March 15
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Art and culture
- 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas.
- 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
- 1972 - The film version of Mario Puzo's The Godfather novel of the same name, is released in theaters. It went on to be considered one of the greatest films of all time.
Births
- 1912 - Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (d. 1979)
- 1918 - Richard Ellmann, American biographer (d. 1987)
- 1927 - Christian Marquand, French actor and director (d. 2000)
- 1929 - Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist
- 1943 - David Cronenberg, Canadian film director
- 1943 - Sly Stone, American musician
Deaths
- 44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
- 1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
- 1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
- 1937 - H.P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
- 1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
- 1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
- 1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
- 1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
- 1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
- 1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
- 1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
- 1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
- 1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
- 1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
- 1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
- 2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
- 2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
- 2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
- 2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
- 2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
- 2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
- 2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
- 2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
- 2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
- 2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
- 2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
Notes
David Cronenberg Salvator Rosa Joe Sarno Louis Paul Boon Dennis Potter Arthur Adamov Sly Stone Antonin Proust H. P. Lovecraft René Clair Julius Caesar Armory Show Léonide Massine Cecil Taylor 8 x 8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements John Coulthart Christian Marquand Jørgen Nash Richard Ellmann Lester Young Théodore de Banville
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