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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 15th of March 0221 | EVENT | Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty. |
| 15th of March 0351 | EVENT | Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. |
| 15th of March 0933 | EVENT | After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. |
| 15th of March 1311 | EVENT | Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. |
| 15th of March 1493 | EVENT | Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. |
| 15th of March 1514 | EVENT | Jodocus Badius Ascensius publishes Christiern Pedersen's Latin version of Saxo's Gesta Danorum, the oldest known version of that work. |
| 15th of March 1545 | EVENT | First meeting of the Council of Trent. |
| 15th of March 1564 | EVENT | Mughal Emperor Akbar abolishes jizya (per capita tax) . |
| 15th of March 1672 | EVENT | Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. |
| 15th of March 1781 | EVENT | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford Courthouse : Near present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400. |
| 15th of March 1783 | EVENT | In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d'etat never takes place. |
| 15th of March 1820 | EVENT | Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state. |
| 15th of March 1848 | EVENT | A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party. |
| 15th of March 1906 | EVENT | Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated. |
| 15th of March 1916 | EVENT | President Woodrow Wilson sends 4,800 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. |
| 15th of March 1917 | EVENT | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. |
| 15th of March 1922 | EVENT | After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. |
| 15th of March 1926 | EVENT | The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition. |
| 15th of March 1931 | EVENT | SS Viking explodes off Newfoundland, killing 27 of the 147 on board. |
| 15th of March 1933 | EVENT | Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship. |
| 15th of March 1939 | EVENT | World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. |
| 15th of March 1939 | EVENT | Carpatho-Ukraine declares itself an independent republic, but is annexed by Hungary the next day. |
| 15th of March 1943 | EVENT | World War II: Third Battle of Kharkov : the Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. |
| 15th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Soviet forces begin an offensive to push Germans from Upper Silesia. |
| 15th of March 1952 | EVENT | In Cilaos, Reunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in a 24 hour period, setting a new world record (March 15 through March 16). |
| 15th of March 1956 | EVENT | My Fair Lady premiered on Broadway at the Mark Hellinger Theatre. |
| 15th of March 1961 | EVENT | South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. |
| 15th of March 1965 | EVENT | President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. |
| 15th of March 1985 | EVENT | The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). |
| 15th of March 1990 | EVENT | Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. |
| 15th of March 1990 | EVENT | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first President of the Soviet Union. |
| 15th of March 2004 | EVENT | French President Jacques Chirac signs the law on secularity and conspicuous religious symbols in schools, commonly known as the headscarf ban. |
| 15th of March 0938 | BIRTHDAY | Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (d. 963) |
| 15th of March 1275 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of England (1275 : 1333), English princess (d. 1333) |
| 15th of March 1455 | BIRTHDAY | Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (d. 1532) |
| 15th of March 1493 | BIRTHDAY | Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (d. 1567) |
| 15th of March 1591 | BIRTHDAY | Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (d. 1660) |
| 15th of March 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Shunzhi Emperor of China (d. 1661) |
| 15th of March 1666 | BIRTHDAY | George Bahr, German architect (d. 1738) |
| 15th of March 1684 | BIRTHDAY | Francesco Durante, Italian composer (d. 1755) |
| 15th of March 1713 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (d. 1762) |
| 15th of March 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Amarindra, Queen consort to King Rama I of Siam (d. 1826) |
| 15th of March 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Archibald Menzies, Scottish naturalist and surgeon (d. 1842) |
| 15th of March 1767 | BIRTHDAY | Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (d. 1845) |
| 15th of March 1771 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Hett Chapman, American Presbyterian minister and president of the University of North Carolina (d. 1833) |
| 15th of March 1779 | BIRTHDAY | Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (d. 1848) |
| 15th of March 1790 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (d. 1861) |
| 15th of March 1791 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Knight, English publisher (d. 1873) |
| 15th of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (d. 1893) |
| 15th of March 1809 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (d. 1876) |
| 15th of March 1813 | BIRTHDAY | John Snow, English epidemiologist (d. 1858) |
| 15th of March 1818 | BIRTHDAY | Mariano Alvarez, Filipino general (d. 1924) |
| 15th of March 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (d. 1895) |
| 15th of March 1821 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Heine, German mathematician (d. 1881) |
| 15th of March 1821 | BIRTHDAY | William Milligan, Scottish theologian (d. 1892) |
| 15th of March 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Jules Chevalier, French priest (d. 1907) |
| 15th of March 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Paul von Heyse, German writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1914) |
| 15th of March 1830 | BIRTHDAY | Elisee Reclus, French geographer (d. 1905) |
| 15th of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (d. 1881) |
| 15th of March 1835 | BIRTHDAY | John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (d. 1859) |
| 15th of March 1835 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (d. 1916) |
| 15th of March 1838 | BIRTHDAY | Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (d. 1889) |
| 15th of March 1851 | BIRTHDAY | William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (d. 1939) |
| 15th of March 1852 | BIRTHDAY | Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist (d. 1932) |
| 15th of March 1854 | BIRTHDAY | Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (d. 1917) |
| 15th of March 1864 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (d. 1935) |
| 15th of March 1865 | BIRTHDAY | Manuk Abeghian, scholar of Armenian literature and folklore (d. 1944) |
| 15th of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (d. 1910) |
| 15th of March 1866 | BIRTHDAY | Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (d. 1948) |
| 15th of March 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Lionel Johnson, British poet (d. 1902) |
| 15th of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (d. 1944) |
| 15th of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Wojciechowski, President of Poland (d. 1953) |
| 15th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (d. 1951) |
| 15th of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Lightbody, American runner (d. 1953) |
| 15th of March 1884 | BIRTHDAY | Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright (d. 1951) |
| 15th of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Marjorie Merriweather Post, American entrepreneur (d. 1973) |
| 15th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (d. 1980) |
| 15th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | James Basevi Ord, US army officer (d. 1938) |
| 15th of March 1897 | BIRTHDAY | Jackson Scholz, American runner (d. 1986) |
| 15th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | George Brent, American film actor (d. 1979) |
| 15th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | Yu Gwan-sun, Korean independence fighter (d. 1920) |
| 15th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Berthold von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (d. 1944) |
| 15th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (d. 1981) |
| 15th of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Nick Stewart, American actor (d. 2000) |
| 15th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Lightnin' Hopkins, American musician (d. 1982) |
| 15th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (d. 1979) |
| 15th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Fairman, British racing driver (d. 2002) |
| 15th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | Macdonald Carey, American actor (d. 1994) |
| 15th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (d. 1985) |
| 15th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (d. 1982) |
| 15th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Caterina Boratto, Italian film actress (d. 2010) |
| 15th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Coghlan Jr, American actor (d. 2009) |
| 15th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983) |
| 15th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001) |
| 15th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987) |
| 15th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (d. 1987) |
| 15th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Tierney, American actor (d. 2002) |
| 15th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (d. 1998) |
| 15th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Madelyn Pugh, American television writer |
| 15th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (d. 1971) |
| 15th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Charles Wheeler, British journalist (d. 2008) |
| 15th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Gotell, German actor (d. 1997) |
| 15th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist (d. 2007) |
| 15th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (d. 1983) |
| 15th of March 1926 | BIRTHDAY | Ben Johnston, American composer |
| 15th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Stanis?aw Kania, Polish politician |
| 15th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000) |
| 15th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Smith, American singer (d. 2010) |
| 15th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel laureate |
| 15th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Nestoridis, Greek footballer |
| 15th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan (d. 2011) |
| 15th of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Bean, American astronaut |
| 15th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe de Broca, French film director (d. 2004) |
| 15th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, American jurist |
| 15th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist |
| 15th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist |
| 15th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader |
| 15th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Judd Hirsch, American actor |
| 15th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist |
| 15th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Leonid Yengibarian, Armenian clown and actor (d. 1972) |
| 15th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | David Andrews, Irish politician |
| 15th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (d. 1986) |
| 15th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Kaufman, American politician |
| 15th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | David Eisenberg, American biochemist |
| 15th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author |
| 15th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Julie Tullis, British climber (d. 1986) |
| 15th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Frank Dobson, British politician |
| 15th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead) |
| 15th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Mel Phillips, American radio programmer |
| 15th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Margo Coleman, American advice columnist |
| 15th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys) |
| 15th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician |
| 15th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Sly Stone, American musician |
| 15th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Doillon, French film director |
| 15th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (d. 2007) |
| 15th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Mark J. Green, American public official |
| 15th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (d. 2003) |
| 15th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Howard E. Scott, American musician (War) |
| 15th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Masaharu Sato, Japanese seiyu |
| 15th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Ry Cooder, American guitarist |
| 15th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Gino Ferrin, German footballer |
| 15th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor |
| 15th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Kate Bornstein, American author |
| 15th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Sergio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (d. 2003) |
| 15th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | J?rgen Olsen, Danish singer |
| 15th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Howard Koh, American state government official |
| 15th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Bruton, Irish politician |
| 15th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Bigalis, Greek singer and songwriter |
| 15th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Massimo Bubola, Italian singer-songwriter |
| 15th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Wasson, American actor |
| 15th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Bob Budiansky, American comic book writer, illustrator, and editor |
| 15th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister) |
| 15th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Clay Matthews, American football player |
| 15th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Munoz, Spanish football manager |
| 15th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Joaquim de Almeida, Portuguese-American actor |
| 15th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Park Overall, American actress |
| 15th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Silverman, American animator |
| 15th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Renny Harlin, Finnish film director |
| 15th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Harold Baines, American baseball player |
| 15th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model |
| 15th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Lisa Holton, American writer |
| 15th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Marco Pennette, American television producer |
| 15th of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Sanders, American animator and director |
| 15th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player |
| 15th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Cummings, American basketball player |
| 15th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmy Baio, American actor |
| 15th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Trent D'Arby, American singer |
| 15th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison) |
| 15th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Davide Pinato, Italian footballer |
| 15th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Rockwell, American musician |
| 15th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist |
| 15th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer |
| 15th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray) |
| 15th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Terje Riis-Johansen, Norwegian politician |
| 15th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer |
| 15th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth) |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Raver, American actress |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Apollo Papathanasio, Swedish vocalist |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey |
| 15th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Elvir Lakovic Laka, Bosnian rock singer |
| 15th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Derek Parra, American speed skater |
| 15th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Joanne Wise, English long jumper |
| 15th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Penny Lancaster, English model |
| 15th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182) |
| 15th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Tomlin, American football coach |
| 15th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Lee Jung-jae, South Korean actor & model |
| 15th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Boris Durdevic, Croatian musician |
| 15th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Fick, American baseball player |
| 15th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player |
| 15th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Longoria, American actress |
| 15th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of March 1975 | BIRTHDAY | Will.i.am, American musician |
| 15th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Cara Pifko, Canadian actress |
| 15th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Katherine Brooks, American television director |
| 15th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Hahn, American musician (Linkin Park) |
| 15th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Adrian Burnside, Australian baseball player |
| 15th of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Tee, American actor |
| 15th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater |
| 15th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player |
| 15th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Freddie Bynum, American baseball player |
| 15th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer |
| 15th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Veronica Maggio, Swedish singer |
| 15th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Young Buck, American rapper |
| 15th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer (Alexisonfire) |
| 15th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Emily Tyndall, American actress |
| 15th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Rafael Perez, Dominican baseball player |
| 15th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer |
| 15th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor |
| 15th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Badradine Belloumou, French-born football player |
| 15th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Kostas Vasileiadis, Greek basketball player |
| 15th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Juninho, Brazilian footballer |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Eva Amurri, American actress |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | James MacLurcan, Australian actor |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Tom Chilton, British racing driver |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Kellan Lutz, American model and actor |
| 15th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Curtis Davies, English footballer |
| 15th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Adrianne Leon, American singer-songwriter and actress |
| 15th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Taiwan Brown, American video jockey |
| 15th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Lent, American drummer and keyboardist |
| 15th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | James Reimer, Canadian hockey player |
| 15th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Caitlin Wachs, American actress |
| 15th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Bryce Gibbs, Australian rules footballer |
| 15th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Siobhan Magnus, American singer |
| 15th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Kii Kitano, Japanese actress |
| 15th of March 0220 | DEATH | Cao Cao, King of Wei (Born 155) |
| 15th of March 0493 | DEATH | Odoacer, King of Italy (Born 435) |
| 15th of March 1145 | DEATH | Pope Lucius II |
| 15th of March 1311 | DEATH | Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens |
| 15th of March 1416 | DEATH | John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (Born 1340) |
| 15th of March 1536 | DEATH | Pargal? Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizier under Suleiman the Magnificent |
| 15th of March 1575 | DEATH | Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (Born 1527) |
| 15th of March 1644 | DEATH | Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (Born 1576) |
| 15th of March 1670 | DEATH | John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (Born 1597) |
| 15th of March 1673 | DEATH | Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (Born 1615) |
| 15th of March 1701 | DEATH | Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (Born 1624) |
| 15th of March 1711 | DEATH | Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (Born 1645) |
| 15th of March 1820 | DEATH | Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (Born 1751) |
| 15th of March 1842 | DEATH | Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (Born 1760) |
| 15th of March 1849 | DEATH | Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (Born 1774) |
| 15th of March 1891 | DEATH | Theodore de Banville, French writer (Born 1823) |
| 15th of March 1891 | DEATH | Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (Born 1819) |
| 15th of March 1898 | DEATH | Sir Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (Born 1813) |
| 15th of March 1937 | DEATH | H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (Born 1890) |
| 15th of March 1941 | DEATH | Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (Born 1864) |
| 15th of March 1951 | DEATH | John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (Born 1889) |
| 15th of March 1957 | DEATH | Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1886) |
| 15th of March 1959 | DEATH | Lester Young, American musician (Born 1909) |
| 15th of March 1962 | DEATH | Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1892) |
| 15th of March 1966 | DEATH | Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (Born 1902) |
| 15th of March 1969 | DEATH | Miles Malleson, British actor and dramatist (Born 1888) |
| 15th of March 1969 | DEATH | Musashiyama Takeshi, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 33rd Yokozuna (Born 1909) |
| 15th of March 1970 | DEATH | Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (Born 1897) |
| 15th of March 1971 | DEATH | Jean-Pierre Monsere, Belgian cyclist (Born 1948) |
| 15th of March 1972 | DEATH | Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (Born 1910) |
| 15th of March 1975 | DEATH | Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (Born 1900) |
| 15th of March 1977 | DEATH | Hubert Aquin, Canadian novelist, political activist and editor (Born 1929) |
| 15th of March 1977 | DEATH | Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler (Born 1927) |
| 15th of March 1981 | DEATH | Rene Clair, French film director (Born 1898) |
| 15th of March 1983 | DEATH | Rebecca West, English writer (Born 1892) |
| 15th of March 1983 | DEATH | Coloman Braun-Bogdan, Romanian football midfielder and manager (Born 1905) |
| 15th of March 1985 | DEATH | Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (Born 1921) |
| 15th of March 1988 | DEATH | Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (Born 1926) |
| 15th of March 1989 | DEATH | Valerie Quennessen, French actress (Born 1957) |
| 15th of March 1989 | DEATH | Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (Born 1915) |
| 15th of March 1990 | DEATH | Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (Born 1919) |
| 15th of March 1990 | DEATH | Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (Born 1958) |
| 15th of March 1991 | DEATH | Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (Born 1906) |
| 15th of March 1997 | DEATH | Gail Davis, American actress (Born 1925) |
| 15th of March 1997 | DEATH | Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (Born 1906) |
| 15th of March 1998 | DEATH | Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (Born 1903) |
| 15th of March 2001 | DEATH | Ann Sothern, American actress (Born 1909) |
| 15th of March 2003 | DEATH | Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (Born 1956) |
| 15th of March 2003 | DEATH | Dame Thora Hird, British actress (Born 1911) |
| 15th of March 2004 | DEATH | Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (Born 1910) |
| 15th of March 2004 | DEATH | John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (Born 1925) |
| 15th of March 2005 | DEATH | Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (Born 1927) |
| 15th of March 2005 | DEATH | Bob Bellear, Australian judge (Born 1944) |
| 15th of March 2006 | DEATH | George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (Born 1918) |
| 15th of March 2006 | DEATH | Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (Born 1918) |
| 15th of March 2007 | DEATH | Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (Born 1938) |
| 15th of March 2007 | DEATH | Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (Born 1926) |
| 15th of March 2007 | DEATH | Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (Born 1927) |
| 15th of March 2008 | DEATH | Mikey Dread, Jamaican singer (Born 1954) |
| 15th of March 2008 | DEATH | Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (Born 1951) |
| 15th of March 2008 | DEATH | Ken Reardon, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1921) |
| 15th of March 2009 | DEATH | Ron Silver, American actor (Born 1946) |
| 15th of March 2011 | DEATH | Nate Dogg, American rapper, Nathaniel Dwayne Hale. (Born 1969) |
| 15th of March 2011 | DEATH | Smiley Culture, British reggae singer, David Victor Emmanuel. (Born 1962) |