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| March 15th, 2044 (March 15 2044) | Event | Julius Caesar, Dictator of the Roman Republic, is stabbed to death by Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, Decimus Junius Brutus and several other Roman senators on the Ides of March. | Marcus Junius Brutus Quotes |
| March 15th, 2044 (March 15 2044) | Death | Julius Caesar (born in 100 BC) | Julius Caesar Quotes |
| March 15th, 2008 (March 15 2008) | Death | Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (born in 1951) | |
| March 15th, 2008 (March 15 2008) | Death | Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (born in 1954) | |
| March 15th, 2007 (March 15 2007) | Death | Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (born in 1938) | |
| March 15th, 2007 (March 15 2007) | Death | Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (born in 1926) | |
| March 15th, 2007 (March 15 2007) | Death | Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (born in 1927) | |
| March 15th, 2006 (March 15 2006) | Death | George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (born in 1918) | |
| March 15th, 2006 (March 15 2006) | Death | Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (born in 1918) | |
| March 15th, 2005 (March 15 2005) | Death | Bob Bellear, Australian judge (born in 1944) | |
| March 15th, 2005 (March 15 2005) | Death | Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (born in 1927) | Martial Quotes |
| March 15th, 2004 (March 15 2004) | Event | Announcement of the discovery of 90377 Sedna, the farthest natural object in the Solar system so far observed. | |
| March 15th, 2004 (March 15 2004) | Death | Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (born in 1910) | |
| March 15th, 2004 (March 15 2004) | Death | John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1925) | |
| March 15th, 2003 (March 15 2003) | Event | Hu Jintao takes over presidency for the People s Republic of China. | |
| March 15th, 2003 (March 15 2003) | Death | Dame Thora Hird, British actress (born in 1911) | |
| March 15th, 2003 (March 15 2003) | Death | Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (born in 1956) | |
| March 15th, 2001 (March 15 2001) | Death | Ann Sothern, American actress (born in 1909) | |
| March 15th, 1998 (March 15 1998) | Death | Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (born in 1903) | Benjamin Spock Quotes |
| March 15th, 1997 (March 15 1997) | Death | Gail Davis, American actress (born in 1925) | |
| March 15th, 1997 (March 15 1997) | Death | Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (born in 1906) | |
| March 15th, 1991 (March 15 1991) | Event | Germany formally regains complete independence after the four post-World War II occupying powers (France, the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union) relinquish all remaining rights. | |
| March 15th, 1991 (March 15 1991) | Death | Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (born in 1906) | |
| March 15th, 1990 (March 15 1990) | Event | Gulf War: Iraq hangs British journalist Farzad Bazoft for spying. | |
| March 15th, 1990 (March 15 1990) | Event | Mikhail Gorbachev is elected as the first executive president of the Soviet Union. | |
| March 15th, 1990 (March 15 1990) | Event | The ethnic clashes of Targu Mures begin on the anniversary of the Revolutions of 1848 in the Habsburg areas. | |
| March 15th, 1990 (March 15 1990) | Death | Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (born in 1958) | |
| March 15th, 1990 (March 15 1990) | Death | Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (born in 1919) | |
| March 15th, 1989 (March 15 1989) | Event | The United States Department of Veterans Affairs is established. | |
| March 15th, 1989 (March 15 1989) | Birth | Caitlin Wachs, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1989 (March 15 1989) | Death | Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (born in 1915) | |
| March 15th, 1988 (March 15 1988) | Event | The Halabja poison gas attack of the Iran-Iraq War begins. | |
| March 15th, 1988 (March 15 1988) | Birth | Ever Guzman, Mexican footballer | |
| March 15th, 1988 (March 15 1988) | Death | Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (born in 1926) | |
| March 15th, 1987 (March 15 1987) | Birth | Taiwan Brown, video jockey | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Event | The first Internet domain name is registered (symbolics.com). | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Birth | Antti Autti, Finnish snowboarder | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Birth | James MacLurcan, Australian actor | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Birth | F.V.A. Morriello, Canadian author | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Birth | Eva Amurri, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Birth | Tom Chilton, British racing driver | |
| March 15th, 1985 (March 15 1985) | Death | Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (born in 1921) | |
| March 15th, 1984 (March 15 1984) | Birth | Kostas Vassiliadis, Greek basketball player | |
| March 15th, 1983 (March 15 1983) | Birth | Sean Biggerstaff, Scottish actor | |
| March 15th, 1983 (March 15 1983) | Birth | Daryl Murphy, Irish footballer | |
| March 15th, 1983 (March 15 1983) | Death | Rebecca West, English writer (born in 1892) | |
| March 15th, 1982 (March 15 1982) | Birth | Emily Tyndall, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1982 (March 15 1982) | Birth | Rafael Perez, Dominican baseball player | |
| March 15th, 1982 (March 15 1982) | Birth | Jordan Hastings, Canadian drummer in the band Alexisonfire | |
| March 15th, 1981 (March 15 1981) | Birth | Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer | |
| March 15th, 1981 (March 15 1981) | Birth | Young Buck, American rapper | |
| March 15th, 1981 (March 15 1981) | Death | Rene Clair, French film director (born in 1898) | |
| March 15th, 1980 (March 15 1980) | Birth | Freddie Bynum, American baseball player | |
| March 15th, 1979 (March 15 1979) | Birth | Kevin Youkilis, American baseball player | |
| March 15th, 1978 (March 15 1978) | Birth | Takeru Kobayashi, Japanese competitive eater | |
| March 15th, 1978 (March 15 1978) | Birth | Sid Wilson, American musician (Slipknot) | |
| March 15th, 1977 (March 15 1977) | Birth | Joe Hahn, American musician | |
| March 15th, 1977 (March 15 1977) | Birth | Brian Tee, American actor | |
| March 15th, 1977 (March 15 1977) | Death | Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler | |
| March 15th, 1977 (March 15 1977) | Death | Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (born in 1929) | |
| March 15th, 1976 (March 15 1976) | Birth | Jennifer 8. Lee, American journalist | |
| March 15th, 1976 (March 15 1976) | Birth | Katherine Brooks, American television director | |
| March 15th, 1976 (March 15 1976) | Birth | Cara Pifko, Canadian actress | |
| March 15th, 1976 (March 15 1976) | Birth | Jose Sanchez Zolliker, Mexican writer | |
| March 15th, 1975 (March 15 1975) | Birth | Eva Longoria, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1975 (March 15 1975) | Birth | Will.i.am, American musician | |
| March 15th, 1975 (March 15 1975) | Birth | Veselin Topalov, Bulgarian chess player | |
| March 15th, 1975 (March 15 1975) | Birth | Darcy Tucker, Canadian hockey player | |
| March 15th, 1975 (March 15 1975) | Death | Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (born in 1900) | Aristotle Quotes |
| March 15th, 1974 (March 15 1974) | Birth | Robert Fick, baseball player | |
| March 15th, 1974 (March 15 1974) | Birth | John "Beatz" Holohan, Bayside_Band Drummer | |
| March 15th, 1972 (March 15 1972) | Birth | Mark Hoppus, American musician (+44 and blink-182) | |
| March 15th, 1972 (March 15 1972) | Death | Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (born in 1910) | |
| March 15th, 1971 (March 15 1971) | Birth | Penny Lancaster, English model | |
| March 15th, 1971 (March 15 1971) | Birth | Joanne Wise, English long jumper | |
| March 15th, 1971 (March 15 1971) | Death | Jean-Pierre Monsere, Belgian cyclist (born in 1948) | |
| March 15th, 1970 (March 15 1970) | Event | The Expo 70 world s fair opens in Osaka, Japan. | |
| March 15th, 1970 (March 15 1970) | Birth | Derek Parra, American speed skater | |
| March 15th, 1970 (March 15 1970) | Death | Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (born in 1897) | |
| March 15th, 1969 (March 15 1969) | Birth | Rona Ambrose, Canadian politician | Ambrose Quotes |
| March 15th, 1969 (March 15 1969) | Birth | Timo Kotipelto, Finnish musician | |
| March 15th, 1969 (March 15 1969) | Birth | Kim Raver, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1969 (March 15 1969) | Birth | Gianluca Festa, Italian footballer | |
| March 15th, 1969 (March 15 1969) | Birth | Yutaka Take, Japanese jockey | |
| March 15th, 1968 (March 15 1968) | Birth | Kahimi Karie, Japanese singer | |
| March 15th, 1968 (March 15 1968) | Birth | Mark McGrath, American musician (Sugar Ray) | |
| March 15th, 1968 (March 15 1968) | Birth | Sabrina Salerno, Italian singer | |
| March 15th, 1968 (March 15 1968) | Birth | Jon Schaffer, American guitarist (Iced Earth) | |
| March 15th, 1967 (March 15 1967) | Birth | Naoko Takeuchi, Japanese artist | |
| March 15th, 1966 (March 15 1966) | Death | Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (born in 1902) | |
| March 15th, 1965 (March 15 1965) | Event | President Lyndon B. Johnson, responding to the Selma crisis, tells U.S. Congress "We shall overcome" while advocating the Voting Rights Act. | Lyndon Johnson Quotes |
| March 15th, 1964 (March 15 1964) | Birth | Davide Pinato, Italian footballer | |
| March 15th, 1963 (March 15 1963) | Birth | Bret Michaels, American musician (Poison) | |
| March 15th, 1962 (March 15 1962) | Birth | Sananda Maitreya (formerly Terence Trent D Arby), American singer | |
| March 15th, 1962 (March 15 1962) | Birth | Jimmy Baio, American actor | |
| March 15th, 1962 (March 15 1962) | Death | Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (born in 1892) | |
| March 15th, 1961 (March 15 1961) | Event | South Africa withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations. | |
| March 15th, 1961 (March 15 1961) | Birth | Terry Cummings, American basketball player | |
| March 15th, 1961 (March 15 1961) | Birth | Craig Ludwig, American ice hockey player | |
| March 15th, 1960 (March 15 1960) | Birth | Chris Sanders, American animator and director | |
| March 15th, 1960 (March 15 1960) | Birth | Marco Pennette, American television producer | |
| March 15th, 1959 (March 15 1959) | Birth | Harold Baines, American baseball player | |
| March 15th, 1959 (March 15 1959) | Birth | Renny Harlin, Finnish film director | |
| March 15th, 1959 (March 15 1959) | Birth | Lisa Holton, American writer | |
| March 15th, 1959 (March 15 1959) | Birth | Fabio Lanzoni, Italian model | |
| March 15th, 1959 (March 15 1959) | Death | Lester Young, American musician (born in 1909) | |
| March 15th, 1957 (March 15 1957) | Birth | Park Overall, American actress | |
| March 15th, 1957 (March 15 1957) | Birth | David Silverman, American animator | |
| March 15th, 1957 (March 15 1957) | Birth | Victor Munoz, Spanish football manager | |
| March 15th, 1957 (March 15 1957) | Death | Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (born in 1886) | |
| March 15th, 1956 (March 15 1956) | Birth | Clay Matthews, American football player | |
| March 15th, 1955 (March 15 1955) | Birth | Dee Snider, American singer (Twisted Sister) | |
| March 15th, 1954 (March 15 1954) | Birth | Craig Wasson, American actor | |
| March 15th, 1953 (March 15 1953) | Birth | Richard Bruton, Irish politician | |
| March 15th, 1952 (March 15 1952) | Event | In Cilaos, Reunion, 1870 mm (73 inches) of rain falls in one day, setting a new world record. | |
| March 15th, 1952 (March 15 1952) | Birth | Howard Koh, former Massachusetts Commissioner of Public Health | |
| March 15th, 1951 (March 15 1951) | Death | John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (born in 1889) | |
| March 15th, 1950 (March 15 1950) | Birth | Jorgen Olsen, Danish singer | |
| March 15th, 1948 (March 15 1948) | Birth | Sergio Vieira de Mello, Brazilian diplomat (died in 2003) | |
| March 15th, 1948 (March 15 1948) | Birth | Kate Bornstein, American author | |
| March 15th, 1947 (March 15 1947) | Birth | Ry Cooder, American guitarist | |
| March 15th, 1947 (March 15 1947) | Birth | Juraj Kukura, Slovak actor | |
| March 15th, 1946 (March 15 1946) | Birth | Bobby Bonds, American baseball player (died in 2003) | |
| March 15th, 1946 (March 15 1946) | Birth | Masaharu Sato, Japanese seiyu | |
| March 15th, 1946 (March 15 1946) | Birth | Howard E. Scott, American musician (War) | |
| March 15th, 1945 (March 15 1945) | Birth | A. K. Faezul Huq, Bengali lawyer and politician (died in 2007) | |
| March 15th, 1945 (March 15 1945) | Birth | Mark J. Green, American public official | |
| March 15th, 1944 (March 15 1944) | Event | World War II: Battle of Monte CassinoAllied aircraft bomb the German-held monastery and stage an assault. | |
| March 15th, 1944 (March 15 1944) | Birth | Sly Stone, American musician | |
| March 15th, 1944 (March 15 1944) | Birth | Jacques Doillon, French film director | |
| March 15th, 1944 (March 15 1944) | Birth | Chi Cheng, Taiwanese athlete and politician | |
| March 15th, 1943 (March 15 1943) | Event | World War II: Third Battle of Kharkovthe Germans retake the city of Kharkov from the Soviet armies in bitter street fighting. | |
| March 15th, 1943 (March 15 1943) | Birth | David Cronenberg, Canadian film director | |
| March 15th, 1943 (March 15 1943) | Birth | Hossein Khosrow Ali Vaziri, aka Iron Sheik, professional wrestler | |
| March 15th, 1941 (March 15 1941) | Event | A blizzard strikes western Canada and USA killing 79. | |
| March 15th, 1941 (March 15 1941) | Birth | Mike Love, American musician (The Beach Boys) | |
| March 15th, 1941 (March 15 1941) | Death | Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (born in 1864) | |
| March 15th, 1940 (March 15 1940) | Birth | Phil Lesh, American musician (Grateful Dead) | |
| March 15th, 1940 (March 15 1940) | Birth | Frank Dobson, British politician | |
| March 15th, 1939 (March 15 1939) | Event | World War II: German troops occupy the remaining part of Bohemia and Moravia; Czechoslovakia ceases to exist. | |
| March 15th, 1939 (March 15 1939) | Birth | Jack Whyte, Scottish-Canadian author | |
| March 15th, 1937 (March 15 1937) | Death | H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (born in 1890) | H. P. Lovecraft Quotes |
| March 15th, 1936 (March 15 1936) | Birth | Paul Zindel, American author, playwright, and educator (died in 2003) | |
| March 15th, 1936 (March 15 1936) | Birth | Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (died in 1986) | |
| March 15th, 1936 (March 15 1936) | Birth | David Andrews, Irish politician | |
| March 15th, 1935 (March 15 1935) | Birth | Judd Hirsch, American actor | |
| March 15th, 1935 (March 15 1935) | Birth | Jimmy Swaggart, American televangelist | |
| March 15th, 1934 (March 15 1934) | Birth | Richard Layard, Baron Layard, British economist | |
| March 15th, 1934 (March 15 1934) | Birth | Aldo Giorgini, Italian artist | |
| March 15th, 1934 (March 15 1934) | Birth | Kanshi Ram, Indian dalit leader | |
| March 15th, 1933 (March 15 1933) | Event | Austrian Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss keeps members of the National Council from convening, starting the austrofascist dictatorship. | |
| March 15th, 1933 (March 15 1933) | Birth | Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice | |
| March 15th, 1933 (March 15 1933) | Birth | Philippe de Broca, French film director (died in 2004) | |
| March 15th, 1932 (March 15 1932) | Birth | Alan Bean, American astronaut | |
| March 15th, 1930 (March 15 1930) | Birth | Zhores Ivanovich Alferov, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate | |
| March 15th, 1929 (March 15 1929) | Birth | Cecil Taylor, American jazz pianist | |
| March 15th, 1927 (March 15 1927) | Birth | Stanislaw Kania, Polish politician | |
| March 15th, 1927 (March 15 1927) | Birth | Carl Smith, American singer | |
| March 15th, 1927 (March 15 1927) | Birth | Christian Marquand, French actor and director (died in 2000) | |
| March 15th, 1926 (March 15 1926) | Event | The dictator Theodoros Pangalos is elected President of Greece without opposition. | |
| March 15th, 1926 (March 15 1926) | Birth | Norm Van Brocklin, American football player (died in 1983) | |
| March 15th, 1926 (March 15 1926) | Birth | Ben Johnston, American composer | |
| March 15th, 1925 (March 15 1925) | Birth | Bert Bolin, Swedish meteorologist | |
| March 15th, 1924 (March 15 1924) | Birth | Walter Gotell, German actor (died in 1997) | |
| March 15th, 1922 (March 15 1922) | Event | After Egypt gains nominal independence from the United Kingdom, Fuad I becomes King of Egypt. | |
| March 15th, 1921 (March 15 1921) | Birth | Stafford Smythe, Canadian hockey executive (died in 1971) | |
| March 15th, 1920 (March 15 1920) | Birth | Lawrence Sanders, American novelist (died in 1998) | |
| March 15th, 1920 (March 15 1920) | Birth | E. Donnall Thomas, American physician, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine | |
| March 15th, 1919 (March 15 1919) | Event | The American Legion forms in Paris. | |
| March 15th, 1919 (March 15 1919) | Birth | Lawrence Tierney, American actor (died in 2002) | |
| March 15th, 1918 (March 15 1918) | Birth | Richard Ellmann, American biographer (died in 1987) | |
| March 15th, 1918 (March 15 1918) | Birth | Punch Imlach, Canadian hockey coach and general manager (died in 1987) | |
| March 15th, 1917 (March 15 1917) | Event | Tsar Nicholas II of Russia abdicates the Russian throne and his brother the Grand Duke becomes Tsar. | |
| March 15th, 1916 (March 15 1916) | Event | President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa. | |
| March 15th, 1916 (March 15 1916) | Birth | Harry James, American musician and band leader (died in 1983) | |
| March 15th, 1916 (March 15 1916) | Birth | Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (died in 2001) | |
| March 15th, 1915 (March 15 1915) | Birth | Joe E. Ross, American actor and comedian (died in 1982) | |
| March 15th, 1914 (March 15 1914) | Birth | Aniello Dellacroce, American gangster (died in 1985) | |
| March 15th, 1914 (March 15 1914) | Death | Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha, Sufi master (born in 1849) | |
| March 15th, 1913 (March 15 1913) | Birth | MacDonald Carey, American actor (died in 1994) | |
| March 15th, 1913 (March 15 1913) | Birth | Jack Fairman, British racing driver (died in 2002) | |
| March 15th, 1912 (March 15 1912) | Birth | Lightnin Hopkins, American musician (died in 1982) | |
| March 15th, 1912 (March 15 1912) | Birth | Louis Paul Boon, Flemish journalist and novelist (died in 1979) | |
| March 15th, 1907 (March 15 1907) | Birth | Zarah Leander, Swedish actress and singer (died in 1981) | |
| March 15th, 1906 (March 15 1906) | Event | Rolls-Royce Limited is incorporated. | |
| March 15th, 1905 (March 15 1905) | Birth | Berthold von Stauffenberg, German lawyer and Nazi opponent (died in 1944) | |
| March 15th, 1899 (March 15 1899) | Birth | George Brent, American film actor (died in 1979) | |
| March 15th, 1898 (March 15 1898) | Death | Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (born in 1813) | |
| March 15th, 1897 (March 15 1897) | Birth | Jackson Scholz, American runner (died in 1986) | |
| March 15th, 1892 (March 15 1892) | Birth | James Basevi Ord, US army officer (died in 1938) | |
| March 15th, 1891 (March 15 1891) | Death | Theodore de Banville, French writer (born in 1823) | |
| March 15th, 1891 (March 15 1891) | Death | Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (born in 1819) | |
| March 15th, 1890 (March 15 1890) | Birth | Boris Nikolaevich Delaunay, Russian mathematician (died in 1980) | |
| March 15th, 1887 (March 15 1887) | Birth | Marjorie Merriweather Post, American socialite and businesswoman (died in 1973) | |
| March 15th, 1884 (March 15 1884) | Birth | Angelos Sikelianos, Greek poet and playwright, Nobel Prize for Literature candidate (died in 1951) | |
| March 15th, 1882 (March 15 1882) | Birth | Jim Lightbody, American runner (died in 1953) | |
| March 15th, 1877 (March 15 1877) | Event | The first Test cricket match begins between England and Australia. | |
| March 15th, 1874 (March 15 1874) | Birth | Eugene Fiset, Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (died in 1951) | |
| March 15th, 1873 (March 15 1873) | Event | The Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity is founded at Massachusetts Agricultural College. | |
| March 15th, 1869 (March 15 1869) | Birth | Stanislaw Wojciechowski, President of Poland (died in 1953) | |
| March 15th, 1868 (March 15 1868) | Birth | Grace Chisholm Young, English mathematician (died in 1944) | |
| March 15th, 1867 (March 15 1867) | Birth | Lionel Johnson, British poet (died in 1902) | Lionel Johnson Quotes |
| March 15th, 1866 (March 15 1866) | Birth | Matthew Charlton, Australian politician (died in 1948) | |
| March 15th, 1866 (March 15 1866) | Birth | Johan Vaaler, Norwegian inventor (died in 1910) | |
| March 15th, 1864 (March 15 1864) | Birth | Johan Halvorsen, Norwegian composer (died in 1935) | |
| March 15th, 1854 (March 15 1854) | Birth | Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician; Nobel laureate (died in 1917) | |
| March 15th, 1852 (March 15 1852) | Birth | Augusta, Lady Gregory, Anglo-Irish dramatist (died in 1932) | |
| March 15th, 1851 (March 15 1851) | Birth | William Mitchell Ramsay, Scottish archaeologist (died in 1939) | |
| March 15th, 1849 (March 15 1849) | Death | Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (born in 1774) | |
| March 15th, 1848 (March 15 1848) | Event | A revolution breaks out in Hungary. The Habsburg rulers are compelled to meet the demands of the Reform party. | |
| March 15th, 1842 (March 15 1842) | Death | Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (born in 1760) | |
| March 15th, 1838 (March 15 1838) | Birth | Karl Davydov, Russian cellist (died in 1889) | |
| March 15th, 1835 (March 15 1835) | Birth | Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (died in 1916) | |
| March 15th, 1835 (March 15 1835) | Birth | John Henrie Kagi, American abolitionist (died in 1859) | |
| March 15th, 1831 (March 15 1831) | Birth | Daniel Comboni, Italian missionary (died in 1881) | |
| March 15th, 1830 (March 15 1830) | Birth | Paul Heyse, German writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died in 1914) | |
| March 15th, 1830 (March 15 1830) | Birth | Elisee Reclus, French geographer (died in 1905) | |
| March 15th, 1824 (March 15 1824) | Birth | Jules Chevalier, French priest (died in 1907) | |
| March 15th, 1821 (March 15 1821) | Birth | William Milligan, Scottish theologian (died in 1892) | |
| March 15th, 1821 (March 15 1821) | Birth | Eduard Heine, German mathematician (died in 1881) | |
| March 15th, 1821 (March 15 1821) | Birth | Johann Josef Loschmidt, Austrian scientist (died in 1895) | |
| March 15th, 1820 (March 15 1820) | Event | Maine becomes the 23rd U.S. state. | |
| March 15th, 1820 (March 15 1820) | Death | Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (born in 1751 | |
| March 15th, 1818 (March 15 1818) | Birth | Mariano Alvarez, Filipino general (died in 1924) | Al Alvarez Quotes |
| March 15th, 1813 (March 15 1813) | Birth | John Snow, English epidemiologist (died in 1858) | |
| March 15th, 1809 (March 15 1809) | Birth | Joseph Jenkins Roberts, first President of Liberia (died in 1876) | |
| March 15th, 1809 (March 15 1809) | Birth | Karl Josef von Hefele, German theologian (died in 1893) | |
| March 15th, 1791 (March 15 1791) | Birth | Charles Knight, English publisher (died in 1873) | |
| March 15th, 1790 (March 15 1790) | Birth | Ludwig Immanuel Magnus, German mathematician (died in 1861) | |
| March 15th, 1783 (March 15 1783) | Event | In an emotional speech in Newburgh, New York, George Washington asks his officers not to support the Newburgh Conspiracy. The plea is successful and the threatened coup d etat never takes place. | George Washington Quotes |
| March 15th, 1781 (March 15 1781) | Event | American Revolutionary War: Battle of Guilford CourthouseNear present-day Greensboro, North Carolina, 1,900 British troops under General Charles Cornwallis defeat an American force numbering 4,400. | |
| March 15th, 1779 (March 15 1779) | Birth | Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, (died in 1848) | |
| March 15th, 1776 (March 15 1776) | Event | South Carolina becomes the first American colony to declare its independence from Great Britain and set up its own government. | |
| March 15th, 1767 (March 15 1767) | Birth | Andrew Jackson, 7th President of the United States (died in 1845) | Andrew Jackson Quotes |
| March 15th, 1713 (March 15 1713) | Birth | Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (died in 1762) | |
| March 15th, 1711 (March 15 1711) | Death | Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (born in 1645) | |
| March 15th, 1701 (March 15 1701) | Death | Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (born in 1624) | |
| March 15th, 1684 (March 15 1684) | Birth | Francesco Durante, Italian composer (died in 1755) | |
| March 15th, 1673 (March 15 1673) | Death | Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (born in 1615) | |
| March 15th, 1672 (March 15 1672) | Event | Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. | |
| March 15th, 1670 (March 15 1670) | Death | John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (born in 1597) | |
| March 15th, 1666 (March 15 1666) | Birth | George Bahr, German architect (died in 1738) | |
| March 15th, 1644 (March 15 1644) | Death | Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (born 1576) | Julian Quotes |
| March 15th, 1638 (March 15 1638) | Birth | Shunzhi Emperor of China | |
| March 15th, 1591 (March 15 1591) | Birth | Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (died in 1660) | |
| March 15th, 1575 (March 15 1575) | Death | Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (born in 1527) | |
| March 15th, 1545 (March 15 1545) | Event | First meeting of the Council of Trent. | |
| March 15th, 1536 (March 15 1536) | Death | Pargal? Ibrahim Pasha, Grand Vizer under Suleiman the Magnificent | |
| March 15th, 1493 (March 15 1493) | Event | Christopher Columbus returns to Spain after his first trip to the Americas. | Christopher Columbus Quotes |
| March 15th, 1493 (March 15 1493) | Birth | Anne de Montmorency, Constable of France (died in 1567) | |
| March 15th, 1455 (March 15 1455) | Birth | Pietro Accolti, Italian Catholic cardinal (died in 1532) | |
| March 15th, 1416 (March 15 1416) | Death | John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (born in 1340) | |
| March 15th, 1311 (March 15 1311) | Event | Battle of Halmyros: The Catalan Company defeats Walter V of Brienne to take control of the Duchy of Athens, a Crusader state in Greece. | |
| March 15th, 1311 (March 15 1311) | Death | Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens | |
| March 15th, 1275 (March 15 1275) | Birth | Margaret Plantagenet, English princess (died in 1318) | |
| March 15th, 1145 (March 15 1145) | Death | Pope Lucius II | |
| March 15th, 0938 (March 15 0938) | Birth | Romanos II, Byzantine emperor (died in 963) | |
| March 15th, 0933 (March 15 0933) | Event | After a ten-year truce, German King Henry I defeats a Hungarian army at the Battle of Riade near the Unstrut river. | |
| March 15th, 0493 (March 15 0493) | Death | Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (born in 435) | |
| March 15th, 0351 (March 15 0351) | Event | Constantius II elevates his cousin Gallus to Caesar, and puts him in charge of the Eastern part of the Roman Empire. | |
| March 15th, 0221 (March 15 0221) | Event | Liu Bei, a Chinese warlord and member of the Han royal house, declares himself emperor of Shu-Han and claims his legitimate succession to the Han Dynasty. | |
| March 15th, 0220 (March 15 0220) | Death | Cao Cao, King of Wei (born in 155) | Cao Cao Quotes |
