March 16
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Art and culture
- 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York; many Jews commit suicide rather than submit to baptism.
- 1998 - Pope John Paul II apologises for inactivity and silence of some Roman Catholics during the Holocaust.
Births
- 1908 - René Daumal, French Surrealist writer (d. 1944)
- 1911 - Dr. Josef Mengele, German, accused Nazi war criminal (d. 1979)
- 1926 - Jerry Lewis, American comedian
- 1940 - Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian film director
- 1953 - Isabelle Huppert, French actress
Deaths
- 1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
- 1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
- 1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
- 1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
Notes
- 1980 - Pruitt-Igoe
- 1980 - Catharism
- 1980 - Jørgen Nash
- 1980 - Natália Correia
- 1980 - Bacchanalia
- 1980 - Malcolm McLaren
- 1980 - James Bulger
- 1980 - Caligula
- 1980 - Memento (film)
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