On this day: 23 March
Events, births and deaths on 23 March. Every date is checked against Wikidata.
Years ago today
1 year ago2025
- Deaths · Mia Love
- Events · March 2025 Rafah humanitarian convoy attacks
10 years ago2016
- Deaths · Ken Howard
- Deaths · Joe Garagiola Sr.
100 years ago1926
Within 10 years of that
- 1931 · Births · Viktor Korchnoi
- 1931 · Deaths · Bhagat Singh
- 1929 · Births · Roger Bannister
1000 years ago1026
Within 100 years of that
- 1022 · Deaths · Emperor Zhenzong of Song
- 1103 · Deaths · Odo I, Duke of Burgundy
Events · 29
- 625Battle of Uhud — early Islamic battle
- 1775Give me Liberty, or give me Death! — famous line from Patrick Henry's speech
- 18391839 Ava earthquake — earthquake in British India
- 1862Shenandoah Valley Campaign — 1862 campaign in the American Civil War
- 1862First Battle of Kernstown — 1862 battle of the American Civil War
- 1879Battle of Topeter — 1879 battle of the War of the Pacific
- 1885Battle of Phu Lam Tao — 1885 battle of the Sino-French War
- 1905Theriso revolt — 1905 rebellion against the Ottoman-controlled government of Crete
- 1909Smithsonian–Roosevelt African Expedition — 1909 United States expedition to Africa collecting animal specimens
- 1913Great Flood of 1913 — Ohio's largest weather disaster.
- 1919Fasci Italiani di Combattimento — Italian political party (1919-1921)
- 1933Enabling Act of 1933 — German law which transferred power from the Reichstag and the Weimar President to Adolf Hitler and his Cabinet
- 1939Slovak–Hungarian War — 1939 military conflict between the First Slovak Republic and Hungary
- 1950World Meteorological Organization — specialized agency of the United Nations for meteorology
- 1982
- 1991Sierra Leone Civil War — civil war between Commonwealth-backed government and rebel factions
- 1994Aeroflot Flight 593 — crashed airliner
- 1994
- 19961996 Taiwanese presidential election — Republic of China presidential election
- 2001deorbit of Mir — controlled demolition of Russian space station Mir via atmospheric reentry over the Pacific
- 2003Battle of Nasiriyah — battle 23 March to 2 April 2003 during the US invasion of Iraq
- 2005Texas City Refinery explosion — 2005 deadly refinery plant accident
- 2009FedEx Express Flight 80 — aviation accident
- 2010Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — U.S. federal statute known as Obamacare
- 2010Nanping school massacre — school stabbing in Nanping, Fujian, China
- 20212021 Suez Canal obstruction — maritime incident caused by grounded vessel
- 2022
- 2025March 2025 Rafah humanitarian convoy attacks — killing of 15 humanitarian workers from primarily the Red Crescent, in al-Hashashin, Gaza, by IDF
- 20262026 Colombian Air Force Lockheed C-130 crash — plane crash in Colombia
Births · 60
- 1430(Julian date)Margaret of Anjou — 15th-century English royal consort (1430-1482)
- 1749Pierre-Simon Laplace — French mathematician and astronomer (1749–1827)
- 1769William Smith — English geologist
- 1823Schuyler Colfax — Vice President of the United States from 1869 to 1873 (1823–1885)
- 1858Ludwig Quidde — German politician (1858-1941)
- 1869Calouste Gulbenkian — Armenian businessman, art collector and philanthropist (1869-1955)
- 1876Ziya Gökalp — Turkish sociologist and writer (1876–1924)
- 1881Roger Martin du Gard — French writer (1881–1958)
- 1881Hermann Staudinger — German chemist, winner of the 1953 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (1881–1965)
- 1882Emmy Noether — German Jewish mathematician (1882–1935)
- 1887Juan Gris — Spanish artist (1887–1927)
- 1887Josef Čapek — Czech painter and writer (1887–1945)
- 1900Erich Fromm — German-American sociologist and psychoanalyst (1900–1980)
- 1905Joan Crawford — American actress (1908–1977)
- 1905Lale Andersen — German singer and actress (1905–1972)
- 1907Daniel Bovet — Nobel Prize-winning pharmacologist and Esperantist (1907–1992)
- 1910Akira Kurosawa — Japanese filmmaker (1910–1998)
- 1912Wernher von Braun — German and later American aerospace engineer and space architect (1912–1977)
- 1915Vasily Zaytsev — Soviet sniper (1915-1991)
- 1918Kazu Naoki — Japanese association football player
- 1922Ugo Tognazzi — Italian film and theatre actor, director and screenwriter (1922-1990)
- 1929Roger Bannister — English physician and athlete (1929–2018)
- 1931Viktor Korchnoi — Soviet-Swiss chess grandmaster
- 1933Philip Zimbardo — American social psychologist, author of Stanford Prison Experiment (1933–2024)
- 1942Michael Haneke — Austrian film director and screenwriter (born 1942)
Deaths · 60
- 1022Emperor Zhenzong of Song — Chinese emperor from 997 to 1022
- 1103Odo I, Duke of Burgundy — Duke of Burgundy
- 1361(Julian date)Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster — English diplomat and writer, born in Wales
- 1369(Julian date)Peter of Castile — king of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369
- 1483(Julian date)Yolande of Anjou — Duchess of Lorraine
- 1555(Julian date)Julius III — pope of the Catholic Church from 1550 to 1555
- 1559(Julian date)Gelawdewos — Ethiopian Emperor
- 1606Justus Lipsius — Flemish philologist, philosopher and legal scholar (1547-1606)
- 1680Nicolas Fouquet — French politician (1615-1680)
- 1742Jean-Baptiste Dubos — French clerks regular, diplomat, historian and writer
- 1747Claude Alexandre de Bonneval — French colonel, Holy Roman Empire general, Ottoman military commander and statesman (1675–1747)
- 1748Johann Gottfried Walther — German musician and composer
- 1842Stendhal — French writer (1783–1842)
- 1862Manuel Robles Pezuela — Mexican politician (1817-1862)
- 1897Princess Sophie of the Netherlands — Dutch princess (1824-1897)
- 1914Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayes — Lebanese saint (1832–1914)
- 1923Hovhannes Tumanyan — Armenian writer and public activist (1869–1923)
- 1927Paul César Helleu — French portrait artist (1859-1927)
- 1931Bhagat Singh — Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
- 1931Sukhdev Thapar — Indian revolutionary (1907–1931)
- 1931Shivaram Rajguru — Indian revolutionist (1908–1931)
- 1946Gilbert N. Lewis — American physical chemist
- 1953Raoul Dufy — French painter (1877–1953)
- 1953Oskar Luts — Estonian writer and playwright (1887–1953)
- 1955Artur Bernardes — Brazilian politician (1875–1955)
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