History of Today in India – 01 March

Explore the history of today 01 March in India, including important events, famous personalities, and milestones for UPSC SSC,Banking & PSC exams.

Last updated on 01 March 2026, 04:21 AM

📜 Important Events on 01 March in World History

• 01 Mar 2014: Thirty-five people are killed and 143 injured in a mass stabbing at Kunming Railway Station in China. Read more
• 01 Mar 2008: The Armenian police clash with peaceful opposition rally protesting against allegedly fraudulent presidential elections; as a result ten people are killed. Read more
• 01 Mar 2007: Tornadoes break out across the southern United States, killing at least 20 people, including eight at Enterprise High School. Read more
• 01 Mar 2006: English-language Wikipedia reaches its one millionth article, Jordanhill railway station. Read more
• 01 Mar 2005: In Roper v. Simmons, the U.S. Supreme Court rules that the execution of juveniles found guilty of any crime is unconstitutional. Read more
• 01 Mar 2003: Management of the United States Customs Service and the United States Secret Service moves to the United States Department of Homeland Security. Read more
• 01 Mar 2002: U.S. invasion of Afghanistan: Operation Anaconda begins in eastern Afghanistan. Read more
• 01 Mar 2002: The Envisat environmental satellite successfully launches aboard an Ariane 5 rocket to reach an orbit of 800 km (500 mi) above the Earth, which was the then-largest payload at 10.5 m long and with a diameter of 4.57 m. Read more
• 01 Mar 2002: Space Shuttle Columbia is launched on STS-109 to service the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more
• 01 Mar 1998: Titanic becomes the first film to gross over $1 billion worldwide. Read more
• 01 Mar 1992: Bosnia and Herzegovina declares its independence from Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. Read more
• 01 Mar 1991: Uprisings against Saddam Hussein begin in Iraq, leading to the deaths of more than 25,000 people, mostly civilians. Read more
• 01 Mar 1990: Steve Jackson Games is raided by the United States Secret Service, prompting the later formation of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Read more
• 01 Mar 1981: Provisional Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands begins his hunger strike in HM Prison Maze. Read more
• 01 Mar 1974: Watergate scandal: Seven are indicted for their role in the Watergate break-in and charged with conspiracy to obstruct justice. Read more
• 01 Mar 1973: Black September storms the Saudi embassy in Khartoum, Sudan, resulting in the assassination of three Western hostages. Read more
• 01 Mar 1971: President of Pakistan Yahya Khan indefinitely postpones the pending national assembly session, precipitating massive civil disobedience in East Pakistan. Read more
• 01 Mar 1966: Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. Read more
• 01 Mar 1966: The Ba'ath Party takes power in Syria. Read more
• 01 Mar 1964: Villarrica Volcano begins a strombolian eruption causing lahars that destroy half of the town of Coñaripe. Read more
• 01 Mar 1964: Paradise Airlines Flight 901A crashes near Lake Tahoe, Nevada, killing 85. Read more
• 01 Mar 1962: American Airlines Flight 1 crashes into Jamaica Bay in New York, killing 95. Read more
• 01 Mar 1961: Uganda becomes self-governing and holds its first elections. Read more
• 01 Mar 1958: Samuel Alphonsus Stritch is appointed Pro-Prefect of the Propagation of Faith and thus becomes the first U.S. member of the Roman Curia. Read more
• 01 Mar 1956: The International Air Transport Association finalizes a draft of the Radiotelephony spelling alphabet for the International Civil Aviation Organization. Read more
• 01 Mar 1956: Formation of the East German Nationale Volksarmee. Read more
• 01 Mar 1954: Nuclear weapons testing: The Castle Bravo, a 15-megaton hydrogen bomb, is detonated on Bikini Atoll in the Pacific Ocean, resulting in the worst radioactive contamination ever caused by the United States. Read more
• 01 Mar 1954: Armed Puerto Rican nationalists attack the United States Capitol building, injuring five Representatives. Read more
• 01 Mar 1953: Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin suffers a stroke and collapses; he dies four days later. Read more
• 01 Mar 1950: Cold War: Klaus Fuchs is convicted of spying for the Soviet Union by disclosing top secret atomic bomb data. Read more
• 01 Mar 1947: The International Monetary Fund begins financial operations. Read more
• 01 Mar 1946: The Bank of England is nationalised. Read more
• 01 Mar 1942: World War II: Japanese forces land on Java, the main island of the Dutch East Indies, at Merak and Banten Bay (Banten), Eretan Wetan (Indramayu) and Kragan (Rembang). Read more
• 01 Mar 1941: World War II: Bulgaria signs the Tripartite Pact, allying itself with the Axis powers. Read more
• 01 Mar 1939: An Imperial Japanese Army ammunition dump explodes at Hirakata, Osaka, Japan, killing 94. Read more
• 01 Mar 1932: Aviator Charles Lindbergh's 20-month-old son Charles Jr is kidnapped from his home in East Amwell, New Jersey. His body would not be found until May 12. Read more
• 01 Mar 1921: The Australian cricket team captained by Warwick Armstrong becomes the first team to complete a whitewash of The Ashes, something that would not be repeated for 86 years. Read more
• 01 Mar 1921: Following mass protests in Petrograd demanding greater freedom in the RSFSR, the Kronstadt rebellion begins, with sailors and citizens taking up arms against the Bolsheviks. Read more
• 01 Mar 1919: March 1st Movement begins in Korea under Japanese rule. Read more
• 01 Mar 1917: The Zimmermann Telegram is reprinted in newspapers across the United States after the U.S. government releases its unencrypted text. Read more
• 01 Mar 1914: China joins the Universal Postal Union. Read more
• 01 Mar 1910: The deadliest avalanche in United States history buries a Great Northern Railway train in northeastern King County, Washington, killing 96 people. Read more
• 01 Mar 1901: The Australian Army is formed. Read more
• 01 Mar 1896: Battle of Adwa: An Ethiopian army defeats an outnumbered Italian force, ending the First Italo-Ethiopian War. Read more
• 01 Mar 1896: Henri Becquerel discovers radioactive decay. Read more
• 01 Mar 1893: Electrical engineer Nikola Tesla gives the first public demonstration of radio in St. Louis, Missouri. Read more
• 01 Mar 1872: Yellowstone National Park is established as the world's first national park. Read more
• 01 Mar 1871: The victorious Prussian Army parades through Paris, France, after the end of the Siege of Paris during the Franco-Prussian War. Read more
• 01 Mar 1870: Marshal F. S. López dies during the Battle of Cerro Corá thus marking the end of the Paraguayan War. Read more
• 01 Mar 1867: Nebraska is admitted as the 37th U.S. state. Read more
• 01 Mar 1845: United States President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. Read more
• 01 Mar 1836: A convention of delegates from 57 Texas communities convenes in Washington-on-the-Brazos, Texas, to deliberate independence from Mexico. Read more
• 01 Mar 1815: Napoleon returns to France from his banishment on Elba. Read more
• 01 Mar 1811: Leaders of the Mamluk dynasty are killed by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali. Read more
• 01 Mar 1805: Justice Samuel Chase is acquitted at the end of his impeachment trial before the U.S. Senate. Read more

🎂 Important Births on 01 March in World History

• 01 Mar 2001: Wander Franco, Dominican baseball player Wander Samuel Franco Aybar, nicknamed "El Patron", is a Dominican professional baseball shortstop for the Tampa Bay Rays of Major League Baseball (MLB). He made his MLB debut in 2021 and was an All-Star in 2023. Read more
• 01 Mar 2001: Sapnap, American YouTuber Nicholas Armstrong, known online as Sapnap, is an American YouTuber and livestreamer known for his Minecraft content. Along with Dream, BadBoyHalo, and GeorgeNotFound, he is part of the Dream Team and was a founding member of the Dream SMP Minecraft server. He has co-owned NRG Esports since 2022. Read more
• 01 Mar 2000: Ja'Marr Chase, American football player Ja'Marr Anthony Chase is an American professional football wide receiver for the Cincinnati Bengals of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the LSU Tigers, where he won the Fred Biletnikoff Award and the 2020 College Football Playoff National Championship as a sophomore. Selected fifth overall by the Bengals in the 2021 NFL draft, Chase was named the NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year and a second-team All-Pro after setting the rookie record for single-game receiving yards en route to an appearance in Super Bowl LVI. In 2024, Chase became the fifth player in the Super Bowl era to win the receiving triple crown, leading the league in receptions, receiving yards, and receiving touchdowns. Read more
• 01 Mar 1999: Oswaldo Cabrera, Venezuelan baseball player Oswaldo Alberto Cabrera is a Venezuelan professional baseball utility player for the New York Yankees of Major League Baseball (MLB). He signed with the Yankees as a free agent when he was 16 years old. He made his MLB debut in 2022. Cabrera has appeared at every position in MLB except for catcher. Read more
• 01 Mar 1999: Brogan Hay, Scottish footballer Brogan Yvonne Hay is a Scottish footballer who plays for Rangers in the Scottish Women's Premier League (SWPL) as a right winger or forward. Read more
• 01 Mar 1994: Justin Bieber, Canadian singer-songwriter Justin Drew Bieber is a Canadian singer. Regarded as a prominent figure in contemporary popular music, he rose to fame in the late 2000s with his debut extended play, My World (2009), receiving international recognition and establishing him as a teen idol. Read more
• 01 Mar 1994: Asanoyama Hiroki, Japanese sumo wrestler Asanoyama Hiroki is a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Toyama Prefecture. He wrestles for Takasago stable. He debuted in sumo in March 2016 and made his makuuchi debut in September 2017. His highest rank has been ōzeki. He has earned six special prizes, and one gold star for defeating a yokozuna. In May 2019 he won his first top division yūshō or tournament championship, the first of the Reiwa era. He was also runner-up in November 2019 and finished the calendar year with more top division wins than any other wrestler. He was promoted to ōzeki after the March 2020 tournament, and was a runner-up in his ōzeki debut in July 2020 and in January 2021. Read more
• 01 Mar 1994: Tyreek Hill, American football player Tyreek Hill is an American professional football wide receiver. He played college football for the Garden City Broncbusters, Oklahoma State Cowboys, and West Alabama Tigers before being selected by the Kansas City Chiefs in the fifth round of the 2016 NFL draft. He most recently played for the Miami Dolphins. Read more
• 01 Mar 1994: Maximilian Philipp, German footballer Maximilian Marcus Philipp is a German professional footballer who plays as a forward for Bundesliga club SC Freiburg. He represented Germany internationally at youth levels U20 and U21. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Juan Bernat, Spanish footballer Juan Bernat Velasco is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Segunda División club Eibar. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Michael Conforto, American baseball player Michael Thomas Conforto, nicknamed "Scooter", is an American professional baseball outfielder in the Chicago Cubs organization. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Mets, San Francisco Giants, and Los Angeles Dodgers. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Josh McEachran, English footballer Joshua Mark McEachran is an English professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for EFL League Two club Bristol Rovers. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Victor Rask, Swedish ice hockey player Victor Rask is a Swedish professional ice hockey center who is currently playing with the SC Rapperswil-Jona Lakers of the National League (NL) after he spent eight years in the National Hockey League (NHL), playing for the Carolina Hurricanes, Minnesota Wild, and Seattle Kraken. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Jordan Veretout, French footballer Jordan Marcel Gilbert Veretout is a French professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Qatar Stars League club Al-Arabi. Read more
• 01 Mar 1992: Édouard Mendy, Senegalese footballer Édouard Osoque Mendy is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for and captains Saudi Pro League club Al-Ahli. Born in France, he plays for the Senegal national team. Read more
• 01 Mar 1992: Tom Walsh, New Zealand athlete Tomas Walsh is a New Zealand athlete who competes mainly in the shot put. He is the current national record holder both outdoors and indoors for the event. His personal best of 22.90 m, set in Doha, 5 October 2019, is also the Oceanian record and makes him the seventh best shot putter in history. Read more
• 01 Mar 1991: Joe Mantiply, American baseball player Joseph Newman Mantiply is an American professional baseball pitcher who is a free agent. He has previously played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Detroit Tigers, New York Yankees, and Arizona Diamondbacks. Mantiply was selected by the Tigers in the 27th round of the 2013 MLB draft. He was an All-Star in 2022. Read more
• 01 Mar 1989: Tenille Dashwood, Australian professional wrestler Tenille Averil Dashwood is an Australian/American professional wrestler and social influencer. She is best known for her tenure in WWE, under the ring name Emma. She is also known for her time in Ring of Honor (ROH) and Impact Wrestling, where she performed under her real name. Read more
• 01 Mar 1989: Daniella Monet, American actress Daniella Monet Gardner is an American actress, entrepreneur and television personality. She is best known for her role as Trina Vega in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and its spin-off Hollywood Arts (2026). Read more
• 01 Mar 1989: Emeraude Toubia, Canadian-American actress Emeraude Toubia is a Canadian-American actress. From 2016 to 2019, she portrayed Isabelle Lightwood on the Freeform fantasy series Shadowhunters. Toubia has been starred as Lily Diaz on the Amazon Prime Video romantic comedy series With Love from 2021-2023 Read more
• 01 Mar 1989: Carlos Vela, Mexican footballer Carlos Alberto Vela Garrido is a Mexican former professional footballer. A versatile offensive player, Vela could be deployed as a forward, winger, and attacking midfielder. Read more
• 01 Mar 1988: Trevor Cahill, American baseball player Trevor John Cahill is an American former professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the Oakland Athletics, Arizona Diamondbacks, Atlanta Braves, Chicago Cubs, San Diego Padres, Kansas City Royals, Los Angeles Angels, San Francisco Giants, and Pittsburgh Pirates. The Athletics drafted Cahill in the second round of the 2006 MLB draft and he made his MLB debut with them in 2009. Read more
• 01 Mar 1988: Jarvis Varnado, American basketball player Jarvis Lamar Varnado is an American former professional basketball player who last played for Piratas de La Guaira of the Venezuelan Basketball League. Varnado is known as a defensive specialist and is especially adept at shot blocking where he's aided by his large wingspan. Read more
• 01 Mar 1987: Kesha, American singer-songwriter and actress Kesha Rose Sebert, formerly stylized as Ke$ha, is an American singer and songwriter. In 2009 she was featured on rapper Flo Rida's number-one single, "Right Round". Read more
• 01 Mar 1987: Kyle O'Reilly, Canadian professional wrestler Kyle Richard Thomas Greenwood, better known by his ring name Kyle O'Reilly, is a Canadian professional wrestler. He is signed to All Elite Wrestling (AEW), where he is a member of The Paragon and The Conglomeration. He is also known for working in Ring of Honor (ROH) from 2009 to 2017, and WWE from 2017 to 2021, using the same ring name in both companies. He is a three-time NXT Tag Team Champion, and was a founding member of The Undisputed Era. Read more
• 01 Mar 1986: Big E, American professional wrestler Ettore Ewen, known professionally under the ring name Big E, is an American broadcaster, retired professional wrestler and former powerlifter. He is signed to WWE, where he primarily appears as a panelist and analysist as well as a media spokesperson for the company. He is best known for performing in the company as an in-ring competitor from 2009 to 2022, as well as being a member of the New Day stable alongside Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods, with whom he became a six-time Smackdown Tag Team Champion and two-time Raw Tag Team Champion. After suffering a cervical fracture during a match in March 2022, Ewen moved away from in-ring competition and ultimately announced his retirement in 2025. Read more
• 01 Mar 1986: Jonathan Spector, American soccer player Jonathan Michael Paul Spector is an American former soccer player who played as a defender. In his 16-year career playing first-team soccer he played over 400 games for club and country, and helped the United States win the CONCACAF Gold Cup in 2007. He earned 36 caps for the United States national team. He is now the Head of Scouting for MLS side Atlanta United. Read more
• 01 Mar 1986: Alec Utgoff, Ukrainian-English actor Alec Utgoff is a British actor known for his roles in various films and television series. Born in Kyiv, Ukrainian SSR, he moved to the UK at a young age. Read more
• 01 Mar 1985: Andreas Ottl, German footballer Andreas Ottl is a German former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder. He signed his first professional contract for Bayern Munich in 2005. He also played for Germany's U-21 Team. Read more
• 01 Mar 1984: Alexander Steen, Canadian-Swedish ice hockey player Alexander Lennart Steen is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He was drafted 24th overall by the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 2002 NHL entry draft, and started his NHL career with Toronto. He was traded to the St. Louis Blues in 2008, where he played the remainder of his career, winning the Stanley Cup in 2019. Steen has been named the successor to Doug Armstrong as general manager of the Blues after the 2025–26 season. Read more
• 01 Mar 1984: Claudio Bieler, Argentinian footballer Claudio Daniel Bieler is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Huracán de Vera. Read more
• 01 Mar 1983: Daniel Carvalho, Brazilian footballer Daniel da Silva Carvalho, more commonly known as Daniel Carvalho, is a Brazilian former football attacking midfielder. Read more
• 01 Mar 1983: Lupita Nyong'o, Kenyan-Mexican actress Lupita Amondi Nyong'o
  is an actress who has received various accolades, including an Actor Award, an Academy Award and a Daytime Emmy Award, as well as nominations for two British Academy Film Awards, a Golden Globe Award and a Tony Award. Read more
• 01 Mar 1982: Travis Diener, American-Italian basketball player Travis Lyle Diener is an American-Italian former professional basketball player who last played for Vanoli Cremona in the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). He also holds Italian citizenship, and has played for the Italian national team at EuroBasket 2013. Read more
• 01 Mar 1981: Will Power, Australian race car driver William Steven Power is an Australian racing driver who is set to compete in the IndyCar Series, driving the No. 26 Dallara-Honda for Andretti Global. He won the 2018 Indianapolis 500 and has won the IndyCar Championship twice, in 2014 and 2022. Power is one of the most successful drivers in Indy car racing history, currently fourth all-time in wins (45), first all-time in poles (71), and fourth all-time in podiums (108). Read more
• 01 Mar 1980: Shahid Afridi, Pakistani cricketer Sahibzada Mohammad Shahid Khan Afridi is a Pakistani former cricketer and captain of the Pakistan national cricket team. An all-rounder, Afridi was a right-handed leg spinner and a right-handed batsman. Read more
• 01 Mar 1980: Sercan Güvenışık, German-Turkish footballer Sercan Bilinç Güvenışık is a Turkish footballer currently playing for Miami Dade FC. Read more
• 01 Mar 1980: Djimi Traoré, French-Malian footballer Djimi Traoré is a former professional footballer who works as a coach for the Right to Dream Academy. He played as a left-back or centre-back. Born in France, Traoré played for Mali, and at club level, he played for Laval, Liverpool – with whom he won multiple honours including the 2004–05 Champions League – Lens, Charlton Athletic, Portsmouth, Rennes, Birmingham City, Monaco, Marseille and Seattle. Read more
• 01 Mar 1979: Mikkel Kessler, Danish boxer Mikkel Kessler is a Danish former professional boxer who competed from 1998 to 2013. He held multiple super-middleweight world championships, including the World Boxing Association (WBA) title three times between 2004 and 2013, and the WBC title twice between 2006 and 2010. Read more
• 01 Mar 1979: Bruno Langlois, Canadian cyclist Bruno Langlois is a Canadian racing cyclist, who currently rides for club team Cartel RT. Read more
• 01 Mar 1978: Jensen Ackles, American actor and musician Jensen Ross Ackles is an American actor and musician. He gained recognition for his portrayal of Dean Winchester in The WB/CW dark fantasy drama series Supernatural (2005–2020) and appearing in television series such as NBC's Days of Our Lives as Eric Brady which earned him several Daytime Emmy Award nominations. Read more
• 01 Mar 1977: Rens Blom, Dutch pole vaulter Rens Blom is a Dutch retired track and field athlete who competed in the pole vault. He is the 2005 world champion and former Dutch record holder with personal bests of 5.81 m outdoor and 5.75 m indoor. Read more
• 01 Mar 1974: Mark-Paul Gosselaar, American actor Mark-Paul Harry Gosselaar is an American actor. He is best known for playing Zack Morris in the NBC series Saved by the Bell (1989–1993), its sequel Saved by the Bell: The College Years (1993–1994), and the next-generation revival on Peacock (2020). For this role, he won three Young Artist Awards in 1991 and 1993, and a YoungStar Award in 1995, as well as other accolades. Read more
• 01 Mar 1973: Jack Davenport, English actor Jack Arthur Davenport is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in the television series This Life and Coupling, and as James Norrington in the Pirates of the Caribbean film series. He has also appeared in other Hollywood films, such as The Talented Mr. Ripley and Kingsman: The Secret Service. On television, Davenport is known for his roles in the ensemble drama series FlashForward, Smash, and The Morning Show as well as his leading role in the 2013 ITV drama series Breathless. Read more
• 01 Mar 1973: Ryan Peake, Canadian musician and songwriter Ryan Anthony Peake is a Canadian musician who is the rhythm guitarist, keyboardist, and backing vocalist of the rock band Nickelback. He has been with the band since their inception and is best known for his prominent vocals on the Nickelback songs "Savin' Me", "Hollywood", and "Gotta Be Somebody". Read more
• 01 Mar 1973: Chris Webber, American basketball player and sportscaster Mayce Edward Christopher Webber III, nicknamed "C-Webb", is an American former professional basketball player. Webber played 15 seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA), with the largest portion of his career spent with the Sacramento Kings. Drafted number one overall in the 1993 NBA draft, Webber became a five-time NBA All-Star, a five-time All-NBA Team member, and the NBA Rookie of the Year. He also played for the Golden State Warriors, Washington Bullets, Philadelphia 76ers, and Detroit Pistons during his NBA career. Read more
• 01 Mar 1971: Ma Dong-seok, South Korean-American actor Lee Dong-seok, better known by the stage names Ma Dong-seok (마동석) and Don Lee, is a South Korean and American actor and film producer based in South Korea. He gained early recognition for his supporting roles in Nameless Gangster: Rules of the Time (2012) and The Neighbor (2012). Read more
• 01 Mar 1971: Brad Falchuk, American screenwriter, director, and producer Bradley Douglas Falchuk is an American television writer, director, and producer. He is best known for co-creating the television series Glee, American Horror Story, Scream Queens, The Brothers Sun, and Pose with Ryan Murphy, as well as the 911 franchise with Murphy and Tim Minear. He was also a writer and executive producer for Nip/Tuck and is married to actress Gwyneth Paltrow. Recently he became the host of the TV show Famous Last Words where, as an interviewer, he has chats with famous and notorious celebrities right before their deaths. Read more
• 01 Mar 1970: Yolanda Griffith, American basketball player and coach Yolanda Evette Griffith is an American former professional basketball player who played in both the ABL and WNBA. An eight time WNBA All-Star, she was named the 1999 WNBA MVP and the WNBA Finals MVP in 2005 when she won the WNBA championship with the Sacramento Monarchs. One of the top defensive players in WNBA's history, she was the 1999 WNBA Defensive Player of the Year and led the league in rebounds and steals two times each. In 2011, she was voted in by fans as one of the top 15 players in WNBA history. She is sometimes called by her nicknames: "Yo" and "Yo-Yo". Griffith was inducted into the 2014 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame's class on her first year of eligibility. In 2021, she was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame. Read more
• 01 Mar 1969: Javier Bardem, Spanish actor and producer Javier Ángel Encinas Bardem is a Spanish actor. In a career spanning over three decades, he has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe Award, a Critics' Choice Movie Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and seven Goya Awards, in addition to a Cannes Film Festival Award and two Volpi Cups. Read more
• 01 Mar 1967: George Eads, American actor George Coleman Eads III is an American actor, known for his role as Nick Stokes on the CBS police drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. He later starred as Jack Dalton on the CBS action-adventure series MacGyver for three seasons. Read more
• 01 Mar 1967: Aron Winter, Surinamese-Dutch footballer and manager Aron Winter is a Dutch football manager and former player who most recently managed Suriname. A midfielder, he played for Ajax and Sparta Rotterdam in the Netherlands, and for Italian sides Lazio and Inter Milan. Born in Suriname, he played for the Netherlands national team. Read more
• 01 Mar 1966: Don Lemon, American journalist Don Renaldo Lemon-Clark is an American television journalist best known for being a host on CNN from 2014 until 2023. He anchored weekend news programs on local television stations in Alabama and Pennsylvania during his early days as a journalist. Lemon worked as a news correspondent for NBC on its programming, such as Today and NBC Nightly News. Read more
• 01 Mar 1966: Zack Snyder, American director, producer, and screenwriter Zachary Edward Snyder is an American filmmaker. After starting his career primarily directing music videos, he made his feature film debut in 2004 with Dawn of the Dead, a remake of the 1978 horror film of the same name. Since then, he has directed or produced a number of comic book and superhero films, including 300 (2006) and Watchmen (2009), as well as the Superman film that started the DC Extended Universe, Man of Steel (2013), and its follow-ups, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016) and Justice League (2017), the latter of which had a director's cut released in 2021. Read more
• 01 Mar 1965: Booker T, American professional wrestler and sportscaster Booker T. Huffman Jr., better known by his ring name Booker T, is an American retired professional wrestler and professional wrestling trainer. He is currently signed to WWE, where he serves as a color commentator on the NXT brand. Widely regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, he is also the owner and founder of the independent promotion Reality of Wrestling (ROW). Read more
• 01 Mar 1965: Chris Eigeman, American actor, director, screenwriter, and producer Christopher Eigeman is an American actor and film director. Read more
• 01 Mar 1965: Stewart Elliott, Canadian jockey Stewart Elliott is a Canadian jockey in thoroughbred horse racing. Read more
• 01 Mar 1963: Bryan Batt, American actor Bryan Batt is an American actor best known for his role in the AMC series Mad Men as Salvatore Romano, the closeted art director for the Sterling Cooper agency. Primarily a theater actor, he has had a number of starring roles in movies and television as well. His performance in the musical adaptation of Saturday Night Fever earned him one of New York City's more unusual honors, a caricature at Sardi's. Read more
• 01 Mar 1963: Ron Francis, Canadian ice hockey player and manager Ronald Michael Francis Jr. is a Canadian ice hockey executive and former player who is the president of hockey operations for the Seattle Kraken of the National Hockey League (NHL). He spent most of his career as either a player or executive for the Hartford Whalers/Carolina Hurricanes organization, 23 years in total. Read more
• 01 Mar 1963: Magnus Svensson, Swedish ice hockey player Magnus Svensson is a Swedish former professional ice hockey player. He won a gold medal with Team Sweden at the 1994 Winter Olympics. He also played 46 games in the National Hockey League with the Florida Panthers. Read more
• 01 Mar 1963: Russell Wong, American actor Russell Wong is an American actor. Born in New York, Wong attended Santa Monica City College while training to become a dancer. With the desire of becoming an actor, he moved to Hong Kong in 1983, where he learned Cantonese and martial arts, leading to his first film role in The Musical Singer (1985), directed by Dennis Yu. His first English-language film was Tai-Pan (1986). Read more
• 01 Mar 1961: Mike Rozier, American football player Michael M. Rozier is an American former professional football player who was a running back in the United States Football League (USFL) for two seasons and the National Football League (NFL) for seven seasons from 1985 to 1991. He played college football for the Nebraska Cornhuskers, winning the Heisman Trophy in 1983. Afterward, he played for the Pittsburgh Maulers and the Jacksonville Bulls of the USFL, then played for the Houston Oilers and the Atlanta Falcons of the NFL. He was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2006. Read more
• 01 Mar 1959: Nick Griffin, English politician Nicholas John Griffin is a British far-right politician who was chairman of the British National Party (BNP) from 1999 to 2014, and a Member of the European Parliament (MEP) for North West England from 2009 to 2014. Following this, he was president of the BNP between July and October 2014, when he was expelled from the party. Read more
• 01 Mar 1958: Nik Kershaw, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer Nicholas David Kershaw is an English singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. He came to prominence in 1984 as a solo artist, releasing eight singles that entered the top 40 of the UK singles chart during the decade, including "Wouldn't It Be Good", "Dancing Girls", "I Won't Let the Sun Go Down on Me", "Human Racing", "The Riddle", "Wide Boy", "Don Quixote", and "When a Heart Beats". His 62 weeks on the UK singles chart through 1984 and 1985 beat all other solo artists. Read more
• 01 Mar 1958: Wayne B. Phillips, Australian cricketer and coach Wayne Bentley Phillips is a former Australian cricketer who played in 27 Test matches and 48 One Day Internationals (ODIs) between 1982 and 1986 as a batsman and wicket-keeper. He played for South Australia between 1978 and 1991. Read more
• 01 Mar 1958: Bertrand Piccard, Swiss psychiatrist and aviator Bertrand Piccard FRSGS is a Swiss explorer, psychiatrist and environmentalist. Along with Brian Jones, he was the first to complete a non-stop balloon flight around the globe, in a balloon named Breitling Orbiter 3. He was the initiator, chairman, and pilot, with André Borschberg, of Solar Impulse, the first successful round-the-world solar-powered flight. In 2012 Piccard was awarded a Champions of the Earth award by the UN Environment Programme. He is the founder and chairman of the Solar Impulse Foundation. Read more
• 01 Mar 1956: Tim Daly, American actor, director, and producer James Timothy Daly is an American actor, producer and director, best known for his roles as Joe Hackett on the NBC sitcom Wings and his recurring role as drug-addicted screenwriter J.T. Dolan on The Sopranos. He starred as Pete Wilder on the ABC medical drama Private Practice from 2007 to 2012. He is also known for his voice role as Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: The Animated Series and several animated Superman movies. From 2014 until 2019, he portrayed Henry McCord, husband of the Secretary of State, on the CBS political drama Madam Secretary, starring Téa Leoni. Read more
• 01 Mar 1956: Dalia Grybauskaitė, Lithuanian politician, 8th President of Lithuania Dalia Grybauskaitė is a Lithuanian politician who served as the eighth president of Lithuania from 2009 to 2019. She is the first and so far only woman to hold the position and in 2014 she became the first President of Lithuania to be reelected for a second consecutive term. Read more
• 01 Mar 1955: Vice Admiral Sir Timothy Laurence, member of the British royal family and Royal Navy officer Vice Admiral Sir Timothy James Hamilton Laurence is a British retired Royal Navy officer and husband of Anne, Princess Royal, the only sister of King Charles III. Read more
• 01 Mar 1954: Catherine Bach, American actress Catherine Bach is an American actress. She is known for playing Daisy Duke in the television series The Dukes of Hazzard and Margo Dutton in African Skies. In 2012, she joined the cast of the CBS soap opera The Young and the Restless as Anita Lawson. Read more
• 01 Mar 1954: Ron Howard, American actor, director, and producer Ronald William Howard is an American filmmaker and actor. Howard started his career as a child actor before transitioning to directing films. Over his six-decade career, Howard has received multiple accolades, including two Academy Awards, seven Emmy Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, and two Grammy Awards. He was awarded the National Medal of Arts in 2003 and was inducted into the Television Hall of Fame in 2013. He has two stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame for his contributions in film and television. Read more
• 01 Mar 1953: Sinan Çetin, Turkish actor, director, and producer Sinan Çetin is a Turkish film director, actor and producer. He won the best director award at the 12th Dhaka International Film Festival. Read more
• 01 Mar 1953: Carlos Queiroz, Portuguese footballer and manager Carlos Manuel Brito Leal de Queiroz is a Portuguese football manager who is currently coach of the Oman national team. He has served as the manager of his native Portugal's national team, the United Arab Emirates, South Africa, Iran, Colombia, Egypt and Qatar, leading South Africa (2002), Portugal (2010) and Iran to the FIFA World Cup. At club level, he has also managed Sporting CP, the New York/New Jersey Metrostars in Major League Soccer and Spanish club Real Madrid. He also had two spells as Alex Ferguson's assistant manager at English club Manchester United. Read more
• 01 Mar 1953: M. K. Stalin, Indian Tamil politician, 8th and incumbent Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu Muthuvel Karunanidhi Stalin is an Indian politician who has served as the eighth Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu since 2021. He became president of Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (DMK) on 28 August 2018, after serving as the party's working president from January 2017 to August 2018. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Dave Barr, Canadian golfer David Allen Barr is a Canadian professional golfer who has played on the Canadian Tour, PGA Tour and Champions Tour. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Nevada Barr, American actress and author Nevada Barr is an American author of mystery fiction. She is known for her Anna Pigeon series, which is primarily set in a series of national parks and other protected areas of the United States. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Janice Burgess, American television executive, screenwriter, and producer (died 2024) Janice Burgess was an American television executive, screenwriter and producer for Nickelodeon. She created the Nick Jr. series The Backyardigans and worked as a writer and story editor for Nickelodeon's revival of Winx Club. Both shows were produced at the Nickelodeon Animation Studio. Burgess joined Nickelodeon in 1995 as executive-in-charge of production. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Leigh Matthews, Australian footballer, coach, and sportscaster Leigh Raymond Matthews is a former Australian rules footballer and coach. He played for Hawthorn in the Victorian Football League (VFL) and coached Collingwood and the Brisbane Lions in the VFL and renamed Australian Football League (AFL). Leigh has credited Robert Korda, his closest friend and mentor to guiding him to 3 premierships with the Lions in 2001, 2002 and 2003. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Jerri Nielsen, American physician and explorer (died 2009) Jerri Lin Nielsen was an American physician with extensive emergency room experience, who self-treated her breast cancer while stationed at Amundsen–Scott South Pole Station in Antarctica until she could be safely evacuated. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Martin O'Neill, Northern Irish footballer and manager Martin Hugh Michael O'Neill is a Northern Irish professional football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the manager of Scottish Premiership club Celtic. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Brian Winters, American basketball player and coach Brian Joseph Winters is an American former basketball player and coach. Read more
• 01 Mar 1951: Sergei Kourdakov, Russian-American KGB agent (died 1973) Sergei Nikolayevich Kourdakov was a self described former KGB agent and Soviet Navy officer who from his late teens allegedly carried out more than 150 raids in underground Christian communities in regions of the Soviet Union in the 1960s. At the age of twenty, he defected to Canada while a naval officer by jumping from a Naval trawler into the Pacific. Kourdakov swam ashore to Haida Gwaii, and converted to Evangelical Christianity. He is known for having written The Persecutor, an autobiography that was written shortly before his death in 1973 and published posthumously. Since its publication, it has been the source of varied criticism. After the collapse of the Soviet Union, Caroline Walker, an American Evangelical Christian journalist and filmmaker who hoped to adapt The Persecutor for the big screen, travelled to the Russian Federation and attempted to confirm the memoir of Kourdakov. Instead, Walker's interviews with Russians who had known Kourdakov before his defection exposed that The Persecutor was a work of fiction; made up first in order to be granted political asylum in Canada and then repeated incessantly and written down in order to build a financially lucrative career as an Evangelical author and public speaker in the West. A documentary film, produced by Damian Wojciechowski, followed Caroline Walker during and after her research trip to Russia, Forgive Me, Sergei, won numerous awards worldwide. Read more
• 01 Mar 1947: Alan Thicke, Canadian-American actor and composer (died 2016) Alan Willis Thicke was a Canadian-American actor, songwriter, and game/talk show host. He was the father of singer Robin Thicke. Thicke was best known for playing Dr. Jason Seaver on the 1980s sitcom Growing Pains on ABC. In 2013, he was inducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Read more
• 01 Mar 1946: Gerry Boulet, Canadian singer-songwriter (died 1990) Joseph Gaétan Robert Gérald (Gerry) Boulet was a French Canadian rock singer. He was most well known as the vocalist for the Quebec rock band Offenbach, he also released two solo albums. He was considered one of the innovators of rock music in French Quebec. Read more
• 01 Mar 1946: Jim Crace, English author and academic James Crace is an English novelist, playwright and short story writer. Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1999, Crace was born in Hertfordshire and has lectured at the University of Texas at Austin. His novels have been translated into 28 languages—including Norwegian, Japanese, Portuguese and Hebrew. Read more
• 01 Mar 1945: Dirk Benedict, American actor and director Dirk Benedict is an American actor and author. He is best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series and Templeton "Face" Peck in The A-Team television series. He is the author of Confessions of a Kamikaze Cowboy and And Then We Went Fishing. Read more
• 01 Mar 1944: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, Indian politician, 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee was an Indian communist politician, statesman and a member of the Politburo of the Communist Party of India (Marxist), who served as the 7th Chief Minister of West Bengal from 2000 to 2011. In a political career over five decades, he became one of the senior leaders of Communist Party of India (Marxist) during his regime. Read more
• 01 Mar 1944: John Breaux, American lawyer and politician John Berlinger Breaux is an American lobbyist, attorney, and retired politician from Louisiana. He served in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1972 to 1987 and as a United States senator from 1987 to 2005. A Southern Democrat, he was considered one of the more conservative national legislators from the Democratic Party. Breaux was a member of the New Democrat Coalition. Read more
• 01 Mar 1944: Mike d'Abo, English singer Michael David d'Abo is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead vocalist of Manfred Mann from 1966 to the group's dissolution in 1969, and as the composer of the songs "Handbags and Gladrags" and "Build Me Up Buttercup", the latter of which was a hit for the Foundations. With Manfred Mann, d'Abo achieved six top twenty hits on the UK Singles Chart, including "Semi-Detached, Suburban Mr. James", "Ha! Ha! Said the Clown" and the chart topper "Mighty Quinn". He is the father of actress Olivia d'Abo. Read more
• 01 Mar 1944: Roger Daltrey, English singer-songwriter, producer, and actor Sir Roger Harry Daltrey is an English singer, musician and actor. He is the co-founder and lead vocalist of the rock band the Who, known for his powerful voice and charismatic stage presence. His stage persona earned him a position as one of the "gods of rock and roll". Read more
• 01 Mar 1943: Gil Amelio, American businessman Gilbert Frank Amelio is an American technology executive. Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International, and was also the CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple Computer. Read more
• 01 Mar 1943: José Ángel Iribar, Spanish footballer and manager José Ángel Iribar Kortajarena, nicknamed El Chopo, is a Spanish former professional football goalkeeper and manager. Read more
• 01 Mar 1943: Rashid Sunyaev, Russian-German astronomer and physicist Rashid Alievich Sunyaev is a Soviet, and Russian, German astrophysicist of Tatar descent. He got his MS degree from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT) in 1966. He became a professor at MIPT in 1974. Sunyaev was the head of the High Energy Astrophysics Department of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and has been chief scientist of the Academy's Space Research Institute since 1992. He has also been a director of the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, Germany, since 1996, and Maureen and John Hendricks Distinguished Visiting Professor in the School of Natural Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton since 2010. Read more
• 01 Mar 1942: Richard Myers, American general Richard Bowman "Dick" Myers is a retired United States Air Force general who served as the 15th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. As chairman, Myers was the highest ranking uniformed officer of the United States military forces. He also served as the 14th president of Kansas State University from 2016 to 2022. Read more
• 01 Mar 1941: Robert Hass, American poet Robert L. Hass is an American poet. He served as Poet Laureate of the United States from 1995 to 1997. He won the 2007 National Book Award and shared the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for the collection Time and Materials: Poems 1997–2005. In 2014 he was awarded the Wallace Stevens Award from the Academy of American Poets. Read more
• 01 Mar 1941: Dave Marcis, American stock car racing driver David Alan Marcis is an American former professional stock car racing driver on the NASCAR Winston Cup circuit whose career spanned five decades. Marcis won five times over this tenure, twice at Richmond, including his final win in 1982, and collected 94 top-fives and 222 top-tens. His best championship results were second in 1975, fifth in 1978, sixth in 1974, 1976 and 1982, and ninth in 1970, 1980 and 1981. Read more
• 01 Mar 1940: Robin Gray, Australian politician, 37th Premier of Tasmania Robin Trevor Gray is an Australian former politician who was Premier of Tasmania from 1982 to 1989. A Liberal, he was elected Liberal state leader in 1981 and in 1982 defeated the Labor government of Harry Holgate on a policy of "state development," particularly the building of the Franklin Dam, a hydroelectric dam on the Franklin River. He was only the second non-Labor premier to hold the post in 48 years, and the first in 51 years to govern in majority. Read more
• 01 Mar 1940: Robert Grossman, American painter, sculptor, and author (died 2018) Robert Samuel Grossman was an American painter, sculptor, filmmaker, comics artist, illustrator and author. He is a member of The Society of Illustrators' Hall of Fame. Read more
• 01 Mar 1939: Leo Brouwer, Cuban guitarist, composer, and conductor Juan Leovigildo Brouwer Mezquida is a Cuban composer, conductor, and classical guitarist. He is a Member of Honour of the International Music Council. Read more
• 01 Mar 1939: Mustansar Hussain Tarar, Pakistani author Mustansar Hussain Tarar S.I. is a Pakistani author, travel enthusiast, mountaineer, writer, novelist, columnist, TV host and former actor. Read more
• 01 Mar 1936: Jean-Edern Hallier, French author (died 1997) Jean-Edern Hallier was a French writer, critic and publisher. Read more
• 01 Mar 1935: Robert Conrad, American actor, radio host and stuntman (died 2020) Robert Conrad was an American actor, singer, and stuntman. He is best known for his role in the 1965–1969 television series The Wild Wild West, playing the sophisticated Secret Service agent James T. West. He also portrayed private investigator Tom Lopaka in Hawaiian Eye (1959–1963) and World War II ace Pappy Boyington in Baa Baa Black Sheep. Read more
• 01 Mar 1934: Jean-Michel Folon, Belgian painter and sculptor (died 2005) Jean-Michel Folon was a Belgian artist, illustrator, painter, and sculptor. Read more
• 01 Mar 1934: Joan Hackett, American actress (died 1983) Joan Ann Hackett was an American actress. She acted in film, television, and theatre. She played roles in The Group (1966), Will Penny (1968), Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969), The Last of Sheila (1973), and The Terminal Man (1974). In 1982, Hackett was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress; she was also the recipient of a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress – Motion Picture, for her performance as Toby Landau in the 1981 film Only When I Laugh. Hackett was also nominated during the course of her career for a Primetime Emmy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Golden Laurel Award; she was also the recipient of an Obie Award, a Drama Desk Award, and a Theatre World Award. In 1978, she starred as Christine Mannon in the PBS miniseries version of Mourning Becomes Electra. Read more
• 01 Mar 1930: Monu Mukhopadhyay, Indian Bengali actor (died 2020) Sourendra Mohan Mukherjee, known as Monu Mukherjee, was an Indian actor who worked in Bengali language films and television serials. In 1958, he became a prompter. His first acting assignment was in the play Khudha, and his first film was Mrinal Sen's 1958 film Neel Akasher Neechey. He had worked with directors like Satyajit Ray and Ronand Joffy. He is remembered for his portrayal of Machhli Baba in 1979 film Joi Baba Felunath. Read more
• 01 Mar 1930: Gastone Nencini, Italian cyclist (died 1980) Gastone Nencini was an Italian road racing cyclist who won the 1960 Tour de France and the 1957 Giro d'Italia. Read more
• 01 Mar 1929: Georgi Markov, Bulgarian journalist and author (died 1978) Georgi Ivanov Markov was a Bulgarian dissident writer. He worked as a novelist, screenwriter and playwright in his native country, the People's Republic of Bulgaria, until his defection in 1969. After relocating to London, he worked as a broadcaster and journalist for the BBC World Service, the Radio Free Europe and West Germany's Deutsche Welle. Markov used such forums to conduct a campaign of sarcastic criticism against the incumbent Bulgarian-Soviet regime. Read more
• 01 Mar 1928: Jacques Rivette, French director, screenwriter, and critic (died 2016) Jacques Rivette was a French film director and film critic most commonly associated with the French New Wave and the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma. He made twenty-nine films, including L'Amour fou (1969), Out 1 (1971), Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974), and La Belle Noiseuse (1991). His work is noted for its improvisation, loose narratives, and lengthy running times. Read more
• 01 Mar 1927: George O. Abell, American astronomer, academic, and skeptic (died 1983) George Ogden Abell was an American astronomer and professor. He taught at UCLA, primarily as a research astronomer. He earned his B.S. in 1951, his M.S. in 1952 and his Ph.D. in 1957, all from Caltech. He was a Ph.D. student under Donald Osterbrock. His astronomy career began as a tour guide at the Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles. Abell made great contributions to astronomical knowledge which resulted from his work during and after the National Geographic Society – Palomar Observatory Sky Survey, especially concerning clusters of galaxies and planetary nebulae. A galaxy, an asteroid, a periodic comet, and an observatory are all named in his honor. His teaching career extended beyond the campus of UCLA to the high school student oriented Summer Science Program, and educational television. He not only taught about science but also about what is not science. He was an originating member of the Committee on Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal now known as the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Read more
• 01 Mar 1927: Harry Belafonte, American singer-songwriter and actor (died 2023) Harry Belafonte was an American singer, actor, and civil rights activist who popularized calypso music with international audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Belafonte's career breakthrough album Calypso (1956) was the first million-selling LP by a single artist. Read more
• 01 Mar 1927: Robert Bork, American lawyer and scholar, United States Attorney General (died 2012) Robert Heron "Bob" Bork was an American legal scholar who served as solicitor general of the United States from 1973 until 1977. A law professor by training, he was acting United States Attorney General from 1973 to 1974 and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit from 1982 to 1988. In 1987, President Ronald Reagan nominated Bork to the U.S. Supreme Court, but the Senate rejected his nomination after a contentious and highly publicized confirmation hearing. Read more
• 01 Mar 1926: Robert Clary, French-American actor and author (died 2022) Robert Clary was a French actor who was mainly active in the United States. He is best known for his role as Corporal Louis LeBeau on the television sitcom Hogan's Heroes (1965–1971). He also had recurring roles on the soap operas Days of Our Lives (1972–1987), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1990–1992). Read more
• 01 Mar 1926: Cesare Danova, Italian-American actor (died 1992) Cesare Danova was an Italian actor. He was best known for his roles in The Captain's Daughter (1947), Viva Las Vegas (1964), Chamber of Horrors (1966), Mean Streets (1973), National Lampoon's Animal House (1978) and various roles in The Rifleman (1958–1963). Read more
• 01 Mar 1926: Pete Rozelle, American businessman and 3rd National Football League Commissioner (died 1996) Alvin Ray "Pete" Rozelle was an American professional football executive. Rozelle served as the commissioner of the National Football League (NFL) for nearly thirty years, from January 1960 until his retirement in November 1989. He became the youngest commissioner in NFL history at the age of just 33. He is credited with making the NFL into one of the most successful sports leagues in the world. Read more
• 01 Mar 1926: Allan Stanley, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (died 2013) Allan Herbert Stanley was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman who played for the New York Rangers, Chicago Blackhawks, Boston Bruins, Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs of the National Hockey League between 1948 and 1969. A four-times Stanley Cup winner and three-times member of the second NHL All-Star team, Stanley was inducted to the Hockey Hall of Fame in 1981. Read more
• 01 Mar 1924: Arnold Drake, American author and screenwriter (died 2007) Arnold Drake was an American comic book writer and screenwriter best known for co-creating the DC Comics characters Deadman and the Doom Patrol, and the Marvel Comics characters the Guardians of the Galaxy, Havok and Polaris, among others. Read more
• 01 Mar 1924: Deke Slayton, American soldier, pilot, and astronaut (died 1993) Donald Kent "Deke" Slayton was an American Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and one of the original NASA Mercury Seven astronauts. He went on to become NASA's first Chief of the Astronaut Office and Director of Flight Crew Operations, responsible for NASA crew assignments. Read more
• 01 Mar 1922: William Gaines, American publisher (died 1992) William Maxwell "Bill" Gaines was an American publisher and co-editor of EC Comics. Following a shift in EC's direction in 1950, Gaines presided over what became an artistically influential and historically important line of mature-audience comics. He published the satirical magazine Mad for over 40 years. Read more
• 01 Mar 1922: Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli general and politician, 5th Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1995) Yitzhak Rabin was an Israeli statesman and general who was the prime minister of Israel, having served two terms in office, 1974–1977, and from 1992 until his assassination in 1995. He was the first prime minister to have been born in Palestine. Read more
• 01 Mar 1922: Fred Scolari, American basketball player (died 2002) Fred Joseph Scolari was an American professional basketball player. At 5'10", he played the point guard position. Read more
• 01 Mar 1921: Cameron Argetsinger, American race car driver and lawyer (died 2008) Cameron Argetsinger was an American sports car enthusiast, lawyer and auto racing executive best known for creating the Watkins Glen Grand Prix Race Course in Watkins Glen, New York, and making it the home of the Formula One United States Grand Prix from 1961 through 1980. Read more
• 01 Mar 1921: Terence Cooke, American cardinal (died 1983) Terence James Cardinal Cooke was a senior-ranking American Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of New York from 1968 until his death, quietly battling leukemia throughout his tenure. He was named a cardinal in 1969. Cooke previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of New York from 1965 to 1967. Read more
• 01 Mar 1921: Richard Wilbur, American poet, translator, and essayist (died 2017) Richard Purdy Wilbur was an American poet and literary translator. One of the foremost poets of the World War II generation, Wilbur's work, often employing rhyme, and composed primarily in traditional forms, was marked by its wit, charm, and gentlemanly elegance. He was acclaimed in his youth as the heir to Robert Frost, translated the verse dramas of Moliere, Corneille, and Racine into rhymed English, collaborated with Leonard Bernstein as the lyricist for the opera Candide, and in his old age acted, particularly through his role in the annual West Chester University Poetry Conference, as a mentor to the younger poets of the New Formalist movement. He was appointed the second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1987 and received the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry twice, in 1957 and 1989. Read more
• 01 Mar 1920: Max Bentley, Canadian ice hockey player (died 1984) Maxwell Herbert Lloyd Bentley was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played for the Chicago Black Hawks, Toronto Maple Leafs, and New York Rangers in the National Hockey League (NHL) as part of a professional and senior career that spanned 20 years. He was the NHL's leading scorer twice in a row, and in 1946 won the Hart Trophy as the most valuable player. He played in four All-Star Games and was twice named to a post-season All-Star team. Read more
• 01 Mar 1920: Howard Nemerov, American poet and academic (died 1991) Howard Nemerov was an American poet. Nemerov was the Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished University Professor of English and Distinguished Poet in Residence at Washington University in St. Louis. He was twice Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress, from 1963 to 1964 and again from 1988 to 1990. For The Collected Poems of Howard Nemerov (1977), he won the National Book Award for Poetry, Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, and Bollingen Prize. Read more
• 01 Mar 1918: João Goulart, Brazilian lawyer and politician, 24th President of Brazil (died 1976) João Belchior Marques Goulart, commonly known as Jango, was a Brazilian politician who served as the president of Brazil from 1961 until a military coup d'état deposed him in 1964. He was considered the last left-wing president of Brazil until Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office in 2003. Read more
• 01 Mar 1918: Gladys Spellman, American educator and politician (died 1988) Gladys Noon Spellman was an American educator who served as the U.S. representative for Maryland's 5th congressional district from January 3, 1975, to February 24, 1981, when her seat was declared vacant after she fell into a coma the previous year. She was a member of the Democratic Party. Read more
• 01 Mar 1917: Robert Lowell, American poet (died 1977) Robert Traill Spence Lowell IV was an American poet. He was born into a Boston Brahmin family that could trace its origins back to the Mayflower. His ancestors and contemporary family were important subjects in his poetry. Growing up in Boston also informed his poems, which were frequently set in Boston and the New England region. Literary scholar Paula Hayes argues that, particularly in his early work, Lowell mythologized New England. Read more
• 01 Mar 1917: Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (died 1994) Dinah Shore was an American singer, actress, television personality, author, and talk show host. Born in Winchester, Tennessee and raised in Nashville, Tennessee, She rose to prominence as a recording artist during the Big Band era. She achieved even greater success a decade later in television, mainly as the host of a series of variety programs sponsored by Chevrolet. After failing singing auditions for the bands of Benny Goodman, and both Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey, Shore struck out on her own. She became the first singer of her era to achieve huge solo success. She had a string of eighty charted popular hits, spanning from 1940 to 1957, and after appearing in a handful of feature films, she went on to a four-decade career in American television. She starred in her own music and variety shows from 1951 through 1963 and hosted two talk shows in the 1970s. TV Guide ranked her at number 16 on their list of the top 50 television stars of all time. Stylistically, Shore was compared to two singers who followed her in the mid-to-late 1940s and early 1950s, Jo Stafford and Patti Page. Read more
• 01 Mar 1914: Harry Caray, American sportscaster (died 1998) Harry Christopher Caray was an American radio and television sportscaster. During his career he called the play-by-play for five Major League Baseball teams, beginning with 25 years of calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals. After a year working for the Oakland Athletics and 11 years with the Chicago White Sox, Caray spent the last 16 years of his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs. Read more
• 01 Mar 1914: Ralph Ellison, American novelist and literary critic (died 1994) Ralph Waldo Ellison was an American writer, literary critic, and scholar best known for his novel Invisible Man, which won the National Book Award in 1953. Read more
• 01 Mar 1912: Gerald Emmett Carter, Canadian cardinal (died 2003) Gerald Emmett Cardinal Carter was a Canadian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church. He served as Archbishop of Toronto from 1978 to 1990, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1979. Read more
• 01 Mar 1912: Boris Chertok, Polish-Russian engineer and academic (died 2011) Boris Yevseyevich Chertok was a Russian engineer in the former Soviet space program, mainly working in control systems, and later found employment in Roscosmos. Read more
• 01 Mar 1910: Archer John Porter Martin, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2002) Archer John Porter Martin was a British chemist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the invention of partition chromatography with Richard Synge. Read more
• 01 Mar 1910: David Niven, English soldier and actor (died 1983) James David Graham Niven was an English actor, soldier, raconteur, memoirist and novelist. Niven was known as a handsome and debonair leading man in Classic Hollywood films. His accolades include an Academy Award and two Golden Globe Awards in addition to nominations for a BAFTA Award and two Emmy Awards. Read more
• 01 Mar 1909: Eugene Esmonde, English lieutenant and pilot (died 1942) Lieutenant-Commander Eugene Esmonde, was a distinguished Irish pilot in the Fleet Air Arm who was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross (VC), the highest award for gallantry in the face of the enemy awarded to members of Commonwealth forces. Esmonde earned this award while in command of a torpedo bomber squadron in the Second World War – in an action known as Operation Fuller, the 'Channel Dash’. Read more
• 01 Mar 1909: Winston Sharples, American pianist and composer (died 1978) Winston Singleton Sharples was an American composer known for his work with animated short subjects, especially those created by the animation department at Paramount Pictures. In his 35-year career, Sharples scored more than 700 cartoons for Paramount and Famous Studios, and composed music for two Frank Buck films, Wild Cargo (1934) and Fang and Claw (1935). Read more
• 01 Mar 1906: Phạm Văn Đồng, Vietnamese lieutenant and politician, 2nd Prime Minister of Vietnam (died 2000) Phạm Văn Đồng was a Vietnamese politician who served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1955 to 1976. He later served as Prime Minister of Vietnam, following reunification of North and South Vietnam, from 1976 until he retired in 1987 under the presidency of Trường Chinh and Nguyễn Văn Linh. He was considered one of Ho Chi Minh's closest lieutenants. Read more
• 01 Mar 1905: Doris Hare, Welsh-English actress, singer, and dancer (died 2000) Doris Breamer Hare was a Welsh actress, comedian, singer, and dancer best known for portraying "Mum" Mabel Butler in the British sitcom On the Buses and its film spin-offs, after replacing the original actress Cicely Courtneidge. Read more
• 01 Mar 1904: Paul Hartman, American actor, singer, and dancer (died 1973) Paul Hartman was an American dancer, stage performer and television actor. Read more
• 01 Mar 1904: Glenn Miller, American trombonist, composer, and bandleader (died 1944) Alton Glen "Glenn" Miller was an American big band conductor, arranger, composer, trombonist, and recording artist before and during World War II, when he was an officer in the US Army Air Forces. His civilian band, Glenn Miller and his Orchestra, was one of the most popular and successful bands of the 20th century and the big-band era. Read more
• 01 Mar 1900: Basil Bunting, British poet (died 1985) Basil Cheesman Bunting was a British modernist poet whose reputation was established with the publication of Briggflatts in 1966, generally regarded as one of the major achievements of the modernist tradition in English. He had a lifelong interest in music that led him to emphasise the sonic qualities of poetry, particularly the importance of reading poetry aloud: he was an accomplished reader of his own work. Read more
• 01 Mar 1899: Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, German SS officer (died 1972) Erich Julius Eberhard von dem Bach-Zelewski was a German politician of Polish-Kashubian descent, military officer and high-ranking SS commander. During World War II, he was in charge of the Nazi security warfare against those designated by the regime as ideological enemies and any other persons deemed to present danger to the Nazi rule or Wehrmacht's rear security in the occupied territories of Eastern Europe. It mostly involved atrocities against the civilian population. In 1944, he led the brutal suppression of the Warsaw Uprising. Read more
• 01 Mar 1896: Dimitri Mitropoulos, Greek pianist, composer, and conductor (died 1960) Dimitri Mitropoulos was a Greek and American conductor, pianist, and composer. Read more
• 01 Mar 1896: Moriz Seeler, German playwright and producer (died 1942) Moriz Seeler was a German poet, writer, film producer, and man of the theatre. Read more
• 01 Mar 1893: Mercedes de Acosta, American author, poet, and playwright (died 1968) Mercedes de Acosta was an American poet, playwright, and novelist. Although she failed to achieve artistic and professional distinction, de Acosta is known for her many lesbian affairs with celebrated Broadway and Hollywood personalities including Alla Nazimova, Isadora Duncan, Eva Le Gallienne, and Marlene Dietrich. Her best-known involvement was with Greta Garbo with whom, in 1931, she began a sporadic and volatile romance. Her 1960 memoir, Here Lies the Heart, is considered part of gay history insofar that it hints at the lesbian element in some of her relationships. Read more
• 01 Mar 1892: Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Japanese author and educator (died 1927) Ryūnosuke Akutagawa , art name Chōkōdō Shujin (澄江堂主人), was a Japanese writer active in the Taishō period in Japan. He is regarded as the "father of the Japanese short story", and Japan's premier literary award, the Akutagawa Prize, is named after him. He took his own life at the age of 35 through an overdose of barbital. Read more
• 01 Mar 1891: Ralph Hitz, Austrian-American hotelier (died 1940) Ralph Hitz was a pioneer in the hotel industry, whose ideas for marketing and customer service became the industry standard for luxury lodging. During the 1930s he was the head of the National Hotel Management Company, the largest hotel organization in the United States at the time. Read more
• 01 Mar 1890: Theresa Bernstein, Polish-American painter and author (died 2002) Theresa Ferber Bernstein-Meyerowitz was an American artist, writer, and supercentenarian born in Kraków, in what is now Poland, and raised in Philadelphia. She received her art training in Philadelphia and New York City. Over the course of nearly a century, she produced hundreds of paintings and other artwork, plus several books and journals. Read more
• 01 Mar 1889: Tetsuro Watsuji, Japanese historian and philosopher (died 1960) Tetsurō Watsuji was a Japanese historian and moral philosopher. Read more
• 01 Mar 1888: Ewart Astill, English cricketer and billiards player (died 1948) William Ewart Astill was, along with George Geary, the mainstay of the Leicestershire team from 1922 to about 1935. He played in nine Test matches but was never picked for a home Test or for an Ashes tour. However, for the best part of three decades he was a vital member of a generally struggling Leicestershire team. With no amateur able to play frequently for the county, Astill became the first officially appointed professional captain of any county for over fifty years in 1935. The county enjoyed a useful season, but at forty-seven years of age, Astill was only a stop gap before an amateur of the required standard and availability could be found. He was a nephew of Leicestershire fast bowler Thomas Jayes. Read more
• 01 Mar 1888: Fanny Walden, English cricketer and umpire, international footballer (died 1949) Frederick Ingram Walden was an English professional footballer who played outside right for Northampton Town, Tottenham Hotspur and at international level for England during the 1910s and 1920s. He also played cricket for Northamptonshire and was an English cricket umpire. Read more
• 01 Mar 1886: Oskar Kokoschka, Austrian-Swiss painter, poet, and playwright (died 1980) Oskar Kokoschka was an Austrian artist, poet, playwright and teacher, best known for his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes, as well as his theories on vision that influenced the Viennese Expressionist movement. Read more
• 01 Mar 1880: Lytton Strachey, British writer and critic (died 1932) Giles Lytton Strachey was an English writer and critic. A founding member of the Bloomsbury Group and author of Eminent Victorians, he established a new form of biography in which psychological insight and sympathy are combined with irreverence and wit. His biography Queen Victoria (1921) was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Read more
• 01 Mar 1876: Henri de Baillet-Latour, Belgian businessman (died 1942) Henri de Baillet-Latour, Count of Baillet-Latour was a Belgian aristocrat and the third president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Read more
• 01 Mar 1870: E. M. Antoniadi, Greek-French astronomer and academic (died 1944) Eugène Michel Antoniadi was a Greek-French astronomer. He is known for creating the Antoniadi scale as well as for his observations of the planets, and was a major opponent of the notion of Martian canals. He created some of the most detailed maps of Mars at the time, and many features on the planet are still known by the names he suggested. He also created the first map of Mercury, though it turned out to be incorrect. Read more
• 01 Mar 1863: Alexander Golovin, Russian painter and set designer (died 1930) Aleksandr Yakovlevich Golovin was a Russian and Soviet decorator, painter, and stage designer. He designed productions for Sergei Diaghilev, Constantin Stanislavski, and Vsevolod Meyerhold. Read more
• 01 Mar 1852: Théophile Delcassé, French politician, French Minister of Foreign Affairs (died 1923) Théophile Delcassé was a French politician who served as foreign minister from 1898 to 1905. He is best known for his hatred of Germany and efforts to secure alliances with Russia and the United Kingdom that became the Entente Cordiale. He belonged to the Radical Party and was a protege of Léon Gambetta. Read more
• 01 Mar 1848: Augustus Saint-Gaudens, Irish-American sculptor and academic (died 1907) Augustus Saint-Gaudens was an Irish sculptor of the Beaux-Arts generation who embodied the ideals of the American Renaissance. Saint-Gaudens was born in Dublin to an Irish-French family, and raised in New York City. He traveled to Europe for further training and artistic study. After he returned to New York City, he achieved major critical success for his monuments commemorating heroes of the American Civil War, many of which still stand. Saint-Gaudens created works such as the Robert Gould Shaw Memorial on Boston Common, Abraham Lincoln: The Man, and grand equestrian monuments to Civil War generals: General John Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park and William Tecumseh Sherman at the corner of New York's Central Park. In addition, he created the popular historicist representation of The Puritan. Read more
• 01 Mar 1842: Nikolaos Gyzis, Greek painter and academic (died 1901) Nikolaos Gyzis is considered one of Greece's most important 19th century painters. He was most famous for his work Eros and the Painter, his first genre painting. It was auctioned in May 2006 at Bonhams in London, being last exhibited in Greece in 1928. He was the major representative of the Munich School, the major 19th-century Greek art movement. Read more
• 01 Mar 1837: William Dean Howells, American novelist, playwright, and critic (died 1920) William Dean Howells was an American realist novelist, literary critic, playwright, and diplomat, nicknamed "The Dean of American Letters". He was particularly known for his tenure as editor of The Atlantic Monthly, as well as for the novels The Rise of Silas Lapham and A Traveler from Altruria, and the Christmas story "Christmas Every Day", which was adapted into a 1996 film of the same name. Read more
• 01 Mar 1835: Philip Fysh, English-Australian politician, 12th Premier of Tasmania (died 1919) Sir Philip Oakley Fysh was an English-born Australian politician. He arrived in Tasmania in 1859 and became a leading merchant in Hobart. He served two terms as premier of Tasmania and became a leader of the colony's federation movement. He subsequently won election to the new federal House of Representatives (1901–1910) and was invited to represent Tasmania in the first federal ministry, serving as minister without portfolio (1901–1903) and Postmaster-General (1903–1904). Read more
• 01 Mar 1821: Joseph Hubert Reinkens, German bishop and academic (died 1896) Joseph Hubert Reinkens was the first German Old Catholic bishop. Read more
• 01 Mar 1817: Giovanni Duprè, Italian sculptor and educator (died 1882) Giovanni Dupré was an Italian sculptor, of distant French stock long settled in Tuscany, who developed a reputation second only to that of his contemporary Lorenzo Bartolini. Read more
• 01 Mar 1812: Augustus Pugin, English architect, co-designed the Palace of Westminster (died 1852) Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin was an English architect, designer, artist and critic with French and Swiss origins. He is principally remembered for his pioneering role in the Gothic Revival style of architecture. Among his best-known work is the interior and clock tower of the Palace of Westminster, the meeting place of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Pugin designed many churches in England, and some in Ireland and Australia. He was the son of Auguste Pugin, and the father of Edward Welby Pugin, Cuthbert Welby Pugin, and Peter Paul Pugin, who continued his architectural and interior design firm as Pugin & Pugin. Read more
• 01 Mar 1810: Frédéric Chopin, Polish pianist and composer (died 1849) Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist of the Romantic period who wrote primarily for solo piano. He has maintained worldwide renown as a leading composer of his era whose "poetic genius was based on a professional technique that was without equal in his generation". Read more
• 01 Mar 1807: Wilford Woodruff, American religious leader, 4th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (died 1898) Wilford Woodruff Sr. was an American religious leader who served as the fourth president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1889 until his death. He ended the public practice of plural marriage among members of the LDS Church in 1890. Read more

🕊️ Important Deaths on 01 March in World History

• 01 Mar 2025: Pat Ingoldsby, Irish poet and television presenter (born 1942) Patrick Ingoldsby was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was a newspaper columnist. From the mid-1990s, he withdrew from the mass media and was most widely known for his collections of poetry, and his selling of them on the streets of Dublin. Read more
• 01 Mar 2025: Joey Molland, English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947) Joseph Charles Molland II was an English songwriter and rock guitarist whose recording career spanned five decades. He was best known as a member of Badfinger, the most successful of the acts he performed with. Molland was the last surviving member from the band's classic line-up. Read more
• 01 Mar 2025: Angie Stone, American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1961) Angela Laverne Stone was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer. With a career spanning over four decades, she has been credited with revolutionizing the sound of hip-hop and neo soul. Read more
• 01 Mar 2024: Iris Apfel, American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (born 1921) Iris Apfel was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992, Apfel had a career in textiles, including a contract with the White House that spanned nine presidencies. In retirement, she drew acclaim for a 2005 show at the Costume Institute at The Metropolitan Museum of Art featuring her collection of costume jewelry and styled with clothes on mannequins as she would wear them. She became a fashion icon, was the focus of the 2014 Albert Maysles documentary Iris, then signed to IMG in 2019 as a model at age 97. Read more
• 01 Mar 2024: Akira Toriyama, Japanese manga artist (born 1955) Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors in the history of manga and created numerous highly influential and popular series, with his most famous being Dragon Ball. Read more
• 01 Mar 2023: Just Fontaine, French footballer (born 1933) Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored the most goals ever in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in the 1958 tournament. In March 2004, Pelé named him one of his 125 Greatest Living Footballers at a FIFA Awards Ceremony. Read more
• 01 Mar 2019: Mike Willesee, Australian journalist and producer (born 1942) Michael Robert Willesee, was an Australian television journalist, interviewer and presenter. Read more
• 01 Mar 2018: María Rubio, Mexican television, film and stage actress (born 1934) María Rubio was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, Cuna de lobos. Read more
• 01 Mar 2016: Carole Achache, French writer, photographer and actress (born 1952) Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache was a French writer, photographer and actress. She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange and the mother of French-Moroccan film director Mona Achache. She appeared in films such as The Gypsy (1975), Special Section (1975), Lumière (1976), Mr. Klein (1976), Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff (1977), and Death of a Corrupt Man (1977) under the name Carole Lange. She later worked as a still photographer in the films Other People's Money (1978), A Week's Vacation (1980), The Trout (1982), and Un soir au club (2009). As an author, Achache published five books. Read more
• 01 Mar 2015: Minnie Miñoso, Cuban-American baseball player and coach (born 1922) Saturnino Orestes "Minnie" Armas Arrieta Miñoso, nicknamed "the Cuban Comet," was a Cuban professional baseball player. He began his baseball career in the Negro leagues in 1946 and became an All-Star third baseman with the New York Cubans. He was signed by the Cleveland Indians of Major League Baseball (MLB) after the 1948 season as baseball's color line fell. Miñoso went on to become an All-Star left fielder with the Indians and Chicago White Sox. The first Afro-Latino in the major leagues and the first black player in White Sox history, as a 1951 rookie, he was one of the first Latin Americans to play in an MLB All-Star Game. Read more
• 01 Mar 2014: Alain Resnais, French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1922) Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was noted for devising innovative formal structures for his narratives. Read more
• 01 Mar 2013: Bonnie Franklin, American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944) Bonnie Gail Franklin was an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series One Day at a Time (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards. Read more
• 01 Mar 2012: Andrew Breitbart, American journalist and publisher (born 1969) Andrew James Breitbart was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost. Read more
• 01 Mar 2012: Germano Mosconi, Italian journalist (born 1932) Germano Mosconi was an Italian sportswriter, news presenter and a television personality. Read more
• 01 Mar 2010: Kristian Digby, English television host and director (born 1977) Scott Kristian Edwin Digby was an English television presenter and director best known for presenting To Buy or Not to Buy on BBC One. On 1 March 2010 he was found dead in what police said were "unexplained circumstances". On 9 November 2010, a coroner recorded a verdict of death by misadventure. Read more
• 01 Mar 2006: Peter Osgood, English footballer (born 1947) Peter Leslie Osgood was an English footballer who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. He is best remembered for representing Chelsea and Southampton as a forward at club level, winning the FA Cup with each, and was also capped four times by England in the early 1970s. Read more
• 01 Mar 2006: Jack Wild, English actor (born 1952) Jack Wild was an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! (1968), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16, becoming the fourth-youngest nominee in the category. He also received BAFTA Award and Golden Globe Award nominations for the role. Read more
• 01 Mar 2006: Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi, Singaporean rape and murder victim (born 2003) Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi was a two-year-old Malay girl from Singapore who was raped and murdered. Nurasyura, better known as Nonoi, had gone missing on 1 March 2006, and a highly publicized search ensued; three days later her stepfather, Mohammed Ali bin Johari, confessed to what he claimed was an accidental death, and he led police to her body. An autopsy revealed that the girl was drowned to death and was sexually assaulted before her death. On 31 August 2007, after an 8-day hearing, the High Court found Mohammed Ali, who repeatedly denied raping Nonoi, guilty of murder and sentenced him to death. Read more
• 01 Mar 2004: Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (born 1914) Mian Ghulam Jilani also known as Kaka, Speen Dada, and Jilly, was a politician, businessman, and former two-star general in the Pakistan Army. As a British Indian Army officer during World War II, he survived a Japanese POW camp in Singapore. He played a key role in establishing the ceasefire during the First Kashmir War. During his stint as the Military attaché of Pakistan to Washington (1952-1955), he helped negotiate Pakistan's membership in the Baghdad Pact and the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization. Read more
• 01 Mar 1998: Archie Goodwin, American author and illustrator (born 1937) Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer and editor of landmark horror anthology titles Creepy and Eerie between 1964 and 1967. At Marvel, he served as the company's editor-in-chief from 1976 to the end of 1977. In the 1980s, he edited the publisher's anthology magazine Epic Illustrated and its Epic Comics imprint. He is also known for his work on Star Wars in both comic books and newspaper strips. He is regularly cited as the "best-loved comic book editor, ever." Read more
• 01 Mar 1995: César Rodríguez Álvarez, Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920) César Rodríguez Álvarez, sometimes known as just César, was a Spanish football forward and manager. Read more
• 01 Mar 1995: Georges J. F. Köhler, German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946) Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biologist. Read more
• 01 Mar 1993: Joseph Christopher, American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955) Joseph Gerard Christopher, also known as the Midtown Slasher and the .22 Caliber Killer, was an American serial killer who committed a series of stabbings and shootings against African American men and boys, killing twelve and injuring seven, between 1980 and 1981 in various New York cities and towns. Read more
• 01 Mar 1991: Edwin H. Land, American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909) Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of in-camera instant photography, and the retinex theory of color vision. His Polaroid instant camera went on sale in 1948 and made it possible for a picture to be taken and developed in one minute or less. Read more
• 01 Mar 1989: Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1917) Vasantrao Banduji Patil was an Indian politician from Sangli, Maharashtra. He was known as the first modern Maratha strongman and first mass leader in Maharashtrian politics. Read more
• 01 Mar 1988: Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (born 1907) Joe Besser was an American actor and comedian known for his impish humor and wimpy characters. He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1957–1959. He is also remembered for his television roles: Stinky, the bratty man-child on The Abbott and Costello Show, and Jillson, the maintenance man on The Joey Bishop Show. Read more
• 01 Mar 1984: Jackie Coogan, American actor (born 1914) John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's title role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the history of Hollywood. Read more
• 01 Mar 1983: Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-English journalist and author (born 1905) Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany but resigned in 1938 after becoming disillusioned with Stalinism. Read more
• 01 Mar 1980: Wilhelmina Cooper, Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (born 1940) Wilhelmina Gertrud Frieda Cooper was a Dutch-American model who began with Ford Models, and at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967. Read more
• 01 Mar 1980: Dixie Dean, English footballer (born 1907) William Ralph "Dixie" Dean was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of the greatest centre forwards of his time and was inducted into the English Football Hall of Fame in 2002. Read more
• 01 Mar 1979: Mustafa Barzani, Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (born 1903) Mustafa Barzani, also known as Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics. Read more
• 01 Mar 1978: Paul Scott, English author, poet, and playwright (born 1920) Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada Television during the 1980s and won Scott the public and critical acclaim that he had not received during his lifetime. Read more
• 01 Mar 1976: Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (born 1910) Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon was a French conductor and composer. Read more
• 01 Mar 1974: Bobby Timmons, American pianist and composer (born 1935) Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions written when part of these bands – including "Moanin'", "Dat Dere", and "This Here" – enjoyed commercial success and brought him more attention. In the early and mid-1960s he led a series of piano trios that toured and recorded extensively. Read more
• 01 Mar 1966: Fritz Houtermans, Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1903) Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in Vienna, where he was educated, and moved to Göttingen when he was 18 to study. It was in Göttingen where he obtained his Ph.D. under James Franck. With Robert d'Escourt Atkinson, he made the first estimates of the rate of stellar nuclear fusion. Read more
• 01 Mar 1952: Mariano Azuela, Mexican physician and author (born 1873) Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican writer and medical doctor, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the "novelists of the Revolution," and he influenced other Mexican novelists of social protest. Read more
• 01 Mar 1943: Alexandre Yersin, Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (born 1863) Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus toxins and of the bacillus responsible for the bubonic plague or pest. The bacteria was later named in his honour: Yersinia pestis. Yersin also demonstrated for the first time that the same bacillus was present in the rodent as well as in the human disease, thus underlining the possible means of transmission. Read more
• 01 Mar 1942: George S. Rentz, American commander (born 1882) George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously awarded the Navy Cross— the only Navy Chaplain to be so honored during World War II. Read more
• 01 Mar 1940: A. H. Tammsaare, Estonian author (born 1878) Anton Hansen, better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel". Read more
• 01 Mar 1938: Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian journalist and politician (born 1863) General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World War I. He occupied a prominent place in Italian literature from 1889 to 1910 and in its political life from 1914 to 1924. He had the epithets il Profeta and il Vate : vate stems from the Latin vates, meaning a prophetic, divinatory, or inspirational poet. Read more
• 01 Mar 1936: Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian author and poet (born 1871) Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, as well as a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry. Read more
• 01 Mar 1932: Frank Teschemacher, American Jazz musician (born 1906) Frank Teschemacher was an American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, associated with the "Austin High" gang. Read more
• 01 Mar 1925: Homer Plessy, American political activist (born 1862 or 1863) Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's racial segregation laws and bring a test case to force the U.S. Supreme Court to rule on the constitutionality of segregation laws. The Court decided against Plessy. The resulting "separate but equal" legal doctrine determined that state-mandated segregation did not violate the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution as long as the facilities provided for both black and white people were putatively "equal". The legal precedent set by Plessy v. Ferguson lasted into the mid-20th century, until a series of landmark Supreme Court decisions concerning segregation, beginning with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954. Read more
• 01 Mar 1922: Pichichi, Spanish footballer (born 1892) Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, known as Pichichi, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. He is known for the Pichichi Trophy named in his honour. Read more
• 01 Mar 1920: John H. Bankhead, American lawyer and politician (born 1842) John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party, Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had additionally served in the United States House of Representatives, the Alabama Legislature, and as warden of the state penitentiary in Wetumpka. Read more
• 01 Mar 1914: Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (born 1845) Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, known as Viscount Melgund by courtesy from 1859 to 1891, was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904, and Viceroy of India from 1905 to 1910. Read more
• 01 Mar 1911: Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852) Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first the Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics and osmotic pressure in solutions". His pioneering work helped found the modern theory of chemical affinity, chemical equilibrium, chemical kinetics, and chemical thermodynamics. In his 1874 pamphlet, Van 't Hoff formulated the theory of the tetrahedral carbon atom and laid the foundations of stereochemistry. In 1875, he predicted the correct structures of allenes and cumulenes as well as their axial chirality. He is also widely considered one of the founders of physical chemistry as the discipline is known today. Read more
• 01 Mar 1906: José María de Pereda, Spanish author (born 1833) José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy. Read more
• 01 Mar 1890: Rafael Campo, President of El Salvador from 1856 to 1858 (born 1813) Rafael Juan Campo y Pomar was a Salvadoran politician, businessman, and journalist who served as President of El Salvador from 1856 to 1858. He also served as the president of the Constituent Assembly in 1871. Read more
• 01 Mar 1889: William Henry Monk, English organist and composer (born 1823) William Henry Monk was an English organist, Anglican church musician, and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including "Eventide", used for the hymn "Abide with Me", and "All Things Bright and Beautiful". He also wrote music for church services and anthems. Read more
• 01 Mar 1884: Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician and academic (born 1820) Isaac Todhunter FRS, was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history. Read more
• 01 Mar 1882: Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, and educator (born 1818) Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer and teacher. Read more
• 01 Mar 1875: Tristan Corbière, French poet and educator (born 1845) Tristan Corbière, born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to Symbolism, and a figure of the "cursed poet". Read more
• 01 Mar 1862: Peter Barlow, English mathematician and physicist (born 1776) Peter Barlow was an English mathematician and physicist. Read more
• 01 Mar 1841: Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1764) Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Napoleon I. Read more

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