August 2010 | last=Kuhn | first=Anthony | url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121001083600/http://articles.latimes.com/2001/apr/19/news/mn-52954 |archive-date=2012-10-01}}</ref> the biggest mass murder in China in decades.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gittings |first1=John |title=Manhunt for mass killer fails to pacify Chinese |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/20/china.johngittings |access-date=10 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=20 March 2001 |archive-date=6 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160306033202/http://www.theguardian.com/world/2001/mar/20/china.johngittings |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2002]] &ndash; [[Sofia Gubaidulina]]'s ''[[Johannes-Ostern]]'' is premiered, together with her earlier ''[[Johannes-Passion (Gubaidulina)|Johannes-Passion]]'', at Hamburg's [[St. Michael's Church, Hamburg|Michaeliskirche]], performed by soloists, choir and orchestra from the [[Mariinsky Theatre]] combined with [[NDR Chor|NDR choir and orchestra]], conducted by [[Valery Gergiev]].<ref>{{cite web | title = Sofia Gubaidulina - St. John Easter | url = https://www.boosey.com/cr/music/Sofia-Gubaidulina-St-John-Easter/26545 | publisher = [[Boosey and Hawkes]] | access-date = 25 February 2026 | language = en }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | last = Lesle | first = Lutz | url = https://www.welt.de/print-welt/article379212/Lehrstueck-von-der-Richtigkeit-des-falschen-Wegs.html | title = Lehrstück von der Richtigkeit des falschen Wegs | newspaper = [[Die Welt]] | date = 14 March 2002 | language = de | access-date = 13 March 2026 }}</ref>
*[[2003]] &ndash; American activist [[Rachel Corrie]] is killed in [[Rafah]] by being run over by an Israel Defense Forces bulldozer while trying to obstruct the demolition of a home.<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- no byline --> |title=American peace activist killed by army bulldozer in Rafah |url=https://www.haaretz.com/1.4854471 |access-date=10 September 2021 |work=[[Haaretz]] |date=March 17, 2003 |archive-date=2 December 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202105333/http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/american-peace-activist-killed-by-army-bulldozer-in-rafah-1.16010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Israel]] officially hands over [[Jericho]] to Palestinian control.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Strucke |first1=James |title=Israel hands over Jericho |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/mar/16/israel1 |access-date=12 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=16 March 2005 }}</ref>
*[[2010]] &ndash; The [[Kasubi Tombs]], Uganda's only cultural [[World Heritage Site]], are destroyed in a fire.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8571719.stm|title=Uganda's Kasubi royal tombs gutted by fire|date=17 March 2010|publisher=BBC News|access-date=10 January 2024|archive-date=7 January 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120107064424/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8571719.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2012]] &ndash; Indian cricketer [[Sachin Tendulkar]] becomes the first batter in history to score [[List of international cricket centuries by Sachin Tendulkar|100 centuries]] in international cricket.<ref>{{cite news |title=First 100th International Century by Sachin Tendulkar |url=https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/sachin-tendulkar-scored-his-100th-international-century-on-this-day-in-2012-2391736 |access-date=21 August 2023 |work=[[NDTV News]] |date=16 March 2012 |archive-date=22 August 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230822045428/https://sports.ndtv.com/cricket/sachin-tendulkar-scored-his-100th-international-century-on-this-day-in-2012-2391736 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Crimea]] votes in a controversial [[2014 Crimean status referendum|referendum]] to secede from [[Ukraine]] to join Russia.<ref>{{cite news |title=Crimea referendum: Voters 'back Russia union' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097 |access-date=12 September 2021 |work=[[BBC News]] |date=16 March 2014 |archive-date=17 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180617132157/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26606097 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2016]] &ndash; A [[2016 Peshawar bus bombing|bomb detonates]] in a bus carrying government employees in [[Peshawar]], Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 30.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Boone |first1=Jon |title=Peshawar bomb kills at least 16 on bus for Pakistani government officials |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/16/peshawar-bomb-kills-15-on-bus-carrying-pakistani-government-officials |access-date=15 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=16 March 2016}}</ref>
*  2016   &ndash; Two suicide bombers [[March 2016 Maiduguri bombings|detonate their explosives]] at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of [[Maiduguri]], Nigeria, killing 24 and injuring 18.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Alfa |first1=Ismail |last2=Omirin |first2=Joshua |title=Rescuers: Female suicide bombers kill 24 at Nigerian mosque |url=https://apnews.com/article/c280ec9291154549b395f67e6ec50ffb |access-date=17 September 2021 |work=[[Associated Press]] |date=16 March 2016 |archive-date=18 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220518034114/https://apnews.com/article/c280ec9291154549b395f67e6ec50ffb |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2020]] &ndash; The Dow Jones Industrial Average [[2020 stock market crash#Black Monday II (16 March)|falls by 2,997.10]], the single [[List of largest daily changes in the Dow Jones Industrial Average|largest point drop in history]] and the second-largest percentage drop ever at 12.93%, an even greater crash than [[Wall Street crash of 1929|Black Monday (1929)]]. This follows the [[Federal Reserve|U.S. Federal Reserve]] announcing that it will cut its target interest rate to 0–0.25%.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200315a.htm|title=Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement|website=Federal Reserve|date=March 15, 2020|access-date=March 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200317021707/https://www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/pressreleases/monetary20200315a.htm|archive-date=March 17, 2020|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[2021]] &ndash; [[2021 Atlanta spa shootings|Atlanta spa shootings]]: Eight people are killed and one is injured in a trio of shootings at spas in and near [[Atlanta]], Georgia, U.S. A suspect is arrested the same day.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Lynch |first1=Jamiel |last2=Almasy |first2=Steve |title=8 killed in shootings at 3 metro Atlanta spas. Police have 1 suspect in custody |url=https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/metro-atlanta-shootings/index.html |access-date=10 September 2021 |work=CNN |date=March 17, 2021 |archive-date=19 March 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210319053943/https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/16/us/metro-atlanta-shootings/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; A [[2022 Fukushima earthquake|7.4-magnitude earthquake]] occurs off the coast of [[Fukushima Prefecture|Fukushima]], Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225.<ref>{{cite web |title=At least four killed after 7.4-magnitude quake shakes east Japan |url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/16/7-3-magnitude-quake-shakes-east-japan-triggers-tsunami-advisory |website=Al Jazeera |access-date=16 March 2022 |archive-date=16 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316162931/https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/3/16/7-3-magnitude-quake-shakes-east-japan-triggers-tsunami-advisory |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2022]] &ndash; [[Mariupol theatre airstrike]] during the [[siege of Mariupol]].<ref name="ap">{{cite news |last1=Hinnant |first1=Lori |last2=Chernov |first2=Mstyslav |last3=Stepanenko |first3=Vasilisa |date=4 May 2022 |title=AP evidence points to 600 dead in Mariupol theater airstrike |url=https://apnews.com/article/Russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-theater-c321a196fbd568899841b506afcac7a1 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220504121004/https://apnews.com/article/Russia-ukraine-war-mariupol-theater-c321a196fbd568899841b506afcac7a1 |archive-date=4 May 2022 |access-date=2022-06-16 |work=[[Associated Press]] |df=dmy-all}}</ref>
*[[2025]] &ndash; A [[Kočani nightclub fire|fire breaks out]] in a nightclub in [[Kočani]], [[North Macedonia]], killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hagan |first=Rachel |date=2025-03-16 |title=North Macedonia nightclub fire claims more than 50 lives in Kocani town |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70wdedp20wo |access-date=2025-03-16 |website=www.bbc.com |language=en-GB}}</ref>
*[[2026]] &ndash; [[2026 Maiduguri bombings|A series]] of [[Boko Haram]] bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in [[Maiduguri]],  Nigeria.<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news |date=17 March 2026 |title=Suspected suicide attacks kill at least 23 in north-east Nigeria |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4gqnjjy9edo |access-date=17 March 2026 |publisher=BBC News}}</ref><ref name="FR24">{{Cite news |date=16 March 2026 |title=Multiple suicide bombers hit Nigeria's Maiduguri city after years of calm |url=https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20260316-multiple-suicide-bombers-hit-nigeria-s-maiduguri-city-after-years-of-calm |access-date=17 March 2026 |publisher=France 24}}</ref>

==Births==
===Pre-1600===
*[[1399]] &ndash; The [[Xuande Emperor]], ruler of [[Ming dynasty|Ming China]] (died 1435)
*[[1445]] &ndash; [[Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg]], Swiss priest and theologian (died 1510)<ref>{{EB1911|noprescript=1|wstitle=Geiler von Kaisersberg, Johann|volume=11|page=553}}</ref>
*[[1465]] &ndash; [[Kunigunde of Austria]], Duchess of Bavaria (died 1520)<ref>{{cite book |first=Constantin |last=von Wurzbach |author-link=Constantin von Wurzbach |title=Biographisches Lexikon des Kaiserthums Oesterreich |date=1860 |location=Vienna | publisher=L. C. Zamarski, C. Dittmarsch & Comp.|pages=404–406 |volume=6 |url=https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96:Habsburg,_Kunigunde_von_Oesterreich |access-date=12 October 2021 |language=de |chapter=Habsburg, Kunigunde von Oesterreich |via=Wikisource |archive-date=22 February 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220222164547/https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/BLK%C3%96%3AHabsburg%2C_Kunigunde_von_Oesterreich |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1473]] &ndash; [[Henry IV, Duke of Saxony]] (died 1541)
*[[1559]] &ndash; [[Amar Singh I]], successor of Maharana Pratap of Mewar (died 1620)
*[[1581]] &ndash; [[Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft]], Dutch historian and poet (died 1647)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Warner |editor1-first=Charles Dudley |title=Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Volume 13 |date=1902 |publisher=J.A. Hill & Company |location=New York |page=7610 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9bQqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA7610 |chapter=Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-09-01 |archive-date=2021-09-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901001011/https://books.google.com/books?id=9bQqAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA7610 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1585]] &ndash; [[Gerbrand Bredero]], Dutch poet and playwright (died 1618)<ref>{{cite book |last1=van Oostveen |first1=Giesela |editor1-last=Kloek |editor1-first=Els |editor2-last=Teeuwen |editor2-first=Nicole |editor3-last=Huisman |editor3-first=Marijke |title=Women of the golden age : an international debate on women in seventeenth-century Holland, England and Italy |date=1994 |publisher=Verloren |location=Hilversum |isbn=978-90-6550-383-1 |pages=56–57 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWoBlO6NVi4C&pg=PA56 |chapter=It takes all sorts to make a world. Sex and gender in Bredero's Farce of the Miller |access-date=2021-09-04 |archive-date=2021-09-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210904205245/https://books.google.com/books?id=RWoBlO6NVi4C&pg=PA56 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1590]] &ndash; [[Ii Naotaka]], Japanese daimyō (died 1659)
*[[1596]] &ndash; [[Ebba Brahe]], Swedish countess (died 1674)<ref>{{cite web |title=Ebba Brahe |url=https://sok.riksarkivet.se/sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=18040 |website=Svenskt Biografiskt Lexikon |access-date=1 September 2021 |archive-date=27 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210927131934/https://sok.riksarkivet.se/Sbl/Presentation.aspx?id=18040 |url-status=live }}</ref>

===1601–1900===
*[[1609]] &ndash; [[Michael Franck]], German poet and composer of hymns (died 1667)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Julian |first1=John |title=A Dictionary of Hymnology, Setting Forth the Origin and History of Christian Hymns of All Ages and Nations |date=1908 |publisher=John Murray, Albemarle Street |location=London |page=387 |edition=rev. |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5sRNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA387 |chapter=Franck, Michael |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-08-31 |archive-date=2021-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831214100/https://books.google.com/books?id=5sRNAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA387 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1609   &ndash; [[Agostino Mitelli]], Italian painter (died 1660)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Farquhar |first1=Maria |editor1-last=Wornum |editor1-first=Ralph N. |title=Biographical catalogue of the principal Italian painters with a tale of the contemporary schools of Italy designed as a hand-book to the picture gallery |date=1855 |publisher=John Murray, Albemarle Street |location=London |page=106 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2WsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA106 |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-09-05 |archive-date=2021-09-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905215602/https://books.google.com/books?id=2WsBAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA106 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1621]] &ndash; [[Georg Neumark]], German poet and composer of hymns (died 1681)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Miller |first1=Josiah |title=Singers and Songs of the Church: Being Biographical Sketches of the Hymn-writers in All the Principal Collections : with Notes on Their Psalms and Hymns |date=1869 |publisher=Longmans, Green, and Co. |location=London |page=91 |edition=2nd |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=p-c-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91 |chapter=George Neumark. (1621-1681) |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-08-31 |archive-date=2021-08-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210831220012/https://books.google.com/books?id=p-c-AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA91 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1631]] &ndash; [[René Le Bossu]], French literary critic (died 1680)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Chalmers |first1=Alexander |title=The General Biographical Dictionary. Volume VI |date=1812 |publisher=J. Nichols and Son |location=London |pages=163–4 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BuNHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163 |access-date=12 September 2021 |chapter=Bossu |archive-date=12 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912214556/https://books.google.com/books?id=BuNHAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA163 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1638]] &ndash; [[François Crépieul]], Jesuit missionary (died 1702)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Spillane |first1=Edward P. |editor1-last=Herbermann |editor1-first=Charles G. |title=The Catholic Encyclopedia. Volume IV |date=1908 |publisher=Robert Appleton Co. |location=New York |page=484 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA484 |chapter=Crépieul, François D. |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-09-19 |archive-date=2021-09-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210919014852/https://books.google.com/books?id=MlY_AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA484 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1654]] &ndash; [[Andreas Acoluthus]], German scholar (died 1704)<ref>{{cite book |title=[[s:de:ADB:Acoluthus, Andreas|Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie]] |date=1875 |volume=1 |page=40 |language=de |chapter=Acoluthus, Andreas |via=[[Wikisource]]}}</ref>
*[[1670]] &ndash; [[François de Franquetot de Coigny]], French general (died 1759)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Pluquet |first1=Adrien |title=Bibliographie du Département de La Manche |date=1873 |publisher=Massif |location=Caen |page=72 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=3NiDUCTeHeYC&pg=PA72 |language=fr |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=2021-09-26 |archive-date=2021-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926010039/https://books.google.com/books?id=3NiDUCTeHeYC&pg=PA72 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1673]] &ndash; [[Jean Bouhier (jurist)|Jean Bouhier]], French jurist and scholar (died 1746)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Middleton |first1=Roger |editor1-last=Busby |editor1-first=Keith |title=Les manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes |volume=2 |date=1993 |publisher=Rodopi |location=Amsterdam |isbn=978-90-5183-603-5 |pages=100–101 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA101 |chapter=Index of former owners |access-date=2021-10-02 |archive-date=2021-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002213135/https://books.google.com/books?id=NsvcTtsIyRgC&pg=PA101 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1687]] &ndash; [[Sophia Dorothea of Hanover]], queen consort of Frederick William I (died 1757)
*[[1693]] &ndash; [[Malhar Rao Holkar]], Indian nobleman (died 1766)
*[[1701]] &ndash; [[Daniel Lorenz Salthenius]], Swedish theologian (died 1750)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Naragon |first1=Steve |editor1-last=Klemme |editor1-first=Heiner F. |editor2-last=Kuehn |editor2-first=Manfred |title=The Bloomsbury dictionary of eighteenth-century German philosophers |date=2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |location=New York |isbn=978-1-4742-5600-1 |pages=645–6 |chapter=Salthenius, Daniel Lorenz (1701–50) |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YH6fCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA645}}</ref>
*[[1729]] &ndash; [[Countess Maria Louise Albertine of Leiningen-Dagsburg-Falkenburg|Maria Louise Albertine]] (died 1818)<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Deaths |magazine=The Edinburgh Magazine and Literary Miscellany |date=April 1818 |page=396 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QF0AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA396 |publisher=Archibald Constable and Company |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-10-04 |archive-date=2021-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004133357/https://books.google.com/books?id=QF0AAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA396 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1741]] &ndash; [[Carlo Amoretti]], Italian scientist (died 1816)
*[[1744]] &ndash; [[Nicolas-Germain Léonard]], Guadeloupean poet and novelist (died 1793)<ref>{{cite book |title=Revue du traditionnisme français et etranger |date=1908 |location=Paris |pages=165–6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA165 |access-date=6 October 2021 |language=fr |chapter=Bibliografie des Provinces {{!}} Ile-de-France |via=Google Books |trans-title=Review of French and foreign traditionism |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006010127/https://books.google.com/books?id=pQ2gAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA2-PA165 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Wilson |editor1-first=James Grant |editor2-last=Fiske |editor2-first=John |title=Appleton's Cyclopædia of American Biography. Volume III |date=1887 |publisher=D. Appleton and Company |location=New York |page=691 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TGFIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA691 |access-date=6 October 2021 |chapter=Léonard, Nicolas-Germain |via=Google Books |archive-date=6 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006010104/https://books.google.com/books?id=TGFIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA691 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1750]] &ndash; [[Caroline Herschel]], German-English astronomer (died 1848)<ref>{{cite web |title=Caroline Herschel {{!}} Biography, Discoveries, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Caroline-Lucretia-Herschel |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=22 January 2020 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1751]] &ndash; [[James Madison]], American academic and politician, 4th [[President of the United States]] (died 1836)
*[[1753]] &ndash; [[François Amédée Doppet]], French general (died 1799)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gabolde |first1=Maurice |title=Philibert Simond: Contribution à l'histoire de la révolution |date=2013 |publisher=L'Harmattan |location=Paris |isbn=978-2-296-53315-8 |page=26 <!-- in footnote --> |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jfkLaxOzmCoC&pg=PA26 |access-date=2021-10-06 |archive-date=2021-10-06 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211006014711/https://books.google.com/books?id=jfkLaxOzmCoC&pg=PA26 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1760]] &ndash; [[Johann Heinrich Meyer]], Swiss painter and writer (died 1832)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Müller |first1=Hermann Alexander |title=Allgemeines Künstler-Lexicon |volume=3 |date=1898 |publisher=Literarische Anstalt, Rütten & Loening |location=Frankfurt |page=191 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ImULAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA191 |access-date=2 October 2021 |language=de |chapter=Meyer, Johann Heinrich |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1766]] &ndash; [[Jean-Frédéric Waldeck]],  French antiquarian, cartographer, artist and explorer (died 1875)<ref>{{cite journal |title=October meeting, 1876 |journal=Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society |date=1878 |volume=1876-1877 |pages=9–10 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=opFIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9 |access-date=3 October 2021 |publisher=Massachusetts Historical Society |location=Boston |via=[[Google Books]] |archive-date=3 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211003145054/https://books.google.com/books?id=opFIAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA9 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1771]] &ndash; [[Antoine-Jean Gros]], French painter (died 1835)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Tinterow |first1=Gary |last2=Miller |first2=Asher Ethan |editor1-last=Fahy |editor1-first=Everett |title=The Wrightsman Pictures |date=2005 |publisher=Metropolitan Museum of Art |location=New York |isbn=978-1-58839-144-5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh_4yssGQgcC&pg=PA268 |page=268 |chapter=Baron Gros |access-date=2021-09-18 |archive-date=2021-09-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210918232519/https://books.google.com/books?id=Gh_4yssGQgcC&pg=PA268 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1773]] &ndash; [[Juan Ramón Balcarce]], Argentinian general and politician, 6th [[Governor of Buenos Aires Province]] (died 1836)
*[[1774]] &ndash; [[Matthew Flinders]], English navigator and cartographer (died 1814)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Morgan |first1=Kenneth |title=Matthew Flinders, Maritime Explorer of Australia |date=24 March 2016 |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing |isbn=978-1-4411-4910-7 |pages=ix, 3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QAt0CwAAQBAJ |access-date=26 September 2021 |archive-date=26 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002716/https://books.google.com/books?id=QAt0CwAAQBAJ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1776]] &ndash; [[Johan Gijsbert Verstolk van Soelen]], Dutch Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1845)<ref>{{cite web |title=Mr. J.G. baron Verstolk van Soelen |url=https://www.parlement.com/id/vg09llsykfqh |website=Parlement.com |access-date=24 August 2025}}</ref>
*[[1789]] &ndash; [[Francis Rawdon Chesney]], English general and explorer (died 1872)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Chesney, Francis Rawdon |first=Stanley |last=Lane-Poole|volume=10}}</ref>
*  1789   &ndash; [[Georg Ohm]], German physicist and mathematician (died 1854)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bird |first1=John |title=Electrical and electronic principles and technology |date=2017 |publisher=Routledge |location=London |isbn=978-1-317-20266-0 |page=59 |edition=6th |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uT8lDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |access-date=2021-09-12 |archive-date=2021-09-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210912165713/https://books.google.com/books?id=uT8lDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA59 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1794]] &ndash; [[Ami Boué]], Austrian geologist and ethnographer (died 1881)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Geikie |first1=Arch. |title=Ami Boue |journal=Nature |date=December 1881 |volume=25 |issue=631 |pages=109–111 |doi=10.1038/025109a0 |bibcode=1881Natur..25..109G |doi-access=free |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gSU6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 |access-date=2021-09-26 |archive-date=2021-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002719/https://books.google.com/books?id=gSU6AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA109 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Index of obituary notices for the year 1881 |date=1882 |publisher=The Index Society |location=London |page=13 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hJEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13 |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=2021-09-26 |archive-date=2021-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002718/https://books.google.com/books?id=hJEIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA13 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1797]] &ndash; [[Alaric Alexander Watts]], English poet and journalist (died 1864)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Cansick |first1=Frederick Teague |title=A Collection of Curious and Interesting Epitaphs: Copied from the Monuments of Distinguished and Noted Characters in the Ancient Church and Burial Grounds of Saint Pancras, Middlesex |date=1872 |publisher=J.Russell Smith |location=London |page=131 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h7UEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131 |via=Google Books |access-date=2021-09-08 |archive-date=2021-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908000401/https://books.google.com/books?id=h7UEAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA131 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1799]] &ndash; [[Anna Atkins]], English botanist and photographer (died 1871)<ref>{{cite book|first=Catharine M. C.|last=Haines|title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950|location=Santa Barbara|publisher=ABC-CLIO|year=2001|isbn=978-1-57607-090-1|page=10}}</ref>
*[[1800]] &ndash; [[Emperor Ninkō]] of Japan (died 1846)
*[[1805]] &ndash; [[Ernst von Lasaulx]], German philologist and politician (died 1861)<ref>{{Catholic Encyclopedia |prescript= |wstitle=Ernst von Lasaulx}}</ref>
*[[1806]] &ndash; [[Félix De Vigne]], Belgian painter (died 1862)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Champlin |editor1-first=John Denison |editor2-last=Perkins |editor2-first=Charles Callahan |title=Cyclopedia of Painters and Paintings. Volume IV |date=1905 |publisher=Charles Scribner's sons |location=New York |page=367 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UHzqAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA367 |access-date=3 October 2021 |chapter=Vigne, Félix De}}</ref>
*[[1808]] &ndash; [[Hannah T. King]], British-born American writer and pioneer (died 1886)<ref name="HolmesDuniway1995">{{cite book|last1=Holmes|first1=Kenneth L.|last2=Duniway|first2=David|title=Covered Wagon Women: 1853-1854|url=https://archive.org/details/coveredwagonwome06holm|url-access=registration|year=1995|publisher=University of Nebraska Press|isbn=0-8032-7295-2|pages=[https://archive.org/details/coveredwagonwome06holm/page/183 183]–}}</ref>
*[[1813]] &ndash; [[Gaëtan de Rochebouët]], French prime minister (died 1899)<ref>{{cite magazine |magazine=Revue d'artillerie |date=March 1899 |publisher=Berger-Levrault & Co. |location=Paris |volume=53 |issue=6 |pages=582–584 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LR43AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA582 |access-date=3 October 2021 |language=fr |title=Nécrologie {{!}} Le Général de Devision de Grimaudet, Comte de Rochebouët |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*[[1819]] &ndash; [[José Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco|José Paranhos]], Brazilian politician (died 1880)
*[[1820]] &ndash; [[Enrico Tamberlik]], Italian tenor (died 1889)<ref>{{cite magazine|title=Obituary Notice: Enrico Tamberlik |magazine=The Musical Times |date=1 April 1889 |volume= 30 |issue=554 |page=219 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=d-cEAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219 |via=[[Google Books]]}}</ref>
*[[1821]] &ndash; [[Eduard Heine]], German mathematician and academic (died 1881)
*[[1822]] &ndash; [[Rosa Bonheur]], French painter and sculptor (died 1899)<ref>{{cite book |last=Laurence |first=Madeline |title=Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 |location=New Haven |publisher=Yale University Press |year=2017 |page=243 |isbn=978-0-300-22393-4 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=R4w-DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA243}}</ref>
*  1822   &ndash; [[John Pope (general)|John Pope]], American general (died 1892)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Piecuch |first1=Jim |editor1-last=Tucker |editor1-first=Spencer C. |title=American Civil War : the definitive encyclopedia and document collection |date=2013 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |location=Santa Barbara, California |isbn=978-1-85109-682-4 |page=1550 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1550 |chapter=Pope, John |access-date=2021-10-04 |archive-date=2021-10-04 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211004134803/https://books.google.com/books?id=9dvYAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA1550 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1823]] &ndash; [[William Henry Monk]], English organist and composer  (died 1889)<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Monk, William Henry|volume=38 |page=176}}</ref>
*[[1825]] &ndash; [[Camilo Castelo Branco]], Portuguese writer (died 1890)
*[[1828]] &ndash; [[Émile Deshayes de Marcère]], French politician (died 1918)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mayeur |first1=Jean Marie |last2=Corbin |first2=Alain |last3=Schweitz |first3=Arlette |title=Les immortels du Sénat, 1875–1918: les cent seize inamovibles de la Troisième République |date=1995 |publisher=Publications de la Sorbonne |isbn=978-2-85944-273-6 |page=418 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5zkliher7YAC&pg=PA418 |access-date=9 October 2021 |language=fr |chapter=MARCÈRE Émile Deshayes de 1828-1918 |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010000025/https://books.google.com/books?id=5zkliher7YAC&pg=PA418 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1834]] &ndash; [[James Hector]], Scottish geologist and surgeon (died 1907)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dell |first1=R.K. |title=Dictionary of New Zealand Biography |date=1990 |publisher=Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james |access-date=13 October 2021 |chapter=Hector, James |archive-date=28 March 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190328015221/https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/1h15/hector-james |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1836]] &ndash; [[Andrew Smith Hallidie]], English-American engineer and inventor (died 1900)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Millard |first1=Bailey |title=History of the San Francisco Bay Region: History and Biography |date=1924 |publisher=American Historical Society |location=Chicago |volume=3 |pages=312–317 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rbQzAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA312 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=Andrew Smith Hallidie |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1839]] &ndash; [[Sully Prudhomme]], French poet and critic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1907)<ref>{{cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1901 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1901/prudhomme/biographical/ |website=NobelPrize.org |access-date=4 September 2021 |archive-date=16 August 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170816235508/http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1901/prudhomme-bio.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1839   &ndash; [[John Butler Yeats]], Irish painter (died 1922)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Byrne |editor1-first=James Patrick |editor2-last=Coleman |editor2-first=Philip |editor3-last=King |editor3-first=Jason Francis |title=Ireland and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History : a Multidisciplinary Encyclopedia |date=2008 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=978-1-85109-614-5 |page=923 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=agfvVQnBu9MC&pg=PA923}}</ref>
*[[1840]] &ndash; [[Shibusawa Eiichi]], Japanese industrialist (died 1931)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Hendrickson |editor1-first=Kenneth E. III |title=The Encyclopedia of the Industrial Revolution in World History |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-0-8108-8888-3 |page=849 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EdwsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA849 |access-date=9 October 2021 |chapter=Shibusawa Eiichi (1840–1931) |archive-date=9 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009235326/https://books.google.com/books?id=EdwsCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA849 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1840   &ndash; [[Georg von der Gabelentz]], German linguist and sinologist (died 1893)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jankowsky |first1=K.R. |editor1-last=Brown |editor1-first=Keith |title=Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics |date=24 November 2005 |publisher=Elsevier |isbn=978-0-08-054784-8 |page=<!-- no page numbers --> |edition=2nd |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cxYGQfiD_1oC&pg=PT7352 |access-date=7 October 2021 |chapter=Gabelentz, H. Georg Conon von der (1840–1893) |via=Google Books}}</ref>
*[[1845]] &ndash; [[Umegatani Tōtarō I]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (died 1928)
*[[1846]] &ndash; [[Gösta Mittag-Leffler]], Swedish mathematician and academic (died 1927)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Gårding |first1=Lars|author-link=Lars Gårding |title=Mathematics and Mathematicians. Mathematics in Sweden before 1950 |date=1998 |publisher=American Mathematical Society |chapter=Gösta Mittag-Leffler — a biography |isbn=978-0-8218-9045-5 |page=73 |series=History of mathematics |volume=13 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ggb7nwoA_D4C&pg=PA73 |access-date=9 October 2021}}</ref>
*  1846   &ndash; [[Rebecca Cole (physician)|Rebecca Cole]], American physician and social reformer (died 1922)<ref>{{cite book|first=Darryl|last=Lyman|title=Great African-American Women|location=New York|publisher=J David|year=2005|isbn=978-0-8246-0459-2|page=279}}</ref> 
*  1846   &ndash; [[Jurgis Bielinis]], Lithuanian book smuggler (died 1918)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Roszkowski |first1=Wojciech |editor1-last=Roszkowski |editor1-first=Wojciech |editor2-last=Kofman |editor2-first=Jan |title=Biographical Dictionary of Central and Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-317-47594-1 |page=86 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_HGlDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |chapter=BIELINIS Jurgis |access-date=2021-10-07 |archive-date=2021-10-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007234546/https://books.google.com/books?id=_HGlDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA86 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1848]] &ndash; [[Axel Heiberg]], Norwegian financier and diplomat (died 1932)<ref>{{cite web |url=https://snl.no/Axel_Heiberg |title=Axel Heiberg |website=Store norske leksikon |access-date=10 October 2021 |language=no |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010213909/https://snl.no/Axel_Heiberg |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1851]] &ndash; [[Otto Bardenhewer]], German theologian (died 1935)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Motter |editor1-first=H.L. |title=The International Who's Who |date=1912 |publisher=The International Who's Who Publishing Co. |location=New York |page=78 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ue48AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 |chapter=Bardenhwer, Otto |via=[[Google Books]] |access-date=2021-09-26 |archive-date=2021-09-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210926002716/https://books.google.com/books?id=ue48AQAAIAAJ&pg=PA78 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1851   &ndash; [[Martinus Beijerinck]], Dutch microbiologist and botanist (died 1931)<ref>{{cite journal | last1 = Chung | first1 = K. T. | last2 = Ferris | first2 = D. H. | title = Martinus Willem Beijerinck (1851–1931): Pioneer of General Microbiology | journal = ASM News | year = 1996 | volume = 62 | issue = 10 | pages = 539––543 | publisher = [[American Society For Microbiology]] | location = Washington, D.C. | url = http://asm.org/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/0000000251/621096p539.pdf | access-date = 17 October 2011 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120425032029/http://asm.org/ccLibraryFiles/FILENAME/0000000251/621096p539.pdf | archive-date = 25 April 2012 | url-status = dead }}</ref>
*[[1856]] &ndash; [[Napoléon, Prince Imperial]] of France (died 1879)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Gilman |editor1-first=Daniel Coit |editor2-last=Peck |editor2-first=Harry Thurston |editor3-last=Colby |editor3-first=Frank Moore |title=The New International Encyclopaedia |date=1906 |publisher=Dodd, Mead & Co. |location=New York |page=246 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RTorAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA245 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=NAPOLEON, Eugène Louis Jean Joseph}}</ref>
*[[1857]] &ndash; [[Charles Harding Firth]], English historian (died 1936)<ref>{{cite book |title=Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary |date=1903 |publisher=Adam & Charles Black |location=London |page=460 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vjsJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA460 |access-date=10 October 2021 |chapter=FIRTH, Charles Harding |archive-date=10 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211010215808/https://books.google.com/books?id=vjsJAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA460 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite odnb |first=Ivan |last=Roots |title=Firth, Sir Charles Harding (1857–1936) |year=2004 |id=33137 }}</ref>
*[[1859]] &ndash; [[Alexander Stepanovich Popov]], Russian physicist and inventor (died 1906)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Radovsky |first1=M. |translator-last=Yankovsky |translator-first=G. |title=Alexander Popov Inventor of Radio |date=2001 |publisher=University Press of the Pacific |location=Honolulu, Hawaii |isbn=978-0-89875-307-3 |page=5 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rZZTUZbjYJsC&pg=PA5 |chapter=From childhood to university}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=A Dictionary of Scientists |date=1999 |publisher=Oxford University Press |location=Oxford |isbn=978-0-19-280086-2 |page=433 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AtngooiwXikC&pg=PA433 |chapter=Popov, Aleksandr Stepanovich |access-date=2021-10-13 |archive-date=2022-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220415181651/https://books.google.com/books?id=AtngooiwXikC&pg=PA433 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1865]] &ndash; [[Patsy Donovan]], Irish-American baseball player and manager (died 1953)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eisenbath |first1=Mike |title=The Cardinals Encyclopedia |date=1999 |publisher=Temple University Press |location=Philadelphia |isbn=978-1-56639-703-2 |page=367 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hymGG28xYcoC&pg=PA367 |chapter=Donovan, Patsy}}</ref>
*[[1869]] &ndash; [[Willy Burmester]], German violinist (died 1933)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Vierhaus |editor1-first=Rudolf |title=Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie |date=2005 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-094656-7 |volume=2 |page=328 |edition=2nd |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fB9-1XYo8PQC&pg=PA238 |language=de |chapter=Burmester, Willy}}</ref>
*[[1871]] &ndash; [[Hans Merensky]], South African geologist and philanthropist (died 1951)
*  1871   &ndash; [[Frantz Reichel]], French rugby player and hurdler (died 1932)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mallon |first1=Bill |title=The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8952-7 |page=276 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHYwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276}}</ref>
*[[1874]] &ndash; [[Frédéric François-Marsal]], French prime minister (died 1958)
*[[1877]] &ndash; [[Léo-Ernest Ouimet]], Canadian director and producer (died 1972)<ref>{{cite web |title=Léo-Ernest Ouimet (1877-1972) |url=https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/LeoErnestOuimet |website=[[Parks Canada]] |access-date=17 October 2021 |date=23 July 2020 |archive-date=17 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117141334/https://www.pc.gc.ca/en/culture/clmhc-hsmbc/res/information-backgrounder/LeoErnestOuimet |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1878]] &ndash; [[Clemens August Graf von Galen]], German cardinal (died 1946)<ref>{{cite book |title=Saints: Inspiration and Guidance for Every Day of the Year |date=2021 |publisher=Weldon Owen |isbn=978-1-68188-748-7 |page=96 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4YI_EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |access-date=2021-10-08 |archive-date=2021-10-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008040259/https://books.google.com/books?id=4YI_EAAAQBAJ&pg=PA96 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1878   &ndash; [[Paul Jouve]], French painter (died 1973)<ref>{{cite web |title=Paul Jouve (French, 1880–1973) |url=http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-jouve/ |website=Artnet |access-date=17 October 2021 |archive-date=17 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211017010310/http://www.artnet.com/artists/paul-jouve/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1881]] &ndash; [[Fannie Charles Dillon]], American composer (died 1947)<ref>{{cite book|first1=Julie Anne|last1=Sadie|first2=Rhian|last2=Samuel|title=The New Grove Dictionary of Women Composers|location=London|publisher=Macmillan|year=1996|page=143|isbn=978-0-333-51598-3}}</ref>
*[[1882]] &ndash; [[James Lightbody]], American runner (died 1953)<ref>{{cite web |title=Jim Lightbody |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78697 |website=Olympedia |access-date=10 September 2021 |archive-date=12 July 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210712203127/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/78697 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1883]] &ndash; [[Ethel Anderson]], Australian poet, author, and painter (died 1958)<ref>{{cite book|last=Adelaide|first=Debra|title=Australian Women Writers: A Bibliographic Guide|location=London|publisher=Pandora|year=1986|page=3|isbn=978-0-86358-148-9}}</ref>
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Eric P. Kelly]], American journalist and author (died 1960)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bostrom |first1=Kathleen Long |title=Winning Authors: Profiles of the Newbery Medalists |date=2003 |publisher=Libraries Unlimited |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-1-56308-877-3 |page=22 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PtjKpgdZS00C&pg=PA22 |chapter=1929: Eric P. Kelly}}</ref>
*1884 &ndash; [[J. Alfred Tanner]], Finnish singer and songwriter (died 1927)<ref>{{cite web |title=Kupletin kuningas J. Alfred Tanner|date=8 December 2006 |url=https://yle.fi/a/20-87180|access-date=4 August 2025 }}</ref>
*[[1885]] &ndash; [[Giacomo Benvenuti (composer)|Giacomo Benvenuti]], Italian composer and musicologist (died 1943)<ref>{{cite book |title=Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani |date=1966 |url=https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-benvenuti_(Dizionario-Biografico) |volume=8 |access-date=20 October 2021 |language=it-IT |chapter=Benvenuti, Giacomo |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326034631/https://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giacomo-benvenuti_(Dizionario-Biografico) |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1885   &ndash; [[Sydney Chaplin]], English actor (died 1965)
*[[1886]] &ndash; [[Herbert Lindström]], Swedish tug of war player (died 1951)<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbert Lindström |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18135 |website=Olympedia |access-date=20 October 2021 |archive-date=21 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211021110435/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/18135 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1887]] &ndash; [[Emilio Lunghi]], Italian runner (died 1925)
*  1887   &ndash; [[S. Stillman Berry]], American marine zoologist (1984)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Roper |first1=Clyde F. E. |title=S. Stillman Berry (1887-1984): A tribute through glimpses and reflections |journal=American Malacological Bulletin |date=1984 |volume=3 |issue=1 |pages=55–61 |url=https://archive.org/details/americanmal1319831985amer/page/54/mode/1up?view=theater |access-date=21 October 2021 |via=[[Internet Archive]]}}</ref>
*[[1889]] &ndash; [[Reggie Walker (sprinter)|Reggie Walker]], South African athlete (died 1951)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Mallon |first1=Bill |last2=Buchanan |first2=Ian |title=The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary |date=2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0952-2 |page=473 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vYEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA473 |chapter=South Africa |access-date=2021-10-23 |archive-date=2021-10-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211023013944/https://books.google.com/books?id=vYEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA473 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[César Vallejo]], Peruvian poet (died 1938)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Luebering |editor1-first=J. E. |title=The Literature of Spain and Latin America |date=2011 |publisher=The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc |location=New York |isbn=978-1-61530-105-8 |page=291 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=s5aOYNbkA0sC&pg=PA291 |chapter=César Vallejo |access-date=2021-11-17 |archive-date=2021-11-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117005718/https://books.google.com/books?id=s5aOYNbkA0sC&pg=PA291 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1895]] &ndash; [[Ernest Labrousse]], French historian (died 1988)<ref>{{cite book |last=Perrot |first=Michelle |editor1-last=Kritzman |editor1-first=Lawrence D. |editor2-last=Reilly |editor2-first=Brian J. |editor3-last=DeBevoise |editor3-first=M. B. |title=The Columbia History of Twentieth-century French Thought |date=2006 |publisher=Columbia University Press |location=New York |isbn=978-0-231-10790-7 |page=562 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA562 |chapter=Camille-Ernest Labrousse |access-date=2021-10-20 |archive-date=2021-10-20 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211020231746/https://books.google.com/books?id=bREQibN9i-sC&pg=PA562 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1897]] &ndash; [[Antonio Donghi]], Italian painter (died 1963)
*  1897   &ndash; [[Conrad Nagel]], American actor (died 1970)<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uznsDu6OHA0C| title=Silent Players: A Biographical and Autobiographical Study of 100 Silent Film Actors and Actresses| publisher=University Press of Kentucky| last=Slide| first=Anthony| date=February 1, 2010|chapter=Conrad Nagel |page=<!-- no page numbers -->| isbn=978-0-8131-3745-2}}</ref>
*[[1900]] &ndash; [[Cyril Hume]], American novelist and screenwriter (died 1966)<ref name="Durward 1938">{{cite book |last1=Howes |first1=Durward |title=America's Young Men |date=1938 |publisher=Richard Blank Publishing Company |page=292 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=AZQ6AQAAIAAJ&q=%22helen+chandler%22+cyril+hume}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |title=Cyril Hume dies; wrote for films; did 'Great Gatsby' script in 1949--also a novelist |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/28/283355602.html?pageNumber=33 |access-date=17 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 28, 1966 |url-access=limited |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104202503/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/03/28/283355602.html?pageNumber=33 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1900   &ndash; [[Mencha Karnicheva]], Macedonian revolutionary and assassin (died 1964)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51|title=MACEDONIA: HISTORY AND NEWS FROM MSI|date=2009-01-01|website=Macedonian Scientific Institute|language=bg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090101041043/http://www.macedonia-science.org/page.php?51|archive-date=January 1, 2009|access-date=2017-10-24}}</ref>

===1901–present===
*[[1901]] &ndash; [[Alexis Chantraine]], Belgian footballer (died 1987)
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Mike Mansfield]], American politician and diplomat, 22nd [[United States Ambassador to Japan]] (died 2001)
*[[1904]] &ndash; [[Buddy Myer]], American baseball player (died 1974)<ref>{{cite web |title=Buddy Myer Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/myerbu01.shtml |website=Baseball Reference |access-date=8 April 2024 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622103012/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/m/myerbu01.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1906]] &ndash; [[Francisco Ayala (novelist)|Francisco Ayala]], Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (died 2009)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mullan |first1=Michael |title=Francisco Ayala obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/04/francisco-ayala-obituary |access-date=5 September 2021 |work=[[The Guardian]] |date=4 November 2009 |language=en |archive-date=13 January 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113202944/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2009/nov/04/francisco-ayala-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1906   &ndash; [[Maurice Turnbull]], Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player (died 1944)<ref>{{cite web |title=Maurice Turnbull profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/maurice-turnbull-21614 |website=[[ESPNcricinfo]] |access-date=5 September 2021 |archive-date=27 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211027000934/https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/maurice-turnbull-21614 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1906   &ndash; [[Lloyd Waner]], American baseball player (died 1982)<ref>{{cite web |title=Lloyd Waner Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wanerll01.shtml |website=Baseball Reference |access-date=8 April 2024 |archive-date=4 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220104223329/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/w/wanerll01.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1906   &ndash; [[Henny Youngman]], English-American violinist and comedian (died 1998)
*[[1908]] &ndash; [[René Daumal]], French author and poet (died 1944)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Flower |first1=John |title=Historical dictionary of French literature |date=2013 |publisher=Scarecrow Press |location=Lanham, Md. |isbn=978-0-8108-7945-4 |page=163 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |chapter=Daumal, René (1908–1944) |access-date=2021-10-02 |archive-date=2021-10-02 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211002153455/https://books.google.com/books?id=Kd6tAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA163 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1908   &ndash; [[Ernest Rogez]], French water polo player (died 1986)
*  1908   &ndash; [[Robert Rossen]], American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1966)<ref>{{cite news |title=Robert Rossen Is Dead at 57; Maker of Films for 30 Years; Writer-Director-Producer Won International Fame for Trenchant Realism |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.html?pageNumber=27 |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=February 19, 1966 |page=27 |url-access=limited |archive-date=4 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211104202503/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/02/19/79292897.html?pageNumber=27 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1909]] &ndash; [[Don Raye]], American songwriter (died 1985)<ref name="LarkinGE">{{cite book|title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Guinness Encyclopedia of Popular Music]]|editor=[[Colin Larkin (writer)|Colin Larkin]]|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|date=1992|edition=First|isbn=0-85112-939-0|page=2050}}</ref>
*[[1910]] &ndash; [[Aladár Gerevich]], Hungarian fencer (died 1991)
*  1910   &ndash; [[Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi]], Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th [[Nawab of Pataudi]] (died 1952)
*[[1911]] &ndash; [[Pierre Harmel]], Belgian lawyer and diplomat, [[Prime Minister of Belgium]] (died 2009)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Weber |first1=Bruce |title=Pierre Harmel, Belgian Who Helped Reshape NATO, Dies at 98 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/europe/18harmel.html |access-date=25 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=18 November 2009 |url-access=limited |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025172209/https://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/world/europe/18harmel.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1911   &ndash; [[Josef Mengele]], German physician, [[Schutzstaffel|SS]] captain and mass-murderer (died 1979)<ref name="UPI">{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for March 16: Isabelle Huppert, Flavor Flav |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/03/16/Famous-birthdays-for-March-16-Isabelle-Huppert-Flavor-Flav/3021678923265/ |publisher=[[United Press International|UPI]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |date=15 March 2023 |archive-date=9 June 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230609004328/https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/03/16/Famous-birthdays-for-March-16-Isabelle-Huppert-Flavor-Flav/3021678923265/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1911   &ndash; [[Philip Pavia]], American painter and sculptor (died 2005)
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Pat Nixon]], American teacher, [[First Lady of the United States]] (died 1993)<ref>{{cite news |title=Pat Nixon, Former First Lady, Dies at 81 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/23/obituaries/pat-nixon-former-first-lady-dies-at-81.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=23 June 1993 |page=22 |url-access=limited |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024010049/https://www.nytimes.com/1993/06/23/obituaries/pat-nixon-former-first-lady-dies-at-81.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1913]] &ndash; [[Rémy Raffalli]], French soldier (died 1952)
*[[1915]] &ndash; [[Kunihiko Kodaira]], Japanese mathematician (died 1997)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Spencer |first1=Donald C. |title=Kunihiko Kodaira (1915–1997) |journal=[[Notices of the AMS]] |date=March 1998 |volume=45 |issue=3 |pages=388–9 |url=https://www.ams.org/notices/199803/comm-obit-spencer.pdf |access-date=2021-10-26 |archive-date=2022-02-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220223055632/https://www.ams.org/notices/199803/comm-obit-spencer.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1916]] &ndash; [[Mercedes McCambridge]], American actress (died 2004)<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- no byline --> |title=Mercedes McCambridge, 87, Actress Known for Strong Roles |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/arts/mercedes-mccambridge-87-actress-known-for-strong-roles.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=18 March 2004 |url-access=limited |archive-date=7 January 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200107150223/https://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/arts/mercedes-mccambridge-87-actress-known-for-strong-roles.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1916   &ndash; [[Tsutomu Yamaguchi]], Japanese engineer and businessman (died 2010)
*[[1917]] &ndash; [[Mehrdad Pahlbod]], Iranian politician (died 2018)
*  1917   &ndash; [[Laure Pillay]],  Mauritian lawyer and jurist (died 2017)<ref>{{cite web |title=Laure Pillay : la première femme juge fête ses 100 ans |trans-title=Laure Pillay: the first female judge celebrates her 100th birthday |url=https://defimedia.info/laure-pillay-la-premiere-femme-juge-fete-ses-100-ans |date=March 26, 2017 |access-date=August 24, 2018 |archive-date=August 25, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180825003049/https://defimedia.info/laure-pillay-la-premiere-femme-juge-fete-ses-100-ans |url-status=live }}</ref> 
*  1917   &ndash; [[Louis C. Wyman]], American lawyer and politician (died 2002)
*[[1918]] &ndash; [[Frederick Reines]], American physicist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Physics|Nobel Prize]] laureate (died 1998)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wilford |first1=John Noble |title=Frederick Reines Dies at 80; Nobelist Discovered Neutrino |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/frederick-reines-dies-at-80-nobelist-discovered-neutrino.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=28 August 1998 |url-access=limited |archive-date=10 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190410021746/https://www.nytimes.com/1998/08/28/us/frederick-reines-dies-at-80-nobelist-discovered-neutrino.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1918   &ndash; [[Aldo van Eyck]], Dutch architect (died 1999)
*[[1920]] &ndash; [[John Addison]], English-American soldier and composer (died 1998)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Sid Fleischman]], American author and screenwriter (died 2010)<ref>{{cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |title=Sid Fleischman, Children's Author, Dies at 90 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html |access-date=19 October 2021 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=24 March 2010 |url-access=limited |archive-date=7 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190607004331/https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/books/25fleischman.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1920   &ndash; [[Traudl Junge]], German secretary (died 2002)
*  1920   &ndash; [[Leo McKern]], Australian-English actor (died 2002)
*[[1922]] &ndash; [[Harding Lemay]], American screenwriter and playwright (died 2018)<ref>{{cite web |title=HARDING LEMAY Obituary |url=https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/harding-lemay-obituary?n=harding-lemay&pid=189459316 |website=The New York Times |access-date=10 November 2021 |date=July 4, 2018 |via=[[Legacy.com]] |archive-date=11 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211111002800/https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/nytimes/name/harding-lemay-obituary?n=harding-lemay&pid=189459316 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1923]] &ndash; [[Heinz Wallberg]], German conductor (died 2004)<ref>{{cite news |title=Heinz Wallberg, chef d'orchestre allemand |url=https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2004/10/02/heinz-wallberg-chef-d-orchestre-allemand_381530_1819218.html |access-date=6 November 2021 |work=[[Le Monde]] |date=2 October 2004 |language=fr |archive-date=6 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211106234714/https://www.lemonde.fr/archives/article/2004/10/02/heinz-wallberg-chef-d-orchestre-allemand_381530_1819218.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[Cornell Borchers]], Lithuanian-German actress and singer (died 2014)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kaplan |first1=Mike |title=Variety International Show Business Reference, 1983 |date=1983 |publisher=Garland Pub. |isbn=978-0-8240-9089-0 |page=41 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i_RLAAAAYAAJ&q=Cornell+Borchers+16+1925 |access-date=12 October 2021 |language=en |archive-date=17 April 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220417183549/https://books.google.com/books?id=i_RLAAAAYAAJ&q=Cornell+Borchers+16+1925 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Schröder |first1=Christian |title=Die Nachkriegsdiva |url=https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/zum-tod-von-cornell-borchers-die-nachkriegsdiva/9909832.html |access-date=12 October 2021 |work=[[Der Tagesspiegel]] |date=19 May 2014 |language=de-DE |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029183235/https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/zum-tod-von-cornell-borchers-die-nachkriegsdiva/9909832.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1925   &ndash; [[Mary Hinkson]], American dancer and choreographer (died 2014)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kisselgoff |first1=Anna |title=Mary Hinkson, a star for Martha Graham, dies at 89 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/arts/dance/-mary-hinkson-a-star-for-martha-graham-dies-at-89.html |access-date=11 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=29 November 2014 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029185639/https://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/arts/dance/-mary-hinkson-a-star-for-martha-graham-dies-at-89.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1925   &ndash; [[Ervin Kassai]], Hungarian basketball player and referee (died 2012)
*  1925   &ndash; [[Luis E. Miramontes]], Mexican chemist and engineer (died 2004)
*[[1926]] &ndash; [[Charles Goodell]], American lawyer and politician (died 1987)
*  1926   &ndash; [[Jerry Lewis]], American actor and comedian (died 2017)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Kehr |first1=Dave |title=Jerry Lewis, a Jester Both Silly and Stormy, Dies at 91 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=20 August 2017 |url-access=limited |archive-date=27 June 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627232519/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/20/movies/jerry-lewis-dead-celebrated-comedian-and-filmmaker.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1927]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Komarov]], Russian pilot, engineer, and cosmonaut (died 1967)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Burgess |first1=Colin |last2=Hall |first2=Rex |title=The First Soviet Cosmonaut Team: Their Lives, Legacy, and Historical Impact |date=2009 |publisher=Springer |location=Berlin |isbn=978-0-387-84823-5 |page=52 |lccn=2008935694}}</ref>
*  1927   &ndash; [[Daniel Patrick Moynihan]], American sociologist and politician, 12th [[United States Ambassador to the United Nations]] (died 2003)<ref name="UPI"/>
*  1927   &ndash; [[Olga San Juan]], American actress and dancer (died 2009)
*[[1928]] &ndash; [[Wakanohana Kanji I]], Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th [[Makuuchi#Yokozuna|Yokozuna]] (died 2010)
*  1928   &ndash; [[Christa Ludwig]], German opera singer (died 2021)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Millington |first1=Barry |title=Christa Ludwig obituary |work=The Guardian |date=26 April 2021 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/apr/26/christa-ludwig-obituary |access-date=26 October 2021}}</ref>
*[[1929]] &ndash; [[Betty Johnson]], American singer (died 2022)
*  1929   &ndash; [[Tihomir Novakov]], Serbian-American physicist and academic (died 2015)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Kirchstetter |first1=Thomas |title=Tihomir Novakov, 1929-2015 |url=https://eta.lbl.gov/news/article/59381/tihomir-novakov-1929-2015 |website=Energy Technologies Area |access-date=17 November 2021 |date=January 6, 2015 |archive-date=17 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211117004235/https://eta.lbl.gov/news/article/59381/tihomir-novakov-1929-2015 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1929   &ndash; [[Nadja Tiller]], Austrian actress (died 2023)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Bock |editor1-first=Hans-Michael |editor2-last=Bergfelder |editor2-first=Tim |title=The Concise Cinegraph: Encyclopaedia of German Cinema |date=2009 |publisher=Berghahn Books |isbn=978-0-85745-565-9 |page=476 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=z7gFT_Duq1cC&pg=PA476 |chapter=Nadja Tiller}}</ref>
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Tommy Flanagan (musician)|Tommy Flanagan]], American pianist and composer (died 2001)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Berg |first1=Chuck |title=Tommy Flanagan Dies at 71 |url=https://jazztimes.com/archives/tommy-flanagan-dies-at-71/ |website=[[JazzTimes]] |access-date=24 October 2021 |date=November 23, 2001 |url-access=subscription |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024203150/https://jazztimes.com/archives/tommy-flanagan-dies-at-71/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Ratliff |first1=Ben |title=Tommy Flanagan, Elegant Jazz Pianist, Is Dead at 71 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/arts/tommy-flanagan-elegant-jazz-pianist-is-dead-at-71.html |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=19 November 2001 |url-access=limited |archive-date=15 July 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230715075912/https://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/19/arts/tommy-flanagan-elegant-jazz-pianist-is-dead-at-71.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1930   &ndash; [[Minoru Miki]], Japanese composer (died 2011)<ref>{{cite book |editor-last1=Randel |editor-first1=Don Michael |title=The Harvard Biographical Dictionary of Music |date=1996 |publisher=Harvard University Press |location=Cambridge, Massachusetts |isbn=978-0-674-37299-3 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA588 |page=588 |chapter=Miki, Minoru |access-date=2021-10-24 |archive-date=2021-10-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024195252/https://books.google.com/books?id=jEGpMqRcQjIC&pg=PA588 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.47news.jp/CN/201112/CN2011120801001501.html |script-title=ja:作曲家の三木稔さんが死去 オペラや現代邦楽 |publisher=47news.jp |date=8 December 2011 |access-date=2011-12-09 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111221012606/http://www.47news.jp/CN/201112/CN2011120801001501.html |archive-date=2011-12-21 }}</ref>
*[[1931]] &ndash; [[Augusto Boal]], Brazilian theatre director, writer and politician (died 2009)
*  1931   &ndash; [[Alan Heyman]], American-South Korean musicologist and composer (died 2014)
*  1931   &ndash; [[Anthony Kenny]], English philosopher and academic
*  1931   &ndash; [[John Munro (Canadian politician)|John Munro]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Labour]] (died 2003)
*[[1932]] &ndash; [[Don Blasingame]], American baseball player and manager (died 2005)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Eisenbath |first1=Mike |title=The Cardinals Encyclopedia |date=1999 |publisher=Temple University Press |isbn=978-1-56639-703-2 |page=136 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hymGG28xYcoC&pg=PA136 |chapter=Blasingame, Don Lee |access-date=2021-09-08 |archive-date=2021-09-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908220106/https://books.google.com/books?id=hymGG28xYcoC&pg=PA136 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- no byline --> |title=Don Blasingame, 73; Major Leaguer Later Managed Teams in Japan |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-15-me-passings15.2-story.html |access-date=8 September 2021 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=15 April 2005 |archive-date=8 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210908220104/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-apr-15-me-passings15.2-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1932   &ndash; [[Walter Cunningham]], American astronaut (died 2023)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/cunningham_walter.pdf|title=Biographical Data: Walter Cunningham NASA ASTRONAUT (FORMER)|access-date=October 24, 2021|website=NASA|date=July 2014|archive-date=August 7, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190807142427/https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/cunningham_walter.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1932   &ndash; [[Kurt Diemberger]], Austrian mountaineer and author<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hagestedt |first1=Lutz |title=Deeg - Dürrenfeld |volume=6 |date=10 November 2011 |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |isbn=978-3-11-096110-2 |page=212 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LTVy1N0ryQAC&pg=PA2000-IA15 |language=de |chapter=Diemberger, Kurt |access-date=25 October 2021 |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160608/https://books.google.com/books?id=LTVy1N0ryQAC&pg=PA2000-IA15 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1932   &ndash; [[Herbert Marx (politician)|Herbert Marx]], Canadian politician (died 2020)<ref>{{cite web |title=Herbert Marx |url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/marx-herbert-4377/biographie.html |website=National Assembly of Québec |access-date=25 October 2021 |language=fr |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160546/http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/marx-herbert-4377/biographie.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1933]] &ndash; [[Keith Critchlow]], English architect and academic, co-founded [[Temenos Academy]] (died 2020)
*  1933   &ndash; [[Sanford I. Weill]], American banker, financier, and philanthropist
*[[1934]] &ndash; [[Jean Cournoyer]], Canadian politician<ref>{{cite web |title=Jean Cournoyer |url=http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/cournoyer-jean-2695/biographie.html |website=National Assembly of Québec |access-date=25 October 2021 |language=fr |archive-date=25 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160434/http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/cournoyer-jean-2695/biographie.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1934   &ndash; [[Ray Hnatyshyn]], Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th [[Governor General of Canada]] (died 2002)
*  1934   &ndash; [[Roger Norrington]], English violinist and conductor (died 2025)
*  1934   &ndash; [[Howard Schnellenberger]], American football player and coach (died 2021)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/sports/football/howard-schnellenberger-dead.html|title=Howard Schnellenberger, College Coach Who Built Winners, Dies at 87|last=Goldstein|first=Richard|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=March 27, 2021|access-date=March 25, 2021|archive-date=March 27, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210327203350/https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/27/sports/football/howard-schnellenberger-dead.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[Teresa Berganza]], Spanish soprano and actress (died 2022)
*  1935   &ndash; [[Pepe Cáceres]], Colombian bullfighter (died 1987)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Molena |first1=Luis |title=Semblanza de un hombre noble de toros. Pepe, por cacerinas |url=https://www.lapatria.com/especiales/papel-salmon/toreros/semblanza-de-un-hombre-noble-de-toros-pepe-por-cacerinas-325558 |access-date=26 October 2021 |work=[[La Patria]] |language=es |archive-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026013735/https://www.lapatria.com/especiales/papel-salmon/toreros/semblanza-de-un-hombre-noble-de-toros-pepe-por-cacerinas-325558 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Raymond Vahan Damadian]], Armenian-American inventor, invented the [[Magnetic resonance imaging|MRI]] (died 2022)
*  1936   &ndash; [[Fred Neil]], American folk singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2001)
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[David Frith]], English historian, journalist, and author
*  1937   &ndash; [[Attilio Nicora]], Italian cardinal (died 2017)
*  1937   &ndash; [[Amos Tversky]], Israeli-American psychologist and academic (died 1996)
*[[1938]] &ndash; [[Carlos Bilardo]], Argentinian footballer and manager
*[[1939]] &ndash; [[Yvon Côté]], Canadian politician and teacher<ref>{{cite web |title=Profile {{!}} Yvon Côté, M.P. |url=https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=12250 |website=Library of Parliament |access-date=7 November 2021 |archive-date=7 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211107143143/https://lop.parl.ca/sites/ParlInfo/default/en_CA/People/Profile?personId=12250 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Vagif Mustafazadeh]], Azerbaijani pianist and composer (died 1979)
*  1940   &ndash; [[Jan Pronk]], Dutch academic and politician, [[Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (Netherlands)|Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment]]
*  1940   &ndash; [[Keith Rowe]], English guitarist 
*  1940   &ndash; [[Kaak (cartoonist)|Kaak]], Indian cartoonist (died 2025)<ref>{{cite news |title=Renowned cartoonist Harish Chandra Shukla dies of heart attack |url=https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/delhi/cartoonist-harish-chandra-shukla-dies-of-heart-attack-9754900/ |access-date=1 January 2025 |publisher=The Indian Express |date=1 January 2025}}</ref>
*[[1941]] &ndash; [[Bernardo Bertolucci]], Italian director and screenwriter (died 2018)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Bergan |first1=Ronald |title=Bernardo Bertolucci obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2018/nov/26/bernardo-bertolucci-obituary |access-date=24 October 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=26 November 2018}}</ref>
*  1941   &ndash; [[Robert Guéï]], Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd [[President of Côte d'Ivoire]] (died 2002)
*  1941   &ndash; [[Chuck Woolery]], American game show host and television personality (died 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |title=Chuck Woolery, smooth-talking game show host of 'Love Connection' and 'Scrabble,' dies at 83 - AP News Entertainment |url= https://apnews.com/article/obituary-chuck-woolery-508f37c136ccbc4c8ad48a4fd582674b |last= Kennedy |first= Mark |access-date=2024-11-24 |website= Associated Press| date=24 November 2024 |language=en}}</ref>
*[[1942]] &ndash; [[Roger Crozier]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (died 1996)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Fischler |first1=Stan |title=Detroit Red Wings: Greatest Moments and Players |date=7 November 2017 |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=978-1-68358-159-8 |page=<!-- ebook, no page numbers --> |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BzKCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT324 |chapter=31 Roger Allan Crozier |access-date=24 October 2021 |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024203720/https://books.google.com/books?id=BzKCDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT324 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1942   &ndash; [[Jean-Pierre Schosteck]], French politician
*  1942   &ndash; [[James Soong]], Chinese-Taiwanese politician, [[Governor of Taiwan Province]]
*  1942   &ndash; [[Gijs van Lennep]], Dutch race car driver
*  1942   &ndash; [[Jerry Jeff Walker]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (died 2020)<ref name="UPI"/>
*[[1943]] &ndash; [[Álvaro de Soto]], Peruvian diplomat
*  1943   &ndash; [[Ursula Goodenough]], American biologist, zoologist, and author
*  1943   &ndash; [[Hans Heyer]], German race car driver
*  1943   &ndash; [[Harry van Hoof]], Dutch conductor, composer, and music arranger (died 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |date=2024-06-02 |title=Componist en dirigent Harry van Hoof (81) overleden |url=https://nos.nl/artikel/2522863-componist-en-dirigent-harry-van-hoof-81-overleden |access-date= |website=NOS |language=nl}}</ref>
*[[1944]] &ndash; [[Andrew S. Tanenbaum]], American computer scientist and academic
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Douglas Ahlstedt]], American tenor (died 2023)<ref>{{cite news|url=https://obituaries.post-gazette.com/obituary/douglas-ahlstedt-1089092378|access-date=November 28, 2023|title=Obituary|date=November 26, 2023|newspaper=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]}}</ref>
*[[1946]] &ndash; [[Sigmund Groven]], Norwegian harmonica player and composer
*  1946   &ndash; [[Mary Kaldor]], English economist and academic
*  1946   &ndash; [[J. Z. Knight]], American New Age teacher and author
*  1946   &ndash; [[Guesch Patti]], French singer
*[[1948]] &ndash; [[Michael Owen Bruce]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist 
*  1948   &ndash; [[Richard Desjardins]], Canadian singer-songwriter and director
*  1948   &ndash; [[Catherine Quéré]], French politician
*[[1949]] &ndash; [[Erik Estrada]], American actor<ref name="AP">{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for March 16, 2023 includes celebrities Alexandra Daddario, Flavor Flav |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/03/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-march-16-2023-includes-celebrities-alexandra-daddario-flavor-flav.html |website=[[The Plain Dealer]] |publisher=[[Associated Press]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |date=16 March 2023 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060404/https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/03/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-march-16-2023-includes-celebrities-alexandra-daddario-flavor-flav.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 
*  1949   &ndash; [[Victor Garber]], Canadian actor and singer<ref name="AP"/>
*  1949   &ndash; [[Elliott Murphy]], American-French singer-songwriter and journalist
*[[1950]] &ndash; [[Peter Forster (bishop)|Peter Forster]], English bishop
*  1950   &ndash; [[Kate Nelligan]], Canadian actress<ref name="UPI"/>
*  1950   &ndash; [[Edhem Šljivo]], Bosnian footballer 
*[[1951]] &ndash; [[Ray Benson]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer<ref name="AP"/> 
*  1951   &ndash; [[Abdelmajid Bourebbou]],  Algerian footballer
*  1951   &ndash; [[Oddvar Brå]], Norwegian skier
*  1951   &ndash; [[Joe DeLamielleure]], American football player
*  1951   &ndash; [[Alexandre Gonzalez]], French long-distance runner
*[[1953]] &ndash; [[Claus Peter Flor]], German conductor
*  1953   &ndash; [[Isabelle Huppert]], French actress<ref name="UPI"/>
*  1953   &ndash; [[Rainer Knaak]], German chess player
*  1953   &ndash; [[Richard Stallman]], American computer scientist and programmer
*[[1954]] &ndash; [[David Heath (politician)|David Heath]], English politician
*  1954   &ndash; [[Colin Ireland]], English serial killer (died 2012)<ref>{{cite web |title=Colin Ireland |url=https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/colin-ireland |website=Crime+Investigation UK |access-date=24 October 2021 |archive-date=30 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930151814/https://www.crimeandinvestigation.co.uk/crime-files/colin-ireland |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1954   &ndash; [[Jimmy Nail]], English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
*  1954   &ndash; [[Tim O'Brien (musician)|Tim O'Brien]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist<ref name="AP"/> 
*  1954   &ndash; [[Dav Whatmore]], Sri Lankan-Australian cricketer and coach
*  1954   &ndash; [[Nancy Wilson (rock musician)|Nancy Wilson]], American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress<ref name="AP"/> 
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Svetlana Alekseeva (figure skater)|Svetlana Alexeeva]], Russian ice dancer and coach
*  1955   &ndash; [[Rimantas Astrauskas]], Lithuanian physicist
*  1955   &ndash; [[Bruno Barreto]], Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
*  1955   &ndash; [[Linda Lepomme]], Belgian actress and singer
*  1955   &ndash; [[Bob Ley]], American sports anchor and reporter
*  1955   &ndash; [[Andy Scott (politician)|Andy Scott]], Canadian politician (died 2013)
*  1955   &ndash; [[Jiro Watanabe]], Japanese boxer
*[[1956]] &ndash; [[Ozzie Newsome]], American football player and executive<ref name="UPI"/>
*  1956   &ndash; [[Clifton Powell]], American actor, director, and producer<ref name="AP"/>
*  1956   &ndash; [[Yoriko Shono]], Japanese writer
*  1956   &ndash; [[Eveline Widmer-Schlumpf]], Swiss lawyer and politician
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Jorge Ramos (news anchor)|Jorge Ramos]], Mexican-American journalist and author<ref>[http://jorgeramos.com/en/biography/ "Biography"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200320035900/https://jorgeramos.com/en/biography/ |date=2020-03-20 }}. jorgeramos.com. Retrieved September 4, 2017.</ref>
*  1958   &ndash; [[Phillip Wilcher]], Australian pianist and composer
*  1958   &ndash; [[Kate Worley]], American author (died 2004)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Gustines |first1=George Gene |title=Overlooked No More: Kate Worley, a Pioneer Writer of Erotic Comics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/obituaries/kate-worley-overlooked.html |access-date=26 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=27 March 2020 |url-access=limited |archive-date=26 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026220819/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/27/obituaries/kate-worley-overlooked.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1959]] &ndash; [[Michael J. Bloomfield]], American astronaut
*  1959   &ndash; [[Sebastian Currier]], American composer and educator
*  1959   &ndash; [[Greg Dyer]], Australian cricketer
*  1959   &ndash; [[Flavor Flav]], American rapper and actor<ref name="AP"/>
*  1959   &ndash; [[Charles Hudson (baseball)|Charles Hudson]], American baseball player 
*  1959   &ndash; [[Steve Marker]], American musician
*  1959   &ndash; [[Jens Stoltenberg]], Norwegian economist and politician, 27th [[Prime Minister of Norway]], 13th [[Secretary General of NATO]]<ref name="UPI"/>
*  1959   &ndash; [[Scott L. Schwartz]], American actor stuntman and wrestler (died 2024)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Oliver |first=Greg |author-link=Greg Oliver |date=November 27, 2024 |title=Wrestler turned actor Scott L. Schwartz dead at 65 |url=https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2024/11/27/wrestler-turned-actor-scott-l-schwartz-dead-at-65/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241127154320/https://slamwrestling.net/index.php/2024/11/27/wrestler-turned-actor-scott-l-schwartz-dead-at-65/ |archive-date=November 27, 2024 |access-date=November 27, 2024 |website=Slam Wrestling |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1960]] &ndash; [[Jenny Eclair]], English comedian, actress and screenwriter
*  1960   &ndash; [[John Hemming (politician)|John Hemming]], English businessman and politician<ref>{{cite web |title=John Hemming |url=https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/john-hemming/ |website=Politics.co.uk |access-date=5 September 2021 |archive-date=5 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210905014400/https://www.politics.co.uk/reference/john-hemming/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1960   &ndash; [[Duane Sutter]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Todd McFarlane]], Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, founded [[McFarlane Toys]]
*[[1962]] &ndash; [[Franck Fréon]], French race car driver
*  1962   &ndash; [[Liliane Gaschet]], French athlete 
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Jerome Flynn]], English actor and singer<ref name="AP"/>
*  1963   &ndash; [[Kevin Smith (New Zealand actor)|Kevin Smith]], New Zealand actor and singer (died 2002)
*[[1964]] &ndash; [[Patty Griffin]], American singer-songwriter<ref name="AP"/> 
*  1964   &ndash; [[Jaclyn Jose]], Filipino actress (died 2024)
*  1964   &ndash; [[Pascal Richard]], Swiss racing cyclist
*  1964   &ndash; [[Gore Verbinski]], American director, producer, and screenwriter<ref name="UPI"/>
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Steve Armstrong]], American wrestler
*  1965   &ndash; [[Sergei Bazarevich]], Russian basketball player and coach<ref>{{cite web |title=Sergei Bazarevich |url=https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76128/career |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060403/https://www.nba.com/stats/player/76128/career |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1965   &ndash; [[Cindy Brown (basketball)|Cindy Brown]], American basketball player
*  1965   &ndash; [[Mark Carney]], Canadian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Canada
*  1965   &ndash; [[Cristiana Reali]], Italian-Brazilian actress
*[[1966]] &ndash; [[H.P. Baxxter]], German musician<ref>{{cite book|last1=Defcon|first1=Max Dax mit Robert|title=Scooter always hardcore|date=2013|publisher=Edel Books|location=Hamburg|isbn=978-3-8419-0243-6|page=138|edition=1. Aufl.}}</ref>
*  1966   &ndash; [[Chrissy Redden]], Canadian cross-country cyclist<ref>{{cite web |title=Chrissy REDDEN - Olympic Cycling Mountain Bike {{!}} Canada |url=https://www.olympic.org/chrissy-redden |website=International Olympic Committee |access-date=14 January 2020 |language=en |date=22 June 2016 |archive-date=6 October 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161006110122/https://www.olympic.org/chrissy-redden |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Tracy Bonham]], American singer and violinist<ref name="AP"/>
*  1967   &ndash; [[John Darnielle]], American musician and novelist
*  1967   &ndash; [[Lauren Graham]], American actress and producer<ref name="AP"/>
*  1967   &ndash; [[Ronnie McCoury]], American bluegrass mandolin player, singer and songwriter
*  1967   &ndash; [[Heidi Zurbriggen]], Swiss alpine skier
*[[1969]] &ndash; [[Judah Friedlander]], American comedian and actor<ref name="AP"/>
*  1969   &ndash; [[Ottis Gibson]], Barbadian cricketer and coach
*  1969   &ndash; [[Alina Ivanova]], Russian athlete
*  1969   &ndash; [[Evangelos Koronios]], Greek basketball player and coach
*[[1970]] &ndash; [[Joakim Berg]], Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist 
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Greg Johnson (ice hockey)|Greg Johnson]], Canadian ice hockey player (died 2019)<ref>{{cite web |title=Greg Johnson |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/greg-johnson-8456734 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=2 February 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160202153425/http://www.nhl.com/ice/player.htm?id=8456734 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1971   &ndash; [[Alan Tudyk]], American actor<ref name="AP"/>
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Ismaïl Sghyr]], French-Moroccan long-distance runner
*[[1973]] &ndash; [[Tim Kang]], American actor<ref name="AP"/>
*  1973   &ndash; [[Andrey Mizurov]], Kazakhstani road bicycle racer
*  1973   &ndash; [[Vonda Ward]], American boxer
*[[1974]] &ndash; [[Georgios Anatolakis]], Greek footballer and politician
*  1974   &ndash; [[Anne Charrier]], French actress
*  1974   &ndash; [[Heath Streak]], Zimbabwean cricketer (died 2023)
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[Luciano Castro]], Argentine actor 
*  1975   &ndash; [[Sienna Guillory]], English model and actress
*  1975   &ndash; [[Lionel Torres]], French archer
*[[1976]] &ndash; [[Blu Cantrell]], American singer-songwriter and producer<ref name="AP"/>
*  1976   &ndash; [[Zhu Chen]], Qatari chess Grandmaster
*  1976   &ndash; [[Kim Johnsson]], Swedish ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Kim Johnsson |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/kim-johnsson-8460770 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060403/https://www.nhl.com/player/kim-johnsson-8460770 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1976   &ndash; [[Leila Lejeune]], French handballer 
*  1976   &ndash; [[Susanne Ljungskog]], Swedish cyclist
*  1976   &ndash; [[Abraham Núñez (infielder)|Abraham Núñez]], Dominican baseball player
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Mónica Cruz]], Spanish actress and dancer
*  1977   &ndash; [[Thomas Rupprath]], German swimmer
*[[1978]] &ndash; [[Brooke Burns]], American fashion model, television personality, and actress<ref name="AP"/>
*  1978   &ndash; [[Annett Renneberg]], German actress and singer
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Tyler Arnason]], American ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tyler Arnason |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/tyler-arnason-8467483 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060405/https://www.nhl.com/player/tyler-arnason-8467483 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1979   &ndash; [[Hee-seop Choi]], South Korean baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Hee-Seop Choi |url=https://www.mlb.com/player/hee-seop-choi-400292 |publisher=[[Major League Baseball]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060403/https://www.mlb.com/player/hee-seop-choi-400292 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1979   &ndash; [[Christina Liebherr]], Swiss equestrian
*  1979   &ndash; [[Rashad Moore]], American football player
*  1979   &ndash; [[Sébastien Ostertag]], French handball player
*  1979   &ndash; [[Leena Peisa]], Finnish keyboard player and songwriter 
*  1979   &ndash; [[Andrei Stepanov (footballer)|Andrei Stepanov]], Estonian footballer
*[[1980]] &ndash; [[Todd Heap]], American football player
*  1980   &ndash; [[Felipe Reyes]], Spanish basketball player
*[[1981]] &ndash; [[Andrew Bree]], Irish swimmer
*  1981   &ndash; [[Danny Brown]], American rapper<ref>{{cite web |last1=Madden |first1=Sidney |title=Happy Birthday, Danny Brown! |url=https://www.xxlmag.com/happy-birthday-danny-brown/ |publisher=[[XXL (magazine)|XXL]] |access-date=3 March 2023 |date=16 March 2015 |archive-date=26 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230326035010/https://www.xxlmag.com/happy-birthday-danny-brown/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1981   &ndash; [[Curtis Granderson]], American baseball player
*  1982   – [[Julia Letlow]], American politician<ref>{{Cite web |title=LETLOW, Julia |url=https://bioguide.congress.gov/search/bio/L000595 |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=bioguide.congress.gov}}</ref>
*  1981   &ndash; [[Julien Mazet]], French road bicycle racer
*  1981   &ndash; [[Fabiana Murer]], Brazilian pole vaulter
*[[1982]] &ndash; [[Miguel Comminges]], Guadeloupean footballer 
*  1982   &ndash; [[Riley Cote]], Canadian ice hockey player and coach
*  1982   &ndash; [[Jesús Del Nero]], Spanish road bicycle racer 
*  1982   &ndash; [[Brian Wilson (baseball)|Brian Wilson]], American baseball player
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Stephen Drew]], American baseball player
*  1983   &ndash; [[Brandon League]], American baseball player
*  1983   &ndash; [[Nicolas Rousseau]], French road bicycle racer 
*  1983   &ndash; [[Tramon Williams]], American football player
*[[1984]] &ndash; [[Aisling Bea]], Irish comedienne and actress
*  1984   &ndash; [[Levi Brown (offensive tackle)|Levi Brown]], American football player
*  1984   &ndash; [[Sharon Cherop]], Kenyan long-distance runner
*  1984   &ndash; [[Hosea Gear]], New Zealand rugby player
*  1984   &ndash; [[Brandon Prust]], Canadian ice hockey player
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Teddy Atine-Venel]], French athlete 
*  1985   &ndash; [[Eddy Lover]], Panamanian singer-songwriter
*  1985   &ndash; [[Aleksei Sokirskiy]], Russian hammer thrower
*[[1986]] &ndash; [[Alexandra Daddario]], American actress<ref name="AP"/>
*  1986   &ndash; [[Toney Douglas]], American basketball player
*  1986   &ndash; [[Kenny Dykstra]], American wrestler
*  1986   &ndash; [[T. J. Jordan]], American basketball player
*  1986   &ndash; [[Boaz Solossa]], Indonesian footballer
*  1986   &ndash; [[Daisuke Takahashi]], Japanese figure skater
*[[1987]] &ndash; [[Fabien Lemoine]], French football player
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Jhené Aiko]], American singer-songwriter and rapper<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jhené Aiko Songs, Albums, Reviews, Bio & More |url=https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jhen%C3%A9-aiko-mn0002739175 |access-date=2024-03-10 |website=AllMusic |language=en |archive-date=2024-03-10 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240310044016/https://www.allmusic.com/artist/jhen%C3%A9-aiko-mn0002739175 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Jessica Gregg]], Canadian speed skater<ref>{{cite web |title=Jessica Gregg |url=https://olympic.ca/team-canada/jessica-gregg/ |website=Team Canada - Official Olympic Team Website |date=18 September 2011 |access-date=10 March 2022 |archive-date=10 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220310043254/https://olympic.ca/team-canada/jessica-gregg/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Patrick Herrmann (footballer born 1988)|Patrick Herrmann]], German footballer
*  1988   &ndash; [[Agustín Marchesín]], Argentinian footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Agustín Marchesín|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/agustin-federico-marchesin/14242/|website=Soccerway|access-date=16 March 2024|archive-date=3 January 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230103212147/https://int.soccerway.com/players/agustin-federico-marchesin/14242/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Jiří Tlustý]], Czech ice hockey player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jiri Tlusty |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/jiri-tlusty-8473482 |publisher=[[National Hockey League]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060405/https://www.nhl.com/player/jiri-tlusty-8473482 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1989]] &ndash; [[Blake Griffin]], American basketball player
*  1989   &ndash; [[Jung So-min]], South Korean actress
*  1989   &ndash; [[Magalie Pottier]], French racing cyclist
*  1989   &ndash; [[Theo Walcott]], English footballer
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Josh_Johnson_(comedian)|Josh Johnson]], American comedian and writer<ref>{{cite news |author=<!-- not stated --> |title=Who is Josh Johnson? Meet The Daily Show's new host in the lineup |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/international/us/who-is-josh-johnson-meet-the-daily-shows-new-host-in-the-lineup/articleshow/122827426.cms |website=[[The Economic Times]] |date=21 July 2025 |access-date=13 October 2025}}</ref>
*  1990   &ndash; [[Andre Young (basketball)|Andre Young]], American basketball player
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Chris Boswell]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Chris Boswell Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BoswCh00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-date=March 29, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329193506/https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/B/BoswCh00.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1991   &ndash; [[Reggie Bullock]], American basketball player
*  1991   &ndash; [[Admir Mehmedi]], Swiss footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Admir Mehmedi|url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/admir-mehmedi/44428/|website=Soccerway|access-date=16 March 2024|archive-date=23 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180623032840/https://int.soccerway.com/players/admir-mehmedi/44428/|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1991   &ndash; [[Wolfgang Van Halen]], American bassist<ref name="AP"/>
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Tim Hardaway Jr.]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Tim Hardaway Jr. |url=https://www.nba.com/player/203501/tim-hardaway-jr |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=15 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315060403/https://www.nba.com/player/203501/tim-hardaway-jr |url-status=live }}</ref>
*1992  &ndash;  [[Brett Davern]], American actor<ref>{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2012-09-10 |title=Brett Davern |url=https://hollywoodlife.com/celeb/brett-davern/ |access-date=2025-01-21 |website=Hollywood Life |language=en-US}}</ref>
*[[1993]] &ndash; [[George Ford (rugby union)|George Ford]], English rugby union player
*  1993   &ndash; [[Marine Lorphelin]], French model and beauty queen, [[Miss France 2013]]
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Camilo (singer)|Camilo]], Colombian singer<ref>{{cite magazine |last1=Roiz |first1=Jessica |title=Camilo's Most-Watched Music Videos: 'Tutu,' 'Vida de Rico' & More |url=https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/camilo-music-videos-most-watched-1235044729/ |magazine=Billboard |access-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315174041/https://www.billboard.com/music/latin/camilo-music-videos-most-watched-1235044729/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1994   &ndash; [[Joel Embiid]], Cameroonian basketball player
*  1994   &ndash; [[Sierra McClain]], American actress<ref>{{Cite web|date=May 25, 2011|title=Decatur Native Becomes Disney Channel Star|url=https://patch.com/georgia/decatur/decatur-native-becomes-disney-channel-star|access-date=April 8, 2020|website=Decatur-Avondale Estates, GA Patch|language=en|archive-date=August 19, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200819141323/https://patch.com/georgia/decatur/decatur-native-becomes-disney-channel-star|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1995]] &ndash; [[Inga Janulevičiūtė]], Lithuanian figure skater
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Ajiona Alexus]], American actress and singer<ref name="UPI"/>
*[[1996]] &ndash; [[Ivan Toney]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Ivan Toney Stats |url=https://fbref.com/en/players/e09f279b/Ivan-Toney |website=Football Reference |access-date=16 March 2024 |archive-date=16 March 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240316140328/https://fbref.com/en/players/e09f279b/Ivan-Toney |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1997]] &ndash; [[Dominic Calvert-Lewin]], English footballer<ref>{{cite web|title=Dominic Calvert-Lewin|url=https://www.premierleague.com/players/9576/Dominic-Calvert-Lewin/overview|website=[[Premier League]]|access-date=16 March 2024|archive-date=5 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210605210358/https://www.premierleague.com/players/9576/Dominic-Calvert-Lewin/overview|url-status=live}}</ref>
*  1997   &ndash; [[Florian Neuhaus]], German footballer<ref>{{cite web |title=Florian Neuhaus Personenprofil |url=https://datencenter.dfb.de/profil/337038 |website=DFB Datencenter |access-date=24 October 2021 |language=de |archive-date=24 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211024203148/https://datencenter.dfb.de/profil/337038 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  1997   &ndash; [[Tyrel Jackson Williams]], American actor<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.disneyxdmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=900092&type=williams|title=Tyrel Jackson Williams – "Leo" – Lab Rats|work=Disney XD Medianet|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130525120804/http://www.disneyxdmedianet.com/web/showpage/showpage.aspx?program_id=900092&type=williams|archive-date=May 25, 2013 }}</ref>
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Vladimir Guerrero Jr.]], Canadian baseball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Stats |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guerrvl02.shtml |website=Baseball Reference |access-date=15 March 2022 |archive-date=14 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220314190715/https://www.baseball-reference.com/players/g/guerrvl02.shtml |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Jalen Smith]], American basketball player<ref>{{cite web |title=Jalen Smith |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1630188/jalen-smith |publisher=[[National Basketball Association]] |access-date=15 March 2024 |archive-date=27 February 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240227054915/https://www.nba.com/player/1630188/jalen-smith |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Kyle Hamilton]], American football player<ref>{{cite web |title=Kyle Hamilton Stats, Height, Weight, Position, Draft, College |url=https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HamiKy00.htm |website=Pro-Football-Reference.com |access-date=March 15, 2024 |archive-date=February 26, 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226090550/https://www.pro-football-reference.com/players/H/HamiKy00.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Deaths==
===Pre-1600===
*[[AD 37]] &ndash; [[Tiberius]], Roman emperor (born 42 BC)<ref>{{cite book|author=Robin Seager|title=Tiberius|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ygCdlInC-cEC&pg=PA206|date=15 April 2008|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-0-470-77541-7|pages=206–}}</ref>
* [[455]] &ndash; [[Valentinian III]], Roman emperor (assassinated;<ref>{{cite book|author=Henry Fynes Clinton|title=Fasti Romani: Appendix. From the death of Augustus to the death of Heraclius|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228225|year=1850|publisher=University Press|pages=[https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.228225/page/n145 137]–}}</ref>  b. 419)
*   455   &ndash; [[Heraclius (primicerius sacri cubiculi)|Heraclius]], Roman courtier (''[[Primicerius|primicerius sacri cubiculi]] '')
* [[842]] &ndash; [[Xiao Mian]], [[chancellor of the Tang dynasty]]
* [[933]] &ndash; [[Takin al-Khazari]], Egyptian commander and politician, [[List of governors of Islamic Egypt|Abbasid Governor of Egypt]]
* [[943]] &ndash; [[Pi Guangye]], Chinese official and chancellor (born 877)
*[[1021]] &ndash; [[Heribert of Cologne]], German archbishop and saint (born 970)<ref name=CatholicEncy>{{cite CE1913|wstitle= St. Heribert |volume= 7 |last= Ott |first= Michael |short=1}}</ref>
*[[1072]] &ndash; [[Adalbert of Hamburg]], German archbishop (born 1000)
*[[1181]] &ndash; [[Henry I, Count of Champagne]]
*[[1185]] &ndash; [[Baldwin IV of Jerusalem]] (born 1161)
*[[1279]] &ndash; [[Joan, Countess of Ponthieu|Jeanne of Dammartin]], Queen consort of Castile and León (born 1216)
*[[1405]] &ndash; [[Margaret III, Countess of Flanders]] (born 1350)
*[[1410]] &ndash; [[John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset]], French-English admiral and politician, [[Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports]] (born 1373)<ref>{{cite book|author=Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas|title=History of the Orders of Knighthood of the British Empire; of the Order of the Guelphs of Hanover; and of the Medals, Clasps, and Crosses, Conferred for Naval and Military Services|url=https://archive.org/details/historyoforderso03nico|year=1842|publisher=J. Hunter|pages=384–}}</ref>
*[[1457]] &ndash; [[Ladislaus Hunyadi]], Hungarian politician (born 1433)
*[[1485]] &ndash; [[Anne Neville]], queen of [[Richard III of England]] (born 1456)<ref>{{cite web |title=Anne Neville, wife of Richard III |url=https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/anne-neville-wife-of-richard-iii |website=Westminster Abbey |access-date=8 October 2022 |language=en |archive-date=8 October 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221008162047/https://www.westminster-abbey.org/abbey-commemorations/royals/anne-neville-wife-of-richard-iii |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1559]] &ndash; [[Anthony St Leger (Lord Deputy of Ireland)|Anthony St. Leger]], English-Irish politician [[Lord Deputy of Ireland]] (born 1496)

===1601–1900===
*[[1649]] &ndash; [[Jean de Brébeuf]], French-Canadian missionary and saint (born 1593)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Latourelle |first1=René |title=Biography – BRÉBEUF, JEAN DE (Échon) |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brebeuf_jean_de_1E.html |website=Dictionary of Canadian Biography |access-date=12 September 2021 |archive-date=9 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211009085419/http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/brebeuf_jean_de_1E.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1679]] &ndash; [[John Leverett]], English general and politician, 19th [[Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony]] (born 1616)
*[[1698]] &ndash; [[Leonora Christina Ulfeldt]], Danish countess, author of ''[[Jammers Minde]]'' (born 1621)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lund |first1=Emil Ferdinand Svitzer |title=Danske malede portraetter: en beskrivende katalog |volume=2 |date=1897 |publisher=Gyldendal |location=Copenhagen |pages=193–203 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GAkwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA193 |language=da}}</ref>
*[[1721]] &ndash; [[James Craggs the Elder]], English politician, [[Postmaster General of the United Kingdom]] (born 1657)
*[[1736]] &ndash; [[Giovanni Battista Pergolesi]], Italian composer (born 1710)<ref>{{cite book |editor1-last=Baker |editor1-first=Christopher |title=Absolutism and the Scientific Revolution, 1600-1720: A Biographical Dictionary |date=2002 |publisher=Greenwood Press |location=Westport, Connecticut |isbn=978-0-313-30827-7 |page=297 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=SDy-MtS9mvgC&pg=PA297 |chapter=Pergolesi, Giovanni Battista (1710-1736)}}</ref>
*[[1737]] &ndash; [[Benjamin Wadsworth (clergyman)|Benjamin Wadsworth]], American minister and academic (born 1670)
*[[1738]] &ndash; [[George Bähr]], German architect, designed the [[Dresden Frauenkirche]] (born 1666)
*[[1747]] &ndash; [[Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst]] (born 1690)
*[[1804]] &ndash; [[Henrik Gabriel Porthan]], Finnish professor and historian (born 1739)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://filosofia.fi/fi/biografia/porthan-henrik-gabriel-1739-1804|title=Porthan, Henrik Gabriel (1739–1804)|website=Filosofia.fi|date=21 September 2007|access-date=8 November 2023|language=fi|archive-date=8 November 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231108015625/https://filosofia.fi/fi/biografia/porthan-henrik-gabriel-1739-1804|url-status=live}}</ref>
*[[1838]] &ndash; [[Nathaniel Bowditch]], American ocean navigator and mathematician (born 1773)<ref>{{cite book |title=American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation : Originally by Nathaniel Bowditch, LL.D. |date=1962 |publisher=U.S. Navy Hydrographic Office |location=Washington |pages=3–6 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1Hb0M1P8v3wC&pg=PA3 |access-date=29 October 2021 |chapter=Nathaniel Bowditch |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029002503/https://books.google.com/books?id=1Hb0M1P8v3wC&pg=PA3 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1841]] &ndash; [[Félix Savart]], French physicist and psychologist (born 1791)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Greiner |first1=Walter |title=Classical Electrodynamics |date=6 December 2012 |publisher=Springer Science & Business Media |isbn=978-1-4612-0587-6 |page=517 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=acjcBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA517 |access-date=5 November 2021 |archive-date=5 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211105214913/https://books.google.com/books?id=acjcBwAAQBAJ&pg=PA517 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1868]] &ndash; [[David Wilmot (politician)|David Wilmot]], American politician, sponsor of [[Wilmot Proviso]] (born 1814)
*[[1884]] &ndash; [[Art Croft]], American baseball player (born 1855)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Lee |first1=Bill |title=The Baseball Necrology: The Post-Baseball Lives and Deaths of More Than 7,600 Major League Players and Others |date=11 July 2015 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-1-4766-0930-0 |page=87 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |access-date=29 October 2021 |archive-date=29 October 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211029002503/https://books.google.com/books?id=4oEwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA87 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1888]] &ndash; [[Hippolyte Carnot]], French politician (born 1801)<ref>{{EB1911 |noprescript=1 |wstitle=Carnot, Lazare Hippolyte}}</ref>
*[[1892]] &ndash; [[Samuel F. Miller (U.S. politician)|Samuel F. Miller]], American politician (born 1827)<ref>{{CongBio|M000752 |name=MILLER, Samuel Franklin |inline=yes}}</ref>
*[[1898]] &ndash; [[Aubrey Beardsley]], English author and illustrator (born 1872)<ref>{{cite ODNB |last1=Crawford |first1=Alan |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |chapter=Beardsley, Aubrey Vincent (1872–1898), illustrator |page=<!-- online, no page numbers -->|date=23 September 2004 |doi=10.1093/ref:odnb/1821 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1899]] &ndash; [[Joseph Medill]], American journalist and politician, 26th [[Mayor of Chicago]] (born 1823)

===1901–present===
*[[1903]] &ndash; [[Roy Bean]], American justice of the peace (born 1825)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Bogart |first1=Charles H. |editor1-last=Tenkotte |editor1-first=Paul A. |editor2-last=Claypool |editor2-first=James C. |title=The Encyclopedia of Northern Kentucky |date=2009 |publisher=University Press of Kentucky |isbn=978-0-8131-5996-6 |pages=69–70 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Zc0eBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA69 |chapter=Bean, Roy "Judge"}}</ref>
*[[1907]] &ndash; [[John O'Leary (Fenian)|John O'Leary]], Irish republican and journalist (born 1830)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hogan |first1=Robert |title=Macmillan Dictionary of Irish Literature |date=1985 |publisher=Macmillan Press |location=London |isbn=978-1-349-07795-3 |page=535 |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iDJdDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA535 |chapter=O'Leary, John }}{{Dead link|date=March 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
*[[1912]] &ndash; [[Max Burckhard]], Austrian theater director (born 1854)
*[[1914]] &ndash; [[Gaston Calmette]], French journalist (born 1858)
*  1914   &ndash; [[Charles Albert Gobat]], Swiss lawyer and politician, [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1843)
*  1914   &ndash; [[John Murray (oceanographer)|John Murray]], Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (born 1841)
*[[1925]] &ndash; [[August von Wassermann]], German bacteriologist and hygienist (born 1866)<ref>{{cite journal |title=Public Health Notices {{!}} August von Wassermann, M.D., 1866-1925 |journal=American Journal of Public Health |date=June 1925 |volume=15 |issue=6 |page=559 |doi=10.2105/AJPH.15.6.558 |pmid=18011555 |pmc=1320871 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[1930]] &ndash; [[Miguel Primo de Rivera]], Spanish general and politician, [[Prime Minister of Spain]] (born 1870)
*[[1935]] &ndash; [[John Macleod (physiologist)|John Macleod]], Scottish physician and physiologist, [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1876)
*  1935   &ndash; [[Aron Nimzowitsch]], Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)
*[[1936]] &ndash; [[Marguerite Durand]], French actress, journalist, and activist (born 1864)
*[[1937]] &ndash; [[Austen Chamberlain]], English politician, [[Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs]], [[Nobel Peace Prize|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1863)
*  1937   &ndash; [[Alexander von Staël-Holstein]], Estonian orientalist and sinologist (born 1877)
*[[1940]] &ndash; [[Selma Lagerlöf]], Swedish author and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Literature|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1858)<ref>{{cite web |title=Selma Lagerlöf {{!}} Swedish author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Selma-Lagerlof |website=Encyclopedia Britannica |access-date=24 April 2020 |language=en |archive-date=12 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612191100/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Selma-Lagerlof |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[1945]] &ndash; [[Börries von Münchhausen]], German poet (born 1874)
*[[1955]] &ndash; [[Nicolas de Staël]], French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)
*[[1957]] &ndash; [[Constantin Brâncuși]], Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)
*[[1958]] &ndash; [[Leon Cadore]], American baseball player (born 1891)
*[[1961]] &ndash; [[Chen Geng]], Chinese general and politician (born 1903)
*  1961   &ndash; [[Václav Talich]], Czech violinist and conductor (born 1883)
*[[1963]] &ndash; [[Laura Adams Armer]], American author and photographer (born 1874)
*[[1965]] &ndash; [[Alice Herz]], German activist (born 1882)
*[[1967]] &ndash; [[Thomas MacGreevy]], Irish poet (born 1893)
*[[1968]] &ndash; [[Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco]], Italian-American pianist and composer (born 1895)
*  1968   &ndash; [[Gunnar Ekelöf]], Swedish poet and translator (born 1907)
*  [[1970]]   &ndash; [[Tammi Terrell]], American singer (born 1945)
*[[1971]] &ndash; [[Bebe Daniels]], American actress (born 1901)
*  1971   &ndash; [[Thomas E. Dewey]], American lawyer and politician, 47th [[Governor of New York]] (born 1902)
*[[1972]] &ndash; [[Pie Traynor]], American baseball player (born 1898)
*[[1975]] &ndash; [[T-Bone Walker]], American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1910)
*[[1977]] &ndash; [[Kamal Jumblatt]], Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1917)
*[[1979]] &ndash; [[Jean Monnet]], French economist and politician (born 1888)
*[[1983]] &ndash; [[Arthur Godfrey]], American actor and television host (born 1903)
*  1983   &ndash; [[Fred Rose (politician)|Fred Rose]], Polish-Canadian politician (born 1907)
*[[1985]] &ndash; [[Roger Sessions]], American composer, critic, and educator (born 1896)
*  1985   &ndash; [[Eddie Shore]], Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1902)
*[[1988]] &ndash; [[Jigger Statz]], American baseball player (born 1897)<ref>{{cite book |last1=Snelling |first1=Dennis |title=The Pacific Coast League: A Statistical History, 1903-1957 |date=1 January 1995 |publisher=McFarland |location=Jefferson |isbn=978-0-7864-0045-4 |page=231 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4ApM-wmc0BIC&pg=PA231}}</ref>
*  1988   &ndash; [[Mickey Thompson]], American race car driver (born 1928)
*[[1990]] &ndash; [[Ernst Bacon]], American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1898)
*[[1991]] &ndash; [[Chris Austin]], American country singer (born 1964)
*  1991   &ndash; [[Jean Bellette]], Australian artist (born 1908)
*[[1992]] &ndash; [[Yves Rocard]], French physicist and engineer (born 1903)
*[[1994]] &ndash; [[Eric Show]], American baseball player (born 1956)
*[[1998]] &ndash; [[Derek Barton]], English-American chemist and academic, [[Nobel Prize in Chemistry|Nobel Prize]] laureate (born 1918)
*  1998   &ndash; [[Esther Bubley]], American photographer (born 1921)
*[[1999]] &ndash; [[Gratien Gélinas]], Canadian actor, director, and playwright (born 1909)
*[[2000]] &ndash; [[Thomas Ferebee]], American colonel and pilot (born 1918)
*  2000   &ndash; [[Pavel Prudnikau]], Belarusian poet and author (born 1911)
*  2000   &ndash; [[Michael Starr (politician)|Michael Starr]], Canadian judge and politician, 16th [[Minister of Labour (Canada)|Canadian Minister of Labour]] (born 1910)
*  2000   &ndash; [[Carlos Velázquez (baseball)|Carlos Velázquez]], Puerto Rican pitcher (born 1948)
*[[2001]] &ndash; [[Bob Wollek]], French race car driver (born 1943)
*[[2003]] &ndash; [[Rachel Corrie]], American activist (born 1979)
*  2003   &ndash; [[Ronald Ferguson (polo)|Ronald Ferguson]], English captain, polo player, and manager (born 1931)
*[[2004]] &ndash; [[Vilém Tauský]], Czech conductor and composer (born 1910)
*[[2005]] &ndash; [[Todd Bell]], American football player (born 1958)
*  2005   &ndash; [[Ralph Erskine (architect)|Ralph Erskine]], English architect, designed [[The London Ark]] (born 1914)
*  2005   &ndash; [[Dick Radatz]], American baseball player (born 1937)
*[[2007]] &ndash; [[Manjural Islam Rana]], Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)
*[[2008]] &ndash; [[Bill Brown (cricketer)|Bill Brown]], Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1912)
*  2008   &ndash; [[Ivan Dixon]], American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)
*  2008   &ndash; [[Gary Hart (wrestler)|Gary Hart]], American wrestler and manager (born 1942)
*[[2010]] &ndash; [[Ksenija Pajčin]],  Serbian singer, dancer and model (born 1977)
*[[2011]] &ndash; [[Richard Wirthlin]], American religious leader (born 1931)
*[[2012]] &ndash; [[Donald E. Hillman]], American colonel and pilot (born 1918)
*  2012   &ndash; [[Takaaki Yoshimoto]], Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1924)
*[[2013]] &ndash; [[Jamal Nazrul Islam]], Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)
*  2013   &ndash; [[José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz]], Argentinian economist and politician, [[Minister of Economy of Argentina]] (born 1925)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Yadier Pedroso]], Cuban pitcher (born 1986)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Ruchoma Shain]], American-born teacher and author (born 1914)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Marina Solodkin]], Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)
*  2013   &ndash; [[Frank Thornton]], English actor (born 1921)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Woddis |first1=Carole |title=Frank Thornton obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/18/frank-thornton |access-date=28 October 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=18 March 2013 |language=en |archive-date=30 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170630100942/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2013/mar/18/frank-thornton |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2014]] &ndash; [[Gary Bettenhausen]], American race car driver (born 1941)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Donald Crothers]], American chemist and academic (born 1937)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy]], Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (born 1936)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Steve Moore (comics)|Steve Moore]], English author and illustrator (born 1949)
*  2014   &ndash; [[Alexander Pochinok]], Russian economist and politician (born 1958)
*[[2015]] &ndash; [[Jack Haley (basketball)|Jack Haley]], American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Chris |title=Jack Haley dies at 51; O.C. surfer played basketball at UCLA and in NBA |url=https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-haley-20150318-story.html |access-date=9 November 2021 |work=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=March 17, 2015 |archive-date=9 November 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211109013216/https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-jack-haley-20150318-story.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*  2015   &ndash; [[Don Robertson (songwriter)|Don Robertson]], American pianist and composer (born 1922)
*[[2016]] &ndash; [[Alexander Esenin-Volpin]], Russian-American mathematician and poet (born 1924)
*  2016   &ndash; [[Frank Sinatra Jr.]], American singer and actor (born 1944)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Rosenberg |first1=Eli |title=Frank Sinatra Jr., singer who followed in his father's footsteps, dies at 72 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/arts/music/frank-sinatra-jr-singer-who-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-dies-at-72.html |access-date=17 October 2021 |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=17 March 2016 |url-access=limited |archive-date=17 March 2016 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20160317114808/http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/17/arts/music/frank-sinatra-jr-singer-who-followed-in-his-fathers-footsteps-dies-at-72.html?_r=0 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2017]] &ndash; [[Lewis Rowland]], American neurologist (born 1925)<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Lisak |first1=Robert P. |title=Lewis P. Rowland |journal=Journal of the Neurological Sciences |date=June 2017 |volume=377 |pages=234–235 |doi=10.1016/j.jns.2017.04.018 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
*[[2018]] &ndash; [[Louise Slaughter]], Member of the [[U.S. House of Representatives]] from New York (born 1929)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fried |first1=Joseph P. |title=Louise Slaughter, 88, Liberal Congresswoman in 16th Term, Is Dead |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/louise-slaughter-dies.html |access-date=10 October 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=16 March 2018 |url-access=limited |archive-date=19 March 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180319060852/https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/16/obituaries/louise-slaughter-dies.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2019]] &ndash; [[Dick Dale]], American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)<ref>{{cite web |last1=Rueb |first1=Emily S. |last2=Pareles |first2=Jon |title=Dick Dale, 81, King of the Surf Guitar, Dies |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/obituaries/dick-dale-dead.html |website=The New York Times |access-date=22 March 2019 |date=17 March 2019 |url-access=limited |archive-date=18 March 2019 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20190318051150/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/17/obituaries/dick-dale-dead.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[2025]] &ndash; [[Émilie Dequenne]], Belgian actress (born 1981)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bahr |first=Lindsey |date=March 17, 2025 |title=Belgian actor Émilie Dequenne dies at 43 of rare cancer, report says |url=https://apnews.com/article/emilie-dequenne-dies-92b2744ea2b71a9070902ab563357611 |access-date=March 21, 2025 |website=[[Associated Press]] |language=en}}</ref>
*2025 &ndash; [[Jesse Colin Young]], American singer and songwriter (born 1941)<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/arts/music/jesse-colin-young-dead.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawJFZI1leHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHQSbsu1udOXpkj2_ArOMHqqH9I7Q1RCra-k7hgC5y2YBr_aTBYZtF91FNA_aem_6Le0wDhxhhq6zO9S6V2_rg#:~:text=Jesse%20Colin%20Young%2C%20whose%20sincere,He%20was%2083|first=Jim|last=Farber|title=Jesse Colin Young, Singer Who Urged Us to 'Get Together,' Dies at 83|work=The New York Times|date=March 17, 2025}}</ref>

==Holidays and observances==
[[File:Menagha St. Urho.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Saint Urho]]]]
*Christian [[feast day]]:
**[[Eusebia of Hamage]]<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum">{{cite book |title=Martyrologium Romanum (2004) |date=2004 |publisher=Administrationem Patrimonii Sedis Apostolicae in Civitate Vaticana |page=192-193 |url=https://archive.org/details/MartRom2004/page/192/mode/2up?view=theater |access-date=11 March 2026}}</ref>
**[[Finian Lobhar|Finian Lobhar (Finian the Leper)]]
**[[Heribert of Cologne]]<ref name=CatholicEncy/>
**[[Hilarius of Aquileia]]<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" />
**[[Jean de Brébeuf]]<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" />
**[[Beatification|Blessed]] [[John Amias]] and [[Robert Dalby]]<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" />
**[[Julian of Antioch]]<ref name="Martyrologium Romanum" />
**[[March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)]]
*[[Lithuanian book smugglers|Day of the Book Smugglers]] ([[Lithuania]])<ref>{{cite web |last1=Schwartz |first1=Dana |title=The Fascinating History of Lithuania's Day of the Book Smugglers |url=https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62554/fascinating-history-lithuanias-day-book-smugglers |website=[[Mental Floss]] |access-date=1 September 2021 |date=30 March 2015 |archive-date=1 September 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210901004907/https://www.mentalfloss.com/article/62554/fascinating-history-lithuanias-day-book-smugglers |url-status=live }}</ref>
*[[Remembrance day of the Latvian legionnaires]] ([[Latvia]])
*[[Saint Urho|Saint Urho's Day]] ([[Finnish Americans]] and [[Finnish Canadians]])

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
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* [https://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/ BBC: On This Day] 
* {{NYT On this day|month=3|day=16}}
* [https://www.onthisday.com/events/march/16 Historical Events on March 16] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612221312/https://www.onthisday.com/events/march/16 |date=2020-06-12 }}

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