March 20 is the 79th day of the year (80th in leap years ) in the Gregorian calendar . There are 286 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Friday or Sunday (58 in 400 years each) than on Wednesday or Thursday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Monday or Saturday (56). Typically the March equinox falls on this date, marking the vernal point in the Northern Hemisphere and the autumnal point in the Southern Hemisphere , when both day and night are of equal length.
235 – Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne.673 – Emperor Tenmu of Japan assumes the Chrysanthemum Throne at the Palace of Kiyomihara in Asuka .1206 – Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople .1600 – The Linköping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linköping , Sweden.1602 – The Dutch East India Company is established.1616 – Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment.1760 – The Great Boston Fire of 1760 destroys 349 buildings.1815 – After escaping from Elba , Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days " rule.1848 – Revolutions of 1848 in the German states : King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates.1852 – Harriet Beecher Stowe 's Uncle Tom's Cabin 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin .1861 – An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina .1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.1913 – Sung Chiao-jen , a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party , is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later.1915 – Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity .1922 – The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier .1923 – The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso 's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso , becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States.1933 – Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida 's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt .1933 – Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordered the creation of Dachau concentration camp as Chief of Police of Munich and appointed Theodor Eicke as the camp commandant.
1942 – World War II : General Douglas MacArthur , at Terowie, South Australia , makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines , in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini , are given on CBS and NBC .1951 – Fujiyoshida , a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture , Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshū is founded.1952 – The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan.1956 – Tunisia gains independence from France.1964 – The precursor of the European Space Agency , ESRO (European Space Research Organisation ) is established per an agreement signed on June 14 , 1962 .1972 – The Troubles : The first Provisional IRA car bombing in Belfast kills seven people and injures 148 others in Northern Ireland .1974 – An unsuccessful attempt is made by a lone perpetrator to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall , outside Buckingham Palace , London.1980 – The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast.1985 – Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race .1985 – Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research.
1987 – The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT .1988 – Eritrean War of Independence : Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet , victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet .1990 – Ferdinand Marcos 's widow, Imelda Marcos , goes on trial for bribery , embezzlement , and racketeering .1993 – The Troubles : A Provisional IRA bomb kills two children in Warrington , England. It leads to mass protests in both Britain and Ireland.1995 – The Japanese cult Aum Shinrikyo carries out a sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway , killing 12 and wounding over 1,300 people.1999 – Legoland California , the first Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California .2000 – Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin , a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown , is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English.2003 – Invasion of Iraq : In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries (the UK, Australia and Poland) begin military operations in Iraq .2006 – Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC . The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Déby .2012 – At least 52 people are killed and more than 250 injured in a wave of terror attacks across ten cities in Iraq .2014 – Four suspected Taliban members attack the luxurious Kabul Serena Hotel , killing at least nine people.2015 – A Solar eclipse , equinox , and a Supermoon all occur on the same day.
43 BC – Ovid , Roman poet (d. 17)1469 – Cecily of York (d. 1507)1477 – Jerome Emser , German theologian and scholar (d. 1527)1502 – Pierino Belli , Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575)1639 – Ivan Mazepa , Ukrainian diplomat, Hetman of Ukraine (d. 1709)1725 – Abdul Hamid I , Ottoman sultan (d. 1789)1735 – Torbern Bergman , Swedish chemist and mineralogist (d. 1784)1737 – Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke , Thai king (d. 1809)1770 – Friedrich Hölderlin , German lyric poet (d. 1843)1771 – Heinrich Clauren , German author (d. 1854)1796 – Edward Gibbon Wakefield , English politician (d. 1862)1799 – Karl August Nicander , Swedish poet and author (d. 1839)1800 – Braulio Carrillo Colina , Costa Rican lawyer and politician, President of Costa Rica (d. 1845)1811 – Napoleon II , French emperor (d. 1832)1811 – George Caleb Bingham , American painter and politician, State Treasurer of Missouri (d. 1879)
1821 – Ned Buntline , American journalist, author, and publisher (d. 1886)1824 – Theodor von Heuglin , German explorer and ornithologist (d. 1876)1828 – Henrik Ibsen , Norwegian poet, playwright, and director (d. 1906)1831 – Solomon L. Spink , American lawyer and politician (d. 1881)1834 – Charles William Eliot , American mathematician and academic (d. 1926)1836 – Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , American general, lawyer, and politician (d. 1886)1836 – Edward Poynter , English painter, illustrator, and curator (d. 1919)
1840 – Illarion Pryanishnikov , Russian painter (d. 1894)1851 – Ismail Gasprinski , Ukrainian educator, publisher, and politician (d. 1914)1852 – Frank MacKey , American polo player (d. 1927)1856 – John Lavery , Irish painter (d. 1941)1856 – Frederick Winslow Taylor , American tennis player and engineer (d. 1915)
1865 – Jehanne d'Alcy , French film actress (d. 1956)1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck , German general (d. 1964)1874 – Börries von Münchhausen , German poet and activist (d. 1945)1876 – Payne Whitney , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1927)1879 – Maud Menten , Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960)1882 – René Coty , French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (d. 1962)1882 – Harold Weber , American golfer (d. 1933)
1884 – John Jensen , Australian public servant (d. 1970)1885 – Vernon Ransford , Australian cricketer (d. 1958)1886 – Grace Brown , American murder victim (d. 1906)1888 – Amanda Clement , American baseball player, umpire, and educator (d. 1971)1890 – Beniamino Gigli , Italian tenor and actor (d. 1957)1890 – Lauritz Melchior , Danish-American tenor and actor (d. 1973)
1895 – Fredric Wertham , German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)1898 – Eduard Wiiralt , Estonian artist (d. 1954)1903 – Edgar Buchanan , American actor and singer (d. 1979)1904 – B. F. Skinner , American psychologist and author (d. 1990)1905 – Jean Galia , French rugby player and boxer (d. 1949)1906 – Abraham Beame , English-American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (d. 2001)1906 – Pop Chalee , Native American painter (d. 1993)
1906 – Nickolaus Hirschl , Austrian wrestler, discus thrower, and shot putter (d. 1991)
1906 – Ozzie Nelson , American actor, singer, and bandleader (d. 1975)
1907 – Hugh MacLennan , Canadian author and educator (d. 1990)1907 – Ruby Muhammad , American religious leader (d. 2011)
1908 – Michael Redgrave , English actor and director (d. 1985)1910 – Erwin Blask , German hammer thrower (d. 1999)1911 – Alfonso García Robles , Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)1912 – Ralph Hauenstein , American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)1913 – Nikolai Stepulov , Russian-Estonian boxer (d. 1968)1914 – Wendell Corey , American actor and politician (d. 1968)1915 – Rudolf Kirchschläger , Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (d. 2000)1915 – Sviatoslav Richter , Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1916 – Pierre Messmer , French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)1917 – Vera Lynn , English singer-songwriter and actress1918 – Jack Barry , American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (d. 1984)1918 – Donald Featherstone , English soldier and author (d. 2013)
1918 – Marian McPartland , English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn , German fighter ace (d. 1983)1920 – Pamela Harriman , English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (d. 1997)1920 – Vickie Panos , Canadian baseball player
1920 – Rosemary Timperley , English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
1921 – Dušan Pirjevec , Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)1921 – Alfréd Rényi , Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
1922 – Larry Elgart , American saxophonist and bandleader1922 – Ray Goulding , American actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
1922 – Carl Reiner , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1923 – Con Martin , Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui , Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
1924 – Jozef Kroner , Slovak actor (d. 1998)1925 – John Ehrlichman , American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)1925 – Eugene Louis Faccuito , American dancer and choreographer (d. 2015)
1927 – John Joubert , South African-English composer and academic1928 – Jerome Biffle , American long jumper and coach (d. 2002)1928 – James P. Gordon , American physicist and engineer (d. 2013)
1928 – Fred Rogers , American television host and producer (d. 2003)
1929 – William Andrew MacKay , Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013)1929 – Germán Robles , Spanish-Mexican actor and director (d. 2015)
1930 – S. Arasaratnam , Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (d. 1998)1931 – Hal Linden , American actor, singer, and director1931 – Rein Raamat , Estonian director and screenwriter
1933 – Lateef Adegbite , Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)1933 – George Altman , American baseball player
1933 – Alexander Gorodnitsky , Russian geologist and poet
1933 – Renato Salvatori , Italian actor (d. 1988)
1933 – Ian Walsh , Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2013)
1934 – Willie Brown , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco 1934 – David Malouf , Australian author and playwright
1935 – Ted Bessell , American actor and director (d. 1996)1936 – Harold Mabern , American pianist and composer1936 – Vaughn Meader , American comedian and actor (d. 2004)
1936 – Lee "Scratch" Perry , Jamaican singer and producer
1936 – Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate , English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
1937 – Lois Lowry , American author1937 – Jerry Reed , American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
1938 – Sergei Novikov , Russian mathematician and academic1939 – Gerald Curran , American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)1939 – Don Edwards , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring , Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014)
1939 – Brian Mulroney , Canadian lawyer and politician 18th Prime Minister of Canada
1940 – Stathis Chaitas , Greek footballer and manager1940 – Mary Ellen Mark , American photographer and journalist (d. 2015)
1940 – Giampiero Moretti , Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (d. 2012)
1941 – Pat Corrales , American baseball player and manager1941 – Kenji Kimihara , Japanese runner
1942 – Robin Luke , American singer and educator1943 – Gerard Malanga , American poet and photographer1943 – Douglas Tompkins , American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (d. 2015)
1943 – Paul Junger Witt , American director and producer
1944 – John Cameron , English composer and conductor1944 – Camille Cosby , American author, producer, and philanthropist
1944 – Alan Harper , English-Irish archbishop
1945 – Henry Bartholomay , American soldier and pilot1945 – Jay Ingram , Canadian television host and author
1945 – Pat Riley , American basketball player and coach
1945 – Tim Yeo , English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
1946 – Douglas B. Green , American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Riders in the Sky )1946 – Malcolm Simmons , English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
1947 – John Boswell , American historian, philologist, and academic (d. 1994)1948 – John de Lancie , American actor, singer, and producer1948 – Bobby Orr , Canadian ice hockey player and coach
1948 – Nikos Papazoglou , Greek singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
1949 – Marcia Ball , American keyboard player, singer-songwriter, and bandleader1949 – Richard Dowden , English journalist and educator
1950 – William Hurt , American actor1950 – Carl Palmer , English drummer and songwriter (Emerson, Lake & Palmer , Asia , and Atomic Rooster )
1951 – Madan Lal , Indian cricketer and coach1951 – Curt Smith , American author and journalist
1951 – Jimmie Vaughan , American guitarist (The Fabulous Thunderbirds )
1952 – Geoff Brabham , Australian race car driver1952 – David Greenaway , English economist and academic
1953 – Phil Judd , New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter (Split Enz , The Swingers , and Schnell Fenster )1954 – Patrick Abada , French pole vaulter1954 – Yamina Bachir , Algerian director and screenwriter
1954 – Mike Francesa , American radio host
1954 – Liana Kanelli , Greek journalist and politician
1954 – Paul Mirabella , American baseball player
1954 – Louis Sachar , American author
1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman , American author1955 – Ian Moss , Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter (Cold Chisel )
1956 – Catherine Ashton , English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission 1956 – Anne Donahue , American lawyer and politician
1956 – Naoto Takenaka , Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director
1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway , American actress1957 – David Foster , Australian woodchopper
1957 – Spike Lee , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
1957 – Theresa Russell , American actress
1957 – Chris Wedge , American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
1958 – Holly Hunter , American actress and producer1958 – Rickey Jackson , American football player
1958 – Joe Reaiche , Australian rugby player
1959 – Sting , American wrestler and actor1959 – Nalini Ambady , Indian-American psychologist and academic (d. 2013)
1959 – Dave Beasant , English footballer and coach
1959 – Mary Roach , American author
1960 – Norm Magnusson , American painter and sculptor1960 – Norbert Pohlmann , German computer scientist and academic
1960 – Yuri Shargin , Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
1961 – Ingrid Arndt-Brauer , German politician1961 – Jesper Olsen , Danish footballer and manager
1961 – Sara Wheeler , English author and journalist
1962 – Stephen Sommers , American director, producer, and screenwriter1963 – Paul Annacone , American tennis player and coach1963 – Gregg Binkley , American actor
1963 – Maggie Estep , American poet and author (d. 2014)
1963 – Anouk Grinberg , French actress
1963 – Kathy Ireland , American model, actress, and furniture designer
1963 – Yelena Romanova , Russian runner (d. 2007)
1963 – David Thewlis , English-French actor, director, and screenwriter
1964 – Natacha Atlas , Belgian singer-songwriter (Transglobal Underground )1965 – William Dalrymple , Scottish historian and author1965 – Taeko Kawata , Japanese voice actress
1965 – Adrian Oxaal , American-English guitarist (James and Sharkboy )
1967 – Xavier Beauvois , French actor, director, and screenwriter1967 – Mookie Blaylock , American basketball player
1967 – Illimar Truverk , Estonian architect
1968 – Carlos Almeida , Cape Verdean runner1968 – Ultra Naté , American singer-songwriter and producer
1968 – A. J. Jacobs , American journalist and author
1968 – Paul Merson , English footballer and manager
1969 – Yvette Cooper , English economist and politician, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions 1969 – Mannie Fresh , American rapper and producer (Big Tymers )
1969 – Jean Labonté , Canadian sledge hockey player
1969 – Tamás Nádas , Hungarian pilot (d. 2014)
1970 – Edoardo Ballerini , American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter1970 – Michael Rapaport , American actor and director
1971 – Touré , American journalist and author1971 – Manny Alexander , Dominican baseball player
1971 – Alexander Chaplin , American actor
1971 – Chad Michaels , American drag queen , celebrity impersonator and performer
1972 – Chilly Gonzales , Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer1972 – Alex Kapranos , English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Franz Ferdinand , The Yummy Fur , and The Karelia )
1972 – Greg Searle , English rower
1972 – Marco Sejna , German footballer
1972 – Cristel Vahtra , Estonian skier
1973 – Nicky Boje , South African cricketer1973 – Natalya Khrushcheleva , Russian runner
1973 – Jane March , English model and actress
1973 – Jung Woo-sung , South Korean actor and director
1974 – Paula Garcés , American-Colombian actress, producer, and screenwriter1974 – Andrzej Pilipiuk , Polish author
1974 – Elo Viiding , Estonian poet
1975 – Lacena Golding-Clarke , Jamaican jumper and hurdler1976 – Chester Bennington , American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor1978 – Chris Draper , English sailor1978 – Brent Sherwin , Australian rugby league player
1979 – Silvia Abascal , Spanish actress1979 – Shinnosuke Abe , Japanese baseball player
1979 – Freema Agyeman , English actress and singer
1979 – Molly Jenson , American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1979 – Keven Mealamu , New Zealand rugby player
1980 – Jamal Crawford , American basketball player1980 – Robertas Javtokas , Lithuanian basketball player
1980 – Ock Joo-hyun , South Korean singer and actress (Fin.K.L )
1980 – Aliénor Tricerri , Swiss tennis player
1981 – BeBe Zahara Benet , Cameroonian-American model, drag queen and performer1981 – Ian Murray , Scottish footballer
1981 – Carl Webb , Australian rugby league player
1982 – Terrence Duffin , Zimbabwean cricketer1982 – Tomasz Kuszczak , Polish footballer
1982 – José Moreira , Portuguese footballer
1983 – Michael Cassidy , American actor1983 – Selin Demiratar , Turkish actress
1984 – Yuka Nomura , Japanese actress1984 – Christy Carlson Romano , American actress and singer
1984 – Fernando Torres , Spanish footballer
1985 – Morgan Amalfitano , French footballer1985 – Ronnie Brewer , American basketball player
1985 – Nicolas Lombaerts , Belgian footballer
1986 – Dean Geyer , South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor1986 – Julián Magallanes , Argentinian footballer
1987 – Jô , Brazilian footballer1987 – Daniel Maa Boumsong , Cameroonian footballer
1987 – Yuya Endo , Japanese actor and singer
1987 – Pedro Ken , Brazilian footballer
1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn , Belarusian ice hockey player
1988 – Jakub Gierszał , Polish actor1988 – Louie Vito , American snowboarder
1989 – Xavier Dolan , Canadian actor and director1989 – Masahiro Inoue , Japanese actor and martial artist
1989 – Catherine McNeil , Australian fashion model
1990 – Blake Ferguson , Australian rugby league player1990 – Marcos Rojo , Argentine footballer
1991 – Mattia Destro , Italian footballer1991 – Michał Kucharczyk , Polish footballer
1991 – Ethan Lowe , Australian rugby league player
1993 – Sloane Stephens , American tennis player1995 – Jack Bird , Australian rugby league player
687 – Cuthbert , Northumbrian (English) monk, bishop, and saint (b. 634)842 – Alfonso II , king of Asturias (Spain ) (b. 759)1181 – Taira no Kiyomori , Japanese general (b. 1118)1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)1239 – Hermann von Salza , German knight and diplomat (b. 1179)1390 – Alexios III of Trebizond (b. 1338)1413 – Henry IV of England (b. 1367)1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley , English general and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508)1568 – Albert, Duke in Prussia (b. 1490)1619 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)1673 – Augustyn Kordecki , Polish monk (b. 1603)1726 – Isaac Newton , English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher (b. 1642)1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur , French actress (b. 1692)1746 – Nicolas de Largillière , French painter and academic (b. 1656)1780 – Benjamin Truman , English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield , Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)1809 – Mary Bateman , English criminal (b. 1768)1835 – Louis Léopold Robert , French painter (b. 1794)1849 – James Justinian Morier , Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)1855 – Joseph Aspdin , English businessman (b. 1788)1865 – Yamanami Keisuke , Japanese samurai (b. 1833)1874 – Hans Christian Lumbye , Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer , German physician and physicist (b. 1814)1897 – Apollon Maykov , Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)1899 – Franz Ritter von Hauer , Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)1909 – Friedrich Amelung , Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)1916 – Ota Benga , Congolese Mbuti pygmy featured as an anthropology exhibit (b. 1883)1918 – Lewis A. Grant , American general and lawyer (b. 1828)1924 – Emil Fenyvessy , Hungarian actor and screenwriter (b. 1859)1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston , English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)1929 – Ferdinand Foch , French field marshal (b. 1851)1930 – Arthur F. Andrews , American cyclist (b. 1876)1930 – Hoca Ali Rıza , Turkish painter and art teacher (b. 1858)
1931 – Hermann Müller , German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)1933 – Giuseppe Zangara , Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900)1934 – Emma of Waldeck and Pyrmont (b. 1858)1940 – Alfred Ploetz , German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)1946 – Amadeus William Grabau , American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)1947 – Sigurd Wallén , Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)1952 – Hjalmar Väre , Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)1958 – Adegoke Adelabu , Nigerian merchant, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)1960 – Léon Sée , French fencer (b. 1877)1964 – Brendan Behan , Irish author and playwright (b. 1923)1965 – Daniel Frank , American long jumper (b. 1882)1966 – Johnny Morrison , American baseball player (b. 1895)1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer , Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)1969 – Henri Longchambon , French politician (b. 1896)1971 – Falih Rıfkı Atay , Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)1972 – Marilyn Maxwell , American actress (b. 1921)1974 – Chet Huntley , American journalist and actor (b. 1911)1977 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham , English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909 )1977 – Terukuni Manzō , Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)1978 – Jacques Brugnon , French tennis player (b. 1895)1981 – Gerry Bertier , American football player (b. 1953)1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov , Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)1990 – Maurice Cloche , French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)1990 – Lev Yashin , Russian footballer (b. 1929)
1992 – Georges Delerue , French composer (b. 1925)1993 – Polykarp Kusch , German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)1997 – V. S. Pritchett , English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)1997 – Tony Zale , American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 – George Howard , American saxophonist (b. 1956)1998 – Catherine Sauvage , French singer and actress (b. 1929)
1999 – Patrick Heron , British painter (b. 1920)2000 – Gene Eugene , Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (Adam Again , The Swirling Eddies , and Lost Dogs ) (b. 1961)2001 – Luis Alvarado , Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)2004 – Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)2004 – Pierre Sévigny , Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
2005 – Armand Lohikoski , American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)2007 – Raynald Fréchette , Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan , Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
2007 – Hawa Yakubu , Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2010 – Ai , American poet and academic (b. 1947)2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala , Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
2010 – Stewart Udall , American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)
2011 – Johnny Pearson , English pianist, conductor, and composer (Sounds Orchestral ) (b. 1925)2012 – Lincoln Hall , Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)2012 – Noboru Ishiguro , Japanese animator and director (b. 1938)
2012 – Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg , Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
2013 – Nasser El Sonbaty , German-Egyptian bodybuilder (b. 1965)2013 – James Herbert , English author (b. 1943)
2013 – George Lowe , New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924)
2013 – Zillur Rahman , Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 15th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)
2013 – Emílio Santiago , Brazilian singer (b. 1946)
2013 – Risë Stevens , American soprano and actress (b. 1913)
2014 – Hennie Aucamp , South African poet, author, and academic (b. 1934)2014 – Iñaki Azkuna , Spanish academic and politician (b. 1943)
2014 – Hilderaldo Bellini , Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
2014 – Tonie Nathan , American politician (b. 1923)
2014 – Khushwant Singh , Indian journalist and author (b. 1915)
2015 – Perro Aguayo Jr. , Mexican wrestler and promoter (b. 1979)2015 – Eva Burrows , Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1929)
2015 – Malcolm Fraser , Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
2015 – Gregory Walcott , American actor (b. 1928)
2016 – Anker Jørgensen , Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
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