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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 26th of March 1026 | EVENT | Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor. |
| 26th of March 1484 | EVENT | William Caxton prints his translation of Aesop's Fables. |
| 26th of March 1552 | EVENT | Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru. |
| 26th of March 1636 | EVENT | Utrecht University is founded in the Netherlands. |
| 26th of March 1808 | EVENT | Charles IV of Spain abdicates in favor of his son, Ferdinand VII. |
| 26th of March 1812 | EVENT | An earthquake destroys Caracas, Venezuela. |
| 26th of March 1830 | EVENT | The Book of Mormon is published in Palmyra, New York. |
| 26th of March 1839 | EVENT | The first Henley Royal Regatta is held. |
| 26th of March 1881 | EVENT | Thessaly is freed and becomes part of Greece again. |
| 26th of March 1913 | EVENT | Balkan War: Bulgarian forces invade Adrianople. |
| 26th of March 1917 | EVENT | World War I: First Battle of Gaza : British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance. |
| 26th of March 1934 | EVENT | The driving test is introduced in the United Kingdom. |
| 26th of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In Poland, the first female prisoners arrive at Auschwitz. |
| 26th of March 1958 | EVENT | The United States Army launches Explorer 3. |
| 26th of March 1958 | EVENT | The African Regroupment Party is launched at a meeting in Paris. |
| 26th of March 1967 | EVENT | Ten thousand people gather for one of many Central Park be-ins in New York City |
| 26th of March 1971 | EVENT | East Pakistan declares its independence from Pakistan to form People's Republic of Bangladesh and the Bangladesh Liberation War begins. |
| 26th of March 1974 | EVENT | Gaura Devi leads a group of 27 women of Laata village, Henwalghati, Garhwal Himalayas, to form circles around trees to stop them being felled and giving rise to the Chipko Movement in India. |
| 26th of March 1975 | EVENT | The Biological Weapons Convention comes into force. |
| 26th of March 1976 | EVENT | Queen Elizabeth II sends the first royal email, from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment. |
| 26th of March 1979 | EVENT | Anwar al-Sadat, Menachem Begin and Jimmy Carter sign the Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty in Washington, D.C.. |
| 26th of March 1982 | EVENT | A groundbreaking ceremony for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial is held in Washington, D.C.. |
| 26th of March 1991 | EVENT | Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay sign the Treaty of Asuncion, establishing Mercosur, the South Common Market. |
| 26th of March 1995 | EVENT | The Schengen Treaty comes into effect. |
| 26th of March 1997 | EVENT | Thirty-nine bodies are found in the Heaven's Gate cult suicides. |
| 26th of March 1998 | EVENT | Oued Bouaicha massacre in Algeria: 52 people are killed with axes and knives, 32 of them babies under the age of 2. |
| 26th of March 1999 | EVENT | The "Melissa worm" infects Microsoft word processing and e-mail systems around the world. |
| 26th of March 1999 | EVENT | A jury in Michigan finds Dr. Jack Kevorkian guilty of second-degree murder for administering a lethal injection to a terminally ill man. |
| 26th of March 2005 | EVENT | The Taiwanese government calls on 1 million Taiwanese to demonstrate in Taipei, in opposition to the Anti-Secession Law of the People's Republic of China. Around 200,000 to 300,000 attend the demonstration. |
| 26th of March 2006 | EVENT | The military junta ruling Burma officially names Naypyidaw, a new city in Mandalay Division, as the new capital. Yangon had formerly been the nation's capital. |
| 26th of March 2011 | EVENT | March for the Alternative in London as around 400,000 people march against british government spending cuts and participate in direct action against tax avoiding companies. |
| 26th of March 0603 | BIRTHDAY | Pacal II, Mayan ruler (d. 683) |
| 26th of March 1516 | BIRTHDAY | Conrad Gessner, Swiss naturalist (d. 1565) |
| 26th of March 1554 | BIRTHDAY | Charles of Lorraine, Duke of Mayenne, French military leader (d. 1611) |
| 26th of March 1698 | BIRTHDAY | Vaclav Prokop Divis, Czech theologian and natural scientist (d. 1765) |
| 26th of March 1749 | BIRTHDAY | William Blount, American statesman (d. 1800) |
| 26th of March 1753 | BIRTHDAY | Benjamin Thompson, American physicist and inventor (d. 1814) |
| 26th of March 1773 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician and navigator (d. 1838) |
| 26th of March 1794 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, German painter (d. 1872) |
| 26th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Edward Housman, English poet (d. 1936) |
| 26th of March 1859 | BIRTHDAY | Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (d. 1919) |
| 26th of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | King Fuad I of Egypt (d. 1936) |
| 26th of March 1871 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Jonah Kuhio Kalaniana'ole of the Kingdom of Hawaii (d. 1922) |
| 26th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Frost, American poet (d. 1963) |
| 26th of March 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Max Abraham, German physicist (d. 1922) |
| 26th of March 1875 | BIRTHDAY | Syngman Rhee, South Korean politician (d. 1965) |
| 26th of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Prince William of Wied (d. 1945) |
| 26th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Othmar Ammann, Swiss bridge engineer (d. 1965) |
| 26th of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Obrecht, Swiss jurist (d. 1940) |
| 26th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Backhaus, German pianist (d. 1969) |
| 26th of March 1886 | BIRTHDAY | Hugh Mulzac, America military officer (d. 1971) |
| 26th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Elsa Brandstrom, Swedish nurse (d. 1948) |
| 26th of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Palmiro Togliatti, Italian communist leader (d. 1964) |
| 26th of March 1894 | BIRTHDAY | Viorica Ursuleac, Romanian soprano (d. 1985) |
| 26th of March 1896 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Dassler, German sportswear executive (d. 1974) |
| 26th of March 1898 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Shadwell, English conductor and bandleader (d. 1979) |
| 26th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Emilio Fernandez, Mexican actor and filmmaker (d. 1986) |
| 26th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Xenophon Zolotas, Greek economist and politician (d. 2004) |
| 26th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Campbell, American author (d. 1987) |
| 26th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Monty Berman, British film and television producer (d. 2006) |
| 26th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Frankl, Austrian neurologist and psychiatrist (d. 1997) |
| 26th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Mendez, Mexican trumpeter (d. 1981) |
| 26th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Stangl, German concentration camp commandant (d. 1971) |
| 26th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Henry (Hank) Sylvern, American radio personality (d. 1964) |
| 26th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard Katz, German-born biophysicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2003) |
| 26th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Tennessee Williams, American dramatist (d. 1983) |
| 26th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | T. Hee, American animator (d. 1988) |
| 26th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jacqueline de Romilly, French philologist and classical scholar (d. 2010) |
| 26th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Erdos, Hungarian mathematician (d. 1996) |
| 26th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Toru Kumon, Japanese educator (d. 1995) |
| 26th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | William Westmoreland, American military commander (d. 2005) |
| 26th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Hwang Sunwon, Korean writer(d.2000) |
| 26th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986) |
| 26th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986) |
| 26th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1995) |
| 26th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Rabinowitz, South African composer and conductor |
| 26th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Rufus Thomas, American musician (d. 2001) |
| 26th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Leger, Quebec ice hockey player (d. 1965) |
| 26th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Strother Martin, American actor (d. 1980) |
| 26th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Oscar Sala, Italian-born physicist (d. 2010) |
| 26th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Gert Bastian, German politician (d. 1992) |
| 26th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Elliott, American comedian |
| 26th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | James Moody, American jazz musician (d. 2010) |
| 26th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Boulez, French composer and conductor |
| 26th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Mondor, Canadian-born American baseball executive (d. 2010) |
| 26th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Chapman, British photographer |
| 26th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Edwin Turney, American businessman (d. 2008) |
| 26th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Foley, American politician |
| 26th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Corso, American poet (d. 2001) |
| 26th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Sandra Day O'Connor, American jurist |
| 26th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Leonard Nimoy, American actor and director |
| 26th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Vine Deloria, American scholar (d. 2005) |
| 26th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Arkin, American actor |
| 26th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Mahmoud Abbas, Palestinian statesman |
| 26th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Harry Kalas, American sportscaster (d. 2009) |
| 26th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Wayne Embry, American basketball player |
| 26th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony James Leggett, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Nancy Pelosi, American politician |
| 26th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | James Caan, American actor |
| 26th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Yvon Marcoux, Quebec politician |
| 26th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Dawkins, British evolutionary biologist |
| 26th of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Erica Jong, American author |
| 26th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Woodward, American journalist |
| 26th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Diana Ross, American singer (Supremes) |
| 26th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mikhail Voronin, Soviet gymnast (d. 2004) |
| 26th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Johnny Crawford, American actor |
| 26th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Alain Madelin, French politician |
| 26th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Dar Robinson, American stuntman (d. 1986) |
| 26th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Tandy, British keyboardist (Electric Light Orchestra) |
| 26th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Tyler, American singer (Aerosmith) |
| 26th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Suskind, German writer |
| 26th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Vicki Lawrence, American actress and singer |
| 26th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Teddy Pendergrass, American singer (d. 2010) |
| 26th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Short, Canadian comedian |
| 26th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Ernest Thomas, American actor |
| 26th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Silvestri, American film composer |
| 26th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Wieman, American physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 26th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Didier Pironi, French Formula 1 driver (d. 1987) |
| 26th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Elaine Chao, American member of the George W. Bush Administration |
| 26th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Lincoln Chafee, American politician |
| 26th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Youssouf Togoimi, Chadian nationalist (d. 2002) |
| 26th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kazuhiko Inoue, Japanese voice actor |
| 26th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Sliwa, American anti-crime activist |
| 26th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Danny Arndt, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Charly McClain, American singer |
| 26th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Morley, English music journalist and musician |
| 26th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Leeza Gibbons, American television host |
| 26th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Codiroli, American baseball player |
| 26th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Elio de Angelis, Italian racing driver (d. 1986) |
| 26th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hansen, American reporter and correspondent |
| 26th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Grey, American actress |
| 26th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Axel Prahl, German actor |
| 26th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Allen, American football player |
| 26th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Leigh Bowery, Australian-born English fashion performance artist (d. 1994) |
| 26th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | William Hague, British politician |
| 26th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Allan Kramer, American actor |
| 26th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | John Stockton, American basketball player |
| 26th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Paul de Leeuw, Dutch television host |
| 26th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Natsuhiko Kyogoku, Japanese writer |
| 26th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Roch Voisine, Canadian singer and songwriter |
| 26th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Martin Donnelly, Irish race car driver |
| 26th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Ulf Samuelsson, Swedish ice hockey player |
| 26th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Baz Warne, English guitarist (The Stranglers) |
| 26th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hai Zi, Chinese poet (d. 1989) |
| 26th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Trey Azagthoth, American guitarist |
| 26th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Wirth, British engineer |
| 26th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Imperioli, American actor |
| 26th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Carroll, Australian rugby league footballer |
| 26th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kenny Chesney, American singer |
| 26th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Laurent Brochard, French cyclist |
| 26th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | James Iha, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins and A Perfect Circle) |
| 26th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Bosvelt, Dutch football player |
| 26th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Kyparissis, Greek footballer |
| 26th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Martin McDonagh, Anglo-Irish playwright and film director |
| 26th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Behzad Ghorbani, Iranian zoologist and sociobiologist |
| 26th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Reep, American comedian and actor |
| 26th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Leslie Mann, American actress |
| 26th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Maxwell, American baseball player |
| 26th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence E. Page, American search engine designer |
| 26th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | T.R. Knight, American actor |
| 26th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Heather Goldenhersh, American actress |
| 26th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Matt Burke, Australian rugby player |
| 26th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Peca, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 26th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Juvenile, American rapper |
| 26th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joachim Alcine, Haitian-born Quebec boxer |
| 26th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Smart, American actress |
| 26th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Livingston, American actress |
| 26th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Nurgul Yesilcay, Turkish actress |
| 26th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ufuk Talay, Australian footballer |
| 26th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvain Grenier, Canadian professional wrestler |
| 26th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Davies, English footballer |
| 26th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Anastasia Kostaki, Greek basketball player |
| 26th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Hiromi Uehara, Japanese jazz pianist |
| 26th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Wome, Cameroonian footballer |
| 26th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Nacho Novo, Spanish footballer |
| 26th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Richie Wellens, English footballer |
| 26th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Son Ho Young, Korean singer |
| 26th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Baruch Dego, Israeli football player |
| 26th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Sean, British R&B singer |
| 26th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Josh Wilson, American baseball player |
| 26th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Nate Kaeding, American football player |
| 26th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Mikel Arteta, Spanish footballer |
| 26th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Roman Bednar, Czech footballer |
| 26th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Brendli, American professional wrestler |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Annette Schwarz, German pornographic actress |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Gregory Strydom, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Stephanie Lapointe, French-Canadian singer |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Sara Jean Underwood, American model |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Alberto Schettino, Italian footballer |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | David McGowan, English footballer |
| 26th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Howard, American ice hockey player |
| 26th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Keira Knightley, English actress |
| 26th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Prosper Utseya, Zimbabwean cricket captain |
| 26th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Jonathan Groff, American stage and television actor |
| 26th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Jonny Craig, Canadian singer and songwriter (Emarosa and Dance Gavin Dance) |
| 26th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Misty Stone, American pornographic actress and model |
| 26th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | YUI, Japanese singer-songwriter and guitarist |
| 26th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Suvi Koponen, Finnish model |
| 26th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Josiah Leming, American singer-songwriter |
| 26th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Yuya Yagira, Japanese actor |
| 26th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Yuya Takaki, Japanese actor and singer |
| 26th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Haley Ramm, American actress |
| 26th of March 2005 | BIRTHDAY | Countess Luana of Orange-Nassau, Jonkvrouwe van Amsberg |
| 26th of March 2007 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Moritz of Hesse, son of Donatus, Hereditary Prince of Hesse |
| 26th of March 0304 | DEATH | Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian |
| 26th of March 0922 | DEATH | Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer |
| 26th of March 1130 | DEATH | King Sigurd I of Norway (Born c. 1090) |
| 26th of March 1212 | DEATH | King Sancho I of Portugal (Born 1154) |
| 26th of March 1517 | DEATH | Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer |
| 26th of March 1535 | DEATH | Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (Born 1482) |
| 26th of March 1546 | DEATH | Thomas Elyot, English diplomat |
| 26th of March 1566 | DEATH | Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer (Born 1510) |
| 26th of March 1649 | DEATH | John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| 26th of March 1679 | DEATH | Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (Born 1621) |
| 26th of March 1697 | DEATH | Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (Born 1640) |
| 26th of March 1726 | DEATH | Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (Born 1664) |
| 26th of March 1772 | DEATH | Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (Born 1704) |
| 26th of March 1776 | DEATH | Samuel Ward, American politician (Born 1725) |
| 26th of March 1780 | DEATH | Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg (Born 1713) |
| 26th of March 1793 | DEATH | John Mudge, English physician (Born 1721) |
| 26th of March 1797 | DEATH | James Hutton, Scottish geologist (Born 1726) |
| 26th of March 1814 | DEATH | Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (Born 1738) |
| 26th of March 1827 | DEATH | Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (Born 1770) |
| 26th of March 1858 | DEATH | John Addison Thomas, American soldier (Born 1811) |
| 26th of March 1881 | DEATH | Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (Born 1800) |
| 26th of March 1885 | DEATH | Anson Stager, American telegraphist (Born 1825) |
| 26th of March 1888 | DEATH | Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (Born 1837) |
| 26th of March 1892 | DEATH | Walt Whitman, American poet (Born 1819) |
| 26th of March 1902 | DEATH | Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (Born 1853) |
| 26th of March 1905 | DEATH | Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (Born 1849) |
| 26th of March 1910 | DEATH | Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (Born 1864) |
| 26th of March 1910 | DEATH | An Jung-geun, Korean general who fought for independence of Korea(executed) (Born 1879) |
| 26th of March 1920 | DEATH | William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (Born 1834) |
| 26th of March 1923 | DEATH | Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (Born 1844) |
| 26th of March 1926 | DEATH | Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1852) |
| 26th of March 1929 | DEATH | Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (Born 1859) |
| 26th of March 1933 | DEATH | Eddie Lang, American musician (Born 1902) |
| 26th of March 1940 | DEATH | Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (Born 1873) |
| 26th of March 1942 | DEATH | Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (Born 1874) |
| 26th of March 1945 | DEATH | David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (Born 1863) |
| 26th of March 1948 | DEATH | Emile St. Godard, Canadian dog sled racer (Born 1905) |
| 26th of March 1951 | DEATH | James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (Born 1864) |
| 26th of March 1957 | DEATH | Edouard Herriot, French politician (Born 1872) |
| 26th of March 1958 | DEATH | Phil Mead, English cricketer (Born 1887) |
| 26th of March 1959 | DEATH | Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (Born 1888) |
| 26th of March 1969 | DEATH | John Kennedy Toole, American author (Born 1937) |
| 26th of March 1973 | DEATH | Johnny Drake, American football player (Born 1916) |
| 26th of March 1973 | DEATH | Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (Born 1899) |
| 26th of March 1973 | DEATH | Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (Born 1909) |
| 26th of March 1973 | DEATH | George Sisler, American baseball player (Born 1893) |
| 26th of March 1976 | DEATH | Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (Born 1895) |
| 26th of March 1976 | DEATH | Josef Albers, German artist (Born 1888) |
| 26th of March 1978 | DEATH | Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (Born 1904) |
| 26th of March 1983 | DEATH | Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy (Born 1907) |
| 26th of March 1984 | DEATH | Ahmed Sekou Toure, President of Guinea (Born 1922) |
| 26th of March 1987 | DEATH | Eugen Jochum, German conductor (Born 1902) |
| 26th of March 1989 | DEATH | Hai Zi, Chinese poet (Born 1964) |
| 26th of March 1990 | DEATH | Halston, American fashion designer (Born 1932) |
| 26th of March 1992 | DEATH | Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (Born 1937) |
| 26th of March 1995 | DEATH | Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A) (Born 1963) |
| 26th of March 1996 | DEATH | Edmund Muskie, American politician (Born 1914) |
| 26th of March 1996 | DEATH | David Packard, American engineer and businessman (Born 1912) |
| 26th of March 1997 | DEATH | Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (Born 1931) |
| 26th of March 2000 | DEATH | Alex Comfort, American author (Born 1920) |
| 26th of March 2002 | DEATH | Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Motley Crue) (Born 1950) |
| 26th of March 2003 | DEATH | Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (Born 1927) |
| 26th of March 2004 | DEATH | Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (Born 1941) |
| 26th of March 2004 | DEATH | Jan Sterling, American actress (Born 1921) |
| 26th of March 2005 | DEATH | James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom 1976-1979 (Born 1912) |
| 26th of March 2005 | DEATH | Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (Born 1959) |
| 26th of March 2005 | DEATH | Marius Russo, American baseball player (Born 1914) |
| 26th of March 2005 | DEATH | Gerard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (Born 1909) |
| 26th of March 2005 | DEATH | Frederick Rotimi Williams Nigerian politician and jurist (Born 1920) |
| 26th of March 2006 | DEATH | Paul Dana, American race car driver (Born 1975) |
| 26th of March 2006 | DEATH | Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (Born 1956) |
| 26th of March 2006 | DEATH | Anil Biswas, Indian politician (Born 1944) |
| 26th of March 2008 | DEATH | Heath Benedict, American football player (Born 1983) |
| 26th of March 2008 | DEATH | Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (Born 1933) |
| 26th of March 2008 | DEATH | Wally Phillips, American radio personality (Born 1925) |
| 26th of March 2008 | DEATH | Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (Born 1930) |
| 26th of March 2009 | DEATH | Shane McConkey, Canadian skier and BASE jumper (Born 1969) |
| 26th of March 2011 | DEATH | Roger Abbott, Canadian comedian (Air Farce Live) (Born 1946) |
| 26th of March 2011 | DEATH | Geraldine Ferraro, Congresswoman and VP nominee (Born 1935) |