March 6th
Holidays and Festivals
Foundation Day (Norfolk Island) * (See Below)
Independence Day (Ghana) * (See Below)
Sofia Kovalevskaya Math Day (Also in March)
Sherlock Holmes Day
Namesake Day
Alamo Day, Anniversary of the Fall of the Alamo (Texas)
Dentist's Day
Oreo Cookie Day
U.S. Snowshoe Day
Birthday of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (poet)
Birthday of Michelangelo (artist)
Middle Name Pride Day
National Frozen Food Day
World Day of Prayer
Christian Feast Day of Chrodegang
Christian Feast Day of Colette
Christian Feast Day of Fridolin
Christian Feast Day of Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba
Christian Feast Day of Olegarius
* Foundation Day, the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788 (Territory of Norfolk Island)
* Ghana Independence Day, celebrate the independence of Ghana from Britain in 1957. (Ghana)
Toast of The Day
"May the road rise to meet you.
May the wind be always at your back.
May the sun shine warm upon your face.
And rains fall soft upon your fields.
And until we meet again,
May God hold you in the hollow of His hand."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Dirty Mother
1 Part Brandy
1 Part Kahlua
Wine of The Day
Style - Zinfandel
California
$10
Beer of The Day
Anchor Steam Beer
Brewer - Anchor Brewing Company ; San Francisco, California, USA
Style - California Common/Steam Beer
ABV - 4.9%
Joke of The Day
Q: Where does an Irishman go for a vacation?
A: A different bar
Quote of the Day
"God invented whiskey to keep the Irish from ruling the world."
- Ed McMahon (March 6th 1923 to June 23rd 2009), an American comedian.
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
Iditarod Race, Starts on the First Saturday in March, Ends Two Sundays Later
Historical Events on March 6th
1079 Omar ibn Ibrahim al-Chajjam completes Jalali-calendar
1205 Aken (Philips van Zwaben), crowned Roman-Catholic German King
1323 Treaty of Paris
1447 Tommaso Parentucelli succeeds Pope Eugene IV as Nicolas V
1454 Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights, The Thirteen Years' War.
1479 Treaty of Alcaçovas Portugal gives the Canary Islands to Castile in exchange for claims in West Africa.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
1579 Veluwe joins Union of Utrecht
1590 Earl Mauritius conquerors Breda "turfschip of Breda"
1628 Emperor Ferdinand II delegates Restitutie-edict
1646 Joseph Jenkes, MA, receives 1st colonial machine patent
1664 King Louis XIV & Emperor of Brandenburg signs covenant
1665 Philosophical Transactions of Royal Society starts publishing
1714 Peace of Rastatt French emperor Charles VI of Habsburg
1728 Spain & England sign (1st) Convention of Pardo
1775 1st Negro Mason in US initiated, Boston
1788 The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
1799 Napolean captures Jaffa Palestine
1808 1st college orchestra in US founded, at Harvard
1810 Illinois passes 1st state vaccination legislation in US
1816 Jews are expelled from Free city of Lubeck Germany
1820 The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, but makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
1831 Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1831 Edgar Allen Poe removed from West Point miltary academy
1831 Vincenzo Bellini's opera "La Sonnambula," premieres in Milan
1834 Toronto incorporated (originally York, Upper Canada) with William Lyon Mackenzie as its 1st mayor
1836 3,000 Mexicans beat 182 Texans at the Alamo, after 13 day fight
1836 HMS Beagle/Darwin reaches King George's Sound, Australia
1836 Battle of the Alamo After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers defending the Alamo are defeated and the fort is captured.
1838 Franz Grillparzer's "Weh dem, der Lugt," premieres in Vienna
1840 Baltimore College of Dental Surgery Opened, the first Dental school.
1851 Dion Boucicault's "Love in a Maze," premieres in London
1853 Giuseppe Verdi's Opera "La Traviata," premieres in Venice
1855 Gustave Flaubert writes goodbye to Louise Colet
1857 Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case. Dred Scott Decision, Supreme Court rules slaves cannot be citizens
1861 Provisionary Confederate Congress establishes Confederate Army
1862 Battle of Pea Ridge, AR (Elkhorn Tavern)
1865 Battle of Natural Bridge, Florida
1865 President Lincolns 2nd Inaugural Ball
1869 Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
1882 Monarch Milan Obrenovic of Serbia crowns himself king
1886 1st US alternating current power plant starts, Great Barrington, MA
1886 1st US nurses' magazine, The Nightingale, 1st appears, NYC
1895 England beat Australia to win one of the best cricket series ever, 3-2
1895 J T Brown hits the fastest 50 in Test Crickets (28 mins) Eng v Aust
1896 1st auto in Detroit, Charles B King rides his "Horseless Carriage"
1899 "Asprin" patented by Felix Hoffmann (Bayer)
1901 In Bremen an assassin attempts to kill Wilhelm II of Germany.
1902 Census Bureau forms
1906 Cubs sign 3rd baseman Harry Steinfeldt to complete Tinker-Evers-Chance
1906 Heavy storm bursts dike flooding Vlissingen, Netherlands
1906 Nora Blatch is 1st woman elected to American Soc of Civil Engineers
1909 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Griselda," premieres in Vienna
1915 Greek King Constantine I fires premier Venizelos
1918 US naval boat "Cyclops" disappears in Bermuda Triangle
1919 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens beat Ottawa Senators, 3 games to 1 with 1 tie
1921 Police in Sunbury Penn issue an edict requiring Women to wear skirts at least 4 inches below the knee
1921 Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
1922 Babe Ruth signs 3 years at $52,000 a year NY Yankee contract
1922 GB Shaw's "Back to Methusaleh III/IV," premieres in NYC
1923 Cards announce their players will wear numbers on their uniforms
1924 British Labour government cuts military budget
1925 Belgium annexes Eupen, Malmö dy & Sankt Vith
1926 China asks for a seat in the Security council
1929 Turkey & Bulgaria sign friendship treaty
1930 Bkln's Clarence Birdseye develops a method for quick freezing food
1933 FDR declares a nationwide bank holiday
1933 Maxwell Anderson's "Both your Houses," premieres in NYC
1933 Poland occupies free city Danzig (Gdansk)
1934 Sidney Howard & Paul de Kruif's "Yellowjacket," premieres in NYC
1935 Frank Bartell (Czech), cycles record 80.584 mph in LA
1936 Belgium ends Locarno-pact
1940 1st US telecast from an airplane, NYC
1943 Battle at Medenine, North-Africa, Rommels assault attack
1943 Sukarno asks for cooperation with Japanese occupiers
1944 USAF begins daylight bombing of Berlin
1945 117 SD-prisoners executed at Savage Farm
1945 Assassination attempt on Hihere, SS Police fuhrer Rauter
1945 Chinese 38th division occupies Lashio
1945 Cologne is captured by American Troops.
1945 Communist-dominated government under Petru Groza assumes power in Romania.
1945 Erich Honnecker & Erich Hanke flee nazis
1945 Federico Garcia Lorca's "La Casa," premieres in Buenos Aires
1946 France recognizes Vietnam statehood within Indo-Chinese federation
1946 Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
1947 XB-45, 1st US 4-engine jet bomber, makes 1st test flight, Muroc, CA
1950 Silly Putty invented
1951 Belgium extends conscription to 24 months
1951 The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
1953 Georgy Maksimilianovich Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
1955 Dutch premiere of Samuel Becketts' "Waiting for Godot"
1955 Jackie Pung wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1957 United Kingdom colonies Gold Coast and British Togoland declares independence and become the independent Republic of Ghana.
1959 11st Emmy Awards, Playhouse 90, Jack Benny Show, Raymond Burr
1959 Farthest radio signal heard (Pioneer IV, 400,000 miles)
1960 President Sukarno disbands Indonesia's parliament
1961 1st London minicabs introduced
1961 Dutch Queen Juliana celebrates 12½ year government jubilee
1961 Dutch guilder revalued 4.74%
1962 St Louis vote to build a new downtown stadium for the Cardinals
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1962 US promise Thailand assistance against communist aggression
1964 Constantine II succeeds Paul I and becomes King of Greece.
1964 Liz Taylor's 4th divorce (Eddie Fisher)
1964 Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
1964 Tom O'Hara runs world record mile (3:56.4)
1965 "How to Succeed in Business" closes at 46th St NYC after 1415 perfs
1965 1st nonstop helicopter crossing of North America, JR Willford
1965 Bruce Taylor hits 105 for NZ v India in 1st Test Cricket innings
1966 Barry Sadlers' "Ballad of the Green Berets" becomes #1 (13 weeks)
1967 2nd Academy of Country Music Awards
1967 Jimmy Hoffa enters Lewisburg Federal Prison
1967 Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
1967 Muhammad Ali is order by selective service to be inducted
1967 Stalin's daughter Svetlana Allilujeva asks for political asylum in US
1967 WACS TV channel 25 in Dawson, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
1970 Beatles release "Let it Be" in UK
1970 Blast at Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
1971 Test Cricket debut of Sunil Gavaskar, v West Indies at Port-of-Spain
1972 Jack Nicklaus, passes Arnold Palmer as golf's all-time money winner
1972 Keswick to Penrith railway officially closes
1973 In an exhibition game with the Pirates, Twins Larry Hisle becomes the 1st designated hitter (he hits 2 HRs & knocks in 7 RBIs)
1974 "Over Here" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 341 performances
1974 An Italian loses a record $1,920,000 at roulette in Monte Carlo
1974 Ian & Greg Chappell score cricket
1975 Algiers Accord, Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
1975 For the first time, ever, the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy was shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
1976 Ice Dance Championship at Gothenburg won by Pakhomova & Gorshkov (URS)
1976 Ice Pairs Championship at Gothenburg won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1976 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Gothenburg won by John Curry (GRB)
1976 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Gothenburg won by Dorothy Hamill
1978 Hustler publisher Larry Flynt shot & crippled by a sniper in Ga
1980 Emmy 7th Daytime Award presentation Susan Lucci loses for 1st time
1980 French Academy, founded in 1635, elects it 1st woman novelist (Marguerita Youcenar)
1980 Princess Theater (Latin Quarter, Cotton Club) opens at 200 W 48th NYC
1981 After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
1981 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1981 Soyuz 39 returns to Earth
1981 Worlds Ladies Fig Skating Champ in Hartford won by Denise Biellmann
1982 NBA highest scoring game, San Antonio beat Milwaukee 171-166 (3 OT)
1982 Susan Birmingham makes loudest recorded human shout (120 dB)
1983 "On Your Toes" opens at Virginia Theater NYC for 505 performances
1983 Anne-Marie Palli wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1983 Helmut Kohl's CDU/CSU wins West German parliament elections
1983 New Bedford, Mass woman charges she was gang-raped atop a pool table
1983 The first United States Football League game is played.
1983 US Football League begins its 1st season
1984 Twelve-month-long strike in British coal industry begins.
1985 Enos Slaughter & Arky Vaughan are elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1985 Mike Tyson KOs Hector Mercedes in 1 round in his 1st pro fight
1985 Yul Brynner appears in his 4,500th performance of "King & I"
1986 Ken Ludwig's "Lend me a Tenor," premieres in London
1986 USSR's Vega 1 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,889 km
1987 6.8 earthquake hits Ecuador, kills 100
1987 Belgium ferry boat "MS Herald of Free Enterprise" capsizes in about 90 seconds sinking and killing 193.
1988 18th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,200,000
1988 Betsy King wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open/Helene Curtis Pro-Am
1988 Julie Krone becomes winningest female jockey (1205 victories)
1988 Orville Moodey shoots 63 at Seniors golf tournament
1988 Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
1989 Yanks beat Mets 6-4 in exhibition game (1st meeting since 1985)
1990 SR-71 sets a transcontinental record, flying 2,404 miles in 1:08:17
1991 Following Iraq's capitulation in the Persian Gulf conflict, Pres Bush told Congress that "aggression is defeated. The war is over"
1992 Founding of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
1992 The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
1992 Yankee pitcher Pascual Perez suspended for 1 year due to cocaine
1994 Colin Jackson runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.30 sec)
1994 Referendum in Moldova results in the electorate voting against possible reunification with Romania.
1994 United Arab Emirates beat Kenya by 2 wickets to win ICC Trophy
1995 9th American Comedy Award: Rodney Dangerfield
1995 American Express Travel begins charging for domestic air tickets
1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Phoenix AZ on KEDJ 106.3/100.3 FM
1995 US 4.5 cents equals 156.30 Dutch guilder (record)
1996 2nd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1996 10th American Comedy Award
1996 Aravinda De Silva smashes 145 v Kenya in cricket World Cup at Kandy Sri Lanka score 5-398 in 50 overs in World Cup v Kenya
1997 Picasso's painting Tête de Femme is stolen from a London gallery, and is recovered a week later.
1998 1st time the British flag is flown over Buckingham Palace
1998 Matt Beck, an angry lottery accountant kills 4 at Conn state lottery
2006 South Dakota Governor Mike Rounds signs a bill into legislation that would ban most abortions in the state.
2007 Former White House aide I. Lewis Libby, Jr. is found guilty on four of five counts of perjury and obstruction of justice.
2008 A Palestinian gunman shoots and kills 8 students and critically injures 11 in the library of the Mercaz HaRav yeshiva, in Jerusalem, Israel.
2012 9,000 residents are evacuated from Wagga Wagga, Australia, as the Murrimbidgee River threatens to overflow
2012 Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese President dies
2013 9 people die after a plane crashes after being ensnared in power lines in Peru
2013 Microsoft is fined €561 by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers
2013 Syrian rebels capture Ar-Raqqah, their first major city
2014 Crimea's parliament votes unanimously to make the Crimea a part of Russia
2015 NASA's Dawn spacecraft enters orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
2015 US State Department charges 2 Vietnamese and a Canadian citizen with cyberfraud, for stealing 1 billion email addresses for spam
Born on March 6th
1340 John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster (d. 1399)
1405 John II, King of Castille (d. 1454)
1459 Jacob Fugger, German banker (d. 1525)
1475 Michelangelo, Italian artist and sculptor (David) (d. 1564)
1483 Francesco Guicciardini, Italian statesman and historian, president of Romagna (d. 1540)
1492 Jean Luis Vives, Spanish theory/humanist/reformer
1495 Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (Opere Toscane, La Coltivazione) (d. 1556)
1615 Jan Zoet, actor/playwright/poet (Parnasssus aan 't Y)
1616 Malachias Siebenhaar, composer
1619 Cyrano de Bergerac, French soldier, poet (Voyage to the Moon) (d. 1655)
1663 Francis Atterbury, British man of letters (d. 1732)
1698 John Alberti, Dutch theologist/philologist
1706 George Pocock, British admiral (d. 1792)
1710 Giuseppi Antonio Paganelli, composer
1716 Pehr Kalm, Swedish explorer and naturalist (d. 1779)
1740 Giovanni Meli, Siclian poet (Buccolica)
1761 Antoine-Francois Andreossy, French General (d. 1828)
1763 Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer
1765 Jan Kops, Dutch agronomist/vicar
1779 Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
1779 Philipp Roth, composer
1785 Karol Kazimierz Kurpinski, composer
1787 Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (studied Sun's spectrum) (d. 1826)
1791 Anna Claypoole Peale, painted miniatures
1793 Bernhard Joseph Klein, composer
1806 Elizabeth Barrett Browning, British poet (Sonnets from the Portuguese) (d. 1861)
1812 Aaron Lufkin Dennison American watch manufacturer (d. 1895)
1817 Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
1818 William Claflin, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
1820 Horatio Gouverneur Wright, Major General (Union volunteers)
1831 Friedrich C K von Bodelschwingh, German theologist (Home Mission)
1831 Philip Henry Sheridan, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1888)
1834 George du Maurier British illustrator and writer (d. 1896)
1835 Charles Ewing, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1883
1835 Ludwik Grossman, composer
1843 Artur Napoleao dos Santos, composer
1844 Nicolai Rimski-Korsakov, composer (Flight of the Bumble Bee) (NS 3/18)
1852 Joseph Bayer, composer
1870 Oscar Straus, Viennese operetta composer (Ein Walzertraum) (d. 1954)
1882 F. Burrall Hoffman, American architect (d. 1980)
1882 Guy Kibbee, El Paso TX, actor (Big Shot)
1885 Ringgold "Ring" Lardner, American sports writer (You Know Me Al) (d. 1933)
1887 Henri Gagnon, composer
1890 Fernand Ansseau, Belgian operator/theory (Orfeo)
1891 Victor Kilian, Jersey City NJ, actor (Gentleman's Agreement)
1893 Furry Lewis, American blues guitarist (d. 1981)
1893 Kathleen Smoothy, housewife (last link to Siege of SIdney Street)
1893 (Walter) Furry Lewis, father of the blues
1898 Hal Hooker, cricketer (NSW pace bowler of 20's & 30's)
1898 Jay C Flippen, Little Rock AR, actor (Jet Pilot, Killing, Thunder Bay)
1898 Jimmy Conzelman, NFL QB/coach/team owner (Chicago)
1898 Jo(hanne M Bos-)Vincent, Dutch soprano (Mattheus Passion)
1900 John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian (University of London)
1900 Ludwig Donath, Vienna Austria, actor (Torn Curtain, Sirocco)
1900 Robert "Lefty" Grove, American Baseball Player (300 game winner) (d. 1975)
1901 Mark Donskoy, Odessa Russia, director (Heart of a Mother)
1903 Elizabeth Pinkston Becker, US, platform diver (Olympic-gold-1928)
1903 Empress Kojun of Japan (d. 2000)
1904 Hugh Williams, actor/writer (Charley's Aunt, Bank Holiday)
1904 Johannes C "Chris" Baay, Dutch actor (Klatergoud, Surprise Raid)
1904 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian tenor (d. 1942)
1904 José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (d. 1960)
1905 Bob Wills, American singer (Lone Prairie, Tornado in the Saddle) (d. 1975)
1906 Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (Abbott & Costello) (d. 1959)
1909 Dave Clark, music promoter/songwriter
1909 Obafemi Awolowo, Nigeria, pres of Nigeria (1979-83)
1911 Charles Frank, physicist
1911 Roland Jacobi Leich, composer
1912 Madge Adam, astronomer
1913 David Bowman, trade unionist
1913 Ella Logan, Glasgow Scotland, actress (52nd Street, Goldwyn Follies)
1913 Stewart Granger, actor (Saraband for Dead Lovers)
1914 Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Hollywood Bowl 1981) (d. 1981)
1915 Pete Gray, American baseball player (d. 2002)
1915 Syedna Mohammed Burhanuddin, 52nd Da'i al Mutlaq of the Dawoodi Bohras
1916 Rochelle Hudson, Oklahoma City OK, actress (That's My Boy)
1917 Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
1917 Frankie Howerd, English comedian (d. 1992)
1917 J A Mommersteeg, Dutch asst sect of Defense (KVP)
1917 Roy Scott, cricketer (one Test NZ v England 1947, 18, 1-74)
1917 Will Eisner, American illustrator and cartoonist (d. 2005)
1919 Maurice Grosse, British paranormal investigator (d. 2006)
1920 Lewis Gilbert, London England, director/actor (You Only Live Twice)
1920 Roger Price, Charleston WV, actor/writer (Who's There, Droodles)
1921 Julius Rudel, Vienna Austria, conductor (NYC Opera 1957)
1921 Oliver Wright, British Ambassador (To US)
1921 Ross Hunter, Cleve OH, producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk)
1922 Ruben Ayala, Chino, California, politician (California State Senator 1974-1998) (d. 2012)
1923 Ed McMahon, American television personality (Johnny Carson Show, Star Search) (d. 2009)
1923 Erhard Karkoschka, composer
1923 Raymond "Bill" Hoffenberg, college president (Wolfson at Oxford)
1924 Sarah Caldwell, Maryville Mo, conductor/opera director (Flagstaff)
1924 William H Webster, US, judge/head FBI/CIA
1925 Wes Montgomery, American musician (d. 1968)
1926 Alan Greenspan, American economist, 13th Chairman of the Federal Reserve
1926 Andrzej Wajda, Polish film director (Ashes & Diamonds, Lotna)
1926 Ann Curtis, 400m/800m US swimmer (Olympics-2 gold-1948)
1926 Elwood H (Bud) Hillis, (Rep-R-IN, 1971)
1926 Jon Nordal, composer
1926 Miroslav Klega, composer
1927 Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian writer, Nobel Prize laureate
1927 Gordon Cooper, astronaut (d. 2004)
1927 Jim Owens, American college football head coach (d. 2009)
1927 John Fairchild, Newark NJ, CEO (Fairchild publishing)
1927 Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr, Shawnee Oklahoma, USAF/astronaut (Mer 9, Gem 5)
1927 Norman Treigle, American bass-baritone (d. 1975)
1927 William J Bell, Chicago Ill, soap opera creator (Young & Restless)
1928 Ronald Stevenson, composer
1929 David Sheppard, bishop (Liverpool)/cricketer (England batsman)
1929 Hal Miller, British MP
1929 Ho Dam, North Korean secretary of State (1970-83)
1929 Thomas S Foley, (Rep-D-WA, 1965-94)/majority whip/speaker of house
1930 Lorin Maazel, French-born American conductor
1931 Carmen Delavallade, US dancer/singer/actress (Aida)
1931 David Haddon Whitaker, British publisher (Whitaker's Almanack)
1931 Hal Needham, American stuntman
1931 John Smith, LA California, actor (Cimarron City, Laramie, 7 Angry Men)
1933 Dorothy "Dolly" Ann Collins, folk musician/composer
1933 Heiko Wierenga, Dutch soc-dem mayor of Enschede (1977-94)
1933 Kim Elgie, cricketer (South African bat v NZ 1961-62, Scotland RU intl)
1933 Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1933 William Davis, author/broadcaster (Battle at Bull Run)
1934 John Noakes, British television presenter
1935 Ronnie Delaney, Irish athlete, 1500m runner (Olympic-gold-1956)
1936 A "Bram" Stemerdink, Dutch minister of Defense (PvdA)
1936 Bob Akin, American industrialist and race car driver (d. 2002)
1936 Elmira Zherzdeva, Soviet singer and voice actress
1936 Jean Boht, English actress (Arthur's Hallowed Ground)
1936 Marion Barry Jr., American politician (Mayor-D-Wash DC, 1979-90, 95), drug indictment
1937 Doug Dillard, actor (Clem-Popeye)
1937 Ivan Boesky, American stock trader, inside trading
1937 Paul Mefano, composer
1937 Valentina V Tereshkova-Nikolayev, Soviet cosmonaut, 1st woman in space (Vostok 6)
1938 Lovelace Watkins, singer
1939 Adam Osborne, British author and computer designer (d. 2003)
1939 Christopher Bond, (Sen-R Missouri)
1939 Cookie Rojas, baseball player
1939 David Spielberg, Weslaco Tx, actor (Jessica Novak, The Practice)
1939 Infanta Margarita of Spain, duchess of Soria
1939 Jerry Naylor, Stephenville Tx, rock vocalist (Crickets)
1939 Kit Bond, American politician
1940 Joanna Miles, American actress (Cross Creek, Delta County USA)
1940 Willie Stargell, American baseball player, outfielder/1st baseman (Pirates, 1971 NL HR leader) (d. 2001)
1941 Ann Winterton, British MP
1941 Karyn Kupcinet, actress (Carol-Gertrude Berg Show)
1942 Ben Murphy, American actor (Name of the Game, Winds of War)
1944 Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealander singer, operatic soprano (Don Giovanni)
1944 Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
1945 Anna Maria Horsford, NYC, actress (Thelma Frye-Amen)
1945 Hugh Grundy, Winchester England, drummer (Zombies-She's Not There)
1946 David Gilmore, English guitarist (Pink Floyd)
1946 Martin Kove, Bkln NY, actor (Victor-Cagney & Lacey)
1946 Patrick Pierre Roger Baudry, Cameroon, astronaut (STS 18)
1946 Tony Klatka, rocker (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
1947 Dick Fosbury, American athlete, high jumper (Olympics-gold-1968)
1947 Judy Loe, Urmston Manchester UK, actress (Singles, Meaning of Life)
1947 Kiki Dee, British singer (Don't Go Breaking My Heart)
1947 Martin Kove, American actor
1947 Rob Reiner, American actor, comedian, and film producer (All in the Family, Stand By Me)
1947 Teru Miyamoto, Japanese author
1948 Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
1948 James FCS "Jim" Woude, cartoonist
1949 Donald York, rocker (Sha Na Na)
1949 Martin Buchan, Scottish soccer player
1949 Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani statesman
1950 Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese Seiyu (d. 2006)
1951 Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
1952 Lyn Perrin, executive administrator (WIC)
1953 Jacklyn Zeman, American actress (Bobbie-General Hospital)
1953 Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
1955 Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
1956 Peter Roebuck, cricketer (Somerset opening batsman & SMH writer)
1957 Dick Rambone, American porn Star
1958 Eddie Deezen, American actor
1958 Mike Gatting, English cricketer
1959 Saul Anuzis, American politician
1959 Tom Arnold, American actor and comedian (Tom, True Lies)
1960 (Eris) Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player, NBA guard
1962 Alison Nicholas, Gibraltar, LPGA golfer (1995 LPGA Corning Classic)
1962 Jonathan Scott-Taylor, English actor
1962 Valerie French, American animatronics art director
1963 D.L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
1963 Suzanne Crough, rocker (Partridge Family)
1964 Cher Butler, Garland Tx, playmate (August, 1985)
1964 Madonna Wayne Gacy, American musician
1964 Reniet Vrieze, rock singer/guitarist (Pilgrims-White Men)
1964 Skip Ewing, American country music singer and songwriter
1965 Amparo Noguera, Chilean actress
1965 Tammy Liley, Long Beach Ca, volleyball mid blocker/capt (Oly-b-92, 96)
1966 Alan Davies, British comedian and actor
1966 Cliff Meidl, Redondon Beach California, sprint kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1966 Michelle Edwards, WNBA guard (Cleveland Rockers)
1967 Connie Britton, American actress
1967 Julio Bocca, Argentinean Ballet Dancer
1968 Carla McGhee, Peoria Ill, US basketball forward (Olympics-gold-96)
1968 Connie Britton, Boston MA, actress (Nikki-Spin City)
1968 Jon Baker, WLAF defensive end (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1968 Michael Romeo, American musician (Symphony X)
1968 Moira Kelly, American actress (Cutting Edge)
1968 Russell Butler, Dandenong Victoria Australia, diver (Oly-28th-88, 96)
1969 Amy Pietz, American actress
1969 Andrea Elson, American actress (Lynn-Alf, Alice-Whiz Kids)
1969 Deems May, NFL tight end (San Diego Chargers)
1969 Greg Scott, British TV personality
1969 Tari Phillips, American basketball player
1970 Amy Pietz, Milwaukee Wisc, actress (Annie-Caroline In the City)
1970 Chris Broderick, American musician (Megadeth)
1970 Robbie Tobeck, NFL guard/center (Atlanta Falcons)
1970 Scott Stahoviak, Waukegan IL, infielder (Minnesota Twins)
1971 Darrick Martin, American basketball player, NBA guard (LA Clippers, Minnesota Timberwolves)
1971 Roger Salkeld, Burbank CA, pitcher (Cin Reds)
1971 Sean Morley, American professional wrestler
1972 Jamal Anderson, fullback (Atlanta Falcons)
1972 Jaret Reddick, American musician (Bowling For Soup)
1972 Paul Frlan, CFL linebacker (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1972 Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, NBA center (Magic, Lakers, Oly-gold-96)
1972 Susan Alexander, Silver Spring Maryland, Miss America-Maryland (1997)
1973 Brian Olson, Tallahassee Fla, middleweight (189 lbs) judoka (Oly-96)
1973 Greg Ostertag, American basketball player, NBA center (Utah Jazz)
1973 Michael Finley, American basketball player, NBA guard/forward (Phoenix Suns/Dallas Mavericks)
1973 Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist (ex-Opeth)
1973 Terry Adams, American baseball player, pitcher (Chicago Cubs)
1974 Sebastian Siegel, British-American actor
1975 Aracely Arambula, Mexican actress and singer
1976 Ken Anderson, American professional wrestler
1977 Giorgos Karagounis, Greek soccer player
1977 Marcus Thames, American baseball player
1978 Lara Cox, Australian Actress
1978 Sage Rosenfels, American Football Player
1979 Clint Barmes, American baseball player
1979 David Flair, American professional wrestler
1979 Erik Bedard, Canadian baseball player
1979 Ryan Nyquist, American BMX rider
1979 Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
1980 Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor
1980 Emma Ingelstrom, Swedish swimmer
1981 Ellen Muth, American actress
1983 Andranik Teymourian, Iranian soccer player
1984 Becky, Japanese-British entertainer
1985 Albert Reed, American model
1986 Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish football player
1986 Eli Marienthal, American actor
1987 Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
1988 Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
1989 Agnieszka Radwanska, Polish tennis player
1990 Patricia Rodríguez, Spanish model
1992 Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese singer
1996 Savanah Stehlin, American actress
1997 Sam Schwalbe, Professional Pro
2001 Aryana Engineer, Canadian child actress
Died on March 6th
766 Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz
1252 Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador (b. 1140)
1583 Zacharias Ursinus, German theologist (Heidelberger)
1615 Pieter Both, Dutch admiral/1st gov-gen (East Indies, 1609-14)
1616 Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright
1627 Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1674 Johann Paul Schor, German barok painter
1720 Pieter van Flowers, Flemish painter
1753 Gerhardus Havingha, composer
1754 Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1745, 46-54) (b. 1694)
1758 Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 Davy Crockett, American frontiersman, killed in battle (Alamo) (b. 1786)
1836 James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier, killed in battle (Alamo) (b. 1796)
1836 William Barret Travis, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1809)
1842 Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1846 Nikoli A Poveloi, Russian writer/publisher
1851 Alexander Aliabiev, composer
1854 Caspar GC Reinwardt, German/Dutch biologist
1854 Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
1867 Artemus Ward, American comic writer (b. 1834)
1867 Wiktor Kazynski, composer
1881 Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (Old-fashioned Girl) (b. 1832)
1895 Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist, designed 1st motorcycle (b. 1834)
1905 John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1917 Jules HPFX Vandenpeereboom, premier of Belgium (1899)
1924 Meyer E van Beem, actor (Moittige Janus)
1930 William Milton, cricketer (S Afr Test capt in 3 Tests 1889-92)
1932 John Philip Sousa, American conductor, and composer (Stars & Stripes Forever) (b. 1854)
1933 Anton J Cermak, American mayor of Chicago, murdered (b. 1873)
1935 Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1935 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American politician (b. 1841)
1936 Josef Stransky, composer
1936 Rubin Goldmark, composer
1937 Frank Vosper, actor/writer (Jew Suss)
1939 Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
1941 Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (Mt Rushmore) (b. 1867)
1941 John Gutzon de la Mothe Borglum, sculptor (Mount Rushmore)
1941 Leen Schijvenschuurder, Dutch February strike leader, executed
1945 Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1945 Rudolph Karel, composer
1947 Ludwig Weber, composer
1948 Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1950 Lew Lehr, comedian (Stop Me if I heard this One)
1951 Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (Lodger, Phantom Fiend) (b. 1893)
1951 Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (b. 1895)
1954 Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian
1954 Louis Zimmermann, violinist
1959 Fred Stone, actor (Hideaway, Westerner)
1961 George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
1961 Kjeld Abell, Danish playwright/director of Tivoli
1962 Rezso Kokai, composer
1963 Kornelis ter Laan, 1st Dutch socialist mayor (Zaandam)
1964 King Paul I, of Greece (1947-64) (b. 1901)
1965 Margaret Dumont (Daisy Baker), American actress (Animal Crackers) (b. 1889)
1965 Ruvim Pergament, composer, dies at 58
1967 John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
1967 Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (Phantom of the Opera) (b. 1901)
1967 Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne)
1967 Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1968 Isa Krejci, composer
1968 Joseph Martin Jr, Speaker of the House
1969 Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915) (Paul Drake-Perry Mason)
1971 Raymond Herreman, Flemish writer (Don't Forget to Live)
1971 Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 Paul Klecki (Kletzki), Polish violinist/composer/conductor
1973 Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (Good Earth-Nobel 1938) (b. 1892)
1973 Vera Fjodorova Panova, Russian author (Sputniki)
1976 Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer, leight heavy weight boxing champ (1930-34) and actor (b. 1903)
1978 Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
1979 Charles Wagenheim, actor (Halligan-Gunsmoke)
1981 George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
1981 Klaus Grabowski, child molester, shot by parent
1982 Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (Atlas Shrugged) (b. 1905)
1982 Jan Lemaire, Dutch actor/writer (Beautiful Juultje)
1983 Thelma Pelish, actress (Pajama Game)
1984 Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (Cleopatra, Dragnet, Jericho) (b. 1905)
1984 Ian Cromb, cricketer (5 Tests for NZ, 123 runs, 8 wkts)
1984 Martin Niemoller, German theologian, anti-nazi minister (b,. 1892)
1984 Pierre Cochereau, composer
1985 Eric Sloane, US artist
1986 Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier's Story)
1986 Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (Flowers) (b. 1887)
1988 Daniel McCann, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 Konstantin Iliev, composer, dies at 63
1988 Mairéad Farrell, Irish Republican (b. 1957)
1988 Seán Savage, Irish Republican (b. 1965)
1989 Harry Andrews, actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill)
1992 Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll's)
1992 Emmy Huf, Dutch cabaret performer/writer (I Want Warm Meat)
1992 Maria Vieira da Silva, Portuguese painter (Mirror Palace)
1993 Cyril Collard, French director (Lesson nuits fauves)
1993 Douglas Marland, soap writer (As the World Turns)
1993 Nicholas Ridley, English Minister of Finance
1994 Leighton Noble, singer/Bandleader
1994 Max Schubert, winemaker
1994 Melina Mercouri, Greek actress (Never on a Sunday) and Minister for Culture of Greece (b. 1920)
1994 Moses Rascoe, blues singer
1994 Tengis Abuladze, Georgia SSR MP (Penalty)
1995 David Beinhoff, mayor
1995 Delroy George Wilson, singer
1995 Emile van Moerkerken, photographer (Ice Princess)
1995 Helene Weijel, author (In Two Worlds)
1996 Douglas Patrick Thomas Jay, politician
1996 Herbert "Herb" Hall, clarinetist/saxophonist
1996 Simon Cadell, actor (Enemy at the Door)
1997 Anthony Hopkins, clinical Neurologist,
1997 Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (1953, 1957-64) (b. 1918)
1997 Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (PNP, 1972-80, 89-92) (b. 1924)
1998 Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
1998 Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 Dennis Viollet, former soccer player (b. 1933)
1999 Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, Emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
2000 John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2005 Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2005 Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2006 Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 Dana Reeve, American actress and activist, widow of Christoper Reeve (b. 1961)
2006 King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2007 Allen Coage ("Bad News Brown"), American wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
2007 Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2007 Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929)
2008 Peter Poreku Dery, Cardinal and Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale (b. 1918)
2009 Francis Magalona, Filipino media artist and photographer. (b. 1964)
2009 Susan Tsvangirai, wife of Morgan Tsvangirai (b. 1959)
2010 Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
2010 Mark Linkous, member of Sparklehorse (b. 1962)
2012 Donald Payne, American Congressman
2012 Robert Sherman, American songwriter
2013 Alvin Lee, British guitarist (b. 1944)
2013 Sabine Bischoff, German fencer
2013 Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian country artist
2014 Sheila MacRae, English actress
2014 Ron Murphy, Canadian NHL player
2016 Nancy Reagan [Anne Francis Robbins], US First Lady (1981-89)