March 8th
Holidays and Festivals
Revolution Day (Syria)
International Women's Day * (See Below)
Mother's Day (Multinational) * CLICK HERE
International Working Women's Day
Day for Women's Rights and International Peace (UN)
Girls Write Now Day
Private George Watson Day
Be Nasty Day
Check Your Batteries Day
National Proof Reading Day
National Peanut Cluster Day
Unique Names Day
Anniversary of the US Income Tax
Ground Water Awareness Day
Christian Feast Day of John of God
Christian Feast Day of Philemon the actor
* Bal Rat Mort Ostend, Belgium - March - (2-3)
* Start of the Marcia (Historical Parade) and Orange Battle at Carnevale di Ivrea (Italy) 2011
* International Women's Day or Mother's Day (primarily Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet bloc)
Fête de la Mouron Translation: Pimpernel Day (French Republican) The 18th day of the Month of Ventôse in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"When money's tight and hard to get
and your horse is also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
a pint of plain is your only man."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Golden Dream
1 Part Galliano
1 Part Creme De Cacao
1 Part Cream
Roll Between Mixing Glasses to Blend.
Pour over ice into a rocks glass.
Golden Dream - Alternative
2 parts Liquore Galliano
2 parts Cointreau
2 parts Fresh orange juice
1 part Fresh cream
Wine of The Day
Echeverria 2007 Limited Edition
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Central Valley
$30
Beer of The Day
Thor's Hammer
Brewer - Central City Brewing Co., Surrey, Canada
Style - Barley Wine Ale
Joke of The Day
An English man and an Irish man are driving head on , at night, on a twisty, dark road. Both are driving to fast for the conditions and collide on a sharp bend in the road. To the amazement of both, they are unscathed, though their cars are both destroyed. In celebration of their luck, both agree to put aside their dislike for the other from that moment on. At this point, the Irish man goes to the boot and fetches a 12 year old bottle of Jameson whiskey. He hands the bottle to the English man, whom exclaims,'' may the English and the Irish live together forever, in peace, and harmony.'' The English man then tips the bottle and lashes half of it down. Still flabbergasted over the whole thing, he goes to hand the bottle to the Irish man, whom replies: '' no thanks, I'll just wait till the Garda (police) get here!''
Quote of the Day
"I may be bad, but I'm good at it."
- Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
Price: $35
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig MonthAmerican 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
Universal Women's Week, Second Week in MarchNational Sleep Awareness Week, Second Week in March
National Bubble Week, Second Week in March
National Crochet Week, Second Week in March
Daytona Bike Week, Second Week of March
Iditarod Race, Starts on the First Saturday in March, Ends Two Sundays Later 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 Crossword Puzzle Weekend, Second Friday to Sunday in March
Historical Events on March 8th
1126 Alfonso VII is proclaimed king of Castile and León, after the death of his mother Urraca.
1418 Jacoba van Bayern marries her cousin John IV van Brabant
1586 Johan van Oldenbarnevelt becomes Dutch chief legal advisor
1655 John Casor becomes the first legally-recognized slave in Britain's North American colonies.
1658 Peace of Roskilde between Sweden & Denmark
1702 Anne Stuart, sister of Mary II, becomes Queen regnant of England, Scotland, and Ireland.
1702 England Queen Anne ascends throne upon death of King William III
1706 Vienna's Wiener Stadtbank established
1711 Antoin de Guiscard tries English premier Haley for murder
1722 Afghan monarch Mir Mahmud occupies Persia
1722 The Safavid Empire of Iran is defeated by an army from Afghanistan at The Battle of Gulnabad, pushing Iran into anarchy.
1746 Cumberland's troops occupy Aberdeen
1754 Marquis of Ensenada becomes premier of Spain
1766 Willem V (18) becomes governor of United Provinces
1775 Thomas Paine's "African Slavery in America," the first article in the American colonies calling for the emancipation of slaves and the abolition of slavery, is published.
1777 Regiments from Ansbach and Bayreuth, sent to support Great Britain in the American Revolutionary War, mutiny in the town of Ochsenfurt.
1782 Gnadenhütten massacre, Ninety-six Native Americans in Gnadenhutten, Ohio, who had converted to Christianity are killed by Pennsylvania militiamen in retaliation for raids carried out by other Indians.
1801 British drive French forces from Abukir, Egypt
1813 1st concerto of Royal Philharmonic
1817 The New York Stock Exchange is founded.
1838 US mint in New Orleans begins operation (producing dimes)
1844 King Oscar I ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.
1854 US Commodore Matthew C Perry's 2nd trip to Japan
1855 1st train crosses 1st US railway suspension bridge, Niagara Falls
1861 St Augustine Florida surrenders to Union armies
1862 The iron-clad CSS Virginia (formerly USS Merrimack) is launched at Hampton Roads, Virginia, The American Civil War.
1862 Battle of Elkhorn Tavern ends with Confederate withdrawal
1862 Naval Engagement at Hampton Roads, VA CSS Virginia, Jamestown & Yorktown vs USS Cumberland, Congress & Monitor
1865 Battle of Kingston, NC (Wilcox's ridge, Wise's Forks)
1884 1st performance of Edward MacDowell's 2nd Piano suite
1884 Susan B. Anthony addresses the U.S. House Judiciary Committee arguing for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote. Anthony's argument came 16 years after legislators had first introduced a federal women's suffrage amendment.
1887 Everett Horton, CT, patents fishing rod of telescoping steel tubes
1894 The state of New York enacts the nation's first dog-licensing law.
1896 Volunteers of America forms (NYC)
1898 Richard Straus' "Don Quixote," premieres in Keulen
1900 NL decides to go with 8 teams They exclude Baltimore, Cleveland, Louisville & Washington (in 1953 Boston Braves move to Milwaukee)
1902 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 2nd Symphony
1904 Hugh Trumble takes a hat-trick in his final Test Cricket match
1906 Stanley Cup: Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Smiths Falls (Ont) in 2 games
1908 Dutch utopist Frederick of Eden speaks in Carnegie Hall, NY
1910 Baroness Raymonde de Laroche of Paris is 1st licensed female pilot
1911 International Women's Day is launched in Copenhagen, Denmark, by Clara Zetkin, leader of the Women's Office for the Social Democratic Party in Germany.
1913 Federal League organizes with 6 teams
1913 Internal Revenue Service begins to levy & collect income taxes
1915 1st US navy minelayer, Baltimore, commissioned
1916 US invades Cuba for 3rd time, this to end corrupt Menocal regime
1917 Russian revolution breaks out (in Petrograd), International Women’s Day protests in St. Petersburg contributed to the February Revolution and ultimately led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II, ending the Romanov dynasty in Russia.
1917 The U.S. Senate votes to limit filibusters by adopting the cloture rule.
1918 The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
1920 Denmark & Cuba join the League of Nations
1921 Spanish Premier Eduardo Dato Iradier is assassinated while exiting the parliament building in Madrid.
1924 The Castle Gate Coal mine disaster kills 172 coal miners near Castle Gate, Utah.
1927 Pan American Airlines incorporates
1929 US worker union commission reports of slavery in Liberia
1930 Babe Ruth signs 2-year contract for $160,000 with NY Yankee GM Ed Barrow, wrongly predicts "No one will ever be paid more than Ruth"
1930 Mahatma Gandhi starts civil disobedience in India
1934 Edwin Hubble photo shows as many galaxies as Milky Way has stars
1936 Daytona Beach Road Course holds their first oval stock car race.
1939 Lenore Coffee & William Joyce Cowan's "Family Portrait," premieres
1941 1st baseball player drafted into WW II (Hugh Mulcahy, Phillies)
1942 Japanese forces captures Rangoon Burma
1942 The Dutch surrender to Japanese forces on Java, World War II.
1943 335 allied bombers attack Neurenberg
1943 Limited gambling legalized in Mexico
1943 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1943 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Arthur Vaughn
1944 US resumes bombing Berlin
1945 "Kiss Me Kate" opens in Britain
1945 53 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 International Women's Day is 1st observed
1945 Phyllis M Daley is 1st black nurse sworn-in as US Navy ensign
1946 1st helicopter licensed for coml use (NYC)
1948 Supreme Court rules relg instructions in pub schools unconstitutional
1949 WAGA TV channel 5 in Atlanta, GA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WBAP-FM, Fort Worth Texas, begins broadcasting
1950 1st woman medical officer assigned to naval vessel (BR Walters)
1950 Marshall Voroshilov of USSR announces they developed atomic bomb
1951 Intl Table Tennis Federation bans Egypt (for refusing to play Israel)
1952 Antoine Pinay forms French government
1952 Ronald Reagan marries Nancy Davis
1953 "Two's Company" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 90 performances
1953 Census indicates 239,000 farmers gave up farming in last 2 years
1953 KSWO TV channel 7 in Lawton, OK (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1953 WFMJ TV channel 21 in Youngstown, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 Herb McKinley sets quarter mile record of 0:46.8 in Melbourne, Australia
1957 1st performance of David Diamond's 6th Symphony in Boston
1957 Egypt re-opens the Suez Canal after the Suez Crisis.
1957 Ghana joins the United Nations.
1957 Israeli troops leave Egypt, Suez Canal re-opened for minor ships
1957 The 1957 Georgia Memorial to Congress, which petitions the U.S. Congress to declare the ratification of the 14th & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution null and void, is adopted by the state of Georgia.
1957 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 Silky Sullivan comes from 40 lengths back to win by 3 at Santa Anita
1958 William Faulkner says US school degenerated to become babysitters
1959 Groucho, Chico & Harpo's final TV appearance together
1959 KUAT TV channel 6 in Tucson, AZ (PBS) begins broadcasting
1959 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Jacksonville Golf Open
1959 Pro-Egyptian coup fails in Mosul Iraq
1960 "Greenwillow" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 95 performances
1961 Jean Kerr's "Mary, Mary," premieres in NYC
1961 US nuclear submarine Patrick Henry arrives at Scottish naval base of Holy Loch from SC in a record underseas journey of 66 days 22 hrs
1962 Beatles, with Pete Best, TV debut (perform "Dream Baby" on BBC)
1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1963 Syrian Arab Rep Revolution Day Military coup in Syria
1963 The Ba'ath Party comes to power in Syria in a Coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council of the Revolutionary Command.
1964 Malcolm X leaves Black Muslim Movement
1965 1st US combat forces arrive in Vietnam (3,500 Marines)
1966 "Golden Boy" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 569 performances
1966 A bomb planted by young Irish protesters destroys Nelson's Pillar in Dublin.
1966 An IRA bomb destroyed Nelson's Column in Dublin
1966 Casey Stengel elected to Hall of Fame
1967 New Orleans Saints begin selling season tickets (20,000 sold 1st day)
1968 6 year old Tommy Moore scores hole-in-one in golf (Hagerstown, Md)
1968 Fillmore East opens
1968 Students demonstrate in Warsaw
1969 Marriage of 12 year old Marcella Rosciglione in Palermo
1970 WTCI TV channel 45 in Chattanooga, TN (PBS) begins broadcasting
1971 Joe Frazier beats Muhammad Ali in 15 at Madison Sq Garden, retains heavyweight boxing title
1971 Milwaukee Bucks win their 20th straight NBA game (team record)
1971 Radio Hanoi broadcasts Jimi Hendrix's "Star Spangled Banner"
1972 1st airship flown over Britain in 20 years (Europa)
1972 1st flight of the Goodyear blimp
1973 Eisenhower Tunnel, world's highest/US longest, opens
1973 Paul & Linda McCartney are fined £100 for growing cannabis
1973 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1974 Charles de Gaulle Airport opens in Paris, France
1975 Royal Canadian Mint announces branch opening in Winnipeg Manitoba
1976 1,774 kg (largest observed) stony meteorite falls in Jilin, China
1977 Henry L Marsh III elected mayor of Richmond
1977 Princess Anne announces she's expecting her 1st child (Peter)
1978 The first-ever radio episode of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams, is transmitted on BBC Radio 4.
1979 1st extraterrestrial volcano discovered (Jupiter's satellite Io)
1979 5th People's Choice Awards
1979 China withdraws invasion troops from Vietnam
1979 Philips demonstrates the Compact Disc publicly for the first time.
1979 Shuttle Columbia (OV-102) transported 38 miles overland from Palmdale
1980 Greg Chappell 235 & Yallop 172, for 217 stand at Faisalabad
1980 The first festival of rock music kicks off in the Soviet Union.
1980 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 "Shakespeare's Cabaret" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 54 perfs
1981 Dennis Lillee ct by Qld 12th man Dennis Lillie in Shield game
1981 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Arizona Copper Golf Classic
1983 House Foreign Affairs Com endorses nuclear weapons freeze with USSR
1983 IBM releases PC DOS version 2.0
1983 Pres Reagan calls the USSR an "Evil Empire"
1983 President Ronald Reagan calls the Soviet Union an "evil empire".
1985 A failed assassination attempt on Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah in Beirut, Lebanon, kills at least 45 and injures 175 others.
1985 Ice Dance Championship at Tokyo won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1986 4 French TV crew members are abducted in west Beirut Lebanon
1986 Japanese probe Suisei passes Halley's Comet at 109,800 km
1986 Martina Navratilova is 1st tennis player to earn $10 million
1987 "A Team," last aired on NBC-TV after 4 years
1987 17th Easter Seal Telethon raises $35,184,425
1987 David Hookes (306*) Wayne Phillips make 462 stand for S Aust
1987 FBI apprehends most wanted Claude L Dallas, Jr in Calif
1987 Jane Geddes wins LPGA GNA/Glendale Federal Golf Classic
1987 Nelli Cooman becomes world champion 60m indoor
1989 "Heidi Chronicles" opens at Plymouth Theater NYC for 621 performances
1989 Roger Kingdom runs indoor world record 60m hurdles (7.37 secs)
1990 NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 1st victim, Mario Orosco
1991 17th People's Choice Awards: Julia Roberts, Bill Cosby, Pretty Woman
1991 Harry Hamlin & Nicollette Sheridan wed
1991 Planeloads of US troops arrive home from the Persian Gulf, Iraq hands over 40 foreign journalists & 2 American soldiers it captured
1991 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1992 22nd Easter Seal Telethon
1992 Judy Dickinson wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1993 Katharine Hepburn released from the hospital after exhaustion
1993 Nigerian singer Fela Kuti arrested again on suspicion of murder
1994 20th People's Choice Awards
1994 B737 collides with Ilyushin-86 in New Dehli, at least 8 killed
1994 Defense Department announces smoking ban in workplaces
1994 Train accident at Pinetown, Natal kills 47
1995 -26°F (-32.2°C) in Bismarck, North Dakota
1995 -44°F (-42.2°C) in Chosedacharad, Komi-district, on 67°N
1995 Costis Stephanopoulos becomes president of Greece
1995 Dutch Liberal Party wins Provincial-National elections
1999 The Supreme Court of the United States upholds the murder convictions of Timothy McVeigh for the Oklahoma City bombing.
2004 A new constitution is signed by Iraq's Governing Council.
2012 Greece secures debt-restructuring deal with private lenders
2012 Toyota recalls 700,000 vehicles over safety concerns
2013 North Korea terminates all peace pacts with South Korea
2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 with 239 people loses contact and disappears, prompting the most expensive search effort in history
Born on March 8th
1075 Abu 'l-Kasim Mahmud ibn Omar al-Zamachshari, Arab theologist
1286 John III, Duke of Brittany (d. 1341)
1293 Beatrice of Castile, queen of Portugal (d. 1359)
1495 (d. 1550)
1495 Juan de Dios (John of God), Portuguese-born friar and saint and founder (Brothers of Mercy)
1514 Amago Haruhisa, Japanese samurai and warlord (d. 1562)
1560 Don Carlo Gesualdo, Italian composer (d. 1613)
1607 Johann Rist, composer
1659 Isaac de Beausobre, French Protestant pastor (d. 1738)
1702 Anne Bonny, Irish-American pirate (d. 1782)
1712 John Fothergill, English physician (d. 1780)
1714 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, German composer, son of JS Bach (d. 1788)
1726 Richard Howe, British admiral (d. 1799)
1743 Bendix Friedrich Zinck, composer
1746 André Michaux, French botanist (d. 1802)
1748 Willem V Batavus, prince of Orange-Nassau, Stadtholder of the Dutch Republic (d. 1806)
1778 Friedrich August Kanne, composer
1783 Gottfied Wilhelm Fink, composer
1783 Hannah Van Buren, wife of Martin Van Buren (1837-41) (d. 1819)
1787 Karl Ferdinand von Graefe, German surgeon who helped create modern plastic surgery
1799 Simon Cameron, 26th U.S. Secretary of War (Union) (d. 1889)
1804 Alvan Clark, American telescope maker and astronomer (d. 1887)
1814 Ede Szigligeti, Hungarian dramatist (d. 1878)
1822 Ignacy Lukasiewicz, Polish inventor (d. 1882)
1825 George William Martin, composer
1827 Wilhelm Bleek, German linguist (d. 1875)
1830 João de Deus, Portuguese poet (d. 1896)
1836 Matthew Calbraith Butler, Major General (Confederate Army)
1839 James Mason Crafts, US chemist (Friedel-Crafts-synthesis)
1840 Franco Faccio, Italian composer/conductor
1841 Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., 59th Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States (1902-32) (d. 1935)
1843 Per Jonas Fredrik Vilhelm Svedbom, composer
1847 Karl von Bach, German engineer (Maschinenelemente)
1853 Edward Hubertus Joannes Keurvels, Flemish composer (Parisina)
1854 Tom Felix Horan, cricketer (Ireland Pioneering Aust all-rounder)
1856 Bramwell Booth, the 2nd General of The Salvation Army (d. 1929)
1856 Colin Campbell Cooper, American Impressionist painter (d. 1937)
1856 Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
1859 Kenneth Grahame, English author (Wind, Willows) (d. 1932)
1859 Otto Taubmann, composer
1862 Joseph Lee, helped develop playgrounds
1865 Frederick William Goudy, American type designer (d. 1947)
1872 Anna Held, Polish actress and singer (d. 1918)
1872 Paul Juon, Russian/Swiss violinist/composer
1876 Franco Alfano, Italian opera composer (Il dottore Antonio)
1879 M Lichnowsky, writer
1879 Otto Hahn, German chemist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 44, radiothorium/actinium) (d. 1968)
1883 Manuel Gomez Carillo, composer
1886 Anton Portielje, Dutch radio host/zoo director (Artis)
1886 Edward Calvin Kendall, American chemist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1950) (d. 1972)
1888 Stuart Chase, NH, writer/economist (Tragedy of Waste)
1889 Oscar Ewing, US government official (Everybody's Business)
1890 Oswald von Nell-Breuning, German theologist/philosopher
1891 Sam Jaffe, American actor (Gunga Din, Dr Zorba-Ben Casey) (d. 1984)
1892 Juana de Ibarbourou, Uruguayan poet (d. 1979)
1892 Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer and guitarist (d. 1966)
1892 Mátyás Rákosi, Hungarian party leader/premier (1952-53)
1896 Charlotte Whitton, Canadian politician (d. 1975)
1897 Damerla Rama Rao, Indian artist, (d. 1925)
1898 Louise Beavers, Cin Ohio, actress (Beulah-Beulah, Made for each other)
1899 Elmer Keith, American firearms developer (d. 1984)
1899 Eric Linklater, Scotland, novelist/poet (Blue Swallows)
1902 Jennings Randolph, America politician, United States Senator from West Virginia (d. 1998)
1902 Louise Beavers, American actress (d. 1962)
1907 Charles Boost, movie critic
1907 Constantine Karamanlis, Greek politician, President of Greece (d. 1998)
1909 Anthony Donato, composer
1909 Claire Trevor, [Wemlinger], NYC, actress (Marjorie Morningstar)
1909 Hugh Murphy, English multi-millionaire
1910 Bernard Benjamin, British statistician, actuary and demographer (d. 2002)
1910 Claire Trevor, American actress (d. 2000)
1911 Alan Hovhaness, American composer (Lousadzak, Ukiyo) (d. 2000)
1911 Elsie Agnes Giorgi, physician/humanitarian
1912 Preston Smith, America politician, 40th Governor of Texas (d. 2003)
1914 Jacob B Bakema, urban developer (St Louis Missouri)
1914 Yakov Borisovich Zel'dovich, Russian physicist (d. 1987)
1915 Tapio Rautavaara, Finnish athlete, actor, and singer (d. 1979)
1915 Vivien John, artist
1916 John W. Seybold, American businessman, father of computer typesetting (d. 2004)
1916 R W Schnell, writer
1917 A Marja (ATE Mooy), Dutch literary (Shreds on the River)
1918 Alan Hale [MacKahan] Jr, LA California, actor (Skipper-Gilligan's Island)
1919 Ivor Keys, musician/teacher
1920 Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (d. 1985)
1920 Eileen Herlie, Glasgow Scot, actress (Myrtle Fargate-All My Children)
1920 Eva Dahlbeck, Saltsjo-Duvnas Sweden, actress (Dreams, Lesson in Love)
1920 James Daniel "Danny" Turner, saxophonist
1921 Alan Hale, Jr., American actor (d. 1990)
1921 Cyd Charisse, [Tula Finklea], Amarillo Tx, dancer/actress (Singing in the Rain)
1921 Egbert George "Pete" Pitterson, trumpeter
1921 Fritz Luchsinger, Swiss mountaineer (d. 1983)
1922 Carl Furillo, American baseball playe (Brooklyn Dodgers -NL Batting Champ 1953) (d. 1989)
1922 Cyd Charisse, American actress and dancer (d. 2008)
1922 Evgeniy Matveyev, Russian actor and film director (d. 2003)
1922 H Kipphardt, writer
1922 Ralph H. Baer, German-born American inventor, Creator of the first video game console
1922 Shigeru Mizuki, Japanese soldier and Mangaka
1923 Juan M G "Wancho" Evertsz, premier of Dutch Antilles (NVP, 1973-77)
1923 Sembene Ousmane, Senegalese author/novelist/director (Doctor Noir)
1924 Sean McClory, Dublin Ireland, actor (Jack-Californians, My Chauffeur)
1924 Victor "Toby" Neuberg, teacher/writer
1925 Darwin Horacio Vargas-Wallis, composer
1925 Francisco Rabal, Aguilas Spain, actor (Holy Innocents, Camorra)
1925 Petrus Steenkamp, Dutch politician (KVP/CDA)
1925 Warren Bennis, American educator and author
1926 Francisco Rabal, Spanish actor (d. 2001)
1927 Dick Hyman, American pianist and composer
1927 Jaromir Podesva, composer
1927 Joseph Berg, composer
1928 Frank Michael Beyer, composer
1928 Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
1929 Hebe Camargo, Brazilian television presenter, actress and singer
1930 Bob Grim, American baseball player (d. 1996)
1931 John McPhee, American writer and professor
1931 Neil Adcock, South African Cricket player
1931 Neil Postman, American cultural critic (d. 2003)
1933 Evelyn Margaret Ay, American beauty pageant winner (d. 2008)
1933 Johnny Dollar, singer
1933 Luca Ronconi, Italian theater and opera director
1934 Christian Wolff, composer
1934 Marv Breeding, American baseball player (d.2006)
1934 Ron Taylor, Sydney Australia, cinematographer (Those Amazing Animals)
1936 Gábor Szabó, Hungarian guitarist and jazz pianist (Perfect Circle) (d. 1982)
1936 Sue Ane Langdon, Paterson NJ, actress (Bachelor Father, Arnie)
1937 Juvénal Habyarimana, President of Rwanda (1973-94) (d. 1994)
1937 Pamela McEvoy-Johnston, psychotherapist-board member (WIC)
1937 Raynoma Gordy (Mayberry), US orchestra leader (Rayber Voices)
1937 Richard Farina, American writer and folk rocker (Reflections in a Crystal Wind)
1938 Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
1938 Pete Dawkins, American football player
1939 George William Reed, astronomy writer/cartoonist (Dark Sky Legacy)
1939 Jim Bouton, American baseball player, pitcher (NY Yankees) and author (Ball Four)
1939 Lydia Skoblikova, USSR speed skater (Olympics-6 gold-1960, 64)
1939 Mike Lowry, (Rep-D-WA, 1979)
1939 Robert Tear, Welsh tenor (Welsh Natl Opera 1970)
1939 Yannis Vlachopoulos, composer
1940 Leslie Isben Rogge, one of FBI's most wanted
1940 Susan Clark, Canadian actress (Night Moves, Webster)
1940 Theo Laseroms (The Tank), Dutch soccer player (Feyenoord)
1941 Andrei Mironov, Soviet actor (d. 1987)
1941 Ivana Loudova, composer
1941 Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, composer
1942 Ann Packer-Brightwell, English Athlete, 400m/800m runner (Oly-gold-1964)
1942 Dick Allen, American baseball player (AL MVP 1972)
1942 Ralph Ellis, England, rhythm (Swinging Blue Jeans-You're No Good)
1943 Lynn Redgrave, English actress (Georgie Girl)/Weight-Watcher
1944 Buzz Hargrove, Canadian labour leader
1944 Carole Bayer Sager, NY, aka Mrs Burt Bachrach, singer (Arthur)
1944 Palito Ortega, Argentine singer and actor
1944 Pepe Romero, Spanish guitarist
1944 Sergey Nikitin, Russian composer
1945 Anselm Kiefer, German painter
1945 Bruce Broughton, American composer
1945 Graeme Watson, cricketer (Australian opening batsman 5 Tests 1966-72)
1945 Jim Chapman, American politician (Rep-D-TX, 1985)
1945 Micky Dolenz, American musician, singer (The Monkees) and actor (Circus Boy)
1946 Mohammad Nazir, Pakistani cricket off-spinner (14 Tests 1969-83)
1946 Randy Meisner, American musician (The Eagles)
1947 Carole Bayer Sager, American composer
1947 Florentino Pérez, Spanish football executive
1947 Mike Allsup, American musician, guitarist (Three Dog Night)
1948 Jonathan Sacks, Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth
1948 Little Peggy March, [Margaret Battavio], vocalist (I Will Follow Him)
1948 Peggy March, American pop singer
1949 Antonello Venditti, Italian singer-songwriter
1949 Charles Lismont, Belgian marathon runner (Olympic-silver-1972)
1949 Karel Lismont, Belgian athlete
1950 Richard Ouzounian, Canadian/American theatre director and critic
1951 Philippe Henri Edmonds, cricketer (in Zambia England slow left-arm)
1952 George Felix Allen, American politician, 67th Governor of Virginia
1952 Vladimir Vladimirovich Vasyutin, USSR, cosmonaut (Soyuz T-14)
1953 Bob Brozman, American musician
1953 Don Werner, American baseball player
1953 Jim Rice, American baseball player, Boston Red Sox outfielder (AL MVP 1978)
1953 Kathleen Ann Shower, Brookville Oh, Playmate of the Year (May, 1985)
1954 Cheryl Baker, British singer (Bucks Fizz)
1954 David Wilkie, Scottish 200m backstroke swimmer (Olympic-gold-1976)
1954 Karl Schnabl, 90m ski jumper (Olympic-gold-1976)
1955 Don Ashby, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1981)
1956 John Kapelos, Canadian actor
1956 Laurie Cunningham, English footballer (d. 1989)
1957 Billy Childs, composer/pianist
1957 Bob Stoddard, American baseball player
1957 Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden)
1957 Cynthia Rothrock, American actress (Lady Dragon, Honor & Glory)
1957 John Butcher, American baseball player
1957 Ruth Wysocki, Alhambra California, 800m/1500m runner
1958 Andreas Maurer, West Germany, tennis star
1958 Gary Numan (Gary Webb), British singer (Replicas)
1958 Nick Capra, American baseball player
1959 Aidan Quinn, American actor (Avalon, Desperately Seeking Susan, Mission)
1959 Lester Holt, American television journalist
1960 Buck Williams, American basketball player, NBA forward (Portland Trail Blazers, NY Knicks)
1960 Max Metzker, Australian swimmer
1961 Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961 Larry Murphy, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1961 Mark Salas, American baseball player
1962 Kim Ung-Yong, Korean child prodigy.
1962 Shaun Gayle, NFL strong safety (San Diego Chargers)
1962 William Fuller, NFL defensive end (Philadelphia Eagles, San Diego Chargers)
1963 Gursharan Singh, cricketer (Indian batsman played one Test 1989-90)
1963 Kathy Ireland, model/actress (Alien From LA, Side Out)
1963 Lorelei, American fetish model and photographer
1963 Mike Lalor, Canadian ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1963 Sally Hayman, Owns a national chain a playschools in the UK
1964 Cheryl "Salt" James, singer (Salt-N-Pepa)
1964 Lance McCullers, American baseball player
1964 Peter Ged Gill, drummer (Frankie Goes to Hollywood-2 Tribes) [or 1/8]
1964 Thomas Bezucha, American screenwriter and director
1965 Fátima Lopes, Portuguese fashion designer
1965 Kenny Smith, American basketball player, NBA guard (Houston Rockets)
1966 Elliot Boult, Blenheim NZ, Australasia golfer
1966 Holly Ann Salo, Keani Alaska, Miss Alaska-America (1991)
1966 Laura McCabe, cross country skier (Olympics-1994)
1967 Brent Fedyk, Yorkton, NHL left wing (Dallas Stars)
1967 Dale Joseph, CFL defensive back (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1967 Joel Johnston, American baseball player
1968 Clare Wood, Zululand South Africa, tennis star (1986 Futures-Lisbon)
1968 Ellen Forney, American cartoonist
1968 Jim Dougherty, American baseball player
1968 Michael Bartels, German race car driver
1968 Rob Zettler, Sept-iles, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1968 Shawn Mullins, American musician
1970 Andrea Parker, American actress (Miss Parker-The Pretender), ballet dancer
1970 Harry Decheiver, soccer player (RKC)
1970 Jason Elam, American football player, NFL kicker (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 Rhett Harty, Pasedena CA, US soccer player (Olympic-92)
1970 Vadim Bekboulatov, NHL forward (Belarus, Oly-98)
1971 Bob Boughner, Windsor, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1971 Kit Symons, Welsh footballer
1971 Marc Tobert, CFL slot back (Edmonton Eskimos)
1972 Angie Hart, Australian pop singer
1972 Craig Johnson, St Paul Mn, NHL left wing (LA Kings/Oly-1994)
1972 Fergal O'Brien, Irish snooker player
1972 Georgios Georgiadis, Greek footballer
1972 Pat Riley, NFL defensive end (Chic Bears, Seattle Seahawks)
1972 Takuro Abe, WLAF linebacker (Amsterdam Admirals)
1973 Anneke van Giersbergen, Dutch singer (The Gathering)
1973 Boris Kodjoe, Austrian model
1973 Justin Thompson, American baseball player
1973 Kendell Watkins, NFL tight end (Dallas Cowboys)
1973 Kurt Mollekens, Belgian racing car driver
1973 Mark Lukasiewicz, American baseball player
1973 Nanette Pearson, Pleasant Grove Utah, Miss America-Utah (1997)
1974 Mike Moriarty, American baseball player
1974 Steve Sarkisian, CFL quarterback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1974 Toran James, linebacker (San Diego Chargers)
1975 Brett Conway, NFL kicker (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1975 Fardeen Khan, Indian actor
1975 Kenny Wheaton, cornerback (Dallas Cowboys)
1975 Mauro Briano, Italian footballer
1975 Peggy Zina, Greek singer
1976 Freddie Prinze Jr., American actor (I Know What You Did Last Summer)
1976 Gaz Coombes, English singer (Supergrass)
1976 Hines Ward, American football player
1976 Juan Encarnacion, American baseball player
1976 Ryan Freel, American baseball player
1977 James Van Der Beek, American actor (Dawson's Creek)
1977 Johann Vogel, Swiss footballer
1977 Petr Devyatkin, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1978 Mohammed Bouyeri, Dutch-Moroccan assassin
1978 Nick Zano, American actor
1979 Andy Ross, American guitarist (OK Go)
1979 Tom Chaplin, English singer (Keane)
1980 Charli Delaney, Australian singer (Hi-5)
1980 Stephen Milne, Australian rules footballer
1981 Michael Beauchamp, Australian footballer
1981 Timothy Jordan II, American musician (The All American Rejects, Jonezetta) (d. 2005)
1982 Craig Stansberry, American baseball player
1982 Kat Von D, Mexican-American tattoo artist
1982 Leonidas Kabantais, Greek footballer
1982 Nicolas Armindo, French race car driver
1982 Nicoleta Onel, Romanian gymnast
1983 Austin Brown, footballer
1983 Mark Worrell, American baseball player
1984 Dave Moffatt, Canadian musician
1984 Ross Taylor, New Zealand cricketer
1984 Sasha Vujacic, Slovenian basketball player
1985 Ewa Sonnet, Polish model and pop singer
1986 Princess Tsuguko, Japanese princess
1988 Armanti Edwards, American college football player
1988 Elly Jackson, English singer (La Roux)
1990 Ben Tozer, English footballer
1990 Kristinia DeBarge, American R&B singer
1991 Devon Werkheiser, American actor
1992 Charlie Ray, American actress
1996 Lorna Fitzgerald, English actress
2001 Sandra Cantu, American homicide victim
Died on March 8th
883 Albumasar (Ahmad Aboe M Gafar al-Balkhi), Arabic astronomer
1126 Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
1144 Celestine II (Guido), Italian Pope (1143-44)
1202 Sverre of Norway
1223 Wincenty Kadlubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1403 Bajezid I Jildirim, 4th sultan of Turkey (1389-1403)
1466 Francesco Sforza, Italian condottiere/duke of Milan
1550 John of God, Portuguese-born friar and saint (Brothers of Mercy) (b. 1495)
1638 Jacob C van Neck, admiral/mayor of Amsterdam,
1640 Guillaume van Messaus, composer
1641 Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1661 Jules Mazarin, Italian cardinal/premier of France
1674 Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1702 John de Baen, portrait painter/etcher
1702 William III, Dutch King of England (1689-1702) (b. 1650)
1709 William Cowper (Cooper), English anatomist
1716 Harald Vallerius, composer
1720 Georg Bronner, composer
1724 Enrico Giovanni Zuccalli, Swiss architect
1728 Gian M Crescimbeni, Italian literary/critic (Arcadia)
1731 Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1734 Carolomannus Pachschmidt, composer
1754 Don Jose de Carvajal bon Lancaster, Sp min of Foreign affairs
1757 Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1771 Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
1819 Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
1828 Johann Anton Sulzer, composer
1844 Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
1855 William Poole, American criminal, member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
1862 Adrien de La Fage, composer
1862 Nat Gordon, last pirate, hanged in NYC for stealing 1,000 slaves
1869 Louis Hector Berlioz, French composer (Symphony Fantastic) (b. 1803)
1872 Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
1874 Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (1850-53) (b. 1800)
1887 Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
1887 James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
1887 Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic
1889 John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (fire extinguisher) (b. 1803)
1901 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German politician
1901 Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass)
1917 Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
1919 Auguste Tolbecque, compose
1920 Rafael Obligado, Argentine writer (Santos Vega)
1923 Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel laureate, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910) (b. 1837)
1923 Krišjanis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
1930 Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
1930 William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (1909-13) (b. 1857)
1931 Clara Kathleen Rogers, composer
1932 Jan de Louter, Dutch lawyer/tutor of Queen Wilhelmina
1935 Hachiko, world-famous dog (b. 1923)
1937 Albert Verwey, Dutch poet/literature historian (Motion)
1937 Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1941 Jose Serrano Simeon, composer
1941 Sherwood Anderson, American author (Winesburg Ohio) (b. 1876)
1942 José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (world champ 1927) (b. 1888)
1945 Frederick Bligh Bond, English architect, illustrator, archaeologist and psychical researcher (b.1864)
1945 H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter
1945 Jan Beekes, resistance fighter
1950 Jaroslav Kocian, composer
1951 Honeymoon Killers, dies in electric chair
1951 John Winter Thompson, composer
1951 Martha Beck, American convicted murderer (b. 1920)
1951 Raymond Fernandez, American convicted murderer (d. 1914)
1954 Percy Twentyman-Jones, cricketer (pair in only Test for S Afr)
1955 Clementine, Princess of Belg, wife of V Napoleon Bonaparte
1957 Othmar Schoeck, Swiss composer and conductor (b. 1886)
1958 Josephina OFF "Frieda" Herberich, actress (Salontiroler)
1959 Abdel Wahab Shawwaf, Iraqi colonel/putschist, murdered
1961 Thomas Beecham, English conductor (Last Night of the Prom) (b. 1879)
1963 John Hartley, cricketer (bowl avg 115 in 2 Tests for Eng 1906)
1965 Esther Howard, actress (Detour)
1967 John F Bothwell, actor (Freckles-Our Gang)
1971 Harold Lloyd, American actor (Why Worry) (b. 1893)
1972 Erich von dem Bach, German Nazi official (b. 1899)
1973 Gordon Leggat, cricketer (9 Tests for NZ, 351 runs at 21 93)
1973 Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots) (b. 1945)
1974 Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc),
1974 Willem "Wim" Sonneveld, Dutch actor (Silk Stockings)
1975 George Stevens, American director (Swing Time, Gunga Din) (b. 1904)
1976 Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1977 Henry Hull, actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town)
1981 Joseph Henry Woodger, British theoretical biologist (b. 1894)
1983 William T Walton, English composer (Belhazzar's feast) (b. 1902)
1985 Edward Andrews, American actor (Broadside) (b. 1914)
1985 Thomas Creighton, US heart patient (3 implants in 46 hrs)
1986 Hubert Fichte, writer
1986 Kersti Merilaas, Estonian author, poet (b. 1913)
1988 Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
1988 Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1988 Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1992 Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream)
1993 Billy Eckstine, American musician (Fools Rush In) (b. 1914)
1993 Johan Bodegraven, radio host (Purses Open, Dikes Closed)
1993 Joop Scheltens, TV host/director (Explore Your Place)
1993 Wells Root, US screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda)
1994 John Ewart, Sydney Australia
1994 Joop C Swart, publisher/founder (World Press Photo)
1994 Knut Haukelid, Norway/US resistance fighter (Rjukan 1943)
1995 Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
1995 Ota Adler, Czech/British fur trader (Jewish Aid Fund)
1995 Paul George Vincent O'Shaughnessy Horgan, novelist
1996 Alison McCartney, pathologist, Breast Cancer campaigner
1996 Jack Malcolm Thorpe Fleming Churchill, eccentric British soldier, commando (b.1906)
1996 Paul Lewis Harrhy, actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park)
1997 Alexander Salkind, producer (Superman)
1998 Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1999 Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
1999 Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1999 Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
1999 William Wrigley III, President of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company (b. 1933)
2001 Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
2004 Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2005 Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2005 César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
2006 Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2007 John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
2007 John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach (b. 1947)
2007 Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
2008 Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (b. 1944)
2009 Ali Bongo, British magician, President of the Magic Circle (b.1929)
2009 Zbigniew Religa, Minister of Health of the Republic of Poland (b. 1938)
2011 Mike Starr (musician), American Musician (b. 1966)
2012 Leslie Cochran, American peace activist and police critic
2014 William Guarnere, American WWII veteran
2015 Lew Soloff, American jazz trumpeter (Blood, Sweat and Tears)