March 12
March 12 is the 71st day of the year (72nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 294 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
Up to 1900
- 417 - Pope Innocent I
- 604 - Pope Gregory I
- 1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
- 1316 - King Stephen Dragutin of Serbia (b. 1253)
- 1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
- 1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
- 1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
- 1628 - John Bull, English composer (b. 1562)
- 1648 – Tirso de Molina, Spanish dramatist and poet (b. 1571)
- 1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
- 1820 - Alexander Mackenzie, Scottish explorer (b. 1764)
- 1832 – Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
- 1872 – Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
- 1894 - Ilarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
- 1898 – Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
- 1899 - Julius Vogel, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1835)
1901 – 2000
- 1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
- 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
- 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
- 1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
- 1932 - Ivar Kreuger, Swedish businessman (b. 1880)
- 1935 - Mihajlo Idvorski Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
- 1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
- 1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
- 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
- 1945 - Anne Frank, German-born Dutch Jewish diarist and Holocaust victim (b. 1929)
- 1946 - Ferenc Szalasi, Hungarian politician (b. 1897)
- 1947 - Winston Churchill, American novelist (b. 1871)
- 1955 – Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
- 1963 - Arthur Grimsdell, English footballer and cricketer (b. 1894)
- 1978 - John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
- 1985 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
- 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist (b. 1900)
- 1991 – William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (b. 1900)
- 1991 - LeRoy Collins, Governor of Florida (b. 1909)
- 1992 - Heinz Kühn, German politician (b. 1912)
- 1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
- 1998 – Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
- 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
From 2001
- 2001 – Robert Ludlum, American writer (b. 1927)
- 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
- 2003 – Zoran Djindjic, President of Serbia and Montenegro (b. 1952)
- 2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
- 2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident, journalist and priest (b. 1947)
- 2008 – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French supercentenarian and World War I veteran (b. 1897)
- 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish writer (b. 1920)
- 2013 - Clive Burr, British musician (Iron Maiden) (b. 1957)
- 2014 - Vera Chytilova, Czech movie director (b. 1929)
- 2014 - José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
- 2014 - Richard Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
- 2014 - Ola L. Mize, American colonel (b. 1931)
- 2014 - Jackie Gaughan, American casino owner and gambler (b. 1920)
- 2014 - Jean Vallée, Belgian songwriter (b. 1941)
- 2014 - David Sive, American environmental lawyer (b. 1922)
- 2014 - Paul C. Donnelly, American aerospace pioneer (b. 1923)
- 2014 - Kjell Nupen, Norwegian artist (b. 1955)
- 2015 - Terry Pratchett, English writer (b. 1948)
- 2015 - Michael Graves, American architect (b. 1934)
- 2015 - Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet (b. 1924)
- 2016 - Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet (b. 1941)
- 2016 - Lloyd Shapley, American economist (b. 1923)
- 2016 - Erik Duval, Belgian computer scientist (b. 1965)
- 2017 - Murray Ball, New Zealand cartoonist (b. 1939)
- 2017 - Horst Ehmke, German politician (b. 1927)
- 2017 - Probyn Inniss, Saint Kitts and Nevis lawyer (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Ray Hassall, English politician (b. 1943)
- 2018 - Nokie Edwards, American musician and actor (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Rudolf Mang, German weightlifter (b. 1950)
- 2018 - Oleg Tabakov, Russian actor (b. 1935)
- 2018 - Henry Minarik, American football player (b. 1927)
- 2019 - Eurico Miranda, Brazilian football chairman and politician (b. 1944)
Births
1901 – 1950
- 1908 - David Marshall, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
- 1910 – Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese statesman (d. 1980)
- 1911 - Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, President of Mexico (d. 1979)
- 1912 - Paul Weston, American pianist, arranger and conductor (d. 1996)
- 1913 - Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984)
- 1913 - Agathe von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (d. 2010)
- 1914 - Julia Lennon, John Lennon's mother (d. 1958)
- 1917 - Leonard Chess, American company executive (d. 1969)
- 1918 - Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989)
- 1919 – Michael Stepovich, Territorial Governor of Alaska, last-surviving territorial Governor in the US (d. 2014)
- 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian automobile executive (d. 2003)
- 1921 - Ulo Jogi, Estonian anti-Soviet activist (d. 2007)
- 1921 - Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986)
- 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969)
- 1923 – Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007)
- 1923 - Clara Fraser, American activist (d. 1998)
- 1923 – Hanne Hiob, German actress (d. 2009)
- 1923 - Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater (d. 2013)
- 1923 - Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
- 1924 - Mary Lee Woods, British mathematician and computer programmer (d. 2017)
- 1925 - Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist
- 1925 - Harry Harrison, American writer (d. 2012)
- 1925 - Georges Delerue, French movie score composer (d. 1992)
- 1926 - Gudrun Ure, Scottish actress
- 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American politician, former Governor of Hawaii
- 1926 - Minerva Mirabal, Dominican activist (d. 1960)
- 1927 – Raul Alfonsin, President of Argentina (d. 2009)
- 1927 - Ragne Tangen, Norwegian children's television presenter (d. 2015)
- 1928 – Edward Albee, American dramatist (d. 2016)
- 1930 - Win Tin, Burmese politician (d. 2014)
- 1931 - Robert B. Oakley, American diplomat (d. 2014)
- 1932 - Andrew Young, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
- 1933 - Ken Hodgkisson, English footballer (d. 2018)
- 1933 - Barbara Lee Feldon, American actress and model
- 1935 - Valentyna Shevchenko, Soviet-Ukrainian politician
- 1936 - Eddie Sutton, American college basketball coach
- 1937 - Valentina Eiduka, Latvian javelin thrower and coach
- 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
- 1940 – M. A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer
- 1942 - Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player
- 1943 - Ratko Mladic, Serbian military commander, currently on trial for war crimes
- 1946 – Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress
- 1946 – Frank Welker, American actor
- 1947 – Mitt Romney, American politician, former Governor of Massachusetts and Presidential candidate
- 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German politician, former Prime Minister of Schleswig-Holstein
- 1948 – James Taylor, American musician
- 1948 - Kent Conrad, American politician
- 1948 - Roger Mullin, Scottish politician
- 1948 - Virginia Bottomley, Scottish politician
- 1949 - David Mellor, English journalist, lawyer and politician
- 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager
1951 – 1975
- 1952 - Jon Provost, American actor
- 1952 – Yasuhiko Okudera, Japanese footballer
- 1953 – Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and writer
- 1953 – Madhav Kumar Nepal, Nepalese politician
- 1953 - Ron Jeremy, American actor
- 1954 - Anish Kapoor, Indian-British sculptor and artist
- 1956 – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager
- 1956 - Steve Harrison, British musician (Iron Maiden)
- 1957 - Jerry Levine, American actor and director
- 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer
- 1957 – Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician
- 1958 - Alan Sneddon, Scottish footballer
- 1959 - Mark Easton, Scottish journalist
- 1962 – Andreas Köpke, German footballer
- 1962 – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player
- 1963 – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
- 1963 - Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner
- 1963 - Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran
- 1965 - Coleen Nolan, British singer (The Nolans)
- 1967 - Massimiliano Frezzato, Italian author
- 1968 - Tammy Duckworth, United States Senator for Illinois
- 1968 – Aaron Eckhart, American actor
- 1969 - Graham Coxon, British musician (Blur)
- 1970 - Karen Bradley, British politician
- 1971 - Andy Nicol, Scottish rugby player
- 1971 - Isaiah Rider, American basketball player
- 1972 – Hector Luis Bustamente, Colombian actor
- 1975 - Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, Prime Minister of Iceland
- 1975 - Kéllé Bryan, English singer
From 1976
- 1976 - Zhao Wei, Chinese actress
- 1979 – Pete Doherty, English musician
- 1979 – Shaun Rodgers, American football player
- 1980 - Douglas Murray, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Ruth Hunt, Welsh activist
- 1981 - Kristjan Makke, Estonian basketball player
- 1981 - Peter Waterfield, English diver
- 1982 - Hisato Sato, Japanese footballer
- 1982 - Yuto Sato, Japanese footballer
- 1982 – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
- 1983 - Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
- 1984 - Jaimie Alexander, American actress
- 1985 - Stromae, Belgian singer, rapper and producer
- 1985 – Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer
- 1986 – Danny Jones, English singer (McFly)
- 1987 - Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
- 1987 - Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
- 1987 - Rico Vonck, Dutch darts player
- 1990 - Lawrence Clarke, English athlete
- 1991 - Felix Kroos, German footballer
- 1992 - Scott Robinson, Scottish footballer
- 1994 - Christina Grimmie, American pianist and singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
- 1994 - Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
- 1994 - Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
- 1995 - Kanon Fukuda, Japanese singer and voice actress
- 1999 - Sakura Oda, Japanese singer