March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). There are 290 days remaining.
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Events
up to 19th century
20th century
1900s-1980s
1990s
21st century
29th century
Births
up to 19th century
- 1585 - Gerbrand Adriaensz Bredero, Dutch poet and playwright (d. 1618)
- 1751 - James Madison, 4th President of the United States, (d. 1836)
- 1789 - Georg Simon Ohm, physicist and discoverer of Ohm's law, (d. 1854)
- 1829 - René François Armand Sully-Prudhomme, laureate of the first Nobel Prize in Literature in 1901, (d. 1907)
- 1834 - James Hector, geologist, (d. 1907)
- 1878 - Clemens August Graf von Galen, archbishop of Münster and cardinal, (d. 1946)
- 1878 - Reza Pahlavi, shah of Iran (d. 1941)
- 1889 - Reggie Walker, South African athlete (d. 1951)
20th century
1900s-1940s
- 1901 - Edward Pawley, Broadway/Movie/Radio actor. Played Steve Wilson on radio's popular Big Town show.
- 1902 - Leon Roppolo, jazz clarinetist, (d. 1943)
- 1905 - Elisabeth Flickenschildt, actress, (d. 1977)
- 1906 - Henny Youngman, comedian, (d. 1998)
- 1911 - Josef Mengele, Nazi war criminal, (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Pat Nixon, actress, First Lady, (d. 1993)
- 1918 - Frederick Reines, physicist (1995 Nobel Prize in Physics), (d. 1998)
- 1920 - Leo McKern, actor, (d. 2002)
- 1926 - Jerry Lewis, comedian
- 1926 - James N. Miller, microbiologist
- 1928 - Christa Ludwig, German mezzo-soprano
- 1927 - Vladimir Komarov, cosmonaut, (d. 1967)
- 1927 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, Senator from New York, (d. 2003)
- 1929 - Nadja Tiller, actress
- 1934 - Ray Hnatyshyn, former Governor-General of Canada, (d. 2002)
- 1940 - Chuck Woolery, game show host
- 1941 - Bernardo Bertolucci, film director
- 1942 - James Soong, politician
- 1949 - Erik Estrada, actor
- 1949 - Victor Garber, actor
1950s-1990s
- 1952 - Philippe Kahn, entrepreneur
- 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, actress
- 1953 - Richard Stallman, Free Software activist & founder of GNU
- 1954 - Nancy Wilson, guitarist, singer, actress
- 1955 - Jiro Watanabe, Japanese boxing world champion
- 1959 - Flavor Flav, rap musician
- 1959 - Jens Stoltenberg, Prime Minister of Norway
- 1980 - Todd Heap, American football player
- 1990 - James Bulger, abduction/murder victim, (d. 1993)
- 1992 - Carlie Brucia, kidnap/murder victim, (d. 2004)
Deaths
- 455 - Valentinian III, Roman emperor, (b. 419)
- 1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, composer, (b. 1710)
- 1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
- 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist, (b. 1872)
- 1903 - Judge Roy Bean, jurist, Old West pioneer, (b. c. 1825)
- 1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, writer, (b. 1858)
- 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, sculptor, (b. 1876)
- 1970 - Tammi Terrell, singer
- 1971 - Thomas Dewey, candidate for President of the United States in 1944 and 1948, (b. 1902)
- 1975 - T-Bone Walker, musician, (b. 1910)
- 1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze, (b. 1917)
- 1988 - Edward Pawley, Broadway/Movie/Radio Actor. Played Steve Wilson on radio's Big Town show. (b. 1901)
- 2003 - Rachel Corrie, International Solidarity Movement member, (b. 1979)
- 2003 - Major Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York
Holidays and observances
March 15 - March 17 - February 16 - April 16 -- listing of all days
af:03-16
be:16 сакавіка
bg:16 март
ca:16 de març
cy:16 Mawrth
da:16. marts
de:16. März
et:16. märts
es:16 de marzo
eo:16-a de marto
fr:16 mars
fy:16 maart
ko:3월 16일
hr:16. ožujka
io:16 di marto
is:16. mars
it:16 marzo
he:16 במרץ
lt:Kovo 16
lb:16. Mäerz
hu:Március 16
nl:16 maart
ja:3月16日
no:16. mars
oc:16 de març
pl:16 marca
pt:16 de Março
ro:16 martie
ru:16 марта
sl:16. marec
sr:16. март
fi:16. maaliskuuta
sv:16 mars
tr:16 Mart
uk:16 березня
zh:3月16日
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