March 13th
Holidays and Festivals
Kasuga Matsuri (Kasuga Grand Shrine, Nara, Japan)
Bretzelsonndeg (Luxembourg)
Good Samaritan Involvement Day
K-9 Veterans Day
Planet Uranus Day
L. Ron Hubbard Day
Earmuffs Day a.k.a. Ear Muff Day, Anniversary of Earmuffs
Donald Duck Day (Also see June 9th)
Ken (Doll) Day, Anniversary of the Ken Doll Introduction
Jewel Day
Smart & Sexy Day
National Open an Umbrella Indoors Day
Start of Deaf History Month (03/13-04/15)
Christian Feast Day of Euphrasia of Constantinople
Christian Feast Day of Gerald of Mayo
Christian Feast Day of Leander of Seville
Christian Feast Day of Leticia
Feast Day of Nicephorus (Roman Catholic Church and Greek Orthodox Church)
Christian Feast Day of Roderick
Christian Feast Day of Sabinus of Hermopolis
* Canadian Music Fest Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 10 – 14 (4of5)(2010)
* Bloc Festival Butlins Resort, Minehead, Somerset, UKMarch 12 – 14 (2of3) (2010)
Toast of The Day
"May the winds of fortune sail you,
May you sail a gentle sea.
May it always be the other guy
who says, 'this drink's on me.'"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Pegu
3 Parts Gin
1 Part Cointreau
1 Part Lime Juice
Dash Angostura Bitters
Shake ingredients together in a mixer with ice. Strain into glass, garnish and serve
Wine of The Day
H/H Estates 2008 "Robert Andrews Red"
Style - Red
Horse Heaven Hills
$35
Beer of The Day
O'Brien Brown Ale
Brewer - O'Brien Brewing, Bakery Hill, Australia
Style - Gluten Free Beer
Joke of The Day
An Irishman and his wife entered the dentist's office.
"I want a tooth pulled, " the man said. "We are in a big hurry to get to the pub, so don't fool around with gas or Novocain or any of that stuff."
"You are a very brave man," remarked the dentist. "Which tooth is it?"
"Show him your bad tooth, honey," said the man to his wife.
Quote of the Day
"I think this would be a good time for a beer."
- Franklin D. Roosevelt upon signing the New Deal, paving the way for the repeal of Prohibition on on March 13, 1933.
Whiskey of The Day
The Irishman The Original Clan Irish Whiskey
Price: $30
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 13th
483 St Felix III begins his reign as Catholic Pope
607 12th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1138 Cardinal Gregorio Conti is elected Antipope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
1138 German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen crowned
1519 Cortez lands in Mexico
1560 Spanish fleet occupies Djerba, at Tripoli
1564 Cardinal Granvelle flees Brussels
1567 Battle at Oosterweel: Spanish troops destroy Geuzenleger
1569 Battle of Jarnac, Count of Anjou defeats Huguenots
1591 Battle at Tondibi: Moroccans army under Judar beats sultan Askia Ishaq II of Songhai
1634 Academie Francaise opens
1639 Cambridge College renamed Harvard College for clergyman John Harvard
1656 Jews are denied the right to build a synagogue in New Amsterdam
1677 Massachusetts gains title to Maine for $6,000
1735 1st US Moravian bishop, David Nitschmann, consecrated in Germany
1759 27th recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet
1772 Gotthold Lessing's "Emilia Calotti," premieres in Brunswick
1781 Sir William Herschel sees "comet" (really discovered Uranus)
1790 John Martin, 1st American-born actor, performs in Philadelphia
1797 Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
1809 Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden is deposed in a coup d'état.
1835 Charles Darwin departs Valparaiso for Andes crossing
1845 Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto receives its première performance in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1846 Friedrich Hebbel's "Maria Magdalena," premieres in Königsberg
1852 Uncle Sam cartoon figure made its debut in the NY Lantern weekly
1862 The U.S. federal government forbids all Union army officers from returning fugitive slaves, thus effectively annulling the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 and setting the stage for the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865 The Confederate States of America agree to the use of African American troops, Jefferson Davis signs bill.
1868 Senate begins Pres Andrew Johnson impeachment trial
1869 Arkansas legislature passes anti-Klan law
1878 Oxford defeats Cambridge in their 1st golf match
1881 Alexander II of Russia is killed near his palace when a bomb is thrown at him. (Gregorian date: it was March 1 in the Julian calendar then in use in Russia.)
1884 The Siege of Khartoum, Sudan begins, ending on January 26, 1885.
1884 US adopts Standard Time
1887 Chester Greenwood of Maine patents earmuffs
1888 Great Blizzard of 1888 rages
1894 J L Johnstone of England invents horse racing starting gate
1895 Spanish cruiser Reina Regente sinks off Gibraltar, 402 die
1897 San Diego State University is founded.
1900 British troops occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State
1900 In France the length of the workday for women and children is limited to 11 hours by law.
1900 British forces occupy Bloemfontein, Orange Free State, Second Boer War.
1904 Bronze statue of Christ on Argentine-Chilian border dedicated
1911 Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1911 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Senators beat Galt (Ont), 7-4
1912 Stanley Cup, Quebec Bulldogs sweep Moncton (NB) in 2 games
1913 Kansas legislature approved censorship of motion pictures
1915 Dodgers manager Wilbert Robinson tries to catch a baseball dropped from an airplane, but the pilot substituted a grapefruit
1918 1st NHL championship, Mont Canadiens beat Toronto Arenas, outscoring them 10-7 in a 2 game set
1918 American Red Magen David (Jewish Red Cross) forms
1920 The Kapp Putsch briefly ousts the Weimar Republic government from Berlin.
1920 Wolfgang Kapp's coup attempt in Berlin fails
1921 Mongolia (formerly Outer Mongolia), under Baron Roman Ungern von Sternberg, declares its independence from China.
1922 George Bernard Shaws "Back to Methusaleh V," premieres in NYC
1922 NHL Championship, Ottawa Senators outscore Toronto St Pats, 5 to 4, in 2 games
1922 WRR-AM in Dallas TX begins radio transmissions
1923 Lee de Forest demonstrates his sound-on-film moving pictures (NYC)
1924 German Republic day
1925 NHL Championship, Montreal Canadiens sweep Toronto Arenas in 2 games
1925 A law in Tennessee prohibits the teaching of evolution, Scopes Trial.
1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1929 Bradman scores 123 Aust v England at MCG, his 2nd Test Cricket ton
1930 Clyde Tombaugh announces discovery of Pluto at Lowell Observatory
1930 The news of the discovery of Pluto is telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1933 Banks in the U.S. begin to re-open after President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandates a "bank holiday" during the Great Depression.
1933 Josef Goebbels becomes German minister of Information & Propaganda
1935 Driving tests introduced in Great Britain
1938 Anschluss of Austria annexed by Nazi Germany to the Third Reich.
1938 World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1940 The Russo-Finnish Winter War ends, Finland-Russian cease fire signed, Finland gives up Karelische.
1941 A Bougne forms AGRA (Amis du Grand Reich Allemand)
1942 Julia Flikke, Nurse Corps, becomes 1st woman colonel in US army
1943 Baseball approves official ball (with cork & balata)
1943 Failed assassin attempt on Hitler during Smolensk-Rastenburg flight
1943 Frank Dixon wins Knights of Columbus mile (4:09.6)
1943 German forces liquidate the Jewish ghetto in Kraków. Hans Finke arrives in Auschwitz with 963 other prisoners. 473 are put to death in the gas chambers. 491 are assigned to slave labor, The Holocaust.
1943 In Bougainville, Japanese troops end their assault on American forces at Hill 700, World War II.
1944 USSR recognizes Italian Badoglio government
1945 Queen Wilhelmina returns to Netherlands
1945 Sicherheitsdienst arrest Dutch resistance fighter Henry Werkman
1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
1947 19th Academy Awards "Best Years of Lives," De Havilland, March win
1948 10th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Kentucky beats Baylor 58-42
1949 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Yvonne C Sherman
1949 US Mens Figure Skating championship won by Richard Button
1950 General Motors reports net earnings of $656,434,232 (record)
1951 2nd Dutch government of Drees forms
1951 Israel demands DM 6.2 billion compensation from Germany
1954 Battle of That Bien Phu, General Giap's Viet Minh forces attack the French.
1954 Braves' Bobby Thomson breaks his ankle, he is replaced by Hank Aaron
1955 Bir BSD Mahendra succeeds Tribhubana as king of Nepal
1955 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1956 NZ bowl out WI for 77 at Eden Park to score their 1st Test Cricket win
1957 Anglo-Jordanian Treaty of 1948 expires.
1957 Cuban student revolutionaries storm the presidential palace in Havana in a failed attempt on the life of President Fulgencio Batista, Bloody battles after anti-Batista demonstration ensue.
1958 Government troops land in Sumatra Indonesia
1960 Fay Crocker wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1960 NFL's Chicago Cardinals moves to St Louis
1960 White Sox unveil new road uniforms with players' names above number
1961 Elizabeth Gurley Finn (70) becomes pres of US Communist Party
1961 Floyd Patterson KOs Ingemar Johansson in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1961 JFK sets up the Alliance for Progress
1961 Landslide in USSR, kills 145
1961 Old type, black & white notes cease to be legal tender
1961 Pablo Picasso (79) marries his model Jacqueline Rocque (37)
1962 Lyman Lemnitzer, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, delivers a proposal, called Operation Northwoods, regarding performing terrorist attacks upon Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, to Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara. The proposal is scrapped and President John F. Kennedy removes Lemnitzer from his position.
1962 Yugoslavia grants 1,000 prisoners amnesty
1963 2 Russian reconnaissance flights over Alaska
1963 Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1963 Indonesia & Netherlands recover diplomatic relations
1964 Turkey threatens Cyprus with armed attack
1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1966 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Lagunita Golf Invitational
1967 Congo sentences ex-premier Moise Tsjombe to death
1967 Robert Anderson's "You Know I Can't Hear You ...," premieres in NYC
1968 Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1969 Apollo 9 returns safely to Earth after testing the Lunar Module.
1970 100 year Beehive anniversary ends in brawl in Amsterdam
1970 Digital Equipment Corp introduces PDP-11 minicomputer
1970 SF city employees begin 4-day strike
1971 Live at Fillmore East recorded
1973 "Irene" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 605 performances
1973 Minskoff Theater opens at 200 W 45th St NYC
1973 Syria adopts constitution
1974 Glenn Turner scores twin tons for NZ's 1st win against Aust
1975 Bernard Slade's "Same Time, Next Year," premieres in NYC
1977 Dennis Lillee takes 6-26, England all out 95 in Centenary Test
1978 Moluccans "suicide commandos" occupies Province house
1979 European Monetary System is established, ECU created
1979 Isle's Mike Bossy's 5th career hat trick
1979 The New Jewel Movement, headed by Maurice Bishop, ousts Prime Minister Eric Gairy in a nearly bloodless coup d'etat in Grenada.
1980 Eric Heiden skates world record 1000m (1:13.60)
1980 Ford Motor Co found innocent in death of 3 women in a fiery Pinto
1980 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Dortmund won by Jan Hoffmann GDR
1981 Attempt on Pope John Paul II by Mehemet Ali Agca
1981 NCAA St Joseph's upsets top seed DePaul
1982 Elaine Zayak, lands 6 triple jumps to win world skating championship
1982 Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1982 Ice Pairs Championship at Copenhagen won by Baess & Thierbach (GDR)
1982 Men's Fig Skating Champions in Copenhagen won by Scott Hamilton (USA)
1982 Worlds Ladies Fig Skate Champs in Copenhagen won by Elaine Zayak (USA)
1983 "Woman of the Year" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 770 perfs
1983 1st USFL overtime game-Birmingham Stallions beat Oakld Invaders 20-14
1984 Last day of 1st-class cricket for G Chappell, R Marsh, B Laird
1984 WA beat Queensland by four wickets to win the Sheffield Shield
1985 Funeral services held for Konstantin Chernenko (Moscow)
1985 Michael Secrest (US) begins 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1986 Soyuz T-15 carries 2 cosmonauts to Soviet space station Mir
1987 Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1987 John Gotti is acquitted of racketeering
1987 Washington Caps score 5 goals against Toronto in 3 mins & 3 secs
1988 14th People's Choice Awards, Fatal Attraction, Bill Cosby. win
1989 27th shuttle, Discovery 8, launched, 1st woman to do the countdown
1989 FDA orders recall of all Chilean fruit in US
1989 US space shuttle STS-29 launched
1990 Nicholoas Braithwaite elected premier of Grenada
1991 Exxon pays $1-billion dollars in fines & cleanup of Valdez oil spill
1991 The United States Department of Justice announces that Exxon has agreed to pay $1 billion for the clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska.
1992 An earthquake registering 6.8 on the Richter scale kills over 500 in Erzincan, eastern Turkey.
1992 FCC rules companies can own 30 AM & 30 FM stations (formerly 12)
1992 Martina Navratilova & Judy Nelson settle their galamony suit
1993 Blizzard of '93 hits north-east US
1994 33.3% of Austria votes for ultra-right Freedom Party
1994 Cuba Godding Jr (26) weds Sara Kapfer (26)
1994 Donna Andrews wins LPGA Ping Welch's Golf Championship
1994 Oil tank/airship crash at Bosporus (huge fire/15+ killed)
1994 President Mangope of Bophuthaswana deposed
1995 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
1995 Anti fascist Kazachstan anti-parliament forms
1995 Hungarian Forint devalued 9%
1995 Istanbul police shoot dead 16 Alawitische demonstrators
1996 Dunblane massacre, in Dunblane, Scotland, 16 kindergarten children and 1 teacher are shot dead by a spree killer, Thomas Watt Hamilton who then committed suicide.
1996 Sri Lanka beat India in World Cup semi as riots stop play
1996 Thomas Hamilton kills 16 kindergardeners, their teacher & himself
1997 India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.
1997 The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona by hundreds of people, and by millions on television. They are now a hotly debated controversy.
2003 Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old footprints of an upright-walking human have been found in Italy.
2005 Terry Ratzmann shoots and kills six members of the Living Church of God and the minister at Sheraton Inn in Brookfield, Wisconsin before killing himself.
2008 Gold prices on the New York Mercantile Exchange hit $1,000.00 an ounce for the first time.
2012 19 people are shot dead in a bus attack in Ethiopia
2012 28 people, including 22 children, are killed in a motorway bus crash near Sierre, Switzerland
2012 110 people are killed and 63 are missing after a ferry collides with an oil tanker near Dhaka, Bangladesh
2012 Encyclopedia Britannica announces that it will no longer public printed versions of its encyclopedia
2013 10 people are killed by a suicide bombing in Kunduz province, Afghanistan
2013 Aleqa Hammond’s Siumut party wins the Greenland parliamentary elections
2013 An Embraer 821 aeroplane crashes and kills 9 people in Para, Brazil
2013 Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere
2013 North Korea shreds the Korean Armistice agreement
2013 The European Parliament rejects a European Union budget for the first time
2014 After protests earlier this month, the Israeli parliament votes 65 to 1 for legislation that ends exemptions from military service for ultra-Orthodox Jewish seminary students
2015 Cyclone Pam causes widespread damage in Vanuatu and the South Pacific, including 15-16 deaths
2016 Suicide Bombing in Ankara, Turkey kills 37 people
Born on March 13th
1372 Louis of Valois, Duke of Orléans, brother of Charles VI of France (d. 1407)
1548 Sasbout Vosmeer, Dutch Catholic theologist/apostole
1599 Johannes Berchmans, Dutch Jesuit/saint
1615 Innocent XII (Antonio Pignatelli), Pope (1691-1700) (d. 1700)
1683 John Theophilus Desaguliers, French-British philosopher (d. 1744)
1696 Louis F A D Duke de Richelieu, French marshal
1700 James Kent, composer
1700 Michel Blavet, French flutist (d. 1768)
1712 Isfrid Kayser, composer
1719 John Griffin Whitwell, 4th Baron Howard de Walden, British field marshal (d. 1797)
1720 Charles Bonnet, Swiss naturalist and writer (d. 1793)
1733 Joseph Priestley, English scientist and minister (discovered oxygen) (d. 1804)
1741 Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor (1764-90) (d. 1790)
1744 David Allan, Scottish painter
1746 Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1752 Josef Reicha, composer
1753 Louise Marie Adélaïde de Bourbon, great heiress and wife of Philippe Égalité (d. 1821)
1763 Guillaume Marie Anne Brune, French marshal (d. 1815)
1764 Charles Earl Grey, (Whig), British PM (1830-34)
1764 Earl Grey, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1845)
1767 Heinrich Domnich, composer
1768 Charles Louis WJ van Keverberg, Dutch civil servant
1770 Daniel Lambert, Englishman famous for his obesity (weighed 739 lbs (334 kg) at death) (d. 1809)
1777 Charles Lot Church, Nova Scotia politician (d. 1864)
1779 Oliver Shaw, composer
1781 Karl F Schinkel, German architect, painter, and writer (Schloss Tegel) (d. 1841)
1782 Sir Robert Bateson, 1st Baronet, Irish nobility (d.1863)
1798 Abigail Fillmore, First Lady of the United States (1850-53) (d. 1853)
1815 James Curtis Hepburn, American missionary and linguist (d. 1911)
1818 Albion Parris Howe, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1897
1820 Louis Herbert, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1901
1822 Moritz Grave von Strachwitz, German poet
1825 Hans Gude, Norwegian romanticist landscape painter (d. 1903)
1832 Alberto Randegger, composer
1850 Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1855 B. H. Roberts, Mormon leader, historian, and politician (d. 1933)
1855 Percival "Percy" Lowell, American astronomer (predicted discovery of Pluto) (d. 1916)
1858 Maximilien Luce, French painter
1859 Ivo Bligh, cricketer (Lord Darnley England capt v Australia 1882-83)
1860 Hugo Wolf, Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1864 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (d. 1941)
1870 Albert Meyer, member of the Swiss Federal Council in the 1930s (d. 1953)
1872 Oswald Garrison Villard, American journalist
1875 Maria E G "Lizzy" Ansingh, Dutch painter (Caught Sultane)
1881 Balthazar H Verhagen, Neth/South African dramatist/writer
1883 Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist(d. 1926)
1884 Emanuel Stickelberger, Swiss writer (Bluthochzeit)
1884 Hugh S Walpole, NZ, novelist/playwright (Jeremy, Maradick at 40)
1884 Oskar Loerke, German writer (Longest Day-1926)
1884 Sir Hugh Walpole, English novelist (d. 1941)
1886 Henri D Gagnebin, Swiss organist
1886 John "Home Run" Baker, Hall of Fame third baseman (hit 2 HR in 1911 world series) (d.1963)
1887 Carlos Isamitt, composer
1890 Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1890 Michael Taube, composer
1892 Alec Rowley, composer
1892 Janet Flanner, journalist (New Yorker)
1896 Dorothy Aldis, writer
1897 Dan Gordon, American animator (d. 1969)
1897 Marcel Thiry, Belgian poet (Statue of Fatigue)
1897 William Herald, Australia, swimmer (Olympic-1920)
1898 Henry Hathaway, American film director and producer (d. 1985)
1898 Josie Sedgwick, TX, actress (Son of Oklahoma)
1899 Jan Lechon, Polish poet (d. 1956)
1899 John Hasbrouck van Vleck, American physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 1980)
1899 Pancho Vladigerov, composer
1900 Béla Guttman, Hungarian footballer (d. 1981)
1900 Giorgos Seferis, Greek poet, Nobel laureate (d. 1971)
1901 Paul Fix, Dobbs Ferry NY, actor (Rifleman)
1904 Henry Iliffe Cozens, pilot
1907 Albert Hughes Williams, teacher/historian
1907 Dona Maria Pia de Braganca, pretender to the Portuguese throne
1907 Frank Wilcox, DeSoto Mo, actor (John-Beverly Hillbillies)
1907 Mircea Eliade, Romanian historian of religions and writer (Le Yoga) (d. 1986)
1907 Oscar Brink, latinist
1908 Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1908 Paul Stewart, NYC, actor (Top Secret USA, Deadline)
1908 Walter Annenberg, American publisher and philanthropist (Triangle-TV Guide) (d. 2002)
1909 Gilbert Inglefield, Mayor of London (1967-68)
1910 Karl Gustav Ahlefeldt, Danish actor (d. 1985)
1910 Sammy Kaye, American musician (Sammy Kaye Show, Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye) (d. 1987)
1911 Jose Ardevol, composer
1911 L[aFayette] Ron Hubbard, American science fiction author and founder of Scientology (Dianetics) (d. 1986)
1912 Ernst Hess, composer
1912 Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1912 James Friell, political cartoonist
1913 Lambros Konstantaras, Greek actor (d. 1985)
1913 Sergey Mikhalkov, Russian writer (d. 2009)
1913 William J Casey, headed CIA during Iran-contra scandal (1981-87) (d. 1987)
1914 Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1914 Edward O'Hare, American pilot (d. 1943)
1914 Tessie O'Shea, entertainer
1914 W.O. Mitchell, Canadian writer (d. 1998)
1916 Corinne Boggs, political administrator
1916 Lindy Boggs, (Rep-D-LA, 1973)
1917 Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1917 Maria Vlamynck, Flemish author
1917 Tessie O'Shea, England, actress (Entertainers)
1918 Faye Glenn Abdellan, US government official (health services)
1918 George McAfee, NFL halfback (Chicago Bears)
1920 Frans van der Elst, Flemish attorney/MP (Volksunie)
1921 Allan Jaffee, American cartoonist and illustrator (MAD Magazine)
1921 Cyril Poole, cricketer (England batsman against India 1951-52)
1922 Brun Smith, cricketer (NZ right-handed batsman of late 1940's)
1922 Jim Rodger, sports writer
1923 Dimitrios Ioannidis, Greek military officer who was involved in the Greek military junta
1923 William F. Bolger, 65th Postmaster General of the United States (d. 1989)
1925 Anthony Milner, composer
1925 Bertha Tickey, Dinuba California, softball pitcher (Hall of Fame 1973)
1925 Roy Haynes, American jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1926 Carlos Roberto Reina, President of Honduras (d. 2003)
1926 Frederick Hemming McClintock, criminologist
1926 Raul Alfonsín, Argentine pres (1983-89) (or 3/12/1927)
1927 Charles Sickman Corsen, Dutch Antillean poet
1927 Robert Denning, American interior designer (d. 2005)
1929 J D Slater, writer
1929 Joseph Mascolo, American actor
1929 Peter Breck, American actor (Black Saddle, Big Valley, Benji), (d. 2012)
1929 Walter Medio, race horse trainer
1929 Will Eisma, composer
1930 Doug Harvey, hockey star (3 time James Norris winner)
1930 Jan Howard, American singer
1931 Marc Dessauvage, Flemish architect
1931 Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1931 Wolfgang Kohlhaase, Berlin, actor/director/writer (Solo Sunday)
1933 Frank H Murkowski, (Sen-R-AK, 1981)
1933 Mike Stoller, American songwriter (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1934 Barry Hughart, American author
1935 Don Nute, Connellsville Penn (Denver University), actor
1935 Joseph Mascolo, American actor
1935 Leslie Parrish, American actress
1935 Michael Walzer, American philosopher
1936 Clarence Nash, animation voice (Donald Duck)
1936 Nana Meskhidze, Georgian artist-painter (d. 1997)
1937 Fofo I F Sunia, (Rep-D-Amer Samoa, 1981)
1938 Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1938 Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 Joseph Bellino, footballer (1960 Heisman Trophy)
1938 Patricia W Amicone, educator/midwife
1939 Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1941 Mahmoud Darwish, Palestinian prominent poet and writer of prose (d. 2008)
1942 Dave Cutler, American software engineer
1942 Geoffrey Hayes, English television presenter and actor
1942 Scatman John (John Larkin), American singer (d. 1999)
1943 André Téchiné, French film director and screenwriter (Scene of the Crime, Rendez-Vous)
1945 Anatoly Timofeevich Fomenko, Russian mathematician
1946 Yonatan Netanyahu, Israeli soldier (d. 1976)
1947 Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1947 Lesley Collier, British ballet dancer
1947 Tomas Hinojosa, jockey
1948 Robert S. Woods, American actor
1949 Hiroshi Kazato, Japanese racing driver (d. 1974)
1949 Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 Bernard Julien, cricketer (WI left-arm pace all-rounder mid-70's)
1950 Charles Krauthammer, American political commentator
1950 Joe Bugner, Hungarian/British/Australian boxer (European Champ 1971)
1950 Robert S Woods, California, actor (Bo-One Life to Live, Waltons)
1950 Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1950 William H. Macy, American actor (Homicide, Water Engine)
1951 Fred Berry, American actor and dancer (Rerun-What's Happening) (d. 2003)
1952 Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
1953 Andy Bean, Lafayette Ga, PGA golfer (Western 1978, Kemper 1978)
1953 Deborah Raffin, American actress (Ransom, Demon, 40 Carats)
1954 Robin Duke, Toronto Canada, comedienne (SNL, SCTV, Club Paradise)
1955 Bruno Conti, Italian footballer
1955 Glenne Headly, American actress (Dick Tracy, Making Mr Right)
1955 Olga Rukavishnikova, USSR, pentathlete (Olympic-silver-1980)
1955 Patricia J Engfer, general manager (Hyatt Regency-Orlando)
1956 Dana Delany, American actress (Colleen McMurphy-China Beach, Exit to Eden)
1957 John Hoeven, American politician, governor of North Dakota
1957 Steve Lake, American baseball player
1958 Debi Nicolle Johnson, Torrance California, playmate (October, 1984)
1958 Linda Robson, English actress
1958 Rick A Lazio, (Rep-R-NY)
1959 Dirk Wellham, cricketer (century on NSW debut & Australian debut )
1959 Kathy Hilton, socialite-Hilton Hotels, mother of Nicky Hilton and Paris Hilton
1959 Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1960 Adam Clayton, Irish bassist (U2)
1960 Joe Ranft, American animator (d. 2005)
1960 Yuri Andrukhovych, Ukrainian writer, poet and political essayist
1961 Cor Lems, soccer player (ADO The Hague/Dordrecht '90)
1962 Liane Tooth, Sydney NSW Australia, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1963 Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter
1963 Mariano Duncan, S P de Macoris Dom Rep, infielder (NY Yankees)
1963 Vance Johnson, NFL wide receiver (Denver Broncos)
1964 João Gordo, American musician (Ratos de Porão)
1964 Will Clark, American baseball player (Texas Rangers)
1966 Akira Nogami, wrestler (NJPW)
1966 Tine Scheuer-Larsen, Denmark, tennis star
1967 Andrés Escobar, Colombian footballer (d. 1994)
1967 Colleen Rosensteel, S Greensburg PA, heavyweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1967 Satu Huotari, ice hockey defenseman (Finland, Oly-98)
1968 Akira Nogami, Japanese professional wrestler
1968 Christopher Collett, NYC, actor (Manhattan Project)
1969 Chris Zorich, NFL defensive tackle (Chic Bears)
1969 Kevin Kaminski, Churchbridge, NHL center (Washington Capitals)
1970 Tim Story, American film director
1971 Annabeth Gish, American actress
1971 Curtis Conway, NFL wide receiver/kick returner (Chic Bears)
1971 Li Chen, Changsha China, tennis star (1995 Futures-Austin TX)
1971 Paul Henderson, Australian 100m/200m (Olympics-96)
1971 Ralf Kleinmann, WLAF kicker/punter (Frankfurt Galaxy)
1971 Robert Lanham, American author and satirist
1971 Robert Samuels, cricketer (West Indies Test opening batsman v NZ 1996)
1971 Ryan Hayden, Indianapolis Indiana, 400m hurdler
1971 Tony Vinson, NFL running back (Atl Falcons, Lon Monarchs, Balt Ravens)
1971 Tracy Wells, actress (Heather-Mr Belvedere)
1972 Avrom Smith, WLAF RB (London Monarchs)
1972 Brian Saxton, NFL tight end (NY Giants)
1972 Common, American rapper
1972 Rickey Brady, NFL tight end (NO Saints)
1972 Ryan McCoy, WLAF LB (London Monarchs)
1972 Shea Olliff, Augusta Georgia, Miss America-Georgia (1997)
1972 Trent Dilfer, NFL quarterback (Tampa Bay Bucs)
1973 Ann Coale, Miss USA-Maryland (1997)
1973 Bobby Jackson, American basketballer, NBA guard (Denver Nuggets)
1973 Dan Wilkinson, NFL defensive tackle (Cin Bengals)
1973 David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1973 Edgar Davids, Dutch soccer player (Ajax, AC Milan)
1973 Trezelle Jenkins, NFL tackle (KC Chiefs)
1974 Corinna Broiz, Garberville Colo, lightweight judoka (Olympics-96)
1974 Thomas Enqvist, Swedish tennis player (1991 Wimbledon jr boys)
1974 Vampeta, Brazilian footballer
1975 Landon Wilson, St Louis, NHL right wing (Colorado Avalanche)
1976 Danny Masterson, American actor
1976 James Dewees, American musician
1976 Troy Hudson, American basketball player
1977 Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer
1977 Momo Sylla, Guinean footballer
1978 Karina Smirnoff, Ukrainian dancer
1978 Kenny Watson, American football player
1978 Tom Danielson, American cyclist
1979 Cedric Van Branteghem, Belgian athlete
1979 Johan Santana, Venezuelan baseball player
1979 Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 Caron Butler, American basketballer
1980 Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
1980 Molly Stanton, American actress
1981 April Matson, American actress and singer
1981 Stephen Maguire, Scottish snooker player
1982 Jeremy Curl, British explorer
1982 Nicole Ohlde, WNBA basketball player
1983 Kaitlin Sandeno, American swimmer
1984 Marc Zwiebler, German badminton player
1984 Noel Fisher, Canadian actor
1984 Pieter Custers, Dutch athlete
1984 Rachael Bella, actress
1984 Steve Darcis, Belgian tennis player
1984 Yuuka Nanri, Japanese seiyu
1985 Alcides, Brazilian football player
1985 Austin Scott, American football player
1985 Emile Hirsch, American actor (Into the Wild, Speed Racer)
1986 Chiaki Kyan, Japanese gravure idol
1987 Marco Andretti, American racecar driver (grandson of Mario Andretti, son of Michael Andretti)
1989 Harry Melling, British actor
1989 Holger Badstuber, German footballer
1990 Alec Medlock, American actor
1991 James M. Ledger II American Stoner
1999 Wiktoria Gąsiewska, Polish actress
Died on March 13th
1202 Mieszko III, the Elder, grand duke of Poland (1173-77, 1200-02)
1271 Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 Vladislav II Jagiello, King of Bohemia and Hungary (1490-1516) (b. 1456)
1558 Jean Fernel, French physician/physiologist, dies
1569 Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French prince and Huguenot general, dies in battle (b. 1530)
1573 Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman (b. 1507)
1604 Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 Richard Burbage, English actor (Shakespeare) (b. 1567)
1711 Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1716 Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer
1719 Johann Friedrich Böttger, German alchemist (b. 1682)
1756 Johann Melchior Conradi, composer
1767 Maria Josepha of Saxony, Dauphine of France, mother of Louis XVI (b.1731)
1773 Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1817 Matej Sojka, composer
1837 Nikita P Panin, Russian diplomat/min of Foreign affairs
1839 Robert Gallenberg, composer
1842 Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1854 Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)
1873 David Swinson Maynard, Founder of Seattle, Washington, United States (b. 1808)
1879 Adolf Anderssen, German world champion chess player (1851..66) (b. 1818)
1881 Alexander II, Tsar of Russia, assassinated (b. 1818)
1884 Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
1890 Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1901 Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
1903 Nicolas Beets (Hildebrand), Dutch writer (Camera Obscura)
1906 Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
1911 Jacob M van Bemmelen, Dutch physicist/chemist
1911 John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1915 Sergei J Witte, Dutch count/premier of Russia
1918 César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1918 Karel Stecker, composer
1918 William Courtleigh, actor (Susie Snowflake)
1925 Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1930 Mary E W Freeman, US writer (Pembroke)
1934 Fritz Cortolezis, composer
1938 Clarence S Darrow, Scopes Trial attorney (b. 1857)
1938 Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1941 A Coenradi, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 Bernard Ijzerdraat, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1941 Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1941 Isaak E Babel, Russian writer (Zakat, Marija), executed
1941 J Eyl, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1943 Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1945 Herbert Bedford, composer
1946 Abraham Bredius, Dutch art historian (Rembrandt)
1946 Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer
1946 Werner von Blomberg, German minister of Reichswehr
1949 Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1951 Alfred Hugenberg, German RC pres-dir of Krupp/media magnate
1951 James I Wedgwood, British theosophist/Catholic bishop
1955 King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1955 Maharajadhiraja Tribhuvana Bir Bikram Yung Bahadur Shum Shere
1955 Yung Deva, king of Nepal (191.-55)
1957 Lena Ashwell, Engl actress/theatrical manager (Kingsway)
1960 Yosef Zvi HaLevy, Israeli rabbi and judge (b. 1874)
1963 Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 Kitty Genovese, American murder victim, stabbed to death in Queens while 40 neighbors looked on (b. 1935)
1965 Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 George Calinescu, Romanian author (Lauda Lucrorilor)
1965 Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1967 Frank Worrell, West indian cricketer
1969 Felix Locher, actor (Frankenstein's Daughter)
1970 Rick Besoyan, composer
1971 Piero Coppola, composer
1971 Rockwell Kens, US artist/painter/illustrator
1972 Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1973 Stacy Harris, actor (NOPD, Doorway to Danger)
1974 Howard St John, actor (Investigator, Dr Lewis-Hank)
1974 Janos Prohaska, actor (Andy Williams Show)
1975 Ali Sastroamidjojo, Indonesian attorney/minister/premier
1975 Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian author (Nemiri-Nobel 1961) (b. 1892)
1975 Jean Del Val, actor (Sainted Devil, Flying Deuces)
1975 Ruth Schaumann, German author/painter/sculptor
1976 Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch comedian/poet
1977 Fanie Lou Hamer, freedom fighter
1977 Jan Patocka, Czech philosopher
1978 David McKinley Williams, composer
1978 Ghulam Mustafa Guard, cricketer (3 wkts in 2 Tests for India)
1980 Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer
1982 Albert Weisser, compose
1982 Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
1983 Louison Bobet, French cyclist (Tour de France 1953-55) (b. 1925)
1983 Paul R Citroen, Dutch sculptor
1984 Dick Whitington, journalist/cricketer (South Aust & AIF bat)
1986 Alvaro Fayad Delgado, Colombian guerilla leader (M-19)
1987 Bernhard Grzimek, West German zoologist
1987 Finn Videro, composer
1987 Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud)
1988 John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1988 Olive Carey, actress (Affairs With a Stranger)
1990 Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist, commits suicide (b. 1903)
1990 Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 Cor Witschge, [Pipo the Clown], Dutch actor (Alicia)
1991 Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist
1992 Clarence Wright, singer
1992 Hans Redeker, Dutch art critic (Algemeen Handelsblad)
1993 Ralph Smith Fults, US gangster (Bonnie & Clyde gang)
1994 Danny Barker, US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black)
1994 Edward James "Murt" O'Donoghue, snooker player
1994 Sandra Paretti, romantic novelist
1995 Abdul Ali Mazari, Afghan shite leader, shot to death
1995 John Silverlight, journalist
1995 Leo Kaplan, lawyer (ASCAP)
1995 Leon Day, American baseball player (Negro Leagues) (b. 1916)
1995 Lorraine Macleod, dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)
1995 Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
1995 P C J van Lierde, Dutch vicar-gen of Vatican (1951-91)
1996 Brian Hulls, television news cameraman
1996 Krzysztof Kieslowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
1996 Lucio Fulci, filem director
1996 Lucy Faithfull, children's campaigner
1998 Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
1999 Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
2001 Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2006 Robert C. Baker, Inventor of the chicken nugget (b. 1921)
2007 Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
2009 Andrew Martin, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1975)
2009 Betsy Blair, American actress of film and stage, (b. 1923)
2009 James Purdy, American author
2010 He Pingping, the world's shortest man who was able to walk. (b. 1988)
2011 Owsley Stanley, Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b. 1935)
2012 Jock Hobbs (Michael), New Zealand Rugby Union chairman and All Black
2013 Ducky Detweiler, American MLB player
2013 Malachi Throne, American actor
2015 Al Rosen, American baseball player (Cleveland Indians) and baseball executive
2016 Hilary Putnam, American philosopher
2016 Adrienne Corri, British actress (River, Doctor Zhivago)