Title: March 18 Content: ==Events== === Up to 1900 === *1068 - An earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula, leaves up to 20,000 dead. *1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, declares himself King of Jerusalem in the Sixth Crusade. *1241 - First Mongol invasion of Poland: Mongols overwhelm Polish armies in Kraków in the Battle of Chmielnik and plunder the city. *1314 - Jacques de Molay, the 23rd and final Grand Master of the Knights Templar, is burned at the stake. *1438 - Albert II of Habsburg becomes Holy Roman Emperor. *1608 - Susenyos is formally crowned Emperor of Ethiopia. *1644 - The Third Anglo-Powhatan War begins in the Colony of Virginia. *1741 - New York governor George Clarke's complex at Fort George is burned in an arson attack, starting the New York Conspiracy of 1741. *1766 - American Revolution: The British Parliament repeals the Stamp Act. *1793 - The first modern republic in Germany, the Republic of Mainz, is declared by Andreas Joseph Hofmann. *1793 - Flanders Campaign of the French Revolution, Battle of Neerwinden. *1834 - Six farm labourers from Tolpuddle, Dorset, England are sentenced to be transported to Australia for forming a trade union. *1848 - March Revolution: In Berlin there is a struggle between citizens and military, costing about 300 lives. *1850 - American Express is founded by Henry Wells and William Fargo. *1865 - American Civil War: The Congress of the Confederate States adjourns for the last time. *1871 - Declaration of the Paris Commune; President of the French Republic, Adolphe Thiers, orders the evacuation of Paris. *1874 - Hawaii signs a treaty with the United States granting exclusive trade rights. *1892 - Former Governor General Lord Stanley pledges to donate a silver challenge cup as an award for the best hockey team in Canada; it was later named after him as the Stanley Cup. === 1901 - 1950 === *1902 - Macario Sakay issues Presidential Order No. 1 of his Tagalog Republic. *1913 - King George I of Greece is assassinated in the recently liberated city of Thessaloniki. *1915 - World War I: During the Battle of Gallipoli, three battleships are sunk during a failed British and French naval attack on the Dardanelles. *1921 - The second Peace of Riga is signed between Poland and the Soviet Union. *1922 - In India, Mohandas Gandhi is sentenced to six years in prison for civil disobedience, of which he serves only two. *1925 - The Tri-State Tornado hits the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people. *1937 - The New London School explosion in New London, Texas, kills 300 people, mostly children. * 1937 - Spanish Civil War: Spanish Republican forces defeat the Italians at the Battle of Guadalajara. *1938 - Mexico creates Pemex by expropriating all foreign-owned oil reserves and facilities. *1940 - World War II: Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini meet at the Brenner Pass in the Alps and agree to form an alliance against France and the United Kingdom. *1942 - The War Relocation Authority is established in the United States to take Japanese Americans into custody. *1944 - Mount Vesuvius in Naples, Italy erupts killing 26 people and causing thousands to leave their homes. *1948 - Soviet consultants leave Yugoslavia in the first sign of the Tito–Stalin Split. === 1951 - 1975 === *1953 - An earthquake hits western Turkey, killing 265 people. *1959 - The Hawaii Admission Act is signed into law. *1962 - The Évian Accords end the Algerian War of Independence, which had begun in 1954. *1965 - Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space. *1967 - The supertanker runs aground off the Cornish coast. *1968 - Gold standard: The United States Congress repeals the requirement for a gold reserve to back US currency. *1969 - Operation Menu: The United States begins secretly bombing the Sihanouk Trail in Cambodia, used by communist forces to get into South Vietnam. *1970 - Lon Nol ousts Prince Norodom Sihanouk of Cambodia. *1971 - Peru: a landslide crashes into Yanawayin Lake, killing 200 people at the mining camp of Chungar. *1980 - 1980 Plesetsk launch pad disaster: A Vostok-2M rocket at Plesetsk Cosmodrome Site 43 explodes during a fueling operation, killing 48 people. *1990 - Germans in the German Democratic Republic vote in the first democratic elections in the former communist dictatorship. * 1990 - In the largest art theft in United States history, 12 paintings, collectively worth around $500 million, are stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. *1994 - Bosnia's Bosniaks and Croats sign the Washington Agreement, ending war between the Croatian Republic of Herzeg-Bosnia and the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina, and establishing the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. *1996 - Ozone Disco Club fire: A nightclub fire in Quezon City, Philippines kills 162 people. *1997 - The tail of a Russian Antonov An-24 charter plane breaks off while en route to Turkey causing the plane to crash and killing all 50 people on board. === From 2001 === *2012 - Joachim Gauck becomes President of Germany. *2014 - The parliaments of Russia and Crimea sign an accession treaty. *2015 - The Bardo National Museum in Tunisia is attacked by gunmen. 23 people, almost all tourists, are killed, and at least 50 other people are wounded. *2018 - Vladimir Putin is re-elected as President of Russia. *2019 - Three people are killed in a shooting on a tram in Utrecht, the Netherlands. ==Births== === Up to 1800 === *1075 - Al-Zamakhshari, Persian scholar and theologian (d. 1144) *1395 - John Holland, 2nd Duke of Exeter, English military commander (d. 1447) *1495 - Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533) *1548 - Cornelis Ketel, Dutch painter (d. 1616) *1552 - Polykarp Leyser the Elder, German theologian (d. 1610) *1555 - Francis, Duke of Anjou (d. 1584) *1578 - Adam Elsheimer, German painter (d. 1610) *1590 - Manuel de Faria e Sousa, Portuguese historian and poet (d. 1649) *1597 - Jérôme le Royer de la Dauversière, French religious leader, founded the Société Notre-Dame de Montréal (d. 1659) * 1603 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (d. 1697) *1609 - Frederick III of Denmark (d. 1670) *1634 - Madame de La Fayette, French author (d. 1693) *1640 - Philippe de La Hire, French mathematician and astronomer (d. 1719) *1657 - Giuseppe Ottavio Pitoni, Italian organist and composer (d. 1743) *1690 - Christian Goldbach, Prussian-German mathematician and academic (d. 1764) *1701 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Swedish East India Company (d. 1776) *1733 - Christoph Friedrich Nicolai, German author and bookseller (d. 1811) *1780 - Miloš Obrenović, Serbian prince (d. 1860) *1782 - John C. Calhoun, American lawyer and politician, 7th Vice President of the United States (d. 1850) *1789 - Charlotte Elliott, English poet, hymn writer, editor (d. 1871) *1798 - Francis Lieber, German-American jurist and philosopher (d. 1872) === 1801 - 1850 === *1813 - Christian Friedrich Hebbel, German poet and playwright (d. 1864) *1814 - Jacob Bunn, American businessman (d. 1897) *1819 - James McCulloch, Scottish-Australian politician, 5th Premier of Victoria (d. 1893) *1820 - John Plankinton, American businessman and industrialist, also noted for philanthropy (d. 1891) *1823 - Antoine Chanzy, French general (d. 1883) *1828 - Randal Cremer, English activist and politician, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (d. 1908) *1837 - Grover Cleveland, American lawyer and politician, 22nd and 24th President of the United States (d. 1908) *1840 - William Cosmo Monkhouse, English poet and critic (d. 1901) *1842 - Stéphane Mallarmé, French poet and critic (d. 1898) *1844 - Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Russian composer and academic (d. 1908) *1846 - Kicking Bear, Native American tribal leader (d. 1904) *1848 - Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, American architect and engineer (d. 1938) === 1851 - 1900 === *1858 - Rudolf Diesel, German engineer, invented the Diesel engine (d. 1913) *1862 - Eugène Jansson, Swedish painter (d. 1915) *1863 - William Sulzer, American lawyer and politician, 39th Governor of New York (d. 1941) *1869 - Neville Chamberlain, English businessman and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1940) *1870 - Agnes Sime Baxter, Canadian mathematician (d. 1917) *1874 - Nikolai Berdyaev, Russian- French philosopher and theologian (d. 1948) *1877 - Edgar Cayce, American mystic and psychic (d. 1945) * 1877 - Clem Hill, Australian cricketer and engineer (d. 1945) *1878 - Percival Perry, 1st Baron Perry, English businessman (d. 1956) *1882 - Gian Francesco Malipiero, Italian composer and educator (d. 1973) *1884 - Bernard Cronin, English-Australian journalist and author (d. 1968) *1886 - Edward Everett Horton, American actor, singer, and dancer (d. 1970) *1890 - Henri Decoin, French director and screenwriter (d. 1969) *1893 - Costante Girardengo, Italian cyclist (d. 1978) * 1893 - Wilfred Owen, English soldier and poet (d. 1918) === 1901 - 1925 === *1901 - Manly Palmer Hall, Canadian mystic, author & philosopher (d. 1990) * 1901 - William Johnson, American painter (d. 1970) *1903 - Galeazzo Ciano, Italian journalist and politician, Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs (d. 1944) * 1903 - E. O. Plauen, German cartoonist (d. 1944) *1904 - Srečko Kosovel, Slovenian poet and author (d. 1926) * 1904 - Margaret Tucker, Australian author and activist (d. 1996) *1905 - Thomas Townsend Brown, American physicist and engineer (d. 1985) * 1905 - Robert Donat, English actor (d. 1958) *1907 - John Zachary Young, English zoologist and neurophysiologist (d. 1997) *1908 - Loulou Gasté, French composer (d. 1995) *1909 - Ernest Gallo, American businessman, co-founded the E & J Gallo Winery (d. 2007) * 1909 - C. Walter Hodges, English author and illustrator (d. 2004) *1911 - Smiley Burnette, American singer-songwriter and actor (d. 1967) *1912 - Art Gilmore, American voice actor and announcer (d. 2010) *1913 - René Clément, French director and screenwriter (d. 1996) * 1913 - Werner Mölders, German colonel and pilot (d. 1941) *1915 - Richard Condon, American author and screenwriter (d. 1996) *1922 - Egon Bahr, German journalist and politician, Federal Minister for Special Affairs of Germany (d. 2015) * 1922 - Seymour Martin Lipset, American sociologist and academic (d. 2006) * 1922 - Fred Shuttlesworth, American activist, co-founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (d. 2011) *1923 - Andy Granatelli, American race car driver and businessman (d. 2013) *1925 - Alessandro Alessandroni, Italian musician (d. 2017) * 1925 - James Pickles, English journalist, lawyer, and judge (d. 2010) === 1926 - 1950 === *1926 - Peter Graves, American actor and director (d. 2010) *1927 - John Kander, American pianist and composer * 1927 - George Plimpton, American journalist and actor (d. 2003) * 1927 - Lillian Vernon, German-American businesswoman and philanthropist, founded the Lillian Vernon Company (d. 2015) *1928 - Miguel Poblet, Spanish cyclist (d. 2013) * 1928 - Fidel V. Ramos, Filipino general and politician, 12th President of the Philippines (d. 2022) *1929 - Samuel Pisar, Polish-American lawyer and author (d. 2015) *1930 - James J. Andrews, American mathematician and academic (d. 1998) *1931 - John Fraser, Scottish actor *1932 - John Updike, American novelist, short story writer, and critic (d. 2009) *1933 - Unita Blackwell, American activist and politician *1934 - Roy Chapman, English footballer and manager (d. 1983) * 1934 - Charley Pride, American country music singer and musician *1935 - Ole Barndorff-Nielsen, Danish mathematician and statistician * 1935 - Frances Cress Welsing, American psychiatrist and author (d. 2016) *1936 - F. W. de Klerk, South African lawyer and politician, 2nd State President of South Africa, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2021) *1937 - Rudi Altig, German cyclist and sportscaster (d. 2016) * 1937 - Mark Donohue, American race car driver (d. 1975) *1938 - Carl Gottlieb, American actor and screenwriter * 1938 - Shashi Kapoor, Indian actor and producer (d. 2017) * 1938 - Kenny Lynch, English singer-songwriter and actor * 1938 - Timo Mäkinen, Finnish race car driver (d. 2017) * 1938 - Machiko Soga, Japanese actress (d. 2006) *1939 - Ron Atkinson, English footballer and manager * 1939 - Jean-Pierre Wallez, French violinist and conductor *1940 - Mark Medoff, American playwright and screenwriter (d. 2019) *1941 - Wilson Pickett, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006) *1942 - Kathleen Collins, African-American filmmaker and playwright (d. 1988) *1943 - Dennis Linde, American singer-songwriter (d. 2006) *1944 - Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Israeli general and politician, 22nd Transportation Minister of Israel (d. 2012) * 1944 - Frank McRae, American football player and actor * 1944 - Dick Smith, Australian publisher and businessman, founded Dick Smith Electronics and Australian Geographic *1945 - Hiroh Kikai, Japanese photographer * 1945 - Michael Reagan, American journalist and radio host * 1945 - Susan Tyrrell, American actress (d. 2012) * 1945 - Eric Woolfson, Scottish singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer (d. 2009) *1946 - Michel Leclère, French race car driver *1947 - Patrick Barlow, English actor and playwright * 1947 - Patrick Chesnais, French actor, director, and screenwriter * 1947 - David Lloyd, English cricketer, journalist, and sportscaster * 1947 - B. J. Wilson, English rock drummer (d. 1990) *1948 - Guy Lapointe, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1948 - Brian Lloyd, Welsh footballer * 1948 - Eknath Solkar, Indian cricketer (d. 2005) *1949 - Åse Kleveland, Norwegian singer and politician, Norwegian Minister of Culture *1950 - James Conlon, American conductor and educator * 1950 - Brad Dourif, American actor * 1950 - Linda Partridge, English geneticist and academic * 1950 - Larry Perkins, Australian race car driver === 1951 - 1975 === *1951 - Paul Barber, English actor * 1951 - Ben Cohen, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben and Jerry's * 1951 - Bill Frisell, American guitarist and composer * 1951 - Timothy N. Philpot, American lawyer, author, and judge *1952 - Will Durst, American journalist and actor * 1952 - Pat Eddery, Irish jockey and trainer (d. 2015) * 1952 - Bernie Tormé, Irish singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1952 - Mike Webster, American football player (d. 2002) * 1952 - Salome Zourabichvili, President of Georgia *1953 - Franz Wright, Austrian-American poet and translator (d. 2015) * 1953 - Takashi Yoshimatsu, Japanese composer *1955 - Francis G. Slay, American lawyer and politician, 45th Mayor of St. Louis * 1955 - Jeff Stelling, English journalist and game show host *1956 - Rick Martel, Canadian wrestler * 1956 - Deborah Jeane Palfrey, American madam (d. 2008) * 1956 - Ingemar Stenmark, Swedish skier *1957 - Christer Fuglesang, Swedish physicist and astronaut *1958 - Richard de Zoysa, Sri Lankan journalist and author (d. 1990) *1959 - Luc Besson, French director, producer, and screenwriter, founded EuropaCorp *1960 - Richard Biggs, American actor (d. 2004) * 1960 - Guy Carbonneau, Canadian ice hockey player and coach * 1960 - James Plaskett, Cypriot-English chess player *1961 - Grant Hart, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2017) *1962 - Michael Andrews, Australian rugby league player * 1962 - Irene Cara, American singer-songwriter, actress, and producer * 1962 - Brian Fisher, American baseball player * 1962 - Thomas Ian Griffith, American actor and martial artist * 1962 - James McMurtry, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor * 1962 - Etsushi Toyokawa, Japanese actor and director * 1962 - Volker Weidler, German race car driver and engineer *1963 - Jeff LaBar, American guitarist * 1963 - Vanessa L. Williams, American model, actress, and singer *1964 - Bonnie Blair, American speed skater * 1964 - Alex Caffi, Italian race car driver * 1964 - Jo Churchill, British politician * 1964 - Courtney Pine, English saxophonist and clarinet player * 1964 - Isabel Noronha, Mozambican movie director *1966 - Jerry Cantrell, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1966 - Peter Jones, English businessman * 1966 - Brian Watts, Canadian golfer *1967 - Miki Berenyi, English singer-songwriter and guitarist *1968 - Prince Eudes, Duke of Angoulême * 1968 - Miguel Herrera, Mexican footballer and manager * 1968 - Temur Ketsbaia, Georgian footballer and manager * 1968 - Paul Marsden, English businessman and politician *1969 - Andy Cutting, English accordion player and composer * 1969 - Vassily Ivanchuk, Ukrainian chess player * 1969 - Jimmy Morales, Guatemalan comedian and politician, President of Guatemala * 1969 - Shaun Udal, English cricketer *1970 - Queen Latifah, American rapper, producer, and actress *1971 - Wayne Arthurs, Australian tennis player * 1971 - Mike Bell, American wrestler (d. 2008) * 1971 - Mariaan de Swardt, South African-American tennis player, coach, and sportscaster * 1971 - Kitty Ussher, English economist and politician *1972 - Dane Cook, American comedian, actor, director, and producer * 1972 - Reince Priebus, American lawyer and politician, 27th White House Chief of Staff *1973 - Luci Christian, American voice actress and screenwriter *1974 - Laure Savasta, French basketball player, coach, and sportscaster * 1974 - Stuart Zender, English bass player, songwriter, and producer *1975 - Sutton Foster, American actress, singer, and dancer * 1975 - Brian Griese, American football player and sportscaster * 1975 - Kimmo Timonen, Finnish ice hockey player * 1975 - Tomas Žvirgždauskas, Lithuanian footballer === From 1976 === *1976 - Giovanna Antonelli, Brazilian actress and producer * 1976 - Tomo Ohka, Japanese baseball player * 1976 - Scott Podsednik, American baseball player * 1976 - Mike Quackenbush, American wrestler, trainer, and author, founded Chikara wrestling promotion *1977 - Zdeno Chára, Slovak ice hockey player * 1977 - Alex Jones, Welsh television presenter * 1977 - Danny Murphy, English footballer and sportscaster * 1977 - Fernando Rodney, Dominican-American baseball player * 1977 - Willy Sagnol, French footballer and manager * 1977 - Terrmel Sledge, American baseball player and coach *1978 - Fernandão, Brazilian footballer and manager (d. 2014) * 1978 - Brooke Hanson, Australian swimmer * 1978 - Brian Scalabrine, American basketball player, coach, and sportscaster * 1978 - Jonas Wallerstedt, Swedish footballer, coach, and manager *1979 - Adam Levine, American singer- songwriter, guitarist, and television personality *1980 - Sébastien Frey, French footballer * 1980 - Sophia Myles, English actress * 1980 - Alexei Yagudin, Russian figure skater *1981 - Tora Berger, Norwegian biathlete * 1981 - Fabian Cancellara, Swiss cyclist * 1981 - Leslie Djhone, French sprinter * 1981 - Jang Na-ra, South Korean singer and actress * 1981 - Kasib Powell, American basketball player * 1981 - Tom Starke, German footballer * 1981 - Doug Warren, American soccer player * 1981 - Lovro Zovko, Croatian tennis player *1982 - Mantorras, Angolan footballer * 1982 - Chad Cordero, American baseball player * 1982 - Timo Glock, German race car driver * 1982 - Adam Pally, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter *1983 - Ethan Carter III, American wrestler * 1983 - Stéphanie Cohen-Aloro, French tennis player * 1983 - Andy Sonnanstine, American baseball player * 1983 - Tomasz Stolpa, Polish footballer *1984 - Simone Padoin, Italian footballer * 1984 - Rajeev Ram, American tennis player * 1984 - Vonzell Solomon, American singer and actress *1985 - Ana Beatriz, Brazilian race car driver * 1985 - Marvin Humes, English singer * 1985 - Vince Lia, Australian footballer *1986 - Lykke Li, Swedish singer-songwriter * 1986 - Abdennour Chérif El-Ouazzani, Algerian footballer *1987 - Rebecca Soni, American swimmer *1989 - Francesco Checcucci, Italian footballer * 1989 - Lily Collins, English-American actress * 1989 - Shreevats Goswami, Indian cricketer * 1989 - Kana Nishino, Japanese singer- songwriter * 1989 - Paul Marc Rousseau, Canadian guitarist and producer *1991 - Dylan Mattingly, American singer-songwriter and guitarist * 1991 - Sam Williams, Australian rugby league player *1992 - Ryan Truex, American race car driver *1992 - Takuya Terada, Japanese singer, actor, and model *1997 - Ciara Bravo, American actress * 1997 - Rieko Ioane, New Zealand rugby union player ==Deaths== === Up to 1900 === *978 - Edward the Martyr, English king (b. 962) *1076 - Ermengarde of Anjou, Duchess of Burgundy (b. 1018) *1086 - Anselm of Lucca, Italian bishop (b. 1036) *1227 - Pope Honorius III (b. 1148) *1272 - John FitzAlan, 7th Earl of Arundel (b. 1246) *1308 - Yuri I of Galicia *1314 - Jacques de Molay, Frankish knight (b. 1244) * 1314 - Geoffroy de Charney, Preceptor of Normandy for the Knights Templar *1321 - Matthew III Csák, Hungarian oligarch (b. c.1260/5) *1582 - Juan Jauregui, attempted assassin of William I of Orange (b. 1562) *1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606) *1689 - John Dixwell, English soldier and politician (b. 1607) *1745 - Robert Walpole, English scholar and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676) *1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish novelist and clergyman (b. 1713) *1781 - Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, French economist and politician, Controller-General of Finances (b. 1727) *1823 - Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French cellist and composer (b. 1753) *1835 - Christian Günther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian politician and diplomat (b. 1769) *1845 - Johnny Appleseed, American gardener and missionary (b. 1774) *1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-English mathematician and academic (b. 1806) *1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American author and activist (b. 1826) *1900 - Hjalmar Kiærskou, Danish botanist (b. 1835) === 1901 - 2000 === *1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (b. 1827) *1913 - George I of Greece (b. 1845) *1918 - Henry Janeway Hardenbergh, American architect, designed the Plaza Hotel (b. 1847) *1930 - Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, American painter (b. 1863) *1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Greek journalist, lawyer, and politician, 93rd Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1864) *1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English businessman, founded Lunn Poly (b. 1859) *1941 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884) *1947 - William C. Durant, American businessman, co-founded General Motors and Chevrolet (b. 1861) * 1954 - Walter Mead, English cricketer (b. 1868) *1956 - Louis Bromfield, American environmentalist and author (b. 1896) *1962 - Walter W. Bacon, American accountant and politician, 60th Governor of Delaware (b. 1880) *1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish businessman, 4th President of the International Olympic Committee (b. 1870) *1965 - Farouk of Egypt (b. 1920) *1973 - Johannes Aavik, Estonian philologist and poet (b. 1880) *1977 - Marien Ngouabi, Congolese politician, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938) * 1977 - Carlos Pace, Brazilian race car driver (b. 1944) *1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author and screenwriter (b. 1915) * 1978 - Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892) *1980 - Erich Fromm, German psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900) *1982 - Patrick Smith, Irish farmer and politician, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine (b. 1901) *1983 - Umberto II of Italy (b. 1904) *1984 - Charley Lau, American baseball player and coach (b. 1933) *1986 - Bernard Malamud, American novelist and short story writer (b. 1914) *1988 - Billy Butterfield, American trumpet player and cornet player (b. 1917) *1990 - Robin Harris, American comedian (b. 1953) *1993 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English-American economist and activist (b. 1910) *1996 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet and critic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911) *2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian and academic (b. 1909) === From 2001 === *2001 - John Phillips, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (The Mamas & the Papas) (b. 1935) *2002 - R. A. Lafferty, American soldier and author (b. 1914) *2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910) * 2003 - Adam Osborne, Thai-English engineer and businessman, founded the Osborne Computer Corporation (b. 1939) *2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman, co- founded McCain Foods (b. 1927) *2006 - Dan Gibson, Canadian photographer and cinematographer (b. 1922) *2007 - Bob Woolmer, Indian-English cricketer, coach, and sportscaster (b. 1948) *2008 - Anthony Minghella, English director and screenwriter (b. 1954) *2009 - Omid Reza Mir Sayafi, Iranian journalist and blogger (b. 1980) * 2009 - Natasha Richardson, English-American actress (b. 1963) *2010 - Fess Parker, American actor and businessman (b. 1924) *2011 - Warren Christopher, American lawyer and politician, 63rd United States Secretary of State (b. 1925) *2012 - Furman Bisher, American journalist and author (b. 1918) * 2012 - William R. Charette, American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932) * 2012 - William G. Moore Jr., American general (b. 1920) * 2012 - George Tupou V of Tonga (b. 1948) *2013 - Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and pilot (b. 1935) * 2013 - Henry Bromell, American novelist, screenwriter, and director (b. 1947) * 2013 - Clay Ford, American lawyer and politician (b. 1938) *2014 - Catherine Obianuju Acholonu, Nigerian author, playwright, and academic (b. 1951) * 2014 - Kaiser Kalambo, Zambian footballer, coach, and manager (b. 1953) * 2014 - Lucius Shepard, American author and critic (b. 1943) *2015 - Zhao Dayu, Chinese footballer and manager (b. 1961) * 2015 - Thomas Hopko, American priest and theologian (b. 1939) * 2015 - Grace Ogot, Kenyan nurse, journalist, and politician (b. 1930) *2016 - Barry Hines, English author and screenwriter (b. 1939) * 2016 - Jan Němec, Czech director and screenwriter (b. 1936) * 2016 - Tray Walker, American football player (b. 1992) * 2016 - Guido Westerwelle, German lawyer and politician, 15th Vice-Chancellor of Germany (b. 1961) *2017 - Chuck Berry, American guitarist, singer and songwriter (b. 1926) * 2017 - Sergei Gimayev, Russian ice hockey player (b. 1955) * 2017 - Ashwin Sundar Indian racing driver (b. 1985) * 2017 - Miloslav Vlk, Czech cardinal (b. 1932) * 2017 - Bernie Wrightson, American illustrator and comic book artist (b. 1948) *2018 - Barkat Gourad Hamadou, former Prime minister of Djibouti (b. 1930) * 2018 - Li Ao, Chinese-Taiwanese social commentator and historian (b. 1935) * 2018 - Ivor Richard, Baron Richard, British politician and diplomat (b. 1932) *2019 - Egon Balas, Romanian mathematician (b. 1922) * 2019 - György Baló, Hungarian broadcaster (b. 1947) * 2019 - John Carl Buechler, American visual effects artist, actor and movie director (b. 1952) * 2019 - Jerrie Cobb, American aviator (b. 1931) * 2019 - Kenneth To, Hong Kong-Australian swimmer (b. 1992) ==Holidays and observances== * Anniversary of the Oil Expropriation (Mexico) * Christian feast day: ** Alexander of Jerusalem ** Anselm of Lucca ** Cyril of Jerusalem ** Edward the Martyr ** Fridianus ** Salvator ** March 18 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics) * Earliest date on which Holy Wednesday can fall, while April 21 is the latest; celebrated on the week before Easter (Christianity) * Flag Day (Aruba) * Gallipoli Memorial Day (Turkey) * Men's and Soldiers' Day (Mongolia) * Ordnance Factories' Day (India) * Sheelah's Day (Ireland, Canada, Australia) * Teacher's Day (Syria)