March 12

Pre-1600

 * 538 – Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city to the victorious Byzantine general, Belisarius.
 * 1088 – Election of Urban II as the 159th Pope of the Catholic Church. He is best known for initiating the Crusades.
 * 1158 – German city Munich (München) is first mentioned as forum apud Munichen in the Augsburg arbitration by Holy Roman Emperor Friedrich I.
 * 1579 – Start of the Siege of Maastricht, part of the Eighty Years' War.

1601–1900

 * 1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Society of Jesus, are canonized by the Roman Catholic Church.
 * 1689 – James II of England landed at Kinsale, starting the Williamite War in Ireland.
 * 1811 – Peninsular War: A day after a successful rearguard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delays the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha.

1901–present

 * 1912 – The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States.
 * 1913 – The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra.
 * 1918 – Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for most of the period since 1713.
 * 1920 – The Kapp Putsch begins when the Marinebrigade Ehrhardt is ordered to march on Berlin.
 * 1928 – In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill 431 people.
 * 1930 – Mahatma Gandhi begins the Salt March, a 200 mile march to the sea to protest the British monopoly on salt in India.
 * 1933 – Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats".
 * 1938 – Anschluss: German troops occupy and annex Austria.
 * 1940 – Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia.
 * 1940  – The most destructive train accident in Finnish history kills 39 and injures 69 people in Turenki, Janakkala.
 * 1942 – The Battle of Java ends with the surrender of the American-British-Dutch-Australian Command to the Japanese Empire in Bandung, West Java, Dutch East Indies.
 * 1947 – Cold War: The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism.
 * 1950 – The Llandow air disaster kills 80 people when the aircraft they are travelling in crashes near Sigingstone, Wales. At the time this was the world's deadliest air disaster.
 * 1967 – Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia.
 * 1968 – Mauritius gains independence from the United Kingdom.
 * 1971 – The 1971 Turkish military memorandum is sent to the Süleyman Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns.
 * 1989 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee submits his proposal to CERN for an information management system, which subsequently develops into the World Wide Web.
 * 1992 – Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations.
 * 1993 – Several bombs explode in Mumbai, India, killing about 300 people and injuring hundreds more.
 * 1993  – North Korea announces that it will withdraw from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites.
 * 1999 – Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO.
 * 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade.
 * 2003  – The World Health Organization officially release a global warning of outbreaks of Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS).
 * 2004 – The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history.
 * 2009 – Financier Bernie Madoff pleads guilty to one of the largest frauds in Wall Street's history.
 * 2011 – A reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant explodes and releases radioactivity into the atmosphere a day after the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.
 * 2014 – A gas explosion in the New York City neighborhood of East Harlem kills eight and injures 70 others.
 * 2018 – US-Bangla Airlines Flight 211 crashes at Tribhuvan International Airport in Katmandu, killing 51 and injuring 20.
 * 2019 – In the House of Commons, the revised EU Withdrawal Bill was rejected by a margin of 149 votes.
 * 2020 – The United States suspends travel from Europe due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Pre-1600

 * 1270 – Charles, Count of Valois (d. 1325)
 * 1515 – Caspar Othmayr, German Lutheran pastor and composer (d. 1553)

1601–1900

 * 1607 – Paul Gerhardt, German poet and composer (d. 1676)
 * 1613 – André Le Nôtre, French gardener and architect (d. 1700)
 * 1626 – John Aubrey, English historian and philosopher (d. 1697)
 * 1637 – Anne Hyde, Duchess of York and Albany (d. 1671)
 * 1672 – Richard Steele, Irish-Welsh journalist and politician (d. 1729)
 * 1685 – George Berkeley, Irish bishop and philosopher (d. 1753)
 * 1710 – Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778)
 * 1735 – François-Emmanuel Guignard, comte de Saint-Priest, French politician and diplomat (d. 1821)
 * 1753 – Jean Denis, French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian (d. 1827)
 * 1766 – Claudius Buchanan, Scottish theologian (d. 1815)
 * 1781 – Frederica of Baden, Queen consort to Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (d. 1826)
 * 1784 – William Buckland, English geologist and paleontologist; Dean of Westminster (d. 1856)
 * 1795 – William Lyon Mackenzie, Scottish-Canadian journalist and politician, 1st Mayor of Toronto (d. 1861)
 * 1795  – George Tyler Wood, American military officer and politician (d. 1858)
 * 1806 – Jane Pierce, American wife of Franklin Pierce, 15th First Lady of the United States (d. 1863)
 * 1807 – James Abbott, Indian Army officer (d. 1896)
 * 1815 – Louis-Jules Trochu, French military leader and politician (d. 1896)
 * 1821 – John Abbott, Canadian lawyer and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Canada (d. 1893)
 * 1821  – Medo Pucić, Croatian writer and politician (d. 1882)
 * 1823 – Katsu Kaishū, Japanese statesman (d. 1899)
 * 1824 – Gustav Kirchhoff, Russian-German physicist and academic (d. 1887)
 * 1832 – Charles Boycott, English farmer and agent (d. 1897)
 * 1834 – Hilary A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy (d. 1919)
 * 1835 – Simon Newcomb, Canadian-American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909)
 * 1835  – Sigismondo Savona, Maltese educator and politician (d. 1908)
 * 1837 – Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911)
 * 1838 – William Henry Perkin, English chemist and academic (d. 1907)
 * 1843 – Gabriel Tarde, French sociologist and criminologist (d. 1904)
 * 1855 – Eduard Birnbaum, Polish-born German cantor (d. 1920)
 * 1857 – William V. Ranous, American actor and director (d. 1915)
 * 1858 – Adolph Ochs, American publisher (d. 1935)
 * 1859 – Ernesto Cesàro, Italian mathematician (d. 1906)
 * 1860 – Eric Stenbock, Estonian poet and author (d. 1895)
 * 1863 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian soldier, journalist, poet, and playwright (d. 1938)
 * 1863  – Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian and Ukrainian mineralogist and chemist (d. 1945)
 * 1864 – W. H. R. Rivers, English anthropologist, neurologist, ethnologist, and psychiatrist (d. 1922)
 * 1864  – Alice Tegnér, Swedish organist, composer, and educator (d. 1943)
 * 1869 – George Forbes, New Zealand politician, 22nd Prime Minister of New Zealand (d. 1947)
 * 1874 – Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer (d. 1949)
 * 1877 – Wilhelm Frick, German lawyer and politician, German Federal Minister of the Interior (d. 1946)
 * 1878 – Gemma Galgani, Italian mystic and saint (d. 1903)
 * 1880 – Henry Drysdale Dakin, English-American chemist and academic (d. 1952)
 * 1881 – Väinö Tanner, Finnish politician of Social Democratic Party of Finland; the Prime Minister of Finland (d. 1966)
 * 1882 – Carlos Blanco Galindo, Bolivian politician (d. 1943)
 * 1883 – Sándor Jávorka, Hungarian botanist (d. 1961)
 * 1888 – Walter Hermann Bucher, German-American geologist and paleontologist (d. 1965)
 * 1888  – Hans Knappertsbusch, German conductor (d. 1965)
 * 1890 – Evert Taube, Swedish singer-songwriter and lute player (d. 1976)
 * 1896 – Jesse Fuller, American singer-songwriter and musician (d. 1976)
 * 1898 – Tian Han, Chinese playwright (d. 1968)
 * 1898  – Luitpold Steidle, German army officer and politician (d. 1984)
 * 1899 – Ramón Muttis, Argentine footballer (d. 1955)
 * 1900 – Rinus van den Berge, Dutch athlete (d. 1972)
 * 1900  – Sylvi Kekkonen, Finnish writer and wife of President of Finland Urho Kekkonen (d. 1974)
 * 1900  – Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, 19th President of Colombia (d. 1975)

1901–present

 * 1904 – Lyudmila Keldysh, Russian mathematician (d. 1976)
 * 1905 – Takashi Shimura, Japanese actor (d. 1982)
 * 1907 – Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer and academic (d. 2007)
 * 1908 – Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970)
 * 1908  – David Marshall, Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Singapore (d. 1995)
 * 1909 – Petras Cvirka, Lithuanian author (d. 1947)
 * 1910 – László Lékai, Archbishop of Esztergom and Cardinal (d. 1986)
 * 1910  – Masayoshi Ōhira, Japanese politician, 68th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1980)
 * 1911 – Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, Mexican academic and politician, 49th President of Mexico (d. 1979)
 * 1912 – Willie Hall, English footballer (d. 1967)
 * 1912  – Irving Layton, Romanian-Canadian poet and academic (d. 2006)
 * 1913 – Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician, 5th Deputy Prime Minister of India (d. 1984)
 * 1913  – Agathe von Trapp, Hungarian-American singer and author (d. 2010)
 * 1915 – Alberto Burri, Italian painter and sculptor (d. 1995)
 * 1915  – Jiří Mucha, Czech journalist (d. 1991)
 * 1917 – Leonard Chess, American record company executive, co-founder of Chess Records (d. 1969)
 * 1917  – Millard Kaufman, American author and screenwriter (d. 2009)
 * 1917  – Googie Withers, Indian-Australian actress (d. 2011)
 * 1918 – Elaine de Kooning, American painter and academic (d. 1989)
 * 1918  – Pádraig Faulkner, Irish Fianna Fáil politician (d. 2012)
 * 1921 – Gianni Agnelli, Italian businessman (d. 2001)
 * 1921  – Gordon MacRae, American actor and singer (d. 1986)
 * 1922 – Jack Kerouac, American author and poet (d. 1969)
 * 1922  – Lane Kirkland, American sailor and union leader (d. 1999)
 * 1923 – Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater and cyclist (d. 2013)
 * 1923  – Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005)
 * 1923  – Wally Schirra, American captain, pilot, and astronaut (d. 2007)
 * 1923  – Mae Young, American wrestler (d. 2014)
 * 1925 – Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
 * 1925  – Harry Harrison, American author and illustrator (d. 2012)
 * 1926 – George Ariyoshi, American lawyer and politician, 3rd Governor of Hawaii
 * 1926  – Arthur A. Hartman, American career diplomat (d. 2015)
 * 1926  – John Clellon Holmes, American author and professor (d. 1988)
 * 1926  – David Nadien, American violinist (d. 2014)
 * 1927 – Raúl Alfonsín, Argentine lawyer and politician, 46th President of Argentina (d. 2009)
 * 1927  – Emmett Leith, American professor of electrical engineering and co-inventor of three-dimensional holography (d. 2005)
 * 1927  – Sudharmono, Indonesian politician, 5th Vice President of Indonesia (d. 2006)
 * 1928 – Edward Albee, American director and playwright (d. 2016)
 * 1929 – Win Tin, Burmese journalist and politician, co-founded the National League for Democracy (d. 2014)
 * 1930 – Antony Acland, English former diplomat and Provost of Eton College (d. 2021)
 * 1930  – Vern Law, American baseball player and manager
 * 1931 – Józef Tischner, Polish priest and philosopher (d. 2000)
 * 1932 – Bob Houbregs, Canadian basketball player (d. 2014)
 * 1932  – Andrew Young, American pastor and politician, 14th United States Ambassador to the United Nations
 * 1933 – Myrna Fahey, American actress (d. 1973)
 * 1933  – Barbara Feldon, American actress
 * 1934 – Francisco J. Ayala, Spanish-American evolutionary biologist and philosopher (d. 2023)
 * 1936 – Virginia Hamilton, American children's books author (d. 2002)
 * 1936  – Michał Heller, Polish professor of philosophy
 * 1936  – Eddie Sutton, American basketball player and coach (d. 2020)
 * 1937 – Zoltán Horvath, Hungarian sabre fencer
 * 1937  – Zurab Sotkilava, Georgian operatic tenor (d. 2017)
 * 1938 – Vladimir Msryan, Armenian actor (d. 2010)
 * 1938  – Johnny Rutherford, American race car driver and sportscaster
 * 1938  – Ken Spears, American writer (d. 2020)
 * 1938  – Juan Horacio Suárez, Argentine bishop
 * 1938  – Ron Tutt, American drummer (d. 2021)
 * 1940 – Al Jarreau, American singer (d. 2017)
 * 1941 – Josip Skoblar, former Croatian footballer
 * 1942 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player (d. 2020)
 * 1943 – Ratko Mladić, Serbian general
 * 1944 – Erwin Mueller, former American basketball player (d. 2018)
 * 1945 – Anne Summers, Australian feminist writer, editor, publisher and public servant
 * 1946 – Dean Cundey, American cinematographer and film director
 * 1946  – Liza Minnelli, American actress, singer and dancer
 * 1946  – Frank Welker, American voice actor and singer
 * 1947 – Peter Harry Carstensen, German educator and politician
 * 1947  – Jan-Erik Enestam, Finland-Swedish politician
 * 1947  – David Rigert, Soviet Olympic weightlifter
 * 1947  – Mitt Romney, American businessman and politician, 70th Governor of Massachusetts
 * 1948 – Virginia Bottomley, Scottish social worker and politician, Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport
 * 1948  – Kent Conrad, American politician
 * 1948  – James Taylor, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1949 – Rob Cohen, American director, producer, and screenwriter
 * 1949  – David Mellor, British politician
 * 1950 – Javier Clemente, Spanish footballer and manager
 * 1952 – André Comte-Sponville, French philosopher
 * 1952  – John Mitchell, English footballer
 * 1952  – Yasuhiko Okudera, former Japanese footballer
 * 1953 – Pavel Pinigin, former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion
 * 1954 – Anish Kapoor, Indian-English sculptor
 * 1956 – Ove Aunli, former Norwegian cross-country skier
 * 1956  – Stanisław Bobak, Polish ski jumper (d. 2010)
 * 1956  – Steve Harris, English bass player and songwriter
 * 1956  – Lesley Manville, English actress
 * 1956  – Dale Murphy, American baseball player
 * 1956  – Pim Verbeek, Dutch football manager (d. 2019)
 * 1957 – Patrick Battiston, French footballer and coach
 * 1957  – Marlon Jackson, American singer-songwriter and dancer
 * 1957  – Andrey Lopatov, Soviet basketball player (d. 2022)
 * 1958 – Phil Anderson, English-Australian cyclist
 * 1959 – Milorad Dodik, Bosnian Serb politician and president of Republika Srpska
 * 1959  – Luenell, American comedian and actress
 * 1959  – Michael Walter, German luger (d. 2016)
 * 1960 – Jason Beghe, American actor
 * 1960  – Courtney B. Vance, American actor and painter
 * 1962 – Julia Campbell, American actress
 * 1962  – Andreas Köpke, German footballer
 * 1962  – Chris Sanders, American illustrator and voice actor
 * 1962  – Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player and minister
 * 1962  – Titus Welliver, American actor
 * 1963 – John Andretti, American race car driver (d. 2020)
 * 1963  – Candy Costie, American swimmer
 * 1963  – Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner and coach
 * 1963  – Reiner Gies, German boxer
 * 1963  – Ian Holloway, English footballer and manager
 * 1963  – Paul Way, English golfer
 * 1963  – Jake Weber, English actor
 * 1964 – Dieter Eckstein, German footballer
 * 1964  – Umirzak Shukeyev, Kazakh chairman of Samruk-Kazyna
 * 1965 – Steve Finley, American baseball player
 * 1965  – Ivari Padar, former Minister of Finance and Minister of Agriculture of the Estonian Social Democratic Party
 * 1966 – David Daniels, American countertenor
 * 1966  – Grant Long, American basketball player and sportscaster
 * 1967 – Julio Dely Valdés, Panamanian footballer and manager
 * 1968 – Tammy Duckworth, Thai-American colonel, pilot, and politician
 * 1968  – Aaron Eckhart, American actor and producer
 * 1969 – Graham Coxon, English singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1969  – Jake Tapper, American journalist and author
 * 1970 – Karen Bradley, English politician
 * 1970  – Dave Eggers, American author and screenwriter
 * 1970  – Mathias Grönberg, Swedish golfer
 * 1970  – Rex Walters, American basketball player and coach
 * 1971 – Raúl Mondesí, Dominican baseball player and politician
 * 1971  – Isaiah Rider, American basketball player and rapper
 * 1971  – Dragutin Topić, Serbian high jumper
 * 1972 – Doron Sheffer, Israeli basketball player
 * 1974 – Charles Akonnor, Ghanaian footballer
 * 1974  – Walid Badir, Israeli footballer
 * 1975 – Nicolae Grigore, Romanian footballer
 * 1975  – Edgaras Jankauskas, Lithuanian footballer
 * 1975  – Valérie Nicolas, French handball player
 * 1975  – Srđan Pecelj, Bosnian footballer
 * 1976 – Deron Quint, American ice hockey player
 * 1976  – Zhao Wei, Chinese actress, film director, producer and pop singer
 * 1977 – Michelle Burgher, track and field athlete
 * 1977  – Ramiro Corrales, American soccer player
 * 1977  – Amdy Faye, Senegalese footballer
 * 1977  – Brent Johnson, American ice hockey player
 * 1978 – Marco Ferreira, Portuguese footballer
 * 1978  – Casey Mears, American race car driver
 * 1978  – Arina Tanemura, Japanese author and illustrator
 * 1979 – Charlie Bell, American basketball player and coach
 * 1979  – Rhys Coiro, American actor
 * 1979  – Pete Doherty, English musician, songwriter, actor, poet, writer, and artist
 * 1979  – Jamie Dwyer, Australian field hockey player and coach
 * 1979  – Gerard López, Spanish footballer
 * 1979  – Ben Sandford, New Zealand skeleton racer
 * 1979  – Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer
 * 1979  – Tim Wieskötter, German sprint canoer
 * 1980 – Césinha, Brazilian footballer
 * 1980  – Becky Holliday, American pole vaulter
 * 1980  – Jens Mouris, Dutch cyclist
 * 1980  – Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player
 * 1981 – Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler and kick-boxer
 * 1981  – Katarina Srebotnik, Slovenian tennis player
 * 1981  – Holly Williams, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
 * 1982 – Lili Bordán, Hungarian-American actress
 * 1982  – Samm Levine, American actor and comedian
 * 1982  – Ilya Nikulin, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1982  – Hisato Satō, Japanese footballer
 * 1982  – Yūto Satō, Japanese footballer
 * 1982  – Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer
 * 1983 – Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer and actor
 * 1983  – Mikko Koivu, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1984 – Jaimie Alexander, American actress
 * 1984  – Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer
 * 1985 – Marco Bonanomi, Italian racing driver
 * 1985  – Aleksandr Bukharov, Russian footballer
 * 1985  – Ed Clancy, English track and road cyclist
 * 1985  – Andriy Tovt, Ukrainian footballer
 * 1986 – Martynas Andriuškevičius, Lithuanian basketball player
 * 1986  – Oleh Dopilka, Ukrainian footballer
 * 1986  – Danny Jones, English singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor
 * 1986  – Ben Offereins, Australian runner
 * 1986  – František Rajtoral, Czech footballer (d. 2017)
 * 1987 – Manuele Boaro, Italian cyclist
 * 1987  – Jessica Hardy, American swimmer
 * 1987  – Maxwell Holt, American volleyball player
 * 1987  – Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player
 * 1987  – Chris Seitz, American soccer player
 * 1987  – Vadim Shipachyov, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1987  – Pablo Velázquez, Paraguayan footballer
 * 1988 – Sebastian Brendel, German canoe racer
 * 1988  – Kostas Mitroglou, Greek footballer
 * 1988  – Titi, Brazilian footballer
 * 1989 – Jordan Adéoti, French footballer
 * 1989  – Vytautas Černiauskas, Lithuanian footballer
 * 1989  – Tyler Clary, American swimmer
 * 1989  – Evgenii Dadonov, Russian ice hockey player
 * 1989  – Richard Eckersley, English footballer
 * 1989  – Chen Jianghua, Chinese basketball player
 * 1989  – Dmitry Korobov, Belarusian ice hockey player
 * 1989  – Siim Luts, Estonian footballer
 * 1990 – Dont'a Hightower, American football coach and former player
 * 1990  – Marvin Jones, American football player
 * 1990  – Alexander Kröckel, German skeleton racer
 * 1990  – Dawid Kubacki, Polish ski jumper
 * 1990  – Irakli Kvekveskiri, Georgian footballer
 * 1990  – Matias Myttynen, Finnish ice hockey player
 * 1990  – Ilija Nestorovski, Macedonian footballer
 * 1990  – Milena Raičević, Montenegrin handballer
 * 1990  – Mikko Sumusalo, Finnish footballer
 * 1991 – Leandro Fernandez, Argentine footballer
 * 1991  – Niclas Heimann, German footballer
 * 1991  – Felix Kroos, German footballer
 * 1992 – Daniele Baselli, Italian footballer
 * 1992  – Jordan Ferri, French footballer
 * 1992  – Ciara Mageean, Irish middle-distance runner
 * 1992  – Jiří Skalák, Czech footballer
 * 1993 – Shehu Abdullahi, Nigerian footballer
 * 1993  – Amjad Attwan, Iraqi footballer
 * 1993  – Anton Shramchenko, Belarusian footballer
 * 1994 – Katie Archibald, Scottish track cyclist
 * 1994  – Jerami Grant, American basketball player
 * 1994  – Christina Grimmie, American singer-songwriter (d. 2016)
 * 1994  – Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor
 * 1996 – Serhou Guirassy, French footballer
 * 1996  – Karim Hafez, Egyptian footballer
 * 1996  – Robert Murić, Croatian footballer
 * 1996  – Cene Prevc, Slovenian ski jumper
 * 1997 – Dean Henderson, English footballer
 * 1997  – Allan Saint-Maximin, French footballer
 * 1997  – Felipe Vizeu, Brazilian footballer
 * 1998 – Carsen Edwards, American basketball player
 * 1998  – Mecole Hardman, American football player
 * 1998  – Daniel Samohin, Israeli figure skater
 * 1998  – Elizaveta Ukolova, Czech figure skater
 * 2001 – Max Duggan, American football player
 * 2001  – Kim Min-kyu, South Korean singer and actor
 * 2003 – Andrea Brillantes, Filipino actress and model
 * 2003  – Malina Weissman, American actress and model
 * 2004 – DannyLux, American singer-songwriter
 * 2008 – Emma Kok, Dutch singer

Pre-1600

 * 417 – Innocent I, pope of the Catholic Church
 * 604 – Gregory I, pope of the Catholic Church (b. 540)
 * 1022 – Symeon the New Theologian (b. 949)
 * 1160 – Al-Muqtafi, caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate (b. 1096)
 * 1316 – Stefan Dragutin (b. c. 1244)
 * 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English general and politician, Lord High Constable of England (b. 1276)
 * 1539 – Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (b. 1477)

1601–1900

 * 1699 – Peder Griffenfeld, Danish politician (b. 1635)
 * 1898 – Zachris Topelius, Finnish-Swedish journalist, historian, and author (b. 1818)

1901–present

 * 1916 – Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian author (b. 1830)
 * 1925 – Sun Yat-sen, Chinese physician and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China (b. 1866)
 * 1929 – Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman and politician, 44th Mayor of Atlanta (b. 1851)
 * 1935 – Mihajlo Pupin, Serbian-American physicist and chemist (b. 1858)
 * 1942 – William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
 * 1943 – Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
 * 1946 – Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian soldier and politician, Head of State of Hungary (b. 1897)
 * 1949 – Wilhelm Steinkopf, German chemist (b. 1879)
 * 1954 – Marianne Weber, German sociologist and suffragist (b. 1870)
 * 1955 – Charlie Parker, American saxophonist and composer (b. 1920)
 * 1955  – Theodor Plievier, German author best known for his anti-war novel (b. 1892)
 * 1957 – Josephine Hull, American actress (b. 1877)
 * 1971 – Eugene Lindsay Opie, American physician and pathologist (b. 1873)
 * 1973 – Frankie Frisch, American baseball player and manager (b. 1898)
 * 1974 – George D. Sax, American banker and businessman (b. 1904)
 * 1985 – Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (b. 1899)
 * 1989 – Maurice Evans, English-American actor (b. 1901)
 * 1991 – Ragnar Granit, Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1900)
 * 1991  – William Heinesen, Faroese author, poet, and author (b. 1900)
 * 1992 – Lucy M. Lewis, American potter (b. 1890)
 * 1998 – Beatrice Wood, American painter and potter (b. 1893)
 * 1999 – Yehudi Menuhin, American-Swiss violinist and conductor (b. 1916)
 * 1999  – Bidu Sayão, Brazilian-American soprano (b. 1902)
 * 2000 – Aleksandar Nikolić, Yugoslav basketball coach (b. 1924)
 * 2001 – Morton Downey Jr., American singer-songwriter, actor, and talk show host (b. 1933)
 * 2001  – Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
 * 2001  – Victor Westhoff, Dutch botanist and academic (b. 1916)
 * 2002 – Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot lawyer and politician, 2nd President of Cyprus (b. 1932)
 * 2002  – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
 * 2003 – Zoran Đinđić, Serbian philosopher and politician, 6th Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
 * 2003  – Howard Fast, American novelist and screenwriter (b. 1914)
 * 2003  – Lynne Thigpen, American actress and singer (b. 1948)
 * 2004 – Milton Resnick, Russian-American painter (b. 1917)
 * 2006 – Victor Sokolov, Russian-American priest and journalist (b. 1947)
 * 2008 – Jorge Guinzburg, Argentinian journalist and producer (b. 1949)
 * 2008  – Lazare Ponticelli, Italian-French soldier and supercentenarian (b. 1897)
 * 2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish journalist and author (b. 1920)
 * 2011 – Nilla Pizzi, Italian singer (b. 1919)
 * 2012 – Dick Harter, American basketball player and coach (b. 1930)
 * 2012  – Michael Hossack, American drummer (b. 1946)
 * 2012  – Friedhelm Konietzka, German-Swiss footballer and manager (b. 1938)
 * 2013  – Michael Grigsby, English director and producer (b. 1936)
 * 2013  – Ganesh Pyne, Indian painter and illustrator (b. 1937)
 * 2014 – Věra Chytilová, Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (b. 1929)
 * 2014  – Paul C. Donnelly, American scientist and engineer (b. 1923)
 * 2014  – José Policarpo, Portuguese cardinal (b. 1936)
 * 2015 – Willie Barrow, American minister and activist (b. 1924)
 * 2015  – Michael Graves, American architect and academic, designed the Portland Building and the Humana Building (b. 1934)
 * 2015  – Ada Jafri, Pakistani poet and author (b. 1924)
 * 2015  – Terry Pratchett, English journalist, author, and screenwriter (b. 1948)
 * 2016 – Rafiq Azad, Bangladeshi poet and author (b. 1942)
 * 2016  – Felix Ibru, Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (b. 1935)
 * 2016  – Lloyd Shapley, American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1923)
 * 2021 – Ronald DeFeo Jr., American criminal (b. 1951)

Holidays and observances

 * Arbor Day (China)
 * Arbor Day (Taiwan)
 * Aztec New Year
 * Christian feast day:
 * Alphege
 * Bernard of Carinola (or of Capua)
 * Gorgonius, Peter Cubicularius and Dorotheus of Nicomedia
 * Mura (McFeredach)
 * Fina
 * Maximilian of Tebessa
 * Paul Aurelian
 * Pope Gregory I (Eastern Orthodox Church, Eastern Catholic Church, and Anglican Communion)
 * Theophanes the Confessor
 * March 12 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
 * National Day (Mauritius)
 * World Day Against Cyber Censorship
 * Youth Day (Zambia)