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| Date | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
| 29th of March 1461 | EVENT | Wars of the Roses: Battle of Towton : Edward of York defeats Queen Margaret to become King Edward IV of England. |
| 29th of March 1500 | EVENT | Cesare Borgia is given the title of Captain General and Gonfalonier by his father Rodrigo Borgia after returning from his conquests in the Romagna. |
| 29th of March 1549 | EVENT | The city of Salvador da Bahia, the first capital of Brazil, is founded. |
| 29th of March 1632 | EVENT | Treaty of Saint-Germain is signed returning Quebec to French control after the English had seized it in 1629. |
| 29th of March 1638 | EVENT | Swedish colonists establish the first European settlement in Delaware, naming it New Sweden. |
| 29th of March 1792 | EVENT | King Gustav III of Sweden dies after being shot in the back at a midnight masquerade ball at Stockholm's Royal Opera 13 days earlier. He is succeeded by Gustav IV Adolf. |
| 29th of March 1806 | EVENT | Construction is authorized of the Great National Pike, better known as the Cumberland Road, becoming the first United States federal highway. |
| 29th of March 1809 | EVENT | King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden abdicates after a coup d'etat. At the Diet of Porvoo, Finland's four Estates pledge allegiance to Alexander I of Russia, commencing the secession of the Grand Duchy of Finland from Sweden. |
| 29th of March 1831 | EVENT | Great Bosnian uprising: Bosniaks rebel against Turkey. |
| 29th of March 1847 | EVENT | Mexican-American War: United States forces led by General Winfield Scott take Veracruz after a siege. |
| 29th of March 1849 | EVENT | The United Kingdom annexes the Punjab. |
| 29th of March 1857 | EVENT | Sepoy Mangal Pandey of the 34th Regiment, Bengal Native Infantry revolts against the British rule in India and inspires a long-drawn War of Independence of 1857 also known as the Sepoy Mutiny. |
| 29th of March 1865 | EVENT | American Civil War: Federal forces under Major General Philip Sheridan move to flank Confederate forces under Robert E. Lee as the Appomattox Campaign begins. |
| 29th of March 1867 | EVENT | Queen Victoria gives Royal Assent to the British North America Act which establishes the Dominion of Canada on July 1. |
| 29th of March 1871 | EVENT | The Royal Albert Hall is opened by Queen Victoria. |
| 29th of March 1879 | EVENT | Anglo-Zulu War: Battle of Kambula: British forces defeat 20,000 Zulus. |
| 29th of March 1882 | EVENT | The Knights of Columbus are established. |
| 29th of March 1886 | EVENT | Dr. John Pemberton brews the first batch of Coca-Cola in a backyard in Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 29th of March 1911 | EVENT | The M1911 .45 ACP pistol becomes the official U.S. Army side arm. |
| 29th of March 1930 | EVENT | Heinrich Bruning is appointed German Reichskanzler. |
| 29th of March 1936 | EVENT | In Germany, Adolf Hitler receives 99% of the votes in a referendum to ratify Germany's illegal reoccupation of the Rhineland, receiving 44.5 million votes out of 45.5 million registered voters. |
| 29th of March 1941 | EVENT | The North American Radio Broadcasting Agreement goes into effect at 03:00 local time. |
| 29th of March 1941 | EVENT | World War II: British Royal Navy and Royal Australian Navy forces defeat those of the Italian Regia Marina off the Peloponnesian coast of Greece in the Battle of Cape Matapan. |
| 29th of March 1942 | EVENT | The Bombing of Lubeck in World War II is the first major success for the RAF Bomber Command against Germany and a German city. |
| 29th of March 1945 | EVENT | World War II: Last day of V-1 flying bomb attacks on England. |
| 29th of March 1946 | EVENT | Instituto Tecnologico Autonomo de Mexico, one of Mexico's leading universities, is founded. |
| 29th of March 1951 | EVENT | Ethel and Julius Rosenberg are convicted of conspiracy to commit espionage. |
| 29th of March 1957 | EVENT | The New York, Ontario and Western Railway makes its final run, the first major U.S. railroad to be abandoned in its entirety. |
| 29th of March 1961 | EVENT | The Twenty-third Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, allowing residents of Washington, D.C., to vote in presidential elections. |
| 29th of March 1971 | EVENT | My Lai massacre: Lieutenant William Calley is convicted of premeditated murder and sentenced to life in prison. |
| 29th of March 1971 | EVENT | A Los Angeles, California jury recommends the death penalty for Charles Manson and three female followers. |
| 29th of March 1973 | EVENT | Operation Barrel Roll, a covert US bombing campaign in Laos to stop communist infiltration of South Vietnam, ends. |
| 29th of March 1973 | EVENT | Vietnam War: The last United States combat soldiers leave South Vietnam. |
| 29th of March 1974 | EVENT | NASA's Mariner 10 becomes the first spaceprobe to fly by Mercury. It was launched on November 3, 1973. |
| 29th of March 1982 | EVENT | The Canada Act 1982 (U.K.) receives the Royal Assent from Queen Elizabeth II, setting the stage for the Queen of Canada to proclaim the Constitution Act, 1982. |
| 29th of March 1990 | EVENT | The Czechoslovak parliament is unable to reach an agreement on what to call the country after the fall of Communism, sparking the so-called Hyphen War. |
| 29th of March 1993 | EVENT | Catherine Callbeck becomes premier of Prince Edward Island and the first woman to be elected in a general election as premier of a Canadian province. |
| 29th of March 1999 | EVENT | The Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the 10,000 mark (10,006.78) for the first time, during the height of the internet boom. |
| 29th of March 1999 | EVENT | A magnitude 6.8 earthquake strikes the Chamoli district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, killing 103. |
| 29th of March 2002 | EVENT | In reaction to the Passover massacre three days prior, Israel launches Operation Defensive Shield against Palestinian militants, its largest military operation since the 1967 Six-Day War. |
| 29th of March 2004 | EVENT | Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia join NATO as full members. |
| 29th of March 2004 | EVENT | The Republic of Ireland becomes the first country in the world to ban smoking in all work places, including bars and restaurants. |
| 29th of March 2008 | EVENT | Thirty-five countries and over 370 cities join Earth Hour for the first time. |
| 29th of March 2010 | EVENT | Two female suicide bombers hit the Moscow Metro system at the peak of the morning rush hour, killing 40. |
| 29th of March 1553 | BIRTHDAY | Vitsentzos Kornaros, Greek Renaissance poet |
| 29th of March 1584 | BIRTHDAY | Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (d. 1648) |
| 29th of March 1602 | BIRTHDAY | John Lightfoot, English churchman (d. 1675) |
| 29th of March 1668 | BIRTHDAY | Thomas Coram, Founder of the Foundling Hospital (d. 1751) |
| 29th of March 1713 | BIRTHDAY | John Ponsonby, Irish politician (d. 1789) |
| 29th of March 1746 | BIRTHDAY | Carlo Buonaparte, father of Napoleon Bonaparte (d. 1785) |
| 29th of March 1769 | BIRTHDAY | Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult, French marshal (d. 1851) |
| 29th of March 1790 | BIRTHDAY | John Tyler, 10th President of the United States (d. 1862) |
| 29th of March 1799 | BIRTHDAY | Edward Smith-Stanley, 14th Earl of Derby, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1869) |
| 29th of March 1815 | BIRTHDAY | Costache Caragiale,Romanian actor,writer 1st director of Craiova's National Teather |
| 29th of March 1816 | BIRTHDAY | Tsultrim Gyatso, 10th Dalai Lama (d. 1837) |
| 29th of March 1824 | BIRTHDAY | Ludwig Buchner, German philosopher and physician (d. 1899) |
| 29th of March 1826 | BIRTHDAY | Wilhelm Liebknecht, German journalist and politician (d. 1900) |
| 29th of March 1867 | BIRTHDAY | Cy Young, American baseball player (d. 1955) |
| 29th of March 1869 | BIRTHDAY | Ales Hrdlicka, Czech anthropologist living in the United States (d. 1943) |
| 29th of March 1870 | BIRTHDAY | Pavlos Melas, Greek officer who organized and participated in the Greek Struggle for Macedonia (d. 1904) |
| 29th of March 1873 | BIRTHDAY | Tullio Levi-Civita, Italian mathematician (d. 1941) |
| 29th of March 1874 | BIRTHDAY | Lou Hoover, First Lady of the United States (d. 1944) |
| 29th of March 1885 | BIRTHDAY | Dezso Kosztolanyi, Hungarian poet and writer (d. 1936) |
| 29th of March 1888 | BIRTHDAY | Enea Bossi, Italian-American engineer and aviation pioneer (d. 1963) |
| 29th of March 1889 | BIRTHDAY | Warner Baxter, American actor (d. 1951) |
| 29th of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Alfred Neubauer, German racing team manager (Mercedes Benz) (d. 1980) |
| 29th of March 1891 | BIRTHDAY | Yvan Goll, French-German writer (d. 1950) |
| 29th of March 1892 | BIRTHDAY | Jozsef Mindszenty, Hungarian Catholic cardinal (d. 1975) |
| 29th of March 1895 | BIRTHDAY | Ernst Junger, German author (d. 1998) |
| 29th of March 1899 | BIRTHDAY | Lavrenty Beria, Soviet Communist leader (d. 1953) |
| 29th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | John McEwen, eighteenth Prime Minister of Australia (d. 1980) |
| 29th of March 1900 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Aston, British racing driver (d. 1974) |
| 29th of March 1901 | BIRTHDAY | Andrija Maurovic, Croatian illustrator (d. 1981) |
| 29th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Marcel Ayme, French writer (d. 1967) |
| 29th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | William Walton, English composer (d. 1983) |
| 29th of March 1902 | BIRTHDAY | Don Miller, American college football player (d. 1979) |
| 29th of March 1905 | BIRTHDAY | Philip Ahn, American actor (d. 1978) |
| 29th of March 1906 | BIRTHDAY | E. Power Biggs American concert organist (d. 1977) |
| 29th of March 1907 | BIRTHDAY | "Braguinha", Brazilian songwriter (d. 2006) |
| 29th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Arthur O'Connell, American actor (d. 1981) |
| 29th of March 1908 | BIRTHDAY | Dennis O'Keefe, American actor (d. 1968) |
| 29th of March 1911 | BIRTHDAY | Brigitte Horney, German actress (d. 1988) |
| 29th of March 1912 | BIRTHDAY | Hanna Reitsch, German test pilot (d. 1979) |
| 29th of March 1913 | BIRTHDAY | R. S. Thomas, Welsh poet (d. 2000) |
| 29th of March 1914 | BIRTHDAY | Phil Foster, American actor (d. 1985) |
| 29th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005) |
| 29th of March 1916 | BIRTHDAY | Peter Geach, British philosopher |
| 29th of March 1917 | BIRTHDAY | Man o' War, American thoroughbred racehorse (d. 1947) |
| 29th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Pearl Bailey, American singer and actress (d. 1990) |
| 29th of March 1918 | BIRTHDAY | Sam Walton, American businessman (d. 1992) |
| 29th of March 1919 | BIRTHDAY | Eileen Heckart, American actress (d. 2001) |
| 29th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | John Belk, American head of Belk, Inc. (d. 2007) |
| 29th of March 1920 | BIRTHDAY | Theodore Trautwein, American judge (d. 2000) |
| 29th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John McLaughlin, American political commentator |
| 29th of March 1927 | BIRTHDAY | John Robert Vane, English pharmacologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2004) |
| 29th of March 1928 | BIRTHDAY | Vincent Gigante, American mafioso (d. 2005) |
| 29th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Lennart Meri, President of Estonia (d. 2006) |
| 29th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Richard Lewontin, American biologist |
| 29th of March 1929 | BIRTHDAY | Utpal Dutt, Indian actor (d. 1993) |
| 29th of March 1930 | BIRTHDAY | Anerood Jugnauth, President of Mauritius |
| 29th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Aleksei Gubarev, Soviet cosmonaut |
| 29th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Sopubek Begaliev, Soviet-era economist and politician (d. 2002) |
| 29th of March 1931 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Tebbit, British politician |
| 29th of March 1933 | BIRTHDAY | Jacques Brault, French Canadian poet |
| 29th of March 1934 | BIRTHDAY | Paul Crouch, American televangelist |
| 29th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | John A. Durkin, American politician |
| 29th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Mogens Camre, Danish politician |
| 29th of March 1936 | BIRTHDAY | Judith Guest, American author |
| 29th of March 1937 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Carter, brother of Jimmy Carter (d. 1988) |
| 29th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Terence Hill, Italian actor |
| 29th of March 1939 | BIRTHDAY | Roland Arnall, American businessman and diplomat (d. 2008) |
| 29th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Ray Davis, American musician (d. 2005) |
| 29th of March 1940 | BIRTHDAY | Astrud Gilberto, Brazilian singer |
| 29th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Eden Kane, British singer |
| 29th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Violeta Andrei, Romanian actress |
| 29th of March 1941 | BIRTHDAY | Joseph Hooton Taylor, Jr., American astrophysicist, Nobel laureate |
| 29th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Eric Idle, English actor, writer, and composer |
| 29th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Sir John Major, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom |
| 29th of March 1943 | BIRTHDAY | Vangelis, Greek musician and composer |
| 29th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Denny McLain, American baseball player |
| 29th of March 1944 | BIRTHDAY | Terry Jacks, Canadian musician, songwriter, and activist |
| 29th of March 1945 | BIRTHDAY | Walt Frazier, American basketball player |
| 29th of March 1946 | BIRTHDAY | Billy Thorpe, Australian singer (d. 2007) |
| 29th of March 1947 | BIRTHDAY | Bobby Kimball, American singer |
| 29th of March 1948 | BIRTHDAY | Bud Cort, American actor |
| 29th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (d. 2007) |
| 29th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Dave Greenfield, English Keyboardist of The Stranglers |
| 29th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | Keith Simpson, British politician |
| 29th of March 1949 | BIRTHDAY | John Arthur Spenkelink, American murderer (d. 1979) |
| 29th of March 1950 | BIRTHDAY | Norman Snow, American actor |
| 29th of March 1952 | BIRTHDAY | Teofilo Stevenson, Cuban boxer |
| 29th of March 1953 | BIRTHDAY | Tonis Palts, Estonian politician |
| 29th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Dianne Kay, American actress |
| 29th of March 1954 | BIRTHDAY | Karen Ann Quinlan, American right-to-die cause celebre (d. 1985) |
| 29th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Earl Campbell, American football player |
| 29th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Brendan Gleeson, Irish actor |
| 29th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Marina Sirtis, English actress |
| 29th of March 1955 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lawford, American actor |
| 29th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Patty Donahue, American singer (d. 1996) |
| 29th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Stephen Cole, English journalist |
| 29th of March 1956 | BIRTHDAY | Kurt Thomas, American gymnast |
| 29th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Elizabeth Hand, American writer |
| 29th of March 1957 | BIRTHDAY | Christopher Lambert, French actor |
| 29th of March 1958 | BIRTHDAY | Victor Salva, American film director |
| 29th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Perry Farrell, American musician |
| 29th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Barry Blanchard, Canadian mountaineer |
| 29th of March 1959 | BIRTHDAY | Brad McCrimmon, Canadian ice hockey player |
| 29th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Gary Brabham, Australian racing driver |
| 29th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Sedaris, American actress and comedian |
| 29th of March 1961 | BIRTHDAY | Mike Kingery, American baseball player |
| 29th of March 1962 | BIRTHDAY | Dan Bittman , romanian singer (Holograf) |
| 29th of March 1963 | BIRTHDAY | Elle Macpherson, Australian model |
| 29th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Annabella Sciorra, American actress |
| 29th of March 1964 | BIRTHDAY | Michael A. Jackson, American politician |
| 29th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Emilios T. Harlaftis, Greek astrophysicist (d. 2005) |
| 29th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Jill Goodacre, American actress and model |
| 29th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | William Oefelein, American astronaut |
| 29th of March 1965 | BIRTHDAY | Voula Patoulidou, Greek athlete |
| 29th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | Brian Jordan, American baseball player |
| 29th of March 1967 | BIRTHDAY | John Popper, American musician |
| 29th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Sue Foley, Canadian singer and guitarist |
| 29th of March 1968 | BIRTHDAY | Lucy Lawless, New Zealand actress and singer |
| 29th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Lara Logan, South-African journalist and reporter |
| 29th of March 1971 | BIRTHDAY | Robert Gibbs, American White House (Jan. 2009- Feb. 2011) press secretary for President Barack Obama |
| 29th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Rui Costa, Portugal footballer |
| 29th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Michel Ancel, French game designer |
| 29th of March 1972 | BIRTHDAY | Junichi Suwabe, Japanese voice actor |
| 29th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Sebastiano Siviglia Italian footballer |
| 29th of March 1973 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Overmars, Dutch footballer |
| 29th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Kristoffer Cusick, American actor |
| 29th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Marc Gene, Spanish racing car driver |
| 29th of March 1974 | BIRTHDAY | Rachel Jones, Radio Producer |
| 29th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Igor Astarloa, Spanish cyclist |
| 29th of March 1976 | BIRTHDAY | Jennifer Capriati, American tennis player |
| 29th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Aaron Persico, New Zealand-born Italian rugby player |
| 29th of March 1978 | BIRTHDAY | Pierre Faber, French-born German rugby player |
| 29th of March 1979 | BIRTHDAY | Estela Gimenez, Spanish gymnast |
| 29th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Bill Demong, American Nordic combined skier |
| 29th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Kim Tae Hee, South Korean actress |
| 29th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | China P. Arnold, American convicted murderer |
| 29th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Amy Mathews, Australian actress |
| 29th of March 1980 | BIRTHDAY | Prince Hamzah bin Al Hussein of Jordan |
| 29th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Megan Hilty, American actress |
| 29th of March 1981 | BIRTHDAY | Jlloyd Samuel, West Indian-born footballer |
| 29th of March 1982 | BIRTHDAY | Hideaki Takizawa, Japanese artist |
| 29th of March 1983 | BIRTHDAY | Luiza Sa, Brazilian musician |
| 29th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mai Satoda, Japanese singer |
| 29th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Juan Monaco, Argentine tennis player |
| 29th of March 1984 | BIRTHDAY | Mohamed Bouazizi, Tunisian vegetable vendor and activist (d. 2011) |
| 29th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Mickey Pimentel, National Football League linebacker |
| 29th of March 1985 | BIRTHDAY | Maxim Lapierre, Canadian ice hockey forward |
| 29th of March 1986 | BIRTHDAY | Sylvan Ebanks-Blake, English footballer |
| 29th of March 1987 | BIRTHDAY | Gianluca Freddi, Italian footballer |
| 29th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Jurgen Zopp, Estonian tennis player |
| 29th of March 1988 | BIRTHDAY | Esther Cremer, German athlete |
| 29th of March 1989 | BIRTHDAY | James Tomkins, English footballer |
| 29th of March 1990 | BIRTHDAY | Lyle Taylor, British footballer |
| 29th of March 1991 | BIRTHDAY | Hayley McFarland, American actress |
| 29th of March 1992 | BIRTHDAY | Chris Massoglia, American actor and dancer |
| 29th of March 1994 | BIRTHDAY | Sulli Choi, South korean singer and dancer |
| 29th of March 1058 | DEATH | Pope Stephen IX (Born c. 1020) |
| 29th of March 1368 | DEATH | Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (Born 1328) |
| 29th of March 1461 | DEATH | Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (Born 1421) |
| 29th of March 1578 | DEATH | Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (Born 1527) |
| 29th of March 1578 | DEATH | Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (Born 1524) |
| 29th of March 1625 | DEATH | Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (Born 1549) |
| 29th of March 1628 | DEATH | Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (Born 1546) |
| 29th of March 1629 | DEATH | Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (Born 1565) |
| 29th of March 1683 | DEATH | Yaoya Oshichi, young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (Born 1667) |
| 29th of March 1751 | DEATH | Thomas Coram, English sea captain and philanthropist |
| 29th of March 1772 | DEATH | Emanuel Swedenborg, Swedish philosopher and mathematician (Born 1688) |
| 29th of March 1788 | DEATH | Charles Wesley, English Methodist hymnist (Born 1707) |
| 29th of March 1792 | DEATH | King Gustav III of Sweden (Born 1746) |
| 29th of March 1800 | DEATH | Marc Rene, marquis de Montalembert, French military engineer and writer (Born 1714) |
| 29th of March 1803 | DEATH | Gottfried van Swieten, Dutch/Austrian patron of music (Born 1733) |
| 29th of March 1826 | DEATH | Johann Heinrich Voss, German poet (Born 1751) |
| 29th of March 1848 | DEATH | John Jacob Astor, American businessman (Born 1763) |
| 29th of March 1855 | DEATH | Henri Druey, Swiss Federal Councilor (Born 1799) |
| 29th of March 1873 | DEATH | Francesco Zantedeschi, Italian physicist (Born 1797) |
| 29th of March 1877 | DEATH | Inazuma Raigoro, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 7th Yokozuna (Born 1802) |
| 29th of March 1888 | DEATH | Charles-Valentin Alkan, French composer (Born 1813) |
| 29th of March 1906 | DEATH | Slava Raskaj, Croatian painter (Born 1878) |
| 29th of March 1912 | DEATH | Henry Robertson Bowers : member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1883) |
| 29th of March 1912 | DEATH | Edward Adrian Wilson, English physician and naturalist : member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1872) |
| 29th of March 1912 | DEATH | Sir Robert Falcon Scott, English explorer : member of the Scott Expedition to the South Pole (Born 1868) |
| 29th of March 1924 | DEATH | Charles Villiers Stanford, Irish composer (Born 1852) |
| 29th of March 1934 | DEATH | Otto Hermann Kahn, German millionaire and benefactor (Born 1867) |
| 29th of March 1937 | DEATH | Karol Szymanowski, Polish composer (Born 1882) |
| 29th of March 1940 | DEATH | Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(Born 1916) |
| 29th of March 1948 | DEATH | Harry Price, British psychic researcher and writer (Born 1881) |
| 29th of March 1948 | DEATH | Olev Siinmaa, Estonian architect (Born 1881) |
| 29th of March 1956 | DEATH | Infante Alfonso of Spain (Born 1941) |
| 29th of March 1957 | DEATH | Joyce Cary, Irish author (Born 1888) |
| 29th of March 1959 | DEATH | Barthelemy Boganda, first President of the Central African Republic (Born 1910) |
| 29th of March 1970 | DEATH | Anna Louise Strong, American communist journalist (Born 1885) |
| 29th of March 1971 | DEATH | Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician (Born 1886) |
| 29th of March 1972 | DEATH | Lord J. Arthur Rank, British movie theater owner (Born 1888) |
| 29th of March 1980 | DEATH | Mantovani, Italian-born conductor and arranger (Born 1905) |
| 29th of March 1981 | DEATH | Eric Williams, first Prime Minister of Trinidad & Tobago (Born 1911) |
| 29th of March 1982 | DEATH | Carl Orff, German composer (Born 1895) |
| 29th of March 1982 | DEATH | Nathan Twining, USAF general (Born 1897) |
| 29th of March 1985 | DEATH | Luther Terry, Surgeon General of the United States (Born 1911) |
| 29th of March 1986 | DEATH | Harry Ritz, American actor and comedian (Born 1907) |
| 29th of March 1988 | DEATH | Ted Kluszewski, American baseball player (Born 1924) |
| 29th of March 1989 | DEATH | Bernard Blier, French actor (Born 1916) |
| 29th of March 1991 | DEATH | Lee Atwater, American political consultant (Born 1951) |
| 29th of March 1992 | DEATH | Paul Henreid, Austrian actor (Born 1908) |
| 29th of March 1994 | DEATH | Bill Travers, British actor (Born 1922) |
| 29th of March 1995 | DEATH | Terry Moore, American baseball player (Born 1912) |
| 29th of March 1995 | DEATH | Jimmy McShane, Irish frontman of the group Baltimora (Born 1957) |
| 29th of March 1996 | DEATH | Frank Daniel, Czech-born writer, director, producer and teacher (Born 1926) |
| 29th of March 1996 | DEATH | Bill Goldsworthy, Canadian ice hockey player (Born 1944) |
| 29th of March 1999 | DEATH | Joe Williams, American singer (Born 1918) |
| 29th of March 2001 | DEATH | Helge Ingstad, Norwegian explorer (Born 1899) |
| 29th of March 2001 | DEATH | John Lewis, American jazz pianist (Born 1920) |
| 29th of March 2002 | DEATH | Rachel Levy and Ayat al-Akhras, Israeli and Palestinian children |
| 29th of March 2002 | DEATH | Rico Yan, Philippine actor (Born 1975) |
| 29th of March 2003 | DEATH | Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (Born 1956) |
| 29th of March 2005 | DEATH | Miltos Sahtouris, Greek poet (Born 1919) |
| 29th of March 2005 | DEATH | Johnnie Cochran, American lawyer (Born 1937) |
| 29th of March 2006 | DEATH | Salvador Elizondo, Mexican writer (Born 1932) |
| 29th of March 2007 | DEATH | Calvin Lockhart, Bahamian actor (Born 1934) |
| 29th of March 2009 | DEATH | Vladimir Fedotov, Soviet football striker and manager (Born 1943) |
| 29th of March 2009 | DEATH | Andy Hallett, American actor and singer (Born 1975) |
| 29th of March 2009 | DEATH | Maurice Jarre, French composer (Born 1924) |
| 29th of March 2011 | DEATH | Angelo de Sousa, Portuguese painter and sculptor (Born 1938) |