On This Day: March 14 - Historical Events, Births & Deaths

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2021 Burmese security forces kill at least 65 civilians in the Hlaingthaya massacre. ↗
2019 Cyclone Idai makes landfall near Beira, Mozambique, causing devastating floods and over 1,000 deaths. ↗
2017 A naming ceremony for the chemical element nihonium takes place in Tokyo, with then Crown Prince Naruhito in attendance. ↗
2008 A series of riots, protests, and demonstrations erupt in Lhasa and subsequently spread elsewhere in Tibet. ↗
2007 The Nandigram violence in Nandigram, West Bengal, results in the deaths of at least 14 people. ↗
2006 The 2006 Chadian coup d'état attempt ends in failure. ↗
2006 Operation Bringing Home the Goods: Israeli troops raid an American-supervised Palestinian prison in Jericho to capture six Palestinian prisoners, including PFLP chief Ahmad Sa'adat. ↗
1995 Norman Thagard becomes the first American astronaut to ride to space on board a Russian launch vehicle. ↗
1991 Escondida in Chile's Atacama Desert –which was to become the worlds most productive copper mine– is officially inaugurated. ↗
1988 In the Johnson South Reef Skirmish Chinese forces defeat Vietnamese forces in an altercation over control of one of the Spratly Islands. ↗
1982 The South African government bombs the headquarters of the African National Congress in London. ↗
1980 LOT Polish Airlines Flight 007 crashes during final approach near Warsaw, Poland, killing 87 people, including a 14-man American boxing team. ↗
1979 Alia Royal Jordanian Flight 600 crashes at Doha International Airport, killing 45 people. ↗
1978 The Israel Defense Forces launch Operation Litani, a seven-day campaign to invade and occupy southern Lebanon. ↗
1972 Sterling Airways Flight 296 crashes near Kalba, United Arab Emirates while on approach to Dubai International Airport, killing 112 people. ↗
1967 The body of U.S. President John F. Kennedy is moved to a permanent burial place at Arlington National Cemetery. ↗
1964 Jack Ruby is convicted of killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the assassin who had shot and killed John F. Kennedy in the previous year. ↗
1961 A USAF B-52 bomber carrying nuclear weapons crashes near Yuba City, California. ↗
1951 Korean War: United Nations troops recapture Seoul for the second time. ↗
1945 The R.A.F. drop the Grand Slam bomb in action for the first time, on a railway viaduct near Bielefeld, Germany. ↗
1943 The Holocaust: The liquidation of the Kraków Ghetto is completed. ↗
1942 Anne Miller becomes the first American patient to be treated with penicillin, under the care of Orvan Hess and John Bumstead. ↗
1939 Slovakia declares independence under German pressure. ↗
1931 Alam Ara, India's first talking film, is released. ↗
1926 The El Virilla train accident, Costa Rica, kills 248 people and wounds another 93 when a train falls off a bridge over the Río Virilla between Heredia and Tibás. ↗
1923 Charlie Daly and three other members of the Irish Republican Army are executed by Irish Free State forces. ↗
1921 Six members of a group of Irish Republican Army activists known as the Forgotten Ten, are hanged in Dublin's Mountjoy Prison. ↗
1920 In the second of the 1920 Schleswig plebiscites, about 80% of the population in Zone II votes to remain part of Weimar Germany. ↗
1903 Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge, the first national wildlife refuge in the US, is established by President Theodore Roosevelt. ↗
1901 Utah governor Heber Manning Wells vetoes a bill that would have eased restriction on polygamy. ↗
1900 The Gold Standard Act is ratified, placing the United States currency on the gold standard. ↗
1885 The Mikado, a light opera by W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, receives its first public performance at the Savoy Theatre in London. ↗
1864 Rossini's Petite messe solennelle is first performed, by twelve singers, two pianists and a harmonium player in a mansion in Paris. ↗
1794 Eli Whitney is granted a patent for the cotton gin. ↗
1780 American Revolutionary War: Spanish forces capture Fort Charlotte in Mobile, Alabama, the last British frontier post capable of threatening New Orleans. ↗
1757 Admiral Sir John Byng is executed by firing squad aboard HMS Monarch for breach of the Articles of War. ↗
1674 The Third Anglo-Dutch War: The Battle of Ronas Voe results in the Dutch East India Company ship Wapen van Rotterdam being captured with a death toll of up to 300 Dutch crew and soldiers. ↗
1663 According to his own account, Otto von Guericke completes his book Experimenta Nova (ut vocantur) Magdeburgica de Vacuo Spatio, detailing his experiments on vacuum and his discovery of electrostatic repulsion. ↗
1647 Thirty Years' War: Bavaria, Cologne, France and Sweden sign the Truce of Ulm. ↗
1590 Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under Charles, Duke of Mayenne, during the French Wars of Religion. ↗
1074 Battle of Mogyoród: Dukes Géza and Ladislaus defeat their cousin Solomon, King of Hungary, forcing him to flee to Hungary's western borderland. ↗

2008 Abby Ryder Fortson, American actress ↗
2001 Nico Mannion, Italian-American basketball player ↗
2000 Chrisean Rock, American rapper and reality television personality ↗
2000 Jihoon, South Korean singer ↗
1999 Marvin Bagley III, American basketball player ↗
1998 Tyson Jost, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1997 Simone Biles – American gymnast ↗
1996 Batuhan Altıntaş, Turkish footballer ↗
1995 Brandon Aubrey, American multi-sport athlete ↗
1995 Nick Eh 30, Canadian live streamer and professional gamer ↗
1994 Ansel Elgort, American actor and DJ ↗
1993 Anthony Bennett, Canadian basketball player ↗
1993 J. T. Miller, American ice hockey player ↗
1992 Shotzi Blackheart, American wrestler ↗
1992 Erik Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player ↗
1991 Emir Bekrić, Serbian hurdler ↗
1990 Joe Allen, Welsh footballer ↗
1990 Tamás Kádár, Hungarian footballer ↗
1990 Haru Kuroki, Japanese actress ↗
1990 Kolbeinn Sigþórsson, Icelandic footballer ↗
1989 Marwin González, Venezuelan baseball player ↗
1989 Kevin Lacroix, Canadian race car driver ↗
1989 Patrick Patterson, American basketball player ↗
1988 Stephen Curry, American basketball player ↗
1988 Rico Freimuth, German decathlete ↗
1986 Elton Chigumbura, Zimbabwean cricketer ↗
1986 Jessica Gallagher, Australian skier and cyclist ↗
1986 Andy Taylor, English footballer ↗
1983 Bakhtiyar Artayev, Kazakh boxer ↗
1982 Carlos Marinelli, Argentine footballer ↗
1982 François Sterchele, Belgian footballer (died 2008) ↗
1981 Bobby Jenks, American baseball player (died 2025) ↗
1981 George Wilson, American football player ↗
1980 Aaron Brown, English footballer and coach ↗
1980 Ben Herring, New Zealand rugby player and coach ↗
1979 Nicolas Anelka, French footballer and manager ↗
1979 Dan Avidan, American musician and internet personality ↗
1979 Chris Klein, American actor ↗
1979 Sead Ramović, German-Bosnian footballer ↗
1978 Pieter van den Hoogenband – Dutch swimmer ↗
1977 Vadims Fjodorovs, Latvian footballer and coach ↗
1977 Naoki Matsuda, Japanese footballer (died 2011) ↗
1977 Jeremy Paul, New Zealand-Australian rugby player ↗
1976 Brian Quinn, American improvisational comedian and actor ↗
1976 Phil Vickery, English rugby player and sportscaster ↗
1975 Steve Harper, English footballer and referee ↗
1975 Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter ↗
1974 Santino Marella, Canadian wrestler ↗
1974 Patrick Traverse, Canadian ice hockey player ↗
1973 Rohit Shetty, Indian film director and producer ↗
1972 Irom Chanu Sharmila, Indian poet and activist ↗
1970 Kristian Bush, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1969 Larry Johnson, American basketball player and actor ↗
1968 Megan Follows, Canadian-American actress ↗
1968 Magnús Árni Magnússon, Icelandic politician ↗
1966 Jonas Elmer, Danish actor, director, and screenwriter ↗
1966 Elise Neal, American actress and producer ↗
1965 Kevin Brown, American baseball player and coach ↗
1965 Khan Aamir – Indian film actor, producer, and director ↗
1965 Billy Sherwood, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer ↗
1965 Kevin Williamson, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1964 Chris Johns, Australian rugby league player and administrator ↗
1963 Bruce Reid, Australian cricketer and coach ↗
1961 Mike Lazaridis, Greek–Canadian businessman and philanthropist, founded BlackBerry Limited ↗
1960 Heidi Hammel, American astronomer and academic ↗
1960 Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (died 2006) ↗
1959 Laila Robins, American actress ↗
1959 Tamara Tunie, American actress ↗
1958 Albert II, Prince of Monaco ↗
1957 Tad Williams, American author ↗
1956 Indu Malhotra, Judge of the Supreme Court of India ↗
1956 Butch Wynegar, American baseball player and coach ↗
1955 Jonathan Kaufer, American director and screenwriter (died 2013) ↗
1954 Brian Smith, Australian rugby league player and coach ↗
1953 Nick Keir, Scottish singer-songwriter (died 2013) ↗
1951 Jerry Greenfield, American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded Ben & Jerry's ↗
1950 Rick Dees, American actor and radio host ↗
1948 Tom Coburn, American physician and politician (died 2020) ↗
1948 Billy Crystal, American actor, comedian, director, producer, and screenwriter ↗
1948 Theo Jansen, Dutch sculptor ↗
1947 Roy Budd, English pianist and composer (died 1993) ↗
1947 William J. Jefferson, American lawyer and politician ↗
1947 Jona Lewie, English singer-songwriter and keyboard player ↗
1946 Wes Unseld, American basketball player, coach, and manager (died 2020) ↗
1945 Jasper Carrott, English comedian, actor, and game show host ↗
1945 Michael Martin Murphey, American singer-songwriter and guitarist ↗
1945 Walter Parazaider, American saxophonist ↗
1944 Boris Brott, Canadian composer and conductor (died 2022) ↗
1944 Clyde Lee, American basketball player ↗
1944 Václav Nedomanský, Czech ice hockey player and manager ↗
1944 Bobby Smith, English footballer and manager ↗
1944 Tom Stannage, Australian historian and academic (died 2012) ↗
1943 Anita Morris, American actress and singer (died 1994) ↗
1942 Rita Tushingham, English actress ↗
1941 Wolfgang Petersen, German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2022) ↗
1939 Raymond J. Barry, American actor ↗
1939 Bertrand Blier, French director and screenwriter (died 2025) ↗
1939 Yves Boisset, French director and screenwriter (died 2025) ↗
1938 Eleanor Bron, English actress and screenwriter ↗
1938 Jan Crouch, American televangelist, co-founder of the Trinity Broadcasting Network (died 2016) ↗
1938 John Gleeson, Australian cricketer (died 2016) ↗
1938 Árpád Orbán, Hungarian footballer (died 2008) ↗
1937 Peter van der Merwe, South African cricketer and referee (died 2013) ↗
1936 Bob Charles, New Zealand golfer ↗
1934 Eugene Cernan, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (died 2017) ↗
1934 Paul Rader, American 15th General of The Salvation Army ↗
1933 Michael Caine, English actor ↗
1933 Quincy Jones, American producer (died 2024) ↗
1932 Mark Murphy, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2015) ↗
1932 Naina Yeltsina, Russian wife of Boris Yeltsin, First Lady of Russia ↗
1929 Bob Goalby, American golfer (died 2022) ↗
1928 Frank Borman, American astronaut (died 2023) ↗
1928 Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (died 1980) ↗
1927 Chuck Share, American basketball player (died 2012) ↗
1926 François Morel, Canadian pianist, composer, conductor, and educator (died 2018) ↗
1925 William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (died 2014) ↗
1925 Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (died 2013) ↗
1923 Diane Arbus, American photographer (died 1971) ↗
1922 Les Baxter, American pianist and composer (died 1996) ↗
1921 S. Truett Cathy, American businessman, founded Chick-fil-A (died 2014) ↗
1921 Ada Louise Huxtable, American author and critic (died 2013) ↗
1920 Hank Ketcham, American author and cartoonist, created Dennis the Menace (died 2001) ↗
1920 Dorothy Tyler-Odam, English high jumper (died 2014) ↗
1919 Max Shulman, American author and screenwriter (died 1988) ↗
1918 Zoia Horn, American librarian (died 2014) ↗
1917 Alan Smith, English lieutenant and pilot (died 2013) ↗
1916 Horton Foote, American author, playwright, and screenwriter (died 2009) ↗
1915 Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist, composer, and conductor (died 2005) ↗
1914 Lee Hays, American singer-songwriter (died 1981) ↗
1914 Bill Owen, English actor and songwriter (died 1999) ↗
1914 Lee Petty, American race car driver and businessman, founded Petty Enterprises (died 2000) ↗
1913 Dominik Tatarka, Slovak writer (died 1989) ↗
1912 Cliff Bastin, English footballer (died 1991) ↗
1912 Les Brown, American saxophonist, composer, and bandleader (died 2001) ↗
1912 W. Graham Claytor Jr. American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of the Navy (died 1994) ↗
1912 W. Willard Wirtz, American lawyer and politician, 10th United States Secretary of Labor (died 2010) ↗
1911 Akira Yoshizawa, Japanese origamist (died 2005) ↗
1908 Ed Heinemann, American designer of military aircraft (died 1991) ↗
1908 Maurice Merleau-Ponty, French philosopher and academic (died 1961) ↗
1908 Phil Vincent, English engineer and businessman, founded Vincent Motorcycles (died 1979) ↗
1908 Koča Popović, Yugoslav politician and Divisional Commander of the First Proletarian Division of the Yugoslav Partisans (died 1992) ↗
1906 Ulvi Cemal Erkin, Turkish composer and educator (died 1972) ↗
1905 Raymond Aron, French journalist, sociologist, and philosopher (died 1983) ↗
1904 Doris Eaton Travis, American actress and dancer (died 2010) ↗
1903 Adolph Gottlieb, American painter and sculptor (died 1974) ↗
1901 Sid Atkinson, South African hurdler and long jumper (died 1977) ↗
1899 K. C. Irving, Canadian businessman, founded Irving Oil (died 1992) ↗
1898 Reginald Marsh, French-American painter and illustrator (died 1954) ↗
1887 Sylvia Beach, American-French bookseller and publisher, who founded Shakespeare and Company (died 1962) ↗
1886 Firmin Lambot, Belgian cyclist (died 1964) ↗
1885 Raoul Lufbery, French-American soldier and pilot (died 1918) ↗
1882 Wacław Sierpiński, Polish mathematician and academic (died 1969) ↗
1879 Albert Einstein – German-American physicist, academic and Nobel Prize laureate (died 1955) ↗
1874 Anton Philips, Dutch businessman, co-founded Philips Electronics (died 1951) ↗
1869 Algernon Blackwood, English author and playwright (died 1951) ↗
1868 Emily Murphy, Canadian jurist, author, and activist (died 1933) ↗
1864 Casey Jones, American engineer (died 1900) ↗
1862 Vilhelm Bjerknes, Norwegian physicist and meteorologist (died 1951) ↗
1854 Paul Ehrlich, German physician and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1915) ↗
1854 John Lane, English publisher, co-founded The Bodley Head (died 1925) ↗
1854 Alexandru Macedonski, Romanian author and poet (died 1920) ↗
1854 Thomas R. Marshall, American lawyer and politician, 28th Vice President of the United States of America (died 1925) ↗
1853 Ferdinand Hodler, Swiss painter (died 1918) ↗
1847 Castro Alves, Brazilian poet and playwright (died 1871) ↗
1844 Umberto I of Italy (died 1900) ↗
1844 Arthur O'Shaughnessy, English poet and herpetologist (died 1881) ↗
1837 Charles Ammi Cutter, American librarian (died 1903) ↗
1836 Isabella Beeton, English author of Mrs Beeton's Book of Household Management (died 1865) ↗
1835 Giovanni Schiaparelli, Italian astronomer and historian (died 1910) ↗
1833 Frederic Shields, English painter and illustrator (died 1911) ↗
1833 Lucy Hobbs Taylor, American dentist and educator (died 1910) ↗
1823 Théodore de Banville, French poet and critic (died 1891) ↗
1822 Teresa Cristina of the Two Sicilies (died 1889) ↗
1820 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (died 1878) ↗
1813 Joseph P. Bradley, American lawyer and jurist (died 1892) ↗
1804 Johann Strauss I, Austrian composer and conductor (died 1849) ↗
1801 Kristjan Jaak Peterson, Estonian poet (died 1822) ↗
1800 James Bogardus, American inventor and architect (died 1874) ↗
1790 Ludwig Emil Grimm, German painter and engraver (died 1863) ↗
1772 José Núñez de Cáceres, Dominican politician and writer. He was the leader of the Independence movement of the Dominican Republic against Spain in 1821 (died 1846) ↗
1737 Ioan Nicolidi of Pindus, Aromanian physician and noble (died 1828) ↗
1638 Johann Georg Gichtel, German mystic (died 1710) ↗

2025 Alan Simpson, United States senator from Wyoming (born 1931) ↗
2022 Scott Hall, American wrestler (born 1958) ↗
2019 Jake Phelps, American skateboarder and Thrasher editor-in-chief (born 1962) ↗
2019 Charlie Whiting, British motorsport director (born 1952) ↗
2019 Haig Young, Canadian politician (born 1928) ↗
2018 Jim Bowen, English stand-up comedian and TV personality (born 1937) ↗
2018 Marielle Franco, Brazilian politician and human rights activist (born 1979) ↗
2018 Stephen Hawking – English physicist and author (born 1942) ↗
2018 Liam O'Flynn, Irish uileann piper (born 1945) ↗
2016 John W. Cahn, German-American metallurgist and academic (born 1928) ↗
2016 Peter Maxwell Davies, English composer and conductor (born 1934) ↗
2016 Suranimala Rajapaksha, Sri Lankan lawyer and politician (born 1949) ↗
2014 Tony Benn, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1925) ↗
2014 Meir Har-Zion, Israeli commander (born 1934) ↗
2013 Jack Greene, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1930) ↗
2013 Aramais Sahakyan, Armenian poet and author (born 1936) ↗
2013 Ieng Sary, Vietnamese-Cambodian politician, Cambodian Minister for Foreign Affairs (born 1925) ↗
2012 Pierre Schoendoerffer, French director and screenwriter (born 1928) ↗
2012 Ċensu Tabone, Maltese general and politician, 4th President of Malta (born 1913) ↗
2010 Peter Graves, American actor (born 1926) ↗
2008 Chiara Lubich, Italian activist, co-founded the Focolare Movement (born 1920) ↗
2007 Lucie Aubrac, French educator and activist (born 1912) ↗
2006 Lennart Meri, Estonian director and politician, 2nd President of Estonia (born 1929) ↗
2003 Jack Goldstein, Canadian-American painter (born 1945) ↗
2003 Jean-Luc Lagardère, French engineer and businessman (born 1928) ↗
1999 Kirk Alyn, American actor (born 1910) ↗
1999 John Broome, American author (born 1913) ↗
1997 Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-American director and producer (born 1907) ↗
1995 William Alfred Fowler, American physicist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1911) ↗
1994 Sheila Humphreys, Irish Republican, political activist and Hunger Striker (born 1899) ↗
1991 Howard Ashman, American playwright and composer (born 1950) ↗
1989 Zita of Bourbon-Parma, Empress of Austria and Queen of Hungary (born 1892) ↗
1984 Hovhannes Shiraz, Armenian poet (born 1915) ↗
1980 Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Indonesia (born 1902) ↗
1980 Félix Rodríguez de la Fuente, Spanish environmentalist (born 1928) ↗
1979 Frank McEncroe, Australian businessman (born 1908) ↗
1977 Fannie Lou Hamer, American activist and philanthropist (born 1917) ↗
1976 Busby Berkeley, American director and choreographer (born 1895) ↗
1975 Susan Hayward, American actress (born 1917) ↗
1973 Howard H. Aiken, American computer scientist and engineer (born 1900) ↗
1973 Chic Young, American cartoonist (born 1901) ↗
1969 Ben Shahn, Lithuanian-American painter, illustrator, and educator (born 1898) ↗
1968 Erwin Panofsky, German historian and academic (born 1892) ↗
1965 Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (born 1879) ↗
1957 Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot activist (born 1938) ↗
1953 Klement Gottwald, Czechoslovak Communist politician and 14th President of Czechoslovakia (born 1896) ↗
1941 C. R. M. F. Cruttwell, English historian (born 1887) ↗
1937 Lars Edvard Phragmén, Swedish mathematician (born 1863) ↗
1932 George Eastman, American inventor and businessman, founded Eastman Kodak (born 1854) ↗
1932 Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian (born 1861) ↗
1930 A. A. Kannisto, Finnish politician (born 1876) ↗
1923 Charlie Daly and three other Irish Republicans are executed by Irish Free State forces (born 1896) ↗
1921 Bernard Ryan executed Irish republican (born 1901) ↗
1884 Quintino Sella, Italian economist and politician, Italian Minister of Finances (born 1827) ↗
1883 Karl Marx, German philosopher and theorist (born 1818) ↗
1877 Juan Manuel de Rosas, Argentinian general and politician, 17th Governor of Buenos Aires Province (born 1793) ↗
1860 Carl Ritter von Ghega, Italian engineer, designed the Semmering railway (born 1802) ↗
1823 Charles François Dumouriez, French general and politician, French Minister of War (born 1739) ↗
1811 Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, English politician, Prime Minister of Great Britain (born 1735) ↗
1803 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet (born 1724) ↗
1791 Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and critic (born 1725) ↗
1757 John Byng, British admiral and politician, 11th Commodore Governor of Newfoundland (born 1704) ↗
1748 George Wade, Irish field marshal and politician (born 1673) ↗
1698 Claes Rålamb, Swedish statesman (born 1622) ↗
1696 Jean Domat, French lawyer and jurist (born 1625) ↗
1648 Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general and politician (born 1584) ↗
1647 Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (born 1584) ↗
1555 John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford (born 1485) ↗
968 Matilda of Ringelheim, Saxon queen (born c. 896) ↗
840 Einhard, Frankish scholar ↗