What happened on March 15 ?

44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)

220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei

493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)

1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens

1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)

1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)

1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)

1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)

1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)

1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)

1820 - St Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751

1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)

1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)

1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)

1891 - Sir Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)

1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)

1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)

1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)

1957 - Ernst Nobs, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1886)

1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)

1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)

1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)

1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)

1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)

1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)

1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)

1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)

1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)

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, the first Indigenous Australian judge (b. 1944)

2006 - George Rallis, former Greek Prime Minister (b. 1918)

44 BC - Deaths of Xena and Gabrielle by Crucifixion

1972 - Worst day ever in The Fairly Oddparents

1973 - In an alternate timeline in Back to the Future Part II, George McFly murdered by Biff Tannen.

1986 - Beginning of The Pushcart War

2337 - Discovery of Yuggoth

3019 T.A. - Battle of the Pelennor Fields (The Lord of the Rings)

C.E. 56 - Birth of Fllay Allster, daughter of Earth Alliance Vice-Minister George Allster, from Mobile Suit Gundam SEED.

St.Longinus, Roman soldier who pierced the side of Jesus on the cross. [1]