March 7
day of the year
March 7 is the 66th day of the year (67th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 299 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events change
Up to 1900 change
- 161 - Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius dies.
- 238 - Roman subjects in North Africa revolt against Maximus Thrax and elect Gordian I as Roman Emperor.
- 321 - Constantine announces that Sunday is a rest day in Europe.
- 1277 - Stephen Tempier, Bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 1573 - A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman-Venetian War and leaving Cyprus under Ottoman control.
- 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops kill over 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1850 - US Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech in support of the Compromise of 1850.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge, Arkansas.
- 1871 - Jose Paranhos, Viscount of Rio Branco becomes Prime Minister of the Empire of Brazil. With four years in office, he becomes its longest-serving Prime Minister.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for the telephone.
- 1897 - Cornflakes are first served at a sanatorium in Michigan, having been invented by John Harvey Kellogg and Will Keith Kellogg.
- 1900 - German liner SS Wilhelm der Grosse becomes the first ship to send wireless signals to shore.
1901 – 2000 change
- 1902 - Second Boer War: Battle of Tweebosch - A Boer commando led by Koos de la Rey inflicts a heavy defeat on British forces.
- 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his Norwegian expedition reached the South Pole on December 14, 1911.
- 1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1927 - A magnitude 7.6 earthquake its Tango Province, Japan, killing 3,000 people.
- 1936 - Germany re-occupies the Rhineland, in violation of the Treaty of Versailles and Locarno Pact.
- 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine at Remagen.
- 1950 - The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper - UN troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1965 - A Civil rights march by 600 people in Selma, Alabama, is forcefully broken.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: US and South Vietnamese military forces begin Operation Truong Cong Dinh to root out Viet Cong forces from the area surrounding My Tho.
- 1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, founding leader of Bangladesh, delivers a historic speech at Suhrawardy Udyan.
- 1980 - Oil tanker "Tanio" breaks in two off Brittany.
- 1985 - The song "We are the World" receives its international release.
- 1986 - Divers from the USS Preserver discover the crew cabin of the Space Shuttle Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break off diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie's book "The Satanic Verses".
- 1992 - Eduard Shevardnadze becomes Head of State in Georgia.
From 2001 change
- 2002 - The 2002 Winter Paralympics begin in Salt Lake City.
- 2004 - Kostas Karamanlis is elected Prime Minister of Greece.
- 2004 - The Samson ferry sinks in a cyclone between Madagascar and the Comoros.
- 2006 - Terror organization Lashkar-e-Taiba co-ordinates a series of bombings in Varanasi, India.
- 2007 - The UK House of Commons supports by a majority to have an elected House of Lords.
- 2009 - The Kepler space observatory is launched to find Earth-like planets orbiting around other stars.
- 2009 - The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and two civilians outside a barracks in Northern Ireland.
- 2010 - Kathryn Bigelow becomes the first woman to win an Academy Award for Best Director, for her movie The Hurt Locker.
- 2014 - The 2014 Winter Paralympics begin in Sochi, Southern Russia.
- 2015 - An attack by Boko Haram in Maiduguri, northern Nigeria, leaves an estimated 50 people dead.
- 2017 - North Korea and Malaysia ban each other's citizens from leaving their countries in a continued diplomatic row over the murder of Kim Jong-nam (half-brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un).
Births change
Up to 1900 change
- 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)
- 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- 1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
- 1663 - Tomaso Antonio Vitali, Italian composer and violinist (d. 1745)
- 1671 - Rob Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1671 - Ellis Wynne, Welsh clergyman and writer (d. 1734)
- 1678 - Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
- 1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- 1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
- 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
- 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- 1802 - Edwin Henry Landseer, English painter (d. 1873)
- 1835 - Daniel Giraud Elliot, American zoologist (d. 1915)
- 1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- 1849 - Luther Burbank, American botanist, horticulturist and agricultural scientist (d. 1926)
- 1850 - Tomas Garrigue Masaryk, 1st President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
- 1850 - Champ Clark, 41st Speaker of the United States House of Representatives (d. 1921)
- 1857 – Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian doctor, won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1940)
- 1866 - Hans Fruhstorfer, German explorer and entomologist (d. 1922)
- 1868 - Giovanni Giacometti, Swiss painter (d. 1933)
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch artist (d. 1944)
- 1875 – Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- 1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
- 1886 - Virginia Pearson, American silent movie actress (d. 1958)
- 1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenbourgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
1901 – 1950 change
- 1901 - Beatrice Roberts, American actress (d. 1970)
- 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German SS officer (d. 1942)
- 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1911 - Nikolai Baibakov, Soviet politician (d. 2008)
- 1914 - John Rodney, American actor (d. 1996)
- 1914 - Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
- 1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, Prime Minister of France (d. 2000)
- 1917 - Betty Holberton, American engineer and programmer (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1922 - Umberto Betti, Italian cardinal (d. 2009)
- 1924 - Eduardo Paolozzi, Scottish sculptor and artist (d. 2005)
- 1924 - Kobo Abe, Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor (d. 1993)
- 1925 - René Gagnon, American navy officer (d. 1979)
- 1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1927 - Philippe Clay, French singer and actor (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Robert D. Cardona, American model-maker
- 1930 - Stanley Miller, American biologist and chemist (d. 2007)
- 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon, British photographer and husband of Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowdon (d. 2017)
- 1933 - Hannelore Kohl, wife of Chancellor of Germany Helmut Kohl (d. 2001)
- 1933 - Gordon Walgren, American politician and convicted fraudster (d. 2018)
- 1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- 1934 - Douglas Cardinal, Canadian architect
- 1935 - Antonios Naguib, Coptic Catholic Church Patriarch and cardinal
- 1936 - Julio Terrazas Sandoval, Bolivian archbishop and cardinal (d. 2015)
- 1938 - Albert Fert, French physicist
- 1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist
- 1938 - Petr Skoumal, Czech musician and composer (d. 2014)
- 1939 - Panajot Pano, Albanian footballer (d. 2010)
- 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
- 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
- 1942 - Michael Eisner, American movie studio executive
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Messner, American televangelist (d. 2007)
- 1943 - Chris White, English bass player and songwriter (The Zombies)
- 1944 - Ranulph Fiennes, British explorer
- 1944 - Michael Rosbash, American biologist and Nobel laureate
- 1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1945 - John Heard, American actor
- 1945 - Bob Herbert, American journalist
- 1945 - Nicholas Kraemer, English harpsichord player and conductor
- 1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
- 1947 - Walter Röhrl, German rally driver
- 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1949 - Genyo Takeda, Japanese video game developer
- 1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
1951 – 1975 change
- 1952 - William Boyd, Scottish writer, screenwriter and producer
- 1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
- 1952 - Ernie Isley, American guitarist and songwriter (The Isley Brothers)
- 1953 - Bernard Voyer, Canadian explorer and mountaineer
- 1954 - Eva Brunne, Swedish clergywoman and first openly lesbian bishop
- 1955 - Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
- 1956 - Andrea Levy, British writer (d. 2019)
- 1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
- 1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor and comedian (d. 2014)
- 1959 - Tom Lehman, American golfer
- 1959 - Donna Murphy, American actress and singer
- 1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech-American tennis player and coach of Andy Murray
- 1960 - Kazuo Ozaki, Japanese footballer
- 1961 - Mary Beth Evans, American actress
- 1962 – Taylor Dayne, American singer
- 1963 - Mike Eagles, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1963 - E. L. James, English writer (Fifty Shades of Grey)
- 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer and screenwriter
- 1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
- 1964 - Tommy Sheridan, Scottish politician
- 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- 1966 - Terry Carkner, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1967 - Ruthie Henshall, British theatre actress and singer
- 1967 - Ai Yazawa, Japanese manga artist
- 1969 - Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
- 1970 - Petra Mede, Swedish comedienne, dancer and television host
- 1970 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
- 1971 - Matthew Vaughn, British movie producer and director
- 1972 - Jang Dong-Gun, South Korean actor and musician
- 1972 - Simon Pryce, Australian musician (The Wiggles)
- 1973 - Sébastien Izambard, Swiss operatic singer (Il Divo)
- 1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
- 1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
- 1974 - Darryl Stephens, American actor
- 1975 - Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress and model
From 1976 change
- 1977 - Paul Cattermole, English singer and actor
- 1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
- 1977 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby player
- 1977 - Jerome Fernandez, French handball player
- 1980 - Murat Boz, Turkish singer-songwriter and actor
- 1980 - Eric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
- 1982 - Marc Planus, French footballer
- 1983 - Manucho, Angolan footballer
- 1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- 1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian footballer
- 1987 - Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
- 1987 - Niclas Bergfors, Swedish ice hockey player
- 1987 - Eleni Foureira, Albanian-Greek singer
- 1988 - Larry Asante, American football player
- 1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino-American actor and model
- 1990 – Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
- 1990 - Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
- 1991 - Quenten Martinus, Curaçaoan footballer
- 1991 - Michele Rigione, Italian footballer
- 1992 - Bel Powley, English actress
- 1994 - An-Sophie Mestach, Belgian tennis player
- 1994 - Jordan Pickford, English footballer
- 2009 - Prince Umberto of Savoy
Deaths change
Up to 1900 change
- 322 BC – Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
- 161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
- 203 - Felicity and Perpetua, early Christian martyrs
- 413 - Heraclianus, Roman politician
- 851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany
- 1274 - Saint Thomas Aquinas, Italian philosopher (b. 1225)
- 1550 - William IV, Duke of Bavaria (b. 1493)
- 1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
- 1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
- 1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
- 1786 - Franz Benda, Bohemian composer (b. 1709)
- 1809 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard, French balloonist (b. 1753)
- 1875 - John Edward Gray, British zoologist (b. 1800)
1901 – 2000 change
- 1920 - Jaan Poska, Estonian lawyer, diplomat and politician (b. 1866)
- 1932 - Aristide Briand, French politician and diplomat (b. 1862)
- 1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
- 1942 - Lucy Parsons, American anarchist, Communist and labor organizer (b. 1853)
- 1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian Guru (b. 1893)
- 1954 - Otto Diels, German chemist (b. 1876)
- 1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British writer (b. 1882)
- 1961 - Govind Ballabh Pant, Indian politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh (b. 1887)
- 1965 - Louise Mountbatten, Queen of Sweden (b. 1889)
- 1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
- 1969 - Sampurnanand, Indian politician (b. 1910)
- 1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
- 1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
- 1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
- 1983 - Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
- 1986 - Jacob J. Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
- 1988 - Robert Livingston, American actor (b. 1914)
- 1988 - Divine, American actor and singer (b. 1945)
- 1991 - Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
- 1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, American physicist (b. 1912)
- 1999 – Stanley Kubrick, American movie director (b. 1928)
- 1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
- 2000 - Pee Wee King, American country musician, songwriter and producer (b. 1914)
- 2000 - Hirokazu Ninomiya, Japanese footballer (b. 1917)
From 2001 change
- 2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
- 2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
- 2005 - John Box, British movie production designer and art director (b. 1920)
- 2005 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and movie producer (b. 1950)
- 2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
- 2006 - Gordon Parks, American actor, director and photographer (b. 1912)
- 2006 - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
- 2010 - Kenneth Dover, British classicist (b. 1920)
- 2012 - Wlodzimierz Smolarek, Polish footballer (b. 1957)
- 2012 - Felicien Marceau, French novelist, playwright and essayist (b. 1913)
- 2013 - Peter Banks, English musician (b. 1947)
- 2013 - Damiano Damiani, Italian director and screenwriter (b. 1922)
- 2013 - Frederick B. Karl, American politician (b. 1924)
- 2014 - Heiko Bellmann, German biologist, writer and photographer (b. 1950)
- 2014 - Uwe Timm, German writer and anarchist (b. 1932)
- 2014 - Hal Douglas, American voice actor and announcer (b. 1924)
- 2014 - Ned O'Gorman, American poet (b. 1929)
- 2015 - Gregorio Bundio, Argentine footballer and manager (El Salvador national football team) (b. 1928)
- 2015 - Edmond Malinvaud, French economist (b. 1923)
- 2015 - F. Ray Keyser, Jr., American politician, 72nd Governor of Vermont (b. 1927)
- 2016 - Adrian Hardiman, Irish judge (b. 1950)
- 2016 - Jean-Bernard Raimond, French politician (b. 1926)
- 2016 - Michael White, Scottish theatre and film producer (b. 1936)
- 2017 - Ron Bass, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
- 2017 - Syed Sajjad Ali Shah, Chief Justice of Pakistan (b. 1933)
- 2017 - Helen Sommers, American politician (b. 1932)
- 2017 - Lynne Stewart, American attorney (b. 1939)
- 2017 - Hans Georg Dehmelt, German-American physicist (b. 1922)
- 2017 - Ronald Drever, Scottish physicist (b. 1931)
- 2017 - Peter M. Gruber, Austrian mathematician (b. 1941)
- 2017 - Juan Carlos Touriño, Spanish footballer (b. 1944)
- 2018 - Reynaldo Bignone, President of Argentina (b. 1928)
- 2018 - Woody Durham, American basketball radio announcer (b. 1941)
- 2018 - Charles Thone, American politician, 34th Governor of Nebraska (b. 1924)
- 2018 - Antonia La Negra, Spanish singer and dancer (b. 1936)
- 2019 - Dick Beyer, American professional wrestler (b. 1930)
- 2019 - Joseph M. Boardman, American railroad executive (b. 1948)
- 2019 - Robert Braithwaite, British marine engineer and entrepreneur (b. 1943)
- 2019 - Guillaume Faye, French journalist and writer (b. 1941)
- 2019 - Ralph Hall, American politician (b. 1923)
- 2019 - Dick Nichols, American banker and politician (b. 1926)
- 2019 - Sid Sheinberg, American lawyer and studio executive (b. 1935)
Festivals change
- Felicity and Perpetua (Roman Catholicism)
- Teacher's Day (Albania)