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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 12th of March 0538 | EVENT | Vitiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius. |
| 12th of March 1622 | EVENT | Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, are canonized as saints by the Catholic Church. |
| 12th of March 1664 | EVENT | New Jersey becomes a colony of England. |
| 12th of March 1689 | EVENT | The Williamite War in Ireland begins. |
| 12th of March 1811 | EVENT | Peninsular War: A day after a successful rear guard action, French Marshal Michel Ney once again successfully delayed the pursuing Anglo-Portuguese force at the Battle of Redinha. |
| 12th of March 1868 | EVENT | Henry O'Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. |
| 12th of March 1881 | EVENT | Andrew Watson makes his Scotland debut as the world's first black international football player and captain. |
| 12th of March 1912 | EVENT | The Girl Guides (later renamed the Girl Scouts of the USA) are founded in the United States. |
| 12th of March 1913 | EVENT | Canberra Day: The future capital of Australia is officially named Canberra. (Melbourne remained temporary capital until 1927 while the new capital is still under construction.) |
| 12th of March 1918 | EVENT | Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint Petersburg held this status for 215 years. |
| 12th of March 1922 | EVENT | Armenia, Georgia and Azerbaijan formed The Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic |
| 12th of March 1928 | EVENT | In California, the St. Francis Dam fails; the resulting floods kill over 600 people. |
| 12th of March 1930 | EVENT | Mahatma Gandhi leads a 200-mile march, known as the Salt March, to the sea in defiance of British opposition, to protest the British monopoly on salt. |
| 12th of March 1933 | EVENT | 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". |
| 12th of March 1934 | EVENT | Konstantin Pats and General Johan Laidoner stage a coup in Estonia, and ban all political parties. |
| 12th of March 1938 | EVENT | Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria. |
| 12th of March 1940 | EVENT | Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Finnish troops and the remaining population are immediately evacuated. |
| 12th of March 1947 | EVENT | The Truman Doctrine is proclaimed to help stem the spread of Communism. |
| 12th of March 1950 | EVENT | The Llandow air disaster occurs near Sigingstone, Wales, in which 80 people die when their aircraft crashed, making it the world's deadliest air disaster at the time. |
| 12th of March 1964 | EVENT | New Hampshire Lottery: New Hampshire becomes the first U.S. state to legally sell lottery tickets in the 20th century. |
| 12th of March 1966 | EVENT | Suharto takes over from Sukarno to become President of Indonesia. |
| 12th of March 1968 | EVENT | Mauritius achieves independence. |
| 12th of March 1971 | EVENT | The March 12 Memorandum is sent to the Demirel government of Turkey and the government resigns. |
| 12th of March 1992 | EVENT | Mauritius becomes a republic while remaining a member of the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 12th of March 1993 | EVENT | Several bombs explode in Bombay (Mumbai), India, killing about 300 and injuring hundreds more. |
| 12th of March 1993 | EVENT | North Korea nuclear weapons program: North Korea says that it plans to withdraw from the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty and refuses to allow inspectors access to its nuclear sites. |
| 12th of March 1993 | EVENT | The Blizzard of 1993 : Snow begins to fall across the eastern portion of the US with tornadoes, thunder snow storms, high winds and record low temperatures. The storm lasts for 30 hours. |
| 12th of March 1994 | EVENT | The Church of England ordains its first female priests. |
| 12th of March 1999 | EVENT | Former Warsaw Pact members the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland join NATO. |
| 12th of March 2003 | EVENT | Zoran ?in?ic, Prime Minister of Serbia, is assassinated in Belgrade. |
| 12th of March 2004 | EVENT | The President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its national assembly: the first such impeachment in the nation's history. |
| 12th of March 1270 | BIRTHDAY | Charles of Valois, son of Philip III of France (d. 1325) |
| 12th of March 1478 | BIRTHDAY | Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (d. 1516) |
| 12th of March 1607 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Gerhardt, German hymnist (d. 1676) |
| 12th of March 1613 | BIRTHDAY | Andre Le Notre, French landscape architect (d. 1700) |
| 12th of March 1620 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Heinrich Hottinger, Swiss philologist and theologian (d. 1667) |
| 12th of March 1626 | BIRTHDAY | John Aubrey, English antiquary and writer (d. 1697) |
| 12th of March 1637 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (d. 1671) |
| 12th of March 1647 | BIRTHDAY | Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie, French general (d. 1727) |
| 12th of March 1672 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Steele, Irish writer and politician (d. 1729) |
| 12th of March 1685 | BIRTHDAY | George Berkeley, Irish theologian (d. 1753) |
| 12th of March 1710 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Arne, English composer (d. 1778) |
| 12th of March 1718 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Damer, English politician (d. 1798) |
| 12th of March 1781 | BIRTHDAY | Frederica of Baden, Queen of Sweden (d. 1826) |
| 12th of March 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Jane Pierce, First Lady of the United States (d. 1863) |
| 12th of March 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Abbott, Canadian statesman (d. 1893) |
| 12th of March 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Gustav Kirchhoff, German physicist (d. 1887) |
| 12th of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Clement Studebaker, American automobile executive (d. 1901) |
| 12th of March 1832 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Boycott, British land agent (d. 1897) |
| 12th of March 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Simon Newcomb, Canadian-born American astronomer and mathematician (d. 1909) |
| 12th of March 1837 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre Guilmant, French organist and composer (d. 1911) |
| 12th of March 1838 | BIRTHDAY | William Henry Perkin, English chemist (d. 1907) |
| 12th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham H. Cannon, American religious figure (d. 1896) |
| 12th of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer (d. 1938) |
| 12th of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | Vladimir Vernadsky, Russian mineralogist (d. 1945) |
| 12th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Alice Tegner, Swedish composer and organist (d. 1943) |
| 12th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | W. H. R. Rivers, British psychiatrist (d. 1922) |
| 12th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Weeghman, American restaurateur and owner of Chicago Cubs (d. 1938) |
| 12th of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Gemma Galgani, Catholic saint and mystic (d. 1903) |
| 12th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Drysdale Dakin, British-born American biochemist (d. 1952) |
| 12th of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Georgantas, Greek discus thrower (d. 1958) |
| 12th of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, first President of Turkey (d. 1938) |
| 12th of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Gunnar Nordstrom, Finnish physicist (d. 1923) |
| 12th of March 1883 | BIRTHDAY | Zoltan Mesko, Hungarian Nazi official (d. 1959) |
| 12th of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | King Idris I of Libya (d. 1983) |
| 12th of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | ?orbergur ?or?arson, Icelandic author (d. 1974) |
| 12th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Vaslav Nijinsky, Polish ballet dancer (d. 1950) |
| 12th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Evert Taube, Swedish author and composer (d. 1976) |
| 12th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | William Dudley Pelley, American spiritualist and politician (d. 1965) |
| 12th of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | George W. Mason, American industrialist (d. 1954) |
| 12th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | William C. Lee, American Army general (d. 1948) |
| 12th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Hewlett, British actor (d. 1997) |
| 12th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Dorrit Hoffleit, American astronomer (d. 2007) |
| 12th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (d. 1970) |
| 12th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | David Saul Marshall Singaporean statesman (d. 1995) |
| 12th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Masayoshi Ohira, Japanese statesman (d. 1980) |
| 12th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Gustavo Diaz Ordaz, Mexican statesman (d. 1979) |
| 12th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Irving Layton, Canadian poet (d. 2006) |
| 12th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Weston, American pianist, arranger and conductor (d. 1996) |
| 12th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Yashwantrao Chavan, Indian politician (d. 1984) |
| 12th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Lennon, mother of John Lennon (d. 1958) |
| 12th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Willibald C. Bianchi, American Army officer and Medal of Honor winner (d. 1945) |
| 12th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Millard Kaufman, American screenwriter (d. 2009) |
| 12th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Googie Withers, British actress |
| 12th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine de Kooning, American artist (d. 1989) |
| 12th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Stepovich, American attorney and last territorial governor of Alaska |
| 12th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gianni Agnelli, Italian auto executive (d. 2003) |
| 12th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Gordon MacRae, American singer and actor (d. 1986) |
| 12th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Ulo Jogi, Estonian historian and anti-Soviet activist (d. 2007) |
| 12th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Kerouac, American writer (d. 1969) |
| 12th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Lane Kirkland, American labor leader (d. 1999) |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hjalmar Andersen, Norwegian speed skater |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Clara Fraser, American feminist and activist (d. 1998) |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Norbert Brainin, Austrian violinist (d. 2005) |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Hanne Hiob, German actress (d. 2009) |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Mae Young, American professional wrestler |
| 12th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Wally Schirra, American astronaut (d. 2007) |
| 12th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Louison Bobet, French cyclist (d. 1983) |
| 12th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Georges Delerue, French film composer (d. 1992) |
| 12th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Leo Esaki, Japanese physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 12th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Harrison, American author |
| 12th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | George Ariyoshi, American politician |
| 12th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Raul Alfonsin, Argentine politician (d. 2009) |
| 12th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Albee, American dramatist |
| 12th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Therese Lavoie-Roux, Canadian politician and senator |
| 12th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007) |
| 12th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Win Tin, Burmese journalist |
| 12th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Vernon Law, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Herbert Kelleher, American airline executive |
| 12th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Billie "Buckwheat" Thomas, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 12th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Young, American civil rights activist and politician |
| 12th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Barbara Feldon, American actress and model |
| 12th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | John Doherty, English footballer (d. 2007) |
| 12th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Procktor, English artist (d. 2003) |
| 12th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Sutton, American college basketball coach |
| 12th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitri Terzakis, Greek composer |
| 12th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Rutherford, American automobile racer |
| 12th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Al Jarreau, American singer |
| 12th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | M.A. Numminen, Finnish singer and writer |
| 12th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Ratko Mladic, Serbian military commander |
| 12th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Wynn, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Sammy Gravano, American organized crime figure |
| 12th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Minnelli, American singer and actress |
| 12th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Whalley, British television writer and author |
| 12th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Welker, American voice actor |
| 12th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Serge Turgeon, Canadian actor and union leader (d. 2004) |
| 12th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Mitt Romney, American politician |
| 12th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Kalervo Palsa, Finnish artist (d. 1987) |
| 12th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Harry Carstensen, German politician |
| 12th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | James Taylor, American musician |
| 12th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kent Conrad, American politician |
| 12th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Virginia Bottomley, British politician |
| 12th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Rob Cohen, American film director, producer and writer |
| 12th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Kuchinskaya, Soviet gymnast |
| 12th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Moctesuma Esparza, Mexican producer and filmmaker |
| 12th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Javier Clemente, Spanish football manager |
| 12th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Provost, American actor |
| 12th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Wheeler Winston Dixon, American filmmaker, critic and author |
| 12th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Naomi Shihab Nye, American poet, songwriter, and novelist |
| 12th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Jeremy, American pornographic actor |
| 12th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Hiaasen, American journalist and author |
| 12th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Harris, English musician |
| 12th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Dale Murphy, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Battiston, French footballer |
| 12th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Marlon Jackson, American singer and musician (The Jackson 5) |
| 12th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Millen, American football player |
| 12th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Kipp Lennon, American singer |
| 12th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Maki Nomiya, Japanese singer (Pizzicato Five) |
| 12th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Minoru Niihara, Japanese singer |
| 12th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Courtney B. Vance, American actor |
| 12th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Facal, Canadian politician |
| 12th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Julia Campbell, American actress |
| 12th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Darryl Strawberry, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Holloway, English football manager |
| 12th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquim Cruz, Brazilian runner |
| 12th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Farahnaz Pahlavi of Iran |
| 12th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Gilbert, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Levy, American sports journalist |
| 12th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Finley, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Coleen Nolan, British singer |
| 12th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Umarova, Chechen torch singer |
| 12th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Grant Long, American basketball player |
| 12th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | John Thompson III, American basketball coach |
| 12th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Dely Valdes, Panamanian footballer |
| 12th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Eckhart, American actor |
| 12th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Tammy Duckworth, American politician, military aviator |
| 12th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Graham Coxon, English musician (Blur) |
| 12th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jake Tapper, American journalist |
| 12th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Eggers, American writer, editor, and publisher |
| 12th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Prewitt, American actor |
| 12th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Roy Khan, Norwegian singer (Kamelot) |
| 12th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Rex Walters, American basketball player |
| 12th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | John Nemechek, American NASCAR driver (d. 1997) |
| 12th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Isaiah Rider, American basketball player |
| 12th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Eveready, American adult film actor |
| 12th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Hector Luis Bustamante, Colombian actor |
| 12th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | James Maritato, American wrestler |
| 12th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Price, Australia rugby league player |
| 12th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Parr, American basketball player |
| 12th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Todd Rock, American state legislator |
| 12th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Herman Li, Cantonese guitarist |
| 12th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Kelle Bryan, English singer |
| 12th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Annabel Port, English radio presenter |
| 12th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Panagiotis Bahramis, Greek footballer |
| 12th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Zhao Wei, Chinese actress |
| 12th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Ramiro Corrales, American footballer |
| 12th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Christianne Klein, American journalist and television personality |
| 12th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Masuimi Max, American model |
| 12th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Casey Mears, American auto racer |
| 12th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria) |
| 12th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka |
| 12th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Rhys Coiro, American actor |
| 12th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nidia Guenard, American wrestler |
| 12th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pete Doherty, English musician |
| 12th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Shaun Rogers, American football player |
| 12th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Villafuerte, Ecuadorian footballer |
| 12th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Douglas Murray, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 12th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Maurizio Lauro, Italian footballer |
| 12th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Kenta Kobayashi, Japanese wrestler |
| 12th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tobias Schweinsteiger, German footballer |
| 12th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Samm Levine, American actor |
| 12th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Zach Miner, American baseball player |
| 12th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Atif Aslam, Pakistani singer |
| 12th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jaimie Alexander, American actress |
| 12th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Shreya Ghoshal, Indian singer |
| 12th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Bradley Wright-Phillips, English footballer |
| 12th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Jones, English singer (McFly) |
| 12th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Offereins, Australian athlete |
| 12th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Seitz, American footballer |
| 12th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Teimour Radjabov, Azerbaijani chess player |
| 12th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Konstantinos Mitroglou, Greek footballer |
| 12th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Clary, American swimmer |
| 12th of March 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Tyler Patrick Jones, American actor |
| 12th of March 0604 | DEATH | Pope Gregory I |
| 12th of March 1289 | DEATH | King Demetre II of Georgia (Born 1259) |
| 12th of March 1374 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (Born 1336) |
| 12th of March 1447 | DEATH | Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (Born 1377) |
| 12th of March 1507 | DEATH | Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (Born 1475) |
| 12th of March 1608 | DEATH | Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (Born 1530) |
| 12th of March 1628 | DEATH | John Bull, English composer |
| 12th of March 1648 | DEATH | Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (Born 1571) |
| 12th of March 1681 | DEATH | Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (Born 1635) |
| 12th of March 1699 | DEATH | Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (Born 1635) |
| 12th of March 1757 | DEATH | Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (Born 1696) |
| 12th of March 1790 | DEATH | Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (Born 1710) |
| 12th of March 1832 | DEATH | Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (Born 1786) |
| 12th of March 1858 | DEATH | William James Blacklock, British landscape painter (Born 1816) |
| 12th of March 1872 | DEATH | Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (Born 1811) |
| 12th of March 1894 | DEATH | Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (Born 1840) |
| 12th of March 1898 | DEATH | Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (Born 1818) |
| 12th of March 1908 | DEATH | Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children's writer (Born 1846) |
| 12th of March 1909 | DEATH | Joe Petrosino, American police lieutenant (Born 1860) |
| 12th of March 1914 | DEATH | George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (Born 1846) |
| 12th of March 1916 | DEATH | Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (Born 1830) |
| 12th of March 1925 | DEATH | Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (Born 1866) |
| 12th of March 1929 | DEATH | Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (Born 1851) |
| 12th of March 1930 | DEATH | William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (Born 1894) |
| 12th of March 1930 | DEATH | Alois Jirasek, Czech writer (Born 1851) |
| 12th of March 1937 | DEATH | Jeno Hubay, Hungarian violinist (Born 1858) |
| 12th of March 1937 | DEATH | Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (Born 1844) |
| 12th of March 1942 | DEATH | Robert Bosch, German industrialist (Born 1861) |
| 12th of March 1943 | DEATH | Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (Born 1869) |
| 12th of March 1944 | DEATH | Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (Born 1861) |
| 12th of March 1945 | DEATH | Friedrich Fromm, German Army Officer (Born 1861) |
| 12th of March 1946 | DEATH | Ferenc Szalasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (Born 1897) |
| 12th of March 1947 | DEATH | Winston Churchill, American novelist (Born 1871) |
| 12th of March 1955 | DEATH | Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (Born 1920) |
| 12th of March 1973 | DEATH | Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (Born 1898) |
| 12th of March 1974 | DEATH | George D. Sax, American entrepreneur (Born 1904) |
| 12th of March 1978 | DEATH | John Cazale, American actor (Born 1935) |
| 12th of March 1978 | DEATH | Gene Moore, American baseball player (Born 1909) |
| 12th of March 1980 | DEATH | Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (Born 1914) |
| 12th of March 1984 | DEATH | Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (Born 1896) |
| 12th of March 1985 | DEATH | Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (Born 1899) |
| 12th of March 1987 | DEATH | Woody Hayes, American football coach (Born 1913) |
| 12th of March 1989 | DEATH | Maurice Evans, English-born actor (Born 1901) |
| 12th of March 1990 | DEATH | Wallace Breem, British author (Born 1926) |
| 12th of March 1991 | DEATH | Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (Born 1900) |
| 12th of March 1991 | DEATH | William Heinesen, Faroese writer, poet and artist (Born 1900) |
| 12th of March 1995 | DEATH | Juanin Clay, American actress (Born 1949) |
| 12th of March 1998 | DEATH | Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (Born 1893) |
| 12th of March 1998 | DEATH | Judge Dread, English musician (Born 1945) |
| 12th of March 1998 | DEATH | Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (Born 1924) |
| 12th of March 1999 | DEATH | Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (Born 1916) |
| 12th of March 2001 | DEATH | Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (Born 1933) |
| 12th of March 2001 | DEATH | Robert Ludlum, American author (Born 1927) |
| 12th of March 2002 | DEATH | Jean-Paul Riopelle, Canadian painter and sculptor (Born 1923) |
| 12th of March 2002 | DEATH | Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (Born 1932) |
| 12th of March 2003 | DEATH | Zoran ?in?ic, Prime Minister of Serbia (Born 1952) |
| 12th of March 2003 | DEATH | Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (Born 1973) |
| 12th of March 2003 | DEATH | Lynne Thigpen, American actress (Born 1948) |
| 12th of March 2003 | DEATH | Howard Fast, American author (Born 1914) |
| 12th of March 2005 | DEATH | Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (Born 1943) |
| 12th of March 2005 | DEATH | Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (Born 1932) |
| 12th of March 2006 | DEATH | Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (Born 1947) |
| 12th of March 2007 | DEATH | Hege Nerland, Norwegian politician (Born 1966) |
| 12th of March 2008 | DEATH | Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer and media host (Born 1949) |
| 12th of March 2008 | DEATH | Lazare Ponticelli, French soldier (Born 1897) |
| 12th of March 2010 | DEATH | Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (Born 1920) |