March 23

March 23 is the 82nd day of the year (83rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 283 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1400 – The Trần Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
• 1540 – Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
• 1568 – The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
• 1708 – James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
• 1757 – Capture of Chandannagar fort by British forces.
• 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech – "Give me Liberty, or give me Death!" – at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
• 1801 – Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
• 1806 – After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
• 1821 – Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
• 1848 – The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
• 1857 – Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
• 1862 – The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
• 1868 – The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
• 1879 – War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hung Hoa, northern Vietnam.
• 1888 – In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional Association Football league, meets for the first time.
• 1889 – The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, India.
• 1901 – Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by forces of General Frederick Funston.
• 1905 – Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
• 1908 – American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later.
• 1909 – Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
• 1918 – First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming Prisoners of war
• 1919 – In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence.
• 1933 – The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
• 1935 – Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
• 1939 – The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spišská Nová Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak–Hungarian War.
• 1940 – The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands.
• 1956 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
• 1965 – NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
• 1965 – The first issue of The Vigilant is published from Khartoum.
• 1978 – The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
• 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
• 1982 – Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
• 1983 – Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
• 1989 – Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah.
• 1991 – The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
• 1994 – At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
• 1994 – Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board.
• 1994 – A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
• 1996 – Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
• 1999 – Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
• 2001 – The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
• 2003 – Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
• 2005 – Texas City Refinery explosion: During a test on a distillation tower liquid waste builds up and flows out of a blowout tower. Waste fumes ignite and explode killing 15 workers.
• 2009 – FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.

Births

• 1336 – Emperor Go-Kōgon of Japan (d. 1374)
• 1430 – Margaret of Anjou (d. 1482)
• 1599 – Thomas Selle, German composer (d. 1663)
• 1699 – John Bartram, American botanist and explorer (d. 1777)
• 1732 – Princess Marie Adélaïde of France (d. 1800)
• 1749 – Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1827)
• 1750 – Johannes Matthias Sperger, Austrian bassist and composer (d. 1812)
• 1754 – Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician and physicist (d. 1802)
• 1769 – Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832)
• 1769 – William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839)
• 1823 – Schuyler Colfax, American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885)
• 1826 – Ludwig Minkus, Austrian violinist and composer (d. 1917)
• 1834 – Julius Reubke, German pianist and composer (d. 1858)
• 1842 – Friedrich Amelung, Baltic German historian, businessman and chess endgame composer (d. 1909)
• 1858 – Ludwig Quidde, German activist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1941)
• 1862 – Nathaniel Reed, American criminal (d. 1950)
• 1868 – Dietrich Eckart, German journalist and politician (d. 1923)
• 1869 – Calouste Gulbenkian, Turkish-Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955)
• 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (d. 1964)
• 1871 – Heinrich Schroth, German actor (d. 1945)
• 1872 – Michael Joseph Savage, New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1940)
• 1874 – J. C. Leyendecker, German-American painter and illustrator (d. 1951)
• 1878 – Franz Schreker, Austrian composer and conductor (d. 1934)
• 1880 – Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish lawyer and politician (d. 1922)
• 1881 – Lacey Hearn, American sprinter (d. 1969)
• 1881 – Roger Martin du Gard, French author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
• 1882 – Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935)
• 1884 – Joseph Boxhall, English 4th officer on the RMS Titanic (d. 1967)
• 1887 – Josef Čapek, Czech painter and poet (d. 1945)
• 1887 – Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor (d. 1927)
• 1887 – Sidney Hillman, Lithuanian-American labor leader (d. 1946)
• 1887 – Felix Yusupov, Russian assassin of Grigori Rasputin (d. 1967)
• 1893 – Cedric Gibbons, Irish-American production designer (d. 1960)
• 1893 – Gopalswamy Doraiswamy Naidu, Indian engineer (d. 1974)
• 1894 – Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (d. 1963)
• 1895 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian and educator (d. 2001)
• 1895 – Dane Rudhyar, French-American astrologer, author, and composer (d. 1985)
• 1899 – Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943)
• 1900 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist (d. 1980)
• 1902 – Blessed Józef Cebula, beatified Polish priest, murdered at concentration camp (d. 1942)
• 1904 – Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977)
• 1904 – H. Beam Piper, American author (d. 1964)
• 1905 – Lale Andersen, German singer-songwriter (d. 1972)
• 1907 – Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1992)
• 1909 – Charles Werner, American cartoonist (d. 1997)
• 1910 – Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1912 – Eleanor Cameron, Canadian-American author and critic (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Neil McCorkell, English-South African cricketer and coach (d. 2013)
• 1912 – Wernher von Braun, German physicist and engineer (d. 1977)
• 1914 – Milbourne Christopher, American magician and author (d. 1984)
• 1915 – Mary Innes-Ker, Duchess of Roxburghe (d. 2014)
• 1915 – Tom Pashby, Canadian ophthalmologist (d. 2005)
• 1915 – Vasily Zaytsev, Russian captain (d. 1991)
• 1917 – Kenneth Tobey, American actor (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Stanley Armour Dunham, American sergeant (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Helene Hale, American politician (d. 2013)
• 1919 – Carl Graffunder, American architect and educator (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Neal Edward Smith, American pilot and politician
• 1920 – Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1921 – Donald Campbell, English race car driver (d. 1967)
• 1922 – Marty Allen, American comedian and actor
• 1922 – Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1923 – Angelo Ingrassia, American judge (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Rodney Mims Cook, Sr., American politician (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper (d. 1980)
• 1924 – Olga Kennard, English crystallographer
• 1925 – David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Mato Damjanović, Croatian chess player (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist, and academic
• 1929 – Michael Manser, English architect
• 1930 – Ahmed Ramzy, Egyptian actor (d. 2012)
• 1931 – Yevgeny Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005)
• 1931 – Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player and author
• 1931 – Yevdokiya Mekshilo, Russian skier (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1933 – Norman Bailey, English-American opera singer
• 1933 – Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist and academic
• 1934 – Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician and physicist
• 1934 – Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006)
• 1934 – Mark Rydell, American actor, director, and producer
• 1935 – Barry Cryer, English comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 1936 – Jannis Kounellis, Greek artist
• 1937 – Craig Breedlove, American race car driver
• 1937 – Robert Gallo, American physician
• 1937 – Tony Burton, American actor
• 1938 – Jon Finlayson, Australian actor and screenwriter (d. 2012)
• 1938 – Irwin Levine, American songwriter (d. 1997)
• 1938 – Dave Pike, American vibraphone player
• 1939 – Robin Herd, English engineer and businessman
• 1940 – Ama Ata Aidoo, Ghanaian author, playwright, and academic
• 1941 – Jim Trelease, American author and educator
• 1942 – Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1942 – Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian, scholar, and activist (d. 1980)
• 1943 – Andrew Crockett, English economist and banker (d. 2012)
• 1943 – George P. Lee, American religious leader (d. 2010)
• 1943 – Lee May, American baseball player
• 1943 – Sharon Presley, American libertarian feminist and writer
• 1943 – Nils-Aslak Valkeapää, Finnish singer, author, and director (d. 2001)
• 1944 – B. P. Gavrilov, Russian rugby player (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Tony McPhee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Groundhogs)
• 1944 – Michael Nyman, English pianist and composer
• 1945 – Franco Battiato, Italian singer-songwriter and director
• 1945 – David Grisman, American mandolin player and composer (Even Dozen Jug Band, Old and in the Way, and David Grisman Quintet)
• 1946 – Alan Bleasdale, English screenwriter and producer
• 1946 – Pepe Lienhard, Swiss singer and bandleader
• 1947 – Barbara Rhoades, American actress
• 1947 – Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, American author
• 1948 – Wasim Bari, Pakistani cricketer
• 1948 – Marie Malavoy, German-Canadian educator and politician
• 1948 – David Olney, American singer-songwriter
• 1949 – Ric Ocasek, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (The Cars)
• 1950 – Corinne Cléry, French actress
• 1950 – Joseph Connolly, English journalist and author
• 1950 – Anthony De Longis, American actor, stuntman, and choreographer
• 1950 – Ahdaf Soueif, Egyptian author
• 1951 – Ron Jaworski, American football player and sportscaster
• 1951 – Phil Keaggy, American guitarist (Glass Harp and Love Song)
• 1951 – Adrian Reynard, English businessman, founded Reynard Motorsport
• 1952 – Villano III, Mexican wrestler
• 1952 – Kim Stanley Robinson, American author
• 1953 – Bo Díaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990)
• 1953 – Chaka Khan, American singer-songwriter (Rufus)
• 1953 – Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian businesswoman
• 1954 – Geno Auriemma, Italian-American basketball player and coach
• 1954 – Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer, founded Kenneth Cole Productions
• 1955 – Petrea Burchard, American actress
• 1955 – Moses Malone, American basketball player
• 1956 – José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician, 117th Prime Minister of Portugal
• 1956 – Andrew Mitchell, English politician, Secretary of State for International Development
• 1956 – Jeremy Wade, English biologist and author
• 1957 – Teresa Ganzel, American actress
• 1957 – Lucio Gutiérrez, Ecuadorian politician, 52nd President of Ecuador
• 1957 – Robbie James, Welsh footballer and manager (d. 1998)
• 1957 – Amanda Plummer, American actress
• 1958 – Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist
• 1958 – Bengt-Åke Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach
• 1958 – Eldon Hoke, American drummer and singer (The Mentors and The Screamers) (d. 1997)
• 1958 – Michael Sorich, American voice actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Catherine Keener, American actress
• 1959 – Epic Soundtracks, English drummer and songwriter (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, and These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997)
• 1959 – Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005)
• 1960 – Haris Romas, Greek actor, composer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Nicol Stephen, Baron Stephen, Scottish politician, 2nd Deputy First Minister of Scotland
• 1961 – Roger Crisp, British philosopher
• 1961 – Steve Holmes, Romanian-American porn actor and director
• 1961 – Helmi Johannes, Indonesian journalist and producer
• 1962 – Steve Redgrave, English rower
• 1963 – Míchel, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1963 – Juan Ramón López Caro, Spanish footballer and manager
• 1964 – Hope Davis, American actress
• 1964 – John Pinette, American comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1965 – Sarah G. Buxton, American actress
• 1965 – Richard Grieco, American model and actor
• 1965 – Marti Pellow, Scottish singer-songwriter (Wet Wet Wet)
• 1965 – Gary Whitehead, American poet and painter
• 1966 – Beverly Hills, English actress
• 1966 – Marin Hinkle, Tanzanian-American actress
• 1966 – Vasilis Vouzas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1967 – David Ford, Canadian canoe racer
• 1968 – Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (Blur, Gorillaz, and The Good, the Bad & the Queen)
• 1968 – Mike Atherton, English cricketer and journalist
• 1968 – Mitch Cullin, American author
• 1968 – Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer
• 1968 – Pierre Palmade, French actor and comedian
• 1968 – Erki Pehk, Estonian conductor
• 1970 – Midajah, American model, trainer, and manager
• 1970 – Melissa Errico, American actress and singer
• 1970 – John Humphrey, American drummer (The Nixons and Seether)
• 1971 – Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model
• 1971 – Karen McDougal, American model and actress
• 1971 – Gail Porter, Scottish television host
• 1971 – Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1971 – Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese wrestler
• 1972 – Jonas Björkman, Swedish tennis player
• 1972 – Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer
• 1972 – Judith Godrèche, French actress and author
• 1973 – Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer
• 1973 – Wim Eyckmans, Belgian race car driver
• 1973 – Jason Kidd, American basketball player and coach
• 1973 – Kevin Northcutt, American wrestler
• 1973 – Patiparn Pataweekarn, Thai actor
• 1974 – Randall Park, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1976 – Jayson Blair, American journalist and author
• 1976 – Chris Hoy, Scottish cyclist
• 1976 – Smriti Irani, Indian politician and former model, television actress and producer
• 1976 – Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle racer
• 1976 – Michelle Monaghan, American actress
• 1976 – Jeremy Newberry, American football player
• 1976 – Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player
• 1976 – Keri Russell, American actress and dancer
• 1976 – Travis Tomko, American wrestler
• 1976 – Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver
• 1977 – Miklos Perlus, Canadian actor and screenwriter
• 1978 – Simon Gärdenfors, Swedish illustrator
• 1978 – Perez Hilton, American blogger
• 1978 – Walter Samuel, Argentinian footballer
• 1978 – David Tom, American actor
• 1978 – Nicholle Tom, American actress
• 1979 – Mark Buehrle, American baseball player
• 1979 – Ray Gordy, American wrestler
• 1979 – Natalia Hadjiloizou, Belarusian-Cypriot swimmer
• 1979 – Misty Hyman, American swimmer
• 1979 – Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player
• 1980 – Ryan Day, Welsh snooker player
• 1980 – Russell Howard, English comedian and television host
• 1980 – Itay Tiran, Israeli actor
• 1980 – Ambwene Simukonda, Malawian sprinter
• 1981 – Erin Crocker, American race car driver
• 1981 – Tony Peña, Jr., Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Shelley Rudman, English bobsledder
• 1981 – Giuseppe Sculli, Italian footballer
• 1982 – José Contreras Arrau, Chilean footballer
• 1982 – Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer
• 1982 – Evgeni Striganov, Estonian ice dancer
• 1983 – Mo Farah, Somalian-English runner
• 1983 – Sascha Riether, German footballer
• 1983 – Jerome Thomas, English footballer
• 1985 – Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player
• 1986 – Patrick Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer
• 1986 – Steven Strait, American actor and singer
• 1987 – James Foad, English rower
• 1987 – Kangna Ranaut, Indian actress
• 1987 – Vesna Rožič, Slovenian chess player (d. 2013)
• 1987 – Alan Toovey, Australian footballer
• 1988 – Jason Kenny, English cyclist
• 1988 – Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player
• 1989 – Nikola Gulan, Serbian footballer
• 1989 – Luis Fernando Silva, Mexican footballer
• 1990 – Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish race car driver
• 1990 – Princess Eugenie of York
• 1990 – Robert Zickert, German footballer
• 1991 – Gregg Wylde, Scottish footballer
• 1992 – Tolga Ciğerci, German-Turkish footballer
• 1992 – Kyrie Irving, Australian-American basketball player
• 1992 – Vanessa Morgan, Canadian actress and singer
• 1994 – Nick Powell, English footballer
• 1995 – Kevin Kauber, Estonian footballer
• 1995 – Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist
• 1997 – Aidan Davis, English dancer

Deaths

• 851 – Zhou Chi, Chinese historian and politician (b. 793)
• 1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
• 1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. 1310)
• 1369 – Peter of Castile (b. 1334)
• 1548 – Itagaki Nobukata, Japanese samurai (b. 1489)
• 1555 – Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
• 1559 – Gelawdewos, Ethiopian emperor (b. 1521)
• 1596 – Henry Unton, English diplomat (b. 1557)
• 1606 – Justus Lipsius, Flemish philologist (b. 1547)
• 1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician (b. 1575)
• 1675 – Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch organist and composer (b. 1619)
• 1680 – Nicolas Fouquet, French politician (b. 1615)
• 1742 – Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French author (b. 1670)
• 1747 – Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French general (b. 1675)
• 1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German organist and composer (b. 1684)
• 1754 – Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian and critic (b. 1693)
• 1783 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician (b. 1723)
• 1801 – Paul I of Russia (b. 1754)
• 1842 – Stendhal, French author (b. 1783)
• 1884 – Henry C. Lord, American businessman (b. 1824)
• 1910 – Nadar, French photographer, journalist, and author (b. 1820)
• 1914 – Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès, Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
• 1923 – Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and author (b. 1869)
• 1927 – Paul César Helleu, French painter (b. 1859)
• 1931 – Shivaram Rajguru, Indian activist (b. 1908)
• 1931 – Bhagat Singh, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1931 – Sukhdev Thapar, Indian activist (b. 1907)
• 1935 – Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
• 1947 – Archduchess Louise of Austria (b. 1870)
• 1953 – Oskar Luts, Estonian author and playwright (b. 1887)
• 1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (b. 1875)
• 1960 – Franklin Pierce Adams, American journalist (b. 1881)
• 1960 – Said Nursî, Turkish theologian and scholar (b. 1878)
• 1960 – Raoul Paoli, French boxer and rower (b. 1887)
• 1964 – Peter Lorre, Slovak-American actor (b. 1904)
• 1965 – Mae Murray, American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1968 – Edwin O'Connor, American journalist and author (b. 1918)
• 1970 – Del Lord, Canadian actor and director (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (b. 1895)
• 1978 – Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist (b. 1893)
• 1979 – Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
• 1980 – Alekos Livaditis, Greek actor (b. 1914)
• 1980 – Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
• 1984 – Shauna Grant, American porn actress and model (b. 1963)
• 1985 – Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (b. 1913)
• 1985 – Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and educator (b. 1908)
• 1985 – Ben Hardwick, English liver transplant patient (b. 1981)
• 1987 – Olev Roomet, Estonian singer and violinist (b. 1901)
• 1990 – John Dexter, English director and producer (b. 1925)
• 1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (b. 1913)
• 1992 – Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1992 – Ron Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1949)
• 1994 – Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
• 1994 – Donald Swann, Welsh-English singer-songwriter and pianist (Flanders and Swann) (b. 1923)
• 1995 – Alan Barton, English singer (Black Lace and Smokie) (b. 1953)
• 1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
• 1998 – Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
• 1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (b. 1932)
• 1999 – Osmond Borradaile, Canadian cinematographer (b. 1898)
• 2001 – Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Robert Laxalt, American author (b. 1923)
• 2001 – David McTaggart, Canadian environmentalist (b. 1932)
• 2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
• 2002 – Ben Hollioake, Australian-English cricketer (b. 1977)
• 2003 – Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-English journalist (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (b. 1916)
• 2006 – David B. Bleak, American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
• 2006 – Desmond Doss, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Cindy Walker, American singer-songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
• 2007 – Paul Cohen, American mathematician (b. 1934)
• 2007 – Eric Medlen, American race car driver (b. 1973)
• 2008 – Vaino Vahing, Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (b. 1940)
• 2009 – Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (b. 1923)
• 2009 – Raúl Macías, Mexican boxer and trainer (b. 1934)
• 2011 – Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (b. 1932)
• 2012 – Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, Somalian politician, President of Somalia (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Jim Duffy, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Eric Lowen, American singer-songwriter (Lowen & Navarro) (b. 1952)
• 2012 – Naji Talib, Iraqi politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (b. 1917)
• 2012 – Lonnie Wright, American basketball and football player (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Sukhraj Aujla, Indian singer (b. 1968)
• 2013 – Boris Berezovsky, Russian-English mathematician and businessman (b. 1946)
• 2013 – Onofre Corpuz, Filipino economist, historian, and academic (b. 1926)
• 2013 – David Early, American actor (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Virgil Trucks, American baseball player and coach (b. 1917)
• 2013 – Joe Weider, Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness and Muscle & Fitness Magazine (b. 1919)
• 2014 – Peter Oakley, English blogger (b. 1927)
• 2014 – Jaroslav Šerých, Czech painter and illustrator (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Adolfo Suárez, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (b. 1932)
• 2014 – Oderus Urungus, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (Gwar, Death Piggy, X-Cops, and Dave Brockie Experience) (b. 1963)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès
  • Turibius de Mongrovejo
  • March 23 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary and Poland)
• Day of the Sea (Bolivia)
• Earliest day on which Easter Monday can fall, while April 26 is the latest; celebrated on Monday after Easter. (Christianity)
  • Family Day (South Africa)
  • Sham el-Nessim (Egypt)
• Lieldienas (Ancient Latvia)
• Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan)
• Pakistan Day (Pakistan)
• Tubilustrium, the fifth and final day of Quinquatria (Roman Empire)
• World Meteorological Day (International)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada