March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Wednesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Monday or Tuesday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Thursday or Saturday (56).
37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius 's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
633 – Ridda wars : The Arabian Peninsula is united under the central authority of Caliph Abu Bakr .
1068 – An earthquake affects the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula , leaving up to 20,000 dead.
1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor , declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade .
1241 – First Mongol invasion of Poland : Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
1314 – Jacques de Molay , the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar , is burned at the stake.
1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor .
1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia .
1644 – The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia .
1741 – New York governor George Clarke 's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741 .
1766 – American Revolution : The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act .
1793 – The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz , is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann .
1793 – In the Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution , Battle of Neerwinden
1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle , Dorset , England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union .
1848 – March Revolution : In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives.
1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo .
1865 – American Civil War : The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune ; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers , orders the evacuation of Paris.
1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights.
1892 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada the Stanley Cup .
1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 11 meters at an altitude of one meter.
1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki .
1915 – World War I : During the Battle of Gallipoli , three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles .
1921 – The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union .
1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience , of which he serves only two.
1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri , Illinois , and Indiana , killing 695 people.
1937 – The New London School explosion in New London, Texas , kills 300 people, mostly children.
1937 – Spanish Civil War : Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara .
1937 – A human-powered aircraft , Pedaliante , flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan , Italy.
1938 – Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities.
1940 – World War II : Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 people and causes thousands to flee their homes.
1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split .
1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey , killing 265 people.
1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21 .
1962 – The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence , which had begun in 1954.
1965 – Cosmonaut Alexey Leonov , leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space .
1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
1968 – Gold standard : The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency .
1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia , used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam .
1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia .
1970 – The U.S. postal strike of 1970 begins, one of the largest wildcat strikes in U.S. history.
1971 – In Peru a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake , killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar.
1974 – Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
1985 – First episode of Neighbours broadcast.
1990 – Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship.
1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston .
1992 – In a national referendum white South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour of ending apartheid .
1994 – Bosnia 's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement , ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina , and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina .
1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City , Philippines kills 162 people.
1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.
2012 – Tupou VI becomes King of Tonga .
2014 – The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty .
2015 – The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded.
1075 – Al-Zamakhshari , Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144)
1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter , English commander (d. 1447)
1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
1555 – Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
1578 – Adam Elsheimer , German painter (d. 1610)
1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa , Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière , French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)
1609 – Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
1634 – Madame de La Fayette , French author (d. 1693)
1640 – Philippe de La Hire , French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni , Italian organist and composer (d. 1743)
1690 – Christian Goldbach , Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764)
1701 – Niclas Sahlgren , Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776)
1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai , German author and bookseller (d. 1811)
1780 – Miloš Obrenović , Serbian prince (d. 1860)
1782 – John C. Calhoun , American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
1798 – Francis Lieber , German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872)
1800 – Harriet Smithson , Irish-French actress and composer (d. 1854)
1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel , German poet and playwright (d. 1864)
1814 – Jacob Bunn , American businessman (d. 1897)
1823 – Antoine Chanzy , French general (d. 1883)
1828 – Randal Cremer , English activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1908)
1837 – Grover Cleveland , American lawyer and politician, 22nd President of the United States (d. 1908)
1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse , English poet and critic (d. 1901)
1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé , French poet and critic (d. 1898)
1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov , Russian composer and academic (d. 1908)
1848 – Nathanael Greene Herreshoff , American architect and engineer (d. 1938)
1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll (d. 1939)
1858 – Rudolf Diesel , German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913)
1862 – Eugène Jansson , Swedish painter (d. 1915)
1863 – William Sulzer , American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
1869 – Neville Chamberlain , English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev , Russian-French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948)
1877 – Edgar Cayce , American mystic and psychic (d. 1945)
1877 – Clem Hill , Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945)
1878 – Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry , English businessman (d. 1956)
1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero , Italian composer and educator (d. 1973)
1884 – Bernard Cronin , English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968)
1886 – Edward Everett Horton , American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970)
1890 – Henri Decoin , French director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
1893 – Costante Girardengo , Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
1893 – Jean Goldkette , French-American pianist and bandleader (d. 1962)
1893 – Wilfred Owen , English soldier and poet (d. 1918)
1901 – William Johnson , American painter (d. 1970)
1903 – Galeazzo Ciano , Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944)
1904 – Srečko Kosovel , Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926)
1904 – Margaret Tucker , Australian author and activist (d. 1996)
1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown , American physicist and engineer (d. 1985)
1905 – Robert Donat , English actor (d. 1958)
1907 – Rosita Moreno , Spanish-American actress (d. 1993)
1907 – John Zachary Young , English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997)
1908 – Loulou Gasté , French composer (d. 1995)
1909 – Ernest Gallo , American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007)
1909 – C. Walter Hodges , English author and illustrator (d. 2004)
1911 – Smiley Burnette , American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967)
1912 – Art Gilmore , American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010)
1913 – René Clément , French director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1913 – Reinhard Hardegen , German commander
1913 – Werner Mölders , German colonel and pilot (d. 1941)
1915 – Richard Condon , American author and screenwriter (d. 1996)
1922 – Egon Bahr , German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015)
1922 – Seymour Martin Lipset , American sociologist and academic (d. 2006)
1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth , American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011)
1923 – Andy Granatelli , American businessman (d. 2013)
1925 – James Pickles , English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010)
1926 – Peter Graves , American actor and director (d. 2010)
1927 – John Kander , American pianist and composer
1927 – George Plimpton , American journalist and actor (d. 2003)
1927 – Lillian Vernon , German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015)
1928 – Miguel Poblet , Spanish cyclist (d. 2013)
1928 – Fidel V. Ramos , Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines
1929 – John Macurdy , American opera singer
1929 – Samuel Pisar , Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015)
1930 – Pat Halcox , English trumpet player (d. 2013)
1931 – John Fraser , Scottish actor
1931 – John Mollo , English costume designer and author
1932 – John Updike , American author, poet, and critic (d. 2009)
1933 – Unita Blackwell , American activist and politician
1934 – Roy Chapman , English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen , Danish mathematician and statistician
1935 – Antonios Naguib , Egyptian patriarch
1935 – Frances Cress Welsing , American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016)
1936 – F. W. de Klerk , South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa , Nobel Prize laureate
1937 – Rudi Altig , German cyclist and sportscaster
1937 – Mark Donohue , American race car driver (d. 1975)
1938 – Carl Gottlieb , American actor and screenwriter
1938 – Shashi Kapoor , Indian actor and producer
1938 – Kenny Lynch , English singer-songwriter and actor
1938 – Timo Mäkinen , Finnish race car driver
1938 – Charley Pride , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1938 – Machiko Soga , Japanese actress (d. 2006)
1939 – Ron Atkinson , English footballer and manager
1939 – Yannis Markopoulos , Greek composer
1941 – Wilson Pickett , American singer-songwriter (The Falcons ) (d. 2006)
1943 – Kevin Dobson , American actor and director
1943 – Nobuko Imai , Japanese viola player and educator
1943 – Dennis Linde , American singer-songwriter (d. 2006)
1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak , Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012)
1944 – Frank McRae , American football player and actor
1944 – Dick Smith , Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic
1945 – Joy Fielding , Canadian actress and author
1945 – Hiroh Kikai , Japanese photographer
1945 – Michael Reagan , American journalist and radio host
1945 – Susan Tyrrell , American actress (d. 2012)
1945 – Eric Woolfson , Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (The Alan Parsons Project ) (d. 2009)
1946 – Michel Leclère , French race car driver
1947 – Patrick Barlow , English actor and playwright
1947 – Patrick Chesnais , French actor, director, and screenwriter
1947 – David Lloyd , English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster
1947 – B. J. Wilson , English drummer (Procol Harum ) (d. 1990)
1948 – Guy Lapointe , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1948 – Brian Lloyd , Welsh footballer
1949 – Bertha Gilkey , American activist (d. 2014)
1949 – Alex Higgins , Irish snooker player (d. 2010)
1949 – Åse Kleveland , Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture
1950 – James Conlon , American conductor and educator
1950 – Brad Dourif , American actor
1950 – John Hartman , American drummer (The Doobie Brothers )
1950 – Eiji Okuda , Japanese actor and director
1950 – Linda Partridge , English geneticist and academic
1950 – Larry Perkins , Australian race car driver
1951 – Paul Barber , English actor
1951 – Ben Cohen , American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's
1951 – Bill Frisell , American guitarist and composer
1952 – Will Durst , American journalist and actor
1952 – Pat Eddery , Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015)
1952 – Bernie Tormé , Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Gillan , Guy McCoy Tormé , and Desperado )
1952 – Mike Webster , American football player (d. 2002)
1953 – Franz Wright , Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015)
1953 – Takashi Yoshimatsu , Japanese composer
1955 – Ana Obregón , Spanish actress and screenwriter
1955 – Francis G. Slay , American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis
1955 – Jeff Stelling , English journalist and game show host
1956 – Rick Martel , Canadian wrestler
1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey , American madam (d. 2008)
1956 – Ingemar Stenmark , Swedish skier
1957 – Christer Fuglesang , Swedish physicist and astronaut
1958 – Richard de Zoysa , Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990)
1959 – Luc Besson , French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp
1959 – Irene Cara , American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer
1960 – Richard Biggs , American actor (d. 2004)
1960 – Guy Carbonneau , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1960 – James Plaskett , Cypriot-English chess player
1961 – Grant Hart , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Hüsker Dü )
1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith , American actor and martial artist
1962 – James McMurtry , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
1962 – Mike Rowe , American actor, singer, and television host
1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa , Japanese actor and director
1962 – Volker Weidler , German race car driver and engineer
1963 – Jeff LaBar , American guitarist (Cinderella and Naked Beggars )
1963 – Vanessa L. Williams , American model, actress, and singer, Miss America 1984
1964 – Bonnie Blair , American speed skater
1964 – Seymore Butts , American porn actor, director, and producer
1964 – Alex Caffi , Italian race car driver
1964 – Mika Kanai , Japanese voice actress and singer
1964 – Courtney Pine , English saxophonist and clarinet player
1966 – Jerry Cantrell , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Alice in Chains )
1966 – Peter Jones , English businessman
1967 – Miki Berenyi , English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Lush and The Lillies )
1968 – Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême
1968 – Miguel Herrera , Mexican footballer and manager
1968 – Paul Marsden , English businessman and politician
1968 – Shin-ichiro Miki , Japanese voice actor
1969 – Andy Cutting , English accordion player and composer (Blowzabella )
1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk , Ukrainian chess player
1969 – J. David Shapiro , American actor, director, and screenwriter
1969 – Shaun Udal , English cricketer
1970 – Queen Latifah , American rapper, producer, and actress
1971 – Wayne Arthurs , Australian tennis player
1971 – Mike Bell , American wrestler (d. 2008)
1971 – Mariaan de Swardt , South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster
1971 – Kitty Ussher , English economist and politician
1972 – Dane Cook , American comedian, actor, director, and producer
1972 – Reince Priebus , American lawyer and politician
1973 – Max Barry , Australian author and blogger
1973 – Luci Christian , American voice actress and screenwriter
1974 – Evan Lowenstein , American singer-songwriter (Evan and Jaron )
1974 – Jaron Lowenstein , American singer-songwriter (Evan and Jaron )
1974 – Laure Savasta , French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1974 – Stuart Zender , English bass player, songwriter, and producer (Jamiroquai )
1975 – Sutton Foster , American actress, singer, and dancer
1975 – Brian Griese , American football player and sportscaster
1975 – Kimmo Timonen , Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas , Lithuanian footballer
1976 – Giovanna Antonelli , Brazilian actress and producer
1976 – Jovan Kirovski , American soccer player and coach
1976 – Tomo Ohka , Japanese baseball player
1976 – Scott Podsednik , American baseball player
1976 – Mike Quackenbush , American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion
1977 – Zdeno Chára , Slovak ice hockey player
1977 – Danny Murphy , English footballer and sportscaster
1977 – Fernando Rodney , Dominican-American baseball player
1977 – Willy Sagnol , French footballer and manager
1977 – Terrmel Sledge , American baseball player and coach
1978 – Fernandão , Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014)
1978 – Jan Bulis , Czech ice hockey player
1978 – Juris Fernandez , Filipino singer-songwriter (MYMP )
1978 – Brooke Hanson , Australian swimmer
1978 – Antonio Margarito , Mexican-American boxer
1978 – Brian Scalabrine , American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster
1978 – Yoshie Takeshita , Japanese volleyball player
1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt , Swedish footballer, coach, and manager
1979 – Danneel Harris , American model and actress
1979 – Adam Levine , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Maroon 5 )
1979 – Anthony Maher , American soccer player
1980 – Sébastien Frey , French footballer
1980 – Sophia Myles , English actress
1980 – Alexei Yagudin , Russian figure skater
1980 – Natalia Poklonskaya , Ukrainian-Crimean lawyer and politician
1981 – Tora Berger , Norwegian biathlete
1981 – Fabian Cancellara , Swiss cyclist
1981 – Leslie Djhone , French sprinter
1981 – Jang Na-ra , South Korean singer and actress
1981 – Kasib Powell , American basketball player
1981 – Tom Starke , German footballer
1981 – Doug Warren , American soccer player
1981 – Lovro Zovko , Croatian tennis player
1982 – Mantorras , Angolan footballer
1982 – Chad Cordero , American baseball player
1982 – Timo Glock , German race car driver
1982 – Adam Pally , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1983 – Ethan Carter III , American wrestler
1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro , French tennis player
1983 – Andy Sonnanstine , American baseball player
1983 – Tomasz Stolpa , Polish footballer
1984 – Simone Padoin , Italian footballer
1984 – Rajeev Ram , American tennis player
1984 – Gary Roberts , English footballer
1984 – Vonzell Solomon , American singer and actress
1985 – Ana Beatriz , Brazilian race car driver
1985 – Marvin Humes , English singer and actor (JLS and VS )
1985 – Vince Lia , Australian footballer
1986 – Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani , Algerian footballer
1986 – Kaloyan Ivanov , Bulgarian basketball player
1986 – Lykke Li , Swedish singer-songwriter
1987 – Cesare Rickler , Italian footballer
1987 – Rebecca Soni , American swimmer
1987 – Mauro Zárate , Argentinian footballer
1989 – Francesco Checcucci , Italian footballer
1989 – Lily Collins , English-American actress
1989 – Shreevats Goswami , Indian cricketer
1989 – Kana Nishino , Japanese singer-songwriter
1989 – Paul Marc Rousseau , Canadian guitarist and producer (Silverstein )
1990 – Corey Liuget , American football player
1991 – Dylan Mattingly , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1991 – Jeric Teng , Filipino basketball player
1991 – Sam Williams , Australian rugby player
1992 – Ryan Truex , American race car driver
1993 – Maziah Mahusin , Bruneian hurdler
1993 – Urassaya Sperbund , Thai model and actress
1996 – Madeline Carroll , American actress
1997 – Ciara Bravo , American actress
1998 – Jamie-Lee Kriewitz , German singer
978 – Edward the Martyr , English king (b. 962)
1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
1314 – Jacques de Molay , Frankish knight (b. 1244)
1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall , Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 – John Dixwell , English soldier and politician (b. 1607)
1745 – Robert Walpole , English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
1768 – Laurence Sterne , Irish-English clergyman and author (b. 1713)
1781 – Anne Robert Jacques Turgot , French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727)
1823 – Jean-Baptiste Bréval , French cellist and composer (b. 1753)
1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff , Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769)
1845 – Johnny Appleseed , American gardener and missionary (b. 1774)
1871 – Augustus De Morgan , Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806)
1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage , American author and activist (b. 1826)
1907 – Marcellin Berthelot , French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827)
1913 – George I of Greece (b. 1845)
1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh , American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847)
1933 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi (b. 1873)
1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos , Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864)
1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn , English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859)
1941 – Henri Cornet , French cyclist (b. 1884)
1947 – William C. Durant , American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861)
1954 – Walter Mead , English cricketer (b. 1868)
1956 – Louis Bromfield , American environmentalist and author (b. 1896)
1962 – Walter W. Bacon , American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1963 – Wanda Hawley , American actress and singer (b. 1895)
1964 – Sigfrid Edström , Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870)
1965 – Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920)
1965 – Jack Quinlan , American sportscaster (b. 1927)
1969 – Barbara Bates , American actress and singer (b. 1925)
1973 – Johannes Aavik , Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880)
1976 – Giuseppe Genco Russo , Italian mob boss (b. 1893)
1977 – Marien Ngouabi , Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
1977 – Carlos Pace , Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944)
1978 – Leigh Brackett , American author and screenwriter (b. 1915)
1978 – Peggy Wood , American actress and singer (b. 1892)
1980 – Erich Fromm , German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
1982 – Patrick Smith , Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901)
1983 – Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904)
1984 – Charley Lau , American baseball player and coach (b. 1933)
1986 – Bernard Malamud , American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914)
1988 – Billy Butterfield , American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917)
1990 – Robin Harris , American comedian and actor (b. 1953)
1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding , English-American economist and activist (b. 1910)
1995 – Sadri Alışık , Turkish actor (b. 1925)
1996 – Odysseas Elytis , Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
2000 – Eberhard Bethge , German theologian and academic (b. 1909)
2001 – John Phillips , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas ) (b. 1935)
2002 – R. A. Lafferty , American soldier and author (b. 1914)
2002 – Gösta Winbergh , Swedish tenor and actor (b. 1943)
2003 – Karl Kling , German race car driver (b. 1910)
2003 – Adam Osborne , Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939)
2004 – Harrison McCain , Canadian businessman, co-founded McCain Foods (b. 1927)
2006 – Bill Beutel , American journalist (b. 1930)
2006 – Dan Gibson , Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922)
2007 – Bob Woolmer , Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948)
2008 – Andrew Britton , English-American author (b. 1981)
2008 – Anthony Minghella , English director and screenwriter (b. 1954)
2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi , Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980)
2009 – Natasha Richardson , English-American actress (b. 1963)
2010 – Fess Parker , American actor, singer, and businessman (b. 1924)
2011 – Warren Christopher , American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925)
2012 – Imra Agotić , Croatian general (b. 1943)
2012 – Furman Bisher , American journalist and author (b. 1918)
2012 – William R. Charette , American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2012 – William G. Moore Jr. , American general (b. 1920)
2012 – George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam , Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935)
2013 – Henry Bromell , American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1947)
2013 – Clay Ford , American lawyer and politician (b. 1938)
2014 – Catherine Obianuju Acholonu , Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951)
2014 – Kaiser Kalambo , Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953)
2014 – Joe Lala , American actor and drummer (Blues Image and Manassas ) (b. 1947)
2014 – Lucius Shepard , American author and critic (b. 1943)
2015 – Zhao Dayu , Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
2015 – Thomas Hopko , American priest and theologian (b. 1939)
2015 – Grace Ogot , Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930)
2016 – Barry Hines , English author and screenwriter (b. 1939)
2016 – Jan Němec , Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936)
2016 – Tray Walker , American football player (b. 1992)
2016 – Guido Westerwelle , German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961)
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