March 15

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 44 BC &ndash; Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March.
* 280 &ndash; Sun Hao of Eastern Wu surrenders to Sima Yan, beginning the Jin Dynasty.
* 933 &ndash; After a 10–year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut River.
* 1311 &ndash; Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece.
* 1493 &ndash; Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
* 1545 &ndash; First meeting of the Council of Trent.
* 1672 &ndash; Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence.
* 1781 &ndash; American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse – Near present–day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400.
* 1781 &ndash; French astronomer Pierre Mechain discovers the spiral galaxies Messier 98, Messier 99 and Messier 100.
* 1783 &ndash; In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'état never takes place.
* 1820 &ndash; Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state.
* 1827 &ndash; The University of Toronto is chartered.
* 1848 &ndash; Revolution breaks out in Pest in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party.
* 1867 &ndash; Hungary gains autonomy.
* 1875 &ndash; Archbishop of New York John McCloskey becomes the first American cardinal.
* 1877 &ndash; The first Test cricket match begins, between England and Australia.
* 1888 &ndash; The Anglo-Tibetan War of 1888 begins.
* 1892 &ndash; Liverpool FC is founded.

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1906 &ndash; Rolls-Royce Ltd. is registered.
* 1909 &ndash; Selfridges department store opens in London.
* 1916 &ndash; President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the Mexican border to pursue Pancho Villa.
* 1917 &ndash; Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates himself and his son from the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar.
* 1919 &ndash; The American Legion forms in Paris.
* 1922 &ndash; After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt.
* 1926 &ndash; In Greece, Theodoros Pangalos is elected President without opposition.
* 1931 &ndash; The ship SS *Viking* explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 people on board.
* 1933 &ndash; Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting an Austrofascist dictatorship.
* 1939 &ndash; World War II: Nazi troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist.
* 1941 &ndash; The first Philippine Airlines flight takes place, from Manila to Baguio City.
* 1943 &ndash; World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov – the Germans retook the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting.
* 1944 &ndash; World War II: Battle of Monte Cassino – Allied aircraft bomb the Nazi–held monastery and stage an assault.
* 1944 &ndash; First flight of a Philippines Airlines plane. It is the oldest airline in Asia to operate under its original name.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia.

### 1951 &ndash; 2000 
* 1952 &ndash; In Cilaos, Réunion, 73&nbsp;inches (1,870mm) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record.
* 1956 &ndash; The Broadway musical *My Fair Lady* opens in New York City.
* 1961 &ndash; South Africa withdraws from the British Commonwealth.
* 1963 &ndash; Victor Feguer, a Federal prisoner, is put to death at the Fort Madison, Iowa prison. This would be the last execution of a Federal prisoner until the execution of Timothy McVeigh in 2001.
* 1965 &ndash; Lyndon B. Johnson says "We Shall Overcome" in support of the Voting Rights Act.
* 1970 &ndash; The Expo '70 world's fair opens in Osaka, Japan.
* 1976 &ndash; KISS releases the legendary album *Destroyer*.
* 1978 &ndash; Somalia and Ethiopia sign a truce to end the Ethiopian-Somali War.
* 1985 &ndash; The first internet domain name is registered – symbolics.com.
* 1985 &ndash; Brazil's military dictatorship ends.
* 1986 &ndash; The New World Hotel in Singapore collapses, killing 33 people.
* 1988 &ndash; Publication of Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind theory.
* 1988 &ndash; The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins.
* 1989 &ndash; The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established.
* 1990 &ndash; Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying.
* 1990 &ndash; Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union.
* 1990 &ndash; The Soviet Union announces that Lithuania's declaration of independence is invalid.
* 1990 &ndash; The ethnic clashes of Targu Mures begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas.
* 1991 &ndash; Four Los Angeles, California police officers are indicted for the videotaped March 3, 1991 beating of motorist Rodney King during an arrest.
* 1991 &ndash; Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post–World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights.

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; An explosion occurs on a Petrobras oil platform off Brazil, causing a major oil spill.
* 2003 &ndash; Hu Jintao becomes the leader of the People's Republic of China, with Wen Jiabao as Premier.
* 2003 &ndash; The Central African Republic's President Ange-Félix Patassé is removed in a coup by Francois Bozizé.
* 2004 &ndash; Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed.
* 2008 &ndash; An explosion occurs at an Albanian Army and Munitions base, killing 26 people. It happens near the village of Gerdec.
* 2011 &ndash; Arab Spring: The currently still ongoing civil war in Syria begins.
* 2013 &ndash; A transition of power within the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China is completed, with Xi Jinping as President and Li Keqiang as Premier.
* 2019 &ndash; Two shootings happen in Christchurch, New Zealand during a white supremacist terrorist attack. They killed 50 people.

## Births 
### Up to 1800 
* 933 &ndash; Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor (d. 963)
* 1275 &ndash; Margaret of England, English princess (d. 1333)
* 1455 &ndash; Pietro Accotti, Italian cardinal (d. 1532)
* 1584 &ndash; Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (d. 1663) 
* 1591 &ndash; Alexandre de Rhodes, French missionary and lexicographer (d. 1660)
* 1611 &ndash; Jan Fyt, Flemish painter (d. 1661)
* 1638 &ndash; Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661)
* 1660 &ndash; Olof Rudbeck the Younger, Swedish anatomist and botanist (d. 1740)
* 1684 &ndash; Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755)
* 1713 &ndash; Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762)
* 1737 &ndash; Amarindra, Queen Consort of Siam (d. 1826)
* 1738 &ndash; Cesare Beccaria, Italian philosopher (d. 1794)
* 1754 &ndash; Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (d. 1842)
* 1767 &ndash; Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845)
* 1770 &ndash; Samuel Bell, Governor of New Hampshire (d. 1850)
* 1772 &ndash; Jozsef Ficzko, Burgenland Croatian writer (d. 1843)
* 1779 &ndash; William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
* 1792 &ndash; Virginie Ancelot, French painter, writer and playwright (d. 1875)
* 1794 &ndash; Friedrich Christian Diez, German philologist (d. 1876)

### 1801 &ndash; 1900 
* 1809 &ndash; Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876)
* 1809 &ndash; William Cannon, Governor of Delaware (d. 1865)
* 1813 &ndash; John Snow, English physician (d. 1858)
* 1818 &ndash; Mariano Alvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924)
* 1821 &ndash; Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian physicist and chemist (d. 1895)
* 1824 &ndash; Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907)
* 1830 &ndash; Paul von Heyse, German writer (d. 1914)
* 1830 &ndash; Elisée Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905)
* 1831 &ndash; Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary and saint (d. 1881)  
* 1835 &ndash; Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916)
* 1838 &ndash; Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889)
* 1851 &ndash; William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939)
* 1852 &ndash; Augusta, Lady Gregory, Irish playwright (d. 1932)
* 1854 &ndash; Emil Adolf von Behring, German doctor, won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1901) (d. 1917)
* 1857 &ndash; Christian Michelsen, Prime Minister of Norway (d. 1925)
* 1864 &ndash; Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935)
* 1865 &ndash; Manuk Abeghian, Armenian writer and scholar (d. 1944)
* 1866 &ndash; Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (of the paperclip) (d. 1910)
* 1868 &ndash; Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944)
* 1869 &ndash; Stanislaw Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953)
* 1874 &ndash; Eugene Fiset, Canadian physician and politician (d. 1951)
* 1874 &ndash; Harold L. Ickes, American politician (d. 1952)
* 1878 &ndash; Reza Shah Pahlavi of Persia (d. 1944)
* 1882 &ndash; James Lightbody, American middle–distance runner (d. 1953)
* 1887 &ndash; Marjorie Merriwether Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1973)
* 1890 &ndash; Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980)
* 1897 &ndash; Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986)
* 1900 &ndash; Frances Partridge, English writer (d. 2004)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1902 &ndash; Hu Gwan-sun, South Korean activist (d. 1920)
* 1905 &ndash; Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, German lawyer (d. 1944)
* 1907 &ndash; Zarah Leander, Swedish singer and actress (d. 1981)
* 1910 &ndash; Tom Richards, Welsh runner (d. 1985)
* 1912 &ndash; Lightning Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982)
* 1913 &ndash; Rosita Contreras, Argentine actress (d. 1962)
* 1916 &ndash; Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslavian politician (d. 2001)
* 1916 &ndash; Harry James, American musician and bandleader (d. 1983)
* 1918 &ndash; Punch Imlach, Canadian ice hockey coach and manager (d. 1987)
* 1919 &ndash; Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002)
* 1920 &ndash; Lawrence Sanders, American writer (d. 1998)
* 1920 &ndash; E. Donnall Thomas, American physician (d. 2012)
* 1921 &ndash; Jean Freeman, Welsh actress
* 1924 &ndash; Yuri Bondarev, Russian writer
* 1924 &ndash; Walter Gotell, German–British actor (d. 1997)
* 1926 &ndash; Norm Van Brocklin, American football player and coach (d. 1983)
* 1927 &ndash; Maija Isola, Finnish designer (d. 2001)
* 1927 &ndash; Christian Marquand, French director and actor (d. 2000)
* 1928 &ndash; Bob Wilber, American clarinetist and saxophonist
* 1930 &ndash; Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist (d. 2019)
* 1930 &ndash; Martin Karplus, Austrian–American chemist
* 1931 &ndash; Bill Burlison, American politician (d. 2019)
* 1932 &ndash; Alan Bean, American astronaut (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Philippe de Broca, French movie director
* 1933 &ndash; Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (d. 2020)
* 1934 &ndash; Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist (d. 1994)
* 1935 &ndash; Judd Hirsch, American actor
* 1935 &ndash; Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist
* 1936 &ndash; David Andrews, Irish politician
* 1936 &ndash; Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986)
* 1937 &ndash; Valentin Rasputin, Russian poet and writer (d. 2015)
* 1939 &ndash; Ted Kaufman, American politician
* 1940 &ndash; Frank Dobson, British politician
* 1940 &ndash; Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead)
* 1941 &ndash; Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys)
* 1942 &ndash; The Iron Sheik, Iranian–American professional wrestler
* 1943 &ndash; David Cronenberg, Canadian director
* 1943 &ndash; Lynda La Plante, English writer and screenwriter
* 1943 &ndash; Sly Stone, American singer-songwriter and producer
* 1944 &ndash; Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician
* 1944 &ndash; Francis Mankiewicz, Canadian movie director and screenwriter (d. 1993)
* 1944 &ndash; Jacques Doillon, French movie director
* 1945 &ndash; Mark J. Green, American politician
* 1946 &ndash; Bobby Bonds, American baseball player
* 1947 &ndash; Ry Cooder, American guitarist
* 1948 &ndash; Sérgio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003)
* 1950 &ndash; Jorgen Olsen, Danish singer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; Howard Koh, American politician
* 1952 &ndash; Philip Green, English businessman
* 1952 &ndash; Earl Ray Tomblin, Governor of West Virginia
* 1953 &ndash; Kumba Iala, former President of Guinea-Bissau (d. 2014)
* 1953 &ndash; Richard Bruton, Irish politician
* 1954 &ndash; Massimo Bubola, Italian singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer
* 1954 &ndash; Bob Budiansky, American comic book writer, illustrator and editor
* 1955 &ndash; Dee Snider, American singer
* 1955 &ndash; Roberto Maroni, Italian politician
* 1956 &ndash; Paramanga Ernest Yonli, Burkina Faso politician
* 1957 &ndash; Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese–American actor
* 1957 &ndash; Juan José Ibarretxe, Basque politician 
* 1957 &ndash; David Silverman, American animator
* 1959 &ndash; Harold Baines, baseball player
* 1959 &ndash; Ben Okri, Nigerian writer
* 1960 &ndash; Phil Walsh, Australian rules footballer and coach (d. 2015)
* 1961 &ndash; Terry Cummings, American basketball player
* 1961 &ndash; Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player
* 1962 &ndash; Jimmy Baio, American actor
* 1962 &ndash; Markus Merk, German football referee
* 1962 &ndash; Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer
* 1963 &ndash; Bret Michaels, American musician
* 1964 &ndash; Fernando De Napoli, Italian footballer
* 1965 &ndash; Svetlana Medvedeva, former First Lady of Russia
* 1967 &ndash; Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist
* 1968 &ndash; Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer
* 1968 &ndash; Mark McGrath, American musician
* 1968 &ndash; Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer, actress and producer
* 1968 &ndash; Jon Schaffer, American musician
* 1969 &ndash; Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician
* 1971 &ndash; Penny Lancaster, English model and photographer
* 1972 &ndash; Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182)
* 1972 &ndash; Holger Stromberg, German chef
* 1973 &ndash; Robin Hunnicke, American video game designer and producer
* 1973 &ndash; Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor
* 1973 &ndash; Masayuki Naruse, Japanese wrestler and mixed martial artist
* 1974 &ndash; Robert Fick, American baseball player
* 1974 &ndash; Anders Andersson, Swedish footballer
* 1975 &ndash; Eva Longoria, American actress
* 1975 &ndash; Will.i.am, American musician (Black Eyed Peas)

### From 1976 
* 1976 &ndash; Katherine Brooks, American director, producer and screenwriter
* 1977 &ndash; Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park)
* 1978 &ndash; Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater
* 1978 &ndash; Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot)
* 1981 &ndash; Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
* 1981 &ndash; Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer
* 1982 &ndash; Wilson Kipsang Kiprotich, Kenyan long jumper
* 1982 &ndash; Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer
* 1984 &ndash; Yo Yo Honey Singh, Indian rapper, producer and actor
* 1985 &ndash; Eva Amurri, American actress
* 1985 &ndash; Tom Chilton, English racing driver
* 1985 &ndash; Javier Garrido, Spanish footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Curtis Davies, English footballer
* 1985 &ndash; Cat Boyd, Scottish trade unionist
* 1988 &ndash; James Reimer, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1989 &ndash; Sandro Raniere, Brazilian footballer
* 1990 &ndash; Siobhan Magnus, American singer-songwriter
* 1991 &ndash; Xavier Henry, American basketball player
* 1991 &ndash; Kii Kitano, Japanese actress
* 1992 &ndash; Anna Shaffer, English actress
* 1993 &ndash; Alia Bhatt, Indian actress and singer
* 1993 &ndash; Paul Pogba, French footballer
* 1993 &ndash; Alyssa Reid, Canadian singer
* 1994 &ndash; Nijel Amos, Botswana athlete
* 2000 &ndash; Kristian Kostov, Bulgarian–Russian singer

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 44 BC &ndash; Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
* 220 &ndash; Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
* 493 &ndash; Odoacer, King of Italy (b. 435)
* 963 &ndash; Romanos II, Byzantine Emperor (b. 938)
* 1145 &ndash; Pope Lucius II
* 1311 &ndash; Battle of Halmyros:
**Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
**Thomas d'Autrementcourt, Lord of Salona, Marshal of Achaea
**Albert Pallavicini, Margrave of Bodonitza
**Giorgio I Ghisi, Triarch of Euboea, Lord of Tinos, Mykonos, Serifos and Keos
* 1346 &ndash; Shah Jalal of Bengal (b. 1271)
* 1416 &ndash; John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
* 1575 &ndash; Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
* 1587 &ndash; Kaspar Olevianus, German theologian (b. 1536)
* 1644 &ndash; Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (b. 1576)
* 1670 &ndash; John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
* 1673 &ndash; Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
* 1711 &ndash; Eusebio Kino, Italian priest and missionary (b. 1645)
* 1820 &ndash; Clemens Maria Hofbauer, Patron Saint of Vienna (b. 1751)
* 1842 &ndash; Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
* 1849 &ndash; Giuseppe Caspar Mezzafanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
* 1886 &ndash; Michael Hahn, 19th Governor of Louisiana (b. 1830)
* 1898 &ndash; Henry Bessemer, English engineer, inventor and businessman (b. 1813)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1907 &ndash; William D. Bloxham, Governor of Florida (b. 1835)
* 1921 &ndash; Talaat Pasha, Ottoman politician (b. 1874)
* 1937 &ndash; H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
* 1938 &ndash; Nikolai Bukharin, Soviet–Russian revolutionary and politician (b. 1888)
* 1941 &ndash; Alexei von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
* 1951 &ndash; John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek–South African astronomer (b. 1889)
* 1959 &ndash; Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
* 1961 &ndash; Akiba Rubinstein, Polish chess player (b. 1882)
* 1962 &ndash; Arthur Compton, American physicist (b. 1892)
* 1966 &ndash; Abe Saperstein, American basketball player and coach (b. 1902)
* 1969 &ndash; Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler (b. 1909)
* 1971 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948) 
* 1972 &ndash; Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
* 1975 &ndash; Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
* 1981 &ndash; René Clair, French movie director (b. 1898)
* 1983 &ndash; Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
* 1988 &ndash; Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double–agent (b. 1926)
* 1990 &ndash; Farzad Bazoft, Iranian–British journalist (b. 1958)
* 1991 &ndash; Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
* 1993 &ndash; Karl Mai, German footballer (b. 1928)
* 1998 &ndash; Benjamin Spock, American paediatrician and writer (b. 1903)

### From 2001 
* 2003 &ndash; Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
* 2004 &ndash; William Pickering, New Zealand–born space scientist (b. 1910)
* 2004 &ndash; John Pople, English chemist (b. 1925)
* 2006 &ndash; George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
* 2009 &ndash; Ron Silver, American actor (b. 1946)
* 2011 &ndash; Nate Dogg, American musician (b. 1969)
* 2012 &ndash; Bernardino Gonzalez Ruiz, President of Panama (b. 1911)
* 2013 &ndash; Booth Gardner, former Governor of Washington (b. 1936)
* 2014 &ndash; David Brenner, American comedian (b. 1936)
* 2014 &ndash; Scott Asheton, American musician (b. 1949)
* 2014 &ndash; Clarissa Dickson Wright, English chef (b. 1947)
* 2014 &ndash; Cees Veerman, Dutch singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1943)
* 2015 &ndash; Mike Porcaro, American musician (Toto) (b. 1955)
* 2015 &ndash; Xu Caihou, Chinese army general (b. 1943)
* 2015 &ndash; Narayan Desai, Indian writer (b. 1924)
* 2015 &ndash; Sally Forrest, American singer and actress (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Curtis Gans, American activist (b. 1937)
* 2016 &ndash; Asa Briggs, Baron Briggs, British historian and codebreaker (b. 1921)
* 2016 &ndash; Tamara Grigsby, American politician (b. 1974)
* 2016 &ndash; Earline W. Parmon, American politician  (b. 1943)
* 2016 &ndash; Seru Rabeni, Fijian rugby player (b. 1978)
* 2016 &ndash; Ralph C. Johnson, American politician (b. 1953)
* 2016 &ndash; Lyubka Rondova, Bulgarian folk singer (b. 1936)
* 2016 &ndash; Sylvia Anderson, British television producer and voice actress (b. 1927)
* 2017 &ndash; Sok An, Cambodian politician (b. 1950)
* 2017 &ndash; Enrique Morea, Argentine tennis player (b. 1924)
* 2017 &ndash; Dave Stallworth, American basketball player (b. 1941)
* 2018 &ndash; Tom Benson, American automobile dealer, philanthropist and sports team owner (b. 1927)
* 2018 &ndash; Ed Charles, American baseball player (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Augie Garrido, American baseball coach (b. 1939)
* 2018 &ndash; Mohamed Sayah, Tunisian politician (b. 1933)
* 2018 &ndash; Larry Kwong, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1923)
* 2019 &ndash; Okwui Enwezor, Nigerian art critic and writer (b. 1963)
* 2019 &ndash; Dave Hood Jr., American politician (b. 1954)
* 2019 &ndash; W. S. Merwin, American poet (b. 1927)
* 2020 &ndash; Vittorio Gregotti, Italian architect (b. 1927)

## Observances 
* National Day of Hungary – Revolution of 1848
* Holiday in Liberia – Birthday of the country's first President, Joseph Jenkins Roberts
* Honen Matsuri (Japan)
* Constitution Day (Belarus)
* World Day for Muslim Culture, Peace, Dialogue and Film
* World Consumer Rights Day
* World Contact Day
*Anniversary of the 2019 New Zealand Christchurch Mosque Shooting