March 19 is the 78th day of the year (79st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 287 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1279 – In the Battle of Yamen, the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty with a force of 20 thousand defeated the Chinese Southern Song Dynasty of 200 and gained dominance in all of China.
- 1452 – III. Frederick was the last Holy Roman emperor to be crowned by the Pope.
- 1839 - Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre invented the daguerreotype.
- 1866 - The Ottoman Government gave permission for the opening of the Suez Canal.
- 1877 – Ayan Council started its duty.
- 1883 - American shoemaker Jan Ernst Matzeliger revolutionized the shoe industry by inventing the first machine that could completely manufacture one shoe at a time.
- 1899 - Castrol company, which produces automobile oil, is founded.
- 1915 – The first photograph of Pluto, one of the Solar System planets, was taken. However, it was not understood at that time that Pluto was a new planet.
- 1920 - The US Senate refuses to ratify the Treaty of Versailles.
- 1932 - Sydney Harbor Bridge opened.
- 1945 – The US Navy aircraft carrier USS Franklin is bombed by the Imperial Japanese Navy bomber “Ginga”.
- 1945 – The USSR announced in a note that it would not renew the 1925 Turkish-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Neutrality.
- 1955 – Erol Güney, Ankara representative of Agence France-Presse (AFP), was stripped of his Turkish citizenship.
- 1965 – In the firedamp explosion at Merzifon's Çeltek Lignite Enterprise; 69 workers were killed and 58 workers were injured.
- 1970 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany, and Willi Stoph, Chancellor of East Germany, meet for the first time.
- 1982 – President General Kenan Evren met with the President of the European Economic Community (EEC) Council of Ministers and the Belgian Foreign Minister Leo Tindemans.
- 1998 – In the case of the murder of journalist Metin Göktepe; five police officers were sentenced to 7 years and six months in prison for causing death by using force beyond intent, and six police officers were acquitted.
- 2003 - US troops enter the demilitarized zone on the Iraq-Kuwait border. US planes also started bombing western Iraq.
- 2006 – Azerbaijan National Resistance Organization was established.
- 2007 – Tens of thousands of people participated in the “No to War” march organized by the “United for Peace and Justice” organization in New York.
- 2007 – 270 miners died in an explosion 108 m below ground at the Ulyanovskaya mining operation in Novokuznetsk city in Russia's Kemerovo Oblast.
- 2011 – To intervene in the 2011 Libyan uprising, Coalition Forces launched the 1973 Libyan bombardment, in line with United Nations Security Council resolution 2011.
- 2016 - Istanbul A bomb explosion occurred in Taksim. 4 people were killed and 36 were injured.
- 2016 – Flydubai passenger plane crashed during landing, arriving from Dubai city and landing at the airport in Rostov-on-Don, Russia. All 55 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.
Births
- 1206 – Güyük Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan (d. 1248)
- 1434 – Ashikaga Yoshikatsu, seventh shogun of the Ashikaga shogunate (d. 1443)
- 1496 – Mary Tudor, Queen of France (d. 1533)
- 1534 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (d. 1597)
- 1604 – IV. João, Duke of Braganza (d. 1656)
- 1641 – Abdulgani Nablus, scholar and Sufi from Damascus (d. 1731)
- 1661 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (d. 1727)
- 1750 – Andre Joseph Abrial, French politician (d. 1828)
- 1792 – José María Carreño, president of Venezuela (d. 1849)
- 1801 – Salvadore Cammarano, Italian librettist and dramatist (d. 1852)
- 1807 – Johann Nepomuk Hiedler, paternal grandfather of Adolf Hitler (d. 1888)
- 1813 – David Livingstone, Scottish missionary and explorer (d. 1873)
- 1816 – Ekaterine Dadiani, last princess of the Principality of Megrelia (d. 1882)
- 1821 – Richard Francis Burton, English explorer (d. 1890)
- 1832 – Arminius Vambery, Hungarian orientalist (d. 1913)
- 1848 Wyatt Earp, American lawman (d. 1929)
- 1849 Alfred von Tirpitz, German admiral (d. 1930)
- 1855 – David Peck Todd, American astronomer (d. 1939)
- 1866 – Emilio De Bono, Italian Field Marshal (d. 1944)
- 1873 – Max Reger, German composer, pianist, organist, conductor, and teacher (d. 1916)
- 1882 Gaston Lachaise, American figurative sculptor (d. 1935)
- 1883 – Norman Haworth, English chemist (d. 1950)
- 1883 – Joseph Stilwell, American general (d. 1946)
- 1888 – Josef Albers, American painter (d. 1976)
- 1892 – Mexican Joe Rivers, American lightweight boxer (d. 1957)
- 1894 – Sabiha Sultan, daughter of Sultan Vahdettin (d. 1971)
- 1897 – Joseph Darnand, French soldier (d. 1945)
- 1900 – Frédéric Joliot-Curie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry (1958)
- 1905 – Albert Speer, German politician (d. 1981)
- 1906 – Adolf Eichmann, German Schutzstaffel officer (d. 1962)
- 1912 – Adolf Galland, Nazi Germany's Luftwaffe ace pilot (d. 1996)
- 1914 – Jiang Qing, Chinese politician and third wife of Mao Zedong (d. 3)
- 1919 – Larned B. Asprey, American chemist (d. 2005)
- 1924 – Abdullah Gegic, Yugoslav origin Turkish football player and coach (d. 2008)
- 1925 – Julio Canessa, Chilean soldier and politician (d. 2015)
- 1931 – Emma Andijewska, Ukrainian-born American poet, writer, and painter
- 1933 – Philip Roth, American writer
- 1936 – Güner Sümer, Turkish theater and film actor (d. 1977)
- 1936 – Ursula Andress, Swiss-born American actress
- 1938 – Dinçer Sümer, Turkish theater writer, director, actor and voice actor (d. 2019)
- 1947 – Glenn Close, American film and theater actor
- 1955 – Bruce Willis, American actor
- 1955 – Pino Daniele, Italian singer, guitarist and songwriter (d. 2015)
- 1956 – Yegor Gaydar, Russian politician and businessman (d. 2009)
- 1957 – Abdulkadir Mesduva, Algerian bureaucrat
- 1959 – Ralph David Abernathy III, American politician and businessman (d. 2016)
- 1963 – Neil LaBute, American playwright and independent film director
- 1963 – Mary Scheer, American actress
- 1964 – Mesut Bakkal, Turkish coach
- 1971 – Faruk Beşok, Turkish basketball player
- 1973 – Tolga Tekin, Turkish actor
- 1976 - Andre Miller, American professional basketball player
- 1976 – Alessandro Nesta, Italian football player
- 1978 – Lenka, Australian singer
- 1979 – Hidayet Türkoğlu, Turkish basketball player
- 1979 – Lara, Turkish singer
- 1979 – Christos Paçacoglu, Greek national football player
- 1979 – Rıza Kocaoğlu, Turkish cinema and TV series actor
- 1981 – Burcu Çetinkaya, Turkish rally driver
- 1981 – Kolo Touré, Ivory Coast football player
- 1982 – Brad Jones, Australian Footballer
- 1982 – Eduardo Saverin, Brazilian-American entrepreneur
- 1983 - Evan Bourne, American professional wrestler
- 1985 – Christine Guldbrandsen, Norwegian musician
- 1985 – Yolanthe Cabau, Spanish-Dutch actress and television presenter
- 1987 – Miloš Teodosić, Serbian national professional basketball player
- 1991 – Alexander Kokorin, Russian national football player
- 1993 – Hakim Ziyech, Dutch football player
Deaths
- 953 – Mansur, caliph of the Fatimid State between 18 May 946 – 19 March 953 (b. 915)
- 1238 – Henryk I, High Duke of Poland (1232–1238) (b. 1165)
- 1279 – Bing, 18th and last emperor of China's Song Dynasty (b. 1272)
- 1406 – Ibn Khaldun, Tunisian philosopher and historian (b. 1332)
- 1534 – Ayşe Hafsa Sultan, first Valide Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (b. 1479)
- 1698 – Władysław Konstanty, King of Poland IV. illegitimate son of Władysław Waza (b. 1635)
- 1721 – XI. Clemens, Pope (b. 1649)
- 1790 – Algerian Hasan Pasha, Ottoman statesman and Grand Vizier (b. 1713)
- 1800 – Joseph de Guignes, French orientalist, sinologist, and Turkologist (b. 1721)
- 1865 – Joseph Lebeau, Prime Minister of Belgium (b. 1794)
- 1884 – Elias Lönnrot, Finnish physicist, philologist, and poet (b. 1802)
- 1897 – Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French traveler (b. 1810)
- 1897 – Andrey Dostoyevsky, Russian architect, engineer, memo, mechanic (b. 1825)
- 1916 – Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
- 1928 – Emil Wiechert, German geophysicist (b. 1861)
- 1930 – Arthur Balfour, English politician (b. 1848)
- 1940 – Besim Ömer Akalın, Turkish medical professor, scientist, non-governmental organizer and deputy (b. 1862)
- 1943 – Frank Nitti, Italian mafia leader (b. 1886)
- 1950 – Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (who wrote "Tarzan") (b. 1875)
- 1950 – Norman Haworth, English chemist (b. 1883)
- 1955 – Leonid Govorov, member of the Supreme Soviet and Deputy Minister of Defense (b. 1897)
- 1955 – Mihály Károlyi, first president of Hungary (b. 1875)
- 1965 – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, Romanian politician (b. 1901)
- 1968 – Celil Kiyekbayev, Soviet Bashkir scientist, Turkologist and philologist (b. 1911)
- 1980 – Bedrettin Tuncel, Turkish academic, translator, writer and politician (b. 1910)
- 1982 – Randy Rhoads, American musician (b. 1956)
- 1987 – Louis de Broglie, French physicist and Nobel Prize laureate in Physics (b. 1892)
- 1996 – Virginia Henderson, American nurse (b. 1897)
- 1997 – Eugène Guillevic, French poet (b. 1907)
- 1997 – Willem de Kooning, abstract expressionist painter born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (b. 1904)
- 1998 – Hanzade Sultan, grandson of the last Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Sultan Vahdettin, and the last Caliph Abdülmecit Efendi (b. 1923)
- 1999 – Tofilau Eti Alesana, Samoan politician (b. 1924)
- 2003 – Suna Korad, Turkish opera singer (b. 1935)
- 2004 – Haldun Derin, Turkish bureaucrat (who served as the chief of staff of Atatürk, İsmet İnönü and Celal Bayar) (b. 1912)
- 2005 – John DeLorean, American engineer and founder of DeLorean Motor Company (b. 1925)
- 2008 – Hugo Claus, Flemish novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director (b. 1929)
- 2008 – Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction writer and inventor (b. 1917)
- 2008 – Paul Scofield, English actor (b. 1922)
- 2010 – Bülent Düzgit, Turkish cartoonist (b. 1947)
- 2015 – Margarete Bagshaw, an American artist (b. 1964)
- 2016 – Roger Agnelli, Brazilian banker, corporate executive, and businessman (b. 1959)
- 2016 – Jose Artetxe, Spanish former football player (b. 1930)
- 2016 – Jack Mansell, English football player and manager (b. 1927)
- 2017 – Jimmy Breslin, American journalist and author (b. 1928)
- 2017 – Li Li Hua, Chinese-Hong-Kong actor (b. 1924)
- 2018 – Linda Bement, American model (b. 1941)
- 2018 – Hasan Celal Güzel, Turkish politician and bureaucrat (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Luo Fu (author), Taiwanese writer and novelist (b. 1928)
- 2019 – Boris Dubrovin, Russian mathematician (b. 1950)
- 2019 – Chuck Harmon, American former professional baseball player (b. 1924)
- 2019 – Marlen Khutsiyev, Georgian-born Russian film director and screenwriter (b. 1925)
- 2019 – Ümit Yesin, Turkish actor (b. 1954)
- 2020 – Innocenzo Donina, former Italian football player (b. 1950)
- 2020 – Hamid Kahram, Iranian politician and veterinarian (b. 1958)
- 2020 – Hans Knudsen, Danish sprint kayaker (b. 1944)
- 2020 – Aurlus Mabélé, Congolese singer and composer (b. 1953)
- 2020 – Antonio Michele Stanca, Italian geneticist (b. 1942)
- 2021 – Jordi Cornet, Spanish politician and businessman (b. 1965)
- 2021 – Cristian Cuturrufo, Chilean jazz trumpeter (b. 1972)
- 2021 – Irmão Lázaro, Brazilian gospel singer and politician (b. 1966)
- 2022 – Lyell Cresswell, New Zealand composer (b. 1944)
- 2022 – Joel Hasse Ferreira, Portuguese politician (b. 1944)
- 2022 – Alan Hopwood, Australian actor, producer, screenwriter, broadcaster, playwright and educator (b. 1934)
- 2022 – Marian Zembala, Polish heart surgeon, professor of medicine (b. 1950)
