On this day: 7 March
Events, births and deaths on 7 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
Nothing recorded for that year.
10 years ago2016
Nothing recorded for that year.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1932 · Deaths · Aristide Briand
- 1924 · Births · Kōbō Abe
- 1936 · Births · Georges Perec
1000 years ago1026
Nothing recorded for that year.
Events · 13
- 1814Battle of Craonne — 1814 battle during the War of the Sixth Coalition
- 1902Battle of Tweebosch — 1902 battle of the Second Boer War
- 1936Remilitarization of the Rhineland — 1936 treaty violation by Adolf Hitler
- 1945Battle of Remagen — 1945 battle during WWII
- 1950Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 307 — 1950 aviation accident
- 1951Operation Ripper — March 1951 battle of the Korean war during which UN forces recaptured Seoul
- 1965Selma to Montgomery marches — 1965 march for African-American citizens to exercise their constitutional right to vote
- 19717th March Speech of Bangabandhu — speech given by Sheikh Mujibur Rahman on 7 March 1971
- 19871987 Lieyu massacre — massacre of Vietnamese boat people by the Taiwanese Military
- 2006
- 2007Garuda Indonesia Flight 200 — 2007 passenger plane crash in Yogyakarta, Indonesia
- 20092009 Massereene Barracks shooting — 2009 shooting in Northern Ireland
- 20212021 Bata explosion — series of explosions
Births · 60
- 189(Julian date)Geta — Roman emperor from 209 to 211
- 1671Rob Roy MacGregor — Scottish outlaw (1671–1734)
- 1678Filippo Juvarra — Italian architect and stage set designer (1678–1736)
- 1693Clement XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1758 to 1769
- 1765Nicéphore Niépce — French inventor and photographer (1765-1833)
- 1785Alessandro Manzoni — Italian writer and poet (1785–1873)
- 1792John Frederick William Herschel — English polymath, mathematician, astronomer, chemist, inventor and photographer (1792–1871)
- 1837Henry Draper — American physician and astronomer (1837–1882)
- 1849Luther Burbank — American botanist and horticulturist (1849–1926)
- 1850Tomáš Garrigue Masaryk — Czechoslovak politician, statesman, sociologist and philosopher; first Czechoslovak president (1850–1937)
- 1857Julius Wagner-Jauregg — Austrian doctor, Nobel prize laureate and psychiatrist (1857–1940)
- 1872Piet Mondrian — Dutch painter (1872–1944)
- 1875Maurice Ravel — French composer (1875–1937)
- 1886Geoffrey Ingram Taylor — British mathematician and physicist (1886-1975)
- 1902Heinz Rühmann — German actor (1902–1994)
- 1904Reinhard Heydrich — German Nazi SS and Gestapo police official and main architect of the Holocaust Genocide (1904-1942)
- 1908Anna Magnani — Italian actress (1908-1973)
- 1915Jacques Chaban-Delmas — 82nd Prime Minister of France (1915–2000)
- 1917Betty Holberton — American computer programmer (1917–2001)
- 1922Olga Ladyzhenskaya — Russian mathematician (1922–2004)
- 1924Kōbō Abe — Japanese writer, playwright, photographer and inventor
- 1930Stanley Miller — American scientist (1930–2007)
- 1930Antony Armstrong-Jones, 1st Earl of Snowdon — Welsh photographer and filmmaker; ex-husband of Princess Margaret (1930–2017)
- 1934Willard Scott — American weather presenter and television personality (1934–2021)
- 1936Georges Perec — French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist (1936–1982)
Deaths · 59
- 322 BCE(Julian date)Aristotle — Greek philosopher
- 161(Julian date)Antoninus Pius — 15th Roman Emperor (138–161)
- 413(Julian date)Heraclianus — usurper of the Roman Empire (died 413)
- 664Xuanzang — 7th-century Chinese Buddhist monk and scholar (602–664)
- 851(Julian date)Nominoe — Duke and Prince of Brittany
- 1226(Julian date)William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury — English nobleman and soldier
- 1274(Julian date)Thomas Aquinas — Italian Dominican friar, philosopher, Catholic priest, and Doctor of the Church (1225–1274)
- 1407(Julian date)Francesco I Gonzaga — Italian condottiero (1366-1407)
- 1550(Julian date)William IV, Duke of Bavaria — Duke of Bavaria (1493-1550)
- 1578(Julian date)Margaret Douglas — Daughter of Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and Margaret Tudor, Queen Dowager of Scotland
- 1625Johann Bayer — German lawyer and uranographer
- 1724Innocent XIII — pope of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
- 1767Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville — French-Canadian colonizer, governor of Louisiana, brother of Pierre Le Moyne d'Iberville
- 1778Charles De Geer — Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant (1720-1778)
- 1809Jean-Pierre Blanchard — French inventor and aviation pioneer
- 1810Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood — Royal Navy admiral (1748-1810)
- 1897Harriet Jacobs — American slave, writer, and abolitionist (1815-1897)
- 1913Pauline Johnson — Canadian poet and performer (1861–1913)
- 1920Jaan Poska — Estonian politician (1866-1920)
- 1922Axel Thue — Norwegian mathematician (1863-1922)
- 1928Robert Abbe — American surgeon and radiologist (1851–1928)
- 1931Akseli Gallen-Kallela — Finnish painter (1865-1931)
- 1932Aristide Briand — politician, statesman, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate from France (1862-1932)
- 1954Otto Diels — German chemist (1876–1954)
- 1957Wyndham Lewis — English painter, writer and critic (1882–1957)
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