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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 21st of March 0717 | EVENT | Battle of Vincy between Charles Martel and Ragenfrid. |
| 21st of March 1152 | EVENT | Annulment of the marriage of King Louis VII of France and Queen Eleanor of Aquitaine. |
| 21st of March 1188 | EVENT | Emperor Antoku accedes to the throne of Japan. |
| 21st of March 1413 | EVENT | Henry V becomes King of England. |
| 21st of March 1556 | EVENT | In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake. |
| 21st of March 1788 | EVENT | A fire in New Orleans leaves most of the town in ruins. |
| 21st of March 1800 | EVENT | With the church leadership driven out of Rome during an armed conflict, Pius VII is crowned Pope in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mache. |
| 21st of March 1801 | EVENT | The Battle of Alexandria is fought between British and French forces near the ruins of Nicopolis in Egypt. |
| 21st of March 1804 | EVENT | Code Napoleon is adopted as French civil law. |
| 21st of March 1814 | EVENT | Napoleonic Wars: Austrian forces repel French troops in the Battle of Arcis-sur-Aube. |
| 21st of March 1821 | EVENT | Greek War of Independence: First revolutionary act in the monastery of Agia Lavra, Kalavryta. |
| 21st of March 1844 | EVENT | The Baha'i calendar begins. This is the first day of the first year of the Baha'i calendar. It is annually celebrated by members of the Baha'i Faith as the Baha'i New Year or Naw-Ruz. |
| 21st of March 1857 | EVENT | An earthquake in Tokyo, Japan kills over 100,000. |
| 21st of March 1871 | EVENT | Otto von Bismarck is appointed Chancellor of the German Empire. |
| 21st of March 1871 | EVENT | Journalist Henry Morton Stanley begins his trek to find the missionary and explorer David Livingstone. |
| 21st of March 1913 | EVENT | Over 360 are killed and 20,000 homes destroyed in the Great Dayton Flood in Dayton, Ohio. |
| 21st of March 1918 | EVENT | World War I: The first phase of the German Spring Offensive, Operation Michael, begins. |
| 21st of March 1919 | EVENT | The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established becoming the first Communist government to be formed in Europe after the October Revolution in Russia. |
| 21st of March 1928 | EVENT | Charles Lindbergh is presented with the Medal of Honor for the first solo trans-Atlantic flight. |
| 21st of March 1933 | EVENT | Construction of Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp, is completed. |
| 21st of March 1935 | EVENT | Shah Reza Pahlavi formally asks the international community to call Persia by its native name, Iran, which means 'Land of the Aryans.' |
| 21st of March 1937 | EVENT | Ponce Massacre: 18 people and a 7-year-old girl in Ponce, Puerto Rico, are gunned down by a police squad acting under orders of US-appointed Governor, Blanton C. Winship. |
| 21st of March 1943 | EVENT | Wehrmacht officer Rudolf Christoph Freiherr von Gersdorff plots to assassinate Adolf Hitler by using a suicide bomb, but the plan falls through. Von Gersdorff is able to defuse the bomb in time and avoid suspicion. |
| 21st of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Operation Carthage : British planes bomb Gestapo headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark. They also hit a school and 125 civilians are killed. |
| 21st of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Bulgaria and the Soviet Union successfully complete their defense of the north bank of the Drava River as the Battle of Drava concludes. |
| 21st of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: British troops liberate Mandalay, Burma. |
| 21st of March 1946 | EVENT | The Los Angeles Rams sign Kenny Washington, making him the first African American player in the American football since 1933. |
| 21st of March 1952 | EVENT | Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio. |
| 21st of March 1960 | EVENT | Apartheid: Massacre in Sharpeville, South Africa: Police open fire on a group of unarmed black South African demonstrators, killing 69 and wounding 180. |
| 21st of March 1963 | EVENT | Alcatraz, a federal penitentiary on an island in San Francisco Bay, closes. |
| 21st of March 1964 | EVENT | In Copenhagen, Denmark, Gigliola Cinquetti wins the ninth Eurovision Song Contest for Italy singing "Non ho l'eta" ("I'm not old enough"). |
| 21st of March 1965 | EVENT | Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9 which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes. |
| 21st of March 1965 | EVENT | Martin Luther King, Jr. leads 3,200 people on the start of the third and finally successful civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama. |
| 21st of March 1968 | EVENT | Battle of Karameh in Jordan between Israeli Defense Forces and Fatah. |
| 21st of March 1970 | EVENT | The first Earth Day proclamation is issued by Mayor of San Francisco Joseph Alioto. |
| 21st of March 1980 | EVENT | US President Jimmy Carter announces a United States boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow to protest the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan. |
| 21st of March 1980 | EVENT | On the season finale of the soap opera Dallas, the infamous character J.R. Ewing is shot by an unseen assailant, leading to the catchphrase "Who shot J.R.?" |
| 21st of March 1989 | EVENT | Sports Illustrated reports allegations tying baseball player Pete Rose to baseball gambling. |
| 21st of March 1990 | EVENT | Namibia becomes independent after 75 years of South African rule. |
| 21st of March 1997 | EVENT | In a Tel Aviv, Israel coffee shop, a suicide bomber kills 3 and injures 49. |
| 21st of March 1999 | EVENT | Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones become the first to circumnavigate the Earth in a hot air balloon. |
| 21st of March 2002 | EVENT | In Pakistan, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh along with three other suspects are charged with murder for their part in the kidnapping and killing of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl. |
| 21st of March 2006 | EVENT | Immigrant workers constructing the Burj Khalifa and a new terminal of Dubai International Airport riot causing $1M in damage. |
| 21st of March 1521 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice, Elector of Saxony (d. 1553) |
| 21st of March 1527 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Finck, German composer (d. 1558) |
| 21st of March 1685 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750) |
| 21st of March 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Francis Lewis, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1803) |
| 21st of March 1763 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Paul, German writer (d. 1825) |
| 21st of March 1768 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Fourier, French mathematician (d. 1830) |
| 21st of March 1801 | BIRTHDAY | Maria Theresa of Tuscany, Queen of Sardinia (d. 1855) |
| 21st of March 1806 | BIRTHDAY | Benito Juarez, Mexican statesman (d. 1872) |
| 21st of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Woodard, English educationalist (d. 1891) |
| 21st of March 1825 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (d. 1890) |
| 21st of March 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Hayward, English cricketer (d. 1876) |
| 21st of March 1839 | BIRTHDAY | Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky, Russian composer (d. 1881) |
| 21st of March 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Alick Bannerman, Australian cricketer (d. 1924) |
| 21st of March 1863 | BIRTHDAY | George Owen Squier, American inventor (d. 1934) |
| 21st of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Florenz Ziegfeld, American theater producer (d. 1932) |
| 21st of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | John Tewksbury, American athlete (d. 1968) |
| 21st of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Broncho Billy Anderson, American actor (d. 1971) |
| 21st of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksander Keskula, Estonian politician and nationalist (d. 1963) |
| 21st of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Bascom Lamar Lunsford, American lawyer, folklorist, and folk musician (d. 1973) |
| 21st of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Renoir, French actor and director (d. 1952) |
| 21st of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Zlatko Balokovic, Croatian violinist (d. 1955) |
| 21st of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Arnold, German politician (d. 1958) |
| 21st of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Son House, American musician (d. 1988) |
| 21st of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Forrest Mars Sr., American candymaker (d. 1999) |
| 21st of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer (d. 1949) |
| 21st of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Jehane Benoit, Canadian culinary author (d. 1987) |
| 21st of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Thompson, American designer and businessman (d. 1967) |
| 21st of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Julio Gallo, American vintner (d. 1993) |
| 21st of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | M S Khan, Bangladeshi intellectual (d. 1978) |
| 21st of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | George Abecassis, English race car driver (d. 1991) |
| 21st of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Tortelier, French cellist (d. 1990) |
| 21st of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Ustad Bismillah Khan, Indian shehnai maestro (d. 2006) |
| 21st of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Hardy, Australian author (d. 1994) |
| 21st of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Yigael Yadin, Israeli archeologist and politician (d. 1984) |
| 21st of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick J. Lucey, American politician |
| 21st of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Georg Ots, Estonian singer (d. 1975) |
| 21st of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki player and songwriter (d. 1970) |
| 21st of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur Grumiaux, Belgian violinist (d. 1986) |
| 21st of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004) |
| 21st of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Abbott, American actor (d. 1998) |
| 21st of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Nirmala Srivastava, Indian religious figure (d. 2011) |
| 21st of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Dov Shilansky, Israeli politician (d. 2010) |
| 21st of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Brook, British stage director and producer |
| 21st of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (d. 1964) |
| 21st of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician |
| 21st of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Catarcio, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 21st of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | James Coco, American actor (d. 1987) |
| 21st of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gilbert, American chemist, Nobel Prize laureate |
| 21st of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Silverstein, American violinist and conductor |
| 21st of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Heseltine, English politician |
| 21st of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Al Freeman, Jr., American actor |
| 21st of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Clough, English footballer and football manager (d. 2004) |
| 21st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Westbrook, British jazz composer, bandleader and pianist |
| 21st of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Ed Broadbent, Canadian politician |
| 21st of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon Burke, American singer (d. 2010) |
| 21st of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Francoise Dorleac, French actress (d. 1967) |
| 21st of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Politis, Greek basketball player and coach |
| 21st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Hartmut Haenchen, German conductor |
| 21st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band) (d. 1995) |
| 21st of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Istvan Gyulai, Hungarian sports executive (d. 2006) |
| 21st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Hideki Ishima, Japanese guitarist (Flower Travellin' Band) |
| 21st of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Marie-Christine Barrault, French actress |
| 21st of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Rose Stone, American musician (Sly & the Family Stone) |
| 21st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Dorset, English musician (Mungo Jerry) |
| 21st of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Timothy Dalton, British actor |
| 21st of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Fahlman, American computer scientist |
| 21st of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Slavoj Zizek, Slovenian sociologist and cultural critic |
| 21st of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Eddie Money, American musician |
| 21st of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Hodgson, English musician (Supertramp) |
| 21st of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Thompkins Jr, American singer (The Stylistics) |
| 21st of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Martin Lester, American educator, author, and photographer |
| 21st of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dimitrios Papadimoulis, Greek politician |
| 21st of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Guy Chadwick, English guitarist, vocalist and songwriter (The House of Love) |
| 21st of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Kristiansen, Norwegian runner |
| 21st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Sabrina Le Beauf, American actress |
| 21st of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Oldman, English actor |
| 21st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah Jane Morris, English singer |
| 21st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Nobuo Uematsu, Japanese composer |
| 21st of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Yuval Rotem, Israeli Ambassador |
| 21st of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Ayrton Senna, Brazilian race car driver (d. 1994) |
| 21st of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Benito de Leon, Filipino military officer |
| 21st of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Sweet, American drummer |
| 21st of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Lothar Matthaus, German footballer |
| 21st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Broderick, American actor |
| 21st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Greenwood, Canadian actress |
| 21st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Waid, American comic book writer |
| 21st of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Rosie O'Donnell, American comedian and actress |
| 21st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Shawon Dunston, American baseball player |
| 21st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Shawn Lane, American musician (d. 2003) |
| 21st of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Ronald Koeman, Dutch footballer and football manager |
| 21st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Jesper Skibby, Danish professional cyclist |
| 21st of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ahmed Radhi, Iraqi international football star |
| 21st of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Xavier Bertrand, French politician |
| 21st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Jonas Berggren, Swedish musician (Ace of Base) |
| 21st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Chiles, British television and radio presenter |
| 21st of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Reality, British MC (The Prodigy) |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Cameron Clyne, Australian businessman |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | DJ Premier, American record producer |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Greg Ellis, English actor |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Scott Williams, American basketball player |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Shin Seung Hun, South Korean ballad singer |
| 21st of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Samantha Dorman, American model |
| 21st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Jonah Goldberg, American author and pundit |
| 21st of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Ali Daei, Iranian footballer |
| 21st of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Shiho Niiyama, Japanese voice actress (d. 2000) |
| 21st of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Cenk Uygur, American radio talk show host |
| 21st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Candido, American professional wrestler (d. 2005) |
| 21st of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Large Professor, American hip hop artist |
| 21st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Branch, British-American actress and model |
| 21st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Ananda Lewis, American model and television personality |
| 21st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Stuart Nethercott, English footballer |
| 21st of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Supiran, American actor |
| 21st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Clayton, Tunisian footballer |
| 21st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Laura Allen, American actress |
| 21st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rhys Darby, New Zealand comedian |
| 21st of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Edsel Dope, American singer (Dope) |
| 21st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player |
| 21st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Vitaly Potapenko, Ukrainian basketball player |
| 21st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Justin Pierce, British actor (d. 2000) |
| 21st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Williams, Welsh snooker player |
| 21st of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Yacoub Al-Mohana, Kuwaiti film director |
| 21st of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Tekin Sazlog, Turkish footballer |
| 21st of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Blackstone, American author |
| 21st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Charmaine Dragun, Australian news anchor (d. 2007) |
| 21st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Federline, American dancer; ex-husband of Britney Spears |
| 21st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Cristian Guzman, Dominican baseball player |
| 21st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Rani Mukherjee, Indian actress |
| 21st of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Baines, English keyboardist (Kaiser Chiefs) |
| 21st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Marit Bj?rgen, Norwegian cross-country skier |
| 21st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ronaldinho Gaucho, Brazilian international footballer |
| 21st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Jin, South Korean actress |
| 21st of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Deryck Whibley, Canadian guitarist and singer (Sum41) |
| 21st of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Germano, Brazilian footballer |
| 21st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Hill, American baseball player |
| 21st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jocie Kok, Chinese-Singaporean singer |
| 21st of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Colin Turkington, British racing driver |
| 21st of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Ondoa, Cameroonian footballer |
| 21st of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Tiago, Brazilian footballer |
| 21st of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ryan Callahan, American hockey player |
| 21st of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Peterson, American football player |
| 21st of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Erik Johnson, American ice hockey player |
| 21st of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Cattermole, English footballer |
| 21st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Lodeiro, Uruguayan footballer |
| 21st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Rochelle Wiseman, English singer (The Saturdays) |
| 21st of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Takeru Satoh, Japanese actor |
| 21st of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Mandy Capristo, German singer (Monrose) |
| 21st of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Luke Chapman, English footballer |
| 21st of March 2004 | BIRTHDAY | Count Claus-Casimir of Orange-Nassau, Jonkheer van Amsberg |
| 21st of March 1063 | DEATH | Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland |
| 21st of March 1076 | DEATH | Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1011) |
| 21st of March 1181 | DEATH | Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (Born 1118) |
| 21st of March 1306 | DEATH | Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1248) |
| 21st of March 1487 | DEATH | Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (Born 1417) |
| 21st of March 1556 | DEATH | Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (Born 1489) |
| 21st of March 1617 | DEATH | Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (Born c.1595) |
| 21st of March 1656 | DEATH | James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (Born 1581) |
| 21st of March 1676 | DEATH | Henri Sauval, French historian (Born 1623) |
| 21st of March 1729 | DEATH | John Law, Scottish economist (Born 1671) |
| 21st of March 1734 | DEATH | Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (Born 1679) |
| 21st of March 1751 | DEATH | Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (Born 1706) |
| 21st of March 1762 | DEATH | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (Born 1713) |
| 21st of March 1772 | DEATH | Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (Born 1703) |
| 21st of March 1795 | DEATH | Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (Born 1714) |
| 21st of March 1801 | DEATH | Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (Born 1741) |
| 21st of March 1804 | DEATH | Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Conde (executed) (Born 1772) |
| 21st of March 1843 | DEATH | Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (Born 1786) |
| 21st of March 1843 | DEATH | Robert Southey, English poet (Born 1774) |
| 21st of March 1850 | DEATH | Miguel Pedrorena, American settler |
| 21st of March 1863 | DEATH | Edwin Vose Sumner, American Civil War general (Born 1797) |
| 21st of March 1881 | DEATH | Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (Born 1793) |
| 21st of March 1884 | DEATH | Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (Born 1819) |
| 21st of March 1910 | DEATH | Nadar, French photographer (Born 1820) |
| 21st of March 1915 | DEATH | Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (Born 1856) |
| 21st of March 1920 | DEATH | Evelina Haverfield British suffragette (Born 1867) |
| 21st of March 1934 | DEATH | Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (Born 1878) |
| 21st of March 1936 | DEATH | Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (Born 1865) |
| 21st of March 1945 | DEATH | Artur Nebe, German SS officer (Born 1894) |
| 21st of March 1951 | DEATH | Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (Born 1871) |
| 21st of March 1958 | DEATH | Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (Born 1923) |
| 21st of March 1970 | DEATH | Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (Born 1920) |
| 21st of March 1975 | DEATH | Joe Medwick, baseball player (Born 1911) |
| 21st of March 1980 | DEATH | Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (Born 1888) |
| 21st of March 1980 | DEATH | Angelo Bruno, American mobster (Born 1910) |
| 21st of March 1984 | DEATH | Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (Born 1963) |
| 21st of March 1985 | DEATH | Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (Born 1908) |
| 21st of March 1987 | DEATH | Dean Paul Martin, American musician (Born 1951) |
| 21st of March 1987 | DEATH | Robert Preston, American actor (Born 1918) |
| 21st of March 1991 | DEATH | Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (Born 1909) |
| 21st of March 1992 | DEATH | John Ireland, Canadian film actor and director (Born 1914) |
| 21st of March 1992 | DEATH | Natalie Sleeth, American composer (Born 1930) |
| 21st of March 1994 | DEATH | Macdonald Carey, American actor (Born 1913) |
| 21st of March 1994 | DEATH | Dack Rambo, American actor (Born 1941) |
| 21st of March 1994 | DEATH | Lili Damita, French actress (Born 1904) |
| 21st of March 1997 | DEATH | W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (Born 1911) |
| 21st of March 1998 | DEATH | Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (Born 1910) |
| 21st of March 1999 | DEATH | Ernie Wise, British comedian (Born 1925) |
| 21st of March 2001 | DEATH | Anthony Steel, English actor (Born 1920) |
| 21st of March 2001 | DEATH | Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (Born 1915) |
| 21st of March 2002 | DEATH | Herman Talmadge, American politician (Born 1913) |
| 21st of March 2003 | DEATH | Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (Born 1924) |
| 21st of March 2004 | DEATH | Ludmilla Tcherina, French ballet dancer and actress (Born 1924) |
| 21st of March 2005 | DEATH | Bobby Short, American singer (Born 1924) |
| 21st of March 2005 | DEATH | Barney Martin, American actor (Born 1923) |
| 21st of March 2007 | DEATH | Drew Hayes, American writer and graphic artist (Born 1969) |
| 21st of March 2007 | DEATH | Sven O. H?iby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (Born 1936) |
| 21st of March 2007 | DEATH | Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (Born 1964) |
| 21st of March 2008 | DEATH | Guillermo Jullian de la Fuente, Chilean architect (Born 1931) |
| 21st of March 2009 | DEATH | Walt Poddubny, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1960) |
| 21st of March 2010 | DEATH | Wolfgang Wagner, German opera director (Born 1919) |
| 21st of March 2011 | DEATH | Loleatta Holloway, American singer (Born 1946) |
| 21st of March 2011 | DEATH | Gerd Klier, German footballer (Born 1944) |
| 21st of March 2011 | DEATH | Ladislav Novak, Czech footballer (Born 1931) |
| 21st of March 2011 | DEATH | Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (Born 1913) |