March 22
Events
Pre-1600
- 106 - Start of the Bostran era, the calendar of the province of Arabia Petraea.
- 235 - Roman emperor Severus Alexander is murdered, marking the start of the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 871 - Æthelred of Wessex is defeated by a Danish invasion army at the Battle of Marton.
- 1185 - Battle of Yashima: the Japanese forces of the Taira clan are defeated by the Minamoto clan.
- 1312 - Vox in excelso: Pope Clement V dissolves the Order of the Knights Templar.
- 1508 - Ferdinand II of Aragon commissions Amerigo Vespucci chief navigator of the Spanish Empire.
1601–1900
- 1621 - The Pilgrims of Plymouth Colony, led by governor John Carver, sign a peace treaty with Massasoit, sachem of the Wampanoags; Squanto serves as an interpreter between the two sides.
- 1622 - Jamestown massacre: Algonquians kill 347 English settlers around Jamestown, Virginia, a third of the colony's population, during the Second Anglo-Powhatan War.
- 1631 - The Massachusetts Bay Colony outlaws the possession of cards, dice, and gaming tables.
- 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
- 1668 - Notable Privateer Henry Morgan lands in Cuba to raid and plunder the inland town of Puerto del Príncipe during the latter stages of the Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660).
- 1739 - Nader Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne.
- 1765 - The British Parliament passes the Stamp Act that introduces a tax to be levied directly on its American colonies.
- 1784 - The Emerald Buddha is moved with great ceremony to its current location in Wat Phra Kaew, Thailand.
- 1792 - Battle of Croix-des-Bouquets: Black slave insurgents gain a victory in the first major battle of the Haitian Revolution.
- 1794 - The Slave Trade Act of 1794 bans the export of slaves from the United States, and prohibits American citizens from outfitting a ship for the purpose of importing slaves.
- 1829 - In the London Protocol, the three protecting powers establish the borders of Greece.
- 1849 - The Austrians defeat the Piedmontese at the Battle of Novara.
- 1871 - In North Carolina, William Woods Holden becomes the first governor of a U.S. state to be removed from office by impeachment.
- 1873 - The Spanish National Assembly abolishes slavery in Puerto Rico.
- 1894 - The Stanley Cup ice hockey competition is held for the first time, in Montreal, Canada.
- 1895 - Before the Société pour L'Encouragement à l'Industrie, brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière demonstrate movie film technology publicly for the first time.
- 1896 - Charilaos Vasilakos wins the first modern Olympic marathon race with a time of three hours and 18 minutes.
1901–present
- 1906 - The first England vs France rugby union match is played at Parc des Princes in Paris.
- 1913 - Mystic Phan Xích Long, the self-proclaimed Emperor of Vietnam, is arrested for organising a revolt against the colonial rule of French Indochina, which was nevertheless carried out by his supporters the following day.
- 1916 - Yuan Shikai abdicates as Emperor of China, restoring the Republic and returning to the Republic of China|Presidency].
- 1920 - Azeri and Turkish army soldiers with participation of Kurdish gangs attack the Armenian inhabitants of Shushi.
- 1933 - Cullen–Harrison Act: President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs an amendment to the Volstead Act, legalizing the manufacture and sale of "3.2 beer" and light wines.
- 1933 - Nazi Germany opens its first concentration camp, Dachau.
- 1934 - The first Masters Tournament is held at Augusta National Golf Club in Georgia.
- 1939 - Germany takes Memel from Lithuania.
- 1942 - World War II: In the Mediterranean Sea, the Royal Navy confronts Italy's Regia Marina in the Second Battle of Sirte.
- 1943 - World War II: The entire village of Khatyn is burnt alive by Schutzmannschaft Battalion 118.
- 1945 - World War II: The city of Hildesheim, Germany, is heavily damaged in a Bombing of [Hildesheim in World War II|British air raid], though it had little military significance and Germany was on the verge of final defeat.
- 1945 - The Arab League is founded when a charter is adopted in Cairo, Egypt.
- 1946 - The United Kingdom grants full independence to Transjordan.
- 1955 - A United States Navy Douglas R6D-1 Liftmaster crashes into Hawaii's Waiʻanae Range, killing 66.
- 1960 - Arthur Leonard Schawlow and Charles Hard Townes receive the first patent for a laser.
- 1963 - The Beatles release their debut album Please Please Me.
- 1972 - The United States Congress sends the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification.
- 1972 - In Eisenstadt v. Baird, the United States Supreme Court decides that unmarried persons have the right to possess contraceptives.
- 1975 - A fire at the Browns Ferry Nuclear Power Plant in Decatur, Alabama, causes a dangerous reduction in cooling water levels.
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda of The Flying Wallendas dies after falling off a tight-rope suspended between two hotels in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
- 1982 - NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its third mission, STS-3.
- 1988 - The United States Congress votes to override President Ronald Reagan's veto of the Civil Rights Restoration Act of 1987.
- 1992 - USAir Flight 405 crashes shortly after takeoff from New York City's LaGuardia Airport, leading to a number of studies into the effect that ice has on aircraft.
- 1992 - Fall of communism in Albania: The Democratic Party of Albania wins a decisive majority in the parliamentary election.
- 1993 - The Intel Corporation ships the first Pentium chips, featuring a 60 MHz clock speed, 100+ MIPS, and a 64 bit data path.
- 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeri Polyakov returns to earth after setting a record of 438 days in space.
- 1996 - NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched on its 16th mission, STS-76.
- 1997 - Tara Lipinski, aged 14 years and nine months, becomes the youngest women's World Figure Skating Champion.
- 1997 - Comet Hale–Bopp reaches its closest approach to Earth at 1.315 AU.
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, co-founder and leader of the Palestinian Sunni Islamist group Hamas, two bodyguards, and nine civilian bystanders are killed in the Gaza Strip when hit by Israeli Air Force Hellfire missiles.
- 2006 - Three Christian Peacemaker Team hostages are freed by British forces in Baghdad after 118 days of captivity and the murder of their colleague from the U.S., Tom Fox.
- 2013 - At least 37 people are killed and 200 are injured after a fire destroys a camp containing Burmese refugees near Ban Mae, Thailand.
- 2016 - Three suicide bombers kill 32 people and injure 316 in the 2016 Brussels bombings at the airport and at the Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station.
- 2017 - A terrorist attack in London near the Houses of Parliament leaves four people dead and at least 20 injured.
- 2017 - Syrian civil war: Five hundred members of the Syrian Democratic Forces are airlifted south of the Euphrates by United States Air Force helicopters, beginning the Battle of Tabqa.
- 2019 - The Special Counsel investigation on the 2016 United States presidential election concludes when Robert Mueller submits his report to the United States Attorney General.
- 2019 - Two buses crashed in Kitampo, a town north of Ghana's capital Accra, killing at least 50 people.
- 2020 - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces the country's largest ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2020 - Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis announces a national lockdown and the country's first ever self-imposed curfew, in an effort to fight the spread of COVID-19.
- 2021 - Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado.
- 2024 - At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia.
Births
Pre-1600
- 841 - Bernard Plantapilosa, Frankish son of Bernard of Septimania
- 875 - William I, Duke of Aquitaine
- 1212 - Emperor Go-Horikawa of Japan
- 1367 - Thomas de Mowbray, 1st Duke of Norfolk, English politician, Earl Marshal of the United Kingdom ;
- 1394 - Ulugh Beg, Persian astronomer and mathematician
- 1459 - Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor
- 1499 - Johann Carion, German astrologer and chronicler
- 1503 - Antonio Francesco Grazzini, Italian author and educator
- 1517 - Gioseffo Zarlino, Italian composer
- 1519 - Catherine Brandon, Duchess of Suffolk, English noblewoman
- 1582 - John Williams, Archbishop of York
- 1599 - Anthony van Dyck, Flemish-English painter and etcher
1601–1900
- 1609 - John II Casimir Vasa, Polish king
- 1615 - Katherine Jones, Viscountess Ranelagh, British scientist
- 1663 - August Hermann Francke, German clergyman, philanthropist, and scholar
- 1684 - William Pulteney, 1st Earl of Bath, English politician, Secretary at War
- 1712 - Edward Moore, English poet and playwright
- 1720 - Nicolas-Henri Jardin, French architect, designed the Yellow Palace and Bernstorff Palace
- 1723 - Charles Carroll, American lawyer and politician
- 1728 - Anton Raphael Mengs, German painter and theorist
- 1785 - Adam Sedgwick, English scientist
- 1797 - William I, German Emperor
- 1808 - Caroline Norton, English feminist, social reformer, and author
- 1808 - David Swinson Maynard, American physician and lawyer
- 1812 - Stephen Pearl Andrews, American author and activist
- 1814 - Thomas Crawford, American sculptor, designed the Statue of Freedom
- 1817 - Braxton Bragg, American general
- 1818 - John Ainsworth Horrocks, English-Australian explorer, founded Penwortham
- 1822 - Ahmed Cevdet Pasha, Ottoman sociologist, historian, scholar, statesman and jurist
- 1841 - Anastassios Christomanos, Greek scientist
- 1842 - Mykola Lysenko, Ukrainian pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1846 - Randolph Caldecott, English illustrator and painter
- 1846 - James Timberlake, American lieutenant, police officer, and farmer
- 1852 - Otakar Ševčík, Czech violinist and educator
- 1852 - Hector Sévin, French cardinal
- 1855 - Dorothy Tennant, British painter
- 1857 - Paul Doumer, French mathematician, journalist, and politician, 14th President of France
- 1866 - Jack Boyle, American baseball player and umpire
- 1868 - Robert Andrews Millikan, American colonel and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1869 - Emilio Aguinaldo, Filipino general and politician, 1st President of the Philippines
- 1869 - Tom McInnes, Scottish-English footballer
- 1873 - Ernest Lawson, Canadian-American painter
- 1880 - Ernest C. Quigley, Canadian-American football player and coach
- 1884 - Arthur H. Vandenberg, American journalist and politician
- 1884 - Lyda Borelli, Italian actress
- 1885 - Aryeh Levin, Polish-Lithuanian rabbi and educator
- 1886 - August Rei, Estonian lawyer and politician, Head of State of Estonia
- 1887 - Chico Marx, American actor
- 1890 - George Clark, American race car driver
- 1892 - Charlie Poole, American country banjo player
- 1892 - Johannes Semper, Estonian poet and scholar
- 1896 - He Long, Chinese general and politician, 1st Vice Premier of the People's Republic of China
- 1896 - Joseph Schildkraut, Austrian-American actor
- 1899 - Ruth Page, American ballerina and choreographer
1901–present
- 1901 - Greta Kempton, Austrian-American painter
- 1902 - Johannes Brinkman, Dutch architect, designed the Van Nelle Factory
- 1902 - Madeleine Milhaud, French actress and composer
- 1903 - Bill Holman, American cartoonist
- 1907 - James M. Gavin, American general and diplomat, United States Ambassador to France
- 1908 - Jack Crawford, Australian tennis player
- 1908 - Louis L'Amour, American novelist and short story writer
- 1909 - Gabrielle Roy, Canadian author and educator
- 1910 - Nicholas Monsarrat, English sailor and author
- 1912 - Wilfrid Brambell, Irish actor and performer
- 1912 - Leslie Johnson, English race car driver
- 1912 - Karl Malden, American actor
- 1912 - Agnes Martin, Canadian-American painter and educator
- 1913 - Tom McCall, American journalist and politician, 30th Governor of Oregon
- 1913 - Lew Wasserman, American businessman and talent agent
- 1913 - James Westerfield, American actor
- 1914 - John Stanley, American author and illustrator
- 1914 - Donald Stokes, Baron Stokes, English businessman
- 1917 - Virginia Grey, American actress
- 1917 - Irving Kaplansky, Canadian-American mathematician and academic
- 1917 - Paul Rogers, English actor
- 1918 - Cheddi Jagan, Guyanese politician, 4th President of Guyana
- 1919 - Bernard Krigstein, American illustrator
- 1920 - James Brown, American actor and singer
- 1920 - Werner Klemperer, German-American actor
- 1920 - Lloyd MacPhail, Canadian businessman and politician, 23rd Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island
- 1920 - Ross Martin, American actor
- 1920 - Katsuko Saruhashi, Japanese geochemist
- 1920 - Fanny Waterman, English pianist and educator, founded the International Pianoforte Competition">International observance">International Pianoforte Competition
- 1921 - Nino Manfredi, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter
- 1922 - John J. Gilligan, American politician, 62nd Governor of Ohio
- 1922 - Stewart Stern, American screenwriter
- 1923 - Marcel Marceau, French mime and actor
- 1924 - Al Neuharth, American journalist and author, founded USA Today
- 1924 - Yevgeny Ostashev, Russian test pilot, participant in the launch of the first artificial Earth satellite
- 1924 - Osman F. Seden, Turkish director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1924 - Bill Wendell, American television announcer
- 1927 - Marty Blake, American basketball player and manager
- 1927 - Nicolas Tikhomiroff, Russian photographer
- 1928 - Carrie Donovan, American journalist
- 1928 - E. D. Hirsch, American author, critic, and academic
- 1928 - Ed Macauley, American basketball player, coach, and priest
- 1929 - Yayoi Kusama, Japanese artist
- 1929 - P. Ramlee, Malaysian actor, director, singer, songwriter, composer, and producer
- 1930 - Derek Bok, American lawyer and academic
- 1930 - Pat Robertson, American minister and broadcaster, founded the Christian Broadcasting Network
- 1930 - Stephen Sondheim, American composer and songwriter
- 1931 - Burton Richter, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1931 - William Shatner, Canadian actor
- 1931 - Ann Shulgin, psychedelic researcher and author
- 1931 - Leslie Thomas, Welsh journalist and author
- 1932 - Els Borst, Dutch physician and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands
- 1932 - Larry Evans, American chess player and journalist
- 1933 - Abolhassan Banisadr, Iranian economist and politician, 1st President of Iran
- 1934 - May Britt, Swedish actress
- 1934 - Sheila Cameron, English lawyer and judge
- 1934 - Orrin Hatch, American lawyer and politician
- 1935 - Galina Gavrilovna Korchuganova, Russian-born Soviet test pilot and aerobatics champion
- 1935 - Lea Pericoli, Italian tennis player and journalist
- 1935 - Frank Pulli, American baseball player and umpire
- 1935 - M. Emmet Walsh, American actor
- 1936 - Erol Büyükburç, Turkish singer-songwriter, pop music composer, and actor
- 1936 - Ron Carey, American trade union leader
- 1936 - Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1937 - Angelo Badalamenti, American pianist and composer
- 1937 - Armin Hary, German sprinter
- 1937 - Jon Hassell, American trumpet player and composer
- 1937 - Foo Foo Lammar, British drag queen
- 1938 - Rein Etruk, Estonian chess player
- 1940 - George Edward Alcorn, Jr., American physicist and inventor
- 1940 - Dave Keon, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1940 - Haing S. Ngor, Cambodian-American physician and author
- 1941 - Billy Collins, American poet
- 1941 - Jeremy Clyde, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1941 - Bruno Ganz, Swiss actor
- 1941 - Cassam Uteem, Mauritian politician, 2nd President of Mauritius
- 1942 - Jorge Ben Jor, Brazilian singer-songwriter
- 1942 - Dick Pound, Canadian lawyer and academic
- 1943 - George Benson, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1943 - Nazem Ganjapour, Iranian footballer and manager
- 1943 - Keith Relf, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1945 - Eric Roth, American screenwriter and producer
- 1946 - Don Chaney, American basketball player and coach
- 1946 - Rivka Golani, Israeli viola player and composer
- 1946 - Rudy Rucker, American mathematician, computer scientist, and author
- 1946 - Harry Vanda, Dutch-Australian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1947 - George Ferguson, English architect and politician, 1st Mayor of Bristol
- 1947 - James Patterson, American author and producer
- 1947 - Maarten van Gent, Dutch basketball player and coach
- 1948 - Wolf Blitzer, American journalist
- 1948 - Andrew Lloyd Webber, English composer and director
- 1949 - Fanny Ardant, French actress, director, and screenwriter
- 1949 - Brian Hanrahan, English journalist
- 1952 - Des Browne, Scottish lawyer and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland
- 1952 - Bob Costas, American sportscaster
- 1953 - Kenneth Rogoff, American economist and chess grandmaster
- 1955 - Lena Olin, Swedish actress
- 1955 - Valdis Zatlers, Latvian physician and politician, 7th President of Latvia
- 1956 - Maria Teresa, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg
- 1957 - Jürgen Bucher, German footballer
- 1957 - Stephanie Mills, American actress and singer
- 1959 - Matthew Modine, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1960 - Jim Covert, American football player
- 1961 - Simon Furman, British comic book writer
- 1962 - Nikos Kourbanas, Greek footballer
- 1963 - Deborah Bull, English ballerina
- 1963 - Pelle Eklund, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1963 - Susan Ann Sulley, English pop singer
- 1963 - Hannu Virta, Finnish ice hockey player and coach
- 1963 - Martín Vizcarra, Peruvian engineer and politician, 67th President of Peru
- 1965 - Ice MC, British rapper
- 1966 - Todd Ewen, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
- 1966 - Artis Pabriks, Latvian academic and politician, 11th Minister for Defence of Latvia
- 1966 - António Pinto, Portuguese runner
- 1966 - Brian Shaw, American basketball player and coach
- 1967 - Mario Cipollini, Italian cyclist
- 1967 - Bernie Gallacher, Scottish-English footballer
- 1969 - Russell Maryland, American football player
- 1970 - Andreas Johnson, Swedish singer-songwriter
- 1970 - Leontien van Moorsel, Dutch cyclist
- 1970 - Hwang Young-cho, South Korean runner
- 1971 - Keegan-Michael Key, American actor, comedian, and writer
- 1971 - Will Yun Lee, American actor and martial artist
- 1972 - Shawn Bradley, German-American basketball player, coach, and actor
- 1972 - Cory Lidle, American baseball player
- 1972 - Elvis Stojko, Canadian figure skater and sportscaster
- 1973 - Beverley Knight, English singer-songwriter and producer
- 1974 - Marcus Camby, American basketball player
- 1974 - Philippe Clement, Belgian footballer
- 1974 - Grigoria Golia, Greek handball player
- 1974 - Tuomas Grönman, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1974 - Geo Meneses, Mexican producer and singer
- 1975 - Guillermo Díaz, American actor
- 1975 - Anne Dudek, American actress
- 1975 - Cole Hauser, American actor and producer
- 1975 - Jiří Novák, Czech-Monegasque tennis player
- 1976 - Teun de Nooijer, Dutch field hockey player
- 1976 - Asako Toki, Japanese singer-songwriter
- 1976 - Reese Witherspoon, American actress and producer
- 1977 - John Otto, American musician and songwriter
- 1977 - Joey Porter, American football player and coach
- 1977 - Dave Portnoy, American businessman and social media personality
- 1977 - Tom Poti, American ice hockey player
- 1977 - Anabel Rodríguez Ríos, Venezuelan film director and screenwriter
- 1978 - Josh Heupel, American football player and coach
- 1979 - Michalis Kouinelis, Greek hip hop singer
- 1979 - Aaron North, American guitarist
- 1979 - Juan Uribe, Dominican baseball player
- 1981 - Tiffany Dupont, American actress
- 1981 - Arne Gabius, German runner
- 1981 - Mims, American rapper
- 1982 - Deng Gai, South Sudanese basketball player
- 1982 - Enrico Gasparotto, Italian cyclist
- 1982 - Michael Janyk, Canadian skier
- 1982 - Michael Morse, American baseball player
- 1982 - Piá, Brazilian footballer
- 1982 - Mike Smith, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1982 - Constance Wu, American actress
- 1983 - Thomas Davis Sr., American football player
- 1984 - Piotr Trochowski, German footballer
- 1985 - Mayola Biboko, Belgian footballer
- 1985 - Jakob Fuglsang, Danish cyclist
- 1985 - Justin Masterson, American baseball player
- 1985 - Kelli Waite, Australian swimmer
- 1986 - Dexter Fowler, American baseball player
- 1987 - Ike Davis, American baseball player
- 1987 - Liam Doran, British rallycross driver
- 1987 - Jairo Mora Sandoval, Costa Rican environmentalist
- 1988 - Chris Ivory, American football player
- 1989 - Ruben Popa, Romanian footballer
- 1989 - J. J. Watt, American football player
- 1991 - Dominique Fishback, American actress
- 1992 - Roston Chase, Barbadian cricketer
- 1992 - Edy Tavares, Cape Verdean basketball player
- 1994 - Edwin Díaz, Puerto Rican baseball player
- 1994 - Taurean Prince, American basketball player
- 1994 - Aliaksandra Sasnovich, Belarusian tennis player
- 1994 - Ha Sung-woon, South Korean singer
- 1995 - Nick Robinson, American actor
- 1997 - Alex Meret, Italian footballer
- 1997 - Chimezie Metu, Nigerian-American basketball player
- 2000 - Dimitrios Meliopoulos, Greek footballer
- 2001 - Artūrs Šilovs, Latvian ice hockey player
Deaths
Pre-1600
- 235 - Severus Alexander, Roman emperor
- 880 - Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king
- 1144 - William of Norwich, child murder victim
- 1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England
- 1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian
- 1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England
- 1454 - John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1471 - George of Poděbrady
1601–1900
- 1544 - Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian
- 1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator
- 1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan
- 1687 - Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor
- 1758 - Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher
- 1820 - Stephen Decatur, American commander
- 1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat
- 1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic
- 1864 - Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary
- 1881 - Samuel Courtauld, English businessman
- 1896 - Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician
1901–present
- 1913 - Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician
- 1913 - Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist
- 1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist
- 1931 - James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician
- 1942 - Frederick Cuming, English cricketer
- 1942 - William Donne, English captain and cricketer
- 1942 - María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist
- 1952 - D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka
- 1955 - Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia
- 1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer
- 1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country
- 1966 - John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot
- 1971 - Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner
- 1971 - Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian
- 1974 - Peter Revson, American race car driver
- 1974 - Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer
- 1976 - John Dwyer McLaughlin, American painter
- 1977 - A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician
- 1978 - Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas
- 1979 - Ben Lyon, American actor and studio executive
- 1981 - James Elliott, American runner and coach
- 1981 - Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines
- 1985 - Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver
- 1985 - Spyros Vassiliou, Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer
- 1986 - Olive Deering, American actress
- 1987 - Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician
- 1989 - Peta Taylor, English cricketer
- 1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic
- 1991 - Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada
- 1991 - Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic
- 1991 - Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
- 1991 - Gloria Holden, English-American actress
- 1993 - Steve Olin, American baseball player
- 1994 - Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer
- 1994 - Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer
- 1996 - Don Murray, American drummer
- 1996 - Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut
- 1996 - Billy Williamson, American guitarist
- 1999 - Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic
- 1999 - David Strickland, American actor
- 2000 - Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager
- 2001 - Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
- 2001 - Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot
- 2001 - William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera
- 2001 - Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant
- 2002 - Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor
- 2003 - Terry Lloyd, English journalist
- 2004 - Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic
- 2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas
- 2004 - V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil rights activist
- 2005 - Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter
- 2005 - Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor
- 2005 - Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
- 2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician
- 2006 - Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author
- 2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author
- 2007 - U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator
- 2008 - Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer
- 2010 - James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 2010 - Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman
- 2011 - Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist
- 2011 - Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer
- 2012 - Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler
- 2012 - David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic
- 2012 - Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author
- 2013 - Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician
- 2013 - Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer
- 2014 - Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author
- 2014 - Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager
- 2014 - Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician
- 2014 - Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, List of [Ministers of Defence of Cyprus|Cypriot Minister of Defence]
- 2015 - Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright
- 2015 - Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager
- 2015 - Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor
- 2016 - Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto
- 2016 - Rita Gam, American actress
- 2018 - Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient
- 2019 - Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter
- 2024 - Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator
- 2025 - Jessica Aber, American lawyer
- 2025 - Andy Peebles, English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator
Holidays and observances
- Bihar Day
- Christian feast day:
- *Basil of Ancyra
- *Blessed Clemens August Graf von Galen
- *Darerca of Ireland
- *Epaphroditus
- *Jonathan Edwards
- *Lea of Rome
- *Nicholas Owen
- *Paul of Narbonne
- *March 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
- Earliest day on which Easter Sunday can fall, while April 25 is the latest.
- Emancipation Day or Día de la Abolición de la Esclavitud
- World Water Day