March 2

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 537 &ndash; Siege of Rome: The Ostrogoth army under King Vitiges begins the siege of the city.
* 871 &ndash; Ethelred of Wessex defeats a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
* 986 &ndash; Louis V becomes King of the Franks.
* 1127 &ndash; Assassination of Charles I, Count of Flanders.
* 1444 &ndash; Skanderbeg organizes a group of Albanian nobles to form the League of Lezhe.
* 1476 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The College of Arms is formally incorporated by a Royal Charter, signed by King Richard III of England.
* 1498 &ndash; Vasco da Gama's fleet visits the Island of Mozambique.
* 1561 &ndash; Mendoza, Argentina, is founded by Spanish conquistador Pedro del Castillo.
* 1657 &ndash; Great Fire of Meireki: A fire in Edo (now Tokyo) kills 100,000 people and lasts three days.
* 1776 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Long–distance communication speeds up with the unveiling of a semaphore machine in Paris.
* 1797 &ndash; The Bank of England issues the first one–pound and two–pound notes.
* 1798 &ndash; The Swiss Canton of Thurgau is created.
* 1807 &ndash; United States Congress bans the importation of more slaves into the country.
* 1811 &ndash; Argentine War of Independence: A royalist fleet defeats a small flotilla of revolutionary ships in the Battle of San Nicolas.
* 1815 &ndash; Signing of the Kandyan Convention Treaty between the British and the King of Sri Lanka.
* 1818 &ndash; Italian adventurer Giovanni Battista Belzani re–discovers the tomb in the Chephren Pyramid in Egypt, though he finds it empty.
* 1825 &ndash; Blida, in Algeria, is hit by an earthquake, killing 7,000 people.
* 1836 &ndash; The Republic of Texas declares its independence from Mexico.
* 1855 &ndash; Alexander II becomes Tsar of Russia.
* 1861 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Rutherford B. Hayes is declared the winner of the 1876 US presidential election, despite Samuel J. Tilden winning the popular vote.
* 1882 &ndash; Queen Victoria narrowly escapes an assassination attempt by Roderick McLean in Windsor.
* 1885 &ndash; Sino-French War: French victory in the Battle of Hoa Moc, near Tuyen Quang, North Vietnam.
* 1899 &ndash; The Mount Rainier National Park in the State of Washington, is created.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1903 &ndash; In New York City, the Martha Washington Hotel opens, the first hotel only to cater for women.
* 1917 &ndash; The Jones–Shafroth Act grants United States citizenship to people from Puerto Rico.
* 1919 &ndash; The first Communist International meets in Moscow.
* 1933 &ndash; The Sanriku earthquake in Japan, measuring at magnitude 8.4, kills almost 3,000 people.
* 1933 &ndash; The movie *King Kong* opens at New York City's Radio Music Hall.
* 1935 &ndash; Prajadhipok abdicates as King of Thailand, being succeeded by the 9–year–old Ananda Mahidol.
* 1939 &ndash; cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope on his 63rd birthday. He chooses to be known as Pope Pius XII.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: In the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, US and Australian forces sink Japanese convoy ships.
* 1946 &ndash; Ho Chi Minh is elected President of North Vietnam.
* 1949 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The first automatic street light is installed in New Milford, Connecticut.
* 1955 &ndash; Norodom Sihanouk abdicates as King of Cambodia, in favour of his father, Norodom Suramarit.
* 1956 &ndash; Morocco declares independence from France.
* 1958 &ndash; Edmund Hillary and Vivian Fuchs complete their crossing of Antarctica.
* 1962 &ndash; In Burma, the Army, led by Ne Win, seizes power in a coup.
* 1962 &ndash; Basketball: Wilt Chamberlain sets an NBA record by scoring 100 points in a single game.
* 1965 &ndash; United States and South Vietnamese Air Forces begin Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained bombing campaign against North Vietnam.
* 1969 &ndash; Soviet and Chinese forces clash at the border outpost on the Ussuri River.
* 1969 &ndash; In Toulouse, the first test flight of Concorde is carried out.
* 1970 &ndash; Rhodesia declares itself a Republic.
* 1972 &ndash; The Pioneer 10 space probe is launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
* 1978 &ndash; Czechoslovakian Vladimir Remek becomes the first human in space who is neither Soviet or American.
* 1983 &ndash; Compact Discs and Compact Disc players are released in the United States, though they were already available in Japan.
* 1987 &ndash; The Chrysler Group takes over the American Motors Corporation.
* 1989 &ndash; 12 European Community nations agree to ban the production of Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) by the end of the century.
* 1990 &ndash; Nelson Mandela is declared Deputy Head of the African National Congress.
* 1991 &ndash; Battle of Rumaila takes place at the end of the Gulf War.
* 1992 &ndash; San Marino joins the UN, along with the former Soviet States of Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.
* 1993 &ndash; The 1993 Storm of the Century begins to form in the North Atlantic Ocean.
* 1998 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; 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 &ndash; As part of the US invasion of Afghanistan, Operation Anaconda is launched.
* 2004 &ndash; Iraq War: Al-Qaeda carries out the Ashoura Massacre in Kerbala, killing 270 people.
* 2004 &ndash; 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 &ndash; The Nintendo DS goes on sale in Japan.
* 2008 &ndash; Dmitry Medvedev is elected President of Russia, due to Vladimir Putin's term limits, though Putin becomes Prime Minister.
* 2009 &ndash; President of Guinea-Bissau Joao Bernardo Vieira is killed in an armed attack on his home.
* 2012 &ndash; 27 people are killed as tornadoes sweep across the States of Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio.
* 2017 &ndash; Elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly are held after the collapse of the power–sharing government.
* 2019 &ndash; The SpX–DM1 space mission is launched; it is the first United States–launched manned mission since 2011.

## Births 
### Up to 1900 
* 959 &ndash; Emperor En'yu of Japan (d. 991)
* 1241 &ndash; Isabella of France, Queen of Navarre (d. 1271)
* 1316 &ndash; King Robert II of Scotland (d. 1390)
* 1459 &ndash; Pope Adrian VI (d. 1523)
* 1544 &ndash; Thomas Bodley, English diplomat and library founder (d. 1613)
* 1760 &ndash; Camille Desmoulins, French lawyer and journalist (d. 1794)
* 1769 &ndash; DeWitt Clinton, 6th Governor of New York (d. 1828)
* 1779 &ndash; Joel Roberts Poinsett, American statesman (d. 1851)
* 1793 &ndash; Sam Houston, President and Governor of Texas (d. 1863)
* 1800 &ndash; Yevgeny Baratynsky, Russian poet (d. 1844)
* 1810 &ndash; Pope Leo XIII (d. 1903)
* 1816 &ndash; Alexander Bullock, 26th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1882)
* 1820 &ndash; Multatuli, Dutch writer (d. 1887)
* 1824 &ndash; Bedřich Smetana, Czech composer (d. 1884)
* 1829 &ndash; Carl Schurz, German politician and revolutionary (d. 1906)
* 1836 &ndash; John W. Foster, United States Secretary of State (d. 1917)
* 1842 &ndash; Carl Jacobsen, Danish brewer (d. 1914)
* 1843 &ndash; Princess Maria Clotilde of Saxony (d. 1911)
* 1851 &ndash; Franz von Liszt, German jurist (d. 1919)
* 1859 &ndash; Sholom Aleichem, Russian novelist (d. 1916)
* 1860 &ndash; Susanna M. Salter, American politician (d. 1961)
* 1862 &ndash; Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (d. 1916)
* 1868 &ndash; Edmund Schulthess, Swiss politician (d. 1944)
* 1876 &ndash; Pope Pius XII (d. 1958)
* 1878 &ndash; Wander Johannes de Haas, Dutch physicist and mathematician (d. 1960)
* 1880 &ndash; Ivar Kreuger, Swedish industrialist, known for the match stick monopoly (d. 1932)
* 1883 &ndash; Nikos Kazantzakis, Greek writer (d. 1957)
* 1885 &ndash; Victor Houteff, Bulgarian religious reformer and writer (d. 1955)
* 1886 &ndash; Leo Gehr von Schweppenburg, German general (d. 1974)
* 1894 &ndash; Alexander Oparin, Soviet biochemist (d. 1980)
* 1900 &ndash; Kurt Weill, German–born American composer (d. 1950)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Grete Hermann, German mathematician (d. 1984)
* 1902 &ndash; Edward Condon, American physicist (d. 1974)
* 1904 &ndash; Dr. Seuss, American writer (d. 1991)
* 1905 &ndash; Marc Blitzstein, American composer (d. 1964)
* 1905 &ndash; Roberto Francisco Chiari Remón, 31st President of Panama (d. 1981)
* 1908 &ndash; Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Soviet sniper (d. 1968)
* 1908 &ndash; Walter Bruch, German electrical engineer (d. 1990)
* 1909 &ndash; Mel Ott, American baseball player (d. 1958)
* 1912 &ndash; Henry Katzman, American composer and pianist (d. 2001)
* 1912 &ndash; William Thayer Tutt, American ice hockey executive (d. 1989)
* 1913 &ndash; Celedonio Romero, Spanish guitarist (d. 1996)
* 1914 &ndash; Martin Ritt, American movie director (d. 1990)
* 1917 &ndash; Desi Arnaz, Cuban–born actor, musician and bandleader (d. 1986)
* 1918 &ndash; Michael Rye, American voice actor (d. 2012)
* 1919 &ndash; Jennifer Jones, American actress (d. 2009)
* 1919 &ndash; Tamara Toumanova, Russian ballerina and actress (d. 1996)
* 1921 &ndash; Cornelius Edward Gallagher, American politician (d. 2018)
* 1921 &ndash; Kazimierz Gorski, Polish footballer (d. 2006)
* 1921 &ndash; Ernst Haas, Austrian photojournalist (d. 1986)
* 1922 &ndash; Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, American jazz tenor saxophonist (d. 1986)
* 1923 &ndash; Masao Ono, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
* 1923 &ndash; Basil Hume, Archbishop of Westminster (d. 1999)
* 1923 &ndash; Orrin Keepnews, American songwriter and producer (d. 2015)
* 1923 &ndash; Dave Strack, American basketball coach (d. 2014)
* 1923 &ndash; Robert H. Michel, American soldier and politician (d. 2017)
* 1924 &ndash; Cal Abrams, American baseball player (d. 1997)
* 1926 &ndash; Murray Rothbard, American economist and philosopher (d. 1995)
* 1926 &ndash; George Patrick Leonard Walker, British volcanologist (d. 2005)
* 1926 &ndash; Bernard Agré, Ivorian cardinal (d. 2014)
* 1930 &ndash; John Cullum, American actor and singer
* 1930 &ndash; Pat Arrowsmith, British writer and peace campaigner
* 1930 &ndash; Tom Wolfe, American writer (d. 2018)
* 1930 &ndash; Sergei Kovalev, Russian dissident and politician
* 1931 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev, President of the Soviet Union, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
* 1931 &ndash; Jean Périmony, French actor and theatre director (d. 2017)
* 1932 &ndash; Gun Hägglund, Swedish television journalist (d. 2011)
* 1934 &ndash; Howard Cassady, American football player (d. 2019)
* 1937 &ndash; Abdelaziz Bouteflika, former President of Algeria (d. 2021)
* 1937 &ndash; Denny Crum, American basketball coach
* 1938 &ndash; Aleksandar Kostov, Bulgarian footballer (d. 2019)
* 1938 &ndash; Ricardo Lagos, former President of Chile
* 1939 &ndash; Irina Bogacheva, Russian mezzo–soprano (d. 2019)
* 1939 &ndash; Takako Shimazu, Japanese royal
* 1940 &ndash; Billy McNeill, Scottish footballer (d. 2019)
* 1940 &ndash; Mamnoon Hussain, 12th President of Pakistan
* 1940 &ndash; Lothar de Maizière, German lawyer and politician
* 1941 &ndash; John Cornell, Australian actor, director, producer and businessman
* 1941 &ndash; David Satcher, 16th Surgeon General of the United States
* 1942 &ndash; Kwang Jo Choi, Korean taekwondo champion
* 1942 &ndash; Lou Reed, American singer and guitarist (d. 2013)
* 1942 &ndash; Mir-Hossein Mousavi, Iranian politician
* 1942 &ndash; John Irving, American writer
* 1943 &ndash; Zygfryd Blaut, Polish footballer (d. 2005)
* 1943 &ndash; Tony Meehan, British musician (d. 2005)
* 1943 &ndash; B. Subhashan Reddy, Indian judge (d. 2019)
* 1944 &ndash; Uschi Glas, German actress
* 1947 &ndash; Harry Redknapp, English football manager
* 1947 &ndash; Yuri Matiyasevich, Russian mathematician
* 1947 &ndash; Glenn O'Brien, American journalist, editor and television presenter (d. 2017)
* 1948 &ndash; Larry Carlton, American musician
* 1948 &ndash; Jeff Kennett, Australian politician, 43rd Premier of Victoria
* 1948 &ndash; Rory Gallagher, Irish musician, songwriter and bandleader (d. 1995)
* 1949 &ndash; Alain Chamfort, French singer
* 1949 &ndash; Gates McFadden, American actress
* 1949 &ndash; J. P. R. Williams, Welsh rugby player
* 1950 &ndash; Karen Carpenter, American singer (d. 1983)

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1951 &ndash; Dean Barrow, Prime Minister of Belize
* 1952 &ndash; Laraine Newman, American actress, comedienne and writer
* 1953 &ndash; Russ Feingold, American politician
* 1954 &ndash; Eddie Johnstone, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1955 &ndash; Jay Osmond, American drummer and singer
* 1955 &ndash; Ken Salazar, American politician
* 1955 &ndash; Shoko Asahara, Japanese cult leader (Aum Shinrikyo)
* 1956 &ndash; Mark Evans, Australian musician (AC/DC)
* 1956 &ndash; John Cowsill, American musician
* 1956 &ndash; Eduardo Rodriguez, former President of Bolivia
* 1957 &ndash; Mark Dean, American computer scientist
* 1958 &ndash; Ian Woosnam, Welsh golfer
* 1958 &ndash; Kevin Curren, South African tennis player
* 1959 &ndash; Larry Stewart, American singer
* 1960 &ndash; Debra Marshall, American wrestler, manager and actress
* 1961 &ndash; Simone Young, Australian conductor
* 1962 &ndash; Raimo Summanen, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
* 1962 &ndash; Morioka Hiroyuki, Japanese writer
* 1962 &ndash; Jon Bon Jovi, American musician (Bon Jovi)
* 1963 &ndash; Anthony Albanese, Australian politician
* 1963 &ndash; Henry Bolton, British politician, former leader of UKIP
* 1965 &ndash; Lembit Opik, British politician
* 1968 &ndash; Daniel Craig, British actor
* 1970 &ndash; Alexander Armstrong, British comedian and television presenter
* 1970 &ndash; James Purnell, British politician
* 1971 &ndash; Dave Gorman, British comedian
* 1971 &ndash; Lisa Lackey, Australian actress
* 1971 &ndash; Amber Smith, American actress and model
* 1971 &ndash; Method Man, American rapper, producer and actor
* 1971 &ndash; Norbert Hofer, Austrian politician
* 1972 &ndash; Mauricio Pochettino, Argentine footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Trevor Sinclair, English footballer
* 1973 &ndash; Dejan Bodiroga, Serbian basketball player

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; França, Brazilian footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Chris Martin, English musician (Coldplay)
* 1977 &ndash; Andrew Strauss, English cricketer
* 1979 &ndash; Sergei Davydov, Belarussian figure skater
* 1979 &ndash; Damien Duff, Irish footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Francesco Tavano, Italian footballer
* 1979 &ndash; Nicky Weaver, English footballer
* 1980 &ndash; Rebel Wilson, Australian actress
* 1981 &ndash; Bryce Dallas Howard, American actress, writer and director
* 1981 &ndash; Lance Cade, American professional wrestler (d. 2010)
* 1982 &ndash; Henrik Lundqvist, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1982 &ndash; Kevin Kuranyi, German footballer
* 1982 &ndash; Ben Roethlisberger, American football player
* 1982 &ndash; Pilou Asbaek, Danish actor
* 1982 &ndash; Jade Galbraith, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1983 &ndash; Ryan Shannon, American ice hockey player
* 1983 &ndash; Lisandro Lopez, Argentine footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Elizabeth Jagger, English model and actress
* 1985 &ndash; Suso Santana, Spanish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Luke Pritchard, British singer (The Kooks)
* 1986 &ndash; Babacar Gueye, French–Senegalese footballer
* 1988 &ndash; Matthew Mitcham, Australian diver
* 1988 &ndash; James Arthur, British singer
* 1988 &ndash; Dexter Pittman, American basketball player
* 1989 &ndash; Toby Alderweireld, Belgian footballer
* 1989 &ndash; Marcel Hirscher, Austrian alpine skier
* 1990 &ndash; Rauno Alliku, Estonian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Lee Hongki, South Korean singer and actor
* 1993 &ndash; Mariya Yaremchuk, Ukrainian singer
* 1997 &ndash; Becky G, American rapper
* 1998 &ndash; Tua Tagovailoa, American football player
* 2016 &ndash; Prince Oscar, Duke of Skane, Swedish royal

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 672 &ndash; Chad of Mercia, Anglo–Saxon abbot
* 855 &ndash; Lothair I, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
* 1127 &ndash; Charles I, Count of Flanders
* 1316 &ndash; Marjorie Bruce, died shortly after giving birth to Robert II of Scotland, (b. 1296)
* 1589 &ndash; Alessandro Farnese, Italian cardinal (b. 1520)
* 1619 &ndash; Anne of Denmark, Queen Consort of Scotland, England and Ireland (b. 1574)
* 1729 &ndash; Francesco Bianchini, Italian philosopher and scientist (b. 1662)
* 1791 &ndash; John Wesley, English founder of Methodism (b. 1703)
* 1797 &ndash; Horace Walpole, English politician and writer (b. 1717)
* 1829 &ndash; Karl Gottfried Hagen, German polymath (b. 1749)
* 1835 &ndash; Francis, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1768)
* 1840 &ndash; Heinrich Wilhelm Matthias Olbers, German physician and astronomer (b. 1758)
* 1855 &ndash; Tsar Nicholas I of Russia (b. 1796)
* 1895 &ndash; Berthe Morisot, French painter (b. 1841)
* 1895 &ndash; Isma'il Pasha, Governor of Egypt (b. 1830)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1919 &ndash; Melchora Aquino, Filipino national hero (b. 1812)
* 1921 &ndash; Nicholas I of Montenegro (b. 1841)
* 1930 &ndash; D. H. Lawrence, British writer (b. 1885)
* 1939 &ndash; Howard Carter, British archaeologist (b. 1874)
* 1943 &ndash; Gisela Januszewska, Austrian physicist (b. 1867)
* 1945 &ndash; Emily Carr, Canadian artist (b. 1871)
* 1949 &ndash; Pietro Ferrero, Italian businessman and confectioner (b. 1898)
* 1953 &ndash; James Lightbody, American athlete (b. 1882)
* 1960 &ndash; Stanislaw Taczak, Polish general (b. 1874)
* 1962 &ndash; Charles Jean de la Vallee-Poussin, Belgian mathematician (b. 1866)
* 1965 &ndash; Mikheil Tsereteli, Georgian historian and diplomat (b. 1878)
* 1967 &ndash; Jose Martinez Ruiz, Spanish poet and writer (b. 1873)
* 1975 &ndash; Josiah Mwangi Kariuki, Kenyan politician and opposition activist (b. 1929) (unsolved murder)
* 1982 &ndash; Philip K. Dick, American writer (b. 1928)
* 1987 &ndash; Randolph Scott, American actor and director (b. 1898)
* 1987 &ndash; Lolo Soetoro, Indonesian stepfather of Barack Obama (b. 1935)
* 1991 &ndash; Serge Gainsbourg, French singer (b. 1928)
* 1994 &ndash; Maurice Bambier, French politician (b. 1925)
* 1994 &ndash; Anita Morris, American actress and singer (b. 1943)
* 1999 &ndash; Dusty Springfield, English singer (b. 1939)
* 2000 &ndash; Sandra Schmirler, Canadian curler (b. 1963)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Hank Ballard, American singer (b. 1927)
* 2004 &ndash; Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (b. 1918)
* 2007 &ndash; Henri Troyat, French writer (b. 1911)
* 2008 &ndash; Jeff Healey, Canadian musician (b. 1966)
* 2009 &ndash; Joao Bernardo Vieira, President of Guinea-Bissau (b. 1939)
* 2009 &ndash; Ernst Benda, German politician (b. 1925)
* 2010 &ndash; Winston Spencer-Churchill, British politician (b. 1940)
* 2011 &ndash; Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani politician (b. 1968)
* 2011 &ndash; Thor Vilhjalmsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1925)
* 2013 &ndash; Hans Schnitger, Dutch field hockey player (b. 1915)
* 2014 &ndash; Ryhor Baradulin, Belarussian painter (b. 1935)
* 2014 &ndash; Molly Bobak, Canadian writer, painter and printmaker (b. 1922)
* 2014 &ndash; Peter Bares, German composer (b. 1936)
* 2015 &ndash; Francisco González Ledesma, Spanish novelist, comics writer, and journalist (b. 1927)
* 2015 &ndash; Dave Mackay, Scottish footballer (b. 1934)
* 2015 &ndash; Dean Hess, American minister and air force colonel (b. 1917)
* 2016 &ndash; Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern, German royal and art historian (b. 1932)
* 2016 &ndash; Aubrey McClendon, American energy and basketball executive (b. 1959)
* 2016 &ndash; Janusz Bolonek, Polish Roman Catholic prelate and diplomat (b. 1938)
* 2016 &ndash; Marion Patrick Jones, Trinidadian writer (b. 1931)
* 2016 &ndash; Paul Webley, English educator (b. 1953)
* 2017 &ndash; Tommy Gemmell, Scottish footballer (b. 1943)
* 2017 &ndash; Simon Hobday, South African golfer (b. 1940)
* 2017 &ndash; Howard Schmidt, American cybersecurity advisor (b. 1950)
* 2017 &ndash; Andrés Ocaña, Spanish politician (b. 1954)
* 2018 &ndash; Gillo Dorfles, Italian art critic, painter and philosopher (b. 1910)
* 2018 &ndash; Ota Filip, Czech novelist and journalist (b. 1930)
* 2018 &ndash; Brandon Jenkins, American singer-songwriter (b. 1969)
* 2018 &ndash; Carlo Ripa di Meana, Italian politician (b. 1929)
* 2019 &ndash; Arnulf Baring, German political scientist and historian (b. 1932)
* 2019 &ndash; Keith Davis, New Zealand rugby union player (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Fred Hill, American baseball coach (b. 1934)
* 2019 &ndash; Med Hondo, Mauritanian–French film director, screenwriter and actor (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Francisco Macri, Italian–Argentine businessman (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Keith Harvey Miller, American politician, 3rd Governor of Alaska (b. 1925)
* 2019 &ndash; Ogden R. Reid, American politician and diplomat (b. 1925)
* 2019 &ndash; Werner Schneyder, Austrian director and actor (b. 1937)
* 2019 &ndash; 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)