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2021

20 de marzo de los últimos años

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2019 (miércoles)

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2017 (lunes)

2016 (domingo)

2015 (viernes)

2014 (jueves)

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2012 (martes)

Date

El 20 de marzo es el día 79 del año (80 en años bisiestos ) en el calendario gregoriano ; Quedan 286 días para el final del año. Normalmente, el equinoccio de marzo cae en esta fecha, marcando el punto vernal en el hemisferio norte y el punto otoñal en el hemisferio sur .

Eventos

• 235 - Maximinus Thrax es proclamado emperador romano .
• 673 - El Emperador Tenmu de Japón asume el Trono del Crisantemo en el Palacio de Kiyomihara en Asuka .
• 1206 - Miguel IV Autoreianos es nombrado Patriarca Ecuménico de Constantinopla .
• 1600 - El Baño de Sangre de Linköping tiene lugar el Jueves Santo en Linköping , Suecia: cinco nobles suecos son decapitados públicamente como consecuencia de la Guerra contra Segismundo (1598-1599). ^[1]
• 1602 - Se establece la Compañía Holandesa de las Indias Orientales .
• 1616 - Sir Walter Raleigh es liberado de la Torre de Londres después de 13 años de prisión.
• 1760 - El Gran Incendio de Boston de 1760 destruye 349 edificios.
• 1815 - Después de escapar de Elba , Napoleón entra en París con un ejército regular de 140.000 y una fuerza de voluntarios de alrededor de 200.000, comenzando su gobierno de los " Cien Días ".
• 1848 - Revoluciones alemanas de 1848-1849 : abdica el rey Luis I de Baviera .
• 1852 - Harriet Beecher Stowe Es cabaña del tío Tom se publica.
• 1854 – The Republican Party of the United States is organized in Ripon, Wisconsin, US.
• 1861 – An earthquake destroys Mendoza, Argentina.
• 1883 – The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed.
• 1888 – The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia.
• 1890 – Chancellor of the German Empire Otto von Bismarck is dismissed by Emperor Wilhelm II.
• 1896 - Con la aprobación del emperador Guangxu , se abre la oficina de correos de la dinastía Qing , lo que marca el comienzo de un servicio postal en China.
• 1913 - Sung Chiao-jen , fundador del Partido Nacionalista Chino , es herido en un intento de asesinato y muere 2 días después.
• 1915 - Albert Einstein publica su teoría general de la relatividad .
• 1921 - El plebiscito de la Alta Silesia fue un plebiscito ordenado por el Tratado de Versalles para determinar una sección de la frontera entre la Alemania de Weimar y Polonia .
• 1922 - Se encarga al USS  Langley como el primer portaaviones de la Armada de los Estados Unidos .
• 1923 - El Arts Club de Chicago acoge la inauguración de la primera muestra de Pablo Picasso en los Estados Unidos, titulada Dibujos originales de Pablo Picasso , convirtiéndose en uno de los primeros proponentes del arte moderno en los Estados Unidos.
• 1933 - El Reichsführer-SS Heinrich Himmler ordenó la creación del campo de concentración de Dachau como Jefe de Policía de Munich y nombró a Theodor Eicke como comandante del campo.
• 1942 – World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return".
• 1948 – With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC.
• 1951 - Se funda Fujiyoshida , una ciudad ubicada en la prefectura de Yamanashi , Japón, en el centro de la isla principal japonesa de Honshū .
• 1952 - El Senado de los Estados Unidos ratifica el Tratado de Seguridad entre Estados Unidos y Japón .
• 1956 - Túnez se independiza de Francia.
• 1964 - El precursor de la Agencia Espacial Europea , ESRO ( Organización Europea de Investigación Espacial ) se establece por un acuerdo firmado el 14 de junio de , 1962 .
• 1972 - The Troubles : El primer coche bomba provisional del IRA en Belfast mata a siete personas y lesiona a otras 148 en Irlanda del Norte .
• 1985 - Libby Riddles se convierte en la primera mujer en ganar la carrera de perros de trineo Iditarod Trail de 1,135 millas .
• 1985 - El atleta parapléjico y humanitario canadiense Rick Hansen comienza su circunnavegación del mundo en silla de ruedas en nombre de la investigación médica sobre lesiones de la médula espinal .
• 1987 - La Administración de Drogas y Alimentos aprueba el medicamento contra el SIDA , AZT .
• 1988 - Guerra de Independencia de Eritrea : Tras derrotar al Comando Nadew, el Frente de Liberación del Pueblo de Eritrea entra en la ciudad de Afabet , concluyendo victoriosamente la Batalla de Afabet .
• 1990 - La viuda de Ferdinand Marcos , Imelda Marcos , va a juicio por cohecho , malversación y crimen organizado .
• 1993 - The Troubles : Una bomba provisional del IRA mata a dos niños en Warrington , Inglaterra. Conduce a protestas masivas tanto en Gran Bretaña como en Irlanda.
• 1995 - El culto japonés Aum Shinrikyo lleva a cabo un ataque con gas sarín en el metro de Tokio , matando a 13 e hiriendo a más de 6.200 personas.
• 1999 - Legoland California , el primer Legoland fuera de Europa, abre en Carlsbad, California , EE. UU.
• 2000 - Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin , un ex Pantera Negra alguna vez conocido como H. Rap ​​Brown , es capturado después de asesinar al ayudante del alguacil de Georgia Ricky Kinchen e hiriendo gravemente al ayudante Aldranon English.
• 2003 - Invasión de Irak : Estados Unidos, Reino Unido, Australia y Polonia comienzan una invasión de Irak .
• 2006 - Más de 150 soldados chadianos son asesinados en el este de Chad por miembros de la UFDC rebelde . El movimiento rebelde buscó derrocar al presidente chadiano Idriss Déby .
• 2012 - Al menos 52 personas mueren y más de 250 resultan heridas en una ola de ataques terroristas en diez ciudades de Irak .
• 2014 - Cuatro presuntos miembros del Talibán atacan el hotel Kabul Serena , matando al menos a nueve personas.
• 2015 : un eclipse solar , un equinoccio y una superluna ocurren el mismo día.

Nacimientos

• 43 a . C. - Ovidio , poeta romano (muerto en 17)
• 1253 - Magadu, rebautizado como Wareru , fundador del Reino Ramanya, rebautizado como Reino Hanthawady de Pegu (n. Plebeyo; fallecido un sábado de enero de 1307)
• 1319 : Laurence Hastings, primer conde de Pembroke (m. 1348)
• 1469 : Cecilia de York (m. 1507)
• 1477 : Jerome Emser , teólogo y erudito alemán (m. 1527)
• 1479 : Ippolito d'Este , cardenal italiano (m. 1520)
• 1502 - Pierino Belli , soldado y jurista italiano (m. 1575)
• 1532 - Juan de Ribera , arzobispo católico romano (m. 1611)
• 1612 : Anne Bradstreet , poeta estadounidense puritana (m. 1672)
• 1615 : Dara Shikoh , príncipe indio (muerto en 1659)
• 1639 : Ivan Mazepa , diplomático ucraniano, Hetman de Ucrania (m. 1709)
• 1725 : Abdul Hamid I , sultán otomano (muerto en 1789)
• 1737 : Rama I , rey de Tailandia (m. 1809)
• 1771 - Heinrich Clauren , autor alemán (m. 1854)
• 1796 : Edward Gibbon Wakefield , político inglés (muerto en 1862)
• 1799 - Karl August Nicander , poeta y autor sueco (m. 1839)
• 1800 : Braulio Carrillo Colina , abogado y político costarricense, presidente de Costa Rica (m. 1845)
• 1805 - Thomas Cooper , poeta británico (muerto en 1892)
• 1811 : Napoleón II , emperador francés (m. 1832)
• 1811 - George Caleb Bingham , pintor y político estadounidense, Tesorero del Estado de Missouri (m. 1879)
• 1821 : Ned Buntline , periodista, autor y editor estadounidense (muerto en 1886)
• 1824 : Theodor von Heuglin , explorador y ornitólogo alemán (m. 1876)
• 1828 - Henrik Ibsen , poeta, dramaturgo y director noruego (m. 1906)
• 1831 - Patrick Jennings , político australiano-irlandés del norte, undécimo primer ministro de Nueva Gales del Sur (m. 1897)
• 1831: Solomon L. Spink , abogado y político estadounidense (m. 1881)
• 1834 : Charles William Eliot , matemático y académico estadounidense (muerto en 1926)
• 1836 - Ferris Jacobs, Jr. , general, abogado y político estadounidense (muerto en 1886)
• 1836: Edward Poynter , pintor, ilustrador y curador inglés (muerto en 1919)
• 1840 : Illarion Pryanishnikov , pintor ruso (muerto en 1894)
• 1851 – Ismail Gasprinski, Ukrainian educator, publisher, and politician (d. 1914)
• 1856 – John Lavery, Irish painter (d. 1941)
• 1856 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American tennis player and engineer (d. 1915)
• 1870 – Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964)^[2]
• 1874 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet and activist (d. 1945)
• 1876 – Payne Whitney, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 1927)
• 1879 – Maud Menten, Canadian physician and biochemist (d. 1960)^[3]
• 1882 – René Coty, French lawyer and politician, 17th President of France (d. 1962)
• 1882 – Harold Weber, American golfer (d. 1933)
• 1884 – Philipp Frank, Austrian-American physicist, mathematician, and philosopher (d. 1966)
• 1884 – John Jensen, Australian public servant (d. 1970)
• 1885 – Vernon Ransford, Australian cricketer (d. 1958)
• 1888 – Amanda Clement, American baseball player, umpire, and educator (d. 1971)
• 1890 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American tenor and actor (d. 1973)
• 1894 – Amalie Sara Colquhoun, Australian landscape and portrait painter (d. 1974)
• 1895 – Fredric Wertham, German-American psychologist and author (d. 1981)
• 1898 – Eduard Wiiralt, Estonian artist (d. 1954)
• 1900 – Amelia Chopitea Villa, Bolivia's first female physician (d. 1942)^[4]
• 1903 – Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979)
• 1904 – B. F. Skinner, American psychologist and author (d. 1990)
• 1905 – Jean Galia, French rugby player and boxer (d. 1949)
• 1906 – Abraham Beame, American accountant and politician, 104th Mayor of New York City (d. 2001)
• 1906 – Ozzie Nelson, American actor and bandleader (d. 1975)
• 1907 – Hugh MacLennan, Canadian author and educator (d. 1990)
• 1908 – Michael Redgrave, English actor and director (d. 1985)
• 1910 – Erwin Blask, German hammer thrower (d. 1999)
• 1911 – Alfonso García Robles, Mexican lawyer and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
• 1912 – Ralph Hauenstein, American businessman and philanthropist (d. 2016)
• 1913 – Nikolai Stepulov, Russian-Estonian boxer (d. 1968)
• 1914 – Wendell Corey, American actor and politician (d. 1968)
• 1915 – Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (d. 2000)
• 1915 – Sviatoslav Richter, Ukrainian pianist and composer (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
• 1916 – Pierre Messmer, French lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of France (d. 2007)
• 1917 – Vera Lynn, English singer, songwriter and actress (d. 2020)
• 1917 – Yigael Yadin, Israeli archaeologist, general, and politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Israel (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Jack Barry, American game show host and producer, co-founded Barry & Enright Productions (d. 1984)
• 1918 – Donald Featherstone, English soldier and author (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Marian McPartland, English-American pianist and composer (d. 2013)
• 1918 – Bernd Alois Zimmermann, German composer (d. 1970)
• 1919 – Gerhard Barkhorn, German fighter ace (d. 1983)
• 1920 – Pamela Harriman, English-American diplomat, 58th United States Ambassador to France (d. 1997)
• 1920 – Rosemary Timperley, English author and screenwriter (d. 1988)
• 1921 – Usmar Ismail, Indonesian filmmaker (d. 1971)
• 1921 – Dušan Pirjevec, Slovenian historian and philosopher (d. 1977)
• 1921 – Alfréd Rényi, Hungarian mathematician and theorist (d. 1970)
• 1922 – Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader (d. 2017)
• 1922 – Ray Goulding, American actor and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1922 – Carl Reiner, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2020)
• 1923 – Con Martin, Irish footballer and manager (d. 2013)
• 1923 – Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani journalist, author, and activist (d. 2006)
• 1925 – John Ehrlichman, American lawyer, 12th White House Counsel (d. 1999)
• 1927 – John Joubert, South African-English composer and academic (d. 2019)
• 1928 – Jerome Biffle, American long jumper and coach (d. 2002)
• 1928 – James P. Gordon, American physicist and engineer (d. 2013)
• 1928 – Fred Rogers, American television host and producer (d. 2003)
• 1929 – William Andrew MacKay, Canadian lawyer and judge (d. 2013)
• 1929 – Germán Robles, Spanish-Mexican actor and director (d. 2015)
• 1930 – S. Arasaratnam, Sri Lankan historian, author, and academic (d. 1998)
• 1931 – Hal Linden, American actor, singer, and director
• 1931 – Rein Raamat, Estonian director and screenwriter
• 1933 – Lateef Adegbite, Nigerian lawyer and politician (d. 2012)
• 1933 – George Altman, American baseball player
• 1933 – Ian Walsh, Australian rugby league player and coach (d. 2013)
• 1934 – Willie Brown, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 41st Mayor of San Francisco
• 1934 – David Malouf, Australian author and playwright
• 1935 – Ted Bessell, American actor and director (d. 1996)
• 1935 – Bettye Washington Greene, American chemist (d. 1995)
• 1936 – Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican singer, songwriter, music producer, and inventor
• 1936 – Mark Saville, Baron Saville of Newdigate, English lieutenant, lawyer, and judge
• 1937 – Lois Lowry, American author
• 1937 – Jerry Reed, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (d. 2008)
• 1938 – Sergei Novikov, Russian mathematician and academic
• 1939 – Gerald Curran, American lawyer and politician (d. 2013)
• 1939 – Don Edwards, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1939 – Walter Jakob Gehring, Swiss biologist and academic (d. 2014)
• 1939 – Brian Mulroney, Canadian lawyer and politician, 18th Prime Minister of Canada
• 1940 – Stathis Chaitas, Greek footballer and manager
• 1940 – Mary Ellen Mark, American photographer and journalist (d. 2015)
• 1940 – Giampiero Moretti, Italian race car driver and businessman, founded the Momo company (d. 2012)
• 1941 – Pat Corrales, American baseball player and manager
• 1941 – Kenji Kimihara, Japanese runner
• 1943 – Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer
• 1943 – Douglas Tompkins, American businessman, co-founded The North Face and Esprit Holdings (d. 2015)
• 1943 – Paul Junger Witt, American director and producer (d. 2018)
• 1944 – John Cameron, English composer and conductor
• 1944 – Camille Cosby, American author, producer, and philanthropist
• 1944 – Alan Harper, English-Irish archbishop
• 1945 – Henry Bartholomay, American soldier and pilot (d. 2015)
• 1945 – Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author
• 1945 – Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach
• 1945 – Tim Yeo, English politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Health
• 1946 – Douglas B. Green, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1946 – Malcolm Simmons, English motorcycle racer (d. 2014)
• 1947 – John Boswell, American historian, philologist, and academic (d. 1994)
• 1948 – John de Lancie, American actor
• 1948 – Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
• 1948 – Nikos Papazoglou, Greek singer-songwriter and producer (d. 2011)
• 1949 – Marcia Ball, American blues singer-songwriter and pianist
• 1949 – Richard Dowden, English journalist and educator
• 1950 – William Hurt, American actor
• 1950 – Carl Palmer, English drummer, percussionist, and songwriter
• 1951 – Jimmie Vaughan, American blues-rock singer-songwriter and guitarist
• 1952 – Geoff Brabham, Australian race car driver
• 1952 – David Greenaway, English economist and academic
• 1953 – Phil Judd, New Zealand singer-songwriter, guitarist and painter
• 1954 – Mike Francesa, American radio talk show host and television commentator
• 1954 – Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician
• 1954 – Paul Mirabella, American baseball player
• 1955 – Nina Kiriki Hoffman, American author
• 1955 – Ian Moss, Australian guitarist and singer-songwriter
• 1955 – Mariya Takeuchi, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1956 – Catherine Ashton, English politician, Vice-President of the European Commission
• 1956 – Anne Donahue, American lawyer and politician
• 1956 – Naoto Takenaka, Japanese actor, comedian, singer, and director
• 1957 – Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress
• 1957 – David Foster, Australian woodchopper
• 1957 – Spike Lee, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1957 – Theresa Russell, American actress
• 1957 – Chris Wedge, American animator, producer, screenwriter, and voice actor
• 1958 – Holly Hunter, American actress and producer
• 1958 – Rickey Jackson, American football player
• 1958 – Joe Reaiche, Australian rugby player
• 1959 – Dave Beasant, English footballer and coach
• 1959 – Mary Roach, American author
• 1959 – Sting, American wrestler
• 1959 – Peter Truscott, Baron Truscott, British Labour Party politician and peer^[5]
• 1960 – Norm Magnusson, American painter and sculptor
• 1960 – Norbert Pohlmann, German computer scientist and academic
• 1960 – Yuri Shargin, Russian colonel, engineer, and astronaut
• 1961 – Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, German politician
• 1961 – Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer and manager
• 1961 – Sara Wheeler, English author and journalist
• 1962 – Stephen Sommers, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1963 – Paul Annacone, American tennis player and coach
• 1963 – Kathy Ireland, American model, actress, and furniture designer
• 1963 – Yelena Romanova, Russian runner (d. 2007)
• 1963 – David Thewlis, English-French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1964 – Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer-songwriter
• 1965 – William Dalrymple, Scottish historian and author
• 1967 – Xavier Beauvois, French actor, director, and screenwriter
• 1967 – Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player
• 1968 – Carlos Almeida, Cape Verdean runner
• 1968 – A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author
• 1968 – Paul Merson, English footballer and manager
• 1968 – Ultra Naté, American singer, songwriter, record producer, DJ, and promoter
• 1969 – Yvette Cooper, English economist and politician, former Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
• 1969 – Fabien Galthie, French rugby player
• 1970 – Edoardo Ballerini, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1970 – Josephine Medina, Filipino Paralympic table tennis player^[6]
• 1970 – sj Miller, American academic, public speaker, and social justice activist ^[7]
• 1970 – Michael Rapaport, American actor, podcast host, and director
• 1971 – Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player
• 1971 – Touré, American journalist and author
• 1972 – Chilly Gonzales, Canadian-German singer-songwriter, pianist, and producer
• 1972 – Alex Kapranos, English-Scottish singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
• 1972 – Greg Searle, English rower
• 1972 – Marco Sejna, German footballer
• 1972 – Cristel Vahtra, Estonian skier
• 1973 – Nicky Boje, South African cricketer
• 1973 – Natalya Khrushcheleva, Russian runner
• 1973 – Talal Khalifa Aljeri, Kuwaiti businessman
• 1974 – Carsten Ramelow, German footballer
• 1975 – Ramin Bahrani, American director, producer, and screenwriter
• 1975 – Isolde Kostner, Italian skier
• 1976 – Chester Bennington, American singer-songwriter, producer, and actor (d. 2017)
• 1978 – Kevin Betsy, English-born Seychelles international footballer, midfielder and manager^[8]
• 1978 – Brent Sherwin, Australian rugby league player
• 1979 – Shinnosuke Abe, Japanese baseball player
• 1979 – Freema Agyeman, English actress
• 1979 – Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player
• 1980 – Jamal Crawford, American basketball player
• 1980 – Robertas Javtokas, Lithuanian basketball player
• 1981 – Ian Murray, Scottish footballer
• 1981 – Carl Webb, Australian rugby league player
• 1982 – Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer
• 1982 – Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer
• 1982 – José Moreira, Portuguese footballer
• 1983 – Carolina Padrón, Venezuelan journalist
• 1983 – Jenni Vartiainen, Finnish singer
• 1984 – Vikram Banerjee, English cricketer
• 1984 – Christy Carlson Romano, American actress and singer
• 1984 – Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer
• 1985 – Morgan Amalfitano, French footballer
• 1985 – Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player
• 1985 – Nicolas Lombaerts, Belgian footballer
• 1986 – Dean Geyer, South African-Australian singer-songwriter and actor
• 1986 – Julián Magallanes, Argentinian footballer
• 1986 – Ruby Rose, Australian actress and model
• 1986 – Román Torres, Panamanian footballer
• 1987 – Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian footballer
• 1987 – Jô, Brazilian footballer^[9]
• 1987 – Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian ice hockey player
• 1989 – Xavier Dolan, Canadian actor and director
• 1989 – Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi Cricketer
• 1990 – Blake Ferguson, Australian rugby league player
• 1990 – Marcos Rojo, Argentine footballer
• 1991 – Mattia Destro, Italian footballer
• 1991 – Michał Kucharczyk, Polish footballer
• 1991 – Ethan Lowe, Australian rugby league player
• 1993 – Sloane Stephens, American tennis player
• 1995 – Jack Bird, Australian rugby league player
• 1995 – Kei, South Korean singer, member of Lovelyz

Deaths

• 687 – Cuthbert, Northumbrian (English) monk, bishop, and saint (b. 634)
• 703 – Wulfram, archbishop of Sens
• 842 – Alfonso II, king of Asturias (Spain) (b. 759)
• 851 – Ebbo, archbishop of Reims
• 1181 – Taira no Kiyomori, Japanese general (b. 1118)
• 1191 – Pope Clement III (b. 1130)
• 1239 – Hermann von Salza, German knight and diplomat (b. 1179)
• 1302 – Ralph Walpole, Bishop of Norwich
• 1336 – Maurice Csák, Hungarian Dominican friar (b. 1270)^[10]
• 1351 – Muhammad bin Tughluq, Sultan of Delhi
• 1390 – Alexios III Megas Komnenos, Emperor of Trebizond (b. 1338)
• 1413 – Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
• 1440 – Sigismund I of Lithuania
• 1475 – Georges Chastellain, Burgundian chronicler and poet
• 1549 – Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English general and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1508)
• 1568 – Albert, Duke of Prussia (b. 1490)
• 1619 – Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
• 1673 – Augustyn Kordecki, Polish monk (b. 1603)
• 1688 – Maria of Orange-Nassau, Dutch princess (b. 1642)
• 1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
• 1746 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter and academic (b. 1656)
• 1780 – Benjamin Truman, English brewer and businessman (b. 1699)
• 1793 – William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician, Attorney General for England and Wales (b. 1705)
• 1835 – Louis Léopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
• 1849 – James Justinian Morier, Turkish-English author and diplomat (b. 1780)
• 1855 – Joseph Aspdin, English businessman (b. 1788)
• 1865 – Yamanami Keisuke, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
• 1874 – Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer and conductor (b. 1810)
• 1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
• 1894 – Lajos Kossuth, Hungarian lawyer, journalist and politician (b. 1802)
• 1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet and playwright (b. 1821)
• 1899 – Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist and author (b. 1822)
• 1909 – Friedrich Amelung, Estonian historian and businessman (b. 1842)
• 1918 – Lewis A. Grant, American general and lawyer (b. 1828)
• 1925 – George Curzon, 1st Marquess Curzon of Kedleston, English politician, 35th Governor-General of India (b. 1859)
• 1929 – Ferdinand Foch, French field marshal (b. 1851)
• 1930 – Arthur F. Andrews, American cyclist (b. 1876)
• 1931 – Hermann Müller, German journalist and politician, 12th Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
• 1933 – Giuseppe Zangara, Italian-American assassin of Anton Cermak (b. 1900; executed)^[11]
• 1940 – Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
• 1945 – Dorothy Campbell, Scottish-American golfer (b. 1883)
• 1946 – Amadeus William Grabau, American-Chinese geologist, paleontologist, and academic (b. 1870)
• 1947 – Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and director (b. 1884)
• 1952 – Hjalmar Väre, Finnish cyclist (b. 1892)
• 1958 – Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian merchant, journalist, and politician (b. 1915)
• 1964 – Brendan Behan, Irish republican and playwright (b. 1923)
• 1965 – Daniel Frank, American long jumper (b. 1882)
• 1966 – Johnny Morrison, American baseball player (b. 1895)
• 1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish director and screenwriter (b. 1889)
• 1969 – Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
• 1971 – Falih Rıfkı Atay, Turkish journalist and politician (b. 1894)
• 1972 – Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
• 1974 – Chet Huntley, American journalist (b. 1911)
• 1977 – Charles Lyttelton, 10th Viscount Cobham, English politician, 9th Governor-General of New Zealand (b. 1909)
• 1977 – Terukuni Manzō, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (b. 1919)
• 1978 – Jacques Brugnon, French tennis player (b. 1895)
• 1981 – Gerry Bertier, American football player (b. 1953)
• 1983 – Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1891)
• 1990 – Maurice Cloche, French director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1907)
• 1990 – Lev Yashin, Russian footballer (b. 1929)
• 1992 – Georges Delerue, French composer (b. 1925)
• 1993 – Polykarp Kusch, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
• 1994 – Lewis Grizzard, American writer and humorist (b. 1946)
• 1997 – V. S. Pritchett, English short story writer, essayist, and critic (b. 1900)
• 1999 – Patrick Heron, British painter (b. 1920)
• 2000 – Gene Eugene, Canadian-American singer-songwriter and producer (b. 1961)
• 2001 – Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican-American baseball player (b. 1949)
• 2004 – Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
• 2004 – Pierre Sévigny, Canadian colonel and politician (b. 1917)
• 2005 – Armand Lohikoski, American-Finnish director and screenwriter (b. 1912)
• 2007 – Raynald Fréchette, Canadian lawyer, judge, and politician (b. 1933)
• 2007 – Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician, Vice President of Iraq (b. 1938)
• 2007 – Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
• 2010 – Ai, American poet and academic (b. 1947)
• 2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Indian-Nepalese politician, 30th Prime Minister of Nepal (b. 1924)
• 2010 – Stewart Udall, American soldier, lawyer, and politician, 37th United States Secretary of the Interior (b. 1920)
• 2011 – Johnny Pearson, English pianist, conductor, and composer (b. 1925)
• 2012 – Lincoln Hall, Australian mountaineer and author (b. 1955)
• 2012 – Noboru Ishiguro, Japanese animator and director (b. 1938)
• 2012 – Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, Polish-Israeli rabbi and author (b. 1910)
• 2012 – Jim Stynes, Irish-Australian footballer (b. 1966)
• 2013 – James Herbert, English author (b. 1943)
• 2013 – George Lowe, New Zealand-English mountaineer and explorer (b. 1924)
• 2013 – Zillur Rahman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, 19th President of Bangladesh (b. 1929)^[12]
• 2014 – Hennie Aucamp, South African poet, author, and academic (b. 1934)
• 2014 – Hilderaldo Bellini, Brazilian footballer (b. 1930)
• 2014 – Tonie Nathan, American politician (b. 1923)
• 2014 – Khushwant Singh, Indian journalist and author (b. 1915)
• 2015 – Eva Burrows, Australian 13th General of The Salvation Army (b. 1929)
• 2015 – Malcolm Fraser, Australian politician, 22nd Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1930)
• 2016 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (b. 1922)
• 2017 – David Rockefeller, American billionaire and philanthropist (b. 1915)
• 2018 – C. K. Mann, a Ghanaian Highlife musician and producer (b. 1936)
• 2019 – Mary Warnock, English philosopher & writer (b. 1924) ^[13]
• 2020 – Kenny Rogers, American singer (b. 1938)

Holidays and observances

• Christian feast day:
  • Alexandra
  • Blessed John of Parma
  • Clement of Ireland
  • Cuthbert of Lindisfarne
  • Herbert of Derwentwater
  • John of Nepomuk
  • Józef Bilczewski
  • María Josefa Sancho de Guerra
  • Martin of Braga
  • Michele Carcano
  • Wulfram
  • March 20 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Earliest date for the vernal equinox in the Northern hemisphere:
  • Baháʼí Naw-Rúz, started at sunset on March 20. The end of the 19-day sunrise-to-sunset fast. (Baháʼí Faith)
  • Chunfen (China)
  • Earth Equinox Day
  • International Astrology Day
  • New Year (Thelema)
  • Nowruz (Persian, Gilaki, Kurdish, Zoroastrians, and other Iranian people and countries with an Iranian influence)
  • Ostara in the northern hemisphere, Mabon in the southern hemisphere. (Neo-Druidic Wheel of the Year)
  • Shunbun no Hi (Japan)
  • Sun-Earth Day (United States)
  • Vernal Equinox Day/Kōreisai (Japan)
  • World Storytelling Day
• Earliest day on which Good Friday can fall, while April 23 is the latest; celebrated on Friday before Easter. (Christianity)
• Great American Meatout (United States)
• Independence Day, celebrates the independence of Tunisia from France in 1956.
• International Day of Happiness (United Nations)^[14]
• International Francophonie Day (Organisation internationale de la Francophonie), and its related observances:
  • UN French Language Day (United Nations)^[14]
• National Native HIV/AIDS Awareness Day (United States)
• World Sparrow Day

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External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 20.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• Historical Events on March 20
• Today in Canadian History