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| March 20th, 2043 (March 20 2043) | Birth | Ovid, Roman poet (died in 17) | Ovid Quotes |
| March 20th, 2008 (March 20 2008) | Death | Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (born in 1935) | |
| March 20th, 2008 (March 20 2008) | Death | Shoban Babu, Indian actor (born in 1937) | |
| March 20th, 2008 (March 20 2008) | Death | Brian Wilde, English actor (born in 1921) | |
| March 20th, 2008 (March 20 2008) | Death | Klaus Dinger, German Musician (born in 1946) | |
| March 20th, 2007 (March 20 2007) | Death | Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (born in 1939) | |
| March 20th, 2007 (March 20 2007) | Death | Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (born in 1938) | |
| March 20th, 2007 (March 20 2007) | Death | Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (born in 1948) | |
| March 20th, 2006 (March 20 2006) | Event | Cyclone Larry makes landfall in eastern Australia, destroying most of the country s banana crop. | |
| March 20th, 2006 (March 20 2006) | Event | Over 150 Chadian soldiers are killed in eastern Chad by members of the rebel UFDC. The rebel movement sought to overthrow Chadian president Idriss Deby. | |
| March 20th, 2005 (March 20 2005) | Event | A magnitude 6.6 earthquake hits Fukuoka, Japan, its first major quake in over 100 years. One person is killed, hundreds are injured and evacuated. | |
| March 20th, 2005 (March 20 2005) | Death | Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (born in 1912) | |
| March 20th, 2004 (March 20 2004) | Event | Stephen Harper wins the leadership of the newly created Conservative Party of Canada, becoming the party s first leader. | |
| March 20th, 2004 (March 20 2004) | Death | Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (born in 1909) | Julian Quotes |
| March 20th, 2004 (March 20 2004) | Death | Pierre Sevigny, Canadian military officer and politician (born in 1917) | |
| March 20th, 2003 (March 20 2003) | Event | 2003 invasion of Iraq: In the early hours of the morning, the United States and three other countries begin military operations in Iraq. | |
| March 20th, 2003 (March 20 2003) | Death | Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (born in 1924) | |
| March 20th, 2001 (March 20 2001) | Death | Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (born in 1949) | |
| March 20th, 2000 (March 20 2000) | Event | Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin, a former Black Panther once known as H. Rap Brown, is captured after a gun battle that leaves a Georgia sheriff s deputy dead. | |
| March 20th, 2000 (March 20 2000) | Death | Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (born in 1961) | |
| March 20th, 1999 (March 20 1999) | Event | Legoland California, the first and only Legoland outside of Europe, opens in Carlsbad, California. | |
| March 20th, 1998 (March 20 1998) | Death | George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician | |
| March 20th, 1997 (March 20 1997) | Death | Tony Zale, American boxer (born in 1913) | |
| March 20th, 1995 (March 20 1995) | Death | Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (born in 1948) | |
| March 20th, 1994 (March 20 1994) | Death | Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (born in 1946) | |
| March 20th, 1993 (March 20 1993) | Event | An IRA bomb explodes in Warrington, northwest England, killing two children. | |
| March 20th, 1993 (March 20 1993) | Death | Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (born in 1911) | |
| March 20th, 1992 (March 20 1992) | Death | Georges Delerue, French film composer (born in 1925) | |
| March 20th, 1991 (March 20 1991) | Death | Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (born in 1986) | Eric Clapton Quotes |
| March 20th, 1990 (March 20 1990) | Event | Ferdinand Marcos s widow, Imelda Marcos, goes on trial for bribery, embezzlement, and racketeering. | |
| March 20th, 1990 (March 20 1990) | Death | Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (born in 1929) | |
| March 20th, 1989 (March 20 1989) | Birth | Tamim Iqbal, Bangladeshi cricketer | |
| March 20th, 1988 (March 20 1988) | Event | Eritrean War of Independence: Having defeated the Nadew Command, the Eritrean People s Liberation Front enters the town of Afabet, victoriously concluding the Battle of Afabet. | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Event | The Food and Drug Administration approves the anti-AIDS drug, AZT. | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Daniel Maa Boumsong, Cameroonian football player | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Patrick Boyle, Scottish footballer | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Sergei Kostitsyn, Belarusian hockey player | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Jo, Brazilian footballer | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Rollo Weeks, English actor | |
| March 20th, 1987 (March 20 1987) | Birth | Pedro Ken, Brazilian footballer | |
| March 20th, 1985 (March 20 1985) | Event | Libby Riddles becomes the first woman to win the 1,135-mile Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race. | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Justine Ezarik, American Internet personality | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Rami Malek, Egyptian-born actor | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Markus Niemela, Finnish racing driver | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Christy Carlson Romano, American actress | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Fernando Torres, Spanish footballer | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Marcus Vick, American football player | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Winta, Norwegian musician | |
| March 20th, 1984 (March 20 1984) | Birth | Valtteri Filppula, Finnish professional ice-hockey player | |
| March 20th, 1983 (March 20 1983) | Death | Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (born in 1891) | |
| March 20th, 1982 (March 20 1982) | Birth | Terrence Duffin, Zimbabwean cricketer | |
| March 20th, 1982 (March 20 1982) | Birth | Tomasz Kuszczak, Polish footballer | |
| March 20th, 1982 (March 20 1982) | Birth | Nick Wheeler, American guitarist (The All-American Rejects) | |
| March 20th, 1982 (March 20 1982) | Birth | Jose Moreira, Portuguese footballer | |
| March 20th, 1982 (March 20 1982) | Death | Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy osbourne and Ex Quiet Riot guitarist (born in 1956) | Ozzy Osbourne Quotes |
| March 20th, 1980 (March 20 1980) | Event | The Radio Caroline ship, Mi Amigo founders in a gale off the English coast. | |
| March 20th, 1980 (March 20 1980) | Birth | Jamal Crawford, American basketball player | |
| March 20th, 1980 (March 20 1980) | Birth | Ock Ju-Hyun, South Korean singer | |
| March 20th, 1979 (March 20 1979) | Birth | Silvia Abascal, Spanish actress | |
| March 20th, 1979 (March 20 1979) | Birth | Bianca Lawson, American actress | |
| March 20th, 1979 (March 20 1979) | Birth | Keven Mealamu, New Zealand rugby player | |
| March 20th, 1979 (March 20 1979) | Birth | Bernard O Connor, Gaelic Footballer | |
| March 20th, 1979 (March 20 1979) | Birth | Molly Jenson, American musician | |
| March 20th, 1976 (March 20 1976) | Birth | Chester Bennington, American musician (Linkin Park) | Chester Bennington Quotes |
| March 20th, 1974 (March 20 1974) | Event | Ian Ball attempts, but fails, to kidnap Her Royal Highness Princess Anne and her husband Captain Mark Phillips in The Mall, outside Buckingham Palace, London. | |
| March 20th, 1974 (March 20 1974) | Birth | Paula Garces, Colombian actress | |
| March 20th, 1974 (March 20 1974) | Birth | Andrzej Pilipiuk, Polish writer | |
| March 20th, 1974 (March 20 1974) | Death | Chet Huntley, American television journalist (born in 1911) | |
| March 20th, 1973 (March 20 1973) | Birth | Christopher Heinz, American businessman; son of Teresa Heinz | |
| March 20th, 1973 (March 20 1973) | Birth | Jane March, English actress | |
| March 20th, 1973 (March 20 1973) | Birth | Jung Woo-sung, South Korean actor | |
| March 20th, 1973 (March 20 1973) | Birth | Cedric Yarbrough, American actor | |
| March 20th, 1972 (March 20 1972) | Birth | Alexander Kapranos, Greek-British musician (Franz Ferdinand) | |
| March 20th, 1972 (March 20 1972) | Death | Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (born in 1921) | |
| March 20th, 1971 (March 20 1971) | Birth | Manny Alexander, Dominican baseball player | |
| March 20th, 1971 (March 20 1971) | Birth | Toure, American writer | |
| March 20th, 1970 (March 20 1970) | Birth | Michael Rapaport, American actor | |
| March 20th, 1970 (March 20 1970) | Death | Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (born in 1920) | |
| March 20th, 1969 (March 20 1969) | Event | John Lennon and Yoko ono were married. | John Lennon Quotes |
| March 20th, 1969 (March 20 1969) | Birth | Caroline Brunet, Quebec kayaker | |
| March 20th, 1969 (March 20 1969) | Birth | Mannie Fresh, American producer | |
| March 20th, 1969 (March 20 1969) | Death | Henri Longchambon, French politician (born in 1896) | |
| March 20th, 1967 (March 20 1967) | Birth | Mookie Blaylock, American basketball player | |
| March 20th, 1966 (March 20 1966) | Birth | Alka Yagnik, Indian singer | |
| March 20th, 1964 (March 20 1964) | Event | The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962. | |
| March 20th, 1964 (March 20 1964) | Birth | Natacha Atlas, Belgian singer | |
| March 20th, 1964 (March 20 1964) | Death | Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (born in 1923) | |
| March 20th, 1963 (March 20 1963) | Birth | Paul Annacone, American tennis player | |
| March 20th, 1963 (March 20 1963) | Birth | Yelena Romanova, Russian athlete (died in 2007) | |
| March 20th, 1963 (March 20 1963) | Birth | Manabu Suzuki, Japanese racing driver and broadcaster | |
| March 20th, 1963 (March 20 1963) | Birth | David Thewlis, British actor | |
| March 20th, 1962 (March 20 1962) | Birth | Stephen Sommers, American film director | |
| March 20th, 1961 (March 20 1961) | Birth | Jesper Olsen, Danish footballer | |
| March 20th, 1961 (March 20 1961) | Birth | Slim Jim Phantom, American musician (Stray Cats) | |
| March 20th, 1959 (March 20 1959) | Birth | Dave Beasant, English football goalkeeper | |
| March 20th, 1959 (March 20 1959) | Birth | Steve McFadden, British actor | |
| March 20th, 1959 (March 20 1959) | Birth | Sting, American professional wrestler | |
| March 20th, 1958 (March 20 1958) | Birth | Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist | |
| March 20th, 1958 (March 20 1958) | Birth | Holly Hunter, American actress | |
| March 20th, 1957 (March 20 1957) | Birth | Vanessa Bell Calloway, American actress | |
| March 20th, 1957 (March 20 1957) | Birth | David Foster, Australian world champion woodchopper | |
| March 20th, 1957 (March 20 1957) | Birth | Spike Lee, American film director | |
| March 20th, 1957 (March 20 1957) | Birth | Theresa Russell, American actress | |
| March 20th, 1956 (March 20 1956) | Event | Tunisia gains independence from France. | |
| March 20th, 1954 (March 20 1954) | Birth | Mike Francesa, American sports talk show host | |
| March 20th, 1954 (March 20 1954) | Birth | Liana Kanelli, Greek journalist and politician | |
| March 20th, 1952 (March 20 1952) | Event | The United States Senate ratifies a peace treaty with Japan. | |
| March 20th, 1952 (March 20 1952) | Birth | Geoff Brabham, Australian racing driver | |
| March 20th, 1951 (March 20 1951) | Event | Fujiyoshida, a city located in Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan, in the center of the Japanese main island of Honshu is founded. | |
| March 20th, 1951 (March 20 1951) | Birth | Jimmie Vaughan, American blues guitarist | |
| March 20th, 1950 (March 20 1950) | Birth | William Hurt, American actor | |
| March 20th, 1950 (March 20 1950) | Birth | Carl Palmer, English drummer (Emerson, Lake & Palmer) | |
| March 20th, 1949 (March 20 1949) | Birth | Marcia Ball, American singer and pianist | |
| March 20th, 1948 (March 20 1948) | Event | With a Musicians Union ban lifted, the first telecasts of classical music in the United States, under Eugene Ormandy and Arturo Toscanini, are given on CBS and NBC. | |
| March 20th, 1948 (March 20 1948) | Birth | John de Lancie, American actor | |
| March 20th, 1948 (March 20 1948) | Birth | Bobby Orr, Canadian ice hockey player | |
| March 20th, 1947 (March 20 1947) | Birth | John Boswell, American historian (died in 1994) | |
| March 20th, 1947 (March 20 1947) | Death | Sigurd Wallen, Swedish actor and filmdirector (born in 1884) | |
| March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Henry Bartholomay, American fighter pilot | |
| March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Rick Berman, American TV and film producer | |
| March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Jay Ingram, Canadian television host and author | |
| March 20th, 1945 (March 20 1945) | Birth | Pat Riley, American basketball player and coach | |
| March 20th, 1943 (March 20 1943) | Birth | Gerard Malanga, American poet and photographer | |
| March 20th, 1943 (March 20 1943) | Birth | Naima Neidre, Estonian graphic artist | |
| March 20th, 1943 (March 20 1943) | Birth | Paul Junger Witt, American TV producer | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | World War II: In Zgierz, Poland, 100 Poles are taken from a labor camp and shot by the Germans. | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | Holocaust: in Rohatyn, western Ukraine, the German SS murder 3,000 Jews, including 600 children, annihilating 70% of Rohatyn s Jewish ghetto. | |
| March 20th, 1942 (March 20 1942) | Event | World War II: General Douglas MacArthur, at Terowie, South Australia, makes his famous speech regarding the fall of the Philippines, in which he says: "I came out of Bataan and I shall return". | Douglas MacArthur Quotes |
| March 20th, 1941 (March 20 1941) | Birth | Pat Corrales, American baseball player | |
| March 20th, 1940 (March 20 1940) | Death | Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (born in 1860) | |
| March 20th, 1939 (March 20 1939) | Birth | Brian Mulroney, former Prime Minister of Canada | |
| March 20th, 1938 (March 20 1938) | Birth | Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist | |
| March 20th, 1937 (March 20 1937) | Birth | Jerry Reed, American singer and actor | |
| March 20th, 1936 (March 20 1936) | Birth | Lee "Scratch" Perry, Reggae artist | |
| March 20th, 1936 (March 20 1936) | Birth | Vaughn Meader, American comedian (died in 2004) | |
| March 20th, 1935 (March 20 1935) | Birth | Ted Bessell, American actor (died in 1996) | |
| March 20th, 1934 (March 20 1934) | Birth | Willie Brown, American politician | |
| March 20th, 1934 (March 20 1934) | Death | Queen Emma of the Netherlands (born in 1858) | |
| March 20th, 1933 (March 20 1933) | Event | Giuseppe Zangara is executed in Florida s electric chair for fatally shooting Anton Cermak in an assassination attempt against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. | |
| March 20th, 1933 (March 20 1933) | Birth | George Altman, American baseball player | |
| March 20th, 1933 (March 20 1933) | Birth | Alexander Gorodnitsky, Russian geologist and poet | |
| March 20th, 1931 (March 20 1931) | Birth | Hal Linden, American actor | |
| March 20th, 1931 (March 20 1931) | Death | Hermann Muller, Chancellor of Germany (born in 1876) | |
| March 20th, 1929 (March 20 1929) | Birth | German Robles, Spanish actor | |
| March 20th, 1929 (March 20 1929) | Death | Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (born in 1851) | Ferdinand Foch Quotes |
| March 20th, 1928 (March 20 1928) | Birth | Fred Rogers, American TV host (died in 2003) | Fred Rogers Quotes |
| March 20th, 1927 (March 20 1927) | Birth | John Joubert, South African-born British composer | |
| March 20th, 1925 (March 20 1925) | Birth | John Ehrlichman, American political figure (died in 1999) | |
| March 20th, 1925 (March 20 1925) | Death | George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (born in 1859) | |
| March 20th, 1924 (March 20 1924) | Birth | Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (died in 1998) | |
| March 20th, 1923 (March 20 1923) | Birth | Shaukat Siddiqui, Pakistani Author, Journalist and Political Activist (died in 2006) | |
| March 20th, 1922 (March 20 1922) | Event | The USS Langley is commissioned as the first United States Navy aircraft carrier. | |
| March 20th, 1922 (March 20 1922) | Birth | Larry Elgart, American saxophonist and bandleader | |
| March 20th, 1922 (March 20 1922) | Birth | Ray Goulding, American comedian (died in 1990) | |
| March 20th, 1922 (March 20 1922) | Birth | Carl Reiner, American film director | |
| March 20th, 1921 (March 20 1921) | Birth | Sister Rosetta Tharpe, American singer (died in 1973) | |
| March 20th, 1920 (March 20 1920) | Birth | Pamela Harriman, British-American diplomat (died in 1997) | |
| March 20th, 1918 (March 20 1918) | Birth | Jack Barry, American TV host (died in 1984) | |
| March 20th, 1918 (March 20 1918) | Birth | Marian McPartland, British jazz pianist | |
| March 20th, 1918 (March 20 1918) | Birth | Donald Featherstone, British writer and wargamer | |
| March 20th, 1918 (March 20 1918) | Death | Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (born in 1828) | |
| March 20th, 1917 (March 20 1917) | Birth | Vera Lynn, English actress and singer | |
| March 20th, 1916 (March 20 1916) | Event | Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity. | Albert Einstein Quotes |
| March 20th, 1916 (March 20 1916) | Birth | Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (died in 2007) | |
| March 20th, 1916 (March 20 1916) | Death | Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (born in 1884) | |
| March 20th, 1915 (March 20 1915) | Birth | Rudolf Kirchschlager, President of Austria (died in 2000) | |
| March 20th, 1915 (March 20 1915) | Birth | Sviatoslav Richter, Soviet pianist (died in 1997) | |
| March 20th, 1914 (March 20 1914) | Event | In New Haven, Connecticut, the first international figure skating championship takes place. | |
| March 20th, 1914 (March 20 1914) | Birth | Wendell Corey, American actor (died in 1968) | |
| March 20th, 1913 (March 20 1913) | Event | Sung Chiao-jen, a founder of the Chinese Nationalist Party, is wounded in an assassination attempt and dies 2 days later. | |
| March 20th, 1911 (March 20 1911) | Birth | Alfonso Garcia Robles, Nobel laureate (died in 1991) | |
| March 20th, 1908 (March 20 1908) | Birth | Michael Redgrave, English actor (died in 1985) | |
| March 20th, 1906 (March 20 1906) | Birth | Abraham Beame, American politician (died in 2001) | Abraham Quotes |
| March 20th, 1906 (March 20 1906) | Birth | Ozzie Nelson, American bandleader and actor (died in 1975) | |
| March 20th, 1904 (March 20 1904) | Birth | B. F. Skinner, American psychologist (died in 1990) | |
| March 20th, 1903 (March 20 1903) | Birth | Edgar Buchanan, American actor (died in 1979) | |
| March 20th, 1899 (March 20 1899) | Death | Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (born in 1822) | |
| March 20th, 1897 (March 20 1897) | Birth | Ruby Muhammad, American matriarch of Black Islam | |
| March 20th, 1897 (March 20 1897) | Death | Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (born in 1821) | |
| March 20th, 1895 (March 20 1895) | Birth | Fredric Wertham, German-born psychologist (died in 1981) | |
| March 20th, 1890 (March 20 1890) | Birth | Beniamino Gigli, Italian tenor (died in 1957) | |
| March 20th, 1890 (March 20 1890) | Birth | Lauritz Melchior, Danish tenor (died in 1973) | |
| March 20th, 1890 (March 20 1890) | Death | Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (born in 1825) | |
| March 20th, 1883 (March 20 1883) | Event | The Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property is signed. | |
| March 20th, 1882 (March 20 1882) | Birth | Rene Coty, French President (d.1962) | |
| March 20th, 1879 (March 20 1879) | Birth | Maud Menten, Canadian biochemist (died in 1960) | |
| March 20th, 1878 (March 20 1878) | Death | Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (born in 1814) | |
| March 20th, 1876 (March 20 1876) | Birth | Payne Whitney, American businessman (died in 1927) | |
| March 20th, 1874 (March 20 1874) | Birth | Borries von Munchhausen, German poet (died in 1945) | |
| March 20th, 1874 (March 20 1874) | Death | Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (born in 1810) | |
| March 20th, 1870 (March 20 1870) | Birth | Paul Emil von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (died in 1964) | |
| March 20th, 1865 (March 20 1865) | Death | Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (born in 1833) | |
| March 20th, 1861 (March 20 1861) | Event | An earthquake completely destroys Mendoza, Argentina. | |
| March 20th, 1856 (March 20 1856) | Event | Costa Rican troops rout Walker s soldiers. | |
| March 20th, 1856 (March 20 1856) | Birth | Sir John Lavery, Irish artist (died in 1941) | |
| March 20th, 1856 (March 20 1856) | Birth | Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (died in 1915) | |
| March 20th, 1855 (March 20 1855) | Death | Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (born in 1788) | |
| March 20th, 1852 (March 20 1852) | Event | Harriet Beecher Stowe s Uncle Tom s Cabin is published. | Harriet Beecher Stowe Quotes |
| March 20th, 1848 (March 20 1848) | Event | Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. | |
| March 20th, 1840 (March 20 1840) | Birth | Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (died in 1894) | |
| March 20th, 1836 (March 20 1836) | Birth | Ferris Jacobs, Jr., American politician (died in 1886) | |
| March 20th, 1836 (March 20 1836) | Birth | Sir Edward Poynter, British painter (died in 1919) | |
| March 20th, 1835 (March 20 1835) | Death | Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (born in 1794) | |
| March 20th, 1834 (March 20 1834) | Birth | Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard University (died in 1926) | |
| March 20th, 1831 (March 20 1831) | Birth | Solomon L. Spink, U.S. Congressman (died in 1881) | Solomon Quotes |
| March 20th, 1828 (March 20 1828) | Birth | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (died in 1906) | Henrik Ibsen Quotes |
| March 20th, 1823 (March 20 1823) | Birth | Ned Buntline, American publisher (died in 1886) | |
| March 20th, 1815 (March 20 1815) | Event | After escaping from Elba, Napoleon enters Paris with a regular army of 140,000 and a volunteer force of around 200,000, beginning his "Hundred Days" rule. | |
| March 20th, 1811 (March 20 1811) | Birth | Napoleon II of France, (died in 1832) | |
| March 20th, 1799 (March 20 1799) | Birth | Karl August Nicander, Swedish poet (died in 1839) | |
| March 20th, 1793 (March 20 1793) | Death | William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (born in 1705) | |
| March 20th, 1780 (March 20 1780) | Death | Sir Benjamin TrumanEnglish brewer (born in 1699/1700) | |
| March 20th, 1770 (March 20 1770) | Birth | Friedrich Holderlin, German writer (died in 1843) | Friedrich Holderlin Quotes |
| March 20th, 1760 (March 20 1760) | Event | The "Great Fire" of Boston, Massachusetts destroys 349 buildings. | |
| March 20th, 1746 (March 20 1746) | Death | Nicolas de Largilliere, French painter (born in 1656) | |
| March 20th, 1741 (March 20 1741) | Birth | Jean Antoine Houdon, French sculptor (died in 1828) | |
| March 20th, 1739 (March 20 1739) | Event | Nadir Shah occupies Delhi in India and sacks the city, stealing the jewels of the Peacock Throne. | |
| March 20th, 1737 (March 20 1737) | Birth | Buddha Yodfa Chulaloke, King of Thailand (died in 1809) | |
| March 20th, 1735 (March 20 1735) | Birth | Torbern Bergman, Swedish chemist (died in 1784) | |
| March 20th, 1732 (March 20 1732) | Death | Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (born in 1681) | Philo Quotes |
| March 20th, 1730 (March 20 1730) | Death | Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (born in 1692) | |
| March 20th, 1725 (March 20 1725) | Birth | Abdul Hamid I, Ottoman Sultan (died in 1789) | |
| March 20th, 1673 (March 20 1673) | Death | Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (born in 1603) | |
| March 20th, 1644 (March 20 1644) | Birth | Ivan Mazepa, Cossack Hetman of the Hetmanate in Left-bank Ukraine, in 1687-1708 (died in 1709) | |
| March 20th, 1619 (March 20 1619) | Death | Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (born in 1557) | |
| March 20th, 1616 (March 20 1616) | Event | Sir Walter Raleigh is freed from the Tower of London after 13 years of imprisonment. | Sir Walter Raleigh Quotes |
| March 20th, 1602 (March 20 1602) | Event | The Dutch East India Company is established. | |
| March 20th, 1600 (March 20 1600) | Event | The Linkoping Bloodbath takes place on Maundy Thursday in Linkoping, Sweden. | |
| March 20th, 1586 (March 20 1586) | Death | Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (born in 1496) | |
| March 20th, 1568 (March 20 1568) | Death | Duke Albert of Prussia (born in 1490) | |
| March 20th, 1549 (March 20 1549) | Death | Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour, 4th. husband of Queen Catherine Parr (executed) (born in 1508) | |
| March 20th, 1502 (March 20 1502) | Birth | Pierino Belli, Italian soldier and jurist (died in 1575) | |
| March 20th, 1477 (March 20 1477) | Birth | Jerome Emser, German theologian (died in 1527) | |
| March 20th, 1469 (March 20 1469) | Birth | Princess Cecily of York (died in 1507) | |
| March 20th, 1413 (March 20 1413) | Death | King Henry IV of England (born in 1367) | |
| March 20th, 1239 (March 20 1239) | Death | Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179) | |
| March 20th, 0687 (March 20 0687) | Death | St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (born in c. 634). | |
