‹ 23 de marzo25 de marzo ›

24 de marzo

416 hechos sacados de la página «March 24» de la Wikipedia. Los nombres en azul tienen página en el sitio. Cómo se sacan.

Acontecimientos (50)

  1. 1199King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
  2. 1387English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
  3. 1401Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
  4. 1603James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
  5. 1603Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
  6. 1663The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
  7. 1720Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February.
  8. 1721Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
  9. 1765Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
  10. 1794In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
  11. 1829The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
  12. 1832In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
  13. 1854President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
  14. 1860Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese chief minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.
  15. 1869The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrender to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
  16. 1870A Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert, leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.
  17. 1878The British frigate sinks, killing more than 300.
  18. 1882Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
  19. 1900Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
  20. 1900Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date.
  21. 1921The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.
  22. 1922The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.
  23. 1927Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.
  24. 1934The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
  25. 1939The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany.
  26. 1944German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
  27. 1944World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
  28. 1946A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
  29. 1949Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.
  30. 1972Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.
  31. 1976In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
  32. 1977Morarji Desai becomes the prime minister of India, the first prime minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
  33. 1980El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
  34. 1982Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.
  35. 1986The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
  36. 1989In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of crude oil after running aground.
  37. 1990Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with the last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.
  38. 1992Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.
  39. 1998Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
  40. 1998A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
  41. 1998Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performs the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.
  42. 1999Kosovo War: NATO begins attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
  43. 1999A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 39 people.
  44. 2008Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
  45. 2015Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
  46. 2018Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.
  47. 2018Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.
  48. 2023An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.
  49. 2024The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.
  50. 2026OpenAI announces that their flagship Sora app and API are shutting down.

Nacimientos (246)

  1. 1103Yue Fei, Chinese military general (died 1142)
  2. 1441Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (died 1486)
  3. 1494Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)
  4. 1577Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (died 1620)
  5. 1607Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1667)
  6. 1628Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1685)
  7. 1657Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (died 1725)
  8. 1693John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (died 1776)
  9. 1725Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th governor of North Carolina (died 1813)
  10. 1725Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (died 1788)
  11. 1755Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1827)
  12. 1762Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1830)
  13. 1775Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (died 1835)
  14. 1782Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (died 1836)
  15. 1796Zulma Carraud, French author (died 1889)
  16. 1796John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1878)
  17. 1803Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (died 1882)
  18. 1808Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (died 1836)
  19. 1809Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (died 1837)
  20. 1809Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (died 1882)
  21. 1816Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (died 1891)
  22. 1820Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (died 1891)
  23. 1820Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (died 1915)
  24. 1823Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (died 1887)
  25. 1826Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (died 1898)
  26. 1828Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (died 1902)
  27. 1829George Francis Train, American businessman (died 1904)
  28. 1829Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (died 1862)
  29. 1830Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (died 1889)
  30. 1834William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (died 1896)
  31. 1834John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (died 1902)
  32. 1835Joseph Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 1893)
  33. 1848Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th mayor of Montreal (died 1906)
  34. 1850Silas Hocking, English minister and author (died 1935)
  35. 1854Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th premier of Western Australia (died 1930)
  36. 1855Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937)
  37. 1855Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (died 1920)
  38. 1862Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (died 1951)
  39. 1869Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (died 1955)
  40. 1871Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (died 1913)
  41. 1874Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd president of the Italian Republic (died 1961)
  42. 1874Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (died 1926)
  43. 1875William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (died 1953)
  44. 1879Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (died 1953)
  45. 1882Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (died 1951)
  46. 1882George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th governor-general of New Zealand (died 1943)
  47. 1883Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (died 1945)
  48. 1884Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966)
  49. 1884Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (died 1968)
  50. 1884Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (died 1972)
  51. 1885Charles Daniels, American swimmer (died 1973)
  52. 1885Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1978)
  53. 1886Edward Weston, American photographer (died 1958)
  54. 1886Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (died 1945)
  55. 1887Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1933)
  56. 1888Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (died 1922)
  57. 1889Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (died 1969)
  58. 1890Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (died 1954)
  59. 1891Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (died 1951)
  60. 1892Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (died 1977)
  61. 1893Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (died 1960)
  62. 1893George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (died 1973)
  63. 1897Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (died 1957)
  64. 1901Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (died 1971)
  65. 1901José Nasazzi, Uruguayan footballer (died 1968)
  66. 1902Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th governor of New York (died 1971)
  67. 1903Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995)
  68. 1903Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (died 1990)
  69. 1905Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (died 2007)
  70. 1907Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th premier of Quebec (died 1960)
  71. 1909Clyde Barrow, American criminal (died 1934)
  72. 1909Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (died 2001)
  73. 1910Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (died 1975)
  74. 1911Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (died 2006)
  75. 1912Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (died 2010)
  76. 1915Eugène Martin, French racing driver (died 2006)
  77. 1916Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (died 2006)
  78. 1916Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (died 2010)
  79. 1917Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (died 2007)
  80. 1917John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997)
  81. 1919Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (died 2021)
  82. 1919Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (died 2005)
  83. 1920Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996)
  84. 1920Mary Stolz, American author (died 2006)
  85. 1921Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (died 1987)
  86. 1921Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (died 2010)
  87. 1922Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (died 2005)
  88. 1923Murray Hamilton, American actor (died 1986)
  89. 1923Michael Legat, English author and publisher (died 2011)
  90. 1924Norman Fell, American actor (died 1998)
  91. 1926Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (died 2017)
  92. 1926Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016)
  93. 1926William Porter, American hurdler (died 2000)
  94. 1927John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (died 2014)
  95. 1927Martin Walser, German author and playwright (died 2023)
  96. 1928Byron Janis, American pianist and composer (died 2024)
  97. 1929Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (died 2012)
  98. 1930David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st president of the Central African Republic (died 2003)
  99. 1930Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (died 1980)
  100. 1931Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 2003)
  101. 1933Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (died 2011)
  102. 1933Lee Mendelson, American television producer (died 2019)
  103. 1935Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist
  104. 1936Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (died 2015)
  105. 1936Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (died 2020)
  106. 1937Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (died 1970)
  107. 1938Holger Czukay, German musician (died 2017)
  108. 1938David Irving, English historian and author
  109. 1938Larry Wilson, American football player (died 2020)
  110. 1940Bob Mackie, American fashion designer (died 2026)
  111. 1941Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (died 2015)
  112. 1942Jesús Alou, Dominican baseball player (died 2023)
  113. 1944R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (died 2018)
  114. 1944Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th prime minister of Serbia
  115. 1945Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
  116. 1945Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016)
  117. 1945Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
  118. 1946Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (died 2008)
  119. 1946Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (died 2018)
  120. 1947Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
  121. 1947Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd governor of Washington
  122. 1947Mick Jones, English footballer and coach (died 2022)
  123. 1947Alan Sugar, English businessman
  124. 1948Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (died 2013)
  125. 1948Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (died 1989)
  126. 1949Tabitha King, American author and poet
  127. 1949Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
  128. 1949Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (died 2017)
  129. 1949Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
  130. 1949Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th prime minister of Sri Lanka
  131. 1950Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (died 2011)
  132. 1951Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (died 2013)
  133. 1951Pat Bradley, American golfer
  134. 1951Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
  135. 1951Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach
  136. 1952Greg McCrary, American football player (died 2013)
  137. 1953Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
  138. 1953Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (died 2022)
  139. 1954Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (died 1992)
  140. 1955Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  141. 1955Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
  142. 1956Steve Ballmer, American businessman
  143. 1956Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
  144. 1957Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
  145. 1958Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
  146. 1959Emmit King, American sprinter (died 2021)
  147. 1959Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
  148. 1959Derek Statham, English footballer
  149. 1960Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
  150. 1960Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
  151. 1960Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
  152. 1960Scott Pruett, American race car driver
  153. 1960Annabella Sciorra, American actress
  154. 1961Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach (died 2020)
  155. 1961Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
  156. 1962Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
  157. 1962Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
  158. 1963Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2015)
  159. 1963Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
  160. 1963Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
  161. 1964Patterson Hood, American singer-songwriter
  162. 1966Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
  163. 1966Rico Hizon, Filipino broadcast journalist
  164. 1967Diann Roffe, American skier
  165. 1968Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
  166. 1969Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
  167. 1969Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent president of Albania
  168. 1970Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
  169. 1970Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (died 2012)
  170. 1970Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
  171. 1972Christophe Dugarry, French footballer
  172. 1972Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach
  173. 1973Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
  174. 1973Jim Parsons, American actor
  175. 1973Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
  176. 1973Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach
  177. 1973Jure Ivanušič, Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier
  178. 1973Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
  179. 1973Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer
  180. 1974Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
  181. 1975Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player
  182. 1976Aaron Brooks, American football player
  183. 1976Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
  184. 1976Annette Dasch, German soprano
  185. 1976Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
  186. 1977Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
  187. 1978Amir Arison, American actor
  188. 1978Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
  189. 1978Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
  190. 1978José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
  191. 1979Norris Hopper, American baseball player
  192. 1979Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
  193. 1979Graeme Swann, English cricketer
  194. 1980Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player
  195. 1980Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player
  196. 1980Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
  197. 1981Mike Adams, American football player
  198. 1981Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
  199. 1981Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
  200. 1981Mark Looms, Dutch footballer
  201. 1981Gary Paffett, English racing driver
  202. 1982Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
  203. 1982Jake Hager, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
  204. 1982Corey Hart, American baseball player
  205. 1982Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
  206. 1982Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
  207. 1983Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
  208. 1983T. J. Ford, American basketball player
  209. 1983Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
  210. 1983Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
  211. 1984Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer
  212. 1984Park Bom, South Korean singer
  213. 1984Chris Bosh, American basketball player
  214. 1984Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
  215. 1984Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
  216. 1984Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
  217. 1985Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
  218. 1985CJ Perry, American wrestler, manager, and actress
  219. 1987Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
  220. 1987Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer
  221. 1987Billy Jones, English footballer
  222. 1987Ramires, Brazilian footballer
  223. 1988Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
  224. 1988Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
  225. 1988Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
  226. 1988Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer
  227. 1988Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player
  228. 1989Zyzz, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and internet personality (died 2011)
  229. 1990Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
  230. 1990Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
  231. 1990Starlin Castro, American baseball player
  232. 1990Lacey Evans, American wrestler
  233. 1990Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer
  234. 1990JonTron, American YouTuber
  235. 1991Nick Browne, English cricketer
  236. 1991Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
  237. 1993Daniel Sazonov, Finnish politician
  238. 1995Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer
  239. 1996Myles Turner, American basketball player
  240. 1997Mina, Japanese singer and dancer
  241. 1998Christopher Briney, American actor
  242. 1998Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model
  243. 1998Damar Hamlin, American football player
  244. 1999Katie Swan, English tennis player
  245. 2001Clara Burel, French tennis player
  246. 2004Gonzalo García, Spanish footballer

Fallecimientos (108)

  1. 809Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (born 763)
  2. 832Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury
  3. 1284Hugh III of Cyprus (born 1235)
  4. 1296Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
  5. 1381Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1332)
  6. 1396Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (born 1340)
  7. 1399Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (bornc. 1320)
  8. 1443James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)
  9. 1455Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)
  10. 1499Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)
  11. 1563Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)
  12. 1575Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488)
  13. 1603Elizabeth I of England (born 1533)
  14. 1653Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)
  15. 1684Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629)
  16. 1684Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
  17. 1773Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (born 1694)
  18. 1776John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (born 1693)
  19. 1824Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (born 1753)
  20. 1838Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (born 1748/49)
  21. 1866Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (born 1782)
  22. 1869Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (born 1779)
  23. 1881Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (born 1817)
  24. 1882Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (born 1807)
  25. 1887Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (born 1837)
  26. 1888Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)
  27. 1905Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1828)
  28. 1909John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (born 1871)
  29. 1915Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (born 1848)
  30. 1915Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (born 1846)
  31. 1916Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1867)
  32. 1926Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (born 1872)
  33. 1932Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (born 1871)
  34. 1938Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (born 1870)
  35. 1940Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (born 1844)
  36. 1944Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (born 1903)
  37. 1946Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (born 1892)
  38. 1946Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (born 1869)
  39. 1948Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1885)
  40. 1950James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1865)
  41. 1951Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (born 1887)
  42. 1953Mary of Teck, Queen Consort of George V of the United Kingdom, Empress Consort of India (born 1867)
  43. 1956E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (born 1873)
  44. 1962Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (born 1899)
  45. 1962Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (born 1884)
  46. 1968Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873)
  47. 1971Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (born 1902)
  48. 1971Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (born 1895)
  49. 1973Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th premier of New South Wales (born 1889)
  50. 1976Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887)
  51. 1978Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (born 1916)
  52. 1980Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)
  53. 1984Sam Jaffe, American actor (born 1891)
  54. 1988Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th deputy prime minister of Turkey (born 1922)
  55. 1990Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (born 1922)
  56. 1991John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th governor-general of Australia (born 1914)
  57. 1993Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (born 1905)
  58. 1993John Hersey, American journalist and author (born 1914)
  59. 1995Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (born 1900)
  60. 1999Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (born 1902)
  61. 1999Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (born 1912)
  62. 2001Muriel Young, English television host and producer (born 1928)
  63. 2002César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
  64. 2002Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932)
  65. 2003Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (born 1919)
  66. 2006Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (born 1926)
  67. 2007Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (born 1913)
  68. 2008Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (born 1955)
  69. 2008Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (born 1941)
  70. 2008Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (born 1926)
  71. 2008Richard Widmark, American actor (born 1914)
  72. 2008Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (born 1939)
  73. 2009George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)
  74. 2009Hans Klenk, German racing driver (born 1919)
  75. 2009Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)
  76. 2010Robert Culp, American actor (born 1930)
  77. 2010Jim Marshall, American photographer (born 1936)
  78. 2012Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947)
  79. 2012Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)
  80. 2013Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (born 1926)
  81. 2013Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)
  82. 2013Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)
  83. 2013Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (born 1972)
  84. 2013Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (born 1974)
  85. 2013Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (born 1912)
  86. 2014Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (born 1962)
  87. 2014John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (born 1922)
  88. 2014David A. Trampier, American illustrator (born 1954)
  89. 2015Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928)
  90. 2015Notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
  91. 2015Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (born 1960)
  92. 2015Maria Radner, German opera singer (born 1981)
  93. 2016Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (born 1947)
  94. 2016Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1949)
  95. 2018Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924)
  96. 2018Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (born 1966)
  97. 2019Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (born 1949)
  98. 2020Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (born 1927)
  99. 2020Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933)
  100. 2021Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (born 1941)
  101. 2022Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (born 1912)
  102. 2023Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929)
  103. 2023Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (born 1955)
  104. 2024Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman (born 1929)
  105. 2025Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (born 1941)
  106. 2026Biruté Galdikas, Canadian primatologist and conservationist (born 1946)
  107. 2026Tracy Kidder, American writer (born 1945)
  108. 2026Mel Schilling, Australian TV personality and coach (born 1972)

Celebraciones (4)

  1. Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
  2. International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
  3. National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
  4. World Tuberculosis Day (International)

Santoral (8)

  1. Catherine of Vadstena
  2. Hildelith of Barking
  3. Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
  4. Maria Karłowska
  5. Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
  6. Paul Couturier (Church of England)
  7. Walter Hilton (Church of England)
  8. March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)