Today March 4th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
51 – Nero, later to become Roman Emperor, is given the title princeps iuventutis (head of the youth).
303 or 304 – Martyrdom of Saint Adrian of Nicomedia.
852 – Croatian Duke Trpimir I issued 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.
1215 – King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
1238 – The Battle of the Sit River was 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 – Wladyslaw II Jagiello (Jogaila) was crowned King of Poland.
1461 – Wars of the Roses in England: Lancastrian King Henry VI is deposed by his Yorkist cousin, who then becomes King Edward IV.
1492 – King James IV of Scotland concludes an alliance with France against England.
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship Niña from his discovery voyage to America. He returned to Spain on March 15.
1519 – Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1570 – King Philip II of Spain bans foreign Dutch students.
1611 – George Abbot is appointed Archbishop of Canterbury.
1621 – Jakarta, Java is renamed Batavia.
1629 – Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter.
1634 – Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1665 – English King Charles II declares war on The Netherlands which marked the start of the Second Anglo-Dutch War.
1675 – John Flamsteed appointed first Astronomer Royal of England.
1681 – Charles II of England grants a land charter to William Penn for the area that will later become Pennsylvania.
1774 – First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1776 – The American War of Independence: The Americans capture Dorchester Heights dominating the port of Boston, Massachusetts.
1778 – The Continental Congress voted to ratify both the Treaty of Amity and Commerce and the Treaty of Alliance with France. The two treaties were the first entered into by the United States government.
1789 – In New York City, the first United States Congress meets, putting the Constitution of the United States into effect.
1790 – France is divided into 83 départements, which cut across the former provinces in an attempt to dislodge regional loyalties based on noble ownership of land.
1791 – Vermont is admitted as the 14th U.S. state.
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).
1793 – French troops conquer Geertruidenberg, Netherlands.
1794 – The 11th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed by the U.S. Congress.
1797 – In the first ever peaceful transfer of power between elected leaders in modern times, John Adams is sworn in as President of the United States, succeeding George Washington.
1804 – The Battle of Vinegar Hill, colony of New South Wales (Australia), when Irish convicts (some of whom had been involved in Ireland’s Battle of Vinegar Hill in 1798) led the colony’s only significant convict uprising.
1813 – Russian troops fighting the army of Napoleon reach Berlin in Germany and the French garrison evacuate the city without a fight.
1814 – Americans defeat the British at the Battle of Longwoods between London and Thamesville near present-day Wardsville, Ontario.
1824 – The National Institution for the Preservation of Life from Shipwreck was founded in the United Kingdom, later to be renamed The Royal National Lifeboat Institution in 1858.
1837 – Chicago becomes incorporated as a city.
1848 – Carlo Alberto di Savoia signs the Statuto Albertino that will later represent the first constitution of the Regno d Italia
1861 – First national flag of the Confederate States of America (the Stars and Bars ) adopted.
1861 – Abraham Lincoln inaugurated as the 16th president of the United States.
1865 – Third (and last) national flag of the Confederate States of America adopted.
1877 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky s ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1882 – Britain s first electric trams run in East London.
1887 – Gottlieb Daimler unveils his first automobile which he test runs in Esslingen and Cannstatt, Germany.
1890 – The longest bridge in the Great Britain, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
1893 – Congo Free State: The army of Francis, Baron Dhanis attacks the Lualaba, enabling him to transport his troops across the Upper Congo and, capture Nyangwe almost without an effort.
1894 – Great fire in Shanghai. Over 1,000 buildings are destroyed.
1899 – Cyclone Mahina sweeps in north of Cooktown, Queensland, with a 12 m wave that reaches up to 5 km inland – over 300 dead.
1902 – In Chicago, the American Automobile Association is established.
1904 – Russo-Japanese War: Russian troops in Korea retreat toward Manchuria followed by 100,000 Japanese troops.
1908 – The Collinwood School Fire, Collinwood near Cleveland, Ohio, kills 174 people.
1911 – Victor Berger (Wisconsin) becomes the first socialist congressman in U.S..
1917 – Jeannette Rankin of Montana becomes the first female member of the United States House of Representatives.
1917 – Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia s renunciation of the throne is made public, and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia publicly issues his abdication manifesto. The victory of the February Revolution.
1925 – Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President of the United States to have his inauguration broadcast on radio.
1929 – Charles Curtis becomes the first native-American Vice President.
1930 – Terrible floods ransack Languedoc and the surrounds in south-west France, resulting in twelve departments being submerged by water and causing the death of over 700 people.
1931 – The British Viceroy of India, Governor-General Edward Frederick Lindley Wood and Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) meet to sign an agreement envisaging the release of political prisoners and allowing that salt is freely used by the poorest layers of the population.
1933 – Frances Perkins becomes United States Secretary of Labor, first female member of the United States Cabinet.
1933 – Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1933 – The Parliament of Austria is suspended because of a quibble over procedure – Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss initiates authoritarian rule by decree (see Austrofascism).
1941 – The United Kingdom launches Operation Claymore on the Lofoten Islands, during World War II.
1941 – Adolf Hitler applies pressure on Yugoslavia to join the Tripartite Pact.
1944 – First U.S. daylight bombing of Berlin and Anti-Germany strikes in northern Italy.
1945 – In the United Kingdom, Princess Elizabeth, later to become Queen Elizabeth II, joins the British Army as a driver.
1945 – Lapland War: Finland declares war on Nazi Germany.
1954 – Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1957 – The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1959 – U.S. Pioneer 4 misses Moon and becomes the second (U.S. first) artificial planet.
1960 – French freighter La Coubre explodes in Havana, Cuba killing 100. Fidel Castro blames the U.S.
1962 – United States Atomic Energy Commission announces that the first atomic power plant at McMurdo Station in Antarctica is in operation.
1966 – Canadian Pacific Air Lines DC-8-43 explodes on landing at Tokyo International Airport, killing 64 people.
1970 – French submarine Eurydice explodes.
1972 – Libya and the Soviet Union sign a cooperation treaty.
1976 – The Northern Ireland Constitutional Convention is formally dissolved in Northern Ireland resulting in direct rule of Northern Ireland from London via the British parliament.
1977 – The 1977 Bucharest Earthquake in southern and eastern Europe kills more than 1,500.
1977 – The first Cray-1 supercomputer is shipped to the Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico.
1979 – The first encyclical written by Pope John Paul II, Redemptor Hominis (Latin for The Redeemer of Man) is promulgated less than five months after his installation as pope.
1980 – Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe s first black prime minister.
1982 – NASA launches Intelsat V.
1985 – The Food and Drug Administration approves a blood test for AIDS, used since then for screening all blood donations in the United States.
1991 – Sheikh Saad Al-Abdallah Al-Salim Al-Sabah, the Prime Minister of Kuwait, returned to his country for the first time since Iraq s invasion.
1994 – Space shuttle STS-62 (Columbia 16) launches into orbit.
1994 – Bosnia s Bosniaks and Croats sign an agreement to form a federation in a loose economic union with Croatia.
1997 – US President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
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 11 people. The attack was attributed to the Real IRA.
2001 – Hintze Ribeiro disaster, a bridge collapses in northern Portugal, killing up to 70 people.
2002 – Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2002 – Multinational Force in Afghanistan: Seven American Special Operations Forces soldiers are killed as they attempt to infiltrate the Shahi Kot Valley on a low-flying helicopter reconnaissance mission.
2005 – The car of released Italian hostage Giuliana Sgrena is fired on by US soldiers in Iraq, causing the death of an Italian Secret Service Agent and injuring two passengers.
2005 – United Nations warns that about 90 million Africans could be infected by the HIV virus in the future without further action against the spread of the disease.
2006 – Final contact attempt with Pioneer 10 by the Deep Space Network. No response was received.
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.
Births
1188 – Blanche of Castile, wife of Louis VIII of France (d. 1252)
1394 – Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)
1492 – Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer (d. c. 1540)
1525 – Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
1610 – William Dobson, English portraitist and painter (d. 1646)
1651 – John Somers, 1st Baron Somers (d. 1716)
1665 – Philip Christoph von Königsmarck, Swedish soldier (d. 1694)
1678 – Antonio Vivaldi, Italian composer (d. 1741)
1702 – Jack Sheppard, English burglar and escapee (d. 1724)
1706 – Lauritz de Thurah, Danish architect and architectural writer (d. 1759)
1715 – James Waldegrave, 2nd Earl Waldegrave, British statesman (d. 1763)
1719 – George Pigot, Baron Pigot, British governor of Madras (d. 1777)
1729 – Anne d Arpajon, comtesse de Noailles, French noblewoman (d. 1794)
1745 – Charles Dibdin, English composer (d. 1814)
1746 – Kazimierz Pulaski, American Revolutionary War general (d. 1779)
1756 – Sir Henry Raeburn, Scottish painter (d. 1823)
1781 – Rebecca Gratz, American educator and philanthropist (d. 1869)
1782 – Johann Rudolf Wyss, Swiss folklorist (d. 1830)
1792 – Samuel Slocum, American inventor (d. 1861)
1793 – Karl Lachmann, German philologist (d. 1851)
1817 – Edwards Pierrepont, American statesman, jurist and lawyer; 34th United States Attorney General (d. 1892)
1819 – Charles Oberthur, German-born harpist (d. 1895)
1820 – Francesco Bentivegna, Italian revolutionary (d. 1856)
1822 – Jules Antoine Lissajous, French mathematician (d. 1880)
1826 – John Buford, American Civil War Union cavalry officer (d. 1863)
1826 – Theodore Judah, American railroad engineer (d. 1863)
1835 – John Hughlings Jackson, English neurologist (d. 1911)
1847 – Karl Bayer, Austrian chemist (d. 1904)
1854 – Sir Napier Shaw, British meteorologist (d. 1945)
1856 – Toru Dutt, English and French poet and author (d. 1877)
1856 – Alfred William Rich, English painter (d. 1921)
1859 – Alexander Stepanovich Popov, Russian physicist (d. 1905)
1862 – Jacob Robert Emden, Swiss astrophysicist and meteorologist (d. 1940)
1863 – Reginald Innes Pocock, British zoologist (d. 1947)
1863 – John Henry Wigmore, American jurist (d. 1943)
1864 – David W. Taylor, U.S. Navy architect (d. 1940)
1870 – Thomas Sturge Moore, English poet (d. 1944)
1871 – Boris Galerkin, Russian mathematician (d. 1945)
1873 – Guy Wetmore Carryl, American humorist and poet (d. 1904)
1873 – John H. Trumbull, 54th Governor of Connecticut (d. 1961)
1875 – Mihály Károlyi, former Prime Minister of Hungary and President of Hungary (d. 1955)
1876 – Léon-Paul Fargue, French poet (d. 1947)
1876 – Theodore Hardeen, Magician and stunt performer, founder of the Magician s Guild (d. 1945)
1877 – Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer (d. 1957)
1877 – Fritz Graebner, German ethnologist (d. 1934)
1877 – Garrett Morgan, American inventor (d. 1963)
1878 – Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1878 – Peter D. Ouspensky, Russian philosopher (d. 1947)
1878 – Arishima Takeo, Japanese novelist, short-story writer and essayist (d. 1923)
1879 – Josip Murn Aleksandrov, Slovenian poet (d. 1901)
1880 – Channing Pollock, American playwright and critic (d. 1946)
1881 – Todor Aleksandrov, 19th century Bulgarian revolutionary (d. 1924)
1881 – Maude Fealy, American actor (d. 1971)
1881 – Thomas Sigismund Stribling, American writer (d. 1965)
1881 – Richard C. Tolman, American mathematical physicist (d. 1948)
1882 – Nicolae Titulescu, Romanian diplomat (d. 1941)
1883 – Sam Langford, Canadian boxer (d. 1956)
1884 – Red Murray, American professional baseball player (d. 1958)
1886 – Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1887 – Violet MacMillan, American Broadway theatre actress (d. 1953)
1888 – Rafaela Ottiano, Italian-born American actress (d. 1942)
1888 – Jeff Pfeffer, American professional baseball pitcher (d. 1972)
1888 – Knute Rockne, American football player and coach (d. 1931)
1889 – Oscar Chisini, Italian mathematician (d. 1967)
1889 – Oren E. Long, 10th Territorial Governor of Hawai i (d. 1965)
1889 – Pearl White, American actress (d. 1938)
1891 – Dazzy Vance, American Major League Baseball pitcher (d. 1961)
1891 – Lois Wilson, founder of Al-Anon (d. 1988)
1895 – Milt Gross, American comic book illustrator (d. 1953)
1895 – Shemp Howard, American comedian (Three Stooges) (d. 1955)
1897 – Lefty O Doul, American baseball player (d. 1969)
1898 – Georges Dumézil, French philologist (d. 1940)
1899 – Emilio Prados, Spanish poet and editor (d. 1962)
1900 – Herbert Biberman, American screenwriter (d. 1971)
1901 – Charles Goren, American bridge player and writer (d. 1991)
1901 – Jean Joseph Rabearivelo, Malagasy/French poet (d. 1937)
1903 – Luis Carrero Blanco, Spanish statesman (d. 1973)
1903 – William C. Boyd, American immunochemist (d. 1983)
1903 – Dorothy Mackaill, British-born actress (d. 1990)
1903 – John Scarne, American magician (d. 1985)
1904 – George Gamow, Ukrainian-born physicist (d. 1968)
1904 – Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1904 – Chief Tahachee, American stage and film actor (d. 1978)
1906 – Meindert DeJong American author (d. 1991)
1906 – Georges Ronsse, Belgian bicycle racer (d. 1969)
1906 – Charles Rudolph Walgreen, Jr., American businessman (d. 2007)
1907 – Eleanor Sis Daley, wife of Richard J. Daley (d. 2003)
1908 – T.R.M. Howard, American civil rights leader (d. 1976)
1909 – Harry Helmsley, American real estate entrepreneur (d. 1997)
1912 – Afro Basaldella, Italian painter (d. 1976)
1912 – Judith Furse, British character actress (d. 1974)
1912 – Carl Marzani, American documentarian (d. 1994)
1913 – Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1913 – John Garfield, American actor (d. 1952)
1913 – Willie Johnson (guitarist), American guitarist (d. 1995)
1914 – Gino Colaussi (Luigi Colaussi), Italian footballer (d. 1991)
1914 – Ward Kimball, American cartoonist (d. 2002)
1914 – Robert R. Wilson, American physicist, sculptor and architect (d. 2000)
1915 – Carlos Surinach, Spanish composer (d. 1997)
1916 – William Alland, American actor, producer, writer and director (d. 1997)
1916 – Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
1916 – Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
1917 – Clyde McCullough, American baseball player (d. 1982)
1918 – Margaret Osborne duPont, American tennis player
1919 – Buck Baker, American racecar driver (d. 2002)
1920 – Jean Lecanuet, French politician (d. 1993)
1920 – Alan MacNaughtan, Scottish actor (d. 2002)
1921 – Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1921 – Joan Greenwood, English actress (d. 1987)
1921 – Wilson Harris, Guyanese writer
1921 – Dinny Pails, Australian tennis player
1922 – Richard E. Cunha, American cinematographer and film director (d. 2005)
1922 – Martha O Driscoll, American film actress (d. 1998)
1922 – Dina Pathak, Gujarati theatre and film actress (d. 2002)
1923 – Sir Patrick Moore, British astronomer
1924 – Kenneth O Donnell, aide to US President John F. Kennedy (d. 1977)
1925 – Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 – Richard DeVos, American billionaire, co-founder of Amway
1926 – James J. Eagan, Former Mayor of Florissant, Missouri (d. 2000)
1926 – Pascual Pérez, Argentine boxer (d. 1977)
1926 – Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 – Fran Warren, American singer
1927 – Philip Batt, 29th Governor of Idaho
1927 – Thayer David, American actor (d. 1978)
1927 – Robert Orben, American magician
1927 – Dick Savitt, American tennis player
1927 – Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
1928 – Samuel Adler, American composer
1928 – Alan Sillitoe, English writer
1929 – Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
1929 – Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1931 – Wally Bruner, American journalist and television host (d. 1997)
1931 – Bob Johnson, American ice hockey coach (d. 1991)
1931 – William Henry Keeler, American Roman Catholic Archbishop
1931 – Alice Rivlin, American economist
1932 – Ryszard Kapuscinski, Polish journalist (d. 2007)
1932 – Miriam Makeba, South African singer (d. 2008)
1932 – Ed Big Daddy Roth, American car designer (d. 2001)
1932 – Frank Wells, American entertainment businessman (d. 1994)
1933 – Ann Burton, Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
1933 – John W Mills, British sculptor
1933 – Nino Vaccarella, Italian racing driver
1934 – Mario Davidovsky, Argentinian composer
1934 – John Duffey, American bluegrass musician (d. 1996)
1934 – Anne Haney, American actress (d. 2001)
1934 – Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1934 – Janez Strnad, Slovenian physicist
1934 – Gleb Yakunin, Russian priest and dissident
1935 – Bent Larsen, Danish chess player
1935 – Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 – Jim Clark, OBE, Scottish racing driver (d. 1968)
1936 – Aribert Reimann, German composer
1937 – Graham Dowling, New Zealand cricketer
1937 – Leslie Gelb, American foreign policy advisor
1937 – Yuri Senkevich, Russian medical doctor, explorer and TV anchorman. (d. 2003)
1937 – Barney Wilen, French jazz saxophonist (d. 1996)
1938 – Angus MacLise, American percussionist (d. 1979)
1938 – Don Perkins, American football player
1938 – Paula Prentiss, American actress
1938 – Adam Daniel Rotfeld, Polish diplomat and researcher
1939 – Jack Fisher, American baseball player
1939 – Carlos Vereza, Brazilian actor
1940 – Volodymyr Morozov, Ukrainian flatwater canoer
1941 – John Aprea, American actor
1941 – Adrian Lyne, English film director
1941 – Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
1942 – Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
1942 – Charles C. Krulak, 31st Commandant of the U.S. Marine Corps
1942 – David Matthews, American keyboardist
1943 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1943 – Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1944 – Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1944 – Harvey Postlethwaite, English automotive engineer (d. 1999)
1944 – Bobby Womack, American singer
1945 – Tara Browne, British socialite (d. 1966)
1945 – Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
1945 – Frank Novak, American actor
1945 – Tommy Svensson, Swedish football manager
1945 – Gary Williams, American basketball coach
1946 – Michael Ashcroft, English entrepreneur
1946 – Haile Gerima, Ethiopian filmmaker
1946 – Harvey Goldsmith, British impresario
1947 – David Franzoni, American screenwriter
1947 – Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1947 – Gunnar Hansen, Icelandic actor
1947 – Gwen Welles, American actress (d. 1993)
1948 – Lindy Chamberlain, Australian author
1948 – James Ellroy, American writer
1948 – Tom Grieve, American baseball player
1948 – Leron Lee, American baseball player
1948 – Jean O Leary, American activist and politician (d. 2005)
1948 – Chris Squire, English bassist (Yes)
1948 – Shakin Stevens, Welsh singer
1949 – Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1950 – Ofelia Medina, Mexican actress and screenwriter
1950 – Rick Perry, Governor of Texas
1951 – Edelgard Bulmahn, German politician
1951 – Kenny Dalglish, Scottish footballer and manager
1951 – Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, American novelist (d. 1982)
1951 – Sam Perlozzo, American baseball manager
1951 – Mike Quarry, American boxer (d. 2006)
1951 – Chris Rea, English singer
1951 – Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 – Ronn Moss, American actor
1952 – Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1953 – Emilio Estefan, Cuban percussionist
1953 – Scott Hicks, Ugandan-born film director
1953 – Pawel Janas, Polish football manager
1953 – Rose Laurens, French singer-songwriter
1953 – Kay Lenz, American actress
1953 – Chris Smith, American politician
1954 – Mark Chorvinsky, American author and editor (d. 2005)
1954 – François Fillon, French politician, Prime Minister of France
1954 – Peter Jacobsen, American professional golfer
1954 – Catherine O Hara, Canadian actress
1954 – Irina Ratushinskaya, Russian writer and dissident
1954 – Willie Thorne, English snooker player
1954 – Adrian Zmed, American actor
1955 – Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
1955 – Dominique Pinon, French actor
1955 – James Weaver, English race car driver
1956 – Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1957 – Jim Dwyer, American journalist
1957 – Rick Mast, American NASCAR driver
1958 – Patricia Heaton, American actress
1958 – Lennie Lee, British artist
1959 – Rick Ardon, Australian news presenter
1960 – Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1960 – John Mugabi, Ugandan boxer
1960 – Thierry Pastor, French singer
1960 – Christina Sussiek, former German athlete
1960 – Mykelti Williamson, American actor
1961 – Sabine Everts, former German track athlete
1961 – Ray Mancini, American boxer
1961 – Steven Weber, American actor
1961 – Roger Wessels, South African golfer
1962 – Simon Bisley, British comic book artist
1962 – Lolo Ferrari, French actress (d. 2000)
1962 – Greg Kragen, American footballer
1962 – David Sparrow, English actor
1963 – Barbara Bubula, Polish politician
1963 – Janey Lee Grace, English singer and disc jockey
1963 – Jason Newsted, American bassist (Metallica, Voivod)
1963 – Daniel Roebuck, American actor
1964 – Tom Lampkin, American baseball player
1964 – Paolo Virzì, Italian screenwriter and director
1965 – Paul W. S. Anderson, English filmmaker
1965 – Andrew Collins, English journalist
1965 – Stacy Edwards, American actress
1965 – Gary Helms, American country singer
1965 – Khaled Hosseini, Afghan author and physician
1965 – WestBam (Maximillian Lenz), German rave techno DJ
1965 – Yuri Lonchakov, Russian cosmonaut
1965 – Jonathan Shearer, Scottish castaway
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
1966 – Dav Pilkey, American author
1966 – Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 – Nick Scandone, American paralympian yachtsman (d. 2009)
1966 – Wash West, English gay porn film director
1967 – Daryll Cullinan, South African cricketer
1967 – Evan Dando, American musician (The Lemonheads)
1967 – Andrew Osmond, English writer
1967 – Kubilay Türkyilmaz, former Turkish-Swiss footballer
1968 – Giovanni Carrara, Venezuelan baseball player
1968 – Patsy Kensit, English actress
1968 – Kyriakos Mitsotakis, Greek politician
1969 – Chastity Bono, American actress and gay rights activist
1969 – Pierluigi Casiraghi, Italian football manager
1969 – Annie Shizuka Inoh, Taiwanese actress
1969 – Frank Nicotero, American comedian
1969 – Stina Nordenstam, Swedish pop singer and musician
1969 – Patrick Roach, Canadian actor
1969 – Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1970 – Andrea Bendewald, American actress
1970 – Àlex Crivillé, Spanish Grand Prix motorcycle road racer
1971 – Iain Baird, Canadian soccer player
1971 – Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
1971 – Satoshi Motoyama, Japanese racing driver
1971 – Shavar Ross, American filmmaker
1971 – Nick Stabile, American actor
1971 – Jovan Stankovic, Serbian footballer
1972 – Pae Gil-Su, North Korean gymnast
1972 – Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 – Robert Smith, American footballer
1972 – Jos Verstappen, Dutch racing driver
1972 – Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
1973 – Summer Cummings, American actress
1973 – Phillip Daniels, American footballer
1973 – Len Wiseman, American director
1974 – ICS Vortex, Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1974 – Karol Kucera, Slovak tennis player
1974 – Ariel Ortega, Argentine footballer
1974 – Tommy Phelps, American baseball player
1975 – Kirsten Bolm, German hurdler
1975 – Patrick Femerling, German-born professional basketball player
1975 – Kim Jung-Eun, South Korean actress
1975 – Myrna Veenstra, Dutch field hockey player
1975 – Antti Aalto, Finnish ice hockey player
1975 – Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 – Hiram Bocachica, Puerto Rican baseball player
1976 – Sean Covel, American film producer
1976 – Hayley Evetts, English singer, TV presenter and stage actor
1976 – Scott Sturgeon, American musician (Choking Victim, Leftöver Crack)
1976 – Thierry Renaer, Belgian field hockey player
1976 – Vic Wunderle, American archer
1977 – Ana Gabriela Guevara, Mexican athlete
1977 – Juha Helppi, Finnish professional poker player
1977 – Daniel Klewer, German footballer
1977 – Jason Marsalis, American musician
1978 – Nate Ackerman, British-American logician and wrestler
1978 – Pierre Dagenais, Canadian ice hockey player
1978 – Denis Dallan, Italian rugby union footballer
1978 – Rachel Roberts, Canadian model and actress
1979 – Ben Fouhy, New Zealand flatwater canoeist
1979 – Geoff Huegill, Australian swimmer
1979 – Jon Fratelli, Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1980 – Omar Bravo, Mexican footballer
1980 – Jung Da Bin, South Korean actress (d. 2007)
1980 – Jack Hannahan, American baseball player
1980 – Arash Markazi, American sportswriter
1981 – Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 – Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
1982 – Mariano Altuna, Argentine racing driver
1982 – Landon Donovan, American soccer player
1983 – Max Vergara Poeti, Colombian writer
1983 – Ryan Lonie, Australian football player.
1984 – Ai Iwamura, Japanese actress
1984 – Zak Whitbread, American-born English footballer
1985 – Chinedum Ndukwe, American football player
1986 – Margo Harshman, American actress
1986 – Scott Fothergill, English footballer
1986 – Tom De Mul, Belgian footballer
1986 – Bohdan Shust, Ukrainian footballer
1987 – Cameron Wood, Australian rules footballer
1990 – Andrea Bowen, American actress
1991 – Diandra Newlin, American actress and fashion model
1992 – Jazmin Grace Grimaldi, daughter of Albert II, Prince of Monaco
1993 – Jenna Boyd, American actress
1993 – Abigail Mavity, American actress
1993 – Yves Michel-Beneche, American actor
Deaths
251 – Pope Lucius I
480 – Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
561 – Pope Pelagius I
1172 – Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1193 – Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 – Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 – Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 – Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 – Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, Apostle of the North (b. 1517)
1604 – Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 – Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1619 – Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 – Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 – Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 – John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 – Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 – Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1795 – John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 – Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1821 – Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
1832 – Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1851 – James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1852 – Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1853 – Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 – Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 – Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
1866 – Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 – Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1883 – Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 – Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
1903 – Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
1906 – John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 – Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 – William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 – Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
1922 – Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
1925 – Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
1925 – James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 – John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1927 – Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1938 – George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1940 – Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 – Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peac”
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Today March 5th in history click read more below to view detail events, deaths, births, Holidays and observances, and video clips in hisotry. Please comments, last database updated: Jan 17th, 2009
Events
363 – Roman Emperor Julian moves from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire, in a campaign which would bring about his own death.
1046 – Naser Khosrow begins the seven-year Middle Eastern journey which he will later describe in his book Safarnama.
1496 – England King Henry VII issues letters patent to John Cabot and his sons, authorizing them to explore unknown lands.
1689 – Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham is named Secretary of State for the Northern Department.
1766 – Antonio de Ulloa, the first Spanish governor of Louisiana, arrives in New Orleans.
1770 – Boston Massacre: Five Americans, including a black man named Crispus Attucks, and a boy are killed by British troops in an event that would contribute to the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War five years later.
1784 – Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney is named President of the Board of Trade.
1793 – French troops are defeated by Austrian forces and Liège is recaptured.
1824 – First Burmese War: The British officially declare war on Burma.
1836 – Samuel Colt makes the first production-model revolver, the .34-caliber.
1842 – Over 500 Mexican troops led by Rafael Vasquez invade Texas, briefly occupy San Antonio and then head back to the Rio Grande.
1848 – Louis Antoine Garnier-Pages is named French minister of Finance.
1850 – The Britannia Bridge across the Menai Strait between the Isle of Anglesey and the mainland of Wales is opened.
1860 – Parma, Tuscany, Modena and Romagna vote in referendums to join the Kingdom of Sardinia.
1861 – The Stars and Bars is adopted as the flag of the Confederate States of America.
1868 – A court of impeachment is organized in the United States Senate to hear charges against President Andrew Johnson.
1868 – Mefistofele, an opera by Arrigo Boito premieres at La Scala.
1872 – George Westinghouse patents the air brake.
1894 – Archibald Philip Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery becomes First Lord of the Treasury.
1904 – Nikola Tesla, in Electrical World and Engineer, describes the process of the ball lightning formation.
1905 – Russian troops begin to retreat from Mukden, Manchuria after losing 100,000 troops in three days.
1907 – The second Duma opens in St. Petersburg, Russia and 40,000 demonstrators have to be dispersed by Russian troops.
1912 – Italian forces are the first to use airships for military purposes, using them for reconnaissance behind Turkish lines.
1915 – World War I: The LZ 33, a zeppelin, is damaged by enemy fire and stranded south of Ostend.
1933 – Great Depression: President Franklin D. Roosevelt declares a bank holiday, closing all U.S. banks and freezing all financial transactions.
1933 – In Germany, the Nazis win 44 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections.
1936 – First flight of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter aircraft.
1940 – Members of Soviet politburo sign an order for the execution of 25,700 Polish intelligentsia, including 14,700 Polish POWs, known also as the Katyn massacre.
1943 – First flight of Gloster Meteor jet aircraft in the United Kingdom.
1945 – World War II: The Battle of the Ruhr begins.
1946 – Winston Churchill uses the phrase Iron Curtain in his speech at Westminster College, Missouri.
1946 – Hungarian Communists and Social Democrats co-found the Left Bloc.
1949 – The Jharkhand Party is founded in India.
1958 – The Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region is established.
1958 – Explorer 2 spacecraft launches and fails to reach Earth orbit.
1960 – The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis originates when Alister Hardy publicly announces his idea that ape-human divergence may have been due to a coastal phase.
1964 – Ceylon declares emergency crisis due to unrest.
1965 – March Intifada: A Leftist uprising erupts in Bahrain against British colonial presence.
1966 – BOAC Flight 911 crashes on Mount Fuji, Japan, killing 124.
1970 – The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty goes into effect after ratification by 43 nations.
1970 – Dubnium atoms are first detected conclusively.
1973 – Donald DeFreeze, the future Symbionese Liberation Army leader, escapes from Vacaville Prison.
1974 – Yom Kippur War: Israeli forces withdraw from the west bank of the Suez Canal.
1976 – The British pound falls below $2 USD for the first time.
1978 – The Landsat 3 is launched from Vandenberg AFB in California.
1979 – Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1979 – Voyager 1 s closest approach to Jupiter, 172,000 miles.
1982 – Venera 14, a Soviet satellite arrives at the planet Venus.
1988 – Constitution of Turks and Caicos Islands is restored and revised.
1991 – Iraq releases all Gulf War prisoners.
1998 – NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
1999 – Paul Okalik is elected first Premier of Nunavut.
2001 – In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
2003 – In Haifa, 17 Israeli civilians are killed by a Hamas suicide bomb in the Haifa bus 37 massacre.
2005 – The Burkinabé Party for Democracy and Socialism holds its first National Convention.
Births
1133 – King Henry II of England (d. 1189)
1324 – King David II of Scotland (d. 1371)
1326 – Louis I of Hungary, the King of Hungary, Croatia, Dalmatia, Jerusalem and Sicily from 1342 and of Poland (d. 1382)
1512 – Gerardus Mercator, Flemish cartographer (d. 1594)
1563 – John Coke, English politician (d. 1644)
1575 – William Oughtred, English mathematician (d. 1660)
1585 – John George I, Elector of Saxony (d. 1656)
1658 – Antoine Laumet de La Mothe, sieur de Cadillac, French explorer (d. 1730)
1693 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (d. 1754)
1696 – Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter (d. 1770)
1703 – Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky, Russian poet (d. 1768)
1713 – Edward Cornwallis, English military officer (d. 1776)
1713 – Frederick Cornwallis, Archbishop of Canterbury (d. 1783)
1723 – Princess Mary of Great Britain (d. 1773)
1739 – Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, American physican and statesman (d. 1819)
1748 – Jonas C. Dryander, Swedish botanist (d. 1810)
1748 – William Shield, English musician (d. 1829)
1750 – Jean-Baptiste Gaspard d Ansse de Villoison, French classical scholar (d. 1805)
1794 – Jacques Babinet, French physicist (d. 1872)
1794 – Robert Cooper Grier, Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (d. 1870)
1814 – Wilhelm von Giesebrecht, German historian (d. 1889)
1815 – John Wentworth, American politician (d. 1888)
1817 – Austen Henry Layard, English archaeologist (d. 1894)
1836 – Charles Goodnight, American cattle rancher (d. 1929)
1853 – Howard Pyle, American author and illustrator (d. 1911)
1862 – Siegbert Tarrasch, German chess player (d. 1934)
1867 – Louis-Alexandre Taschereau, Premier of Quebec (d. 1952)
1869 – Michael von Faulhaber, German cardinal and archbishop (d. 1952)
1870 – Frank Norris, American writer (d. 1902)
1871 – Rosa Luxemburg, Socialist revolutionary (d. 1919)
1873 – Olav Bjaaland, Norwegian explorer and cross-country skier (d. 1961)
1874 – Henry Travers, British actor (d. 1965)
1879 – Sir William Beveridge, British economist (d. 1963)
1883 – Marius Barbeau, French Canadian ethnographer and folklorist (b. 1969)
1886 – Dong Biwu, High-ranking member of the Communist Party of China (d. 1975)
1887 – Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian composer (d. 1959)
1897 – Set Persson, Swedish communist politician (d. 1960)
1898 – Zhou Enlai, Premier of the People s Republic of China (d. 1976)
1898 – Soong May-ling, Chinese wife of Chiang Kai-Shek (d. 2003)
1904 – Karl Rahner, German theologian (d. 1984)
1908 – Irving Fiske, American writer, playwright, (d. 1990)
1908 – Sir Rex Harrison, English actor (d. 1990)
1914 – Philip Farkas, American horn player and teacher (d. 1992)
1915 – Laurent Schwartz, French mathematician (d. 2002)
1918 – Milt Schmidt, Canadian ice hockey player, coach and manager
1918 – Red Storey, Canadian football player and ice hockey referee (d. 2006)
1918 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (d. 2002)
1920 – José Aboulker, Jewish Communist
1920 – Virginia Christine, American actress (d. 1996)
1921 – Elmer Valo, American baseball player (d. 1998)
1922 – James Noble, American actor
1922 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian writer and film director (d. 1975)
1923 – Laurence Tisch, American investor
1927 – Jack Cassidy, American actor (d. 1976)
1929 – Erik Carlsson, Swedish rally driver
1930 – Del Crandall, American baseball player
1931 – Fred Othon Aristidès, French comics artist
1931 – Barry Tuckwell, Australian horn virtuoso
1933 – Jef Eygel, Belgian basketball player (d. 2005)
1933 – Tommy Tucker, American blues singer and pianist (d. 1982)
1934 – Daniel Kahneman, Israeli economist, Nobel laureate
1934 – James B. Sikking, American actor
1936 – Canaan Banana, first President of Zimbabwe (d. 2003)
1936 – Dean Stockwell, American actor
1937 – Olus?gun ?basanj?, President of Nigeria
1938 – Paul Evans, American singer and songwriter
1938 – Fred Williamson, American football player and actor
1939 – Samantha Eggar, English actress
1939 – Peter Woodcock, Canadian serial killer
1939 – Pierre Wynants, Belgian chef
1940 – Malcolm Hebden, English actor
1942 – Felipe González, Prime Minister of Spain
1942 – Mike Resnick, American science fiction author
1943 – Billy Backus, American boxer
1944 – Lucio Battisti, Italian singer (d. 1998)
1944 – Roy Gutman, American journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
1946 – Murray Head, British actor and singer
1946 – Lova Moor, French singer and dancer
1946 – Richard Bell, Canadian musician (The Band)
1947 – Eddie Hodges, American actor and singer
1947 – Clodagh Rodgers, Irish singer
1947 – Kent Tekulve, American baseball player
1948 – Eddy Grant, Guyana-born singer
1948 – Richard Hickox, English musical conductor
1948 – Elaine Paige, English singer and actress
1948 – Paquirri, Spanish bullfighter (d. 1984)
1949 – Franz Josef Jung, German commander of the Bundeswehr
1951 – Giorgos Ninios, Greek actor
1952 – Alan Clark, English keyboardist (Dire Straits)
1954 – Marsha Warfield, American actress, comedienne
1955 – Penn Jillette, American magician and comedian
1955 – Julien Dray, French politician
1956 – Adriana Barraza, Mexican actress
1956 – Teena Marie, American singer
1957 – Mark E. Smith, English singer (The Fall)
1957 – Ray Suarez, American journalist and author
1958 – Andy Gibb, English-born Australian singer and teen idol (d. 1988)
1959 – Vazgen Sargsyan, Armenian politician (d. 1999)
1959 – David Fury, American television writer and producer
1960 – David Tibet, English musician (Current 93)
1962 – Jonathan Penner, American reality show contestant
1962 – Charlie and Craig Reid, Scottish musicians (The Proclaimers)
1966 – Michael Irvin, American football player
1966 – Bob Halkidis, Canadian hockey player
1966 – Aasif Mandvi, Indian-born American actor and comedian
1969 – Paul Blackthorne, British actor
1969 – Moussa Saïb, former Algerian footballer
1969 – MC Solaar, French rapper
1970 – John Frusciante, American musician (Red Hot Chili Peppers)
1970 – Lisa Robin Kelly, American actress
1971 – Jeffrey Hammonds, American baseball player
1971 – Evil Jared Hasselhoff, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1971 – Yuri Lowenthal, American actor/author/painter
1971 – Filip Meirhaeghe, Belgian mountainbiker
1972 – Luca Turilli, Italian musician (Rhapsody)
1973 – Yannis Anastasiou, Greek footballer
1973 – Ryan Franklin, American baseball player
1974 – Kevin Connolly, American television actor and comedian
1974 – Jens Jeremies, German footballer
1974 – Matt Lucas, English comedian
1974 – Eva Mendes, American actress
1975 – Jolene Blalock, American actress
1975 – Sasho Petrovski, Australian soccer player
1975 – Niki Taylor, American model
1975 – Luciano Burti, Brazilian racing driver
1976 – Šarunas Jasikevicius, Lithuanian basketball player
1976 – Paul Konerko, American baseball player
1976 – Katerina Matziou, Greek actress
1976 – Tim Sylvia, American mixed martial artist
1977 – Bryan Berard, American ice hockey player
1977 – Mike MacDougal, American baseball player
1977 – Wally Szczerbiak, American basketball player
1978 – Jared Crouch, Australian rules footballer
1978 – Mike Hessman, American baseball player
1978 – Kimberly McCullough, American actress
1978 – Papoose, American rapper
1979 – Tang Gonghong, Chinese weightlifter
1981 – Barret Jackman, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 – Paul Martin, American ice hockey player
1981 – Shugo Oshinari, Japanese actor
1981 – Andreas Wiig, Norwegian snowboarder
1982 – Daniel Carter, New Zealand Rugby player
1982 – Giorgia Palmas, Italian television personality and model
1984 – Ryan Crowley, Australian rules footballer
1985 – Ken ichi Matsuyama, Japanese actor
1985 – Whitney Port, American reality TV star
1986 – Matty Fryatt, English footballer
1987 – Anna Chakvetadze, Russian tennis player
1988 – Trevor Carson, Northern Irish footballer
1988 – Bjarni Viðarsson, Icelandic footballer
1989 – Jake Lloyd, American actor
Deaths
1534 – Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 – Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1592 – Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 – Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 – Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 – Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1770 – Crispus Attucks a free black American
1776 – Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 – Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 – Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 – Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
1829 – John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1876 – Marie d Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1893 – Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828)
1895 – Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1895 – Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1903 – George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1907 – Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1925 – Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 – Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 – Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1929 – David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
1931 – Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
1940 – Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1945 – Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1947 – Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1953 – Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
1953 – Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
1953 – Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1955 – Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1963 – Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 – Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 – Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 – Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 – Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 – Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 – Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1973 – Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1974 – Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974 – Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
1977 – Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1980 – Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1980 – Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1981 – Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 – John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 – Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1984 – William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1988 – Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 – Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. 1915)
1993 – Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
1995 – Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1995 – Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1996 – Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1999 – Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 – Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
2004 – Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 – Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2008 – Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b. 1923)
Holidays and observances
Learn from Lei Feng Day in China.
Approximate beginning of month of jingzhé in Chinese calendar.
St Piran s Day – Cornwall s national day.
Feast of St. Ciarán Saighir, patron of the Diocese of Ossory, in Irish calendar.
Saint Theophile (d. 195)
Saint Olivia (d. 308)
March 5 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
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