March 11th
Holidays and Festivals
Johnny Appleseed Day (United States)
Reestablishment of Lithuania's Independence from the Soviet Union (Lithuania 1990)
Youth Day (Zambia)
311 Day (Band)
Worship of Tools Day
World Plumbing Day
Middle Name Pride Day
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign
Toast of The Day
"An Irishman is never drunk as long as
He can hold onto one blade of grass and not
Fall off the face of the earth."
- Unknown
Drink of The Day
Soviet
1/2 oz. Sherry
1/2 oz. Vermouth, dry
1 1/2 oz. Vodka
1 twist of peel Lemon
Shake ingredients in a cocktail shaker with ice. Strain into an old-fashioned glass and garnish with a twist of lemon.
Generally served with Amontillado sherry.
Wine of The Day
Maryhill 2007 Proprietor's Reserve
Style - Zinfandel
Columbia Valley
$35
Beer of The Day
- Eastern Hemisphere -
Kalnapilis 7.30
Brewer - UAB "Kalnapilio – Tauro grupė" ; Panevezys, Lithuania
Style - German-Style Heller Bock/Maibock
- In Celebration of Lituanian Independence (restored March 11, 1990).
- Western Hemisphere -
Headdy Topper
Brewer - The Alchemist, Waterbury, Vermont, USA
Style - IPA
Joke of The Day
Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish funeral?
A: One less drunk.
Quote of the Day
"I went to a bookstore and asked the saleswoman, Where’s the self-help section? She said if she told me, it would defeat the purpose."
- Unknown
Whiskey of The Day
Kilbeggan 15 Year Old Finest Irish Whiskey
$90
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
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 the third Sunday.
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
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign, March 11th to March 17th
Flood Safety Awareness Week, Second Work Week of March
International Brain Awareness Week, Second Monday to Sunday in March
Historical Events on March 11th
(1425 BC) Thutmose III, Pharaoh of Egypt, dies (according to the Low Chronology of the 18th Dynasty).
417 Zosimus becomes bishop of Rome
537 Goths lay siege to Rome
843 Icon worship officially re-instated in Aya Sofia Constantinople
928 Trpimir II succeeds to the Croatian throne.
1302 Romeo & Juliet's wedding day, according to Shakespeare
1387 The Battle of Castagnaro begins. English condottiero Sir John Hawkwood leads Padova to victory in a factional clash with Verona.
1502 (Tebriz) shah Ismail I of Persia crowned
1513 Giovanni de' Medici chosen Pope Leo X
1563 League of High Nobles routes 2nd protest against King Philip II
1567 Geuzen army leaves Walcheren to return to Oosterweel
1597 Land guardian Albrecht occupies Amiens on France
1598 Countess Charlotte of Nassau marries duke Claude de la Tremoille
1641 Battle of Mbororé: Guaranís from Jesuit Reductions fight Bandeirantes, and Portuguese explorers after separation of the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal.
1649 The Frondeurs (rebels) and the French government sign the Peace of Rueil, destroys 1st Fronde-uprising.
1665 NY approves new code guaranteeing Protestants religious rights
1669 Volcano Etna in Italy erupts killing 15,000
1702 1st English daily newspaper "Daily Courant," publishes
1702 The Daily Courant, England's first national daily newspaper is published for the first time.
1708 Queen Anne withholds Royal Assent from the Scottish Militia Bill, the last time a British monarch vetoes legislation.
1779 US army Corps of Engineers established (1st time)
1789 Benjamin Banneker with L'Enfant begin to lay out Washington DC
1791 Samuel Mulliken, Phila, is 1st to obtain more than 1 US patent
1795 Battle at Kurdla India: Mahratten beat Mogols
1810 Emperor Napoleon married by proxy to Archduchess Marie Louise
1812 Citizenship granted to Prussian Jews
1823 1st normal school in US opens, Concord Academy, Concord, Vt
1824 The United States War Department creates the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
1835 HMS Beagle anchors off Valparaiso, Chile
1845 Unhappy with translational differences regarding the Treaty of Waitangi, chiefs Hone Heke, Kawiti and Maori tribe members chop down the British flagpole for a fourth time and drive settlers out of Kororareka, New Zealand, The Flagstaff War.
1848 Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin become the first Prime Ministers of the Province of Canada to be democratically elected under a system of responsible government.
1850 Woman's Medical College of Penn (1st female medical school)
1851 The first performance of "Rigoletto" by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Venice.
1861 The Constitution of the Confederate States of America is adopted through a Confederate convention in Montgomery.
1862 General Stonewall Jackson evacuates Winchester Virginia Army of the Potomac. Gen Henry Halleck is named general-in-chief
1862 Lincoln removes McClellen as general-in-chief
1864 Skirmish at Calfkiller Creek (Sparta), Tennessee
1864 The Great Sheffield Flood, The largest man-made disaster ever to befall England kills over 250 people in Sheffield.
1865 Gen Sherman's Union forces occupies Fayetteville, NC
1867 Great Mauna Loa eruption (Hawaiian volcano)
1867 The first performance of "Don Carlos" by Giuseppe Verdi takes place in Paris.
1872 Construction of the Seven Sisters Colliery, South Wales, begins; located on one of the richest coal sources in Britain.
1872 The Meiji Japanese government officially annexes the Ryukyu Kingdom into what would become the Okinawa prefecture.
1882 Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association organized in Princeton NJ
1888 Great blizzard of '88 strikes NE US
1888 The Great Blizzard of 1888 begins along the eastern seaboard of the United States, shutting down commerce and killing more than 400.
1892 1st public basketball game (Springfield, Mass)
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regenta sinks at Gibraltar, 400 killed
1897 A meteorite enters the earth's atmosphere and explodes over New Martinsville, West Virginia. The debris causes damage but no human injuries are reported.
1901 Cincinnati Enquirer reports Balt mgr John McGraw signed Cherokee Indian Tokohoma, who is really black 2nd baseman Charlie Grant
1904 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Brandon Wheat Kings in 2 games
1905 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Silver 7 beat Rat Portage Thisles, 2 games to 1
1910 Jack Hobbs 1st Test ton (187 v SAfr), his only Test hit wicket
1912 1st Stanley Cup game to be played in 3 20-min periods, formerly played in 30-min halfs, Quebec beats Moncton 9-3 on way to sweep
1912 Eleftherios Venizelos, leader of the Liberal Party, wins the Greek elections again.
1917 1st NHL championship game ever played, Toronto Arenas beats Montreal Canadiens 7-3 in 1st of 2 game set (second game on March 13)
1917 British troops occupy Baghdad
1917 Baghdad falls to the Anglo-Indian forces commanded by General Stanley Maude, World War I.
1918 First confirmed cases of the Spanish Flu are observed at Fort Riley, Kansas.
1918 Moscow becomes capital of revolutionary Russia
1918 Save the Redwoods League founded
1919 General strike in Germany, crushed
1922 Western Hockey Championship: Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA) sweep Regina Capitals, in 2 games
1924 3rd term of Belgium Theunis government begins
1924 Eden Phillpotts' "Farmer's Wife," premieres in London
1924 NHL Championship: Montreal Canadiens sweeps Ottawa Senators in 2 games
1926 Eamon da Valera ends leadership of Sinn Fein
1927 1st armored commercial car hold-up in US, Pittsburgh
1927 1st golden gloves tournament
1927 In New York City, Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens the Roxy Theatre.
1927 Samuel Roxy Rothafel opens famous Roxy Theater (NYC)
1928 Netherlands & Belgium tie 1-1 (soccer match in Amsterdam)
1930 Pres & Chief Justice William Taft buried in Arlington
1931 Ready for Labour and Defence of the USSR, abbreviated as GTO, is introduced in the Soviet Union.
1934 Netherlands beats Belgium 9-3, in soccer
1935 Bank of Canada opens
1935 Hermann Goering officially creates German Air Force, the Luftwaffe
1936 British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin pardons five convicted Irish militants who promise to join growing conflict with Germany.
1938 Artur Seyss-Inquart replaces Kurt von Schuschnigg as Chancellor of Austria; German troops also entered the country
1941 Bronko Nagurski beats Ray Steele in Minn, to become wrestling champ
1941 President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act into law, allowing American-built war supplies to be shipped to the Allies on loan, World War II.
1942 1st deportation train leaves Paris for Auschewitz Concentration Camp
1942 Gen MacArthur leaves Corregidor (Bataan) for Australia
1942 Japanese troop land on North-Sumatra
1942 General Douglas MacArthur abandons Corregidor, World War II.
1943 Nazi Militia forms in Netherlands
1944 Dutch resistance fighter Joop Westerweel arrested
1945 1,000 allied bombers harass Essen, 4,662 ton bombs
1945 Flemish nazi collaborator Maria Huygens sentenced to death
1945 The Imperial Japanese Navy attempts a large-scale kamikaze attack on the U.S. Pacific Fleet anchored at Ulithi atoll in Operation Tan No. 2, World War II.
1948 1st black in the US Tennis Open (Reginald Weir)
1948 Jewish Agency of Jerusalem bombed
1948 Reginald Weit became the 1st black to play in the US Tennis Open
1948 WBAL TV channel 11 in Baltimore, MD (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 1st woman army doctor commissioned (FM Adams)
1953 American B-47 accidentally drops a nuclear bomb on South Carolina, the bomb doesn't go off due to 6 safety catches
1954 US Army charges Senator Joseph McCarthy used undue pressure tactics
1956 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1958 Charles Van Doren finally loses on TV game show "21"
1958 Starting this season, AL batters are required to wear batting helmets
1959 "Raisin in the Sun," 1st Broadway play by a black woman, opens
1959 Teddy Scholten wins Eurovision Song festival with "A Little Bit"
1960 Pioneer 5 launched into solar orbit between Earth & Venus
1961 Then NHL record 40 penalties, Black Hawks & Maple Leafs (20 each)
1963 Somalia drops diplomatic relations with Great Britain
1965 Indonesia President Sukarno accepts qualifications of Suharto
1966 A fire at two ski resorts in Numata, Japan kills 31 people.
1966 Military coup led by Indonesian Gen Suharto breaks out
1967 Pink Floyd releases their 1st single (Arnold Layne)
1968 Anti-Zionist Clandestine Radio Voice of El Assifa starts transmitting
1968 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 12nd string quartet
1968 Otis Redding posthumously receives gold record for " Dock of the Bay"
1970 12th Grammy Awards: Aquarius, Crosby Stills & Nash, Peggy Lee win
1970 Iraq Ba'th Party recognizes Kurd nation
1972 "Inner City" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 97 performances
1973 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA S&H Green Stamp Golf Classic
1974 Mount Etna in Sicily erupted
1974 Rhino Store gives people 5 cents to take home Danny Bonaduce's Album
1975 Portugal military coup under general Spinola fails
1975 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 The 1977 Hanafi Muslim Siege, more than 130 hostages held in Washington, D.C., by Hanafi Muslims are set free after ambassadors from three Islamic nations join negotiations.
1978 Coastal Road massacre, At least 37 are killed and more than 70 are wounded when Al Fatah hijack an Israeli bus, prompting Israel's Operation Litani.
1978 Terrorists attack mail truck at Tel Aviv, 45 killed
1978 USF-led Bill Cartwright scores 23 points as the Dons oust NC
1979 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1979 Randy Hold receives 67 min in penalties in a 60 min NHL hockey game
1980 Rod Marsh bowls 10 overs for 51 runs in dull Aust v Pak cricket draw
1981 Chile constitution takes effect, Augusto Pinochet 2nd term begins
1981 Johnny Mize & Rube Foster elected to baseball Hall of Fame
1982 Failed military coup under Rambocus/Hawker in Suriname
1982 Harrison Williams (Sen-D-NJ) resigned rather than face expulsion
1982 Menachem Begin & Anwar Sadat sign peace treaty in Wash DC
1983 Ice Dance Championship at Helsinki Finland won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1983 Ice Pairs Championship at Helsinki won by Valova & Vasiliev (URS)
1983 Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Helsinki won by Rosalynn Sumners (USA)
1983 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Helsinki won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1984 Chris Johnson wins LPGA Samaritan Turquoise Golf Classic
1985 Mikhail Gorbachev replaces Konstantin Chernenko as the Soviet Union's leader.
1986 1 million days since traditional foundation of Rome, 4/21/753 BC
1986 12th People's Choice Awards
1986 187.27 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Islander Mike Bossy, 1st NHLer to score 50 goals in 9 straight seasons
1986 Japanese probe Sakigake flies by Halley's Comet at 6.8 million km
1986 NFL adopts instant replay rule
1987 Wayne Gretzky scores 1,500th NHL point
1988 British pound note ceases to be legal tender, replaced by one pound coin
1988 Utrecht conservatory destroyed by fire
1990 16th People's Choice Awards
1990 Lithuania declares itself independent from the Soviet Union.
1990 Maggie Will wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1990 Patricio Aylwin is sworn-in as the first democratically elected Chilean president since 1970.
1991 Janet Jackson signs $40M 3 album deal with Virgin records
1991 John Smith, amateur wrestler, wins James E Sullivan Award
1991 Monica Seles ends Steffi Graf's streak of 186 weeks ranked as #1
1993 Janet Reno is confirmed by the United States Senate and sworn-in the next day, becoming the first female Attorney General of the United States.
1993 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Prague won by Kurt Browning CAN
1994 Eduardo Frei succeeds Patricio Aylwin as president of Chile
1995 -36.8°F (-38.2°C) in Chosedachar, Komi-district, on 67°N
1995 Pres Nazarbajev disbands Kazachstan parliament
1995 Sinn Fein party leader, Gerry Adams, arrives in US
1995 Yolanda Chen hop-skip-jumps world indoor record 15.03m
1996 Chris Harris scores 130 in losing NZ side v Australia, World Cup
1996 John Winston Howard becomes the 25th Prime Minister of Australia. His term in office is the second longest in Australian history, ending on December 3, 2007.
1996 Mark Waugh scores 110 v NZ for his third century of the World Cup
1996 The EU Database Directive is passed.
1997 3rd Blockbuster Entertainment Awards
1997 Ashes of Star Trek creator, Gene Roddenberry are launched into space
1997 Beatle McCartney knighted Sir Paul by Queen
1997 SF Giant J T Snow suffers a fractured eye socket when hit by a pitch
1999 Infosys becomes the first Indian company listed on the NASDAQ stock exchange.
2003 The International Criminal Court holds its inaugural session in The Hague.
2004 Madrid train bombings, Simultaneous explosions on rush hour trains in Madrid, Spain, kill 191 people.
2004 Terrorists explode simultaneous bombs on Madrid's rail network ripping through a commuter train and rocking three stations, killing 190
2005 Brian Nichols goes on shooting rampage at Fulton County courthouse in Atlanta, Georgia, killing three. He kills a fourth person before surrendering to police the next day.
2006 Michelle Bachelet is inaugurated as first female president of Chile
2009 Winnenden school shooting 17 people are killed at a school in Germany
2010 Sebastián Piñera become chilean president
2011 An earthquake measuring 9.0 in magnitude strikes 130 km (80 miles) east of Sendai, Japan, triggering a tsunami killing thousands of people. This event also triggered the second largest nuclear accident in history, and one of only two events to be classified as a Level 7 on the International Nuclear Event Scale
2012 #17 Florida State beats #4 North Carolina, 85-82 in the 59th ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
2012 Vanderbilt beats Kentucky, 71-64 in the 53rd SEC Men's Basketball Tournament
2012 US soldier kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan
2013 European Union bans the sale of cosmetics that have been tested on animals
2013 Falkland Islands’ sovereignty referendum: 99.8% choose to remain an Overseas Territory of the United Kingdom
2013 North Korea cuts the phone line with South Korea, breaching the 1953 armistice
2014 Refugees from Syria pour into the Kingdom of Jordan
Born on March 11th
1544 Torquato Tasso, Italy, Renaissance poet (Aminta, Apologia) (d. 1595)
1549 Hendrik L Spieghel, Dutch Renaissance poet (Hertspiegel)
1596 Isaac Elsevier, book publisher
1654 Heinrich Georg Neuss, composer
1683 Giovanni Veneziano, composer
1725 Henry Benedict Stuart, pretender to the throne of Great Britain (d. 1807)
1731 Robert Treat Paine, judge, signer (Declaration of Independence)
1738 Benjamin Tupper, Continental Army officer, and pioneer to the Ohio Country (d. 1792)
1781 Anthony Philip Heinrich, composer
1785 John McLean, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1861)
1787 Ivan Nabokov, Russian general (d. 1852)
1793 Jan F Willems, Flemish writer/philologist
1811 Marsena Rudolph Patrick, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1811 Urbain Jean Joseph le Verrier, French mathematician, co-discoverer (Neptune) (d. 1877)
1812 James Speed, Atty Gen (Union), died in 1887
1812 William Vincent Wallace, composer
1818 John Wilkins Whitfield, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1879
1818 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer and choreographer (d. 1910)
1819 Henry Tate, English sugar producer (Tate Gallery)
1819 Marius Petipa, French ballet dancer/choreographer (Don Quiotte)
1822 Allison Nelson, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1822 Joseph Louis François Bertrand, French mathematician (d. 1900)
1827 Septimus Winner, composer
1832 Franz Melde, German phyicist (Melde test)
1832 William Ruffin Cox, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1919
1840 Edmund Kirby Jr, Brigadier General (Union volunteers), died in 1863
1846 Antonio C G Crespo, Brazilian/Portuguese poet
1860 Thomas Hastings, NYC, architect (NY Public Library)
1863 Andrew Stoddart, English cricketer (d. 1915)
1863 Wobbe de Vries, Dutch linguist
1870 Louis Bachelier, French mathematician (d. 1946)
1872 Abraham van Stolk Jzn, lumber merchant/art collector
1873 David Horsley, English-born film executive (d. 1933)
1876 Carl Ruggles, American composer (Evocations) (d. 1971)
1876 David Wijnkoop, Dutch revolutionary socialist
1879 Justus Hermann Wetzel, composer
1879 Niels Bjerrum, Danish chemist (ph tests)
1880 Harry H. Laughlin, American eugenecist (d. 1943)
1884 Jan Lemaire, Dutch writer/actor (Beautiful Juliet)
1884 Lewi Pethrus, Swedish politician (d. 1974)
1885 Malcolm Campbell, English race car driver, 1st auto racer to travel 5 miles/min (8 km/min) (d. 1948)
1887 Raoul Walsh, American film director (Thief of Baghdad, Battle Cry) (d. 1980)
1890 Vannevar Bush, American engineer and politician, developed 1st electronic analogue computer (d. 1974)
1892 Wladyslaw Anders, Polish general (WW I, WW II)
1897 Henry Dixon Cowell, American composer (New Musical Resources) (d. 1965)
1898 Dorothy Gish, American actress (Orphans of the Storm) (d. 1968)
1899 Frederick IX (Christian), King of Denmark (1947-72) (d. 1972)
1902 Josef Martin Bauer, writer
1903 Dorothy Schiff, publisher (NY Post)
1903 George Dickinson, cricketer (bowled for NZ in their 1st 3 Tests)
1903 Lawrence Welk, American musician, orchestra leader (Lawrence Welk Show) (d. 1992)
1903 Ronald Syme, New Zealand classicist and historian (d. 1989)
1904 Cornelis Jan Bakker, Dutch/US nuclear physicist
1904 Maurits Wertheim, Dutch writer (Isaac De Fuentes)
1906 Aasan Ferit Alnar, composer
1907 Eleni Gatzoyiannis, heroine (saved her kids)
1907 Helmuth J von Moltke, German politician (July 20th plot)
1907 Jessie Matthews, English actress (Gangway, First a Girl) (d. 1981)
1907 Margaret Herbison, British minister (Lab)
1909 Ljubica Maric, composer
1910 Robert H G Havemann, German chemist (d. 1982)
1911 Alan Gifford, Boston MA, actor (Time Lock, Up Periscope)
1911 Fitzroy Maclean, British diplomat soldier politician/historian
1912 Robert Clifford Latham, pepys Scholar
1912 Xavier Montsalvatge, Spanish composer (El gato con botas)
1913 John Jacob Weinzweig, Toronto Canada, composer (Enchanted Hill)
1913 Thomas Gray, professor/anaesthetist
1915 Hans Peter Keller, German writer (d. 1988)
1915 J. C. R. Licklider, American computer scientist and Internet pioneer (d. 1990)
1915 Karl Krolow, writer
1915 Vijay Hazare, Indian cricketer (prolific Indian batsman 1946-54) (d. 2004)
1916 (James) Harold Wilson, (L) British PM (1964-70, 1974-76)
1916 Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983)
1916 Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
1917 Robert L Carter, Caryville, Florida, American civil rights activist and judge (Brown v. Board of Education, NAACP v. Alabama) (d. 2012)
1919 Mercer Ellington, son of Duke Ellington/bandleader
1920 D J Enright, England, poet/novelist (Some Men are Brothers)
1920 Henry Marking, CEO (British Airways)
1920 Kenneth Dover, chancellor (St Andrews University)
1920 Nicolaas Bloembergen, Dutch physicist, Nobel laureate
1921 Astor Piazzolla, Argentina composer (Tango Nuevo)
1921 F(rancis) M(arion) Busby Jr, US, sci-fi author (Star Rebel)
1921 Frank Harary, American mathematician (d. 2005)
1921 Ástor Piazzolla, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
1922 Abdul Razak bin Hussain, premier of Malaysia (1970-77)
1922 Cornelius Castoriadis, Greek philosopher and economist (d. 1997)
1922 José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor (d. 2009)
1922 Thom Kelling, Dutch singer/guitarist (Programa de Manha)
1922 Vinnette Carroll, NYC, actress (Alice's Restaurant, Reivers)
1923 A Louise Brough Clapp, Oklahoma, tennis player (4 time Wimbledon champ)
1923 A X Gwerder, writer
1923 Ad(rianus C) de Besten, Dutch literary (River Basin)
1923 Morschi Mirando (Thomas Weiss), German/Dutch gypsy artist
1923 Terry Alexander, London, actor (Tony-Behind the Scenes)
1925 James Miskin, QC/recorder of London
1926 Adrienne Keith Cohen, travel editor
1926 Ilhan Mimaroglu, Turkish musician and composer
1926 Patricia Tindaole, England, architect
1926 Ralph Abernathy, civil rights leader (Southern Christian Leadership)
1926 Reverend Ralph Abernathy, American civil rights leader (d. 1990)
1927 Alan Betts, emeritus professor (Royal Veterinary College)
1927 Raymond Jackson, [Jaki], British cartoonist
1927 Robert Mosbacher, 28th United States Secretary of Commerce (d. 2010)
1927 Ron Todd, British trade unionist
1928 Albert Salmi, American actor (Daniel Boone, 79 Park Avenue) (d. 1990)
1928 Peter Roger Hunt, London England, director (Dr No)
1929 Erskine Childers, unofficial/civil servant
1929 Francisco Bernardo Pulgar Vidal, composer
1929 Jackie McGlew, cricketer (dour South African opening bat of the 50')
1929 Timothy Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
1930 Claude Jutra, Quebec film actor and director (d. 1986)
1930 David Gentleman, designer/painter
1931 Peter Walters, CEO (Midland Bank)
1931 Rupert Murdoch, Australian-born entrepreneur (NY Post)/CEO (FOX-TV)
1932 Leroy Jenkins, American composer and violinist (d. 2007)
1932 Nigel Lawson, British government official (The Power Game)
1932 Valerie French, London England, actress (Jubal)
1933 Terry J Hatter Jr, US judge in California
1934 George Stamatoyannopoulos, Greece, medical genetics researcher
1934 Joep Straesser, composer (Blossom songs, Ramasasiri)
1934 Keith Speed, British MP
1934 Sam Donaldson, American reporter, ABC White House correspondent (Prime Time)
1934 Sydney Burke, cricketer (S Afr quick, 11 wkts on Test debut v NZ 1961)
1935 Sandra Milo, Italian actress
1936 Antonin Scalia, American 105th Supreme Court Justice (1986)
1937 Carlos Larrañaga, Spanish actor
1937 John Ward, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (8 Tests 1964-68)
1938 Malcolm Keith Speed, British high court judge
1939 Flaco Jiménez, American musician
1939 Lorraine Hunt, former Lieutenant Governor of Nevada
1940 Alberto Cortez, Argentinian singer
1942 Charles Swan, American actor
1942 Joel Steiger, American Producer / Writer
1942 Peter Eyre, actor (Hedda)
1944 Ric Rothwell, drummer (Mindbenders-Games of Love)
1945 Dock Ellis, American baseball player (d. 2008)
1945 Harvey Mandel, American musician (Drei Amerikanische LP's)
1945 Mark Stein, vocalist/organist (Vanilla Fudge-You Keep Me Hanging On)
1945 Timothy Mason, consultant (British Arts Council)
1945 Tricia O'Neal, Shreveport Louisiana, actress (Piranha Part II)
1946 Brigitte Fossey, Tourcoing France, actress (Man Who Died Twice)
1946 Patty Waters, American jazz singer
1947 Dominique Sanda, [Varaigne], Paris France, actress (1900, First Love)
1947 Geoffrey Hunt, Australia, world-champion squash player
1947 Mark Stein, singer/organist/keyboardist (Vanilla Fudge)
1947 Tristan Murail, French composer
1948 César Gerónimo, Dominican baseball player
1948 Dominique Sanda, French actress
1948 George Kooymans, Dutch guitarist/singer (Golden Earring)
1948 Roy Barnes, 80th Governor of Georgia
1949 Richard de Bois, Dutch drummer/producer
1950 Bobby McFerrin, American singer (Don't Worry Be Happy-Grammy 1989)
1950 Jerry Zucker, American director (Airplane, Naked Gun)
1952 Douglas Adams, England, author (Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy) (d. 2001)
1952 Susan Richardson, Coatesville Pa, actress (Susan-8 is Enough)
1953 Bernie LaBarge, Canadian musician
1953 László Bölöni, Romanian football player and manager
1954 Gale Norton, 48th United States Secretary of the Interior
1955 (Kater) Nina Hagen, German singer and actress (Blue Angel)
1956 Curtis Brown, NASA astronaut (STS 47, STS 66, 77, 85, sk:95)
1956 D. J. MacHale, American author and television writer
1956 Helen Rollason, British sports journalist and television presenter (d. 1999)
1956 Joey Buttafuoco, American statutory rapist
1956 Rob Paulsen, American voice actor
1957 Cheryl Lynn, American singer
1957 Lady Chablis, American entertainer
1958 Anissa Jones, American actress (d. 1976)
1958 Flemming Rose, Danish journalist
1958 Ghazi Mashal Ajil al-Yawer, interim President of Iraq
1958 Jim Pinkerton, American pundit
1959 Nina Hartley, American porn star
1960 Christophe Gans, French film director
1961 Bruce Watson, Ontario Canada, rock guitarist (Big Country-Wonderland)
1961 Elias Koteas, Canadian actor
1961 Mike Percy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 Jeffrey Nordling, American actor
1962 Peter Berg, actor (Chicago Hope)
1963 Alex Kingston, English actress
1963 Davis Guggenheim, American director and producer
1964 Libba Bray, American author
1964 Peter Berg, American film actor, director and producer
1964 Raimo Helminen, Tampere FIN, hockey forward (Team Finland, Oly-Br-98)
1964 Shane Richie, British actor
1964 Vinnie Paul, American drummer (Pantera)
1965 Eric Jelen, West Germany, tennis star
1965 Jesse Jackson, Jr., American politician
1965 Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen, British television presenter
1965 Nigel Adkins, English football manager
1965 Wallace Langham, American actor
1966 Joe Hachem, Lebanese-born Australian poker player
1966 Pavel Petrovich Mukhortov, Russian cosmonaut
1966 Ralph Tamm, NFL guard/center (Denver Broncos, KC Chiefs)
1966 Steve Reed, LA California, pitcher (Colorado Rockies)
1967 Andrew Zesers, cricketer (played for Australia in 1987 World Cup)
1967 Bill Houlder, Thunder Bay, NHL defenseman (Tampa Bay Lightning)
1967 Brad Carson, American politician
1967 John Barrowman, Scottish born actor (Peter Fairchild-Central Park West)
1968 Jerod Shelby, founder of Shelby SuperCars and creater of the SSC Ultimate Aero
1968 Lisa Loeb, American singer-songwriter
1969 Dan Lacroix, Montreal, NHL left wing (NY Rangers)
1969 John Fina, NFL offensive tackle (Buffalo Bills)
1969 Soraya, Colombian-American singer (d. 2006)
1969 Terrence Howard, American actor
1970 Brett Liddle, Boksburg South Africa, Canadian Tour golfer (1993 Newcastle)
1970 Delia Gallagher, American journalist
1970 Evgeniy Koreshkov, hockey forward (Team Kazakhstan Oly-1998)
1971 Bob Kronenberg, WLAF corner (Rhein Fire)
1971 Jiri Vykoukai, Olomouc CZ, hockey player (Team Czech Rep, Oly-gold-98)
1971 Johnny Knoxville, American television personality
1971 Marta Lovera Parquet, Miss Universe-Paraguay (1996)
1971 Martin Rucinský, Czech ice hockey player, NHL left wing (Canadiens, Oly-Gold-1998)
1972 Carl Greenwood, NFL cornerback (NY Jets)
1972 Chris Shelling, WLAF cornerback (Rhein Fire)
1972 Jamal Duff, NFL defensive end (NY Giants, Wash Redskins)
1973 Kennedy Otieno, Kenya cricket wicket-keeper (85 v Aust 1996 World Cup)
1973 Martin Hiden, Austrian footballer
1973 Mike Mihelic, CFL offensive tackle (Winnipeg Blue Bombers)
1973 Sammie Brennan, CFL defensive back (BC Lions)
1973 Tony Veland, NFL defensive back (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1974 Billy Granville, linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1974 Bobby Abreu, Venezuelan baseball player
1974 David Cameron, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Jon Dalton, American Survivor castmember "Jonny Fairplay"
1974 Kate Brian, American writer, Private
1974 Kevin Donovan, Des Plaines Ill, figure skater (1997 Great Lakes-2nd)
1975 Cedric Henderson, NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 Eric the Midget, American radio personality
1975 Shawn Springs, American football player, cornerback (Seattle Seahawks)
1976 Thomas Gravesen, Danish footballer
1977 Andre Nickatina, American rapper
1977 Becky Hammon , WNBA American basketball player
1978 Albert Luque, Spanish footballer
1978 Christopher Rice, American author
1978 Didier Drogba, Ivorian footballer
1979 Benji Madden, American guitarist (Good Charlotte)
1979 Elton Brand, American basketball player
1979 Fred Jones, American basketball player
1979 Joel Madden, American singer (Good Charlotte)
1980 Dan Uggla, American baseball player
1980 Dan Uggla, American baseball player
1980 Paul Scharner, Austrian footballer
1981 David Anders, American actor
1981 Heidi Cortez, American erotic broadcaster
1981 Lee Evans, American football player
1981 LeToya Luckett, American singer (ex-Destiny's Child)
1981 Paul Wall, American rapper
1981 Russell Lissack, English musician (Bloc Party)
1982 Brian Anderson, Major League Baseball player
1982 Hasan Raza, cricketer (Test cricketer at the age of 14)
1982 Lindsey McKeon, American actress
1982 Thora Birch, American actress (American Beauty, Ghost World)
1983 Bianca Gonzalez, Filipina TV host and model
1983 Marietta Chrousala, Greek fashion model
1984 Anna Tsuchiya, Japanese model, actress and singer
1984 Marc-André Grondin, Canadian actor
1984 Tom James, British rower
1985 Ajantha Mendis, Sri Lankan Cricketer
1985 Derek Schouman, American football player
1985 Hakuho Sho, Mongolian sumo wrestler
1985 Nikolai Topor-Stanley, Australian soccer player
1985 Paul Bissonnette, Canadian ice hockey player
1986 Mariko Shinoda, Japanese actress and member of AKB48
1987 Jonathan Stewart, American football player
1987 Marc-Andre Gragnani, Canadian ice hockey player
1987 Tomethy Furse, British bassist (The Horrors)
1989 Anton Yelchin, Russian-born actor
1990 Janna Dominguez, Filipina actress
1990 Reiley McClendon, American Actor
1991 Jack Rodwell, British football player
Died on March 11th
222 Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
222 Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
222 Varius A Bassianus, Syrian emperor of Rome (218-22), murdered
638 Sophronius of Jerusalem, saint/patriarch of Jerusalem
859 Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr
1198 Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1425 BC Thutmose III, Egyptian pharaoh
1486 Albrecht III Achilles, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1715 Jan-Erasmus Quellinus, Flemish painter
1722 John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1772 George Reuter, composer
1786 Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1786 Jacobus Bellamy (Zelandus), Dutch/Swiss poet
1787 Maximilian JLP Gardel, French ballet dancer/choreographer
1801 Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1754)
1807 Anton Eberl, composer
1820 Benjamin West, British painter (Death of General Wolfe) (b. 1738)
1826 Gervais-Francois Couperin, composer
1833 Fridolin Weber, composer
1851 George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1857 Manuel Jose Quintana, Spanish author/poet (A la paz)
1863 Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1866 Ulysses F. Doubleday, American congressman (b. 1792)
1869 Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 Charles Sumner, American politician, civil rights leader (b. 1811)
1894 John Selby, cricketer (6 Tests for England 1877-82)
1897 Berthold Tours, composer
1897 Henry Drummond, Scottish geologist/evangelist
1898 William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1900 Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86)
1907 Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1907 Nikola Petkow, premier (Bulgaria), murdered
1908 Peter Milne, composer
1908 Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1915 Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (b. 1826)
1919 Harald Fryklof, composer
1920 Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1921 Sherburne W Burnham, US astronomer (binary stars)
1925 Andreas Hallen, composer
1926 John Henry Anderson, cricketer (score 32 & 11 in Test for S Afr)
1931 F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1937 Paul Scheinpflug, composer
1941 Walford Davies, British organist/composer
1944 Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (b. 1882)
1947 Victor Hely-Hutchinson, composer
1949 Anastasios Charalambis, Greek general and interim Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1862)
1949 Juan Lamonte de Grignon, composer
1950 Florence Arliss, actress (Disraeli)
1951 Philippe of Isacker, Belgian minister
1952 Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 Alexander Fleming, English bacteriologist (penicillin)
1955 Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1955 Sir Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1956 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer
1957 Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
1957 Richard E Byrd, US, explorer (Antarctica)
1958 Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1959 Haydn Wood, composer
1960 Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)
1962 Will Vesper, German author (Tristan und Isolde)
1963 Mahomed Nissar, cricketer (6 Tests for India 1932-36, 25 wkts)
1965 James Reeb, US vicar/civil rights activist, murdered
1967 Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (Such Sweet Compulsion) (b. 1882)
1969 John Wyndham (Parkes Lucas B Harris), English author (Chrysalids) (b. 1903)
1970 Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (Perry Mason) (b. 1889)
1971 Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
1971 Roy Glenn
1971 Whitney M Young Jr, American civil rights leader (National Urban League 1961-71) (b. 1921)
1972 Fredric (William) Brown, sci-fi author (Martians Go Home)
1975 Philip Bezanson, composer
1975 Sammy Spear, orchestra leader (Dom Deluise Show)
1975 Walter Kinsella, actor (Happy-Martin Kane Private Eye)
1977 Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1977 Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1978 Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1978 Sofia Vembo, Greek Female Singer, dubbed the "Singstress of Victory" (b. 1910)
1979 Victor Kilian, actor (Gentleman's Agreement), dies at 88
1982 Edmund Cooper, English author (Tomorrow Came) (b. 1926)
1982 Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1984 Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1984 Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet
1986 Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 (Wayne) Woody Hayes, football coach (Ohio State)
1987 Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
1988 Pham Hung, premier of Vietnam
1989 James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist
1989 John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel)
1992 Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered
1992 Richard Brooks, American film director (Blackboard Jungle, Key Largo) (b. 1912)
1993 Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestlerr (WWF) (b. 1949),
1993 Edgar Nelson Barclift, dancer
1993 Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior)
1994 Jacques Doucet, French painter (Mostar Sarajevo)
1995 Carel Birnie, found Utrecht Opera/Dutch Dance Theater
1995 Ernest Kabushemeye, Burundese minister of Mijnbouw, murdered
1995 Frank Fidler, artist
1995 Myfanwy Talog, Welsh actress (b. 1945)
1996 Barry Appleby, cartoonist
1996 Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer
1996 Clifton Eugene Bancroft Robinson, public servant
1996 John Henry Pyle Pafford, librarian
1996 Vince Edwards, American film actor and director (Ben Casey) (b. 1928)
1999 Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2006 Slobodan Miloševic, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2007 Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
2009 Charles Lewis, Jr., American businessman, promoter and entertainer (b. 1963)
2010 Hans van Mierlo, Dutch politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Deputy Prime Minister (b. 1931)
2010 Leena Peltonen-Palotie, Finnish human geneticist (b. 1952)
2010 Merlin Olsen, American football player / Actor (b. 1940
2012 Sid Couchey, American comic book artist