March 26

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 590 &ndash; Maurice proclaims his son Theodosius co–emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
* 1027 &ndash; Conrad II, Holy Roman Emperor is crowned.
* 1169 &ndash; Saladin becomes Emir of Egypt.
* 1344 &ndash; The Siege of Algeciras, one of the first European military engagements where gunpowder was used, comes to an end.
* 1351 &ndash; Combat of the Thirty: 30 Breton knights call out and defeat 30 English knights
* 1511 &ndash; An earthquake on the Balkan peninsula and Italy kills 6,000 people.
* 1552 &ndash; Guru Amar Das becomes the third Sikh Guru.
* 1636 &ndash; Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands.
* 1808 &ndash; Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favour of his son, Ferdinand VII.
* 1812 &ndash; Caracas, Venezuela, is destroyed in an earthquake, killing 12,000 people.
* 1830 &ndash; The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York.
* 1839 &ndash; The first Henley Royal Regatta is held.
* 1866 &ndash; Carol I becomes Prince of Romania.
* 1872 &ndash; An earthquake kills 27 people in Lone Pine, California.
* 1881 &ndash; The Principality of Romania declares itself a Kingdom.
* 1885 &ndash; The Metis people of the District of Saskatchewan under Louis Riel begin the North–West Rebellion against Canada.
* 1898 &ndash; Kruger National Park is founded in South Africa.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1913 &ndash; Gas explosions occur after the floods in Dayton, Ohio.
* 1917 &ndash; World War I: The Battle of Gaza takes place.
* 1931 &ndash; SwissAir is founded.
* 1934 &ndash; The Driving Test is introduced in the United Kingdom.
* 1939 &ndash; Spanish Civil War: Nationalists under Francisco Franco begin their final offensive of the war.
* 1942 &ndash; The first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz.
* 1945 &ndash; The US declares Iwo Jima secure.
* 1958 &ndash; The United States Army launches Explorer 3.
* 1971 &ndash; East Pakistan declares independence under the name of Bangladesh. The Bangladesh Liberation War begins.
* 1973 &ndash; *The Young and The Restless* airs for the first time.
* 1974 &ndash; In Caracas, Venezuela, George Foreman wins the Heavyweight Boxing title against Ken Norton.
* 1975 &ndash; The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force.
* 1976 &ndash; Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom sends the first royal email.
* 1979 &ndash; Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, DC.
* 1980 &ndash; Arianespace, European space organization, is founded.
* 1982 &ndash; The foundation stone is laid for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
* 1991 &ndash; The Mercosur Common Market is founded by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay.
* 1995 &ndash; The Schengen Treaty comes into effect.
* 1997 &ndash; Members of the Heaven's Gate cult commit suicide.
* 1998 &ndash; Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people, including 32 children under the age of two, are murdered with knives and axes.
* 1999 &ndash; The Melissa worm infects Microsoft Word Processing and email systems.
* 1999 &ndash; A jury in Michigan finds Jack Kevorkian guilty of second–degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man.
* 2000 &ndash; Vladimir Putin is elected President of Russia.
* 2000 &ndash; Greece joins the Schengen Treaty.

### From 2001 
* 2006 &ndash; Burma's military junta moves its seat, capital city, from Rangoon to Naypyidaw in the Mandalay Division.
* 2006 &ndash; Smoking is banned in all public places in Scotland.
* 2009 &ndash; In New York City, the Freedom Tower, still under construction, is renamed One World Trade Center.
* 2010 &ndash; The South Korean warship ROKS *Cheonan* sinks, killing 46 seamen. It is believed that a North Korean torpedo was responsible.
* 2015 &ndash; King Richard III of England is reburied at Leicester Cathedral. His remains had been found in a car park in the city in 2012.
* 2015 &ndash; Germanwings Flight 9525: It is revealed that the plane's co–pilot Andreas Lubitz deliberately crashed it two days earlier, in the French Alps.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 603 &ndash; Pacal II, Mayan ruler (d. 683)
* 1031 &ndash; King Malcolm III of Scotland (d. 1093)
* 1516 &ndash; Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565)
* 1554 &ndash; Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611)
* 1634 &ndash; Domenico Freschi, Italian composer (d. 1710)
* 1687 &ndash; Sophia Dorothea of Hanover (d. 1757)
* 1698 &ndash; Prokop Divis, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765)
* 1740 &ndash; Jonathan Trumbull, Jr., Governor of Connecticut (d. 1809)
* 1749 &ndash; William Blount, American politician (d. 1800)
* 1753 &ndash; Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814)
* 1773 &ndash; Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838)
* 1784 &ndash; John W. Taylor, American politician (d. 1854)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1814 &ndash; Charles Mackay, Scottish poet, journalist and writer (d. 1889)
* 1819 &ndash; Louise Otto-Peters, German writer and social activist (d. 1895)
* 1819 &ndash; Prince George, Duke of Cambridge (d. 1904)
* 1849 &ndash; Armand Peugeot, French businessman (d. 1915)
* 1854 &ndash; Maurice Lecoq, French target shooter (d. 1925)
* 1856 &ndash; William Massey, 19th Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1925)
* 1858 &ndash; Luis Barros Borgono, President of Chile (d. 1943)
* 1859 &ndash; Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936)
* 1859 &ndash; Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919)
* 1860 &ndash; André Prévost, French tennis player (d. 1919)
* 1866 &ndash; Fred Karno, English theatre producer (d. 1941)
* 1868 &ndash; King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936)
* 1871 &ndash; Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole, Hawaiian prince and politician (d. 1922)
* 1873 &ndash; Dorothea Bleek, South African–German anthropologist and philologist (d. 1948)
* 1874 &ndash; Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963)
* 1874 &ndash; Oskar Nedbal, Bohemian composer and conductor (d. 1930)
* 1875 &ndash; Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922)
* 1875 &ndash; Rhee Syng-man, President of South Korea (d. 1965)
* 1876 &ndash; William, Prince of Albania (d. 1945)
* 1879 &ndash; Othmar Ammann, Swiss–American engineer (d. 1965)
* 1879 &ndash; Waldemar Tietgens, German rower (d. 1917)
* 1881 &ndash; Guccio Gucci, Italian businessman and fashion designer (d. 1953)
* 1882 &ndash; Hermann Obrecht, Swiss  jurist (d. 1940)
* 1884 &ndash; Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969)
* 1893 &ndash; Palmiro Togliatti, Italian Communist leader (d. 1964)
* 1893 &ndash; James Bryant Conant, American chemist, academic and diplomat (d. 1978)
* 1894 &ndash; Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian operatic soprano (d. 1985)
* 1896 &ndash; Rudolf Dassler, German sportswear executive (d. 1974)
* 1900 &ndash; Giovanni Urbani, Archbishop of Venice (d. 1969)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1904 &ndash; Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician (d. 2004)
* 1904 &ndash; Attilio Ferraris, Italian footballer (d. 1947)
* 1904 &ndash; Joseph Campbell, American professor and writer (d. 1987)
* 1905 &ndash; Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997)
* 1907 &ndash; Leigh Harline, American movie score composer (d. 1969)
* 1908 &ndash; Franz Stangl, Nazi Concentration Camp commandant (d. 1971)
* 1911 &ndash; Bernard Katz, German biophysicist (d. 2003)
* 1911 &ndash; J. L. Austin, British philosopher (d. 1960)
* 1911 &ndash; Robert B. Crosby, Governor of Nebraska (d. 2000)
* 1911 &ndash; Tennessee Williams, American writer and playwright (d. 1983)
* 1913 &ndash; Paul Erdős, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996)
* 1913 &ndash; Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist, classical scholar and fiction writer (d. 2010)
* 1914 &ndash; William Westmoreland, American military commander (d. 2005)
* 1915 &ndash; Hwang Sunwon, Korean writer (d. 2000)
* 1916 &ndash; Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist (d. 1995)
* 1916 &ndash; Harry Rabinowitz, South African–American composer and conductor (d. 2016)
* 1917 &ndash; Rufus Thomas, American blues musician (d. 2001)
* 1920 &ndash; Sergio Livingstone, Chilean footballer (d. 2012)
* 1922 &ndash; William Milliken, American politician, former Governor of Michigan (d. 2019)
* 1923 &ndash; Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992)
* 1923 &ndash; Bob Elliott, American actor and comedian (d. 2016)
* 1923 &ndash; Elizabeth Jane Howard, British writer (d. 2014)
* 1925 &ndash; Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor (d. 2016)
* 1925 &ndash; James Moody, American jazz musician (d. 2010)
* 1925 &ndash; Vesta Roy, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 2002)
* 1929 &ndash; Tom Foley, American politician (d. 2013)
* 1930 &ndash; Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001)
* 1930 &ndash; Sandra Day O'Connor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
* 1931 &ndash; Leonard Nimoy, American actor (d. 2015)
* 1933 &ndash; Tinto Brass, Italian movie director and screenwriter
* 1934 &ndash; Alan Arkin, American actor
* 1935 &ndash; Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian politician
* 1936 &ndash; Giora Feidman, Israeli clarinetist
* 1937 &ndash; Ahmed Qurei, Palestinian politician
* 1937 &ndash; James Lee, 26th Premier of Prince Edward Island
* 1937 &ndash; Wayne Embry, American basketball player and manager
* 1938 &ndash; Anthony James Leggett, British–American physicist
* 1940 &ndash; James Caan, American actor
* 1940 &ndash; Nancy Pelosi, American politician
* 1941 &ndash; Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist
* 1942 &ndash; Erica Jong, American novelist and poet
* 1943 &ndash; Bob Woodward, American journalist
* 1943 &ndash; Mustafa Kalemli, Turkish physician and politician
* 1944 &ndash; Diana Ross, American singer (The Supremes)
* 1944 &ndash; Igor Mitoraj, Polish sculptor (d. 2014)
* 1945 &ndash; Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004)
* 1945 &ndash; Paul Bérenger, former Prime Minister of Mauritius
* 1946 &ndash; Alain Madelin, French politician
* 1946 &ndash; Johnny Crawford, American actor, singer and musician
* 1948 &ndash; Richard Tandy, British musician
* 1948 &ndash; Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith)
* 1948 &ndash; Nash the Slash, Canadian musician (d. 2014)
* 1948 &ndash; Kyung-wha Chung, South Korean violinist
* 1949 &ndash; Jon English, English–Australian singer-songwriter, musician and actor (d. 2016)
* 1949 &ndash; Patrick Süskind, German writer
* 1949 &ndash; Vicki Lawrence, American actress, comedienne and singer
* 1950 &ndash; Teddy Pendergrass, American singer-songwriter (d. 2010)
* 1950 &ndash; Martin Short, Canadian actor and screenwriter
* 1950 &ndash; Alan Silvestri, American composer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Carl Wieman, American physicist
* 1952 &ndash; Didier Pironi, French racing driver (d. 1987)
* 1953 &ndash; Lincoln Chafee, American politician, former Governor of Rhode Island
* 1953 &ndash; Elaine Chao, American politician
* 1953 &ndash; Tatyana Providokhina, Russian middle–distance runner
* 1956 &ndash; Charly McClain, American singer
* 1956 &ndash; Park Won-soon, South Korean lawyer and politician
* 1957 &ndash; Fiona Bruce, British politician
* 1958 &ndash; Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986)
* 1960 &ndash; Marcus Allen, former American football running back, television personality, actor, and crewman
* 1960 &ndash; Jennifer Grey, American actress
* 1961 &ndash; William Hague, British politician
* 1962 &ndash; Kevin Seitzer, American baseball player
* 1962 &ndash; Yuri Gidzenko, Russian cosmonaut
* 1963 &ndash; Rich Voisine, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist and actor
* 1964 &ndash; Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1964 &ndash; Todd Barry, American comedian
* 1964 &ndash; Maria Miller, British politician
* 1965 &ndash; Violeta Szekely, Romanian runner
* 1968 &ndash; Kenny Chesney, American singer
* 1968 &ndash; James Iha, American musician
* 1969 &ndash; Alessandro Moscardi, Italian rugby player
* 1971 &ndash; Martyn Day, Scottish politician
* 1972 &ndash; Leslie Mann, American actress
* 1973 &ndash; Kyung-wha Chung, South Korean violinist
* 1973 &ndash; Larry Page, American co–founder of Google
* 1974 &ndash; Christina Surer, Swiss racing driver
* 1975 &ndash; Juvenile, American rapper

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Amy Smart, American actress
* 1976 &ndash; Alex Varas, Chilean footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Kevin Davies, English footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Bianca Kajlich, American actress
* 1979 &ndash; Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Roisin Conaty, English comedienne
* 1981 &ndash; Massimo Donati, Italian footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Andreas Hinkel, German footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Roman Bednar, Czech footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Felix Neureuther, German skier
* 1985 &ndash; Keira Knightley, British actress
* 1985 &ndash; Jonathan Groff, American actor
* 1987 &ndash; Steven Fletcher, Scottish footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Yui, Japanese singer, musician and actress
* 1989 &ndash; Simon Kjaer, Danish footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Takaki Yuya, Japanese singer and actor
* 1990 &ndash; Matteo Guidicelli, Filipino actor, singer and racing driver
* 1992 &ndash; Haley Ramm, American actress
* 1992 &ndash; Nina Agdal, Danish model
* 1994 &ndash; Mayu Watanabe, Japanese actress and singer (AKB48)
* 1996 &ndash; Kathryn Bernardo, Filipina actress

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 304 &ndash; Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr
* 752 &ndash; Pope-elect Stephen
* 922 &ndash; Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer
* 1130 &ndash; King Sigurd I of Norway (b. 1090)
* 1212 &ndash; King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
* 1535 &ndash; Georg Tannstetter, Austrian mathematician, astronomer and cartographer (b. 1482)
* 1649 &ndash; John Winthrop, English lawyer and politician
* 1685 &ndash; Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
* 1726 &ndash; Johan Vanbrugh, English playwright and architect (b. 1664)
* 1793 &ndash; John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
* 1797 &ndash; James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
* 1814 &ndash; Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, French physician (b. 1738)
* 1827 &ndash; Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
* 1881 &ndash; Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
* 1888 &ndash; Barghash bin Said, Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
* 1892 &ndash; Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; Cecil Rhodes, English explorer and colonial politician (b. 1853)
* 1905 &ndash; Maurice Barrymore, American actor (b. 1849)
* 1910 &ndash; An Jung-geun, Korean general (b. 1879)
* 1910 &ndash; Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
* 1923 &ndash; Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
* 1926 &ndash; Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
* 1929 &ndash; Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
* 1933 &ndash; Eddie Lang, American jazz musician (b. 1902)
* 1940 &ndash; Spyridon Louis, Greek marathon runner (b. 1873)
* 1945 &ndash; David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
* 1951 &ndash; James F. Hinkle, Governor of New Mexico (b. 1864)
* 1954 &ndash; Charles Perrin, French rower (b. 1875)
* 1957 &ndash; Edouard Herriot, Prime Minister of France (b. 1872)
* 1959 &ndash; Raymond Chandler, American–born novelist (b. 1888)
* 1969 &ndash; John Kennedy Toole, American writer (b. 1937)
* 1973 &ndash; Noël Coward, British composer and playwright (b. 1899)
* 1973 &ndash; George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893)
* 1976 &ndash; Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
* 1980 &ndash; Roland Barthes, French linguist and critic (b. 1915)
* 1983 &ndash; Anthony Blunt, English historian and spy (b. 1907)
* 1984 &ndash; Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
* 1987 &ndash; Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
* 1987 &ndash; Walter Abel, American poet (b. 1898)
* 1989 &ndash; Hai Zi, Chinese poet (b. 1964)
* 1993 &ndash; J. Caleb Boggs, American politician, 62nd Governor of Delaware (b. 1909)
* 1995 &ndash; Eazy-E, American rapper (b. 1963)
* 1996 &ndash; Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
* 1996 &ndash; David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)
* 1997 &ndash; Marshall Applewhite, American, leader of the Heaven's Gate cult (b. 1931)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Daniel Patrick Moynihan, American politician (b. 1927)
* 2005 &ndash; James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
* 2006 &ndash; Nikki Sudden, British singer–songwriter (b. 1956)
* 2008 &ndash; Manuel Marulanda, Colombian guerrilla (b. 1930)
* 2011 &ndash; Paul Baran, American computer programmer (b. 1926)
* 2011 &ndash; Geraldine Ferraro, American lawyer and politician (b. 1935)
* 2011 &ndash; Diana Wynne Jones, British writer (b. 1934)
* 2013 &ndash; Jerzy Nowak, Polish actor (b. 1923)
* 2013 &ndash; Don Payne, American screenwriter and producer (b. 1964)
* 2014 &ndash; George Bookasta, American actor and director (b. 1917)
* 2014 &ndash; Dick Guidry, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Karl Moik, Austrian television presenter and singer (b. 1938)
* 2015 &ndash; John Renbourn, English guitarist (b. 1944)
* 2015 &ndash; Dinkha IV, Catholicos–Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East (b. 1935)
* 2015 &ndash; Tomas Tranströmer, Swedish poet (b. 1931)
* 2015 &ndash; Friedrich L. Bauer, German computer scientist (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Fred Robsahm, Norwegian actor (b. 1943)
* 2016 &ndash; David Baker, American jazz musician (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Norm Hadley, Canadian rugby player (b. 1964)
* 2016 &ndash; Jim Harrison, American writer and screenwriter (b. 1937)
* 2016 &ndash; Igor Pashkevich, Soviet–Russian figure skater (b. 1971)
* 2017 &ndash; Mai Dantsig, Belarusian artist (b. 1930)
* 2017 &ndash; Vladimir Kazachyonok, Russian footballer and manager (b. 1952)
* 2017 &ndash; Roger Wilkins, American civil rights activist and journalist (b. 1932)

## Observances 
* Independence Day in Bangladesh
* Prince Kuhio Day (Hawaii)
* Prophet Zoroaster's Birthday (Zoroastrianism)
* Day of Democracy (Mali)