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| 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, 1998 (March 20 1998) | Death | George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician |  | 
| 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, 1958 (March 20 1958) | Birth | Phil Anderson, Australian cyclist |  | 
| March 20th, 1958 (March 20 1958) | Birth | Holly Hunter, American actress |  | 
| 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, 1938 (March 20 1938) | Birth | Sergei Petrovich Novikov, Russian Mathematician, Fields Medalist |  | 
| March 20th, 1928 (March 20 1928) | Birth | Fred Rogers, American TV host (died in 2003) | Fred Rogers Quotes | 
| 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, 1908 (March 20 1908) | Birth | Michael Redgrave, English actor (died in 1985) |  | 
| March 20th, 1878 (March 20 1878) | Death | Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (born in 1814) |  | 
| March 20th, 1848 (March 20 1848) | Event | Revolutions of 1848 in the German states: King Ludwig I of Bavaria abdicates. |  | 
| March 20th, 1828 (March 20 1828) | Birth | Henrik Ibsen, Norwegian writer (died in 1906) | Henrik Ibsen Quotes | 
| March 20th, 1568 (March 20 1568) | Death | Duke Albert of Prussia (born in 1490) |  |