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Major historical anniversaries and events for this day in history and this week for 2025.
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Historical Anniversaries this Week
March 11
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Margaret Oakley Dayhoff, American biochemist and academic (d. 1983)[81]
Deaths (450 years ago today): 1575 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian theologian and reformer (b. 1520)[180]
1601-1900
[edit]March 12
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate[117]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)[118]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer[201]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer[202]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Valérie Nicolas, French handball player[203]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Sr?an Pecelj, Bosnian footballer[204]
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)[314]
March 13
Births (200 years ago today): 1825 – Hans Gude, Norwegian-German painter and academic (d. 1903)[61]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Roy Haynes, American drummer and composer (d. 2024)[101]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mark Clattenburg, English football referee[164]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Ivo Andri?, Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)[238]
March 14
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – William Clay Ford Sr., American businessman (d. 2014)[105]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Joseph A. Unanue, American sergeant and businessman (d. 2013)[106]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Steve Harper, English footballer and referee[171]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Dmitri Markov, Belarusian-Australian pole vaulter[172]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)[249]
March 15
Events (150 years ago today): 1875 – Archbishop of New York John McCloskey is named the first cardinal in the United States.[17]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Eva Longoria, American actress[111]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Darcy Tucker, Canadian ice hockey player[161]
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – will.i.am, American rapper, producer, and actor[162]
Deaths (450 years ago today): 1575 – Annibale Padovano, Italian organist and composer (b. 1527)[225]
1601-1900
[edit] Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Aristotle Onassis, Greek-Argentinian businessman (b. 1906)[245]
March 16
Events (100 years ago today): 1925 – An earthquake (measuring around 7.0 magnitude) occurs in Dali, China, killing an estimated 5,000 people.[8]
Births (200 years ago today): 1825 – Camilo Castelo Branco, Portuguese writer (d. 1890)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Cornell Borchers, Lithuanian-German actress and singer (d. 2014)[132][133]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Mary Hinkson, American dancer and choreographer (d. 2014)[134]
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Ervin Kassai, Hungarian basketball player and referee (d. 2012)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Luis E. Miramontes, Mexican chemist and engineer (d. 2004)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Luciano Castro, Argentine actor
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Sienna Guillory, English model and actress
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lionel Torres, French archer
Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (b. 1866)[207]
Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (b. 1910)
March 17
Births (300 years ago today): 1725 – Lachlan McIntosh, Scottish-American general and politician (d. 1806)
Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Gabriele Ferzetti, Italian actor (d. 2015)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Justin Hawkins, English singer-songwriter
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Puneeth Rajkumar, Indian actor, singer, and producer (d. 2021)
Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Test, Canadian-American wrestler (d. 2009)
Deaths (600 years ago today): 1425 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese sh?gun (b. 1407)
Deaths (150 years ago today): 1875 – Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist and composer (b. 1832)
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