76 – Hadrian, Roman Emperor (builder of Hadrian’s Wall)

1947 – Stomu Yamash’ta, composer

1275 – Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)

1455 – Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)

1493 – Anne Pierre Adrien duke of Montmorency, marshal of France

1591 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)

1949 – John Duttine, actor (Day of the Triffids)

1666 – Georg Baehr, German master builder (Frauenkirche, Dresden)

1914 – Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)

1915 – David Schoenbrun, CBS broadcast bureau head (Wash, Paris)

1915 – Richard Ward, Glenside Pa, actor (Beacon Hill)

1733 – Johann Zoffany, German painter, baptized

1750 – Caroline Herschel, astronomer/discoverer

1955 – Dee Snider, Massapequa NY, (Twisted Sister-We’re Not Gonna Take It)

1916 – Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)

1955 – Mohsin Khan, cricketer (Pakistani opening batsman late 70s early 80s)

1779 – Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848)

1918 – Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)

1919 – John Gregson, Liverpool England, actor (Gideon CID, Shirley’s World)

1791 – Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)

1801 – Coenraad J van Houten, Dutch cocoa manufacturer

1808 – Gaetano Gaspari, composer

1809 – Joseph Jenkins Roberts, 1st pres of Liberia

1809 – Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)

1810 – Aernout Drost, Dutch literary (Hermingard van de Eikenterpen)

1811 – Robert Allen, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1886

1813 – John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)

1818 – Mariano lvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)

1821 – William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)

1821 – Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)

1821 – Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)

1925 – Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist

1961 – John Melendez, jockey

1926 – Norm Van Brocklin, NFL QB/coach (LA Rams), hall of famer

1830 – lise Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)

1831 – Edward Aylesworth Perry, Brig General (Confederate Army)

1831 – Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)

1962 – Terrence Trent D’Arby, NYC, rock vocalist (Wishing Well)

1835 – John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)

1836 – Henrique Alves de Mesquita, composer

1929 – Tiezo Matsumura, composer

1964 – Rockwell, [Kennedy Gordy], Det MI, rock vocalist (Someone Watching Me)

1964 – Ron Hall, NFL tight end (Detroit Lions)

1851 – Jozef Surzynski, composer

1965 – Marianne Morris, Middletown OH, LPGA golfer (1995 McDonald’s LPGA-3rd)

1854 – Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)

1858 – Liberty Hyde Bailey, US botanist (Plantbreeding)

1864 – Johan Halvorsen, composer

1864 – Leslie Stuart, composer

1866 – Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)

1935 – Judd Hirsch, Bronx, actor (Alex-Taxi, Dear John, Ordinary People)

1867 – Lionel Pigot Johnson, England, poet/critic (Ireland & Other Poems)

1936 – David Andrews, Irish politician

1968 – Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)

1939 – Robert Nye, writer (Facts of Life & other fiction, 3 Views of Man)

1871 – Betsy van den Arend, Dutch [Betje], actress (Miss Hobbs)

1940 – Phil Lesh, [Chapman], Calif, rock bassist (Grass Roots, Grateful Dead)

1873 – Lee Shubert, producer (theatres in NY & LA named after him)

1874 – Harold L Ickes, social activist, New Deal politician

1969 – Kim Raver, American actress

1969 – Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer

1879 – Gerrit J Heering, Dutch theologist (Fall of Christianity)

1943 – Brenda Scott, Cincinnati Oh, actress (Midge-Road West)

1884 – Rudolf Piskacek, composer

1887 – Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)

1944 – David Costell, Pitts, rocker (Gary Lewis & the Playboys-Diamond Ring)

1971 – Patrick Reidy, Melbourne VIC Australia, basketball forward (Oly-96)

1971 – Reyna Royo, Miss Universe-Panama (1996)

1944 – Ralph MacDonald, rock percussionist (Graceland)

1944 – Sly Stone, Dallas, rocker (Sly & the Family Stone-Everyday People)

1901 – Colin McPhee, Montreal Canada, composer (H2O, Mechanical Princibles)

1945 – Mark J Green, Bkln NY, lawyer/author (Closed Enterprise System)

1901 – Theo Uden Marsman, Dutch orchestra leader

1902 – Kitty Masters, actress

1946 – Bobby Bond, baseball player (Giants, Yankees, etc)

1972 – Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)

1905 – Berthold Schenck von Stauffenberg, attempted to assassinate Hitler

1905 – Joe E Ross, comedian (Gunther Toody-Car 54, Ritzik-Phil Silvers Show)

1907 – Jimmy McPartland, jazz trumpeteer/actor (Magic Horn)

1947 – Larisa Grigoriyevna Pozharskaya, Russian cosmonaut

44 BC – Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.

221 – Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.

351 – Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.

933 – After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.

1311 – Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.

1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.

1514 – Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen’s Latin version of Saxo’s Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work.

1545 – First meeting of the Council of Trent.

1564 – Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) .

1672 – Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.

1781 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.

1783 – In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d’tat never takes place.

1820 – Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.

1848 – A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.

1906 – Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.

1916 – President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.

1917 – Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.

1922 – After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.

1926 – The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.

1931 – SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board.

1933 – Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.

1939 – World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.

1939 – Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day.

1943 – World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.

1945 – World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.

1952 – In Cilaos, Runion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24 hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16).

1956 – My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre.

1961 – South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.

1965 – President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress “We shall overcome” while advocating the Voting Rights Act.

1985 – The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).

1990 – Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.

1990 – Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union.

2004 – French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban.

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