Aarushhh/wikipedia-simple-splitted huggingface dataset:
1944 – Roger Daltrey, founder and lead singer of English rock band The Who
 1944 – Mike d'Abo, British singer
 1944 - Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal
 1945 - Uriarte, Spanish footballer
 1946 - Jim Crace, English author
 1946 - Lana Wood, American actress
 1947 – Alan Thicke, Canadian actor and songwriter (d. 2016)
 1949 – Carlos Soria, Argentine politician (d. 2012)
1951  1975 
 1952 – Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish football manager
 1953 - Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese football manager
 1954 – Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer
 1954 - Catherine Bach, American actress
 1955 - Denis Mukwege, Congolese gynecologist and activist
 1955 - Timothy Laurence, husband of Anne, Princess Royal
 1956 – Dalia Grybauskaite, President of Lithuania
 1956 - Helen Boaden, British BBC executive
 1956 - Tim Daly, American actor
 1958 – Bertrand Piccard, Swiss balloonist and psychiatrist
 1958 - Nik Kersham, English singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
 1958 - Chosei Komatsu, Japanese conductor
 1959 – Nick Griffin, British politician, leader of the British National Party
 1961 - Koichi Hashiratani, Japanese footballer
 1963 – Thomas Anders, German singer
 1963 - Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player
 1964 – Paul Le Guen, French football manager
 1965 - Booker T, American professional wrestler
 1966 - Zack Snyder, American director, producer and screenwriter
1967 - Yelena Afanasyeva, Russian athlete
 1967 - George Eads, American actor
 1967 – Aron Winter, Dutch footballer
 1969 – Javier Bardem, Spanish actor
 1969 – Dafydd Ieuan, Welsh musician
 1971 - Tyler Hamilton, American cyclist
 1973 – Ryan Peake, Canadian guitarist (Nickelback)
 1973 – Chris Webber, American basketball player
 1975 - Francesco Mazzariol, Italian rugby player
 1975 - Valentina Monetta, Sammarinese singer
From 1976 
 1979 - Bruno Langlois, Canadian racing cyclist
 1980 - Manmeet Bhullar, Canadian politician (d. 2015)
 1980 – Djimi Traoré, Malian footballer
 1980 - Anna Semenovich, Russian ice skater and singer
 1981 - Brad Winchester, American ice hockey player
 1982 - Juan Manuel Ortiz, Spanish footballer
 1982 - Kim Min-hee, South Korean actress and model
 1983 - Davey Richards, American wrestler
 1983 - Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress
 1983 - Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer
 1984 - Naima Mora, American model
 1984 - Alexander Steen, Canadian-born Swedish ice hockey player
 1984 – Patrick Helmes, German footballer
 1985 – Andreas Ottl, German footballer
 1985 - Yun Ok-Hee, South Korean archer
 1986 - Big E Langston, American professional wrestler
 1986 - Jonathan Spector, American footballer
 1987 – Kesha, American singer
 1987 – Sammie, American singer
 1989 – Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer
 1989 - Daniella Monet, American actress
 1990 – Harry Eden, English actor
1990 - Qandeel Baloch, Pakistani singer, activist and internet celebrity (d. 2016)
 1993 - Josh McEachran, British footballer
 1993 – Syuusuke Saito, Japanese actor and singer
 1993 - Michael Conforto, American baseball player
 1994 - Justin Bieber, Canadian singer
 1995 - Genta Miura, Japanese footballer
 1996 - Ye Shiwen, Chinese swimmer
Up to 1900 
 317 – Valerius Valens, Roman Emperor
 492 - Pope Felix III
 589 – Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
 986 – King Lothair of France (b. 941)
 1131 – King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1104)
 1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
 1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great of Wales (b. 1200)
 1320 - Buyantu Khagan, Mongolian Emperor (b. 1286)
 1383 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)
 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (b. 1513)
 1633 - George Herbert, English poet (b. 1593)
 1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
 1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
 1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
 1865 - Grand Duchess Anna Pavlovna of Russia, Queen of the Netherlands (b. 1795)
 1865 - William Cannon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1809)
 1870 - Francisco Solano Lopez, President of Paraguay (b. 1827)
1882 - Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer and educator (b. 1818)
 1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
 1895 - Pauline Musters, Dutch shortest woman (b. 1876)
1901  2000 
 1906 - Jose Maria de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
 1910 - Jose Domingo de Obaldia, 2nd President of Panama (b. 1845)
 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist (b. 1852)
 1914 - Gilbert-Elliot-Murray-Kyrnynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, 8th Governor-General of Canada (b. 1845)
 1920 - John H. Bankhead, United States Senator (b. 1842)
 1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian soldier and activist (b. 1880)
 1922 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
 1924 - Louis Perée, French fencer (b. 1871)
 1924 - Princess Louise of Belgium (b. 1858) 
 1932 – Charles Augustus Lindbergh III, son of Charles Lindbergh (b. 1930)
 1936 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer and politician (b. 1863)
 1940 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian writer (b. 1878)
 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican writer (b. 1873)
 1952 - Masao Kume, Japanese writer (b. 1891)
 1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
 1970 - Toshio Iwatani, Japanese footballer (b. 1925)
 1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
 1976 - Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
 1978 - Paul Scott, British writer (b. 1920)
 1979 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
 1979 - Dolores Costello, American actress (b. 1903)
 1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
 1981 - Roberto Francisco Chiari Remon, 31st President of Panama (b. 1905)
 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
 1987 - Bertrand de Jouvenel, French writer and philosopher (b. 1903)
 1989 - Vasantdala Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (b. 1917)
 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (b. 1909)
 1995 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist (b. 1956)
 1995 – Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist (b. 1946)
 1998 - Archie Goodwin, American comic book writer, editor and artist (b. 1937)
From 2001 
 2002 - C. Farris Bryant, Governor of Florida (b. 1914)
 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
 2006 – Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
 2008 – Raul Reyes, Colombian FARC guerrilla (b. 1948)
 2010 – Vladimir Ilyushin, Russian pilot (b. 1927)
 2010 – Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
 2011 - John Michael Lounge, American astronaut (b. 1946)
 2012 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer-songwriter and musician (b. 1943)
 2013 - Bonnie Franklin, American actress (b. 1944)
 2014 - Bangaru Laxman, Indian politician (b. 1939)
 2014 - Alain Resnais, French movie director (b. 1922)
 2014 - Nancy Charest, Canadian politician (b. 1959)
 2014 - Werner Uebelmann, Swiss entrepreneur and writer (b. 1921)
 2014 - Alejandro Zaffaroni, Uruguayan-American chemist and entrepreneur (b. 1923)
 2015 - Wolfram Wuttke, German footballer (b. 1961)
 2015 - Orrin Keepnews, American jazz record producer (b. 1923)
 2015 - Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player (b. 1925)
2015 - Joshua Fishman, American linguist (b. 1926)
 2015 - Carel Visser, Dutch artist and sculptor (b. 1928)
 2016 - Jean Miotte, French painter (b. 1926)
 2016 - Martha Wright, American actress (b. 1923)
 2017 - Tania Dalton, New Zealand netball player (b. 1971)
 2017 - Taarak Mehta, Indian playwright and humourist (b. 1929)
 2017 - John Hampshire, English cricketer (b. 1941)
 2017 - Gustav Metzger, German-British artist and political activist (b. 1924)
 2017 - David Rubinger, Austrian-born Israeli photographer (b. 1924)
 2017 - Jins Shamsuddin, Malaysian actor, director and politician (b. 1935)
 2017 - Paula Fox, American writer (b. 1923)
 2017 - Pierre Guénin, French journalist and activist (b. 1927)
 2017 - Yasuyuki Kuwahara, Japanese footballer (b. 1942)
 2017 - Michael M. Ryan, American actor (b. 1929)
 2017 - Alejandra Soler, Spanish politician (b. 1913)
 2018 - Dorne Dibble, American football player (b. 1929)
 2018 - Anatoly Lein, Russian-American chess player (b. 1931)
2018 - Luigi Taveri, Swiss motorcycle road racer (b. 1929)
 2018 - Arabinda Muduli, Indian singer-songwriter (b. 1961)
 2019 - Zhores Alferov, Soviet-Russian physicist (b. 1930)
 2019 - Kumar Bhattacharyya, Baron Bhattacharyya, British-Indian engineer and politician (b. 1940)
 2019 - Elly Mayday, Canadian model and women's health advocate (b. 1988)
 2019 - Kevin Roche, Irish-American architect (b. 1922)
 2019 - Peter van Gestel, Dutch children's writer (b. 1937)
Observances 
 Saint David's Day in Wales
 Beer Day in Iceland
 Independence Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina
 March 1st Movement Remembrance Day (South Korea)
 Balearic Islands Day

March 01
Up to 1900 
 537 - Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under King Vitiges begins the siege of the city.
 871 - Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
 986 – Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
 1127 – Assassination of Charles I, Count of Flanders.
 1444 - Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhe.
 1476 - Burgundian Wars: The Old Swiss Confederacy hands Charles the Bold, Duke of Burgundy, a major defeat in the Battle of Grandson in the Canton of Neuchâtel.
 1484 – The College of Arms is formally incorporated by a Royal Charter, signed by King Richard III of England.
 1498 - Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
 1561 - Mendoza, Argentina, is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.
 1657 - Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo) kills 100,000 people and lasts three days.
1776 - American Revolutionary War: Patriot militia units arrest the Royal Governor of Georgia, James Wright, and attempt to prevent capture of supply ships in the Battle of Rice Boats.
 1791 - Long-distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
 1797 – The Bank of England issues the first one-pound and two-pound notes.
 1798 – The Swiss Canton of Thurgau is created.
 1807 - United States Congress bans the importation of more slaves into the country.
 1811 - Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolas.
 1815 - Signing of the Kandyan Convention Treaty between the British and the King of Sri Lanka.
 1818 - Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzani re-discovers the tomb in the Chephren Pyramid in Egypt, though he finds it empty.
 1825 – Blida, in Algeria, is hit by an earthquake, killing 7,000 people.
 1836 – The Republic of Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
1855 – Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
 1861 - The Dakota Territory is created, covering the current states of North Dakota, South Dakota and parts of Montana and Wyoming. Yankton, South Dakota is the territorial capital. 
 1877 – Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 US presidential election, despite Samuel J. Tilden winning the popular vote.
 1882 – Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
 1885 - Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hoa Moc, near Tuyen Quang, North Vietnam.
 1899 – The Mount Rainier National Park in the State of Washington, is created.
1901  2000 
 1903 - In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel opens, the first hotel only to cater for women.
 1917 - The Jones-Shafroth Act grants United States citizenship to people from Puerto Rico.
 1919 - The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
 1933 – The Sanriku earthquake in Japan, measuring at magnitude 8.4, kills almost 3,000 people.
 1933 – The movie King Kong opens at New York City's Radio Music Hall.
 1935 – Prajadhipok abdicates as King of Thailand, being succeeded by the 9-year-old Ananda Mahidol.
 1939 – cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope on his 63rd birthday. He chooses to be known as Pope Pius XII.
 1943 – World War II: In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, US and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
 1946 – Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
 1949 – Captain James Gallagher lands his B-50 Superfortress Lucky Lady II airplane at Fort Worth, Texas, after flying non-stop around the world in 94 hours and 1 minute.
1949 – The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
 1955 – Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as King of Cambodia, in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
 1956 – Morocco declares independence from France.
 1958 – Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs complete their crossing of Antarctica.
 1962 – In Burma, the Army, led by Ne Win, seizes power in a coup.
 1962 – Basketball: Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record by scoring 100 points in a single game.
 1965 - United States and South Vietnamese Air Forces begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
 1969 - Soviet and Chinese forces clash at the border outpost on the Ussuri River.
 1969 – In Toulouse, the first test flight of Concorde is carried out.
 1970 – Rhodesia declares itself a Republic.
 1972 – The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
 1978 – Czechoslovakian Vladimir Remek becomes the first human in space who is neither Soviet or American.
1983 – Compact Discs and Compact Disc players are released in the United States, though they were already available in Japan.
 1987 - The Chrysler Group takes over the American Motors Corporation.
 1989 - 12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
 1990 – Nelson Mandela is declared Deputy Head of the African National Congress.
 1991 - Battle of Rumaila takes place at the end of the Gulf War.
 1992 – San Marino joins the UN, along with the former Soviet States of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
 1993 - The 1993 Storm of the Century begins to form in the North Atlantic Ocean.
 1998 – Data sent from the Galileo spacecraft indicates that Jupiter's moon Europa has an ocean of liquid water under a thick crust of ice.
1998 – In Austria, 10-year-old Natascha Kampusch is kidnapped by Wolfgang Priklopil and is held in captivity until her escape in 2006, after which Priklopil commits suicide.
 2000 – Former Chilean leader Augusto Pinochet is allowed to return home after the United Kingdom refused to extradite him to Spain on torture charges.
From 2001 
 2002 – As part of the US invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda is launched.
 2004 – Iraq War: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Kerbala, killing 270 people.
 2004 – In the US, John Kerry becomes the Democrats' candidate for the US presidential election, which he loses to George W. Bush eight months later.
 2006 - The Nintendo DS goes on sale in Japan.
 2008 – Dmitry Medvedev is elected President of Russia, due to Vladimir Putin's term limits, though Putin becomes Prime Minister.
 2009 – President of Guinea-Bissau Joao Bernardo Vieira is killed in an armed attack on his home.
 2012 – 27 people are killed as tornadoes sweep across the States of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
 2017 - Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held after the collapse of the power-sharing government.
 2019 - The SpX-DM1 space mission is launched; it is the first United States-launched manned mission since 2011.

Births
Up to 1900 
 959 - Emperor En'yu of Japan (d. 991)
 1241 - Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre (d. 1271)
 1316 – King Robert II of Scotland (d. 1390)
 1459 – Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
 1544 - Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
 1760 – Camille Desmoulins, French lawyer and journalist (d. 1794)
 1769 - DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York (d. 1828)
 1779 – Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman (d. 1851)
 1793 – Sam Houston, President and Governor of Texas (d. 1863)
 1800 – Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
 1810 – Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
 1816 - Alexander Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
 1820 – Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
 1824 – Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884)
 1829 – Carl Schurz, German politician and revolutionary (d. 1906)
 1836 - John W. Foster, United States Secretary of State (d. 1917)
 1842 – Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
 1843 - Princess Maria Clotilde of Saxony (d. 1911)
1851 - Franz von Liszt, German jurist (d. 1919)
 1859 – Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
 1860 - Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
 1862 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
 1868 - Edmund Schulthess, Swiss politician (d. 1944)
 1876 – Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
 1878 - Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist and mathematician (d. 1960)
 1880 – Ivar Kreuger, Swedish industrialist, known for the match stick monopoly (d. 1932)
 1883 - Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
 1885 - Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and writer (d. 1955)
 1886 - Leo Gehr von Schweppenburg, German general (d. 1974)
 1894 - Alexander Oparin, Soviet biochemist (d. 1980)
 1900 – Kurt Weill, German-born American composer (d. 1950)
1901  1950 
 1901 - Grete Hermann, German mathematician (d. 1984)
 1902 – Edward Condon, American physicist (d. 1974)
 1904 – Dr. Seuss, American writer (d. 1991)
 1905 - Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964)
 1905 - Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, 31st President of Panama (d. 1981)
 1908 - Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
 1908 - Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (d. 1990)
 1909 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
 1912 – Henry Katzman, American composer and pianist (d. 2001)
 1912 - William Thayer Tutt, American ice hockey executive (d. 1989)
 1913 - Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
 1914 - Martin Ritt, American movie director (d. 1990)
 1917 – Desi Arnaz, Cuban-born actor, musician and bandleader (d. 1986)
 1918 - Michael Rye, American voice actor (d. 2012)
 1919 – Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
 1919 - Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1996)
 1921 - Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (d. 2018)
1921 - Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (d. 2006)
 1921 - Ernst Haas, Austrian photojournalist (d. 1986)
 1922 - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1986)
 1923 - Masao Ono, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
 1923 - Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1999)
 1923 - Orrin Keepnews, American songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
 1923 - Dave Strack, American basketball coach (d. 2014)
 1923 - Robert H. Michel, American soldier and politician (d. 2017)
 1924 - Cal Abrams, American baseball player (d. 1997)
 1926 - Murray Rothbard, American economist and philosopher (d. 1995)
 1926 – George Patrick Leonard Walker, British volcanologist (d. 2005)
 1926 - Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (d. 2014)
 1930 - John Cullum, American actor and singer
 1930 - Pat Arrowsmith, British writer and peace campaigner
 1930 - Tom Wolfe, American writer (d. 2018)
 1930 – Sergei Kovalev, Russian dissident and politician
 1931 – Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
1931 - Jean Périmony, French actor and theatre director (d. 2017)
 1932 – Gun Hägglund, Swedish television journalist (d. 2011)
 1934 - Howard Cassady, American football player (d. 2019)
 1937 – Abdelaziz Bouteflika, former President of Algeria (d. 2021)
 1937 - Denny Crum, American basketball coach
 1938 - Aleksandar Kostov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
 1938 – Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
 1939 - Irina Bogacheva, Russian mezzo-soprano (d. 2019)
 1939 - Takako Shimazu, Japanese royal
 1940 - Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
 1940 - Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan
 1940 – Lothar de Maizière, German lawyer and politician
 1941 - John Cornell, Australian actor, director, producer and businessman
 1941 - David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States
 1942 - Kwang Jo Choi, Korean taekwondo champion
 1942 – Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
 1942 – Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian politician
 1942 – John Irving, American writer
1943 – Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
 1943 - Tony Meehan, British musician (d. 2005)
 1943 - B. Subhashan Reddy, Indian judge (d. 2019)
 1944 – Uschi Glas, German actress
 1947 – Harry Redknapp, English football manager
 1947 – Yuri Matiyasevich, Russian mathematician
 1947 - Glenn O'Brien, American journalist, editor and television presenter (d. 2017)
 1948 – Larry Carlton, American musician
 1948 - Jeff Kennett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Victoria
 1948 - Rory Gallagher, Irish musician, songwriter and bandleader (d. 1995)
 1949 - Alain Chamfort, French singer
 1949 - Gates McFadden, American actress
 1949 - J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby player
 1950 – Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize
 1952 - Laraine Newman, American actress, comedienne and writer
 1953 - Russ Feingold, American politician
 1954 - Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
 1955 - Jay Osmond, American drummer and singer
 1955 - Ken Salazar, American politician
 1955 – Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo)
 1956 – Mark Evans, Australian musician (AC/DC)
 1956 - John Cowsill, American musician
 1956 - Eduardo Rodriguez, former President of Bolivia
 1957 - Mark Dean, American computer scientist
 1958 – Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
 1958 - Kevin Curren, South African tennis player
 1959 - Larry Stewart, American singer
 1960 - Debra Marshall, American wrestler, manager and actress
 1961 - Simone Young, Australian conductor
 1962 - Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
 1962 - Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
 1962 – Jon Bon Jovi, American musician (Bon Jovi)
 1963 - Anthony Albanese, Australian politician
1963 - Henry Bolton, British politician, former leader of UKIP
 1965 – Lembit Opik, British politician
 1968 – Daniel Craig, British actor
 1970 – Alexander Armstrong, British comedian and television presenter
 1970 - James Purnell, British politician
 1971 - Dave Gorman, British comedian
 1971 – Lisa Lackey, Australian actress
 1971 - Amber Smith, American actress and model
 1971 - Method Man, American rapper, producer and actor
 1971 - Norbert Hofer, Austrian politician
 1972 – Mauricio Pochettino, Argentine footballer
 1973 – Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
 1973 - Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player
From 1976 
 1976 - França, Brazilian footballer
 1977 – Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
 1977 – Andrew Strauss, English cricketer
 1979 - Sergei Davydov, Belarussian figure skater
 1979 – Damien Duff, Irish footballer
 1979 – Francesco Tavano, Italian footballer
 1979 - Nicky Weaver, English footballer
 1980 - Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
 1981 - Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress, writer and director
 1981 – Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
 1982 - Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
 1982 – Kevin Kuranyi, German footballer
 1982 – Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
 1982 - Pilou Asbaek, Danish actor
 1982 - Jade Galbraith, Canadian ice hockey player
 1983 - Ryan Shannon, American ice hockey player
 1983 - Lisandro Lopez, Argentine footballer
 1984 - Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
 1985 - Suso Santana, Spanish footballer
 1985 – Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
 1986 - Babacar Gueye, French-Senegalese footballer
1988 – Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
 1988 - James Arthur, British singer
 1988 - Dexter Pittman, American basketball player
 1989 - Toby Alderweireld, Belgian footballer
 1989 - Marcel Hirscher, Austrian alpine skier
 1990 - Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer
 1990 - Lee Hongki, South Korean singer and actor
 1993 - Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian singer
 1997 - Becky G, American rapper
 1998 - Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
 2016 - Prince Oscar, Duke of Skane, Swedish royal
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 672 - Chad of Mercia, Anglo-Saxon abbot
 855 – Lothair I, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
 1127 – Charles I, Count of Flanders
 1316 - Marjorie Bruce, died shortly after giving birth to Robert II of Scotland, (b. 1296)
 1589 - Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
 1619 – Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland, England and Ireland (b. 1574)
 1729 – Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
 1791 – John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
 1797 – Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
 1829 - Karl Gottfried Hagen, German polymath (b. 1749)
 1835 – Francis, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
 1840 - Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
 1855 – Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (b. 1796)
 1895 – Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
 1895 – Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (b. 1830)
1901  2000 
 1919 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino national hero (b. 1812)
 1921 – Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
 1930 – D. H. Lawrence, British writer (b. 1885)
 1939 – Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
 1943 - Gisela Januszewska, Austrian physicist (b. 1867)
 1945 – Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
 1949 – Pietro Ferrero, Italian businessman and confectioner (b. 1898)
 1953 – James Lightbody, American athlete (b. 1882)
 1960 - Stanislaw Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
 1962 - Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
 1965 - Mikheil Tsereteli, Georgian historian and diplomat (b. 1878)
 1967 – Jose Martinez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
 1975 – Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician and opposition activist (b. 1929) (unsolved murder)
 1982 – Philip K. Dick, American writer (b. 1928)
 1987 - Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
 1987 - Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian stepfather of Barack Obama (b. 1935)
1991 – Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
 1994 - Maurice Bambier, French politician (b. 1925)
 1994 - Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
 1999 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
 2000 - Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963)
From 2001 
 2003 - Hank Ballard, American singer (b. 1927)
 2004 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1918)
 2007 – Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
 2008 – Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
 2009 – Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
 2009 – Ernst Benda, German politician (b. 1925)
 2010 – Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
 2011 - Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (b. 1968)
 2011 – Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1925)
 2013 - Hans Schnitger, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1915)
 2014 - Ryhor Baradulin, Belarussian painter (b. 1935)
 2014 - Molly Bobak, Canadian writer, painter and printmaker (b. 1922)
 2014 - Peter Bares, German composer (b. 1936)
 2015 - Francisco González Ledesma, Spanish novelist, comics writer, and journalist (b. 1927)
 2015 - Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
 2015 - Dean Hess, American minister and air force colonel (b. 1917)
2016 - Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, German royal and art historian (b. 1932)
 2016 - Aubrey McClendon, American energy and basketball executive (b. 1959)
 2016 - Janusz Bolonek, Polish Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat (b. 1938)
 2016 - Marion Patrick Jones, Trinidadian writer (b. 1931)
 2016 - Paul Webley, English educator (b. 1953)
 2017 - Tommy Gemmell, Scottish footballer (b. 1943)
 2017 - Simon Hobday, South African golfer (b. 1940)
 2017 - Howard Schmidt, American cybersecurity advisor (b. 1950)
 2017 - Andrés Ocaña, Spanish politician (b. 1954)
 2018 - Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (b. 1910)
 2018 - Ota Filip, Czech novelist and journalist (b. 1930)
 2018 - Brandon Jenkins, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
 2018 - Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (b. 1929)
 2019 - Arnulf Baring, German political scientist and historian (b. 1932)
 2019 - Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1930)
 2019 - Fred Hill, American baseball coach (b. 1934)
2019 - Med Hondo, Mauritanian-French film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1936)
 2019 - Francisco Macri, Italian-Argentine businessman (b. 1930)
 2019 - Keith Harvey Miller, American politician, 3rd Governor of Alaska (b. 1925)
 2019 - Ogden R. Reid, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
 2019 - Werner Schneyder, Austrian director and actor (b. 1937)
 2019 - Rafael Torija de la Fuente, Spanish Roman Catholic prelate (b. 1927)
Observances 
 Independence Day (Morocco)
 Texas Independence Day
 Read Across America Day in the United States (Birthday of Dr. Seuss)
 Victory at Adwa Day (Ethiopia)
 Peasants Day (Burma)

March 02
Up to 1900 
 141 BC - Liu Che, known after his death as Emperor Wu of Han, assumes the throne of the Han Dynasty in China.
 1009 – Lithuania is mentioned in the annals of Quedlinburg.
 1230 - Ivar Asen II of Bulgaria defeats Theodore Epirus in the Battle of Klokonitsa. 
 1276 – Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City.
 1500 – The fleet of Pedro Alvares Cabral leaves Lisbon. It intends to reach Calicut, India, but gets to present-day Brazil instead.
 1566 – David Rizzio, private secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots, is murdered in the Palace of Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh.
 1741 - War of Jenkins' Ear: British forces lay siege to Cartagena in present-day Colombia.
 1781 - American War of Independence: The Spanish Infanteria de Marina under command of Bernardo de Galvez y Madrid occupy Pensacola, Florida. The Battle of Pensacola lasts until May 8.
 1796 – Napoleon Bonaparte marries Josephine de Beauharnais.
 1811 – Paraguayan forces defeat Manuel Belgrano at the Battle of Taguari.
1842 – Gold is discovered at Rancho San Francisco, California.
 1842 – The opera Nabucco by Giuseppe Verdi has its first performance in Milan.
 1847 - Mexican-American War: The first large amphibious (in-water) assault  in US history begins in Veracruz, Mexico.
 1848 - The Bundestag in Frankfurt declares black, red and gold as the official German national colours.
 1862 - American Civil War: The USS Monitor and CSS Virginia fight to a draw in the Battle of Hampton Roads in the first battle between two iron-clad warships.
 1888 - Wilhelm I of Germany dies. Friedrich III of Germany becomes Kaiser, but dies only 99 days later due to laryngeal cancer.
 1896 – Italian Prime Minister Francesco Crispi resigns.
1901  2000 
 1902 – The Italian football club Vicenza Calcio is founded.
 1908 – In Italy, Inter Milan football club is founded by angry members of the Milan Cricket and Football Club, which only allows Italian nationals to participate.
 1908 – A five-man team reaches the top of Mount Erebus in Antarctica.
 1916 – Pancho Villa leads nearly 500 Mexican raiders in an attack on Columbus, New Mexico.
 1933 - Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt submits the Emergency Banking Act to the United States Congress, the first of his New Deal policies. 
 1944 – World War II: Soviet Air Forces conduct a heavy bombing of Tallinn, Estonia, killing up to 800 people, mostly civilians.
 1945 – World War II: The bombing of Tokyo by US forces begins.
 1946 - Bolton Wanderers stadium disaster in Burnden Park, Bolton, northwest England, kills 33 people.
 1954 - CBS programme See It Now, reporting on Senator Joseph McCarthy, is broadcast, contributing to the end of the McCarthy Era.
1956 – The Soviet military suppresses mass demonstrations in Georgia, which was part of the Soviet Union at the time.
 1957 – A magnitude 8.3 earthquake strikes the Andreanof Islands off Alaska, and triggers a Pacific-wide tsunami.
 1959 – The first Barbie dolls are sold.
 1960 - Dr. Belding Hibbard Scribner first implants a shunt he invented, into a patient.
 1961 – Sputnik 9 successfully launches.
 1967 - Trans World Airlines Flight 553, a Douglas DC-9-15 aircraft, crashes into Concord Township, Ohio, following a collision with a Beechcraft Baron aircraft, killing 26 people.
 1976 – 42 people die in the Cavalese cable car disaster.
 1977 - Hanafi Siege: In a 39-hour stand-off, armed Hanafi Muslims seize three Washington, DC buildings, killing 2 people and taking 149 hostage. 
 1984 - Tim Witherspoon wins the Heavyweight Boxing Title, defeating Greg Page in Las Vegas, on points.
 1987 - U2 album The Joshua Tree is released.
 1989 – Eastern Air Lines files for bankruptcy.
1990 - Antonia Novello becomes the first female, and first Hispanic American, to become Surgeon General of the United States.
 1991 – A massive demonstration against Slobodan Milosevic is held in Belgrade.
 1997 – Comet Hale-Bopp is seen during the day in China, Mongolia and Siberia, as an eclipse also occurs.
From 2001 
 2004 – John Allen Muhammad is sentenced to death for the Beltway sniper attacks.
 2006 – NASA announces the possibility of water existing on Saturn's moon Enceladus.
 2010 – The first same-sex marriages in Washington, DC are held.
 2011 – The Space Shuttle Discovery is launched for the last time.
 2011 – Enda Kenny becomes Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland, succeeding Brian Cowen.
 2015 - Villa Castelli helicopter crash: Two helicopters involved in a French Reality TV programme collide over western Argentina, killing 10 people, including 3 of France's most famous sportspeople.
 2016 - A solar eclipse is seen over Eastern Asia and the Pacific Ocean. Totality is mainly seen over Indonesia and parts of the Western Pacific.
 2018 - The 2018 Winter Paralympics in Pyeongchang, South Korea, begin.

Births
Up to 1900 
 1213 - Hugh II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1271)
 1285 – Emperor Go-Nijo of Japan (d. 1318)
 1454 – Amerigo Vespucci, Italian explorer and cartographer (d. 1512)
 1564 – David Fabricius, German astronomer (d. 1617)
 1568 – Aloysius Gonzaga, Italian saint (d. 1591)
 1629 – Tsar Alexis I of Russia (d. 1676)
 1695 – Martin Sarmiento, Spanish writer and scholar (d. 1772)
 1697 - Friederike Caroline Neuber, German actress (d. 1760)
 1727 - Johann Gottlieb Preller, German cantor, composer and land surveyor (d. 1786)
 1737 - Josef Muslivecek, Czech composer (d. 1781)
 1749 - Honoré Gabriel Riqueti, French writer and politician (d. 1791)
 1753 – Jean-Baptiste Kléber, French general (d. 1800)
 1758 - Franz Joseph Gall, German neuroscientist (d. 1828)
 1763 - William Cobbett, English writer (d. 1835)
 1814 – Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (d. 1861)
 1824 - Amasa Leland Stanford, American businessman and politician (d. 1893)
 1847 - Martin Pierre Marsick, Belgian violinist (d. 1924)
1856 – Eddie Foy, American singer and actor (d. 1928)
 1856 - Tom Roberts, Australian artist (d. 1931)
 1856 - Edward Goodrich Acheson, American chemist and technician (d. 1931)
 1877 - Stuart Stickney, American golfer (d. 1932)
 1881 - Ernest Bevin, British politician and trade unionist (d. 1951)
 1882 - Arthur Beecher Carles, American painter (d. 1952)
 1883 - Umberto Saba, Italian poet and writer (d. 1957)
 1884 - Johan Salonen, Finnish wrestler (d. 1938)
 1886 - Kenneth Edwards, American golfer (d. 1952)
 1887 - Fritz Lenz, German geneticist and eugenicist (d. 1976)
 1890 – Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (d. 1986)
 1891 – José P. Laurel, 3rd President of the Philippines (d. 1959)
 1892 - Vita Sackville-West, British writer (d. 1962)
 1894 - Frank Arnau, German writer (d. 1976)
 1900 - Prince Aimone, Duke of Aosta, Italian aristocrat (d. 1948)
1901  1950 
 1902 – Will Geer, American actor (d. 1978)
 1903 - Albert Gregory Meyer, American cardinal (d. 1965)
 1905 – Gerardus Philippus Helders, Dutch politician (d. 2013)
 1911 - Clara Rockmore, Lithuanian-American theremin performer (d. 1998)
 1916 – Puey Ungpakorn, Thai bureaucrat (d. 1999)
 1918 – Mickey Spillane, American writer (d. 2006)
 1918 – George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party (d. 1967)
 1920 - Franjo Mihalic, Croatian-Serbian runner and coach (d. 2015)
 1923 – James L. Buckley, American politician
 1923 – Walter Kohn, Austrian-born physicist (d. 2016)
 1923 - André Courrèges, French fashion designer (d. 2016)
 1924 - Peter Scholl-Latour, German journalist and writer (d. 2014)
 1925 - Ernest Braun, Austrian-British academic and writer (d. 2015)  
 1925 - C. William Miller, American politician (d. 2006)
 1926 - Joe Franklin, American radio and television host (d. 2015)
 1929 – Zillur Rahman, 15th President of Bangladesh (d. 2013)
1929 – Desmond Hoyte, President of Guyana (d. 2002)
 1930 - Stephen Fumio Hamao, Japanese cardinal (d. 2007)
 1930 - Taina Elg, Finnish-American actress and dancer
 1930 - Ota Filip, Czech novelist and journalist (d. 2018)
 1930 - Ornette Coleman, American jazz saxophonist, trumpeter and composer (d. 2015)
 1931 - Billy Frank, Jr., American environmental activist (d. 2014)
 1931 - Jackie Healy-Rae, Irish politician (d. 2014)
 1931 - Leon Febres Cordero, President of Ecuador (d. 2008)
 1931 - Gilles Perrault, French writer and journalist
 1932 - Rodolfo Quezada Toruño, Guatemalan cardinal (d. 2012)
 1932 - Qayyum Chowdhury, Bangladeshi painter (d. 2014)
 1932 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and critic
 1933 - Mel Lastman, Canadian politician, 62nd Mayor of Toronto
 1933 – Lloyd Price, American musician
 1933 - David Weatherall, English physician and geneticist
 1934 – Yuri Gagarin, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut, first person to travel into space (d. 1968)
 1934 - Joyce Van Patten, American actress
1935 - Andrew Viterbi, Italian-American electronic engineer and businessman
 1936 – Mickey Gilley, American musician and singer
 1936 - Marty Ingels, American actor (d. 2015)
 1937 – Bernard Landry, Quebec politician
 1937 - Harry Neale, Canadian ice hockey player
 1937 - Brian Redman, English racing driver
 1938 - Tom Adams, English actor (d. 2014)
 1938 - Lill-Babs, Swedish singer (d. 2018)
 1942 - John Cale, Welsh musician (The Velvet Underground)
 1942 - Mark Lindsay, American musician of Paul Revere and the Raiders
 1943 – Bobby Fischer, American-Icelandic chess player (d. 2008)
 1944 - Lee Irvine, South African cricketer
 1945 - Katja Ebstein, German singer
 1945 - Robin Trower, English musician
 1945 - Dennis Rader, American serial killer
 1946 - Alexandra Bastedo, English actress (d. 2014)
 1946 – Bernd Hölzenbein, German footballer
 1947 - Emiliano Mondonico, Italian footballer (d. 2018)
 1947 - Keri Hulme, New Zealand writer
 1948 - Emma Bonino, Italian politician
1948 - Chris Thompson, English singer and guitarist
 1948 - Eric Fischl, American painter, sculptor and printmaker
 1949 - Neil Hamilton, Welsh politician (Conservative Party and UKIP)
1951  1975 
 1951 – Zakir Hussain, Indian tabla player
 1951 – Helen Zille, South African politician
 1952 - Bill Beaumont, English rugby player
 1952 - Uliana Semenova, Latvian basketball player
 1954 – Bobby Sands, Northern Irish political activist, IRA member and hunger striker (d. 1981)
 1955 - Teo Fabi, Italian racing driver
 1955 - Ornella Muti, Italian actress
 1955 - Pat Murphy, American science fiction writer
 1956 – Shashi Tharoor, Indian politician
 1956 – David Willetts, British politician
 1957 – Mona Sahlin, Swedish politician
 1958 – Linda Fiorentino, American actress
 1958 - Martin Fry, English singer
 1958 - Jack Kenny, American television producer and writer
 1959 - Takaaki Kajita, Japanese physicist
 1959 - Lonny Price, American actor and director
 1960 - Elsa Cayat, French psychoanalyst and writer (d. 2015)
 1962 - Pete Wishart, Scottish musician and politician (Scottish National Party) 
 1963 - Jean-Marc Vallée, Canadian movie director and screenwriter
1964 – Juliette Binoche, French actress
 1964 - Valérie Lemercier, French actress, singer and director 
 1964 – Herbert Fandel, German football referee
 1965 – Antonio Saca, former President of El Salvador
 1965 - Mike Pollock, American actor
 1968 – Youri Djorkaeff, French footballer
 1968 - Maggie Aderin-Pocock, English space scientist
 1968 – Johnny Kelly, American drummer
 1969 – Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf, American basketball player
 1970 – Martin Johnson, English rugby player and coach
 1970 – Shannon Leto, American musician and actor
 1970 - David Guido Pietroni, Italian movie director and producer
 1971 - Diego Torres, Argentine singer
 1972 - Jean Louisa Kelly, American actress and singer
 1973 - Matteo Salvini, Italian politician
 1975 – Roy Makaay, Dutch footballer
 1975 – Juan Sebastian Veron, Argentine footballer
From 1976 
 1976 - Ben Mulroney, Canadian television host
 1978 – Lucas Neill, Australian footballer
 1980 - Chingy, American rapper and writer
 1980 - Matthew Gray Gubler, American actor
 1983 – Luke Charteris, Welsh rugby player
 1983 – Clint Dempsey, American footballer
 1983 - Maite Perroni, Mexican singer-songwriter and actress
 1984 – Julia Mancuso, American skier
 1986 – Brittany Snow, American actress
 1987 – Bow Wow, American rapper
 1987 - Stacey Dooley, English television presenter
 1988 - Alodia Gosiengfiao, Filipino model, actress and singer
 1989 – Taeyeon, South Korean singer (Girls' Generation)
 1989 - Artem Borodulin, Russian figure skater
 1989 - Klariza Clayton, English actress
 1990 - Daley Blind, Dutch footballer
 1990 - Bilel Ifa, Tunisian footballer
 1990 - Tatsuki Machida, Japanese figure skater
 1991 - Jade Etherington, English skier
 1993 - Suga, South Korean rapper, singer and actress
 1994 - Morgan Rielly, Canadian ice hockey player
Deaths

Up to 1900 
 1202 – Sverre of Norway
 1440 - Saint Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
 1566 – David Rizzio, Italian secretary to Mary, Queen of Scots (b. 1533)
 1649 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
 1649 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (b. 1590)
 1661 – Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
 1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, Italian architect (b. 1739)
 1825 - Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet, essayist and writer (b. 1743)
 1831 - Friedrich Maximilian Klinger, German writer (b. 1752)
 1847 - Mary Anning, English paleontologist (b. 1799) 
 1851 – Hans Christian Orsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
 1888 – Kaiser Wilhelm I of Germany (b. 1797)
 1895 - Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, Austrian writer (b. 1836)
 1897 – Jamal-al-Din Afghani, Afghan politician and activist (b. 1838)
 1897 – Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
1901  2000 
 1918 – Frank Wedekind, German writer (b. 1864)
 1926 – Usui Mikao, Japanese founder of Reiki healing (b. 1865)
 1936 – Sri Yukteswar Giri, Indian guru and swami (b. 1855)
 1936 - Sidney Johnston Catts, Governor of Florida (b. 1863)
 1945 – Margot Frank, sister of Anne Frank (b. 1926)
 1952 – Alexandra Kollontai, Russian revolutionary, diplomat and writer (b. 1872)
 1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
 1955 - Miroslava, Czech-Mexican actress (b. 1925)
 1962 – Zdenek Nejedly, Czech historian, literary critic and musicologist (b. 1878)
 1971 – Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Patriarch of the Coptic Orthodox Church (b. 1902)
 1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland, Jr., American physiologist (b. 1915)
 1981 - Max Delbrück, German-American physicist and geneticist (b. 1906) 
 1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist (b. 1905)
 1983 - Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
 1988 – Kurt Georg Kiesinger, Chancellor of West Germany (b. 1904)
1992 – Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel (b. 1913)
 1993 - C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (b. 1909)
 1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish actor (b. 1917)
 1996 – George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
 1997 - Terry Nation, Welsh writer and screenwriter (b. 1930)
 1997 – The Notorious B. I. G., American rapper (b. 1972)
From 2001 
 2003 – Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
 2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
 2006 – Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
 2006 – Anna Moffo, American operatic soprano (b. 1932)
 2007 – Brad Delp, American singer and musician (b. 1951)
 2010 – Granny D, American political activist (b. 1910)
 2012 - Jose Tomas Sanchez, Filipino cardinal (b. 1920)
 2013 - Viren J. Shah, Indian politician, 21st Governor of West Bengal (b. 1926)
 2014 - Carlos Moreno, Argentine actor (b. 1938)
 2014 - Gerard Mortier, Belgian opera director and administrator (b. 1943)
 2014 - Glenn McDuffie, American World War II sailor (b. 1927)
 2014 - Mohammed Fahim, Vice President of Afghanistan (b. 1957)
 2014 - William Clay Ford, Sr., American businessman (b. 1925)
 2015 - Jack Harte, Irish politician (b. 1920)
 2015 - James Molyneaux, Baron Molyneaux of Killead, Northern Irish politician (b. 1920)
 2015 - David B. Frohnmayer, American attorney (b. 1940)
2015 - Windell Middlebrooks, American actor (b. 1979)
 2015 - Juanita Morrow Nelson, American activist (b. 1923)
 2015 - Frei Otto, German architect (b. 1925)
 2015 - French sportspeople killed in the Villa Castelli helicopter crash in Argentina:
Florence Arthaud, French sailor (b. 1957)
Camille Muffat, French swimmer (b. 1989)
Alexis Vastine, French boxer (b. 1986)
 2016 - Clyde Lovellette, American basketball player (b. 1929)
 2016 - Nana Vasconcelos, Brazilian jazz musician (b. 1944)
 2016 - Sergio Arellano Stark, Chilean military officer (b. 1921)
 2016 - Jon English, English-Australian musician and actor (b. 1949)
 2016 - Ray Griff, Canadian singer-songwriter (b. 1940)
 2016 - Robert Horton, American actor (b. 1924)
 2016 - Bill Wade, American football player (b. 1930)
 2017 - Anthony Delhalle, French motorcycle racer (b. 1982)
 2017 - Hla Myint, Burmese economist (b. 1920)
 2017 - Kasugafuji Akihiro, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1966)
 2017 - Barbara Helsingius, Finnish singer, poet and fencer (b. 1937)
2018 - Chris Gedney, American football player (b. 1970)
 2018 - Jo Min-ki, South Korean actor and professor (b. 1965)
 2018 - Jung Jae-sung, South Korean badminton player (b. 1982)
 2018 - George A. Sinner, American politician, Governor of North Dakota (b. 1928)
 2018 - Ion Voinescu, Romanian footballer (b. 1929)
 2018 - Oskar Gröning, German war criminal (b. 1921)
 2018 - Ali Asghar Khodadoust, Iranian surgeon (b. 1935)
 2018 - Millie Dunn Veasey, American activist (b. 1918) 
 2019 - Jed Allan, American actor (b. 1935)
 2019 - Alberto Bucci, Italian basketball coach (b. 1948)
 2019 - Bernard Binlin Dadié, Ivorian novelist, playwright and poet (b. 1916)
 2019 - Vladimir Etush, Russian actor (b. 1922)
 2019 - Harry Howell, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
Observances 
 Teacher's Day (Lebanon)

March 09
Up to 1900 
 241 BC – First Punic War: Battle of the Aegates Islands – The Romans sinks the Carthaginian fleet; end of First Punic War.
 298 - Roman Emperor Maximian completes his campaign in North Africa against the Berbers, and makes a triumphant entry to Carthage in present-day Tunisia.
 1496 – Christopher Columbus leaves Hispaniola for Spain, ending his second visit to the Western Hemisphere.
 1535 – Tomas de Berlanga reaches the Galapagos Islands after sailing off course in a storm.
 1607 - Susenyos defeats combined armies of Yaqob and Abuna Petros II at the Battle of Gol in Gojjam, making him Emperor of Ethiopia.
 1629 – Charles I of England dissolves Parliament, starting the Eleven Years Tyranny in which there was no parliament.
 1661 - Louis XIV of France takes absolute government powers.
 1792 - Huguenot Jean Calas, wrongly convicted for killing his son, dies after being tortured by authorities. This inspires Voltaire to begin a campaign for religious tolerance and legal reform.
1801 – The United Kingdom's first national census is carried out.
 1804 – Louisiana Purchase: In St. Louis, a formal ceremony is conducted to transfer ownership of Louisiana Territory from France to the United States.
 1814 – Napoleon I of France is defeated at the Battle of Laon in France.
 1831 – The French Foreign Legion is established by King Louis-Philippe to support his war in Algeria.
 1848 – The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is ratified by the United States Senate, ending the Mexican-American War.
 1861 – El Hadj Umar Tall seizes the city of Segou, destroying the Bambara Empire of Mali.
 1864 – Montana vigilantes hang Jack Slade.
 1864 – American Civil War: The Red River Campaign begins as Union troops reach Alexandria, Louisiana.
 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell makes the first successful telephone call by saying "Mr. Watson, come here, I want to see you."
 1880 – Members of the Salvation Army land in the United States and begin operations.
1891 – Almon Strowger, an undertaker in Topeka Kansas, patents the strowger switch, a device which led to the automation of telephone circuit switching.
 1893 – Côte d'Ivoire becomes a French colony.