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• 1199 – King Richard I of England is wounded by a crossbow bolt while fighting in France, leading to his death on April 6.{{cite book |author=Sir James Mackintosh |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ofdMAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA88 |title=The history of England...By the Right Hon. Sir James Mackintosh |publisher=Carey & Lea |year=1836 |pages=88}}{{Cite web |title=Richard I | Biography, Achievements, Crusade, Facts, & Death |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Richard-I-king-of-England |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=BBC - History - King Richard I |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/richard_i_king.shtml |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}
• 1387 – English victory over a Franco-Castilian-Flemish fleet in the Battle of Margate off the coast of Margate.{{cite book |author=Diana E. S. Dunn |title=War and Society in Medieval and Early Modern Britain |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7Jx4x1WRdYwC&pg=PA43 |year=2000 |publisher=Liverpool University Press |isbn=978-0-85323-885-0 |pages=43}}
• 1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.{{Cite web |title=Timur | Biography, Conquests, Empire, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Timur |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{cite web |last=Lamb |first=Jeanette |date=2017-03-24 |title=Today In History: Turco-Mongol Emperor Timur Sacks Damascus (1401) |url=https://historycollection.com/today-history-turco-mongol-emperor-timur-sacks-damascus-1401/ |website=historycollection.com |access-date=March 22, 2024}}

• 1603 – James VI of Scotland is proclaimed King James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.{{cite book |author=James Doelman |title=King James I and the Religious Culture of England |url=https://archive.org/details/kingjamesireli00jame |url-access=registration |year=2000 |publisher=DS Brewer |isbn=978-0-85991-593-9 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/kingjamesireli00jame/page/20 20]}}
• 1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.{{Cite web |title=BBC - History - Tokugawa Ieyasu |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/ieyasu_tokugawa.shtml |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.bbc.co.uk |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Tokugawa Ieyasu | shogun of Japan |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Tokugawa-Ieyasu |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 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.{{Cite web |title=Carolina Charter Issued, 1663 | NC DNCR |url=https://www.ncdcr.gov/blog/2014/03/24/carolina-charter-issued-1663 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.ncdcr.gov |date=24 March 2016 |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Thorpe |first=Francis Newton |date=1998-12-18 |title=The Federal and State constitutions, colonial charters, and other organic laws of the state[s], territories, and colonies now or heretofore forming the United States of America /compiled and edited under the Act of Congress of June 30, 1906 |url=https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/nc01.asp |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=avalon.law.yale.edu}}
• 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.{{Cite web |title=Frederick (I) | king of Sweden |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederick-I-king-of-Sweden |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Ulrika Eleonora | queen of Sweden |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ulrika-Eleonora |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.{{Cite web |title=Johann Sebastian Bach | Biography, Music, Death, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Sebastian-Bach |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Marissen |first=Michael |date=2018-12-20 |title=There's More Religion Than You Think in Bach's 'Brandenburgs' |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/20/arts/music/bach-brandenburg-concertos.html |access-date=2021-12-08 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1765 – Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.{{Cite web |title=Quartering Act | Summary, Significance, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Quartering-Act |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Quartering Act of 1765 |url=https://www.ushistory.org/declaration/related/quartering.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.ushistory.org |language=en}}
• 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.{{Cite web |date=2021-03-24 |title=On this Day, in 1794: Tadeusz Kościuszko led an uprising against the Partition of Poland - Kafkadesk |url=https://kafkadesk.org/2021/03/24/on-this-day-in-1794-tadeusz-kosciuszko-led-an-uprising-against-the-partition-of-poland/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=kafkadesk.org |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |date=2021-03-01 |title=A Hero to Poles and Americans Alike |url=https://warsawinstitute.org/hero-poles-americans-alike/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=Warsaw Institute |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Thaddeus Kosciuszko - Thaddeus Kosciuszko National Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) |url=https://www.nps.gov/thko/learn/historyculture/kosciuszkobio.htm |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.nps.gov |language=en}}
• 1829 – The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.{{Cite web |title=Emancipation |url=https://www.parliament.uk/about/living-heritage/transformingsociety/private-lives/religion/overview/emancipation/ |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.parliament.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Catholic Emancipation Act | United Kingdom [1829] |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Catholic-Emancipation-Act |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.{{Cite web |title=March 24, 1832 | Joseph Smith Chronology |url=https://jschronology.byustudies.byu.edu/events/march-24-1832 |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=jschronology.byustudies.byu.edu}}{{Cite book |last=Bushman |first=Richard |title=Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling |publisher=Knopf |year=2005 |isbn=1400042704 |pages=178 |language=English}}
• 1854 – President José Gregorio Monagas abolishes slavery in Venezuela.{{Cite news |title=José Gregorio Monagas | Venezuelan politician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jose-Gregorio-Monagas |access-date=2021-12-07 |newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2015-06-19 |title=Afro-Venezuelans |url=https://minorityrights.org/minorities/afro-venezuelans/ |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Minority Rights Group |language=en-GB}}
• 1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke is assassinated by rōnin samurai outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle.{{Cite web |title=Ii Naosuke | Japanese feudal lord |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ii-Naosuke |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1869 – The last of Tītokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.{{Cite web |title=Taurangaika |url=https://nzhistory.govt.nz/war/titokowarus-war/taurangaika |access-date=2021-12-12 |website=nzhistory.govt.nz |language=en}}
• 1870 – A Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert,{{Cite journal |title=Arquelogía histórica en el mineral de Caracoles, Región de Antofagasta, Chile (1870-1989) |journal=Revista de Arqueología Histórica Argentina y Latinoamericana |url= |last1=García-Albarido |first1=Francisco |issue= |volume=4 |pages=169–194 |last2=Lorca |first2=Rodrigo |year=2010 |language=Spanish |last3=Rivera |first3=Francisco}} leading to the last of the Chilean silver rushes{{Cite book |isbn=978-0-521-43375-4 |title=Chile Since Independence |editor1-last=Bethell |editor1-first=Leslie |year=1993 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |location=Cambridge |pages=13–14 |oclc=25873947 |lccn=92017160}} and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.{{Cite web |url=https://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-92800.html |title=Mineral de Caracoles |trans-title= |website=Memoria Chilena |publisher=Biblioteca Nacional de Chile |language=es}}{{Cite journal |title=El problema marítimo boliviano |journal=Agenda Internacional |last=Prudencia Lizón |first=Ramiro |issue=21 |volume=XI |language=Spanish |pages=27–45 |year=2004 |doi=10.18800/agenda.200402.002 |s2cid=258521758 |doi-access=free}}
• 1878 – The British frigate {{HMS|Eurydice|1843|6}} sinks, killing more than 300.{{Cite news |date=2009-10-28 |title=Haunted history of HMS Eurydice |language=en-GB |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/hampshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8327000/8327961.stm |access-date=2021-12-08}}{{Cite web |title=Algernon Yockney (1843-1912) - HMS Eurydice struck by a squall off Shanklin, 24 March 1878 |url=https://www.rct.uk/collection/450058/hms-eurydice-struck-by-a-squall-off-shanklin-24-march-1878 |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.rct.uk |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Last Four Days of the Eurydice |url=https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/blog/library-archive/last-four-days-eurydice |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.rmg.co.uk |language=en}}
• 1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.{{Cite web |title=Historical Perspectives Centennial: Koch's Discovery of the Tubercle Bacillus |url=https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/00000222.htm#:~:text=On%20March%2024,%201882,%20Robert,of%20Tuberculosis%22%20(1). |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.cdc.gov}}{{Cite web |date=2015-03-24 |title=The day we discovered the cause of the 'white death' |url=https://www.pbs.org/newshour/health/march-24-1882-robert-koch-announces-his-discovery-of-the-cause-of-tuberculosis |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=PBS NewsHour |language=en-us}}
• 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.{{Cite web |title=nycsubway.org: The First Subway |url=https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/The_First_Subway |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.nycsubway.org}}{{Cite web |title=Almanac: Building the New York City subway |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-building-the-new-york-city-subway/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=24 March 2019 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Opening ceremonies, New York subway, Oct. 27, 1904 |url=https://www.loc.gov/item/2016600205/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=Library of Congress}}
• 1900 – Carnegie Steel Company is formed in New Jersey; its capitalization of $160 million is the largest to date.{{cite book |first=Jacques |last=Legrand |title=Chronicle of the 20th Century |publisher=Ecam Publication |year=1987 |page=12 |isbn=0-942191-01-3}}

• 1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad began in Monte Carlo, becoming the first international women's sports event.{{Cite web |title=From pigeons to Olympic participation – Centenary of the first Women's Olympiad | FEATURE | World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/feature/centenary-first-womens-olympiad |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=worldathletics.org}}{{Cite web |title=The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's sport |url=https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-1921-women-s-olympiad-one-hundred-years-of-women-s-international-sport |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Sky HISTORY TV channel |language=en}}
• 1922 – The McMahon killings take place in Belfast. Six Catholic civilians are shot dead, two others wounded and a female family member assaulted. Police were suspected as being responsible, but no one was prosecuted.{{cite web |url=https://www.theirishstory.com/2020/10/27/the-dead-of-the-belfast-pogrom-counting-the-cost-of-the-revolutionary-period-1920-22/comment-page-1/ |title=The Dead of the Belfast Pogrom |last=Glennon |first=Kieran |date=27 October 2020 |website=The Irish Story |publisher= |access-date=24 October 2024 |quote=}}
• 1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defence of the foreign citizens within the city.{{Cite news |date=1927-03-25 |title=Washington Acts Quickly – Orders More Cruisers to China and Gives Admiral Fullest Backing – Grave Messages Received – Nanking Incident and Unrest Elsewhere Taken Seriously by Officials – No Light on Casualties – Admiral Hough Simply Reports Some Americans Were Slain on Socony Hill |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1927/03/25/archives/washington-acts-quickly-orders-more-cruisers-to-china-and-gives.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=The 1927 Incident – The Nanking Incident – The View from Ginling |url=https://mct.barnard.edu/the-1927-incident/the-nanking-incident |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=mct.barnard.edu}}
• 1934 – The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed by the United States Congress, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.{{Cite web |title=Tydings-McDuffie Act | United States [1934] |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/Tydings-McDuffie-Act |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=The Philippines, 1898–1946 | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives |url=https://history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publications/APA/Historical-Essays/Exclusion-and-Empire/The-Philippines/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=history.house.gov |language=en}}
• 1939 – The 1939 Liechtenstein putsch takes place; approximately 40 members of the VBDL starting from Nendeln march towards Vaduz with the intention of overthrowing the government and provoking Liechtenstein's annexation into Germany.{{Cite web |last=Büchel |first=Donat |date=31 December 2011 |title=Anschlussputsch |url=https://historisches-lexikon.li/Anschlussputsch |access-date=14 November 2023 |website=Historisches Lexikon des Fürstentums Liechtenstein |language=de}}
• 1944 – German troops massacre 335 Italian civilians in Rome.{{Cite web |title=The Italian Resistance and the Ardeatine Caves Massacre |url=https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/italian-resistance-and-ardeatine-caves-massacre |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=The National WWII Museum | New Orleans |date=23 July 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Former Nazi Officer Admits Witnessing Massacre of 335 Italians |url=https://apnews.com/article/67fb0eca95d32de9c85f988c92a38089 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=AP NEWS |language=en}}
• 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.{{Cite web |title=Great Escape | The Three That Got Away |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/greatescape/three.html#:~:text=Editor%27s%20Note:%20On%20the%20night,Within%20days%20most%20were%20recaptured. |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.pbs.org}}{{Cite web |title=About the Great Escape |url=https://www.rafbf.org/great-escape/about-the-great-escape |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=RAF Benevolent Fund |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Hevesi |first=Dennis |date=2012-04-21 |title=Alex Cassie, Who Aided 'Great Escape' From Nazis, Dies at 95 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/22/world/europe/alex-cassie-who-aided-great-escape-from-nazis-dies-at-95.html |access-date=2021-12-08 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1946 – A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.{{Cite web |title=Cabinet Mission - Banglapedia |url=https://en.banglapedia.org/index.php/Cabinet_Mission |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=en.banglapedia.org}}{{Cite web |title=Cabinet Mission | Mahatma Gandhi Pictorial Biography |url=https://www.mkgandhi.org/biography/cabinetm.htm |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.mkgandhi.org}}
• 1949 – Hanns Albin Rauter, a chief SS and Police Leader, in the Netherlands, is convicted and executed for crimes against humanity.[https://www.criticalpast.com/video/65675030786_Hanns-Albin-Rauter_judges-in-tribunal_courtroom-trial_lawyers Trial of Hanns Albin Rauter in the Hague, Netherlands]
• 1961 – The Quebec Board of the French Language is established.{{Cite web |title=Ministère des Affaires culturelles du Québec | The Canadian Encyclopedia |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/ministere-des-affaires-culturelles-du-quebec-emc |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}
• 1972 – Direct rule is imposed on Northern Ireland by the Government of the United Kingdom under Edward Heath.[https://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/politics/collapse-of-stormont-1972-unionism-rallied-when-westminster-said-direct-rule-3624894 Collapse of Stormont 1972: Unionism rallied when Westminster said ‘direct rule’]
• 1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a seven-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.{{Cite news |first=Juan |last=de Onis |date=1976-03-24 |title=Mrs. Peron Overthrown by Military in Argentina and Reported Arrested |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/24/archives/mrs-peron-overthrown-by-military-in-argentina-and-reported-arrested.html |access-date=2021-12-08 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Isabel Peron | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Isabel-Peron |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1977 – Morarji Desai became the Prime Minister of India, the first Prime Minister not to belong to Indian National Congress.{{Cite web |title=Morarji Desai | prime minister of India |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Morarji-Desai |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite news |title=Morarji Desai, 81, Becomes India's Prime Minister |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1977/03/25/morarji-desai-81-becomes-indias-prime-minister/2d0d431f-246e-4d3f-91b8-01b507999dbe/ |access-date=2021-12-08 |issn=0190-8286}}
• 1980 – El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.{{Cite web |title=Saint Oscar Romero | Biography & Death |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Arnulfo-Romero |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |last=Gibb |first=Tom |date=2000-03-23 |title=The killing of Archbishop Oscar Romero was one of the most notorious crimes of the cold war. Was the CIA to blame? |url=http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2000/mar/23/features11.g21 |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 1982 – Bangladeshi President Abdus Sattar is deposed in a bloodless coup led by Army Chief Lieutenant general Hussain Muhammad Ershad, who suspends the Constitution and imposes martial law.{{Cite news |last=Bose |first=Ajoy |date=1982-03-25 |title=Martial law after coup in Bangladesh |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2010/jun/23/archive-martial-law-coup-bangladesh |access-date=2022-12-24}}
• 1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.{{Cite journal |last1=Williams |first1=G. M. |last2=Aitkenhead |first2=N. |date=1991-05-01 |title=Lessons from Loscoe: the uncontrolled migration of landfill gas |url=https://qjegh.lyellcollection.org/content/24/2/191 |journal=Quarterly Journal of Engineering Geology and Hydrogeology |language=en |volume=24 |issue=2 |pages=191–207 |doi=10.1144/GSL.QJEG.1991.024.02.03 |bibcode=1991QJEGH..24..191W |s2cid=131578727 |issn=1470-9236|url-access=subscription }}
• 1989 – In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills {{convert|240000|oilbbl|m3}} of crude oil after running aground.{{Cite web |title=Exxon Valdez | Oil Spills | Damage Assessment, Remediation, and Restoration Program |url=https://darrp.noaa.gov/oil-spills/exxon-valdez#:~:text=On%20March%2024,%201989%20the,11%20million%20gallons%20of%20oil. |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=darrp.noaa.gov}}{{Cite web |title=Exxon Valdez oil spill | Response, Animals, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/event/Exxon-Valdez-oil-spill |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1990 – Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan Civil War ends with last ship of Indian Peace Keeping Force leaving Sri Lanka.[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-03-25-mn-200-story.html Last Indian Troops Leave Sri Lanka][https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/1990/03/25/force-of-indian-soldiers-ends-sri-lankan-mission/3a821742-12d6-44dd-9258-1ce17ffe1766/]
• 1992 – Space Shuttle Atlantis launches on STS-45.{{cite web |title=STS-45 |url=http://spacefacts.de/mission/english/sts-45.htm |access-date=March 4, 2014 |publisher=Spacefacts}}
• 1993 – Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9 is discovered by Carolyn and Eugene Shoemaker, and David Levy at the Palomar Observatory in California.{{Cite web |title=In Depth | P/Shoemaker-Levy 9 |url=https://solarsystem.nasa.gov/asteroids-comets-and-meteors/comets/p-shoemaker-levy-9/in-depth |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=NASA Solar System Exploration|date=9 December 2017 }}{{Cite web |title=This Month in Astronomical History: Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 | American Astronomical Society |url=https://aas.org/posts/story/2016/07/month-astronomical-history-comet-shoemaker-levy-9 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=aas.org}}
• 1998 – Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, open fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.{{Cite web |title=Arkansas school shooter who killed five in 1998 dies in head-on car crash |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/arkansas-school-shooter-who-killed-five-1998-dies-head-car-n1035606 |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=NBC News |date=29 July 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Washingtonpost.com: The Shots That Struck Home |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/juvmurders/stories/jonesboro050199.htm |access-date=2021-12-08 |website=www.washingtonpost.com}}
• 1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.{{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=1998-03-25 |title=World News Briefs; Tornado in India Kills at Least 105 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/03/25/world/world-news-briefs-tornado-in-india-kills-at-least-105.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1998 – Dr. Rüdiger Marmulla performed the first computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation at the University of Regensburg, Germany.Marmulla, Rüdiger (inventor), Carl Zeiss (submitter): System and method for bone segment navigation. United States Patent 6.241.735, 2001Marmulla R, Niederdellmann H: Computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation. J Craniomaxillofac Surg 26: 347–359, 1998
• 1999 – Kosovo War: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.{{Cite web |first=Andrew |last=Glass |title=NATO begins bombing Serbia, March 24, 1999 |url=https://politi.co/2FvyXIO |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=Politico |date=24 March 2019 |language=en}}{{Cite news |last=Perlez |first=Jane |date=1999-03-24 |title=NATO Authorizes Bomb Strikes; Primakov, in Air, Skips U.S. Visit |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/24/world/conflict-balkans-overview-nato-authorizes-bomb-strikes-primakov-air-skips-us.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1999 – A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel, creating an inferno that kills 38 people.{{Cite web |author=Guardian Staff |date=1999-03-27 |title=35 die, 1 Briton missing in Mont Blanc tunnel fire |url=http://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/mar/27/6 |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding an end to the 2003 invasion of Iraq.{{Cite web |title=CNN.com - Arab leaders declare opposition to war in Iraq - Mar. 2, 2003 |url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/03/01/sprj.irq.arab.ministers/ |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=www.cnn.com}}{{Cite web |date=2013-07-30 |title=Arab League Fast Facts |url=https://www.cnn.com/2013/07/30/world/meast/arab-league-fast-facts/index.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |website=CNN |language=en}}
• 2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.{{Cite news |date=2008-03-21 |title=King drags Bhutan into democracy and first elections |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-bc-bhutan-election-idUSB32601720080321 |access-date=2021-12-07}}
• 2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.{{Cite news |last1=Bilefsky |first1=Dan |last2=Clark |first2=Nicola |date=2015-03-26 |title=Fatal Descent of Germanwings Plane Was 'Deliberate,' French Authorities Say |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/27/world/europe/germanwings-crash.html |access-date=2021-12-07 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 2018 – Syrian civil war: The Turkish Armed Forces (TAF) and Syrian National Army (SNA) take full control of Afrin District, marking the end of the Afrin offensive.{{cite web |url=http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/turkey-takes-full-control-syrias-afrin-region-reports-say-411255038 |title=Turkey takes full control of Syria's Afrin region, reports say |access-date=3 June 2018}}
• 2018 – Students across the United States stage the March for Our Lives demanding gun control in response to the Stoneman Douglas High School shooting.{{Cite web |date=2021-01-28 |title=Donald Trump - Key Events | Miller Center |url=https://millercenter.org/president/trump/key-events |access-date=2022-01-11 |website=millercenter.org |language=en}}
• 2019 – Jakarta MRT, a rapid transit system in Jakarta, began operation.{{Cite web |last1=Farras |first1=Bernhart |last2=Asmara |first2=Chandra Gian |date=2019-03-24 |title=Resmikan MRT Jakarta, Jokowi: Sebuah Peradaban Baru Dimulai |trans-title=Inaugurating Jakarta MRT, Jokowi: A New Civilization Begins |url=https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20190324100126-4-62549/resmikan-mrt-jakarta-jokowi-sebuah-peradaban-baru-dimulai |access-date=2020-09-11 |website=news |language=id-ID}}
• 2023 – An EF4 tornado strikes the towns of Rolling Fork and Silver City, Mississippi, causing mass destruction.{{Cite web |date=2023-03-27 |title=Tornado Leaves Path of Destruction in Mississippi |url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/151138/tornado-leaves-path-of-destruction-in-mississippi |access-date=2025-03-23 |website=earthobservatory.nasa.gov |language=en}}
• 2024 – The 2024 Senegalese presidential election is held following anti-government protests.{{Cite news |date=7 March 2024 |title=Senegal to hold delayed presidential election on March 24 |url=https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/07/senegal-to-hold-delayed-presidential-election-on-march-24/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240315063335/https://www.africanews.com/2024/03/07/senegal-to-hold-delayed-presidential-election-on-march-24/ |archive-date=15 March 2024 |access-date=15 March 2024 |work=Africanews |language=en}}

• 1103 – Yue Fei, Chinese military general (died 1142){{cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/chineselivespeop0000mair |url-access=registration |title=Chinese Lives: The People Who Made a Civilization |last1=Mair |first1=Victor H. |last2=Chen |first2=Sanping |last3=Wood |first3=Frances |date=2013-05-01 |publisher=Thames & Hudson |isbn=9780500771471 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/chineselivespeop0000mair/page/120 120]–121 |df=mdy-all}}
• 1441 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (died 1486){{cite book |title=Globe Encyclopaedia of Universal Information |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rPFTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA572 |year=1878 |pages=572}}
• 1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555){{cite book |author1=Niels H. Gregersen (éd) |author2=Michael W. S. Parsons |author3=Christoph Wassermann |title=The Concept of Nature in Science and Theology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Qn3f2bTj-ToC&pg=PA34 |year=1997 |publisher=Labor et Fides |isbn=978-2-8309-0859-6 |pages=34–}}
• 1577 – Francis, Duke of Pomerania-Stettin, Bishop of Cammin (died 1620){{cite web |title=Francis, Duke of Pomerania (1577-1620) |url=https://global.museum-digital.org/?t=people_to_people&id=29870f |website=global.museum-digital.org |access-date=March 22, 2024}}

• 1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1667){{cite book |author1=Leonard George Carr Laughton |author2=Roger Charles Anderson |author3=William Gordon Perrin |title=The Mariner's Mirror |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j57fAAAAMAAJ |year=1958 |publisher=Society for Nautical Research |page=3}}
• 1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1685)
• 1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (died 1725){{Cite web |title=Arai Hakuseki | Japanese statesman |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arai-Hakuseki |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (died 1776){{cite news |date=8 April 2009 |title=John Harrison: Timekeeper to Nostell and the world! |work=BBC Bradford and West Yorkshire |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/bradford/content/articles/2009/04/06/nostell_john_harrison_feature.shtml |access-date=10 February 2012}}{{Cite web |title=John Harrison | British horologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Harrison-British-horologist |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1725 – Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (died 1813){{cite web |last1=Whiteside |first1=Heustis P. |title=Samuel Ashe |url=https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/ashe-samuel |access-date=April 23, 2019 |website=NCPedia}}{{Cite web |title=Samuel Ashe |url=https://www.nga.org/governor/samuel-ashe/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=National Governors Association |date=5 January 2013}}
• 1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (died 1788){{Cite news |title=William Cushing | United States jurist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Cushing |access-date=2021-12-11 |newspaper=Encyclopedia Britannica |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=CUSHING, Thomas | US House of Representatives: History, Art & Archives |url=https://history.house.gov/People/Listing/C/CUSHING,-Thomas-(C001017)/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=history.house.gov |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Rufus King | American statesman |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Rufus-King |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (died 1827)
• 1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (died 1830)
• 1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (died 1835){{Cite web |title=Sri Muthuswami Dikshitar: composer per excellence |url=http://indianculture.gov.in/sri-muthuswami-dikshitar-composer-excellence |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=INDIAN CULTURE |language=en}}
• 1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (died 1836){{Cite web |title=Orest Adamovich Kiprensky | Russian artist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Orest-Adamovich-Kiprensky |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1796 – Zulma Carraud, French author (died 1889){{cite web |title=Zulma Carraud |url=https://mediatheque.ville-chateauroux.fr/lire-ecouter-voir/dossiers/portraits/191-zulma-carraud |website=Les Bibliothèques de Châteauroux |access-date=8 January 2020}}
• 1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (died 1878){{Cite web |title=Biography – Daly, John Corry Wilson – Volume X (1871-1880) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/daly_john_corry_wilson_10E.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.biographi.ca}}
• 1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (died 1882){{Cite web |title=Egerton Ryerson | Canadian educator |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Egerton-Ryerson |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (died 1836){{Cite web |title=Maria Malibran | Spanish opera singer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Maria-Malibran |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (died 1837){{Cite web |title=Mariano José de Larra | Spanish writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mariano-Jose-de-Larra-y-Sanchez-de-Castro |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (died 1882){{cite book |url=https://rse.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/RSE-Fellows-BiographicalIndex-2.pdf |title=Biographical Index of Former Fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 1783–2002 |date=July 2006 |publisher=The Royal Society of Edinburgh |isbn=0-902-198-84-X}}{{Cite web |title=Joseph Liouville | French mathematician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Liouville |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1816 – Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos, Mexican politician and Roman Catholic archbishop, regent during the Second Mexican Empire (died 1891){{cite web |url=http://www.arquidiocesisdepuebla.mx/index.php/arquidiocesis/obispos-y-arzobispos/obispos/43-excmo-sr-don-pelagio-antonio-de-lavastida |title=Excmo. Sr. Don Pelagio Antonio de Labastida y Dávalos (1855–1863) |publisher=Arquidiocesis de Puebla |language=es |access-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-date=May 29, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190529225354/http://www.arquidiocesisdepuebla.mx/index.php/arquidiocesis/obispos-y-arzobispos/obispos/43-excmo-sr-don-pelagio-antonio-de-lavastida |url-status=dead}}
• 1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (died 1891){{Cite web |title=Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - Timeline - Alexandre Edmond Becquerel |url=https://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/timeline/people/becquerel.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=micro.magnet.fsu.edu}}
• 1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (died 1915){{Cite web |title=Fanny Crosby | Biography, Hymns, Poems, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Fanny-Crosby |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (died 1887){{Cite web |title=Thomas Spencer Baynes | British scholar and editor |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Spencer-Baynes |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (died 1898){{Cite web |title=Matilda Joslyn Gage | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Matilda-Joslyn-Gage |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1828 – Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (died 1902){{cite book |last=Hall |first=Timothy L. |url=https://archive.org/details/supremecourtjust00timo |title=Supreme Court Justices: A Biographical Dictionary |publisher=Facts on File |year=2001 |isbn=978-0-8160-4194-7 |location=New York, New York |pages=[https://archive.org/details/supremecourtjust00timo/page/186 186]–189 |access-date=December 31, 2018 |url-access=registration}}{{Cite web |title=Horace Gray | United States jurist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Horace-Gray |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Timeline of the Justices: Horace Gray, 1882-1902 |url=https://supremecourthistory.org/history-of-the-court-timeline-of-the-justices-horace-gray-1882-1902/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=The Supreme Court Historical Society |language=en-US}}
• 1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (died 1904){{Citation |last=Potts |first=E. Daniel |title=Train, George Francis (1829–1904) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/train-george-francis-4745 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=2021-12-11}}{{Cite web |title=Round the World Flights |url=https://www.wingnet.org/rtw/RTW001O.HTM |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.wingnet.org}}
• 1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (died 1862){{Cite web |title=Zaragoza, Ignacio Seguín |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/zaragoza-ignacio-seguin |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.tshaonline.org}}
• 1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (died 1889){{Cite web |title=Robert Hamerling | German poet |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Hamerling |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1834 – William Morris, English textile designer, poet, and author (died 1896){{Cite web |title=William Morris | British artist and author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/William-Morris-British-artist-and-author |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (died 1902){{cite web |last1=McNamee |first1=Gregory |title=John Wesley Powell |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Wesley-Powell |access-date=9 December 2019 |website=britannica.com |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica}}
• 1835 – Joseph Stefan, Slovene physicist, mathematician, and poet (died 1893){{Cite web |title=Josef Stefan | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Josef-Stefan |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (died 1906){{Cite web |title=Biography – Beaugrand, HonoréEAUGRAND, HONORÉ (baptized Marie-Louis-Honoré) – Volume XIII (1901-1910) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography |url=http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/beaugrand_honore_13E.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.biographi.ca}}{{Cite web |title=Beaugrand, Honoré (P675) - Digitized Documents | Fonds | Musée McCord Museum |url=http://collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca/scripts/explore.php?Lang=1&tableid=18&tablename=fond&elementid=174__true |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=collections.musee-mccord.qc.ca}}
• 1850 – Silas Hocking, English minister and author (died 1935){{cite book |last=Sutherland |first=John |url=https://archive.org/details/stanfordcompanio0000suth |title=The Stanford Companion to Victorian Fiction |publisher=Stanford University Press |year=1989 |page=[https://archive.org/details/stanfordcompanio0000suth/page/301 301] |isbn=9780804715287 |url-access=registration |author-link=John Sutherland (author)}}{{cite book |last=Burnett |first=R. G. |title=Oxford Dictionary of National Biography |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=2004 |chapter=Hocking, Silas Kitto (1850–1935) rev. Sayoni Basu}}
• 1854 – Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (died 1930){{Citation |last=Cameron |first=Catherine |title=Lefroy, Sir Henry Bruce (1853–1930) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/lefroy-sir-henry-bruce-7159 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=2021-12-11}}
• 1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (died 1937){{Cite web |title=Andrew Mellon | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Andrew-Mellon |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (died 1920){{Cite web |title=Olive Schreiner | South African writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Olive-Schreiner |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1862 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (died 1951){{Cite web |title=Frank Weston Benson |url=https://www.artic.edu/artists/33601/frank-weston-benson |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=The Art Institute of Chicago |date=1862 |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Frank Weston Benson |url=https://useum.org/artist/Frank-Weston-Benson |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=USEUM |language=en}}
• 1869 – Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (died 1955){{Cite web |title=Émile Fabre | French dramatist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Emile-Fabre |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1871 – Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (died 1913)
• 1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (died 1961){{Cite web |title=Luigi Einaudi | president of Italya |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Luigi-Einaudi |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (died 1926){{Cite web |title=Harry Houdini | Biography & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harry-Houdini |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1875 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (died 1953){{Cite web |title=Billy Burns |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/17301 |access-date=2021-12-11 |work=Olympedia}}
• 1879 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (died 1953){{Cite web |title=Neyzen Teyfik (1879–1953) |website=Anatolia Interculturual Organization |date=15 January 2015 |url=https://anatoliaintercultural.org/about-turkey/culture/philosophers/neyzen-teyfik-1879-1953/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |language=en-GB}}{{Cite web |title=Neyzen Tevfık |url=https://islamansiklopedisi.org.tr/neyzen-tevfik |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=TDV İslam Ansiklopedisi |language=tr}}
• 1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (died 1951){{cite web |work=Olympedia |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/29968 |title=Marcel Lalu}}
• 1882 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (died 1943){{Cite web |last1=McLintock |first1=Alexander Hare |last2=Bernard John Foster |first2=M. A. |last3=Taonga |first3=New Zealand Ministry for Culture and Heritage Te Manatu |title=GALWAY, Sir George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, Eighth Viscount |url=https://teara.govt.nz/en/1966/galway-sir-george-vere-arundell-monckton-arundell-eighth-viscount |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=An encyclopaedia of New Zealand, edited by A. H. McLintock, 1966. |language=en}}
• 1883 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (died 1945)
• 1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1966){{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1936 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1936/debye/biographical/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Peter Debye | American physical chemist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Peter-Debye |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1884 – Chika Kuroda, Japanese chemist (died 1968){{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain |url-access=registration |title=International Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary to 1950 |last1=Haines |first1=Catharine M. C. |last2=Stevens |first2=Helen M. |date=2001 |publisher=ABC-CLIO |isbn=9781576070901 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/internationalwom00hain/page/164 164] |language=en}}
• 1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (died 1972){{Cite web |title=The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church - June 15, 1936 |url=https://cardinals.fiu.edu/bios1936.htm |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=cardinals.fiu.edu}}
• 1885 – Charles Daniels, American swimmer (died 1973){{Cite web |title=Charles Daniels | American swimmer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Daniels |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (died 1978){{Cite web |title=Dimitrie Cuclin |url=https://www.icr.ro/pagini/dimitrie-cuclin |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.icr.ro}}
• 1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (died 1958){{Cite web |title=Edward Weston | American photographer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edward-Weston-American-photographer |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1886 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (died 1945){{Cite web |title=Robert Mallet-Stevens | French architect |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Robert-Mallet-Stevens |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1933){{Cite web |title=Roscoe Arbuckle | American actor and director |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Roscoe-Arbuckle |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (died 1922)
• 1889 – Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (died 1969){{Cite web |title=Remembering Albert Hill's Olympic double, on its 100th anniversary | NEWS | World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/news/news/albert-hill-olympic-double-centenary |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=worldathletics.org}}
• 1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (died 1954){{Cite web |title=Agnes Campbell Macphail | Canadian politician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Agnes-Campbell-Macphail |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (died 1951)
• 1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (died 1977){{Cite news |date=1977-06-26 |title=Harold Marston Morse Dies at 85; Served With Einstein at Princeton |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1977/06/26/archives/harold-marston-morse-dies-at-85-served-with-einstein-at-princeton.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=2019-12-09 |title=Marston Morse - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study |url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/marston-morse |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.ias.edu |language=en}}
• 1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (died 1960){{Cite web |date=2021-06-01 |title=Wilhelm Heinrich Walter Baade |url=http://phys-astro.sonoma.edu/brucemedalists/walter-baade |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Department of Physics & Astronomy at Sonoma State University |language=en}}
• 1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (died 1973){{Cite web |title=George Sisler | American baseball player |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/George-Sisler |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (died 1957){{Cite web |title=Wilhelm Reich | Austrian psychologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wilhelm-Reich |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}

• 1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (died 1971){{Cite web |title=Ub Iwerks | American animator and special-effects technician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Ub-Iwerks |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (died 1971){{Cite web |title=Thomas E. Dewey | governor of New York |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-E-Dewey |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995){{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1939 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1939/butenandt/biographical/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
• 1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (died 1990){{Cite web |title=Malcolm Muggeridge | British journalist and social critic |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Malcolm-Muggeridge |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (died 2007){{Cite web |date=2005-03-20 |title=Pura Santillan Castrence is 100 and still writing |url=https://www.manilatimes.net/2005/03/20/opinion/analysis/pura-santillan-castrence-is-100-and-still-writing/844462 |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=The Manila Times |language=en}}
• 1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (died 1960){{Cite web |title=Paul Sauvé |url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/joseph-mignault-paul-sauve |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca}}
• 1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (died 1934){{Cite web |title=TSHA | Barrow, Clyde Chesnut |url=https://www.tshaonline.org/handbook/entries/barrow-clyde-chesnut |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.tshaonline.org}}
• 1909 – Richard Wurmbrand, Romanian pastor and evangelist (died 2001){{Cite web |date=2001-03-16 |title=Obituary: Pastor Richard Wurmbrand |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/mar/16/guardianobituaries.stephenbates |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 1910 – Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (died 1975)
• 1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (died 2006){{cite news |last=Gifford |first=Dennis |date=December 20, 2006 |title=Joe Barbera |work=The Guardian |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/20/usa |url-status=live |access-date=August 7, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160109090912/http://www.theguardian.com/film/2006/dec/20/usa |archive-date=January 9, 2016}}
• 1912 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (died 2010){{Cite web |title=Dr. Dorothy Height Biography |url=https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/dorothy-height |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Dr. Dorothy Height Biography |language=en}}
• 1915 – Eugène Martin, French racing driver (died 2006)
• 1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (died 2006){{Cite web |title=Finding Aid for the Donald Hamilton papers, 1945-1995 |url=https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf6s2007cn/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=oac.cdlib.org}}
• 1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (died 2010){{Cite journal |last=Fortey |first=Richard A. |date=2012-12-31 |title=Harry Blackmore Whittington. 24 March 1916 — 20 June 2010 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=58 |pages=299–325 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.2012.0033 |s2cid=87067971 |doi-access=free}}
• 1917 – Constantine Andreou, Greek painter and sculptor (died 2007){{cite web |url=https://www.academia.edu/30300202 |title=Intercultural references: The influence of the Mediterranean on the work of Constantine Andreou, artist of the Greek Diaspora |last1=Mortaki |first1=Sapfo}}
• 1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1997){{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1962 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/chemistry/1962/kendrew/biographical/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
• 1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore (died 2021){{Cite web |date=2021-02-28 |title=Tribute to Lawrence Ferlinghetti, March 24, 1919 - February 23, 2021 - Poet, Publisher, Painter, Raconteur |url=https://ksqd.org/tribute-to-lawrence-ferlinghetti-march-24-1919-february-23-2021-poet-publisher-painter-raconteur/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=ksqd.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |date=2021-02-23 |title=Lawrence Ferlinghetti—the San Francisco poet, publisher and bookseller—has died |url=https://www.latimes.com/obituaries/story/2021-02-23/lawrence-ferlinghetti-city-lights-dead |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Los Angeles Times |language=en-US}}{{Cite news |last=McKinley |first=Jesse |date=2021-02-23 |title=Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Poet Who Nurtured the Beats, Dies at 101 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/23/obituaries/lawrence-ferlinghetti-dead.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (died 2005){{Cite news |last=Noble |first=Holcomb B. |date=2005-01-12 |title=Robert Heilbroner, Writer and Economist, Dies at 85 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/12/obituaries/robert-heilbroner-writer-and-economist-dies-at-85.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (died 1996){{cite news |last=Smith |first=Dinitia |date=September 18, 1996 |title=Gene Nelson Is Dead at 76; Athletic Hollywood Dancer |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/09/18/movies/gene-nelson-is-dead-at-76-athletic-hollywood-dancer.html}}{{Cite news |last=Thomas |first=Bob |date=September 17, 1996 |title=Gene Nelson, Dancer in '50s Musicals, Also Directed Features and TV |work=AP News |url=https://apnews.com/article/b62d95bfdba64d3653a9d50dc1a32188 |access-date=December 26, 2021}}
• 1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (died 2006){{Cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=2007-01-22 |title=Mary Stolz, Who Wrote Novels for the Young, Is Dead at 86 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/books/22stolz.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1921 – Franciszek Blachnicki, Polish priest (died 1987){{cite web |title=100. rocznica urodzin ks. Franciszka Blachnickiego |url=https://www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/100-rocznica-urodzin-ks-franciszka-blachnickiego |website=www.gov.pl/web/edukacja-i-nauka/ |publisher=Ministerstwo Edukacji i Nauki |access-date=22 June 2021 |language=pl |quote=Ks. Franciszek Blachnicki urodził się 24 marca 1921 r. w Rybniku.}}
• 1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (died 2010){{Cite news |last=McClain |first=Dylan Loeb |date=2010-03-28 |title=Vasily Smyslov, Former World Chess Champion, Dies at 89 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/crosswords/chess/28smyslov.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (died 2005){{Cite news |agency=Associated Press |date=2005-04-11 |title=Onna White, 83, Choreographer Who Won Oscar for 'Oliver!,' Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/11/arts/dance/onna-white-83-choreographer-who-won-oscar-for-oliver-dies.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (died 1986)
• 1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (died 2011){{Cite web |date=2011-09-02 |title=Michael Legat: Editorial director of Corgi Books and prolific author |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/michael-legat-editorial-director-of-corgi-books-and-prolific-author-of-writers-guides-2348453.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
• 1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (died 1998)
• 1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal (died 2017){{Cite news |last=O’Shea |first=Sinead |date=2017-02-24 |title=Cardinal Desmond Connell, 90, Dies; Dublin Archbishop During Abuse Scandal |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/europe/cardinal-desmond-connell-dublin-dead.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2016){{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Literature 1997 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/1997/fo/biographical/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}
• 1926 – William Porter, American hurdler (died 2000)
• 1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (died 2014){{Cite news |last=Slotnik |first=Daniel E. |date=2014-08-09 |title=J. W. Hastings, 87, a Pioneer in Bioluminescence Research, Dies |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/science/j-w-hastings-87-a-pioneer-in-bioluminescence-research-dies.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright (died 2023)
• 1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist and composer (died 2024)
• 1929 – Pat Renella, Italian-American actor (died 2012){{Cite web |last=Barnes |first=Mike |date=2012-11-30 |title=Pat Renella, Who Played a Bad Guy in 'Bullitt,' Dies at 83 |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/pat-renella-bullitt-mannix-dies-396166/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=The Hollywood Reporter |language=en-US}}
• 1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (died 2003){{cite news |date=21 November 2003 |title=CAR's first president dies |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/3227672.stm |access-date=11 August 2018}}{{Cite web |title=David Dacko | Biography, Central African Republic, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/David-Dacko |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (died 1980){{cite news |last=Arnold |first=Gary |date=November 8, 1980 |title=Movie Hero Steve McQueen Dies of Heart Attack at Age of 50 |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/11/08/movie-hero-steve-mcqueen-dies-of-heart-attack-at-age-of-50/ceff4040-3090-4b71-bc61-3283452d1146/ |url-status=live |access-date=January 8, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181009122943/https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1980/11/08/movie-hero-steve-mcqueen-dies-of-heart-attack-at-age-of-50/ceff4040-3090-4b71-bc61-3283452d1146/ |archive-date=October 9, 2018}}
• 1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (died 2003)
• 1933 – Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (died 2011){{Cite news |last=Grimes |first=William |date=2011-05-25 |title=Stephen De Staebler, Sculptor of Bronze and Clay, Dies at 78 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/25/arts/design/stephen-de-staebler-sculptor-dies-at-78.html |access-date=2021-08-24 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1933 – Lee Mendelson, American television producer (died 2019){{Cite news |last=Taylor |first=Derrick Bryson |date=2019-12-28 |title=Lee Mendelson, Producer Behind 'A Charlie Brown Christmas,' Dies at 86 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/28/arts/television/lee-mendelson-dead.html |access-date=2019-12-29 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1935 – Mary Berry, English writer, chef, author, and television presenter{{cite web |title=Famous birthdays for March 24: Jim Parsons, Tommy Hilfiger |url=https://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2023/03/24/Famous-birthdays-for-March-24-Jim-Parsons-Tommy-Hilfiger/2781679617300/ |publisher=UPI |access-date=22 March 2024 |date=24 March 2023}}
• 1935 – Carol Kaye, American bass guitarist{{Cite web |title=Kaye, Carol (born 1935) |url=https://www.historylink.org/File/20800 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=www.historylink.org}}
• 1936 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (died 2015){{cite news |author=Terence McArdle |title=Don Covay, soul singer of 'Mercy, Mercy', dies at 76 |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/music/don-covay-soul-singer-of-mercy-mercy-dies-at-76/2015/02/03/3cf0aa24-aa3c-11e4-9c91-e9d2f9fde644_story.html |access-date=February 12, 2015}}{{Cite news |last=Weber |first=Bruce |date=2015-02-07 |title=Don Covay, Performer and Writer of R&B Hits, Dies at 78 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/07/arts/music/don-covay-performer-and-writer-of-rb-hits-dies-at-78.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player (died 2020){{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |date=2020-12-13 |title=Alex Olmedo, 84, Dies; Tennis Star Known for a Remarkable Year |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/13/sports/tennis/alex-olmedo-dead.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1937 – Billy Stewart, American singer and pianist (died 1970){{Cite web |last=Alexander |first=Otis |date=2021-06-16 |title=Billy Stewart II (1937-1970) • |url=https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/billy-stewart-ii-1937-1970/ |access-date=2021-12-26 |language=en-US}}
• 1938 – Holger Czukay, German musician (died 2017){{Cite news |last=Sweeting |first=Adam |date=2017-09-06 |title=Holger Czukay obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/sep/06/holger-czukay-obituary |access-date=2024-03-12 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}
• 1938 – David Irving, English historian and author{{cite news |last=Hari |first=Johann |date=15 January 2009 |title=David Irving: 'Hitler appointed me biographer' |newspaper=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/profiles/david-irving-im-hitlers-biographer-1366464.html |access-date=26 January 2018}}{{cite news |last=Craig |first=Olga |date=26 February 2006 |title=David, what on earth would Mother think? |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1511495/David-what-on-earth-would-Mother-think.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1511495/David-what-on-earth-would-Mother-think.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2 September 2011}}{{cbignore}}
• 1938 – Larry Wilson, American football player (died 2020){{cite web |last1=Belson |first1=Ken |title=Larry Wilson, Who Made Safety an N.F.L. Threat, Dies at 82 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/sports/football/larry-wilson-dead.html |work=The New York Times |access-date=11 March 2023 |date=18 September 2020}}
• 1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer{{Cite web |title=Bob Mackie |url=https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Bob-Mackie/328763 |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=Britannica Kids |language=en-US}}
• 1941 – Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (died 2015)[https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1986-06-08-ca-9259-story.html Los Angeles Times: "Masser's Greatest Love" by Jackie Helman] June 8, 1986{{cite news |title=Michael Masser, Composer Who Wrote Whitney Houston Hits, Dies at 74 |newspaper=The New York Times |date=14 July 2015 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/14/arts/music/michael-masser-composer-who-wrote-hits-for-whitney-houston-dies-at-74.html |access-date=2016-03-01 |last1=Roberts |first1=Sam}}
• 1942 – Jesús Alou, Dominican baseball player (died 2023){{cite web |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/former-major-leaguer-jesus-alou-dies-at-80 |title=Jesús Alou, youngest of famed brother trio, dies at 80 |last=Guardado |first=Maria |work=MLB.com |date=March 10, 2023 |access-date=March 11, 2023}}
• 1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor (died 2018){{Cite news |last=Stevens |first=Matt |date=2018-04-16 |title=R. Lee Ermey, Harsh Drill Instructor in 'Full Metal Jacket,' Dies at 74 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/obituaries/r-lee-ermey-dead-actor.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia{{Cite web |title=Vojislav Koštunica | last president of Yugoslavia and prime minister of Serbia |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vojislav-Kotunica |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic
• 1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2016){{cite news |last1=McLellan |first1=Dennis |last2=Vankin |first2=Deborah |date=September 20, 2016 |title=Curtis Hanson dead at 71 |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |url=http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-curtis-hanson-snap-story.html}}{{Cite news |last=Bromwich |first=Jonah Engel |date=2016-09-21 |title=Curtis Hanson, Director of Wicked Noir 'L.A. Confidential,' Dies at 71 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/21/obituaries/curtis-hanson-director-of-wicked-noir-la-confidential-dies-at-71.html |access-date=2021-12-26 |issn=0362-4331}}
• 1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter
• 1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (died 2008){{Cite web |last=Lusk |first=Jon |date=2008-05-04 |title=Obituary: Klaus Dinger |url=http://www.theguardian.com/music/2008/may/05/germany.electronicmusic |access-date=2021-12-26 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (died 2018){{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Harrison |date=November 4, 2018 |title=Kitty O'Neil, deaf daredevil who became 'world's fastest woman,' dies at 72 |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/kitty-oneil-deaf-daredevil-who-became-worlds-fastest-woman-dies-at-72/2018/11/04/5d88dc9c-e044-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html |access-date=November 6, 2018}}
• 1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach
• 1947 – Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington{{cite news |last=Wilson |first=Reid |date=July 25, 2012 |title=Chris Gregoire (D) |newspaper=The Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chris-gregoire-d/gIQA1eOFAP_topic.html |url-status=dead |access-date=February 24, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141029001309/http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/chris-gregoire-d/gIQA1eOFAP_topic.html |archive-date=October 29, 2014}}
• 1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach (died 2022)
• 1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman
• 1948 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (died 2013){{Cite web |title=DIEZ CANSECO CISNEROS, Javier |url=http://diccionario.cedinci.org/diez-canseco-cisneros-javier/ |access-date=2021-12-27 |language=es}}
• 1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (died 1989)
• 1948 – Lee Oskar, Danish musician
• 1949 – Tabitha King, American author and poet
• 1949 – Ruud Krol, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1949 – Steve Lang, Canadian bass player (died 2017)
• 1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter, bass player, and producer
• 1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran{{Cite news |last=Boroujerdi |first=Mehrzhad |date=31 January 2011 |title=Iran's New Foreign Minister: Ali Akbar Salehi |work=PBS |url=https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tehranbureau/2011/01/irans-new-foreign-minister-ali-akbar-salehi.html |access-date=15 May 2012}}
• 1949 – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka{{Cite web |date=2018-03-23 |title=Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe celebrates his 69th birthday – March 24th |url=https://www.timeslanka.com/2018/03/23/prime-minister-ranil-wickremesinghe-celebrates-his-69th-birthday-march-24th/ |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=TSL - The Times of Sri Lanka (Published in Canada) - All Rights Reserved (Editor: Upali Obeyesekere)}}
• 1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (died 2011)[http://www2.nbc17.com/sports/orange-county/2011/mar/11/suspended-nfl-agent-gary-wichard-dies-60-ar-855331/ "Suspended NFL Agent Gary Wichard Dies At 60" NBC-17] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110314020729/http://www2.nbc17.com/sports/orange-county/2011/mar/11/suspended-nfl-agent-gary-wichard-dies-60-ar-855331/|date=2011-03-14}} October 26, 2011{{cite news |author=Tom Friend |date=March 11, 2011 |title=NFL player agent Gary Wichard dies at 60 from diabetes, pancreatic cancer |publisher=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/news/story?id=6207397 |access-date=August 13, 2011}}
• 1951 – Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (died 2013)
• 1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer{{Cite web |title=Pat Bradley |url=https://kids.britannica.com/students/article/Pat-Bradley/317951 |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=Britannica Kids |language=en-US}}
• 1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation{{Cite web |date=2020-03-24 |title=Happy birthday Tommy Hilfiger: Meet the designer extraordinaire |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/fashion-and-trends/happy-birthday-tommy-hilfiger-meet-the-designer-extraordinaire/story-OFw8h3SjNSBsSkYjuLxfCN.html |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=Hindustan Times |language=en}}
• 1951 – Dougie Thomson, Scottish bass player
• 1951 – Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach{{Cite web |title=Anna WŁODARCZYK | Profile | World Athletics |url=https://worldathletics.org/athletes/poland/anna-wlodarczyk-14349006 |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=worldathletics.org}}
• 1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (died 2013)
• 1953 – Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic
• 1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian (died 2022){{Cite web |title=Louie Anderson's Concert & Tour History | Concert Archives |url=https://www.concertarchives.org/bands/louie-anderson |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=www.concertarchives.org}}
• 1954 – Robert Carradine, American actor{{cite web |last1=Rose |first1=Mike |title=Today's famous birthdays list for March 24, 2023 includes celebrities Jim Parsons, Alyson Hannigan |url=https://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/2023/03/todays-famous-birthdays-list-for-march-24-2023-includes-celebrities-jim-parsons-alyson-hannigan.html |website=The Plain Dealer |publisher=Associated Press |access-date=22 March 2024 |date=24 March 2023}}
• 1954 – Rafael Orozco Maestre, Colombian singer (died 1992){{Cite web |title=Rafael Orozco Maestre |url=https://www.buenamusica.com/rafael-orozco/biografia |access-date=2022-10-12 |website=BuenaMusica.com}}
• 1954 – Donna Pescow, American actress and director
• 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
• 1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach
• 1959 – Emmit King, American sprinter (died 2021)
• 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 (died 2020){{Cite web |date=2020-09-25 |title=Dean Jones obituary | Adam Collins |url=http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/sep/25/dean-jones-obituary |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2020-10-09 |title=Dean Jones: Charismatic cricket player who drove Australia into a new era |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/dean-jones-dead-cricket-player-australia-one-day-world-cup-winner-b859216.html |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
• 1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
• 1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist
• 1962 – Star Jones, American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host
• 1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower
• 1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (died 2015){{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Vadim Tishchenko |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/701273 |access-date=2021-12-27 |website=www.olympedia.org}}
• 1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach
• 1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder
• 1964 – Patterson Hood, American singer-songwriter{{Cite web |date=2021-09-10 |title=Drive-By Truckers' 'Southern Rock Opera' Turns 20 |url=https://www.stereogum.com/2159953/drive-by-truckers-southern-rock-opera/reviews/the-anniversary/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=Stereogum |language=en}}
• 1965 – Peter Jacobson, American actor
• 1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor
• 1966 – Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach
• 1966 – Rico Hizon, Filipino broadcast journalist{{Cite web |title=Rico turns 'gold' |url=https://www.philstar.com/entertainment/2016/07/07/1600169/rico-turns-gold?nomobile=1 |access-date=2023-01-03 |website=www.philstar.com}}
• 1967 – Diann Roffe, American skier
• 1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player
• 1969 – Stephan Eberharter, Austrian skier
• 1969 – Ilir Meta, Albanian politician, incumbent President of Albania{{Cite web |date=2017-04-29 |title=Ilir Meta elected as new President of Albania |url=https://europeanwesternbalkans.com/2017/04/29/ilir-meta-elected-as-new-president-of-albania/ |access-date=2022-06-08 |website=European Western Balkans |language=en-US}}
• 1970 – Lauren Bowles, American actress
• 1970 – Lara Flynn Boyle, American actress
• 1970 – Sharon Corr, Irish singer-songwriter and violinist
• 1970 – Judith Draxler, Austrian swimmer
• 1970 – Erica Kennedy, American journalist and author (died 2012){{cite news |last=Fox |first=Margalit |date=June 18, 2012 |title=Erica Kennedy, a Music Writer Who Satirized the Hip-Hop World, Dies at 42 |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/books/erica-kennedy-music-writer-and-novelist-dies-at-42.html |access-date=June 19, 2012}}
• 1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player
• 1971 – Tig Notaro, American comedian and actor
• 1971 – Megyn Price, American actress
• 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 (died 2014)
• 1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monégasque 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 – Olivia Burnette, American actress
• 1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress
• 1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Amir Arison, American actor
• 1978 – Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach
• 1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager
• 1978 – José Valverde, Dominican baseball player
• 1979 – Lake Bell, American actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player
• 1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler
• 1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer
• 1980 – Ramzi Abid, Canadian ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Ramzi Abid |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/ramzi-abid-8467356 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=22 March 2024}}
• 1980 – Andrew Hutchinson, American ice hockey player{{cite web |title=Andrew Hutchinson |url=https://www.nhl.com/player/andrew-hutchinson-8467927 |publisher=National Hockey League |access-date=22 March 2024}}
• 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
• 1981 – Philip Winchester, American actor
• 1982 – Epico Colon, Puerto Rican professional wrestler
• 1982 – Jake Hager, American mixed martial artist and professional wrestler
• 1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player
• 1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer
• 1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player
• 1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer
• 1983 – T. J. Ford, American basketball player
• 1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer
• 1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer{{cite web |url=https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=41107 |title=Benoît Assou-Ekotto |website=soccerbase.com |access-date=17 March 2020}}
• 1984 – Park Bom, South Korean singer
• 1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player
• 1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player
• 1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner
• 1984 – Philipp Petzschner, German tennis player
• 1985 – Haruka Ayase, Japanese actress and singer
• 1985 – CJ Perry, American wrestler, manager, and actress
• 1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer{{Cite web |title=Shakib Al Hasan profile and biography, stats, records, averages, photos and videos |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/player/shakib-al-hasan-56143 |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=ESPNcricinfo |language=en}}
• 1987 – Yuma Asami, Japanese actress and singer{{cite web |url=http://actress.dmm.co.jp/-/detail/=/actress_id=15365/ |title=麻美ゆま (Yuma Asami DMM Profile)}}
• 1987 – Billy Jones, English footballer{{Hugman|10555| Billy Jones|access-date=2021-12-11}}
• 1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer{{Cite web |title=Ramires Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/99025/ramires |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=ESPN |language=en}}
• 1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete[http://www.olimpiade.lv/lat/lov/sportisti/45/343/ Aiga Grabuste] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111004184022/http://www.olimpiade.lv/lat/lov/sportisti/45/343/|date=2011-10-04}}. Latvian Olympic Committee. Retrieved on 2011-06-18.
• 1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer{{cite web |title=Ryan Higgins |url=http://www.espncricinfo.com/ci/content/player/55518.html |work=ESPNcricinfo |access-date=7 July 2017}}
• 1988 – Finn Jones, English actor
• 1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer{{Cite web |title=Argentina - M. Martínez - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway |url=https://us.soccerway.com/players/matias-martinez/18045/ |access-date=2021-12-17 |website=us.soccerway.com}}
• 1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer{{cite web |title=Athlete Biographies |url=http://www.paralympic.org/Athletes/Athlete_Biographies |publisher=IPC |access-date=14 August 2010 |archive-date=15 August 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100815040058/http://www.paralympic.org//Athletes//Athlete_Biographies// |url-status=dead}}
• 1988 – Matt Todd, New Zealand rugby union player{{Cite web |title=Matthew Brendon Todd |url=http://www.espnscrum.com/newzealand/rugby/player/120403.html |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=ESPN scrum}}
• 1989 – Zyzz, Russian-Australian bodybuilder and internet personality (died 2011){{cite news |date=11 August 2011 |title=Heart condition 'behind bodybuilder's death' |newspaper=Ninemsn |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8284072/heart-condition-behind-bodybuilders-death |url-status=dead |access-date=14 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110912154130/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8284072/heart-condition-behind-bodybuilders-death |archive-date=12 September 2011 |df=dmy}}{{cite news |last=Kennedy |first=Les |date=10 August 2011 |title=Sydney bodybuilder dies in Thailand sauna |newspaper=Ninemsn |url=http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8283698/sydney-bodybuilder-dies-in-thailand-sauna |access-date=15 August 2011 |archive-date=13 September 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110913150828/http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/8283698/sydney-bodybuilder-dies-in-thailand-sauna |url-status=dead}}
• 1990 – Aljur Abrenica, Filipino actor{{Cite web |date=March 27, 2021 |first=Stephanie |last=Shi |title=They're OK! Aljur Abrenica Celebrates His Birthday With Kylie Padilla And Their Sons |url=https://www.cosmo.ph/entertainment/aljur-abrenica-birthday-kylie-padilla-sons-a434-20210327 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=COSMO.PH |language=en-ph}}
• 1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress{{cite news |author=Andrea LeVasseur |date=9 April 2015 |title=Keisha Castle Hughes |work=The New York Times |department=Movies & TV Dept. |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/340214/Keisha-Castle-Hughes/biography |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150410013657/http://www.nytimes.com/movies/person/340214/Keisha-Castle-Hughes/biography |archive-date=10 April 2015 |df=dmy-all}}
• 1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player{{Cite web |title=Starlin Castro Stats, News, Bio |url=https://www.espn.com/mlb/player/_/id/30450/starlin-castro |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=ESPN |language=en}}
• 1990 – Lacey Evans, American wrestler{{cite web |last=Mooneyham |first=Mike |date=August 26, 2017 |title=From the Marines to the mat: Sky is the limit for NXT's Lacey Evans |url=http://www.postandcourier.com/sports/from-the-marines-to-the-mat-sky-is-the-limit/article_3d960626-89a1-11e7-b4e0-0b483e135067.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190423090240/https://www.postandcourier.com/sports/from-the-marines-to-the-mat-sky-is-the-limit/article_3d960626-89a1-11e7-b4e0-0b483e135067.html |archive-date=April 23, 2019 |access-date=October 13, 2019 |work=The Post and Courier}}{{cite news |last=Murphy |first=Jan |date=August 9, 2019 |title=SummerSlam: Lacey Evans is the 'lady of WWE' |url=https://torontosun.com/sports/wrestling/summerslam-lacy-evans-is-the-lady-of-wwe |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200916182156/https://torontosun.com/sports/wrestling/summerslam-lacy-evans-is-the-lady-of-wwe/ |archive-date=September 16, 2020 |access-date=October 13, 2019 |newspaper=Toronto Sun}}{{cite web |date=January 15, 2019 |title=WWE Profile Page – Lacey Evans |url=https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/25765073/wwe-profile-page-lacey-evans |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200603223401/https://www.espn.com/wwe/story/_/id/25765073/wwe-profile-page-lacey-evans |archive-date=June 3, 2020 |access-date=October 13, 2019 |website=ESPN}}
• 1990 – Alyssa Healy, Australian cricketer{{Cite web |title=Alyssa Healy |url=https://www.espncricinfo.com/australia/content/player/275486.html |access-date=2021-03-26 |website=Cricinfo}}
• 1990 – JonTron, American YouTuber{{cite tweet |author=JonTron |author-link=JonTron |user=JonTronShow |number=977644807681167361 |date=March 24, 2018 |title=Thanks for all the birthday wishes, turns out I don't get to join the 27 club after all. :( |language=en |access-date=December 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024081805/https://twitter.com/jontronshow/status/977644807681167361 |archive-date=October 24, 2022 |url-status=live}}
• 1991 – Nick Browne, English cricketer{{Cite book |last=Marshall |first=Ian |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_8n3BQAAQBAJ&dq=Nick+Browne,+English+cricketer+%22birthday%22&pg=PA1876 |title=Playfair Cricket Annual 2015 |date=2015-04-09 |publisher=Headline |isbn=978-1-4722-1219-1 |language=en}}
• 1991 – Dalila Jakupovic, Slovenian tennis player{{Cite web |title=Dalila Jakupovic |url=http://www.espn.com/tennis/player/results/_/id/2669/dalila-jakupovic |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=ESPN.com}}{{Cite web |title=Dalila Jakupovic - Player Profile - Tennis |url=https://www.eurosport.com/tennis/dalila-jakupovic_prs385602/person.shtml |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=Eurosport |language=en}}
• 1993 – Daniel Sazonov, Finnish politician{{cite web|url=https://www.hel.fi/static/helsinki/pormestarit/cv/cv-daniel-sazonov-en.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwij45jXi9qMAxVPHBAIHf9nNisQFnoECDUQAQ&usg=AOvVaw0azem-SpgZhsYfPLbf1eYh|title=Daniel Sazonov – Helsinki|website=hel.fi|access-date=15 April 2025}}
• 1995 – Enzo Zidane, French-Spanish footballer{{soccerway|enzo-alan-zidane-fernandez/314135}}
• 1996 – Myles Turner, American basketball player{{cite web |title=Myles Turner |url=https://www.nba.com/player/1626167/myles-turner |publisher=National Basketball Association |access-date=22 March 2024}}
• 1997 – Mina, Japanese singer and dancer{{Cite web |title=Twice |url=http://twice.jype.com/ |access-date=2020-11-05 |website=twice.jype.com |language=ko}}
• 1998 – Christopher Briney, American actor{{cite web |title=Christopher Briney |url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/christopher_briney |website=Rotten Tomatoes |language=en |access-date=16 October 2023 |archive-date=June 16, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230616201748/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/celebrity/christopher_briney |url-status=live}}
• 1998 – Damar Hamlin, American football player{{cite web |title=Damar Hamlin |url=https://www.espn.com/nfl/player/_/id/4036060/damar-hamlin |publisher=ESPN |access-date=11 March 2023}}
• 1998 – Ethel Cain, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and model{{Cite web |first=Ryan|last=Dombal|title=Ethel Cain Fears No Darkness |url=https://pitchfork.com/features/rising/ethel-cain-interview/ |date=20 April 2021|access-date=24 March 2025 |website=Pitchfork|language=en}}
• 1999 – Katie Swan, English tennis player{{Cite web |title=Katie Swan | Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/323145/katie-swan |access-date=2022-10-16 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}
• 2001 – Clara Burel, French tennis player{{Cite web |title=Clara Burel | Player Stats & More – WTA Official |url=https://www.wtatennis.com/players/325320/clara-burel |access-date=2022-10-17 |website=Women's Tennis Association |language=en}}

• 809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (born 763){{Cite web |title=Hārūn al-Rashīd | ʿAbbāsid caliph |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Harun-al-Rashid |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 832 – Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury{{Cite web |title=EBK: Wulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury |url=http://www.earlybritishkingdoms.com/adversaries/bios/wulfred.html |access-date=2022-02-08 |website=www.earlybritishkingdoms.com}}
• 1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (born 1235){{Cite web |title=Hugh III | king of Cyprus |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Hugh-III |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1296 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller{{cite web |title=Odon de Pins - The 23rd Grandmaster of The Sovereign Military and Hospitaller Order of St. John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta |url=http://www.smom-za.org/grandmasters/23.htm |publisher=www.smom-za.org |access-date=2007-11-11}}
• 1381 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1332){{Cite web |title=Saint Catherine of Sweden | Swedish saint |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Saint-Catherine-of-Sweden |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (born 1340){{Cite web |title=Walter Hilton | English mystic and author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Walter-Hilton |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1399 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (bornc. 1320){{Cite web |title=Margaret AUDLEY (D. Norfolk) |url=http://www.tudorplace.com.ar/Bios/MargaretAudley.htm |access-date=2022-02-08 |website=www.tudorplace.com.ar}}
• 1443 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371){{cite book |last=Maxwell |first=Herbert |date=1902 |title=A History of the House of Douglas: Volume I |url=https://archive.org/details/historyofhouseof01maxw_0 |location=Cambridge, England |publisher=Freemantle & Co. |page=ix}}
• 1455 – Pope Nicholas V (born 1397){{Cite web |title=Nicholas V | Vatican Library & Dum Diversas |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Nicholas-V-pope |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1499 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470){{Cite book |last=Burke |first=Bernard |url=http://archive.org/details/bub_gb_K3MaAAAAYAAJ |title=A genealogical history of the dormant : abeyant, forfeited, and extinct peerages of the British empire |date=1866 |publisher=London : Harrison |others=Harvard University}}
• 1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1514){{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
• 1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488){{Cite web |title=Joseph ben Ephraim Karo | Jewish scholar |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-ben-Ephraim-Karo |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}

• 1603 – Elizabeth I of England (born 1533){{cite web |title=Elizabeth I | Biography, Facts, Mother, & Death |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elizabeth-I |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=13 February 2020 |language=en}}
• 1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587){{Cite web |title=Samuel Scheidt | German composer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-Scheidt |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1684 – Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629){{Cite web |title=Pieter de Hooch | Dutch painter |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pieter-de-Hooch |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1684 – Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=buVbAAAAQAAJ |title=A true relation of four most barbarous ... murders committed in Leicester-shire by Elizabeth Ridgeway |last=Ridgway |first=Elizabeth |date=1684 |pages=6 |language=en}}
• 1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (born 1694){{Cite web |title=Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield | English writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Philip-Dormer-Stanhope-4th-Earl-of-Chesterfield |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (born 1693)
• 1824 – Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (born 1753){{Cite web |title=Louis-Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux | French politician |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louis-Marie-de-La-Revelliere-Lepeaux |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1838 – Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (born 1748/49)See Hume, Abraham (1749–1838), in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885–1900, Volume 28.{{Cite web |title=HUME, Sir Abraham, 2nd Bt. (1749-1838), of Wormleybury, Herts. | History of Parliament Online |url=https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1754-1790/member/hume-sir-abraham-1749-1838 |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.historyofparliamentonline.org}}
• 1866 – Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (born 1782){{cite web |title=Marie-Amélie de Bourbon | queen of France | Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Marie-Amelie-de-Bourbon |website=www.britannica.com |access-date=6 September 2022 |language=en}}
• 1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (born 1779){{Cite web |title=Henri, baron de Jomini | French general and historian |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henri-baron-de-Jomini |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (born 1817){{EB1911|inline=1|wstitle=Delesse, Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph|volume=7|page=953}}
• 1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (born 1807){{Cite web |title=Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Biography, Poems, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (born 1837){{Cite web |title=Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoy (08.06.1837 - 05.04.1887) - Biography, Interesting Facts, Famous Artworks |url=https://arthive.com/ivankramskoi |access-date=2022-02-08 |website=Arthive}}
• 1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855){{cite web |title=Introduction to 'The Signal and Other Stories, by W. M. Garshin |url=https://archive.org/stream/signalotherstori00gars#page/n11/mode/1up |access-date=7 January 2018}}{{Cite web |title=Vsevolod Mikhaylovich Garshin | Russian writer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Vsevolod-Mikhaylovich-Garshin |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}

• 1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1828){{cite news |date=15 March 1905 |title=Mr. Jules Verne Lies Dead at Amiens |publisher=Titusville Herald |url=https://newspaperarchive.com/other-articles-clipping-mar-25-1905-2747079/ |access-date=12 October 2021}}{{cite book |author=Evans, Arthur B. |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Verne |title=Encyclopædia Britannica |date=23 April 2020 |editor=Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. |edition=online |chapter=Jules Verne: French author |access-date=22 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200920065922/https://www.britannica.com/biography/Jules-Verne |archive-date=20 September 2020}}
• 1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (born 1871){{Cite web |title=J.M. Synge | Biography, Plays, & Facts |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/J-M-Synge |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2021-12-10 |title=J. M. Synge |url=https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/j-m-synge |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=Poetry Foundation |language=en}}
• 1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (born 1848)Brück, M. T. & Elliott, I., "The Family Background of Lady Huggins", Irish Astronomical Journal, Vol.20, NO. 3/MAR, 1992 P.[http://adsbit.harvard.edu//full/1916MNRAS..76R.278./0000278.000.html 210]{{Cite journal |title=1915JRASC...9..149C Page 149 |url=https://adsabs.harvard.edu/full/1915JRASC...9..149C |access-date=2021-12-11 |journal=Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada |bibcode=1915JRASC...9..149C |last1=Chant |first1=C. A. |year=1915 |volume=9 |page=149}}
• 1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (born 1846){{cite news |title=Kraków: szczątki prof. Karola Olszewskiego złożono w Panteonie Narodowym |url=https://dzieje.pl/aktualnosci/krakow-szczatki-prof-karola-olszewskiego-zlozono-w-panteonie-narodowym |access-date=29 February 2020}}
• 1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1867)David Walton, The Last Journey of Enrique Granados. Opus Publications p. 71.Daniel Sargent, quoted in Lyn MacDonald, The Roses of No Man's Land. London: Macmillan, 1980. p. 141. A photograph of the empty drifting raft is among plates between pp. 64–5.
• 1926 – Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (born 1872){{Cite web |title=Phan Chau Trinh | Vietnamese leader |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Phan-Chau-Trinh |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2019-02-19 |title=Phan Chau Trinh and a Strategy for Democritazatin in Vietnam |url=https://tapchidantri.org/phan-chau-trinh-and-a-strategy-for-democratization-in-vietnam/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=Tạp chí Dân trí |language=vi}}
• 1932 – Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (born 1871){{cite book |last1=Mallon |first1=Bill |title=The 1900 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, with Commentary |date=2009 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-8952-7 |page=276 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=CHYwCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA276}}
• 1938 – Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (born 1870){{cite book |title=Yondonwangchug |url=https://hyperleap.com/topic/Yondonwangchug}}
• 1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (born 1844){{Cite news |date=1940-03-25 |title=E. Branley Dead; Famed Physicist – Devised Coherer First Used in Detecting and Receiving of Wireless Impulses – Aided Marconi Invention – Member of French Academy Predicted Talking Pictures --Had Studied Medicine |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1940/03/25/archives/e-branly-dead-famed-physicist-devised-coherer-first-used-in.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Edouard Branly | French engineer |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Edouard-Branly |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (born 1903){{cite web |title=Death of Major-General Orde Wingate |url=http://www.chindits.info/Thursday/DeathWingate.htm |access-date=5 August 2010 |website=Chindits.info}}
• 1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (born 1892){{Cite web |title=Alekhine's Death by Edward Winter |url=https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/alekhine3.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211025160633/https://www.chesshistory.com/winter/extra/alekhine3.html |archive-date=2021-10-25 |access-date=2021-10-25 |website=www.chesshistory.com}}{{cite web |date=25 March 2006 |title=Alekhine's death – an unresolved mystery? |url=http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3005 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505082215/http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=3005 |archive-date=5 May 2008 |access-date=2008-05-20}}
• 1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (born 1869){{Cite web |title=Olympedia – Carl Schuhmann |url=http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/70502 |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.olympedia.org}}
• 1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1885){{Cite web |title=Commemoratives of Famous Women for |url=https://www.fembio.org/english/biography.php/woman/on-this-day/24-03-1955 |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.fembio.org}}
• 1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1865){{cite news |author= |date=25 March 1950 |title=J.R. Garfield, 84, Son of President |newspaper=The New York Times |location=New York, New York |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1950/03/25/96212935.pdf |access-date=23 June 2015}}
• 1951 – Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (born 1887){{cite web |last=Turtle |first=Alison M. |year=1996 |title=Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (1887–1951) |url=http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hodgkinson-lorna-myrtle-10515 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |publisher=Australian National University |access-date=3 April 2017}}{{Citation |last=Turtle |first=Alison M. |title=Hodgkinson, Lorna Myrtle (1887–1951) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hodgkinson-lorna-myrtle-10515 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=2021-12-11}}
• 1953 – Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom (born 1867){{citation |title=1953: Queen Mary dies peacefully after illness |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/24/newsid_2785000/2785265.stm |website=BBC News |date=24 March 1953 |access-date=29 May 2018}}
• 1956 – E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (born 1873){{Cite journal |last=Temple |first=G. F. J. |author-link=George Frederick James Temple |date=1 November 1956 |title=Edmund Taylor Whittaker, 1873-1956 |journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society |volume=2 |pages=299–325 |doi=10.1098/rsbm.1956.0021 |s2cid=121968984 |doi-access=free}}
• 1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (born 1899){{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20160207071611/http://www.impulsebrass.com/duffee/files/goldkettebio.pdf www.impulsebrass.com]}}{{Cite web |title=Goldkette, Jean - Discography of American Historical Recordings |url=https://adp.library.ucsb.edu/index.php/mastertalent/detail/106499/Goldkette_Jean |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=adp.library.ucsb.edu}}
• 1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (born 1884){{cite news |date=26 March 1962 |title=Auguste Piccard, Explorer, Is Dead. Auguste Piccard Is Dead at 78. Stratosphere and Sea Explorer |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1962/03/26/archives/auguste-piccard-explorer-is-dead-auguste-piccard-is-dead-at-78.html}}
• 1968 – Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873){{cite web |title=Alice Guy-Blaché | French director |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Alice-Guy-Blache |website=Encyclopædia Britannica |access-date=10 April 2020 |language=en}}
• 1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (born 1902){{Cite web |title=Arne Jacobsen | Danish architect |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Arne-Jacobsen |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |title=Arne Jacobsen Architect | Biography, Buildings, Projects and Facts |url=https://www.famous-architects.org/arne-jacobsen/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=Famous Architects |language=en-US}}
• 1971 – Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (born 1895){{cite news |date=27 March 1971 |title=Medical man dies, 76 |page=7 |newspaper=The Canberra Times |url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article110345426}}
• 1973 – Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th Premier of New South Wales (born 1889){{Australian Dictionary of Biography|first=John M|last=Ward|title=Stevens, Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale (1889–1973)|id2=stevens-sir-bertram-sydney-8650|access-date=2021-11-02}}
• 1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887){{Cite news |date=1976-03-24 |title=Field Marshal Montgomery Dead at 88 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1976/03/24/archives/field-marshal-montgormery-dead-at-88-lord-montgomery-dead-led-el.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |title=Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery | British military commander |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Bernard-Law-Montgomery-1st-Viscount-Montgomery |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}
• 1978 – Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (born 1916){{cite news |date=1978-03-24 |title=詩人 朴木月씨 別世 |trans-title=Poet Park Mok-wol passes away |page=5 |newspaper=The Dong-a Ilbo |url=https://newslibrary.naver.com/viewer/index.nhn?articleId=1978032400209207016&editNo=2&printCount=1&publishDate=1978-03-24&officeId=00020&pageNo=7&printNo=17375&publishType=00020 |access-date=September 24, 2018 |via=Naver News Library}}
• 1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917){{cite news |date=25 March 1980 |title=Salvador Archbishop Assassinated By Sniper While Officiating at Mass |pages=1, 8 |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1980/03/25/archives/salvador-archbishop-assassinated-by-sniper-while-officiating-at.html}}
• 1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (born 1891){{Cite news |last=Pearson |first=Richard |date=March 26, 1984 |title=Character Actor Sam Jaffe, 93, Dies of Cancer |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1984/03/26/character-actor-sam-jaffe-93-dies-of-cancer/db9743b9-8830-4d92-a9f8-e49878a6857c/ |newspaper=The Washington Post}}
• 1988 – Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (born 1922){{Cite web |title=Turhan Feyzioğlu |url=http://www.biyografya.com/biyografi/17860 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=www.biyografya.com |language=en}}
• 1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (born 1922){{Cite news |last=Fowler |first=Glenn |date=March 26, 1990 |title=Ray Goulding, 68, Genial Satirist As Part of Bob and Ray, Is Dead (Published 1990) |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/26/obituaries/ray-goulding-68-genial-satirist-as-part-of-bob-and-ray-is-dead.html}}
• 1991 – John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (born 1914){{cite news |date=26 March 1991 |title=Sir John Kerr dies alone at 76: the storm goes on |pages=1 |work=Canberra Times (ACT : 1926 - 1995) |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122351646 |access-date=10 May 2019}}
• 1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (born 1905){{Citation |last=Koehne |first=James |title=Arlen, Albert (1905–1993) |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/arlen-albert-22073 |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en |access-date=2021-12-11}}
• 1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (born 1914){{Cite news |last=Barnes |first=Bart |date=1993-03-25 |title='Hirosima' Autor John Hersey, 78, Dies |language=en-US |newspaper=Washington Post |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/1993/03/25/hiroshima-author-john-hersey-78-dies/f8f86654-dd69-436a-ae6d-6680adc95526/ |access-date=2021-12-11 |issn=0190-8286}}{{Cite web |title=John Hersey | American author |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Hersey |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite magazine |date=1993-03-29 |title=John Hersey |url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1993/04/05/john-hersey |access-date=2021-12-11 |magazine=The New Yorker |language=en-US}}
• 1995 – Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (born 1900){{Cite news |last=Lyall |first=Sarah |date=1995-03-27 |title=Joseph Needham, China Scholar From Britain, Dies at 94 |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1995/03/27/obituaries/joseph-needham-china-scholar-from-britain-dies-at-94.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |issn=0362-4331}}{{Cite web |date=1995-03-26 |title=Obituary:Joseph Needham |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/obituary-joseph-needham-1612984.html |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=The Independent |language=en}}
• 1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (born 1902){{Cite journal |last=Frasier |first=Mary |date=2021-04-01 |title=Women's Advocate or Racist Hypocrite: Gertrud Scholtz-Klink and the Contradictions of Women in Nazi Ideology |url=https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/student_scholarship/940 |journal=Student Publications}}
• 1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (born 1912){{cite news |last=Litsky |first=Frank |date=March 26, 1999 |title=Birdie Tebbetts, Plain Speaker With 53-Year Baseball Career |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1999/03/26/sports/birdie-tebbetts-plain-speaker-with-53-year-baseball-career.html |access-date=June 28, 2011}}
• 2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and producer (born 1928){{Cite web |title=Muriel Young - People - Transdiffusion Broadcasting System |url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2002/01/01/muriel |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=www.transdiffusion.org}}{{Cite web |date=2001-03-29 |title=Obituary: Muriel Young |url=http://www.theguardian.com/media/2001/mar/29/guardianobituaries.broadcasting1 |access-date=2021-12-11 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927){{Cite web |title=The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1984 |url=https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/1984/milstein/facts/ |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=NobelPrize.org |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=César Milstein | Argentine immunologist |url=https://www.britannica.com/biography/Cesar-Milstein |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=www.britannica.com |language=en}}{{Cite web |date=2002-03-27 |title=Obituary: César Milstein |url=http://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/27/guardianobituaries.obituaries |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=The Guardian |language=en}}
• 2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932){{Cite web |title=Boris SAID Biography, Olympic Medals, Records and Age |url=https://olympics.com/en/athletes/boris-said |access-date=August 2, 2022 |website=olympics.com}}
• 2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (born 1919){{cite web |last=Meisner |first=Joachim |date=5 April 2003 |title=Bound with Mary |url=http://www.gottgeweiht.at/gg402predigtkardinalmeisnerengl.html |access-date=26 March 2017 |work=Gottgeweiht}}Gerhard Heger, Hans Hermann Groër, Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon 26 (2006), pp. 529–534.
• 2006 – Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (born 1926){{cite news |date=26 March 2006 |title=Rudra, Godfather of Police Rugby is no more |newspaper=Sunday Observer (Sri Lanka) |url=https://archives.sundayobserver.lk/2006/03/26/spo10.html}}
• 2007 – Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (born 1913){{Citation needed|date=December 2021}}
• 2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (born 1955){{cite web |last1=Greenman |first1=Ben |title=Heavenly Sounds |url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/goings-on/heavenly-sounds |website=New Yorker |date=12 August 2008 |access-date=12 April 2018}}
• 2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (born 1941){{cite news |date=25 March 2008 |title=Neil Aspinall, 'the fifth Beatle', dies aged 66 |newspaper=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1582594/Neil-Aspinall-the-fifth-Beatle-dies-aged-66.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1582594/Neil-Aspinall-the-fifth-Beatle-dies-aged-66.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=23 September 2012 |quote=Neil Aspinall, who has died aged 66, was the Beatles' original road manager and went on to run the group's business empire for 40 years; he became their chief confidant and, although not the only contender for the title of the fifth Beatle, perhaps deserved the accolade more than most. ...}}{{cbignore}}{{cite web |title=McCartney Visits Aspinall as he Fights |url=http://www.pr-inside.com/mccartney-visits-aspinall-as-he-fights-r498936.htm |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329001906/http://www.pr-inside.com/mccartney-visits-aspinall-as-he-fights-r498936.htm |archive-date=29 March 2008 |access-date=24 March 2008}}{{cite news |date=24 March 2008 |title=Obituary: Neil Aspinall |publisher=BBC |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7311862.stm |access-date=25 March 2008}}
• 2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (born 1926){{cite news |date=2008-04-04 |title=Rafael Azcona, Spanish Writer, Dies at 81 |work=New York Times |agency=Associated Press |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/books/04azcona.html |access-date=2008-04-06}}
• 2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (born 1914){{Cite web |title=Screen Villain and Gunslinger Richard Widmark Dies |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/zap-richardwidmarkobit-story.html |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=chicagotribune.com |date=26 March 2008 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Richard Widmark: 1914-2008 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/richard-widmark-1914-2008/ |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=www.cbsnews.com |date=26 March 2008 |language=en-US}}
• 2008 – Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (born 1939){{Cite web |title=Preminuo Boris Dvornik |url=https://www.b92.net/o/info/vesti/index?yyyy=2008&mm=03&dd=24&nav_id=290565}}
• 2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922){{cite web |last=Lowe |first=John |date=March 24, 2009 |title=George Kell, Tiger great and longtime broadcaster, dies at 86 |url=http://www.freep.com/article/20090324/SPORTS02/90324034/George+Kell++Tiger+great++and+longtime+broadcaster++dies+at+86 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090327145406/http://www.freep.com/article/20090324/SPORTS02/90324034/George+Kell++Tiger+great++and+longtime+broadcaster++dies+at+86 |archive-date=March 27, 2009 |access-date=2009-03-24 |publisher=Detroit Free Press}}{{cite web |date=2009-03-24 |title=Hall of Fame baseball player George Kell passes away |url=http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=10061862 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090328231517/http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=10061862 |archive-date=2009-03-28 |access-date=2009-03-24 |publisher=KAIT}}{{cite news |last=Ginsburg |first=Steve |editor-first=Justin |editor-last=Palmer |date=25 March 2009 |title=Hall of Fame third baseman Kell dies |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/sportsNews/idUSTRE52N66B20090324?feedType=RSS&feedName=sportsNews&sp=true |access-date=25 March 2009}}
• 2009 – Hans Klenk, German racing driver (born 1919){{Cite web |title=Obituaries 2009 |url=https://group-media.mercedes-benz.com/marsMediaSite/en/instance/ko/Obituaries-2009.xhtml?oid=9912155 |access-date=2022-03-07 |website=marsMediaSite |language=en}}
• 2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975){{Cite web |title=Top Hungarian hockey player Gabor Ocskay dies of heart attack at age 33 |url=https://www.nhl.com/news/top-hungarian-hockey-player-gabor-ocskay-dies-of-heart-attack-at-age-33/c-415309 |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=NHL.com |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Nincs többé 19-es mez a válogatottban |url=http://jegkorong.blog.hu/2009/03/26/a_magyar_finnen_vonultatjak_vissza_a_19_est |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=Jégkorong}}{{Cite web |title=Ocskayról nevezik el a jégcsarnokot |url=http://jegkorong.blog.hu/2009/03/25/ocskayrol_nevezik_el_a_jegcsarnokot |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=Jégkorong}}
• 2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (born 1930){{cite web |last=Leopold |first=Todd |title=Actor Robert Culp dies after fall |url=http://www.cnn.com/2010/SHOWBIZ/Movies/03/24/obit.robert.culp/index.html |publisher=CNN }}
• 2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (born 1936)[http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/afterword/2010/03/jim-marshall-photographer-for-woodstock-cash-dylan-and-others-dies-at-74.html "Jim Marshall Photographer for Woodstock, Cash, Dylan, and Others Dies at 74" latimes.com] March 24, 2010
• 2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947){{Cite web |title=Sir Paul Callaghan passes away |url=https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/sir-paul-callaghan-passes-away/23M4TEAAVA2W3WVRU3RMAS66HA/ |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=The New Zealand Herald |date=28 September 2011 |language=en-NZ}}
• 2012 – Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)[http://www.thedeadrockstarsclub.com/2012.html Thedeadrockstarsclub.com] – accessed March 25, 2012
• 2013 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (born 1926){{Cite web |title=Writer Barbara Anderson dies |url=https://www.wcl.govt.nz/blog/index.php/2013/03/26/writer-barbara-anderson-dies/ |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=Library Blog |date=26 March 2013 |language=en-US}}{{Cite web |title=Barbara Anderson | Arts Foundation Icon |url=https://www.thearts.co.nz/artists/barbara-anderson?token=40 |access-date=2021-12-10 |website=Arts Foundation |language=en-US}}
• 2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938){{cite web |date=25 March 2013 |title=Inge Lønning er død |url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/Inge-Lonning-er-dod-7157734.html |access-date=November 1, 2020 |website=Aftenposten}}
• 2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)[http://www.itar-tass.com/c1/685927.html ИТАР-ТАСС Скончался академик Гурий Марчук, последний президент Академии наук СССР Itar-tass.com] {{in lang|ru}}
• 2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (born 1972){{cite web |title=Infarto in gara, muore Paolo Ponzo | Liguria | Savona | Il Secolo XIX |url=http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/savona/2013/03/24/APWUC86E-infarto_muore_paolo.shtml |url-status=dead |publisher=Ilsecoloxix.it |access-date=25 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130329011719/http://www.ilsecoloxix.it/p/savona/2013/03/24/APWUC86E-infarto_muore_paolo.shtml |archive-date=29 March 2013}}
• 2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (born 1974){{cite news |author=Ahmad Aboul Enein |date=24 March 2013 |title=Mohamed Yousry Salama passes away |newspaper=Daily News |url=http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/03/24/mohamed-yousry-salama-passes-away/ |access-date=25 March 2013}}{{cite news |author=Lina Attalah |date=27 March 2013 |title=Obituary: Mohamed Yousry Salama |newspaper=Egypt Independent |url=http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/obituary-mohamed-yousry-salama |access-date=1 April 2013}}
• 2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (born 1912){{Cite web |title=Lord Thurlow |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9953225/Lord-Thurlow.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9953225/Lord-Thurlow.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |access-date=2021-08-03 |website=www.telegraph.co.uk |date=25 March 2013}}{{cbignore}}
• 2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (born 1962){{cite news |date=25 March 2014 |title=Ukraine far-right leader Muzychko dies 'in police raid' |newspaper=Ukraine far-right leader Muzychko dies 'in police raid' |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26729273 |access-date=25 March 2014}}{{cite news |date=2 April 2014 |title=Ukraine far-right leader Sashko Bily 'shot himself' |publisher=BBC |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26849934 |access-date=12 April 2014}}
• 2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (born 1922){{cite web |author=Stephanie Nettell |date=2 April 2014 |title=John Rowe Townsend obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/apr/02/john-rowe-townsend |publisher=theguardian.com |access-date=2014-04-02}}
• 2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (born 1954){{cite web |date=March 25, 2014 |title=David Trampier |url=http://thesouthern.com/news/local/obituaries/david-trampier/article_e5b7b0bf-f9f8-500a-9b5e-2a3194c214e9.html |work=The Southern Illinoisan |access-date=March 28, 2014}}
• 2015 – Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928){{Cite web |last=Ghert-Zand |first=Renee |title=Avner's Death |url=http://www.timesofisrael.com/yehuda-avner-a-devoted-public-servant-who-lived-israels-history/ |publisher=The Times of Israel}}
• 2015 – notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:
• Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (born 1960){{cite web |author=John Shammas |date=24 March 2015 |title=Germanwings Airbus A320 plane crash: First pictures of opera singers Maria Radner and Oleg Bryjak among 150 dead |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/germanwings-airbus-a320-plane-crash-5394028 |work=Daily Mirror |location=London |access-date=24 March 2015}}{{cite web |author=Garry Humphreys |date=26 March 2015 |title=Maria Radner: Internationally acclaimed contralto who was due to make her Bayreuth Festival debut later this year |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/maria-radner-internationally-acclaimed-contralto-who-was-due-to-make-her-bayreuth-festival-debut-later-this-year-10134086.html |work=The Independent |access-date=31 March 2015}}
• Maria Radner, German opera singer (born 1981){{cite news |date=March 26, 2015 |title=Musikwelt trauert um Altistin Maria Radner (33) – sie starb mit Mann und Sohn (2) beim Absturz |language=de |work=Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung |url=https://www.derwesten.de/kultur/musikwelt-trauert-um-altistin-maria-radner-33-sie-starb-mit-mann-und-sohn-2-beim-absturz-aimp-id10501258.html |access-date=26 March 2015 |archive-date=3 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150403212920/http://www.derwesten.de/kultur/musikwelt-trauert-um-altistin-maria-radner-33-sie-starb-mit-mann-und-sohn-2-beim-absturz-aimp-id10501258.html |url-status=dead}}{{cite web |date=25 March 2015 |title=Remembering Maria Radner (1981–2015) |url=http://www.metopera.org/metopera/news/features/news-flash/remembering-maria-radner |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419030153/http://metopera.org/metopera/news/features/news-flash/remembering-maria-radner |archive-date=19 April 2015 |access-date=10 April 2015 |publisher=Met opera company}}Tim Hepher [https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-crash-germanwings-idUSKCN0WF0C5 France urges tougher pilot checks after Germanwings crash] Reuters, March 13, 2016
• 2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (born 1947){{cite news |date=24 March 2016 |title=Netherlands great Johan Cruyff dies of cancer aged 68 |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/35892775}}
• 2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1949)"Shandling collapsed calling 911 for help." Tampa Tribune, The (FL), Tribune first ed., sec. NationWorld, 26 Mar. 2016, p. 2. NewsBank: Access World News, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/15BD8ED5841C6DE0. Accessed 4 Sept. 2019.@Nyltiaccc, Caitlyn Hitt. "Comedian Garry Shandling To Be Honored With Buddhist Funeral; Posthumously Made A Monk." International Business Times (USA), sec. Media & Culture, 31 Mar. 2016. NewsBank: Access World News, infoweb.newsbank.com/apps/news/document-view?p=AWNB&docref=news/15BF8E45C88CF700. Accessed 4 Sept. 2019.
• 2018 – Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924){{cite news |date=24 March 2018 |title=Lys Assia ist tot |url=https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/lys-assia-ist-tot-ld.1369175 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180325050240/https://www.nzz.ch/panorama/lys-assia-ist-tot-ld.1369175 |archive-date=25 March 2018 |access-date=24 March 2018 |website=Neue Zürcher Zeitung |last1=Klette |first1=Kathrin}}{{cite web |last=Nerssessian |first=Joe |date=24 March 2018 |title=The first ever winner of Eurovision, Lys Assia, has died aged 94 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lys-assia-dead-eurovision-first-winner-dies-aged-94-a8272461.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180324220551/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/lys-assia-dead-eurovision-first-winner-dies-aged-94-a8272461.html |archive-date=24 March 2018 |access-date=24 March 2018 |work=The Independent |publisher=Independent Print Ltd. |location=London, England}}
• 2018 – Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (born 1966){{Cite web |date=2012-02-08 |title=Rim Banna Website |url=http://www.rimbanna.com/cv_e.htm |access-date=2022-03-18 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208060845/http://www.rimbanna.com/cv_e.htm |archive-date=8 February 2012 |url-status=dead}}
• 2019 – Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (born 1949){{cite news |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/joseph-pilato-dead-pulp-fiction-14186186 |title=Joseph Pilato dead: Pulp Fiction and Day of the Dead star dies aged 70 |newspaper=The Mirror |date=2019-03-26}}
• 2020 – Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (born 1927){{Cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/albert-uderzo-dead-french-asterix-illustrator-writer-was-92-1286127/ |title=Albert Uderzo, French Illustrator and Writer of 'Asterix,' Dies at 92 |first1=Georg |last1=Szalai |website=The Hollywood Reporter |date=March 24, 2020}}
• 2020 – Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933){{Cite news |date=2020-12-30 |title=Notable African deaths of 2020: From jazz legends to football heroes |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-55334098 |access-date=2021-01-02}}
• 2021 – Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (born 1941){{Cite web |title=Notable deaths in 2021 |url=https://www.reuters.com/news/picture/notable-deaths-in-2021-idUSRTR4Z4Y0 |access-date=2021-03-27 |website=www.reuters.com}}
• 2022 – Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (born 1912){{Cite web |url=https://www.svt.se/kultur/bloggaren-dagny-carlsson-ar-dod |title=Bloggaren Dagny Carlsson är död – blev 109 år gammal |first=Daniel |last=Wyser |date=24 March 2022 |website=SVT Nyheter |accessdate=24 March 2022 |archive-date=24 March 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220324114525/https://www.svt.se/kultur/bloggaren-dagny-carlsson-ar-dod |url-status=live}}
• 2023 – Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929){{cite news |first1=Holcomb B. |last1=Noble |first2=Katie |last2=Hafner |title=Gordon E. Moore, Intel Co-Founder Behind Moore's Law, Dies at 94 |work=The New York Times |date=24 March 2023 |access-date=25 March 2023 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/24/obituaries/gordon-moore-dead.html}}
• 2023 – Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (born 1955){{cite magazine |title=Pradeep Sarkar dies at 68. Filmmaker's funeral to take place at 4 pm in Mumbai |url=https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/celebrities/story/pradeep-sarkar-dies-at-68-filmmakers-funeral-to-take-place-at-4-pm-in-mumbai-2350837-2023-03-24 |date=24 March 2023 |access-date=25 March 2023 |magazine=India Today |first1=Zinia |last1=Bandyopadhyay}}
• 2024 – Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman (born 1929){{cite news|title=Lou Whittaker, renowned mountaineer and Rainier guide, dies at 95|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/03/29/lou-whittaker-dead-mountaineer/|date=March 29, 2024|last=Smith|first=Harrison|newspaper=Washington Post|access-date=April 1, 2024}}
• 2025 – Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (born 1941){{Cite news |last=Murphy |first=Brian |date=March 27, 2025 |title=Dick Carlson, who led Voice of America at Cold War’s end, dies at 84 |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2025/03/27/dick-carlson-tucker-voa-dies/ |access-date=April 3, 2025 |work=The Washington Post}}

• Christian feast day:
• Catherine of Vadstena
• Hildelith of Barking
• Mac Cairthinn of Clogher
• Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)
• Paul Couturier (Church of England)
• Walter Hilton (Church of England)
• March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
• International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims{{cite web |title=Right to Truth Day |url=https://www.un.org/en/observances/right-to-truth-day#:~:text=The%20right%20to%20the%20truth%20implies%20knowing%20the%20full%20and,as%20the%20reasons%20for%20them. |website=United Nations |access-date=28 November 2020 |language=en}}{{cite web |title=Right to the Truth |url=https://www.ictj.org/gallery-items/right-truth |website=International Center for Transitional Justice |access-date=28 November 2020 |language=en |date=14 March 2012 |archive-date=23 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181023085438/https://www.ictj.org/gallery-items/right-truth |url-status=dead}}
• National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
• World Tuberculosis Day (International){{cite web |title=International Days |url=https://www.un.org/en/sections/observances/international-days/ |website=www.un.org |access-date=2 January 2021 |language=en |date=6 January 2015}}

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