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March 24 in history

204 sourced entries recorded on March 24, from 698 CE to 2025 CE. Every line is quoted from the revision it came from.

Events

  • 698Itzamnaaj K'awiil becomes the new ruler of the Mayan city state at Dos Pilas in Guatemala and reigns until 726.source
  • 979Second Battle of Pankaleia: An Ibero-Byzantine expeditionary force, under General Bardas Phokas (the Younger), inflicts a crushing defeat on the rebels of General Bardas Skleros, at Sarvenis (modern Turkey). Skleros manages to escape, and finds shelter with his Muslim allies. The rebellion is subdued without difficulty.source
  • 1078Nikephoros Botaneiates enters Constantinople in triumph and is crowned by Patriarch Cosmas I as emperor Nikephoros III of the Byzantine Empire. Michael VII resigns his throne after a 7-year reign and retires into the Monastery of Stoudios.source
  • 1208Innocent III places England under a Papal Interdict, as punishment for John, King of England ("Lackland")'s refusal to accept Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury. During the interdict, religious services as marriages, burials, or baptisms cannot be performed. John confiscates church property of clergy who are unwilling to conduct services. Many bishops in the country flee abroad to the Continent.source
  • 1267In a parliament held in Sainte-Chapelle, King Louis IX and his three sons declared their intention to take part in the Eighth Crusade.source
  • 1337Irishmen enjoying English law granted access to Anglo-Irish religious houses.source
  • 1373The Treaty of Santarém is signed between Ferdinand I of Portugal and Henry II of Castile, ending the second war between the two countries.source
  • 1379The First War of the Guelderian Succession ends after eight years of fighting in what is now the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia, between Wilhelm of Jülich and the Duchess Mechteld of Guelders. Duchess Mechteld, wife of John II, Count of Blois, who renounces all claims to further rule after a defeat at the Battle of Hönnepel. In return for her surrender of claims to Guelders, she receives an annual pension of 33,000 gold pieces.source
  • 1418Švitrigaila of Lithuania, son of the late Grand Duke Algirdas, is freed after nine years imprisonment at Lithuania's Kremenets Castle after a group of 500 soldiers, led by Dashko Ostrogski, storm the castle.source
  • 1437In Italy, Tomaso di Campofregoso, the Doge of the Republic of Genoa is forced to step down in favor of his brother, Battista di Campofregoso, however, changes his mind later in the day and Tomaso is re-installed as the doge.source
  • 1449Hundred Years' War: English forces capture Fougères in Brittany.source
  • 1469With Abu Sa'id Mirza having been killed at the battle of Qarabagh, the Timurid prince, Sultan Husayn Bayqara captures Herat (now in Afghanistan), the capital of the Timurid Empire, and proclaims himself the Emperor.source
  • 1494An earthquake estimated centuries later at 5.5 magnitude, strikes the Chinese city of Qujing, destroying 200 homes.source
  • 1495The first military combat between the Old World and the New World takes place at the Battle of Vega Real. In his role as the Spanish Governor of Hispaniola, Christopher Columbus and his ally, the Taino Chief (cacique) Guacanagaríx of Marién and begin a war of retaliation against the cacique Caonabo of Maguana, who had led the 1493 massacre of the Spanish colonists at La Navidad.source
  • 1500Louis II de la Trémoille joins the main French army at Mortara, Lombardy with a corps of about 500 men, supported by artillery.source
  • 1500The day after departing the Cape Verde Islands with the rest of Cabral's fleet, Vasco de Ataíde and his 150 crewmates die when their ship goes down in a storm.source
  • 1545At a diet in Worms, Germany, summoned by Pope Paul III, the German Protestant princes demand a national religious settlement for Germany. Holy Roman Emperor, Charles V refuses.source
  • 1550"Rough Wooing": England and France sign the Treaty of Boulogne, by which England withdraws from Boulogne in France and returns territorial gains in Scotland.source
  • 1550The Treaty of Boulogne ends the hostilities with England known as the Rough Wooingsource
  • 1562Portuguese Navy Captain Álvaro de Carvalho reaches Mazagan in Morocco with a relief force that includes 600 well-equipped troops. Another force of 1,565 volunteers arrives on March 26 from Lisbon.source
  • 1601Sigismund Báthory, who had abdicated as Prince of Transylvania in 1599, returns as the leader of the invading Polish Army.source
  • 1603Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shōgun from Emperor Go-Yozei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan. The 265-year-long Edo period begins.source
  • 1603James VI of Scotland becomes King James I of England and Ireland upon the death of Elizabeth I in England (but the news is withheld from the Irish leaders in treaty negotiations).source
  • 1609Led by the Grand Hetman of Lithuania, Jan Karol Chodkiewicz, the Lithuanian Navy breaks the blockade of Riga by sinking two Swedish Navy warships off the coast of Salacgrīva.source
  • 1620English sailor Owen Fitzpen is captured by Turkish pirates while on a trading voyage in the Mediterranean Sea and sold into slavery. He remains a slave in North Africa for seven years until he and 10 other slaves are able to take over a Turkish ship and sail back to Europe.source
  • 1639The Dutch Republic renews its alliance with France.source
  • 1644Roger Williams is granted an official grant for his Rhode Island Colony from the Parliament of England, allowing the establishment of a general assembly.source
  • 1663the colony of Province of Carolina is established in North America.source
  • 1663King Charles II of England issues the Charter of Carolina, establishing the Province of Carolina, and dividing it between eight Lords Proprietors.source
  • 1680The Earl of Shaftesbury informs the Privy Council of England that the Roman Catholics of Ireland are about to launch a rebellion, backed by France. The investigation falsely leads to the arrest and ultimate execution of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett.source
  • 1680The Earl of Shaftesbury informs the Privy Council of England that the Roman Catholics of Ireland were about to launch a rebellion, backed by France. The investigation leads to the arrest and ultimate execution of the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Armagh, Oliver Plunkett.source
  • 1700The Treaty of London is signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1700Treaty of London signed between France, England and the Dutch Republic.source
  • 1702Great Northern War: Battle of Darsūniškis – The Swedish army of about 240 men under the command of Alexander Hummerhielm is defeated by the Polish–Saxon army of 6,000 men under Michał Serwacy Wiśniowiecki.source
  • 1715The wedding between Princess Ulrika Eleonora and Frederick of Hesse.source
  • 1721Johann Sebastian Bach's Brandenburg concertos are completed, and dedicated to Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt.source
  • 1765Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, requiring private households in the thirteen American colonies to house British soldiers if necessary.source
  • 1767Spain acquires control of what are now called the Falkland Islands from France, compensating French Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville for the money spent on the construction of the settlement at Fort Saint Louis. The islands, named les Îles Malouines by the French, are renamed las Islas Malvinas by the Spanish, and Fort Saint Louis is renamed as Puerto Soledad. In 1816, Argentina declares independence from Spain and takes the Malvinas; and in 1833, Britain's Royal Navy captures the islands from the Argentines and renames them the Falklands, and renames Puerto Soledad as Port Louis.source
  • 1767Spain acquires control of the Falkland Islands (les Îles Malouines) from France, compensating Admiral Louis Antoine de Bougainville for the money spent on the construction of the settlement at Fort Saint Louis.source
  • 1772Royal Marriages Act 1772 requires the monarch's consent for the marriage of all members of the royal family.source
  • 1794Tadeusz Kościuszko makes his proclamation starting the Kościuszko Uprising against the Russian Empire and Kingdom of Prussia in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth and Prussian Partition.source
  • 1804The settlement at the Hunter River, also known as the Coal River, is officially named Newcastle.source
  • 1832In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.source
  • 1832In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Latter Day Saint movement founder Joseph Smith.source
  • 1840The first bank in New Zealand, the Union Bank, is opened in Britannia.source
  • 1843Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army, led by Major General Sir Charles Napier, defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh as a province of British India.source
  • 1843Battle of Hyderabad: The Bombay Army led by Major General Sir Charles Napier defeats the Talpur Mirs, securing Sindh province for the British Raj.source
  • 184724 March (starting 12 midday) – National Day of Fast and Humiliation for the Great Famine is held across the UK by royal proclamation.source
  • 1847(Starting 12 midday) – National Day of Fast and Humiliation for the Great Famine (Ireland) is held across the UK by royal proclamation.source
  • 1848The First Schleswig War (Schleswig-Holsteinischer Krieg, or Three Years' War (Treårskrigen)), a military conflict in southern Denmark and northern Germany rooted in the Schleswig-Holstein Question, contesting the issue of who should control the Duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, begins.source
  • 1854Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.source
  • 1856Taiping Rebellion: Suspecting treachery on the part of East King Yang Xiuqing, Shi Dakai garrisons Anhui and begins his march back to the Heavenly Capital, having defeated a strong Xiang Army detachment.source
  • 1858the Scottish National Gallery on The Mound in Edinburgh opens.source
  • 1860Sakuradamon Incident: Rōnin samurai of the Mito Domain in Japan assassinate tairō (Chief Minister) Ii Naosuke outside the Sakurada Gate of Edo Castle, disaffected with his role in the opening of Japan to foreign powers.source
  • 1868The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company is formed, in New York City.source
  • 186820 killed when soldiers shoot on striking miners from the Epine mine in Dampremy.source
  • 1869Tītokowaru's War ends with the surrender of the last Māori troops at large, in the South Taranaki District of New Zealand's North Island.source
  • 1869A fatal case of cholera is reported in Sydney.source
  • 1870A Chilean prospecting party led by José Díaz Gana discovers the silver ores of Caracoles in the Bolivian portion of Atacama Desert, leading to the last of Chilean silver rushes and a diplomatic dispute over its taxation between Chile and Bolivia.source
  • 1870Syracuse University is established in New York (state) and officially opens.source
  • 1877For the only time in history, The Boat Race between the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge is declared a "dead heat" (i.e., a draw).source
  • 1878the Royal Navy frigate HMS Eurydice capsizes off the Isle of Wight, killing all but two of the 319 crew.source
  • 1882Robert Koch announces the discovery of the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis (Mycobacterium tuberculosis).source
  • 1882the Tuberculosis bacillus causing tuberculosis, M. tuberculosis, was identified and described by Robert Koch.source
  • 1885Battle of Bang Bo (Zhennan Pass)source
  • 1885Hugh Victor McKay patents stripper-harvester.source
  • 1888Olof Jacobsen, gymnast and Olympic bronze medallistsource
  • 1895March 23–26 - Pescadores Campaign (1895)source
  • 1898Robert Allison of Port Carbon, Pennsylvania, becomes the first person to buy an American-built automobile, when he buys a Winton automobile that has been advertised in Scientific American.source
  • 1899The Puna de Atacama dispute is resolved.source
  • 1899The U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, acting as arbitrator of a boundary dispute between Argentina and Chile, awards the disputed territory to Chile.source
  • 190324 March & 3 May – Derby earthquakes.source
  • 1912First Battle of Rellanosource
  • 1916French ferry SS Sussex is torpedoed by SM UB-29 in the English Channel, with at least 50 killed (including the composer Enrique Granados), resulting on May 4 in the Sussex Pledge by Germany to the United States.source
  • 1921The 1921 Women's Olympiad (the first international women's sports event) begins in Monte Carlo.source
  • 1924Jean Sibelius conducts the world premiere of his Symphony No. 7 in Stockholm.source
  • 1927Nanking Incident: After six foreigners have been killed in Nanking, and it appears that Kuomintang and Chinese Communist Party forces will overrun the foreign consulates, warships of the U.S. Navy and the British Royal Navy fire shells and shoot to disperse the crowds.source
  • 1927The Norwegian cargo ship Verdande leaves Cardiff, bound for Las Palmas, Canary Islands. Five bodies and two lifebelts and some lifeboats would later be washed ashore at Boscastle and Bude, Cornwall, leading to the conclusion that the ship had foundered with the loss of all hands.source
  • 1928Excavation work begins after the old Canaanite city of Ugarit is accidentally rediscovered.source
  • 1934The Tydings–McDuffie Act is passed, allowing the Philippines a greater degree of self-government from the United States.source
  • 1938National Mobilization Lawsource
  • 1942Karenus Kristofer Thinn, judge (born 1850)source
  • 1944In Markowa, Poland, German police kill Józef and Wiktoria Ulm, their 6 children and 8 Jews they were hiding.source
  • 1944The "Great Escape": 76 Royal Air Force prisoners of war escape by tunnel "Harry" from Stalag Luft III in Silesia this night. Only 3 men (2 Norwegians and a Dutchman) return to the UK; of those recaptured, 50 are summarily executed soon afterwards, in the Stalag Luft III murders.source
  • 1945WWII: Operation Varsity – Two airborne divisions capture bridges across the river Rhine to aid the Allied advance.source
  • 1945The cartoon character Sylvester the cat debuts in Life with Feathers.source
  • 19461946 Cabinet Mission to Indiasource
  • 1949The 21st Academy Awards Ceremony is held. The movie Hamlet wins the Academy Award for Best Picture.source
  • 1960All public meetings of more than 12 people are banned.source
  • 1962OAS leader Edmond Jouhaud is arrested in Oran.source
  • 1963Peder Holt, politician (b.1899)source
  • 1965Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev accuses the United States of 'pirate raids' against North Vietnam.source
  • 1966Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.source
  • 1966The beginning of the Israeli Educational Television broadcasts.source
  • 1968Aer Lingus Flight 712 crashes en route from Cork to London near Tuskar Rock, Wexford, killing 61 passengers and crew.source
  • 1972March 23–April 2 – A 47-member expedition conducted by Presidential Assistant for National Minorities (Panamin) which has been headed by Manuel Elizalde Jr., mostly scientists and later joined by one of the agency's directors—American Charles Lindbergh, makes a first visit to the caves inhabited by 25 "surviving" Tasadays, a group of Stone Age-style people discovered in June 1971, in an isolated mountain rainforest in South Cotabato—the "first discovery of cavemen in modern times." The expedition ends as explorers are rescued by the United States Armed Forces.source
  • 1976A general strike takes place in the People's Republic of the Congo.source
  • 1982Lt. Gen. Hussain Muhammad Ershad assumes power through a bloodless coup overthrowing Abdus Sattar's government.source
  • 1986The 58th Academy Awards are held in Los Angeles, with Out of Africa winning Best Picture.source
  • 1987Michael Eisner, CEO of The Walt Disney Company, and French Prime Minister and future President of France, Jacques Chirac, sign an agreement to construct the 4,800 acres Euro Disney Resort (now called Disneyland Paris) and to develop the Val d'Europe area of the new town Marne-la-Vallée in Paris, France.source
  • 1988The first McDonald's restaurant in a country run by a Communist party opens in Belgrade, Yugoslavia. It was later followed by one in Budapest, and in 1990 in Moscow, and Shenzhen, China.source
  • 1989Exxon Valdez oil spill: In Alaska's Prince William Sound, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels of oil after running aground.source
  • 19901990 Australian federal election: Bob Hawke's Labor government is re-elected with a reduced majority, narrowly defeating the Liberal/National Coalition led by Andrew Peacock.source
  • 1993South Africa officially abandons its nuclear weapons programme. President de Klerk announces that the country's six warheads had already been dismantled in 1989.source
  • 1996The Marcopper mining disaster on the island of Marinduque, Philippines takes place.source
  • 1997The 69th Academy Awards, hosted by Billy Crystal, are held at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, with The English Patient winning Best Picture. During the event, the DVD format is launched in the United States.source
  • 1997March 24–26 – In San Diego, 39 Heaven's Gate cultists commit mass suicide at their compound.source
  • 1999NATO launches air strikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign state.source
  • 1999A fire in the Mont Blanc Tunnel kills 39 people, closing the tunnel for nearly three years.source
  • 2000March 12–26 – Pope John Paul II visits Israel, and thus becomes the second pope to visit Israel. During his stay, the Pope visits Yad Vashem (the Israeli national Holocaust memorial) and the Western Wall placing a letter inside it in which he prayed for forgiveness for the actions against Jews in the past.source
  • 2001Apple Inc. released the Mac OS X operating system for Mac computers.source
  • 2005The President of Kyrgyzstan, Askar Akayev, is deposed following mass anti-government demonstrations and flees the country.source
  • 2008Bhutan holds its first-ever general elections following the adoption of a new Constitution which changed the country from an absolute monarchy to a multiparty democracy.source
  • 2013Central African Republic President François Bozizé flees to the Democratic Republic of the Congo, after rebel forces capture the nation's capital, Bangui.source
  • 2014During an emergency meeting, the United Kingdom, the United States, Italy, Germany, France, Japan, and Canada temporarily suspend Russia from the G8, recognizing Crimea within Ukraine's international borders and rejecting the validity of the 2014 Crimean referendum.source
  • 2015An Airbus A320-211 operated by Germanwings is deliberately crashed by First officer Andres Lubitz in the French Alps, killing all 150 people on board.source
  • 2016Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžić is sentenced to 40 years in prison after being found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity committed during the Bosnian War.source
  • 2017scheduled date for the Macedonian local elections, 2017source
  • 2018In over 900 cities internationally, people participate in demonstrations against gun violence and mass shootings, calling for stronger gun control in the "March for Our Lives".source
  • 2019The first phase of Jakarta's MRT system opened with its first line.source
  • 2020Chinese Premier Li Keqiang reports that the domestically transmitted epidemic is now under control. Two days later, China temporarily suspends entry for foreign nationals with visas or residence permits, effective midnight on March 28.source
  • 2020The International Olympic Committee and Japan postpone the 2020 Summer Olympics to 2021. On March 30, the Summer Olympics will be rescheduled from July 23 to August 8, 2021.source
  • 20222022 Russian invasion of Ukraine: NATO announces that four new battlegroups totaling 40,000 troops will be deployed in Bulgaria, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia, along with enhanced readiness for potential chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear threats.source
  • 2022The World Health Organization announces that a polio vaccination campaign will begin in Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, and Zambia.source
  • 2023Rahul Gandhi, the official opposition leader of India is disqualified from the Lok Sabha after he was convicted in a defamation case filed by BJP MLA, Purnesh Modi.source
  • 2023March 24–27 – A tornado outbreak kills at least 26 people in Mississippi and Alabama. This includes a violent tornado which devastated the city of Rolling Fork and the town of Silver City in Mississippi, killing 16 people and injuring 165 others.source
  • 2025Eswatini Mobile announces that it has 'entered the 5G era'.source

Births

  • 1103Yue Fei, Chinese general and poet (died 1142)source
  • 1188Ferdinand (or Ferrand), count of Flanders (died 1233)source
  • 1246Henry Bate of Mechelen, Brabantian philosophersource
  • 1257Yolanda of Lusignan, French noblewoman (died 1314)source
  • 1285Al-Nasr Muhammad, Mamluk ruler of Egypt (died 1341)source
  • 1419Ginevra d'Este (died 1440)source
  • 1441Ernest, Elector of Saxony, German ruler of Saxony (died 1486)source
  • 1490Giovanni Salviati, Italian Catholic cardinal (died 1553)source
  • 1494Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar (died 1555)source
  • 1607Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (died 1676)source
  • 1613Antonia of Württemberg, princess, literary figure, patron and Christian Kabbalist (died 1679)source
  • 1628Sophie Amalie of Brunswick-Lüneburg (died 1685)source
  • 1653Joseph Sauveur, French mathematician (died 1716)source
  • 1681Georg Philipp Telemann, German composer (died 1767)source
  • 1683Mark Catesby, English naturalist, studied the flora and fauna of the New World (died 1749)source
  • 1693John Harrison, clockmaker (died 1776)source
  • 1725Thomas Cushing, American Continental Congressman (died 1788)source
  • 1755Rufus King, American lawyer, politician and diplomat (died 1827)source
  • 1793François-Xavier Paré, politician.source
  • 1826Matilda Joslyn Gage, American feminist (died 1898)source
  • 1834John Wesley Powell, American explorer (died 1902)source
  • 1834William Morris, English poet, artist (died 1896)source
  • 1844Padre Cícero, Roman Catholic priestsource
  • 1846Juan José Latorre, Vice Admiral (died 1912)source
  • 1855Andrew Mellon, American banker, philanthropist (died 1937)source
  • 1874Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician (died 1926)source
  • 1886Edward Weston, American photographer (died 1958)source
  • 1897Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (died 1957)source
  • 1902Thomas E. Dewey, American politician (died 1971)source
  • 1909Clyde Barrow, American outlaw, member of Barrow Gang (died 1934)source
  • 1938David Irving, English author and Holocaust deniersource
  • 1949Ranil Wickremesinghe, 9th President of Sri Lanka, 10th Prime Minister of Sri Lankasource
  • 1965The Undertaker, American professional wrestlersource
  • 1976Peyton Manning, American football playersource
  • 1977Jessica Chastain, American actresssource
  • 2010Elia Ilano, child actresssource

Deaths

  • 809Harun al-Rashid, Muslim caliph (born 763)source
  • 809Caliph Harun al-Rashid dies at Tus, on an expedition to put down an uprising in Khorasan (modern Iran). He is succeeded by his son Muhammad ibn Harun al-Amin.source
  • 832Wulfred, archbishop of Canterburysource
  • 1224Conrad III, German cleric and bishop (born 1165)source
  • 1275Beatrice of England, countess of Richmond (born 1242)source
  • 1279Rinchen Gyaltsen, Tibetan imperial preceptor (born 1238)source
  • 1284Hugh III ("the Great"), king of Cyprus (born 1235)source
  • 1296Odon de Pins, French Grand Master of the Knights Hospitallersource
  • 1381Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1331 or 1332)source
  • 1394Constance of Castile, claimant to the throne of Castilesource
  • 1399Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (born c. 1320)source
  • 1443James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)source
  • 1455Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)source
  • 1499Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)source
  • 1524Ingrid Persdotter, potentially fictitious nun famed for her love letterssource
  • 1526Adolph II, Prince of Anhalt-Köthen, German prince (born 1458)source
  • 1561Giulio d'Este, illegitimate son of Italian noble (born 1478)source
  • 1575Yosef Karo, Spanish-born Jewish rabbi. Author of the book "Shulchan Aruch" (born 1488)source
  • 1583Hubert Goltzius, Dutch Renaissance painter-engraver (born 1526)source
  • 1602Ii Naomasa, Japanese general (born 1561)source
  • 1603Queen Elizabeth I of England (born 1533)source
  • 1603Queen Elizabeth I of England dies at Richmond Palace (having ruled since 1558). She is succeeded by her first cousin twice removed, King James VI of Scotland (where he has ruled since 1567), uniting the crowns of Scotland and England.source
  • 1603Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland (born 1533)source
  • 1684Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629)source
  • 1751János Pálffy, Hungarian field marshal, Palatine (born 1664)source
  • 1758Sir Thomas Mostyn, 4th Baronet, 53source
  • 1773Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English statesman and man of letters (born 1694)source
  • 1776John Harrison, English clockmaker (born 1693)source
  • 1810David Collins, Lieutenant-Governor of Tasmania (born in the United Kingdom) (born 1756)source
  • 1812Johann Jakob Griesbach, German Biblical commentator (born 1745)source
  • 1818Humphry Repton, English garden designer (born 1752)source
  • 1866Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (born 1782)source
  • 1871José Roque Pérez, president of the People's Commission of Buenos Aires (yellow fever)source
  • 1882Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (born 1807)source
  • 1905Jules Verne, French science fiction author (Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas) (born 1828)source
  • 1916Enrique Granados, composer (born 1867)source
  • 1944Ardeatine massacre: In Rome, 335 Italians are killed, including 75 Jews and over 200 members of the Italian Resistance from various groups.source
  • 1946Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (born 1892)source
  • 1976Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (born 1887)source
  • 1998Westside Middle School shooting: Five people are killed in Jonesboro, Arkansas.source
  • 2016Johan Cruyff, 68, Dutch football player and manager (AFC Ajax, FC Barcelona, Feyenoord, national team), lung cancer.source