March 30th
Holidays and Festivals
National Doctor's Day
I am in Control Day
Grass Is Always Browner On The Other Side Of The Fence Day
Take a Walk in the Park Day
Newman Day * (see below)
Pencil Day
Birthday of President John Tyler (10th U.S. President)
* Newman Day, or Newman's Day, based on the quote attributed to Paul Newman "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence? I think not." The observance is celebrated by finishing or attempting to finish a case of beer in 24 hours. It is celebrated on three different dates. April 24th for Princeton and Princeton Graduates, The Friday nearest the actor's January 26 birthday at Bates College. On March 30th for Kenyon College and Kenyon College Graduates. Fête de la Couvoir Translation: Hatchery Day (French Republican) The 10th day of the Month of Germinal in the French Republican Calendar
Toast of The Day
"May the sun shine, all day long,
everything go right, and nothing wrong.
May those you love bring love back to you,
and may all the wishes you wish come true!"
- Traditional Irish
Drink of The Day
Fuka (AKA Pirate's Treasure)
1 oz. Rum, coconut
1 oz. Rum, spiced
1 tsp. Grenadine
2 oz. Orange Juice
2 oz. Pineapple Juice
Build over ice in an old-fashioned glass. Stir.
Wine of The Day
Elk Run 2008 Liberty Tavern Vineyard
Style - Cabernet Sauvignon
Maryland
$55
Beer of The Day
Lambic de Hill
Brewer - Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant, Wilmington, Deleware, USA
Style - Belgian-Style Sour Ale
Joke of The Day
Alcohol FDA Warnings
Consumption of alcohol may make you think you are whispering when you are not.
Consumption of alcohol is a major factor in dancing like a loser.
Consumption of alcohol may cause you to tell the same boring story over and over again.
Consumption of alcohol may cause you to thay shings like thish.
Consumption of alcohol may convince you that your ex is really dying to hear from you at 4 am.
Consumption of alcohol may cause you to roll over in the morning and see something really scary (whose species and/or name you can't remember).
Consumption of alcohol is the leading cause of inexplicable rug burns on the forehead.
Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe that you're tougher than a really big guy named Kong.
Consumption of alcohol may lead you to believe you are invisible.
Consumption of alcohol may lead you to think people are laughing WITH you.
Consumption of alcohol may cause an influx in the time-space continuum, whereby small... or large gaps of time may seem to literally disappear.
Consumption of alcohol may actually CAUSE pregnancy
Quote of the Day
"Never argue with a women when she's tired... or rested"
- Anonymous
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
Tsunami Awareness Week, Last Full Week in March
Pediatric Nurse Practioner Week, Last Full Week in March
National Protocol Officer's Week, Last Full Week in March
National Cleaning Week, Last Full Week in March
Passiontide, Last Two Weeks of Lent
Youth Violence Prevention Week, Last Week in March
NanoDays, 9 Days Starting the Last Saturday in March
Historical Events on March 30th
(240 BC) 1st recorded perihelion passage of Halley's Comet.
804 Liudger becomes 1st bishop of Munster
988 Boudouin IV with the Beard becomes earl of Flanders
1282 The people of Sicily rebel against the Angevin king Charles I, in what becomes known as the Sicilian Vespers.
1296 Edward I sacks Berwick-upon-Tweed, during armed conflict between Scotland and England.
1422 Ketsugan, Zen teacher, performs exorcisms to free aizoji temple
1456 Prince Louis of Bourbon elected bishop of Liege
1474 Duke Sigismund van Tirol ends contacts with Switzerland
1492 King Ferdinand & Queen Isabella sign decree expelling Jews from Spain
1533 Henry VIII divorces his 1st wife, Catherine of Aragon
1533 Thomas Cranmer becomes archbishop of Canterbury
1603 Battle at Mellifont, English army under Lord Mountjoy beats Irish
1778 Playwright Voltaire crowned with laurel wreath
1814 Britain & allies march into Paris after defeating Napoleon
1814 Joachim Murat issues the Rimini Declaration which would later inspire Italian Unification.
1814 Sixth Coalition forces march into Paris, The Napoleonic Wars.
1822 Congress combined East & West Florida into Florida Territory
1822 The Florida Territory is created in the United States.
1842 Anesthesia is used for the first time, in an operation by Dr. Crawford Long.
1842 Ether was used as an anaesthetic for 1st time by Dr Crawford Long (Ga)
1844 One of the most important battles of the Dominican War of Independence from Haiti takes place near the city of Santiago de los Caballeros.
1855 Origins of the American Civil War: Bleeding Kansas "Border Ruffians" from Missouri invade Kansas and force election of a pro-slavery legislature.
1856 The Treaty of Paris is signed, ending the Crimean War.
1858 Hymen Lipman patents a pencil with an attached eraser.
1863 Danish prince Wilhelm Georg of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glucksburg chosen as king George of Greece
1864 Skirmish at Mount Elba, Arkansas
1865 Battle at 5 Forks Virginia
1866 Bedrich Smetana's "Verkaufte Braut" (Sold Bride), premieres
1867 Alaska is purchased from Russia for $7.2 million, about 2 cent/acre ($4.19/km²), by United States Secretary of State William H. Seward. The media calls this Seward's Folly.
1870 15th Amendment passes, guarantees right to vote regardless of race
1870 Florida territorial government established.
1870 Texas becomes last confederate state readmitted to Union following Reconstruction.
1885 The Battle for Kushka triggers the Pandjeh Incident which nearly gives rise to war between the British Empire and Russian Empire.
1889 John T Reid opens 1st US golf course (Yonkers, NY)
1893 Thomas F Bayard becomes 1st US ambassador in Great Britain
1895 British inventor Birt Acres films Oxford-Cambridge
1900 Dutch 2nd Chamber accepts Compulsory education law
1909 The Queensboro Bridge opens, linking Manhattan and Queens.
1910 The Mississippi Legislature founds The University of Southern Mississippi.
1911 Lötschberg tunnel in Switzerland (13,735 m) completed
1912 Sultan Abdelhafid signs the Treaty of Fez, making Morocco a French protectorate.
1916 Stanley Cup, Montreal Canadiens (NHA) beat Portland Rosebuds (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1918 Outburst of bloody March Events in Baku and other locations of Baku Governorate.
1918 Stanley Cup, Toronto Arenas (NHL) beat Vancouver Millionaires (PCHA), 3 games to 2
1919 Belgian Army occupies Dusseldorf
1919 Gandhi announces resistance against Rowlatt Act
1919 Paul Claudel's "Tête d'Or," premieres in Paris
1922 KGY-AM in Olympia WA begins radio transmissions
1922 WWL-AM in New Orleans LA begins radio transmissions
1923 Zeta Phi Beta Sorority, formed at Howard U in 1920, incorporates
1925 Stalin supports rights of non-Serbian Yugoslavians
1925 Stanley Cup, Vict Cougars (WCHL) beat Canadiens (NHL), 3 games to 1
1930 Babberich-H soccer team forms
1935 Newfoundland changes time to 3½ hrs W of Greenwich, repeats 44 sec
1939 First flight of the Australian C.A.C. CA-16 Wirraway.
1939 The Heinkel He 100 fighter sets the world airspeed record of 463 mph.
1940 2nd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, Indiana U beats Kansas 60-42
1940 Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei, Sino-Japanese War.
1941 German counter offensive in North-Africa
1942 1st RSHA-transport from France arrives in camp Birkenau
1942 SS murders 200 inmates of Trawniki labor camp
1943 5th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: U of Wyoming beat Georgetown 46-34
1943 British 1st army recaptures Sejenane
1943 Rodgers & Hammerstein's "Oklahoma!," premieres in NYC
1944 781 British bombers attack Neurenberg
1945 289 anti-fascists murdered by nazis in Rombergpark Dortmund
1945 Soviet Union forces invade Austria and take Vienna; Polish and Soviet forces liberate Gdansk, World War II.
1945 A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1 to Americans, World War II.
1946 "St Louis Woman" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 113 performances
1946 Australia beats NZ in cricket at 3 30pm on 2nd day
1946 Last Test Cricket appearance of Bill O'Reilly (5-14 & 3-19)
1949 A riot breaks out in Austurvöllur square in Reykjavík, when Iceland joins NATO.
1950 Phototransistor invention announced, Murray Hill, NJ
1952 6th Tony Awards: Fourposter & King & I win
1952 Patty Berg wins LPGA New Orleans Women's Golf Open
1953 Einstein announces revised unified field theory
1954 Test Cricket debut of Garry Sobers v England at Kingston
1954 The Yonge Street subway line opens in Toronto. It is the first subway in Canada.
1955 27th Academy Awards "On the Waterfront," Brando & Grace Kelly win
1956 USSR performs nuclear test
1957 1st performance of Walter Piston's 4th Symphony
1959 WNED TV channel 17 in Buffalo, NY (PBS) begins broadcasting
1961 NASA civilian pilot Joseph A Walker takes X-15 169,600' (51,690 m)
1961 The Single Convention on Narcotic Drugs is signed at New York.
1963 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 Astronaut John Glenn withdraws from Ohio senate race
1965 A car bomb explodes in front of the U.S. Embassy in Saigon, killing 22 and wounding 183 others, Vietnam War.
1966 Barbra Streisand stars on "Color Me Barbra" special on CBS
1967 Cover picture of Beatles' "Sgt Pepper's" is photographed
1968 General Ludvik Svoboda elected president of Czechoslovakia
1969 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Port Malabar Golf Invitational
1970 "Applause" opens at Palace Theater NYC for 900 performances
1970 Miles Davis Bitches Brew released
1970 Soap opera "Somerset" premieres
1970 Strouse, Adams, Comden & Green's musical "Applause," premieres in NYC
1970 USSR wins its 8th straight world hockey championship
1972 "Funny Thing Happened..." opens at Lunt-Fontanne NYC for 156 perfs
1972 North Vietnamese troops enter South Vietnam
1972 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 The Easter Offensive begins after North Vietnamese forces cross into the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) of South Vietnam, Vietnam War.
1973 Ellsworth Bunker resigns as US ambassador to South Vietnam
1975 Ron Lalonde scores the 1st hat trick by a Washington Capital
1976 Israel kills 6 Palestinians protesting land confiscation
1978 "History of the American Film" opens at ANTA Theater NYC for 21 perfs
1979 Airey Neave, a British Member of Parliament, is killed by a car bomb as he exits the Palace of Westminster. The Irish National Liberation Army claims responsibility.
1980 Mark Medoff's "Children of a Lesser God," premieres in NYC
1980 Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Women's Kemper Golf Open
1981 43rd NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: Indiana beats North Carolina 63-50
1981 President Ronald Reagan is shot in the chest outside a Washington, D.C., hotel by John Hinckley, Jr.
1982 John Pielmeier's "Agnes of God," premieres in NYC
1982 3rd space shuttle mission, STS-3 is completed with the landing of Columbia 3 at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
1983 Ray Cooney's "Run for your Wives," premieres in London
1983 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 US ends participation in multinational Lebanon peace force
1986 "Tango Argentino" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 198 perfs
1986 5th NCAA Women Basketball Championship: Texas beats Southern Cal 97-81
1987 59th Academy Awards "Platoon," Paul Newman & Marlee Matlin win
1987 Vincent van Goghs "Sunflowers" sells for record 22.5M pounds ($39.7 million)
1988 2nd Soul Train Music Awards
1988 Tamil Nadu beat Railways by inns & 144 to win Ranji Trophy
1990 Jack Nicklaus made his debut in the "Seniors" golf tournament
1991 "Speed of Darkness" closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 36 perfs
1991 1st exhibition baseball games at Joe Robbie Stadium (Yanks-Orioles)
1991 Last issue of Dutch Newspaper "Vr˜e Folk" (Free People)
1991 Northern Michigan wins its 1st NCAA hockey title
1991 PBA National Championship Won by Mike Miller
1991 William Kennedy Smith allegedly rapes a woman (found not guilty)
1992 64th Academy Awards "Silence of Lamb," A Hopkins & Jodie Foster win
1992 CBS TV premieres overnight news program "Up To The Minute"
1992 Man accidentally backs in A's Jose Canseco's $225,000 Lamborghini
1992 P J Patterson, resigns as 6th PM of Jamaica
1992 WNSR-FM (105.1) changes callsign to WMXV-FM (NYC)
1993 "Redwood Curtain" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1993 French government of Balladur forms
1993 Jamaican premier Percival Patterson wins parliamentary election
1993 New South Wales beat Qld by eight wkts to win Sheffield Shield
1993 Punjab beat Maharashtra by 120 runs to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 ABC Masters Tournament won by Hobo Boothe
1994 Bombay beat Bengal by 8 wickets to win Cricket's Ranji Trophy
1994 England Cricket all out for 46 at Port-of-Spain
1995 "Arcadia" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 204 performances
1996 Lara hits 146 cricket not out in ODI vs NZ at Port-Of-Spain
1996 NY Mets beats NY Yankees 5-3 in an exhibition game
1996 Prince Edward & girl-friend Sophie visited Graystoke Castle
1997 16th NCAA Women's Basketball Championship: Tenn beats Old Dominion 68-59
1997 26th Nabisco Dinah Shore Golf Championship won by Betsy King
1997 Five (channel) Begins broadcasting in the UK
1997 Southwestern Bell Dominion Senior Golf
1997 Steve Elkington wins Golf's Players Championship
1998 60th NCAA Men's Basketball Championship: at Alamodome San Antonio
2006 Marcos Pontes is the first Brazilian astronaut in space.
2006 The United Kingdom Terrorism Act 2006 becomes a law.
2012 American Mega Millions lottery hits a world record lottery amount of 640 million dollars
2012 Mastercard and Visa announce a massive breach in security with over ten million compromised credit card numbers
2012 Spanish Government cuts 27 Billion Euros from its budget in one of its toughest austerity driver in history
2013 North Korea declares it is at a state of war with South Korea
2013 Uhuru Kenyatta is declared the rightful winner of the Kenyan presidential election by the Supreme Court
Born on March 30th
1135 Maimonedes, philosopher (d. 1204)
1326 Ivan II of Russia, Grand Duke of Muscovy (d. 1359)
1432 Mehmed II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1481)
1640 John Trenchard, English politician (d. 1695)
1674 Jethro Tull, agricultural writer (Basildon), baptised
1681 Pieter Snyers, Flemish painter/engraver
1687 Johann Balthasar Freisslich, composer
1697 John-Baptist Xavery, Flemish sculptor
1719 John Hawkins, England, wrote 1st history of music
1727 Tommaso MFS Traetta, Ital's opera composer/band leader (Farnace)
1746 Francisco Jose de Goya, Spanish painter (Naked Maja) (d. 1828)
1750 John Stafford Smith, English composer (d. 1836)
1772 Johann Wilhelm Wilms, composer
1790 Joseph Smith, Rear Admiral (Union Navy) (d. 1877)
1804 Salomon Sulzer, composer
1805 Adrien de La Fage, composer
1811 Angelo Catelani, Italian composer/conductor
1811 Robert Bunsen, German chemist (d. 1899)
1815 Wincenty Studzinski, composer
1820 Anna Sewell, British author (d. 1878)
1823 Joseph Farmer Knipe, Brigadier General (Union volunteers) (d. 1901)
1824 Innis Newton Palmer, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers)
1825 Samuel Bell Maxey, Brigadier General (Confederate Army) (d. 1895)
1830 Auguste Tolbecque, composer
1830 Julius F A Bahnsen, German philosopher
1835 Bernhard Scholz, composer
1836 Karl Freiherr von Stumm-Halberg, German industrialist/politician
1842 Dr Crawford Long, 1st physician to use ether as anesthetic
1842 John Fiske (Edmund Fisk Green), US historian/philosopher
1844 Paul M Verlaine, French poet (Sagesse Bonbeur) (d. 1896)
1853 Vincent van Gogh, Dutch painter, pioneer of Expressionism (The Potato Eaters, Irises) (d. 1890)
1857 Leon Charles Thevenin, French telegraph engineer (d. 1926)
1864 Franz Oppenheimer, German sociologist (d. 1943)
1865 Heinrich Rubens, German physicist
1872 Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, composer
1876 Clifford Whittingham Beers, US, mental hygiene pioneer
1879 Coen de Koning, Dutch ice skater (d. 1954)
1880 Sean O'Casey, Irish dramatist, playwright (Playboy of the Western World) (d. 1964)
1882 Melanie Klein, British Psychoanalyst (d. 1960)
1883 Jo Davidson, US, sculptor (Woodrow Wilson, Walt Whitman)
1886 Stanislaw Lesniewski, Poland, logician/mathematician
1887 Albert P Termote, Flemish/Dutch sculptor (Charles the Great)
1888 Anna Q Nilsson, Sweden, actress (Shenandoah, Uncle Tom's Cabin)
1891 Jan B Cammans, Flemish actor (Brothers Karamazov)
1892 Erhard Milch, German field marshal (d. 1972)
1892 Erwin Panofsky, German/US art historian
1892 Fortunato Depero, Italian artist (d. 1960)
1892 Stefan Banach, Polish mathematician (d. 1945)
1894 Sergey Ilyushin, Russian aerospace engineer (Ilyushin) (d. 1977)
1895 Jean Giono, French author (World Chant) (d. 1970)
1898 Heinz Risse, writer
1898 Joyce Carey, English actress (Black Windmill)
1899 Irving Thalberg, US producer (MGM)
1899 Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bengali writer (d. 1970)
1902 Brooke Astor, American philanthropist (d. 2007)
1902 Ted Heath, British musician and band leader (d. 1969)
1903 Countee Cullen, American poet (Color, Ballad of the Brown Girl) (d. 1946)
1903 Joy Ridderhof, American missionary (d. 1984)
1903 Sol C Siegel, US, producer (High Society, Gentlemen prefer blondes)
1904 Akarova, [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer (Les Biches)
1904 Ripper Collins, American baseball player (d. 1970)
1905 Albert Pierrepoint, English executioner (d. 1992)
1905 Mikio Oda, Japan, triple jumper (Olympic-gold-1928)
1907 Friedrich August Freiherr von der Heydte, German Luftwaffe Officer (d. 1994)
1908 Camille Schmit, composer
1908 Kurt Bruggemann, composer
1908 Leslie O'Brien "Chuck" Fleetwood-Smith, Chinese cricket bowler
1909 Ernst Gombrich, OM/FBA/director (Warburg Institute)
1910 Józef Marcinkiewicz, Polish mathematician (d. 1940)
1911 Dennis Gomm, musician
1912 Andrew Rodger Waterson, scholar/naturalist
1912 Jack Cowie, cricketer (successful NZ fast bowler either side of WWII)
1913 Censu Tabone, President of Malta, (d. 2012)
1913 Frankie Laine, American singer (Frankie Laine Show, Rawhide) (d. 2007)
1913 Gottfried Reinhardt, theatre producer
1913 Marc Davis, American animator (d. 2000)
1913 Richard Helms, American CIA director (1966-73) (d. 2002)
1914 Sonny Boy Williamson (John Lee), American blues musician (Down & Out Blues) (d. 1948)
1917 Els Aarne, composer
1917 Herbert Anderson, actor (Henry-Dennis The Menace)
1917 Rudolf Bruci, composer
1918 John Gray, FRS/marine biologist
1918 Joseph Allen Jr, Boston MA, actor (Death of a Champion)
1919 McGeorge Bundy, American National Security Advisor (JFK) (d. 1996)
1919 Ramsay Ames, actress (G-Men Never Forget, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1920 Turhan Bey, Vienna Austria, actor (Dragon Seed, Ali Baba & 40 Thieves)
1921 Countess of Sutherland, English great land owner/multi-millionaire
1921 Kan Ishii, composer
1921 Oto Ferenczy, composer
1922 German Germanovich Galinin, composer
1922 J F Coates, naval architect
1922 Peter Jona Korn, composer
1922 Turhan Bey, Turkish actor
1923 Herbert Asmodi, writer
1923 Milton Acorn, Canadian poet (d. 1986)
1924 Milko Kelemen, composer
1925 Ivo Malek, composer
1925 John Wells, MP
1926 Ingvar Kamprad, Swedish entrepreneur
1926 John Heddle Nash, singer
1926 Lord Rayner
1926 Ray McAnally, Ireland, actor (My Left Foot, Empire State, Sicilian)
1926 Werner Torkanowsky, German conductor (New Orleans Symph) (d. 1992)
1927 Lord Armstrong of Ilminster
1927 Peter Marshall, American game show host (Hollywood Squares)
1927 Wally Grout, cricketer (great Aussie wicket-keeper)
1928 Diether de la Motte, composer
1928 Richard Trant, Brit general
1928 Robert Badinter, French politician
1928 Tom Sharpe, English satirical author (Riotous Assembly, Want)
1929 Richard Dysart, American actor (Leland MacKenzie-LA Law)
1929 Shirley Stoler, Brooklyn NY, actress (Frankenhooker, 7 Beauties)
1930 Browne-Wilkinson, lord
1930 David Staple, joint pres (Council of Churches for Brit & Ireland)
1930 John Astin, American actor (I'm Dickens He's Fenster, Addams Family)
1930 Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson, former Lord of Appeal, UK
1930 Rolf Harris, Australian artist and entertainer
1931 Aleksey Vasilyevich Sorokin, Russian cosmonaut
1931 Harold Burrage, US singer/pianist (Hi Yo Silver)
1931 Sandor Szokolay, composer
1932 A J Zuckerman, Dean (Royal Free Hospital School of Medicine)
1932 Ted Morgan, Swiss-born writer
1933 Jean-Claude Brialy, French actor and director (Circle of Love, Cousins) (d. 2007)
1934 Lord Tanlaw
1935 Alan Jackson, CEO (BTR)
1935 Gordon Mumma, composer
1935 John Charles Eaton, composer
1935 Karl Berger, German musicologist and musician
1935 Willie Galimore, American football player (d. 1964)
1936 Mark Burns, British director (Juggernaut)
1936 Richard Baker, Santa Fe NM, Zen teacher (Dharma Sangha)
1937 J S Jennings, CEO (Shell Transport & Trading Co)
1937 Jay W Macintosh, Gainesville Ga, actress (Sons & Daughters)
1937 Lord MacLaurin of Knebworth
1937 Warren Beatty, American actor and director (Bonnie & Clyde,Shampoo, Dick Tracy)
1938 Martin Dunne, Lord-Lt (Warwickshire)
1940 Astrud Gilberto, Brazil, singer (Girl From Ipanema)
1940 Hans Ragnemalm, Swedish professor of public law, and judge
1940 Jerry Lucas, American basketball player, NBA center (Oly-gold-60, NY Knicks)
1940 Norman Gifford, cricketer (respected England slow left-armer 1964-73)
1941 Bob Smith, former American politician
1941 Brendan O'Friel, CEO (Prison Governors Association)
1941 Graeme Edge, British musician (Moody Blues)
1941 Robert C Smith, (Rep-R-NH, 1985)
1941 Ron Johnston, Vice-Chancellor (Essex U)
1941 Sven Hamrin, Sweden, road race cycler (Olympic-bronze-1964)
1941 Wasim Sajjad, President of Pakistan
1942 George Esson, Chief Constable (Dumfries & Galloway)
1942 Graeme Edge, England, rock drummer (Moody Blues-Your Wildest Dreams)
1942 Ruben Kun, Nauruan politician and former President of Nauru
1943 Bob Blewett, cricketer (father of Greg South Aust batsman 1975-79)
1943 Ken Forssi, American musician (Love) (d. 1998)
1944 Gerrit Komrij, Dutch poet/essayist (Happy Schizo)
1945 Eric Clapton, British guitarist (Tears in Heaven)
1945 Johnnie Walker, British DJ
1947 Ryszard Kotla, Polish travel writer and activist, tour guide, journalist, academic teacher, engineer
1948 Dave Ball, rocker (Procul Harum)
1948 Eddie Jordan, Former owner of Jordan Grand Prix
1948 Jim Dandy Mangrum, vocalist (Black Oak Arkansas-Jim Dandy)
1948 Justin Deas, Penn, actor (Dream Lover, Montana, Intimate Strangers)
1948 M A King, FBA, economist
1948 Mervyn King, British economist
1948 Nigel Jones, British MP
1949 Leslie Joan Corn, theatre producer/director/writer
1949 Liza Frulla, Quebec politician
1949 Naomi Sims, American fashion model and businesswoman (d. 2009)
1949 Ray Magliozzi, American radio personality, cohost of Car Talk
1949 Sue Cook, British broadcaster
1950 Dave McCurdy, (Rep-D-OK, 1981)
1950 Eugene Bowen, composer (Wonder's Edge)
1950 Robbie Coltrane, Scottish actor and comedian
1950 Rupert Greenall, rock keyboardist (Fixx)
1951 John Gosden, racehorse trainer
1951 Yves Séguin, Quebec politician
1952 Peter Knights, Australian footballer and coach
1953 Cydney Bernard, American film producer
1955 Randy VanWarmer, American singer and songwriter (Just When I Needed You Most) (d. 2004)
1956 Bill Butler, Scottish politician
1956 Juanito Oiarzabal, Basque mountaineer
1956 Shahla Sherkat, Iranian feminist journalist
1957 Elena V Kondakova, Moscow Russia, cosmonaut (STS 84)
1957 Paul Reiser, American actor (My 2 Dads, Diner, Aliens, Mad About You)
1957 Yelena Vladimirovna Kondakova, Russian cosmonaut (Soyuz TM 20, STS 84)
1958 Joseph Paul Sindelar, Ft Knox KY, PGA golfer (BC Open-1985, 87)
1958 Maurice LaMarche, Canadian voice actor
1959 Daniel Seifried, Kitchener Ont, Canadia Tour golfer (1981 Thunder Bay)
1959 Peter Hugh McGregor Ellis, New Zealand convicted child abuser
1959 Sabine Meyer, German clarinetist
1960 William D Johnson, US alpine skier
1961 Doug Wickenheiser, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1999)
1962 Bil Dwyer, American actor
1962 M C Hammer (Stanley Kirk Burrell), American rap musician (Hammer Time)
1963 Eli-Eri Moura, Brazilian composer and conductor
1963 Jenny Lidback, Lima Peru, LPGA golfer (1995 du Maurier Ltd Classic)
1963 Lomas Brown, NFL tackle (Detroit Lions, Arizona Cardinals)
1963 Panagiotis Tsalouchidis, Greek footballer
1964 Corey Millen, Cloquet, NHL center (Calgary Flames)
1964 Dave Ellett, Canadian hockey player, NHL defenseman (Toronto Maple Leafs)
1964 Ian Ziering, American actor
1964 Tracy Chapman, American singer (Freedom Now, I Got a Fast Car)
1964 Vlado Bozinovski, Australian former footballer
1965 Karel Novacek, Prostejov Czech, tennis star (1994 Hilversum)
1965 Piers Morgan, British journalist (Daily Mirror)
1966 Dmitri Volkov, Russian swimmer
1966 Efstratios Grivas, Greek chess grandmaster and author
1966 Joey Castillo, American drummer (Queens of the Stone Age)
1967 Christopher Bowman, American figure skater (d. 2008)
1967 Hayashibara Megumi, Japanese voice actress and singer
1967 Ian Ziering, West Orange NJ, actor (Steve Sanders-Beverly Hills 90210)
1967 Julie Richardson, Auckland NZ, tennis star (1992 Futures-Canberra)
1968 Celine Dion, Canadian singer (I'm Your Woman)
1968 Donna D'Errico, American actress and model, playmate (Sep, 1995)
1969 Marco Foddis, pop drummer (Pestilence)
1969 Mark Astley, Calgary, NHL defenseman (Buffalo Sabres)
1970 George Coghill, WLAF safety (Scottish Claymores)
1970 Mark Consuelos, Zaragosa Spain, actor (Mateo Santos-All My Children)
1970 Secretariat, American racehorse, triple crown (1973) (d. 1989)
1970 Shane Bertsch, Denver CO, Nike golfer (1994 Permina Basin Open-14th)
1971 Mari Holden, American cycle racer (Olympics-96)
1971 Mark Consuelos, American actor
1972 Brenden Stai, NFL guard (Pittsburgh Steelers)
1972 Matt Joyce, NFL/WLAF guard/tackle (Cardinals, Seahawks, Claymores)
1972 Mili Avital, Israeli-American actress
1972 Peggy Zlotkowski, Miss France-Universe (1989)
1973 Caroline Ramagos, Miss Mississippi USA (1996)
1973 Jan Koller, Czech footballer
1973 Kareem Streete-Thompson, Ithaca NY, 100m/long jumper
1973 Matthew Pritchard, Welsh Stuntman
1973 Melinda Penn, Miss British virgin islands Universe (1997)
1973 Rodney Thomas, running back (Tennessee Oilers)
1973 (Kirk) Kareem Streete-Thompson, Ithaca NY, long jumper
1974 Martin Love, cricketer (high scoring Queensland batsman, Aust 1995)
1975 Bahar Soomekh, American actress
1976 Chris Canty, cornerback (New England Patriots)
1976 Mark McClelland, Northern Irish musician (Degrassi)
1976 Obadele Thompson, Barbadian athlete
1976 Toby Gowin, punter (Dallas Cowboys)
1976 Ty Conklin, American ice hockey player
1978 Chris Paterson, Scottish rugby player
1978 Wendy Christina Roberts, Miss South Carolina Teen USA (1996)
1979 Anatoliy Tymoschuk Ukrainian footballer
1979 Norah Jones, American singer and pianist
1979 Simon Webbe, English singer
1980 Liriel Higa, LA California, rhythmic gymnast (Olympics-96)
1980 Ricardo Osorio, Mexican footballer
1980 Yalin, Turkish singer and songwriter
1981 Jammal Brown, American football player
1982 Jason Dohring, American actor
1982 Mark Hudson, English footballer
1983 Davis Romero, Panamanian baseball player
1983 Hebe Tien, Taiwanese singer (S.H.E)
1983 Jérémie Aliadière, French footballer
1983 Scott Moffatt, Canadian singer and songwriter
1983 Zach Gowen, American professional wrestler
1984 Anna Nalick, American singer and songwriter.
1984 Mario Ancic, Croatian tennis player
1984 Samantha Stosur, Australian tennis player
1986 Beni Arashiro, Japanese singer
1986 Sergio Ramos, Spanish footballer
1987 Dewansh Darnal,great man indeed
1987 Marc-Edouard Vlasic, Canadian hockey player
Died on March 30th
988 Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988)
1202 Joachim Van Fiore, Italian religious founder (Joachimism)
1486 Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1547 Francois I of Valois-Angouleme, King of France (1515-47)
1559 Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 Pietro Antonio Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1806 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, English duchess (b. 1757)
1840 Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1840 George (Beau) Brummell, Dandy, dies
1842 Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1864 Louis Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser, composer
1871 W F A A Louisa/Lovisa, queen of Sweden/Norway
1872 Nicolaos Mantzaros, composer
1873 Benedict Augustin Morel, psychologist (dementia praecox)
1875 Marie Moke Pleyel, composer
1879 David van der Kellen, Dutch coin engraver
1879 Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1884 Hans Hampel, composer
1886 Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1906 Betsy Perk (Christina E), journalist/writer/feminist
1912 Karl May, German author (Winnetou/Kara Ben Nemsi) (b. 1842)
1925 Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (anthroposophy) (b. 1861)
1926 Feliks E Dzerzjinski, Lithuanian organizer (KGB)
1935 Romanos Hovakimi Melik'yan, composer
1936 Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1942 Alfred Coville, French historian (Lesson premier Valois),
1943 Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1945 Karel Moor, composer
1946 John S S P V Gort, viscount of Limerick/Hamsterley
1949 Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar, cricketer (4 Tests for India)
1949 Friedrich C R Bergius, German chemist (brown coal, Nobel Prize laureate 1931) (b. 1884)
1950 Léon Blum, French prime minister (People's Front Government) (b. 1872)
1952 Jigme Wangchuck, Second king of Bhutan (b. 1905)
1953 Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, composer
1959 Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1960 Fritz Klimsch, German sculptor/painter
1960 Joseph Haas, German opera composer (Totenmesse)
1961 P J Melotte, discovered Jupiter's 8th satellite Pasiphae
1963 Alexander Vasil'yevich Gauk, composer
1964 Willem CN Andriessen, Dutch composer/pianist (Beethoven)
1965 Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 Erwin Piscator, German director (Plebeians test rebellion)
1966 Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1966 Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1969 Lucien Bianchi, Belgian auto racer
1970 Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1971 Selmer Jackson, actor (Life & Legend of Wyatt Earp)
1972 Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1972 Peter Whitney, actor (Rough Riders)
1974 Ludovicus J Rogier, Dutch historian (Reborn in Freedom)
1975 Peter Bamm, writer
1976 Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, actress (Hostage Rights)
1977 Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1977 Levko Mykolayevich Revutsky, composer
1978 George Paine, lefty cricket spinner (for England in WI 1935)
1978 Harold Gimblett, cricketer (Batted in 3 Tests for England), suicide
1979 Airey Neave, British politician and WW2 veteran, killed by terrorist bomb (b.1916)
1981 DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (Reader's Digest) (b. 1889)
1981 Noel Harford, cricketer (8 Tests for NZ 1955-58)
1984 Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1984 Peter Yarrall, strongest Englishman/weighed 826 lb (374.7 kg)
1985 Harold Peary, American actor and singer (Herb-Blondie, Willy) (b. 1908)
1986 James Cagney, American actor (Yankee Doodle Dandy) (b. 1899)
1986 John Ciardi, US poet/interpreter (Dante)
1988 Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1989 Dort Clark, actor (In Harm's Way)
1991 Jan Willem Hofstra, Dutch actor/writer (Friends of My Friends)
1992 Art Hannes, announcer
1992 Luigi De Laurentiis, Italian producer (Toto, Macaroni)
1992 Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)
1993 Jeremy Siegrist, actor (Adv of Darly & Samy), dies hiking
1993 Richard C Diebenkorn Jr, US painter (Ocean Park Paintings)
1994 Albert Goldman, rock biographer (Elvis, John Lennon)
1994 Sid Weiss, bassist
1995 Graham Anthony Richard Lock, cricketer
1995 Paul A Rothchild, record producer
1995 Rozelle Claxton, pianist/arranger
1995 Tony Lock, cricketer (174 wickets for England)
1996 Hugh Edward Lance Falkus, filmmaker/naturalist
1996 Ryoei Saito, businessman
1999 Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2000 Rudolf Kirchschlaeger, President of Austria (1974-1986) (b. 1915)
2002 Anand Bakshi, Indian lyricist (b. 1930)
2002 Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2004 Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2005 Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2005 Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2005 Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2006 John McGahern, Irish novelist (b. 1934)
2006 Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2008 David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
2008 Dith Pran, Cambodian photographer, The Killing Fields (b. 1942)
2008 Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)
2010 Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-born American high school teacher at Garfield High School (b. 1930)
2010 Martin Sandberger, German military officer (b. 1911)
2012 Viktor Kosichkin, Russian speed skater and Olympic gold medalist
2013 Phil Ramone, South-African born American music producer
2013 Bob Turley, American MLB pitcher
2014 Kate O'Mara, English actress (Dynasty) and writer