March 7

Events
Up to 1900
161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies.
238 - Roman subjects in North Africa revolt against Maximus Thrax and elect Gordian I as Roman Emperor.
321 - Constantine announces that Sunday is a rest day in Europe.
1277 - Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
1573 - A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus under Ottoman control.
1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops kill over 2,000 Albanian captives.
1850 - US Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in support of the Compromise of 1850.
1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
1871 - Jose Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco becomes Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil. With four years in office, he becomes its longest-serving Prime Minister.
1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
1897 - Cornflakes are first served at a sanatorium in Michigan, having been invented by John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg.
1900 - German liner SS Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1901 2000
1902 - Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch - A Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts a heavy defeat on British forces.
1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
1927 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake its Tango Province, Japan, killing 3,000 people.
1936 - Germany re-occupies the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
1950 - The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - UN troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
1965 - A Civil rights march by 600 people in Selma, Alabama, is forcefully broken.
1968 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese military forces begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho.
1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding leader of Bangladesh, delivers a historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
1980 - Oil tanker "Tanio" breaks in two off Brittany.
1985 - The song "We are the World" receives its international release.
1986 - Divers from the USS Preserver discover the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses".
1992 - Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Head of State in Georgia.
From 2001
2002 - The 2002 Winter Paralympics begin in Salt Lake City.
2004 - Kostas Karamanlis is elected Prime Minister of Greece.
2004 - The Samson ferry sinks in a cyclone between Madagascar and the Comoros.
2006 - Terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba co-ordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
2007 - The UK House of Commons supports by a majority to have an elected House of Lords.
2009 - The Kepler space observatory is launched to find Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars.
2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians outside a barracks in Northern Ireland.
2010 - Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, for her movie The Hurt Locker.
2014 - The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi, Southern Russia.
2015 - An attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, leaves an estimated 50 people dead.
2017 - North Korea and Malaysia ban each other's citizens from leaving their countries in a continued diplomatic row over the murder of Kim Jong-nam (half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un).
Births
Up to 1900
189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
1671 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
1671 - Ellis Wynne, Welsh clergyman and author (d. 1734)
1678 - Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
1765 - Nicephore Niepce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
1788 - Antoine Cesar Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
1802 - Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter (d. 1873)
1835 - Daniel Giraud Elliot, American zoologist (d. 1915)
1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
1849 - Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist (d. 1926)
1850 - Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
1850 - Champ Clark, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
1866 - Hans Fruhstorfer, German explorer and entomologist (d. 1922)
1868 - Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (d. 1933)
1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (d. 1944)
1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
1886 - Virginia Pearson, American silent movie actress (d. 1958)
1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1901 1950
1901 - Beatrice Roberts, American actress (d. 1970)
1902 - Heinz Ruhmann, German actor (d. 1994)
1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
1911 - Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet politician (d. 2008)
1914 - John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
1914 - Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
1917 - Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2004)
1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
1922 - Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d. 2005)
1924 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor (d. 1993)
1925 - Rene Gagnon, American navy officer (d. 1979)
1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
1927 - Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
1930 - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
1930 - Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (d. 2007)
1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2017)
1933 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (d. 2001)
1933 - Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (d. 2018)
1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
1934 - Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
1935 - Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Church Patriarch and cardinal
1936 - Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2015)
1938 - Albert Fert, French physicist
1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist
1938 - Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (d. 2014)
1939 - Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (d. 2010)
1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
1942 - Michael Eisner, American movie studio executive
1942 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (d. 2007)
1943 - Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
1944 - Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer
1944 - Michael Rosbash, American biologist and Nobel laureate
1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
1945 - John Heard, American actor
1945 - Bob Herbert, American journalist
1945 - Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
1947 - Walter Rohrl, German rally driver
1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
1949 - Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer
1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951 1975
1952 - William Boyd, Scottish writer, screenwriter and producer
1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
1953 - Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountaineer
1954 - Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and first openly lesbian bishop
1955 - Anupam Kher, Indian actor
1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
1956 - Andrea Levy, British writer (d. 2019)
1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor and comedian (d. 2014)
1959 - Tom Lehman, American golfer
1959 - Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech-American tennis player and coach of Andy Murray
1960 - Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
1961 - Mary Beth Evans, American actress
1962 - Taylor Dayne, American singer
1963 - Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
1963 - E. L. James, English writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)
1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American author and screenwriter
1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
1964 - Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician
1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
1966 - Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
1967 - Ruthie Henshall, British theatre actress and singer
1967 - Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
1969 - Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
1970 - Petra Mede, Swedish comedienne, dancer and television host
1970 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
1971 - Matthew Vaughn, British movie producer and director
1972 - Jang Dong-Gun, South Korean actor and musician
1972 - Simon Pryce, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
1973 - Sebastien Izambard, Swiss operatic singer (Il Divo)
1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
1974 - Darryl Stephens, American actor
1975 - Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model
From 1976
1977 - Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor
1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
1977 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
1977 - Jerome Fernandez, French handball player
1980 - Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
1980 - Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
1982 - Marc Planus, French footballer
1983 - Manucho, Angolan footballer
1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
1987 - Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
1987 - Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
1987 - Eleni Foureira, Albanian-Greek singer
1988 - Larry Asante, American football player
1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino-American actor and model
1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
1990 - Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
1991 - Quenten Martinus, Curacaoan footballer
1991 - Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
1992 - Bel Powley, English actress
1994 - An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
1994 - Jordan Pickford, English footballer
2009 - Prince Umberto of Savoy
Deaths
Up to 1900
322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
203 - Felicity and Perpetua, early Christian martyrs
413 - Heraclianus, Roman politician
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
1274 - Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
1550 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
1786 - Franz Benda, Bohemian composer (b. 1709)
1809 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1753)
1875 - John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)
1901 2000
1920 - Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
1932 - Aristide Briand, French politician and diplomat (b. 1862)
1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1942 - Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, Communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Guru (b. 1893)
1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist (b. 1876)
1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1961 - Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
1965 - Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (b. 1889)
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1969 - Sampurnanand, Indian politician (b. 1910)
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1983 - Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1986 - Jacob J. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
1988 - Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
1991 - Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (b. 1928)
1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
2000 - Pee Wee King, American country musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1914)
2000 - Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001
2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
2005 - John Box, British movie production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2005 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1950)
2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
2006 - Gordon Parks, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1912)
2006 - Ali Farka Toure, Malian musician (b. 1939)
2010 - Kenneth Dover, British classicist (b. 1920)
2012 - Wlodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
2012 - Felicien Marceau, French novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1913)
2013 - Peter Banks, English musician (b. 1947)
2013 - Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
2013 - Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924)
2014 - Heiko Bellmann, German biologist, writer and photographer (b. 1950)
2014 - Uwe Timm, German writer and anarchist (b. 1932)
2014 - Hal Douglas, American voice actor and announcer (b. 1924)
2014 - Ned O'Gorman, American poet (b. 1929)
2015 - Gregorio Bundio, Argentine footballer and manager (El Salvador national football team) (b. 1928)
2015 - Edmond Malinvaud, French economist (b. 1923)
2015 - F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
2016 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (b. 1950)
2016 - Jean-Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
2016 - Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (b. 1936)
2017 - Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
2017 - Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1933)
2017 - Helen Sommers, American politician (b. 1932)
2017 - Lynne Stewart, American attorney (b. 1939)
2017 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist (b. 1922)
2017 - Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (b. 1931)
2017 - Peter M. Gruber, Austrian mathematician (b. 1941)
2017 - Juan Carlos Tourino, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
2018 - Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
2018 - Woody Durham, American basketball radio announcer (b. 1941)
2018 - Charles Thone, American politician, 34th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
2018 - Antonia La Negra, Spanish singer and dancer (b. 1936)
2019 - Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (b. 1930)
2019 - Joseph M. Boardman, American railroad executive (b. 1948)
2019 - Robert Braithwaite, British marine engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
2019 - Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1941)
2019 - Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
2019 - Dick Nichols, American banker and politician (b. 1926)
2019 - Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (b. 1935)
Festivals
Felicity and Perpetua (Roman Catholicism)
Teacher's Day (Albania)
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