March 29

March 29 is the 88th day of the year (89th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 277 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 502 – King Gundobad issues a new legal code (Lex Burgundionum) at Lyon that makes Gallo-Romans and Burgundians subject to the same laws.
• 1430 – The Ottoman Empire under Murad II captures the Byzantine city of Thessalonica.
• 1461 – Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton – Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England.
• 1500 – Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna.
• 1549 – The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded.
• 1632 – Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629.
• 1638 – Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden.
• 1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, 15-year-old Japanese girl, burnt at the stake for an act of arson committed due to unrequited love.
• 1792 – King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf.
• 1806 – Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway.
• 1809 – King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'état. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden.
• 1831 – Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey.
• 1847 – Mexican–American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege.
• 1849 – The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab.
• 1857 – Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry mutinies against the East India Company's rule in India and inspires the protracted Indian Rebellion of 1857, also known as the Sepoy Mutiny.
• 1865 – American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins.
• 1867 – Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1.
• 1871 – The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria.
• 1879 – Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus.
• 1882 – The Knights of Columbus are established.
• 1886 – Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia.
• 1911 – The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm.
• 1930 – Heinrich Brüning is appointed German Reichskanzler.
• 1936 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters.
• 1941 – The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time.
• 1941 – World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan.
• 1942 – The Bombing of Lübeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city.
• 1945 – World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England.
• 1945 – World War II: The German 4th Army is almost destroyed by the Soviet Red Army.
• 1946 – Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded.
• 1947 – Malagasy Uprising against French colonial rule in Madagascar.
• 1951 – Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage.
• 1957 – The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety.
• 1961 – The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections.
• 1962 – Arturo Frondizi, the president of Argentina, is overthrown in a military coup by Argentina's armed forces, ending an 11 and a half-day constitutional crisis.
• 1971 – My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison.
• 1971 – A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers.
• 1973 – Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam.
• 1973 – Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends.
• 1974 – NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury.
• 1974 – Local farmers in Lintong District, Xi'an, Shaanxi province, China, discover the Terracotta Army that was buried with Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China, in the 3rd century BCE.
• 1982 – The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982.
• 1990 – The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War.
• 1993 – Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province.
• 1999 – The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom.
• 1999 – A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103.
• 2002 – In reaction to the Passover massacre two days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation in the West Bank since the 1967 Six-Day War.
• 2004 – Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members.
• 2004 – The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants.
• 2010 – Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40.

Births

• 1553 – Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek poet (d. 1614)
• 1584 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (d. 1648)
• 1602 – John Lightfoot, English academic and scholar (d. 1675)
• 1713 – John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789)
• 1735 – Johann Karl August Musäus, German author (d. 1787)
• 1746 – Carlo Buonaparte, French lawyer and politician (d. 1785)
• 1747 – Johann Wilhelm Hässler, German pianist and composer (d. 1822)
• 1751 – Supply Belcher, American singer-songwriter (d. 1836)
• 1769 – Nicolas Jean-de-Dieu Soult, French general and politician, 12th Prime Minister of France (d. 1851)
• 1790 – John Tyler, American lawyer and politician, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862)
• 1799 – Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869)
• 1815 – Costache Caragiale, Romanian actor and manager (d. 1877)
• 1816 – 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837)
• 1824 – Ludwig Büchner, German physiologist, physician, and philosopher (d. 1899)
• 1826 – Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900)
• 1867 – Cy Young, American baseball player and manager (d. 1955)
• 1869 – Aleš Hrdlička, Czech anthropologist (d. 1943)
• 1870 – Pavlos Melas, French-Greek captain (d. 1904)
• 1873 – Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941)
• 1874 – Lou Henry Hoover, American wife of Herbert Hoover, 33rd First Lady of the United States (d. 1944)
• 1876 – Friedrich Traun, German tennis player (d. 1908)
• 1878 – Albert Von Tilzer, American songwriter (d. 1956)
• 1885 – Dezső Kosztolányi, Hungarian author and poet (d. 1936)
• 1888 – Enea Bossi, Sr., Italian-American engineer, designed the Budd BB-1 Pioneer and Bossi-Bonomi Pedaliante (d. 1963)
• 1889 – Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951)
• 1891 – Yvan Goll, French-German poet (d. 1950)
• 1891 – Alfred Neubauer, Czech race car driver and manager (d. 1980)
• 1892 – József Mindszenty, Hungarian cardinal (d. 1975)
• 1895 – Ernst Jünger, German author (d. 1998)
• 1899 – Lavrentiy Beriya, Abkhazian-Russian politician (d. 1953)
• 1900 – Bill Aston, English race car driver (d. 1974)
• 1900 – John McEwen, Australian politician, 18th Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980)
• 1901 – Andrija Maurović, Croatian author and illustrator (d. 1981)
• 1902 – Marcel Aymé, French author (d. 1967)
• 1902 – Don Miller, American football player and coach (d. 1979)
• 1902 – William Walton, English composer (d. 1983)
• 1903 – Douglas Harkness, Canadian politician (d. 1999)
• 1903 – Arthur Negus, English television host (d. 1985)
• 1905 – Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978)
• 1906 – E. Power Biggs English-American organist (d. 1977)
• 1907 – Braguinha, Brazilian singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2006)
• 1908 – Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1908 – Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968)
• 1911 – Tito Arévalo, Filipino actor (d. 2000)
• 1911 – Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988)
• 1912 – Hanna Reitsch, German pilot (d. 1979)
• 1913 – R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet and priest (d. 2000)
• 1914 – Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985)
• 1914 – Chapman Pincher, Indian-English journalist, historian, and author
• 1916 – Peter Geach, English philosopher
• 1916 – Eugene McCarthy, American politician and author (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Man o' War, American race horse (d. 1947)
• 1918 – Pearl Bailey, American actress and singer (d. 1990)
• 1918 – Lê Văn Thiêm, Vietnamese mathematician (d. 1991)
• 1918 – Sam Walton, American businessman, founded Walmart and Sam's Club (d. 1992)
• 1919 – Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001)
• 1920 – John M. Belk, American businessman and politician (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Clarke Fraser, American-Canadian geneticist
• 1920 – Pierre Moinot, French author (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Theodore Trautwein, American judge (d. 2000)
• 1923 – Betty Binns Fletcher, American lawyer and judge (d. 2012)
• 1923 – Bob Haymes, American singer-songwriter, and actor (d. 1989)
• 1923 – Geoff Duke, English motor cycle racer
• 1926 – Moshe Sanbar, Hungarian-Israeli economist (d. 2012)
• 1927 – John McLaughlin, American journalist and producer
• 1927 – John Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2004)
• 1928 – Romesh Bhandari, Pakistani-Indian politician, 13th Foreign Secretary of India (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Vincent Gigante, American boxer and mobster (d. 2005)
• 1929 – Utpal Dutt, Indian actor, director, and playwright (d. 1993)
• 1929 – Richard Lewontin, American biologist and geneticist
• 1929 – Lennart Meri,Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (d. 2006)
• 1930 – Anerood Jugnauth, Mauritian politician, 4th President of Mauritius
• 1931 – Sopubek Begaliev, Kyrgyzstani economist and politician (d. 2002)
• 1931 – Aleksei Gubarev, Russian pilot and astronaut
• 1931 – Norman Tebbit, English politician
• 1933 – Jacques Brault, Canadian poet
• 1935 – Ruby Murray, English singer and actress (d. 1996)
• 1936 – Richard Rodney Bennett, English composer (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Mogens Camre, Danish politician
• 1936 – John A. Durkin, American politician (d. 2012)
• 1936 – Judith Guest, American author and screenwriter
• 1937 – Billy Carter, American businessman and politician (d. 1988)
• 1937 – Roberto Chabet, Filipino painter and sculptor (d. 2013)
• 1937 – Smarck Michel, Haitian politician, 6th Prime Minister of Haiti (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Barry Jackson, English actor
• 1939 – Roland Arnall, French-American businessman and diplomat, 63rd United States Ambassador to the Netherlands (d. 2008)
• 1939 – Terence Hill, Italian actor
• 1940 – Ray Davis, American singer (The Parliaments, Parliament, and Funkadelic) (d. 2005)
• 1941 – Violeta Andrei, Romanian actress
• 1941 – Eden Kane, Indian-English singer
• 1941 – Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1942 – Bob Lurtsema, American football player
• 1942 – Scott Wilson, American actor
• 1943 – Vangelis, Greek keyboard player and songwriter (Aphrodite's Child and Jon and Vangelis)
• 1943 – Chad Allan, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Guess Who and Brave Belt)
• 1943 – Eric Idle, English actor and singer
• 1943 – John Major, English banker and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1944 – Terry Jacks, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Poppy Family)
• 1944 – Denny McLain, American baseball player
• 1945 – Walt Frazier, American basketball player and sportscaster
• 1945 – John "Speedy" Keen, English singer-songwriter, keyboard player, and producer (Thunderclap Newman) (d. 2002)
• 1945 – Willem Ruis, Dutch game show host (d. 1986)
• 1946 – Paul Herman, American actor
• 1946 – Richard Holmes, English soldier and historian (d. 2011)
• 1946 – Billy Thorpe, English-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Billy Thorpe & the Aztecs) (d. 2007)
• 1946 – Rigo Tovar, Mexican singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2005)
• 1947 – Robert Gordon, American singer and actor
• 1947 – Bobby Kimball, American singer-songwriter (Toto and Yoso)
• 1948 – Bud Cort, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Michael Brecker, American saxophonist and composer (Steps Ahead and Parliament-Funkadelic) (d. 2007)
• 1949 – Dave Greenfield, English Keyboard player (The Stranglers)
• 1949 – Pauline Marois, Canadian politician, 30th Premier of Quebec
• 1949 – Keith Simpson, English historian and politician
• 1949 – John Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979)
• 1950 – Norman Snow, American actor
• 1951 – William Clarke, American harmonica player (d. 1996)
• 1952 – Teófilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer (d. 2012)
• 1953 – Tõnis Palts, Estonian politician and businessman, 39th Mayor of Tallinn
• 1954 – Dianne Kay, American actress
• 1954 – Karen Ann Quinlan, American medical patient (d. 1985)
• 1955 – Earl Campbell, American football player
• 1955 – Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor
• 1955 – Christopher Lawford, American actor and author
• 1955 – Marina Sirtis, English-American actress
• 1956 – Stephen Cole, English journalist
• 1956 – Patty Donahue, American singer (The Waitresses) (d. 1996)
• 1956 – Kurt Thomas, American gymnast
• 1957 – Elizabeth Hand, American author
• 1957 – Christopher Lambert, American-French actor
• 1958 – Pedro Bial, Brazilian journalist and producer
• 1958 – Nouriel Roubini, American economist and educator
• 1958 – Victor Salva, American director, screenwriter, and producer
• 1958 – Marc Silvestri, American publisher, founded Top Cow Productions
• 1959 – Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer
• 1959 – Perry Farrell, American singer-songwriter (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros, Psi com, and Satellite Party)
• 1959 – Michael Hayes, American wrestler and singer
• 1959 – Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2011)
• 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress
• 1961 – Gary Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1961 – Ari Emanuel, American talent agent
• 1961 – Mike Kingery, American baseball player
• 1961 – Amy Sedaris, American actress and author
• 1961 – Michael Winterbottom, English director and producer
• 1962 – Billy Beane American baseball player and manager
• 1962 – Dan Bittman, Romanian singer-songwriter
• 1962 – Kongar-ol Ondar, Russian singer (d. 2013)
• 1964 – Michael A. Jackson, American police officer and politician
• 1964 – Ming Tsai, American chef
• 1965 – Jill Goodacre, American model and actress
• 1965 – Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005)
• 1965 – Dominic Littlewood, English journalist
• 1965 – William Oefelein, American pilot and astronaut
• 1965 – Voula Patoulidou, Greek runner
• 1966 – Eric Gunderson, American baseball player
• 1967 – Michel Hazanavicius, French director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Brian Jordan, American baseball player
• 1967 – John Popper, American singer-songwriter and harmonica player (Blues Traveler and The John Popper Project)
• 1968 – Sue Foley, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1968 – Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer
• 1969 – Jimmy Spencer, American football player
• 1969 – Ayano Murasaki, Japanese adult video (AV) performer
• 1970 – Ruth England, British actress
• 1971 – Robert Gibbs, American political adviser, 28th White House Press Secretary
• 1971 – Lara Logan, South-African journalist
• 1972 – Michel Ancel, French game designer, created Rayman
• 1972 – Rui Costa, Portuguese footballer
• 1972 – Alex Ochoa, Cuban-American baseball player and coach
• 1972 – Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor and singer
• 1973 – Brandi Love, American porn actress and model
• 1973 – Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer
• 1973 – Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer
• 1974 – Kristoffer Cusick, American actor
• 1974 – Marc Gené, Spanish race car driver
• 1974 – Miguel Gómez, Colombian-American photographer
• 1974 – Sarah Walker, English property investor and television host
• 1976 – Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist
• 1976 – Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player
• 1978 – Pierre Faber, French-German rugby player
• 1978 – Jeffrey Parazzo, Canadian actor
• 1978 – Aaron Persico, New Zealand-Italian rugby player
• 1979 – Estela Giménez, Spanish gymnast
• 1979 – Lauri Lahesalu, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1979 – Amy Mathews, Australian actress
• 1979 – De'Angelo Wilson, American actor (d. 2008)
• 1980 – Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan
• 1980 – China P. Arnold, American murderer
• 1980 – Chris D'Elia, American actor
• 1980 – Bill Demong, American skier
• 1980 – Bruno Silva, Uruguayan footballer
• 1980 – Kim Tae-hee, South Korean actress
• 1981 – Megan Hilty, American actress and singer
• 1981 – Jlloyd Samuel, Trinidadian footballer
• 1981 – Brian Skala, American actor
• 1982 – Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese actor and singer (Tackey & Tsubasa)
• 1983 – Darius Draudvila, Lithuanian decathlete
• 1983 – Luiza Sá, Brazilian guitarist (Cansei de Ser Sexy)
• 1983 – Jamie Woon, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1983 – Donald Cerrone, American mixed martial artist
• 1984 – Nate Adams, American motocross racer
• 1984 – Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian street vendor and activist (d. 2011)
• 1984 – Juan Mónaco, Argentinian tennis player
• 1984 – Mai Satoda, Japanese singer (Country Musume, Ongaku Gatas, and Elegies)
• 1985 – Fernando Amorebieta, Venezuelan footballer
• 1985 – Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985 – Mickey Pimentel, American football player
• 1986 – Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer
• 1986 – Luke Eberl, American actor and director
• 1987 – Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer
• 1988 – Esther Cremer, German runner
• 1988 – Jesús Molina, Mexican footballer
• 1988 – Jürgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player
• 1989 – James Tomkins, English footballer
• 1990 – Carlos Alberto Peña, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Mark Rajevski, Estonian ice hockey player
• 1990 – Lyle Taylor, English footballer
• 1991 – Fabio Borini, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Hayley McFarland, American actress
• 1992 – Chris Massoglia, American actor
• 1993 – Riin Emajõe, Estonian footballer
• 1994 – Sulli, South Korean actress, singer, and dancer (f(x))
• 1995 – Marc Musso, American actor
• 1997 – Ragnar Sigurdsson, Icelandic professional Gamer

Deaths

• 87 BC– Emperor Wu of Han of China (b. 156 BC)
• 1058 – Pope Stephen IX (b. 1020)
• 1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami of Japan (b. 1328)
• 1461 – Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
• 1578 – Louis I, Cardinal of Guise (b. 1527)
• 1578 – Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
• 1628 – Tobias Matthew, English archbishop (b. 1546)
• 1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch painter and engraver (b. 1565)
• 1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, Japanese arsonist (b. 1667)
• 1692 – Nicolaus Bruhns, Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer (b. 1665)
• 1751 – Thomas Coram, English captain and philanthropist, founded Foundling Hospital (b. 1668)
• 1772 – Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish engineer and mathematician (b. 1688)
• 1788 – Charles Wesley, English clergyman and poet (b. 1707)
• 1792 – Gustav III of Sweden (b. 1746)
• 1800 – Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, French engineer (b. 1714)
• 1803 – Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch-Austrian diplomat and librarian (b. 1733)
• 1826 – Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (b. 1751)
• 1829 – Cornelio Saavedra, Argentine military officer and politician (b. 1759)
• 1848 – John Jacob Astor, German-American businessman (b. 1763)
• 1855 – Henri Druey, Swiss politician (b. 1799)
• 1873 – Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist and priest (b. 1797)
• 1877 – Inazuma Raigorō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (b. 1802)
• 1888 – Charles-Valentin Alkan, French pianist and composer (b. 1813)
• 1891 – Georges Seurat, French painter (b. 1859)
• 1900 – Cyrus K. Holliday, cofounder of Topeka, Kansas, and first president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad (b. 1826)
• 1906 – Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (b. 1878)
• 1911 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (b. 1837)
• 1912 – Henry Robertson Bowers, Scottish Lieutenant and explorer (b. 1883)
• 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott, English navy officer and explorer (b. 1868)
• 1912 – Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and explorer (b. 1872)
• 1924 – Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer and conductor (b. 1852)
• 1934 – Otto Hermann Kahn, German banker and philanthropist (b. 1867)

• 1940 – Alexander Obolensky, Russian-English rugby player (b. 1916)
• 1948 – Harry Price, English author (b. 1881)
• 1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (b. 1881)
• 1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain (b. 1941)
• 1957 – Joyce Cary, Irish author (b. 1888)
• 1959 – Barthélemy Boganda, Central African politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central Africa (b. 1910)
• 1963 – Gaspard Fauteux, Canadian politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (b. 1898)
• 1963 – August Rei, Estonian politician (b. 1886)
• 1965 – Zlatko Baloković, Croatian violinist (b. 1895)
• 1970 – Anna Louise Strong, American journalist (b. 1885)
• 1971 – Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi lawyer (b. 1886)
• 1972 – J. Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank, English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (b. 1888)
• 1974 – Joe Stecher, American wrestler (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Yahya Petra of Kelantan (b. 1917)
• 1980 – Mantovani, Italian-English conductor (b. 1905)
• 1981 – Eric Williams, Trinidadian politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (b. 1911)
• 1982 – Walter Hallstein, German politician and educator (b. 1901)
• 1982 – Carl Orff, German composer (b. 1895)
• 1982 – Nathan Farragut Twining, American general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – The Singing Nun, Belgian singer-songwriter and nun (b. 1933)
• 1985 – Luther Terry, American physician, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (b. 1911)
• 1986 – Harry Ritz, Austrian-American actor (b. 1907)
• 1988 – Maurice Blackburn, Canadian composer and conductor (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Bernard Blier, French actor (b. 1916)
• 1991 – Lee Atwater, American strategist (b. 1951)
• 1992 – Paul Henreid, Italian-American actor and director (b. 1908)
• 1994 – Bill Travers, English actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
• 1995 – Jimmy McShane, Irish singer (Baltimora) (b. 1957)
• 1995 – Mort Meskin, American illustrator (b. 1916)
• 1995 – Terry Moore, American baseball player and coach (b. 1912)
• 1996 – Frank Daniel, Czech-American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 1996 – Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1944)
• 1997 – Hans-Walter Eigenbrodt, German footballer and coach (b. 1935)
• 1999 – Joe Williams, American singer (b. 1918)
• 1999 – Gyula Zsengellér, Hungarian footballer (b. 1915)
• 2001 – Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (b. 1899)
• 2001 – John Lewis, American pianist and composer (Modern Jazz Quartet) (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ayat al-Akhras, Palestinian suicide bomber (b. 1984)
• 2002 – Rachel Levy, Israeli victim of Kiryat HaYovel supermarket bombing (b. 1985)
• 2002 – Haim Smadar, Israeli security guard (b. 1947)
• 2002 – Rico Yan, Filipino actor (b. 1975)
• 2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (b. 1956)
• 2004 – Joel Feinberg, American philosopher (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Simone Renant, French actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (b. 1937)
• 2005 – Mitch Hedberg, American comedian and actor (b. 1968)
• 2005 – Miltos Sachtouris, Greek poet (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Salvador Elizondo, Mexican author and poet (b. 1932)
• 2007 – Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian-American actor (b. 1934)
• 2009 – Vladimir Fedotov, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1943)
• 2009 – Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (b. 1975)
• 2011 – Ângelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Bill Jenkins, American race car driver and engineer (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Joseph W. Alton, American politician (b. 1919)
• 2013 – Lawrence Auster, American blogger and author (b. 1949)
• 2013 – Cheryl Chow, American politician (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Reid Flair, American wrestler (b. 1988)
• 2013 – Warren Freer, New Zealand politician (b. 1920)
• 2013 – Reginald Gray, Irish painter (b. 1930)
• 2013 – Brian Huggins, English-Canadian journalist and actor (b. 1931)
• 2013 – Enzo Jannacci, Italian singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1935)
• 2013 – Liu Kang, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961)
• 2013 – Ralph Klein, Canadian politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (b. 1942)
• 2013 – Jim Mees, American set designer (b. 1955)
• 2013 – Art Phillips, Canadian politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (b. 1930)

Holidays and observances

• Boganda Day (Central African Republic)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Bertold
  • Eustace of Luxeuil
  • Gwladys
  • Gwynllyw
  • John Keble (Anglicanism)
  • March 29 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Commemoration of the 1947 Rebellion (Madagascar)
• Day of the Young Combatant (Chile)
• Earliest day on which the Octave Day of Easter can fall, while May 2 is the latest; observed on the Sunday after Easter. (Christianity)
• Youth Day (Republic of China)

External links

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