March 24

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

March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.

Events

• 1401 – Turko-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
• 1603 – James VI of Scotland also becomes James I of England, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
• 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa Shogunate in Edo, Japan.
• 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.
• 1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 is signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.
• 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. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.
• 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Christian Ludwig, margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg concertos, BWV 1046–1051.
• 1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
• 1765 – American Revolution: The Kingdom of Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
• 1829 – Catholic Emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
• 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
• 1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
• 1854 – In Venezuela, slavery was abolished.
• 1860 – Sakuradamon incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
• 1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
• 1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
• 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
• 1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.
• 1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
• 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.
• 1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
• 1922 – Irish War of Independence: In Belfast, Northern Irish policemen break into the home of a Catholic family and shoot all eight males inside.
• 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
• 1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
• 1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
• 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.
• 1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
• 1958 – Rock'N'Roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
• 1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.
• 1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.
• 1972 – The United Kingdom imposes direct rule over Northern Ireland.
• 1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
• 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.
• 1980 – Archbishop Óscar Romero is killed while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
• 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
• 1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m³) of petroleum after running aground.
• 1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.
• 1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
• 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3000 others.
• 1999 – Mont Blanc Tunnel fire kills 39 people.
• 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
• 2000 – S&P 500 index reaches an intraday high of 1,552.87, a peak that, due to the collapse of the dot-com bubble, it will not reach again for another seven-and-a-half years.
• 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
• 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

Births

• 1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)
• 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)
• 1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)
• 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese politician (d. 1725)
• 1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776)
• 1725 – Samuel Ashe, American politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)
• 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)
• 1740 – John Antes, American missionary and composer (d. 1811)
• 1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827)
• 1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese composer (d. 1830)
• 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)
• 1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836)
• 1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (d. 1878)
• 1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882)
• 1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836)
• 1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)
• 1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician (d. 1882)
• 1820 – A. E. Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1891)
• 1820 – Fanny Crosby, American composer and songwriter (d. 1915)
• 1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887)
• 1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist (d. 1898)
• 1828 – Horace Gray, American jurist (d. 1902)
• 1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)
• 1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)
• 1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889)
• 1834 – William Morris, English poet and designer (d. 1896)
• 1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)
• 1835 – Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist (d. 1893)
• 1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)
• 1850 – Silas Hocking, English minister and author (d. 1935)
• 1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)
• 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author (d. 1920)
• 1869 – Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955)
• 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)
• 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)
• 1875 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953)
• 1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951)
• 1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)
• 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)
• 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)
• 1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)
• 1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (d. 1922)
• 1889 – Albert Hill, English runner (d. 1969)
• 1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian politician (d. 1954)
• 1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist (d. 1951)
• 1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician (d. 1977)
• 1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer (d. 1960)
• 1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player (d. 1973)
• 1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist (d. 1957)
• 1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator (d. 1971)
• 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971)
• 1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)
• 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007)
• 1906 – Klavdiya Shulzhenko, Ukrainian-Russian singer (d. 1984)
• 1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)
• 1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)
• 1910 – Richard Conte, American actor (d. 1975)
• 1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)
• 1912 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (d. 2010)
• 1915 – George Wagner, American wrestler (d. 1963)
• 1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American author (d. 2006)
• 1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist (d. 2010)
• 1917 – Constantine Andreou, Brazilian-Greek painter and sculptor (d. 2007)
• 1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore
• 1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Bill Irwin, Canadian skier (d. 2013)
• 1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)
• 1921 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (d. 1987)
• 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)
• 1922 – T. M. Soundararajan, Indian singer (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005)
• 1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)
• 1923 – Michael Legat, England author (d. 2011)
• 1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)
• 1925 – Puig Aubert, French rugby player (d. 1994)
• 1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal
• 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian actor, director, composer, and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 – Ventsislav Yankov, Bulgarian pianist
• 1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright
• 1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist
• 1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Agustín González, Spanish actor (d. 2005)
• 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor (d. 1980)
• 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003)
• 1931 – Connie Hines, American actress (d. 2009)
• 1933 – William Smith, American actor
• 1935 – Peret, Spanish singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2014)
• 1935 – Mary Berry, English television host and author
• 1935 – Carol Kaye, American bass player
• 1935 – Peter Bichsel, Swiss-German journalist and author
• 1936 – David Suzuki, Canadian environmentalist and academic
• 1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (d. 1970)
• 1938 – Holger Czukay, German bass player (Can)
• 1938 – David Irving, English historian and author
• 1940 – Don Jardine, Canadian wrestler (d. 2006)
• 1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
• 1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American actor
• 1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist
• 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor
• 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (Neu!, La Düsseldorf, and Kraftwerk) (d. 2008)
• 1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
• 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American politician, 22nd Governor of Washington
• 1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach
• 1947 – Meiko Kaji, Japanese actress and singer
• 1947 – Gary Howard Klar, American actor
• 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
• 1948 – Javier Díez Canseco, Peruvian politician (d. 2013)
• 1948 – Anatoli Krikun, Estonian basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 1989)
• 1948 – Lee Oskar, Danish harmonica player and songwriter (War and Lowrider Band)
• 1949 – Tabitha King, American author
• 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Mashmakhan)
• 1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter and producer (Rockpile and Little Village)
• 1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
• 1949 – Ranil Wickremasinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• 1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)
• 1951 – Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer
• 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
• 1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player (Supertramp and The Alan Bown Set)
• 1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013)
• 1953 – Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
• 1953 – Louie Anderson, American comedian, actor, and game show host
• 1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor
• 1954 – Donna Pescow, American actress and director
• 1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1955 – Celal Şengör, Turkish geologist, member of The American Philosophical Society, The United States National Academy of Sciences and The Russian Academy of Sciences.
• 1955 – Mart Kadastik, Estonian journalist
• 1955 – Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman
• 1956 – Bill Wray, American cartoonist and landscape painter
• 1957 – Gilles Baril, Canadian politician
• 1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
• 1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer
• 1960 – Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress (Nena)
• 1960 – Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
• 1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• 1960 – Kelly LeBrock, American model and actress
• 1960 – Grayson Perry, English potter
• 1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver
• 1961 – Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
• 1962 – Star Jones, American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host
• 1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor
• 1965 – Kaido Kalm, Estonian ice sledge hockey player
• 1965 – Patrick Scales, German bass player and educator
• 1965 – Gurmit Singh, Singaporean actor
• 1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler
• 1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
• 1969 – Houston, American porn actress
• 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
• 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist (The Corrs)
• 1970 – Christopher Daniels, American wrestler
• 1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
• 1970 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (d. 2012)
• 1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
• 1971 – Megyn Price, American actress
• 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
• 1973 – Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach
• 1973 – Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
• 1973 – Jim Parsons, American actor
• 1974 – Tado, Filipino comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1974 – Chad Butler, Dutch-American drummer (Switchfoot)
• 1974 – Alyson Hannigan, American actress
• 1975 – Krisdayanti, Indonesian singer-songwriter, producer, and actress
• 1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish tennis player
• 1975 – Davor Vugrinec, Croatian footballer
• 1976 – Angellica Bell, English radio and television host
• 1976 – Aaron Brooks, American football player
• 1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
• 1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
• 1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player
• 1977 – Corneille, German-Canadian singer-songwriter
• 1977 – Olivia Burnette, American actress
• 1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress
• 1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby player and sportscaster
• 1978 – Michael Braun, Australian footballer
• 1978 – Kaori Mochida, Japanese singer-songwriter (Every Little Thing)
• 1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer
• 1979 – Lake Bell, American actress and director
• 1979 – Emraan Hashmi, Indian actor
• 1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
• 1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
• 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
• 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 race car driver
• 1982 – Epico, Puerto Rican wrestler
• 1982 – Nivea, American singer
• 1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
• 1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
• 1982 – Christian Hug, German rugby player
• 1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
• 1982 – Jack Swagger, American wrestler
• 1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
• 1983 – Kelvin Kwan, Canadian-Chinese singer
• 1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer
• 1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer, dancer, and actress (2NE1)
• 1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
• 1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
• 1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress
• 1985 – Frederico Gil, Portuguese tennis player
• 1985 – Sayaka Hirano, Japanese table tennis player
• 1986 – Kohei Hirate, Japanese race car driver
• 1986 – Tony McMahon, English footballer
• 1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese porn actress
• 1987 – Billy Jones, English footballer
• 1987 – Josh Zeid, American baseball player
• 1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
• 1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer
• 1988 – Sharmin Ratna, Bangladeshi target shooter
• 1989 – Aziz Shavershian, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and model (d. 2011)
• 1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
• 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, New Zealand actress
• 1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player
• 1990 – Libby Clegg, English runner
• 1991 – Dalila Jakupović, Slovenian tennis player
• 1992 – Melody Nurramdhani Laksani, Indonesian singer and actress (JKT48)
• 1992 – Jeremy Rosado, American singer
• 1993 – Ryo Ryusei, Japanese actor
• 1994 – Anna Hämäläinen, Russian-Finnish runner
• 1998 – Isabel Suckling, English singer

Deaths

• 809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)
• 1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)
• 1381 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)
• 1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic (b. 1340)
• 1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
• 1558 – Anna van Egmont, Dutch wife of William the Silent (b. 1533)
• 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1514)
• 1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi (b. 1488)
• 1603 – Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
• 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)
• 1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)
• 1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)
• 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)
• 1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)
• 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)
• 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)
• 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
• 1905 – Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
• 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
• 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)
• 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)
• 1926 – Phan Chu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)
• 1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and educator (b. 1844)
• 1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)
• 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
• 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast (b. 1869)
• 1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter (b. 1885)
• 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)
• 1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867)
• 1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)
• 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
• 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American actress, director, and producer (b. 1873)
• 1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)
• 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)
• 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)
• 1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor and singer (b. 1891)
• 1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)
• 1991 – John Kerr, Australian politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)
• 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)
• 1993 – John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
• 1995 – Joseph Needham, English sinologist, historian, and academic (b. 1900)
• 1997 – Martin Caidin, American author and talk show host (b. 1927)
• 1997 – Dr. Bill Miller, American wrestler (b. 1927)
• 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)
• 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
• 1999 – Pierlucio Tinazzi, Italian security guard (b. 1962)
• 2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)
• 2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian biochemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)
• 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)
• 2006 – Lynne Perrie, English actress and singer (b. 1931)
• 2006 – Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
• 2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)
• 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)
• 2008 – Hal Riney, American advertiser, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (b. 1932)
• 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
• 2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)
• 2010 – Robert Culp, American actor, director, and screenwriter (b. 1930)
• 2010 – Johnny Maestro, American singer-songwriter (Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge) (b. 1939)
• 2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)
• 2012 – Iqbal Bahu, Pakistani singer (b. 1944)
• 2012 – Vigor Bovolenta, Italian volleyball player (b. 1974)
• 2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Vince Lovegrove, Australian singer, producer, and journalist (The Valentines) (b. 1947)
• 2012 – Marion Marlowe, American actress and singer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Nick Noble, American singer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Jose Prakash, Indian actor and singer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Jocky Wilson, Scottish darts player (b. 1950)
• 2013 – Ratón, Spanish bull (b. 2001)
• 2013 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)
• 2013 – Peter Duryea, American actor (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)
• 2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)
• 2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)
• 2013 – Deke Richards, American songwriter and producer (b. 1944)
• 2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian politician (b. 1974)
• 2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)
• 2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)
• 2014 – Paulo Schroeber, Brazilian guitarist (Almah, Astafix, and Hammer 67) (b. 1973)
• 2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author (b. 1922)
• 2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Rodney Wilkes, Trinidadian weightlifter (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Catherine of Vadstena
  • Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
  • Óscar Romero (Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
  • Paul Couturier (Church of England)
  • Simon of Trent (cult suppressed)
  • Walter Hilton (Church of England)
  • March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

• Day of National Revolution (Kyrgyzstan)
• Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
• National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
• World Tuberculosis Day (International)

External links

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