March 24th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Philippines)
Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
World Tuberculosis Day a.k.a. World TB Day (International)
National Tree Planting Day (Uganda) * CLICK HERE
Exxon Valdez Spill Rememberance Day * (See Below)
Empire Day, birthday of Queen Victoria (Jamaica - prior to 1964)
Kazimiras Diena (Ancient Latvia)
St. Gabriel Feast Day
Houdini Day, Birthday of Harry Houdini (magician)
Cheti Chand, New Year's Day (Sindhis), The Second Day of Spring and a Day after the common Indian New Year. After the Spring Equinox
Ada Lovelace Day
American Diabetes Association Alert Day
National Chocolate Covered Raisins Day
Christian Feast Day of Catherine of Vadstena
Christian Feast Day of Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
Christian Feast Day of Simon of Trent (cult suppressed)
Student Day (Church of Scientology)
* Exxon Valdez Spill Rememberance Day, On March 24, 1989, 11.2 million gallons of crude oil spilled into Prince William Sound from the tanker Exxon Valdez when its hull hit a reef and tore open. The spill, which cost billions of dollars to clean up and killed millions of birds, fish, and other wildlife, was caused by human error and could have been avoided.
Fête de la Tulipe Translation: Tulip Day (French Republican) The Fourth day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"May your mornings bring joy
and your evenings bring peace...
May your troubles grow less
as your blessings increase!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Coffee Nudge
1 Part Dark Creme De Cacao
1 Part Kahlua
1 Part Brandy
Fill With Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Wine of The Day
Bonterra 2008 Roussanne
Style - Organic Roussanne
Mendocino County
$20
Certified Organic
Beer of The Day
Point the Way IPA
Brewer - Golden Road Brewing, Los Angeles, California, USA
Style - IPA
Joke of The Day
Fifteen years together and my wife still gets upset when I use her toothbrush.
So if anyone knows another way to get dogs sh*t out of my boots, I'm all ears
Quote of the Day
"If you don’t drink, then all of your stories suck and end with, 'And then I got home'.”
- Jim Jefferies (February 14th 1977), an Australian stand-up comedian.
Whiskey of The Day
Kellan Irish Whiskey
Price: $20
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
Tsunami Awareness Week, Last Full Week in March
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week, Last Full Week in March
National Protocol Officer's Week, Last Full Week in March
National Cleaning Week, Last Full Week in March
Week of Solidarity with People's Struggling Against Racism & Discrimination, Fourth Week of March
Act Happy Week, Third Monday to Sunday
Passiontide, Last Two Weeks of Lent
Historical Events on March 24th
1379 End of Gelderse war victory
1401 Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
1545 German Parliament opens in Worms
1550 France & England sign Peace of Boulogne
1603 James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England.
1629 1st game law passed in American colonies, by Virginia
1645 Battle at Jankov Bohemia: Sweden beatS RC emperor Ferdinand III
1664 Roger Williams is granted a charter to colonize Rhode Island
1721 Johann Sebastian Bach opens his Brandenburgse Concerts
1731 Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
1734 Neth's William K H Friso marries princess Anne of Hanover
1765 The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act that requires the Thirteen Colonies to provide temporary housing to British soldiers, American Revolutionary War.
1792 Benjamin West (US) becomes president of Royal Academy of London
1801 Aleksandr P Romanov becomes emperor of Russia
1828 Philadelphia & Columbia Railway (1st state owned) authorized
1832 In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
1837 Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
1848 State of siege proclaimed in Amsterdam
1855 Manhattan Kansas founded as New Boston Kansas
1860 Clipper Andrew Jackson arrives in SF, 89 days out of NY
1868 Metropolitan Life Insurance Co forms
1877 University boat race between Oxford & Cambridge ends in a dead heat
1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
1880 Tobacco Growers' Mutual Insurance Company incorporates in CT
1882 German scientist Robert Koch announces the discovery of mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
1883 1st telephone call between NY & Chicago
1887 Oscar Straus appointed 1st Jewish ambassador from US (to Turkey)
1890 Start of Sherlock Holmes "The Adventure of Wisteria Lodge" (BG)
1894 37 miners killed at Franklin, WA
1896 A. A. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history;
1898 1st automobile sold
1900 New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
1906 "Census of the British Empire" shows England rules 1/5 of the world
1907 The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
1910 83°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1913 Netherlands soccer team's 1st victory over England
1913 Palace Theater opens at 1564 Broadway NYC
1920 1st US coast guard air station established (Morehead City NC)
1922 Grand National at Aintree sees only 3 horses out of 32 starters finish
1923 Greece becomes a republic.
1925 KSL-AM in Salt Lake City UT begins radio transmissions
1926 The Beehive in the Hague opens 1st escalator in Netherlands
1927 Cuban chess champ, Jose Capablanca wins 33-day Grand Chess Tournie
1927 Dutch 1st Chamber condemns Belgian & Neth's Wielingen Treaty
1930 1st religious services telecast in US (W2XBS NYC)
1930 Planet Pluto named
1932 1st US radio broadcast from a moving train (Belle Baker WABC from MD)
1933 Peter I Island incorporated as a Norwegian dependency
1934 U.S. Congress passes the Tydings-McDuffie Act allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth, US declares the Philippines to become independent in 1945
1935 Major Bowes' Original Amateur Hour goes national on NBC Radio Network
1936 The longest game in NHL history is played between Detroit and Montreal. Red Wings beat Montreal Maroons in 16 mins & 30 seconds of 6th period Stanley Cup game lasts 9 periods (176 mins), ends 1-0
1937 Bus blew a tire, going out of control, killing 18 (Salem Illinois)
1937 National Gallery of Art established by Congress
1941 British troops defeat British Somalia
1941 German troops occupy El Agheila Libya
1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
1941 LIU beats Ohio U 56-42 for NIT basketball championship
1941 Richard Wright & Paul Green's "Native Son," premieres in NYC
1944 811 British bombers attack Berlin
1944 Ardeatine Massacre, German troops kill 335 Italian civilians in occupied Rome.
1944 In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 prisoners begin breaking out of Stalag Luft III, World War II.
1945 Gen Eisenhower, Montgomery & Bradley discuss advance in Germany
1945 Largest one-day airborne drop, 600 transports & 1300 gliders
1945 Operation Varsity, British, US & Canadian airborne landings E of Rhine
1945 US minesweepers reach Kerama Retto, South coast of Okinawa
1947 Congress proposes 2-term limitation on the presidency
1947 John D Rockefeller Jr donates NYC East River site to the UN
1949 21st Academy Awards "Hamlet," Laurence Olivier & Jane Wyman win
1949 Walter & John Huston become 1st father-and-son team to win
1950 Gracie de Moss wins LPGA Pro-Ladies Golf Championship
1950 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1950 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1952 Great demonstrations against apartheid in South-Africa
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1955 1st seagoing oil drill rig placed in service
1955 British Army patrols withdraw from Belfast after 20 years
1955 Tennessee Williams, "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" opens for 694 performances
1958 Entertainer Elvis Presley is conscripted into the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761).
1959 Iraq withdraws from the Baghdad Pact
1959 The Party of the African Federation (PFA) is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keita.
1960 US appeals court rules novel, "Lady Chatterly's Lover," not obscene
1961 NY Senate approves $55M for a baseball stadium at Flushing Meadows
1962 24th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Cin beats Ohio State 71-59
1962 Benny Paret, KOed in a welterweight title, he dies 10 days later
1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys
1964 Kennedy half-dollar issued
1965 NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing on the Moon, 10 miles (16 km) NE of crater Alphonsus.
1966 Selective Service announces college deferments based on performance
1967 U of Mich holds 1st "Teach-in" after bombing of North Vietnam
1968 Mickey Wright wins Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 Dutch cartoonist Frans Piet ends "Sjors & Sjimmie" strip
1972 The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
1973 Harley Race beats Dory Funk Jr in Kansas City, to become NWA champ
1973 Immaculata beats Queens College, 59-52 to win AIAW Basketball title
1973 Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles, California.
1973 Professional track debut of Kip Keino defeating Jim Ryun in the mile
1973 SF 49er pres Lou Spadia proposes NFL expand to 30 teams
1974 36th NCAA Mens Basketball Championship: NC State beats Marquette 76-64
1975 Muhammad Ali TKOs Chuck Wepner in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1976 A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of Congo.
1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
1978 Wings release "With a Little Luck"
1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1979 1st appearance as Australian cricket capt for Kim Hughes
1979 10 rebounds & 10 assists, as the Spartans cruise to a 101-67 by Penn Mich State's Earvin "Magic" Johnson registers triple-double 29 pts
1979 Columbia flown on carrier aircraft lands at Kennedy Space Center
1980 42nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Louisville beats UCLA 59-54
1980 ABC's nightly Iran Hostage crisis program renamed "Nightline"
1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks
1981 "Nightline with Ted Koppel" premieres on ABC
1981 Bombay beat Delhi by innings & 46 to win Ranji Cricket Trophy
1981 Colombia drops diplomatic relations with Cuba
1982 US sub Jacksonville collides with a Turkish freighter near Virginia
1984 Andrea Schone skates ladies world record 5 km (7:34.52)
1984 IOC agrees to 6-team exhibition baseball tournament in Olympics
1984 Igor Malkov skates world record 10 km (14:21.51)
1985 5th Golden Raspberry Awards: Bolero wins
1985 Golden Raspberry Awards presented to parody Oscar Awards (Bolero wins)
1985 Jan Stephenson wins LPGA GNA Golf Classic
1985 Norman Gifford makes cricket ODI debuts at age 44 (v Aust, Sharjah)
1986 58th Academy Awards "Out of Africa," William Hurt & G Page win
1986 NASA publishes "Strategy for Safely Returning the Space Shuttle to Flight Status"
1986 Suriname army capt Etienne Boerenveen arrested for cocaine smuggling
1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
1986 US & Libya clash in Gulf of Sidra
1987 1st Soul Train Music Awards: Janet Jackson, Luther Vandross
1987 WA win the Sheffield Shield by drawing cricket final vs Victoria
1988 "Gospel at Colonus" opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 61 perfs
1988 Quarterback Dan Fouts retires
1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill, In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (42,000 m³), 11.3 mil gallons, of petroleum after running aground. The Worst US oil spill.
1989 Mary Martin in "Peter Pan," 1st seen on TV since 1973
1990 Indian troops leave Sri Lanka
1990 Tom Hunter swims world record 50m freestyle (21.81 sec)
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Auditorium Theatre, Chicago
1991 11th Golden Raspberry Awards, Ford Fairlane & Ghosts Can't Do It wins
1991 Barcelona Dragons beat NY/NJ Knights 19-7 in their 1st WLAF game
1991 Danielle Ammaccapane wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1991 In liberated Kuwait, banks reopen
1991 NY Yankees beat NY Mets, 9-3
1991 Wrestlemania VII in LA, Hulk Hogan pins Sgt Slaughter
1992 "Jake's Women" opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 245 performances
1992 1st Belgium in the space, Dirk Frimout on Atlantis Space Shuttle STS-45 (Atlantis 11) launches into space
1992 Sudanese Boeing 707 crashes on mountain Hymettos at Athens: 5-6 die
1993 Ezer Weizman elected president of Israel
1994 "Carousel" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 322 performances
1994 "Song of Jacob Zulu" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 53 performances
1994 F-16 collides with C-130 Hercules above AFB in NC, 120 die
1994 Robert F Kennedy Jr divorces Emily Black
1996 16th Golden Raspberry Awards, Showgirls wins (or loses however you want to look at it)
1996 Eastenders star Michael French is reported to be a homosexual
1996 Laura Davies wins LPGA Standard Register Ping Golf Tournament
1996 MTA raises NYC bridge tolls to $3.50 each way
1997 69th Academy Awards "English Patient," T Cruise & Brenda Blythen win
1997 Australian parliament overturns world's 1st & only euthanasia law
1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
1998 Jonesboro massacre, Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
1999 NATO commences air bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country, Kosovo War.
1999 Mont Blanc Tunnel Fire: 39 people die when a Belgian transport truck carrying flour and margarine caught fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel.
2000 S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
2003 The Arab League votes 21-1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
2006 Long-term protests in Belarus are broken by police.
2006 Pope Benedict XVI adds 15 men to the College of Cardinals, in the first consistory of his Pontificate.
2007 The Australian Labor Party is reinstated after the New South Wales state elections.
2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
2010 Lee Kun-hee returns to Samsung Electronics chief executive officer (CEO) position after his resignation in April 21, 2008
2012 African Union deploys 5,000 strong force with the aim of catching or killing warlord Joseph Kony
2013 17 soldiers are killed by a suicide bomber at a military checkpoint in North Waziristan, Pakistan
2013 25 people are killed by gunmen in a coordinated attack in Adamawa State, Nigeria
2013 A series of emergency meetings in Brussels undertaken to resolve Cyprus’ financial situation
2013 Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui
2013 Scotland defeats Sweden to win the 2013 World Women's Curling Championship
2014 Ukraine withdraws its forces from the Crimea
2015 Germanwings flight on route between Barcelona and Düsseldorf crashes in the French Alps killing all 150 on board
2015 The Opportunity rover becomes the first to complete a Martian marathon
2016 Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić found guilty of genocide during 1995 Srebrenica massacre, sentenced to 40 years
2016 English footballer Adam Johnson sentenced to 6 years in prison for sexual activity with a schoolgirl
Born on March 24th
1188 Ferrand of Portugal, earl of Flanders/son of Sancho I
1441 Ernst I, elector of Saxon (1464-86)
1494 Georg Agricola, German scientist, mineralogist (De Re Metallica) (d. 1555)
1607 Michiel Adriaenszoon de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (St Vincent, Dune) (d. 1667)
1628 Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1685)
1630 Jose Saenz d'Aguirre, Spanish cardinal
1657 Arai Hakuseki, Japanese writer and politician (d. 1725)
1693 John Harrison, British clockmaker (d. 1776)
1703 Jose F de Isla (Francisco de Salazar), Spanish Jesuit/writer
1714 Carlo Giovanni Testori, composer
1725 Samuel Ashe, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
1725 Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman and acting Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
1732 Gian Francesco de Majo, composer
1740 John Antes, composer
1749 Bernard Jumentier, composer
1755 Rufus King, American politician, framer of US constitution (d. 1827)
1762 Marcos Antonio da Fonseca, Portugal, opera composer (Portogallo)
1782 Orest Kiprensky, Russian painter (d. 1836)
1796 John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
1797 Antonio Rosmini-Serbati, philosopher/founder (Institute of Charity)
1802 Jacob van Lennep, attorney/Dutch MP
1808 Maria Malibran, Spanish-French singer (d. 1836)
1809 Joseph Liouville, French mathematician, discover of transcendental numbers (d. 1882)
1809 Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and writer (d. 1837)
1814 Galen Clark, US, naturalist/discovered Mariposa Grove
1817 Aime Maillart, composer
1820 A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
1820 Fanny Crosby, American hymnist (d. 1915)
1821 Elisa Felix (Rachel), tragedienne
1821 (George) Hector Tyndale, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1828 Horace Gray, American jurist and Associate Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1902)
1829 George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
1829 Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
1830 Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet (d. 1889)
1834 John Wesley Powell, American explorer and environmentalist (d. 1902)
1834 William Morris, English writer and designer (d. 1896)
1835 Jožef Stefan, Slovenian physicist (Stefan-Boltzmann law) (d. 1893)
1837 Philips, Count of Flanders Belgium
1848 Honoré Beaugrand, Quebec journalist and newspaper publisher (La Patrie) (d. 1906)
1850 Silas Hocking, British novelist and preacher (d. 1935)
1855 Andrew W Mellon, American financier, founder (Mellon Bank), US Sec of Treasury (d. 1937)
1855 Olive Schreiner, South African writer (Portrait of a South African Woman) (d. 1920)
1866 Jack McAuliffe, US lightweight boxing champ, hall of famer
1874 Harry Houdini (Erich Weiss), Hungarian-born magician (d. 1926)
1874 Luigi Einaudi, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (1948-55) (d. 1961)
1878 Top Naeff (Anthonetta van Rhijn-N-Naeff), Dutch writer
1883 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/old-catholic bishop
1884 Eugène Tisserant, French Cardinal and Dean of the Sacred College of Cardinals (d. 1972)
1884 Gino Marinuzzi, composer
1884 Peter Debye, Dutch chemist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1936) (d. 1966)
1885 Charlie Daniels, US swimmer (Olympics-4 gold-1904, 08)
1886 Athenagoras I, 268th Ecumenical Greek Patriarch of Constantinople (d. 1972)
1886 Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
1887 Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, American actor (Keystone comedies) (d. 1933)
1888 Jameson Thomas, London England, actor (Farmer's Wife)
1888 Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian Bolshevik politician (d. 1922)
1889 Albert Hill, British athlete (d. 1969)
1891 Annie "Charley" Toorop, Dutch painter (3 Generations)
1891 John Knittel, writer
1891 Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Soviet physicist (d. 1951)
1893 George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
1893 Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
1895 Arthur Murray, dancer (Arthur Murray's Dance Party)
1895 Sid Saylor, Chicago Ill, actor (Wally-Waterfront)
1896 Gianna Manzini, writer
1897 Charles Eyck, Dutch painter/sculptor
1897 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-born psychotherapist (character analysis) (d. 1957)
1898 Dorothy Stratton, organizer (SPARS-women's branch of US Coast Guard)
1898 George Alpert, railroad executive
1900 June (Algeria Junius) Clark, musician trumpet
1901 Ub Iwerks, American cartoonist (d. 1971)
1902 Thomas E Dewey, American politician, 1st Catholic Pres candidate (1944, 1948) (d. 1971)
1903 Adolph F J Butenandt, German bio-chemist (Nobel 1939) (d. 1995)
1903 John Patrick Sutton Ludlow, actor (Agatha)
1903 Malcolm Muggeridge, British author and scholar (Observer of Life) (d. 1990)
1905 Andre Christiaens, Flemish writer (Unfindable Country)
1905 Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino writer and diplomat (d. 2007)
1906 John Cameron Swayze, news correspondent/spokesman (Timex)
1906 Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Soviet singer (d. 1984)
1907 Janet Harmon Bragg, US pilot/columnist (Chicago Defender)
1907 Lauris Norstad, US gen (NATO commander)/CEO (Owens-Corning Fiberglass)
1907 Lucia Chase, US ballerina/co-founder (American Ballet Theater)
1907 Lydia Korneevna Chukovskaya, writer
1907 Martin Kosleck, Germany, actor (Pursuit to Algiers)
1907 Paul Sauvé, Quebec politician (d. 1960)
1909 Clyde Barrow, bank robber (of Bonnie & Clyde fame)
1909 Thomas E "Tommy" Trinder, English radio comic/actor (Phoenix)
1910 Jacques Chailley, composer
1910 Richard Conte, American actor (4 Just Men, Tony Rome, Hotel) (d. 1975)
1911 Herman W "Fritz" Liebert, US OSSer/librarian (Yale curator)
1911 Jane Beverly Drew, architect
1911 Joseph Barbera, American cartoonist (Hanna-Barbera) (d. 2006)
1912 Dorothy Height, American activist
1914 Lilli Palmer, Posen Germany, actress (Boys From Brazil, Sebastian)
1915 Gorgeous George, American professional wrestler (d. 1963)
1916 Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
1917 Constantine Andreou, Greek-Brazilian artist (d. 2007)
1917 John Kendrew, British molecular biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1997)
1918 Englebert van Anderlecht, Belgian painter
1919 John J Duncan Jr, (Rep-R-TN, 1965)
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American author and publisher, beat poet (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 Lawrence Ferlinghetti, author (Coney Island of the Mind)
1919 Robert Heilbroner, American economist (d. 2005)
1920 Gene Nelson (Berg), American actor (Tea For 2, Oklahoma) (d. 1996)
1921 Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
1921 Wilson Harris, Guayanese author
1922 Dave Appell, singer/musician/songwriter (In the Midnight Hour)
1922 Dorothy Irene Height, president (national council of negro women)
1922 Onna White, Canadian choreographer (d. 2005)
1923 Edna Jo Hunter, expert on military families & prisoners of war
1923 Murray Hamilton, American actor (Rich Man Poor Man) (d. 1986)
1924 Lois Andrews, actress (Ganster, Rustlers, Desert Hawk)
1924 Lorraine Gourley, LA CA
1924 Norman Fell, American actor (Mr Roper-3's Company, The End, Graduate) (d. 1998)
1925 Duncan Wood, TV director/producer
1925 Puig Aubert, French rugby league footballer (d. 1994)
1926 Dario Fo, Italian writer, Nobel laureate (Nobel-1997)
1926 Desmond Connell, Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Dublin
1927 Janos Decsenyi, composer
1927 Martin Walser, German author
1928 Byron "Yanks" Janis, American pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
1928 Vanessa Brown, Vienna Austria, actress (My Favorite Husband)
1929 Cuan McCarthy, cricketer (36 Test wkts for South Africa, 1 career no-ball)
1930 Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
1930 David Dacko, 1st and 3rd President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
1930 Kenneth Nelson, Rocky Mount NC, actor (Henry Aldrich-Aldrich Family)
1930 Steve McQueen, American actor (Wanted, Dead or Alive, Blob, Bullitt) (d. 1980)
1931 Thelma Kalama, US, 4 X 100m relay swimmer (Olympic-gold-1948)
1932 William Smith, Columbia Mo, actor (Rich Man Poor Man, Hawaii 5-0)
1932 Yuri Anatoyevich Ponomaryov, Russia, cosmonaut (Soyuz 18 backup)
1933 David Harries, composer
1934 William Smith, American actor
1935 Peter Bichsel, Swiss writer
1936 David Suzuki, Canadian scientist and environmentalist
1936 Fredrick Kaufmamn, composer
1937 Benjamin Luxon, Redruth England, baritone (Owen Wingrave)
1937 Bill Tillman, basebal player
1937 Billy Stewart, American R&B singer (I Do Love You) (d. 1970)
1937 Erskine Sandiford, premier (Barbados, 1987-94)
1938 David Irving, British historian
1938 Holger Czukay, German musician (Can)
1938 Larry Wilson, NFL back (Cardinals)
1940 Bob Mackie, American fashion designer (Streisand, Cher)
1940 Don Jardine, Canadian professional wrestler (d. 2006)
1943 H Martin Lancaster, (Rep-D-NC)
1943 Jesus Alou, baseball outfielder (SF Giants)
1943 Marika Kilius, German FR, ice skating pair (Olympic-silver-1960, 64)
1944 Denny McLain, baseball pitcher (Detroit Tigers, 31 wins in 1968)
1944 R. Lee Ermey, American actor
1944 Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian Prime Minister
1945 Curtis Hanson, American film director
1945 Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
1946 Klaus Dinger, German musician (Neu!, Kraftwerk) (d. 2008)
1946 Lee Oskar, Denmark, rock harmonicist (War-Why Can't We Be Friends)
1946 Paul Williams, climber
1947 Alan Sugar, English businessman and computer manufacturer (Amstrad)
1947 Christine Gregoire, American politician, 22nd Governor of Washington
1947 Meiko Kaji, Japanese singer and actress
1947 Mike Kellie, rock drummer (Spooky Tooth-It's All About)
1947 Paul McCandless, rocker (Torches on the Lake)
1947 Pieter W Coetzer, South African journalist/MP (NP)
1948 Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer, second person to climb all fourteen eight-thousanders (d. 1989)
1949 Nick Lowe, British musician, vocalist (Rockpile-Cruel to be Kind)
1949 Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer
1949 Steve Lang, Montreal Canada, rock bassist (April Wine)
1951 Dougie Thomson, British bassist (Supertramp)
1951 Earl Williams, NBAer
1951 Kenneth S Reightler Jr, Patuxent R Md, Cmdr USN/astro (STS 48, 60)
1951 Pat Bradley, American golfer, LPGA tour (1981 US Women's Open)
1951 Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer
1952 Nicholas Campbell, Toronto Canada, actor (Nick-Insiders)
1953 Louie Anderson, American comedian
1953 Steve Lubbers, cricketer (capt of Dutch World Cup team 1996)
1954 Donna Pescow, American actress (Angie, Out of this World, Rainbow)
1954 Irina Ratushinskaya, Odessa Ukraine, disident poet (Beyond the Limit)
1954 Robert Carradine, American actor (Slim-The Cowboys, Wavelength)
1955 Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player
1956 Ijaz Faqih, cricketer (Pakistan off-spin all-rounder in 5 Tests 80-88)
1956 Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO
1957 Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and cross-country skier
1957 Scott J Horowitz, Phila Pa, PhD/Capt USAF/astronaut (STS 75, 82)
1958 Mike Woodson, American basketball player and head coach
1959 Derek Statham, English footballer
1959 Renaldo Nehemiah, US, hurdler (110m at 12.93)/NFLer (SF 49ers)
1960 Barry Horowitz, American professional wrestler
1960 Kelly LeBrock, American actress (Weird Science, Woman in Red)
1960 Nena, German pop singer
1960 Scott Pruett, American race car driver
1961 Dean Jones, Australian cricketer (batsman & fielder 1984-92)
1961 James T Gallagher Jr, Johnstown PA, PGA golfer (1990 Greater Milw)
1962 Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
1962 Penny Hammel, Decatur IL, LPGA golfer (Jamie Farr Toledo-1985, 89)
1962 Star Jones, American television personality (NBC, Inside Edition)
1963 Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch soccer goalie (Vitesse, Manchester)
1963 Sammy Giammatva, Houston Tex, tennis star
1964 Annabella Sciorra, American actress
1964 Hans Schwaier, West Germany, tennis star
1965 Angela Zuckerman, St Louis Mo, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1965 Ben Torriero, WLAF running back (Scottish Claymores)
1965 Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
1965 Jeff Reese, Brantford, NHL goalie (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1965 Marian Vajda, Czech, tennis star
1965 Patrick Scales, British-German electric bass guitar player
1965 Peter Jacobson, American actor
1965 The Undertaker, American professional wrestler
1966 Penny Toler, WNBA guard (LA Sparks)
1966 Tatjana Patitz, Hamburg German FR, model/actress (Rising Sun)
1967 Kathy Rinaldi-Stunkel, Fla, tennis player (Virginia Slims of Ark 1987)
1967 Richard Gillam, Atlanta Ga, pairs skater (& Erin Moorad)
1969 Houston, American pornographic actress
1969 Yoko Zetterlund, SF California, volleyball setter (Olympics-bronze-92, 96)
1970 Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
1970 Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress (Donna Hayward-Twin Peaks)
1970 Marques Bragg, NBA forward (Minnesota Timberwolves)
1970 Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian football player, CFL kicker (Toronto Argonauts)
1970 Shannon Lemora, Baton Rouge Louisiana, 1.5k runner
1970 Sharon Corr, Irish musician (The Corrs)
1971 Megyn Price, American actress
1972 Steve Karsay, American baseball player
1973 Atle Larsen, WLAF kicker (Rhein Fire)
1973 Chip McCaw, Chicago Ill, volleyball setter (Olympics-96)
1973 David Moravec, hockey forward (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 Jacek Bak, Polish footballer
1973 Jim Parsons, American Film And Television Actor
1973 Josh Lakatos, Pasadena California, trap shooter (Olympics-silver-1996)
1973 Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
1973 Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defense (LA Kings, Oly-G-98)
1973 Steve Corica, Australian footballer
1974 Alyson Hannigan, American actress
1974 Chad Butler, American drummer (Switchfoot)
1974 Terry Killens, linebacker (Tennessee Oilers)
1975 Debbie Keller, Winfield Ill, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1975 Julia Bikbova, Kiev Ukraine, dance skater (& John Lee)
1975 Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer, actress and diva
1975 Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
1976 Aaron Brooks, American football player
1976 Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer
1976 Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
1976 Danielle Garrett, Camp Hill Penn, soccer forward (Olympics-96)
1976 Peyton Manning, American football player
1977 Angellica Bell, English TV presenter
1977 Corneille, Canadian-Rwandan singer
1977 Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league footballer
1977 Olivia Burnette, American actress (Torkelsons)
1978 Michael Braun, Australian rules footballer
1979 Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
1979 Graeme Swann, English cricketer
1979 Lake Bell, American actress
1979 Norris Hopper, American baseball player
1979 Periklis Iakovakis, Greek athlete
1980 Luke Edwards, Nevada City Ca, actor (Newsie)
1980 Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
1981 Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
1981 Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
1982 Corey Hart, American baseball player
1982 Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
1982 Nivea, American singer
1983 Kelvin Kwan, Hong Kong singer
1983 Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
1983 T. J. Ford, American basketball player
1984 Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
1984 Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French footballer
1984 Chris Bosh, American basketball player
1985 Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and model
1986 Anthony McMahon, English footballer
1986 Kohei Hirate, Japanese racing driver
1986 Tony McMahon, English footballer
1988 Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
1990 Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
1992 Thomas Law, English actor
Died on March 24th
809 Harun al-Rashid, caliph of the Abbasid empire (786-809) (b. 763)
1284 King Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
1381 Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
1396 Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
1400 Florens Radewijns, Dutch priest/leader Modern Devotion
1455 Nicholas V (Tommaso Parentucelli), Italian Pope (1447-55) (b. 1397)
1455 Rudolf van Diepholt, bishop/cardinal of Utrecht (1448-55)
1471 Thomas Malory, author (Le Morte d'Arthur), dies at 55
1558 Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
1563 Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 Elizabeth I Tudor (Maiden Queen), Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) (b. 1533)
1631 Philipp Dulichius, composer
1635 Jacques Callot, French cartoonist/engraver
1644 Cecilia Renata, arch duchess of Austria
1654 Samuel Scheidt, German composer (Concertus sacri) (b. 1587)
1661 William Leddra, last Quaker, hanged in Boston
1755 Theodor Christleib Reinhold, composer
1773 Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1823 Cornelis van Foreest, Dutch mayor (Alkmaar)
1825 Giovanni Domenico Perotti, composer
1838 Thomas Attwood, composer
1866 Maria Amalia, of Bourbon-Sicily, wife of Louis Filips of Austria
1867 Mary, [Victoria MALOPCA of Teck], queen of Gt Brit
1869 Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1877 Walter Bagehot, English economist/critic/banker
1878 Albin Masek, composer
1881 Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republic politician
1881 Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (Song of Hiawatha) (b. 1807)
1887 Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1894 Robert Prescott Stewart, composer
1899 Billy Barnes, cricketer (725 runs in 21 Tests for England
1905 Jules Verne, French sci-fi author (Around the World in 80 Days) (b. 1828)
1909 John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
1911 Matthew Stanley Robison, president (Cardinals)
1915 Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 Enrique y Campina Granados, Spanish composer (Goyescas), drowns (b. 1867)
1918 Theophile Ysaye, composer
1921 Deodat de Severac, composer
1921 Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1932 George Robert Canning, cricketer (the 4th Lord Harris)
1944 Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
1945 J S Nicklin, Lt-Col/Canada's 1st parachutist
1945 Thomas Rennie, Gen-Maj (Dutch command 51st Highland Division)
1946 Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player, world chess champ (1927-35, 37-46) (b. 1892)
1946 Gustaf Heintze, composer
1948 Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 Felix M Abel, French dominican/biblical scholar
1953 Mary of Teck, Queen Consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1960 Paul Joostens, Flemish painter
1962 Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1962 Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1964 Peter Lorre, Hungarian/US actor (Maltese Falcon, Raven)
1967 Marc Lavry, composer
1968 Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1968 Howard Petrie, actor (Border River, Bounty Hunter)
1968 Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader
1969 Joseph Kasavubu, president Congo (1960-65)
1974 Doris Deane
1974 Yoshida Isoya, Japanese architect (modern sukiya style)
1975 Muriel Hutchinson, actor (Another Thin Man)
1975 Oscar Rasbach, composer
1976 Bernard L Montgomery, British general, defeated Rommel (b. 1887)
1976 Nelson Case, TV host (Trash or Treasure)
1977 Saburo Moroi, composer
1978 Brackett Hamilton Leigh (Douglass), author (Ginger Star)
1979 Yvonne Mitchell, writer
1980 Óscar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop, murdered during mass (b. 1917)
1982 Ace Goodman, KC Mo, comedian (Easy Aces)
1984 Sam Jaffe, American actor (Dr Zorba-Ben Casey) (b. 1891)
1986 Sarah Cunningham, actress (Nurse Andrews-Trapper John MD)
1990 Alice Sapritch, actress (European Vacation)
1990 An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer and manufacturer (Wang) (b. 1920)
1990 Ray Goulding, American comedian (Bob & Ray) (b. 1922)
1990 Rene Enriquez, actor (Hill St Blues)
1991 Sir John Kerr, Australian Governor-General (b. 1914)
1993 Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, director (b. 1905)
1993 Erik Andriesse, Dutch painter (skulls, skeletons)
1993 John Hersey, American author, Pulitzer prize author (Hiroshima) (b. 1914)
1993 Peter Roovers, Dutch sculptor/teacher (war monuments)
1993 Taylor Reed, actor (Easy Money)
1994 Edith Porada, art historian/archaeologist
1994 Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician, assassinated
1994 Tommy Benford, jazz drummer
1995 Anthony Standerwick Heal, businessman
1995 Joey Long, blues/cajun guitarist
1995 Joseph Needham, British academic and sinologist (b. 1900)
1995 Trevor Oswald Ling, religious Studies Professor
1996 Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga, singer
1997 Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
1997 Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1999 Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
1999 Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
2001 Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003 Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 Chalmers "Spanky" Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
2008 Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2009 George Kell, American baseball player (b. 1922)
2010 Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
2010 Johnny Maestro, American singer (b. 1939)
2010 Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)
2012 Jocky Wilson, Scottish world champion darts player
2016 Johan Cruyff, Dutch soccer player/coach (Ajax/Barcelona)
2016 Kevin Turner, NFL fullback (Philadelphia Eagles) and plaintiff against NFL (concussion case), dies of A.L.S.
2016 Garry Shandling, American comedian (It's Garry Shandling's Show, Larry Sanders Show)
2016 Earl Hamner Jr, American creator and narrator of TV show "The Waltons"
