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March 22 is the 81st day of the year (82nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 284 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 106 – Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
• 235 – Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.^[1]
• 871 – Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.^[2]
• 1185 – Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.^[3]
• 1312 – Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar.^[4]
• 1508 – Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.^[5]

1601–1900

• 1621 – The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony sign a peace treaty with Massasoit of the Wampanoags.^[6]
• 1622 – Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
• 1631 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.^[7]
• 1638 – Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.^[8]
• 1739 – Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
• 1765 – The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
• 1784 – The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.^[9]
• 1794 – The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.^[10]
• 1829 – In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers (United Kingdom, France and Russia) establish the borders of Greece.
• 1849 – The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
• 1871 – In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
• 1873 – The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
• 1894 – The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.^[11]
• 1895 – Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.^[12]
• 1896 – Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.^[13]

1901–present

• 1906 – The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
• 1913 – Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.^[14][15]
• 1916 – Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Presidency.^[16]
• 1920 – Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi (Nagorno Karabakh).
• 1933 – Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" (3.2% alcohol by weight, approximately 4% alcohol by volume) and light wines.^[17]
• 1933 – Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.^[18]
• 1934 – The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.^[19]
• 1939 – Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
• 1942 – World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
• 1943 – World War II: The entire village of Khatyn (in what is the present-day Republic of Belarus) is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.^[20]
• 1945 – World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany is heavily damaged in a British air raid, though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.^{[21][22][23][24]}
• 1945 – The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
• 1946 – The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.^[25]
• 1960 – Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
• 1963 – The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.^[26]
• 1972 – The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
• 1972 – In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
• 1975 – A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• 1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
• 1988 – The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.^[27]
• 1992 – USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
• 1992 – Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
• 1993 – The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips (80586), featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
• 1995 – Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
• 1997 – Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
• 1997 – Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.^[28]
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
• 2006 – Three Christian Peacemaker Team (CPT) hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
• 2013 – At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
• 2016 – Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
• 2017 – A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
• 2017 – Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.^{[29][30][31][32]}
• 2019 – The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
• 2019 – Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.^[33]
• 2020 – Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.^[34]
• 2020 – Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.^[35]
• 2021 – Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.^[36]

Births

Pre-1600

• 841 – Bernard Plantapilosa, Frankish son of Bernard of Septimania (d. 885)
• 875 – William I, Duke of Aquitaine (d. 918)
• 1212 – Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan (d. 1235)
• 1367 – Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom (probable;^[37] d. 1399)
• 1394 – Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician (d. 1449)
• 1459 – Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (d. 1519)^[38]
• 1499 – Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler (d. 1537)
• 1503 – Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator (d. 1583)
• 1517 – Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer (d. 1590)
• 1519 – Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman (d. 1580)
• 1582 – John Williams, Archbishop of York (d. 1650)
• 1599 – Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher (d. 1641)

1601–1900

• 1609 – John II Casimir Vasa, Polish king (d. 1672)
• 1615 – Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist (d. 1691)^[39]
• 1663 – August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar (d. 1727)
• 1684 – William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War (d. 1764)
• 1712 – Edward Moore, English poet and playwright (d. 1757)^[40]
• 1720 – Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace (d. 1799)
• 1723 – Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician (d. 1783)
• 1728 – Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist (d. 1779)
• 1785 – Adam Sedgwick, English scientist (d. 1873)
• 1797 – William I, German Emperor (d. 1888)^[41]
• 1808 – Caroline Norton, English feminist, social reformer, and author (d. 1877)^[42]
• 1808 – David Swinson Maynard, American physician and lawyer (d. 1873)
• 1812 – Stephen Pearl Andrews, American author and activist (d. 1886)
• 1814 – Thomas Crawford, American sculptor, designed the Statue of Freedom (d. 1857)
• 1817 – Braxton Bragg, American general (d. 1876)
• 1818 – John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer, founded Penwortham (d. 1846)
• 1822 – Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist (d. 1895)
• 1841 – Anastassios Christomanos, Greek scientist (d. 1906) ^[43]
• 1842 – Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1912)
• 1846 – Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter (d. 1886)
• 1846 – James Timberlake, American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer (d. 1891)
• 1852 – Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator (d. 1934)
• 1852 – Hector Sévin, French cardinal (d. 1916)
• 1855 – Dorothy Tennant, British painter (d. 1926)
• 1857 – Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France (d. 1932)
• 1866 – Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire (d. 1913)
• 1868 – Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1953)
• 1869 – Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines (d. 1964)^[44]
• 1869 – Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer (d. 1939)
• 1873 – Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter (d. 1939)
• 1880 – Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach (d. 1960)
• 1884 – Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician (d. 1951)
• 1884 – Lyda Borelli, Italian actress (d. 1959)
• 1885 – Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator (d. 1969)
• 1886 – August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia (d. 1963)
• 1887 – Chico Marx, American actor (d. 1961)
• 1890 – George Clark, American race car driver (d. 1978)
• 1892 – Charlie Poole, American country banjo player (d. 1931)
• 1892 – Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar (d. 1970)
• 1896 – He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China (d. 1969)
• 1896 – Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor (d. 1964)
• 1899 – Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer (d. 1991)

1901–present

• 1901 – Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter (d. 1991)
• 1902 – Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory (d. 1949)
• 1902 – Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer (d. 2008)
• 1903 – Bill Holman, American cartoonist (d. 1987)
• 1907 – James M. Gavin, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player (d. 1991)
• 1908 – Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer (d. 1988)
• 1909 – Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator (d. 1983)
• 1910 – Nicholas Monsarrat, English sailor and author (d. 1979)
• 1912 – Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor and performer (d. 1985)
• 1912 – Karl Malden, American actor (d. 2009)
• 1912 – Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator (d. 2004)
• 1912 – Leslie Johnson, English race car driver (d. 1959)
• 1913 – Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon (d. 1983)
• 1913 – Lew Wasserman, American businessman and talent agent (d. 2002)
• 1913 – James Westerfield, American actor (d. 1971)
• 1914 – John Stanley, American author and illustrator (d. 1993)
• 1914 – Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman (d. 2008)
• 1917 – Virginia Grey, American actress (d. 2004)
• 1917 – Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic (d. 2006)
• 1917 – Paul Rogers, English actor (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana (d. 1997)
• 1919 – Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator (d. 1990)
• 1920 – James Brown, American actor and singer (d. 1992)
• 1920 – Werner Klemperer, German-American actor (d. 2000)
• 1920 – Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (d. 1995)
• 1920 – Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the Leeds International Pianoforte Competition (d. 2020)
• 1920 – Katsuko Saruhashi, Japanese geochemist (d. 2007)
• 1920 – Ross Martin, American actor (d. 1981)
• 1921 – Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 2004)
• 1922 – John J. Gilligan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio (d. 2013)
• 1922 – Stewart Stern, American screenwriter (d. 2015)
• 1923 – Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor (d. 2007)
• 1924 – Al Neuharth, American journalist and author, founded USA Today (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite (d. 1960)^[45]
• 1924 – Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1998)
• 1924 – Bill Wendell, American television announcer (d. 1999)
• 1927 – Marty Blake, American basketball player and manager (d. 2013)
• 1927 – Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Russian photographer (d. 2016)
• 1928 – Carrie Donovan, American journalist (d. 2001)
• 1928 – E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic, and academic
• 1928 – Ed Macauley, American basketball player, coach, and priest (d. 2011)
• 1929 – Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
• 1929 – P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer (d. 1973)
• 1930 – Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
• 1930 – Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network
• 1930 – Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter (d. 2021)
• 1931 – Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
• 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian actor
• 1931 – Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist (d. 2010)
• 1933 – Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran (d. 2021)
• 1934 – May Britt, Swedish actress
• 1934 – Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judge
• 1934 – Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician (d. 2022)
• 1935 – Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion (d. 2004)^[46]
• 1935 – Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis player and journalist
• 1935 – Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire (d. 2013)
• 1935 – M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
• 1936 – Ron Carey, American trade union leader (d. 2008)
• 1936 – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1936 – Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor (d. 2015)
• 1937 – Angelo Badalamenti, American pianist and composer
• 1937 – Armin Hary, German sprinter
• 1937 – Jon Hassell, American trumpet player and composer (d. 2021)
• 1937 – Foo Foo Lammar, British drag queen (d. 2003)^[47][48]
• 1938 – Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player (d. 2012)
• 1940 – Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1940 – Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author (d. 1996)
• 1940 – George Edward Alcorn, Jr., American physicist and inventor
• 1941 – Billy Collins, American poet
• 1941 – Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1941 – Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor (d. 2019)
• 1941 – Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President of Mauritius
• 1942 – Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter
• 1942 – Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic
• 1943 – George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[49]
• 1943 – Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1943 – Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (d. 1976)
• 1945 – Eric Roth, American screenwriter and producer
• 1946 – Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer
• 1946 – Rudy Rucker, American mathematician, computer scientist, and author
• 1946 – Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1947 – George Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol
• 1947 – James Patterson, American author and producer
• 1947 – Maarten van Gent, Dutch basketball player and coach
• 1948 – Wolf Blitzer, American journalist^[50]
• 1948 – Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director^[51]
• 1949 – Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
• 1949 – Brian Hanrahan, English journalist (d. 2010)
• 1952 – Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
• 1952 – Bob Costas, American sportscaster^[52]
• 1953 – Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
• 1955 – Lena Olin, Swedish actress
• 1955 – Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
• 1956 – Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg (born María Teresa Mestre y Batista)
• 1957 – Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
• 1957 – Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
• 1959 – Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1960 – Jim Covert, American football player^[53]
• 1961 – Simon Furman, British comic book writer^[54]
• 1962 – Nikos Kourbanas, Greek footballer ^[55]
• 1963 – Deborah Bull, English ballerina
• 1963 – Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer
• 1963 – Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru^[56]
• 1964 – David Gillespie, Australian rugby league player
• 1966 – Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1966 – Artis Pabriks, Latvian academic and politician, 11th Minister for Defence of Latvia
• 1966 – António Pinto, Portuguese runner^[57]
• 1966 – Brian Shaw, American basketball player and coach
• 1967 – Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
• 1967 – Bernie Gallacher, Scottish-English footballer (d. 2011)
• 1969 – Russell Maryland, American football player^[58]
• 1970 – Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer-songwriter
• 1970 – Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
• 1970 – Hwang Young-cho, South Korean runner
• 1971 – Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, comedian, and writer
• 1972 – Shawn Bradley, German-American basketball player, coach, and actor
• 1972 – Cory Lidle, American baseball player (d. 2006)
• 1972 – Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
• 1973 – Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter and producer
• 1974 – Marcus Camby, American basketball player
• 1974 – Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
• 1974 – Grigoria Golia, Greek handball player ^[59]
• 1974 – Geo Meneses, Mexican producer and singer
• 1975 – Cole Hauser, American actor and producer
• 1975 – Jiří Novák, Czech-Monegasque tennis player
• 1976 – Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
• 1976 – Asako Toki, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1976 – Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer
• 1977 – Joey Porter, American football player and coach^[60]
• 1977 – Tom Poti, American ice hockey player^[61]
• 1979 – Michalis Kouinelis, Greek hip hop singer ^[62]
• 1979 – Aaron North, American guitarist
• 1979 – Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
• 1981 – Arne Gabius, German runner
• 1981 – Mims, American rapper^[63]
• 1982 – Piá, Brazilian footballer
• 1982 – Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist
• 1982 – Michael Janyk, Canadian skier
• 1982 – Constance Wu, American actress^[64]
• 1983 – Thomas Davis Sr., American football player^[65]
• 1984 – Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
• 1985 – Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
• 1985 – Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist^[66]
• 1985 – Justin Masterson, American baseball player^[67]
• 1985 – Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer^[68]
• 1986 – Dexter Fowler, American baseball player^[69]
• 1987 – Ike Davis, American baseball player
• 1987 – Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist (d. 2013)
• 1987 – Liam Doran, British rallycross driver^[70]
• 1989 – Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
• 1989 – J. J. Watt, American football player^[71]
• 1994 – Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player^[72]
• 1994 – Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player^[73]
• 2000 – Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer ^[74]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 235 – Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• 880 – Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king
• 1144 – William of Norwich, child murder victim
• 1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1278)
• 1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian (b. 1345)
• 1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (b. 1388)
• 1454 – John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
• 1471 – George of Poděbrady (b. 1420)

1601–1900

• 1544 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (b. 1488)
• 1602 – Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator (b. 1557)
• 1685 – Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
• 1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (b. 1632)
• 1758 – Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (b. 1703)
• 1772 – John Canton, English physicist and academic (b. 1718)
• 1820 – Stephen Decatur, American commander (b. 1779)
• 1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (b. 1749)
• 1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (b. 1798)
• 1864 – Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (b. 1838)
• 1881 – Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (b. 1793)
• 1896 – Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (b. 1822)

1901–present

• 1913 – Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (b. 1882)
• 1913 – Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (b.1864)
• 1924 – William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (b. 1848)
• 1931 – James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (b. 1851)
• 1942 – Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1942 – William Donne, English captain and cricketer (b. 1875)
• 1945 – John Hessin Clarke, American lawyer and judge (b. 1857)
• 1952 – D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (b. 1883)
• 1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
• 1960 – José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (b. 1904)
• 1966 – John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (b. 1935)
• 1971 – Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (b. 1893)
• 1971 – Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (b. 1886)
• 1974 – Peter Revson, American race car driver (b. 1939)
• 1974 – Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (b. 1910)
• 1976 – John Dwyer McLaughlin, American painter (b. 1898)
• 1977 – A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (b. 1904)
• 1978 – Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (b. 1905)
• 1979 – Ben Lyon, American actor and studio executive (b. 1901)
• 1981 – James Elliott, American runner and coach (b. 1915)
• 1981 – Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (b. 1907)
• 1985 – Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (b. 1910)^[75][76]
• 1985 – Spyros Vassiliou, Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (b. 1903) ^[77]
• 1986 – Olive Deering, American actress (b. 1918)
• 1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
• 1987 – Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician (b. 1912)
• 1989 – Peta Taylor, English cricketer (b. 1912)
• 1990 – Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (b. 1928)^[78]
• 1991 – Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (b. 1917)
• 1991 – Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (b. 1908)
• 1991 – Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1934)
• 1991 – Gloria Holden, English-American actress (b. 1908)
• 1993 – Steve Olin, American baseball player (b. 1965)
• 1994 – Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (b. 1950)
• 1994 – Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer (b. 1899)
• 1996 – Don Murray, American drummer (b. 1945)
• 1996 – Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (b. 1936)
• 1996 – Billy Williamson, American guitarist (b. 1925)
• 1999 – Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (b. 1913)
• 1999 – David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
• 2000 – Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (b. 1921)
• 2001 – Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (b. 1925)
• 2001 – Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (b. 1913)
• 2001 – William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (b. 1910)
• 2001 – Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (b. 1910)
• 2002 – Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1917)
• 2003 – Terry Lloyd, English journalist (b. 1952)
• 2004 – Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic (b. 1943)
• 2004 – Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas (b. 1937)
• 2004 – V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1947)
• 2005 – Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (b. 1920)
• 2005 – Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (b. 1913)
• 2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician (b. 1921)
• 2006 – Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (b. 1917)
• 2006 – Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author (b. 1937)
• 2007 – U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (b. 1918)
• 2008 – Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2010 – James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (b. 1943)
• 2011 – Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (b. 1926)
• 2012 – Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (b. 1928)
• 2012 – John Payton, American lawyer and activist (b. 1946)
• 2012 – Matthew White Ridley, 4th Viscount Ridley, English academic and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Northumberland (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Mickey Sullivan, American baseball player and coach (b. 1932)
• 2012 – David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (b. 1943)
• 2012 – Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (b. 1956)
• 2013 – Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (b. 1951)
• 2013 – James Nabrit, American lawyer and academic (b. 1932)
• 2013 – Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (b. 1918)
• 2013 – Derek Watkins, English trumpet player and composer (b. 1945)
• 2013 – Ray Williams, American basketball player and coach (b. 1954)
• 2014 – Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (b. 1928)
• 2014 – Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (b. 1938)
• 2014 – Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (b. 1965)
• 2015 – Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (b. 1933)
• 2015 – Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (b. 1936)
• 2016 – Phife Dawg, American rapper (b. 1970)
• 2016 – Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (b. 1969)
• 2016 – Rita Gam, American actress (b. 1927)
• 2018 – Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (b. 1911)
• 2019 – Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (b. 1943)^[79]

Holidays and observances

• Bihar Day (Bihar, India)^[80]
• Christian feast day:
  • Basil of Ancyra
  • Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
  • Darerca of Ireland
  • Epaphroditus
  • Jonathan Edwards (Lutheranism)
  • Lea of Rome
  • Nicholas Owen
  • Paul of Narbonne
  • March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall (last in 1818, will not happen again until 2285), while April 25 is the latest. (Christianity)
• Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud (Puerto Rico)
• World Water Day (International)^[81]

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