March 4

March 4 is the 63rd day of the year (64th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 302 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
• 306 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
• 852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issues a statute, a document with the first known written mention of the Croats name in Croatian sources.
• 932 – Translation of the relics of martyr Wenceslaus I, Duke of Bohemia, Prince of the Czechs.
• 1152 – Frederick I Barbarossa is elected King of the Germans.
• 1238 – The Battle of the Sit River is fought in the northern part of the present-day Yaroslavl Oblast of Russia between the Mongol Hordes of Batu Khan and the Russians under Yuri II of Vladimir-Suzdal during the Mongol invasion of Russia.
• 1351 – Ramathibodi becomes King of Siam.
• 1386 – Władysław II Jagiełło (Jogaila) is crowned King of Poland.
• 1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
• 1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean.
• 1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
• 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
• 1665 – English King Charles II declares war on the Netherlands marking the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
• 1675 – John Flamsteed is appointed the first Astronomer Royal of England.
• 1681 – Charles II grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
• 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Continental Army fortifies Dorchester Heights with cannon, leading the British troops to abandon the Siege of Boston.
• 1789 – In New York City, the first Congress of the United States meets, putting the United States Constitution into effect.
• 1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, cutting across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on ownership of land by the nobility.
• 1791 – A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
• 1791 – Vermont is admitted to the U.S. as the fourteenth state.
• 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
• 1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
• 1804 – Castle Hill Rebellion: Irish convicts rebel against British colonial authority in the Colony of New South Wales.
• 1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London, Ontario and Thamesville, near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
• 1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d'Italia
• 1861 – The first national flag of the Confederate States of America (the "Stars and Bars") is adopted.
• 1882 – Britain's first electric trams run in east London.
• 1890 – The longest bridge in Great Britain, the Forth Rail Bridge in Scotland, measuring 1,710 feet (520 m) long, is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later becomes King Edward VII.
• 1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 metres (39 ft) wave that reaches up to 5 kilometres (3.1 mi) inland, killing over 300.
• 1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
• 1909 – U.S. President William Taft used what became known as a Saxbe fix, a mechanism to avoid the restriction of the U.S. Constitution's Ineligibility Clause, to appoint Philander C. Knox as U.S. Secretary of State
• 1913 – First Balkan War: The Greek army engages the Turks at Bizani, resulting in victory two days later.
• 1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
• 1918 – The first case of Spanish flu occurs, the start of a devastating worldwide pandemic.
• 1918 – The USS Cyclops (AC-4) departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 1925 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
• 1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, the first female member of the United States Cabinet.
• 1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates an authoritarian rule by decree.
• 1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands.
• 1943 – World War II: The Battle of the Bismarck Sea in the South West Pacific comes to an end.
• 1944 – World War II: After the success of Big Week, the USAAF begins a daylight bombing campaign of Berlin.
• 1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
• 1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
• 1960 – The French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100.
• 1966 – A Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
• 1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes underwater, resulting in the loss of the entire 57-man crew.
• 1974 – People magazine is published for the first time.
• 1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London by the British parliament.
• 1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
• 1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
• 1983 – Bertha Wilson is appointed the first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
• 1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
• 1986 – The Soviet Vega 1 begins returning images of Halley's Comet and the first images of its nucleus.
• 1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returns to his country for the first time since Iraq's invasion.
• 1996 – A derailed train in Weyauwega, Wisconsin, US, causes the emergency evacuation of 2,300 people for 16 days.
• 1998 – Gay rights: Oncale v. Sundowner Offshore Services: The Supreme Court of the United States rules that federal laws banning on-the-job sexual harassment also apply when both parties are the same sex.
• 2001 – 4 March 2001 BBC bombing: a massive car bomb explodes in front of the BBC Television Centre in London, seriously injuring 1 person. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
• 2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster: A bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
• 2002 – Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
• 2007 – Estonian parliamentary election, 2007: Approximately 30,000 voters take advantage of electronic voting in Estonia, the world's first nationwide voting where part of the votecasting is allowed in the form of remote electronic voting via the Internet.
• 2009 – The International Criminal Court (ICC) issues an arrest warrant for Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Darfur. Al-Bashir is the first sitting head of state to be indicted by the ICC since its establishment in 2002.

Births

• 1188 – Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
• 1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
• 1484 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, follower of Martin Luther (d. 1543)
• 1492 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
• 1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer (d. 1594)
• 1602 – Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674)
• 1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
• 1651 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
• 1665 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
• 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
• 1702 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
• 1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
• 1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
• 1719 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
• 1729 – Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
• 1745 – Kazimierz Pułaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
• 1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
• 1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French teacher and educational philosopher (d. 1840)
• 1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• 1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
• 1790 – David "Robber" Lewis, American robber known for giving stolen money to the poor. (d. 1820)
• 1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
• 1815 – Myrtilla Miner, American educator and abolitionist (d. 1864)
• 1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman and the 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
• 1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
• 1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
• 1823 – George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902)
• 1826 – John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
• 1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1826 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
• 1828 – Owen Wynne Jones (Glasynys), Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
• 1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
• 1838 – Paul Lacome, French composer (d. 1920)
• 1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
• 1854 – Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
• 1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
• 1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
• 1861 – Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian (d. 1933)
• 1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
• 1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
• 1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
• 1864 – David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
• 1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
• 1873 – John H. Trumbull, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
• 1875 – Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
• 1875 – Enrique Larreta, Argentine writer, academic, diplomat and art collector (d. 1961)
• 1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Founder of the Magician's Guild (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
• 1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
• 1878 – Egbert van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
• 1878 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
• 1878 – Arishima Takeo, Japanese writer (d. 1923)
• 1879 – Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
• 1879 – Bernhard Kellermann, German author and poet (d. 1951)
• 1880 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
• 1881 – Todor Aleksandrov, Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
• 1881 – Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
• 1881 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
• 1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
• 1887 – John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian politician and civil engineer (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
• 1888 – Jeff Pfeffer, American baseball player (d. 1972)
• 1888 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
• 1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
• 1889 – Jean-Gabriel Domergue, French painter (d. 1962)
• 1889 – Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii and United States Senators from Hawaii (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
• 1889 – Robert William Wood, American landscape artist (d. 1979)
• 1891 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
• 1891 – Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
• 1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American aeronautical engineer (d. 1985)
• 1893 – Adolph Lowe (born Adolf Löwe), German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
• 1895 – Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Shemp Howard, American comedian (d. 1955)
• 1896 – Kai Holm, Danish film actor (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Hans Krebs, German general of infantry (d. 1945)
• 1899 – Liana Del Balzo, Italian film actress (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
• 1900 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
• 1902 – Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Rachel Messerer, Russian silent film and theatre actress (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Russell Reeder, United States Army officer and author (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1903 – William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990)
• 1903 – Merwin Graham, American Olympic track and field athlete (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
• 1903 – John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, 1st Duke of Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973)
• 1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
• 1904 – Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Chief Tahachee, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Buck Canel, Argentine American sportscaster (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Avery Fisher, American audio specialist (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Fionn MacColla, Scottish novelist (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Georges Ronsse, Belgian bicycle racer (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Horace Roye, pioneering British photographer (d. 2002)
• 1906 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Eleanor "Sis" Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
• 1908 – T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Thomas Shaw, American musician (d. 1977)
• 1909 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
• 1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American chemical engineer (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Miriam Kressyn, Polish-born actor (d. 1996)
• 1911 – Christer Boucht, Finnish-Swedish lawyer, adventure traveler and writer (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, British peer (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
• 1912 – Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
• 1912 – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Edgar Tafel, American architect (d. 2011)
• 1912 – Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Guatemalan sculptor (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
• 1913 – John H. Fremlin, English nuclear physicist (d. 1995)
• 1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American child prodigy novelist (disappeared 1939)
• 1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, British politician and businessman (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Frank Sleeman, Australian administrator and politician (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Robert Thom, American painter and historian (d. 1979)
• 1916 – William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Michael Howard, British actor and comedian (d. 1988)
• 1917 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
• 1919 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
• 1919 – Tan Chee Khoon, Malaysian politician (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
• 1920 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
• 1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
• 1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
• 1922 – Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Martha O'Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg
• 1923 – Piero D'Inzeo, Italian Olympic show jumping rider
• 1923 – Russell Freeburg, former American newspaper editor (Chicago Tribune)and author
• 1923 – Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1923 – Francis King, British novelist, poet and short story writer (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Patrick Moore, British astronomer and television presenter
• 1924 – Kenneth O'Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
• 1925 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist and researcher
• 1926 – Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
• 1926 – James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
• 1926 – Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
• 1926 – Prince Dimitri Romanov, Russian prince, philanthropist and author
• 1926 – Fran Warren, American singer
• 1927 – Philip Batt, 29th Governor of Idaho
• 1927 – Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1927 – Jacques Dupin, French poet
• 1927 – Robert Orben, American magician
• 1927 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player
• 1927 – Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Samuel Adler, American composer
• 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
• 1929 – Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
• 1929 – Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
• 1929 – Darrett B. Rutman, US historian (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Peter Swerling, American RADAR theoretician (d. 2000)
• 1931 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
• 1931 – William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
• 1931 – Larry Keith, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Alice Rivlin, American economist
• 1932 – Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian composer, pianist and conductor
• 1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
• 1932 – Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
• 1933 – John W Mills, British sculptor
• 1933 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
• 1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
• 1934 – John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
• 1934 – Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1934 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
• 1934 – Sandra Reynolds, South African tennis player
• 1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
• 1934 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
• 1935 – Edward Dębicki, Polish Romani poet, musician and composer
• 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Eric Allendale, West Indian trombonist and songwriter (d. 2001)
• 1936 – John Burland, Emeritus Professor and Senior Research Investigator at the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering of Imperial College London
• 1936 – Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
• 1936 – Robert Garrow, American serial killer (d. 1978)
• 1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
• 1937 – William Deverell, Canadian novelist, activist, and criminal lawyer
• 1937 – Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
• 1937 – Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
• 1937 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
• 1937 – Richard B. Wright, Canadian novelist
• 1938 – Anton Stanislaus Balasingham, Political strategist and negotiator (d. 2006)
• 1938 – Allan Kornblum, United States federal judge (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Marshall Cooke, retired Australian politician
• 1938 – Roy Hazelwood, former FBI profiler of sex crimes
• 1938 – Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
• 1938 – Don Perkins, American football player
• 1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
• 1938 – Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
• 1939 – Jack Fisher, American baseball player
• 1939 – Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat
• 1939 – Keith Skues, British radio personality
• 1939 – Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
• 1940 – Edward Burke, American Olympic hammer thrower
• 1940 – Alpha Condé, Guinean politician and President of the Rally of the Guinean People (RPG)
• 1940 – Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German legal scholar and former judge of the Federal Constitutional Court of Germany
• 1940 – Arild Lund, Norwegian politician for the Conservative Party
• 1940 – Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
• 1940 – Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
• 1940 – David Plante, American novelist
• 1940 – Tamara Wilcox, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1941 – John Aprea, American actor
• 1941 – Adrian Lyne, English film director
• 1941 – Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
• 1941 – Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
• 1941 – James Zagel, United States district judge and novelist
• 1942 – Ji-Tu Cumbuka, veteran American stage and screen actor
• 1942 – Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
• 1942 – Charles C. Krulak, American general and the 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
• 1942 – David Matthews, American keyboardist
• 1942 – Christopher Shackle, retired Professor of Modern Languages of South Asia in the University of London
• 1942 – Lynn Sherr, American broadcast journalist and author
• 1942 – James Gustave Speth, American environmental lawyer and advocate
• 1942 – Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian born Hungarian musician, singer and composer
• 1942 – Henk van der Kroon, Dutch founder and president of the Federation of European Carnival Cities
• 1943 – Malcolm Barber, English scholar of medieval history
• 1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
• 1943 – Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
• 1943 – Ron O'Quinn, American radio disc jockey
• 1944 – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist
• 1944 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American particle physicist
• 1944 – Len Walker, former English footballer and manager
• 1944 – Greg Weld, American racecar driver (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Michael "Mick" Wilson, drummer (Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
• 1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer
• 1945 – Tony Allen, English comedian and writer
• 1945 – Femi Benussi, Italian film actress
• 1945 – Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
• 1945 – Greg Craig, Washington-based lawyer and current White House Counsel to President Barack Obama
• 1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
• 1945 – Frank Novak, American actor
• 1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
• 1945 – Tim Weigel, American broadcaster (d. 2001)
• 1945 – Gary Williams, American basketball coach
• 1946 – Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
• 1946 – Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1946 – Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
• 1946 – David Gittins (Red Stripe), singer (Flying Pickets)
• 1946 – Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author
• 1946 – Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
• 1946 – Jean-Claude Schmitt, prominent French medievalist
• 1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter
• 1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
• 1947 – Greg Guma, American progressive journalist and author
• 1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
• 1947 – John Hinch, English Professor of fluid dynamics, Cambridge University
• 1947 – Aura Lewis, South African singer
• 1947 – Bob Lewis, American musician
• 1947 – Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian composer and pianist
• 1947 – Mike Sheahan, Australian journalist and sports television personality
• 1947 – Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1948 – Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
• 1948 – Brian Cummings, American voice actor
• 1948 – Veljko Despot, Croatian music journalist and record business entrepreneur
• 1948 – James Ellroy, American writer
• 1948 – Tom Grieve, American baseball player
• 1948 – Leron Lee, American baseball player
• 1948 – Jean O'Leary, American activist and politician (d. 2005)
• 1948 – Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
• 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer
• 1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
• 1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, former President of the partially recognized de facto independent Republic of Abkhazia (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Cookie Mueller, American actress and writer (d. 1989)
• 1949 – Tomislav Trifić, Serbian graphic artist
• 1950 – Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
• 1950 – Barrie Cassidy, veteran Australian political journalist
• 1950 – Ron Climie, retired American professional ice hockey player
• 1950 – Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
• 1950 – Rick Perry, 47th Governor of Texas
• 1950 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian playwright
• 1951 – Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
• 1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
• 1951 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
• 1951 – Pete Haycock, English guitarist and composer
• 1951 – Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
• 1951 – Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Chris Rea, English singer
• 1951 – Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer and performer
• 1951 – Glenis Willmott, British politician, leader of the European Parliamentary Labour Party
• 1951 – Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
• 1952 – Peter Kuhfeld, English figurative painter
• 1952 – Ronn Moss, American actor
• 1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
• 1953 – Nicholas Campion, English historian
• 1953 – John Edwards, Australian television drama producer
• 1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
• 1953 – Scott Hicks, Australian film director
• 1953 – Paweł Janas, Polish football manager
• 1953 – Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Kay Lenz, American actress
• 1953 – Geoff Nicholson, British novelist and non-fiction writer
• 1953 – Peggy Rathmann, award-winning American author and illustrator
• 1953 – Reinhold Roth, former German Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• 1953 – KRK Ryden, American visual artist
• 1953 – Chris Smith, American politician
• 1953 – Daniel Woodrell, American crime fiction writer
• 1954 – Timur Apakidze, Russian major general and Hero of the Russian Federation (d. 2001)
• 1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
• 1954 – Ricky Ford, American jazz tenor saxophonist
• 1954 – François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 – Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
• 1954 – Yvan Lachaud, French politician
• 1954 – Boris Moiseev, Russian singer, choreographer, dancer, writer and actor
• 1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian actress
• 1954 – St Clair L. Palmer, vocalist (Sweet Sensation)
• 1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
• 1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
• 1954 – Adrian Zmed, American actor
• 1955 – Tim Costello, prominent Australian Baptist minister and current CEO of World Vision Australia
• 1955 – Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
• 1955 – Joey Jones, Welsh professional footballer
• 1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
• 1955 – James Weaver, English race car driver
• 1956 – Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
• 1957 – Nicholas Coleridge, British entrepreneur
• 1957 – Jim Dwyer, American journalist
• 1957 – Ron Fassler, American film and television actor
• 1957 – Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
• 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
• 1958 – Lennie Lee, British artist
• 1958 – Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 – Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
• 1960 – Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
• 1960 – Kazimierz Matuszny, Polish politician
• 1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
• 1960 – Thierry Pastor, French singer
• 1960 – Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
• 1960 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
• 1961 – Alain Coumont, Belgian chef and restaurateur
• 1961 – Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
• 1961 – Tinker Juarez, bike racer
• 1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer
• 1961 – Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor and narrator
• 1961 – Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian jazz musician
• 1961 – Steven Weber, American actor
• 1961 – Roger Wessels, South African golfer
• 1962 – Simon Bisley, British comic artist
• 1962 – Paul Canoville, English former professional footballer
• 1962 – Jon Durno, bassist (Roman Holliday)
• 1962 – Greg Kragen, American footballer
• 1962 – Stephan Reimertz, German art historian and novelist
• 1962 – Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer
• 1962 – David Sparrow, English actor
• 1963 – Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
• 1963 – Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey
• 1963 – Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)
• 1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor
• 1964 – Scott Baker, American journalist
• 1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Testament, Slayer, Exodus, Forbidden)
• 1964 – David Colclough, Welsh professional poker player
• 1964 – Brian Crowley, Irish politician
• 1964 – Cheryl Fergison, British actress
• 1964 – Karen Knowles, Australian singer and entertainer
• 1964 – Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
• 1964 – Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director
• 1965 – Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
• 1965 – Andrew Collins, English journalist
• 1965 – Stacy Edwards, American actress
• 1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
• 1965 – WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
• 1965 – Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
• 1965 – Viktor Shapovalov, Russian auto racing driver
• 1965 – Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
• 1966 – Daniela Amavia, American actress and model
• 1966 – Steve Bastoni, Italian Australian actor
• 1966 – Patrick Hannan, drummer (The Sundays)
• 1966 – Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
• 1966 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and Mayor of Sacramento, California
• 1966 – Dav Pilkey, American author
• 1966 – Grand Puba, American rapper
• 1966 – Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009)
• 1966 – Mike Small American professional golfer
• 1966 – Wash West, English gay porn film director
• 1967 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
• 1967 – Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
• 1967 – Ivan Lewis, British Labour Party politician
• 1967 – Fiona Ma, California State Assembly Majority Whip and San Francisco politician
• 1967 – Andrew Osmond, English writer
• 1967 – Dave Rayner, English racing cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Derek Mooney, Irish radio and television personality and radio producer
• 1967 – Tim Vine, English actor and comedian
• 1967 – Sam Taylor-Wood, English conceptual artist
• 1967 – Kubilay Türkyılmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
• 1967 – Andreas Wistuba, German taxonomist and botanist
• 1968 – Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricket player
• 1968 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1968 – Jorge Celedón, Colombian musician and singer
• 1968 – Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer
• 1968 – Dionna Harris, American softball player and Olympic champion
• 1968 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
• 1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
• 1969 – Chaz Bono, American actor and gay rights activist
• 1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
• 1969 – Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
• 1969 – Frank Nicotero, American comedian
• 1969 – Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician
• 1969 – Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
• 1969 – Lacy Rose, American pornographic actress
• 1969 – Matt Tilley, Australian radio personality and comedian
• 1969 – Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
• 1969 – Annie Yi, Chinese singer, writer and actress
• 1970 – Andrea Bendewald, American actress
• 1970 – Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
• 1970 – Edward Gal, Dutch dressage rider
• 1970 – Caroline Vis, Dutch professional tennis player
• 1971 – Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
• 1971 – Claire Baker, Scottish politician
• 1971 – Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat)
• 1971 – Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
• 1971 – Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
• 1971 – Shavar Ross, American filmmaker
• 1971 – Jason Sellers, American country music artist
• 1971 – Nick Stabile, American actor
• 1971 – Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
• 1972 – Buck 65, Canadian hip hop artist, MC and turntablist
• 1972 – Katherine Center, contemporary American fiction author
• 1972 – Nocturno Culto, Norwegian musician
• 1972 – Ian Garbutt, English professional golfer
• 1972 – Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
• 1972 – Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek pop singer
• 1972 – Brittney Powell, German-American actress
• 1972 – Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
• 1972 – Robert Smith, American footballer
• 1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
• 1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
• 1973 – Massimo Brambilla, Italian football player
• 1973 – Jennifer Cole, American model, actress and game show/talk show host
• 1973 – Phillip Daniels, American footballer
• 1973 – Sadik Harchaoui, Moroccan-Dutch legal academic
• 1973 – Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper
• 1973 – Mark Lavine, West Indian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1973 – Linus of Hollywood, American rock and pop singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer
• 1973 – Len Wiseman, American director
• 1973 – Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Tollywood film director
• 1974 – Peggy Clydesdale, American artist and painter
• 1974 – Crowbar, American professional wrestler
• 1974 – ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
• 1974 – Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
• 1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
• 1974 – Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian hip hop rapper
• 1974 – Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer
• 1974 – Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
• 1974 – Virginijus Praškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1974 – David Wagner, American wheelchair tennis player
• 1974 – Bill Young, Australian rugby union footballer
• 1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1975 – Jacqueline Anderson, American actress and entrepreneur
• 1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
• 1975 – Julie Dibens, British triathlete
• 1975 – Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
• 1975 – El-P, American hip hop artist and entrepreneur
• 1975 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1975 – Jerod Turner, American professional golfer
• 1975 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Robbie Blake, English footballer
• 1976 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 – Sean Covel, American film producer
• 1976 – Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
• 1976 – Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentine soccer player
• 1976 – Alireza Heidari, Iranian Olympic wrestler
• 1976 – Cho In-Chul, World Champion South Korean judoka
• 1976 – Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress
• 1976 – Tommy Jönsson, Swedish football player
• 1976 – Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and film director
• 1976 – Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower
• 1976 – Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and record producer
• 1976 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
• 1976 – Sabrina Sabrok, Argentine television host, singer, and producer
• 1976 – Gary Shortland, British professional figure skater
• 1976 – Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack)
• 1976 – Jasin Thomason, American guitarist (The Ataris)
• 1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
• 1977 – Nacho Figueras, Argentine polo player
• 1977 – Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
• 1977 – Jeremiah Green, American indie rock band drummer (Modest Mouse)
• 1977 – Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
• 1977 – Ron Horsley, American author and artist
• 1977 – Laura Jansen, Dutch singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Christian Jessen, English doctor and television presenter
• 1977 – Mike Kinsella, American musician (Cap'n Jazz, Joan of Arc, American Football, and Owen)
• 1977 – Daniel Klewer, German footballer
• 1977 – Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby union footballer
• 1977 – Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby union player
• 1977 – Jason Marsalis, American musician
• 1977 – Traver Rains, American designer (Heatherette)
• 1977 – Rockell (Rachel Alexandra Mercaldo), American musician
• 1977 – Dan Wells, American horror fiction author
• 1977 – Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby union player
• 1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
• 1978 – César Morales, Mexican bantamweight boxer
• 1978 – Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Neil Best, Irish rugby union footballer
• 1979 – Ariel Carreño, Argentine football striker
• 1979 – Karima Delli, French politician
• 1979 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
• 1979 – Trenton Hassell, American basketball player
• 1979 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
• 1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
• 1979 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian football goalkeeper
• 1979 – Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer, and social and liberal political activist
• 1979 – Sarah Stock, Canadian professional wrestler
• 1979 – Paul Terry, English footballer
• 1980 – Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
• 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Ben Briand, Australian film director
• 1980 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
• 1980 – Michael Henrich, American-born ice hockey player
• 1980 – Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian professional basketball player
• 1980 – Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian professional basketball player
• 1980 – Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby union footballer
• 1980 – Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
• 1980 – Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1980 – Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
• 1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish football player
• 1980 – Kamalinee Mukherjee, (Kamalini Mukherjee) Indian film actress
• 1981 – Carol Banawa, Filipino singer
• 1981 – Marie Delattre, French sprint canoer
• 1981 – Gareth Knapman, English theatre actor and director
• 1981 – Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
• 1981 – Ariza Makukula, Portuguese international football player
• 1981 – Aketza Peña, Spanish road bicycle racer
• 1981 – Alastair Ross, Northern Ireland Unionist politician
• 1981 – Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
• 1981 – Helen Wyman, British cyclist
• 1982 – Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican beauty queen
• 1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
• 1982 – Cate Edwards, American attorney and author
• 1982 – Ludmila Ezhova, Russian Olympic gymnast
• 1982 – Ali Khalid, British Asian actor
• 1982 – Machinedrum, American musician and record producer
• 1982 – Yasemin Mori, Turkish alternative rock singer
• 1982 – Elia Rigotto, Italian road bicycle racer
• 1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
• 1983 – Jaque Fourie, South African rugby union footballer
• 1983 – Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 – Ryan Lonie, Australian football player
• 1983 – Dante Senger, Argentine footballer
• 1983 – Adam Deacon, English Actor
• 1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli/English football midfielder
• 1984 – Marin Čolak, Croatian auto racing driver
• 1984 – Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player
• 1984 – Phillip Inzerillo, American musician
• 1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
• 1984 – K. Michelle, American R & B/Soul singer and songwriter
• 1984 – Spencer Larsen, American football player
• 1984 – Raven Quinn, American musician, singer and songwriter
• 1984 – Zak Whitbread, American-born footballer
• 1985 – Jake Buxton, English professional footballer
• 1985 – Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican professional basketball player
• 1985 – Scott Michael Foster, American actor
• 1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, Professional French tennis player (d. 2009)
• 1985 – Davey Morgan, American children's book illustrator and professional photographer
• 1985 – Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
• 1985 – Whitney Port, American reality television personality
• 1985 – Jonas Troest, Danish professional football player
• 1985 – Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer
• 1986 – Shraddha Das, Indian actress
• 1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress
• 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Erin O'Kelley, American beauty queen
• 1986 – Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
• 1986 – Dominic Telo, South African cricketer
• 1986 – Park Min Young, South Korean model and actress
• 1987 – Ben McKinley, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Tamzin Merchant, British actor and poetess
• 1987 – Cameron Wood, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Cody Longo, American film actor
• 1988 – Laura Siegemund, German tennis player
• 1988 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese gravure idol
• 1988 – Adam Watts, English footballer
• 1989 – Erin Heatherton, American fashion model
• 1989 – Bradley Middleton, English footballer
• 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
• 1990 – Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
• 1990 – Marco Martina Rini, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Maximiliano Oliva, Argentine footballer
• 1991 – Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model
• 1991 – Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
• 1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1992 – Daniel Lloyd, British racing car driver
• 1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress
• 1993 – Abigail Mavity, American actress
• 1993 – Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
• 1995 – Bill Milner, English actor

Deaths

• 251 – Pope Lucius I
• 480 – Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
• 561 – Pope Pelagius I
• 1172 – Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
• 1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
• 1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
• 1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
• 1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
• 1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
• 1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
• 1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
• 1604 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
• 1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
• 1619 – Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
• 1710 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
• 1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
• 1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
• 1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
• 1795 – John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
• 1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
• 1807 – Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
• 1811 – Mariano Moreno, secretary of war of the Primera Junta (b. 1778)
• 1821 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
• 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
• 1851 – James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
• 1852 – Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
• 1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
• 1853 – Thomas Bladen Capel Royal Navy admiral (b. 1776)
• 1858 – Matthew C. Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
• 1864 – Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
• 1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
• 1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
• 1872 – Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
• 1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
• 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
• 1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
• 1906 – John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
• 1910 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
• 1915 – William Willett, English campaigner for daylight saving time (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
• 1922 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
• 1925 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
• 1925 – James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
• 1938 – George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
• 1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
• 1944 – Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b. 1897) (executed)
• 1944 – Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
• 1944 – René Lefebvre, martyr of the French Resistance (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
• 1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
• 1945 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 – Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
• 1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
• 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
• 1949 – Clarence Kingsbury British track cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1950 – Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
• 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 – Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Maxie Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1960 – Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
• 1962 – George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
• 1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
• 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
• 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
• 1974 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898)
• 1976 – John Marvin Jones, Texan member of the United States House of Representatives and Chief Judge of the US federal Court of Claims (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Nikolai Semashko, Soviet sports administrator (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, U.S. Representative from Alabama (b. 1878)
• 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian modernist poet, essayist, translator, novelist, publisher, literary and art critic (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian systemic botanist, conservationist and herbarium curator (b. 1912)
• 1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
• 1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician (b. 1887)
• 1977 – William Paul, American attorney, legislator, and political activist (b. 1885)
• 1978 – Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
• 1978 – Joe Marsala, American jazz clarinetist and songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1978 – John Meighan, Irish Clann na Talmhan politician (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Harry Hopkinson, British yodeler (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Gladys McConnell, American movie actress and aviatrix (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Mike Patto, (Michael Thomas McCarthy), English vocalist and front man for The Bow Street Runners (b. 1942)
• 1979 – Robert John Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, British businessman and public servant (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist and crystallographer (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Alan Hardaker, English football administrator (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924)
• 1980 – J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentine chess master (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Alfred Plé, French Olympic rower (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Alex Vetchinsky, British film designer (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Odette Barencey, French film actress (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Franz Kapus, Swiss Olympic bobsledder (b. 1909)
• 1981 – John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943)
• 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German World War II naval adjutant to Adolf Hitler (b. 1900)
• 1981 – Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
• 1982 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-born English novelist (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
• 1986 – Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
• 1986 – Albert L. Lehninger, American biochemist (b. 1917)
• 1986 – Edward MacLysaght, Irish genealogist (b. 1887)
• 1986 – Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
• 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and novelist (b. 1913)
• 1986 – John Spence, British Conservative Party politician (b. 1920)
• 1988 – Beatriz Guido, Argentine novelist and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
• 1990 – Harry Worthington, American track and field athlete (b. 1891)
• 1991 – Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Kenneth Lindsay, British Labour Party politician (b. 1897)
• 1992 – Néstor Almendros, Spanish cinematographer (b. 1930)
• 1992 – Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Peter Judge, English cricketer (b. 1916)
• 1992 – Pare Lorentz, American filmmaker (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Mary Osborne, American jazz electric guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Larry Rosenthal, American professional baseball outfielder (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Michael Beecher, Australian-based model and actor (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
• 1993 – Tomislav Ivčić, Croatian singer, songwriter and politician (b. 1953)
• 1993 – Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1894)
• 1993 – Nicholas Ridley, Baron Ridley of Liddesdale, British politician and government minister (b. 1929)
• 1993 – Richard Sale, American screenwriter and film director (b. 1911)
• 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
• 1994 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-born philosopher and logician(b. 1918)
• 1994 – Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
• 1994 – Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Iftekhar, Indian actor (b.?)
• 1995 – Matt Urban, Lieutenant Colonel United States Army (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Johnny Sauer, American football player, coach, and broadcaster (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Joe Baker-Cresswell, English Royal Navy officer (b. 1901)
• 1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Edouard Klabinski, Polish professional racing cyclist (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian World War II Army Major General (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Donald Rodney, British artist (b. 1961)
• 1998 – Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Zairean political officeholder and economist (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Milosz Magin, Polish composer and pianist (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Teddy McRae, American jazz tenor saxophonist and arranger (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Joseph Regenstein Jr., American business leader and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer, translator and literary historian (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Hermann Brück, German-born UK astronomer (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Kyi Kyi Htay, four-time Myanmar Academy Award winning film actress, singer, opera performer and dancer (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Michael Noonan, Australian-born New Zealander novelist and radio script writer (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Alphons Silbermann, German Jewish sociologist, musicologist, entrepreneur and publicist (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese-born atomic and nuclear theoretical physicist (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentine chess grandmaster (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter, designer of stained glass windows, and writer (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Jim Rhodes, American politician (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Martin Wright, British bioengineer (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuanian writer and translator (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Margarete Neumann, German writer and lyrical poet (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Shirley Ann Russell, award-winning British costume designer (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist. (b. 1923)
• 2004 – John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
• 2004 – Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
• 2004 – George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
• 2005 – Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
• 2005 – Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
• 2005 – Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
• 2006 – Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
• 2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Natalie Bodanya, American soprano (b. 1908)
• 2007 – Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
• 2007 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
• 2007 – Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
• 2007 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer, Italian deputy for Forza Italia party, showoman and writer (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Leonard Rosenman, American film composer (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
• 2008 – George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist (b. 1917)
• 2009 – John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Yvon Cormier, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish writer (b. 1957)
• 2009 – Horton Foote, American playwright (b. 1916)
• 2009 – George McAfee, American football player (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Harry Parkes, English footballer (b. 1920)
• 2009 – Salvatore Samperi, Italian film director (b 1944)
• 2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet and performance artist (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Johnny Alf, Brazilian singer and composer (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Etta Cameron, Danish singer and actor (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Samuel J. Eldersveld, U.S. academic, political scientist, and Democratic politician (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Roger Newman, British-born American actor and television writer (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Angelo Poffo, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Tony Richards, British footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Fred Wedlock, British folk musician (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician and former Nepali Prime Minister (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Frank Chirkinian, American producer (b.c. 1926)
• 2011 – Vivienne Harris, British businesswoman and newspaper publisher (b.c. 1921)
• 2011 – Charles Jarrott, British film and television director (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Johnny Preston, American pop singer (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Arjun Singh, Indian politician (b. 1930)
• 2011 – Alenush Terian, Iranian astronomer and physicist (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Simon van der Meer, Dutch physicist and Nobel laureate (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adrian of Nicomedia
  • Basinus, Benedictine bishop of Trier (705)
  • Blessed Humbert III of Savoy (Roman Catholic Church)
  • Casimir
  • Peter of Pappacarbone
  • March 4 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Saint Casimir's Day (Poland and Lithuania)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada