On this day: 15 March
Events, births and deaths on 15 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Wings Hauser
- Deaths · Nita Lowey
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Sylvia Anderson
- Deaths · Asa Briggs
- Deaths · Seru Rabeni
100 years ago1926
- Births · Ben Johnston
- Births · Norm Van Brocklin
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 963 · Deaths · Romanos II
- 933 · Events · Battle of Riade
- 991 · Deaths · Siegfried I von Walbeck
Events · 26
- 44 BCE(Julian date)assassination of Julius Caesar — stabbing attack that caused the death of Julius Caesar (44 BCE)
- 933(Julian date)Battle of Riade — 933 battle
- 1311(Julian date)Battle of Halmyros — 1311 battle in present-day Greece
- 1412(Julian date)Treaty of Lubowla — 1412 treaty between Poland and Hungary
- 1781Battle of Guilford Court House — 1781 battle of the American Revolutionary War
- 1820Maine — state of the United States of America
- 1827University of Toronto — public research university in the Greater Toronto Area of Ontario, Canada
- 1848Hungarian Revolution of 1848 — European Revolution of 1848
- 1888Sikkim Expedition — 1888 British military expedition to expel Tibetan forces from Sikkim
- 1907
- 1919American Legion — organization of U.S. war veterans
- 1921Assassination of Talat Pasha — event
- 1922King of Egypt — title of the ruling monarch of Egypt from 1922 to 1952
- 1939Carpatho-Ukraine — short-lived autonomous region and unrecognized state
- 1970Expo '70 — 1970 World's fair held in Osaka, Japan
- 1974Sterling Airways Flight 901 — 1974 plane crash and fire in Tehran, Iran
- 19791979 Herat uprising — rebellion in Afghanistan
- 19861986 Hotel New World disaster — 1986 building collapse caused by a calculation error which killed 33 people in Singapore
- 1990President of the Soviet Union — Head of State of the Soviet Union between 1990 and 1991
- 1991Treaty on the Final Settlement with Respect to Germany — 1990 treaty making Germany fully independent
- 20082008 Gërdec explosions — accidental series of man-made explosions in Gërdec, Albania
- 2011Syrian Civil War — 2011–2024 armed conflict in Syria
- 2011Syrian revolution — early stage of protests in 2011
- 2019Christchurch mosque shootings — terrorist mass shooting attacks in Christchurch, New Zealand
- 20192019–2020 Hong Kong protests — pro-democracy demonstrations and other civil disobedience sparked by a proposed extradition bill in Hong Kong
- 2022Aragalaya — civilian protests against Sri Lankan government in 2022
Births · 60
- 1493(Julian date)Anne de Montmorency — First Duke of Montmorency
- 1591Alexandre de Rhodes — Jesuit missionary from Avignon and Rome (1593-1660)
- 1638Shunzhi Emperor — Qing Dynasty emperor of China (1638–1661)
- 1713Nicolas Louis de Lacaille — French astronomer
- 1767Andrew Jackson — president of the United States from 1829 to 1837
- 1779William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne — British politician (1779–1848)
- 1809Joseph Jenkins Roberts — President of Liberia (1809–1876)
- 1813John Snow — English epidemiologist and physician (1813–1858)
- 1821Johann Josef Loschmidt — Austrian chemist and physicist (1821–1895)
- 1830Paul Heyse — German writer (1830–1914)
- 1830Élisée Reclus — French geographer and writer (1830–1905)
- 1835Eduard Strauss — Austrian composer (1835–1916)
- 1852Augusta, Lady Gregory — Irish playwright, poet, folklorist (1852-1932)
- 1854Emil von Behring — German physiologist who received the first Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901 for his discovery of a diphtheria antitoxin
- 1856Hara Takashi — Prime Minister of Japan from 1918 to 1921
- 1857Christian Michelsen — 9th Prime Minister of Norway
- 1858Liberty Hyde Bailey — U.S. botanist (1858-1954)
- 1869Stanisław Wojciechowski — Polish scientist and politician (1869-1953)
- 1878Reza Shah — Shah of Iran from 1925 to 1941 and founder of the Pahlavi Dynasty
- 1885
- 1907Zarah Leander — Swedish actress and singer (1907–1981)
- 1920E. Donnall Thomas — American hematologist (1920-2012)
- 1930Zhores Alferov — Soviet-Russian physicist (1930–2019)
- 1932Alan Bean — American astronaut and painter (1932-2018)
- 1933Ruth Bader Ginsburg — American lawyer and jurist (1933–2020)
Deaths · 60
- 44 BCE(Julian date)Julius Caesar — Roman general and dictator
- 220(Julian date)Cao Cao — Chinese warlord and statesman (155–220)
- 493(Julian date)Odoacer — 5th-century Germanic soldier and monarch of Italy (476–493)
- 963Romanos II — 10th century Byzantine Emperor
- 1190(Julian date)Isabella of Hainault — Queen of France from 1180 to 1190
- 1311(Julian date)Walter V, Count of Brienne — Duke of Athens from 1308 until his death
- 1536(Julian date)Pargalı Ibrahim Pasha — 29º Ottoman Grand Vizier (1493-1536)
- 1575Annibale Padovano — Italian composer
- 1673Salvator Rosa — Italian painter, poet and printmaker (1615 –1673)
- 1711Eusebio Kino — Italian Jesuit missionary
- 1820Clemens Maria Hofbauer — Redemptorist, saint of the Catholic Church (1751–1820)
- 1842Luigi Cherubini — Italian Classical and Romantic composer (1760–1842)
- 1891Joseph Bazalgette — British civil engineer (1819–1891)
- 1897James Joseph Sylvester — English mathematician (1814-1897)
- 1898Henry Bessemer — British engineer (1813-1898)
- 1921Talaat Paşa — Turkish Ottoman politician (1874–1921)
- 1937H. P. Lovecraft — American writer and editor (1890–1937)
- 1938Nikolai Bukharin — Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)
- 1941Alexej von Jawlensky — Russian painter (1865–1941)
- 1942Alexander von Zemlinsky — Austrian Jewish composer, conductor, teacher and art collector (1871-1942)
- 1955Michele Besso — Swiss engineer (1873–1955)
- 1959Lester Young — American jazz saxophonist (1909–1959)
- 1962Arthur Holly Compton — American physicist (1892–1962)
- 1966Abe Saperstein — American sports executive and basketball coach
- 1969Miles Malleson — English actor (1888–1969)
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