March 15

March 15 is the 74th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (75th in Leap years). There are 291 days remaining.

Events:

• 1820 - Maine becomes the 22nd of the United States.

Births:

• 1767 - Andrew Jackson, 7th president of the United States (+ 1845)
• 1779 - Lord Melbourne, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
• 1800 - Heinrich von Dechsen, geologist and mineralogist (+ 1889)
• 1830 - Paul Heyse, writer and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature 1910 (+ 1914]])
• 1854 - Emil Adolf von Behring, winner of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1901
• 1905 - Berthold Schenk von Stauffenberg, jurist and Nazi opponent (+ 1944)
• 1907 - Zarah Leander, actress and singer (+ 1981)
• 1912 - Lightning Hopkins
• 1935 - Jimmy Swaggart, televangelist
• 1940 - Phil Lesh of The Grateful Dead
• 1944 - Sly Stone, singer
• 1944 - Elisabeth Plessen, writer
• 1947 - Ry Cooder, guitarist
• 1955 - Dee Snider, singer
• 1961 - Fabio, model
• 1962 - Terence Trent D'Arby, singer

Deaths:

• 44 B.C. - Julius Caesar
• 1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, horror writer
• 2001 - Ann Sothern, actress

Holidays and observances:

• In the Roman calendar, the Ides of March.

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See Also: March 14 - March 16 - February 15 - April 15 -- listing of all days

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