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March 1 is the 60th day of the year (61st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 305 days remain until the end of the year.
Events
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 509 BC – Publius Valerius Publicola celebrates the first triumph of the Roman Republic after his victory over the deposed king Lucius Tarquinius Superbus at the Battle of Silva Arsia.[1]
- 293 – Emperor Diocletian and Maximian appoint Constantius Chlorus and Galerius as Caesars. This is considered the beginning of the Tetrarchy, known as the Quattuor Principes Mundi ("Four Rulers of the World").[2]
- 350 – Vetranio proclaims himself Caesar after being encouraged to do so by Constantina, sister of Constantius II.[3]
- 834 – Emperor Louis the Pious is restored as sole ruler of the Frankish Empire.[4]
- 1476 – Forces of the Catholic Monarchs engage the combined Portuguese-Castilian armies of Afonso V and Prince John at the Battle of Toro.[5]
- 1562 – Sixty-three Huguenots are massacred in Wassy, France, marking the start of the French Wars of Religion.[6]
1601–1900
[edit]- 1628 – Writs issued in February by Charles I of England mandate that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date.
- 1633 – Samuel de Champlain reclaims his role as commander of New France on behalf of Cardinal Richelieu.
- 1692 – Sarah Good, Sarah Osborne and Tituba are brought before local magistrates in Salem Village, Massachusetts, beginning what would become known as the Salem witch trials.
- 1781 – The Articles of Confederation goes into effect in the United States.[7]
- 1796 – The Dutch East India Company is nationalized by the Batavian Republic.
- 1805 – Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial by the U.S. Senate.[8]
- 1811 – Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali.
- 1815 – Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba.
- 1836 – A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico.
- 1845 – United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas.
- 1867 – Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state.
- 1870 – Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War.
- 1871 – The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War.[9]
- 1872 – Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park.
- 1893 – Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri.
- 1896 – Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War.[10]
- 1896 – Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay.
1901–present
[edit]- 1901 – The Australian Army is formed.
- 1910 – The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people.
- 1914 – China joins the Universal Postal Union.
- 1917 – The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text.
- 1919 – March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule.
- 1921 – The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years.
- 1921 – Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks.[11]
- 1932 – Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12.[12]
- 1939 – An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94.
- 1941 – World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers.
- 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang).
- 1946 – The Bank of England is nationalised.
- 1947 – The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations.
- 1950 – Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data.
- 1953 – Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later.
- 1954 – Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States.
- 1954 – Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives.
- 1956 – The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization.
- 1956 – Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee.
- 1958 – Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia.
- 1961 – Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections.
- 1962 – American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95.[13]
- 1964 – Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe.
- 1964 – Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85.[14]
- 1966 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
- 1966 – The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria.
- 1971 – President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan.
- 1973 – Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages.
- 1974 – Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice.
- 1981 – Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze.
- 1990 – Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- 1991 – Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians.
- 1992 – Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
- 1998 – Titanic became the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide.
- 2002 – U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan.
- 2002 – The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m.[15]
- 2002 – Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope.[16]
- 2003 – Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service move to the United States Department of Homeland Security.
- 2005 – In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional.[17]
- 2006 – English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station.[18]
- 2007 – Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School.
- 2008 – The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections, as a result ten people are killed.
- 2014 – Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China.
Births
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 1105 – Alfonso VII, king of León and Castile (d. 1157)
- 1389 – Antoninus of Florence, Italian archbishop and saint (d. 1459)
- 1432 – Isabella of Coimbra (d. 1455)
- 1456 – Vladislaus II of Hungary (d. 1516)
- 1547 – Rudolph Goclenius, German philosopher and lexicographer (d. 1628)
- 1554 – William Stafford, English courtier and conspirator (d. 1612)
- 1577 – Richard Weston, 1st Earl of Portland (d. 1635)
- 1597 – Jean-Charles della Faille, Flemish priest and mathematician (d. 1652)
1601–1900
[edit]- 1611 – John Pell, English mathematician and linguist (d. 1685)
- 1629 – Abraham Teniers, Flemish painter (d. 1670)
- 1647 – John de Brito, Portuguese Jesuit missionary and martyr (d. 1693)
- 1657 – Samuel Werenfels, Swiss theologian and author (d. 1740)
- 1683 – Tsangyang Gyatso, sixth Dalai Lama (d. 1706)
- 1683 – Caroline of Ansbach, British queen and regent (d. 1737)
- 1724 – Manuel do Cenáculo, Portuguese prelate and antiquarian (d. 1814)[19]
- 1732 – William Cushing, American lawyer and judge (d. 1810)
- 1760 – François Buzot, French lawyer and politician (d. 1794)
- 1769 – François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers, French general (d. 1796)
- 1807 – Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1898)
- 1810 – Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (d. 1849)[20]
- 1812 – Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (d. 1852)
- 1817 – Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor and educator (d. 1882)
- 1821 – Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (d. 1896)
- 1835 – Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (d. 1919)
- 1837 – William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, and critic (d. 1920)
- 1842 – Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (d. 1901)
- 1848 – Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (d. 1907)
- 1852 – Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1923)
- 1863 – Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (d. 1930)
- 1870 – E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (d. 1944)
- 1876 – Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (d. 1942)
- 1880 – Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (d. 1932)
- 1886 – Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright (d. 1980)
- 1888 – Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player (d. 1948)
- 1888 – Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer (d. 1949)[21]
- 1889 – Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (d. 1960)
- 1890 – Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author (d. 2002)
- 1891 – Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (d. 1940)
- 1892 – Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (d. 1927)
- 1893 – Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (d. 1968)
- 1896 – Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1960)
- 1896 – Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (d. 1942)
- 1899 – Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (d. 1972)
- 1900 – Basil Bunting, British poet (d. 1985)[22]
1901–present
[edit]- 1904 – Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1973)
- 1904 – Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (d. 1944)[23]
- 1905 – Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer (d. 2000)
- 1906 – Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2000)
- 1909 – Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (d. 1942)
- 1909 – Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer (d. 1978)
- 1910 – Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2002)
- 1910 – David Niven, English soldier and actor (d. 1983)
- 1912 – Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (d. 2003)
- 1912 – Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (d. 2011)
- 1914 – Harry Caray, American sportscaster (d. 1998)[23]
- 1914 – Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (d. 1994)[23]
- 1917 – Robert Lowell, American poet (d. 1977)
- 1917 – Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)[24]
- 1918 – João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (d. 1976)
- 1918 – Gladys Spellman, American educator and politician (d. 1988)
- 1920 – Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1984)[25]
- 1920 – Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic (d. 1991)[26]
- 1921 – Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (d. 2008)
- 1921 – Terence Cooke, American cardinal (d. 1983)
- 1921 – Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (d. 2017)
- 1922 – William Gaines, American publisher (d. 1992)[23]
- 1922 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)[23]
- 1922 – Fred Scolari, American basketball player (d. 2002)[27]
- 1924 – Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (d. 2007)
- 1924 – Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (d. 1993)[23]
- 1926 – Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (d. 2022)[28]
- 1926 – Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (d. 1992)
- 1926 – Pete Rozelle, American businessman and 3rd National Football League Commissioner (d. 1996)
- 1926 – Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2013)
- 1927 – George O. Abell, American astronomer, academic, and skeptic (d. 1983)
- 1927 – Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 2023)[29]
- 1927 – Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (d. 2012)[23]
- 1928 – Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (d. 2016)[30]
- 1929 – Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (d. 1978)
- 1930 – Monu Mukhopadhyay, Indian Bengali actor (d. 2020)
- 1930 – Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (d. 1980)
- 1934 – Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (d. 2005)
- 1934 – Joan Hackett, American actress (d. 1983)
- 1935 – Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman (d. 2020)[23]
- 1936 – Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (d. 1997)
- 1939 – Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor
- 1939 – Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Pakistani author
- 1940 – Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania
- 1940 – Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (d. 2018)
- 1941 – Robert Hass, American poet
- 1941 – Dave Marcis, American stock car racing driver
- 1942 – Richard Myers, American general
- 1943 – Gil Amelio, American businessman
- 1943 – José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager
- 1943 – Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist
- 1944 – Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal
- 1944 – John Breaux, American lawyer and politician
- 1944 – Mike d'Abo, English singer[29]
- 1944 – Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor[29]
- 1945 – Dirk Benedict, American actor and director[29]
- 1946 – Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (d. 1990)
- 1946 – Jim Crace, English author and academic
- 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (d. 2016)[23]
- 1951 – Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (d. 1973)
- 1952 – Dave Barr, Canadian golfer
- 1952 – Nevada Barr, American actress and author
- 1952 – Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster
- 1952 – Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (d. 2009)
- 1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager
- 1952 – Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach[31]
- 1953 – Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer
- 1953 – Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager
- 1953 – M. K. Stalin, Indian Tamil politician, 8th and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu[32]
- 1954 – Catherine Bach, American actress
- 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer[29]
- 1956 – Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer[29]
- 1956 – Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuania[33]
- 1958 – Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1958 – Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer and coach[34]
- 1958 – Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and aviator[23]
- 1959 – Nick Griffin, English politician
- 1961 – Mike Rozier, American football player
- 1963 – Bryan Batt, American actor[29]
- 1963 – Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager[35]
- 1963 – Magnus Svensson, Swedish ice hockey player[36]
- 1963 – Russell Wong, American actor[29]
- 1965 – Booker T, American professional wrestler and sportscaster[37]
- 1965 – Chris Eigeman, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer[29]
- 1965 – Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey[38]
- 1966 – Don Lemon, American journalist[23]
- 1966 – Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter[23]
- 1967 – George Eads, American actor[29]
- 1967 – Aron Winter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and manager[39]
- 1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer[40]
- 1970 – Yolanda Griffith, American basketball player and coach[41]
- 1971 – Ma Dong-seok, South Korean-American actor[42]
- 1971 – Brad Falchuk, American screenwriter, director, and producer[23]
- 1973 – Jack Davenport, English actor[29]
- 1973 – Ryan Peake, Canadian musician and songwriter[29]
- 1973 – Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster[43]
- 1974 – Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor[29]
- 1977 – Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter[44]
- 1978 – Jensen Ackles, American actor and musician[29]
- 1979 – Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer[45]
- 1979 – Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist[46]
- 1980 – Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer[47]
- 1980 – Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer[48]
- 1980 – Djimi Traoré, French-Malian footballer[49]
- 1981 – Will Power, Australian race car driver[50]
- 1982 – Travis Diener, American-Italian basketball player[51]
- 1983 – Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer[52]
- 1983 – Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress[53]
- 1984 – Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player[54]
- 1984 – Claudio Bieler, Argentinian footballer[55]
- 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer[56]
- 1986 – Big E, American professional wrestler[57]
- 1986 – Jonathan Spector, American soccer player[58]
- 1986 – Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-English actor[23]
- 1987 – Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress[59]
- 1987 – Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler[60]
- 1988 – Trevor Cahill, American baseball player[61]
- 1988 – Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player[62]
- 1989 – Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler[63]
- 1989 – Daniella Monet, American actress[64]
- 1989 – Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress[23]
- 1989 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer[65]
- 1991 – Joe Mantiply, American baseball player[66]
- 1992 – Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer[67]
- 1992 – Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete[68]
- 1993 – Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer[69]
- 1993 – Michael Conforto, American baseball player[70]
- 1993 – Josh McEachran, English footballer[71]
- 1993 – Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player[72]
- 1993 – Jordan Veretout, French footballer[73]
- 1994 – Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter[29]
- 1994 – Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler[74]
- 1994 – Tyreek Hill, American football player[75]
- 1994 – Maximilian Philipp, German footballer[76]
- 1999 – Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player[77]
- 1999 – Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer[78]
- 2000 – Ja'Marr Chase, American football player[79]
- 2001 – Wander Franco, Dominican baseball player[80]
- 2001 – Sapnap, American YouTuber[81]
Deaths
[edit]Pre-1600
[edit]- 492 – Felix III, pope of the Catholic Church[82]
- 589 – David, Welsh bishop and saint
- 965 – Leo VIII, pope of the Catholic Church
- 977 – Rudesind, Galician bishop (b. 907)
- 991 – En'yū, Japanese emperor (b. 959)
- 1058 – Ermesinde of Carcassonne, countess and regent of Barcelona (b. 972)
- 1131 – Stephen II, king of Hungary and Croatia (b. 1101)
- 1233 – Thomas, count of Savoy (b. 1178)
- 1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
- 1320 – Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan, Chinese emperor (b. 1286)
- 1383 – Amadeus VI, count of Savoy (b. 1334)
- 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (b. 1450)
- 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish minister and martyr (b. 1513)
1601–1900
[edit]- 1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)[83]
- 1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
- 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian keyboardist and composer (b. 1583)
- 1661 – Richard Zouch, English judge and politician (b. 1590)
- 1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician and poet (b. 1626)
- 1734 – Roger North, English lawyer and author (b. 1653)
- 1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and author (b. 1694)
- 1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (b. 1700)
- 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)[84]
- 1792 – Angelo Emo, Venetian admiral and statesman (b. 1731)[85]
- 1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (b. 1764)
- 1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1776)
- 1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (b. 1845)
- 1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (b. 1818)
- 1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (b. 1820)
- 1889 – William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (b. 1823)[86]
1901–present
[edit]- 1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish author (b. 1833)
- 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
- 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (b. 1845)
- 1920 – John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (b. 1842)
- 1922 – Pichichi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
- 1925 – Homer Plessy, American political activist (b. 1862 or 1863)[87]
- 1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (b. 1906)
- 1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (b. 1871)
- 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (b. 1863)
- 1940 – A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
- 1942 – George S. Rentz, American commander (b. 1882)
- 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (b. 1863)
- 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (b. 1873)
- 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (b. 1903)
- 1974 – Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (b. 1935)
- 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
- 1978 – Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (b. 1920)
- 1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (b. 1903)
- 1980 – Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (b. 1940)
- 1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
- 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (b. 1905)
- 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)[88]
- 1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
- 1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917)
- 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (b. 1909)
- 1993 – Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)[89]
- 1995 – César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1920)
- 1995 – Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1946)
- 1998 – Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (b. 1937)
- 2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
- 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
- 2006 – Jack Wild, English actor (b. 1952)
- 2006 – Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (b. 2003)
- 2010 – Kristian Digby, English television host and director (b. 1977)
- 2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (b. 1969)
- 2012 – Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (b. 1932)
- 2013 – Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (b. 1944)
- 2014 – Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2015 – Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (b. 1922)
- 2016 – Carole Achache, French writer, photographer and actress (b. 1952)[90]
- 2018 – María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (b. 1934)
- 2019 – Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (b. 1942)
- 2023 – Just Fontaine, French footballer (b. 1933)[91]
- 2024 – Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (b. 1921)[92]
- 2024 – Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (b. 1955)[93]
Holidays and observances
[edit]- Beer Day, marked the end of beer prohibition in 1989 (Iceland)
- Christian feast day:
- Agnes Tsao Kou Ying (one of the Martyr Saints of China)
- Albin
- Eudokia of Heliopolis
- Pope Felix III[82]
- Leoluca
- Luperculus
- Monan
- Rudesind
- Saint David's Day or Dydd Gŵyl Dewi (Wales and Welsh communities)[94]
- Suitbert
- March 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Commemoration of Mustafa Barzani's Death (Iraqi Kurdistan)
- Day of the Balearic Islands (Spain)[95]
- Disability Day of Mourning[96]
- Heroes' Day (Paraguay)
- Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Bosnia and Herzegovina from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1992.
- National "Cursed Soldiers" Remembrance Day (Poland)
- National Pig Day (United States)
- Remembrance Day (Marshall Islands)
- Samiljeol (South Korea)
- Self-injury Awareness Day (international)
- Southeastern Europe celebration of the beginning of spring:
- Baba Marta Day (Bulgaria)
- Mărțișor (Romania and Moldova)
- The final day (fourth or fifth) of Ayyám-i-Há (Baháʼí Faith)
- World Seagrass Day
- Yap Day (Yap State)
- Zero Discrimination Day[97]
References
[edit]- ^ Sage, M.M. (1983). "The Elogia of the Augustan Forum and the De Viris Illustribus: A Reply". Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte. 32 (2): 252.
- ^ Banchich, Thomas Banchich M. (2009). The History of Zonaras: From Alexander Severus to the Death of Theodosius the Great. New York: Routledge. p. 137. ISBN 9780415299091.
- ^ Elton, Hugh (2018). The Roman Empire in Late Antiquity: A Political and Military History. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. p. 72. ISBN 9780521899314.
- ^ Milman, Henry hart (1892). History of Latin Christianity: Including That of the Popes to the Pontificate of Nicolas V. Volume 5. New York: A.C. Armstrong. p. 546.
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