March 17th
Holidays and Festivals
St. Patrick's Day (Multinational) * CLICK HERE
National Day (Ireland & Montserrat) * CLICK HERE
World Maritime Day (Worldwide)
Kustonu Diena (Ancient Latvia)
* Evacuation Day * (See Below)
National Muay Thai Day
St. Patrick's Day Parade (New York City, NY, USA) CLICK HERE
St. Patrick's Day celebrations (Dublin, Ireland), 5 Days around St. Patrick's Day (2013) * CLICK HERE
Liberalia, in honor of Liber Pater. Considered by some to be part of Agonalia. (Ancient Rome)
The second day of the Bacchanalia (Ancient Rome)
Submarine Day
Campfire Girls Day
Memorial of St Patrick, bishop, missionary to Ireland (Roman Catholic, Anglican : optional)
Evacuation Day
Fiesta de las Fallas, The commemoration of Saint Joseph (Spain)
Christian Feast Day of Alexius of Rome (Eastern Church)
Christian Feast Day of Gertrude of Nivelles
Christian Feast Day of Joseph of Arimathea (Western Church)
Christian Feast Day of Patrick
Commemoration of St Gertrude of Nivelles & Joseph of Arimathea (Christian)
* Calle Ocho (Miami) (3-4)
* South by Southwest Music Festival (SXSW), March 17 - 21 Austin, Texas, USA (1of5) (2010)
* Evacuation Day (Boston MA : 1776) (Suffolk County, Massachusetts)
Fête de la Sylvie Translation: Wood Anemone Day (French Republican) The 27th day of the Month of Ventôse in the French Republican CalendarToast of The Day
"The anniversary of St. Patrick's day, and may the Shamrock be green forever."
- Traditional Irish
-Alternative-
"Saint Patrick was a gentleman,
Who through strategy and stealth,
Drove all the snakes from Ireland,
Here’s a toasting to his health.
But not too many toastings
Lest you lose yourself and then
Forget the good Saint Patrick
And see all those snakes again.
'Beannachtam na Feile Padraig!'
Happy St. Patrick's Day!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Everybody’s Irish
1 1/2 oz. Irish Whisky
1/2 oz. Green Chartreuse
1/2 oz. Green creme de menthe
Add the whisky, chartreuse and creme de menthe and bitters in a shaker filled with ice and stir. Strain into a chilled cocktail glass and garnish with the green maraschino cherry.
Wine of The Day
Glenora 2009 Riesling
Style - Riesling
Finger Lakes
$20
Beer of The Day
Guinness Extra Stout (Original)
Brewer - Guinness/Diageo ; Dublin, Ireland
Style - Irish Dry Stout
ABV - 6%
Joke of The Day
One day an Englishman, a Scotsman, and an Irishman walked into a pub together. They each proceeded to buy a pint of Guinness. Just as they were about to enjoy their creamy beverage, a fly landed in each of their pints and became stuck in the thick head.
The Englishman pushed his beer from him in disgust.
The Scotsman fished the offending fly out of his beer and continued drinking it as if nothing had happened.
The Irishman picked the fly out of his drink, held it out over the beer and yelled "SPIT IT OUT!! SPIT IT OUT YOU BASTARD!!!!"
Quote of the Day
1
"We have always found the Irish a bit odd. They refuse to be English."
- Winston Churchill
2
"The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad."
- G.K. Chesterton
Whiskey of The Day
The Irishman Single Malt Irish Whiskey
Price: $40
March Observances
Adopt A Rescued Guinea Pig Month
American Red Cross Month or Red Cross Month
Bell Peppers and Broccoli Month
Berries and Cherries Month
Brain Injury Awareness Month
Child Life Month
Colic Awareness Month
Colorectal Cancer Education and Awareness Month (Different sponsor than National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
Credit Education Month
Deaf History Month (3/13 to 4/15)
Deep Vein Thrombosis (DVT) Month
Employee Spirit Month
Exotic Winter Fruit, Leeks and Green Onions Month
Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science and Engineering Month
National Expect Success Month
Holy Humor Month
Honor Society Awareness Month
Humorists Are Artists Month
International Expect Success Month
International Ideas Month
International Listening Awareness Month
International Mirth Month
International Women's Month
Malignant Hypertension Awareness & Training Month
March for Babies (March and April)
Music In Our Schools Month
National Athletic Training Month
National Caffeine Awareness Month
National Cheerleading Safety Month
National Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Awareness Month
National Clean Up Your IRS Act Month
National Color Therapy Month
National Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month (Different sponsor than Colorectal Cancer Awareness Month)
National Craft Month
National Ethics Awareness Month
National Eye Donor Month
National Frozen Food Month
National Irish-American Heritage Month
National Kidney Month
National Kite Month (3/31-4/30)
National March Into Literacy Month
National Multiple Sclerosis Education & Awareness Month
National Nutrition Month
National On-Hold Month
National Optimism Month
National Peanut Month
National Social Work Month
National Umbrella Month
National Women's History Month
Optimism Month
Play-the-Recorder Month
Poetry Month
Poison Prevention Awareness Month
Red Cross Month
Save Your Vision Month
Sing With Your Child Month
Small Press Month
Social Workers Month
Spiritual Wellness Month
Steroid Abuse Prevention Month
Supply Management Month
Umbrella Month, Natl
Vulvar Health Awareness Month
Workplace Eye Health and Safety Month
Workplace Eye Wellness Month
Youth Art Month
Observances this Week
St. Patrick's Week, Third Week in March
Inhalants and Poisons Awareness Week, Third Week in March
Turkey Vultures Return to the Living Sign, March 11th to March 17th
Consider Christianity Week, Week Starting Second Sunday Before Easter
Campfire USA Birthday Week, Third Full Week in March
Health Information Professionals Week, Third Full Week in March
National Animal Poison Prevention Week, Third Full Week in March
National Inhalant and Poisons Awareness Week, Third Full Week in March
Root Canal Awareness Week, Third Full Week in March
Health Information Professionals (HIP) Week (ahima.org) (Formerly Health Information & Technology Week), Third Full Week in March
American Chocolate Week, Third Full Week in March
Passiontide, Last Two Weeks of Lent
Historical Events on March 17th
(45 BC) In his last victory, Julius Caesar defeats the Pompeian forces of Titus Labienus and Pompey the Younger in the Battle of Munda.
180 Marcus Aurelius dies. Commodus is now the only emperor.
432 St Patrick, a bishop, is carried off to Ireland as a slave
455 Roman senator Petronius Maximus becomes Emperor
461 Bishop Patrick, St. Patrick, died in Saul. Ireland celebrates this day in his honor. (More about St. Patrick's Day)
624 Muhammad wins a key victory over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
1190 Crusades complete massacre of Jews of York England
1328 Treaty of Edinburgh by which England acknowledged the independence of Scotland under Robert 1 was concluded at Edinburgh
1337 Edward, the Black Prince is made Duke of Cornwall, the first Duchy made in England.
1521 Ferdinand Magellan lands on Homohon and discovers the Philippines
1526 French king François I freed from Spain
1537 French troops invade Flanders
1577 The Cathay Company is formed to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold. he will return with tons of worthless pyrites, which are dumped as street ballast in London, giving rise to the legend that the streets of London were paved with gold
1580 Prince Willem of Orange welcomed in Amsterdam
1613 Newfoundland the wife of Nicholas Guy gives birth to a son; likely the first English child born in Newfoundland
1658 Pro-Charles II plot in England discovered
1672 England declares war on Netherlands
1722 Willem KH Friso appointed mayor of Drente
1734 Forty-two families of German Protestant refugees landed in the American colonies, Sponsored by the British Society for the Promotion of Christian Knowledge, they founded the town of Ebenezer, 30 miles from current Savannah, Georgia.
1753 First official St Patrick's Day
1755 Transylvania Land Co buys Kentucky for $50,000 from a Cherokee chief
1756 St. Patrick's Day was celebrated in New York City for the first time. The event took place at the Crown and Thistle Tavern.
1757 Prince Mas Saïd of Mataram surrenders to Mangkubumi in Java
1762 First St Patrick's Day parade in NYC
1766 Britain repeals Stamp Act
1776 British forces evacuate Boston, Massachusetts after George Washington and Henry Knox place artillery in positions overlooking the city. Head to Nova Scotia during Revolutionary War
1780 George Washington grants the Continental Army a holiday "as an act of solidarity with the Irish in their fight for independence".
1789 Birth of Charlotte Elliott, English devotional writer. An illness at age 33 left her an invalid her remaining 50 years, during which she devoted herself to religious writing. Of her 150 hymns, "Just As I Am" remains popular today.
1799 Napoleon Bonaparte and his army reach Mediterranean seaport of St. Jean d'Acra, only to find British warships ready to break his siege of the town.
1800 English warship Queen Charlotte catches fire; 700 die
1804 Johann von Schiller's "Wilhelm Tell" premieres
1805 The Italian Republic, with Napoleon as president, becomes the Kingdom of Italy, with Napoleon as King.
1821 Greek Revolution starts from Areopoli (Mani Peninsula).
1824 England and Netherlands sign a trade agreement
1829 Ottawa Ontario 200 Irish canal navvies riot on St. Patricks Day; one killed and many wounded
1833 Phoenix Society forms in New York
1836 Texas abolishes slavery
1841 Birth of James R. Murray, American sacred music editor. A veteran of the American Civil War, Murray is better remembered today as composer of the hymn tune MUELLER, to which we sing the Christmas carol, "Away in a Manger."
1842 Indians land in Ohio, a 12 square mile area in Upper Sandusky
1845 Bristol man, Henry Jones, patents self-raising flour
1845 Rubber band patented by Stephen Perry of London
1847 Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Macbeth" is produced and premieres in Florence
1854 1st park land purchased by a US city, Worcester MA
1858 Toronto Ontario St. Patricks Day riot breaks out during parade; one man fatally stabbed
1860 Japanese embassy arrives aboard Candinmarruh
1860 The First Taranaki War begins in Taranaki, New Zealand, a major phase of the New Zealand land wars.
1861 Italy declares independence; Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861-1946)
1863 Battle of Kelly's Ford, Virginia (211 casualities)
1868 The first postage stamp canceling machine patent is issued.
1870 Wellesley College was incorporated by the Massachusetts legislature under its first name, Wellesley Female Seminary.
1871 National Association of Professional Base-Ball players organized
1876 1st record high jump over 6' (Marshall Jones Brooks)
1876 Gen Crook destroy Cheyennes & Oglala-Sioux indian camps
1877 Bill Midwinter completes Test Crickets' 1st 5-wkt haul, 5-78 vs England
1884 John Joseph Montgomery made the first glider flight in Otay, California.
1886 Twenty African Americans are killed in the Carrollton Massacre in Mississippi.
1890 Birth of Julius R. Mantey, co-author (with H. E. Dana) of a popular intermediate biblical language grammar. Originally published in 1927, the "Dana & Mantey" New Testament Greek Grammar is still popular, and still in print!
1891 The British steamship SS Utopia sinks off the coast of Gibraltar, killing 574.
1894 US and China sign treaty preventing Chinese laborers from entering US
1897 Emilie Grace Briggs became the first woman in America to graduate from a Presbyterian theological school, when she received her Bachelor of Divinity degree from Union Theological Seminary, in New York City.
1897 Robert Fitzsimmons KOs James J Corbett in 14 for heavyweight boxing title
1898 "The first practical submarine submerges, off New York NY for 1 hour 40 minutes"
1899 Windsor luxury hotel in NYC catches fire, 92 die
1900 Montréal Shamrocks sweep Halifax Crescents in 2 in the Stanley Cup
1901 Free thinking-Democratic Union forms in Netherlands
1901 In Paris, Vincent Van Gogh's paintings were shown at the Bernheim Gallery.
1901 An exhibition of seventy-one Vincent van Gogh paintings in Paris, 11 years after his death, creates a sensation.
1902 Stanley Cup: Montréal AAA beat Winnipeg Victorias, 2 games to 1
1905 Anna Eleanor Roosevelt, niece of President Theodore Roosevelt, marries Franklin D. Roosevelt in New York.
1906 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1906 U.S.President Theodore Roosevelt uses term "muckraker"
1906 Montreal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montreal outscores Ottawa 12-10 in the Stanley Cup
1906 The Phi Kappa Tau Fraternity is founded at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
1906 Japan nationalises its railways
1906 Montréal Wanderers beat Ottawa Silver 7, although both winning a game, Montréal outscores Ottawa 12-10 in the Stanley Cup
1908 Quickest world heavyweight title fight (Tommy Burns KOs Jem Roche in 88 seconds)
1909 In France, the communications industry was paralyzed by strikes.
1910 DHC soccer team forms in Delft Neth
1910 The Camp Fire Girls organization was founded by Luther and Charlotte Gulick. It was formally presented to the public exactly 2 years later.
1910 Luther Halsey Gulick and his wife Charlotte found Camp Fire Girls formally announced in 1912 in Lake Sebago, Maine (now Camp Fire USA).
1913 The Uruguayan Air Force is founded.
1914 Russia increases the number of active duty military from 460,000 to 1,700,000.
1916 Eight Curtiss "Jenny" planes of the First Aero Squadron take off from Columbus, Mexico, in the first combat air mission in U.S. history
1917 America’s first bowling tournament for ladies began in St. Louis, MO. Almost 100 women participated in the event.
1917 Delta Phi Epsilon is founded at New York University Law School.
1917 Tsar Nicolas II of Russia abdicates the throne
1918 US Ladies Figure Skating championship won by Rosemary Beresford
1918 US Men's Figure Skating Championship won by Nathaniel Niles
1919 Dutch steel workers strike for 8 hour day and minimum wages
1921 Lenin proclaims New Economic Politics
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1921 The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1921 Dr Marie Stopes opens Britain's 1st birth control clinic (London)
1921 Sailors revolt in Kronstadt (thousands die)
1921 The Second Republic of Poland adopts the March Constitution.
1924 Eugene O'Neill's "Welded" premieres in New York NY
1924 Four Douglas army aircraft leave Los Angeles for an around the world flight.
1924 Netherlands and USSR begin talks over USSR recognition
1924 Sweden and USSR exchange diplomats
1926 Dutch Calvinists oust Reverend J G Geelkerken over Genesis 3
1926 Richard Rodgers & L Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in New York NY
1926 Spain and Brazil prevent Germany joining League of Nations
1927 US government doesn't sign league of Nations disarmament treaty
1929 General Motors acquires German auto manufacturer Adam Opel
1929 Spanish dictator Primo de Rivera closes university of Madrid
1930 Mob boss Al Capone is released from jail.
1931 In an attempt to lift the state from the hard times of the Great Depression, the Nevada state legislature votes to legalize gambling
1931 Stalin throws Krupskaya Lenin out of Central Committee
1932 German police raid Hitler's Nazi-headquarter
1934 Dollfuss, Mussolini & Gombos sign Donau Pact (protocols of Rome)
1935 KSO-AM in Des Moines IA call sign is given to KWCR
1939 The Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out in the Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
1941 The National Gallery of Art was officially opened by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC.
1942 Gen Doug MacArthur arrives in Australia to become supreme commander of the Allied forces in the Southwestern Pacific.
1942 Belzec Concentration Camp opens (western Ukraine), 30,000 Lublin Polish Jews transported. The first Jews from the Lviv Ghetto are gassed at the Belzec death camp in what is today eastern Poland.
1943 The ships, Aldemarin (Ned) and Fort Cedar Lake (US) torpedoed and sink
1943 F Hugh Herbert's "Kiss & Tell" premieres in New York NY
1944 During World War II, The U.S. Eighth Air Force bombs Vienna
1944 Actor Charlton Heston weds Lydia Clarke
1945 The strategically important captured railway Bridge at Remagen, having sped the end of WW-II, but ironically no longer taking artillery fire, collapses ten days into the battle rendering the lodgement on the Germany bank of the Rhine dependent entirely on pontoon bridges.
1945 Allied ships bomb North-Sumatra
1945 HMCS Guysborough torpedoed in the Bay of Biscay
1945 The Ludendorff Bridge in Remagen, Germany collapses, ten days after its capture.
1947 First flight of the B-45 Tornado strategic bomber.
1948 Benelux, France, and the United Kingdom sign the Treaty of Brussels, a precursor to the North Atlantic Treaty establishing NATO.
1950 Belgian government of Eyskens resigns
1950 Scientists at the University of California at Berkeley announced that they had created a new radioactive element. They named it "californium". It is also known as element 98.
1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England v NZ Christchurch
1951 Government of Drees takes power
1951 Test Cricket debut of Brian Statham, England vs New Zealand Christchurch
1952 UK hist Utility furniture and clothing scheme ends
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay, WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield, MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1953 Bill Veeck says he will sell his 80% of St Louis Browns for $2,475M
1953 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1953 WBAY TV channel 2 in Green Bay WI (CBS) begins broadcasting
1953 WWLP TV channel 22 in Springfield MA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1955 Maurice "Rocket" Richard suspended, sparks 7 hour riot in Montréal
1955 The Richard Riot occurs in the streets of Montreal over the suspension of hockey legend Maurice Richard.
1956 Ed Sullivan Show, Phil Silvers Show & Lucy Ball in the 8th Emmy Awards
1957 A plane crash in Cebu, Philippines kills Philippine President Ramon Magsaysay and 24 others.
1957 Dutch ban on Sunday driving lifted
1958 Navy launches Vanguard 1 into orbit (2nd US), measures Earth shape
1958 The United States launches the Vanguard 1 satellite.
1959 The Dalai Lama (Lhama Dhondrub, Tenzin Gyatso) fled Tibet and went to India.
1959 Australia and USSR restore diplomatic relations
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma, AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1960 Number one hit on UK music charts - Johnny Preston - Running Bear
1960 U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs the National Security Council directive on the anti-Cuban covert action program that will ultimately lead to the Bay of Pigs Invasion.
1960 UK hist New £1 notes issued by Bank of England
1960 WSLA (now WAKA) TV channel 8 in Selma AL (CBS) begins broadcasting
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth.
1961 New York DA arrests professional gamblers who implicate Seton Hall players
1961 South Africa leaves British Commonwealth
1961 The United States increases military aid and technicians to Laos.
1962 The Soviet Union asks the United States to pull out of South Vietnam.
1963 Bob Cousy plays his last NBA game
1963 Elizabeth Ann Seton of New York beatified (canonized in 1975)
1963 Eruptions of Mount Agung Bali, kills 1,500 Balinese
1965 Beatles announce their film is named "8 Arms to Hold on to You" (Help)
1965 The X-22A VTOL research aircraft made its first flight at Buffalo, N.Y.
1966 South Africa government bans Defense & Aid Fund
1966 Number one hit on UK music charts - The Walker Brothers - The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore
1966 Off the coast of Spain in the Mediterranean, the DSV Alvin submarine finds a missing American hydrogen bomb.
1967 Snoopy and Charlie Brown of "Peanuts" were on the cover of "LIFE" magazine.
1968 2-tiered gold price negotiated in Washington DC by US and 6 European nations
1968 Kathie Whitworth wins LPGA St Petersburg Orange Blossom Golf Open
1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female and fourth Prime Minister of Israel.
1970 The U.S. Army charged 14 officers with suppression of facts related to the My Lai massacre case.
1970 Peter O'Malley becomes CEO of Los Angeles Dodgers
1970 The Army charges 14 officers with suppression of facts in the My Lai massacre case.
1970 US casts their first UN Security Council veto (Support England)
1972 U.S. President Nixon asked Congress to halt busing in order to achieve desegregation.
1972 Ringo releases "Back off Bugaloo" in UK
1973 Luzon, Philippine Islands a 7.5 earthquake killed 14, injured 100, and caused an estimated $2 million in damage"
1973 St Patrick Day marchers carry 14 coffins commemorating Bloody Sunday
1973 The first American prisoners of war (POWs) were released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1973 First POWs are released from the "Hanoi Hilton" in Hanoi, North Vietnam.
1973 Queen Elizabeth II opens new London Bridge
1973 Twenty are killed in Cambodia when a bomb goes off that was meant for the Cambodian President Lon Nol.
1973 UK hist Modern London Bridge opened by the Queen
1973 The Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph Burst of Joy is taken, depicting a former prisoner of war being reunited with his family.
1974 A CP Rail freight train hits a rock slide and derails at Spences Bridge, BC killing two crew members. This lead to the eventual installation of ditch lights on Canadian trains.
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Bing Crosby Golf Classic International
1975 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad enters its third and final bankruptcy, and William M. Gibbons is selected as receiver and bankruptcy trustee.
1975 Valeri Muratov skates world record 1000 meter (1:16.92)
1976 Malikov skates world record 1000m (1:15.76)
1976 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 Rubin "Hurricane" Carter is retried
1977 Australia wins cricket Centenary Test by 45 runs, same result as 1877
1978 Amoco Cadiz tanker spills 1.6 mil gallons of oil off French coast
1978 Ligeti's opera "Le Grand Macabre" premieres in Stockholm
1978 RCMP charge Toronto Sun editor Peter Worthington and publisher Donald Creighton with violating Official Secrets Act; published information from secret report on Soviet espionage activities in Canada
1978 Reds don green uniforms for St Patricks Day
1979 The Penmanshiel Tunnel collapses during engineering works, killing two workers.
1979 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gloria Gaynor - I Will Survive
1979 World Ice Dance Championship at Vienna won by N Linichuk & G Karponosov USSR
1979 World Ice Pairs Figure Skating Championship at Vienna won by Tai Babilonia & R Gardner (USA)
1979 World Ladies Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Linda Fratianne (USA)
1979 World Men's Figure Skating Championship in Vienna won by Vladimir Kovalev (USSR)
1981 FC Lisse, Dutch soccer team forms
1982 Following the failure of Argentinean diplomatic efforts to reclaim the Falkland Islands from the British, an Argentine warship lands a party of ""scrap dealers"" on South Georgia Island, a dependency of the Falkland Islands British crown colony
1982 4 Dutch TV crew members shot dead by government troops in El Salvador
1983 9th People's Choice Awards
1983 70th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1985 IBM surprised the computer industry by announcing the termination of its PC Jr., a watered-down version of its popular IBM PC"
1985 U.S. President Reagan agreed to a joint study with Canada on acid rain.
1985 Brian Mulroney 1939- welcomes President Ronald Reagan to a Canada-US Summit meeting in the Chateau Frontenac; called the Shamrock Summit because of their common Irish ancestry and the date - St. Patrick's Day.
1985 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1985 Matti Nykanen of Finland set a world ski jump record of 623'
1985 Serial killer Richard Ramirez, aka the "Night Stalker", commits the first two murders in his Los Angeles, California murder spree.
1986 Haemers gang robs gold transport in Belgium of 35 million BF
1987 Torrential rains and mudslides in Tajikistan, Soviet Union, destroy dam, killing 19 people and leaving nine others missing.
1987 IBM releases PC-DOS version 3.3
1987 Sunil Gavaskar ends his Test career with an inning of 96 vs Pakistan
1988 A Colombian Boeing 727 jetliner, Avianca Flight 410, crashes into a mountainside near the Venezuelan border killing 143.
1988 The Nadew Command, an Ethiopian army corps in Eritrea, is attacked on three sides by military units of the Eritrean People's Liberation Front (EPLF) in the opening action of the Battle of Afabet. of th Eritrean War of Independence
1988 "Les Miserables" opens at Det Norske Teatret, Oslo Norway
1988 Highest scoring NCAA basketball game, Loyola-Marymnt 119, Wyoming 115
1988 Iran says Iraq uses poison gas
1989 "Chu Chem" opens at Ritz Theater NYC for 44 performances
1989 A series of solar flares caused a violent magnetic storm that brought power outages over large regions of Canada.
1989 Dorothy Cudahy is 1st female grand marshal of St Patrick Day Parade
1990 PBA National Championship Won by Jim Pencak
1991 Former Australian governor-general Sir John Kerr, who dismissed the Whitlam Labor government in 1975, dies in Sydney aged 76.
1991 9 of 15 Soviet reps officially approve new union treaty
1991 Irish Lesbians and Gays march in St Patrick Day parade
1991 John Robin Baitz' "Substance of Fire" premieres in New York NY
1991 New Jersey raises turnpike tolls 70%
1991 Penny Hammel wins Desert Inn LPGA Golf International
1991 USSR holds a referendum to determine if they should stay together; 9 of 15 Soviet representatives officially approve new union treaty
1992 A suicide car-bomb kills 29 and injures 242 at the Israeli Embassy attack in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
1992 Death & the Maiden" opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 159 performances
1992 28 killed in truck bombing of Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires, Arg
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 In Buenos Aires, 10 people were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack against the Israeli embassy.
1992 White South Africans approved constitutional reforms to give legal equality to blacks.
1992 18th People's Choice Awards: Garth Brooks and Reba McEntire
1992 De Klerk wins a white only referendum
1992 Islamic Jihad truck bombs Israeli Embassy in Buenos Aires Argentina. Suicide car bomb attack kills 29 and injures 242.
1992 Russian manned space craft TM-14, launches into orbit
1993 86 killed by bomb attack in Calcutta
1994 Little More Magic" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 30 performances
1994 Iran transport aircraft crashes in Azerbaijan (32 killed)
1994 It is announced there is no smoking in Cleveland Indians new ballpark
1995 US approves first chicken pox vaccine, Varivax by Merck and Co
1995 British £ hits 2.4545 to Dutch guilder (record)
1995 Sinn-Fein leader Gerry Adams visits White House. He is the first leader of Sinn Fein to be received at the White House.
1996 "Bus Stop" closes at Circle in Square Theater NYC after 29 performances
1996 "Getting Away With Murder" opens at Broadhurst NYC for 17 performances
1996 Aravinda De Silva gets 107 & 3-42 in cricket World Cup victory
1996 Liselotte Neumann wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship
1996 Mike Tyson beat Frank Bruno in 3rd round to gain Heavyweight title
1996 Montréal Canadien's 1st game in their new arena
1996 Sri Lanka beat Australia by 7 wickets to win the World Cup
1997 CNN begins Spanish broadcasts
1998 Washington Mutual announced it had agreed to buy H.F. Ahmanson and Co. for $9.9 billion dollars. The deal created the nation's seventh-largest banking company.
1998 USA Women's Hockey Team beats Canada for first Olympics Gold medal
1999 A panel of medical experts concluded that marijuana had medical benefits for people suffering from cancer and AIDS.
1999 The International Olympic Committee expelled six of its members in the wake of a bribery scandal.
2000The 800+ deaths of members of the Ugandan cult Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God on 2000 is considered to be a mass murder and suicide orchestrated by leaders of the cult."
2000 In Kanungu, Uganda, a fire at a church linked to the cult known as the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments killed more than 2000 In Norway, Jens Stotenberg and the Labour Party took office as Prime Minister. The coalition government of Kjell Magne Bondevik resigned on March 9 as a result of an environmental dispute.
2001 AUSTRALIA has its first woman police chief, with Christine Nixon today appointed Victoria's new police commissioner.
2003 British Cabinet Minister Robin Cook, resigns over government plans for the war with Iraq.
2003 Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs Robin Cook, resigns from the British Cabinet in disagreement with government plans for the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
2004 Unrest in Kosovo results in more than 22 killed, 200 wounded, and the destruction of 35 Serb Orthodox shrines in Kosovo and two mosques in Belgrade and Nis.
2007 Mike Modano (Dallas Stars) scored his 502nd and 503rd career goals making him the all-time U.S. leader in goal-scoring.
2008 New York State Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns after a scandal involving a high-end prostitute. Lieutenant Governor David Paterson becomes New York State governor.
2008 German Chancellor Visits Israel
2009 The iTunes Music Store reached 800 million applications downloaded
2010 Toyota tries Blaming solar flares for accelleration problems
2012 Bolton Wanderer footballer Fabrice Muamba collapses and is rushed to hospital during a live football match against Tottenham Hotspur
2012 Wales defeat France to record their eleventh Grand Slam in the Six Nations Championship
2013 10 people are killed by a car bombing in Basra, Iraq
2013 Pope Francis delivers his first Angelus prayer and blessing
2013 Toyo Ito wins the 2013 Pritzker Architecture Prize
2014 The Republic of Crimea is declared
2016 Archaeologists announce discovery of iron age warrior king buriel ground with 75 graves 2,500 years old in Pocklington, Northern England
2016 Brazilian federal judge blocks swearing-in of Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as Chief of Staff to President Dilma Rousseff, as part of "Car Wash" controversy
Born on March 17th
1231 Emperor Shijo of Japan (d. 1242)
1473 King James IV king of Scotland (1488-1513)
1578 Francesco Albana Italian painter (Mary's Ascension)
1628 Daniel van Papenbroeck [Papebrochius], Flemish historian
1628 François Girardon, French sculptor (d. 1715)
1664 Georg Osterreich composer
1675 Petrus Laurentius Wockenfuss composer
1676 Thomas Boston, Scottish church leader (d. 1732)
1685 Jean-Marc Nattier French portrait painter
1725 Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-born American military and political leader (d. 1806)
1746 Jan David Holland composer
1777 Roger Brooke Taney Calvert MD, 5th Chief Justice (Dred Scott decision) (d. 1864)
1780 Thomas Chalmers 1st moderator (Free Church of Scotland 1843-47) Scottish pastor, social reformer, author, and scientist.
1781 Dominique J de Eerens, governor-general of Neth Indies
1781 Ebenezer Elliott, British Poet. Know as the "Corn Law Rhymer'" (d. 1849)
1781 Dominique J de Eerens Governor-General of Netherland Indies
1787 George Simon Ohm physicist (discovered Ohm's Law)
1789 Edmund Kean London England, tragic actor (Shylock)
1804 James Bridger American trapper and explorer (d. 1881)
1820 Jean Ingelow, English poet (d. 1897)
1820 Patrick Edward Connor Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Rodolphe Bresdin French cartoonist/lithographer (Le Bon Samaritain)
1826 Oskar Peschel German journalist/geography (Völkerkunder)
1828 Patrick Ronayne Cleburne the "Stonewall" of the West (Major General-Confederate Army)
1832 Moncure Daniel Conway US, clergyman/author/abolitionist (Life of Thomas Paine)
1832 Walter Quintin Gresham Brevet Major General (Union volunteers)
1834 Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and invento - designed 1st motorcycle (d. 1900)
1839 Josef Rheinberger Vaduz Liechtenstein, opera composer (Munich Conser)
1846 Kate Greenaway English children's author and illustrator (d. 1901) (Under the Window)
1848 Horace Wadham Nicholl composer
1856 Mikhail Vrubel, Russian painter (d. 1910)
1862 Silvio Gesell, Belgian economist (d. 1930)
1864 Joseph Baptista, Indian Home Rule Movement founder (d. 1930)
1866 Pierce Butler, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1939)
1870 Horace Donisthorpe, British entomologist (d. 1951)
1872 Billy Quaife cricketer (England batsman 1899-1902)
1873 Chard Somerset 1st woman Cabinet minister (1929-31)
1873 Margaret Bondfield British Labour leader/1st woman cabinet member
1874 Kincsem horse that never lost a race
1874 Stephen Samuel Wise US, president of Zionist Organization of America
1876 Frederic Ayers composer
1877 Albert P Hahn Dutch political cartoonist (People/Nutcracker)
1880 Guillermo Uribe Holguin composer
1880 Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (d. 1912)
1880 Sir Patrick Hastings, British barrister (d. 1952)
1881 Kristian Elster Norwegian author (Less bror Harris)
1881 Walter Rudolf Hess, Swiss physiologist, Nobel laureate (d. 1973)
1883 Urmuz, Romanian writer (d. 1923)
1884 Alcide Nunez, American jazz clarinetist (d. 1934)
1886 Princess Patricia of Connaught, British princess (d. 1974)
1887 Ben Sajet Dutch physician/politician
1888 Frank Buck actor (Africa Screams, Tiger Queen, Tiger Fangs)
1888 Paul Ramadier, French politician (d. 1961)
1890 Harold Morris composer
1892 Benjamin Drake Van Wissen, Australian Engineer (d. 1984)
1892 Sayed Darwish composer
1894 Paul Green US, novelist/playwright (In Abraham's Bosom) (d. 1981)
1895 Shemp Howard [Samuel Horwitz] Brooklyn NY, comedian/actor (3 Stooges, Bank Dick)
1897 Jozef C. Mazur, American stained glass artist and painter (d. 1970)
1899 Gloria Swanson Chicago IL, actress (Sadie Thompson, Killer Bees)
1900 Alfred Newman New Haven, composer (Love is a Many Splendored Thing)
1901 Eisaku Sato premier of Japan (Nobel 1974)
1902 Bobby Jones Jr Atlanta GA, PGA golfer (Grand Slam 1930) (d. 1971)
1906 Brigitte Helm [Gisele Eve von Kuenheim] Berlin, actress (Gloria, Gold)
1906 Michael O'Shea Hartford CT, actor (Denny-It's a Great Life)
1906 Tamara Geva dancer
1907 Jan M J van Houtte premier Belgium (1952-54)
1907 Sonny Werblin, American football franchise owner (d. 1991)
1908 Boris N Poveloi [Kampov], Russian journalist/writer
1908 Brigitte Helm, German actress (d. 1996)
1908 Radie Britain composer
1909 Patrick Reilly British diplomat
1910 Bayard Rustin American civil rights activist (d. 1987)
1911 Raffaele d' Alessandro composer
1914 Sammy Baugh Temple TX, NFL hall of famer QB (Washington Redskins) (d. 2008)
1915 Hans Namuth German/US photographer (Todos Santos, Guatemala)
1915 Henry Bumstead, American art director (d. 2006)
1915 William Roycroft Austria, equestrian 3 day (Olympics-bronze-1976)
1916 Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
1917 Arthur Basil Cotle medievalist
1917 Brian Boydell composer
1918 D Arendo [Arend Honhoff] Dutch pianist/composer (Eleonora)
1918 Mercedes McCambridge Joliet IL, actress (Exorcist, All the King's Men)
1918 Wilhelmus M J Russell Dutch attorney/Member of 1st chamber (KVP/CDA)
1919 Hank Sauer baseball player (National League MVP 1952)
1919 Nat "King" Cole Montgomery AL, American singer (Unforgettable, Mona Lisa) (d. 1965)
1920 John La Montaine Oak Park IL, composer (Pulitzer 1959)
1920 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1921 Meir Amit, Israeli politician and general (d. 2009)
1921 Mick Harvey cricketer (in Newcastle Brother of Neil Test umpire)
1922 Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, Founding Leader of Bangladesh (d. 1975)
1922 Megan Bull British head mistress (Holloway Jail)
1923 Margaret Bondfield 1st woman chairman (Trades Union Congress)
1924 Stephen Dodgson composerst
1925 G M Hughes British zoologist
1925 Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian film and stage actor
1925 Jerome Lejeune physiologist
1926 Siegfried Lenz German writer (Ein Kriegsende)
1927 Kenneth S Goldstein folklorist/enthomusicologist
1927 Maurice Ingvar Karkoff composer
1927 Nancy Sheehan writer
1927 Patrick Allen Malawi, actor (Roman Holiday, Dial "M" for Murder)
1927 Sulkhan Ivanovich Nasidze composer
1928 Edino Krieger composer
1928 William John McKeag, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
1930 James Benson Irwin, American astronaut - Pittsburgh PA, Colonel USAF/astronaut (Apollo 15) (d. 1991)
1931 David Peakall, British scientist (d. 2001)
1931 Eunice Gayson London England, actress (Dr No, From Russia With Love)
1932 Dick Curless singer/songwriter
1932 Donald N. Langenberg, American physicist
1933 Myrlie Evers-Williams, American activist
1934 Erhard Grosskopf composer
1934 Q T Macon blues vocal/guitar
1935 Adam Wade Pittsburgh PA, actor/singer (Kiss Me Goodbye, Crazy Joe)
1935 H Wollschläger writer
1935 Renee Taylor actress/comedian (Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
1936 Robert Daniel, Richmond, Virginia, republican Congressman for Virginia (1972-1983), (d. 2012)
1936 Thomas Ken Mattingly II, American astronaut, Chicago IL, Captain USN/astronaut (Apollo 16, STS-4, 51C)
1936 Ladislav Kupkovic, Slovakian composer
1936 Patty Maloney, American actress
1937 Adam Wade, American singer and actor
1937 Galina Samsova ballerina
1937 Rudy Ray Moore, American comedian and actor (d. 2008)
1938 Keith Michael Patrick O'Brien, Northern Irish clergyman
1938 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian-born dancer and choreographer (d. 1993) (Kirov)
1938 Zola Taylor, American singer (The Platters) (d. 2007)
1939 Jim Gary, American sculptor (d. 2006)
1939 Robin Knox-Johnston, British Yachtsman
1939 Shahid Mahmoud cricketer (opener scored 16 & 9 in only Pakistan Test)
1940 Mark White, American politician
1940 Vito Picone rocker (Elegants)
1941 Clarence Collins US singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
1941 Edward Harper composer
1941 Gene Pitney Hartford CT, rock singer (Town without Pity)
1941 Paul Kantner, American musician (Jefferson Airplane)
1941 Wang Jin-pyng, Taiwanese politician
1942 Dimitris Poulikakos, Greek composer, singer and actor
1942 John Wayne Gacy Jr Chicago IL, American serial killer (32 boys) (d. 1994)
1942 Paul Kantner rock guitarist (Jefferson Starship-White Rabbit)
1942 Sidney K Barthelmy US politician
1943 Don Mitchell Houston TX, actor (Mark-Ironside)
1944 Cito Gaston American baseball player and manager (Toronto Blue Jays)
1944 Danny DeVito Neptune NJ, actor (Louie-Taxi, Twins, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia)
1944 John Sebastian New York NY, singer and songwriter (Loving Spoonful, Welcome Back Kotter)
1944 Pat McCauley N Ireland, rock drummer (Them)
1944 Patti Boyd Somerset, British photographer and model (Mrs George Harrison/Mrs Eric Clapton) AKA Pattie Boyd
1945 Elis Regina, Brazilian singer (d. 1982)
1945 Katri Helena, Finnish singer
1945 Michael Hayden, American Air Force General, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
1945 Paco Gonzalez race horse trainer
1946 Harold Brown Long Beach CA, rock drummer (War-Summer, Galaxy)
1946 Michael Peter Finnissey composer
1947 Ian Gomm rock guitarist
1947 James Morrow, American author
1947 Jan Andersson, Swedish politician
1947 Yury Chernavsky, Russian-born composer and producer
1948 Alex MacDonald, Scottish footballer and football manager
1948 Fran Byrne rocker
1948 Pat Lloyd rocker
1948 William [Ford] Gibson Canada, sci-fi author (Neuromancer, Count Zero)
1949 Daniel Lavoie, French Canadian singer and songwriter
1949 Pat Rice, Northern Irish footballer and football manager
1949 Patrick Duffy Townsend MT, actor (Bobby-Dallas, Man from Atlantis)
1950 Patrick Adams, American record producer and songwriter
1951 Craig Ramsay, Canadian ice hockey player
1951 Donald Findlay, Scottish lawyer
1951 Kurt Russell Springfeild MA, actor (Thing, Overboard, Mean Seasons)
1951 Scott Gorham Irish hard rock guitarist (Thin Lizzy-21 Guns, Jailbreak)
1952 Barry Horne, Animal rights activist (d. 2001)
1952 Nikos Xydakis, Greek musician and composer
1953 Chuck Muncie, American football running back
1953 Filemon Lagman, Filipino communist revolutionary (d. 2001)
1954 Lesley-Anne Down London, actress (A Little Night Music, Moonraker)
1954 Rena Jones rock vocalist
1954 Wally Stocker London England, rock vocalist/guitarist (Babys-Missing You)
1955 Bill Beyers actor (Wally McCandless-Capitol)
1955 Cynthia McKinney, American politician, Presidential candidate, Representative-Democrat-GA
1955 Gary Sinise actor (Apollo 13, Forrest Gump)
1955 Paul Overstreet Van Cleave MS, country singer (Daddy's Come Around)
1956 Patrick McDonnell, American cartoonist
1956 Will Rigby rock percussionist (Amy Rigby Diary of a Mad Housewife)
1957 Mal Donaghy, Northern Irish footballer
1957 Michael Kelly, American journalist (d. 2003)
1957 Robin Cousins Bristol England, figure skater (Olympics-gold-1980)
1958 Pat Bolland, Canadian Broadcaster
1959 Brian Douglas Jones Auckland New Zealand, tornado class yachter (Olympics-96)
1959 Christian Clemenson, American actor
1959 Danny Ainge, American basketball player and NBA coach (Phoenix Suns)
1959 Mike Lindup British rock keyboardist/singer (Level 42-Hot Water)
1959 Paul Black, American rock singer
1959 Terry Hall (Specials Fun Boy 3)
1960 Arye Gross, American actor
1960 Lee Ann Michelle Surrey England, playmate (February 1979)
1960 Vicki Lewis Cincinnati OH, American actress (Beth-Newsradio)
1961 Alexander Bard, Swedish artist, singer (Army Of Lovers), music producer, and philosopher
1961 Andrew Paul, English actor
1961 Casey Siemaszko Chicago IL, actor (Biloxi Blues, 3 O'Clock High)
1961 Dana Reeve, American actress and activist (d. 2006)
1961 Sam Bowie, American basketball player
1962 Janet Patricia Gardner, Juneau Alaska, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 Ank Bijleveld-Schouten, Dutch politician
1962 Clare Grogan, Scottish actress-singer (Altered Images-Happy Birthday)
1962 Janet Patricia Gardner Juneau AK, rocker (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1962 Patrick Thomas Burke Hollywood FL, PGA golfer (1992 BellSouth-6th)
1962 Roxy Dora Petrucci Rochester MN, rock drummer (Vixen-Rev It Up)
1963 Alex Fong Chung-Sun, Chinese actor
1963 Nick Peros, Canadian composer
1963 Rebeca Arthur actress (Mary Anne-Perfect Strangers, Opposites Attract)
1963 Roger Harper cricketer (Guyana & West Indies off-spinner Extraordinary field)
1964 Rob Lowe, American Actor, Charlottesville Va, (St Elmo's Fire, Hotel NH, West Wing, Wayne's World, Parks and Recreations)
1964 Alex Shoumidoub NHL goaltender (Belarus, Olympics-98)
1964 Don Griffin NFL cornerback (Cleveland Browns)
1964 Jacques Songo'o, Cameroonian footballer
1964 Lee Dixon, English footballer
1964 Ron Warren Jr jockey (Bay Meadows)
1965 Caitlin Bilodeaux Boston MA, US fencer (Olympics-92)
1965 John Smiley Phoenixville PA, pitcher (Cincinnati Reds)
1966 Andrew Hudson cricketer (South Africa, 163 on debut vs West Indies 1992)
1966 Jeremy Sheffield, English actor
1967 Barry Minkow, American religious leader and ex-convict (fraud)
1967 Billy Corgan, American musician (Smashing Pumpkins)
1967 Chris Luongo Detroit MI, NHL defenseman (New York Islanders)
1967 Kim Cathrein Salinas CA, LPGA golfer (1994 Rochester International-24th)
1967 Melissa Allen Portland OR, WPVA volleyballer (Reebok National-13th-1994)
1967 Van Conner rocker (Screaming Trees)
1968 Judy Mosley McAfee WNBA forward (Sacramento Monarchs)
1968 Tyrone Hill NBA forward (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1969 Alexander McQueen, British fashion designer (d. 2010)
1969 Andrew McMarlin Vienna VA, rower (Olympics-1996)
1969 Domenic "Filane" Figliomeni Terrace Bay Ontario, boxer (Olympics-96)
1969 Gilbert Schaller Bruck Austria, tennis star
1969 Mathew St. Patrick, American actor
1969 Patricia Ford, American model
1970 Gene Ween, American musician (Ween)
1970 Shannan Mitchem Decatur GA, female infielder (Colorado Silver Bullets)
1970 Yanic Truesdale, Canadian actor
1971 Bill Mueller, American baseball player
1971 Katrina Colleton WNBA guard/forward (Los Angeles Sparks)
1971 Tommy Thigpen WLAF linebacker (Barcelona Dragons)
1972 Marc Gunn, poet, podcaster, and musician (Brobdingnagian Bards)
1972 Melissa Auf der Maur, Canadian musician
1972 Mia Hamm Selma AL, soccer forward (Olympics-96, US Women's World Cup-99)
1973 Amelia Weatherly actress (Stephanie Brewster-Loving/The City)
1973 Caroline Corr, Irish singer and musician
1973 Jerome Woods, American football player, safety (Kansas City Chiefs)
1973 Rico Blanco, Filipino singer (Rivermaya)
1973 Vance Wilson, American baseball player
1974 Eric Lane running back (New York Giants)
1974 John Hall kicker (New York Jets)
1974 Marisa Coughlan, American actress
1974 Mark Dolan, British TV show host
1974 Oliver Palotai, German keyboard player (Doro)
1975 Andrew "Test" Martin, Canadian wrestler (d. 2009)
1975 Gina Holden, Canadian actress
1975 Justin Hawkins, British singer (The Darkness)
1975 Mason Jennings, American folksinger
1975 Natalie Zea, American actress
1975 Puneet Rajkumar, Indian (Kannada) actor, singer and director
1976 Brittany Daniel, American actress
1976 Cynthia Daniel, American actress and photographer
1976 Scott Downs, American baseball player
1976 Stephen Gately, Irish singer, musician, and actor, Dublin Ireland (Boyzone) (d. 2009)
1976 Álvaro Recoba, Uruguayan footballer
1977 Hadeel Abol-Naga Miss Egypt-Universe (1996)
1977 Iveta Jankularova Miss Slovak Republic-Universe (1996)
1978 Adam Jennings, British actor, producer and director
1979 Samoa Joe, Samoan professional wrestler
1979 Andrew Ference, Canadian ice hockey player
1979 Nicole "Coco" Austin, American glamor model
1979 Sharman Joshi, Indian actor
1979 Stormy Daniels, American pornographic actress
1980 Danny Califf, American soccer player
1981 Aaron Baddeley, Australian golfer
1981 Kyle Korver, American basketball player
1981 Servet Çetin, Turkish football player
1982 Steven Pienaar, South African Footballer
1985 Vassiliki Arvaniti, Greek beach volleyball player
1986 Edin Džeko, Bosnian Footballer
1986 Miles Kane, British musician
1986 Olesya Rulin, American actress
1987 Bobby Ryan, American ice hockey player
1987 Krisnan Inu, New Zealand rugby player
1987 Ryan Parent, Canadian hockey player
Died on March 17th
(45 BC) Titus Labienus, Roman leader
180 Antonius Marcus Aurelius [Marcus Verus], Emperor of Rome (b. 121)
460 Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland (b. 387) - or -
461 St Patrick patron St of Ireland, dies in Saul (according to legend)
0659 Gertrudis van Nijvel saint/patron of travellers, dies at about 32
1040 Harold Harefoot (Harold I), King of England (1035-40)
1058 King Lulach I of Scotland (b. 1030)
1199 Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow
1272 Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1425 Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
1516 Giuliano de' Medici monarch of Florence, dies at 37 (b. 1478)
1565 Alexander Alesius [Aless/Alane], Scottish theologist and physician
1588 Petrus Dathenus Flemish minister/physician (Psalms of David)
1605 Pieter Bast [Bastius], Dutch engraver/cartographer,
1640 Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
1649 Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1649 Gerardus Johannis Vossius [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent
1653 Johan van Galen, Admiral, died in the battle of Livorno
1680 François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
1704 Menno baron van Coehoorn Dutch military engineer/Coevorden/howitzer, dies at 63 (b. 1641)
1713 Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw (b. 1688)
1715 Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
1741 Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1764 George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1782 Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
1796 Pieter Paulus lawyer/Dutch CEO (National Convention)
1801 Juan de Sesse y Balaguer composer
1803 Candido Jose Ruano composer
1806 David Dale industrialist & philanthropist
1830 Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1846 Friedrich W Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (Bessel Functions), dies at 61 (b. 1784)
1849 Willem II Frederik GL King of Netherlands (1840-49), dies at 56 (b. 1792)
1853 Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician (b. 1803)
1855 Ramon Carnicer y Batlle composer
1857 Adolph Trube composer
1861 Petter Conrad Boman composer
1862 Fromental Halevy [Elie Levy], French opera composer
1863 John Pelham US Confederate artillery major, dies in battle
1864 Alexandre Calamo Swiss painter/etcher/lithographer, dies at 53
1871 Robert Chambers, Scottish naturalist (b. 1802)
1875 Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (b. 1832)
1889 Joseph A Alberdingk Thijm (Pauwels Foreestier)
1891 Napoleon JKP Bonaparte Fren prince/member National Convention
1893 Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
1898 Blanche Kelso Bruce, (Sen-Miss, 1875-1881), dies at 57, in Washington DC, USA
1901 Franz Melde German physicist (Melde Test)
1902 George William Warren composer
1906 Carlos Calvo Argentina diplomat (Calvo Clause)
1910 Joaquin Valverde composer
1912 Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1880)
1915 Walter Crane English painter/cartoonist/illustrator
1917 Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
1926 Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
1927 James Scott Skinner composer
1933 Ferdinand Von Alten actor (Champagne)
1937 Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1941 Isaak Emmanuilovich Babel Russian writer (Crvena Konjica), executed.
1941 Joachim Schepke German commandant (U-100), dies in battle
1941 Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1946 Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1949 Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1949 Felix Bressart actor (Escape, Ninotchka, Iceland)
1953 Conrado del Campo y Zabaleta composer
1954 Victor Rousseau Belgian sculptor
1956 Fred Allen, American actor and comedian(Colgate Comedy Hour, Fred Allen Radio Show) (b. 1894)
1956 Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1957 Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
1959 Raffaele d' Alessandro composer, dies on 48th birthday
1961 Suzanna Salter, American politician1st US female mayor/temperance leader, dies at 101 (b. 1860)
1962 Frank Orth actor (Boston Blackie, The Brothers)
1962 Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (b. 1896)
1963 William Henry Squire composer, dies at 91
1965 Almos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach (University of Chicago), dies in California at 102 (b. 1862)
1965 Quentin Reynolds newscaster (Its News to Me)/author (FBI)
1966 Walter Lang, composer
1967 Frank Wisbar director (Fireside Theater)
1967 Richard Reeves actor (Murph-Date With an Angel)
1970 Fernand Crommelynck Belgian playwright (Chaud et Frois)
1971 Ernst Bachmeister, writer
1972 Manny Martindale, cricketer (10 Tests for West Indies, 34 wickets)
1973 Geertruida M W "Truus" Bakker, Dutch actress (2 Orphans)
1974 Carroll Nye, actress (Lawless Woman)
1974 Louis I Kahn, Estonia/US architect
1976 Luchino Visconti di Modrone Italian Director (Terra Diaeresis)
1978 George Dickinson cricketer (8 wickets in 3 Tests for New Zealand)
1979 Merv Inverarity cricketer (father of John WA player 1925-40)
1980 Rudolf G Escher Dutch composer (Vrai Visage de la Paix)
1981 Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1982 Hans ter Laag Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Jan Kuiper Dutch news editor (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1982 Joop Willemsen Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1982 Koos Koster Dutch newscaster (IKON), murdered in El Salvador
1983 Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1985 Dattu Phadkar cricketer (Indian all-rounder, 31 Tests 1947-58)
1986 Hal Buckley actor (John Quincy-OK Crackerby)
1987 Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
1988 Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (b. 1949)
1988 Reg Sinfield cricketer (one Test for England vs Australia 1938)
1989 Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959) (Shy People, Wired to Kill), dies of AIDS.
1990 Germaine Capucine, French actress (Rendez-Vous de Juillet, Curse of the Pink Panther), commits suicide in Lausanne Switzerland (b. 1931)
1990 Marí Mejía Guatemalian feminist, murdered
1990 Rick Grech, British bass player rocker (Blind Faith, Traffic),(b. 1946)
1992 Charles Rea British actor (Ipcress File)
1992 George Lovi US columnist (Sky & Telescope's "Ramblings")
1992 Grace Stafford Lantz, American actress and cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), (b. 1903)
1992 Jack Arnold actor/director (Sid Caeser Special, Emmy 1967)
1993 Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1993 Helen Hayes actress (Airport), dies of congestive heart failure at 92
1993 Laadi Flici Algerian MP, murdered
1993 Skip Young actor (Smokey & Hotwire Gang)
1994 Arthur C Jacobs poet, dies at 57
1994 Harold Myers film journalist, dies at 81
1994 Mai Zetterling Swedish actress and director (Night is My Future), dies of cancer. (b. 1925)
1994 Walter Janka German writer (Troubles with Truth)
1995 Ahmad Khomeini youngest son of Iran ayatollah Khomeini,
1995 Donald Baverstock television Producer
1995 Marcus Jan Adriani biologist/director (Weevers' Duin)
1995 Rick Aviles, American actor US comic/actor (Ghost), dies of AIDS (b. 1952)
1995 Ronnie Kray English gangster (The Firm)
1995 Sunnyland Smart jazz/blues singer/pianist (Delta Blues)
1996 Bela Szigeti theoretical physicist
1996 Kenneth Jameson art educationalist
1996 Rene Clement, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1996 Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
1996 Thomas Enders diplomat
1997 Gail Davis actress (Annie Oakley)
1997 Jermaine Stewart, American singer (b. 1957)
1999 Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
1999 Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
2002 Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
2002 Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911))
2003 Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2004 J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
2004 Rachel Hudson, British murder victim (b. 1984)
2005 Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
2005 George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
2006 Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
2006 Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
2006 Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
2007 Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b. 1951)
2007 Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2007 John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
2008 Roland Arnall, United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
2009 Clodovil Hernandes, Brazilian politician and TV host (b. 1937)
2010 Alex Chilton, American musician (b. 1950)
2010 Charlie Gillett, British musicologist and radio presenter (b. 1942)
2011 Michael Gough, British actor (b. 1916)
2012 John Demjanjuk, convicted Nazi war criminal
2012 Pope Shenouda III, Egyptian Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria
2012 Chaleo Yoovidhya, Thai co-creator of Red Bull
2016 Paul Daniels, British magician (The Paul Daniels Magic Show)
