March 12th
Holidays and Festivals
Independence Day (Mauritius)
National Day (Gabon)
Grækarismessa (Faroe Islands) * (See Below)
Saint Gregory's Day (Romania) * CLICK HERE
World Day Against Cyber Censorship * (See Below)
Arbor Day (China, Tiawan) * CLICK HERE
Youth Day (Zambia)
Tree Day-Plant Your Future (Macedonia) * CLICK HERE
Flag Day (Venezuela) * CLICK HERE
Moshoeshoe's Day (Lesotho)
Girl Scouts Day a.k.a. Girl Scout Birthday (Founded 1912)
Alfred Hitchcock Day
Gregoru Diena (Ancient Latvia)
Plant a Flower Day
Genealogy Day
International Fanny Pack Day
Birthday of Jack Kerouac (writer/poet)
World Kidney Day
Christian Feast Day of Fina
Christian Feast Day of Maximilian the martyr
Christian Feast Day of Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Episcopal Church in the United States)
Christian Feast Day of Theophanes the Confessor
Canadian Music Fest 2010 Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 10 – 14 (3of5) (2010)
* Bloc Festival 2010 Butlins Resort, Minehead, Somerset, UKMarch 12 – 14 (1of3) (2010
* Hounen Matsuri Komaki, Japan celebration of the penis
* Grækarismessa (Mass of St. Gregory). According to tradition, the oystercatcher, the Faroes' national bird returns this day. This event is celebrated in the capital, Tórshavn (Faroe Islands)
* World Day Against Cyber Censorship (requested by Reporters Without Borders and Amnesty International in 2009)
Toast of The Day
"Health and a long life to you.
Land without rent to you.
A child every year to you.
And if you can't go to heaven,
May you at least die in Ireland."
- Traditional Irish
-Variation-
"Health and life to you,
The mate of your choice to you,
Land without rent to you,
And death in Eirinn."
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Long Beach Iced Tea
1 Part Vodka
1 Part Rum
1 Part Gin
1 Part Triple Sec
1 Part Cranberry Juice
Fill with Sweet and Sour Mix
Add a Lime Wedge
Wine of The Day
Jarvis Reserve, Estate Grown, Cave Fermented
Style - Merlot
Napa Valley
$125
Beer of The Day
McLuhr's Irish Stout
Brewer - Dillon DAM Brewery, Dillon, Colorado, USA
Style - Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout
Joke of The Day
An Irish priest is driving down a highway and is pulled over for speeding.
The policeman smells alcohol on the priest's breath and then sees an empty wine bottle beside him. He asks the priest, "Sir, have you been drinking?"
The priest responds, "No officer, just water,"
The policeman asks, "Then why do I smell wine?"
The priest looks at the bottle and says, "The Good Lord! He's done it again!"
Quote of the Day
"Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups:
alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat."
- Alex Levine
Whiskey of The Day
Connemara Peated Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Price: $40
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
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 12th
538 Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius.
1000 Odo of Lagery elected as Pope Urban II, replacing Victor III
1054 Pope Leo IX escapes captivity & returns to Rome
1144 Gherardo Caccianemici elected Pope Lucius II, succeeding Callistus II
1350 Orvieto city says it will behead & burn Jewish-Christian couples
1365 University of Vienna founded
1496 Jews are expelled from Syria
1572 Luis Vaz de Camoes publishes "Os Lusíados" in Portugal
1594 Company of Distant established for business on East-Indies
1597 England routes troops to Amiens
1609 Bermuda becomes an English colony
1619 Dutch settlement on Java changes name to Batavia
1622 Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
1642 Abel Tasman is 1st European in New Zealand
1664 1st naturalization act in American colonies
1664 New Jersey becomes a British colony
1689 The Williamite war in Ireland begins, Former English King James II lands in Ireland
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1755 1st steam engine in America installed, to pump water from a mine
1773 Jeanne Baptiste Pointe de Sable found settlement now known as Chicago
1794 Royal Theatre in London's Dury Lane opens
1799 Austria declares war on France
1832 The Filippo Taglioni ballet La Sylphide receives its première performance at the Paris Opéra.
1848 2nd republic established in France
1849 1st gold seekers arrive in Nicaragua en route to Calif
1850 1st US $20 gold piece issued
1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1860 Congress accepts Pre-emption Bill: free land in West for colonists
1865 Affair near Lone Jack, Missouri
1867 Last French troops leave Mexico
1868 Congress abolishes manufacturer's tax
1868 Great Britain annexes Basutoland in Africa
1868 Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh.
1877 Great Britain annexes Walvis Bay at Cape colony in southern Africa
1881 Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain.
1884 Mississippi establishes 1st US state college for women
1888 2nd day of the Great blizzard of '88 in NE US (400 die)
1889 Battle at Metema (Gallabad), Ethiopian Emperor Yohannes IV, defeated
1889 Start of South Africa's 1st Test, v England, Port Elizabeth
1894 In Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA, Coca-Cola is sold in bottles for the first time.
1894 Pittsburgh issues free season tickets for ladies on Tuesday & Friday
1896 1st movie in Netherlands (Kalverstr 220)
1897 Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1900 President Steyn of Orange Free state flees from Bloemfontein
1901 Ground is broken for Boston's 1st AL ballpark (Huntington Ave Grounds)
1903 NY Highlanders (Yankees) approved as members of AL
1904 1st main line electric train in UK (Liverpool to Southport)
1904 Andrew Carnegie establishes Carnegie Hero Fund
1906 Heavy storm ravages Dutch west coast
1908 Stanley Cup, Mont Wanderers sweep Win Maple Leafs in 2 games
1908 The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia.
1910 Stanley Cup, Montreal Wanderers beat Berlin (Kitchener), 7-3
1912 Establishment of the first football club in Bulgaria Botev Plovdiv
1912 Helen Hayes Theater opens at 238 W 44th St NYC
1912 The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States in Savannah, by Juliette Gordon Low.
1913 Canberra Day, The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital was still under construction.)
1913 Foundation stone of the Australian capital in Canberra laid
1916 French airship sinks British submarine D3
1917 Russian Dumas sets up Provisional Committee, workers set up Soviets
1917 Stalin, Kamenev & Muranov arrives in St Petersburg
1918 Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1919 Austrian National Meeting affirms Anschluss (incorporate into Germany)
1919 George Bernard Shaw's "Augustus Does His Bit," premieres in NYC
1925 British government of Baldwin refuses to ratify Geneva agreement
1926 Denmark begins unilateral disarmament
1926 Pope Pius XI names J E van Roey archbishop of Malines Belgium
1928 In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people.
1930 Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march (300km), known as the Dandi March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt.
1930 Stella Walsh sets record for the 220-yard dash (0:26.1)
1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This was also the first of his "fireside chats".
1934 Josip Broz (Tito) freed from jail
1934 Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties.
1934 Paul Hindemith's "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Berlin
1935 England establishes 30 MPH speed limit for towns & villages
1938 Nazi Germany invades Austria (Anschluss)
1939 Pope Pius XII crowned in Vatican ceremonies
1940 Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated, Winter War.
1941 German occupiers confiscate AVRO studios in Netherlands
1942 British troops vacate the Andamanen in Gulf of Bengal
1943 Soviet troops liberate Wjasma
1945 30 Amsterdammers executed by nazi occupiers
1945 British Empire celebrates it's 1st British Empire Day
1945 Italy's Communist Party (CPI) calls for armed uprising in Italy
1945 NY is 1st to prohibit discrimination by race & creed in employment
1945 USSR returns Transylvania to Romania
1946 Part of Petsamo province ceded by Soviet Union to Finland
1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
1947 Belgian government of Huysmans resigns
1947 US President Harry Truman introduces The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism
1948 -5°F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in March
1950 Belgium votes (58%) for return of King Leopold III
1950 Pope Pius XII encyclical "On combating atheistic propaganda"
1951 Baseball Commish Happy Chandler loses fight (9-7) to stay in office
1951 Communist troops driven out of Seoul
1954 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
1956 Dow Jones closes above 500 for 1st time (500.24)
1957 German DR accepts 22 Russian divisions
1958 British Empire Day is renamed "Commonwealth Day"
1959 Dutch Liberal Party wins 2nd parliamentary elections
1959 US House joins Senate approving Hawaii statehood
1961 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Miami Golf Open
1962 Dutch Premier De Quay announces secret talks with Indonesia
1963 Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1964 6th Grammy Awards, Days of Wine & Roses, Striesand wins 2
1964 Jimmy Hoffa sentenced to 8 years
1964 Malcolm X resigns from Nation of Islam
1964 New Hampshire Lottery, New Hampshire becomes the first state to sell lottery tickets in the modern era.
1964 SN Behrmann's "But for Whom Charlie," premieres in NYC
1964 WKAB TV channel 32 in Montgomery, AL (ABC) begins broadcasting
1966 Bobby Hull's 51st goal of season, sets record
1966 Jockey Johnny Longden retires after 40 years (6,032 wins)
1966 Love's 1st album released "Love"
1966 Pioneer Plaza dedicated
1966 Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia.
1966 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 Austria's Reinhold Bachler ski jumps 505 feet
1967 Indonesian congress deprives president Sukarno of authority
1968 Mauritius gains independence from Britain (National Day)
1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 11th Grammy Awards, Mrs Robinson, By the Time I Get to Phoenix wins
1969 120 joints found at George & Patti Harrison's home
1969 Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1970 US lowers voting age from 21 to 18
1971 Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias
1971 Syrian premier Hafez Assad elected president
1971 The March 12 Memorandum is sent by Army to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1972 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Lady Eve Golf Open
1972 NHL great Gordie Howe retires after 26 seasons
1974 Bundy victim Donna Manson disappears, Evergreen SC, Olympia, Wash
1975 Vietcong conquer Ban me Thuot South Vietnam
1976 South African troops leave Angola
1977 Chile president Pinochet bans Christian-Democratic Party
1977 Egypt's Anwar Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1977 Sadat pledges to regain Arab territory from Israel
1978 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:14.99)
1978 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Sunstar Golf Classic
1980 Jury finds John Wayne Gacy guilty of murdering 33 in Chicago
1980 NY Islanders 3rd scoreless tie, vs Pittsburgh Penguin
1981 Soyuz T-4 carries 2 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station
1981 Stephen Sondheim's musical "Marry Me a Little," premieres in NYC
1981 Walter R T Witschey installs world's largest sundial, Richmond, VA
1982 1st-class debut of Courtney Walsh, Jamaica v Leeward Islands
1982 PLO chief Yassar Arafat appears on "Nightline"
1983 Don Ritchie runs world record 50 mile (4:51:49)
1984 British ice dancing team, Torvill & Dean, become 1st skaters to receive 9 perfect 6.0s in world championships
1984 National Union of Mine Workers in England begin a 51 week strike
1985 Larry Bird scores Boston Celtic record 60 points
1986 210.25 million shares traded in NY Stock Exchange
1986 Susan Butcher wins 1,158 mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
1987 "Les Miserables" opens at Broadway/Imperial NYC for 4000+ perfs
1987 David Robinson scores 50 points in a NCAA basketball game
1987 Federal judge dismisses lawsuits sought by Oliver North
1987 Ice Pairs Championship at Cincinnati won by E Gordeeva & Grinkov (URS)
1987 Men's Fig Skating Championship in Cincinnati won by Brian Orser (CAN)
1987 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1989 2 cyanide-contaminated Chilean grapes found (Philadelphia)
1989 15th People's Choice Awards
1989 Madagascar AREMA party wins parliamentary election
1990 LA Raiders announce they were returning to Oakland
1991 5th Soul Train Music Awards
1992 Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
1993 317 killed by bomb attacks in Bombay
1993 Cleveland radio station WMMS-FM/101.7 is bought by Disney
1993 Entertainment Tonight's 3,000th show
1993 Inkhata leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi begins 2½ week speech
1993 North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1993 Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 The Blizzard of 1993 Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1994 The Church of England ordains its first 33 female priests.
1995 Congress party loses India national election
1995 Dottie Mochrie wins LPGA PING/Welch's Golf Championship
1995 Ice Dance Championship at Birmingham UK won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
1995 Ice Pairs Champ at Birmingham won by Radka Kovarikova & Rene Novotny
1995 Lara scores 139 in ODI v Australia at Port-of-Spain
1995 Letitia Vriesde runs South American indoor record 800m (2:00.35)
1995 Men's Figure Skating Champions in Birmingham won by Elvis Stojko (CAN)
1995 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Birmingham won by Chen Lu (CHN)
1996 Leeward Islands beat Trinidad by 73 runs to win Red Stripe Trophy
1998 "Sound of Music," opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
1999 Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
2003 Elizabeth Smart, was found after having been missing for 9 months.
2003 Missing teenager Elizabeth Smart is found in Sandy, Utah.
2003 Zoran Ðindic, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
2004 Roh Moo-hyun, President of South Korea is impeached by its national assembly for the first time in the nation's history.
2004 The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2005 Tung Chee Hwa, the first Chief Executive of Hong Kong, steps down from his post after his resignation is approved by the Chinese central government.
2011 A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake.
2012 45 people, including children, are massacred by the Syrian Army in Homs
2012 100 people are killed in ethnic clashes and cattle raids in South Sudan
2012 China records its highest trade deficit in over a decade
2013 JOGMEC becomes the first to successfully extract methane hydrate from seabed deposits
2013 The 2013 Papal conclave begins with no new Pope elected on the first day
2014 8 people are killed, 70 are injured, & 2 buildings are leveled by a gas explosion in East Harlem, New York
Born on March 12th
1270 Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325)
1336 Eduard, Duke of Gelre (1361-71) husband of Catharina of Bayern
1478 Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, Monarch of Florence (d. 1516)
1515 Caspar Othmayr, composer
1607 Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676)
1613 André Le Nôtre, French landscape architect (d. 1700)
1620 Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697)
1637 Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1647 Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727)
1672 Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729)
1685 George Berkeley, Irish theologian, Bishop of Cloyne (d. 1753)
1710 Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia) (d. 1778)
1718 Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798)
1755 Georges Couthon, French politician
1758 Leopold earl of Limburg Stirum, Dutch general and politician
1768 Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1781 Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826)
1788 Pierre J David, [David d'Angers], French sculptor
1793 Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1800 Louis-Prosper Gachard, Belgian historian
1806 Jane Means Appleton Pierce, First Lady of the United States (1853-57) (d. 1863)
1808 Gerrit van der Linde Jz, "Schoolmaster", Dutch poet
1816 David Stuart, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1868)
1818 John Lorimar Worden, Capt (Union Navy) (d. 1897)
1821 John Abbott, Quebec Canada, (C) 3rd Canadian PM (1891-92)
1821 Luitpold von Bayern, Prince-regent of Bayern
1821 Sir John Abbott, third Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
1823 William Flank Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
1824 Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (spectral analysis) (d. 1887)
1826 Robert Lowry, composer
1827 John Robert Jones, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1901)
1827 William Richard Terry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1897)
1830 William Felix Brantley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1870)
1831 Clement Studebaker, American automobile pioneer (Studebaker) (d. 1901)
1832 Charles Boycott, Irish land agent and source of the term to boycott (d. 1897)
1835 Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1837 Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
1837 Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1838 William Henry Perkin, English chemist (1st artificial dye) (d. 1907)
1848 Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 John White, composer
1859 Abraham H. Cannon, Mormon apostle (d. 1896)
1859 Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1860 Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1862 Jane Delano, US, nurse/teacher/founder (Red Cross)
1863 Adolf A Wolfschoon, Curacao, poet
1863 Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer and military hero (Intruder) (d. 1938)
1863 Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945)
1864 Alice Tegnér, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943)
1864 W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1874 Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 Julio Garreta, composer
1877 Wilhelm Frick, German protector of Bohemia/Moravia
1878 Gemma Galgani, Italian Catholic saint and mystic (d. 1903)
1878 Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1880 Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-American biochemist, known for the Dakin-West reaction (d. 1952)
1880 House Peters, England, silent film actor (Kansas Territory)
1880 Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958)
1881 Daniel Webster Hoan, Wisc (Mayor-Socialist-Milwaukee)
1881 Gunnar Nordström, Finnish physicist (d. 1923)
1881 Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938)
1883 Judge Jackson, composer
1883 Zoltán Meskó, Hungarian Nazi (d. 1959)
1885 Raphael HLAJM Verwilghen, Flemish architect/urban developer
1888 Hall Johnson, composer
1889 Idris I, King of Libya (d. 1983)
1889 Philip Guedalla, historian
1889 Þórbergur Þórðarson, Icelandic author (d. 1974)
1890 A Evert Taube, Swedish writer/troubadour
1890 Evert Taube, Swedish author, artist, composer and singer (d. 1976)
1890 Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish ballet dancer (Petroesjka) (d. 1950)
1890 William Dudley Pelley, American leader of the Silver Legion (d. 1965)
1891 George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954)
1891 Michael Polany, Hungarian/English chemist/economist/sociologist
1895 William C. Lee, U.S. Army general (d. 1948)
1896 Jesse "Lone Cat" Fuller, San Francisco Blues Great
1898 Fredrik J "Frits" Bakker Jr, Dutch actor (Sold Grandpa)
1900 David Croll, QC senator
1900 Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1904 Ken James, cricket wicketkeeper (NZ's 1st Test, later Northants)
1907 (Margaret Peggy McCrorie) Herbison, politician
1907 Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997)
1907 Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007)
1908 David Saul Marshall Singapore's first Chief Minister(d. 1995)
1908 Inez Courtney, NYC, actress (13th Man, Crime Ring, Raven)
1908 Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1910 Masayoshi Ohira, Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1910 Roger L Stevens, producer (Giant)
1910 Tony "Two-Ton" Galento, American boxer/actor (On the Waterfront)
1910 Wilhelmus L Reijers, sculptor
1911 Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (d. 1979)
1912 Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006)
1912 James McKay, lord provost of Edinburgh
1912 Kylie Tennant, novelist (Battlers, Lost Haven)
1912 Paul Weston, American pianist, arranger and conductor (Jim Nabors Hour) (d. 1996)
1913 Harold Butler, cricketer (England pace bowler late 40's)
1913 Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984)
1914 Jan Kapr, composer
1914 Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother (d. 1958)
1915 Alberto Burri, Italian physician/sculptor/abstract painter
1917 Googie Withers, British actress (1 of Our Aircraft is Missing)
1917 Millard Kaufman, American screenwriter (d. 2009)
1917 Tom Normanton, British MP
1918 Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
1918 James Bracken, race horse trainer
1919 Michael Anthony Stepovich, last surviving Governor of the Alaska Territory
1921 Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive, CEO (Fiat Automakers) (d. 2003)
1921 Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (Oklahoma, Carousel) (d. 1986)
1921 Max de Metz, Dutch publisher/translator
1921 Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1921 Ülo Jõgi, Estonian freedom fighter (d. 2007)
1922 Helen Parrish, Columbus Ga, actress (Hour Glass, Show Business)
1922 Jack Kerouac, American writer (On the Road, Mexico Blues) (d. 1969)
1922 Lane Kirkland, American labor leader (AFL-CIO) (d. 1999)
1922 Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater, 1500, 5K, 10K (Oly-gold-1952)
1923 Mae Young, American professional wrestler
1923 Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
1923 Walter M Schirra Jr, American astronaut (Mer 8, Gem 6, Ap 7) (d. 2007)
1925 Georges Delerue, French film composer (d. 1992)
1925 Harry (Maxwell) Harrison, UK sci-fi author (Deathworld Trilogy)
1925 Leo Esaki (Esaki Reona), Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate (Tunnel effect-Nobel 1973)
1925 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55) (d. 1983)
1925 William G Whitehurst, (Rep-R-Va)
1926 David Oliver Williams, trade unionist (COHSE)
1926 George Ariyoshi, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
1926 Gudrun Ure, British actress (Lady MacBeth, BBC Sorcerer)
1926 Hildy Park, Wash DC, actress (To Tell the Truth)
1926 John C(lellon) Holmes, US writer (Horn)
1926 Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1926 Ronald Alley, art gallery manager (Tate Gallery)
1927 Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1927 Raúl Alfonsín, President of Argentina (d. 2009)
1928 Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
1928 Edward Albee, American dramatist (Virgina Woolfe, Zoo Story)
1928 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
1928 Roland Moyle, British deputy chairman (Police Complaints Authority)
1928 Thérèse Lavoie-Roux, Quebec politician and senator
1929 Bernard Costello, US, double sculls (Olympic-silver-1956)
1929 Lupe Anguiano, Mexican-American civil rights activist
1929 U Win Tin, jailed Burmese journalist
1930 Antony Acland, provost of Eton/British ambassador (to US)
1930 Robin Cavendish, disabled campaigner
1930 Scoey Mitchill, Newburgh NY, comedian (Barefoot in the Park, Rhoda)
1930 Stanko Horvat, composer
1930 Vernon Law, American baseball player
1931 Geoffrey de Bellaigue, director (Royal Collection)
1931 Herbert Kelleher, Southwest Airlines co-founder
1931 William "Buckwheat" Thomas, American actor (Little Rascals) (d. 1980)
1932 Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician, US ambassador to UN (1977-79) (Mayor-D-Atlanta)
1932 Barbara Feldon, American actress and model
1934 Rudolph Agner, CEO (Consolidated Gold Fields)
1935 Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1935 John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007)
1935 John Gross, author (Age of Kipling, Dickens & 20th Century)
1936 Anthony Loehnis, vice chairman (S G Warburg & Co)
1936 Eddie Sutton, College basketball coach
1936 Keith Slater, cricketer (one Test for Australia 1958-59 series)
1936 Lloyd Dobbins, Newport News Va, newscaster (NBC News Overnight)
1936 Patrick Procktor, English artist (d. 2003)
1937 Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 Dimitri Terzakis, Greek composer
1938 Johnny Rutherford, American automobile racer (26 championship races)
1938 Karl Soderlund, Duluth Minn, Mr Sally Jesse Raphael
1938 Millie Perkins, actress (Diary of Anne Frank, Table for 5, Shooting)
1938 Norman Hogg, British MP
1938 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938 Vijay Mehra, cricketer (Indian Test batsman from age 17)
1939 Barbara Feldon, Pitts Pa, actress (Agent 99-Get Smart)
1939 David Mlinaric, British interior director
1940 Al Jarreau, American singer (Moonlighting)
1940 Albert Johanneson, soccer star
1940 M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
1942 Bert Campaneris, baseball player (Oakland A's)
1942 Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942 Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player, 1963-1977
1942 Ratko Mladic, Republika Srpska leader
1942 Salvatore "the Bull" Gravano, mobster (testified against Gotti)
1945 Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1945 Sammy "The Bull" Gravano, American gangster
1946 Frank Welker, American voice actor
1946 Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret)
1946 Peter Whalley, British television writer and author
1946 Serge Turgeon, Quebec actor and union leader (d. 2004)
1947 Jill O'Hara, Warren Penn, Broadway actress (Promises! Promises!)
1947 Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987)
1947 Mitt Romney, 70th Governor of Massachusetts, 2008 and 2012 Presidential Candidate
1947 Peter Harry Carstensen, German politician
1948 Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 James Taylor, American musician (Up on the Roof)
1948 Kent Conrad, (Sen-D North Dakota)
1948 Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1948 Virginia Bottomley, British minister of health and heritage
1949 Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 David Mellor, secretary of the British treasury/MP
1949 Mary Alice Williams, news reporter (NBC-TV)
1949 Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1949 Moctesuma Esparza, Mexican-American producer and filmmaker
1949 Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast
1949 Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer
1949 Sara Lane, NYC, actress (Elizabeth Grainger-The Virginian)
1950 Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
1950 Jon Provost, American actor (Timmy-Lassie)
1950 Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author
1950 Willie Duggan, rugby football player
1951 Caren Kaye, NYC, actress (My Tutor, Bambi-Blansky's Beauties)
1951 Jack Green, rocker
1952 Eliézer Niyitegeka, Rwandan journalist, politician and genocidaire
1952 Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist
1953 Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author
1953 Labamba (Richard Rosenberg), rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1953 Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
1953 Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor
1956 Dale Murphy, American baseball player (Atlanta Braves, 2 time NL MVP)
1956 Steve Harris, founder/bassist of Iron Maiden
1957 Jerry Levine, New Brunswick NJ, actor (Born on 4th of July)
1957 Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5)
1957 Patrick Battiston, French footballer
1957 Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1958 Debra Jensen, Orange County Cal, playmate (January, 1978)
1958 Matt Millen, American football player
1960 Courtney B. Vance, American actor (Hamburger Hill)
1960 Eldine Baptiste, cricketer (WI all-rounder early 80's)
1960 Kipp Lennon, American singer
1960 Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five)
1960 Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer
1961 Joseph Facal, Quebec politician
1962 Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player, right fielder (Mets, Dodgers, Yankees)
1962 Gunde Svan, Swedish long jumper (Olympics-gold-1984, 88)
1962 Julia Campbell, American actress
1963 Candy Costie, American synchronized swimmer (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 Ian Holloway, English football manager
1963 Joaquim Carvalho Cruz, Brazilian runner, 800m runner (Olympic-gold-1984)
1963 John Andretti, race car driver
1963 Julia Campbell, Huntsville Ala, actress (Opportunity Knocks)
1963 Paul Way, British golfer
1963 Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi, Iranian Princess
1964 Tony Terry, rock producer (Tony Terry)
1965 Coleen Nolan, British singer
1965 Fran Harris, WNBA guard (Houston Comets)
1965 Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer
1965 Molly Van Nostrand, West lslip NY, tennis star
1965 Randy Dixon, NFL guard (Indianapolis Colts)
1965 Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player
1965 Steve Finley, American baseball player, outfielder (San Diego Padres)
1965 Steve Levy, American sports journalist
1966 Alecia Stephenson, North Vancouver BC, softball ss (Olympics-96)
1966 Erich Fischer, Dinuba CA, US Olympic water polo foward (Olympic-92)
1966 Grant Long, American basketball player, NBA forward (Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks)
1966 John Thompson III, American NCAA Basketball Head Coach (Georgetown)
1967 Irvin Smith, CFL cornerback (Montreal Alouettes)
1967 Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer
1967 Rowelle Blenman, WLAF cornerback/safety (London Monarchs)
1968 Aaron Eckhart, American actor
1968 Merton Hanks, NFL safety (SF 49ers)
1968 Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator
1969 Graham Coxon, English musician (Blur)
1969 J P Izquierdo, CFL slot back (Calgary Stampeders)
1969 Jake Tapper, American journalist
1969 Karen Snelgrove, London Ontario, softball pitcher (Olympics-96)
1969 Muhammad Oliver, NFL cornerback/safety (Washington Redskins)
1970 Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher
1970 John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver (d. 1997)
1970 Michael Bankston, NFL defensive end (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 Ray Prewitt, American actor
1970 Rex Walters, American basketball player, NBA guard (Phila 76ers, Miami Heat)
1970 Rod Smith, NFL cornerback (Carolina Panthers, Green Bay Packers)
1970 Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot)
1971 Greg Hansell, Bellflower CA, pitcher (Minnesota Twins)
1971 Isaiah Rider, American basketball player, NBA guard/forward (Minn Timberwolves, Port Trailblazers)
1971 Raul Mondesi, San Cristobal Dom Rep, outfielder (LA Dodgers)
1971 Tony Eveready (Duane Moore), American adult film actor
1972 Alisa Castillo, Miss Nevada USA (1996)
1972 Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor
1972 James Maritato, American professional wrestler
1973 Antonio Banks, cornerback (Minnesota Vikings)
1973 Gabriel Mendez, Australian soccer midfielder (Olyroos, Olympics-96)
1973 Keif Bryant, NFL defensive end (Seattle Seahawks)
1973 Louis Laros, Dutch soccer player (Willem II, Vitesse)
1974 Chris Carr, NBA guard (Phoenix Suns, Minn Timberwolves)
1974 Steve Price, Australia rugby league player
1975 Annabel Port, English radio presenter
1975 Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist
1975 Kelle Bryan, English singer
1975 Todd Rock, American Politician, Pennsylvania House of Representitives
1976 Simon Young, English music journalist
1976 Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
1977 Ramiro Corrales, American footballer
1978 Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka
1978 Casey Mears, American auto racer
1978 Christianne Klein, American journalist and television personality
1978 Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria)
1978 Cristina Teuscher, New Rochelle NY, 4X200m freestyle (Olymp-gold-96)
1978 Masuimi Max, American model
1978 Tara Mounsey, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1979 Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
1979 Nidia Guenard, American professional wrestler
1979 Pete Doherty, English musician
1979 Rhys Coiro, American actor
1980 Douglas Murray, Swedish ice-hockey player
1981 Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler
1982 Samm Levine, American actor
1982 Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
1982 Zach Miner, American baseball player
1983 Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer
1984 Jaimie Alexander, American Actress
1984 Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
1985 Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
1985 Tosh Townend, American skateboarder
1986 Ben Offereins, Australian athlete
1986 Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
1987 Chris Seitz, American footballer
1988 Konstantinos Mitroglou, Greek footballer
1988 La Roux, English singer
1989 Tyler Clary, American swimmer
Died on March 12th
417 Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417)
604 Gregory I the Great, Pope (590-604)
1209 Djamal al-din Abu Mohammed Iljas Nizami, Persian poet
1289 King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1374 Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1471 Dionysius the Carthusian/van Rijkel, Dutch scholastic theologist
1496 Johannes de Lapide, [Johan Heynlin], German philosopher
1507 Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman, killed in battle (b. 1475)
1563 John Bull, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King)
1570 Jacob van den Eynden, Grand Pensionary of Holland, dies
1608 Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1628 John Bull, English composer
1648 Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (b. 1571)
1681 French van Mieris, the Elder, Dutch genre painter (b. 1635)
1699 Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
1734 Antonius Schultingh (Schultingius), Dutch lawyer
1753 George Berkeley, philosopher/bishop (Cloyne)
1757 Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
1790 Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
1824 Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer
1831 Johann Franz Volkert, compose
1832 Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
1834 Karl W Feuerbach, mathematician (circle of Feuerbach)
1840 Friedrich Westenholz, composer
1852 Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer
1858 William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (b. 1816)
1872 Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1877 Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer
1883 Murrumgunarriman (Twopenny), cricketer (Aboriginal team 1868)
1888 Henry Bergh, founder (ASPCA)
1889 Yohannes I ([Kasa), Emperor of Ethiopia (1872-89), dies in battle
1894 Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
1902 John Peter Altgeld, German/US governor of Illinois
1905 Rudolf von Alt, Austrian painter, dies at 92
1908 Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children's writer (L'idioma Gentile) (b. 1846)
1909 Joe Petrosino, American police lieutenant, NYPD (b. 1860)
1909 Johanna "Lena" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Bruno Gerlach
1913 Joseph Bayer, composer
1914 George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (Westinghouse Electric) (b. 1846)
1916 Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
1924 Hilaire Comte de Chardonnet, inventor (rayon), dies
1925 Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
1929 Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1930 Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
1930 William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
1932 Ivar Kreuger, "Swedish Match King" industrialist, commits suicide
1937 Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
1937 Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
1941 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer
1942 Enrique Morera, composer
1942 Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1943 Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1944 Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
1945 Anne Frank, diarist (Diary of Anne Frank), killed in Belsen Camp
1945 Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (b. 1861)
1946 Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
1946 Philip Merivale
1947 Winston Churchill "the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
1949 Maria "Beppie" Bakker, Dutch actress/wife of Piet Vink Sr
1950 L Heinrich Mann, German/US writer (Between the Races)
1955 Charlie "Bird" Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1955 Theodor Plievier, writer
1957 Harry Dean, cricketer (England left-arm bowler in 3 Tests, 1912)
1957 Josephine Hull, actress (Harvey)
1958 Ingeborg, Princess of Sweden
1961 Belinda Lee, actress (Joseph & his Brethren), dies in car crash
1966 Estelita Rodriguez, actor (Golden Stallion, Susanna Pass)
1973 Esther Williamson Ballou, composer
1973 Frankie Frisch "Fordham Flash", American baseball player (b. 1898)
1973 Manuel Rojas Sepulveda, Chilean writer (Hijo de Ladron)
1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated
1974 George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
1978 Gene Moore, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1978 John Cazale, American actor (Dog Day Afternoon, Deer Hunter) (b. 1935)
1978 Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor
1980 Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1982 Elisabeth Zernike, Dutch writer (Course of Events)
1983 Jevsei G Liberman, Ukraine economist (Plan, profit, bonus)
1984 Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
1985 Eugene Ormandy (Blau), Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
1987 Woody Hayes, American football coach (b. 1913)
1988 Billie Rhodes
1988 William Camp
1989 Maurice Evans, English-born actor (Bewitched, MacBeth) (b. 1901)
1990 Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
1991 Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise)
1991 Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1991 William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
1992 Barbara Morrison, actress (Proj Moonbase)
1992 Hans G Kresse, Dutch cartoonist (Eric the Viking)
1992 Ida Oosterbaan, Dutch founder (Women Action Committee)
1992 Karel Poons, father of Paul Dee
1992 Philippe Soupault, writer
1992 Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
1993 Andreas J A I Bruggeman, Dutch mayor (Leiderdorp)
1993 June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel)
1993 Michael Kanin, screenwriter (Woman of the Year)
1993 Wang Zhen, marxist/vice-premier of China (1988)
1994 Sandra Paretti, German/Swiss author (Drums of Winter)
1995 Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
1996 Charles Bruce Perry, professor of medicine
1996 Gyula Kallai, PM of Hungry (1965-67)
1996 John Anthony Bowden Cuddon, writer/teacher
1998 Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
1998 Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
1998 Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1999 Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2002 Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2002 Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2003 Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003 Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003 Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2003 Zoran Ðindic, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2005 Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2005 Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
2006 Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2007 Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (b. 1966)
2008 Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (b. 1949)
2008 Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
2010 Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (b. 1920)
2012 Mike Hossack, American rock drummer
2013 Clive Burr, British drummer (b. 1957)
2015 Terry Pratchett, English author of fantasy novels (Discworld)
2015 Michael Graves, American postmodernist architect and designer
2016 Lloyd Shapley, American Mathematician (2012 Nobel Prize, Game Theory)