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March 6 is the 65th day of the year (66th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 300 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

• 12 BC – The Roman Emperor Augustus is named Pontifex Maximus, incorporating the position into that of the Emperor.
• 961 – Byzantine conquest of Chandax by Nikephoros Phokas, end of the Emirate of Crete
• 1454 – Thirteen Years' War: Delegates of the Prussian Confederation pledge allegiance to King Casimir IV of Poland who agrees to commit his forces in aiding the Confederation's struggle for independence from the Teutonic Knights.
• 1521 – Ferdinand Magellan arrives at Guam.
• 1788 – The First Fleet arrives at Norfolk Island in order to found a convict settlement.
• 1820 – The Missouri Compromise is signed into law by President James Monroe. The compromise allows Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state, brings Maine into the Union as a free state, and makes the rest of the northern part of the Louisiana Purchase territory slavery-free.
• 1834 – York, Upper Canada is incorporated as Toronto.
• 1836 – Texas Revolution: Battle of the Alamo – After a thirteen day siege by an army of 3,000 Mexican troops, the 187 Texas volunteers, including frontiersman Davy Crockett and colonel Jim Bowie, defending the Alamo are killed and the fort is captured.
• 1857 – The Supreme Court of the United States rules in the Dred Scott v. Sandford case.
• 1869 – Dmitri Mendeleev presents the first periodic table to the Russian Chemical Society.
• 1882 – The Serbian kingdom is re-founded.
• 1899 – Bayer registers "Aspirin" as a trademark.
• 1902 – Real Madrid C.F. was founded.
• Italian forces became the first to use airships in war, as two dirigibles dropped bombs on Turkish troops encamped at Janzur, from an altitude of 6,000 feet.
• 1921 – Portuguese Communist Party is founded as the Portuguese Section of the Communist International.
• 1930 – International Unemployment Day demonstrations globally initiated by the Comintern
• 1943 – Norman Rockwell published Freedom from Want in the The Saturday Evening Post with a matching essay by Carlos Bulosan as part of the Four Freedoms series.
• 1945 – World War II: Cologne is captured by American Troops.
• 1946 – Ho Chi Minh signs an agreement with France which recognizes Vietnam as an autonomous state in the Indochinese Federation and the French Union.
• 1951 – The trial of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg begins.
• 1953 – Georgy Malenkov succeeds Joseph Stalin as Premier of the Soviet Union and First Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
• 1957 – Ghana becomes the first Sub-Saharan country to gain independence from the British
• 1962 – Ash Wednesday Storm of 1962 begins on the mid-Atlantic coast of the United States.
• 1964 – Nation of Islam's Elijah Muhammad officially gives boxing champion Cassius Clay the name Muhammad Ali.
• 1964 – Constantine II becomes King of Greece.
• 1965 – Premier Tom Playford of South Australia loses power after 27 years in office.
• 1967 – Joseph Stalin's daughter Svetlana Alliluyeva defects to the United States.
• 1968 – The first of the East L.A. walkouts take place at several high schools.
• 1968 – Three black males are executed by Rhodesia, the first executions since UDI, prompting international condemnation.
• 1970 – An explosion at the Weather Underground safe house in Greenwich Village kills three.
• 1975 – For the first time the Zapruder film of the assassination of John F. Kennedy is shown in motion to a national TV audience by Robert J. Groden and Dick Gregory.
• 1975 – Algiers Accord: Iran and Iraq announce a settlement of their border dispute.
• 1981 – After 19 years of presenting the CBS Evening News, Walter Cronkite signs off for the last time.
• 1983 – The first United States Football League game is played.
• 1987 – The British ferry MS Herald of Free Enterprise capsizes in about 90 seconds killing 193.
• 1988 – Three Provisional Irish Republican Army volunteers are killed by Special Air Service on the territory of Gibraltar in the conclusion of Operation Flavius.
• 1990 – Ed Yielding and Joseph T. Vida set the transcontinental speed record flying a SR-71 Blackbird from Los Angeles to Virginia in 64 minutes, averaging 2,124 mph.
• 1992 – The Michelangelo computer virus begins to affect computers.
• 2008 – A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

Births

• 1340 – John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, Belgian-English son of Edward III of England (d. 1399)
• 1405 – John II of Castile (d. 1454)
• 1459 – Jakob Fugger, German merchant and banker (d. 1525)
• 1475 – Michelangelo, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1564)
• 1483 – Francesco Guicciardini, Italian historian and politician (d. 1540)
• 1495 – Luigi Alamanni, Italian poet (d. 1556)
• 1619 – Cyrano de Bergerac, French author and playwright (d. 1655)
• 1663 – Francis Atterbury, English bishop (d. 1732)
• 1706 – George Pocock, English admiral (d. 1792)
• 1716 – Pehr Kalm, Swedish-Finnish botanist and explorer (d. 1779)
• 1724 – Henry Laurens, American merchant and politician, 5th President of the Continental Congress (d. 1792)
• 1761 – Antoine-François Andréossy, French general and diplomat (d. 1828)
• 1779 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (d. 1869)
• 1785 – Karol Kurpiński, Polish composer and conductor (d. 1857)
• 1787 – Joseph von Fraunhofer, German physicist (d. 1826)
• 1806 – Elizabeth Barrett Browning, English poet (d. 1861)
• 1812 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American businessman, co-founded the Waltham Watch Company (d. 1895)
• 1817 – Princess Clémentine of Orléans (d. 1907)
• 1818 – William Claflin, American politician, 27th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1905)
• 1823 – Charles I of Württemberg (d. 1891)
• 1831 – Philip Sheridan, American general (d. 1888)
• 1834 – George du Maurier, French-English author and illustrator (d. 1896)
• 1849 – Georg Luger, Austrian gun designer, designed the Luger pistol (d. 1923)
• 1870 – Oscar Straus, Viennese composer (d. 1954)
• 1871 – Afonso Costa, Portuguese lawyer and politician, 59th Prime Minister of Portugal (d. 1937)
• 1872 – Ben Harney, American pianist and composer (d. 1938)
• 1882 – John January, American soccer player (d. 1917)
• 1882 – Guy Kibbee, American actor (d. 1956)
• 1884 – Molla Mallory, Norwegian-American tennis player (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Ring Lardner, American author and journalist (d. 1933)
• 1886 – Jam Handy, American swimmer and water polo player (d. 1983)
• 1893 – Furry Lewis, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1981)
• 1895 – Albert Tessier, Canadian priest and historian (d. 1976)
• 1898 – Gus Sonnenberg, American football player and wrestler (d. 1944)
• 1900 – Lefty Grove, American baseball player (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Henri Jeanson, French author and journalist (d. 1970)
• 1900 – Gina Cigna, French-Italian opera singer (d. 2001)
• 1903 – Empress Kōjun of Japan (d. 2000)
• 1904 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (d. 1960)
• 1905 – Bob Wills, American singer-songwriter (d. 1975)
• 1906 – Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (d. 1959)
• 1909 – Obafemi Awolowo, Nigerian politician (d. 1987)
• 1909 – Stanisław Jerzy Lec, Polish author (d. 1966)
• 1910 – Ejler Bille, Danish sculptor and painter (d. 2004)
• 1911 – George Webb, English actor (d. 1998)
• 1913 – Louise Latimer, American actress (d. 1973)
• 1914 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (d. 1981)
• 1915 – Mohammed Burhanuddin, Indian spiritual leader, 52nd Da'i al-Mutlaq (d. 2014)
• 1917 – Donald Davidson, American philosopher (d. 2003)
• 1917 – Will Eisner, American illustrator (d. 2005)
• 1917 – Frankie Howerd, English comedian, actor, and singer (d. 1992)
• 1918 – Leslie Smith, English businessman, co-founded Lesney Products (d. 2005)
• 1920 – Olive Dickason, Canadian historian (d. 2011)
• 1920 – Lewis Gilbert, English director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1921 – Leo Bretholz, Austrian-American holocaust survivor and author (d. 2014)
• 1921 – Julius Rudel, Austrian-American conductor
• 1923 – Herman Leonard, American photographer (d. 2010)
• 1923 – Ed McMahon, American comedian, game show host, and announcer (d. 2009)
• 1923 – Wes Montgomery, American guitarist and songwriter (Montgomery Brothers) (d. 1968)
• 1924 – Ottmar Walter, German footballer (d. 2013)
• 1924 – William H. Webster, American lawyer and jurist, 14th Director of Central Intelligence
• 1926 – Alan Greenspan, American economist
• 1926 – Ray O'Connor, Australian politician, 22nd Premier of Western Australia (d. 2013)
• 1926 – Andrzej Wajda, Polish director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1927 – William J. Bell, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
• 1927 – Gordon Cooper, American engineer, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2004)
• 1927 – Gabriel García Márquez, Colombian journalist and author, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2014)
• 1927 – Norman Treigle, American opera singer (d. 1975)
• 1929 – Tom Foley, American lawyer and politician, 57th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 2013)
• 1930 – Lorin Maazel, French-American violinist, composer, and conductor
• 1931 – Hal Needham, American actor, stuntman, director, and screenwriter (d. 2013)
• 1932 – Marc Bazin, Haitian politician, 49th President of Haiti (d. 2010)
• 1932 – Jean Boht, English actress
• 1932 – Bronisław Geremek, Polish historian and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Poland (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Ted Abernathy, American baseball player (d. 2004)
• 1933 – William Davis, German-English journalist and economist
• 1934 – John Noakes, English actor and television host
• 1934 – Keith Spicer, Canadian journalist, academic, and public servant
• 1935 – Ron Delany, Irish runner
• 1936 – Bob Akin, American race car driver and journalist (d. 2002)
• 1936 – Marion Barry, American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia
• 1936 – Sylvia Robinson, American singer and producer (Mickey & Sylvia) (d. 2011)
• 1936 – Choummaly Sayasone, Laotian politician, 5th President of Laos
• 1937 – Ivan Boesky, American businessman
• 1937 – Valentina Tereshkova, Russian general, pilot, and astronaut
• 1938 – Keishu Tanaka, Japanese politician
• 1939 – Kit Bond, American politician, 47th Governor of Missouri
• 1939 – Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria
• 1939 – Adam Osborne, Thai-Indian engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (d. 2003)
• 1939 – Cookie Rojas, Cuban baseball player
• 1940 – Ken Danby, Canadian painter (d. 2007)
• 1940 – Joanna Miles, French-American actress
• 1940 – Willie Stargell, American baseball player (d. 2001)
• 1940 – Jeff Wooller, English accountant and banker
• 1941 – Peter Brötzmann, German saxophonist (Last Exit)
• 1941 – Marilyn Strathern, Welsh anthropologist and academic
• 1942 – Ben Murphy, American actor
• 1942 – Flora Purim, Brazilian singer (Return to Forever)
• 1944 – Richard Corliss, American journalist and critic
• 1944 – David Forbes Hendry, English economist and academic
• 1944 – Kiri Te Kanawa, New Zealand soprano
• 1944 – Mary Wilson, American singer (The Supremes)
• 1945 – John A. MacNaughton, Canadian banker (d. 2013)
• 1946 – David Gilmour, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Pink Floyd, Joker's Wild, and Deep End)
• 1946 – Martin Kove, American actor
• 1946 – Richard Noble, Scottish race car driver and businessman
• 1947 – Tony Badger, English historian and academic
• 1947 – Kiki Dee, English singer-songwriter
• 1947 – Dick Fosbury, American high jumper
• 1947 – Killer Khan, Japanese wrestler
• 1947 – Rob Reiner, American actor, director, and producer
• 1947 – Jean Seaton, English historian and academic
• 1947 – John Stossel, American journalist and author
• 1947 – Judy Loe, English actress
• 1948 – Anna Maria Horsford, American actress
• 1948 – Stephen Schwartz, American composer
• 1949 – Shaukat Aziz, Pakistani economist and politician, 15th Prime Minister of Pakistan
• 1949 – Martin Buchan, Scottish footballer
• 1950 – Arthur Roche, English archbishop
• 1950 – Hirotaka Suzuoki, Japanese voice actor (d. 2006)
• 1951 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch cyclist (d. 2004)
• 1953 – Phil Alvin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Blasters)
• 1953 – Jan Kjærstad, Norwegian author
• 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepali politician, 34th Prime Minister of Nepal
• 1953 – Carolyn Porco, American astronomer and academic
• 1954 – Joey DeMaio, American bass player and songwriter (Manowar)
• 1954 – Jeff Greenwald, American author, photographer, and monologist
• 1954 – Harald Schumacher, German footballer, coach, and manager
• 1955 – Alberta Watson, Canadian actress
• 1957 – Yves Bolduc, Canadian doctor and politician
• 1958 – Eddie Deezen, American actor
• 1959 – Tom Arnold, American actor, producer, and screenwriter
• 1959 – Chris Raschka, American author and illustrator
• 1960 – Sleepy Floyd, American basketball player
• 1960 – Cecilia Heyes, English psychologist and academic
• 1962 – Erika Hess, Swiss skier
• 1962 – Luis Raúl, Puerto Rican comedian and actor (d. 2014)
• 1963 – Suzanne Crough, American actress
• 1963 – D. L. Hughley, American comedian and actor
• 1964 – Paul Bostaph, American drummer (Forbidden, Slayer, Testament, and Systematic)
• 1964 – Skip Ewing, American singer-songwriter
• 1964 – Madonna Wayne Gacy, American keyboard player (Marilyn Manson)
• 1964 – Yvette Wilson, American actress (d. 2012)
• 1965 – Jim Knight, English politician
• 1966 – Alan Davies, English comedian and actor
• 1967 – Julio Bocca, Argentinian ballet dancer and director
• 1967 – Connie Britton, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1967 – Shuler Hensley, American actor and singer
• 1968 – Moira Kelly, American actress
• 1968 – Michael Romeo, American guitarist and songwriter (Symphony X)
• 1969 – Andrea Elson, American actress
• 1969 – Tari Phillips, American basketball player
• 1969 – Amy Pietz, American actress
• 1970 – Chris Broderick, American guitarist and songwriter (Megadeth and Jag Panzer)
• 1971 – Darrick Martin, American basketball player
• 1971 – Roger Salkeld, American baseball player
• 1971 – Val Venis, Canadian wrestler
• 1972 – Shaquille O'Neal, American basketball player, actor, and rapper
• 1972 – Jaret Reddick, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Bowling For Soup and People on Vacation)
• 1973 – Michael Finley, American basketball player
• 1973 – Peter Lindgren, Swedish guitarist and songwriter (Opeth)
• 1973 – Greg Ostertag, American basketball player
• 1973 – Trent Willmon, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1974 – Guy Garvey, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Elbow)
• 1974 – Beanie Sigel, American rapper (State Property)
• 1975 – Aracely Arámbula, Mexican actress and singer
• 1975 – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Canadian pianist and conductor
• 1976 – Ken Anderson, American wrestler and actor
• 1977 – Giorgos Karagounis, Greek footballer
• 1977 – Bubba Sparxxx, American rapper
• 1977 – Marcus Thames, American baseball player
• 1978 – Lara Cox, Australian actress
• 1978 – Sage Rosenfels, American football player
• 1978 – Chad Wicks, American wrestler
• 1979 – Clint Barmes, American baseball player
• 1979 – Érik Bédard, Canadian baseball player
• 1979 – David Flair, American wrestler
• 1979 – Rufus Hound, English comedian and actor
• 1979 – Tim Howard, American soccer player
• 1980 – Emílson Cribari, Brazilian footballer
• 1980 – Daniel DeSanto, Canadian actor
• 1980 – Kristina Triska, Swedish tennis player
• 1981 – Ellen Muth, American actress
• 1983 – Tommaso Berni, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Andranik Teymourian, Iranian footballer
• 1984 – Becky, Japanese-English singer and actress
• 1984 – Daniël de Ridder, Dutch footballer
• 1984 – Eskil Pedersen, Norwegian politician
• 1984 – Chris Tomson, American drummer (Vampire Weekend)
• 1984 – Edmund Yeo, Singaporean-Malaysian director and producer
• 1985 – Bakaye Traoré, French-Malian footballer
• 1986 – Traphik, American rapper and actor
• 1986 – Jake Arrieta, American baseball player
• 1986 – Francisco Cervelli, Italian baseball player
• 1986 – Ross Detwiler, American baseball player
• 1986 – Eli Marienthal, American actor
• 1986 – Charlie Mulgrew, Scottish footballer
• 1986 – Markus Puusepp, Estonian orienteer
• 1987 – Kevin-Prince Boateng, Ghanaian-German footballer
• 1987 – José Manuel Flores, Spanish footballer
• 1987 – Hannah Taylor-Gordon, English actress
• 1988 – Agnes Carlsson, Swedish singer
• 1988 – Simon Mignolet, Belgian footballer
• 1989 – Agnieszka Radwańska, Polish tennis player
• 1990 – Linn Haug, Norwegian snowboarder
• 1990 – Kirk Urso, American soccer player (d. 2012)
• 1991 – Nicole Fox, American model and actress
• 1991 – Lex Luger, American record producer
• 1991 – Emma McDougall, English footballer (d. 2013)
• 1991 – Tyler, The Creator, American rapper and producer (Odd Future)
• 1992 – Momoko Tsugunaga, Japanese actress and singer (Berryz Kobo, ZYX, and Buono!)
• 1993 – Andrés Rentería, Colombian footballer
• 1994 – Nathan Redmond, English footballer
• 2001 – Aryana Engineer, Canadian actress

Deaths

• 766 – Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop and saint
• 1252 – Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
• 1490 – Ivan the Young, Russian son of Ivan III of Russia (b. 1458)
• 1531 – Pedro Arias Dávila, Spanish explorer (b. 1440)
• 1627 – Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish-Lithuanian diplomat (b. 1580)
• 1658 – Ivan Bunić Vučić, Croatian poet and politician (b. 1591)
• 1754 – Henry Pelham, English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
• 1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician, Lord Lieutenant of Durham (b. 1705)
• 1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, English lawyer and politician, Lord Chancellor of the United Kingdom (b. 1690)
• 1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French author (b. 1713)
• 1836 – Deaths at the Battle of the Alamo:
  • James Bonham, American lawyer and soldier (b. 1807)
  • James Bowie, American colonel (b. 1796)
  • Davy Crockett, American soldier and politician (b. 1786)
  • William B. Travis, American lieutenant and lawyer (b. 1809)
• 1842 – Constanze Mozart, German wife of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (b. 1763)
• 1854 – Charles Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, Irish colonel and diplomat (b. 1778)
• 1860 – Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
• 1866 – William Whewell, English priest, historian, and philosopher (b. 1794)
• 1867 – Charles Farrar Browne, American author (b. 1834)
• 1881 – Horatia Nelson, English daughter of Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson (b. 1801)
• 1888 – Louisa May Alcott, American author (b. 1832)
• 1895 – Camilla Collett, Norwegian author (b. 1813)
• 1899 – Kaʻiulani of Hawaii (b. 1875)
• 1900 – Gottlieb Daimler, German businessman, co-founded Daimler-Motoren-Gesellschaft (b. 1834)
• 1905 – John Henninger Reagan, American politician (b. 1818)
• 1917 – Valdemar Psilander Danish actor (b. 1884)
• 1919 – Oskars Kalpaks, Latvian lieutenant (b. 1882)
• 1932 – John Philip Sousa, American conductor and composer (b. 1854)
• 1933 – Anton Cermak, Czech-American politician, 44th Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
• 1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., American jurist (b. 1841)
• 1935 – Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor (b. 1895)
• 1939 – Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
• 1941 – Gutzon Borglum, Danish-American sculptor, designed Mount Rushmore (b. 1867)
• 1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American author (b. 1914)
• 1950 – Albert François Lebrun, French politician, 15th President of France (b. 1871)
• 1951 – Ivor Novello, Welsh singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1893)
• 1951 – Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1880)
• 1952 – Jürgen Stroop, German SS officer (b. 1895)
• 1961 – George Formby, English singer-songwriter and actor (b. 1904)
• 1961 – Edgar Krahn, Estonian mathematician (b. 1894)
• 1964 – Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
• 1965 – Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
• 1967 – John Haden Badley, English author and educator, founded the Bedales School (b. 1865)
• 1967 – Nelson Eddy, American actor and singer (b. 1901)
• 1967 – Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
• 1969 – Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
• 1970 – William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
• 1971 – Thurston Dart, English keyboard player and conductor (b. 1921)
• 1973 – Pearl S. Buck, American author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1974 – Ernest Becker, American anthropologist and author (b. 1924)
• 1976 – Mary Petty, American illustrator (b. 1899)
• 1976 – Maxie Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
• 1977 – Alvin R. Dyer, an apostle in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (b. 1903)
• 1978 – Dennis Viollet, English footballer (b. 1933)
• 1981 – George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
• 1982 – Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
• 1984 – Billy Collins, Irish-American boxer (b. 1961)
• 1984 – Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian (b. 1892)
• 1984 – Homer N. Wallin, American admiral (b. 1893)
• 1984 – Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican-American actor (b. 1905)
• 1986 – Georgia O'Keeffe, American painter (b. 1887)
• 1988 – Mairéad Farrell, Irish soldier (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Daniel McCann, Irish soldier (b. 1957)
• 1988 – Seán Savage, Irish soldier (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, singer, and politician (b. 1920)
• 1994 – Conrad Heidkamp, German footballer (b. 1905)
• 1997 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (b. 1918)
• 1997 – Michael Manley, Jamaican politician, 4th Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
• 1998 – Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
• 1999 – Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Bahrain king (b. 1933)
• 2000 – John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
• 2001 – Balla Moussa Keïta, Malian actor (b. 1934)
• 2001 – Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
• 2002 – Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
• 2004 – Hercules, American wrestler (b. 1957)
• 2004 – Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Hans Bethe, German-American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
• 2005 – Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Tommy Vance, English radio host (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
• 2006 – Anne Braden, American activist (b. 1924)
• 2006 – King Floyd, American singer-songwriter (b. 1945)
• 2006 – Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
• 2006 – Dana Reeve, American actress, singer, and activist (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Jean Baudrillard, French photographer and theorist (b. 1929)
• 2007 – Allen Coage, American wrestler (b. 1943)
• 2007 – Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded E & J Gallo Winery (b. 1909)
• 2007 – Pierre Moinot, French author (b. 1920)
• 2008 – Peter Poreku Dery, Ghanaian cardinal (b. 1918)
• 2009 – Francis Magalona, Filipino rapper, producer, and actor (b. 1964)
• 2009 – Susan Tsvangirai, Zimbabwean businesswoman (b. 1959)
• 2010 – Endurance Idahor, Nigerian footballer (b. 1984)
• 2010 – Mark Linkous, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Sparklehorse) (b. 1962)
• 2010 – Betty Millard, American philanthropist and activist (b. 1911)
• 2012 – Marcos Alonso Imaz, Spanish footballer (b. 1933)
• 2012 – Francisco Xavier do Amaral, East Timorese politician, 1st President of East Timor (b. 1937)
• 2012 – Lucia Mannucci, Italian singer (Quartetto Cetra) (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Louis J. Michot, American businessman, philanthropist, and politician (b. 1922)
• 2012 – Donald M. Payne, American politician (b. 1934)
• 2012 – Helen Walulik, American baseball player (b. 1929)
• 2013 – Chorão, Brazilian singer-songwriter (Charlie Brown Jr.) (b. 1970)
• 2013 – Sabine Bischoff, German fencer (b. 1958)
• 2013 – Stompin' Tom Connors, Canadian singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1936)
• 2013 – Ward de Ravet, Belgian actor (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Abdul Jolil, Bangladeshi politician (b. 1939)
• 2013 – Norman King, English admiral (b. 1933)
• 2013 – Alvin Lee, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Ten Years After) (b. 1944)
• 2013 – W. Wallace Cleland, American biochemist and academic (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Jojon, Indonesian comedian and actor (b. 1947)
• 2014 – Alemayehu Atomsa, Ethiopian politician (b. 1969)
• 2014 – Martin Gottfried, American author and critic (b. 1933)
• 2014 – Frank Jobe, American surgeon (b. 1925)
• 2014 – Sheila MacRae, English actress, singer, and dancer (b. 1921)
• 2014 – Martin Nesbitt, American lawyer and politician (b. 1946)
• 2014 – Luis Rentería, Panamanian footballer (b. 1988)
• 2014 – Manlio Sgalambro, Italian philosopher, poet, and author (b. 1924)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day:
  • Chrodegang
  • Colette
  • Fridolin
  • Kyneburga, Kyneswide and Tibba
  • Marcian of Tortona
  • William W. Mayo and Charles Frederick Menninger (Episcopal Church (USA))
  • Olegarius
  • March 6 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• European Day of the Righteous, commemorates those who have stood up against crimes against humanity and totalitarism with their own moral responsibility. (Europe)
• Foundation Day, the founding of Norfolk Island in 1788. (Territory of Norfolk Island)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Ghana from the United Kingdom in 1957. (Ghana)

External links

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