March 5th
Holidays and Festivals
Learn from Lei Feng Day (China)
St Piran's Day (Cornwall)
National Tree Planting Day (Iran) * CLICK HERE
Multiple Personality Day
Crispus Attucks Day
Approximate beginning of month of Jingzhé (Chinese calendar)
CCHR Day (Scientology)
Christian Feast Day of Ciarán of Saigir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory (Irish calendar)
Feast of Olivia
Feast of Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea
Toast of The Day
"May you have warm words on a cold evening,
a full moon on a dark night,
and a smooth road all the way to your door."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Fog Cutter
1 Part Rum
1 Part Gin
Fill With Orange Juice
Float Galliano
Wine of The Day
Van Ruiten 2008 Old Vine
Style - Zinfandel
Lodi
$20
Beer of The Day
Eastern Hemisphere
New Norcia Abbey Ale
Brewer - Malt Shovel Brewery, Camperdown, Australia
Style - Belgian-Style Ale
- In Honor of the New Norcia Station is a 35-metre ESTRACK radio antenna for communication with spacecraft in deep space that opened on the 5th of March 2003
Western Hemisphere
O'Brien's IPA
Brewer - Alpine Beer Co., Alpine, California, USA
Style - American-Style Strong India Pale Ale
Joke of The Day
I asked my wife if I pleased yer in bed? "yes, i love that trick you do with your mouth" she said. "what trick?" I asked.
"The one where you shut up and go to sleep"
Quote of the Day
"Do not enter the lift backwards, and only when lit up."
- Actual Sign In a Leipzig elevator
Whiskey of The Day
$150
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
National Cheerleading Week, First Week in March
National Ghostwriters Week, First Week in March
National Write A Letter of Appreciation Week, First Week in March
Universal Human Beings Week, First Week in March
Severe Weather Preparedness Week, First Full Week in March
Celebrate Your Name Week, First Full Week in March
National Consumer Protection Week, First Full Week in March
National Procrastination Week, First Full Week in March
National Schools Social Work Week, First Full Week in March
National Sleep Awareness Week, First Full Week in March
National Words Matter Week, First Full Week in March
Professional Pet Sitters Week, First Full Week in March
Save Your Vision Week, First Full Week in March
Telecommunicator Appreciation Week, First Full Week in March
Read an E-Book Week, First Full Week in March
Return The Borrowed Books Week, First Full Week in March
Women in Construction Week, First Full Week in March
Newspaper in Education Week, First Work Week in March
National School Breakfast Week, First Work Week in March
Share A Story, Shape A Future Week, First Work Week in March
American Council on Education, First Friday to Tuesday in March (acenet.edu)
Iditarod Race, Starts on the First Saturday in March, Ends Two Sundays Later
Historical Events on March 5th
363 Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1179 3rd Lateran Council (11th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1461 Henry VI was deposed by Duke of York during War of the Roses
1496 King Henry VII of England issues letters patent to John Cabot (Giovanni Caboto) and his sons, authorising them to explore unknown lands.
1528 Utrecht governor Maarten van Rossum plunders The Hague
1558 Smoking tobacco introduced in Europe by Francisco Fernandes
1579 Betuwe joins Union of Utrecht
1616 Copernicus' "de Revolutionibus" placed on Catholic Forbidden index
1623 1st American temperance law enacted, Virginia
1651 South Sea dike in Amsterdam breaks after storm
1684 Emperor Leopold I, Poland & Venice sign Heilig Covenant of Linz
1689 Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1743 1st US religious journal, The Christian History, published, Boston
1746 Jakobijnse troops leave Aberdeen
1750 1st American Shakespearean production-"altered" Richard III, NYC
1760 Princess Carolina marries Gen Charles Christian van Nassau-Weilburg
1766 Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans and takes possession of Louisiana Terr from French
1770 Boston Massacre, Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy, are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1783 King Stanislaus Augustus Poniatowski grants rights to Jews of Kovno
1784 Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1795 Amsterdam celebrates Revolution on the Dam; Square of Revolution
1795 Treaty of Basel-Prussia ends war with France
1807 1st performance of Ludwig von Beethoven's 4th Symphony in B
1820 Dutch city of Leeuwarden forbids Jews to go to synagogues on Sundays
1821 Monroe is 1st pres inaugurated on March 5th, because 4th was Sun
1824 First Burmese War officially begins, The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 Mexico attacks Alamo
1836 Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1842 Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1845 Congress appropriates $30,000 to ship camels to western US
1848 Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1849 Zachary Taylor sworn in as 12th president
1850 The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1856 Covent Garden Opera House destroyed in a fire
1856 Georgia becomes 1st state to regulate railroads
1860 Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1862 Union troops under brig-gen Wright occupy Fernandina Florida
1864 1st track meet between Oxford & Cambridge
1868 A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 "Mefistofele", an opera by Arrigo Boito receives its première performance at La Scala in Milan.
1868 Stapler patented in England by C H Gould
1872 George Westinghouse Jr patents triple air brake for trains
1877 Rutherford B Hayes inaugurated as 19th US president
1894 Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1894 Seattle authorizes 1st municipal employment office in US
1896 Italian premier Crispi resigns
1896 Italians governor of Eritrea, Gen Baldissera, reaches Massawa
1897 American Negro Academy forms
1899 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Concerto in D
1900 American Hall of Fame found
1903 Definitive treaty for construction of Baghdad railway drawn
1904 Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
1907 1st radio broadcast of a musical composition aired
1907 The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1908 1st ascent of Mt Erebus, Antarctica
1910 Ramon Inclan's "La Farsa Infantil de la Cabeza del Dragon," premieres
1910 Stanley Cup, Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Senators, 3-1
1912 Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, employing them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1912 Spanish steamer "Principe de Asturias" sinks NE of Spain, 500 die
1915 The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend, World War I.
1917 1st jazz recording for Victor Records released
1919 Louis Hirsch & Harold Atteridge's musical premieres in NYC
1922 "Nosferatu" premieres in Berlin
1923 1st old age pension plans in US established by Montana & Nevada
1923 Montana & Nevada become 1st states to enact old age pension laws
1924 Computing-Tabulating-Recording Corp becomes IBM
1924 Frank Carauna, becomes 1st to bowl 2 successive perfect 300 games
1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz appoints himself kalief
1927 1,000 US marines land in China to protect American property
1928 Karl Zuckmayer's "Der Hauptmann von Köpenick," premieres in Berlin
1931 Gandhi & British viceroy Lord Irwin sign pact
1933 FDR proclaims 10-day bank holiday
1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9%-17.2M votes)
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a "bank holiday", closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions during the Great Depression.
1934 Mother-in-law's day 1st celebrated (Amarillo, Tx)
1935 1st premature baby health law in US (Chicago)
1936 Spitfire makes it's 1st flight (Eastleigh Aerodrome in Southampton)
1940 Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1942 Bosnia Tito establishes 3rd Proletarit Brigade in Bosnia
1942 Dmitri Shostakovitch' 7th Symphony, premieres in Siberia
1942 Japanese troop march into Batavia
1942 United States Navy Seabees established.
1943 Anti fascist strikes in Italy
1943 First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1943 RAF bombs Essen Germany
1944 1st performance of Walter Piston's 2nd Symphony
1945 Allies bombs The Hague, Netherlands
1945 Generals Eisenhower, Patton & Patch meet in Luneville
1945 US 7th Army Corps captures Cologne
1945 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1945 The "Battle of the Ruhr" begins, World War II.
1946 Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1946 Winston Churchill uses the phrase "Iron Curtain" in his speech at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.
1948 Actor Eli Wallach marries actress Anne Jackson
1948 US rocket flies record 4800 KPH to 126k height
1949 Bradman plays his last innings in 1st-class cricket, gets 30
1949 The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1952 Terence Rattigan's "Deep Blue Sea," premieres in London
1954 "Girl in Pink Tights" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 115 perfs
1955 Elvis Presley's 1st TV appearance on "Louisiana Hayride" show
1955 WBBJ TV channel 7 in Jackson, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 "King Kong," 1st televised
1956 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 Eamon de Valera's Fianna Fail-party wins election in Ireland
1957 Sgt Bilko satirizes Elvis Presley (Elvis Pelvin)
1958 Explorer 2 fails to reach Earth orbit
1958 KDUH TV channel 4 in Scottsbluff-Hay Spring, NB (ABC) 1st broadcast
1958 The Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
1959 Iran & US sign economic & military treaty
1960 Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase, giving rise to the Aquatic Ape Hypothesis.
1960 Elvis Presley ends 2-year hitch in US Army
1960 Ice Dance Championship at Vancouver won by Denny & Jones (GRB)
1960 Ice Pairs Championship at Vancouver won by Wagner & Paul (CAN)
1960 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Vancouver won by Alain Giletti (FRA)
1960 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champions in Vanc won by Carol E Heiss (USA)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Beatles record "From Me to You" & "Thank You Girl"
1964 Atlanta Mayor Ivan Allen Jr, announces a baseball team is moving there
1964 Emergency crisis proclaimed in Ceylon due to social unrest
1965 1st performance of Walter Piston's 8th Symphony
1965 Ernie Terrel beats Eddie Machen in 15 for heavyweight boxing title
1965 March Intifada, A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 75 MPH air currents causes BOAC 707 crash into Mount Fuji, 124 die
1966 BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1966 Bob Seagren pole vaults 5.19m indoor world record
1966 Player reps elect Marvin Miller, as exec dir of Players' Association
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 WEDN TV channel 53 in Norwich, CT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 US launches Solar Explorer 2 to study the Sun
1969 Gold reaches then record high ($47 per ounce) in Paris
1969 Gustav Heinemann elected president of West-Germany
1969 Joe Orton's "What the Butler Saw," premieres in London
1970 Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1970 Edison Theater opens at 240 W 47th St NYC
1970 SDS Weathermen terrorist group bomb 18 West 11th St in NYC
1970 The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1972 Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis leaves communist party
1973 Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1973 Yankee pitchers Peterson & Kekich announce they swapped wives
1974 "Candide" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 740 performances
1974 Ralph Stewart failed in 2nd Islander penalty shot
1974 Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal, Yom Kippur War.
1975 First meeting of the Homebrew Computer Club
1976 British pound falls below $2 for 1st time
1978 "Hello, Dolly!" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 152 perfs
1978 The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
1979 America's Voyager 1 spacecraft has its closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1979 Soviet probes Venera 11, Venera 12 and the American solar satellite Helios II all are hit by "off the scale" gamma rays leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1980 Earth satellites record gamma rays from remnants of supernova N-49
1981 "Bring Back Birdie" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 4 perfs
1981 Ice Dance Championship at Hartford won by Jayne Torvill & C Dean (GRB)
1981 Ice Pairs Champ at Hartford won by Irina Vorobieva & I Lisovski (URS)
1981 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Hartford won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1981 US government grants Atlanta $1 million to search for black boy murderer
1982 Gaylord Perry (with 297 wins) signs with Seattle Mariners
1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus sends back data
1983 Bob Hawke (Labour) defeats Australian PM Malcolm Fraser (Cons)
1983 NSW beat Western Australia by 54 runs to win Sheffield Shield
1984 6,000 miners in the United Kingdom begin their strike at Cortonwood Colliery.
1984 Supreme Court (5-4), city may use public money for Nativity scene
1984 US accuse Iraq of using poison gas
1985 Mexican authorities find the body of US drug agent Enrique "Kike" Camarena Salaazar
1985 NY Islander Mike Bossy is 1st to score 50 goals in 8 straight seasons
1986 "Today" tabloid launched (Britain's 1st national color newspaper)
1988 The Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1989 19th Easter Seal Telethon raises $37,002,000
1989 Blains McCallister wins Honda Golf Classic shooting 266
1989 Elly Verhulst runs world record 3000 m indoor (8:33.82)
1991 Iraq repealed its annexation of Kuwait
1991 Reggie Miller (Indiana) begins NBA free throw streak of 52 games
1992 Ethic committee votes to reveal congressmen who bounced checks
1993 Boston Celtic Larry Bird undergoes backfusion surgery
1993 Fokker 100 crashes at Skopje Macedonia, 81 die
1993 Former Wash DC Mayor Marion Barry divorces his wife Effi
1993 Marlins beat Astros 12-8 in their 1st spring training game
1994 Dottie Mochrie wins Chrysler-Plymouth Tournament of Golf Championship
1994 Largest milkshake (1,955 gallons of chocolate-Nelspruit South Africa)
1994 PBA National Championship won by David Traber
1994 Singer Grace Slick arrested for pointing a gun at a cop
1995 21st People's Choice Awards, Tim Allen wins
1995 Estonia Centrumlinkse Coalition party wins parliamentary election
1995 Graves of czar Nicholas & family found in St Petersburg
1995 Marc Velzeboer skates world record 3 km short track (5:00.26)
1996 Earl Weaver & Jim Bunning, elected to Hall of Fame
1997 Tommy Lasorda, Nellie Fox & Willie Wells for Hall of Fame
1998 Mariah Carey divorces Tommy Mottola
1999 Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2003 In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2005 The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention
2012 27 members of Iraq's security force are killed by gunmen disguised as police in Haditha
2012 Tropical Storm Irina kills 65 in Madagascar
2013 The Dow Jones surpasses its 2007 pre-financial crisis levels for the first time
2013 Venezuelan Vice-President Nicolás Maduro assumes the presidency after the death of Hugo Chávez
2013 Willcom announces the world’s smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams
2014 A survey by the European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights reports that about 1/3 of women in the European Union have experienced physical or sexual violence since the age of 15
2015 Harrison Ford crash-lands his 1942 Ryan Aeronautical ST3KR aeroplane in California
2015 Islamic State militants ransack and destroy ancient cities of Nimrud, Hatra and Dur-Sharrukin in Iraq
2016 US air strike kills 150 Al-Shabaab militants north of Mogadishu, Somalia
Born on March 5th
1133 King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 David II Bruce, king of Scotland (1331-1371) (d. 1371)
1326 Louis I (the Great), King of Hungary (1342-82), Poland (1370-82) (d. 1382)
1512 Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer, Rupelmonde (Belgium) (d. 1594)
1563 John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1575 William Oughtred, English mathematician (slide rule) (d. 1660)
1585 John George I, Elector of Saxony (1611-56) (Peace of Prague) (d. 1656)
1637 John van der Heyden, Dutch painter/inventor (fire extinguisher)
1658 Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1668 Francesco Gasparini, composer
1693 Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (Isaac's Sacrifice) (d. 1770)
1703 Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1713 Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
1713 Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
1723 Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1733 Vincenzo Galeotti (Tomazelli), Italian dancer/choreographer
1739 Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman, member of the Massachusetts legislature (d. 1819)
1746 Jacob Wallenberg, Swedish writer/naval chaplain
1748 Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
1748 William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)
1750 Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d'Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (Apollonii Lexicon) (d. 1805)
1751 Jan Krtitel Kuchar, composer
1756 Thomas Linley, composer
1774 Christoph Ernst Friedrich Weyse, composer
1794 Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1794 Robert Cooper Grier, American jurist and Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (d. 1870)
1805 Theodore Labarre, composer
1814 Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 John Wentworth, American politician and Member of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois (d. 1888)
1817 Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
1824 Elisha Harris, US, physician/found American Public Health Assoc
1824 James Merritt Ives, lithographer (Currier & Ives)
1825 John Dunovant, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1864
1825 Joseph Albert, German photographer (albertotype)
1828 Johann Gungl, composer
1836 Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1840 Constance Fenimore Woolson, NH, writer (Jupiter Lights)
1843 William F Sudds, composer
1845 Alfonse Hasselmans, composer
1850 Daniel Brink Towner, composer
1852 Isabella Gregory, Ireland, writer/playwright (Golden Apple)
1853 Arthur W Foote, Salem Mass, organist/composer (Suite for Strings in E)
1853 Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (King Stork) (d. 1911)
1862 Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1867 Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1868 Prosper Poullet, Belgian viscount/jurist/minister
1869 Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
1870 Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1870 (B) Franc(lin) Norris, US, writer (McTeague, Octopus)
1871 Maria do Carmo Geronimo, Brazilian lives to be at least 126
1871 Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 Arthur van Schendel, Dutch writer (The World a Dancing Party)
1874 Henry Travers, British actor (Bells of St Mary, High Sierra) (d. 1965)
1877 Malcolm D Whitman, tennis champ (US Open-1898)
1879 Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1879 Walter Long, actor (Moby Dick, Sheik, Sea Devils, Dragnet Patrol)
1882 Dora Marsden, British editor, writer (d. 1960)
1883 Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1886 Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1886 Paul Radmilovic, England, swimmer (Olympic-3 gold-1908)
1887 Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (Salon Waltz) (d. 1959)
1888 Friedrich Schnack, German journalist/writer (Rosewood)
1889 Frits Slomp (Frits de Rover), Dutch vicar/resistance fighter
1891 Harold Ogden "Chic" Johnson, Chicago Ill, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1893 Emmett J Culligan, founder of water treatment organization
1894 Henry Daniell, London, actor (Camille, Phila Story, Body Snatchers)
1895 Fritz Usinger, German writer (Eternal Struggle)
1897 Mei-ling Soong, Madame Chiang Kai-shek
1897 Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
1898 Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1976)
1899 Patrick Hadley, composer
1900 Ludwig Donath, actor (Jolson Story, Jolson Sings Again)
1901 Julian Przybos, Polish poet (Sruby)
1903 Lowell Peters, Cleveland Tn, vocalist (Southernaires)
1904 Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1905 Gilroy Roberts, US chief engraver (1948-64)
1908 Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1908 Rex Harrison, England, actor (My Fair Lady, Dr Doolittle)
1908 Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1908 Sophie Stewart, Scotland, actress (As You Like It, Under the Red Robe)
1909 Sutan Sjahrir, premier of Indonesia (1945-47)
1910 Joan Sterndale Bennett, NJ, actress (Elizabeth-Dark Shadows)
1911 Joseph Tomelty, actor/playwright (Bedevilled, Moby Dick, Melba)
1913 Yulian Grigor'yevich Kreyn, composer
1914 Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1916 Horace Ian Parrott, composer
1917 Joseph Stone, lawyer
1917 Virginia Christine, Stanton Iowa, actress (Tales of Wells Fargo)
1918 Halsey S Colchester, British SAS/spy (MI6)/priest
1918 James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1918 Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 Ranga Sohoni, Indian cricketer (pace bowler of late 40's avg 101)
1918 Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1920 Delbert L Latta, (Rep-R-OH, 1959)
1920 José Aboulker, Jewish Communist (d. 2009)
1920 Leontine Tg Kelly, 1st black female bishop (Methodist)
1920 Virginia Christine, American actress (Mrs Olson) (d. 1996)
1921 Berkley Bedell, (Rep-D-IA, 1975)
1921 Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 Ebrahim Maka, Indian cricket wicketkeeper (2 Tests 1952)
1922 James Noble, American actor (Gov Gatling-Benson)
1922 Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (Teorema, Pigsty) (d. 1975)
1923 Laurence Tisch, American investor (d. 2003)
1927 Jack Cassidy, American actor (Oscar/Jetman-He & She) (d. 1976)
1929 Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1929 Joan Shawlee, Forest Hills NY, actress (Prehistoric Women)
1930 Del Crandall, American baseball player
1930 Lorin Maazel, Neuilly France, conductor (NBC Symphony Orch 1941)
1931 Anthony Headges, composer
1931 Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn player (London Symph Orch 1955-68)
1931 Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
1932 Walter Charles Marshall, scientist
1933 Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005)
1933 Kostas Linoxilakis, Greek footballer
1933 Norbert Linke, composer
1933 Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)
1934 Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1934 James B. Sikking, American actor (Hill St Blues, Star Trek 3, Doogie Howser)
1935 Malcolm J Anderson, tennis champ (US Open-1957)
1935 Philip K. Chapman, Australian astronaut and scientist (Apollo 14 support)
1936 Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1936 Dale Douglass, Wewoka OK, PGA golfer (1970 Phoenix Open)
1936 Dean Stockwell, American actor (Werewolf of Washington, Blue Velvet)
1937 Olusẹgun Ọbasanjọ, 5th & 12th President of Nigeria
1937 Stephen Fitz-Simon, entrepreneur
1938 Fred "Hammer" Williamson, American football player and actor, NFLer (Chiefs)/actor (Julia)
1938 Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter (Damascus Road)
1939 Charles Fuller, US writer (Zooman, Soldier Story)
1939 Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1939 Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
1939 Samantha Eggar, English actress (Collector, Dr Doolittle)
1939 Terry Curry, English multi-millionaire
1940 David Koch, American businessman, politician
1940 Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1940 Mary Rose Oakar, (Rep)
1942 Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain (1982-1996)
1942 Michael D(iamond) Resnick, American science fiction author (Sideshow, Eros Ascending)
1943 Billy Backus, American boxer
1944 Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1944 Paul Sands, LA Ca, comedian/actor (SCTV, Story Theater, St Elsewhere)
1944 Peter Brandes, Danish artist
1944 Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1945 Randy Matson, US, shot putter (Olympic-gold-1968)
1946 Lova Moor, French singer and dancer
1946 Michael Warren, Indiana, actor (Bobby Hill-Hill Street Blues)
1946 Murray Head, British actor and singer
1946 Richard Bell, Canadian musician (The Band) (d. 2007)
1946 Rocky Bleier, Wisc, NFL running back (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1947 Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1947 Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer (High Hopes, Adv of Huckleberry Finn)
1947 Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
1948 Eddy Grant, Guyana-born reggae singer (Electric Avenue)
1948 Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 Jacques Kloes, singer (Dizzy Man's Band)
1948 Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1948 Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1949 Franz Josef Jung, German federal minister of defence
1950 Eugene Fodor, Turkey Creek CO, violinist (1974 Tchaikovsky Award)
1950 Harvey Jacob Alperin, Minneapolis MN, actor (Cocktail)
1951 Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
1951 Rodney Hogg, cricketer (prolific Australian wicket-taker 1978-84)
1952 Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1952 Diana Castro Hagee, American evangelist and author, wife of John Hagee
1953 Michael Sandel, American philosopher
1953 Russel D Feingold, (Sen-D Wisconsin)
1953 Valery Grigoriyevich Korzun, Russian colonel/cosmonaut (TM-24)
1954 Barry Lee Fairchild, American convicted murderer (d. 1995)
1954 Marsha Warfield, American actress (Roz-Night Court)
1955 Georgios Papastamkos, Greek politician
1955 Julien Dray, French politician
1955 Marcia McCabe, actress (Alice-One Life to Live)
1955 Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian (Penn & Teller-Penn & Teller are Dead)
1956 Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
1956 Marco Paolini, Italian stage actor and author
1956 Mark Handley, writer (Nell)
1956 Teena Marie, American singer
1957 Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall)
1957 Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
1957 Tim Holden, (Rep-D-Pennsylvania)
1958 Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer, teen idol, TV host (Solid Gold) (d. 1988)
1958 Bill Timoney, TV commercial actor (Addicted to Love)
1959 David Fury, American television writer and producer
1959 Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician, 7th Prime Minister of Armenia(d. 1999)
1960 David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
1961 Dan Stuart, US singer/songwriter (Green on Red)
1961 Zeke Mowatt, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1962 Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1962 Elise Burgin, Baltimore MD, tennis star
1962 Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 Robert L Curbeam Jr, Baltimore Md, astronaut (STS 85, sk: 99)
1963 Eddo Brandes, cricketer (Zimbabwe Test pace bowler)
1963 Joel Osteen, American religious figure
1964 Bertrand Cantat, French singer and murderer
1964 Reggie Williams, NBA forward/guard (Denver Nuggets)
1966 Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian (The Daily Show)
1966 Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
1966 Greg Clark, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 Michael Irvin, American football player, NFL wide receiver (Dallas Cowboys)
1966 Tracy Kerdyk, Coral Gables FL, LPGA golfer (1995 JAL Big Apple)
1967 Nicole Boegman, Australian long jumper (Olympics-88, 92, 96)
1968 Gordon Bajnai, Hungarian politician
1968 Marq Mellor, Long Island NY, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1968 Roman Phifer, linebacker (St Louis Rams)
1968 Shjon Podein, Rochester, NHL left wing (Phila Flyers)
1969 Danny King, British author
1969 MC Solaar, French rapper
1969 Moussa Saïb, former Algerian footballer
1969 Paul Blackthorne, British actor
1970 John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
1971 Amy Peistrup-Matthews, Arlington Hgts Ill, WPVA (Old Orchard-17-1995)
1971 Brian Hunter, Portland OR, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1971 Chad Fonville, Jacksonville NC, infielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1971 Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian mountainbiker
1971 James Roberson, WLAF defensive end (Rhein Fire)
1971 Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
1971 Jose Mercedes, El Seybo Dom Rep, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1971 Scott Mosier, American producer
1971 Yuri Lowenthal, American actor and author
1972 Brandon Hamilton, CFL cornerback (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1972 Brian Grant, American basketball player, NBA forward (Portland Trailblazers, Sacramento Kings)
1972 Hernan Gumy, Buenos Aires Argentina, tennis star
1972 Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1972 Mikael Tillstrom, Sweden, tennis star
1972 Tom Hipsz, CFL defensive tackle (Montreal Alouettes)
1973 Nicole Pratt, Mackay Australia, tennis star (1995 Futures Australia)
1973 Paul Lieftink, Dutch soccer player (NAC, Spakenburg)
1973 Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1973 Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1974 Brad Schumacher, US, 400m/800m freesytyle (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 Eva Mendes, American actress
1974 Hans Bond, Dutch soccer player (FC Volendam)
1974 Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 Kevin Connolly, American actor and comedian (Beverly Hillbillies, Rocky V, Angus)
1974 Matt Lucas, English comedian
1975 Chris Silverwood, cricketer (England Test pace bowler v Zimbabwe 1996)
1975 Jolene Blalock, American actress
1975 Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1975 Niki Taylor, American model (Elle, Marie Claire)
1975 Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
1976 Adriana Serra-Zanetti, Modena Italy, tennis star (1995 Moscow semi)
1976 Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
1976 Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1976 Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist
1976 Šarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1977 Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Team USA Oly-1998, NY Islanders)
1977 Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 Natalie Bevins, Miss USA-West Virginia (1997)
1977 Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1978 Jared Crouch, Australian rules footballer
1978 Kimberly McCullough, American actress (Robin-General Hospital)
1978 Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 Papoose, American rapper
1979 Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
1981 Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1981 Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1981 Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
1982 Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player
1982 Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1984 Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
1985 Brad Mills, American baseball player
1985 David Marshall, Scottish footballer
1985 Ken'ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 Whitney Port, Cast member of The Hills TV series
1986 Kimberlee Green, Australian netball player
1986 Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1987 Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1988 Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1988 Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1989 Jake Lloyd, American actor
1989 Sterling Knight, American actor
1990 Alex Smithies, English footballer (Huddersfield Town)
Died on March 5th
254 St Lucius I, Pope, bishop of Rome (253-54)
1291 Sa'ad al'Da'ulah, Jewish grand vizier of Persia, assassinated
1534 Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1561 Carlo Caraffa, Italian cardinal
1574 Philip of Saint-Aldegonde, Flem viceroy Holland/Zealand/Utrecht
1576 Don Luis de Requesens y Zuniga, viceroy of Neth (1573-76)
1592 Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1605 Clement VIII (Ippolito Aldofireini), Pope (1592-1605)
1611 Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1625 James I (VI), king of England (1603-25)/poet/author
1644 Louise Juliana, countess of Nassau
1695 Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1732 Joseph-Francois Salomon, composer
1770 Crispus Attucks, American Revolution figure, is 1st of 5 killed during Boston Massacre
1776 Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 Thomas A Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) (b. 1710)
1795 Josef Reicha, composer
1815 Franz Mesmer, Austrian physician and astrologist, developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (made 1st battery) (b. 1745)
1827 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1829 John Adams, British mutineer, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1853 Georg A Kestner, German art collector/diplomat
1873 Marie-Alexis Castillon de Saint-Victor, composer
1876 Marie-C-S de Flavigny Agoult (Daniel Stern), German-born writer (b. 1805)
1893 Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828)
1893 Richard Samuel Hughes, composer
1895 Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1895 Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1903 George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1904 Alfred von Waldersee, Prussian field marshal/chief-staff
1904 John Lowther du Plat Taylor, British Army officer (b. 1829)
1907 Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1919 Jozef Surzynski, composer
1925 Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1929 David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
1931 Fr. Arthur Tooth, British religious figure, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
1932 Takuma Dan, Japanese baron/financier/industrial, murdered
1940 Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1941 Ludwig Quidde, German historian/politician (Nobel 1927)
1944 Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp (b. 1876)
1945 Lena Baker, American convicted murderer (b. 1901)
1947 Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (La Giara) (b. 1883)
1948 Charles Prince, cricketer (5 & 1 in only Test for South Africa)
1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Scherbachov, composer
1953 Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1953 Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union, responsible for 11M murders (b. 1878)
1953 Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev, Ukrainian composer (b. 1891)
1954 Julian Lowell Coolidge, mathematician (Study-Segre school)
1955 Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1956 Erich Itor Kahn, composer
1962 Anne C Veth, Dutch cartoonist/art critic
1962 Otakar Jeremias, composer
1963 Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 Cyril Smith, actor (Adv of Sir Lancelot)
1963 Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (Ozark Jubilee) (b. 1921)
1963 Patsy Cline, American singer (Crazy) (b. 1932)
1965 Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 Anna Achmatova, Ukrainian poet (b. 1889)
1966 Enrique E Ecker, Curacaos/US bacteriologist
1967 Georges Vanier, Canadian politician, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1967 Mischa Auer, actor (My Man Godfrey)
1967 Mohammad Mossadegh, Iranian Prime Minister (1951-53) (b. 1882)
1971 Winnie Lightner, actress (Gold Dust Gertie, Sit Tight)
1972 Nils Bjorkander, composer
1973 Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1973 Rupert Crosse, actor (Too Late Blues)
1974 Billy De Wolfe, American actor (Good Morning World) (b. 1907)
1974 Solomon I "Sol" Hurok, Russian-born American impresario (b. 1888)
1977 Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1977 Lockrem Johnson, composer
1977 Moses Pergament, composer
1977 Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One race car driver (b. 1949)
1979 Vicente Ascone, composer
1980 Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (Tonto-Lone Ranger) (b. 1912)
1980 Winifred Wagner, German opera producer, German World Festival organizer (b. 1897)
1981 Brenda De Banzie, actress (39 Steps, Hobson's Choice)
1981 Paul Horbiger, actor (3rd Man)
1981 Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 John Belushi, American actor (Sat Night Live) dies of drug overdose (b. 1949)
1984 Harry Salter, orchestra leader (Stop the Music)
1984 Michael Sklar, California, comedian (Laugh-in, Sha Na Na)
1984 Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (Scarpia in Tosca) (b. 1915)
1984 William Powell, American actor (My Man Godfrey) (b. 1892)
1986 Teddy Hoad, cricketer (West Indian captain 1930)
1988 Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 Gary Merrill, American film actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn) (b. 1915)
1990 Gloria Carter Spann, Pres Carter's sister
1991 August de Schryver, Belgian politician/founder (CVP)
1991 Trijntje Jansma-Boskma, oldest person in Netherland
1992 Andrew Samuel, child actor (Our Gang)
1992 Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta)
1993 Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
1993 Diana Ochoa
1993 Peter Bierdrager, Dutch Fokker's-test pilot, dies in a crash
1994 Abdullah Al-Sallal, pres of Yemen (1962-67)
1994 Joe Daley, jazz tenor/clarinet/flute player
1994 Paul Vincze, medallist
1995 Ed Flanders, actor (Dr Westphal-St Elsewhere)
1995 Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1995 Marguerite Kelsey, Engl painter/sculptor model (Haunting)
1995 Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist
1995 Vivian Stanshall, British musician (Bonzo Dog Band, Magical Mystery Tour) (b. 1943)
1996 Joshua Compston, art impressario
1996 Khundaqar Mushtaq Amhed, president of Bangladesh (1975)
1996 Nicolas Cotoner y Cotoner, spanish courtier
1996 Whit Bissell, American actor (Time Tunnel) (b. 1909)
1997 Samm Sinclair Baker, American dietician and author (b. 1909)
1999 Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
2004 Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 Richard Kuklinski, American organized crime figure, Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2008 Joseph Weizenbaum, German-born American computer science professor (b. 1923)
2012 William Heirens, American serial killer
2013 Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela (b. 1954)
2013 Paul Bearer, American professional wrestling manager (b. 1954)
2014 Geoff Edwards, American game show host
2016 Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Austrian conductor (Early Music Movement)
2016 Ray Tomlinson, American computer programmer (invented email and the @ sign)