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 House of York 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 – Hernán Cortés 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. The United States Bill of Rights is written and proposed to Congress.
• 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 United States as the fourteenth state.
• 1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is passed by the U.S. Congress.
• 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.
• 1837 – The city of Chicago is incorporated.
• 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.
• 1865 – The third and final national flag of the Confederate States of America is adopted by the Confederate Congress.
• 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, later 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.
• 1913 – The United States Department of Labor is formed
• 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 departs from Barbados and is never seen again, presumably lost with all hands in the Bermuda Triangle.
• 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; the first large scale British Commando raid.
• 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.
• 1962 – A Caledonian Airways Douglas DC-7 crashes shortly after takeoff from Cameroon, killing 111 - the worst crash of a DC-7.
• 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 in the United States as People Weekly.
• 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 Vrancea Earthquake in eastern and southern Europe kills more than 1,500, mostly in the seriously damaged city of Bucharest, Romania.
• 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 infection, 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 and 200 Al-Qaeda Fighters are killed as American forces 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

• 895 – Emperor Gaozu of (Later) Han (d. 948)
• 1188 – Blanche of Castile (d. 1252)
• 1394 – Henry the Navigator, Portuguese son of John I of Portugal (d. 1460)
• 1484 – George, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (d. 1543)
• 1492 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian organist and composer (d. 1540)
• 1602 – Kanō Tan'yū, Japanese painter (d. 1674)
• 1651 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers, English jurist and politician (d. 1716)
• 1655 – Fra Galgario, Italian painter (d. 1743)
• 1665 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
• 1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian violinist and composer (d. 1741)
• 1702 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (d. 1724)
• 1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect, designed the Eremitage Palace and Gammel Holtegård (d. 1759)
• 1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, English politician (d. 1763)
• 1719 – George Pigot, 1st Baron Pigot, English-Indian politician (d. 1777)
• 1729 – Anne d'Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French wife of Philippe de Noailles (d. 1794)
• 1745 – Charles Dibdin, English actor, playwright, composer, and author (d. 1814)
• 1745 – Casimir Pulaski, Polish-American general (d. 1779)
• 1756 – Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
• 1770 – Joseph Jacotot, French educator and philosopher (d. 1840)
• 1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
• 1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss author (d. 1830)
• 1790 – David "Robber" Lewis, American criminal (d. 1820)
• 1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
• 1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
• 1815 – Myrtilla Miner, American educator (d. 1864)
• 1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, American lawyer and politician, 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
• 1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian rebel leader (d. 1856)
• 1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
• 1823 – George Caron, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1902)
• 1826 – August Johann Gottfried Bielenstein, German linguist, ethnographer, and theologian (d. 1907)
• 1826 – John Buford, American army officer (d. 1863)
• 1826 – Elme Marie Caro, French philosopher (d. 1887)
• 1826 – Theodore Judah, American engineer, founded the Central Pacific Railroad (d. 1863)
• 1828 – Owen Wynne Jones, Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1870)
• 1838 – Paul Lacôme, French composer (d. 1920)
• 1847 – Carl Josef Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
• 1851 – Alexandros Papadiamantis, Greek author (d. 1911)
• 1854 – Napier Shaw, English meteorologist (d. 1945)
• 1856 – Toru Dutt, Indian poet (d. 1877)
• 1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
• 1861 – Arthur Cushman McGiffert, American theologian (d. 1933)
• 1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
• 1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, English zoologist (d. 1947)
• 1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
• 1864 – David W. Taylor, American architect and engineer (d. 1940)
• 1865 – Eduard Vilde, Estonian author and diplomat (d. 1933)
• 1866 – Eugène Cosserat, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1931)
• 1870 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
• 1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician and engineer (d. 1945)
• 1873 – Guy Wetmore Carryl, American poet (d. 1904)
• 1873 – John H. Trumbull, American politician, 70th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
• 1875 – Mihály Károlyi, Hungarian politician, President of the Hungary (d. 1955)
• 1875 – Enrique Larreta, Argentinian historian and author (d. 1961)
• 1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
• 1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Hungarian-American magician (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Alexander Goedicke, Russian pianist and composer (d. 1957)
• 1877 – Fritz Graebner, German geographer and ethnologist (d. 1934)
• 1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
• 1878 – Takeo Arishima, Japanese author (d. 1923)
• 1878 – P. D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
• 1878 – Egbert Van Alstyne, American pianist and songwriter (d. 1951)
• 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 activist (d. 1924)
• 1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American lawyer and author (d. 1965)
• 1881 – Richard C. Tolman, American physicist and chemist (d. 1948)
• 1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat, 61st Minister of Foreign Affairs for Romania (d. 1941)
• 1883 – Maude Fealy, American actress (d. 1971)
• 1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Red Murray, American baseball player (d. 1958)
• 1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist and composer (d. 1958)
• 1887 – John Alexander Buchanan, Canadian engineer and politician (d. 1976)
• 1887 – Violet MacMillan, American actress (d. 1953)
• 1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-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, American politician, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawaii (d. 1965)
• 1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
• 1889 – Robert William Wood, American painter (d. 1979)
• 1890 – Norman Bethune, Canadian physician (d. 1939)
• 1891 – Dazzy Vance, American baseball player (d. 1961)
• 1891 – Lois W., American activist, co-founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
• 1893 – Charles Herbert Colvin, American engineer, co-founded the Pioneer Instrument Company (d. 1985)
• 1893 – Adolph Lowe, German sociologist and economist (d. 1995)
• 1895 – Jesse Baker, American baseball player (d. 1976)
• 1895 – Milt Gross, American illustrator (d. 1953)
• 1895 – Shemp Howard, American actor (d. 1955)
• 1896 – Kai Holm, Danish actor (d. 1985)
• 1897 – Lefty O'Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
• 1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1986)
• 1898 – Hans Krebs, German general (d. 1945)
• 1899 – Liana Del Balzo, Argentinian-Italian actress (d. 1982)
• 1899 – Emilio Prados, Spanish poet (d. 1962)
• 1900 – Herbert Biberman, American director and screenwriter (d. 1971)
• 1901 – Wilbur R. Franks, Canadian scientist (d. 1986)
• 1901 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and author (d. 1991)
• 1901 – Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy-French poet (d. 1937)
• 1902 – Fred Mallin, English boxer (d. 1987)
• 1902 – Rachel Messerer, Russian actress (d. 1993)
• 1902 – Russell Reeder, American army officer and author (d. 1998)
• 1903 – Carrie Best, Canadian journalist (d. 2001)
• 1903 – William C. Boyd, American immunologist (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Malcolm Dole, American chemist (d. 1990)
• 1903 – Merwin Graham, American runner (d. 1989)
• 1903 – Dorothy Mackaill, English-American actress (d. 1990)
• 1903 – John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
• 1904 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish admiral (d. 1973)
• 1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-American physicist (d. 1968)
• 1904 – Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Chief Tahachee, American actor and author (d. 1978)
• 1906 – Buck Canel, Argentinian-American sportscaster (d. 1980)
• 1906 – Meindert DeJong, American author (d. 1991)
• 1906 – Avery Fisher, American violinist (d. 1994)
• 1906 – Fionn MacColla, Scottish author (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Georges Ronsse, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
• 1906 – Horace Roye, English photographer (d. 2002)
• 1906 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
• 1907 – Edgar Barrier, American actor (d. 1964)
• 1907 – Eleanor "Sis" Daley, American wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
• 1908 – T. R. M. Howard, American surgeon and activist (d. 1976)
• 1908 – Thomas Shaw, American singer and guitarist (d. 1977)
• 1909 – Harry Helmsley, American businessman (d. 1997)
• 1909 – George Edward Holbrook, American engineer (d. 1987)
• 1910 – Miriam Kressyn, Polish-American actor (d. 1996)
• 1910 – Tancredo Neves, Brazilian politician, Prime Minister of Brazil (d. 1985)
• 1911 – Christer Boucht, Finnish-Swedish lawyer, explorer, and author (d. 2009)
• 1911 – Charles Greville, 7th Earl of Warwick, English actor (d. 1984)
• 1912 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
• 1912 – Judith Furse, English actress (d. 1974)
• 1912 – Ferdinand Leitner, German conductor (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Carl Marzani, Italian-American activist and publisher (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Rodolfo Galeotti Torres, Guatemalan sculptor (d. 1988)
• 1913 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian singer and author (d. 1976)
• 1913 – John H. Fremlin, English physicist (d. 1995)
• 1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
• 1914 – Gino Colaussi, Italian footballer (d. 1991)
• 1914 – Barbara Newhall Follett, American author (d. 1939)
• 1914 – Ward Kimball, American animator (d. 2002)
• 1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor, and architect (d. 2000)
• 1915 – László Csizsik-Csatáry, Hungarian criminal (d. 2013)
• 1915 – Charles Johnston, Baron Johnston of Rockport, English politician and businessman (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Frank Sleeman, Australian politician, Lord Mayor of Brisbane (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish-Catalan composer and conductor (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Robert Thom, American illustrator (d. 1979)
• 1916 – William Alland, American actor, producer, and director (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Maurice Argent, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian author and poet (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Hans Eysenck, German-English psychologist (d. 1997)
• 1916 – Michael Howard, English actor and comedian (d. 1988)
• 1917 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
• 1918 – Kurt Dahlmann, German pilot, lawyer, journalist, and activist
• 1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player (d. 2012)
• 1919 – Buck Baker, American race car 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-American composer
• 1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
• 1921 – Olev Olesk, Estonian politician
• 1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player (d. 1986)
• 1921 – Kaljo Raid, Estonian composer, cellist and clergyman (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Richard E. Cunha, American director and cinematographer (d. 2005)
• 1922 – Martha O'Driscoll, American actress (d. 1998)
• 1922 – Dina Pathak, Indian actress and director (d. 2002)
• 1923 – Piero D'Inzeo, Italian horse rider
• 1923 – Ameli, Duchess of Oldenburg
• 1923 – Russell Freeburg, American journalist and author
• 1923 – Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
• 1923 – Francis King, English author and poet (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Patrick Moore, English astronomer and television host (d. 2012)
• 1924 – Kenneth O'Donnell, American politician (d. 1977)
• 1925 – Paul Mauriat, French conductor (d. 2006)
• 1926 – Henri de Contenson, French archaeologist
• 1926 – Richard DeVos, American businessman, co-founded Amway
• 1926 – James J. Eagan, American politician (d. 2000)
• 1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentinian boxer (d. 1977)
• 1926 – Samuel Poyntz, Irish bishop and author
• 1926 – Don Rendell, English saxophonist (Oscar Rabin Band)
• 1926 – Fran Warren, American singer and actress (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Phil Batt, American politician, 29th Governor of Idaho
• 1927 – Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1927 – Jacques Dupin, French poet (d. 2012)
• 1927 – Robert Orben, American magician and author
• 1927 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player
• 1927 – Cy Touff, American trumpet player (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Samuel Adler, German-American composer and conductor
• 1928 – Hardin Cox, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Alan Sillitoe, English author (d. 2010)
• 1929 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch violinist and conductor
• 1929 – Harold Hassall, English footballer
• 1929 – Wolfgang Hollegha, Austrian painter
• 1929 – Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
• 1929 – Darrett B. Rutman, American historian (d. 1997)
• 1929 – Elaine Shore, American actress (d. 2007)
• 1929 – Peter Swerling, American theoretician (d. 2000)
• 1931 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
• 1931 – Bill Guttridge, English footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey player and coach (d. 1991)
• 1931 – William Henry Keeler, American cardinal
• 1931 – Larry Keith, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1931 – Alice Rivlin, American economist
• 1932 – Sigurd Jansen, Norwegian pianist, composer, and conductor
• 1932 – Ryszard Kapuściński, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter and actress (d. 2008)
• 1932 – Ed Roth, American illustrator (d. 2001)
• 1932 – Frank Wells, American businessman (d. 1994)
• 1933 – Ann Burton, Dutch singer (d. 1989)
• 1933 – John W. Mills, English sculptor
• 1933 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian race car driver
• 1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian-American composer
• 1934 – John Duffey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Country Gentlemen and The Seldom Scene) (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
• 1935 – Edward Dębicki, Ukrainian-Polish poet and composer (Terno)
• 1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player (d. 2010)
• 1935 – Nancy Whiskey, Scottish singer (d. 2003)
• 1936 – Eric Allendale, Dominican trombonist and songwriter (The Foundations) (d. 2001)
• 1936 – John Burland, English educator
• 1936 – Jim Clark, Scottish race car driver (d. 1968)
• 1936 – Robert Garrow, American murderer (d. 1978)
• 1936 – Aribert Reimann, German pianist and composer
• 1937 – José Araquistáin, Spanish footballer
• 1937 – William Deverell, Canadian lawyer, author, and activist
• 1937 – Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
• 1937 – Leslie H. Gelb, American journalist and author
• 1937 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian doctor (d. 2003)
• 1937 – Barney Wilen, French saxophonist and composer (d. 1996)
• 1937 – Richard B. Wright, Canadian author
• 1938 – Anton Balasingham, Sri Lankan-English negotiator (d. 2006)
• 1938 – Alpha Condé, Guinean politician, President of Guinea
• 1938 – Marshall Cooke, Australian politician
• 1938 – Allan Kornblum, American judge (d. 2010)
• 1938 – Roy Hazelwood, American FBI agent
• 1938 – Angus MacLise, American drummer (The Velvet Underground) (d. 1979)
• 1938 – Don Perkins, American football player
• 1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
• 1938 – Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland
• 1939 – Jack Fisher, American baseball player
• 1939 – Zvi Mazel, Israeli diplomat
• 1939 – Keith Skues, English radio host
• 1939 – Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
• 1940 – Edward Burke, American hammer thrower
• 1940 – Wolfgang Hoffmann-Riem, German judge and scholar
• 1940 – Arild Lund, Norwegian politician
• 1940 – Vladimir Ivanovich Morozov, Ukrainian canoe racer
• 1940 – Tom Pedigo, American set decorator (d. 2000)
• 1940 – David Plante, American author
• 1940 – Tamara Wilcox, American actress, producer, and costume designer (d. 1998)
• 1941 – John Aprea, American actor
• 1941 – Richard Benjamin Harrison, American reality show star (Pawn Stars)
• 1941 – Adrian Lyne, English director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1941 – Linda Obermoeller, American painter (d. 1990)
• 1941 – Bobby Shew, American trumpet player
• 1941 – James Zagel, American judge and author
• 1942 – Ji-Tu Cumbuka, American actor
• 1942 – Gloria Gaither, American singer-songwriter (Bill Gaither Trio)
• 1942 – Charles C. Krulak, American general
• 1942 – David Matthews, American keyboard player (Manhattan Jazz Quintet)
• 1942 – Christopher Shackle, English author and educator
• 1942 – Lynn Sherr, American journalist and author
• 1942 – James Gustave Speth, American lawyer
• 1942 – Zorán Sztevanovity, Serbian-Hungarian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Metro)
• 1942 – Henk van der Kroon, Dutch politician
• 1943 – Malcolm Barber, English historian and scholar
• 1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 2012)
• 1943 – Zoltán Jeney, Hungarian pianist and composer
• 1943 – Ron O'Quinn, American radio host
• 1943 – Aldo Rico, Argentinian army officer and politician
• 1944 – Glen Baxter, English cartoonist
• 1944 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English engineer (d. 1999)
• 1944 – Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1944 – Anthony Ichiro Sanda, Japanese-American physicist
• 1944 – Len Walker, English footballer and manager
• 1944 – Greg Weld, American race car driver (d. 2008)
• 1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer-songwriter (The Valentinos)
• 1945 – Tony Allen, English comedian and author
• 1945 – Femi Benussi, Italian actress
• 1945 – Tara Browne, English son of Dominick Browne, 4th Baron Oranmore and Browne (d. 1966)
• 1945 – Greg Craig, American lawyer, 33rd White House Counsel
• 1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer (Yello)
• 1945 – Frank Novak, American actor
• 1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish footballer and manager
• 1945 – Tim Weigel, American sportscaster (d. 2001)
• 1945 – Gary Williams, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft, English businessman
• 1946 – Daniel Frisella, American baseball player (d. 1977)
• 1946 – Haile Gerima, Ethiopian-American director and producer
• 1946 – Patricia Kennealy-Morrison, American author
• 1946 – Nora Radcliffe, Scottish politician
• 1946 – Jean-Claude Schmitt, French historian
• 1947 – Peter Ellis, Australian footballer (d. 2013)
• 1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter
• 1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian saxophonist and composer
• 1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
• 1947 – John Hinch, English mathematician
• 1947 – Aura Lewis, South African singer
• 1947 – Bob Lewis, American guitarist (Devo)
• 1947 – Pēteris Plakidis, Latvian pianist and composer
• 1948 – Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
• 1948 – Brian Cummings, American voice actor
• 1948 – Veljko Despot, Croatian journalist and businessman
• 1948 – James Ellroy, American author
• 1948 – Tom Grieve, American baseball player
• 1948 – Leron Lee, American baseball player
• 1948 – Jean O'Leary, American nun and activist (d. 2005)
• 1948 – Chris Squire, English singer-songwriter and bass player (The Syn, Yes, XYZ, and Conspiracy)
• 1948 – Shakin' Stevens, Welsh singer-songwriter (Shakin' Stevens and the Sunsets)
• 1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Sergei Bagapsh, Abkhazian politician, 2nd President of Abkhazia (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Cookie Mueller, American actress and screenwriter (d. 1989)
• 1949 – Tomislav Trifić, Serbian illustrator
• 1950 – Francis Affleck, Canadian race car driver (d. 1985)
• 1950 – Barrie Cassidy, Australian journalist
• 1950 – Ron Climie, American ice hockey player
• 1950 – Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
• 1950 – Rick Perry, American politician, 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, South Korean-American author (d. 1982)
• 1951 – Pete Haycock, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Climax Blues Band and ELO Part II) (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Sam Perlozzo, American baseball player and manager
• 1951 – Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Chris Rea, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1951 – Cecilia Todd, Venezuelan singer
• 1951 – Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
• 1951 – Glenis Willmott, English politician
• 1951 – Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer and actress
• 1951 – Zoran Žižić, Montenegrin politician, 4th Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (d. 2013)
• 1952 – Serge Fiori, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Harmonium)
• 1952 – Peter Kuhfeld, English painter
• 1952 – Ronn Moss, American singer-songwriter and actor (Player)
• 1952 – Svend Robinson, Canadian politician
• 1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Nicholas Campion, English historian
• 1953 – John Edwards, Australian television producer
• 1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban-American drummer and producer
• 1953 – Scott Hicks, Australian director
• 1953 – Paweł Janas, Polish footballer and manager
• 1953 – Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
• 1953 – Kay Lenz, American actress
• 1953 – Geoff Nicholson, English author
• 1953 – Peggy Rathmann, American author and illustrator
• 1953 – Reinhold Roth, German motorcycle racer
• 1953 – KRK Ryden, American painter and illustrator
• 1953 – Chris Smith, American politician
• 1953 – Daniel Woodrell, American author
• 1954 – Timur Apakidze, Russian general and pilot (d. 2001)
• 1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American author(d. 2005)
• 1954 – François Fillon, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France
• 1954 – Ricky Ford, American saxophonist
• 1954 – Peter Jacobsen, American golfer
• 1954 – Yvan Lachaud, French politician
• 1954 – Boris Moiseev, Russian actor, singer, and dancer
• 1954 – Catherine O'Hara, Canadian-American actress
• 1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian poet
• 1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
• 1955 – Tim Costello, Australian minister
• 1955 – Farhad Daneshjoo, Iranian academic
• 1955 – Rowland Charles Gould, English guitarist (Level 42)
• 1955 – Joey Jones, Welsh footballer
• 1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
• 1955 – James Weaver, English race car driver
• 1956 – Kermit Driscoll, American bassist
• 1957 – Nicholas Coleridge, English businessman
• 1957 – Jim Dwyer, American journalist
• 1957 – Ron Fassler, American actor
• 1957 – Rick Mast, American race car driver
• 1957 – Pius Njawé, Cameroonian journalist (d. 2010)
• 1957 – Edouard Vermeulen, Belgian fashion designer
• 1957 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
• 1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
• 1958 – Lennie Lee, South African painter
• 1958 – Massimo Mascioletti, Italian rugby player and coach
• 1959 – Rick Ardon, Australian journalist
• 1959 – Plamen Getov, Bulgarian footballer
• 1960 – Iain Hesford, Zambian-English footballer
• 1960 – Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Kazimierz Matuszny, Polish politician
• 1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
• 1960 – Thierry Pastor, French singer-songwriter
• 1960 – Christina Sussiek, German long jumper
• 1961 – Alain Coumont, Belgian chef, founded Le Pain Quotidien
• 1961 – Sabine Everts, German heptathlete
• 1961 – Tinker Juarez, American bicycle motocross racer
• 1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer
• 1961 – Mahito Ōba, Japanese voice actor
• 1961 – Theodosii Spassov, Bulgarian kaval player
• 1961 – Steven Weber, American actor
• 1961 – Roger Wessels, South African golfer
• 1962 – Simon Bisley, English illustrator
• 1962 – Paul Canoville, English footballer
• 1962 – Greg Kragen, American footballer
• 1962 – Stephan Reimertz, German historian and author
• 1962 – Mikko Nissinen, Finnish ballet dancer
• 1962 – David Sparrow, English-Canadian actor
• 1962 – Claire Voisin, French educator
• 1963 – Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
• 1963 – Janey Lee Grace, English singer
• 1963 – Jason Newsted, American bass player and songwriter (Metallica, Voivod, and Flotsam and Jetsam)
• 1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor and producer
• 1964 – Scott Baker, American journalist
• 1964 – David Colclough, Welsh poker player
• 1964 – Brian Crowley, Irish politician
• 1964 – Karen Knowles, Australian singer-songwriter (The Seekers)
• 1964 – Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
• 1964 – Paolo Virzì, Italian director and screenwriter
• 1965 – WestBam, German DJ and producer
• 1965 – Paul W. S. Anderson, English director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1965 – Andrew Collins, English journalist
• 1965 – Stacy Edwards, American actress
• 1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan physician and author
• 1965 – Yuri Lonchakov, Russian astronaut
• 1965 – Viktor Shapovalov, Russian race car driver
• 1965 – Jonathan Shearer, Scottish reality contestant, winner of Castaway 2007
• 1966 – Daniela Amavia, American actress and model
• 1966 – Steve Bastoni, Italian-Australian actor
• 1966 – Emese Hunyady, Hungarian speed skater
• 1966 – Kevin Johnson, American basketball player and politician, 55th Mayor of Sacramento
• 1966 – Fiona Ma, American politician
• 1966 – Dav Pilkey, American author
• 1966 – Grand Puba, American rapper (Brand Nubian)
• 1966 – Nick Scandone, American sailor (d. 2009)
• 1966 – Mike Small, American golfer
• 1966 – Wash West, English director
• 1967 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
• 1967 – Evan Dando, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Lemonheads)
• 1967 – Ivan Lewis, English politician
• 1967 – Terry Matterson, Australian rugby player and coach
• 1967 – Derek Mooney, Irish radio host and producer
• 1967 – Andrew Osmond, English author
• 1967 – Dave Rayner, English cyclist (d. 1994)
• 1967 – Tim Vine, English actor and comedian
• 1967 – Sam Taylor-Wood, English photographer and director
• 1967 – Kubilay Türkyılmaz, Turkish-Swiss footballer
• 1967 – Andreas Wistuba, German botanist
• 1968 – Shafiek Abrahams, South African cricketer
• 1968 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
• 1968 – Jorge Celedón, Colombian singer (Binomio de Oro de América)
• 1968 – Cathryn Fitzpatrick, Australian cricketer
• 1968 – Dionna Harris, American softball player
• 1968 – Patsy Kensit, English actress and singer
• 1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
• 1968 – Graham Westley, English footballer and manager
• 1969 – Chaz Bono, American author and activist
• 1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian footballer and manager
• 1969 – Frank Nicotero, American comedian and game show host
• 1969 – Stina Nordenstam, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1969 – Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
• 1969 – Lacy Rose, American porn actress
• 1969 – Matt Tilley, Australian comedian and radio host
• 1969 – Annie Yi, Taiwanese singer and actress
• 1970 – Andrea Bendewald, American actress
• 1970 – Àlex Crivillé, Spanish motorcycle racer
• 1970 – Edward Gal, Dutch horse rider
• 1970 – Caroline Vis, Dutch tennis player
• 1971 – Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
• 1971 – Claire Baker, Scottish politician
• 1971 – Anders Kjølholm, Danish bass player (Volbeat)
• 1971 – Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese race car driver
• 1971 – Shavar Ross, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1971 – Jason Sellers, American singer-songwriter
• 1971 – Nick Stabile, American actor
• 1971 – Jovan Stanković, Serbian footballer
• 1972 – Buck 65, Canadian rapper and producer (Bike for Three!)
• 1972 – Katherine Center, American author
• 1972 – Nocturno Culto, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Darkthrone and Satyricon)
• 1972 – Ian Garbutt, English golfer
• 1972 – Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
• 1972 – Giorgos Mazonakis, Greek singer
• 1972 – Brittney Powell, German-American actress
• 1972 – Ivy Queen, Puerto Rican-American singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1972 – Robert Smith, American footballer
• 1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch race car driver
• 1972 – Alison Wheeler, English singer-songwriter (The Beautiful South)
• 1973 – Massimo Brambilla, Italian footballer
• 1973 – Phillip Daniels, American football player
• 1973 – Sadik Harchaoui, Moroccan-Dutch academic
• 1973 – Valery Kobelev, Russian ski jumper
• 1973 – Mark Lavine, Barbadian cricketer (d. 2001)
• 1973 – Linus of Hollywood, American singer-songwriter and producer (Size 14 and Nerf Herder)
• 1973 – Len Wiseman, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1973 – Chandra Sekhar Yeleti, Indian director
• 1974 – Crowbar, American wrestler
• 1974 – Peggy Clydesdale, American painter
• 1974 – Mladen Krstajić, Serbian footballer
• 1974 – Karol Kučera, Slovak tennis player
• 1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentinian footballer
• 1974 – Gabriel o Pensador, Brazilian rapper
• 1974 – Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
• 1974 – ICS Vortex, Norwegian singer-songwriter and guitarist (Arcturus and Borknagar)
• 1974 – David Wagner, American tennis player
• 1974 – Bill Young, Australian rugby player
• 1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
• 1975 – Jacqueline Anderson, American actress
• 1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
• 1975 – Julie Dibens, English triathlete
• 1975 – Patrick Femerling, German basketball player
• 1975 – Kristi Harrower, Australian basketball player
• 1975 – Kim Jung-eun, South Korean actress
• 1975 – Eva Martincová, Czech tennis player
• 1975 – Jerod Turner, American golfer
• 1975 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
• 1975 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Stza, American guitarist (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack, and Star Fucking Hipsters)
• 1976 – Robbie Blake, English footballer
• 1976 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 – Sean Covel, American film producer
• 1976 – Hayley Evetts, English singer and actor
• 1976 – Brian Diego Fuentes, Argentinian footballer
• 1976 – Alireza Heidari, Iranian wrestler
• 1976 – Cho In-Chul, South Korean martial artist
• 1976 – Tommy Jönsson, Swedish footballer
• 1976 – Sam Mraovich, American screenwriter and director
• 1976 – Christian Nicolay, German javelin thrower
• 1976 – Regi Penxten, Belgian DJ and producer (Milk Inc. and Sylver)
• 1976 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
• 1976 – Sabrina Sabrok, Argentinian model, singer, and television host
• 1976 – Gary Shortland, English figure skater
• 1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
• 1977 – Rockell, American singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Nacho Figueras, Argentinian polo player
• 1977 – Jeremiah Green, American drummer (Modest Mouse, Red Stars Theory, and Satisfact)
• 1977 – Ana Guevara, Mexican sprinter
• 1977 – Juha Helppi, Finnish poker player
• 1977 – Ron Horsley, American author and illustrator
• 1977 – Laura Jansen, Dutch-American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1977 – Christian Jessen, English doctor and television host
• 1977 – Mike Kinsella, American singer and guitarist (Joan of Arc, Cap'n Jazz, and American Football)
• 1977 – Daniel Klewer, German footballer
• 1977 – Grégory Le Corvec, French rugby player
• 1977 – Tonga Lea'aetoa, New Zealand-Tongan rugby player
• 1977 – Jason Marsalis, American drummer
• 1977 – Traver Rains, American fashion designer and photographer
• 1977 – Dan Wells, American author
• 1977 – Gareth Wyatt, Welsh rugby player
• 1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby player
• 1978 – César Morales, Mexican boxer
• 1978 – Jean-Marc Pelletier, American ice hockey player
• 1979 – Neil Best, Irish rugby player
• 1979 – Ariel Carreño, Argentinian footballer
• 1979 – Karima Delli, French politician
• 1979 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand canoe racer
• 1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Fratellis and Codeine Velvet Club)
• 1979 – Günter Friesenbichler, Austrian footballer
• 1979 – Trenton Hassell, American basketball player
• 1979 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
• 1979 – Vyacheslav Malafeev, Russian footballer
• 1979 – Mark Anthony Parrish, American actor, producer, and activist
• 1979 – Sarah Stock, Canadian wrestler
• 1979 – Paul Terry, English footballer
• 1980 – Rohan Bopanna, Indian tennis player
• 1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
• 1980 – Ben Briand, Australian director
• 1980 – Jeong Da-bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
• 1980 – Alex Ribeiro Garcia, Brazilian basketball player
• 1980 – Giedrius Gustas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1980 – Scott Hamilton, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
• 1980 – Michael Henrich, American ice hockey player
• 1980 – Arash Markazi, American journalist
• 1980 – Phil McGuire, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Carol Banawa, Filipino-American singer and actress
• 1981 – Marie Delattre, French canoe racer
• 1981 – Laura Michelle Kelly, English actress and singer
• 1981 – Gareth Knapman, English actor and director
• 1981 – Greg Lamb, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1981 – Ariza Makukula, Portuguese footballer
• 1981 – Aketza Peña, Spanish cyclist
• 1981 – Alastair Ross, Irish politician
• 1981 – Donny Tourette, English singer-songwriter (Towers of London)
• 1981 – Helen Wyman, English cyclist
• 1982 – Uma Blasini, Puerto Rican model, Miss Puerto Rico 2007
• 1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
• 1982 – Cate Edwards, American lawyer and author
• 1982 – Ludmila Ezhova, Russian gymnast
• 1982 – Yasemin Mori, Turkish singer
• 1982 – Elia Rigotto, Italian cyclist
• 1983 – Samuel Contesti, French-Italian figure skater
• 1983 – Adam Deacon, English actor, director, and rapper
• 1983 – Jaque Fourie, South African rugby player
• 1983 – Jessica Heap, American actress
• 1983 – Ryan Lonie, Australian footballer
• 1983 – Akeem Omolade, Nigerian footballer
• 1983 – Dante Senger, Argentinian footballer
• 1984 – Tamir Cohen, Israeli footballer
• 1984 – Marin Čolak, Croatian race car driver
• 1984 – Anders Grøndal, Norwegian race car driver
• 1984 – Norbert Hosnyánszky, Hungarian water polo player
• 1984 – Phillip Inzerillo, American trombone player (Suburban Legends)
• 1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
• 1984 – Spencer Larsen, American football player
• 1984 – Raven Quinn, American singer-songwriter
• 1984 – Artyom Rebrov, Russian footballer
• 1984 – Zak Whitbread, American-English soccer player
• 1985 – Jake Buxton, English footballer
• 1985 – Hrvoje Čale, Croatian footballer
• 1985 – Guillermo Diaz Puerto Rican basketball player
• 1985 – Scott Michael Foster, American actor
• 1985 – Oliver Konsa, Estonian footballer
• 1985 – Mathieu Montcourt, French tennis player (d. 2009)
• 1985 – Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
• 1985 – Whitney Port, American fashion designer and author
• 1985 – Jonas Troest, Danish footballer
• 1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress
• 1986 – K. Michelle, American singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1986 – Erin O'Kelley, American model
• 1986 – José Antonio Olvera, Mexican footballer
• 1986 – Siim Roops, Estonian footballer
• 1986 – Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
• 1986 – Dominic Telo, South African cricketer
• 1986 – Manu Vatuvei, New Zealand rugby player
• 1986 – Park Min-young, South Korean model and actress
• 1987 – Shraddha Das, Indian actress
• 1987 – Ben McKinley, Australian footballer
• 1987 – Tamzin Merchant, English actress
• 1987 – William Njovu, Zambian footballer
• 1987 – Cameron Wood, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Josh Bowman, English actor
• 1988 – Cody Longo, American actor and singer
• 1988 – Gal Mekel, Israeli basketball player
• 1988 – Laura Siegemund, German tennis player
• 1988 – Mikuru Uchino, Japanese model
• 1988 – Adam Watts, English footballer
• 1989 – Erin Heatherton, American model
• 1989 – Bradley Middleton, English footballer
• 1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
• 1990 – Paddy Madden, Irish footballer
• 1990 – Fran Mérida, Spanish footballer
• 1990 – Marco Martina Rini, Italian footballer
• 1990 – Maximiliano Oliva, Argentinian footballer
• 1991 – Viktor Lundberg, Swedish footballer
• 1991 – Diandra Newlin, American actress and singer
• 1991 – Stuart O'Keefe, English footballer
• 1991 – Carles Planas, Spanish footballer
• 1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, American daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
• 1992 – Erik Lamela, Argentinian footballer
• 1992 – Bernd Leno, German footballer
• 1992 – Daniel Lloyd, English race car driver
• 1992 – Karl Mööl, Estonian footballer
• 1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress
• 1993 – Abigail Mavity, American actress
• 1993 – Richard Peniket, English footballer
• 1994 – Callum Harriott, English footballer
• 1995 – Bill Milner, English actor

Deaths

• 480 – Saint Landry, French bishop
• 561 – Pope Pelagius I
• 1172 – Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
• 1193 – Saladin, Iraqi-Egyptian sultan (b. 1137)
• 1238 – Joan of England, Queen of Scotland (b. 1210)
• 1238 – Yuri II of Vladimir (b. 1189)
• 1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian saint (b. 1261)
• 1484 – Saint Casimir, Polish prince (b. 1458)
• 1496 – Sigismund, Archduke of Austria (b. 1427)
• 1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman and theologian (b. 1517)
• 1604 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
• 1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
• 1710 – Louis, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
• 1733 – Claude de Forbin, French navy commander (b. 1656)
• 1744 – John Anstis, English historian (b. 1669)
• 1762 – Johannes Zick, German painter (b. 1702)
• 1793 – Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, Duke of Penthièvre, French admiral (b. 1725)
• 1795 – John Collins, American politician, 3rd Governor of Rhode Island (b. 1717)
• 1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
• 1807 – Abraham Baldwin, American educator and politician (b. 1754)
• 1811 – Mariano Moreno, Argentinian journalist, lawyer, and politician (b. 1778)
• 1821 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence (b. 1820)
• 1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French philologist and scholar (b. 1790)
• 1851 – James Richardson, English explorer (b. 1809)
• 1852 – Nikolai Gogol, Ukrainian-Russian author and playwright (b. 1809)
• 1853 – Thomas Bladen Capel, English admiral (b. 1776)
• 1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist and paleontologist (b. 1774)
• 1858 – Matthew C. Perry, American navy officer (b. 1794)
• 1864 – Thomas Starr King, American minister (b. 1824)
• 1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish minister and educator (b. 1788)
• 1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American guide (b. 1805)
• 1872 – Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
• 1883 – Alexander H. Stephens, American politician, Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
• 1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
• 1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English author (b. 1834)
• 1906 – John Schofield, American general, 28th United States Secretary of War (b. 1831)
• 1910 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
• 1915 – William Willett, English founder of British Summer Time (b. 1856)
• 1916 – Franz Marc, German painter (b. 1880)
• 1922 – Bert Williams, American actor and singer (b. 1874)
• 1925 – Roger de Barbarin, French target shooter (b. 1860)
• 1925 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish-German pianist and composer (b. 1854)
• 1925 – James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
• 1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player and manager (b. 1860)
• 1927 – Ira Remsen, American chemist (b. 1846)
• 1938 – George Foster Peabody, American banker and philanthropist (b. 1852)
• 1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
• 1940 – Hamlin Garland, American author (b. 1860)
• 1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
• 1942 – Rūdolfs Vītols, Latvian runner (b. unknown)
• 1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and activist (b. 1855)
• 1944 – Louis Buchalter, American mobster (b. 1897)
• 1944 – Louis Capone, Italian-American gangster (b. 1896)
• 1944 – René Lefebvre, French businessman (b. 1879)
• 1944 – Emanuel Weiss, American gangster (b. 1906)
• 1945 – Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
• 1945 – Mark Sandrich, American director, screenwriter and producer (b. 1900)
• 1946 – Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Swedish hunter (b. 1886)
• 1948 – Antonin Artaud, French actor and director (b. 1896)
• 1949 – Clarence Kingsbury English cyclist (b. 1882)
• 1950 – Adam Rainer, Austrian dwarf and giant (b. 1899)
• 1952 – Charles Scott Sherrington, English neurophysiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1857)
• 1954 – Noel Gay, English composer (b. 1898)
• 1959 – Maxie Long, American runner (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Herbert O'Conor, American politician, 51st Governor of Maryland (b. 1896)
• 1960 – Leonard Warren, American opera singer (b. 1911)
• 1962 – George Mogridge, American baseball player (b. 1889)
• 1963 – William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
• 1967 – Vladan Desnica, Croatian-Serbian author (b. 1905)
• 1967 – Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
• 1969 – Nicholas Schenck, Russian-American businessman (b. 1881)
• 1972 – Charles Biro, American writer and illustrator (b. 1911)
• 1973 – Samuel Tolansky, English scientist (b. 1907)
• 1974 – Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
• 1975 – Renée Björling, Swedish actress (b. 1898)
• 1976 – John Marvin Jones, American politician and judge (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
• 1976 – Nikolai Semashko, Russian businessman (b. 1907)
• 1976 – Jim Walsh, American basketball player (b. 1930)
• 1977 – Miles C. Allgood, American politician (b. 1878)
• 1977 – Anatol E. Baconsky, Romanian poet, author and critic (b. 1925)
• 1977 – Nancy Tyson Burbidge, Australian botanist (b. 1912)
• 1977 – Andrés Caicedo, Colombian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1951)
• 1977 – Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
• 1977 – William Paul, American lawyer and politician (b. 1885)
• 1977 – Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German jurist and politician, Minister for Foreign Affairs for Germany (b. 1887)
• 1978 – Wesley Bolin, American politician, 15th Governor of Arizona (b. 1909)
• 1978 – Joe Marsala, American clarinet player and songwriter (b. 1907)
• 1978 – John Meighan, Irish politician (b. 1891)
• 1979 – Harry Hopkinson, English yodeler (b. 1902)
• 1979 – Gladys McConnell, American actress and pilot (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Mike Patto, English singer and keyboard player (Spooky Tooth, Boxer, Patto, and Timebox) (b. 1942)
• 1979 – Robert Sinclair, 1st Baron Sinclair of Cleeve, English businessman and public servant (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Willi Unsoeld, American mountaineer (b. 1926)
• 1980 – Johannes Martin Bijvoet, Dutch chemist (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Alan Hardaker, English navy officer and businessman (b. 1912)
• 1980 – Eric Kerfoot, English footballer (b. 1924)
• 1980 – J. F. A. McManus, Canadian pathologist (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Luis Piazzini, Argentinian chess player (b. 1905)
• 1980 – Alfred Plé, French rower (b. 1888)
• 1980 – Alex Vetchinsky, English production designer (b. 1904)
• 1981 – Odette Barencey, French actress (b. 1893)
• 1981 – Franz Kapus, Swiss bobsledder (b. 1909)
• 1981 – John Knight, Australian politician (b. 1943)
• 1981 – Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Karl-Jesco von Puttkamer, German admiral (b. 1900)
• 1982 – Dorothy Eden, New Zealand-English author (b. 1912)
• 1984 – Ernest Buckler, Canadian author (b. 1908)
• 1984 – Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Martin Hürlimann, Swiss photographer (b. 1897)
• 1984 – Geoffrey Lumsden, English 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 singer-songwriter and pianist (The Band and The Revols) (b. 1943)
• 1986 – Elizabeth Smart, Canadian poet and author (b. 1913)
• 1986 – John Spence, English politician (b. 1920)
• 1987 — Seibo Kitamura, Japanese sculptor (b.1884)
• 1988 – Beatriz Guido, Argentine author and screenwriter (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Tiny Grimes, American guitarist (b. 1916)
• 1990 – Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
• 1990 – Harry Worthington, American long jumper (b. 1891)
• 1991 – Godfrey Bryan, English cricketer (b. 1902)
• 1991 – Kenneth Lindsay, English 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 director (b. 1905)
• 1992 – Mary Osborne, American guitarist (b. 1921)
• 1992 – Larry Rosenthal, American baseball player (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Michael Beecher, Australian model and actor (b. 1939)
• 1993 – Art Hodes, Ukrainian-American 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, English politician (b. 1929)
• 1993 – Richard Sale, American screenwriter and director (b. 1911)
• 1994 – John Candy, Canadian comedian and actor (b. 1950)
• 1994 – George Edward Hughes, Irish-Scottish philosopher and author (b. 1918)
• 1994 – Chris Seydou, Malian fashion designer (b. 1949)
• 1994 – Paul Solomon, American psychic (b. 1939)
• 1995 – Iftekhar, Pakistani-Indian actor (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Eden Ahbez, American singer-songwriter (b. 1908)
• 1995 – Matt Urban, American army officer, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 1996 – Minnie Pearl, American comedian and singer (b. 1912)
• 1996 – John Sauer, American football player, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1925)
• 1997 – Joe Baker-Cresswell, English captain (b. 1901)
• 1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
• 1997 – Edouard Klabinski, Polish cyclist (b. 1920)
• 1997 – Carey Loftin, American actor and stuntman (b. 1914)
• 1998 – Ivan Dougherty, Australian general (b. 1907)
• 1998 – Donald Rodney, English painter (b. 1961)
• 1998 – Jules Fontaine Sambwa, Congolese-Zairean politician and economist (b. 1940)
• 1999 – Harry Blackmun, American jurist (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
• 1999 – Eddie Dean, American singer and actor (b. 1907)
• 1999 – Fritz Honegger, Swiss politician (b. 1917)
• 1999 – Miłosz Magin, Polish pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 1999 – Teddy McRae, American saxophonist (b. 1908)
• 1999 – Joseph Regenstein, Jr., American businessman and philanthropist (b. 1923)
• 1999 – Karel van het Reve, Dutch author and historian (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Hermann Brück, German-Scottish astronomer (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Kyi Kyi Htay, Burmese actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Michael Noonan, New Zealand-Australian author and scriptwriter (b. 1921)
• 2000 – Alphons Silbermann, German sociologist, musicologist, and publicist (b. 1909)
• 2000 – Ta-You Wu, Chinese physicist (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Gerardo Barbero, Argentinian chess player (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Jean René Bazaine, French painter and author (b. 1904)
• 2001 – Glenn Hughes, American singer and actor (The Village People) (b. 1950)
• 2001 – Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
• 2001 – Jim Rhodes, American politician, 61st Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Harold Stassen, American educator and politician, 25th Governor of Minnesota (b. 1907)
• 2001 – Martin Wright, English engineer (b. 1912)
• 2002 – Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
• 2002 – Eric Flynn, Chinese-Welsh actor and singer (b. 1939)
• 2002 – Ugnė Karvelis, Lithuanian author and translator (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
• 2002 – Margarete Neumann, German author and poet (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Shirley Ann Russell, English costume designer (b. 1935)
• 2002 – Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
• 2003 – Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian politician (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter, and director (b. 1931)
• 2004 – Fernando Lázaro Carreter, Spanish linguist and journalist (b. 1923)
• 2004 – John McGeoch, Scottish guitarist (Magazine, The Armoury Show, Siouxsie and the Banshees, and Public Image Ltd.) (b. 1955)
• 2004 – Claude Nougaro, French singer-songwriter (b. 1929)
• 2004 – George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
• 2004 – Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
• 2005 – Nicola Calipari, Italian general (b. 1953)
• 2005 – Robert Consoli, American actor and singer (b. 1964)
• 2005 – Una Hale, Australian-English soprano (b. 1922)
• 2005 – Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian police officer and politician (b. 1951)
• 2005 – Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-Belarusian author and activist (b. 1934)
• 2006 – August Bischof, Austrian soldier (b. 1900)
• 2006 – John Reynolds Gardiner, American author and engineer (b. 1944)
• 2006 – Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
• 2006 – Dave Rose, American animator (b. 1910)
• 2006 – Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator (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, English composer (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian politician (b. 1966)
• 2007 – Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish singer-songwriter and guitarist (Breakout) (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Ian Wooldridge, English journalist (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Tina Lagostena Bassi, Italian lawyer and politician (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Robert Bruning, Australian actor and producer (b. 1928)
• 2008 – Gary Gygax, American game designer, co-created Dungeons & Dragons (b. 1938)
• 2008 – Elena Nathanael, Greek actress (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Leonard Rosenman, American composer and conductor (b. 1924)
• 2008 – Semka Sokolović-Bertok, Yugoslavian-Croatian actress (b. 1935)
• 2008 – George Walter, Antiguan politician (b. 1928)
• 2009 – Joseph Bloch, American pianist (b. 1917)
• 2009 – John Cephas, American guitarist (Cephas & Wiggins) (b. 1930)
• 2009 – Yvon Cormier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1938)
• 2009 – Patricia De Martelaere, Flemish author (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 director (b 1944)
• 2009 – Triztán Vindtorn, Norwegian poet (b. 1942)
• 2010 – Raimund Abraham, Austrian architect, designed the Austrian Cultural Forum New York (b. 1933)
• 2010 – Johnny Alf, Brazilian pianist and composer (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Vladislav Ardzinba, Abkhazian politician, 1st President of Abkhazia (b. 1945)
• 2010 – Etta Cameron, Bahamian-Danish singer and actress (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Samuel J. Eldersveld, American academic and politician (b. 1917)
• 2010 – Joaquim Fiúza, Portuguese sailor (b. 1908)
• 2010 – Tetsuo Kondo, Japanese politician (b. 1929)
• 2010 – Hilario Chávez Joya, Mexican bishop (b. 1928)
• 2010 – Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2010 – Roger Newman, English-American actor and screenwriter (b. 1940)
• 2010 – Angelo Poffo, American wrestler (b. 1925)
• 2010 – Tony Richards, English footballer (b. 1934)
• 2010 – Joanne Simpson, American meteorologist (b. 1923)
• 2010 – Fred Wedlock, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (b. 1942)
• 2011 – Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Indian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Frank Chirkinian, Armenian-American director and producer (b. 1926)
• 2011 – Vivienne Harris, English journalist and publisher, co-founded the Jewish Telegraph (b. 1921)
• 2011 – Charles Jarrott, English director (b. 1927)
• 2011 – Ed Manning, American basketball player and coach (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Johnny Preston, American singer (b. 1939)
• 2011 – Mikhail Simonov, Russian aircraft designer, designed the Sukhoi Su-27 (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, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Paul McBride, Scottish lawyer (b. 1965)
• 2012 – Don Mincher, American baseball player (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Runako Morton, Nevisian cricketer (b. 1978)
• 2012 – John C. Reiss, American bishop (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Shmuel Tankus, Israeli navy officer (b. 1914)
• 2012 – Joan Taylor, American actress (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Lilian Cahn, Hungarian-American businesswoman, co-founded Coach, Inc. (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Menachem Froman, Israeli rabbi (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Harry Greene, Welsh television host (b. 1923)
• 2013 – Seki Matsunaga, Japanese footballer (b. 1928)
• 2013 – Michael D. Moore, Canadian-American actor and director (b. 1914)
• 2013 – George Petherbridge, English footballer (b. 1927)
• 2013 – Jérôme Savary, Argentinian-French actor and director (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Hobart Muir Smith, American herpetologist (b. 1912)
• 2013 – Toren Smith, Canadian businessman, founded Studio Proteus (b. 1960)
• 2013 – Fran Warren, American singer and actress (b. 1926)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Adrian of Nicomedia
  • Basinus
  • 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

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 4.

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