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19 March - Definition and Overview |
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March 19 is the 78th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (79th in leap years). There are 287 days remaining.
Events
up to 19th century
20th century
1910s-1930s
1940s-1970s
1980s
21st century
Births
up to 19th century
- 1434 - Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Ashikaga shogun (b. 1443)
- 1684 - Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar, (d. 1766)
- 1721 - Tobias Smollett, Scottish novelist (d. 1771)
- 1813 - David Livingstone, missionary and explorer, (d. 1873)
- 1848 - Wyatt Earp, policeman, gunfighter, (d. 1929)
- 1849 - Alfred von Tirpitz, German soldier, (d. 1930)
- 1864 - Charles Marion Russell, artist, (d. 1926)
- 1865 - William Morton Wheeler, US entomologist, myrmecologist, pioneer in ethology, (d. 1937)
- 1873 - Max Reger, composer, (d. 1916)
- 1883 - Joseph Stilwell, US general, (d. 1946)
- 1888 - Josef Albers, artist (d. 1976)
- 1891 - Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the United States, (d. 1974)
- 1894 - Joe Venuti, jazz musician and violinist, (d. 1978)
- 1894 - Moms Mabley, comedienne, (d. 1975)
20th century
- 1900 - Frédéric Joliot, physicist and winner of 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry, (d. 1958)
- 1905 - Albert Speer, Nazi official, (d. 1981)
- 1906 - Adolf Eichmann, Nazi official, (d. 1962)
- 1909 - Louis Hayward, actor, (d. 1985)
- 1914 - Jay Berwanger, American football star, winner of the first Heisman Trophy, (d. 2002)
- 1916 - Irving Wallace, novelist, (d. 1990)
- 1917 - Dinu Lipatti, pianist, (d. 1950)
- 1920 - Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author
- 1921 - Tommy Cooper, comedy magician
- 1928 - Hans Küng, theologian
- 1928 - Patrick McGoohan, actor
- 1930 - Ornette Coleman, musician
- 1933 - Philip Roth, author
- 1936 - Ursula Andress, actress
- 1939 - Joe Kapp, US football star
- 1943 - Mario Monti, aka "Super Mario"
- 1944 - Said Musa, Prime Minister of Belize
- 1944 - Sirhan Sirhan, assassin
- 1947 - Glenn Close, actress
- 1955 - Bruce Willis, actor
- 1969 - Connor Trinneer, actor
Deaths
- 1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland, (b. 1241)
- 1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
- 1721 - Pope Clement XI, (b. 1649)
- 1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, civil rights activist, (b. c. 1913)
- 1945 - Friedrich Fromm, Nazi official
- 1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, author, (b. 1875)
- 1978 - Gaston Julia, mathematician, (Julia Sets)
- 1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, art deco painter, (b. 1898)
- 1982 - Randy Rhoads, guitarist of Quiet Riot (b. 1956)
- 1987 - Louis-Victor de Broglie, physicist and winner 1929 of the Nobel Prize in Physics, (b. 1892)
- 1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
- 1997 - Willem de Kooning, artist, (b. 1904)
- 2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, illustrator
- 2004 - Mitchell Sharp, former Canadian Liberal cabinet minister (b. 1911)
Holidays and observances
March 18 - March 20 - February 19 - April 19 -- listing of all days
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