March 16

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2015 (Monday)

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2010 (Tuesday)

2009 (Monday)

2008 (Sunday)

2007 (Friday)

March 16 is the 75th day of the year (76th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 290 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Friday (58 in 400 years each) than on Saturday or Sunday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Thursday (56).

Events

• 597 BC – Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.
• 455 – Emperor Valentinian III is assassinated by two Hunnic retainers while training with the bow on the Campus Martius (Rome).
• 934 – Meng Zhixiang declares himself emperor and establishes Later Shu as a new state independent of Later Tang.
• 1190 – Massacre of Jews at Clifford's Tower, York.
• 1244 – Over 200 Cathars are burned after the Fall of Montségur.
• 1322 – The Battle of Boroughbridge take place in the Despenser Wars.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan reached the island of Homonhon in the Philippines with 150 crew. Members of his expedition became the first Spaniards to reach the Philippine archipelago, but were not the first Europeans. He landed with three small ships - Concepcion, Trinidad, and Victoria - and called the place the Archipelago de San Lazaro since it was the feast day of Saint Lazarus of Bethany.
• 1621 – Samoset, a Mohegan, visited the settlers of Plymouth Colony and greets them, "Welcome, Englishmen! My name is Samoset."
• 1660 – The Long Parliament of England is dissolved so as to prepare for the new Convention Parliament.
• 1689 – The 23rd Regiment of Foot, or Royal Welch Fusiliers, is founded.
• 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Spanish troops capture the British-held island of Roatán.
• 1782 – Anglo-Spanish War (1779): Action of 16 March 1782
• 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden is shot; he dies on March 29.
• 1797 – Battle of Valvasone by Napoleon Bonaparte takes place.
• 1802 – The Army Corps of Engineers is established to found and operate the United States Military Academy at West Point.
• 1812 – Siege of Badajoz begins: British and Portuguese forces besiege and defeat French garrison during the Peninsular War.
• 1815 – Prince Willem proclaims himself King of the United Kingdom of the Netherlands, the first constitutional monarch in the Netherlands.
• 1818 – In the Second Battle of Cancha Rayada, Spanish forces defeated Chileans under José de San Martín.
• 1864 – American Civil War: During the Red River Campaign, Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Averasborough began as Confederate forces suffer irreplaceable casualties in the final months of the war.
• 1870 – The first version of the overture fantasy Romeo and Juliet by Tchaikovsky receives its première performance.
• 1872 – The Wanderers F.C. won the first FA Cup, the oldest football competition in the world, beating Royal Engineers A.F.C. 1–0 at The Oval in Kennington, London.
• 1894 – Jules Massenet's opera Thaïs is first performed.
• 1900 – Sir Arthur Evans purchased the land around the ruins of Knossos, the largest Bronze Age archaeological site on Crete.
• 1916 – The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US–Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
• 1917 – World War I: Action of 16 March 1917
• 1924 – In accordance with the Treaty of Rome, Fiume becomes annexed as part of Italy.
• 1925 – An earthquake occurs in Yunnan, China.
• 1926 – History of Rocketry: Robert Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket, at Auburn, Massachusetts.
• 1935 – Adolf Hitler orders Germany to rearm herself in violation of the Treaty of Versailles. Conscription is reintroduced to form the Wehrmacht.
• 1936 – Warmer-than-normal temperatures rapidly melt snow and ice on the upper Allegheny and Monongahela rivers and lead to a major flood in Pittsburgh.
• 1939 – From Prague Castle, Hitler proclaims Bohemia and Moravia a German protectorate.
• 1940 – First person killed (James Isbister) in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands.
• 1942 – The first V-2 rocket test launch; it exploded at lift-off.
• 1945 – World War II: The Battle of Iwo Jima ended, but small pockets of Japanese resistance persisted.
• 1945 – Ninety percent of Würzburg, Germany is destroyed in only 20 minutes by British bombers, resulting in around 5,000 deaths.
• 1958 – The Ford Motor Company produces its 50 millionth automobile, the Thunderbird, averaging almost a million cars a year since the company's founding.
• 1962 – A Flying Tiger Line Super Constellation disappears in the western Pacific Ocean, with all 107 aboard missing and presumed dead.
• 1966 – Launch of Gemini 8, the 12th manned American space flight and first space docking with the Agena target vehicle.
• 1968 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre occurs; between 347 and 500 Vietnamese villagers (men, women, and children) are killed by American troops.
• 1968 – General Motors produces its 100 millionth automobile, the Oldsmobile Toronado.
• 1969 – A Viasa McDonnell Douglas DC-9 crashes in Maracaibo, Venezuela, killing 155.
• 1976 – British Prime Minister Harold Wilson resigns, citing personal reasons.
• 1977 – Assassination of Kamal Jumblatt, the main leader of the anti-government forces in the Lebanese Civil War.
• 1978 – Former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro is kidnapped and later murdered by his captors.
• 1978 – Supertanker Amoco Cadiz splits in two after running aground on the Portsall Rocks, three miles off the coast of Brittany, resulting in the largest oil spill in history at that time.
• 1979 – Sino-Vietnamese War: The People's Liberation Army crosses the border back into China, ends the war.
• 1983 – Demolition of the Ismaning radio transmitter, the last wooden radio tower in Germany.
• 1984 – William Buckley, the CIA station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, is kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists and later dies in captivity.
• 1985 – Associated Press newsman Terry Anderson is taken hostage in Beirut. He is released on December 4, 1991.
• 1988 – Iran–Contra affair: Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North and Vice Admiral John Poindexter are indicted on charges of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
• 1988 – Halabja chemical attack: The Kurdish town of Halabja in Iraq is attacked with a mix of poison gas and nerve agents on the orders of Saddam Hussein, killing 5000 people and injuring about 10000 people.
• 1988 – The Troubles: Ulster loyalist militant Michael Stone attacks a Provisional IRA funeral in Belfast with pistols and grenades. A PIRA volunteer and two civilians are killed, and more than 60 others are wounded. The attack was filmed by news crews.
• 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found near the Pyramid of Cheops.
• 1995 – Mississippi formally ratifies the Thirteenth Amendment, becoming the last state to approve the abolition of slavery. The Thirteenth Amendment was officially ratified in 1865.
• 2005 – Israel officially hands over Jericho to Palestinian control.
• 2014 – Crimea votes in a controversial referendum to secede from Ukraine to join Russia.
• 2016 – A bomb detonates in a bus carrying government employees in Peshawar, Pakistan, killing 15 and injuring at least 54.
• 2016 – Two female suicide bombers detonate their explosives at a mosque during morning prayer on the outskirts of Maiduguri, Nigeria, killing 22 and injuring 18.

Births

• 1399 – Xuande Emperor of China (d. 1435)
• 1445 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss priest and theologian (d. 1510)
• 1473 – Henry IV, Duke of Saxony (d. 1541)
• 1581 – Pieter Corneliszoon Hooft, Dutch historian and poet (d. 1647)
• 1585 – Gerbrand Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618)
• 1750 – Caroline Herschel, German-English astronomer (d. 1848)
• 1751 – James Madison, American academic and politician, 4th President of the United States (d. 1836)
• 1771 – Antoine-Jean Gros, French painter (d. 1835)
• 1773 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentinian general and politician, 6th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (d. 1836)
• 1774 – Matthew Flinders, English navigator and cartographer (d. 1814)
• 1789 – Francis Rawdon Chesney, English general and explorer (d. 1872)
• 1789 – Georg Ohm, German physicist and mathematician (d. 1854)
• 1794 – Ami Boué, Austrian geologist and ethnographer (d. 1881)
• 1797 – Alaric Alexander Watts, English poet and journalist (d. 1864)
• 1799 – Anna Atkins, English botanist and photographer (d. 1871)
• 1800 – Emperor Ninkō of Japan (d. 1846)
• 1805 – Peter Ernst von Lasaulx, German philologist and politician (d. 1861)
• 1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician and academic (d. 1881)
• 1822 – Rosa Bonheur, French painter and sculptor (d. 1899)
• 1822 – John Pope, American general (d. 1892)
• 1823 – William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (d. 1889)
• 1834 – James Hector, Scottish geologist and surgeon (d. 1907)
• 1836 – Andrew Smith Hallidie, English-American engineer and businessman (d. 1900)
• 1839 – Sully Prudhomme, French poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1907)
• 1839 – John Butler Yeats, Irish painter (d. 1922)
• 1840 – Shibusawa Eiichi, Japanese businessman (d. 1931)
• 1845 – Umegatani Tōtarō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 15th Yokozuna (d. 1928)
• 1846 – Gösta Mittag-Leffler, Swedish mathematician and academic (d. 1927)
• 1848 – Axel Heiberg, Norwegian financier and diplomat (d. 1932)
• 1851 – Martinus Beijerinck, Dutch microbiologist and botanist (d. 1931)
• 1856 – Napoléon, Prince Imperial of France (d. 1879)
• 1857 – Charles Harding Firth, English historian and academic (d. 1936)
• 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1906)
• 1865 – Patsy Donovan, Irish-American baseball player and manager (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Willy Burmester, German violinist (d. 1933)
• 1871 – Hans Merensky, South African geologist and philanthropist (d. 1951)
• 1871 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (d. 1932)
• 1876 – Charles Halton, American actor (d. 1959)
• 1877 – Léo-Ernest Ouimet, Canadian director and producer (d. 1972)
• 1878 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, German cardinal (d. 1946)
• 1882 – James Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
• 1883 – Ethel Anderson, Australian poet, author, and painter (d. 1958)
• 1884 – Eric P. Kelly, American journalist and author (d. 1960)
• 1885 – Giacomo Benvenuti, Italian composer and musicologist (d. 1943)
• 1885 – Sydney Chaplin, English actor (d. 1965)
• 1887 – Emilio Lunghi, Italian runner (d. 1925)
• 1892 – César Vallejo, Peruvian poet, playwright, and journalist (d. 1938)
• 1897 – Conrad Nagel, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Mike Mansfield, American politician and diplomat, 22nd United States Ambassador to Japan (d. 2001)
• 1906 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish sociologist, author, and translator (d. 2009)
• 1906 – Maurice Turnbull, Welsh-English cricketer and rugby player (d. 1944)
• 1906 – Henny Youngman, English-American violinist and comedian (d. 1998)
• 1908 – René Daumal, French author and poet (d. 1944)
• 1908 – Robert Rossen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Iftikhar Ali Khan Pataudi, Indian-English cricketer and politician, 8th Nawab of Pataudi (d. 1952)
• 1911 – Pierre Harmel, Belgian lawyer and politician, 40th Prime Minister of Belgium (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Josef Mengele, German physician and captain (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Pat Nixon, American First Lady (d. 1993)
• 1915 – Kunihiko Kodaira, Japanese mathematician and academic (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1916 – Tsutomu Yamaguchi, Japanese engineer and businessman (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Louis C. Wyman, American lawyer and politician (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Frederick Reines, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1998)
• 1920 – John Addison, English-American soldier and composer (d. 1998)
• 1920 – Sid Fleischman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2010)
• 1920 – Traudl Junge, German secretary and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1920 – Leo McKern, Australian-English actor (d. 2002)
• 1922 – Harding Lemay, American screenwriter and playwright
• 1925 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)
• 1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (d. 2012)
• 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004)
• 1926 – Charles Goodell, American lawyer and politician (d. 1987)
• 1926 – Jerry Lewis, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 – Vladimir Komarov, Russian pilot, engineer, and astronaut (d. 1967)
• 1927 – Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (d. 2003)
• 1927 – Olga San Juan, American actress and dancer (d. 2009)
• 1928 – Wakanohana Kanji I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 45th Yokozuna (d. 2010)
• 1928 – Christa Ludwig, German soprano and actress
• 1929 – Tihomir Novakov, Serbian-American physicist and academic (d. 2015)
• 1930 – Tommy Flanagan, American pianist and composer (d. 2001)
• 1931 – Alan Heyman, American-South Korean musicologist and composer (d. 2014)
• 1931 – Anthony Kenny, English philosopher and academic
• 1931 – John Munro, Canadian lawyer and politician, 22nd Canadian Minister of Labour (d. 2003)
• 1932 – Don Blasingame, American baseball player and manager (d. 2005)
• 1932 – Walter Cunningham, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
• 1932 – Kurt Diemberger, Austrian mountaineer and author
• 1933 – Keith Critchlow, English architect and academic, co-founded Temenos Academy
• 1933 – Sanford I. Weill, American banker, financier, and philanthropist
• 1934 – Ray Hnatyshyn, Canadian lawyer and politician, 24th Governor General of Canada (d. 2002)
• 1934 – Roger Norrington, English violinist and conductor
• 1935 – Teresa Berganza, Spanish soprano and actress
• 1936 – Fred Neil, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2001)
• 1936 – Raymond Vahan Damadian, Armenian-American inventor, invented the MRI
• 1937 – David Frith, English historian, journalist, and author
• 1937 – Amos Tversky, Israeli-American psychologist and academic (d. 1996)
• 1939 – Carlos Bilardo, Argentinian footballer and manager
• 1939 – Koos Van Den Akker, Dutch-American fashion designer (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1940 – Vagif Mustafazadeh, Azerbaijani pianist and composer (d. 1979)
• 1940 – Jan Pronk, Dutch academic and politician, Dutch Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment
• 1940 – Keith Rowe, English guitarist
• 1941 – Robert Guéï, Ivorian soldier and politician, 3rd President of Côte d'Ivoire (d. 2002)
• 1941 – Chuck Woolery, American game show host and television personality
• 1942 – Roger Crozier, Canadian-American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1996)
• 1942 – James Soong, Chinese-Taiwanese politician, Governor of Taiwan Province
• 1942 – Gijs van Lennep, Dutch race car driver
• 1942 – Jerry Jeff Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1943 – Ursula Goodenough, American biologist, zoologist, and author
• 1944 – Andrew S. Tanenbaum, American computer scientist and academic
• 1946 – Sigmund Groven, Norwegian harmonica player and composer
• 1946 – Mary Kaldor, English economist and academic
• 1947 – Ramzan Paskayev, Kazakh accordion player and composer
• 1948 – Michael Owen Bruce, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1948 – Richard Desjardins, Canadian singer-songwriter and director
• 1949 – Eric Estrada, American actor
• 1949 – Victor Garber, Canadian actor and singer
• 1949 – Elliott Murphy, American-French singer-songwriter and journalist
• 1950 – Peter Forster, English bishop
• 1950 – Kate Nelligan, Canadian actress
• 1951 – Ray Benson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1951 – Joe DeLamielleure, American football player
• 1952 – Scott Simon, American journalist and author
• 1953 – Isabelle Huppert, French actress
• 1953 – Richard Stallman, American computer scientist and programmer
• 1954 – David Heath, English politician
• 1954 – Jimmy Nail, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
• 1954 – Tim O'Brien, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1954 – Dav Whatmore, Sri Lankan-Australian cricketer and coach
• 1954 – Nancy Wilson, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actress
• 1955 – Svetlana Alexeeva, Russian ice dancer and coach
• 1955 – Bruno Barreto, Brazilian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1955 – Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxer
• 1956 – Ozzie Newsome, American football player and manager
• 1956 – Clifton Powell, American actor, director, and producer
• 1958 – Phillip Wilcher, Australian pianist and composer
• 1958 – Kate Worley, American author (d. 2004)
• 1959 – Sebastian Currier, American composer and educator
• 1959 – Greg Dyer, Australian cricketer
• 1959 – Flavor Flav, American rapper and actor
• 1959 – Jens Stoltenberg, Norwegian economist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Norway
• 1960 – Jenny Eclair, English actress and author
• 1960 – John Hemming, English businessman and politician
• 1960 – Duane Sutter, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1961 – Brett Kenny, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1961 – Todd McFarlane, Canadian author, illustrator, and businessman, founded McFarlane Toys
• 1963 – Jerome Flynn, English actor
• 1963 – Kevin Smith, New Zealand actor and singer (d. 2002)
• 1964 – Patty Griffin, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Gore Verbinski, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1965 – Steve Armstrong, American wrestler
• 1965 – Mark Carney, Canadian-English economist and banker
• 1966 – H.P. Baxxter, German singer-songwriter
• 1967 – Tracy Bonham, American singer and violinist
• 1967 – John Darnielle, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1967 – Lauren Graham, American actress and producer
• 1968 – Trevor Wilson, American basketball player and police officer
• 1969 – Judah Friedlander, American comedian and actor
• 1969 – Ottis Gibson, Barbadian cricketer and coach
• 1969 – Evangelos Koronios, Greek basketball player and coach
• 1970 – Joakim Berg, Swedish singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1972 – Veiko Õunpuu, Estonian director and screenwriter
• 1973 – Ahmet Kutsi Karadoğan, Turkish singer-songwriter
• 1973 – Vonda Ward, American boxer and basketball player
• 1974 – Georgios Anatolakis, Greek footballer and politician
• 1974 – Heath Streak, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1975 – Sienna Guillory, English model and actress
• 1976 – Blu Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and producer
• 1976 – Abraham Núñez, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Rashad Moore, American football player
• 1979 – Leena Peisa, Finnish keyboard player and songwriter
• 1979 – Andrei Stepanov, Estonian footballer
• 1980 – Todd Heap, American football player
• 1980 – Felipe Reyes, Spanish basketball player
• 1981 – Andrew Bree, Irish swimmer
• 1981 – Danny Brown, American rapper
• 1981 – Curtis Granderson, American baseball player
• 1981 – Fabiana Murer, Brazilian pole vaulter
• 1981 – Yoav Ziv, Israeli footballer
• 1982 – Riley Cote, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1982 – Brian Wilson, American baseball player
• 1983 – Brandon League, American baseball player
• 1983 – Stephen Drew, American baseball player
• 1983 – Tramon Williams, American football player
• 1984 – Levi Brown, American football player
• 1984 – Michael Ennis, Australian rugby player
• 1984 – Hosea Gear, New Zealand rugby player
• 1984 – Brandon Prust, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Eddy Lover, Panamanian singer-songwriter
• 1986 – Toney Douglas, American basketball player
• 1986 – Kenny Dykstra, American wrestler
• 1986 – T. J. Jordan, American basketball player
• 1986 – Boaz Solossa, Indonesian footballer
• 1986 – Daisuke Takahashi, Japanese figure skater
• 1988 – Jessica Gregg, Canadian speed skater
• 1988 – Patrick Herrmann, German footballer
• 1989 – Blake Griffin, American basketball player
• 1989 – Theo Walcott, English footballer
• 1995 – Inga Janulevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1999 – Bailie Key, American gymnast

Deaths

• 37 – Tiberius, Roman emperor (b. 42 BC)
• 455 – Valentinian III, Roman emperor (b. 419)
• 933 – Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt
• 1021 – Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop and saint (b. 970)
• 1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (b. 1000)
• 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1276)
• 1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1373)
• 1457 – Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (b. 1433)
• 1559 – Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
• 1649 – Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (b. 1593)
• 1679 – John Leverett, English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
• 1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (b. 1657)
• 1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian organist and composer (b. 1710)
• 1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (b. 1670)
• 1738 – George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (b. 1666)
• 1747 – Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (b. 1690)
• 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American captain and mathematician (b. 1773)
• 1841 – Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (d. 1791)
• 1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (b. 1801)
• 1892 – Samuel F. Miller, American lawyer and politician (b. 1827)
• 1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (b. 1872)
• 1899 – Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
• 1903 – Roy Bean, American lawyer and jurist (b. 1825)
• 1912 – Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (b. 1854)
• 1914 – Gaston Calmette, French journalist (b. 1858)
• 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1843)
• 1914 – John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (b. 1841)
• 1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)
• 1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1870)
• 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
• 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (b. 1886)
• 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (b. 1864)
• 1937 – Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (b. 1877)
• 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (b. 1914)
• 1957 – Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (b. 1876)
• 1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (b. 1903)
• 1961 – Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (b. 1883)
• 1963 – Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (b. 1874)
• 1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (b. 1907)
• 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
• 1971 – Bebe Daniels, American actress, singer and dancer (b. 1901)
• 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (b. 1902)
• 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
• 1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (b. 1917)
• 1979 – Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-American painter (b. 1898)
• 1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
• 1983 – Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (b. 1907)
• 1985 – Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (b. 1896)
• 1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1902)
• 1988 – Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (b. 1928)
• 1990 – Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1898)
• 1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (b. 1903)
• 1998 – Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer (b. 1921)
• 1999 – Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2000 – Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (b. 1911)
• 2000 – Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
• 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American activist (b. 1979)
• 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
• 2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
• 2005 – Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (b. 1914)
• 2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
• 2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (b. 1912)
• 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (b. 1931)
• 2008 – Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader (b. 1931)
• 2012 – Donald E. Hillman, American colonel and pilot (b. 1918)
• 2012 – Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (b. 1939)
• 2013 – José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (b. 1914)
• 2013 – Bobby Smith, American singer (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (b. 1952)
• 2013 – Frank Thornton, English actor (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (b. 1941)
• 2014 – Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (b. 1936)
• 2014 – Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (b. 1949)
• 2014 – Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (b. 1958)
• 2015 – Bruce Crump, American drummer and songwriter (b. 1957)
• 2015 – Andy Fraser, English-American singer-songwriter and bass player (b. 1952)
• 2015 – Jack Haley, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1964)
• 2015 – Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (b. 1922)
• 2016 – Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (b. 1924)
• 2016 – Frank Sinatra, Jr., American singer and actor (b. 1944)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Abbán
  • Heribert of Cologne
  • March 16 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of the Book Smugglers (Lithuania)
• Latvian Legion Day (Latvia)
• Saint Urho's Day (Finnish Americans and Finnish Canadians)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Today in Canadian History