March 14th
Holidays and Festivals
Commonwealth Day (UK)
Constitution Day (Andorra)
Mother Tongue Day (Estonia)
Pi (π) Day * CLICK HERE
White Day (Japan, Korea, Taiwan) * CLICK HERE
Spring Day (Albania) Start of Deaf History Month (Mar 13-Apr 15)
Second Equirria (Roman Empire)
International Ask A Question Day
International Fanny Pack Day
International Day of the Seal
Learn about Butterflies Day
National Potato Chip Day
MOTH-ER Day
National Children's Craft Day
Birthday of Albert Einstein (genius)
Christian Feast Day of Matilda of Ringelheim
Nanakshahi New Year, first day of the month of Chet (Sikhism)
* Canadian Music Fest Toronto, Ontario, Canada March 10 – 14 (5of5)(2010)
* Bloc Festival Butlins Resort, Minehead, Somerset, UKMarch 12 – 14 (3of3) (2010) Fête de la Pâquerette Translation: Daisy Day (French Republican) The 24th day of the Month of Ventôse in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May the lilt of Irish laughter
lighten every load.
May the mist of Irish magic
shorten every road...
And may all your friends remember
all the favours you are owed!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Nutty Irishman
1 Part (Bailey's) Irish Cream Liquer
1 Part Frangelico Liqueur
Fill With Coffee
Top With Whipped Cream
Wine of The Day
Merritt Estate Winery NV Pinot Grigio
Style - Pinot Grigio
Lake Erie
$15
Beer of The Day
Eastern Hemisphere
Samuel Adams Irish Red
Brewer - Boston Beer Co. ; Boston, Massachusets, USA
Style - Irish-Style Red Ale
Western Hemisphere
Porterhouse Plain Porter
Brewer - The Porterhouse Brewing Co. ; Dublin, Ireland
Style - Classic Irish-Style Dry Stout
Joke of The Day
John was sitting outside his local pub one day, enjoying a quiet pint and generally feeling good about himself, when a nun suddenly appears at his table and starts decrying the evils of drink.
"You should be ashamed of yourself young man! Drinking is a Sin! Alcohol is the blood of the devil!"
Now John gets pretty annoyed about this, and goes on the offensive.
"How do you know this, Sister?"
"My Mother Superior told me so."
"But have you ever had a drink yourself? How can you be sure that what you are saying is right?"
"Don't be ridiculous--of course I have never taken alcohol myself"
"Then let me buy you a drink - if you still believe afterwards that it is evil I will give up drink for life"
"How could I, a Nun, sit outside this public house drinking?!"
"I'll get the barman to put it in a teacup for you, then no one will ever know."
The Nun reluctantly agrees, so John goes inside to the bar.
"Another pint for me, and a triple vodka on the rocks", then he lowers his voice and says to the barman "and could you put the vodka in a teacup?"
"Oh no! It's not that Nun again is it?"
Quote of the Day
"People who drink light "beer" don't like the taste of beer... they just like to pee alot."
- Capital Brewery, a brewery located in Middleton, Wisconsin. Founded on March 14, 1984, by Madison, Wisconsin entrepreneur Ed Janus
Whiskey of The Day
The Tyrconnell 10 Year Old Single Malt Sherry Cask Finish Irish Whiskey
Price: $75
March Holidays
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
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign, March 11th to March 17th
National Agriculture Week, Second Full Week of March
Teen Tech Week, Second Full Week of March
Flood Safety Awareness Week, Second Work Week of March
International Brain Awareness Week, Second Monday to Sunday in March
Historical Events on March 14th
1489 The Queen of Cyprus, Catherine Cornaro, sells her kingdom to Venice.
1558 Ferdinand I appointed Holy Roman emperor
1559 Storm floods ravage Gorinchem, Dordrecht & Woudrichem, Neth
1590 Battle of Ivry, Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
1629 England granted a royal charter to Massachusetts Bay Colony
1644 England grants patent for Providence Plantations (now Rhode Island)
1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm.
1653 Johan van Galen beats English fleet at Livorno
1689 Scotland dismisses Willem III & Mary Stuart as king & queen
1734 Prince Willem KHF van Orange marries George II's daughter Mary Anne
1743 1st American town meeting (Boston's Faneuil Hall)
1757 On-board the HMS Monarch, Admiral John Byng is executed by firing squad for neglecting his duty.
1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin.
1800 Luigi Chiaramonti crowned Pope Pius VII
1812 Congress authorizes war bonds to finance War of 1812
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (NY)
1826 General Congress of South American States assembles at Panama
1836 HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin leaves Australia
1840 Jose Zorilla's "El Zapatero y el Rey," premieres in Madrid
1843 Boston conducts its 1st town meeting (Faneuil Hall)
1845 -5.3°F (-20.7°C) in Groningen
1862 Battle of New Bern NC: General Burnside conquers New Bern
1864 Rossini's "Petite Messe Solennelle," premieres in Paris
1864 Union troops occupy Fort de Russy, Louisiana
1869 Defeat of Titokowaru.
1870 California legislature approves act making Golden Gate Park possible
1875 Smetana's "Vysehrad," premieres
1885 The "Mikado" a light opera by W.S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, had its first public performance in London.
1888 2nd largest snowfall in NYC history (21")
1889 August Strindberg's "Froken Julie," premieres in Copenhagen
1889 German Ferdinand von Zeppelin patents his "Navigable Balloon"
1896 Sutro Baths (SF) opens by Cliff House (closed Sept 1, 1952)
1899 Stanley Cup, Montreal Shamrocks beat Winnipeg Victorias, 6-2
1900 Hugo de Vries rediscovers Mendel's laws of genetics
1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing United States currency on the gold standard.
1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
1903 1st national bird reservation established in Sebastian, FL
1903 Stanley Cup, Ottawa Silver 7 sweep Rat Portage Thisles in 2 games
1903 The Hay-Herran Treaty, granting the United States the right to build the Panama Canal, is ratified by the United States Senate. The Colombian Senate would later reject the treaty.
1903 WB Yeats & Lady Gregory's "Hour-glass," premieres in Dublin
1906 Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club forms
1908 Stanley Cup, Montreal Wanderers beat Toronto Trolley Leaguers, 6-4
1909 Amsterdam Social-Democratic Party (SDP) forms
1910 Lakeview Gusher, the largest U.S. oil well gusher near Bakersfield, California, vented to atmosphere.
1912 King Vittorio Emanuel III of Rome injured during assassination attempt
1913 John D Rockefeller gives $100 million to Rockefeller Foundation
1914 Serbia & Turkey sign peace treaty
1915 Cornered off the coast of Chile by the Royal Navy after fleeing the Battle of the Falkland Islands, the German light cruiser SMS Dresden is abandoned and scuttled by her crew, World War I.
1916 Battle of Verdun German attack on Mort-Homme ridge, West of Verdun
1918 1st concrete ship to cross the Atlantic (Faith) is launched, SF
1922 KGU-AM in Honolulu HI begins radio transmissions
1922 KSD-AM in Saint Louis MO begins radio transmissions
1922 WGR-AM in Buffalo NY begins radio transmissions
1923 Allies accepts Vilnus taking East-Galicia in Poland
1923 German Supreme Court prohibits NSDAP
1923 Pres Warren G Harding becomes 1st pres to pay taxes
1926 A train in Costa Rica falls into the Río Virilla, killing 248 and injuring 93.
1931 1st theater built for rear movie projection (NYC)
1933 Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost air defense
1935 36-Folsom becomes 1st line to use 1-man streetcars
1936 Federal Register, 1st magazine of the US government, publishes 1st issue
1937 Battle of the Century, Fred Allen & Jack Benny meet on radio
1937 Pope Pius XI publishes anti-nazi-encyclical Mit brennender Sorge
1939 England draw with South Africa at Durban on the 10th day
1939 Nazi Germany dissolves Republic of Czechoslovakia
1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure.
1940 27 killed, 15 injured when truck full of migrant workers collides with a train outside McAllen, Texas
1941 Nazi occupiers of Holland forbid Jewish owned companies
1941 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
1942 Orvan Hess and John Bumstead became the first in the world to successfully treat a patient, Anne Miller, using penicillin.
1943 World War II The Kraków Ghetto is 'liquidated'.
1945 World War II The R.A.F. first operational use of the Grand Slam bomb, Bielefeld, Germany. cuts railway link Hannover-Hamm
1946 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1948 Freedom Train arrives in SF
1950 FBI's "10 Most Wanted Fugitives" program begins
1951 Earthquake at Euskirchen, Germany
1951 During the Korean War, For the second time, United Nations troops recapture Seoul.
1953 KOLR TV channel 10 in Springfield, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 Nikita Khrushchev succeeds Malenkov as secretary Comm Party
1954 Braves Henry Aaron homers in his 1st exhibition game
1954 KDAL (now KDLH) TV channel 3 in Duluth-Superior, MN (CBS) begins
1954 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1954 NBA Baltimore Bullets end a 32 game road losing streak
1955 Prince Mahemdra becomes king of Nepal
1956 Satchel Paige signs with the Birmingham Black Barons (Negro League)
1957 Indonesian government of Sastroamidjojo resigns
1958 RIAA certifies 1st gold record (Perry Como's Catch A Falling Star)
1958 Recording Industry Association of American created
1958 South Africa government disallows ANC
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1958 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1960 14 die in a train crash in Bakersfield Calif
1960 Wilt Chamberlain (Phila) sets NBA playoff record of 53 points
1961 George Weiss becomes pres of NY Mets
1962 Disarmament conference opens in Geneva without France
1962 Gordie Howe (Det Red Wings) is 2nd NHLer to score 500 goals
1963 SF Guy Rogers ties NBA record with 28 assists
1964 "Girl Who Came to Supper" closes at Broadway NYC after 112 perfs
1964 A jury in Dallas, Texas, finds Jack Ruby guilty of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, assumed assassin of John F. Kennedy.
1965 Israeli cabinet approves diplomatic relations with West Germany
1967 1st NFL-AFL common draft, Balt Colts pick Bubba Smith
1967 The body of President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery.
1968 CBS TV suspends Radio Free Europe free advertising because RFE doesn't make it clear it is sponsored by the CIA
1968 POM performs atmospheric nuclear test at Maralinga Australia
1969 Barbara Jo Rubin becomes 1st woman jockey to win at Aqueduct
1969 Seymour Nurse scores 258 in his last Test Cricket innings, WI v NZ
1971 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Burt Bacharach Special" on CBS TV
1971 South Vietnamese troops flee Laos
1971 The Rolling Stones leave England for France to escape taxes
1972 Italian publisher and former partisan Giangiacomo Feltrinelli is killed by an explosion near Segrate.
1972 NBA's Cincinnati Royals announce they are moving to KC
1973 Liam Cosgrave appointed president of Ireland
1976 Jockey Bill Shoemaker wins his 7,000th race
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 Marines terminate Molukse action in Province house (1 dead)
1978 NFL permanently adds 7th official (side judge)
1978 The Israeli Defense Force invades and occupies southern Lebanon, in Operation Litani.
1979 In China, a Hawker Siddeley Trident crashes into a factory near Beijing, killing at least 200.
1980 3rd Emmy Sports Award presentation
1980 Ice Dance Championship at Dortmund West Germany won by Regoczy & Sallay
1980 Ice Pairs Championship at Dortmund won by Cherkasova & Shakhrai (USSR)
1980 In Poland, a plane crashes during final approach near Warsaw, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team.
1980 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Dortmund won by Anett Potzsch
1982 Sally Little wins LPGA Olympia Gold Golf Classic
1982 Sidath Wettimuny scores Sri Lanka's 1st Test Cricket century
1983 OPEC cut oil prices for 1st time in 23 years
1984 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 41-C mission
1984 Gerry Adams, head of Sinn Féin, is seriously wounded in an assassination attempt in central Belfast.
1985 11th People's Choice Awards, Bill Cosby wins 4 awards
1985 Michael Secrest (US) completes 24-hr ride of 516 miles, 427 yards
1986 European Space Agency's Giotto flies by Halley's Comet (605 km)
1987 NY Met Darryl Strawberry charges Red Sox pitcher Al Nipper during spring training exhibition game, causes bench clearing brawl
1987 Providence, with Billy Donovan's 25 points, beats Austin Peay 90-87
1987 Skier Piotr Fijas jumps record 194m
1987 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Cincinnati won by Katarina Witt
1990 4th Soul Train Music Awards, Soul II Soul, Janet Jackson
1990 Mikhail S Gorbachev becomes president of the Soviet Congress
1991 British Court of Appeal frees "Birmingham 6" who had been unjustly sentenced in August 1975 to life imprisonment
1991 Emir of Kuwait returns to Kuwait City, after the Iraqis leave
1991 Ice Dance Championship at Munich won by Isabel & Phil Duchesnay (FRA)
1991 Ice Pairs Championship at Munich won by N Mishkutenok & A Dmitriev
1991 Men's Figure Skating Championship in Munich won by Kurt Browning (CAN)
1992 Farm Aid V
1992 NY Met Daryl Boston, Vince Coleman & Dwight Gooden accused of rape
1992 Soviet newspaper "Pravda" suspends publication
1993 "Conversations with My Father" closes at Royale NYC after 462 perfs
1993 "Face Value" closes at Cort Theater NYC after * performances
1993 "Saint Joan" closes at Lyceum Theater NYC after 49 performances
1993 3,000th performance of "Nunsense"
1993 Johan Koss skates world record 5km (6:36.57)
1993 Meg Mallon wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1993 Ricky Ponting hits twin tons for Tasmania aged 18 years 84 days
1993 Worlds Ladies Figure Skating Champ in Prague won by Oksana Baiul (UKR)
1994 Mexican banker/billionaire Alfredo Harp Helu kidnapped
1994 Soyuz TM-21 launches with V Dezyurov, G Strekalov & N Thagard
1994 Linux kernel version 1.0.0 is released.
1995 1st time 13 people in space
1995 Astronaut Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on-board a Russian launch vehicle.
1996 Australia beat West Indies by 5 runs in amazing cricket World Cup semi
1996 Crufts show at NEC Birmingham, (1995 winner, Joshua, an Irish setter)
1997 68 year old Gordie Howe signs AHL contract with Syracuse Crunch
1997 Iranian military plane crashes, killing 80
1997 Olympic gold medalist Michael Johnson wins 67th James E Sullivan Award
1997 Pres Clinton trips & tears up his knee requiring surgery
1997 The Chinese city of Chongqing (formerly Chunking) is upgraded to a centrally administered municipality.
1998 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter scale hits southeastern Iran.
2003 Start of weekend of protests against war in Iraq that are attended by millions
2005 Cedar Revolution, where over one and a million Lebanese went into the streets of Beirut to demonstrate against the Syrian military presence in Lebanon, and against the government, following the assassination of Prime Minister Rafik Hariri
2013 7 people are killed after gunmen storm a bar in Cancun, Mexico
2013 25 people are killed and 50 are wounded by a series of car bombings in Baghdad, Iraq
2013 Xi Jinping is named as the new President of the People's Republic of China
2016 President Putin orders Russian troops out of Syria
2016 NASA releases data showing February 2016 warmest month ever recorded globally - 1.35C above the long-term average
Born on March 14th
1623 Adam-Nicolas Gascon, composer
1638 Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (d. 1710)
1681 Georg Philipp Telemann, German baroque composer (d. 1767)
1692 Peter Musschenbroek, Dutch physician/physicist (Leyden jar)
1726 Josef Antonin Stepan, composer
1727 Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, composer
1755 Pierre-Louis Couperin, composer
1782 Thomas Hart Benton, (rep), "Old Bullion"
1790 Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (d. 1863)
1795 Rubert Lucas Pearsall, composer
1800 James Bogardus, US inventor/builder (made cast-iron buildings)
1801 Kristjan Jaak Peterson, first Estonian poet (d. 1822)
1803 F G Klopstock, writer
1804 Johann Strauss, Sr., Austrian composer (Radetzky March) (d. 1849)
1807 Josephine of Leuchtenberg, queen of Sweden and Norway (d. 1876)
1808 Catharinus Putnam Buckingham, Brigadier General (Union volunteers)
1813 Joseph Philo Bradley, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 1892)
1815 Josephine Lang, composer
1816 Montgomery Dent Corse, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1895
1820 Victor Emmanuel II, King of Sardinia (1849-61)/Italy (1861-78)
1821 Jens Worsaae, Denmark, archaeologist
1822 Teresa of the Two Sicilies, Empress of Brazil (d. 1889)
1823 Roswell Sabine Ripley, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1887)
1823 Théodore de Banville, French writer (d. 1891)
1826 William Fisk Sherwin, composer
1829 Charles Charlesworth, England, (dies at 7 of old age)
1831 Leon Leopold Lewandoski, composer
1833 John Sappington Marmaduke, Major General (Confederate Army)
1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, 1st US woman dentist (1866)
1835 Giovanni V Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer (Mars) (d. 1910)
1835 Manuel Fernandez Caballero, composer
1837 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (Expansive classification) (d. 1903)
1844 King Umberto I, of Italy (1878-1900) (d. 1900)
1847 Antonio de Castro Alves, Brazilian poet (Espumas Flutuantes)
1851 John Sebastian Little, American politician and congressman (d. 1916)
1853 Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (d. 1918)
1854 Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian writer (d. 1920)
1854 John Lane, British publisher (d. 1925)
1854 Paul Ehrlich, Germany, bacteriologist (Nobel-1908) (d. 1915)
1854 Thomas Riley Marshall, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (1913-21) (d. 1925)
1862 Vilhelm FK Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist (d. 1951)
1864 (John) Casey Jones, American railroad engineer (Subject of Ballad of Casey Jones)
1866 Alexey Troitsky, Russian chess problemist (d. 1942)
1869 Algernon Blackwood, British writer (d. 1951)
1873 Johannes Aengenent, sociologist/bishop of Haarlem (1928-35)
1874 Anton F Philips, president-director of Philips
1874 Mary Carr, Phila, actress (Forbidden Trail, Pack Up Your Troubles)
1875 Isadore Gilbert Mudge, US, librarian/author (Thackeray Dictionary)
1875 Norman Houstoun O'Neill, composer
1878 Carel T Scharten, Dutch poet/writer (Forces of the Future)
1879 Albert Einstein, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (theory of relativity) (d. 1955)
1880 Oscar (Bachigaloupi) Tourniaire, actor/director (Pink Kate)
1880 Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (d. 1945)
1882 Waclaw Sierpinski, Polish mathematician (d. 1969)
1883 Juan Manen, composer
1884 Albert Egges van Giffen, Dutch archaeologist
1884 Winter Haynes Watts, composer
1885 Raoul Lufbery, American World War I pilot (d. 1918)
1886 Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (d. 1964)
1887 Charles Reisner, American silent actor and film director (d. 1962)
1887 George Creten, Belgian sculptor/painter
1887 Lawrence Collingwood, composer
1887 Sylvia Beach, American publisher (d. 1962)
1888 Marc-Aurèle Fortin, Quebec painter (d. 1970)
1891 John P Strijbos, Dutch writer (Wandering through South-Africa)
1892 Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet's Bookshop)
1894 Josef Schelb, composer
1894 Osa Johnson, American explorer (d. 1953)
1895 Frans Ganshof, Belgian historian
1898 Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (d. 1985)
1899 K.C. Irving, Canadian industrialist (d. 1992)
1903 Adolph Gottlieb American painter (d. 1974)
1903 Molla Mustafa Barzani, Iran, Kurd leader (KDP)
1903 Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (d. 1979)
1904 Doris Eaton Travis, American actress, Ziegfeld girl
1905 Raymond Aron, French philosopher (d. 1983)
1906 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, composer
1908 Ed Heinemann, American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft) (d. 1991)
1908 Maurice (Jean Jacques) Merleau-Ponty, French phenomenological philosopher (d. 1961)
1908 Nikolay Petrovich Rakov, composer
1908 Philip Conrad Vincent, British motorcycle pioneer (Vincent Black Shadow, Vincent Rapide and Vincent Black Lightning) (d. 1979)
1909 Andre Pieyre de Mandiargues, French writer (Margin)
1911 Pete Piute (Morris Kaufman), NYC, comedian (Village Barn)
1912 Charles Van Acker, Belgian racing driver (d. 1998)
1912 Cliff Bastin, English footballer (d. 1991)
1912 Les Brown, American bandleader (d. 2001)
1912 W. Willard Wirtz, American administrator
1913 Witold Rudzinski, composer
1914 Bill Owen, British actor (d. 1999)
1914 Henry Ralph Carr, soldier
1914 Jiri Reinberger, composer
1914 Lee Elhardt Hays, American folk singer (d. 1981)
1914 Lee Petty, American race car driver (d. 2000)
1915 Alexander Brott, Canadian conductor and composer (d. 2005)
1915 Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [NS]
1915 Kenneth Rowntree, painter
1916 Horton Foote, American author, playwright and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1917 Macha Louis Rosenthal, critic/poet
1918 Dennis Patrick, American actor (Dear Dead Delilah, Dallas, Rituals) (d. 2002)
1919 Luther Henderson Jr, KC Mo, orchestra leader (Polly Bergen Show)
1919 Max Shulman, novelist (Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Tender Trap)
1920 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Great Britain, high jumper (Oly-silver-36, 48)
1920 Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) (d. 2001)
1921 Lis Hartel, Denmark, equestrian dressage (Olympic-silver-1952, 56)
1921 S. Truett Cathy, founder of Chick-fil-A
1922 Colin Fletcher, author (Walking Through Time)
1922 Les Baxter, American musician and composer (Born Again) (d. 1996)
1923 Diane Arbus, American photographer (d. 1971)
1925 Francis A. Marzen, American Catholic prelate (d. 2004)
1925 John Barrington Wain, England, novelist/poet (Hurry on Down)
1925 William Clay Ford, Sr., American owner of the Detroit Lions
1926 Francois d'Assise Morel, composer
1927 Bill Rexford, auto racer
1927 Joop F Wolff, Dutch editor (Truth)/Dutch politician (CPN)
1928 Frank Borman, American astronaut and CEO (Gem 7, Ap 8)/CEO (Eastern Airline)
1928 Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (d. 1980)
1929 Thomas Bell Jr, race horse trainer
1930 Dieter Schnebel, German vicar/composer
1930 Ray Flockton, cricketer (prolific NSW batsman of 50's)
1931 Bob Goalby, golfer (British Open-1968, Canadian Open-1968, NZ-1970)
1931 Phil Phillips (Baptiste), American singer and songwriter (Sea Of Love)
1932 Naina Yeltsina, Russia's first First Lady
1933 Michael Caine (Maurice J Micklewhite), London, actor (Alfie)
1933 Quincy Jones, American musician and composer (We Are The World)
1933 René Felber, former member of the Swiss Federal Council
1933 Sir Michael Caine, British actor
1934 Eugene A Cernan, American astronaut (Gemini 9, Apollo 10 17)
1934 Paul Rader, the 15th General of The Salvation Army
1934 Shirley Scott, swing/blues organist (with Stanley Turrentine)
1935 Jo van den Booren, composer
1936 Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer, PGA (1963 Houston Open)
1937 Peter van der Merwe, cricketer (South African captain of mid-1960's)
1938 Johnny Gleeson, cricketer (mystery spinner for Australia 1966-72)
1939 Bertrand Blier, French film director and screenwriter (Going Places)
1939 Pilar Bardem, Spanish actress
1939 Raymond J. Barry, American actor
1939 Stavros Xarhakos, Greek composer
1939 William Benjamin Lenoir, Miami Florida, astronaut (STS 5)
1940 Eleanor Fount, English actress (Women in Love, Bedazzled)
1940 Rita Tushingham, Liverpool England, actress (Green Eyes, Dr Zhivago)
1941 Wolfgang Petersen, German director (Shattered, Enemy Mine)
1942 Jerry Jeff Walker, Oneonta NY, country singer (Mr Bojangles)
1942 John Whittaker, English real estate developer (Peel Holdings)
1942 Rita Tushingham, British actress
1943 Anita Morris, American actress (d. 1994)
1943 Jim Pons, Santa Monica CA, bassist (Turtles, Mothers of Invention)
1944 Bobby Smith, English professional footballer and manager
1944 Clyde Lee, NBAer
1944 Peter Paul Zahl, writer
1944 Vaclav Nedomansky, Czech hockey player
1945 Herman van Veen, Dutch singer and theatre performer
1945 Jasper Carrott, British comedian
1945 Michael Martin Murphey, American country music singer (Wildfire)
1945 Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist (Chicago)
1946 Jasper Carrott, English comedian (Jane & the Lost City, Detectives)
1946 Steve Kanaly, American actor (Fleshburn, Ray Krebbs-Dallas)
1946 Wes Unseld, American basketball player, NBA all-star (Baltimore Bullets, MVP 1969)
1947 Billy Crystal, Long Beach NY, comedian (Soap, Saturday Night Live, City Slickers)
1947 Jan (AJ) te Veldhuis, Dutch MP (VVD)
1947 Janis Schmitt, St Louis Mo, playmate (February, 1978)
1947 Jimmy O'Rourke, rocker
1947 Pam Ayres, British poet
1947 William J. Jefferson, American politician (Rep-D-Louisiana)
1948 Billy Crystal, American actor and comedian
1948 Tom Coburn, American politician, junior Senator from Oklahoma
1949 Michael Stedman, British World War I Historian and Author
1950 Michael Ford, son of pres Gerald & Betty Ford
1950 Rick Dees, American disc jockey
1951 Jerry Greenfield, American co-founder of Ben & Jerry's ice cream
1951 Rick Dees, radio disc jock (KIIS LA)
1952 J Fred Muggs, chimp (Today show)
1953 Tim McKee, US, 400m medley swimmer (Olympic-silver-1972)
1954 Adrian Zmed, Chicago Ill, actor (TJ Hooker, Dance Fever)
1954 David La Croix, race horse trainer
1954 Jann Browne, country singer (Mexican Wind)
1955 Boon Gould, rock guitarist (Level 42-Hot Water)
1956 Colin Ayre, British football player
1956 Jonathan Bowen, British computer scientist
1956 Natalya Dmitriyevna Kuleshova, Russia, cosmonaut
1956 Tessa Sanderson, Kingston Jamaica, Brit javelin thrower (Oly-gold-84)
1957 Andrew Robinson, British author
1957 Tad Williams, American author
1958 Albert Alexandre Louis Pierre, Prince of Monaco and bobsledder (Oly-1988)
1959 Brian Whitfield, former South African cricketer
1959 Patrick Dupond, Paris, dancer (La Bayadere)
1959 Tamara Tunie, American actress
1960 George Horvath, Sweden, pentathlete (Olympic-1980)
1960 Helen Hopkins, Donneybrook Australia, golfer (Australian Intl 1983)
1960 Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (d. 2006)
1961 Gary Dell'Abate, producer (Howard Stern Show)
1961 Greg Anderson, American NHRA driver
1961 Grigoriy Kornev, Russian speed walker (world record 5 km)
1961 Hiro Matsushita, Japanese racing driver
1961 Penny Johnson Jerald, American actress
1961 Russell Todd, actor (Jamie Frame-Another World)
1962 Kirby Puckett, centerfielder (Minnesota Twins)
1962 Narumi Tsunoda, Japanese voice actress
1963 Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer
1963 Pedro Duque, Madrid Spain, engineer/astronaut (STS 78 alt, sk:95)
1964 Dario Bisso, Italian conductor
1964 Donald Evans, NFL defensive end/tackle (NY Jets)
1964 Richard Migliore, jockey
1965 Aamir Khan, Indian actor
1965 Catherine Dent, American actress
1965 James Kevin Brown, American baseball player
1965 John Stephenson, cricketer (Engld opening bat in one Test v Aust 1989)
1965 Kevin Brown, Mcintyre GA, pitcher (Florida Marlins)
1965 Kevin Williamson, American screenwriter
1965 Kiana Tom, American fitness guru and model
1966 Darcy Wakaluk, Pincher Creek, NHL goalie (Dallas Stars)
1966 Elise Neal, American actress
1966 Marco Hietala, Finnish bassist and Heavy metal singer
1966 Tertius Bosch, cricketer (South African pace bowler 1992)
1967 Edward M Fincke, Pitts PA, Capt USAF/astronaut
1967 Melissa Reeves, American actress (Jen-Days of our Lives)
1967 Vijay Yadav, cricketer (Indian wicket-keeper between More & Mongia)
1968 Megan Follows, Canadian actress (Chase, Anne of Green Gables)
1969 Des Coleman, English actor and presenter
1969 Greg Biekert, NFL linebacker (Oakland Raiders)
1969 Larry Johnson, American basketball player, NBA forward (Charlotte Hornets, NY Knicks)
1969 Laura Leighton, actress (Sydney-Melrose Place, Other Woman)
1969 Ty(rel) Bennion, Seattle Wash, rower (Olympics-1996)
1970 Ebru Kavaklioglu, Russian athlete
1970 Meredith Salenger, American actress (Dream a Little Dream, The Kiss)
1970 Thomas McLemore, NFL tight end (Indianapolis Colts)
1971 Ernie Brown, CFL defensive tackle (Calgary Stampeders)
1972 Antowain Smith, running back (Buffalo Bills)
1972 Aris Brimanis, Cleveland, NHL defenseman (Phila Flyers)
1972 Clover Maitland, Australian field hockey goal keeper (Olympics-96)
1972 Tom Barndt, NFL/WLAF guard (KC Chiefs, Scottish Claymores)
1973 Chris Sullivan, defensive end (New England Patriots)
1974 Grace Park, Canadian actress of Korean descedent
1974 Justine Joyce, Australian rower (Olympics-96)
1974 Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player
1975 Johan Paulik, Slovak porn star
1975 Rico Yan, Filipino actor (d. 2002)
1975 Stephen Harper, British/English footballer
1975 Wendy Rice, American actress
1976 Daniel Gillies, Canadian born New Zealand actor
1976 Merlin Santana, American actor (d. 2002)
1976 Sarah Elizabeth Ulmer, Auckland NZ, 3k ind pursuit cyclist (Oly-96)
1977 Aki Hoshino, Japanese model
1978 Carlo Giuliani, Italian anarchist (d. 2001)
1978 Pieter van den Hoogenband, Dutch swimmer
1979 Anthony Carelli, Italian-American professional wrestler
1979 Chris Klein, American actor
1979 Love, Angolan footballer
1979 Nicolas Anelka, French footballer
1979 Sead Ramovic, German-born Bosnian footballer
1980 Aaron Brown, British/English footballer
1980 Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby union footballer
1980 Matteo Grassotto, Italian racing driver
1980 Mercedes McNab, Canadian-born actress
1981 Bobby Jenks, American baseball player
1981 Mei-Ting Sun, Chinese-born pianist
1982 Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer
1982 François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (d. 2008)
1982 Kate Maberly, British actress (Secret Garden), singer-songwriter
1983 Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer
1983 Jordan Taylor Hanson, Tulsa OK, singer (Hansons-MMMMbop)
1983 Taylor Hanson, American musician, member of Hanson
1984 Liesel Matthews, American former child actress
1985 Brianna Love, American porn Star
1985 Eva Angelina, American porn star
1985 Idaira, Spanish singer
1986 Andy Taylor, British/English footballer
1986 Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer
1986 Jamie Bell, British actor
1988 Stephen Curry, American basketball player
1989 Colby O'Donis, American musician
1989 Oliver Bernsen, son of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
1992 Jasmine Murray, American singer
1993 Julienne Irwin, American singer
Died on March 14th
840 Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni)
968 Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (b. 895)
1272 Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen
1298 Petrus Johannis Olivi, South France theologist
1457 Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1471 Sir Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
1490 Charles I, Duke of Savoy
1559 Jacques d'Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1573 Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny
1590 Philip van Egmont, general/prince of Gavere, dies in battle
1612 Philip Galle, Flemish engraver
1647 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, count of Nassau (b. 1584)
1648 Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
1680 René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1682 Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
1696 Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1698 Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1748 George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
1757 John Byng, English admiral (Minorca) (b. 1704)
1760 Anton Filtz, composer
1768 Vigilio Blasio Faitello, composer
1791 Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1801 Christian Friedrich Penzel, composer
1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
1805 Stanislaw Szczesny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
1811 August Henry Fitzroy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (1768-70) (b. 1735)
1823 Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
1861 Abraham Louis Niedermeyer, composer
1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (Communist Manifesto) (b. 1818)
1884 Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1899 Emile Erckmann, French writer (Waterloo)
1903 Johannes H Weissenbruch, Dutch landscape painter
1925 Walter Camp, father of American football
1932 George Eastman, American inventor, and founder (Eastman Kodak) (b. 1854)
1933 Balto, Siberian Husky noted for his role in the 1925 serum run to Nome (b. 1919)
1944 Pavel Grigor'yevich, composer
1946 Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
1949 John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1953 Klement Gottwald, premier/president of Czechoslovakia
1954 Ludomir Michal Rogowski, composer
1957 Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1958 Eugeen Van de Velde, Flemish musicologist/critic/composer
1961 Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (opening theorist)
1968 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian/iconologist
1969 Ben Shahn, US painter
1973 Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
1973 Murat B "Chic" Young, American cartoonist (Blondie) (b. 1901)
1973 Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1975 Susan Hayward, American actress (Young & Willing) (b. 1917)
1976 Alberta Franklin, silent screen actress
1976 Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (Strike Up the Band) (b. 1895)
1976 Martha Saalfeldt, writer
1977 Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1980 Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish populariser environmentalist (b. 1928)
1980 Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1981 Ken Barrington, cricketer (82 Tests for England, 6806 runs)
1982 Kirill Vladimirovich Molchanov, composer
1983 Maurice Ronet, French film actor (Circle of Love, Frantic, Sphinx) (b. 1927)
1984 Aurelio Peccei, Italian businessman/CEO (Club Rome)
1986 Benno Ammann, composer
1986 Edith Atwater, actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop)
1986 Jozef Kresanek, composer
1986 Marlin Perkins, TV host (Wild Kingdom)
1989 Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (b. 1927)
1989 Zita, Empress of Austria/Queen of Hungary
1991 Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
1991 Howard Ashman, American lyricist (Under the Sea) and playwright (b. 1950)
1991 Jef Houthuys, Belgian union leader (ACV, 1968-87)
1991 Jerome "Doc" Pomus, lyricist (Save Last Dance for Me)
1991 Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
1991 Robert Maroff
1992 C V Wood Jr, theme park developer (Disneyland)
1992 Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (La Cage aux Folles) (b. 1926)
1992 Ralph James, actor (Orson-Mork & Mindy)
1992 Steven Brian Pennell, 1st execution in Delaware in 45 years
1994 Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright, murdered
1994 Sally Mary Caroline Belfrage, writer
1995 Gerard Thomas Victory, composer
1995 Johan W "Jo" van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93)
1995 William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (Nobel 1983) (b. 1911)
1996 Dewi Lorwerth Ellis Bebb, rugby international/journalist
1996 Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature
1996 Vic Marshall, chemist
1997 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
1997 John Curtis Jr, pres/CEO (Luby's Cafe), commits suicide
1999 Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
2002 Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2002 Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2003 Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
2003 Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
2006 Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
2006 Lennart Meri, former President of Estonia (b. 1929)
2007 Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2007 Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2008 Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954)
2008 Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
2009 Alain Bashung, French singer, songwriter, comedian and actor (b. 1947)
2009 Altovise Davis, American entertainer, best known as Sammy Davis, Jr.'s third wife. (b. 1943)
2010 Peter Graves, American actor (b. 1926)
2012 Censu Tabone, President of Malta
2012 Pierre Schoendoerffer, French Academy Award winning director and screen writer, dies from surgical complications
2013 Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-born Cambodian politician (b. 1925)
2013 Jack Greene, American country artist
2013 Mirja Hietamies, Finnish skier
2014 Anthony Neil Wedgwood "Tony" Benn, British Labour left wing politician
2015 Valentin Rasputin, Russian writer (To Live and Remember)
2016 Peter Maxwell Davies, British composer (Prolation, Taverner)