March 10th
Holidays and Festivals
Hote Matsuri (Shiogama, Japan)
Tibetan Uprising Day (Tibet and supporters)
Women & Girls HIV and AIDS Awareness Day
Harriet Tubman Day
Salvation Army Day, Anniversary of the Salvation Army (USA)
International Day of Awesomeness
Telephone Day a.k.a. Land Line Telephone Day
World Kidney Day
Middle Name Pride Day
US Paper Money Day
Mario Day
Name Tag Day
Paper Money Day
Anniversary of the Jupiter Effect
Christian Feast Day of Anastasia the Patrician
Christian Feast Day of Himelin
Christian Feast Day of Saint John Ogilvie
Christian Feast Day of Macharius
Christian Feast Day of Pope Simplicius
* Canadian Music Fest 2010 Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 10 – 14
Toast of The Day
"Be good.
If you can't be good, be careful,
And if you can't be careful,
Name it after me."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
GodFather
2 Parts Scotch
1 Part Amaretto
pour over ice in a rocks glass.
- In Honor of Mario Puzo's book "The Godfather" (Published March 10th, 1969)
Wine of The Day
Ferrante 2008 Signature Series
Style - Riesling
Grand River Valley
$20
Beer of The Day
Red Trolley Ale
Brewer - Karl Strauss Brewing Co., San Diego, California, USA
Style - Irish-Style Red Ale
Jokes of The Day
- There is no use crying over split milk, unless it's Chuck Norris' milk.
- If Chuck Norris was a spartan the movie would be called "1".
- Chuck Norris can squeeze orange juice from a banana.
- Chuck Norris doesn't m*sturbate, he r*pes his hand.
- Chuck Norris could start a fire with 2 ice cubes.
- Chuck Norris doesn't swim (even though he can), the water holds Chuck Norris up.
- The quickest way to a mans heart is with Chuck Norris' fist!
- Chuck Norris only mast*rbates to pictures of Chuck Norris.
- Global warming is caused by transient energy leftover from Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks.
- Do you know why God is called "God"?...Because "Chuck Norris" is already taken.
- The only reason you woke up this morning is because Chuck Norris allowed you too.
- Once a cobra bit Chuck Norris........ After 5 days of extreme pain........ the snake died.
- Chuck Norris can send you a roundhouse kick by E-Mail.
- The grass is always greener on the other side, unless Chuck Norris has been there...
In that case the grass is most likely soaked in blood and tears.
- Chuck Norris can drown a fish.
- Chuck Norris can strangle you with a cordless phone.
- Chuck Norris once had a heart attack; his heart lost.
- Chuck Norris makes onions cry
- Superman wears Chuck Norris underwear.
- Superman wears Chuck Norris pajamas
- The chief export of Chuck Norris is pain.
- There is no chin behind Chuck Norris' beard. There is only another fist.
- Chuck Norris is currently suing NBC, claiming Law and Order are trademarked names for his left and right legs.
- Chuck Norris's tears can cure cancer...
...sadly he never cries....
- The saddest moment for a child is not when he learns Santa Claus isn't real.
...It's when he learns Chuck Norris is.
- Chuck Norris lost his virginity before his dad did.
- If you want a list of Chuck Norri's enemies, check the obituaries.
- Giraffes did not exist until Chuck Norris began uppercuting horses.
- Chuck Norris CAN believe it's not butter.
- Chuck Norris can do a wheelie on a unicycle.
- Jesus might be able to walk on water, but Chuck Norris can swim through land.
- Chuck Norris is the reason why Waldo is hiding.
- The Virgin Islands have a backup name ready in case Chuck Norris visits.
- Chuck Norris volunteered to go to war in Japan during WWII, Truman decided it was more humane to bomb hiroshima.
- When the Boogeyman goes to sleep every night he checks his closet for Chuck Norris
- A Handicap parking sign does not signify that this spot is for handicapped people. It is actually in fact a warning, that the spot belongs to Chuck Norris and that you will be handicapped if you park there.
- God wanted 10 days to build the world, Chuck Norris gave him 6.
- Chuck Norris can kill two stones with one bird.
- Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
- Chuck Norris can slam revolving doors.
- Chuck Norris can divide by zero.
- Chuck Norris can squeeze orange juice out of a lemon!
- Chuck Norris can run so fast around the earth that he can punch himself in the back of the head.
- Chuck Norris can have both feet on the ground and kick someone in the back of the face!
- In Honor of Carlos Ray "Chuck" Norris (born March 10, 1940), An American martial artist and actor.
Quote of the Day
"A good friend would bail you out of jail, but your best friend would be the one sitting next to you saying, 'damn that was awesome'."
- Anonymous
Whiskey of The Day
Jameson 18 Year Old Limited Reserve Irish Whiskey
Price: $90
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
Girl Scout Week, Week of March 12th Sunday through Saturday
National Agriculture Week, Second Full Week of March
Teen Tech Week, Second Full Week of March
American Crossword Puzzle Weekend, Second Friday to Sunday in March
Historical Events on March 10th
(241 BC) Battle of the Aegates Islands in the First Punic War, The Romans sink the Carthaginian fleet bringing the First Punic War to an end.
418 Jews are excluded from public office in the Roman Empire
1526 Emperor Charles V marries princess Isabella of Portugal
1535 Bishop Tomés de Berlanga discovers Galapagos Islands
1578 Queen Elizabeth I gives Johan Casimir £20,000 to aid Dutch rebellion
1606 Susenyos defeats the combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, which makes him Emperor of Ethiopia.
1624 England declares war on Spain
1629 King Charles I dissolved Parliament; he called it back 11 years later
1661 French King Louis XIV ends office of premier
1681 English Quaker William Penn receives charter from Charles II, making him sole proprietor of colonial American territory Pennsylvania
1734 Spanish army under Don Carlos (III) draws into Naples
1735 An agreement between Nadir Shah and Paul I of Russia is signed near Ganja and Russian troops are withdrawn from Baku.
1762 French Huguenot Jean Calas, who had been wrongly convicted of killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities; the event inspired Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1789 Franklin College founded
1791 John Stone, Concord, Mass, patents a pile driver
1791 Pope condemns France's Civil Constitution of the clergy
1801 First census in Great Britain
1804 Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, Missouri, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of the Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
1814 Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
1830 The KNIL also known as the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army is created.
1831 The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
1847 1st money minted in Hawaii
1848 The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
1849 Abraham Lincoln applies for a patent; only US president to do so
1861 El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
1862 Great Britain & France recognizes independence of Zanzibar
1862 US issues 1st paper money ($5, $10, $20, $50, $100, $500 & $1000)
1864 The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana, American Civil War.
1864 Grant is named commander of the Union armies
1864 Red River campaign LA
1865 Battle of Monroe's Crossroads, NC
1874 Purdue University (Indiana) admits it's 1st student
1876 1st telephone call made (Alexander Graham Bell to Thomas Watson)
1876 Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
1880 General Wolseley opens new legislative council in Pretoria
1880 Salvation Army of England sets up US welfare & religious activity
1888 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
1888 HW Boxing champ John L Sullivan draws Charlie Mitchell in 30 rounds
1891 Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka, Kansas, patents the Strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
1893 Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) becomes a French colony.
1893 New Mexico State University cancels it's 1st graduation ceremony, its only graduate Sam Steele was robbed & killed the night before
1896 After Bob Fitzsimmons KOs much larger Jim Corbett to win world HW championship he says, "The bigger they are, the harder they fall"
1896 Bronx acquires O'Brien Square
1896 Charilaos Vasilakos of Greece wins 1st modern marathon in 3:18 [OS]
1900 Battle at Driefontein, South-Africa (Boers vs British army)
1902 A United States court of appeals rules that Thomas Edison did not invent the movie camera.
1902 Earthquake destroys Turkish city of Tochangri
1903 Harry Gammeter, Cleveland, patents multigraph duplicating machine
1903 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Montreal AAA in 2 games
1905 Eleftherios Venizelos asks the independence of Crete and its union with Greece again, starting the Cretan Revolution in Theriso.
1905 Japanese Army captures Mukden (Shenyang)
1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
1906 Coal dust explosion kills 1,060 at Courrieres France
1906 London Underground opens Bakeroo line (Baker Street to Waterloo Line)
1906 The Courrières mine disaster, Europe's worst ever, kills 1099 miners in Northern France.
1909 Jack Johnson fights Victor McLaglen to no decision in 6 for box title
1910 China ends slavery
1910 Pittsburgh Courier, begins publishing
1913 Stanley Cup, Quebec Bulldogs sweep Sydney (NS) Millionaires in 2 games
1913 William Knox, becomes 1st in American Bowling Congress to bowl 300
1914 Suffragettes in London damages painter Rokeby's Venus of Velasquez
1915 British expedition Army in Belgium captures Neuve Chapelle
1917 Batangas is formally founded as one of the Philippines's earliest encomiendas.
1920 NHL's Quebec Bulldog Jim Malone scores 6 goals vs Ottawa Senators
1922 KLZ-AM in Denver CO begins radio transmissions
1922 Mahatma Gandhi is arrested in India, tried for sedition, and sentenced to six years in prison, only to be released after nearly two years for an appendicitis operation.
1922 State of siege proclaimed during mine strike Johannesburg South Africa
1925 Walter Mittelholzer is 1st to flies over Demawend mountain, Iran
1926 Run on Belgian banks
1927 Albania mobilize by threat of Serbian, Croatian & Slovenes
1927 Bavaria lifts ban on Hitler's speeches
1931 British Labour party removes fascist sir Oswald Mosley
1933 An earthquake in Long Beach, California kills 115 people and causes an estimated $40 million dollars in damage.
1933 Nevada becomes 1st US state to regulate narcotics
1934 Longest undefeated streak in Toronto Maple Leaf history (18 games)
1934 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Suzanne Davis
1934 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Roger Turner
1939 17 villages damaged by hailstones in Hyderabad India
1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
1941 Lee MacPhail, Dodger GM predicts all players will wear batting helmets
1944 U-575 sinks HMS Asphodel
1945 Germany blows-up Wessel Bridge on Rhine
1945 Japan declares Vietnam Independence
1945 Patton's 3rd Army makes contact with Hodge's 1st Army
1945 The U.S. Army Air Force (B-29s) firebombs Tokyo, and the resulting overnight firestorm kills more than 100,000 people, mostly civilians.
1945 US troops lands on Mindanao
1946 Train derailment kills 185 near Aracaju Brazil
1948 1st civilian to exceed speed of sound-Herb H Hoover, Edwards AFB Ca
1949 Detroit Tiger pitcher Art Houtteman is critically injured in an auto accident but recovers to win 15 games in 1949
1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 perfs
1951 FBI director J Edgar Hoover declines post of baseball commissioner
1952 Fulgencio Batista leads a successful coup in Cuba and appoints himself as the "provisional president".
1956 General strike in Cyprus protesting exile of archbishop Makarios
1956 Peter Twiss sets new world air record 1,132 mph (1,823 kph)
1957 Thousands of soccer fans riot in Italy
1959 Dorothy Comiskey Rigney, sells 54% of White Sox to Bill Veeck
1959 Tennessee Williams' "Sweet Bird of Youth," premieres in NYC
1959 Tibetan uprising (Uprising against Chinese occupation force in Lhasa Tibet), Fearing an abduction attempt by China, 300,000 Tibetans surround the Dalai Lama's palace to prevent his removal.
1960 USSR agrees to stop nuclear testing
1962 Due to it's no black policy, Phillies leave Jack Tar Harrison Hotel & move to Rocky Point Motel, 20 miles outside Clearwater, Florida
1963 Pete Rose debuts with hits in his 2 1st at bats in spring training
1963 Wilt Chamberlain of NBA SF Warriors scores 70 points vs Syracuse
1964 US reconnaissance plane shot down over East Germany
1965 Dutch Princess Margriet & Pieter van Vollenhoven, get engaged
1966 5 time Horse of the Year, Kelso, retires
1966 Dutch crown princess Beatrix marries Claus von Amsberg
1966 North Vietnamese capture US Green Beret Camp at Ashau Valley
1969 In Memphis, Tennessee, James Earl Ray pleads guilty to assassinating Martin Luther King Jr. He later retracts his guilty plea.
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
1970 South Africa complete 4-0 series drubbing of Australia
1970 Captain Ernest Medina is charged with My Lai war crimes from the Vietnam War.
1971 Senate approves amendment lowering voting age to 18
1972 1st black US political convention opens (Gary Indiana)
1972 Gen Lon Nol becomes pres & prince Sirik Matak premier of Cambodia
1972 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1973 BPAA US Open by Mike McGrath
1973 Morocco adopts constitution
1974 "Sextet" closes at Bijou Theater NYC after 9 performances
1974 Carol Mann wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 Christian Democrats win Belgium parliamentary election
1974 Lawrence Rowe completes 302 v Eng Bridgetown, 36 fours 1 six
1975 "Rocky Horror Show" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 45 performances
1975 Dog spectacles patented in England
1975 Sanyo Shinkansen open between Osaka and Fukuoka.
1975 North Vietnamese troops attack Ban Me Thuot, South Vietnam, on their way to capturing Saigon, Vietnam War.
1977 Rings of Uranus discovered during occulation of SAO
1978 Soyuz 28 returns to Earth
1980 Formation of the Irish Army Ranger Wing
1980 Madeira School headmistress Jean Harris shoots and kills Scarsdale diet doctor Herman Tarnower
1980 Willard Scott becomes the weather forcaster on the Today Show
1982 President Reagan proclaims economic sanctions against Libya
1982 Salim Malik scores 100 in 2nd inning of Test Cricket debut (v SL)
1982 planetary Sygyzy, all 9 planets aligned on same side of Sun
1982 The United States places an embargo on Libyan petroleum imports because of their support of terrorist groups.
1982 Travis Jackson & Happy Chandler elected to Hall of Fame
1983 Walter Alston, Dodgers manager, elected to Hall of Fame
1984 Heavyweight Tim Witherspoon KOs Greg Page
1985 Bonnie Lauer wins Uniden LPGA Golf Invitational
1985 Dallas Maverick coach Dick Motta is 4th NBA coach to win 700 games
1985 French socialists lose election (National Front 9%)
1985 Ice Pairs Championship at Tokyo won by Elena Valova & O Vasiliev (URS)
1985 India beat Pakistan to win "World Championship of Cricket"
1985 Mens Figure Skating Championship in Tokyo won by Alexandr Fadeev (URS)
1986 Ernie Lombardi, NL MVP in 1938, & Bobby Doerr, elected to Hall of Fame
1987 Vatican formal opposition to test-tube fertilization & embryo transfer
1988 Avalanche at Swiss Ski resort "Klosters" nearly kills Prince Charles
1988 NY Islanders celebrate Mike Bossy night
1990 4th American Comedy Award: When Harry Met Sally
1990 Ice Dance Championship at Halifax won by Klimova & Ponomarenko (URS)
1990 Ice Pairs Championship at Halifax won by Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1990 In Haiti, Prosper Avril is ousted 18 months after seizing power in a coup.
1990 Ladies Figure Skating Champions in Halifax won by Jill Trenary (USA)
1990 Lt Gen Avril resigns as pres of Haiti
1990 Mens Figure Skating Championship in Halifax won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1990 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1991 Eddie Sutton is 1st NCAA coach to lead 4 schools into playoffs
1991 Laura Davies wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic
1991 Marc Girardelli of Luxembourg clinches his 4th slalom World Cup
1991 Merlene Ottey runs world record 200 m indoor (22.24 sec)
1991 Rico Lieder/Jens Carlowitz/Karsten Just/Thomas Schonlebe walk 4x400m indoor world record (3:03.05)
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards, Natalie Cole & Color Me Badd win
1992 Sandra Seuser/Katrin Schreiter/Annet Hesselbarth/Grit Breuer walk female indoor world record 4x400m (3:27.22)
1994 1 million Greeks attend Melina Mercouri's funeral
1995 Car bomb explodes in Karachi at shite mosque, 17+ killed
1995 Chiel Meijering's "St Louis Blues," premieres in Arnhem
1995 Dow-Jones hits record 4035.64
1996 22nd People's Choice Awards: Apollo 13, Tom Hanks wins
1996 NYC Mayor Guiliani visits Israel
2000 The NASDAQ Composite stock market index peaks at 5132.52, signaling the beginning of the end of the dot-com boom.
2006 Mass unrest by the PCC started in São Paulo (the biggest city in Brazil) which would eventually kill more than 152 people.
2006 The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter arrives at Mars
2012 At least 130 rockets are fired into Israel from Gaza
2013 Aung San Suu Kyi is re-elected leader of the Burmese National League for Democracy
2014 German Chancellor Merkel warns Russia's Putin that making Crimea part of Russia is illegal and in violation of Ukraine's constitution
2015 The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.
Born on March 10th
1415 Vasili II of Russia (d. 1462)
1452 Ferdinand II, the Catholic, King of Aragon and Sicily (expelled Jews) (d. 1516)
1503 Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, German emperor (1558-64) (d. 1564)
1536 Thomas Howard, 4th Duke of Norfolk, English politician, executed by Queen Elizabeth (d. 1572)
1628 Constantine Huygens Jr, Dutch poet/painter/cartoonist
1628 Marcello Malpighi, Italian physician (d. 1694)
1656 Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician
1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
1709 Georg Steller, German naturalist (d. 1746)
1713 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
1713 Raphael Weiss, composer
1745 John Gunby, Maryland Soldier in the American Revolutionary War (d. 1807)
1748 John Playfair, Scotland, clergyman/geologist/mathematician
1749 Lorenzo da Ponte, Italian librettist (d. 1838)
1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
1769 Joseph Williamson, English philanthropist and tunnel builder (d. 1840)
1771 Georg F Creuzer, German philological/historian (Idea und Probe)
1772 Friedrich von Schlegel, German aesthetician (Lucinde) (d. 1829)
1776 Louise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Queen consort of Prussia, wife of Frederik Willem III (d. 1810)
1780 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
1787 Francisco de Paula Martinez de la Rosa, Spanish statesman and dramatist (d. 1862)
1787 William Etty, English painter (nudes) (d. 1849)
1788 Joseph von Eichendorff, German writer (Das Marmorbild) (d. 1857)
1809 William David Porter, Commander (Union Navy), died in 1864
1810 John McCloskey, US, pres of St John's College (Fordham U)
1810 Samuel Ferguson, Irish poet (d. 1886)
1812 Victor Tesch, Belgian lawyer/min of Justice
1818 George Wythe Randolph, Secy War (Confederacy), died in 1867
1822 Willem Roelofs, Dutch painter/lithographer
1824 Thomas James Churchill, Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1905
1832 William Henry Penrose, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1903
1839 Dudley Buck, Hartford, Ct, organist/church composer
1842 Ina Donna Coolbrith, US, poet laureate of Calif
1842 Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian composer (d. 1912)
1844 Pablo Martin M de Sarasate y Navascuez, Spanish violinist, composer (Spanish Dancing) (d. 1908)
1845 Alexander III A Romanov, Russian tsar (1881-94) (d. 1894)
1846 Edward Baker Lincoln, son of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln (d. 1850)
1847 Kate Sheppard, New Zealand suffragist (d. 1934)
1850 Mary Mills Patrick, US, 1st pres of Istanbul Woman's College
1850 Spencer Gore, British tennis player and cricketer (d. 1906)
1865 Pim (Willem JH) Mulier, Dutch journalist/writer/sport-organizer
1867 Lillian D Wald, US, sociologist/organizer (Visiting Nurses)
1870 Alfred Kastner, composer
1872 Felix Borowski, composer
1873 Jakob Wassermann, Germany, novelist (My Life as German & Jew)
1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
1877 David M Chumaceiro, Curacao, poet
1878 Karel van de Woestijne, Flemish writer/poet (God at Sea)
1880 Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971)
1880 Michael Jacobs, NYC, boxing promoter
1881 Thomas Quinlan, musical impresario (d. 1951)
1884 Stuart Holmes, Chicago IL, actor (Prisoner of Zenda)
1887 Toshitsugu Takamatsu, Grandmaster of Ninjutsu (d. 1972)
1888 Barry Fitzgerald, Irish actor (Acad Award-Going My Way) (d. 1961)
1888 Krsto Odak, composer
1891 Jacob van Gelderen, economist/sociologist/Dutch 2nd Chamber (SDAP)
1892 Arthur Oscar Honegger, French-born Swiss composer (King David) (d. 1955)
1892 Eva Turner, British soprano
1892 Gregory La Cava, American director (d. 1952)
1896 Harry Krimer, actor (Napoleon)
1896 Nancy Cunard, writer
1898 Cy Kendall, St Louis Mo, actor (Mysteries of Chinatown)
1899 Finn Hoffding, composer
1899 Robert Meier, German WW1 veteran, formerly Germany's oldest man. (d. 2007)
1900 Pandelis Pouliopoulos, secretary of the Communist Party of Greece (d. 1943)
1900 Sherman Billingsley, Enid Ok, talk show host (Stork Club)
1903 Bix Beiderbecke, American musician (d. 1931)
1905 Betty Amann, German-American actress. (d. 1990)
1905 Rene Bernier, composer
1905 Richard Haydn, English actor (d. 1985)
1907 Robert de Roos, composer
1908 Carl Albert, US speaker of house (1971-77)
1908 Kristjan Palusalu, Estonia, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1936)
1909 Gerard Croiset, Dutch paragnost
1911 Warner Anderson, Bkln, actor (Doctor, Lineup, Matthew-Peyton Place)
1914 Chandler Harper, golfer (1950 PGA champ)
1915 Harry Bertoia, Italian artist (d. 1978)
1915 Sir Charles Groves, English conductor(d. 1992)
1916 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer
1917 Frank Perconte, American sergeant from Easy Company during WWII.
1918 Günther Rall, German ace fighter pilot (d. 2009)
1918 Heywood Hale Broun, journalist
1919 Marion Hutton, American singer (d. 1987)
1920 Alfred Peet, Dutch-American entrepreneur and the founder of Peet's Coffee & Tea (d. 2007)
1920 Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
1920 Jethro Burnsburns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1921 Cec Linder, Galica Poland, actor (Goldfinger)
1921 Paul Coates, NYC, columnist (Tonight! America After Dark)
1922 Adam Kennedy, Lafayette Ind, actor (Dion-Californian)
1922 Pamela Mason, London, actress (Navy vs Night Monsters)
1923 Ara Parseghian, football coach (Northwestern, Notre Dame)
1923 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, country singer (Homer & Jethro)
1923 Val Logsdon Fitch, Nobel laureate
1925 Ed van der Elsken, movie photographer (Een liefdesgeschiedenis)
1925 M J J A (Sef) Imkamp, Dutch politician (D66)
1925 Manolis Anagnostakis, Greek poet (d. 2005)
1926 Marques Haynes, NBA hall of famer (Harlem Globetrotters)
1927 Claude Laydu, actress (Diary of a Country Priest)
1927 Donn Trenner, New Haven Ct, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife)
1927 Paul Wunderlich, German lithographer/painter/sculptor
1928 Arthur Milton, cricketer (England opening batsman late 50's)
1928 James Earl Ray, American assassin (Martin Luther King Jr) (d. 1998)
1928 Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer
1930 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
1930 Sandor Iharos, athlete
1931 Georges Dor, Québécois author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
1932 Anatoliy Roschin, USSR, super heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-gold-1972)
1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak, composer
1934 Judith Jamison, artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
1935 Gary Owens, announcer (Laugh-in)
1935 Graham Farmer, Australian rules footballer
1935 Ivan Calin, Ribneta, Moldova, President and Prime Minister 1980-1990 (d. 2012)
1936 Alfredo Zitarrosa, Uruguayan Vocals and journalist (d. 1989)
1936 Juda Bar-Norwegian, Israeli/Dutch mime/actor (King)
1936 Sepp Blatter, Swiss ice hockey and football (FIFA) official
1937 Joe Viterelli, American actor (d. 2004)
1937 Oscar Abrams, community organizer
1938 Ijaz Butt, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman in 8 Tests 1958-60)
1938 Marina Vlady, French actress (Conjugal Bed, The Hunt)
1938 Ron Mix, NFL tackle (San Diego Chargers, Oakland Raiders)
1939 Irina Press, USSR, 80m hurdles/Pentathelete (Olympic-gold-1960, 64)
1940 Chuck Norris (Carlos Ray) American martial arts actor (Missing in Action) and internet meme
1940 David Rabe, Dubuque Iowa, playwright (Streamers)
1940 Dean Torrence, American singer (Jan and Dean)
1940 Francis Schwartz, composer
1940 Wayne Dyer, psychologist (Universe Within You)
1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, composer
1941 Piotr Warzecha, composer
1941 Sandra Palmer, Fort Worth TX, LPGA golfer (1986 Mayflower Classic)
1943 Alfred Whitford Lerdahl, composer
1943 Angelique Pettyjohn, LA California, actress (Body Talk, Star Trek)
1943 Stephen Montague, composer
1945 Birgitta Sellén, Swedish politician
1945 Elizabeth Brumfiel (Elizabeth Stern), American feminist archaeologist, former president of the American Anthropological Association
1945 Katharine Houghton, Hartford, actress (Guess Who's Coming to Dinner)
1946 Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
1946 Hiroshi Fushida, Japanese racing driver
1946 Jim Valvano, American basketball coach (d. 1993)
1946 Mike Hollands, Australian animator
1947 Avril "Kim" Campbell, 19th Prime Minister of Canada, Canada's 1st female premier (1993)
1947 Bob Greene, American journalist
1947 Laurie Langenbach, Dutch author
1947 Paul Condon, Baron Condon, Commissioner of The Metropolitan Police
1947 Tom Scholz, American songwriter and guitarist (Boston)
1948 Austin Carr, American basketball player, NBA star (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1948 Eddie Grundy, Musician
1948 Richard Park, British media consultant and broadcaster
1950 Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
1952 Mike O'Donnell, American Composer
1952 Morgan Tsvangirai, Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
1952 Oupa J Gqozo, South African warden/army commandant (Ciskei)
1953 Caroline H "Carolien" van de Berg, actress (Havinck)
1953 Paul Haggis, Canadian film director
1955 Bunny DeBarge, Grand Rapids Mich, rocker (Debarge)
1955 Juliusz Machulski, Poland, director/writer/actor (Do It Yourself)
1955 Mark David Chapman, assassin (John Lennon)
1955 Toshio Suzuki, Japanese racing driver
1955 Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
1956 Janet Anderson, West Sunbury PA, LPGA golfer (1982 US Women's Open)
1956 Mitchell Lichtenstein, American actor, son of Roy Lichtenstein
1956 Robert Llewellyn, Writer, Actor, Presenter
1957 Adolfo Horta, Camaguey Cuba, HW boxer (Olympic-silver-1980)
1957 Jim White, American folk singer-songwriter
1957 Matt Knudsen, American actor
1957 Osama bin Laden, Islamist and leader of al-Qaeda
1957 Shannon Lee Tweed, Canadian actress (Meatballs 3) and model playmate (Nov 1981)
1958 Sharon Stone, American actress (Basic Instinct, Sliver, Casino)
1958 Steve Howe, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1960 Anne MacKenzie, journalist and broadcaster
1960 Linda Jezek, California, backstroke swimmer (Pan Am Gold-1979)
1960 Uwe Fahrenkrog-Petersen (also known simply as Uwe), German keyboardist and songwriter (Nena)
1961 Bobby Petrino, American football coach
1961 Jesse Sapolu, NFL guard (SF 49ers)
1961 Laurel Clark, physician and astronaut (d. 2003)
1961 Mitch Gaylord, American gymnast (Olympics 1984) and actor (American Anthem)
1961 Pam Oliver, American sportscaster
1962 Andre Waters, NFL safety (Arizona Cardinals)
1962 Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
1962 Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
1963 Jasmine Guy, American actress (Whitley-Different World)
1963 Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
1963 John Cangelosi, Brooklyn NY, outfielder (Houston Astros)
1963 Rick Rubin, American record producer
1964 Cynthia Brimhall, Ogden Utah, playmate (Oct, 1985)
1964 David Faber, American television reporter
1964 Edward Anthony Richard Louis, Prince of Britain/Elizabeth II son
1964 Greg Campbell, cricketer (Aussie pace-bowler 1989-90)
1964 Neneh Cherry, Swedish musician (Money Love)
1964 Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex
1965 Paul Masotti, CFL receiver (Toronto Argonauts)
1965 Rod Woodson, American football player, NFL cornerback and kick returner (Pittsburgh Steelers, SF 49ers)
1966 Edie Brickell, American singer, Mrs Paul Simon
1966 Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
1966 Michael Timlin, American baseball player, pitcher (Toronto Blue Jays)
1966 Stephen Mailer, NYC, actor (Red Meat, League of Their Own, War & Love)
1967 Daichi Suzuki, Japanese swimmer
1967 Omer Tarin (Omer Salim Khan), Pakistan poet, scholar and activist
1968 Felice Arena, Australian children's author
1968 Shoichi Funaki, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 Thio Li-ann, Singaporean law academic and Nominated Member of Parliament
1969 Jay Hillmann, WLAF running back (Rhein Fire)
1969 Paget Brewster, American actress
1969 Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
1969 Stephen Leaney, Australia, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Infinit TPC-7th)
1970 Antonio Edwards, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1970 Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth)
1970 Michel van der Aa, Dutch composer
1971 Frank Habermann, WLAF defensive linebacker (Rhein Fire)
1971 Jon Hamm, American actor
1971 Morris Unutoa, corner (Philadelphia Eagles)
1971 Shad Williams, Fresno CA, pitcher (California Angels)
1971 Steve Arnold, British racing driver
1971 Timbaland, American rapper
1972 Jack Kellogg, WLAF CB (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1972 Matt Kenseth, American race car driver
1972 Paraskevi Tsiamita, Greek athlete
1972 Takashi Fujii, Japanese television performer
1973 Chris Sutton, English footballer
1973 Eva Herzigova, Czech model (Guess Jeans, Wonderbra)
1973 John LeCompt, American guitarist
1973 Mauricio Taricco, Argentine footballer
1974 Cristián de la Fuente, Chilean model and actor
1974 Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
1975 Jerry Horton, American guitarist (Papa Roach)
1975 Lyne Bessette, Quebec professional bicycle racer
1975 Stefan Bergkvist, Leksand Swe, NHL defenseman (Pitts Penguins)
1976 Barbara Schett, Innsbruck Austria, tennis star
1976 Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
1976 Kisaki, Japanese musician
1977 Bree Turner, American dancer and actress
1977 Colin Murray, British radio DJ
1977 Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
1977 Peter Enckelman, Finnish footballer
1977 Rita Simons, English actress
1977 Robin Thicke, American singer
1977 Shannon Miller, American gymnast and Olympic gold medalist (2 gold-2 silver/3 bronze-92, 96)
1978 Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
1979 Edi Gathegi, American actor
1981 Efthimios Kouloucheris, Greek footballer
1981 Samuel Eto'o, Cameroonian footballer
1981 Steven Reid, English-born footballer
1982 Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1982 Kwame Brown, American basketball player
1982 Timo Glock, German racing car driver
1983 Carrie Underwood, American country singer
1983 Che'Nelle, Malaysian Australian Singer
1983 Rafe Spall, English Actor
1983 Reena Virk, Canadian murder victim (d. 1997)
1984 Ben May, English footballer
1984 Olivia Wilde, American actress
1985 Casey Dienel, American singer-songwriter
1985 Kim Leclerc, Canadian politician
1985 Lassana Diarra, French footballer
1986 JC de Vera, Filipino Actor
1987 Martellus Bennett, American football player
1988 Ivan Rakitic, Croatian Footballer
1991 Jack Rodwell, English Footballer
1992 Emily Osment, American actress and singer
1993 Chris McIntosh, American actor
1993 Jeffrey Scaperrotta, American actor
Died on March 10th
37 Tiberius Claudius Nero, Roman emperor (14-37)
483 Simplicius, Italian Pope (468-83)
1291 Arghun, Persian ruler
1315 Agnes Blannbekin, Austrian mystic (b. c. 1244)
1391 Tvrtko I, first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1510 Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1513 John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
1546 Thomas Elyot, English diplomat (Boke named the Governor)
1549 Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
1584 Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
1585 Rembert Dodoens (Rembertus Dodonaeus), Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
1588 Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
1592 Michiel Coxcie, Flemish (court)painter/carpet designer
1597 Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange)
1669 John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
1670 Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
1700 Diogo Diaz Melgaz, composer
1701 Johann Schelle, composer
1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer
1735 Dirk T van Cloon, Dutch lawyer/gov-gen of E Indies
1776 Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
1776 Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1792 John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1760-63) (b. 1713)
1819 Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, writer
1826 Johan VI M L J, King of Portugal (1816-26)
1832 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
1861 Josepf Francois Snel, composer
1861 Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1864 Jack Slade, American frontier figure (b. 1831)
1864 Maximilian II Jozef, King of Bayern (1848-64)
1865 William Henry "Little Billy" Chase Whiting, Confed gen-maj
1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer
1870 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, composer
1872 Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (Giovane Italy) (b. 1805)
1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
1888 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer
1892 Otto van Raised, gov-gen of Neth Indies (1884-88)
1895 Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
1897 Teodulo Mabellini, composer
1900 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer
1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, composer
1906 Eugen Richter, German MP (Liberal)
1910 Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
1910 Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
1913 Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist, conductor on Underground RR (b. 1820)
1922 Arthur Hervey, composer
1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer
1935 Barend Barendse, actor/director (Broken Lives)
1937 Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1940 Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Merchant of Venice)
1940 Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1943 Tully Marshall, actor (Let's Go, Red Dust)
1944 David Vogel, Ukrainian author, dies in Auschwitz
1948 Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, commits suicide or is murdered (b. 1886)
1948 Zelda Fitzgerald, American novelist, wife of F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
1949 James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
1950 Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 Kijuro Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1953 Charles Gordon Curtis, inventor of (Curtis-steam turbine)
1966 Frederik "Frits" Zernike, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1953) (b. 1888)
1966 Mari Sandoz, US author (Cheyenne Autumn)
1967 Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
1968 Helen Walker, actress (Brewster's Million)
1970 Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, composer
1973 Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1973 Richard Sharples, governor of Bermuda, assassinated
1974 June Harrison, actress (Land of the Lawless)
1974 Quinto Maganini, composer
1975 Leopold Samuel, composer
1977 E. Power Biggs, English-born organist and composer (CBS) (b. 1906)
1977 Pieter Jan Bouman, Dutch sociologist/historian
1977 Willem Schermerhorn, Dutch premier (1945-46)
1980 Herman Tarnower, doctor (Scarsdale Diet), killed by Jean Harris
1982 Minoru Shirota, inventor of Yakult (b. 1899)
1984 June Marlowe, American actress (Pardon US) (b. 1903)
1985 Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1985 Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (1984-85) (b. 1911)
1986 Ray Milland, British actor (Lost Weekend-Acad Award 1945) (b. 1905)
1988 Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
1988 Glenn Cunningham, US world record miler
1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer
1990 Michael Stewart, UK Sect of State (1965-66, 68-70)
1992 Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1992 Roy Holmer Wallack
1993 C Northcote Parkinson, English historian/sociologist (Law of P)
1993 David Gunn, abortion doctor, killed by Michael Griffin
1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (b. 1929)
1994 Cecil Rolph Hewitt, journalist/policeman
1994 Charles Bukowski, German/US writer (Barfly, Hollywood)
1994 Robert Shea, author
1995 Alexander Hyatt-King, Mozart scholar
1995 Carel Birnie, ballet producer
1995 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician
1995 Richard Baerlein, racing writer
1996 Lucius E Burch Jr, US civil rights leader
1996 Ross Hunter, American film producer (Airport, Madame X, Pillow Talk) (b. 1920)
1997 La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
1998 Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (b. 1919)
1999 Valentino Mazzia, American forensic anesthesiologist (b. 1922)
2001 Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and activist (b. 1958)
2001 Nicholas Georgiadis, Greek painter, stage and costume designer (b. 1923)
2003 Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
2004 Dave Blood (David Schulthise), American musician, bassist (Dead Milkmen) (b. 1956)
2005 Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
2005 Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
2006 Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
2007 Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2007 Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
2008 Richard Fran Biegenwald, American serial killer (b. 1940)
2010 Corey Haim, Canadian actor (b. 1971)
2010 Merlin Olsen, American Football player and actor (b. 1940)
2012 Frank Rowland, American Nobel laureate in chemistry
2012 Jean Giraud, French comic artist
2012 Julio Gonzalez, Mexican light heavyweight boxer, Killed in Hit and Run
2012 Mykola Plaviuk, Ukrainian president
2012 Richard White, New Zealand rugby union player
2013 Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, (b. 1915)
2016 Keith Emerson, English rock musician (Emerson, Lake and Palmer), commits suicide
2016 Ken Adam, British film production designer (James Bond sets)
2016 Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian
2016 Gogi Grant, [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg], American singer (The Wayward Wind)
2016 Ernestine Anderson, American jazz vocalist