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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 23rd of March 1400 | EVENT | The Tran Dynasty of Vietnam is deposed after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule by Ho Quy Ly, a court official. |
| 23rd of March 1708 | EVENT | James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth. |
| 23rd of March 1801 | EVENT | Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death in his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle. |
| 23rd of March 1806 | EVENT | After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home. |
| 23rd of March 1821 | EVENT | Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata. |
| 23rd of March 1848 | EVENT | The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded. |
| 23rd of March 1857 | EVENT | Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City. |
| 23rd of March 1862 | EVENT | The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Though a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond. |
| 23rd of March 1868 | EVENT | The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law. |
| 23rd of March 1879 | EVENT | War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topater, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru. |
| 23rd of March 1889 | EVENT | The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian India. |
| 23rd of March 1905 | EVENT | Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt. |
| 23rd of March 1908 | EVENT | American diplomat Durham Stevens is attacked by Korean assassins Jeon Myeong-un and Jang In-hwan, leading to his death in a hospital two days later. |
| 23rd of March 1909 | EVENT | Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society. |
| 23rd of March 1919 | EVENT | In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement. |
| 23rd of March 1931 | EVENT | Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for murder during the Indian struggle for independence. |
| 23rd of March 1933 | EVENT | The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany. |
| 23rd of March 1935 | EVENT | Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines. |
| 23rd of March 1939 | EVENT | The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of Slovak air force in the city of Spisska Nova Ves, kills 13 people and began the Slovak : Hungarian War. |
| 23rd of March 1940 | EVENT | The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or the then Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All India Muslim League. |
| 23rd of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: In the Indian Ocean, Japanese forces capture the Andaman Islands. |
| 23rd of March 1956 | EVENT | Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan) |
| 23rd of March 1962 | EVENT | NS Savannah, the first nuclear-powered cargo-passenger ship, is launched as a showcase for Dwight D. Eisenhower's Atoms for Peace initiative. |
| 23rd of March 1965 | EVENT | NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young). |
| 23rd of March 1978 | EVENT | The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line. |
| 23rd of March 1980 | EVENT | Archbishop Oscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans. |
| 23rd of March 1982 | EVENT | Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas Garcia is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efrain Rios Montt. |
| 23rd of March 1983 | EVENT | Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles. |
| 23rd of March 1989 | EVENT | Stanley Pons and Martin Fleischmann announce their discovery of cold fusion at the University of Utah. |
| 23rd of March 1991 | EVENT | The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War. |
| 23rd of March 1994 | EVENT | At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martinez. |
| 23rd of March 1994 | EVENT | Aeroflot Flight 593 crashes in Siberia when the pilot's fifteen-year old son accidentally disengages the autopilot, killing all 75 people on board. |
| 23rd of March 1994 | EVENT | A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster. |
| 23rd of March 1996 | EVENT | Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President. |
| 23rd of March 1999 | EVENT | Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis Maria Argana. |
| 23rd of March 2001 | EVENT | The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji. |
| 23rd of March 2003 | EVENT | In Nasiriyah, Iraq, 11 soldiers of the 507th Maintenance Company as well as 18 U.S. Marines are killed during the first major conflict of Operation Iraqi Freedom. 654 Iraqi combatants are also killed. |
| 23rd of March 1429 | BIRTHDAY | Margaret of Anjou, wife of Henry VI of England (d. 1482) |
| 23rd of March 1638 | BIRTHDAY | Frederik Ruysch, Dutch physician and anatomist (d. 1731) |
| 23rd of March 1645 | BIRTHDAY | William Kidd, Scottish sailor (d. 1701) |
| 23rd of March 1699 | BIRTHDAY | John Bartram, American botanist (d. 1777) |
| 23rd of March 1723 | BIRTHDAY | Agha Mohammad Khan Ghajar, King of Iran (d. 1771) |
| 23rd of March 1732 | BIRTHDAY | Marie Adelaide of France, daughter of Louis XV (d. 1800) |
| 23rd of March 1754 | BIRTHDAY | Baron Jurij Vega, Slovenian mathematician, physicist, and artillery officer (d. 1802) |
| 23rd of March 1769 | BIRTHDAY | William Smith, English geologist and cartographer (d. 1839) |
| 23rd of March 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Augustin Daniel Belliard, French general (d. 1832) |
| 23rd of March 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Schuyler Colfax, American politician, 17th Vice President of the United States (d. 1885) |
| 23rd of March 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Leon Minkus, German/Czech composer and violinist (d. 1917) |
| 23rd of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Eduard Schlagintweit, German writer (d. 1866) |
| 23rd of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Julius Reubke, German composer (d. 1858) |
| 23rd of March 1858 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (d. 1941) |
| 23rd of March 1862 | BIRTHDAY | Nathaniel Reed, American outlaw turned evangelist (d. 1950) |
| 23rd of March 1868 | BIRTHDAY | Dietrich Eckart, early supporter of Adolf Hitler's Nazi Party and member of Thule Society (d. 1923) |
| 23rd of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Calouste Gulbenkian, Armenian businessman and philanthropist (d. 1955) |
| 23rd of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | J. C. Leyendecker, German American Illustrator (d. 1951) |
| 23rd of March 1878 | BIRTHDAY | Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (d. 1934) |
| 23rd of March 1880 | BIRTHDAY | Heikki Ritavuori, Finnish politician (d. 1922) |
| 23rd of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Roger Martin du Gard, French writer, Nobel laureate (d. 1958) |
| 23rd of March 1881 | BIRTHDAY | Hermann Staudinger, German chemist, Nobel laureate (d. 1965) |
| 23rd of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Amalie Emmy Noether, German mathematician (d. 1935) |
| 23rd of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Gris, Spanish artist (d. 1927) |
| 23rd of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Josef Capek, Czech writer (d. 1945) |
| 23rd of March 1887 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Felix Yussupov, Russian assassin of Rasputin (d. 1967) |
| 23rd of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Gibbons, American art director (d. 1960) |
| 23rd of March 1893 | BIRTHDAY | G. D. Naidu (Gopalaswamy Doraiswamy Naidu), Indian Inventor & Engineer (Edison of India) (d. 1974) |
| 23rd of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Dora Gerson, German actress and singer (d. 1943) |
| 23rd of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Erich Fromm, German-born psychoanalyst (d. 1980) |
| 23rd of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | H. Beam Piper, American science fiction author (d. 1964) |
| 23rd of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Lale Andersen, German singer and cabaretist (d. 1972) |
| 23rd of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Joan Crawford, American actress (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Bovet, Swiss-born scientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1992) |
| 23rd of March 1910 | BIRTHDAY | Akira Kurosawa, Japanese film director (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Wernher von Braun, German-born physicist and engineer (d. 1977) |
| 23rd of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Milbourne Christopher, American illusionist (d. 1984) |
| 23rd of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Vasily Zaitsev, Soviet World War II figure (d. 1991) |
| 23rd of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Graffunder, architect |
| 23rd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Neal Smith, former United States Congressman |
| 23rd of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Tetsuharu Kawakami, Japanese baseball player and coach |
| 23rd of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Campbell, British car and motorboat racer (d. 1967) |
| 23rd of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Marty Allen, American comedian and actor |
| 23rd of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ugo Tognazzi, Italian actor, director and screenwriter (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor (d. 1980) |
| 23rd of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | David Watkin, English cinematographer (d. 2008) |
| 23rd of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | Mato Damjanovic, Croatian chess grandmaster (d. 2011) |
| 23rd of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Roger Bannister, English runner |
| 23rd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Yevgenij Grishin, Russian speed skater (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Viktor Korchnoi, Russian chess player |
| 23rd of March 1932 | BIRTHDAY | Don Marshall, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Zimbardo, American psychologist |
| 23rd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Ludvig Faddeev, Russian mathematician |
| 23rd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Fernand Gignac, Canadian singer and actor (d. 2006) |
| 23rd of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Rydell, American film and television director |
| 23rd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gallo, American physician |
| 23rd of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Craig Breedlove, American land speed record holder |
| 23rd of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Pike, American jazz musician |
| 23rd of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Pepe Lienhard, Swiss band leader and entertainer |
| 23rd of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Jim Trelease, American educator and children's literature author |
| 23rd of March 1942 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Rodney, Guyanese historian and political figure (d. 1980) |
| 23rd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Lee May, American baseball player |
| 23rd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | George P. Lee, former general authority of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and convicted sex offender (d. 2010) |
| 23rd of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa, Finnish writer (d. 2001) |
| 23rd of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Nyman, British minimalist composer |
| 23rd of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Tony McPhee, English singer and guitarist (The Groundhogs) |
| 23rd of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Franco Battiato, Italian singer, songwriter and filmmaker |
| 23rd of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | David Grisman, American bluegrass musician |
| 23rd of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | David Olney, American musician |
| 23rd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Lee, American artist |
| 23rd of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Ric Ocasek, American musician (The Cars) |
| 23rd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Corinne Clery, French actress |
| 23rd of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Anthony De Longis, American actor |
| 23rd of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Ron Jaworski, American football player and analyst |
| 23rd of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Stanley Robinson, American author |
| 23rd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Bo Diaz, Venezuelan baseball player (d. 1990) |
| 23rd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw, Indian entrepreneur |
| 23rd of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Chaka Khan, American singer |
| 23rd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Geno Auriemma, American basketball coach |
| 23rd of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Kenneth Cole, American fashion designer |
| 23rd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Moses Malone, American basketball player |
| 23rd of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Petrea Burchard, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Manuel Barroso, Portuguese politician |
| 23rd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Amanda Plummer, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Robbie James, Welsh footballer (d. 1998) |
| 23rd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Lucio Gutierrez, Ecuadorian politician |
| 23rd of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Teresa Ganzel, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Bengt-Ake Gustafsson, Swedish ice hockey player and coach |
| 23rd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Etienne De Wilde, Belgian cyclist |
| 23rd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | El Duce, American singer and drummer (The Mentors) (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Sorich, American voice actor, writer and director |
| 23rd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Keener, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls) (d. 1997) |
| 23rd of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Philippe Volter, Belgian actor (d. 2005) |
| 23rd of March 1960 | BIRTHDAY | Nicol Stephen, Deputy First Minister of Scotland |
| 23rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Helmi Johannes, Indonesian television newscaster |
| 23rd of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Holmes, Romanian/German pornographic actor |
| 23rd of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Steve Redgrave, British rower |
| 23rd of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Michel (Jose Miguel Gonzalez Martin), Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Hope Davis, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | John Pinette, American comedian |
| 23rd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Sarah G. Buxton, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Marti Pellow, Scottish singer |
| 23rd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Whitehead, American poet |
| 23rd of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Grieco, American actor and singer |
| 23rd of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | David Ford, Canadian kayaker |
| 23rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Damon Albarn, English musician (Blur, Gorillaz and The Good, the Bad & the Queen) |
| 23rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Hierro, Spanish footballer |
| 23rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Mitch Cullin, American novelist |
| 23rd of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Atherton, English cricketer |
| 23rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Yasmeen Ghauri, Canadian model |
| 23rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Karen McDougal, American model |
| 23rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Gail Porter, Scottish television presenter |
| 23rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Hiroyoshi Tenzan, Japanese professional wrestler |
| 23rd of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Selivanov, Russian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Joe Calzaghe, Welsh boxer |
| 23rd of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Godreche, French actress and author |
| 23rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jerzy Dudek, Polish footballer |
| 23rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Wim Eyckmans, Belgian racing driver |
| 23rd of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jason Kidd, American basketball player |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jayson Blair, American journalist and author |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Hoy, British track cyclist |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Michelle Monaghan, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jeremy Newberry, American football player |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Dougie Lampkin, English motorcycle trials rider |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Joel Peralta, Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Ricardo Zonta, Brazilian race car driver |
| 23rd of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Keri Russell, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1977 | BIRTHDAY | Miklos Perlus, Canadian voice actor |
| 23rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Perez Hilton, American blogger and television persona |
| 23rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Walter Samuel, Argentine footballer |
| 23rd of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Nicholle Tom, American actress |
| 23rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Natalia Hadjiloizou, Belarusian/Cypriot swimmer |
| 23rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Mark Buehrle, American baseball player |
| 23rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Misty Hyman, American swimmer |
| 23rd of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Donncha O'Callaghan, Irish rugby player |
| 23rd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Russell Howard, English comedian |
| 23rd of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Itay Tiran, Israeli actor |
| 23rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Tony Pena, Jr., Dominican baseball player |
| 23rd of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Erin Crocker, American race car driver |
| 23rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Raul Contreras, Chilean footballer |
| 23rd of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Musacco, Italian footballer |
| 23rd of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Thomas, English footballer |
| 23rd of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Maurice Jones-Drew, American football player |
| 23rd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Andrea Dovizioso, Italian motorcycle racer |
| 23rd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Steven Strait, American actor |
| 23rd of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Bordeleau, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 23rd of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Alan Toovey, Australian footballer |
| 23rd of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Michal Neuvirth, Czech ice hockey player |
| 23rd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Jaime Alguersuari, Spanish racing driver |
| 23rd of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Eugenie of York |
| 23rd of March 1995 | BIRTHDAY | Jan Lisiecki, Canadian pianist |
| 23rd of March 1997 | BIRTHDAY | Aidan Davis, English dancer |
| 23rd of March 1103 | DEATH | Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (Born 1058) |
| 23rd of March 1361 | DEATH | Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (Born c. 1310) |
| 23rd of March 1369 | DEATH | King Pedro of Castile (Born 1334) |
| 23rd of March 1548 | DEATH | Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen (Born 1489) |
| 23rd of March 1555 | DEATH | Pope Julius III (Born 1487) |
| 23rd of March 1559 | DEATH | Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) |
| 23rd of March 1596 | DEATH | Henry Unton, English diplomat |
| 23rd of March 1606 | DEATH | Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (Born 1547) |
| 23rd of March 1618 | DEATH | James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician |
| 23rd of March 1653 | DEATH | Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (Born 1604) |
| 23rd of March 1675 | DEATH | Anthoni van Noordt, Dutch composer and organist (Born 1619) |
| 23rd of March 1680 | DEATH | Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (Born 1615) |
| 23rd of March 1742 | DEATH | Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (Born 1670) |
| 23rd of March 1747 | DEATH | Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (Born 1675) |
| 23rd of March 1748 | DEATH | Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (Born 1684) |
| 23rd of March 1754 | DEATH | Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (Born 1693) |
| 23rd of March 1783 | DEATH | Charles Carroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (Born 1723) |
| 23rd of March 1801 | DEATH | Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (Born 1754) |
| 23rd of March 1842 | DEATH | Stendhal, French writer (Born 1783) |
| 23rd of March 1914 | DEATH | Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayes (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (Born 1832) |
| 23rd of March 1923 | DEATH | Hovhannes Tumanyan Armenian poet and writer (Born 1869) |
| 23rd of March 1927 | DEATH | Paul Cesar Helleu, French artist (Born 1859) |
| 23rd of March 1931 | DEATH | Bhagat Singh (Born 1907), Rajguru (b. 1908), Sukhdev (b. 1907) Indian freedom fighters |
| 23rd of March 1935 | DEATH | Florence Moore, American actress (Born 1886) |
| 23rd of March 1945 | DEATH | Tadamichi Kuribayashi, Commander of the Japanese garrison during Battle of Iwo Jima (Born 1891) |
| 23rd of March 1947 | DEATH | Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (Born 1870) |
| 23rd of March 1955 | DEATH | Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (Born 1875) |
| 23rd of March 1960 | DEATH | Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (Born 1881) |
| 23rd of March 1960 | DEATH | Said Nursi, Islamic thinker from Turkey (Born 1878) |
| 23rd of March 1964 | DEATH | Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (Born 1904) |
| 23rd of March 1965 | DEATH | Mae Murray, American actress (Born 1889) |
| 23rd of March 1968 | DEATH | Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of March 1970 | DEATH | Del Lord, Canadian director (Born 1894) |
| 23rd of March 1972 | DEATH | Cristobal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (Born 1895) |
| 23rd of March 1978 | DEATH | Haim Ernst Wertheimer, Israeli biochemist, recipient of the Israel Prize (Born 1893) |
| 23rd of March 1979 | DEATH | Ted Anderson, English footballer (Born 1911) |
| 23rd of March 1980 | DEATH | Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (Born 1928) |
| 23rd of March 1982 | DEATH | Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of March 1985 | DEATH | Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of March 1985 | DEATH | Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (Born 1908) |
| 23rd of March 1985 | DEATH | Ben Hardwick, Britain's youngest liver transplant patient (Born 1982) |
| 23rd of March 1990 | DEATH | John Dexter, English stage and film director (Born 1925) |
| 23rd of March 1991 | DEATH | Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (Born 1913) |
| 23rd of March 1992 | DEATH | Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel laureate (Born 1899) |
| 23rd of March 1994 | DEATH | Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of March 1994 | DEATH | Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (Born 1950) |
| 23rd of March 1994 | DEATH | Donald Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of March 1995 | DEATH | Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (Born 1953) |
| 23rd of March 1995 | DEATH | Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (Born 1956) |
| 23rd of March 1998 | DEATH | Gerald Stano, American serial killer (Born 1951) |
| 23rd of March 1999 | DEATH | Luis Maria Argana, Paraguayan politician (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of March 2001 | DEATH | Rowland Evans, American journalist (Born 1921) |
| 23rd of March 2002 | DEATH | Eileen Farrell, American soprano (Born 1920) |
| 23rd of March 2002 | DEATH | Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (Born 1977) |
| 23rd of March 2003 | DEATH | Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of March 2004 | DEATH | Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (Born 1916) |
| 23rd of March 2006 | DEATH | David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1932) |
| 23rd of March 2006 | DEATH | Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (Born 1919) |
| 23rd of March 2006 | DEATH | Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (Born 1918) |
| 23rd of March 2007 | DEATH | Paul Joseph Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of March 2007 | DEATH | Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (Born 1973) |
| 23rd of March 2008 | DEATH | Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (Born 1926) |
| 23rd of March 2009 | DEATH | Raul Macias, Mexican boxer (Born 1934) |
| 23rd of March 2009 | DEATH | Ghukas Chubaryan, Armenian sculptor (Born 1923) |
| 23rd of March 2011 | DEATH | Elizabeth Taylor, English-American actress (Born 1932) |