March 21
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Art and culture
- 1952 - Alan Freed presents the Moondog Coronation Ball, the first rock and roll concert, in Cleveland, Ohio.
- 1952 - Forbidden Zone, American film premiere.
- 1966 - Ginzburg vs. United States ruled
- 1966 - Memoirs v. Massachusetts ruled
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Births
- 1546 - Bartholomeus Spranger, Flemish Mannerist painter, draughtsman, and etcher (d. 1611)
- 1685 - Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
- 1736 - Claude Nicolas Ledoux, French architect (d. 1806)
- 1763 - Jean-Paul Richter, German writer (d. 1825)
- 1854 - Léo Taxil, French writer and journalist (d. 1907)
- 1869 - Florenz Ziegfeld, theater producer (d. 1932)
- 1880 - Hans Hofmann, German-born American painter (d. 1966)
- 1889 - Woody Van Dyke, American film director (White Shadows in the South Seas) (d. 1943)
- 1922 - Russ Meyer, American film director and producer (d. 2004)
- 1925 - Peter Brook, British film director and producer (d. 2022)
- 1925 - José Manuel Capuletti, Spanish painter (d. 1978)
- 1926 - André Delvaux, Belgian film director (d. 2002)
- 1934 - Raoul Vaneigem, Belgian writer and philosopher
- 1942 - Jindřich Štyrský, Czech Surrealist painter, poet, editor, photographer, and graphic artist (b. 1899)
- 1949 - Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian sociologist, philosopher and cultural critic
- 1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor
- 1968 - DJ Premier (Preemo), hip hop producer
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Deaths
- 1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
- 1910 - Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
- 1974 - Candy Darling, Warhol superstar (b. 1944)
- 2011 – Loleatta Holloway, 64, American soul and disco musician (b. 1946)
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