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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 20th of March 0235 | EVENT | Maximinus Thrax is proclaimed emperor. He is the first foreigner to hold the Roman throne. |
| 20th of March 1208 | EVENT | Michael IV Autoreianos is appointed Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. |
| 20th of March 1600 | EVENT | The Linkoping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkoping, Sweden. |
| 20th of March 1602 | EVENT | The Dutch East India Company is established. |
| 20th of March 1616 | EVENT | Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. |
| 20th of March 1760 | EVENT | The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings. |
| 20th of March 1815 | EVENT | After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. |
| 20th of March 1848 | EVENT | Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. |
| 20th of March 1852 | EVENT | Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin is published. |
| 20th of March 1861 | EVENT | An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina. |
| 20th of March 1883 | EVENT | The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed. |
| 20th of March 1888 | EVENT | The premiere of the very first Romani language operetta is staged in Moscow, Russia. |
| 20th of March 1913 | EVENT | Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. |
| 20th of March 1914 | EVENT | In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place. |
| 20th of March 1916 | EVENT | Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. |
| 20th of March 1922 | EVENT | The USS Langley (CV-1) is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. |
| 20th of March 1923 | EVENT | The Arts Club of Chicago hosts the opening of Pablo Picasso's first United States showing, entitled Original Drawings by Pablo Picasso, becoming an early proponent of modern art in the United States. |
| 20th of March 1933 | EVENT | Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida's electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. |
| 20th of March 1942 | EVENT | World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". |
| 20th of March 1948 | EVENT | With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. |
| 20th of March 1951 | EVENT | Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshu is founded. |
| 20th of March 1952 | EVENT | The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. |
| 20th of March 1956 | EVENT | Tunisia gains independence from France. |
| 20th of March 1964 | EVENT | The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. |
| 20th of March 1974 | EVENT | Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. |
| 20th of March 1980 | EVENT | The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. |
| 20th of March 1985 | EVENT | Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. |
| 20th of March 1985 | EVENT | Canadian paraplegic athlete and humanitarian Rick Hansen begins his circumnavigation of the globe in a wheelchair in the name of spinal cord injury medical research. |
| 20th of March 1987 | EVENT | The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT. |
| 20th of March 1988 | EVENT | Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People's Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. |
| 20th of March 1990 | EVENT | Ferdinand Marcos's widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. |
| 20th of March 1993 | EVENT | An IRA bomb explodes, killing two children in Warrington, Northwest England. |
| 20th of March 1995 | EVENT | A sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway kills 12 and wounds 1,300 persons. |
| 20th of March 1999 | EVENT | Legoland California, the only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California. |
| 20th of March 2000 | EVENT | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after murdering Georgia sheriff's deputy Ricky Kinchen and critically wounding Deputy Aldranon English. |
| 20th of March 2003 | EVENT | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. |
| 20th of March 2005 | EVENT | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated. |
| 20th of March 2006 | EVENT | Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. |
| 20th of March 2006 | EVENT | Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country's banana crop. |
| 20th of March 1469 | BIRTHDAY | Princess Cecily of York (d. 1507) |
| 20th of March 1477 | BIRTHDAY | Jerome Emser, German theologian (d. 1527) |
| 20th of March 1502 | BIRTHDAY | Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (d. 1575) |
| 20th of March 1644 | BIRTHDAY | Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate (d. 1709) |
| 20th of March 1725 | BIRTHDAY | Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1789) |
| 20th of March 1735 | BIRTHDAY | Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (d. 1784) |
| 20th of March 1737 | BIRTHDAY | Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (d. 1809) |
| 20th of March 1741 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (d. 1828) |
| 20th of March 1770 | BIRTHDAY | Friedrich Holderlin, German writer (d. 1843) |
| 20th of March 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (d. 1839) |
| 20th of March 1800 | BIRTHDAY | Braulio Carrillo Colina, Costa Rican Head of State (d. 1845) |
| 20th of March 1811 | BIRTHDAY | Napoleon II of France, (d. 1832) |
| 20th of March 1823 | BIRTHDAY | Ned Buntline, American publisher (d. 1886) |
| 20th of March 1828 | BIRTHDAY | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (d. 1906) |
| 20th of March 1831 | BIRTHDAY | Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (d. 1881) |
| 20th of March 1834 | BIRTHDAY | Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (d. 1926) |
| 20th of March 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (d. 1886) |
| 20th of March 1836 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (d. 1919) |
| 20th of March 1840 | BIRTHDAY | Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (d. 1894) |
| 20th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (d. 1941) |
| 20th of March 1856 | BIRTHDAY | Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (d. 1915) |
| 20th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (d. 1964) |
| 20th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Borries von Munchhausen, German poet (d. 1945) |
| 20th of March 1876 | BIRTHDAY | Payne Whitney, American businessman (d. 1927) |
| 20th of March 1879 | BIRTHDAY | Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (d. 1960) |
| 20th of March 1882 | BIRTHDAY | Rene Coty, French President (d. 1962) |
| 20th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (d. 1957) |
| 20th of March 1890 | BIRTHDAY | Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (d. 1973) |
| 20th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (d. 1981) |
| 20th of March 1903 | BIRTHDAY | Edgar Buchanan, American actor (d. 1979) |
| 20th of March 1904 | BIRTHDAY | B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (d. 1990) |
| 20th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Jean Galia, French rugby footballer (d. 1949) |
| 20th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Ozzie Nelson, American bandleader and actor (d. 1975) |
| 20th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | Abraham Beame, American politician (d. 2001) |
| 20th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam (d. 2011) |
| 20th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (d. 1985) |
| 20th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Alfonso Garcia Robles, Mexican diplomat and Nobel laureate (d. 1991) |
| 20th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Wendell Corey, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 20th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Rudolf Kirchschlager, Austrian politician, President (1974-1986) (d. 2000) |
| 20th of March 1915 | BIRTHDAY | Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (d. 1997) |
| 20th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Messmer, French politician, Prime Minister (1972-1974) (d. 2007) |
| 20th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Vera Lynn, English actress and singer |
| 20th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Jack Barry, American TV host (d. 1984) |
| 20th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist |
| 20th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer |
| 20th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (d. 1997) |
| 20th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (d. 1973) |
| 20th of March 1921 | BIRTHDAY | Dusan Pirjevec, Slovenian resistance fighter, philosopher and literary historian (d. 1977) |
| 20th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Reiner, American film director |
| 20th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader |
| 20th of March 1922 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Goulding, American comedian (d. 1990) |
| 20th of March 1923 | BIRTHDAY | Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani author, journalist and political activist (d. 2006) |
| 20th of March 1924 | BIRTHDAY | Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (d. 1998) |
| 20th of March 1925 | BIRTHDAY | John Ehrlichman, American political figure (d. 1999) |
| 20th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John Joubert, South African-born British composer |
| 20th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Fred Rogers, American TV host (d. 2003) |
| 20th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | German Robles, Spanish actor |
| 20th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Hal Linden, American actor |
| 20th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet |
| 20th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | George Altman, American baseball player |
| 20th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Willie Brown, American politician |
| 20th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | David Malouf, Australian author |
| 20th of March 1935 | BIRTHDAY | Ted Bessell, American actor (d. 1996) |
| 20th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Vaughn Meader, American comedian (d. 2004) |
| 20th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Lee "Scratch" Perry, Jamaican Reggae artist |
| 20th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Jerry Reed, American singer and actor (d. 2008) |
| 20th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Lois Lowry, American children's author |
| 20th of March 1938 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist |
| 20th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada |
| 20th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Stathis Chaitas, Greek fooballer |
| 20th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Corrales, American baseball player |
| 20th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Kenji Kimihara, Japanese long-distance runner |
| 20th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer |
| 20th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist |
| 20th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer |
| 20th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot |
| 20th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author |
| 20th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach |
| 20th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | John Boswell, American historian (d. 1994) |
| 20th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Marva Wright, American blues singer (d. 2010) |
| 20th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 20th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | John de Lancie, American actor |
| 20th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist |
| 20th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) |
| 20th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | William Hurt, American actor |
| 20th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Curt Smith, American author and media host |
| 20th of March 1951 | BIRTHDAY | Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist |
| 20th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver |
| 20th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Francesa, American sports talk show host |
| 20th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician |
| 20th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Catherine Ashton, British politician |
| 20th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Anne Donahue, Vermont state representative |
| 20th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress |
| 20th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | David Foster, Australian woodchopper |
| 20th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Theresa Russell, American actress |
| 20th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Wedge, American animator |
| 20th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Spike Lee, American film director |
| 20th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist |
| 20th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Sommers, American film director |
| 20th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Holly Hunter, American actress |
| 20th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Steve McFadden, British actor |
| 20th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Beasant, English football goalkeeper |
| 20th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Sting, American professional wrestler |
| 20th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Arndt-Brauer, German politician |
| 20th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer |
| 20th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats) |
| 20th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (d. 2007) |
| 20th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | David Thewlis, British actor |
| 20th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Annacone, American tennis player |
| 20th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Kathy Ireland, American model and actress |
| 20th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer |
| 20th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | William Dalrymple, Writer and Historian |
| 20th of March 1966 | BIRTHDAY | Alka Yagnik, Indian singer |
| 20th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player |
| 20th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | A. J. Jacobs, American journalist and author |
| 20th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Liza Snyder, American actress |
| 20th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Merson, English footballer |
| 20th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Caroline Brunet, Canadian kayaker |
| 20th of March 1969 | BIRTHDAY | Mannie Fresh, American producer |
| 20th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Rapaport, American actor |
| 20th of March 1970 | BIRTHDAY | Michele Jaffe, American novelist |
| 20th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player |
| 20th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Ingrid Kavelaars, Canadian actress |
| 20th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Toure, American writer |
| 20th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand) |
| 20th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jane March, English actress |
| 20th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor |
| 20th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Cedric Yarbrough, American actor |
| 20th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Paula Garces, Colombian actress |
| 20th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer |
| 20th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park) |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Freema Agyeman, British actress |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bianca Lawson, American actress |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Bernard O'Connor, Gaelic Footballer |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Fiona Wade, British actress |
| 20th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Molly Jenson, American musician |
| 20th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer |
| 20th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Jamal Crawford, American basketball player |
| 20th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Ian Murray, Scottish football player |
| 20th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Jose Moreira, Portuguese footballer |
| 20th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer |
| 20th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Valtteri Filppula, Finnish ice-hockey player |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Christy Carlson Romano, American actress |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Markus Niemela, Finnish racing driver |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Winta, Norwegian musician |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Marcus Vick, American football player |
| 20th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer |
| 20th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Yoan Merlo, French e-sport gamer |
| 20th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Ronnie Brewer, American basketball player |
| 20th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Dean Geyer, Australian singer and actor |
| 20th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Julian Magallanes, Argentine footballer |
| 20th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Ruby Rose Langenheim, Australian VJ |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Jo, Brazilian footballer |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Kangana Ranaut, Indian actress |
| 20th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player |
| 20th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Louie Vito, American snowboarder |
| 20th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer |
| 20th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Mattia Destro, Italian footballer |
| 20th of March 0687 | DEATH | St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (Born c. 634) |
| 20th of March 1239 | DEATH | Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (Born c. 1179) |
| 20th of March 1390 | DEATH | Alexios III, Emperor of Trebizond (Born 1338) |
| 20th of March 1413 | DEATH | King Henry IV of England (Born 1367) |
| 20th of March 1549 | DEATH | Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour, widower of Queen Catherine Parr (Born 1508) |
| 20th of March 1568 | DEATH | Duke Albert of Prussia (Born 1490) |
| 20th of March 1586 | DEATH | Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (Born 1496) |
| 20th of March 1619 | DEATH | Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (Born 1557) |
| 20th of March 1673 | DEATH | Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (Born 1603) |
| 20th of March 1730 | DEATH | Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (Born 1692) |
| 20th of March 1732 | DEATH | Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (Born 1681) |
| 20th of March 1746 | DEATH | Nicolas de Largilliere, French painter (Born 1656) |
| 20th of March 1780 | DEATH | Sir Benjamin Truman : English brewer |
| 20th of March 1793 | DEATH | William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (Born 1705) |
| 20th of March 1809 | DEATH | Mary Bateman, English woman executed for witchcraft, known as the "Yorkshire Witch" |
| 20th of March 1835 | DEATH | Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (Born 1794) |
| 20th of March 1849 | DEATH | James Justinian Morier, British diplomat and novelist (Born 1780) |
| 20th of March 1855 | DEATH | Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (Born 1788) |
| 20th of March 1865 | DEATH | Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (Born 1833) |
| 20th of March 1874 | DEATH | Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (Born 1810) |
| 20th of March 1878 | DEATH | Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (Born 1814) |
| 20th of March 1890 | DEATH | Alexander F. Mozhayskiy, Russian aviation pioneer (Born 1825) |
| 20th of March 1897 | DEATH | Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (Born 1821) |
| 20th of March 1899 | DEATH | Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (Born 1822) |
| 20th of March 1916 | DEATH | Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (Born 1884) |
| 20th of March 1918 | DEATH | Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (Born 1828) |
| 20th of March 1925 | DEATH | Lord George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman, Viceroy of India (Born 1859) |
| 20th of March 1929 | DEATH | Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (Born 1851) |
| 20th of March 1931 | DEATH | Hermann Muller, Chancellor of Germany (Born 1876) |
| 20th of March 1933 | DEATH | Giuseppe Zangara, attempted assassin of Franklin Roosevelt (Born 1900) |
| 20th of March 1934 | DEATH | Queen Emma of the Netherlands (Born 1858) |
| 20th of March 1940 | DEATH | Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (Born 1860) |
| 20th of March 1947 | DEATH | Sigurd Wallen, Swedish actor and filmdirector (Born 1884) |
| 20th of March 1958 | DEATH | Adegoke Adelabu, Nigerian politician (Born 1915) |
| 20th of March 1964 | DEATH | Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (Born 1923) |
| 20th of March 1969 | DEATH | Henri Longchambon, French politician (Born 1896) |
| 20th of March 1970 | DEATH | Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (Born 1920) |
| 20th of March 1972 | DEATH | Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (Born 1921) |
| 20th of March 1974 | DEATH | Chet Huntley, American television journalist (Born 1911) |
| 20th of March 1977 | DEATH | Terukuni Manzo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 38th Yokozuna (Born 1919) |
| 20th of March 1981 | DEATH | Gerry Bertier, American wheelchair Olympian (Born 1953) |
| 20th of March 1983 | DEATH | Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (Born 1891) |
| 20th of March 1990 | DEATH | Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (Born 1929) |
| 20th of March 1991 | DEATH | Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (Born 1986) |
| 20th of March 1992 | DEATH | Georges Delerue, French film composer (Born 1925) |
| 20th of March 1993 | DEATH | Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (Born 1911) |
| 20th of March 1994 | DEATH | Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (Born 1946) |
| 20th of March 1995 | DEATH | Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (Born 1948) |
| 20th of March 1997 | DEATH | Tony Zale, American boxer (Born 1913) |
| 20th of March 1997 | DEATH | V. S. Pritchett, British writer and critic (Born 1900) |
| 20th of March 1998 | DEATH | George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician (Born 1956) |
| 20th of March 2000 | DEATH | Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (Born 1961) |
| 20th of March 2001 | DEATH | Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (Born 1949) |
| 20th of March 2003 | DEATH | Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (Born 1924) |
| 20th of March 2004 | DEATH | Pierre Sevigny, Canadian military officer and politician (Born 1917) |
| 20th of March 2004 | DEATH | Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (Born 1909) |
| 20th of March 2005 | DEATH | Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (Born 1912) |
| 20th of March 2007 | DEATH | Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (Born 1939) |
| 20th of March 2007 | DEATH | Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (Born 1938) |
| 20th of March 2007 | DEATH | Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (Born 1948) |
| 20th of March 2008 | DEATH | Shoban Babu, Indian actor (Born 1937) |
| 20th of March 2008 | DEATH | Klaus Dinger, German musician (Born 1946) |
| 20th of March 2008 | DEATH | Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (Born 1935) |
| 20th of March 2008 | DEATH | Brian Wilde, English actor (Born 1921) |
| 20th of March 2009 | DEATH | Mel Brown, American/Canadian blues guitarist (Born 1939) |
| 20th of March 2010 | DEATH | Harry Carpenter, English television sports commentator (Born 1925) |
| 20th of March 2010 | DEATH | Stewart Udall, American politician, environmentalist (Born 1920) |
| 20th of March 2010 | DEATH | Liz Carpenter, American feminist writer (Born 1920) |
| 20th of March 2010 | DEATH | Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (Born 1925) |
| 20th of March 2011 | DEATH | Johnny Pearson, British Composer (Born 1925) |