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

• 1277 – TheByzantine–Venetian treaty of 1277 is concluded, stipulating a two-year truce and renewing Venetian commercial privileges in theByzantine Empire.^[1]
• 1279 – AMongol victory at theBattle of Yamen ends theSong dynasty in China.
• 1284 – TheStatute of Rhuddlan incorporates thePrincipality of Wales into England.^[2]
• 1452 –Frederick III of Habsburg is the lastHoly Roman Emperor crowned by medieval tradition in Rome by PopeNicholas V.^[3]
• 1563 – TheEdict of Amboise is signed, ending the first phase of theFrench Wars of Religion and granting certain freedoms to theHuguenots.

• 1649 – TheHouse of Commons of England passes anact abolishing theHouse of Lords, declaring it"useless and dangerous to the people of England".
• 1687 – ExplorerRobert Cavelier de La Salle, searching for the mouth of theMississippi River, is murdered by his own men.
• 1808 –Charles IV, king of Spain, abdicates after riots and a popular revolt at the winter palaceAranjuez. His son,Ferdinand VII, takes the throne.^[4]
• 1812 – TheCortes of Cádiz promulgates theSpanish Constitution of 1812.
• 1824 – American explorerBenjamin Morrell departedAntarctica 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 (nowCitibank) on Wall Street.^[6] Most of the money was recovered.
• 1865 –American Civil War: TheBattle of Bentonville begins. By the end of the battle two days later, Confederate forces had retreated fromFour Oaks, North Carolina.
• 1885 –Louis Riel declares aprovisional government inSaskatchewan, beginning theNorth-West Rebellion.

• 1918 – TheUS Congressestablishestime zones and approvesdaylight saving time.
• 1920 – TheUnited States Senate rejects theTreaty of Versailles for the second time (the first time was on November 19, 1919).
• 1921 –Irish War of Independence: One ofthe biggest engagements of the war takes place atCrossbarry,County Cork. About 100Irish Republican Army (IRA) volunteers escape an attempt by over 1,300 British forces to encircle them.
• 1931 – GovernorFred B. Balzar signs a bill legalizing gambling in Nevada.
• 1932 – TheSydney Harbour Bridge is opened.^[7]
• 1943 –Frank Nitti, theChicago Outfit Boss afterAl Capone, commits suicide at the Chicago Central Railyard.
• 1944 –World War II: The German armyoccupies Hungary.
• 1945 – World War II: Off the coast of Japan, adive bomber hits theaircraft carrierUSS 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 inGermany to be destroyed.
• 1946 –French Guiana,Guadeloupe,Martinique, andRéunion becomeoverseasdépartements of France.
• 1958 – TheMonarch Underwear Company fire leaves 24 dead and 15 injured.
• 1962 – TheAlgerian War of Independence ends.
• 1964 – Over 500,000 Brazilians attend theMarch of the Family with God for Liberty, in protest against the government ofJoão Goulart and against communism.
• 1965 – The wreck of theSS Georgiana, valued at over $50,000,000 and said to have been the most powerfulConfederatecruiser, is discovered by teenage diver and pioneerunderwater archaeologistE. Lee Spence, exactly 102 years after its destruction.
• 1969 – The 385-metre-tall (1,263 ft) TV-mast atEmley Moor transmitting station, United Kingdom, collapses due to ice build-up.
• 1979 – TheUnited States House of Representatives begins broadcasting its day-to-day business via the cable television networkC-SPAN.
• 1982 –Falklands War:Argentinian forces land onSouth Georgia Island, precipitating war with the United Kingdom.
• 1989 – TheEgyptian flag is raised atTaba, marking the end of Israeli occupation since theSix Days War in1967 and theEgypt–Israel peace treaty in 1979.
• 1990 – Theethnic clashes of Târgu Mureș begin four days after the anniversary of theRevolutions of 1848 in the Austrian Empire.
• 1998 – AnAriana Afghan AirlinesBoeing 727crashes on approach toKabul International Airport, killing all 45 on board.^[8]
• 2003 –United States PresidentGeorge W. Bush addresses the nation, announcing theinvasion 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 –March 19 Shooting Incident: TheRepublic of China (Taiwan) presidentChen Shui-bian is shot just before the country's presidential election onMarch 20.
• 2008 –GRB 080319B: A cosmic burst that is the farthest object visible to the naked eye is briefly observed.
• 2011 –Libyan Civil War: After the failure ofMuammar Gaddafi's forcesto take Benghazi, theFrench Air Force launchesOpération Harmattan, beginningforeign military intervention in Libya.
• 2013 – Aseries of bombings and shootings kills at least 98 people and injures 240 others acrossIraq.
• 2016 –Flydubai Flight 981 crashes while attempting to land atRostov-on-Don international airport, killing all 62 on board.
• 2016 – Anexplosion occurs inTaksim Square inIstanbul, Turkey, killing five people and injuring 36.
• 2019 – The firstPresident of Kazakhstan,Nursultan Nazarbayev, resigns from office after nearly three decades, leavingSenate ChairmanKassym-Jomart Tokayev as the acting President and successor.^[10]
• 2023 – TheSwiss Government brokers a deal forUBS tobuy out rivalCredit Suisse in an attempt to calm the2023 banking crisis.^[11]

• 1206 –Güyük Khan, Mongol ruler, 3rdGreat Khan of the Mongol Empire (d. 1248)
• 1434 –Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, Japanese shōgun (d. 1443)
• 1488 –Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (d. 1544)
• 1534 –José de Anchieta, Spanish missionary and saint (d. 1597)
• 1542 –Jan Zamoyski, Polish nobleman (d. 1605)

• 1601 –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)
• 1734 –Thomas McKean, American lawyer and politician, 2ndGovernor of Pennsylvania (d. 1817)
• 1739 –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)
• 1784 –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, 9thPremier 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, 41stUnited 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, 14thChief 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 –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, convictedNuremberg war criminal^[20] (d. 1981)
• 1906 –Clara Breed, American librarian and activist (d. 1994)
• 1906 –Adolf Eichmann, GermanSS officer, one of the main organizers of the Holocaust^[21] (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)^[22]
• 1910 –Joseph Carroll, American general (d. 1991)
• 1912 –Hugh Watt, Australian-New Zealand engineer and politician,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)
• 1925 –Brent Scowcroft, American general and diplomat, 9thUnited 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^[23]
• 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^[23]
• 1936 –Ben Lexcen, Australian sailor and architect (d. 1988)
• 1937 –Clarence "Frogman" Henry, American singer-songwriter and pianist^[23] (d. 2024)
• 1937 –Egon Krenz, German politician, briefly leader ofEast Germany^[24]
• 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)^[25]
• 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
• 1944 –Said Musa, Belizean lawyer and politician, 5thPrime Minister of Belize
• 1944 –Sirhan Sirhan, Palestinian-Jordanian assassin ofRobert F. Kennedy^[26]
• 1945 –John Holder, English cricketer and umpire
• 1945 –Modestas Paulauskas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach
• 1946 –Ruth Pointer, American musician^[27]
• 1947 –Glenn Close, American actress, singer, and producer^[23]
• 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, Minister of State for Rail^[28]
• 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^[29]
• 1955 –Bruce Willis, German-American actor and producer^[23]
• 1956 –Yegor Gaidar, Russian economist and politician,First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia (d. 2009)^[30]
• 1957 –Dudley Bradley, American basketball player^[31]
• 1958 –Andy Reid, American football player and coach
• 1960 –Eliane Elias, Brazilian singer-songwriter and pianist^[32]
• 1963 –Neil LaBute, American director and screenwriter^[33]
• 1963 –Mary Scheer, American actress and comedian^[23]
• 1964 –Yoko Kanno, Japanese pianist and composer
• 1966 –Michael Crockart, Scottish police officer and politician
• 1966 –Olaf Marschall, German footballer and manager
• 1966 –Andy Sinton, English footballer and manager^[34]
• 1967 –Sandra Dombrowski, Swiss ice hockey player and referee^[35]
• 1967 –Vladimir Konstantinov, Russian-American ice hockey player
• 1968 –Tyrone Hill, American basketball player and coach
• 1969 –Connor Trinneer, American actor^[23]
• 1970 –Harald Johnsen, Norwegian bassist and composer (d. 2011)
• 1970 –Michael Krumm, German race car driver
• 1970 –Janne Laukkanen, Finnish ice hockey player^[36]
• 1973 –Bun B, American rapper and songwriter^[23]
• 1973 –Ashley Giles, English cricketer and coach
• 1975 –Antonio Daniels, American basketball player
• 1976 –Rachel Blanchard, Canadian actress^[23]
• 1976 –Derek Chauvin, American criminal and former police officer^[37][38]
• 1976 –Andre Miller, American basketball player^[39]
• 1976 –Alessandro Nesta, Italian footballer and manager
• 1977 –David Ross, American baseball player and manager^[40]
• 1978 –Cydonie Mothersille, Jamaican-Caymanian sprinter
• 1978 –Virginia Williams, American actress^[23]
• 1979 –Abby Brammell, American actress^[23]
• 1979 –Sheldon Brown, American football player
• 1979 –Ivan Ljubičić, Croatian tennis player^[41]
• 1979 –Christos Patsatzoglou, Greek footballer^[42]
• 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^[43]
• 1981 –Steve Cummings, English cyclist
• 1981 –Casey Jacobsen, American basketball player and sportscaster^[44]
• 1981 –Kolo Touré, Ivorian footballer^[45]
• 1982 –Jonathan Fanene, American football player
• 1982 –Brad Jones, Australian footballer
• 1982 –Hana Kobayashi, Venezuelan singer^[46]
• 1982 –Landon Powell, American baseball player and manager^[47]
• 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^[48]
• 1987 –AJ Lee, American wrestler and author^[49]
• 1987 –Michal Švec, Czech footballer
• 1987 –Miloš Teodosić, Serbian basketball player
• 1988 –Clayton Kershaw, American baseball player^[50]
• 1988 –Ben Uzoh, Nigerian-American basketball player^[51]
• 1990 –EJ Manuel, American football player^[52]
• 1990 –Anders Nilsson, Swedish ice hockey player^[53]
• 1991 –Garrett Clayton, American actor and singer^[19]
• 1991 –Aleksandr Kokorin, Russian footballer^[54]
• 1993 –Hakim Ziyech, Moroccan footballer^[55]
• 1995 –Héctor Bellerín, Spanish footballer^[56]
• 1995 –Philip Daniel Bolden, American actor^[23]
• 1995 –Julia Montes, Filipino actress^[57]
• 1996 –Yung Gravy, American rapper^[58]
• 1996 –Barbara Haas, Austrian tennis player
• 1996 –Quenton Nelson, American football player^[59]
• 1998 –Caylee Cowan, American actress^[60]
• 1998 –Julian Love, American football player^[61]
• 1998 –Sakura Miyawaki, Japanese singer^[62]
• 1999 –Nico Collins, American football player^[63]

• 235 –Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (b. 208)
• 953 –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 ofBolesław I the Tall (b. 1163)
• 1263 –Hugh of Saint-Cher, French cardinal (b. 1200)
• 1279 –Zhao Bing, Chinese emperor (b. 1271)
• 1286 –Alexander III, king of Scotland (b. 1241)^[64]
• 1330 –Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician,Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (b. 1301)
• 1372 –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)

• 1612 –Sophia Olelkovich Radziwill, Belarusian saint (b. 1585)
• 1637 –Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal (b. 1570)
• 1649 –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)
• 1790 –Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha, Ottoman general and politician, 182ndGrand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1713)
• 1797 –Philip Hayes, English organist and composer (b. 1738)
• 1816 –Filippo 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)^[65]
• 1897 –Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, Irish-French geographer, ethnologist, linguist, and astronomer (b. 1810)
• 1900 –John Bingham, American lawyer and politician, 7thUnited States Ambassador to Japan (b. 1815)
• 1900 –Charles-Louis Hanon, French pianist and composer (b. 1819)

• 1914 –Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian priest, geologist, and volcanologist (b. 1850)
• 1919 –Emma Bell Miles, American writer, poet, and artist ofAppalachia (b. 1879)
• 1930 –Arthur Balfour, Scottish-English politician,Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
• 1930 –Henry Lefroy, Australian politician, 11thPremier of Western Australia (b. 1854)
• 1942 –Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist, ornithologist, and entomologist (b. 1855)
• 1944 –William Hale Thompson, American rancher and politician, 41stMayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
• 1947 –James A. Gilmore, American businessman and baseball executive (b. 1887)^[66]
• 1948 –Maud Howe Elliott, American novelist (b. 1854)^[67]
• 1949 –James Somerville, English admiral and politician,Lord Lieutenant of Somerset (b. 1882)
• 1949 –James Newland, Australian soldier and policeman (b. 1881)^[68]
• 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, 2ndSpeaker 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)^[69]
• 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)
• 1998 –E. M. S. Namboodiripad, Indian theorist and politician, 1stChief Minister of Kerala (b. 1909)
• 1999 –Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician, 5thPrime 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, 23rdCanadian Minister of Finance (b. 1911)
• 2005 –John DeLorean, American engineer and businessman, founded theDeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
• 2008 –Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer (b. 1917)^[70]
• 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, foundedIDG (b. 1937)
• 2014 –Fred Phelps, American lawyer, pastor, and activist, founded theWestboro Baptist Church (b. 1929)
• 2014 –Heather Robertson, Canadian journalist and author (b. 1942)
• 2014 –Robert S. Strauss, American diplomat,United States Ambassador to Russia (b. 1918)
• 2014 –Lawrence Walsh, Canadian-American lawyer, judge, and politician, 4thUnited 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)^[71]
• 2021 –Glynn Lunney, American engineer (b. 1936)^[72]

• ChristianObservances:
  • Alkmund of Derby
  • Saint Joseph (Western Christianity; if this date falls on Sunday, the feast is moved to Monday March 20)
    • Saint Joseph's Day (Roman Catholicism andAnglican Communion) related observances:
      • Falles, celebrated on the week leading to March 19 (Valencia)
      • Father's Day (Spain, Portugal, Italy,Honduras, andBolivia)
      • "Return of the Swallow", annual observance of theswallows' return toMission San Juan Capistrano inCalifornia
  • March 19 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
  • Earliest day on whichMaundy Thursday can fall, while April 22 is the latest; celebrated on Thursday beforeEaster (Christianity)
• Minna Canth's Birthday and theDay of Equality (Finland)
• Kashubian Unity Day (Poland)

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