March 18

March 18 is the 77th day of the year (78th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 288 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 37 – The Roman Senate annuls Tiberius's will and proclaims Caligula emperor.
• 235 – Emperor Alexander Severus and his mother Julia Mamaea are murdered by legionaries near Moguntiacum (modern Mainz). The Severan dynasty ends.
• 1229 – Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
• 1241 – Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city.
• 1314 – Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake.
• 1438 – Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1608 – Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
• 1673 – John Berkeley, 1st Baron Berkeley of Stratton sells his part of New Jersey to the Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers.
• 1766 – American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act.
• 1793 – The first republican state in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann.
• 1834 – Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union.
• 1850 – American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time.
• 1871 – Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders evacuation of Paris.
• 1874 – Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trading rights.
• 1893 – Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup, later named after him, as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; originally presented to amateur champions, the Stanley Cup has been awarded to the top pro team since 1910, and since 1926, only to National Hockey League teams.
• 1906 – Traian Vuia flies a heavier-than-air aircraft for 20 meters at 1 meter altitude.
• 1913 – King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki.
• 1915 – World War I: Massive naval attack in Battle of Gallipoli. Three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles.
• 1921 – The second Peace of Riga between Poland and Soviet Union.
• 1922 – In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience. He would serve only 2 years.
• 1925 – The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people.
• 1937 – The New London School explosion kills three hundred, mostly children.
• 1937 – Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara.
• 1937 – The human-powered aircraft, Pedaliante, flies 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) outside Milan.
• 1938 – Mexico nationalizes all foreign-owned oil properties within its borders.
• 1940 – World War II: Axis Powers – Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom.
• 1942 – The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody.
• 1944 – The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in Italy kills 26 and causes thousands to flee their homes.
• 1945 – World War II: 1,250 American bombers attack Berlin.
• 1946 – Diplomatic relations between Switzerland and the Soviet Union are established.
• 1948 – Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of a Tito-Stalin split.
• 1953 – An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 250.
• 1959 – President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs a bill into law allowing for Hawaiian statehood, which would become official on August 21.
• 1962 – The Evian Accords put an end to the Algerian War of Independence, which began in 1954.
• 1965 – Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
• 1967 – The supertanker Torrey Canyon runs aground off the Cornish coast.
• 1968 – Gold standard: The U.S. Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency.
• 1969 – The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to infiltrate South Vietnam.
• 1970 – Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia.
• 1971 – In Peru a landslide crashes into Lake Yanahuani, killing 200 at the mining camp of Chungar.
• 1974 – Oil embargo crisis: Most OPEC nations end a five-month oil embargo against the United States, Europe and Japan.
• 1980 – At Plesetsk Cosmodrome in Russia, 50 people are killed by an explosion of a Vostok-2M rocket on its launch pad during a fueling operation.
• 1989 – In Egypt, a 4,400-year-old mummy is found nearby the Pyramid of Cheops.
• 1990 – The Germans in the German Democratic Republic are called to the first democratic elections in this former communist dictaturship.
• 1990 – In the largest art theft in US history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $300 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts.
• 1992 – White South Africans vote overwhelmingly in favour, in a national referendum, to end the racist policy of Apartheid.
• 1994 – Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending warring between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 1996 – A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162.
• 1997 – The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en-route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 on board and leading to the grounding of all An-24s.

Births

• 1395 – John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military leader (d. 1447)
• 1496 – Mary Tudor, daughter of Henry VII of England; wife of Louis XII of France (d. 1533)
• 1555 – François, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584)
• 1590 – Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649)
• 1597 – Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French layman, founder of the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659)
• 1602 – Jacques de Billy, French mathematician (d. 1679)
• 1603 – Simon Bradstreet, British colonial magistrate (d. 1693)
• 1603 – King John IV of Portugal, composer, patron of music and the arts, and musicologist (d. 1656)
• 1609 – King Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670)
• 1634 – Marie-Madeleine Pioche de la Vergne, comtesse de la Fayette, French writer (d. 1693)
• 1640 – Philippe de la Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719)
• 1657 – Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian composer (d. 1743)
• 1685 – Ralph Ersine, Scottish minister (d. 1752)
• 1690 – Christian Goldbach, Prussian mathematician (d. 1764)
• 1701 – Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (d. 1776)
• 1733 – Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German writer and bookseller (d. 1811)
• 1780 – Milos Obrenovic, Serbian noble and nationalist (d. 1860)
• 1782 – John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850)
• 1798 – Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and political philosopher (d. 1872)
• 1813 – Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German writer (d. 1864)
• 1814 – Jacob Bunn, American industrialist and financier (d. 1897)
• 1816 – Antonio Salviati, Italian glass manufacturer (d. 1890)
• 1823 – Antoine Eugène Alfred Chanzy, French general (d. 1883)
• 1828 – William Randal Cremer, English politician and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1908)
• 1837 – Grover Cleveland, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908)
• 1840 – William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901)
• 1842 – Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet (d. 1898)
• 1844 – Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer (d. 1908)
• 1848 – Nathanael Herreshoff, American naval architect (d. 1938)
• 1848 – Princess Louise, Duchess of Argyll, daughter of Queen Victoria (d. 1939)
• 1853 – Emilie Kempin-Spyri, first woman in Switzerland to graduate with a law degree (d.1901)
• 1858 – Rudolf Diesel, German inventor (d. 1913)
• 1863 – William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941)
• 1869 – Neville Chamberlain, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940)
• 1874 – Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian philosopher (d. 1948)
• 1877 – Edgar Cayce, American psychic (d. 1945)
• 1877 – Clem Hill, Australian cricketer (d. 1945)
• 1882 – Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer (d. 1973)
• 1884 – Bernard Cronin, Australian author and journalist (d. 1968)
• 1886 – Edward Everett Horton, American actor (d. 1970)
• 1890 – Henri Decoin, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Alice Cullen, Scottish politician (d. 1969)
• 1893 – Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978)
• 1893 – Jean Goldkette, Greek-born jazz musician (d. 1962)
• 1893 – Wilfred Owen, British poet (d. 1918)
• 1898 – Jake Swirbul, American aircraft manufacturer (d. 1960)
• 1901 – William H. Johnson, American artist (d. 1970)
• 1903 – Galeazzo Ciano, Italian politician (d. 1944)
• 1904 – Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet (d. 1926)
• 1904 – Margaret Tucker, Australian indigenous-rights activist (d. 1996)
• 1905 – Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958)
• 1905 – Thomas Townsend Brown, American scientist (d. 1985)
• 1907 – John Zachary Young, British biologist (d. 1997)
• 1908 – Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995)
• 1909 – Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (d. 2007)
• 1911 – Al Benton, American baseball player (d. 1968)
• 1911 – Smiley Burnette, American singer and songwriter (d. 1967)
• 1912 – Art Gilmore, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1913 – René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Reinhard Hardegen, German U-Boat commander
• 1913 – Werner Mölders, German WWII fighter pilot (d. 1941)
• 1915 – Richard Condon, American novelist (d. 1996)
• 1918 – Bob Broeg, American sports writer (d. 2005)
• 1919 – Christopher Challis, British cinematographer
• 1922 – Egon Bahr, German politician
• 1922 – Fred Shuttlesworth, American civil rights activist (d. 2011)
• 1923 – Andy Granatelli, American motorsports entrepreneur
• 1925 – James Pickles, English jurist and columnist (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Peter Graves, American actor (d. 2010)
• 1926 – Dick Littlefield, American baseball player (d. 1997)
• 1927 – John Kander, American songwriter
• 1927 – George Plimpton, American writer and actor (d. 2003)
• 1928 – Julia Mullock, Princess of Korea
• 1928 – Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist
• 1928 – Fidel V. Ramos, Philippine politician
• 1929 – John Macurdy, American operatic bass
• 1929 – Samuel Pisar, Polish author and Holocaust survivor
• 1930 – Pat Halcox, British jazz musician
• 1931 – Howard Coble, American politician
• 1931 – John Fraser, Scottish actor
• 1931 – John Mollo, British costume designer
• 1932 – John Updike, American author (d. 2009)
• 1934 – Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983)
• 1934 – Pietro Rizzuto, Canadian politician (d. 1997)
• 1935 – Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician
• 1936 – Frederik Willem de Klerk, South African politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
• 1937 – Rudi Altig, German cyclist
• 1937 – Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975)
• 1938 – Carl Gottlieb, American screenwriter and actor
• 1938 – Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor
• 1938 – Kenny Lynch, British singer songwriter and actor
• 1938 – Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver
• 1938 – Charley Pride, American singer
• 1938 – Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006)
• 1939 – Ron Atkinson, English former footballer and manager
• 1939 – Giannis Markopoulos, Greek composer
• 1941 – John W. Derr, American politician
• 1941 – Wilson Pickett, American singer (The Falcons) (d. 2006)
• 1942 – Albert Van Vlierberghe, Belgian cyclist (d. 1991)
• 1943 – Kevin Dobson, American actor
• 1943 – Toula Grivas, Greek actress
• 1943 – Dennis Linde, American singer and songwriter (d. 2006)
• 1944 – Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli military figure and politician
• 1944 – Dick Smith, Australian entrepreneur and adventurer
• 1945 – Joy Fielding, Canadian novelist and actress
• 1945 – Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer
• 1945 – Michael Reagan, American radio host; adopted son of Ronald Reagan and Jane Wyman
• 1946 – Martyn Griffiths, British racing driver
• 1946 – Michel Leclère, French racing driver
• 1947 – Patrick Barlow, English actor, comedian and playwright
• 1947 – Patrick Chesnais, French actor
• 1947 – Roger Kenneth Evans, English politician
• 1947 – Heather Ryan, American model
• 1947 – B.J. Wilson, English drummer (Procol Harum) (d. 1990)
• 1948 – Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1948 – Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer
• 1948 – Lockwood Phillips, American radio host
• 1949 – Alex Higgins, Northern Irish snooker player (d. 2010)
• 1949 – Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician
• 1949 – Hannu Siitonen, Finnish athlete
• 1950 – James Conlon, American conductor
• 1950 – Brad Dourif, American actor
• 1950 – John Hartman, American drummer (Doobie Brothers)
• 1950 – Rod Milburn, American athlete (d. 1997)
• 1950 – Eiji Okuda, Japanese actor and film director
• 1950 – Larry Perkins, Australian racing driver
• 1951 – Ben Cohen, American businessman co-founder of Ben and Jerry's
• 1951 – Bill Frisell, American jazz musician
• 1952 – Will Durst, American political satirist
• 1952 – Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002)
• 1955 – Francis G. Slay, American politician
• 1955 – Jeff Stelling, English sports television presenter
• 1956 – Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler
• 1956 – Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American escort agency operator (d. 2008)
• 1956 – Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier
• 1957 – Christer Fuglesang, Swedish astronaut
• 1957 – György Pazdera, Hungarian bassist (Pokolgép)
• 1957 – Wolfgang Schilling, German footballer
• 1959 – Luc Besson, French producer, writer, and director
• 1959 – Irene Cara, American singer and actress
• 1960 – Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004)
• 1960 – Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1960 – James MacPherson, Scottish actor
• 1960 – James Plaskett, British chess player
• 1961 – Grant Hart, American musician (Hüsker Dü)
• 1961 – Todd Nelson, American tennis player
• 1962 – Brian Fisher, American baseball player
• 1962 – Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor
• 1962 – James McMurtry, American folk singer and songwriter
• 1962 – Mike Rowe, American television host
• 1962 – Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor
• 1963 – Keith Brown, English cricketer
• 1963 – Jeff LaBar, American guitarist (Cinderella)
• 1963 – Vanessa L. Williams, American beauty queen, actress, and singer
• 1964 – Bonnie Blair, American speed skater
• 1964 – Seymore Butts, American actor
• 1964 – Alex Caffi, Italian racecar driver
• 1964 – Paul Elliott, English footballer
• 1964 – Rozalla Miller, Zambian singer
• 1964 – Courtney Pine, British jazz saxophonist
• 1965 – Birgit Clarius, German heptathlete
• 1965 – Yoriko Douguchi, Japanese actress
• 1966 – Jerry Cantrell, American musician (Alice in Chains)
• 1966 – Peter Jones, British entrepreneur
• 1966 – Daniel S. Nevins, American rabbi
• 1967 – Miki Berenyi, English singer (Lush)
• 1967 – Ken Edenfield, American baseball player
• 1968 – Eudes, duc d'Angoulême, French prince
• 1968 – Paul Marsden, British politician
• 1968 – Shinichiro Miki, Japanese voice actor
• 1969 – Andy Cutting, English folk musician and composer
• 1969 – Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player
• 1969 – J. David Shapiro, American screenwriter, actor and director
• 1969 – Shaun Udal, English cricketer
• 1970 – Queen Latifah, American singer and actress
• 1971 – Mariaan de Swardt, South African tennis player
• 1972 – Dane Cook, American comedian and actor
• 1972 – Reince Priebus, Republican National Committee chairman
• 1972 – Anja Möllenbeck, German discus thrower
• 1973 – Max Barry, Australian author
• 1973 – Luci Christian, American voice actress
• 1974 – Tina Križan, Slovenian tennis player
• 1974 – Evan Lowenstein, American musician (Evan and Jaron)
• 1974 – Jaron Lowenstein, American musician (Evan and Jaron and Jaron and the Long Road to Love)
• 1974 – Laure Savasta, French basketball player
• 1974 – Stuart Zender, English bassist, songwriter, and record producer (Jamiroquai)
• 1975 – Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer
• 1975 – Rodleen Getsic, American singer and civil servant
• 1975 – Brian Griese, American football player
• 1975 – Kimmo Timonen, Finnish hockey player
• 1975 – Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer
• 1976 – Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress
• 1976 – Jovan Kirovski, American soccer player
• 1976 – Tomokazu Ohka, Japanese baseball player
• 1976 – Scott Podsednik, American baseball player
• 1976 – Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler
• 1977 – Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player
• 1977 – Devin Lima, American singer (LFO)
• 1977 – Danny Murphy, English footballer
• 1977 – Fernando Rodney, Dominican baseball player
• 1977 – Willy Sagnol, French footballer
• 1977 – Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player
• 1978 – Jan Bulis, Czech ice hockey player
• 1978 – Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer
• 1978 – Antonio Margarito, Mexican boxer
• 1978 – Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player
• 1978 – Yoshie Takeshita, Japanese volleyball player
• 1978 – Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer
• 1979 – Dramane Coulibaly, Malian footballer
• 1979 – Danneel Harris, American actress
• 1979 – Adam Levine, American singer (Maroon 5)
• 1979 – Anthony Maher, American soccer player
• 1980 – Sebastien Frey, French footballer
• 1980 – Sophia Myles, English actress
• 1980 – Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater
• 1981 – Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete
• 1981 – Fabian Cancellara, Swiss professional cyclist
• 1981 – Jang Nara, Korean singer and actress
• 1981 – Kasib Powell, American basketball player
• 1981 – Doug Warren, American Soccer Player
• 1981 – Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player
• 1982 – Chad Cordero, American baseball player
• 1982 – Timo Glock, German Formula One driver
• 1982 – Pedro Mantorras, Angolan footballer
• 1982 – Adam Pally, American actor and comedian
• 1983 – Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player
• 1983 – Michael Hutter, American wrestler
• 1983 – Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player
• 1983 – Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer
• 1984 – Rajeev Ram, American tennis player
• 1984 – Simone Padoin, Italian footballer
• 1984 – Gary Roberts, English footballer
• 1984 – Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress
• 1985 – Gennaro Esposito, Italian footballer
• 1985 – Bia Figueiredo, Brazilian racing driver
• 1985 – Marvin Humes, British singer (JLS and VS)
• 1985 – Vince Lia, Australian footballer
• 1986 – Abdennour Cherif El Ouazzani, Algerian footballer
• 1986 – Kaloyan Ivanov, Bulgarian basketball player
• 1986 – Lykke Li, Swedish singer
• 1987 – Gabriel Mercado, Argentinian footballer
• 1987 – Cesare Rickler, Italian footballer
• 1987 – Rebecca Soni, American swimmer
• 1987 – Mauro Zárate, Argentinian footballer
• 1989 – Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer
• 1989 – Lily Collins, British-American actress
• 1990 – Corey Liuget, American football player
• 1991 – Constantinos Hilas, Greek director and actor
• 1991 – Dylan Mattingly, American composer and musician
• 1996 – Madeline Carroll, American actress
• 1997 – Ciara Bravo, American actress

Deaths

• 235 – Alexander Severus, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• 978 – King Edward the Martyr of England
• 1227 – Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
• 1314 – Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b. 1244)
• 1583 – King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
• 1584 – Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
• 1675 – Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
• 1689 – John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
• 1696 – Robert Charnock, English conspirator
• 1715 – William Fraser, 12th Lord Saltoun. Scottish patriot politician and landowner. (b. 1654)
• 1745 – Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
• 1746 – Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
• 1768 – Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
• 1781 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
• 1823 – Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)
• 1835 – Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
• 1845 – Johnny Appleseed, American environmentalist (b. 1774)
• 1871 – Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
• 1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
• 1907 – Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
• 1913 – King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
• 1918 – Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect (b. 1847)
• 1933 – Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian prince, mountaineer and explorer (b. 1873)
• 1936 – Eleftherios Venizelos, Prime minister of Greece (b. 1864)
• 1939 – Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
• 1941 – Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
• 1945 – William Grover-Williams, British racing driver (b. 1903)
• 1947 – William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
• 1962 – Walter W. Bacon, American politician (b. 1880)
• 1963 – Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
• 1964 – Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
• 1965 – King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
• 1965 – Jack Quinlan, American sports broadcaster (b. 1927)
• 1969 – Barbara Bates, American actress (b. 1925)
• 1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born opera singer (b. 1890)
• 1975 – Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
• 1976 – Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
• 1977 – Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician (b. 1938)
• 1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
• 1978 – Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
• 1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
• 1983 – King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
• 1984 – Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
• 1986 – Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
• 1988 – Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
• 1990 – Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)
• 1993 – Kenneth E. Boulding, American economist and activist (b. 1910)
• 1995 – Robin Jacques, British illustrator (b. 1920)
• 1996 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1999 – Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
• 2000 – Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
• 2001 – John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935)
• 2002 – R. A. Lafferty, American writer (b. 1914)
• 2002 – Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
• 2003 – Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
• 2003 – Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
• 2004 – Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
• 2006 – Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
• 2006 – Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
• 2006 – Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer (b. 1922)
• 2007 – Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer (b. 1948)
• 2008 – Andrew Britton, British-born American novelist (b. 1981)
• 2008 – Anthony Minghella, British film director (b. 1954)
• 2008 – Geoffrey Pearson, Canadian diplomat and author (b. 1927)
• 2009 – Natasha Richardson, English actress (b. 1963)
• 2009 – Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian blogger
• 2010 – Fess Parker, American actor (b. 1924)
• 2011 – Warren Christopher, American diplomat and politician (b. 1925)
• 2012 – King George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948)

Holidays and observances

• Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico)
• Christian Feast Day:
  • Alexander of Jerusalem
  • Cyril of Jerusalem
  • Edward the Martyr
  • Fridianus
  • Salvator
• Earliest date on which Holy Wednesday can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the week before Easter. (Christianity)
• Flag Day (Aruba)
• Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey)
• Mens and Soldiers Day (Mongolia)

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