March 9th
Holidays and Festivals
Baron Bliss Day (Belize)
Teacher's Day or Eid Al Moalim (Lebanon)
Employee Appreciation Day
Get Over It Day
Joe Franklin Day (Radio, TV)
Panic Day
Learn What Your Name Means Day
Registered Dietitian Day
Saint Frances of Rome Feast Day
Barbie Day, Anniversary of the Barbie Doll
Birthday of Amerigo Vespucci (explorer)
Bal Rat Mort Ostend, Belgium
Christian Feast Day of Dominic Savio
Christian Feast Day of Forty Martyrs of Sebaste
Christian Feast Day of Frances of Rome
Christian Feast Day of Gregory of Nyssa
Christian Feast Day of Pacian
Earliest Date for Fat Tuesday, the end of the Carnival Season * CLICK HERE
Earliest Date that Mardi Gras can occur (USA) * CLICK HERE
Toast of The Day
"Here's to Hell!
May the stay there,
Be as much fun as the way there!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Flirtini
1 Part vodka
2 Part champagne
2 Part pineapple juice
- The More manly name is "Viking Testicle" (Howard Stern Show)
Wine of The Day
Pessagno 2007 Idyll Times Vineyard
Style - Syrah
San Benito County
$40
Beer of The Day
- Eastern Hemisphere -
VùDù
Brewer - Birrificio Italiano ; Lurago Marinone, Italy
Style - German-Style Dark Wheat Ale
- Western Hemisphere -
Headdy Topper
Brewer - The Alchemist - Vermont, USA
Style - Imperial India Pale Ale
Joke of The Day
A Irishman and a German are the only survivors of a plane crash on an island. They are walking around looking for food when the German finds a bottle. He rubs it and a genie appears.
The genie says, "I will grant each of you one wish. But, I must warn you, anything you choose, the other man gets twice as much of."
The German goes first. He says "I'll have a glass of Dortmunder Pilsner Beer. That way that Irish bastard will get two glasses of it, and see what a real beer tastes like.
So the genie nods, and suddenly the German is holding a glass of fine German beer, and Irishman is holding two glasses of the same beer. The German says "Now taste a real beer, not that Guinness sewage!"
The genie then turns to the Irishman and says "Now it's your turn, but remember the German will get twice what you wish for."
The Irishman says "Genie, see that stick over there? Beat me half to death with it.
Quote of the Day
"Sex in your eighties is like playing pool with a rope"
- George Burns (January 20th, 1896 – March 9th, 1996), born Nathan Birnbaum, an American comedian, actor, and writer.
Whiskey of The Day
Connemara 12 Year Old Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey
$95
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 March
National 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
American Crossword Puzzle Weekend, Second Friday to Sunday in March
Historical Events on March 9th
(141 BC) Liu Che, posthumously known as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne over the Han Dynasty of China.
590 Bahram Chobin is crowned as king Barham VI of Persia.
1230 Bulgarian tsar Ivan Asen II defeats Theodore of Epirus near the village of Klokotnitsa.
1276 Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
1452 Pope Nicolaas I crowns Frederik III RC-German emperor
1496 Jews are expelled from Carintha Austria
1497 Nicolaus Copernicus 1st recorded astronomical observation
1500 The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon for the Indies with 13 ships. The fleet will discover Brazil which lies within boundaries granted to Portugal in the Treaty of Tordesillas.
1522 Marten Luther preaches his Invocavit
1551 Emperor Karel appoints son Philip as heir to the throne
1562 Kissing in public banned in Naples (punishable by death)
1566 David Rizzio, the private secretary to Mary I of Scotland, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse, Edinburgh, Scotland.
1617 Sweden & Russia sign Peace of Stolbowa
1640 Pierre Corneilles "Horace," premieres in Paris
1642 English Queen Henriette Mary arrives in Hellevoetsluis Neth
1697 Czar Peter the Great begins tour of West-Europe
1701 France, Cologne & Bavaria sign alliance
1721 English Chancellor Exchequer John Aislabie confined in London Tower
1741 English fleet under admiral Ogle begins assault on Cartagena
1745 Bells for 1st American carillon shipped from England to Boston
1765 After a public campaign by the writer Voltaire, judges in Paris posthumously exonerate Jean Calas of murdering his son. Calas had been tortured and executed in 1762 on the charge, though his son had actually committed suicide.
1776 Publication of the economics book The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith.
1796 Napoléon Bonaparte marries his first wife, Joséphine de Beauharnais.
1798 Dr George Balfour becomes 1st naval surgeon in the US navy
1820 Philippines chases out foreigners, about 125 die
1820 James Monroe's daughter Maria marries in the White House
1822 Charles Graham of NY patents artificial teeth
1834 French Foreign Legion is founded.
1839 Prussian government limits work week for children to 51 hours
1841 The U.S. Supreme Court rules that captive Africans who had seized control of the ship carrying them had been taken into slavery illegally (Amistad Incident).
1842 Giuseppe Verdi's third opera, Nabucco, receives its première performance in Milan, its success establishes Verdi as one of Italy's foremost opera writers.
1847 The first large-scale amphibious assault in U.S. history is launched in the Siege of Veracruz, The Mexican-American War.
1849 Carl Nikolais opera "Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor," premieres
1856 National Fraternity Sigma Alpha Epsilon is founded in the Johnston Mansion House at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
1858 Albert Potts of Philadelphia patents the street mailbox
1860 1st Japanese ambassador arrives in SF en route to Washington
1861 Confederate currency authorized-$50, $100, $500, $1,000
1862 The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia ("Monitor" (Union) & "Merrimack" (Rebel)) fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads, the first battle between two ironclad warships, American Civil War.
1864 Ulysses S. Grant is appointed commander of Union Army
1868 The opera "Hamlet" premieres in Paris
1882 False teeth patented
1889 Battle at Gallabat (Metema), Mahdi's beat Abyssinian emperor John IV
1889 Kansas passes 1st general antitrust law in US
1893 Congo cannibals killed 1000s of Arabs
1895 Stanley Cup, Montreal Victorias awarded cup, as Queens University (Kingston Ont) loses to Montreal AAA, 5-1
1896 Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns following the Italian defeat at the Battle of Adowa.
1897 Cleveland Spiders sign Louis Sockalexis, full-blooded Penobscot
1897 Indian, fans start calling the team Indians (in 1915 becomes official)
1897 Premiere of (parts of) Gustav Mahler's 3rd Symphony (Berlin)
1902 Composer Gustav Mahler marries Alma Schindler in Vienna
1904 Brandon's Lester Patrick becomes 1st hockey defenseman to score a goal
1907 1st involuntary sterilization law enacted, Indiana
1907 Lady Gregory's "Rising of the Moon," premieres in Dublin
1908 Inter Milan is founded.
1910 The Westmoreland County Coal Strike, involving 15,000 coal miners represented by the United Mine Workers, begins.
1914 Henry Colijn appointed as director of Bataafsche Petroleum Co
1914 US Sen Albert Fall (Teapot Dome) demands "Cubanisation of Mexico"
1916 General Fransisco "Poncho" Villa invades US, leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico (18 killed).
1916 Germany declares war against Portugal
1918 Russian Bolshevik Party becomes the Communist Party
1918 Ukrainian mobs massacre Jews of Seredino Buda
1918 Wageningen Agricultural College Neth opens
1922 Eugene O'Neill's "Hairy Ape," premieres in NYC
1922 KJR-AM in Seattle Washington begins radio transmissions
1923 Amsterdam taxi strike ended
1923 Elmer Rice's "Adding Machine," premieres in NYC
1923 NHL Championship, Mont Canadiens outscore Ottawa Senators, 3-2, in 2
1924 South Slavia aproves Italy's annexation of Fiume (Rijeka)
1925 Pink's War, the first Royal Air Force operation conducted independently of the British Army or Royal Navy, begins.
1926 Bertha Landes elected 1st woman mayor of Seattle
1929 Marcel Pagnol's "Marius," premieres in Paris
1932 Eamon De Valera becomes president of Ireland
1932 Former Chinese emperor Henry Pu-Yi installed as head of Manchuria
1933 Bulgarian communists Dimitrov, Popov & Vassili arrested in Berlin
1933 Congress is called into special session by FDR, & began its "100 days"
1933 President Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to Congress, the first of his New Deal policies of the Great Depression.
1935 Adolf Hitler announces the creation of a new air force.
1936 Babe Ruth turns down Reds to make a comeback as a player
1942 Construction of the Alaska Highway began
1943 Delft opposition group-Pahud de Mortanges overthrown
1943 Greek Jews of Salonika are transported to Nazi extermination camps
1944 Japanese troops counter-attack American forces on Hill 700 in Bougainville in a battle that would last five days of World War II.
1945 334 US B-29 Superfortresses attack Tokyo with 120,000 fire bomb
1945 Japanese proclaim "independence" of Indo-China
1946 Dutch troops land at Batavia/Semarang
1946 Ted Williams is offered $500,000 to play in Mexican League, he refuses
1947 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Gretchen Merrill
1947 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1948 Provisionary Indonesian government installed in Batavia
1949 Brigadier Gen Edwin K Wright, USA, ends term as deputy director of CIA
1949 England beat South Africa by scoring 174 runs in 94 minutes
1950 Willie Sutton robs Manufacturers Bank of $64,000 in NYC
1952 Heinz Neuhaus wins Europe Heavyweight Boxing title
1953 Josef Stalin buried in Moscow
1954 1st local color TV coml WNBT-TV (WNBC-TV) NYC (Castro Decorators)
1954 Edward R Murrow criticizes Sen Joseph McCarthy (See it Now)
1954 CBS television broadcasts the See It Now episode, "A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy", produced by Fred Friendly.
1954 WMUR TV channel 9 in Manchester, NH (ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Archbishop Makarios of Cyprus arrested & exiled to Seychelles
1956 Soviet military suppresses a mass demonstrations in the Georgian SSR, reacting to Khrushchev's de-Stalinization policy.
1956 Weather forecasting phone line set up in London England
1957 A magnitude 8.3 earthquake in the Andreanof Islands, Alaska triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami causing extensive damage to Hawaii and Oahu.
1958 George Yardley (Pistons) is 1st NBAer to score 2,000 points in season
1959 "Juno" opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 16 performances
1959 1st known radar contact is made with Venus
1959 The Barbie doll (the popular girls' doll) makes its debut at the American International Toy Fair in New York, over 800 million sold.
1961 1st animal returned from space, dog named Blackie aboard Sputnik 9
1961 Mine cave-in in Japan, kills 72
1961 Sputnik 9 carries Chernushka (dog) into orbit
1961 Supremes release "I Want A Guy" & "Never Again"
1962 Egyptian Pres Nasser declares Gaza belongs to Palestinians
1962 US advisors in South-Vietnam join the fight
1963 Beatles began 1st British tour, supporting Tommy Roe & Chris Montez
1964 1st Ford Mustang produced
1964 Creighton's Paul Silas grabs Midwest record 27 rebounds against Okla
1964 Supreme Court issues NY Times vs Sullivan decision, public officials must prove malice to claim libel & recover damages
1966 Andrew Brimmer becomes 1st black governor of Federal Reserve Board
1967 Svetlana Allilueva, Stalin's daughter, defected to the West
1967 Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15, crashes in a field in Concord Township, Ohio following a mid-air collision with a Beechcraft Baron, killing 26.
1968 10th Grammy Awards, Up Up & Away, Sgt Pepper's wins 4
1971 J M Noreiga takes 9-95 WI v India at Port-of-Spain
1972 Players on White Sox vote 31-0 in favor of a strike, if necessary
1974 Last Japanese soldier, a guerrilla operating in Philippines, surrenders, 29 years after World War II ended
1975 "Lieutenant" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 9 performances
1975 Construction of the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System begins.
1976 1st female cadets accepted to West Point Military Academy
1976 Forty-two people die in the 1976 Cavalese cable-car disaster, the worst cable-car accident to date.
1976 Islander Glenn Resch's 10th shut-out opponent-Blues 4-0
1977 Adm Stansfield Turner, USN (Ret), becomes 12th director of CIA replacing acting director Knoche
1977 The Hanafi Muslim Siege, In a thirty-nine hour standoff, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, D.C., buildings, killing two and taking 149 hostage, siege ended Mar 11th.
1978 Ice Dance Championship at Ottawa Canada won by Linichuk & Karponosov
1978 Ice Pairs Championship at Ottawa won by Rodnina & Zaitsev (URS)
1978 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Anett Potzsch (GDR)
1978 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Ottawa won by Charles Tickner (USA)
1979 Bowie Kuhn orders baseball to give equal access to female reporters
1979 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Flemish/Walloon battles in Belgium, 40 injured
1980 Joanne Carner wins LPGA Sunstar '80 Golf Tournament
1981 Dan Rather becomes primary anchorman of CBS-TV News
1983 Caryl Churchill's "Fen," premieres in London
1983 Zimbabwe opposition leader Joshua Nkomo flees to Botswana
1984 Emile Gumbs' Anguilla National Alliance wins elections
1984 John Lennon releases "Borrowed Time"
1984 Phila 76'ers block 20 Seattle shots tying NBA regulation game record
1984 The Competitive Enterprise Institute in founded in Washington, D.C.
1984 Tim Witherspoon beats Greg Page in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Katarina Witt (GDR)
1985 Laura Johnson (Falcon Crest) & Harry Hamlin (LA Law) wed
1986 16th Easter Seal Telethon raises $30,100,000
1986 Juli Inkster wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1986 NASA announces searchers found remains of Challenger astronauts
1986 Soviet probe Vega 2 flies by Halley's Comet at 8,030 km
1987 Chrysler Corp offered to buy American Motors Corp for $1 billion
1988 President Reagan presides at unveiling of Knute Rockne stamp
1989 A strike forces financially-troubled Eastern Air Lines into bankruptcy.
1989 Roger Kingdom runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.36 sec)
1989 Senate rejects Bush's nomination of John Tower as Defense Secretary
1989 Soviet Union officially submits to jurisdiction of the World Court
1989 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1990 Dr. Antonia Novello is sworn in as Surgeon General of the United States, becoming the first female and Hispanic American to serve in that position.
1991 "Les Miserables," opens at Lyric Theatre, Brisbane
1991 5th American Comedy Award, Dennis Wolfberg
1991 Joe Dumaars (Detroit) begins NBA free throw streak of 62 games
1991 Massive demonstrations are held against Slobodan Miloševic in Belgrade. Two people are killed and tanks are deployed in the streets.
1991 US 70th manned space mission STS 39 (Discovery 12) launches into orbit
1993 7th Soul Train Music Awards
1993 19th People's Choice Awards
1993 Pittsburgh Penguins begin NHL record 17 game winning streak
1993 Rodney King in court says he thinks he heard cops yell racial slurs
1994 IRA launch 1st of 3 mortar attacks on London's Heathrow Airport
1995 Baseball awards a franchise to Tampa Bay Devil Rays
1995 Mexican peso worth 7.55 pesos to a dollar (record)
1995 President Konstantine Karamanlis (88) of Greece, resigns
1996 Javed Miandad's last international in Pak's WC QF loss to India
1996 Jayasuriya hammers 82 off 44 balls (13x4 3x6) v England in WC QF
1996 STS 75 (Columbia 19), lands
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp, Observers in China, Mongolia and eastern Siberia are treated to a rare double feature as an eclipse permits Hale-Bopp to be seen during the day.
1997 Senior Golf Slam
1997 Steve Elkington wins Doral-Ryder Golf Open
2006 Liquid water is discovered on Enceladus, the sixth largest moon of Saturn.
2007 The US Justice Department releases an internal audit that found that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had acted illegally in its use of the USA Patriot Act to secretly obtain personal information about US citizens.
2011 Space Shuttle Discovery makes its final landing after 39 flights
2012 Senior members of hacking group Lulz Sec are arrested, including one member of the FBI, in the United States, United Kingdom and Ireland
2013 19 people are killed in two suicide bombings in Kabul, Afghanistan
2013 Asteroid 2013 ET comes within 960,000 km from the Earth’s surface
2013 Bernard Hopkins defeats Tavoris Cloud to win IBF Light Heavyweight title
2015 US President Barack Obama signs an executive order declaring Venezuela a national security threat to the US
2016 EU Migrant Crisis: Macedonia, Croatia and Slovenia close their borders to migrants trying to reach Northern Europe
Born on March 9th
1213 Hugh IV, Duke of Burgundy, French crusader (d. 1271)
1285 Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (d. 1318)
1454 Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer (America) and cartographer (d. 1512)
1564 David Fabricius, German astronomer (discoved variable star) (d. 1617)
1568 Aloysius "Luigi" van Gonzaga, Italian prince and saint (d. 1591)
1629 Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
1695 Martín Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d.1772)
1697 Friederike C Neuber, German actress/author (Allerkostbarste Schatz)
1720 Philip Yorke, 2nd Earl of Hardwicke, English politician (d. 1790)
1735 August Bernhard Valentin Herbing, composer
1737 Josef Myslivecek, Czech composer (d. 1781)
1749 Honore Mirabeau, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
1753 Jean-Baptiste Kleber, French general (d. 1800)
1758 Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (frenology) (d. 1828)
1763 William Cobbett, English journalist and author (d. 1835)
1777 Alexander Orlowski, Polish painter/cartoonist/graphic artist
1791 George Hayward, US, surgeon, 1st to use ether
1806 Edwin Forrest, American actor and philanthropist (d. 1872)
1810 Jean-Georges Kastner, composer
1812 Jakob Eduard Schmolzer, composer
1814 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
1815 David Davis, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1886)
1820 Samuel Blatchford, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1893)
1824 Leland Stanford, (Gov/Sen)/found Stanford U
1825 Alexander F. Mozhaiski, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890)
1826 Jean Joseph Bott, German violinist/composer
1833 Frederick A. Schroeder, tobacco industrialist and mayor of Brooklyn (d. 1899)
1839 Felix Huston Robertson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1928
1839 Phoebe Knapp, American hymn writer (d. 1908)
1848 Martin Pierre Joseph Marsick, composer
1850 Alexandre Luigini, composer
1856 Eddie Foy, American singer and dancer (d. 1928)
1865 Margaret Murray Washington, wife of Booker T/head (NACW 1896..1918)
1874 Johann Richard Ohlsson, composer
1875 Martin Fallas Shaw, composer
1877 Emil Abderhalden, Swiss physiologist/bio-chemist
1881 Enver Pasja, Turkish general/politician
1881 Ernest Bevin, British minister of Labour/Foreign affairs
1883 Umberto Saba, writer
1887 Fritz Lenz, German geneticist (d. 1976)
1887 Phil Mead, English cricketer (strong batsman for England pre& post-WWI) (d. 1958)
1890 Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov, Soviet foreign minister (UN)
1891 José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
1892 David Garnett, England, novelist/editor (Lady into Fox)
1892 Frank Puglia, Sicily Italy, actor (Black Orchid, Jungle Book)
1892 Joseph Weinheber, Austria poet/writer (Adel und Untergang)
1892 Vita Sackville-West, English writer and gardener (The Land) (d. 1962)
1893 Edgar Scauflaire, Belgian muralist/decorator
1893 Hans Munch, composer
1894 Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
1900 Howard Aiken, American computing pioneer (d. 1973)
1900 Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat, King of Croatia (1941-43) (d. 1948)
1902 Edward Durell Stone, US, architect (US Embassy, New Delhi)
1902 Will Geer, American actor (Grandpa Walton-The Waltons) (d. 1978)
1904 Paul Klipsch, American engineer, noted for his loudspeaker designs. (d. 2002)
1905 Félix L V L J Labisse, French painter (libidoscaphes)
1905 Grigori Kozintsev, Kiev Ukraine, director (Hamlet, King Lear)
1905 Peter C Quennell, English biographer/critic (Byron in Italy)
1905 Rex Warner, English poet/writer (Wild Goose Chase)
1907 Henry Leland Clarke, composer
1908 Luiz Cosme, composer
1909 Derk Bodde, American sinologist (d. 2003)
1910 Ed(uard) Hoornik, Dutch writer/poet (Survivor)
1910 Samuel Barber, American composer (Pulitz, School for Scandal) (d. 1981)
1911 Ramon Campbell Batista, composer
1912 Alan David Melville, polymath
1913 Ger(ar)da Brautigam, journalist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (PvdA)
1914 Fred Clark, Lincoln California, actor (Burns & Allen, Auntie Mame, Hazard)
1915 Johnnie Johnson, British fighter pilot (d. 2001)
1915 Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder (St Louis Browns)
1917 Dante B Fascell, (Rep-D-FL, 1955)
1918 George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
1918 Marguerite Chapman, Chatham NY, actress (Spy Smasher, Flight to Mars)
1918 Mickey Spillane (Frank), American mystery writer (I the Jury) (d. 2006)
1921 Carl Betz, American actor (Alex Stone-Donna Reed Show) (d. 1978)
1921 Dimitris Horn, Greek actor (d. 1998)
1922 Herbert P Douglas Jr, Pitts, long jumper (Olympic-bronze-1948)
1923 James Buckley, (Sen-R-NY)
1923 Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist, Nobel laureate
1924 Konstantin Iliev, composer
1926 Celso Garrido Lecca, composer
1926 Gerrit A Kooy, Dutch sociologist (Apartheid & work in South Africa)
1927 Hans Ludwig Schilling, composer
1927 Jack Jensen, baseball player (AL MVP 1958)
1927 John Beckwith, composer
1928 Gerald Bull, Canadian long range artillery designer (d. 1990)
1929 Hugh Desmond Hoyte, Prime Minister and President of Guyana (1985-92) (d. 2002)
1929 Marie Cardinal, writer
1929 Zillur Rahman, President of Bangladesh.
1930 Harrie J B Aarts, Dutch 2nd chamber member (CDA)
1930 Ornette Coleman, American jazz composer (Downbeat Musician of Year 1966)
1930 Taina Elg, Helsinki Finland, actress (Hercules in NY, Les Girls)
1930 Thomas Schippers, Kalamazoo Mich, conductor (Amahl & Night Visitors)
1931 Thore Skogman, Swedish entertainer (d. 2007)
1932 Heere Heeresma, Dutch writer (Han de Wit goes in development aid)
1932 Keely Smith, American singer (Mrs Louie Prima)
1932 Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor
1933 Lloyd Price, American singer (Just Because)
1933 Mel Lastman, Canadian politician
1933 William Francis McBeth, American composer (d. 2012)
1934 Del Close, American actor, writer and teacher (d. 1999)
1934 Joyce Van Patten, American actress (Good Guys, Don Rickles Show)
1934 Marlene Streit, Canadian golfer
1934 Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut and the first human in space (aboard Vostok 1) (d. 1968)
1935 Andrew Viterbi, American telecommunications scientist and businessman
1935 Sister Bernard Ncube, South African nun
1936 Marty Ingels, Bkln NY, comedian (I'm Dickens He's Fenster)
1936 Mickey Gilley, American musician and country singer (Urban Cowboy)
1936 Tom Sestak, American football player (d. 1987)
1936 (Aino) Elina Salo, Sipoo Finland, actress (Hamlet Goes Business)
1937 Bernard Landry, Premier of Quebec from 2001-2003
1937 Brian Redman, English racing driver
1937 Grahame Chevalier, cricketer (one Test for S Afr 1970, 0 & 0*, 5-100)
1938 Charles Siebert, Kenosha Wisc, actor (One Day at A Time, Trapper John)
1938 Lill-Babs, Swedish singer
1940 Raúl Juliá, Puerto Rican actor (Addams Family, Kiss of the Spider Woman) (d. 1994)
1941 Ernesto Miranda, American litigant (d. 1976)
1941 Ger van Each, sculptor
1941 Jim Colbert, American PGA golfer (1969 Monsanto Open)
1942 Bert Campaneris, shortstop (Oakland A's)
1942 John Cale, Welsh musician, composer and singer-songwriter (The Velvet Underground)
1942 Mark Lindsay, American musician, volalist and saxophonist (Paul Revere & The Raiders)
1943 Bobby Fischer, American chess player, world chess champion (1972-75) (d. 2008)
1943 Charles Gibson, American television journalist
1943 Colin Murdock, American voice actor
1943 Trish Van Devere (Patricia Dressel), American actress (Changeling)
1944 Geoff Arnold, cricketer (England medium-pacer in 34 Tests 1967-75)
1944 Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
1944 Trevor Burton, rocker (Move)
1945 Dennis Rader, American serial killer
1945 Laura Lee (Rundless), singer (Dirty Man, Women's Love Rights)
1945 Robert Calvert, English singer (Hawkwind) (d. 1988)
1945 Robin Trower, British guitarist (Procol Harum-Whiter Shade of Pale)
1946 Gherman Semyonovich Arzamazov, Russian cosmonaut (backup TM-6)
1946 Jim Cregan, British rock musician
1947 Keri Hulme, New Zealandic writer
1948 Emma Bonino, Italian politician
1948 Jamie Lyn Bauer, Phoenix Az, actr (Young & Restless, Centerfold Girls)
1948 Jeffrey Osborne, American singer (On the Wings of Love)
1948 Jimmy Fadden, American singer (Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
1949 Kalevi Aho, composer
1949 Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer
1950 Danny Sullivan, American Indy-car racer (over 10 wins)
1950 Doug Ault, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1951 Helen Zille, South African politician
1951 Michael Kinsley, American journalist and editor
1952 Bill Beaumont, English rugby player
1952 Iuliana Semenova, USSR, basketball (Olympic-gold-1976)
1952 William Kirby Cullen, Santa Ana California, actor (How the West Was Won)
1953 Henriette J Toll, actress (Soldier of Orange)
1954 Bobby Sands, IRA member (d. 1981)
1954 Charmain Elaine Sylvers, rocker
1954 Keven Wade, Chappaqua NY, screen writer (Working Girls)
1955 Fernando Bujones, Miami Fla, ballet dancer
1955 Ornella Muti, Italian actress (Flash Gordon, Most Beautiful Wife)
1955 Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver, formula-1 Indy-car racer (rookie of year-1983)
1956 David Willetts, UK Shadow Secretary for Education (Conservative)
1956 Mark Dantonio, American football coach (Michigan State University)
1956 Shashi Tharoor, Indian author & United Nations Under-Secretary General
1957 Faith Daniels, American journalist (CBS-TV)
1957 Jeff Senior, Melbourne VIC, Australasia golfer
1957 Jon Engen, Oslo Norway, US biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1957 Mark Mancina, American composer
1957 Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
1958 Jack Kenny, American television writer and producer
1958 Linda Fiorentino, American actress
1958 Martin Fry, English pop singer (ABC)
1959 Barbie, Doll (Mattel)
1959 Kato (Brian) Kaelin, actor (Beach Fever), OJ roommate and witness
1959 Lonny Price, NYC, actor (Muppets Take Manhattan)
1960 Linda Fiorentino, Phila, actress (Jade, Last Seduction, Moderns)
1960 Mike Leach, Minneapolis Minn, tennis star
1961 Camryn Manheim, American actress
1961 Darrell Walker, American basketball player
1961 Mike Leach, American football coach
1961 Robert Rechsteiner (Rick Steiner), American professional wrestler
1962 Brian Green, Columbus Indiana, actor (Sam Fowler-Another World)
1962 Jan Furtok, Polish footballer
1963 David Pogue, Technology columnist and musician
1963 Kent Ferguson, Cedar Rapids Iowa, diver (Olympics-92, 96)
1963 Terry Mulholland, American baseball player, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1964 Herbert Fandel, German football referee
1964 Juliette Binoche, French actress (Unbearable Lightness)
1964 Phil Housley, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (NJ Devils, Team USA Oly-98)
1964 Steve Wilkos, American police officer and talk show host
1965 Benito Santiago, Puerto Rican baseball player, catcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1965 Brian Bosworth, American football player
1965 Brian Bosworth, NFL quarterback (Seattle)
1966 Brendan Canty, American musician (Fugazi)
1966 Louis Oliver, NFL safety (Miami Dolphins)
1966 Michael Patrick MacDonald, American memorist
1966 Tony Lockett, Australian Rules Footballer
1967 Curt Schreiner, Albany NY, biathelete (Olympics-1994)
1967 Eric Flaim, Pembroke Mass, short track skater (Olympics-1994)
1967 Michael Kiselak, CFL corner (Toronto Argonauts)
1968 Brian Heidik, American reality-show contestant
1968 Johnny Kelly, American drummer (Type O Negative)
1968 Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
1969 Bryce Burnett, NFL/WLAF tight end (Broncos, Barcelona Dragons)
1969 George Nimako, CFL safety (Toronto Argonauts)
1969 Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player, NBA guard (Sacramento Kings, Denver Nuggets)
1969 Rob Dukes, American musician {Exodus}
1969 Stefie Shock, Quebec singer and songwriter
1970 Martin Johnson, English rugby player
1970 Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, US soldier (Iraqi POW)
1970 Shannon Leto, American drummer and actor (30 Seconds to Mars)
1971 Bev Oden, Millington Tenn, volleyball middle blocker (Olympics-96)
1971 C-Murder, American rapper
1971 Diego Torres, Argentine singer
1971 Emmanuel Lewis, American actor (Webster)
1971 Jiro Nihei, hockey goaltender (Team Japan 1998)
1971 Lou Benfatti, NFL defensive tackle (NY Jets)
1971 Sean Holcomb, NFL linebacker (NE Patriots)
1972 Jean Louisa Kelly, American Actress
1972 Kerr Smith, American actor
1972 Marcia M Griffith, Washington DC, Miss America-Maryland (1996)
1972 Sara Nicole Williams, Miss USA-Washington (1997)
1972 Spencer Howson, Australian radio broadcaster
1973 Aaron Boone, American baseball player
1973 David Prinosil, Olmutz Czech, tennis star (1995 ATP Newport)
1973 Josh LaRocca, WLAF QB (Rhein Fire)
1973 Troy Bailey, WLAF DE (Scotland Claymores)
1974 Mark Harrity, cricketer (promising South Aust left-arm fast bowler)
1975 Adonal Foyle, NBA center (SF Warriors)
1975 Chaske Spencer, American actor
1975 Didiayer Snyder, Television personality
1975 Juan Sebastián Verón, Argentine footballer
1975 Roy Makaay, Dutch soccer player (Vitesse)
1976 Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
1976 Thor Halvorssen, human rights activist
1977 Radek Dvorák, Czech ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Florida Panthers)
1977 Yamila Diaz, Argentine supermodel
1978 Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
1979 Chingy, American rapper
1979 Melina Perez, American WWE Diva
1980 Chingy, American rapper
1980 Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
1980 Trent Croad, Australian rules footballer
1981 Anders Nøhr, Danish footballer
1981 Antonio Bryant, American football player
1981 Clay Rapada, American baseball player
1982 Paul Ballard, English television presenter
1983 Clint Dempsey, American footballer
1983 Ioannis Masmanidis, Greek-German footballer
1983 Maite Perroni, Mexican singer (RBD)
1983 Wayne Simien, American basketball player
1984 Julia Mancuso, American Olympic gold medalist
1985 Jesse Litsch, American baseball player
1985 Parthiv Patel, Indian Cricket Player
1986 Brittany Snow, American actress
1989 Christina Broccolini, Canadian TV presenter
1989 Taeyeon, Korean Singer
1996 Darsheel Safary, Youngest Indian actor to win filmfare award for best performance
Died on March 9th
1202 King Sverre of Norway
1422 Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
1440 Saint Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1566 David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary, Queen of Scots, murdered (b. 1533)
1620 Aegidius Albertinus, German writer (Lucifer's Kingdom)
1649 Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
1649 James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
1661 Jules "Cardinal" Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
1688 Claude Mellan, French engraver/cartoonist/painter
1706 Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer
1709 Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat (b. 1638)
1747 Jacob Campo Weyerman, S Neth adventurer/painter/writer
1800 Dominique Della-Maria, composer
1808 Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
1810 Ozias Humphrey, English artist (b. 1842)
1819 Janos Fusz, composer
1824 Jacobus J Cramer, priest of Holland/Zealand/Friesland
1827 Franz Xaver Gerl, composer
1831 Friedrich M Klinger, German (stage)author (Plimplamplasko)
1851 Hans Christian Øersted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
1870 Theodore Labarre, composer
1877 Mark Prager Lindo, English/Dutch author (Neth Spectator)
1888 William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
1895 Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (Masochism)
1897 Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Afghan political activist and Islamic nationalist (b. 1838)
1897 Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
1913 Eberhard Nestle, German biblical scholar
1916 Ken Hutchings, cricketer (exciting England batsman, WW I)
1918 (Benjamin) Franc(lin) Wedekind, German writer/press sec
1918 Frank Wedekind, writer (b. 1864)
1931 Ida B Wells-Barnett, famous black
1937 Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
1938 Sydney Baynes, composer
1941 Carlos Pedrell, composer
1943 Oskar Hêks, Czech marathon runner/antifascist, dies in Auschwitz
1945 Margot Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish holocaust victim (b. 1926)
1947 Stanley Jackson, cricketer (20 Tests for England 1893-1905)
1954 Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
1954 V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
1955 Matthew A Henson, met Peary on 6/4/1909 at North Pole
1960 Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1962 Howard Engstrom, Boston, a designer of Univac computer
1964 Johanna W "Mina" Bakker, Dutch actress (Boefje)
1964 Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
1965 Anthon van der Horst, Dutch organist/composer
1965 Kazys Boruta, writer
1966 Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
1969 Abdul Munim Riad general and chief of staff of the Egyptian Armed Forces (b. 1919)
1969 Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army)
1969 Richard Crane, actor (Surfside 6)
1971 Jean-Pierre Guezek, composer
1971 Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
1974 Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (Nobel 1971) (b. 1915)
1975 Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
1975 Joseph Dunninger, NYC, mentalist (Amazing Dunninger)
1975 Shirley Ross, actress (Night Vision, Mindkiller)
1979 Barbara Mullen, actress (Talk of a Million)
1980 Olga Chekova, actress (Moulin Rouge, Pawns of Possession)
1982 Alan Badel, actor (Shogun)
1982 Rex Marshall, TV announcer (Circuit Rider, Herman Hickman Show)
1982 Richard A Butler, England, min of Finance
1983 Faye Emerson, American actress (I've Got a Secret) (b. 1917)
1983 Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1986 Ned Calmer, TV host (In the First Person)
1988 Kurt Georg Kiesinger, West German chancellor (1966-69)
1989 Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist, photographer (b. 1946)
1991 Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
1992 Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless)
1992 Jack McEdward, asst dir (Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell)
1992 James Brooks, US mural painter (Flight, La Guardia NY)
1992 Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (1977-80, 81-83, Nobel 1979) (b. 1913)
1993 Ad van Gessel, Dutch actor (Everything For Our Soldiers)
1993 Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (Bobcats) (b. 1913)
1993 C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
1994 Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
1994 Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
1994 Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (French Connection) (b. 1917)
1994 John Harrison, South African correspondent (BBC)
1994 Lawrence E Spivak, journalist (Meet the Press)
1994 Louis Freeman, band leader
1994 Maurice "Moe" Purtill, jazz drummer
1995 Ian Ballantine, publisher
1995 Ruud van den Hende, Dutch sports reporter
1996 Alan Hugh Iliffe, psychologist
1996 Elman Ali Ahmed, peace campaigner
1996 George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
1996 Peter Mansfield, writer
1997 Jean-Dominique Bauby, French Journalist & Author (b.1952), The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
1997 Terry Nation, writer (Dr Who, Blake 7)
1997 The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
1997 The Notorious B.I.G. (Biggie Small) (Christopher Wallace), American rapper (b. 1972)
1999 Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
2000 Ivo Robic, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
2003 Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
2003 Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
2004 Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
2004 Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
2004 Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2005 Chris LeDoux, American country singer and rodeo competitor (b. 1948)
2005 István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
2005 Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
2005 Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
2006 Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
2006 John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
2006 Laura Stoica, Romanian singer, composer and actress (b. 1967)
2007 Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
2007 Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2007 Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician
2010 Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2011 David Broder, American journalist (b. 1929)
2012 Lord Wedderton of Charlton, British academic and politician
2012 Peter Bergman, American Comedian
2012 Selma Rubin, American environmental activist
2015 James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist)
2016 George Martin, British record producer (The Beatles)
2016 John Gutfreund, American investment banker, CEO of Salomon Brothers (King of Wall Street)
2016 Bill Wade, American NFL quarterback (Chicago Bears)
2016 Robert Horton, American actor (Kings Row, Wagon Train, Arena)