Famous birthdays, deaths and events of March 15
Birthdays
- 938 - Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963)
- 1275 - Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (d. 1318)
- 1455 - Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532)
- 1493 - Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567)
- 1591 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660)
- 1638 - Shunzhi Emperor of China,
- 1666 - George Bähr, German architect (d. 1738)
- 1684 - Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
- 1713 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
- 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
- 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
- 1790 - Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861)
- 1791 - Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873)
- 1809 - Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
- 1809 - Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893)
- 1813 - John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858)
- 1818 - Mariano Álvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
- 1821 - William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892)
- 1821 - Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881)
- 1821 - Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895)
- 1824 - Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
- 1830 - Paul Heyse, German writer
- 1830 - Élisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
- 1831 - Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881)
- 1835 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
- 1835 - John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859)
- 1838 - Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
- 1851 - William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939)
- 1852 - Augusta, Lady Gregory
- 1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (d. 1917)
- 1864 - Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
- 1866 - Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948)
- 1866 - Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910)
- 1867 - Lionel Johnson, British poet (d. 1902)
- 1868 - Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
- 1869 - Stanisław Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
- 1874 - Eugène Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951)
- 1882 - Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953)
- 1884 - Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright
- 1887 - Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (d. 1973)
- 1890 - Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
- 1892 - James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938)
- 1897 - Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
- 1899 - George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979)
- 1905 - Berthold von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944)
- 1907 - Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981)
- 1912 - Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
- 1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1913 - MacDonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994)
- 1913 - Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002)
- 1914 - Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985)
- 1915 - Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982)
- 1916 - Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
- 1916 - Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
- 1918 - Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)
- 1918 - Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987)
- 1919 - Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
- 1920 - Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998)
- 1920 - E. Donnall Thomas, American physician
- 1921 - Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971)
- 1921 - Madelyn Pugh, American television writer
- 1923 - Charles Wheeler, British journalist (d. 2008)
- 1924 - Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997)
- 1925 - Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist
- 1926 - Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983)
- 1926 - Ben Johnston, American composer
- 1927 - Stanisław Kania, Polish politician
- 1927 - Carl Smith, American singer
- 1927 - Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
- 1929 - Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
- 1930 - Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist
- 1932 - Alan Bean, American astronaut
- 1933 - Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist
- 1933 - Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004)
- 1934 - Richard Layard, Baron Layard
- 1934 - Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist
- 1934 - Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader
- 1935 - Judd Hirsch, American actor
- 1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
- 1936 - Paul Zindel, American author and educator (d. 2003)
- 1936 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
- 1936 - David Andrews, Irish politician
- 1939 - Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author
- 1940 - Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
- 1940 - Frank Dobson, British politician
- 1940 - Margo Coleman, American advice columnist
- 1941 - Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
- 1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
- 1944 - Sly Stone, American musician
- 1944 - Jacques Doillon, French film director
- 1944 - Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician
- 1945 - A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007)
- 1945 - Mark J. Green, American public official
- 1946 - Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (d. 2003)
- 1946 - Masaharu Satō, Japanese seiyū
- 1946 - Howard E. Scott, American musician (War)
- 1947 - Ry Cooder, American guitarist
- 1947 - Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor
- 1948 - Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
- 1948 - Kate Bornstein, American author
- 1950 - Jørgen Olsen, Danish singer
- 1952 - Howard Koh, American state government official
- 1953 - Richard Bruton, Irish politician
- 1954 - Craig Wasson, American actor
- 1955 - Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister)
- 1956 - Clay Matthews, American football player
- 1957 - Park Overall, American actress
- 1957 - David Silverman, American animator
- 1957 - Víctor Muñoz, Spanish football manager
- 1959 - Harold Baines, American baseball player
- 1959 - Renny Harlin, Finnish film director
- 1959 - Lisa Holton, American writer
- 1959 - Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model
- 1960 - Chris Sanders, American animator and director
- 1960 - Marco Pennette, American television producer
- 1961 - Terry Cummings, American basketball player
- 1961 - Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player
- 1962 - Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer
- 1962 - Jimmy Baio, American actor
- 1963 - Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison)
- 1964 - Davide Pinato, Italian footballer
- 1967 - Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
- 1968 - Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
- 1968 - Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray)
- 1968 - Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer
- 1968 - Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth)
- 1968 - Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician
- 1969 - Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
- 1969 - Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician
- 1969 - Kim Raver, American actress
- 1969 - Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer
- 1969 - Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey
- 1970 - Derek Parra, American speed skater
- 1971 - Penny Lancaster, English model
- 1971 - Joanne Wise, English long jumper
- 1972 - Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
- 1974 - Robert Fick, American baseball player
- 1974 - John "Beatz" Holohan, American musician
- 1975 - Eva Longoria, American actress
- 1975 - Will.i.am, American musician
- 1975 - Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player
- 1975 - Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player
- 1976 - Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist
- 1976 - Katherine Brooks, American television director
- 1976 - Cara Pifko, Canadian actress
- 1976 - Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer
- 1977 - Joe Hahn, American musician
- 1977 - Brian Tee, American actor
- 1977 - Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player
- 1978 - Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
- 1979 - Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player
- 1980 - Freddie Bynum, American baseball player
- 1981 - Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
- 1981 - Young Buck, American rapper
- 1982 - Emily Tyndall, American actress
- 1982 - Rafael Pérez, Dominican baseball player
- 1982 - Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire)
- 1983 - Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor
- 1983 - Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer
- 1984 - Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player
- 1985 - Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder
- 1985 - James MacLurcan, Australian actor
- 1985 - F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author
- 1985 - Eva Amurri, American actress
- 1985 - Tom Chilton, British racing driver
- 1987 - Taiwan Brown, video jockey
- 1988 - Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer
- 1989 - Caitlin Wachs, American actress
- 1991 - Kie Kitano, Japanese actress
Deaths
- 220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
- 493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)
- 1145 - Pope Lucius II,
- 1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
- 1416 - John, Duke of Berry
- 1536 - Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizer under Suleiman the Magnificent
- 1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
- 1644 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (born 1576)
- 1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
- 1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
- 1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
- 1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
- 1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
- 1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
- 1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
- 1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
- 1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
- 1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
- 1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
- 1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
- 1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
- 1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
- 1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
- 1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist
- 1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
- 1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)
- 1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
- 1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
- 1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
- 1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
- 1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist
- 1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
- 1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
- 1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
- 1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
- 1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- 1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
- 1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
- 1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
- 1997 - Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
- 1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
- 2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
- 2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
- 2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
- 2004 - John Pople, English chemist
- 2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
- 2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- 2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
- 2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
- 2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer
- 2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer, (b. 1954)
- 2009 - Lionel Ziprin, 84, American poet, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- 2009 - Ron Silver, 62, American actor and political activist, esophageal cancer.
- 2009 - Michael Quinn, 86, American Lasallian brother and psychology professor, President of Saint Mary's College (1962–1969).
- 2009 - Paulo Eduardo Andrade Ponte, 77, Brazilian Archbishop of São Luís do Maranhão.
- 2009 - Jack Lawrence, 96, American songwriter, complications from a fall.
- 2009 - Pirkle Jones, 95, American photojournalist.
- 2009 - Edmund Hockridge, 89, Canadian singer and actor.
- 2009 - Billy C. Clark, 80, American writer.
- 2009 - Miguel Bernad, 91, Filipino Jesuit priest, academician and writer.
- 2009 - Richard Aoki, 71, American civil rights activist.
Events
- 221 - Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty.
- 351 - Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire.
- 933 - After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river.
- 1311 - Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
- 1672 - Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
- 1776 - South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government.
- 1781 - American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse
- 1783 - In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place.
- 1820 - Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
- 1848 - A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
- 1873 - The Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity is founded at Massachusetts Agricultural College.
- 1877 - The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia.
- 1906 - Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated.
- 1916 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
- 1917 - Czar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
- 1922 - After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
- 1926 - The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition.
- 1933 - Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship.
- 1939 - World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
- 1943 - World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov
- 1944 - World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino
- 1952 - In Cilaos, Réunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
- 1961 - South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1965 - President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act.
- 1970 - The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
- 1985 - The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com).
- 1988 - The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran–Iraq War begins.
- 1989 - The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
- 1990 - Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
- 1990 - Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
- 1990 - The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureş begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
- 2003 - Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People's Republic of China.
- 2004 - Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
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