March 24

Events

• 1199 - King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.
• 1387 - English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.
• 1401 - Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
• 1603 - James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
• 1603 - Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, 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.
• 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
• 1721 - Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046-1051.
• 1731 - Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
• 1765 - Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
• 1794 - In Kraków, Tadeusz Kościuszko announces a general uprising against Imperial Russia and the Kingdom of Prussia, and assumes the powers of the Commander in Chief of all of the Polish forces.
• 1829 - 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.
• 1854 - President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.
• 1860 - Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister Ii Naosuke.
• 1869 - The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
• 1878 - The British frigate 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.
• 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.
• 1921 - The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event.
• 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 - A British Cabinet Mission 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.
• 1961 - Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
• 1965 - Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
• 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.
• 1977 - Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.
• 1980 - El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated 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 - In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills of crude oil after running aground.
• 1993 - Discovery of Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9.
• 1998 - 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 3,000 others.
• 1998 - First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
• 1999 - Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
• 1999 - A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
• 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.
• 2015 - Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

  Births

• 1103 - Yue Fei, Chinese military general
• 1441 - Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony
• 1494 - Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar
• 1577 - Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin
• 1607 - Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral
• 1628 - Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg
• 1657 - Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician
• 1693 - John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer
• 1725 - Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina
• 1725 - Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts
• 1755 - Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
• 1762 - Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer
• 1775 - Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer
• 1782 - Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter
• 1796 - Zulma Carraud, French author
• 1796 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician
• 1803 - Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician
• 1808 - Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano
• 1809 - Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author
• 1809 - Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic
• 1816 - Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Roman Catholic archbishop and Mexican politician who served as regent during the Second Mexican Empire
• 1820 - Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic
• 1820 - Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer
• 1823 - Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic
• 1826 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author
• 1828 - Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist
• 1829 - George Francis Train, American businessman
• 1829 - Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general
• 1830 - Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright
• 1834 - William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author
• 1834 - John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer
• 1835 - Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet
• 1848 - Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal
• 1850 - Silas Hocking, English minister and author
• 1854 - Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia
• 1855 - Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury
• 1855 - Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist
• 1862 - Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator
• 1869 - Émile Fabre, French author and playwright
• 1871 - Alec Hurley, English music hall singer
• 1874 - Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic
• 1874 - Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor
• 1875 - William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player
• 1879 - Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer
• 1882 - Marcel Lalu, French gymnast
• 1882 - George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand
• 1883 - Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer
• 1884 - Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1884 - Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist
• 1884 - Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal
• 1885 - Charles Daniels, American swimmer
• 1885 - Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer
• 1886 - Edward Weston, American photographer
• 1886 - Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer
• 1887 - Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1888 - Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician
• 1889 - Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner
• 1890 - Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician
• 1891 - Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic
• 1892 - Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic
• 1893 - Walter Baade, German astronomer and author
• 1893 - George Sisler, American baseball player and scout
• 1897 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic
• 1901 - Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse
• 1902 - Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York
• 1903 - Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1903 - Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar
• 1905 - Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat
• 1907 - Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec
• 1909 - Clyde Barrow, American criminal
• 1909 - Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian Pastor and Evangelist
• 1910 - Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director
• 1911 - Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera
• 1912 - Dorothy Height, African-American educator and activist
• 1915 - Eugène Martin, French racing driver
• 1916 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author
• 1916 - Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic
• 1917 - John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1919 - Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore
• 1919 - Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian
• 1920 - Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1920 - Mary Stolz, American author
• 1921 - Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player
• 1922 - Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer
• 1923 - Murray Hamilton, American actor
• 1923 - Michael Legat, English author and publisher
• 1924 - Norman Fell, American actor
• 1925 - Puig Aubert, German-French rugby league player and coach
• 1926 - Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal
• 1926 - Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate
• 1926 - William Porter, American hurdler
• 1927 - John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic
• 1927 - Martin Walser, German author and playwright
• 1928 - Byron Janis, American pianist and composer
• 1929 - Pat Renella, Italian-American actor
• 1930 - David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic
• 1930 - Steve McQueen, American actor and producer
• 1931 - Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg
• 1933 - Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator
• 1933 - Lee Mendelson, American television producer
• 1936 - Don Covay, American singer-songwriter
• 1936 - Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player
• 1937 - Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist
• 1938 - David Irving, English historian and author
• 1940 - Bob Mackie, American fashion designer
• 1941 - Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer
• 1944 - R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor
• 1944 - Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia
• 1945 - Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
• 1945 - Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1945 - Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
• 1946 - Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter
• 1946 - Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman
• 1947 - Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
• 1947 - Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington
• 1947 - Mick Jones, English footballer and coach
• 1947 - Alan Sugar, English businessman
• 1948 - Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician
• 1948 - Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer
• 1948 - Lee Oskar, Jewish-Danish musician
• 1949 - Tabitha King, American author and poet
• 1949 - Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 - Steve Lang, Canadian bass player
• 1949 - Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1949 - Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran
• 1949 - Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
• 1950 - Gary Wichard, American football player and agent
• 1951 - Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager
• 1951 - Pat Bradley, American golfer
• 1951 - Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
• 1951 - Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player
• 1951 - Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach
• 1952 - Greg McCrary, American football player
• 1953 - Anita L. Allen, African-American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
• 1953 - Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian
• 1955 - Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1955 - Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1956 - Steve Ballmer, American businessman
• 1956 - Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter
• 1957 - Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier
• 1957 - Pat Jarvis, Australian rugby league player
• 1958 - Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 - Emmit King, American sprinter
• 1959 - Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player
• 1959 - Derek Statham, English footballer
• 1960 - Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist
• 1960 - Barry Horowitz, American wrestler
• 1960 - Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model
• 1960 - Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
• 1960 - Scott Pruett, American race car driver
• 1960 - Annabella Sciorra, American actress
• 1961 - Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach
• 1961 - Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
• 1962 - Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
• 1962 - Star Jones, African-American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host
• 1962 - Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
• 1963 - Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1963 - Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager
• 1963 - Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
• 1965 - The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor
• 1966 - Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
• 1967 - Diann Roffe, American skier
• 1968 - Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
• 1969 - Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
• 1970 - Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
• 1970 - Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1970 - Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
• 1970 - Erica Kennedy, African-American journalist and author
• 1970 - Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
• 1971 - Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor
• 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 and manager
• 1973 - Steve Corica, Australian footballer and coach
• 1973 - Jure Ivanušič, Slovenian actor, concert pianist and chansonnier
• 1973 - Mette Jacobsen, Danish swimmer
• 1973 - Glen Jakovich, Australian footballer
• 1973 - Jim Parsons, American actor
• 1974 - Alyson Hannigan, American actress
• 1974 - Sergey Klyugin, Russian high jumper
• 1974 - Tado, Filipino comedian and activist
• 1975 - Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monacan tennis player
• 1976 - Aaron Brooks, American football player
• 1976 - Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach
• 1976 - Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer
• 1976 - Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur
• 1977 - Jessica Chastain, American actress
• 1977 - Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1977 - Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster
• 1978 - Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
• 1978 - Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
• 1978 - José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 - Lake Bell, Jewish-American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 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 racing driver
• 1982 - Corey Hart, American baseball player
• 1982 - Jack Swagger, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• 1982 - Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• 1982 - Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
• 1982 - Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
• 1983 - Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 - Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1983 - Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1983 - T.J. Ford, American basketball player
• 1984 - Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French born Cameroonian international footballer, left-back
• 1984 - Chris Bosh, American basketball player
• 1984 - Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
• 1984 - Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
• 1984 - Park Bom, South Korean singer
• 1984 - Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
• 1985 - Lana, American wrestler and manager
• 1985 - Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
• 1987 - Ramires, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 - Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer
• 1987 - Billy Jones, English footballer
• 1987 - Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer
• 1988 - Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete
• 1988 - Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1988 - Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer
• 1988 - Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer
• 1988 - Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player
• 1990 - Starlin Castro, American baseball player
• 1990 - Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor
• 1990 - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
• 1990 - Lacey Evans, American wrestler
• 1991 - Nick Browne, English cricketer
• 1991 - Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player
• 1995 - Enzo Fernandez, French-Spanish footballer

  Deaths

• 809 - Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph
• 832 - Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury
• 1284 - Hugh III of Cyprus
• 1296 - Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller
• 1381 - Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint
• 1394 - Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile
• 1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint
• 1399 - Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk
• 1443 - James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas
• 1455 - Pope Nicholas V
• 1499 - Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman
• 1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō
• 1575 - Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author
• 1603 - Elizabeth I of England
• 1653 - Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer
• 1684 - Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter
• 1684 - Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband
• 1773 - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard
• 1776 - John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer
• 1824 - Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer
• 1838 - Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician
• 1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general
• 1881 - Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist
• 1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator
• 1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic
• 1888 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author
• 1905 - Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright
• 1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet
• 1915 - Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer
• 1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist
• 1916 - Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer
• 1926 - Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist
• 1940 - Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic
• 1944 - Orde Wingate, Indian-English general
• 1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player
• 1946 - Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper
• 1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator
• 1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior
• 1951 - Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist
• 1953 - Mary of Teck
• 1962 - Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader
• 1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer
• 1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1971 - Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall
• 1971 - Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant
• 1976 - Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal
• 1978 - Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic
• 1980 - Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop
• 1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor
• 1985 - Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver
• 1988 - Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey
• 1990 - Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host
• 1991 - John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia
• 1993 - Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright
• 1993 - John Hersey, American journalist and author
• 1995 - Joseph Needham, English historian and academic
• 1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician
• 1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager
• 2001 - Muriel Young, English television host and producer
• 2002 - César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
• 2002 - Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder
• 2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal
• 2006 - Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat
• 2007 - Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist
• 2008 - Chalmers Alford, American guitarist
• 2008 - Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager
• 2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter
• 2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor
• 2009 - George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster
• 2009 - Hans Klenk, German racing driver
• 2009 - Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player
• 2010 - Robert Culp, American actor
• 2010 - Jim Marshall, American photographer
• 2012 - Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic
• 2012 - Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter
• 2013 - Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author
• 2013 - Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician
• 2013 - Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic
• 2013 - Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer
• 2013 - Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician
• 2013 - Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat
• 2014 - Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist
• 2014 - John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar
• 2014 - David A. Trampier, American illustrator
• 2015 - Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat
• 2015 - notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
• * Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer
• * Maria Radner, German opera singer
• 2016 - Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer
• 2016 - Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter
• 2018 - Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest
• 2019 - Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor
• 2020 - Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist

  Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
• * Catherine of Vadstena
• * Hildelith of Barking
• * Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
• * Óscar Romero
• * Paul Couturier
• * Walter Hilton
• * March 24
• Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice
• National Tree Planting Day
• Student Day
• World Tuberculosis Day