March 24

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Holidays & Observances Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice Events 74th Academy Awards, 2014 Nuclear Security Summit Famous birthdays The Undertaker, Dorothy Height, Jessica Chastain, Peyton Manning, Steve McQueen

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March 24 is the 83rd day of the year (84th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 282 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Tuesday, Thursday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Sunday or Monday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Wednesday or Friday (56).

March 24th is the 365th and last day of the year in many European implementations of the Julian calendar.

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Events

1401 – Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.

1603 – James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.

1603 – Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.

1663 – The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.

1707 – The Acts of Union 1707 are signed, officially uniting the Kingdoms and parliaments of England and Scotland to create the Kingdom of Great Britain.

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. She had been wanting to rule jointly with her husband in the same manner as William and Mary in the British Isles, but after the Riksdag of the Estates said no to this, she chose to abdicate the throne in his favour instead.

1721 – Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 1046–1051.

1731 – Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.

1765 – American Revolution: Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.

1829 – Catholic emancipation: The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.

1832 – In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.

1837 – Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.

1854 – Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.

1860 – Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.

1869 – The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.

1878 – The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.

1882 – Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.

1885 – Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the Tonkin–Guangxi border.

1896 – A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.

1900 – Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.

1907 – The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.

1921 – The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event

1927 – Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.

1934 – United States Congress passes the Tydings–McDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.

1944 – Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.

1944 – World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.

1946 – The British Cabinet Mission, consisting of Lord Pethick-Lawrence, Sir Stafford Cripps and A. V. Alexander, arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.

1958 – Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.

1959 – The Party of the African Federation is launched by Léopold Sédar Senghor and Modibo Keïta.

1965 – NASA spacecraft Ranger 9, equipped to convert its signals into a form suitable for showing on domestic television, brings images of the Moon into ordinary homes before crash landing.

1973 – Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.

1976 – In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process. Since 2006, a public holiday known as Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice is held on this day.

1980 – El Salvador: Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.

1986 – The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.

1989 – Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m³) of crude oil after running aground.

1993 – Discovery of Comet Shoemaker–Levy 9.

1998 – Jonesboro massacre: Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.

1998 – A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.

1998 – First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany

1999 – Kosovo War: NATO commences aerial bombardment against Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.

2003 – The Arab League votes 21–1 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.

2008 – Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.

2015 – Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.

Births

1103 – Yue Fei, Chinese military general (d. 1142)

1441 – Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (d. 1486)

1494 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (d. 1555)

1607 – Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (d. 1667)

1628 – Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (d. 1685)

1657 – Arai Hakuseki, Japanese academic and politician (d. 1725)

1693 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer (d. 1776)

1725 – Samuel Ashe, American lawyer and politician, 9th Governor of North Carolina (d. 1813)

1725 – Thomas Cushing, American lawyer and politician, 1st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1788)

1755 – Rufus King, American lawyer and politician, United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom (d. 1827)

1762 – Marcos Portugal, Portuguese organist and composer (d. 1830)

1775 – Muthuswami Dikshitar, Indian poet and composer (d. 1835)

1782 – Orest Kiprensky, Russian-Italian painter (d. 1836)

1796 – John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian businessman and politician (d. 1878)

1803 – Egerton Ryerson, Canadian minister, educator, and politician (d. 1882)

1808 – Maria Malibran, Spanish-French soprano (d. 1836)

1809 – Mariano José de Larra, Spanish journalist and author (d. 1837)

1809 – Joseph Liouville, French mathematician and academic (d. 1882)

1820 – Edmond Becquerel, French physicist and academic (d. 1891)

1820 – Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer (d. 1915)

1823 – Thomas Spencer Baynes, English philosopher and critic (d. 1887)

1826 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American activist and author (d. 1898)

1828 – Horace Gray, American lawyer and jurist (d. 1902)

1829 – George Francis Train, American businessman (d. 1904)

1829 – Ignacio Zaragoza, Mexican general (d. 1862)

1830 – Robert Hamerling, Austrian poet and playwright (d. 1889)

1834 – William Morris, English poet, author, and translator (d. 1896)

1834 – John Wesley Powell, American soldier, geologist, and explorer (d. 1902)

1835 – Joseph Stefan, Austrian physicist, mathematician, and poet (d. 1893)

1848 – Honoré Beaugrand, Canadian journalist and politician, 18th Mayor of Montreal (d. 1906)

1850 – Silas Hocking, English minister and author (d. 1935)

1855 – Andrew W. Mellon, American banker, financier, and diplomat, 49th United States Secretary of the Treasury (d. 1937)

1855 – Olive Schreiner, South African author and activist (d. 1920)

1862 – Frank Weston Benson, American painter and educator (d. 1951)

1869 – Émile Fabre, French author and playwright (d. 1955)

1871 – Alec Hurley, English music hall singer (d. 1913)

1874 – Luigi Einaudi, Italian economist and politician, 2nd President of the Italian Republic (d. 1961)

1874 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-American magician and actor (d. 1926)

1874 – Selim Sırrı Tarcan, Turkish educator and politician (d. 1957)

1875 – William Burns, Canadian lacrosse player (d. 1953)

1879 – Neyzen Tevfik, Turkish philosopher, poet, and composer (d. 1953)

1882 – Marcel Lalu, French gymnast (d. 1951)

1882 – George Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (d. 1943)

1883 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (d. 1945)

1884 – Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1966)

1884 – Eugène Tisserant, French cardinal (d. 1972)

1885 – Charles Daniels, American swimmer (d. 1973)

1885 – Dimitrie Cuclin, Romanian violinist and composer (d. 1978)

1886 – Edward Weston, American photographer (d. 1958)

1886 – Robert Mallet-Stevens, French architect and designer (d. 1945)

1887 – Roscoe Arbuckle, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1933)

1888 – Viktor Kingissepp, Estonian politician (d. 1922)

1889 – Albert Hill, English-Canadian runner (d. 1969)

1890 – Agnes Macphail, Canadian educator and politician (d. 1954)

1891 – Sergey Ivanovich Vavilov, Russian physicist and academic (d. 1951)

1892 – Marston Morse, American mathematician and academic (d. 1977)

1893 – Walter Baade, German astronomer and author (d. 1960)

1893 – George Sisler, American baseball player and scout (d. 1973)

1897 – Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic (d. 1957)

1901 – Ub Iwerks, American animator, director, and producer, co-created Mickey Mouse (d. 1971)

1902 – Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (d. 1971)

1903 – Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1995)

1903 – Malcolm Muggeridge, English journalist, author, and scholar (d. 1990)

1905 – Pura Santillan-Castrence, Filipino author and diplomat (d. 2007)

1907 – Paul Sauvé, Canadian lawyer and politician, 17th Premier of Quebec (d. 1960)

1909 – Clyde Barrow, American criminal (d. 1934)

1910 – Richard Conte, American actor, singer, and director (d. 1975)

1911 – Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (d. 2006)

1912 – Dorothy Height, American educator and activist (d. 2010)

1915 – Eugène Martin, French racing driver (d. 2006)

1916 – Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American soldier and author (d. 2006)

1916 – Harry B. Whittington, English palaeontologist and academic (d. 2010)

1917 – John Kendrew, English biochemist and crystallographer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1997)

1919 – Lawrence Ferlinghetti, American poet and publisher, co-founded City Lights Bookstore

1919 – Robert Heilbroner, American economist and historian (d. 2005)

1920 – Gene Nelson, American actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1996)

1920 – Mary Stolz, American author (d. 2006)

1921 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player (d. 2010)

1922 – Onna White, Canadian dancer and choreographer (d. 2005)

1923 – Murray Hamilton, American actor (d. 1986)

1923 – Michael Legat, English author and publisher (d. 2011)

1924 – Norman Fell, American actor (d. 1998)

1925 – Puig Aubert, German-French rugby league player and coach (d. 1994)

1926 – Desmond Connell, Irish cardinal

1926 – Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2016)

1926 – William Porter, American hurdler (d. 2000)

1927 – John Woodland Hastings, American biochemist and academic (d. 2014)

1927 – Martin Walser, German author and playwright

1928 – Byron Janis, American pianist and composer

1929 – Pat Renella, American actor (d. 2012)

1930 – David Dacko, Central African politician, 1st President of the Central African Republic (d. 2003)

1930 – Steve McQueen, American actor and producer (d. 1980)

1931 – Hanno Drechsler, German educator and politician, Mayor of Marburg (d. 2003)

1933 – Stephen De Staebler, American sculptor and educator (d. 2011)

1936 – Alex Olmedo, Peruvian-American tennis player

1938 – Don Covay, American singer-songwriter (d. 2015)

1938 – David Irving, English historian and author

1940 – Bob Mackie, American fashion designer

1941 – Michael Masser, American songwriter, composer and producer (d. 2015)

1944 – R. Lee Ermey, American sergeant and actor

1944 – Vojislav Koštunica, Serbian academic and politician, 8th Prime Minister of Serbia

1945 – Robert T. Bakker, American paleontologist and academic

1945 – Curtis Hanson, American director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2016)

1945 – Patrick Malahide, English actor and screenwriter

1946 – Klaus Dinger, German guitarist and songwriter (d. 2008)

1946 – Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman

1947 – Dennis Erickson, American football player and coach

1947 – Christine Gregoire, American lawyer and politician, 22nd Governor of Washington

1947 – Mick Jones, English footballer and coach

1947 – Alan Sugar, English businessman

1948 – Javier Diez Canseco, Peruvian sociologist and politician (d. 2013)

1948 – Jerzy Kukuczka, Polish mountaineer (d. 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

1949 – Nick Lowe, English singer-songwriter and producer

1949 – Ali Akbar Salehi, Iranian academic and politician, 36th Foreign Affairs Minister of Iran

1949 – Ranil Wickremesinghe, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician, 13th Prime Minister of Sri Lanka

1950 – Gary Wichard, American football player and agent (d. 2011)

1951 – Peter Boyle, Scottish-Australian footballer and manager (d. 2013)

1951 – Pat Bradley, American golfer

1951 – Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation

1951 – Anna Włodarczyk, Polish long jumper and coach

1952 – Greg McCrary, American football player (d. 2013)

1953 – Anita L. Allen, American lawyer, philosopher, and academic

1953 – Louie Anderson, American actor and comedian

1955 – Doug Jarvis, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1955 – Pat Price, Canadian ice hockey player and coach

1956 – Steve Ballmer, American businessman

1956 – Bill Wray, American cartoonist and painter

1957 – Pierre Harvey, Canadian cyclist and skier

1958 – Mike Woodson, American basketball player and coach

1959 – Emmit King, American sprinter

1959 – Renaldo Nehemiah, American hurdler and football player

1959 – Derek Statham, English footballer

1960 – Jan Berglin, Swedish cartoonist

1960 – Barry Horowitz, American wrestler

1960 – Kelly Le Brock, English-American actress and model

1960 – Scott Pruett, American race car driver

1960 – Annabella Sciorra, American actress

1961 – Dean Jones, Australian cricketer and coach

1961 – Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance

1962 – Angèle Dubeau, Canadian violinist

1962 – Star Jones, American lawyer, journalist, and talk show host

1962 – Irina Meszynski, German discus thrower

1963 – Raimond van der Gouw, Dutch footballer and coach

1963 – Vadym Tyshchenko, Ukrainian footballer and manager (d. 2015)

1963 – Torsten Voss, German decathlete and bobsledder

1965 – The Undertaker, American wrestler and actor

1966 – Floyd Heard, American sprinter and coach

1967 – Diann Roffe, American skier

1968 – Minarti Timur, Indonesian badminton player

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 (d. 2012)

1970 – Mike Vanderjagt, Canadian-American football player

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 – 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

1975 – Thomas Johansson, Swedish-Monacan tennis player

1976 – Aaron Brooks, American football player

1976 – Aliou Cissé, Senegalese footballer and coach

1976 – Athanasios Kostoulas, Greek footballer

1976 – Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur

1977 – Jessica Chastain, American actress

1977 – Maxim Kuznetsov, Russian ice hockey player

1977 – Darren Lockyer, Australian rugby league player and sportscaster

1978 – Michael Braun, Australian footballer and coach

1978 – Tomáš Ujfaluši, Czech footballer and manager

1978 – Jose Valverde, Dominican baseball player

1979 – Lake Bell, American actress and director

1979 – Norris Hopper, American baseball player

1979 – Periklis Iakovakis, Greek hurdler

1979 – Graeme Swann, English cricketer

1980 – Tassos Venetis, Greek footballer

1981 – Mike Adams, American football player

1981 – Ron Hainsey, American ice hockey player

1981 – Dirk Hayhurst, American baseball player

1981 – Mark Looms, Dutch footballer

1981 – Gary Paffett, English race car driver

1982 – Corey Hart, American baseball player

1982 – Jimmy Hempte, Belgian footballer

1982 – Dustin McGowan, American baseball player

1983 – Luca Ceccarelli, Italian footballer

1983 – Riccardo Musetti, Italian footballer

1983 – Pierre-Alexandre Parenteau, Canadian ice hockey player

1984 – Benoît Assou-Ekotto, French-Cameroonian footballer

1984 – Chris Bosh, American basketball player

1984 – Adrian D'Souza, Indian field hockey player

1984 – Lucy Wangui Kabuu, Kenyan runner

1985 – Frederico Gil, Portuguese tennis player

1986 – Tony McMahon, English footballer

1987 – Ramires, Brazilian footballer

1987 – Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladeshi cricketer

1987 – Billy Jones, English footballer

1987 – Josh Zeid, American baseball player

1988 – Aiga Grabuste, Latvian heptathlete

1988 – Ryan Higgins, Zimbabwean cricketer

1988 – Matías Martínez, Argentinian footballer

1988 – Kardo Ploomipuu, Estonian swimmer

1990 – Starlin Castro, American baseball player

1990 – Libby Clegg, English runner

1990 – Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress

Deaths

809 – Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (b. 763)

832 – Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury

1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus (b. 1235)

1296 – Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

1381 – Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (b. 1332)

1394 – Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castile

1396 – Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (b. 1340)

1399 – Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (b.c. 1320)

1443 – James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (b. 1371)

1455 – Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)

1499 – Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (b. 1470)

1563 – Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyo (b. 1514)

1575 – Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (b. 1488)

1603 – Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)

1653 – Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (b. 1587)

1773 – Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (b. 1694)

1776 – John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (b. 1693)

1824 – Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (b. 1753)

1838 – Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (b. 1748/49)

1869 – Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (b. 1779)

1881 – Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (b. 1817)

1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (b. 1807)

1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (b. 1837)

1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)

1905 – Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (b. 1828)

1909 – John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (b. 1871)

1915 – Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (b. 1848)

1915 – Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (b. 1846)

1916 – Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (b. 1867)

1926 – Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (b. 1872)

1940 – Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (b. 1844)

1944 – Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (b. 1903)

1946 – Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)

1946 – Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (b. 1869)

1948 – Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (b. 1885)

1950 – James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1865)

1953 – Mary of Teck (b. 1867)

1962 – Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (b. 1899)

1962 – Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)

1971 – Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (b. 1902)

1971 – Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (b. 1895)

1976 – Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (b. 1887)

1980 – Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (b. 1917)

1984 – Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)

1985 – Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver (b. 1910)

1988 – Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th Deputy Prime Minister of Turkey (b. 1922)

1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (b. 1922)

1991 – John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th Governor-General of Australia (b. 1914)

1993 – Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (b. 1905)

1993 – John Hersey, American journalist and author (b. 1914)

1995 – Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (b. 1900)

1999 – Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (b. 1902)

1999 – Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)

2001 – Muriel Young, English television host and producer (b. 1928)

2002 – César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1927)

2002 – Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (b. 1932)

2003 – Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (b. 1919)

2006 – Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (b. 1926)

2008 – Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)

2008 – Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (b. 1941)

2008 – Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (b. 1926)

2008 – Hal Riney, American businessman, founded Publicis & Hal Riney (b. 1932)

2008 – Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)

2009 – George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (b. 1922)

2009 – Hans Klenk, German race car driver (b. 1919)

2009 – Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (b. 1975)

2010 – Robert Culp, American actor (b. 1930)

2010 – Jim Marshall, American photographer (b. 1936)

2012 – Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (b. 1947)

2012 – Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (b. 1926)

2013 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (b. 1926)

2013 – Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (b. 1938)

2013 – Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (b. 1925)

2013 – Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (b. 1972)

2013 – Deke Richards, American songwriter and producer (b. 1944)

2013 – Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (b. 1974)

2013 – Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (b. 1912)

2014 – Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (b. 1962)

2014 – John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (b. 1922)

2014 – David A. Trampier, American illustrator (b. 1954)

2015 – Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (b. 1928)

2015 – notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:

Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German opera singer (b. 1960)

Maria Radner, German opera singer (b. 1981)

2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (b. 1947)

2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (b. 1949)

Holidays and observances

Christian feast day:

Catherine of Vadstena

Mac Cairthinn of Clogher

Óscar Romero (Catholic Church, Anglican Communion, Lutheranism)

Paul Couturier (Church of England)

Simon of Trent (cult suppressed)

Walter Hilton (Church of England)

March 24 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)

National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)

Student Day (Scientology)

World Tuberculosis Day (International)

References

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