March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 282 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.^[1][2][3]
• 1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.^[4]
• 1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.^[5][6]

1601–1900

• 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.^[7]
• 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.^[8][9]
• 1663 – The 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.^[10][11]
• 1720 – Count 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.^[12][13]
• 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.^[14][15]
• 1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.^[16][17]
• 1794 – In 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.^[18][19][20]
• 1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.^[21][22]
• 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.^[23][24]
• 1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.^[25][26]
• 1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.^[27]
• 1869 – The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.^[28]
• 1870 – A Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert,^[29] leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes^[30] and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.^[31][32]
• 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.^[33][34][35]
• 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.^[36][37]
• 1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.^[38][39][40]
• 1900 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date.^[41]

1901–present

• 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.^[42][43]
• 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.^[44][45]
• 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.^[46][47]
• 1939 – The 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.^[48]
• 1944 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.^[49][50]
• 1944 – World 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.^[51][52][53]
• 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.^[54][55]
• 1949 – Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.^[56]
• 1961 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.^[57]
• 1972 – Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.^[58]
• 1976 – In 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.^[59][60]
• 1977 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.^[61][62]
• 1980 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.^[63][64]
• 1982 – Bangladeshi 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.^[65]
• 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.^[66]
• 1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m³) of crude oil after running aground.^[67][68]
• 1990 – Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.^[69]
• 1993 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.^[70][71]
• 1998 – Mitchell 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.^[72][73]
• 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.^[74]
• 1998 – Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.^[75][76]
• 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.^[77][78]
• 1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.^[79]
• 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.^[80][81]
• 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.^[82]
• 2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.^[83]
• 2018 – Syrian 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.^[84]
• 2018 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.^[85]
• 2019 – Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.^[86]

Births

Pre-1600

• 1103 – Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)^[87]
• 1441 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)^[88]
• 1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)^[89]
• 1577 – Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (d. 1620)^[90]

1601–1900

• 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)^[91]
• 1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)
• 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725)^[92]
• 1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776)^[93][94]
• 1725 – Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)^[95][96]
• 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)^[97][98][99]
• 1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
• 1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830)
• 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)^[100]
• 1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836)^[101]
• 1796 – Zulma Carraud, French author (d. 1889)^[102]
• 1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878)^[103]
• 1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882)^[104]
• 1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836)^[105]
• 1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)^[106]
• 1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)^[107][108]
• 1816 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (d. 1891)^[109]
• 1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891)^[110]
• 1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d. 1915)^[111]
• 1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887)^[112]
• 1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (d. 1898)^[113]
• 1828 – Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1902)^{[114][115][116]}
• 1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)^[117][118]
• 1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)^[119]
• 1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889)^[120]
• 1834 – William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (d. 1896)^[121]
• 1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)^[122]
• 1835 – Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)^[123]
• 1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)^[124][125]
• 1850 – Silas Hocking, English minister and author (d. 1935)^[126][127]
• 1854 – Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (d. 1930)^[128]
• 1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)^[129]
• 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920)^[130]
• 1862 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (d. 1951)^[131][132]
• 1869 – Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955)^[133]
• 1871 – Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d. 1913)
• 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)^[134]
• 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)^[135]
• 1875 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953)^[136]
• 1879 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1953)^[137][138]
• 1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951)^[139]
• 1882 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)^[140]
• 1883 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945)
• 1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)^[141][142]
• 1884 – Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (d. 1968)^[143]
• 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)^[144]
• 1885 – Charles Daniels, American swimmer (d. 1973)^[145]
• 1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1978)^[146]
• 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)^[147]
• 1886 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (d. 1945)^[148]
• 1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)^[149]
• 1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (d. 1922)
• 1889 – Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (d. 1969)^[150]
• 1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954)^[151]
• 1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)
• 1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977)^[152][153]
• 1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (d. 1960)^[154]
• 1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973)^[155]
• 1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957)^[156]

1901–present

• 1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971)^[157]
• 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971)^[158]
• 1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)^[159]
• 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990)^[160]
• 1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007)^[161]
• 1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)^[162]
• 1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)^[163]
• 1909 – Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (d. 2001)^[164]
• 1910 – Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)^[165]
• 1912 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (d. 2010)^[166]
• 1915 – Eugène Martin, French racing driver (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006)^[167]
• 1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010)^[168]
• 1917 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007) ^[169]
• 1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)^[170]
• 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (d. 2021)^{[171][172][173]}
• 1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005)^[174]
• 1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)^[175][176]
• 1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)^[177]
• 1921 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)^[178]
• 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)^[179]
• 1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005)^[180]
• 1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (d. 2011)^[181]
• 1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (d. 2017)^[182]
• 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)^[183]
• 1926 – William Porter, American hurdler (d. 2000)
• 1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)^[184]
• 1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright (d. 2023)
• 1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist and composer (d. 2024)
• 1929 – Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (d. 2012)^[185]
• 1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)^[186][187]
• 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980)^[188]
• 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (d. 2011)^[189]
• 1933 – Lee Mendelson, American television producer (d. 2019)^[190]
• 1935 – Mary Berry, English writer, chef, author, and television presenter^[191]
• 1935 – Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist^[192]
• 1936 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)^[193][194]
• 1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (d. 2020)^[195]
• 1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (d. 1970)^[196]
• 1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician (d. 2017)^[197]
• 1938 – David Irving, English historian and author^[198][199]
• 1938 – Larry Wilson, American football player (d. 2020)^[200]
• 1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer^[201]
• 1941 – Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (d. 2015)^[202][203]
• 1942 – Jesús Alou, Dominican baseball player (d. 2023)^[204]
• 1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (d. 2018)^[205]
• 1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia^[206]
• 1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
• 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)^[207][208]
• 1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
• 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)^[209]
• 1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (d. 2018)^[210]
• 1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
• 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington^[211]
• 1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach (d. 2022)
• 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
• 1948 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013)^[212]
• 1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
• 1948 – Lee Oskar, Danish musician^[213]
• 1949 – Tabitha King, American author and poet
• 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (d. 2017)
• 1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer^[213]
• 1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran^[214]
• 1949 – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka^[215]
• 1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)^[216][217]
• 1951 – Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer^[218]
• 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation^[219]
• 1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player^[213]
• 1951 – Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach^[220]
• 1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
• 1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (d. 2022)^[221]
• 1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor^[213]
• 1954 – Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (d. 1992)^[222]
• 1954 – Donna Pescow, American actress and director^[213]
• 1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1955 – Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman
• 1956 – Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
• 1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
• 1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Emmit King, American sprinter (d. 2021)
• 1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
• 1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer
• 1960 – Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
• 1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• 1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model^[213]
• 1960 – Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver
• 1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress
• 1961 – Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach (d. 2020)^[223][224]
• 1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
• 1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
• 1962 – Star Jones, American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host^[213]
• 1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
• 1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2015)^[225]
• 1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
• 1964 – Patterson Hood, American singer-songwriter^[226]
• 1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor^[213]
• 1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor^[191]
• 1966 – Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
• 1966 – Rico Hizon, Filipino broadcast journalist^[227]
• 1967 – Diann Roffe, American skier
• 1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
• 1969 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
• 1969 – Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent President of Albania^[228]
• 1970 – Lauren Bowles, American actress^[213]
• 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress^[213]
• 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist^[213]
• 1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
• 1970 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (d. 2012)^[229]
• 1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
• 1971 – Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor^[191]
• 1971 – Megyn Price, American actress^[213]
• 1972 – Christophe Dugarry, French footballer
• 1972 – Steve Karsay, American baseball player and coach
• 1973 – Jacek Bąk, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Philippe Boucher, Canadian ice hockey player and manager
• 1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach
• 1973 – Jure Ivanušič, Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier
• 1973 – Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
• 1973 – Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer
• 1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor^[213]
• 1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress^[213]
• 1974 – Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
• 1974 – Tado, Filipino comedian and activist (d. 2014)
• 1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monégasque tennis player
• 1976 – Aaron Brooks, American football player
• 1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
• 1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur^[213]
• 1977 – Olivia Burnette, American actress^[213]
• 1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress^[213]
• 1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Amir Arison, American actor
• 1978 – Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
• 1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
• 1978 – José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Lake Bell, American actress, director, and screenwriter^[213]
• 1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
• 1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
• 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
• 1980 – Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player^[230]
• 1980 – Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player^[231]
• 1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer
• 1981 – Mike Adams, American football player
• 1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player
• 1981 – Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player
• 1981 – Mark Looms, Dutch footballer
• 1981 – Gary Paffett, English racing driver
• 1981 – Philip Winchester, American actor^[213]
• 1982 – Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• 1982 – Jake Hager, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• 1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
• 1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
• 1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
• 1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
• 1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer^[232]
• 1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer
• 1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
• 1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
• 1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
• 1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 – CJ Perry, American wrestler, manager, and actress
• 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer^[233]
• 1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer^{[citation needed]}
• 1987 – Billy Jones, English footballer^[234]
• 1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer^[235]
• 1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete^[236]
• 1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer^[237]
• 1988 – Finn Jones, English actor^[191]
• 1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer^[238]
• 1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer^[239]
• 1988 – Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player^[240]
• 1989 – Zyzz, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and internet personality (d. 2011)^[241][242]
• 1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor^[243]
• 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress^[244]
• 1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player^[245]
• 1990 – Lacey Evans, American wrestler^{[246][247][248]}
• 1990 – Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer^[249]
• 1990 – JonTron, American YouTuber^[250]
• 1991 – Nick Browne, English cricketer^[251]
• 1991 – Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player^[252][253]
• 1995 – Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer^[254]
• 1996 – Myles Turner, American basketball player^[255]
• 1997 – Mina, Japanese singer and dancer^[256]
• 1998 – Christopher Briney, American actor^[257]
• 1998 – Damar Hamlin, American football player^[258]
• 1999 – Katie Swan, English tennis player^[259]
• 2001 – Clara Burel, French tennis player^[260]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)^[261]
• 832 – Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury^[262]
• 1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)^[263]
• 1296 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller^[264]
• 1381 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)^[265]
• 1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340)^[266]
• 1399 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320)^[267]
• 1443 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)^{[citation needed]}
• 1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)^[268]
• 1499 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)^[269]
• 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (b. 1514)^{[citation needed]}
• 1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)^[270]

1601–1900

• 1603 – Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)^[271]
• 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)^[272]
• 1684 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (b. 1629)^[273]
• 1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband^[274]
• 1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)^[275]
• 1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)^[276]
• 1824 – Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)^[277]
• 1838 – Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)^[278][279]
• 1866 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (b. 1782)^[280]
• 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)^[281]
• 1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)^[282]
• 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)^[283]
• 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)^[284]
• 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)^[285][286]

1901–present

• 1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)^[287][288]
• 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)^[289][290]
• 1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)^[291][292]
• 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)^[293]
• 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)^[294][295]
• 1926 – Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)^[296][297]
• 1932 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (b. 1871)^[298]
• 1938 – Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (b. 1870)^[299]
• 1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)^[300][301]
• 1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)^[302]
• 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)^[303][304]
• 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)^[305]
• 1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)^[306]
• 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)^[307]
• 1951 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (b. 1887)^[308][309]
• 1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867)^[310]
• 1956 – E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (b. 1873)^[311]
• 1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)^[312][313]
• 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)^[314]
• 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1873)^[315]
• 1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)^[316][317]
• 1971 – Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)^[318]
• 1973 – Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (b. 1889)^[319]
• 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)^[320][321]
• 1978 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (b. 1916)^[322]
• 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)^[323]
• 1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)^[324]
• 1988 – Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)^[325]
• 1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)^[326]
• 1991 – John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)^[327]
• 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)^[328]
• 1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)^{[329][330][331]}
• 1995 – Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)^[332][333]
• 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)^[334]
• 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)^[335]
• 2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)^[336][337]
• 2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)^{[338][339][340]}
• 2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)^[341]
• 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)^[342][343]
• 2006 – Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)^[344]
• 2007 – Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (b. 1913)^{[citation needed]}
• 2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)^[345]
• 2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)^{[346][347][348]}
• 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)^[349]
• 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)^[350][351]
• 2008 – Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (b. 1939)^[352]
• 2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)^{[353][354][355]}
• 2009 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (b. 1919)^[356]
• 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)^{[357][358][359]}
• 2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)^[360]
• 2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)^[361]
• 2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)^[362]
• 2012 – Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)^[363]
• 2013 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)^[364][365]
• 2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)^[366]
• 2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)^[367]
• 2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)^[368]
• 2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974)^[369][370]
• 2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)^[371]
• 2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)^[372][373]
• 2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)^[374]
• 2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)^[375]
• 2015 – Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928)^[376]
• 2015 – notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
  • Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960)^[377][378]
  • Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981)^{[379][380][381]}
• 2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)^[382]
• 2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949)^[383][384]
• 2018 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (b. 1924)^[385][386]
• 2018 – Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (b. 1966)^[387]
• 2019 – Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (b. 1949)^[388]
• 2020 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (b. 1927)^[389]
• 2020 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (b. 1933)^[390]
• 2021 – Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (b. 1941)^[391]
• 2022 – Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (b. 1912)^[392]
• 2023 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (b. 1929)^[393]
• 2023 – Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (b. 1955)^[394]

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Catherine of Vadstena
  • Hildelith of Barking
  • Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
  • Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
  • Paul Couturier (Church of England)
  • Walter Hilton (Church of England)
  • March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
• International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims^[395][396]
• National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
• World Tuberculosis Day (International)^[397]