1949 - Denny Albee, Oklahoma City OK, actor (Dr Janssen-One Life to Live)
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1503 - Benedetto Varchi, Ital humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina)
1952 - Warren Lees, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1952 - Harvey Weinstein, American film producer
1953 - Billy Sheehan, rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1604 - Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, Athens Ga, rock guitarist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1910 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
1956 - Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1912 - Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 - William Chatterton, cricketer (48 in only Test for England 1892)
1914 - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
1914 - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
1740 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1742 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1916 - Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18]
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1752 - Jose Mauricio, composer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1920 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1969 - Arjan Vermeulen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1816 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
1817 - Lewis Henry Little, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, Ogden Utah, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council
1821 - Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1928 - Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Sean Fleming, CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1929 - Herman van San, composer
1827 - Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1971 - Marty Moore, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1932 - Gay Robert Brewer, Middletwon OH, PGA golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1933 - Rene Taylor, American actress
1934 - Borge Andersen, Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68)
1972 - Maria Maunder, St John's New Foundland, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - John Michels, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actress
1974 - Jennifer Lynn Drayton, Saginaw Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1997)
1974 - John Coppinger, El Paso TX, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1939 - Joe Kapp, NFL QB (Minn Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1873 - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1879 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian
1942 - Ross Valory, rocker (Journey)
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel laureate
1888 - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
1944 - Joseph Celli, composer
1891 - Earl Warren, Ca, (Gov-R-Ca)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
1944 - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1981 - Kolo Tour, Ivorian footballer
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1894 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 - Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1946 - Bigas Luna, director/writer (Anguish)
1983 - Ana Rezende, Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
1900 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
1903 - Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1992 - Henry & Angus Bernsen, twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
1947 - Vince Martino, Schenectady NY, WLAF offensive asst (Barcelona Dragons)
1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress
1948 - Vintcent Van der Bijl, Natal cricket bowler (superb 2m of 70's & 80's)
1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 - The Cdiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1853 - The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 - Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumire record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 - Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1941 - World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
1943 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Runion become overseas dpartements of France.
1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
1954 - Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
1958 - The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 - Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 - The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
1989 - The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 - The ethnic clashes of Trgu Mures begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
2002 - Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2003 - United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.
2004 - Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in nekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 - The moon makes its closest approach to earth by nearly 30,000 miles in the last 18 years, thus dubbing it supermoon.
2011 - Libyan Uprising: A coalition of countries intervene and commence military action in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
1488 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (d. 1544)
1503 - Benedetto Varchi, Ital humanist/historian (Storia Fiorentina)
1952 - Warren Lees, NZ cricket wicket-keeper (late 70's)
1952 - Harvey Weinstein, American film producer
1953 - Billy Sheehan, rocker (Mr Big-Lean Into It)
1604 - Johan IV, composer/king of Portugal (1640-56)
1953 - Ricky Wilson, Athens Ga, rock guitarist (B-52's-Love Shack)
1909 - Attilio Demaria, Argentinian footballer (d. 1990)
1910 - Sergei Nikolayevich Anokhin, cosmonaut
1910 - Joseph F. Carroll, US Air Force Lt. Gen. and Founding Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (d. 1991)
1956 - Alina Castro, Havanna Cuba, daughter of Fidel
1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish writer, baptized
1912 - Russ Case, Hamburg Iowa, orch leader (Julius La Rosa Show)
1913 - William Chatterton, cricketer (48 in only Test for England 1892)
1914 - J Jay Berwanger, 1st Heisman Trophy winner (1935)
1914 - Patricia Morison, actress (Peyton Place, Dressed to Kill)
1740 - Joseph F Weigl, German/Austrian(?), violin cellist
1742 - Zacharias H Alewijn, Dutch literary/poet
1964 - Yoko Kanno, Japanese composer
1916 - Irving Wallace, author (People's Almanac, The Man) [or Mar 18]
1916 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
1752 - Jose Mauricio, composer
1966 - James "Big Jim" Wright, American record producer
1967 - Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian ice hockey player
1920 - Tige Andrews, American actor (d. 2007)
1785 - Pierre-Joseph-Guillaume Zimmermann, composer
1921 - Tommy Cooper, Welsh comedy magician (d. 1984)
1969 - Arjan Vermeulen, soccer player (Vitesse)
1816 - Johannes Josephus Hermanus Verhulst, composer
1817 - Lewis Henry Little, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1862
1924 - Mary Wimbush, British actress (d. 2005)
1925 - Brent Scowcroft, Ogden Utah, Lt Gen (USAF)/National Security Council
1821 - Richard Burton, explorer/translator (Arabian Nights)
1928 - Clive Van Ryneveld, cricketer (South African all-rounder 1951-58)
1970 - Rick Mirer, NFL quarterback (Seattle Seahawks, Chicago Bears)
1970 - Sean Fleming, CFL kicker (Edmonton Eskimos)
1929 - Herman van San, composer
1827 - Alexander Shaler, Bvt Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1911
1829 - Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish financier and industrialist (d. 1901)
1971 - Marty Moore, NFL inside linebacker (NE Patriots)
1932 - Gay Robert Brewer, Middletwon OH, PGA golfer (1972 Canadian)
1933 - Philip Roth, Newark, novelist (Goodbye Columbus, Portnoy's Complaint)
1933 - Rene Taylor, American actress
1934 - Borge Andersen, Denmark, Danish Chess Champion (1967, 68)
1972 - Maria Maunder, St John's New Foundland, rower (Olympics-96)
1973 - John Michels, NFL tackle (Green Bay Packers-Superbowl 31)
1973 - Simmone Jade Mackinnon, Australian actress
1974 - Jennifer Lynn Drayton, Saginaw Michigan, Miss America-Michigan (1997)
1974 - John Coppinger, El Paso TX, pitcher (Baltimore Orioles)
1936 - Birthe Wilke, Danish singer
1865 - William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology (d. 1937)
1871 - Joseph McGinnity, Rock Island Ill, baseball pitcher (NY Giants)
1975 - Brann Dailor, American drummer
1939 - Joe Kapp, NFL QB (Minn Vikings, Boston Patriots, Houston Oilers)
1873 - Max Reger, Brand Bavaria, composer/pianist/prof (Leipzig Univ)
1976 - Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer
1879 - Joseph Haas, German (opera)composer (Tobias Wunderlich)
1977 - Jorma Taccone, American writer and comedian
1942 - Ross Valory, rocker (Journey)
1943 - Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist, Nobel laureate
1888 - Josef Albers, German/US graphic artist/painter/writer (Bauhaus)
1943 - Vern Schuppan, Australian racing driver
1944 - Joseph Celli, composer
1891 - Earl Warren, Ca, (Gov-R-Ca)/14th supreme court chief justice (1953-69)
1944 - Myung-Wha Chung, Seoul Korea, cellist (Chung Sisters)
1981 - Kolo Tour, Ivorian footballer
1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-born assassin
1894 - Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Brevard SC, comedienne (Merv Griffin Show)
1897 - Betty Compson, Beaver UT, actress (Millionaire Kid, Mad Youth)
1946 - Bigas Luna, director/writer (Anguish)
1983 - Ana Rezende, Brazilian film director and musician (CSS)
1900 - [Jean] Frederic Joliot-Curie, French physicist (Nobel 1935)
1984 - Tanushree Dutta, Indian actress
1985 - Ernesto Viso, Venezuelan racing driver
1903 - Benjamin M Telders, president of Dutch Liberal States Party
1992 - Henry & Angus Bernsen, twin sons of Corbin Bernsen & Amanda Pays
1947 - Vince Martino, Schenectady NY, WLAF offensive asst (Barcelona Dragons)
1999 - Tatum McCann, American actress
1948 - Vintcent Van der Bijl, Natal cricket bowler (superb 2m of 70's & 80's)
1279 - A Mongolian victory in the Battle of Yamen ends the Song Dynasty in China.
1687 - Explorer Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
1812 - The Cdiz Cortes promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
1853 - The Taiping reform movement occupies and makes Nanjing its capital until 1864.
1861 - The First Taranaki War ends in New Zealand.
1863 - The SS Georgiana, said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is destroyed on her maiden voyage with a cargo of munitions, medicines and merchandise then valued at over $1,000,000.
1865 - American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
1885 - Louis Riel declares a Provisional Government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.
1895 - Auguste and Louis Lumire record their first footage using their newly patented cinematograph.
1915 - Pluto is photographed for the first time but is not recognized as a planet.
1916 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
1918 - The U.S. Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
1920 - The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
1921 - Irish War of Independence: One of the biggest engagements of the war takes place at Crossbarry, County Cork. About 100 Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
1921 - Italian Fascists shoot from the Parenzana train at a group of children in Strunjan (Slovenia): two children are killed, two mangled and three wounded.
1931 - Gambling is legalized in Nevada.
1932 - The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.
1941 - World War II: The 99th Pursuit Squadron also known as the Tuskegee Airmen, the first all-black unit of the Army Air Corp, is activated.
1943 - Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
1944 - World War II: Nazi forces occupy Hungary.
1945 - World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the U.S. under her own power.
1945 - World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
1946 - French Guiana, Guadeloupe, Martinique and Runion become overseas dpartements of France.
1954 - Joey Giardello knocks out Willie Tory in round seven at Madison Square Garden in the first televised prize boxing fight shown in colour.
1954 - Willie Mosconi sets a world record by running 526 consecutive balls without a miss during a straight pool exhibition at East High Billiard Club in Springfield, Ohio. The record still stands today.
1958 - The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
1962 - Algerian War of Independence: A ceasefire takes effect.
1965 - The wreck of the SS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerful Confederate cruiser, is discovered by then teenage diver and pioneer underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
1966 - Texas Western becomes the first college basketball team to win the Final Four with an all-black starting lineup.
1969 - The 385 metres (1,263 ft) tall TV-mast at Emley Moor, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
1979 - The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
1982 - Falklands War: Argentinian forces land on South Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
1987 - Televangelist Jim Bakker resigns as head of the PTL Club due to a brewing sex scandal; he hands over control to Jerry Falwell.
1989 - The Egyptian Flag is raised on Taba, Egypt announcing the end of the Israeli occupation after the Yom Kippur War in 1973 and the peace negotiations in 1979.
1990 - The ethnic clashes of Trgu Mures begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
2002 - Zimbabwe is suspended from the Commonwealth on charges of human rights abuses and of electoral fraud, following a turbulent presidential election.
2003 - United States President George W. Bush orders the start of war against Iraq.
2004 - Konginkangas bus disaster: A semi-trailer truck and a bus crash head-on in nekoski, Finland. 24 people are killed and 13 injured.
2004 - A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Russian MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work. The remains of the three crewmen are left in place, pending further investigations.
2004 - 3-19 Shooting Incident: Taiwanese president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20.
2008 - GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
2011 - The moon makes its closest approach to earth by nearly 30,000 miles in the last 18 years, thus dubbing it supermoon.
2011 - Libyan Uprising: A coalition of countries intervene and commence military action in accordance with UN Security Council Resolution 1973.
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