March 15th
Holidays and Festivals
Constitution Day (Belarus) National holiday, celebrating the Revolutions of 1848 (Hungary) "Tis my will when I die, not a tear shall be shed, - Unknown Bloody Caesar 1 Part Vodka Roll between mixing cups to blend ingredients, then pour everything into a tall glass. Garnish with a celery stalk. Barboursville 2007 "Octagon" Red - Western Hemisphere - Allagash Curieux - Eastern Hemisphere - Beamish Irish Stout An old man lived alone in Ireland. He wanted to spade his potato garden “Beer…. a high and mighty liquor.” Bushmills Black Bush Irish Whiskey Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month National Agriculture Week, Second Full Week of March
Ides of March a.k.a. Brutus Day * (see drink of the Day)
International Day Against Police Brutality
World Consumer Rights Day (International)
Alternative Fuel Autos Month (Mar 15-Apr 15)
Admission Day (Maine)
World Day of Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film (International)
Fiesta de las Fallas begins, The commemoration of Saint Joseph (Spain)
Everything You Think is Wrong Day
Buzzards Day
Peeps Day
True Confessions Day
Dumbstruck Day
Birthday of President Andrew Jackson (7th US President)
Christian Feast Day of Clemens Maria Hofbauer
Christian Feast Day of Leocritia
Christian Feast Day of Louise de Marillac
Christian Feast Day of Raymond of Fitero
* Honen Matsuri, a harvest festival. (Japan)
* Calle Ocho (Miami) (1-4) Toast of The Day
No Hie Jacet be graved on my stone,
But pour o'er my coffin a bottle of red,
And write that His Drinking is Done."Drink of The Day
Season With Salt, Pepper, Tabasco, Worcestershire Sauce
Fill with Clamato Juice (contains shellfish)
- In Commemoration of the Ides of March (The murder of Julius Ceasar)Wine of The Day
Style - Red
Virginia
$50Beer of The Day
Brewer - Allagash Brewing Company ; Maine, USA
Style - Tripel
ABV 11.00%
Attributes - barrel-aged in Jim Beam barrels
Style - Golden Belgian-style tripel ale
Flavor Caramel aromas, Boozy
- Maine - Admission to Union March 15, 1820
Brewer - Beamish & Crawford Plc. ; Cork, Ireland
Style - Irish Dry Stout
ABV - 4.1%Joke of The Day
but it was very hard work. His only son, who would have helped him, was
in Long Kesh Prison.
The old man wrote a letter to his son and mentioned his predicament. Shortly, he received this reply,
"For HEAVEN'S SAKE Dad,don't dig up that garden, that's where I buried the GUNS!"
At 4 A.M. the next morning, a dozen British soldiers showed up and dug up the entire garden, without finding any guns. Confused, the old man wrote another note to his son telling him what happened and asking him what to do next.
His son's reply was:
"Plant your potatoes,
Your Welcome"Quote of the Day
- Julius Caesar (July 100 BC – March 15th 44 BC), a Roman general and statesman Whiskey of The Day
Distiller: Bushmills
Price: $35March Observances
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 MonthObservances this Week
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
Girl Scout Week, Week of March 12th Sunday through Saturday
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign, March 11th to March 17th
St. Patrick's Week, Third Week in March
Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week, Third Week in March
Sherlock Holmes Weekend, Third Friday to Saturday in March (also Nov 1-3)
Iditarod Race, Starts on the First Saturday in March, Ends the third Sunday.
Historical Events on March 15th
(44 BC) Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
221 Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
351 Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
493 Theodorik the Great beats Odoaker of Italy
933 After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army (Magyaren) at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
1311 Battle of Halmyros, The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
1360 France invasion army lands on English south coast, conquers Winchel
1382 Conservative "Popolo Grasso" regain power in Florence Italy
1391 Jew hating Monk in Seville Spain stirs up people to attack Jews
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
1545 First meeting of the Council of Trent.
1560 Failed assault on royal palace in Amboise France
1562 General Francois de Guise enters Paris
1564 Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .
1580 Spanish king Philip II puts 25,000 gold coins on head of prince Willem of Orange
1672 Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
1729 Sister St Stanislas Hachard, 1st US nun, takes her vows, N Orleans
1744 French King Louis XV declares war on England
1776 South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government.
1778 Nootka Sound, Vancouver Is discovered by Capt Cook
1781 Battle of Guilford Courthouse Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400, American Revolutionary War.
1783 In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
1812 1st Russian settlement in California, Russian River
1820 Maine admitted as 23rd U.S. state.
1827 Freedom's Journal, 1st Black newspaper, publishes
1827 University of Toronto is chartered
1848 A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
1855 Louisiana establishes 1st health board to regulate quarantine
1862 Gen John Hunt Morgan begins 4 days of raids near Gallatin, TN
1864 Red River Campaign-Union forces reach Alexandria, LA
1867 Michigan becomes 1st state to tax property to support a university
1869 Cincinnati Red Stockings become the 1st pro baseball team, beat Antioch 41-7
1875 1st US cardinal (John McCloskey) invested
1877 The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia at MCG.
1885 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Lesson Djinns"
1887 1st salaried fish & game warden (William Alden Smith in Michigan)
1889 6 US & German warships perish in harbor of Apia Samoa, 200 die
1892 1st escalator patented by inventor Jesse W Reno (NYC)
1892 NY State unveils automatic ballot booth (voting machine)
1897 1st indoor fly casting tournament opens, at Madison Square Garden
1901 Horse racing is banned in San Francisco, last race Mar 16th
1903 Frederick Lugard occupies Sokoto West Africa
1906 Brits Rolls, Royce & Johnson form Rolls Royce Ltd
1907 Finland is 1st European country to give women the right to vote
1908 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Rapsodie Espagnole"
1912 Pitcher Cy Young retires from baseball with 511 wins
1913 1st presidential press conference (Woodrow Wilson)
1913 Cleveland establishes 1st small claims court
1915 Neth merchant ship Tubantia torpedoed & sinks in North Sea
1916 Gen Pershing, 15,000 troops chasing Villa into Mexico, stays 10-mos
1916 President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
1916 University of Gent goes under Dutch control
1917 Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
1919 American Legion forms (Paris)
1922 1st southern radio station begins (WSB, Atlanta Georgia)
1922 After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
1923 Lenin is hit with his 3rd stroke
1926 Belgium's "black monday," franc falls
1926 The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
1928 Benito Mussolini modifies Italy electoral system (abolishes right to choose)
1930 1st seaplane glider flown, Port Washington, NY
1930 1st streamlined submarine of US navy, USS Nautilus, launched
1931 SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.
1933 Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
1933 NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation & discrimination
1934 US Information Service opens
1935 George Headley completes 270 in cricket v England at Kingston
1937 1st blood bank forms (Chicago IL)
1937 1st state contraceptive clinic opens (Raleigh NC)
1939 German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia, Czechoslovakia ceases to exist, Slovakia independent, World War II.
1940 Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1941 Blizzard in ND kills 151
1943 Allied reconnaissance flight over Java
1943 Third Battle of Kharkov the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting, Red Army evacuates Kharkov, World War II.
1944 Italian town of Cassino destroyed by Allied bombing
1945 17th Academy Awards "Going my Way," Bing Cosby & Ingrid Bergman win
1945 Bert Shepard (1 legged WW II vet) tries out as a pitcher for Senators
1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
1945 Catholic University of Nijmegen reopens
1945 Dodgers open spring training at Bear Mountain NY
1946 British premier Attlee agrees with India's right to independence
1947 John Lee appointed 1st black commissioned officer in US Navy
1948 Bradman scores 115 for the Australian cricket team v Western Australia
1948 Sir Laurence Olivier on the cover of LIFE magazine
1948 WCAU TV channel 10 in Philadelphia, PA (CBS) begins broadcasting
1949 WICU TV channel 12 in Erie, PA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 WLWD (now WDTN) TV channel 2 in Dayton, OH (NBC) begins broadcasting
1950 Gian Carlo Menotti's opera "Consul" opens at Barrymore Theater NYC for 269 performances
1950 NYC hires Dr Wallace E Howell as its official "rainmaker"
1951 Persia nationalizes Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
1952 "2 in the Aisle" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 276 perfs
1952 Greatest 24-hr rainfall begins: 187 cm at La Reunion, Indian Ocean
1952 In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
1953 Patty Berg wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1953 West Germany loses in soccer to Netherlands, 2-1
1954 "CBS Morning Show" premieres with Walter Cronkite & Jack Paar
1954 WSJV TV channel 28 in Elkhart-South Bend, IN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 Dutch 2nd Chamber requires TV licenses
1955 US Air Force unveils self-guided missile
1955 WLEX TV channel 18 in Lexington, KY (NBC) begins broadcasting
1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 perfs
1956 Whipper Billy Watson beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA champ
1957 3rd nation to explode a nuclear bomb (Britain)
1958 "Body Beautiful" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 60 performances
1958 KULR TV channel 8 in Billings, MT (NBC/ABC/CBS) begins broadcasting
1958 Oscar Robertson of Cin scores a NCAA midwest region-record 56 pts
1958 Royals basketball star Maurice Stokes collapsed during a playoff game with encephalitis; He goes into a coma & is permanently disabled
1958 USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 Louise Suggs wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1959 Richard Rogers' "No Strings" opens on Broadway
1959 Robert Foster sets record by staying underwater 13 m 42.5 s
1959 WILX TV channel 10 in Lansing, MI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 Key Largo Coral Reef Preserve established (1st underwater park)
1960 National Observatory at Kitt Peak, Arizona dedicated
1961 South Africa withdraws from British Commonwealth of Nations.
1962 "No Strings" opens at 84th St Theater NYC for 580 performances
1962 5 research groups announce simultaneously discovery of anti-matter
1962 Donald Jackson of Canada, is 1st to land a triple lutz ice skate jump
1962 KATU TV channel 2 in Portland, OR (ABC) begins broadcasting
1962 Richard Rodger's musical "No Strings," premieres in NYC
1962 Wilt Chamberlain is 1st to score 4,000 pts in an NBA season
1963 WFAN TV channel 14 in Washington, DC (IND) begins broadcasting
1964 LBJ asks for a War on Poverty
1964 Liz Taylor's 5th marriage (Richard Burton)
1964 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1965 President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
1965 T.G.I. Friday's 1st restaurant opens in NYC
1965 WMFE TV channel 24 in Orlando, FL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 8th Grammy Awards, Taste of Honey, Tom Jones, Sintra & Striesand
1966 Racial riots erupt in the Watts section of Los Angeles
1967 AFCENT-headquarter moves to Brunssum
1967 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva sworn in as pres of Brazil
1967 WSJK TV channel 2 in Sneedville/Knoxville, TN (PBS) 1st broadcast
1968 Bob Beamon sets indoor long jump record (27'2-3/4")
1968 British minister of Foreign affairs George Brown resigns
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock & roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 LIFE mag calls Jimi Hendrix "most spectacular guitarist in the world"
1968 US Mint stops buying & selling gold
1968 Uprising in South Yemen
1969 US Supreme Court Justice Abe Fortas resigns
1969 Violent Chinese-Russian border dispute leaves 100s dead
1970 "Purlie" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 689 performances
1970 Expo '70 opens in Osaka, Japan
1970 Gary Geld & Peter Udell's "Purlie," premieres in NYC
1971 Chatrooms make their debut on the Internet
1972 Assassination attempt on governor George Wallace of Alabama
1972 Danish airliner hit mountain in Sheikdom of Oman killing 112
1972 NASA selects 3 part configuration for Space Shuttle
1974 Brazilian president Garastazu Médici resigns
1975 Bundy victim Julie Cunningham disappears from Vail, Colo
1975 Jevgeni Kulikov skates world record 500m (37.99 sec)
1976 Failed coup in Niger
1977 "Eight is Enough" premiers on ABC-TV
1977 First official test cricket match is played between Australia and England at Melbourne
1977 US House of Reps begin 90 day test of televising its sessions
1978 Operation Litani, Israeli offensive in South Lebanon
1978 A's trade Vida Blue to Giants for 7 players & $390,000
1978 China PR performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1979 Apparat releases Newdos + 2.1 for Radio Shack's TRS-80
1979 Isle's Bryan Trottier's 5th career hat trick
1979 Sarfraz takes 9-86 at MCG as Australia lose 7-5 to lose the Test
1981 "Broadway Follies" opens/closes at Nederlander Theater NYC
1981 Patty Hayes wins LPGA Sun City Golf Classic
1981 Suriname failed coup under sgt-mjr Wilfred Hawker
1982 Actress Theresa Saladana, stabbed repeatedly by obsessed fan
1982 KGB-AM in San Diego CA changes call letters to KCNN (now KPOP)
1982 Nicaragua suspends their citizens rights for 30 days
1983 Karnataka beat Bombay on 1st innings to win cricket Ranji Trophy
1984 10th People's Choice Awards, Brooke Shields
1984 Tanzania adopts constitution
1985 Larry Holmes TKOs David Bey in 10 for heavyweight boxing title
1985 The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
1985 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1986 Funeral services held for Swedish PM Olaf Palme
1987 "Starlight Express" opens at Gershwin Theater NYC for 761 performances
1987 "Sweet Charity" closes at Minskoff Theater NYC after 368 performances
1987 13th People's Choice Awards, Bill Cosby
1987 Last day in Test cricket for Larry Gomes & Joel Garner
1987 NZ beat WI by 5 wickets in Jeremy Coney's last Test Cricket
1987 US Davis Cup team loses to Paraguay
1988 Eugene Marino of Atlanta, appointed 1st African American archbishop
1988 NASA reports accelerated breakdown of ozone layer by CFK
1988 NFL's St Louis Cardinals officially move to Phoenix
1989 "Les Miserables," opens at Royal Alexandra Theatre Toronto
1989 Dept of Veterans Affairs officially established as a Cabinet position
1989 NY Rangers retire goalie Eddie Giacomin's #1 uniform
1989 The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
1990 Fernando Collor de Mello sworn in as pres of Brazil
1990 Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
1991 4 LA police are charged with beating Rodney King
1991 Sergei Bubka pole vaults world record 6.14m (20 feet 1 3/4)
1991 Territories of Amapa & Roraima become states in Brazil
1992 Brandie Burton wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1992 UN officially embarks on its largest peacekeeping operation
1993 Vinod Kambli scores 227 v Zimbabwe, his 2nd consecutive Test 200
1994 8th Soul Train Music Awards: Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston win
1994 Experts from AL certify Indian's Jacobs Field is properly lit
1997 Pitts Penguins' Joe Mullen, is 1st American to score 500 NHL goals
1998 "Cabaret," opens at Club Expo Theater NYC
1998 Welch's/Circle K Golf Championship
1999 Pluto again becomes outermost planet
2003 Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China
2004 Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed
2006 18th Commonwealth Games open in Melbourne, Australia
2013 16 people are killed by a fireworks accident in Tlaxcala, Mexico
2013 24 people die after a double decker bus veers of a pass in Cape Town, South Africa
2013 Patrick Chan of Canada wins the men’s 2013 World Figure Skating Championships
2016 Google's DeepMind artificial intelligence wins Go challenge against Lee Se-dol 4-1
Born on March 15th
76 Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian's Wall)
938 Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
1275 Margaret of England, English princess (1275–1333) (d. 1333)
1455 Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
1493 Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
1591 Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
1638 Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
1666 George Bähr, German architect (Frauenkirche, Dresden) (d. 1738)
1678 Dominique Marie Valet, French RC/old-catholic bishop
1684 Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
1713 Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (mapped the So Hemisphere) (d. 1762)
1733 Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized
1750 Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer
1754 Silvestro Palma, composer
1767 Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (1829-37) (d. 1845)
1771 Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina (d. 1833)
1779 Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)
1779 William Lamb, (Whig) Viscount Melbourne, British PM (1834, 1835-41)
1790 Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
1790 Nicola Vaccai, composer
1791 Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
1801 Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer
1808 Gaetano Gaspari, composer
1809 Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
1809 Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
1810 Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)
1811 Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army) (d. 1886)
1813 John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
1818 Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
1821 Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
1821 Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)
1821 William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
1824 Branko Radicevic, Serbian poet (1st Serbian Uprising)
1824 Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
1830 Paul von Heyse, German writer (Nobel 1910) (d. 1914)
1830 Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
1831 Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
1831 Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brigadier General (Confederate Army)
1835 Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (318 Dance) (d. 1916)
1835 John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
1836 Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer
1838 Alice Cunningham Fletcher, ethnologist (Stranger in Her Native Land)
1838 Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
1844 Bransby Cooper, cricketer (in Dhaka Batsman in Australia's 1st Test)
1851 Jozef Surzynski, composer
1851 William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939)
1852 Augusta Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist (d. 1932)
1854 Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
1858 Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)
1864 Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
1864 Leslie Stuart, composer
1866 Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
1866 Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)
1867 Lionel Pigot Johnson, British poet (Ireland & Other Poems) (d. 1902)
1867 Will Rossiter, composer
1868 Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
1869 Stanislaw Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
1871 Betsy van den Arend, Dutch (Betje) actress (Miss Hobbs)
1873 David Vaughan Thomas, composer
1873 Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)
1874 Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
1874 Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician
1878 Hanson Carter, cricketer (Yorkshire Aussie WK of early 20th century)
1879 Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)
1882 Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
1884 Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951)
1884 Rudolf Piskacek, composer
1887 Marjorie Merriweather Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1973)
1890 Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
1892 James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
1894 Slava Vorlova, composer
1897 Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
1899 George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
1900 Gilberto Freye, Brazilian sociologist/writer
1901 Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)
1901 J Pat O'Malley, England, actor (Touch of Grace, Gunn, Star!)
1901 Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader
1902 Kitty Masters, actress
1904 George Brent, Dublin Ireland, actor (42nd St, Jezebel)
1904 Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence fighter (d. 1920)
1905 Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent, attempted to assassinate Hitler (d. 1944)
1905 Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)
1907 Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)
1907 Paul Maxey, Wheaton Ill, actor (Matt-Lassie, Mayor-People's Choice)
1907 Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
1910 An Rutgers van der Loeff-Basenau, children book writer (Skating Race)
1912 Duncan Stuart Wilson-MacDonald, fighter pilot
1912 Lightnin' (Sam) Hopkins, American musician, blues stylist (Ball of Twine) (d. 1982)
1912 Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (Kapellekensbaan) (d. 1979)
1913 Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
1913 Lex Goudsmit, Dutch actor (Fiddler on the Roof)
1913 Macdonald Carey, American actor (One Life to Live, Dream Girl) (d. 1994)
1914 Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
1915 Caterina Boratto, Italian film actress
1915 David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)
1915 Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
1915 Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)
1916 Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
1916 Frank Coghlan Jr, American actor (d. 2009)
1916 Geert Lubberhuizen, publisher (Busy Bee)
1916 Harry James, American musician and band leader (married to Betty Grable) (d. 1983)
1918 Janet Leach, potter
1918 Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
1918 Richard Ellmann, American biographer (Oscar Wilde) (d. 1987)
1919 John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley's World)
1919 Lawrence Tierney, American actor (Abduction, Dillinger) (d. 2002)
1920 E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
1920 Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
1920 Ranganandhan Francis, India, field hockey (Olympic-gold-1948, 52, 56)
1921 Madelyn Pugh, American television writer
1921 Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
1922 Louis Boon, writer
1923 Charles Wheeler, British journalist (d. 2008)
1923 George Vogel, race horse trainer
1923 Laurence A Tisch, NYC, CEO (Loews Corp)
1924 Juij Bondarew, writer
1924 Lockrem Johnson, composer
1924 Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
1925 Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (d. 2007)
1926 Ben (Burwell) Johnston, American composer
1926 Norm Van Brocklin, American football player, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of fame (d. 1983)
1926 Tim Valentine, (Rep-D-NC, 1983)
1927 Carl Smith, American country singer (Grand Ole Opry)
1927 Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
1927 Philip Vincent Belloc Jebb, architect
1927 Stanislaw Kania, Polish politician
1928 Nicolas Flagello, composer
1929 Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
1929 Tiezo Matsumura, composer
1930 Kostas Nestoridis, Greek footballer
1930 Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
1932 Alan Lavern Bean, American astronaut (Ap 12, Skylab 3)
1932 David Alliance, Iran/British textile factory/multi-millionaire
1933 Cecil Perceval Taylor, composer/jazz pianist (U of Wisconsin)
1933 Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
1933 Ronald Roseman, composer
1933 Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist
1934 Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist
1934 Daniel George "Danny" Apolinar, composer/songwriter
1934 Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
1934 Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist
1934 Wolfgang Hufschmidt, composer
1935 Jimmy Lee Swaggart, American televangelist
1935 Judd Hirsch, American actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)
1936 David Andrews, Irish politician
1936 Donald K Sundquist, (Rep-R-Tennessee, 1983)
1936 Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
1936 Paul Zindel, American author and educator (d. 2003)
1938 Dick Higgins, composer
1939 David Eisenberg, American biochemist
1939 Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author
1939 Julie Tullis, British climber (d. 1986)
1939 Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)
1939 Ted Kaufman, American politician, junior senator of Delaware
1940 Frank Dobson, British politician
1940 Margo Coleman, American advice columnist
1940 Mel Phillips, American radio programmer
1940 Phil Lesh (Chapman), American musician, bassist (Grateful Dead, Grass Roots)
1941 Dick Top, Dutch actor/director (Witch of Haarlem)
1941 Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
1942 Hughie Flint, London England, rock drummer (Bonzo Dog Band)
1943 Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)
1943 David Cronenberg, Canadian film director (Shivers, Fly, Brood)
1944 Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician, 80m hurdler (Oly-Bronze-68)
1944 David Costell, Musician (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)
1944 Jacques Doillon, French film director (La Fille de Quinze Ans)
1944 Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)
1944 Sly Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)
1945 A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
1945 Jorgen Sundelin, Sweden, yachtsmen (Olympic-gold-1968)
1945 Mark J. Green, American public official and author (Closed Enterprise System)
1945 Tracy Smith, runner
1946 Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (Giants, Yankees) (d. 2003)
1946 David Wall, English ballet dancers/director (Royal Academy of Dancing)
1946 Howard E. Scott, American musician, guitarist/vocalist (War)
1946 Masaharu Sato, Japanese seiyu
1947 David Colley, cricketer (NSW quickie, 3 Tests for Australia 1972)
1947 Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
1947 Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut
1947 Ry Cooder guitarist
1947 Ry(land) Cooder, American blues guitarist (Crossroads)
1947 Stomu Yamash'ta, composer
1947 Tomas Pettersson, Sweden, cyclist (Olympic-silver-1968)
1948 Kate Bornstein, American author
1948 Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
1949 John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)
1950 Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
1952 Howard Koh, American state government official
1953 Colin Croft, cricketer (West Indian fast bowler 1977-82)
1953 Judi Spiers, TV presenter
1953 Kostas Bigalis, Greek singer and songwriter
1953 Richard Bruton, Irish politician
1954 Craig Wasson, American actor (Body Double, 4 Friends, Men's Club)
1955 Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister)
1955 Marcia McCabe, Bryn Mawr Pa, actress (Alicia Grande-1 Live to Live)
1955 Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)
1956 Clay Matthews, American football player, NFL linebacker (Atlanta Falcons)
1957 David Silverman, American animator
1957 Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor
1957 Park Overall, American actress (Laverne-Empty Nest, Mississippi Burning)
1957 Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football manager
1958 Laura Carrington, actress (Louisa-Alphabet City)
1959 Eliot Teltscher, California, tennis player (US Davis Cup team)
1959 Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
1959 Harold Baines, American baseball player, outfielder (Chic White Sox, Texas Rangers)
1959 Lisa Holton, American writer
1959 Renny Harlin, Finnish film director
1960 Chris Sanders, American animator and director
1960 Donna Smith, Portland Oregon, playmate (March, 1985)
1960 Marco Pennette, American television producer
1961 Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player, NHL defenseman (Dallas Stars)
1961 Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model (Fabio After Dark)
1961 John Melendez, jockey
1961 Terry Cummings, American basketball player, NBA forward (Milwaukee Bucks, Phila 76ers)
1962 Igor Aleinikov, film Maker
1962 Jimmy Baio, American actor (Billy Tate-Soap, Brass, Playing for Keeps)
1962 Steve Coy, rocker (Dead or Alive-Spin Me Round)
1962 Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer (Wishing Well)
1963 Bret Michaels, American musician, singer (Poison)
1963 Don Simington, jockey
1964 Alison Johnson, Tustin CA, WPVA volleyball player (US Open-4th-1993)
1964 Davide Pinato, Italian footballer
1964 Rockwell (Kennedy Gordy), American vocalist (Someone Watching Me)
1964 Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)
1965 Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald's LPGA-3rd)
1966 Chris Bruno, actor (Michael-All My Children, Dennis-Another World)
1966 Karen Weiss, St Paul MN, LPGA golfer (1995 Chick-fil-A Charity-7th)
1967 Kirk Scrafford, NFL tackle (SF 49ers)
1967 Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
1968 John Tardy, US heavy metalist (Obituary, Slowly We Rot)
1968 Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth)
1968 Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
1968 Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
1968 Rob Anderson, Kamloops BC, Canadian Tour golfer (BC Amateur-1990, 92)
1968 Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer (Boys), Miss Italy (1984)
1968 Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
1969 Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer
1969 Kim Raver, American actress
1969 Louis Riddick, NFL safety (Cleveland Browns, Atlanta Falcons)
1969 Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
1969 Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
1969 Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
1970 Chris Dalman, NFL guard/center (SF 49ers)
1970 Derek Parra, American speed skater
1970 Diego Nargiso, Naples Italy, tennis pro
1970 Eric Castle, NFL free safety (San Diego Chargers)
1970 Paul Kruse, Merritt, NHL left wing (Calgary Flames)
1971 Joanne Wise, English long jumper
1971 Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)
1971 Penny Lancaster, English model
1971 Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama (1996)
1971 Robbie Pratt, jockey
1972 Casey Cristin Mizell, Miss USA-South Carolina (1997)
1972 David Rhodes, WLAF wide receiver (Rhein Fire)
1972 Filip Dewulf, Belgium, tennis star
1972 Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
1972 Mike Tomlin, American football coach
1972 Oliver Gibson, NFL defensive tackle (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Steve Danielson, Honolulu, field hockey defender (Olympics-96)
1973 Boris Durdevic, Croatian musician
1973 Franca Fehlauer, Hamburg Germany, golfer (Belgian Intl Jr champ 1991)
1973 Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor & model
1974 Imad Baba, Humble Tx, soccer midfielder (Olympics-gold-96)
1974 John "Beatz" Holohan, American musician
1974 Robert Fick, American baseball player
1975 Cornell Brown, linebacker (Baltimore Ravens)
1975 Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player
1975 Eva Longoria, American actress (Gabrielle Solis-Desperate Housewives)
1975 Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
1975 Will.i.am, American musician
1976 Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
1976 Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
1976 Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer
1976 Katherine Brooks, American television director
1976 Laurent Gras, hockey forward (Team France 1998)
1977 Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player
1977 Brian Tee, American actor
1977 Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park)
1978 Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
1978 Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
1979 Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
1980 Deidra Graham, Salt Lake City Utah, gymnast (alt-Olympics-96)
1980 Freddie Bynum, American baseball player
1981 Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
1981 Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer
1981 Young Buck, American rapper
1982 Emily Tyndall, American actress
1982 Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
1982 Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
1983 Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
1983 Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
1984 Badradine Belloumou, French-born football player
1984 Kostas Vasileiadis, Greek basketball player
1985 Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
1985 Curtis Davies, English footballer
1985 Eva Amurri, American actress
1985 F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
1985 James MacLurcan, Australian actor
1985 Kellan Lutz, American model and actor
1985 Tom Chilton, British racing driver
1986 Adrianne Leon, American singer-songwriter and actress
1986 Tyler Noyes, actor (CJ-One Life to Live)
1987 Taiwan Brown, American video jockey
1988 Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer
1989 Caitlin Wachs, American actress (Chloe Waters-Profiler)
1991 Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
Died on March 15th
(44 BC) Julius Caesar, Roman military and political figure, stabbed to death (b. 100 BC)
220 Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
493 Odiaker (Odoacer), German army leader, King of Italy (476-93), murdered (b. 435)
752 Zachary, Greek/Italian Pope (741-52)
963 Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63)
1034 Mieszko II, King of Poland (1025-34)
1145 Pope Lucius II
1311 Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1416 John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
1536 Pargali Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent
1575 Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1644 Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
1670 John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (Baroque) (b. 1615)
1701 Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1723 Johann C Gunther, writer, dies at 27
1731 Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1820 Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751)
1842 Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
1842 Maria Luigi C Z S Cherubini, Italian composer (Dies Irae)
1849 Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1880 Jan K J de Jonge, Dutch historian
1881 Emory Upton, US Union gen-maj (Selma), commits suicide
1883 Karol Studzinski, composer
1891 Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1891 Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1898 Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1905 Arnold Kerdijk, Dutch liberal/founder (Social Weekly)
1905 B Amalie Skram-Alver, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen)
1906 Alfred Gilpin Jones, lt-gov of Nova Scotia (1900-06)
1918 Jose Silvestre de los Dolores White Lafitte, composer
1918 Juliette Marie Olga Lili Boulanger, composer
1929 Pine-Top Smith, jazz pianist (Boogie Woogie Piano)
1930 Antonio Beltramelli, writer
1937 H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1938 Edmund Tylecote, cricketer (England keeper in 6 Tests 1882-86)
1940 Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 & 5)
1941 Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1942 Alexander van Zemlinsky, Aust/US composer (African Dance)
1944 Otto von Below, German commandant (WW I)
1945 Herman B Wiardi Beckman, Dutch MP (SDAP)
1951 John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1954 Arthur Fickenscher, composer
1957 Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1962 Sam Wren, actor (Wren's Nest)
1964 Paul Cavanagh, actor (Black Arrow, Woman in Green)
1966 Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (Harlem Globetrotters) (b. 1902)
1966 Heinrich Lemacher, composer
1969 Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (Postman's Knock) (b. 1888)
1970 Josef Martin Bauer, writer
1970 Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (Isslottet) (b. 1897)
1971 Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1973 Carl Benton Reid, actor (Burke's Law)
1975 Antonino Rocca, professional wrestler/sportscaster
1975 Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1977 Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler (b. 1927)
1977 Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1977 Kamal Joemblat, Lebanese politician, murdered
1981 René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football midfielder and manager (b. 1905)
1983 Jose Luis Sert, Spanish-US architect/urban developer
1983 Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1984 Tommy Cooper, comedian, collapses & dies on stage
1985 Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1987 Sterling W Cole, (Rep-R-NY), dies at 82
1988 Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent, Russian secret-general, top spy for US, executed (b. 1926)
1989 Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1989 Valerie Quennessen, French actress (b. 1957)
1990 Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster, NFL tail back (Heisman Trophy) (b. 1919)
1991 Bud (Lawrence) Freeman, American jazz musician (Eel) (b. 1906)
1991 Eileen Sedgwick, silent film actress (Hot Heels)
1992 Helen Deutsch, screenwriter, dies of natural causes
1992 Jack Washburn, actor (Black Orchid)
1992 Vanessa Lee, actress (Split)
1993 Anthony Bowles, music writer (Jesus Christ Superstar)
1993 Dennis Gregory, actor (Village of the Damn)
1993 Ricardo M Arias Espinosa, president of Panama (1955-56)
1994 Mae Zetterling, Swedish actress (Night Games)
1995 Carlos Menem Jr, son of Argentine pres
1996 Helen Chadwick, artist
1996 Olga Rudge, violinist
1996 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat
1997 Gail Davis, American actress ( Annie Oakley) (b. 1925)
1997 Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1998 Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2004 Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2005 Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2005 Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2006 George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2007 Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2008 Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2008 Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
2008 Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2009 Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
2011 Nate Dogg, American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale. (b. 1969)
2011 Smiley Culture, British reggae singer, David Victor Emmanuel. (b. 1962)
2012 Dave Philley, American Major League Baseball switch-hitter
2013 Booth Gardner, American politician
2015 Robert Clatworthy, English sculptor