March 19

March 19 is the 78th day of the year (79th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 287 days remain until the end of the year.

Events

Pre-1600

• 1277 – The Byzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in the Byzantine Empire.^[1]
• 1279 – A Mongol victory at the Battle of Yamen ends the Song dynasty in China.
• 1284 – The Statute of Rhuddlan incorporates the Principality of Wales into England.^[2]
• 1452 – Frederick III of Habsburg is the last Holy Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by Pope Nicholas V.^[3]
• Huguenots
  .

1601–1900

• 1649 – The House of Commons of England passes an act abolishing the House of Lords, declaring it "useless and dangerous to the people of England".
• Robert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of the Mississippi River
  , is murdered by his own men.
• Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.^[4]
• 1812 – The Cortes of Cádiz promulgates the Spanish Constitution of 1812.
• 1824 – American explorer Benjamin Morrell departed Antarctica after a voyage later plagued by claims of fraud.^[5]
• 1831 – First documented bank heist in U.S. history, when burglars stole $245,000 (1831 values) from the City Bank (now Citibank) on Wall Street.^[6] Most of the money was recovered.
• 1865 – American Civil War: The Battle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated from Four Oaks, North Carolina.
• 1885 – Louis Riel declares a provisional government in Saskatchewan, beginning the North-West Rebellion.

1901–present

• 1918 – The US Congress establishes time zones and approves daylight saving time.
• 1920 – The United States Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• Irish Republican Army
  (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• 1931 – Governor Fred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
• 1932 – The Sydney Harbour Bridge is opened.^[7]
• 1943 – Frank Nitti, the Chicago Outfit Boss after Al Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
• occupies Hungary
  .
• 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, a dive bomber hits the aircraft carrier USS Franklin, killing 724 of her crew. Badly damaged, the ship is able to return to the US under her own power.
• 1945 – World War II: Adolf Hitler issues his "Nero Decree" ordering all industries, military installations, shops, transportation facilities, and communications facilities in Germany to be destroyed.
• overseas départements
  of France.
• 1958 – The Monarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
• Algerian War of Independence
  ends.
• 1964 – Over 500,000 Brazilians attend the March of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government of João Goulart and against communism.
• underwater archaeologist E. Lee Spence
  , exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• 1969 – The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast at Emley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• 1979 – The United States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television network C-SPAN.
• South Georgia Island
  , precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• Six Days War in 1967 and the Egypt–Israel peace treaty
  in 1979.
• 1990 – The ethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
• crashes on approach to Kabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.^[8]
• 2003 – United States President George W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing the beginning of hostilities in the coalition invasion of Iraq.^[9]
• 2004 – Catalina affair: A Swedish DC-3 shot down by a Soviet MiG-15 in 1952 over the Baltic Sea is finally recovered after years of work.
• 2004 –
  Republic of China (Taiwan) president Chen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election on March 20
  .
• 2008 – GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
• French Air Force launches Opération Harmattan, beginning foreign military intervention in Libya
  .
• 2013 – A series of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others across Iraq.
• 2016 – Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land at Rostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
• 2016 – An explosion occurs in Taksim Square in Istanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
• 2019 – The first President of Kazakhstan, Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leaving Senate Chairman Kassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.^[10]
• 2023 banking crisis.^[11]

• Great Khan of the Mongol Empire
  (d. 1248)
• 1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1443)
• 1488 – Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (d. 1544)
• José de Anchieta
  , Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1597)
• 1542 – Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1605)

1601–1900

• Alonzo Cano
  , Spanish painter, sculptor, and architect (d. 1667)
• 1604 – John IV of Portugal (d. 1656)
• 1641 – Abd al-Ghani al-Nabulsi, Syrian author and scholar (d. 1731)
• 1661 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian composer and educator (d. 1727)
• 1684 – Jean Astruc, French physician and scholar (d. 1766)
• 1721 – Tobias Smollett, Scottish-Italian poet and author (d. 1771) (baptised on this day)
• Governor of Pennsylvania
  (d. 1817)
• Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance
  , French lawyer and politician (d. 1824)
• 1742 – Túpac Amaru II, Peruvian rebel leader (d. 1781)
• 1748 – Elias Hicks, American farmer, minister, and theologian (d. 1830)
• 1778 – Edward Pakenham, Anglo-Irish general and politician (d. 1815)
• José Prudencio Padilla López, Colombian naval commander and politician (d. 1828)^[12]
• 1809 – Fredrik Pacius, German composer and conductor (d. 1891)
• 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
• 1816 – Johannes Verhulst, Dutch composer and conductor (d. 1891)
• 1821 – Richard Francis Burton, English soldier, geographer, and diplomat (d. 1890)
• 1823 – Arthur Blyth, English-Australian politician, 9th Premier of South Australia (d. 1891)
• 1824 – William Allingham, Irish poet, author, and scholar (d. 1889)
• 1829 – Carl Frederik Tietgen, Danish businessman (d. 1901)
• 1844 – Minna Canth, Finnish journalist, playwright, and activist (d. 1897)^[13]
• 1847 – Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (d. 1917)
• 1848 – Wyatt Earp, American police officer (d. 1929)
• 1849 – Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral and politician (d. 1930)
• 1858 – Kang Youwei, Chinese scholar and politician (d. 1927)
• 1860 – William Jennings Bryan, American lawyer and politician, 41st United States Secretary of State (d. 1925)
• 1861 – Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1929)^[14]
• 1864 – Charles Marion Russell, American painter and sculptor (d. 1926)
• 1865 – William Morton Wheeler, American entomologist, myrmecologist, and academic (d. 1937)
• 1868 – Senda Berenson Abbott, Lithuanian-American basketball player and educator (d. 1954)
• 1871 – Schofield Haigh, English cricketer and coach (d. 1921)
• 1872 – Anna Held, Polish singer (d. 1918)
• 1873 – Max Reger, German pianist, composer, and conductor (d. 1916)
• 1875 – Zhang Zuolin, Chinese warlord (d. 1928)
• 1876 – Felix Jacoby, German philologist (d. 1959)
• 1880 – Ernestine Rose, American librarian and advocate (d. 1961) ^[15]
• 1881 – Edith Nourse Rogers, American social worker and politician (d. 1960)
• 1882 – Gaston Lachaise, French-American sculptor (d. 1935)
• 1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1950)
• 1883 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946)
• 1885 – Attik, Greek composer (d. 1944)
• 1888 – Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (d. 1976)
• 1888 – Léon Scieur, Belgian cyclist (d. 1969)
• 1891 – Earl Warren, American lieutenant, jurist, and politician, 14th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1974)
• 1892 – Theodore Sizer, American professor of the history of art (d. 1967)
• 1892 – Ado Vabbe, Estonian painter (d. 1961)
• 1892 – James Van Fleet, American general and diplomat (d. 1992)
• 1893 – Gertrud Dorka, German archaeologist, prehistorian and museum director (d. 1976)^[16]
• 1894 – Moms Mabley, American comedian and singer (d. 1975)
• 1900 – Carmen Carbonell, Spanish stage and film actress (d. 1988)^[17]
• 1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1958)^[18]

1901–present

• 1901 – Jo Mielziner, French-American set designer (d. 1976)
• 1904 – John Sirica, American lawyer and judge (d. 1992)^[19]
• 1905 – Joe Rollino, American weightlifter and boxer (d. 2010)
• 1905 – Albert Speer, German architect and politician (d. 1981)
• 1906 – Clara Breed, American librarian and activist (d. 1994)
• 1906 –
  SS
  officer (d. 1962)
• 1909 – Louis Hayward, South African-American actor (d. 1985)
• 1909 – Marjorie Linklater, Scottish campaigner for the arts and environment of Orkney (d. 1997)^[20]
• 1910 – Joseph Carroll, American general (d. 1991)
• Prime Minister of New Zealand
  (d. 1980)
• 1914 – Leonidas Alaoglu, Canadian-American mathematician and theorist (d. 1981)
• 1914 – Jay Berwanger, American football player and coach (d. 2002)
• 1915 – Robert G. Cole, American colonel, Medal of Honor recipient (d. 1944)
• 1915 – Patricia Morison, American actress and singer (d. 2018)
• 1916 – Eric Christmas, English-Canadian actor (d. 2000)
• 1916 – Irving Wallace, American journalist, author, and screenwriter (d. 1990)
• 1917 – Laszlo Szabo, Hungarian chess player (d. 1998)
• 1919 – Lennie Tristano, American pianist, composer, and educator (d. 1978)
• 1920 – Kjell Aukrust, Norwegian author, poet, and painter (d. 2002)
• 1921 – Tommy Cooper, British magician and prop comedian (d. 1984)
• 1922 – Guy Lewis, American basketball player and coach (d. 2015)
• 1922 – Hiroo Onoda, Japanese lieutenant (d. 2014)
• 1923 – Pamela Britton, American actress (d. 1974)
• 1923 – Benito Jacovitti, Italian illustrator (d. 1997)
• 1923 – Henry Morgentaler, Polish-Canadian physician and activist (d. 2013)
• 1924 – Joe Gaetjens, Haitian footballer (d. 1964)
• United States National Security Advisor
  (d. 2020)
• 1927 – Richie Ashburn, American baseball player and sportscaster (d. 1997)
• 1928 – Hans Küng, Swiss theologian and author (d. 2021)
• 1928 – Patrick McGoohan, Irish-American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 2009)
• 1931 – Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian poet, writer and painter
• 1932 – Gay Brewer, American golfer (d. 2007)
• 1932 – Peter Hall, English geographer, author, and academic (d. 2014)
• 1932 – Gail Kobe, American actress and producer (d. 2013)
• 1933 – Phyllis Newman, American actress and singer (d. 2019)
• 1933 – Philip Roth, American novelist (d. 2018)^[19]
• 1933 – Renée Taylor, American actress, producer, and screenwriter^[21]
• 1933 – Richard Williams, Canadian-English animator, director, and screenwriter (d. 2019)
• 1935 – Nancy Malone, American actress, director, and producer (d. 2014)
• 1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss model and actress^[21]
• 1936 – Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (d. 1988)
• 1937 – Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American singer-songwriter and pianist^[21]
• 1937 – Egon Krenz, German politician
• 1938 – Joe Kapp, American football player, coach, and actor (d. 2023)
• 1942 – Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (d. 2014)
• 1943 – Nate Bowman, American basketball player (d. 1984)^[22]
• 1943 –
  Mario J. Molina, Mexican chemist and academic, Nobel Prize
  laureate (d. 2020)
• 1943 – Mario Monti, Italian economist and politician, Prime Minister of Italy
• 1943 – Vern Schuppan, Australian race car driver
• Prime Minister of Belize
• John Holder
  , English cricketer and umpire
• 1945 – Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1946 – Ruth Pointer, American musician^[23]
• 1947 – Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer^[21]
• 1947 – Marinho Peres, Brazilian footballer and coach (d. 2023)
• 1948 – David Schnitter, American saxophonist and educator
• 1949 – Blase J. Cupich, American theologian and cardinal
• 1950 – José S. Palma, Filipino archbishop
• 1952 – Warren Lees, New Zealand cricketer and coach
• 1952 – Martin Ravallion, Australian economist and academic (d. 2022)
• 1952 – Harvey Weinstein, American film producer and sex offender^[19]
• 1953 – Ian Blair, English police officer
• 1953 – Peter Hendy, English businessman
• 1953 –
  Ricky Wilson
  , American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1985)
• 1954 – Cho Kwang-rae, South Korean footballer, coach, and manager
• 1954 – Scott May, American basketball player^[24]
• 1955 – Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer^[21]
• 1956 – Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2009)^[25]
• 1957 – Dudley Bradley, American basketball player^[26]
• 1958 – Andy Reid, American football player and coach
• 1960 – Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist^[27]
• 1963 – Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter^[28]
• 1963 – Mary Scheer, American actress and comedian^[21]
• 1964 – Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• Michael Crockart
  , Scottish police officer and politician
• 1966 – Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager
• 1966 – Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager^[29]
• 1967 – Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee^[30]
• 1967 – Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1968 – Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 – Connor Trinneer, American actor^[21]
• 1970 – Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1970 – Michael Krumm, German race car driver
• 1970 – Janne Laukkanen, Finnish ice hockey player^[31]
• 1973 – Bun B, American rapper and songwriter^[21]
• 1973 – Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach
• 1975 – Antonio Daniels, American basketball player
• 1976 – Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress^[21]
• 1976 – Derek Chauvin, American criminal and former police officer^[32][33]
• 1976 – Andre Miller, American basketball player^[34]
• 1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 – David Ross, American baseball player and manager^[35]
• 1978 – Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter
• 1978 – Virginia Williams, American actress^[21]
• 1979 – Abby Brammell, American actress^[21]
• 1979 – Sheldon Brown, American football player
• 1979 – Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player^[36]
• 1979 – Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer^[37]
• 1979 – Hedo Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
• 1980 – Luca Ferri, Italian footballer
• 1980 –
  Taichi Ishikari
  , Japanese wrestler
• 1980 – Mikuni Shimokawa, Japanese singer-songwriter
• 1980 – Theo Von, American stand-up comedian^[38]
• 1981 – Steve Cummings, English cyclist
• 1981 – Casey Jacobsen, American basketball player and sportscaster^[39]
• 1981 – Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer^[40]
• 1982 – Jonathan Fanene, American football player
• 1982 –
  Brad Jones
  , Australian footballer
• 1982 – Hana Kobayashi, Venezuelan singer^[41]
• 1982 – Landon Powell, American baseball player and manager^[42]
• 1982 – Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian-Singaporean businessman^[19]
• 1985 – Inesa Jurevičiūtė, Lithuanian figure skater
• 1986 – Tyler Bozak, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1986 – Ahmad Bradshaw, American football player^[43]
• 1987 – AJ Lee, American wrestler and author^[44]
• 1987 – Michal Švec, Czech footballer
• 1987 – Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
• 1988 – Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player^[45]
• 1988 – Ben Uzoh, Nigerian-American basketball player^[46]
• 1990 – EJ Manuel, American football player^[47]
• 1990 – Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player^[48]
• 1991 – Garrett Clayton, American actor and singer^[19]
• 1991 – Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer^[49]
• 1993 – Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer^[50]
• 1995 – Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer^[51]
• 1995 – Philip Daniel Bolden, American actor^[21]
• 1995 – Julia Montes, Filipino actress^[52]
• 1995 – Alexei Sintsov, Russian figure skater
• 1996 – Yung Gravy, American rapper^[53]
• 1996 – Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player
• 1996 – Quenton Nelson, American football player^[54]
• 1998 – Caylee Cowan, American actress^[55]
• 1998 – Julian Love, American football player^[56]
• 1999 – Nico Collins, American football player^[57]

Deaths

Pre-1600

• 235 – Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• al-Mansur bi-Nasr Allah
  , caliph of the Fatimid Caliphate (b. 913)
• 968 – Emma of Paris, duchess of Normandy (b. 943)
• 1238 – Henry the Bearded, Polish duke and son of Bolesław I the Tall (b. 1163)
• 1263 – Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal (b. 1200)
• Zhao Bing
  , Chinese emperor (b. 1271)
• 1286 – Alexander III, king of Scotland (b. 1241)^[58]
• 1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1301)
• John II
  , marquess of Montferrat (b. 1321)
• 1533 – John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners, English baron and statesman (b. 1467)
• 1534 – Michael Weiße, German theologian (b. c. 1488)
• 1539 – Lord Edmund Howard, English nobleman (b. c. 1478)
• 1563 – Arthur Brooke, English poet
• 1568 – Elizabeth Seymour, Lady Cromwell, English noblewoman (b.c. 1518)
• 1581 – Francis I, duke of Saxe-Lauenburg (b. 1510)

1601–1900

• 1612 – Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
• 1637 – Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570)
• Gerhard Johann Vossius
  , German scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
• 1683 – Thomas Killigrew, English playwright and manager (b. 1612)
• 1687 – René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French-American explorer (b. 1643)
• 1697 – Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
• 1711 – Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
• 1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish soldier (b. 1636)
• 1721 – Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
• 1783 – Frederick Cornwallis, English archbishop (b. 1713)
• Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire
  (b. 1713)
• 1797 – Philip Hayes, English organist and composer (b. 1738)
• Philip Mazzei
  , Italian-American physician and philosopher (b. 1730)
• 1871 – Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist, geologist, and physicist (b. 1795)
• 1884 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physician and philologist (b. 1802)^[59]
• 1897 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• United States Ambassador to Japan
  (b. 1815)
• 1900 – Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)

1901–present

• 1914 – Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 – Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist of Appalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 – Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 – Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11th Premier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 – Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 – William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41st Mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1947 – James A. Gilmore, American businessman and baseball executive (b. 1887)^[60]
• 1948 – Maud Howe Elliott, American novelist (b. 1854)^[61]
• 1949 – James Somerville, English admiral and politician, Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1949 – James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)^[62]
• 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American soldier and author (b. 1875)
• 1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1883)
• 1951 – Dmytro Doroshenko, Ukrainian historian and politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine (b. 1882)
• 1976 – Albert Dieudonné, French actor and author (b. 1889)
• 1976 – Paul Kossoff, English guitarist and songwriter (b. 1950)
• 1977 – William L. Laurence, Lithuanian-born American journalist and author (b. 1888)
• 1978 – M. A. Ayyangar, Indian lawyer and politician, 2nd Speaker of the Lok Sabha (b. 1891)
• 1982 – J. B. Kripalani, Indian lawyer and politician (b. 1888)
• 1982 – Randy Rhoads, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (b. 1956)
• 1984 – Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
• 1986 – Sabino Barinaga, Spanish footballer and manager (b. 1922)
• 1987 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
• 1988 – Bun Cook, Canadian ice hockey player and coach (b. 1904)
• 1990 – Andrew Wood, American singer-songwriter (b. 1966)
• 1993 – Henrik Sandberg, Danish production manager and producer (b. 1915)
• 1996 – Lise Østergaard, Danish psychologist and politician (b. 1924)
• 1996 – Alan Ridout, English composer and teacher. (b. 1934)^[63]
• 1996 – Virginia Henderson, American nurse, researcher, theorist and author (b. 1897)
• 1997 – Willem de Kooning, Dutch-American painter and educator (b. 1904)
• 1997 – Eugène Guillevic, French poet and author (b. 1907)
• Chief Minister of Kerala
  (b. 1909)
• 1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5th Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
• 2000 – Joanne Weaver, American baseball player (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Shafiq-ur-Rahman, Pakistani physician and author (b. 1920)
• 2003 – Michael Mathias Prechtl, German soldier and illustrator (b. 1926)
• 2004 – Mitchell Sharp, Canadian economist and politician, 23rd Canadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
• 2005 – John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded the DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
• 2008 – Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (b. 1917)^[64]
• 2008 – Hugo Claus, Belgian author, poet, and playwright (b. 1929)
• 2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
• 2009 – Maria Bergson, Austrian-American architect and interior designer (b. 1914)
• 2011 – Kym Bonython, Australian drummer and radio host (b. 1920)
• 2012 – Jim Case, American director and producer (b. 1927)
• 2012 – Ulu Grosbard, Belgian-American director and producer (b. 1929)
• 2012 – Hugo Munthe-Kaas, Norwegian intelligence agent (b. 1922)
• 2014 – Patrick Joseph McGovern, American businessman, founded IDG (b. 1937)
• 2014 – Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded the Westboro Baptist Church (b. 1929)
• 2014 – Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1942)
• 2014 –
  United States Ambassador to Russia
  (b. 1918)
• 2014 – Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4th United States Deputy Attorney General (b. 1912)
• 2014 –
  Joseph F. Weis, Jr.
  , American lawyer and judge (b. 1923)
• 2015 – Gus Douglass, American farmer and politician (b. 1927)
• 2015 – Safet Plakalo, Bosnian author and playwright (b. 1950)
• 2015 – Danny Schechter, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1942)
• 2016 – Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker and businessman (b. 1959)
• 2016 – Jack Mansell, English footballer and manager (b. 1927)
• 2019 – William Whitfield, British architect (b. 1920) ^[65]
• 2021 – Glynn Lunney, American engineer (b. 1936)^[66]

Holidays and observances

• Christian
  Observances
  :
  • Alkmund of Derby
  • Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20)
    • Roman Catholicism and Anglican Communion
      ) related observances:
      • Falles, celebrated on the week leading to March 19 (Valencia
        )
      • Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Italy, Honduras, and Bolivia)
      • "Return of the Swallow", annual observance of the
        swallows' return to Mission San Juan Capistrano in California
  • March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Earliest day on which Maundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday before Easter (Christianity)
• Minna Canth's Birthday and the Day of Equality (Finland)
• Kashubian Unity Day (Poland)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to March 19.

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• Historical Events on March 19