March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year.
Events
- 1590 – Ferhat Pasha Treaty was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire.
- 1779 – The Aynalıkavak Treaty was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
- 1788 – The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, was completely burned in a fire.
- 1851 - Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam orders all Christian priests to be killed.
- 1857 – In the earthquake that struck Tokyo, more than 100.000 people died.
- 1871 - Otto von Bismarck assumes the title of Prince.
- 1914 – The journal titled "Woman's", of which Nigar Hanım was the editor-in-chief, began to be published weekly.
- 1918 – The liberation of Tortum from enemy occupation.
- 1919 - The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established.
- 1921 – The activities of the Military Police Organization were terminated.
- 1928 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the Medal of Honor for making the first trans-Atlantic flight.
- 1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi, addressing the international community; He wanted his country to be called Iran, which means "land of the Aryans", not "Persia".
- 1937 – The Dersim Rebellion started in Tunceli.
- 1938 – Noel Cobb, US-born English philosopher, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2015)
- 1941 – Ankara Radio started broadcasting in Greek again.
- 1952 – The 950 gross tonnage Galatasaray freighter sank off the coast of Kefken in the Black Sea, no survivors from the crew of 15.
- 1960 – Apartheid; Sharpeville Massacre: In South Africa, police opened fire on a group of unarmed black demonstrators; 69 blacks were killed and 180 injured.
- 1963 - Alkatraz Prison was closed.
- 1964 – Turkish pianist İdil Biret won the Boulanger Music Award.
- 1965 - Ranger 9 was launched to probe the Moon.
- 1965 – Martin Luther King, with a group of 3200 people, sets out from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama for a march for human rights.
- 1978 – White rule ends in Rhodesia, three black ministers take office.
- 1978 – Ankara Belediyespor was founded.
- 1979 – Athens High Court with its decision, Turkey's intervention in Cyprus, the Treaty of Zurich IV. confirmed that it is legal according to the article.
- 1980 – Jimmy Carter announced that the United States was protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and would not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.
- 1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 8 people were killed across the country.
- 1990 – Multi-party political life started in Mongolia.
- 1990 - Namibia declared its independence from South Africa.
- 1991 – Vedat Dalokay, one of the former mayors of Ankara, architect and writer, and his wife died in a traffic accident.
- 1991 – Events broke out in many cities and towns during the Nevruz celebrations.
- 1992 – 38 people died in the events that broke out during the Nevruz celebrations in Van, Şırnak, Cizre and Adana.
- 1993 – Nowruz celebrations passed without incident.
- 1993 – President Turgut Özal and Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel also attended the Turkish Congress celebrations held in Antalya.
- 2008 – İlhan Selçuk, Doğu Perinçek and Kemal Alemdaroğlu were detained on charges of Ergenekon Gang.
- 2009 – TRT Avaz went on the air.
Births
- 927 – Taizu, founder and first emperor of China's Song Dynasty (d. 976)
- 1226 – Carlo I, King of France VIII. Louis' youngest son (d. 1285)
- 1522 – Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1578)
- 1626 – Pedro de Betancur, Christian saint and missionary (d. 1667)
- 1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
- 1752 – Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor (d. 1837)
- 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
- 1806 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician (d. 1872)
- 1837 – Theodore Gill, American ichthyologist, mammologist, and librarian (d. 1914)
- 1839 – Modest Musorgski, Russian composer (d. 1881)
- 1854 – Léo Taxil, French journalist and author (d. 1907)
- 1866 – Wakatsuki Reijirō, 15th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1949)
- 1867 – İsmail Safa, Turkish poet and writer (d. 1901)
- 1870 – Cenap Şahabettin, Turkish poet and writer (Poet of Servet-i Fünûn period) (d. 1934)
- 1873 – Esma Sultan, daughter of Abdulaziz (d. 1899)
- 1881 – Henri Grégoire, Belgian historian (d. 1964)
- 1884 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (d. 1944)
- 1887 – Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian revolutionary, theorist, and activist (d. 1954)
- 1889 Bernard Freyberg, British general (d. 1963)
- 1893 – Walter Schreiber, German Schutzstaffel officer (d. 1970)
- 1896 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian philosopher, mathematician, and linguist (d. 1959)
- 1905 – Nusret Suman, Turkish sculptor and painter (d. 1978)
- 1906 – Emin Türk Elinç, Turkish teacher and writer (d. 1966)
- 1906 – Samed Vurgun, Azerbaijani poet (d. 1956)
- 1915 – Cahit Irgat, Turkish cinema and theater actor (d. 1971)
- 1923 – Abbas Sayar, Turkish novelist (d. 1999)
- 1925 – Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress and voice actor (d. 2019)
- 1925 – Peter Brook, English actor and director
- 1927 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (d. 2016)
- 1929 – Gallieno Ferri, Italian comics artist and illustrator (d. 2016)
- 1930 – Pauline Stroud, English actress (d. 2022)
- 1931 – William Shatner, Canadian filmmaker, director, and actor
- 1932 - Walter Gilbert, American physicist, biologist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
- 1934 – Buta Singh, Indian politician (d. 2021)
- 1935 – Brian Clough, English football player (d. 2004)
- 1938 – Luigi Tenco, Italian musician (d. 1967)
- 1938 – Noel Cobb, American-British philosopher, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2015)
- 1942 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni soldier, politician, and President of the Republic of Yemen (d. 2017)
- 1942 – Fradique de Menezes, politician and President of São Tomé and Príncipe
- 1942 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (sister to Catherine Deneuve) (d. 1967)
- 1946 – Timothy Dalton, English actor
- 1949 – Muammer Güler, Turkish bureaucrat and politician
- 1949 – Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher
- 1955 – Philippe Troussier (Omar Tourssier), French football coach
- 1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor, director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
- 1959 – Murat Ülker, Turkish industrialist and businessman
- 1960 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula 1 driver (d. 1994)
- 1961 – Lothar Matthaus, German football player
- 1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor
- 1963 – Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player
- 1963 – Yekta Saraç, Turkish academician
- 1968 Dalian Atkinson, English football player (d. 2016)
- 1968 – Jaye Davidson, American film actress
- 1968 – Tolunay Kafkas, Turkish football player and coach
- 1969 – Ali Dayi, Iranian football player and manager
- 1970 – Cenk Uygur, Turkish-American journalist, political commentator, businessman and politician
- 1972 – Chris Candido, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
- 1972 – Large Professor is an American producer, DJ and rapper.
- 1972 – Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian athlete
- 1973 – Hozan Bashir, Kurdish artist
- 1974 – Babek Zanjani, Iranian businessman
- 1975 – Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player
- 1976 – Bedirhan Gökçe, Turkish poet
- 1980 – Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian athlete
- 1980 – Ronaldinho, Brazilian football player
- 1981 – Germano Borovicz Cardoso Schweger, Brazilian football player
- 1982 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
- 1984 – Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez, Uruguayan football player
- 1986 – Scott Eastwood, American actor and model
- 1986 – Michu is a Spanish football player.
- 1986 – Bahar Saygılı, Turkish triathlete
- 1987 – İrem Derici, Turkish singer
- 1989 - Jordi Alba is a Spanish football player.
- 1989 – Nicolás Lodeiro, Uruguayan international football player
- 1991 – Antoine Griezmann, French football player
- 1997 – Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer and dancer
- 2000 – Jace Norman, he is an american actor
Deaths
- 547 – Benedict of Nursia, a cleric who lived in Italy and is considered a saint by both Orthodox and Catholic sects (b. 480)
- 642 – Cyrus of Alexandria, Melkani patriarch of Alexandria (b. ?)
- 867 – Ælla, Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria in England (b. ?)
- 1237 – Jean de Brienne, French aristocrat who ruled the Latin Empire (b. 1170)
- 1617 – Pocahontas, Algonkin Indian (b. 1596)
- 1653 – Tarhuncu Sarı Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. ?)
- 1729 – John Law, Scottish economist and author (b. 1671)
- 1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
- 1795 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
- 1801 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
- 1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
- 1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican politician, soldier, and lawyer (b. 1786)
- 1864 – Luke Howard, English chemist and meteorologist (b. 1772)
- 1892 – Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer (b. 1819)
- 1892 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (b. 1858)
- 1892 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French sculptor, engineer, and entrepreneur (b. 1810)
- 1896 – William Quan Judge, American theosophist (b. 1851)
- 1910 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
- 1914 – Franz Fredrik Wathén, Finnish speed skater (b. 1878)
- 1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American engineer (b. 1856)
- 1936 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
- 1939 – Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish soldier (b. 1877)
- 1942 – Hüseyin Suat Yalçın, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1867)
- 1956 – Satı Çırpan, Turkish politician and one of the first female MPs (b. 1890)
- 1958 – Ferdi Tayfur, Turkish dubbing artist (b. 1904)
- 1973 – Aşık Veysel, Turkish folk poet (b. 1894)
- 1975 – Lore Alford Rogers, American bacteriologist and dairy scientist (b. 1875)
- 1985 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (Vanessa Redgrave's father) (b. 1908)
- 1991 – Vedat Dalokay Turkish architect and politician (b. 1927)
- 1998 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (b. 1910)
- 2001 – Chung Ju-yung or Jung Joo-young, South Korean entrepreneur, businessperson, and founder of all Hyundai South Korea Groups (b. 1915)
- 2008 – Shusha Guppy, Iranian writer, editor and singer (b. 1935)
- 2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
- 2013 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
- 2013 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (b. 1952)
- 2014 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (b. 1921)
- 2014 – James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
- 2015 – Pedro Aguayo Ramírez, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1979)
- 2015 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1925)
- 2015 – Faith Susan Alberta Watson, Canadian television and film actress (b. 1955)
- 2016 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born American engineer, businessman, and author (b. 1936)
- 2017 – Norman Colin Dexter, English novelist (b. 1930)
- 2017 – Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
- 2017 – Tayfun Talipoğlu, Turkish journalist (b.1962)
- 2017 – Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
- 2018 – Deniz Bölükbaşı, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1949)
- 2018 – Anna-Lisa, American actress (b. 1930)
- 2019 – Marcel Detienne, Belgian academic (b. 1935)
- 2019 – Francis Quinn, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1921)
- 2020 – Marguerite Aucouturier, Czech-French psychoanalyst, translator and writer (b. 1932)
- 2020 – Aileen Baviera, Filipino political scientist, academic, and sinologist (b. 1959)
- 2020 – Vicente Capdevila, Spanish mayor and politician (b. 1936)
- 2020 – Mariko Miyagi, Japanese actress, singer, and human rights activist (b. 1927)
- 2020 – Jacques Oudin, French politician (b. 1939)
- 2020 – Piotr Pawlukiewicz, Polish Roman Catholic priest, doctor of theology, preacher, and author (b. 1960)
- 2020 – Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, Madagascar-born doctor (b. 1952)
- 2020 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman and sports executive (b. 1943)
- 2020 – William Stern, English businessman (b. 1935)
- 2020 – Pierre Truche, French judge (b. 1929)
- 2020 – Levent Ünsal, Turkish actor, presenter and voice actor (b. 1965)
- 2021 – Nawal al-Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer, activist, and psychiatrist (b. 1931)
- 2022 – Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, Malian politician (b. 1954)
- 2022 – Eva Ingeborg Scholz, German actress (b. 1928)
- 2022 – Fevzi Zemzem, Turkish former national football player, coach (b. 1941)
Holidays and special occasions
- World Day Against Racial Discrimination
- Nevruz Feast
- Storm: 1st of Üçdoklar
- Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Tortum district of Erzurum (1918)