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March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 294 days remaining until the end of the year.
538 – Vitiges , king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna , leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius .
1550 – Several hundred Spanish and indigenous troops under the command of Pedro de Valdivia defeat an army of 60,000 Mapuche at the Battle of Penco during the Arauco War in present-day Chile .
1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier , founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church.
1689 – The Williamite War in Ireland begins.
1811 – Peninsular War : A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha .
1864 – American Civil War : The Red River Campaign begins as a US Navy fleet of 13 Ironclads and 7 Gunboats and other support ships enter the Red River.
1868 – Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh .
1868 – Basutoland , toaday called Lesotho is annexed by the United Kingdom .
1881 – Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain .
1885 – Tonkin Campaign : France captures the citadel of Bắc Ninh .
1894 – Coca-Cola is bottled and sold for the first time in Vicksburg, Mississippi , by local soda fountain operator Joseph Biedenharn.
1910 – Greek cruiser Georgios Averof is launched at Livorno .
1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA ) are founded in the United States.
1913 – Canberra Day : The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra . (Melbourne remains temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.)
1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years.
1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
1921 – İstiklâl Marşı is adopted in the Grand National Assembly of Turkey .
1922 – Armenia , Georgia and Azerbaijan form The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
1928 – In California , the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people.
1930 – Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March , to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt
1933 – Great Depression : Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States . This is also the first of his "fireside chats ".
1934 – Konstantin Päts and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia , and ban all political parties.
1938 – Anschluss : German troops occupy and absorb Austria.
1940 – Winter War : Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union , ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia . Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated.
1942 – Pacific War : The Battle of Java ends with an Allied surrender to the Japanese Empire .
1947 – The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism .
1950 – The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone , Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time.
1961 – First winter ascent of the North Face of the Eiger .
1967 – Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become Acting President of Indonesia .
1968 – Mauritius achieves independence from the United Kingdom.
1971 – The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations .
1993 – Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more.
1993 – North Korea nuclear weapons program : North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
1993 – The Blizzard of 1993 : Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours.
1993 – Janet Reno is sworn in as the United States' first female attorney general.
1994 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.
1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO .
2003 – Zoran Đinđić , Prime Minister of Serbia , is assassinated in Belgrade .
2004 – The President of South Korea , Roh Moo-hyun , is impeached by its National Assembly : The first such impeachment in the nation's history.
2005 – Karolos Papoulias becomes President of Greece .
2009 – Financier Bernard Madoff pleads guilty in New York to scamming $18 billion, the largest in Wall Street history.
2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant melts and explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after Japan's earthquake .
2014 – An explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills 8 and injures 70 others.
1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325)
1312 – John de Vere, 7th Earl of Oxford (d. 1360)
1479 – Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (d. 1516)
1607 – Paul Gerhardt , German poet and composer (d. 1676)
1613 – André Le Nôtre , French gardener and architect (d. 1700)
1620 – Johann Heinrich Hottinger , Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667)
1626 – John Aubrey , English historian and philosopher (d. 1697)
1637 – Anne Hyde , English wife of James II of England (d. 1671)
1647 – Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie , French general (d. 1727)
1672 – Richard Steele , Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729)
1685 – George Berkeley , Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753)
1710 – Thomas Arne , English composer (d. 1778)
1718 – Joseph Damer, 1st Earl of Dorchester , English politician (d. 1798)
1781 – Frederica of Baden (d. 1826)
1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie , Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
1806 – Jane Pierce , American wife of Franklin Pierce , 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
1821 – John Abbott , Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff , Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887)
1831 – Clement Studebaker , American businessman, co-founded Studebaker (d. 1901)
1832 – Charles Boycott , English farmer and agent (d. 1897)
1832 – Charles Friedel , French chemist and mineralogist (d.1899)
1835 – Simon Newcomb , Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
1837 – Alexandre Guilmant , French organist and composer (d. 1911)
1838 – William Henry Perkin , English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
1851 – Theodore Thurston Geer , American journalist and politician, 10th Governor of Oregon (d. 1924)
1858 – Adolph Ochs , American publisher (d. 1935)
1859 – Abraham H. Cannon , American religious leader (d. 1896)
1860 – Eric Stenbock , Estonian poet and author (d. 1895)
1861 – József Konkolics , Hungarian-Slovene cantor and author (d. 1941)
1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio , Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)
1863 – Vladimir Vernadsky , Russian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
1864 – W. H. R. Rivers , English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1864 – Alice Tegnér , Swedish organist and composer (d. 1943)
1864 – Charles Young , American colonel (d. 1922)
1874 – Charles Weeghman , American businessman (d. 1938)
1877 – Wilhelm Frick , German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
1878 – Gemma Galgani , Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin , English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)
1880 – Nikolaos Georgantas , Greek discus thrower (d. 1958)
1880 – Jaan Soots , Estonian general and politician, 7th Estonian Minister of War (d. 1942)
1881 – Gunnar Nordström , Finnish physicist and academic (d. 1923)
1883 – Zoltán Meskó , Hungarian politician (d. 1959)
1889 – Idris of Libya (d. 1983)
1890 – Vaslav Nijinsky , Russian dancer and choreographer (d. 1950)
1890 – William Dudley Pelley , American politician, founded the Silver Legion of America (d. 1965)
1890 – Evert Taube , Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976)
1891 – George W. Mason , American businessman (d. 1954)
1895 – Otakar Batlička , Czech journalist and author (d. 1942)
1895 – William C. Lee , American general (d. 1948)
1907 – Arthur Hewlett , English actor (d. 1997)
1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit , American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
1908 – Rita Angus , New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
1908 – David Marshall Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
1910 – Masayoshi Ōhira , Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz , Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
1912 – Irving Layton , Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (d. 2006)
1912 – Edgar Tafel , American architect (d. 2011)
1912 – Paul Weston , American pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1996)
1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan , Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
1913 – Agathe von Trapp , Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)
1914 – Julia Lennon , English mother of John Lennon (d. 1958)
1915 – Willibald C. Bianchi , American lieutenant, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1945)
1917 – Millard Kaufman , American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1917 – Googie Withers , Indian-Australian actress (d. 2011)
1918 – Elaine de Kooning , American painter and academic (d. 1989)
1919 – Mike Stepovich , American lawyer and politician, Governor of the Territory of Alaska (d. 2014)
1920 – Ray Still , American oboe player and educator (d. 2014)
1921 – Gianni Agnelli , Italian businessman (d. 2003)
1921 – Ülo Jõgi , Estonian historian and activist (d. 2007)
1921 – Gordon MacRae , American actor and singer (d. 1986)
1922 – Jack Kerouac , American author and poet (d. 1969)
1922 – Lane Kirkland , American sailor and union leader (d. 1999)
1923 – Hjalmar Andersen , Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)
1923 – Norbert Brainin , Austrian violinist (Amadeus Quartet ) (d. 2005)
1923 – Clara Fraser , American activist, co-founded Radical Women (d. 1998)
1923 – Hanne Hiob , German actress and screenwriter (d. 2009)
1923 – Wally Schirra , American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
1923 – Joseph F. Weis, Jr. , American lawyer and judge (d. 2014)
1923 – Mae Young , American wrestler (d. 2014)
1924 – Henri Rochon , Canadian tennis player (d. 2005)
1924 – Mary Lee Woods , English mathematician and computer programmer
1925 – Louison Bobet , French cyclist (d. 1983)
1925 – Georges Delerue , French composer (d. 1992)
1925 – Leo Esaki , Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
1925 – Harry Harrison , American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
1926 – George Ariyoshi , American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
1926 – Freddie Williams , Welsh motorcycle racer (d. 2013)
1927 – Raúl Alfonsín , Argentinian lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009)
1928 – Edward Albee , American director and playwright
1928 – Aldemaro Romero , Venezuelan pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 2007)
1930 – Bronco Horvath , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1930 – Vern Law , American baseball player, coach, and manager
1930 – Win Tin , Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
1931 – Herb Kelleher , American businessman, co-founded Southwest Airlines
1931 – Robert B. Oakley , American soldier and diplomat, 19th United States Ambassador to Pakistan (d. 2014)
1931 – Billie Thomas , American actor (d. 1980)
1932 – Andrew Young , American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
1933 – Barbara Feldon , American actress
1934 – Virginia Hamilton , American author (d. 2002)
1934 – David Spenser , Sri Lankan-English actor and director (d. 2013)
1935 – John Doherty , English footballer (d. 2007)
1935 – Valentyna Shevchenko , Ukrainian politician
1936 – Lloyd Dobyns , American journalist and author
1936 – Patrick Procktor , Irish-English painter and academic (d. 2003)
1936 – Eddie Sutton , American basketball player and coach
1937 – Valentīna Eiduka , Latvian javelin thrower and coach
1938 – Lew DeWitt , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Statler Brothers ) (d. 1990)
1938 – David Drew , English ballet dancer
1938 – Johnny Rutherford , American race car driver
1938 – Dimitri Terzakis , Greek-German composer and educator
1939 – Lyndsie Holland , English actress and singer (d. 2014)
1939 – Jude Milhon , American hacker and author (d. 2003)
1940 – Al Jarreau , American singer
1940 – M. A. Numminen , Finnish singer-songwriter and producer (Suomen Talvisota )
1942 – Ratko Mladić , Serbian general
1942 – Shabnam Shakeel , Pakistani poet and author (d. 2013)
1942 – Jimmy Wynn , American baseball player and sportscaster
1945 – Sammy Gravano , American mobster
1945 – George Jackson , American singer-songwriter (d. 2013)
1946 – Liza Minnelli , American actress, singer, and dancer
1946 – Frank Welker , American voice actor and singer
1946 – Serge Turgeon , Canadian actor and union leader (d. 2004)
1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen , German educator and politician
1947 – Mary Jean Harrold , American computer scientist and academic (d. 2013)
1947 – Kalervo Palsa , Finnish painter (d. 1987)
1947 – Mitt Romney , American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
1948 – Virginia Bottomley , Scottish politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
1948 – Sandra Brown , American author
1948 – Kent Conrad , American politician
1948 – James Taylor , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1949 – Rob Cohen , American director, producer, and screenwriter
1949 – Moctesuma Esparza , American actor and producer
1949 – Charles Levin , American actor
1949 – David Mellor , English journalist, lawyer, and politician, Chief Secretary to the Treasury
1949 – Bill Payne , American singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (Little Feat and Phil Lesh and Friends )
1950 – Javier Clemente , Spanish footballer and manager
1950 – Willie Duggan , Irish rugby player
1950 – Jon Provost , American actor
1950 – Wheeler Winston Dixon , American director, critic, and author
1952 – Benjamín Arellano Félix , Mexican drug trafficker
1952 – Boris Anatolyevich Gavrilov , Russian football player and manager
1952 – Pierre Roy , Canadian ice hockey player
1952 – Naomi Shihab Nye , American poet, songwriter, and author
1952 – Randy Stonehill , American singer-songwriter
1953 – Carl Hiaasen , American journalist and author
1953 – Ron Jeremy , American porn actor and director
1954 – Anish Kapoor , Indian sculptor
1955 – Nicole Léger , Canadian politician
1956 – Steve Harris , English bass player and songwriter (Iron Maiden )
1956 – Lesley Manville , English actress
1956 – Dale Murphy , American baseball player, coach, and sportscaster
1956 – Ruth Ozeki , Canadian-American priest and author
1957 – Patrick Battiston , French footballer
1957 – Marlon Jackson , American singer-songwriter and dancer (The Jackson 5 )
1957 – Jerry Levine , American actor and director
1958 – Phil Anderson , English-Australian cyclist
1958 – Matt Millen , American football player and manager
1959 – Mark Easton , Scottish journalist
1960 – Jason Beghe , American actor and critic
1960 – Kipp Lennon , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Venice )
1960 – Minoru Niihara , Japanese singer-songwriter and bass player (Loudness and Earthshaker )
1960 – Maki Nomiya , Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five )
1960 – Courtney B. Vance , American actor
1961 – Joseph Facal , Canadian journalist and politician
1961 – Titus Welliver , American actor
1962 – Julia Campbell , American actress
1962 – Aleksandr Potashov , Belarusian race walker
1962 – Darryl Strawberry , American baseball player
1963 – Joaquim Cruz , Brazilian runner
1963 – Ian Holloway , English footballer and manager
1963 – Farahnaz Pahlavi , Iranian-American daughter of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
1963 – Paul Way , English golfer
1965 – Steve Finley , American baseball player
1965 – Shawn Gilbert , American baseball player and coach
1965 – Steve Levy , American journalist and sportscaster
1965 – Coleen Nolan , English singer and television host (The Nolans )
1965 – Ivari Padar , Estonian politician
1965 – Liza Umarova , Kazakh singer and actress
1965 – Liv Stoveland , Norwegian singer
1966 – Grant Long , American basketball player and sportscaster
1966 – Akemi Okamura , Japanese voice actress
1967 – Jorge Dely Valdés , Panamanian footballer and manager
1967 – Julio Dely Valdés , Panamanian footballer and manager
1968 – Dylan Carlson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Earth )
1968 – Tammy Duckworth , Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
1968 – Aaron Eckhart , American actor and producer
1969 – Graham Coxon , German-English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blur )
1969 – Beyazıt Öztürk , Turkish comedian, actor, and talk show host
1969 – Jake Tapper , American journalist and author
1970 – Dave Eggers , American author and screenwriter
1970 – Roy Khan , Norwegian singer-songwriter (Kamelot and Conception )
1970 – John Nemechek , American race car driver (d. 1997)
1970 – Rex Walters , American basketball player and coach
1971 – Max Cortés , Spanish porn actor and director
1971 – Tony Eveready , American porn actor
1971 – Isaiah Rider , American basketball player and rapper
1971 – Dragutin Topić , Serbian high jumper
1972 – Hector Luis Bustamante , Colombian-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1972 – James Maritato , American wrestler
1974 – Matt Barela , American wrestler and actor
1974 – Chris Carr , American basketball player and coach
1974 – Steve Price , Australia rugby player
1975 – Kéllé Bryan , English singer-songwriter and actress (Eternal )
1975 – Egidijus Juška , Lithuanian footballer
1975 – Annabel Port , English radio host
1976 – Zhao Wei , Chinese actress, singer, and director
1977 – Ramiro Corrales , American soccer player
1978 – Casey Mears , American race car driver
1978 – Neal Obermeyer , American cartoonist
1978 – Claudio Sanchez , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Coheed and Cambria , Fire Deuce , and The Prize Fighter Inferno )
1978 – Arina Tanemura , Japanese author and illustrator
1979 – Rhys Coiro , Italian-American actor
1979 – Pete Doherty , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Libertines and Babyshambles )
1979 – Jamie Dwyer , Australian field hockey player and coach
1979 – Nidia Guenard , American wrestler and manager
1979 – Shaun Rogers , American football player
1979 – Edwin Villafuerte , Ecuadorian footballer
1980 – Ruth Hunt , Welsh activist and academic
1980 – John-Paul Lavoisier , American actor
1980 – Jens Mouris , Dutch cyclist
1980 – Douglas Murray , Swedish ice hockey player
1981 – Kenta Kobayashi , Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
1981 – Maurizio Lauro , Italian footballer
1981 – Sid Lucero , Filipino actor
1981 – Kristjan Makke , Estonian basketball player
1981 – Chiwa Saitō , Japanese voice actress
1981 – Peter Waterfield , English diver
1981 – Holly Williams , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1982 – Samm Levine , American actor and producer
1982 – Zach Miner , American baseball player
1982 – Grete Püvi , Estonian dressage rider
1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger , German footballer
1982 – Erick Stevens , American wrestler
1983 – Nam Doh-hyeong , South Korean voice actor
1983 – Mikko Koivu , Finnish ice hockey player
1984 – Jaimie Alexander , American actress
1984 – Shreya Ghoshal , Indian singer and actress
1985 – Stromae , Belgian-Rwandan singer-songwriter
1985 – Binnaz Uslu , Turkish runner
1985 – Bradley Wright-Phillips , English footballer
1986 – Danny Jones , English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (McFly and McBusted )
1986 – Ben Offereins , Australian runner
1986 – Chihiro Otsuka , Japanese actress
1987 – Jessica Hardy , American swimmer
1987 – Teimour Radjabov , Azerbaijani chess player
1987 – Chris Seitz , American soccer player
1987 – Chris Stark , English radio host
1987 – Rico Vonck , Dutch darts player
1987 – Hiroomi Tosaka , Japanese singer and actor (Sandaime J Soul Brothers from Exile Tribe )
1987 – Meg Turney , American webshow hostess.
1988 – Sebastian Brendel , German canoe racer
1988 – Konstantinos Mitroglou , Greek footballer
1988 – Tyler Ward , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1988 – Myles Weston , English footballer
1989 – Tyler Clary , American swimmer
1989 – Richard Eckersley , English footballer
1989 – Siim Luts , Estonian footballer
1989 – Mark Sirõk , Estonian activist
1990 – Lawrence Clarke , English hurdler
1990 – Kai-Fabian Schulz , German footballer
1991 – Felix Kroos , German footballer
1992 – Cian Bolger , Irish footballer
1994 – Christina Grimmie , American singer-songwriter and pianist
1994 – Tyler Patrick Jones , American actor and producer
1995 – Kanon Fukuda , Japanese singer and voice actress (S/mileage , Minimoni , and Shugo Chara Egg! )
1996 – Robert Bartczak , Polish footballer
1996 – Aristo Sham , Hong Kong pianist
1999 – Sakura Oda , Japanese singer (Morning Musume )
2003 – Andrea Brillantes , Filipino actress
417 – Pope Innocent I
604 – Pope Gregory I (b. 540)
1289 – Demetrius II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1316 – Stefan Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
1374 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (b. 1336)
1507 – Cesare Borgia , Italian cardinal (b. 1475)
1608 – Kōriki Kiyonaga , Japanese daimyo (b. 1530)
1628 – John Bull , English organist and composer (b. 1562)
1648 – Tirso de Molina , Spanish monk and poet (b. 1571)
1681 – Frans van Mieris the Elder , Dutch painter (b. 1635)
1699 – Peder Griffenfeld , Danish politician (b. 1635)
1703 – Aubrey de Vere, 20th Earl of Oxford (b. 1627)
1790 – András Hadik , Hungarian field marshal (b. 1710)
1820 – Alexander Mackenzie , Scottish explorer and politician (b. 1764)
1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau , German-Danish pianist and composer (b. 1786)
1858 – William James Blacklock , English-Scottish painter (b. 1816)
1872 – Zeng Guofan , Chinese general and politician, Viceroy of Liangjiang (b. 1811)
1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov , Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 – Zachris Topelius , Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)
1909 – Joseph Petrosino , American police officer (b. 1860)
1914 – George Westinghouse , American engineer and businessman (b. 1846)
1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach , Austrian author (b. 1830)
1925 – Gergely Luthár , Slovenian-Hungarian author (b. 1841)
1925 – Sun Yat-sen , Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
1929 – Asa Griggs Candler , American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
1929 – William Turner Dannat , American painter (b. 1853)
1930 – William George Barker , Canadian colonel and pilot, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1894)
1930 – Alois Jirásek , Czech author and playwright (b. 1851)
1935 – Mihajlo Pupin , Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
1937 – Jenő Hubay , Hungarian violinist and composer (b. 1858)
1937 – Charles-Marie Widor , French organist and composer (b. 1844)
1942 – Robert Bosch , German engineer and businessman, founded Robert Bosch GmbH (b. 1861)
1942 – William Henry Bragg , English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1943 – Gustav Vigeland , Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1945 – Friedrich Fromm , German general (b. 1861)
1946 – Ferenc Szálasi , Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
1947 – Winston Churchill , American author and playwright (b. 1871)
1955 – Charlie Parker , American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
1960 – Kshitimohan Sen , Indian historian, author, and academic (b. 1880)
1963 – Arthur Grimsdell , English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
1971 – August Torma , Estonian soldier and diplomat (b. 1895)
1973 – Frankie Frisch , American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
1974 – George D. Sax , American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
1975 – Olga Hepnarová , Czech murderer (b. 1951)
1978 – John Cazale , American actor (b. 1935)
1978 – Gene Moore , American baseball player (b. 1909)
1979 – Nader Jahanbani , Iranian general and pilot (b. 1928)
1984 – Arnold Ridley , English actor and playwright (b. 1896)
1985 – Eugene Ormandy , Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
1987 – Woody Hayes , American football player and coach (b. 1913)
1988 – Romare Bearden , American painter (b. 1911)
1989 – Maurice Evans , English actor and producer (b. 1901)
1991 – Ragnar Granit , Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
1991 – William Heinesen , Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
1992 – Hans G. Kresse , Dutch cartoonist (b. 1921)
1995 – Juanin Clay , American actress (b. 1949)
1998 – Jozef Kroner , Slovak actor (b. 1924)
1998 – Beatrice Wood , American painter and potter (b. 1893)
1999 – Yehudi Menuhin , American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
2001 – Morton Downey, Jr. , American singer-songwriter and talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 – Robert Ludlum , American author (b. 1927)
2001 – Victor Westhoff , Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916)
2002 – Spyros Kyprianou , Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle , Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 – Zoran Đinđić , Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2003 – Howard Fast , American author (b. 1914)
2003 – Andrey Kivilev , Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003 – Lynne Thigpen , American actress and singer (b. 1948)
2004 – Milton Resnick , Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
2005 – Bill Cameron , Canadian journalist and producer (b. 1943)
2005 – Stavros Kouyioumtzis , Greek composer (b. 1932)
2006 – Victor Sokolov , Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)
2007 – Arnold Drake , American author and screenwriter (b. 1924)
2008 – Jorge Guinzburg , Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
2008 – Lazare Ponticelli , Italian-French soldier (b. 1897)
2010 – Miguel Delibes , Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920)
2011 – Olive Dickason , Canadian historian and journalist (b. 1920)
2011 – Joe Morello , American drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet ) (b. 1923)
2011 – Nilla Pizzi , Italian singer (b. 1919)
2012 – Hasan Gafoor , Indian police officer (b. 1949)
2012 – Samuel Glazer , American businessman, co-founded Mr. Coffee (b. 1923)
2012 – Dick Harter , American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
2012 – Michael Hossack , American drummer (The Doobie Brothers ) (b. 1946)
2012 – Friedhelm Konietzka , German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)
2013 – George Burditt , American lawyer and politician (b. 1921)
2013 – Clive Burr , English drummer and songwriter (Iron Maiden , Samson , and Trust ) (b. 1957)
2013 – Stanley Cole , American architect (b. 1924)
2013 – Michael Grigsby , English director and producer (b. 1936)
2013 – Ganesh Pyne , Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937)
2014 – Věra Chytilová , Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
2014 – Richard Coogan , American actor (b. 1914)
2014 – Paul C. Donnelly , American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
2014 – Jackie Gaughan , American businessman (b. 1920)
2014 – Shawn Kuykendall , American soccer player (b. 1982)
2014 – Ola L. Mize , American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1931)
2014 – José Policarpo , Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
2015 – Willie Barrow , American minister and activist (b. 1924)
2015 – Erol Büyükburç , Turkish singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1936)
2015 – Michael Graves , American architect, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934)
2015 – Ada Jafri , Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924)
2015 – Terry Pratchett , English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
2015 – Carl, Prince of Wied (b. 1961)
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