March 7
March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
[change | change source]Up to 1900
[change | change source]- 161 – Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies.
- 238 – Roman subjects in North Africa revolt against Maximus Thrax and elect Gordian I as Roman Emperor.
- 321 – Constantine announces that Sunday is a rest day in Europe.
- 1277 – Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 1573 – 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 – Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops kill over 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1850 – US Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in support of the Compromise of 1850.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
- 1871 – 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 – Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
- 1897 – Cornflakes are first served at a sanatorium in Michigan, having been invented by John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg.
- 1900 – German liner SS Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1901 – 2000
[change | change source]- 1902 – Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch – A Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts a heavy defeat on British forces.
- 1912 – Roald Amundsen announces that his Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 1914 – Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1927 – A magnitude 7.6 earthquake its Tango Province, Japan, killing 3,000 people.
- 1936 – Germany re–occupies the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
- 1945 – World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
- 1950 – The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- 1951 – Korean War: Operation Ripper – UN troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1965 – A Civil rights march by 600 people in Selma, Alabama, is forcefully broken.
- 1968 – 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 – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding leader of Bangladesh, delivers a historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
- 1980 – Oil tanker "Tanio" breaks in two off Brittany.
- 1985 – The song "We are the World" receives its international release.
- 1986 – Divers from the USS Preserver discover the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 1989 – Iran and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses".
- 1992 – Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Head of State in Georgia.
From 2001
[change | change source]- 2002 – The 2002 Winter Paralympics begin in Salt Lake City.
- 2004 – Kostas Karamanlis is elected Prime Minister of Greece.
- 2004 – The Samson ferry sinks in a cyclone between Madagascar and the Comoros.
- 2006 – Terror organization Lashkar–e–Taiba co–ordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2007 – The UK House of Commons supports by a majority to have an elected House of Lords.
- 2009 – The Kepler space observatory is launched to find Earth–like planets orbiting around other stars.
- 2009 – The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians outside a barracks in Northern Ireland.
- 2010 – Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, for her movie The Hurt Locker.
- 2014 – The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi, Southern Russia.
- 2015 – An attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, leaves an estimated 50 people dead.
- 2017 – 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
[change | change source]Up to 1900
[change | change source]- 189 – Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1481 – Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- 1556 – Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
- 1663 – Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
- 1671 – Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1671 – Ellis Wynne, Welsh clergyman and writer (d. 1734)
- 1678 – Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1693 – Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1715 – Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1715 – Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
- 1730 – Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1765 – Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- 1785 – Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
- 1788 – Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
- 1792 – John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- 1802 – Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter (d. 1873)
- 1835 – Daniel Giraud Elliot, American zoologist (d. 1915)
- 1837 – Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- 1849 – Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist (d. 1926)
- 1850 – Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
- 1850 – Champ Clark, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Julius Wagner–Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
- 1866 – Hans Fruhstorfer, German explorer and entomologist (d. 1922)
- 1868 – Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (d. 1933)
- 1872 – Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- 1878 – Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
- 1886 – Virginia Pearson, American silent movie actress (d. 1958)
- 1888 – Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1901 – 1950
[change | change source]- 1901 – Beatrice Roberts, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1902 – Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- 1904 – Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- 1904 – Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
- 1908 – Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1911 – Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet politician (d. 2008)
- 1914 – John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
- 1915 – Jacques Chaban–Delmas, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
- 1917 – Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1922 – Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
- 1924 – Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d. 2005)
- 1924 – Kobo Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor (d. 1993)
- 1925 – René Gagnon, American navy officer (d. 1979)
- 1927 – James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1927 – Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Robert D. Cardona, American model–maker
- 1930 – Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (d. 2007)
- 1930 – Antony Armstrong–Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2017)
- 1933 – Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (d. 2001)
- 1933 – Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (d. 2018)
- 1933 – Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- 1934 – Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
- 1935 – Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Church Patriarch and cardinal
- 1936 – Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2015)
- 1938 – Albert Fert, French physicist
- 1938 – David Baltimore, American biologist
- 1938 – Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (d. 2014)
- 1939 – Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1940 – Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
- 1940 – Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
- 1942 – Michael Eisner, American movie studio executive
- 1942 – Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (d. 2007)
- 1943 – Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
- 1944 – Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer
- 1944 – Michael Rosbash, American biologist and Nobel laureate
- 1944 – Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1945 – John Heard, American actor
- 1945 – Bob Herbert, American journalist
- 1945 – Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
- 1947 – Richard Lawson, American actor
- 1947 – Walter Röhrl, German rally driver
- 1949 – Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1949 – Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer
- 1950 – Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951 – 1975
[change | change source]- 1952 – William Boyd, Scottish writer, screenwriter and producer
- 1952 – Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
- 1952 – Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
- 1953 – Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountaineer
- 1954 – Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and first openly lesbian bishop
- 1955 – Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1956 – Bryan Cranston, American actor
- 1956 – Andrea Levy, British writer (d. 2019)
- 1958 – Alan Hale, American astronomer
- 1958 – Rik Mayall, British actor and comedian (d. 2014)
- 1959 – Tom Lehman, American golfer
- 1959 – Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
- 1960 – Ivan Lendl, Czech–American tennis player and coach of Andy Murray
- 1960 – Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
- 1961 – Mary Beth Evans, American actress
- 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer
- 1963 – Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 – E. L. James, English writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)
- 1964 – Bret Easton Ellis, American writer and screenwriter
- 1964 – Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
- 1964 – Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician
- 1965 – Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- 1966 – Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 – Ruthie Henshall, British theatre actress and singer
- 1967 – Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
- 1969 – Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
- 1970 – Petra Mede, Swedish comedienne, dancer and television host
- 1970 – Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 1971 – Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
- 1971 – Matthew Vaughn, British movie producer and director
- 1972 – Jang Dong–Gun, South Korean actor and musician
- 1972 – Simon Pryce, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
- 1973 – Sébastien Izambard, Swiss operatic singer (Il Divo)
- 1973 – Ray Parlour, English footballer
- 1974 – Jenna Fischer, American actress
- 1974 – Darryl Stephens, American actor
- 1975 – Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model
From 1976
[change | change source]- 1977 – Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor
- 1977 – Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
- 1977 – Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
- 1977 – Jerome Fernandez, French handball player
- 1980 – Murat Boz, Turkish singer–songwriter and actor
- 1980 – Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 – Laura Prepon, American actress
- 1982 – Marc Planus, French footballer
- 1983 – Manucho, Angolan footballer
- 1984 – Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- 1986 – Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
- 1987 – Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
- 1987 – Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 – Eleni Foureira, Albanian–Greek singer
- 1988 – Larry Asante, American football player
- 1989 – Gerald Anderson, Filipino–American actor and model
- 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
- 1990 – Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
- 1991 – Quenten Martinus, Curaçaoan footballer
- 1991 – Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
- 1992 – Bel Powley, English actress
- 1994 – An–Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
- 1994 – Jordan Pickford, English footballer
- 2009 – Prince Umberto of Savoy
Deaths
[change | change source]Up to 1900
[change | change source]- 322 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
- 161 – Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
- 203 – Felicity and Perpetua, early Christian martyrs
- 413 – Heraclianus, Roman politician
- 851 – Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1274 – Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1550 – William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
- 1625 – Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1724 – Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1778 – Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1786 – Franz Benda, Bohemian composer (b. 1709)
- 1809 – Jean–Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1753)
- 1875 – John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)
1901 – 2000
[change | change source]- 1920 – Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
- 1932 – Aristide Briand, French politician and diplomat (b. 1862)
- 1938 – Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
- 1942 – Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, Communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
- 1952 – Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Guru (b. 1893)
- 1954 – Otto Diels, German chemist (b. 1876)
- 1957 – Wyndham Lewis, British writer (b. 1882)
- 1961 – Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
- 1965 – Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (b. 1889)
- 1967 – Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1969 – Sampurnanand, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 1974 – Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 – Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1981 – Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
- 1983 – Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
- 1986 – Jacob J. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
- 1988 – Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 – Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
- 1991 – Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1997 – Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (b. 1928)
- 1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
- 2000 – Pee Wee King, American country musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1914)
- 2000 – Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001
[change | change source]- 2001 – Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
- 2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
- 2005 – John Box, British movie production designer and art director (b. 1920)
- 2005 – Debra Hill, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1950)
- 2006 – John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
- 2006 – Gordon Parks, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1912)
- 2006 – Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
- 2010 – Kenneth Dover, British classicist (b. 1920)
- 2012 – Wlodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
- 2012 – Felicien Marceau, French novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1913)
- 2013 – Peter Banks, English musician (b. 1947)
- 2013 – Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2013 – Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Heiko Bellmann, German biologist, writer and photographer (b. 1950)
- 2014 – Uwe Timm, German writer and anarchist (b. 1932)
- 2014 – Hal Douglas, American voice actor and announcer (b. 1924)
- 2014 – Ned O'Gorman, American poet (b. 1929)
- 2015 – Gregorio Bundio, Argentine footballer and manager (El Salvador national football team) (b. 1928)
- 2015 – Edmond Malinvaud, French economist (b. 1923)
- 2015 – F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
- 2016 – Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (b. 1950)
- 2016 – Jean–Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
- 2016 – Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (b. 1936)
- 2017 – Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
- 2017 – Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1933)
- 2017 – Helen Sommers, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2017 – Lynne Stewart, American attorney (b. 1939)
- 2017 – Hans Georg Dehmelt, German–American physicist (b. 1922)
- 2017 – Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (b. 1931)
- 2017 – Peter M. Gruber, Austrian mathematician (b. 1941)
- 2017 – Juan Carlos Touriño, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
- 2018 – Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
- 2018 – Woody Durham, American basketball radio announcer (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Charles Thone, American politician, 34th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
- 2018 – Antonia La Negra, Spanish singer and dancer (b. 1936)
- 2019 – Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Joseph M. Boardman, American railroad executive (b. 1948)
- 2019 – Robert Braithwaite, British marine engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
- 2019 – Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1941)
- 2019 – Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
- 2019 – Dick Nichols, American banker and politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 – Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (b. 1935)
Festivals
[change | change source]- Felicity and Perpetua (Roman Catholicism)
- Teacher's Day (Albania)