March 7

## Events 
### Up to 1900 
* 161 &ndash; Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies.
* 238 &ndash; Roman subjects in North Africa revolt against Maximus Thrax and elect Gordian I as Roman Emperor.
* 321 &ndash; Constantine announces that Sunday is a rest day in Europe.
* 1277 &ndash; Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
* 1573 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops kill over 2,000 Albanian captives.
* 1850 &ndash; US Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in support of the Compromise of 1850.
* 1862 &ndash; American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
* 1871 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
* 1897 &ndash; Cornflakes are first served at a sanatorium in Michigan, having been invented by John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg.
* 1900 &ndash; German liner SS *Wilhelm der Grosse* becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1902 &ndash; Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch – A Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts a heavy defeat on British forces.
* 1912 &ndash; Roald Amundsen announces that his Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
* 1914 &ndash; Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
* 1927 &ndash; A magnitude 7.6 earthquake its Tango Province, Japan, killing 3,000 people.
* 1936 &ndash; Germany re–occupies the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
* 1945 &ndash; World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
* 1950 &ndash; The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
* 1951 &ndash; Korean War: Operation Ripper – UN troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
* 1965 &ndash; A Civil rights march by 600 people in Selma, Alabama, is forcefully broken.
* 1968 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding leader of Bangladesh, delivers a historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
* 1980 &ndash; Oil tanker "Tanio" breaks in two off Brittany.
* 1985 &ndash; The song "We are the World" receives its international release.
* 1986 &ndash; Divers from the USS *Preserver* discover the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
* 1989 &ndash; Iran and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses".
* 1992 &ndash; Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Head of State in Georgia.

### From 2001 
* 2002 &ndash; The 2002 Winter Paralympics begin in Salt Lake City.
* 2004 &ndash; Kostas Karamanlis is elected Prime Minister of Greece.
* 2004 &ndash; The Samson ferry sinks in a cyclone between Madagascar and the Comoros.
* 2006 &ndash; Terror organization Lashkar–e–Taiba co–ordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
* 2007 &ndash; The UK House of Commons supports by a majority to have an elected House of Lords.
* 2009 &ndash; The Kepler space observatory is launched to find Earth–like planets orbiting around other stars.
* 2009 &ndash; The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians outside a barracks in Northern Ireland.
* 2010 &ndash; Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, for her movie *The Hurt Locker*.
* 2014 &ndash; The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi, Southern Russia.
* 2015 &ndash; An attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, leaves an estimated 50 people dead.
* 2017 &ndash; 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 &ndash; Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
* 1481 &ndash; Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
* 1556 &ndash; Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
* 1663 &ndash; Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
* 1671 &ndash; Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
* 1671 &ndash; Ellis Wynne, Welsh clergyman and writer (d. 1734)
* 1678 &ndash; Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
* 1693 &ndash; Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
* 1715 &ndash; Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
* 1715 &ndash; Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
* 1730 &ndash; Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
* 1765 &ndash; Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
* 1785 &ndash; Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
* 1788 &ndash; Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
* 1792 &ndash; John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
* 1802 &ndash; Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter (d. 1873)
* 1835 &ndash; Daniel Giraud Elliot, American zoologist (d. 1915)
* 1837 &ndash; Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
* 1849 &ndash; Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist (d. 1926)
* 1850 &ndash; Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
* 1850 &ndash; Champ Clark, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
* 1857 &ndash; Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
* 1866 &ndash; Hans Fruhstorfer, German explorer and entomologist (d. 1922)
* 1868 &ndash; Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (d. 1933)
* 1872 &ndash; Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (d. 1944)
* 1875 &ndash; Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
* 1878 &ndash; Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
* 1886 &ndash; Virginia Pearson, American silent movie actress (d. 1958)
* 1888 &ndash; Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)

### 1901 &ndash; 1950 
* 1901 &ndash; Beatrice Roberts, American actress (d. 1970)
* 1902 &ndash; Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
* 1904 &ndash; Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
* 1904 &ndash; Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
* 1908 &ndash; Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
* 1911 &ndash; Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet politician (d. 2008)
* 1914 &ndash; John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
* 1914 &ndash; Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
* 1915 &ndash; Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
* 1917 &ndash; Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
* 1922 &ndash; Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (d. 2009) 
* 1924 &ndash; Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d. 2005)
* 1924 &ndash; Kobo Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor (d. 1993)
* 1925 &ndash; René Gagnon, American navy officer (d. 1979)
* 1927 &ndash; James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
* 1927 &ndash; Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
* 1930 &ndash; Robert D. Cardona, American model–maker
* 1930 &ndash; Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (d. 2007)
* 1930 &ndash; Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2017)
* 1933 &ndash; Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (d. 2001)
* 1933 &ndash; Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (d. 2018)
* 1933 &ndash; Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
* 1934 &ndash; Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
* 1935 &ndash; Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Church Patriarch and cardinal
* 1936 &ndash; Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2015)
* 1938 &ndash; Albert Fert, French physicist
* 1938 &ndash; David Baltimore, American biologist
* 1938 &ndash; Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (d. 2014)
* 1939 &ndash; Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (d. 2010)
* 1940 &ndash; Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
* 1940 &ndash; Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
* 1942 &ndash; Michael Eisner, American movie studio executive
* 1942 &ndash; Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (d. 2007)
* 1943 &ndash; Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
* 1944 &ndash; Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer
* 1944 &ndash; Michael Rosbash, American biologist and Nobel laureate
* 1944 &ndash; Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
* 1945 &ndash; John Heard, American actor
* 1945 &ndash; Bob Herbert, American journalist
* 1945 &ndash; Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
* 1947 &ndash; Richard Lawson, American actor
* 1947 &ndash; Walter Röhrl, German rally driver
* 1949 &ndash; Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
* 1949 &ndash; Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer
* 1950 &ndash; Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer

### 1951 &ndash; 1975 
* 1952 &ndash; William Boyd, Scottish writer, screenwriter and producer
* 1952 &ndash; Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
* 1952 &ndash; Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
* 1953 &ndash; Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountaineer
* 1954 &ndash; Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and first openly lesbian bishop
* 1955 &ndash; Anupam Kher, Indian actor
* 1956 &ndash; Bryan Cranston, American actor
* 1956 &ndash; Andrea Levy, British writer (d. 2019)
* 1958 &ndash; Alan Hale, American astronomer
* 1958 &ndash; Rik Mayall, British actor and comedian (d. 2014)
* 1959 &ndash; Tom Lehman, American golfer
* 1959 &ndash; Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
* 1960 &ndash; Ivan Lendl, Czech–American tennis player and coach of Andy Murray
* 1960 &ndash; Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
* 1961 &ndash; Mary Beth Evans, American actress
* 1961 &ndash; Sanae Takaichi, Prime Minister of Japan
* 1962 &ndash; Taylor Dayne, American singer
* 1963 &ndash; Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1963 &ndash; E. L. James, English writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)
* 1964 &ndash; Bret Easton Ellis, American writer and screenwriter
* 1964 &ndash; Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
* 1964 &ndash; Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician
* 1965 &ndash; Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
* 1966 &ndash; Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1967 &ndash; Ruthie Henshall, British theatre actress and singer
* 1967 &ndash; Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
* 1969 &ndash; Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
* 1970 &ndash; Petra Mede, Swedish comedienne, dancer and television host
* 1970 &ndash; Rachel Weisz, British actress
* 1971 &ndash; Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
* 1971 &ndash; Matthew Vaughn, British movie producer and director
* 1972 &ndash; Jang Dong-Gun, South Korean actor and musician
* 1972 &ndash; Simon Pryce, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
* 1973 &ndash; Sébastien Izambard, Swiss operatic singer (Il Divo)
* 1973 &ndash; Ray Parlour, English footballer
* 1974 &ndash; Jenna Fischer, American actress
* 1974 &ndash; Darryl Stephens, American actor
* 1975 &ndash; Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model

### From 1976 
* 1977 &ndash; Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor
* 1977 &ndash; Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
* 1977 &ndash; Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
* 1977 &ndash; Jerome Fernandez, French handball player
* 1980 &ndash; Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
* 1980 &ndash; Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
* 1980 &ndash; Laura Prepon, American actress
* 1982 &ndash; Marc Planus, French footballer
* 1983 &ndash; Manucho, Angolan footballer
* 1984 &ndash; Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
* 1986 &ndash; Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
* 1987 &ndash; Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
* 1987 &ndash; Eleni Foureira, Albanian–Greek singer
* 1988 &ndash; Larry Asante, American football player
* 1989 &ndash; Gerald Anderson, Filipino–American actor and model
* 1990 &ndash; Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
* 1990 &ndash; Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Quenten Martinus, Curaçaoan footballer
* 1991 &ndash; Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
* 1992 &ndash; Bel Powley, English actress
* 1994 &ndash; An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
* 1994 &ndash; Jordan Pickford, English footballer
* 2009 &ndash; Prince Umberto of Savoy

## Deaths 
### Up to 1900 
* 322 BC &ndash; Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
* 161 &ndash; Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
* 203 &ndash; Felicity and Perpetua, early Christian martyrs
* 413 &ndash; Heraclianus, Roman politician
* 851 &ndash; Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
* 1274 &ndash; Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
* 1550 &ndash; William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
* 1625 &ndash; Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
* 1724 &ndash; Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
* 1778 &ndash; Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
* 1786 &ndash; Franz Benda, Bohemian composer (b. 1709)
* 1809 &ndash; Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1753)
* 1875 &ndash; John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)

### 1901 &ndash; 2000 
* 1920 &ndash; Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
* 1932 &ndash; Aristide Briand, French politician and diplomat (b. 1862)
* 1938 &ndash; Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
* 1942 &ndash; Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, Communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
* 1952 &ndash; Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Guru (b. 1893)
* 1954 &ndash; Otto Diels, German chemist (b. 1876)
* 1957 &ndash; Wyndham Lewis, British writer (b. 1882)
* 1961 &ndash; Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
* 1965 &ndash; Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (b. 1889)
* 1967 &ndash; Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
* 1969 &ndash; Sampurnanand, Indian politician (b. 1910)
* 1974 &ndash; Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
* 1975 &ndash; Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
* 1981 &ndash; Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
* 1983 &ndash; Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
* 1986 &ndash; Jacob J. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
* 1988 &ndash; Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1914)
* 1988 &ndash; Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
* 1991 &ndash; Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
* 1997 &ndash; Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
* 1999 &ndash; Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (b. 1928)
* 1999 &ndash; Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
* 2000 &ndash; Pee Wee King, American country musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1914)
* 2000 &ndash; Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)

### From 2001 
* 2001 &ndash; Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
* 2004 &ndash; Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
* 2005 &ndash; John Box, British movie production designer and art director (b. 1920)
* 2005 &ndash; Debra Hill, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1950)
* 2006 &ndash; John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
* 2006 &ndash; Gordon Parks, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1912)
* 2006 &ndash; Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
* 2010 &ndash; Kenneth Dover, British classicist (b. 1920)
* 2012 &ndash; Wlodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
* 2012 &ndash; Felicien Marceau, French novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1913)
* 2013 &ndash; Peter Banks, English musician (b. 1947)
* 2013 &ndash; Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
* 2013 &ndash; Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Heiko Bellmann, German biologist, writer and photographer (b. 1950)
* 2014 &ndash; Uwe Timm, German writer and anarchist (b. 1932)
* 2014 &ndash; Hal Douglas, American voice actor and announcer (b. 1924)
* 2014 &ndash; Ned O'Gorman, American poet (b. 1929)
* 2015 &ndash; Gregorio Bundio, Argentine footballer and manager (El Salvador national football team) (b. 1928)
* 2015 &ndash; Edmond Malinvaud, French economist (b. 1923)
* 2015 &ndash; F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
* 2016 &ndash; Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (b. 1950)
* 2016 &ndash; Jean-Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
* 2016 &ndash; Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (b. 1936)
* 2017 &ndash; Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
* 2017 &ndash; Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1933)
* 2017 &ndash; Helen Sommers, American politician (b. 1932)
* 2017 &ndash; Lynne Stewart, American attorney (b. 1939)
* 2017 &ndash; Hans Georg Dehmelt, German–American physicist (b. 1922)
* 2017 &ndash; Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (b. 1931)
* 2017 &ndash; Peter M. Gruber, Austrian mathematician (b. 1941)
* 2017 &ndash; Juan Carlos Touriño, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
* 2018 &ndash; Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
* 2018 &ndash; Woody Durham, American basketball radio announcer (b. 1941)
* 2018 &ndash; Charles Thone, American politician, 34th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
* 2018 &ndash; Antonia La Negra, Spanish singer and dancer (b. 1936)
* 2019 &ndash; Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (b. 1930)
* 2019 &ndash; Joseph M. Boardman, American railroad executive (b. 1948)
* 2019 &ndash; Robert Braithwaite, British marine engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
* 2019 &ndash; Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1941)
* 2019 &ndash; Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
* 2019 &ndash; Dick Nichols, American banker and politician (b. 1926)
* 2019 &ndash; Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (b. 1935)

## Festivals
*Felicity and Perpetua (Roman Catholicism)
*Teacher's Day (Albania)