On this day: 5 March
Events, births and deaths on 5 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Fred Stolle
- Deaths · Sylvester Turner
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Raymond Tomlinson
- Deaths · Hasan al-Turabi
- Deaths · Al Wistert
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1922 · Births · Pier Paolo Pasolini
- 1934 · Births · Daniel Kahneman
- 1918 · Births · James Tobin
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 23
- 1279(Julian date)Battle of Aizkraukle — 1279 middle ages battle
- 1770Boston Massacre — Incident on March 5, 1770
- 1811Battle of Barrosa — 1811 battle during the Peninsular War
- 1824First Anglo-Burmese War — first (5 March 1824 – 24 February 1826) of three wars fought between the British and Burmese Empire
- 1906First Battle of Bud Dajo — 1906 battle of the Moro Rebellion
- 1933March 1933 German federal election — questionable election held in the Weimar Republic in 1933
- 1944Uman–Botoşani Offensive — 1944 Red Army offensive in western Ukraine during World War II
- 1946Iron Curtain — term symbolizing the ideological-political conflict and physical boundary dividing Europe during the Cold War
- 1958Guangxi — Provincial area of China organized in 1958 as an autonomous region for the Zhuang people
- 1960Guerrillero Heroico — iconic photo of Marxist revolutionary Che Guevara by Alberto Korda
- 1966BOAC Flight 911 — aviation accident
- 1967Lake Central Flight 527 — 1967 aviation accident
- 19731973 Nantes Mid-Air Collision — mid-air collision
- 1981Sinclair ZX81 — home computer produced by Sinclair Research
- 1991Aeropostal Alas de Venezuela Flight 108 — 1991 aviation accident in Venezuela
- 1993Palair Macedonian Airlines Flight 301 — 1993 aviation accident
- 20022002 Mindanao earthquake — 2002 M-7.5 earthquake in Mindanao, Philippines
- 2003Haifa bus 37 suicide bombing — 2003 terrorist attack by Palestinian terrorists in Haifa, Israel
- 200678th Academy Awards — award ceremony presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences for achievement in filmmaking in 2005
- 20112011 Antonov An-148 crash — airplane crash in 2011
- 20122012 Bucharest hair salon shooting — Romania 2010s massacre
- 20212021 Mogadishu suicide car bombing — suicide attack on restaurant in Somalia
- 20232023 Estonian parliamentary election — parliamentary election
Births · 60
- 1133(Julian date)Henry II of England — King of England from 1154 to 1189
- 1224(Julian date)Kinga of Poland — Polish royal; later Poor Clare abbess
- 1324David II of Scotland — King of Scotland from 1329 to 1371
- 1326(Julian date)Louis I of Hungary — King of Hungary, Poland and Croatia
- 1512(Julian date)Gerardus Mercator — Flemish geographer, cosmographer and cartographer (1512–1594)
- 1574(Julian date)William Oughtred — English mathematician and Anglican minister (1574–1660)
- 1585Johann Georg I, Elector of Saxony — elector of Saxony
- 1696Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — Italian painter (1696–1770)
- 1817Austen Henry Layard — British politician (1817–1894)
- 1830Étienne-Jules Marey — French scientist and chronophotographer (1830–1904)
- 1862Siegbert Tarrasch — German chess player, chess writer, and chess theoretician (1862–1934)
- 1871Rosa Luxemburg — Polish-German Marxist revolutionary (1871–1919)
- 1879William Beveridge — British economist and social reformer (1879-1963)
- 1886Dong Biwu — former acting President of the People's Republic of China (1886–1975)
- 1887Heitor Villa-Lobos — Brazilian composer (1887–1959)
- 1898Zhou Enlai — 1st Premier of the People's Republic of China
- 1898Misao Okawa — Japanese supercentenarian (1898-2015)
- 1904Karl Rahner — German Catholic theologian (1904–1984)
- 1908Rex Harrison — British actor (1908–1990)
- 1910Momofuku Ando — Taiwanese-Japanese businessman, created instant noodle (ramyeon), Nissin Chikin Ramen
- 1914Jiang Qing — Chinese political figure and wife of Mao Zedong (1914–1991)
- 1915Laurent Schwartz — French mathematician (1915-2002)
- 1918James Tobin — American economist (1918–2002)
- 1922Pier Paolo Pasolini — Italian writer, filmmaker, poet, and intellectual (1922–1975)
- 1933Walter Kasper — cardinal and bishop of the Catholic Church
Deaths · 60
- 254(Julian date)Lucius I — Pope and bishop of Rome from 253 to 254
- 1239Hermann Balk — Landmeister in Livland (died 1239)
- 1417(Julian date)Manuel III of Trebizond — Emperor of Trebizond
- 1534(Julian date)Antonio da Correggio — Italian Renaissance painter (1489–1534)
- 1622Ranuccio I Farnese — Duke of Parma
- 1770Crispus Attucks — African American/Native American, first victim of the Boston Massacre
- 1778Thomas Arne — 18th-century British composer
- 1815Franz Anton Mesmer — German physician
- 1827Pierre-Simon Laplace — French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
- 1827Alessandro Volta — Italian chemist and physicist (1745–1827)
- 1829John Adams — British seaman and mutineer, last survivor of the Bounty mutineers (1767–1829)
- 1876Marie d'Agoult — Franco-German romantic author and historian (1805-1876)
- 1893Hippolyte Taine — French literary critic and historian (1828-1893)
- 1895Nikolai Leskov — Russian writer (1831–1895)
- 1895Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet — British politician (1810-1895)
- 1925Johan Jensen — Danish mathematician and engineer (1859–1925)
- 1927Franz Mertens — Polish-Austrian mathematician
- 1929David Dunbar Buick — Scottish-American inventor
- 1940Cai Yuanpei — Chinese educator, Esperantist and the president of Peking University (1868-1940)
- 1944Max Jacob — French poet, painter, writer and critic (1876-1944)
- 1945Lena Baker — American maid (1901–1945)
- 1947Alfredo Casella — Italian composer, pianist and conductor (1883-1947)
- 1950Edgar Lee Masters — American writer (1868–1950)
- 1950Roman Shukhevych — Ukrainian nationalist (1907–1950)
- 1953Joseph Stalin — politician and leader of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics from 1924 to 1953
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