Today in History for Year 1990

Months in Year 1990: January February March April May June July August September October November December

Historical Events

Events 1 - 100 of 946

Jan 1st - David Dinkins sworn in as 1st black mayor of NYC
Jan 1st - Mitsuko Nishiwaki beats Nakano to become Japan Women wrestling champ
Jan 1st - NYC MTA stops token redemption at subway stations
Jan 1st - Sports News Network begins operation on cable TV
Jan 1st - FCC implements "SYNDEX" giving independent stations more rights over cable TV outlets for exclusive syndicated programs
Jan 2nd - Dow Jones hits record 2,800 (2,810.15)
Jan 2nd - Sting joins wrestlings 4 Horsemen (Flair, Arn Anderson, Ole Anderson)
Jan 3rd - Panama's leader Gen Manuel Noriega surrenders to US authorities
Jan 5th - J Donald Crump appointed 8th Commissioner of CFL
Jan 6th - NY Lotto pays $35 million to one winner (#s are 18-25-26-32-42-44)
Jan 7th - Lynn Jennings runs world record 5K indoor at 15:22.64
Jan 7th - Tower Of Pisa closed to the public after leaning too far
Jan 9th - 64th US manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) launches into orbit
Jan 9th - Boston Celtics worst ever (6 pts in 2nd vs NJ Nets) & lose 87-78
Jan 9th - Jim Palmer & Joe Morgan elected to Baseball Hall of Fame
Jan 9th - Supreme Court strikes down Dallas' ordinance imposing strict zoning on sexually oriented businesses
Jan 10th - "Les Miserables," opens at Mechanic Theatre, Baltimore
Jan 10th - China lifts martial law (imposed after Tiananmen Square massacre)
Jan 10th - NCAA approves random drug testing for college football players
Jan 11th - 200,000 demand return of Lithuania's independence
Jan 11th - Actor Joseph Cotton undergoes vocal cancer operation at 84
Jan 11th - Bobby Knight becomes basketball's Big 10 winningest coach (229)
Jan 11th - Pat Lafontaine sets NY Islander record of scoring goals in 11 straight
Minister and Civil Rights Activist Al Sharpton Jan 12th - Civil Rights activist Rev Al Sharpton is stabbed in Bensonhurst Bkln
Jan 12th - Romania bans Communist party (1st Warsaw Pact member to do so)
Jan 13th - 1st elected US black governor inaugurated (Douglas Wilder-Virginia)
Jan 14th - "Simpsons" premiered on Fox-TV
Jan 14th - 11th ACE Cable Awards
Jan 14th - Perez de Cuellar says he has lost all hope for peace in Gulf
Jan 15th - 42 year old George Foreman KOs George Cooney in 2 rounds
Jan 15th - 6th Soap Opera Digest Awards - Knots Landing wins
Jan 15th - AT&T experiences long distance problems due to a computer glitch
Jan 15th - Blue Jay Cecil Fielder signs with Detroit as a free agent
Jan 15th - NY Knicks Trent Tucker scores with 1/10 sec, beats Bulls, 109-106
Jan 16th - 2 Bank of Credit & Commerce members plea guilty to money laundering
Jan 17th - 5th Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Awards: Bobby Darin
Jan 17th - Dave Stewart signs record $3,500,000 per year Oak A's contract
Jan 17th - Who, Simon & Garfunkel, 4 Seasons, 4 Tops, Hank Ballard, Platters &
Boxing Champ George Foreman Jan 17th - Kinks inducted into Cleveland's Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Jan 18th - South Africa says its reconsidering ban on African Natl Congress
Jan 18th - Wash DC, Mayor Marion Barry arrested in drug enforcement sting
Jan 19th - Test debut of Mushtaq Ahmed, v Australia at Adelaide
Jan 20th - 47th Golden Globes: Born on 4th of July, Driving Miss Daisy win
Jan 20th - US 64th manned space mission STS 32 (Columbia 10) returns from space
Jan 20th - Black January - crackdown of Azerbaijani pro-independence demonstrations by Soviet army in Baku.
Jan 21st - 41st NHL All-Star Game: Wales beat Campbell 12-7 at Pittsburgh
Jan 21st - Bob Goodenow succeeds Alan Eagleson as NHL players association exec director
Jan 21st - John McEnroe becomes 1st ever player to be expelled from the Australian Open
Jan 21st - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Jamaica Golf Classic
Jan 22nd - 17th American Music Award: Milli Vanilli
Jan 22nd - Wasim Akram scores Test century (123) at Adelaide
Jan 22nd - Will Clark, NL's MVP signs a $15M 4-year contract with SF Giants
Jan 22nd - Robert Tappan Morris, Jr. is convicted of releasing the 1988 Internet worm.
Tennis Great John McEnroe Jan 23rd - Dean Jones scores twin Test tons v Pakistan at Adelaide Oval
Jan 24th - Japanese MUSES-A (Hiten) launched towards moon
Jan 25th - Avianca Flight 52, runs out of fuel & crashes in Cove Neck NY, 73 die
Jan 25th - Former Panamanian leader Manuel Noriega is transferred to a Miami jail
Jan 25th - West-Europe's strongest hurricane
Jan 25th - The Burns' Day storm hits northwestern Europe.
Jan 25th - Honduras becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty.
Jan 26th - Annular eclipse visible over Antarctica & South Atlantic
Jan 26th - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
Jan 27th - 64th Australian Women's Tennis Steffi Graf beats MJ Fernandez (63 64)
Jan 28th - "Independent on Sunday" begins publishing in London
Jan 28th - 78th Australian Mens Tennis: Ivan Lendl beats S Edberg (46 76 52-ret)
Jan 28th - Superbowl XXIV: SF 49ers beat Denver Broncos, 55-10 in New Orleans Superbowl MVP: Joe Montana, San Francisco, QB
Jan 29th - Exxon Valdez capt Joseph Hazelwood goes on trial due to oil spill
Jan 31st - 1st McDonalds in Russia opens in Moscow, world's biggest McDonalds
Tennis Player Steffi Graf Jan 31st - 1st ever all-sports daily "National" begins publishing
Jan 31st - Jushin "Thunder" Liger beats Naoki Sano to become New Japan IWGP champ
Jan 31st - The first McDonald's in the Soviet Union opens in Moscow, USSR.
Feb 2nd - South Africa's Pres FW de Klerk promises to free Nelson Mandela & legalizes ANC & 60 other political orgs
Feb 3rd - Darryl Strawberry voluntarily enters Smither Center for Alcohol rehabilitation
Feb 3rd - Jockey Billy Shoemaker (58), retires after 40,350 horse race
Feb 4th - 10 Israeli tourists murdered near Cairo
Feb 4th - Anders Holmertz swims world record 400 m freestyle (3:40.81)
Feb 4th - Danny Everett runs world record 400m indoor (45:04)
Feb 4th - Lyudmila Narozhi-Lenko runs world record 60m hurdles indoor (7.69)
Feb 4th - NFL Pro Bowl: NFC beats AFC 27-21
Feb 4th - Pat Bradley wins Oldsmobile LPGA Golf Classic
Feb 4th - Richard Hadlee takes his 400th Test Cricket wicket (Sanjay Manjrekar)
Feb 4th - St Petersburg Pelicans beat West Palm Beach Tropics 12-4 to win 1st Senior Professional Baseball Association Championship
Feb 5th - Notre Dame becomes 1st team to sell its game to a major network (NBC)
Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry Feb 6th - Brett Hull becomes 1st son of NHL 50 goal scorer (Bobby) to score 50
Feb 6th - Ground breaking begins on Baltimore Orioles' new $102 million stadium
Feb 6th - Steve Briers of Wales recited the entire lyrics of Queen's album "A Night At The Opera" in 9 minutes & 58.44 seconds backwards!
Feb 7th - Karachi police kill 22 anti-nationalistic demonstrators
Feb 7th - USSR Communist party agrees to allow opposition political parties
Feb 7th - Lisa Leslie of Morningside HS in Inglewood California scores 101 in 1st half, South Torrance HS decides not to play 2nd half & loses 102-24
Feb 8th - David Hares "Racing Demon," premieres in London
Feb 8th - "60 Minutes" commentator Andy Rooney suspended by CBS for racial remarks attributed to him by a gay magazine
Feb 9th - "Bradys" return to TV for 6 episodes on CBS TV
Feb 9th - Doina Melinte runs world indoor record 1.5k (4:00:27) & mile (4:17:13)
Feb 9th - Galileo flies by Venus
Feb 9th - Namibia's constitution ratified
Feb 10th - 6th Largest wrestling crowd (63,900-Tokyo Dome)
Feb 10th - Pierrer Water pulls product from shelf due to benzine in water
Feb 10th - South Africa president de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be free Feb 11th
Feb 10th - US female Figure Skating championship won by Jill Trenary
Feb 11th - 40th NBA All-Star Game: East beats West 130-113 at Miami

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Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 134

Jan 4th - Toni Kroos, German footballer
Jan 7th - Liam Aiken, American actor
Jan 7th - Elene Gedevanishvili, Georgian figure skater
Jan 7th - Camryn Grimes, American actress
Jan 7th - Gregor Schlierenzauer, Austrian skijumper
Jan 8th - Maci Wainwright, American singer
Jan 10th - Tao Li, Singaporean Olympic swimmer
Jan 12th - Sergey Karjakin, Ukrainian chess player
Jan 15th - Fernando Forestieri, Italian footballer
Jan 15th - Chris Warren Jr., American actor
Jan 21st - Jacob Smith, American actor
Jan 26th - Christopher Massey, American actor
Jan 30th - Jake Thomas, American actor
Jan 30th - Eiza Gonzalez, Mexican actress/singer
Feb 1st - Laura Marling, British singer-songwriter
Feb 3rd - Cody Newton Gifford, son of Kathie Lee & Frank Gifford
Feb 3rd - Sean Kingston, American reggae rapper
Feb 4th - Haruka Tomatsu, Japanese Seiyū
Feb 7th - Steven Stamkos, Canadian ice hockey player
Feb 9th - Camille Winbush, American actress
Feb 11th - Princess Ayah of Jordan
Feb 11th - Q'orianka Kilcher, actress and activist (The New World)
Feb 13th - Olivia Allison, British synchronized swimmer
Feb 15th - Erwin Sak, Polish footballer
Mar 1st - Nikolas Tsattalios, Australian soccer player
Mar 1st - Harry Eden, English actor
Mar 1st - Ben Tozer, English footballer
Mar 4th - Andrea Bowen, American actress
Mar 7th - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
Mar 13th - Alec Medlock, American actor
Mar 21st - Mandy Capristo, German Singer (Monrose)
Mar 22nd - Eugenie, Princess of Britain
Mar 23rd - Eugenie OF, Princess of York/daughter of prince Andrew/Sarah Ferguson
Mar 24th - Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-born New Zealand actress
Mar 27th - Scott Selwood, Australian rules footballer
Apr 5th - Haruma Miura, Japanese Actor
Apr 9th - Marston Glenn Hefner, son of Hugh Hefner & Kimberley Conrad
Actress Kristen Stewart (Apr 9th) Apr 9th - Kristen Stewart, Los Angeles, California, American actress (Bella Swan-The Twilight Saga)
Apr 10th - Lulinha, Brazilian footballer
Apr 10th - Alex Pettyfer, English actor
Apr 15th - Emma Watson, Paris, France, English actress (Hermione Granger-Harry Potter Series)
Apr 16th - Heather Fulton, American marine biologist
Apr 16th - Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
Apr 17th - Jonathan Brown, Welsh footballer
Apr 19th - Kim Chiu, Filipino actress
Apr 23rd - Matthew Dillon Underwood, American actor
May 2nd - Kay Panabaker, American actor
May 5th - Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg, NYC, daughter of Caroline
May 14th - Emily Samuelson, American ice dancer
May 15th - Joe Mattock, English football player
May 17th - Leven Rambin, American actress
May 24th - Joey Logano, American racecar driver
Actress Emma Watson (Apr 15th) May 26th - Zenouska Mowatt, granddaughter of English princess Alexandra
May 27th - Ekaterina Zaikina, Russian figure-skater
May 29th - Dave Morton, American guitarist
May 30th - Dean Collins, American actor
May 31st - Liberty Irene Kasem, daughter of Casey & Jean Kasam
Jun 2nd - Brittany Curran, American actress
Jun 13th - Aaron Johnson, British actor
Jun 23rd - Samuel Lee, FIFA 08 World Champion
Jun 24th - Michael Del Zotto, Canadian ice hockey player
Jun 27th - Aselin Debison, Canadian singer
Jun 28th - Jasmine Richards, Canadian actress
Jul 9th - Fábio and Rafael da Silva, Brazilian footballers
Jul 11th - Connor Paolo, American actor
Jul 11th - Caroline Wozniacki, Danish tennis player
Jul 13th - Matt Weinberg, American actor
Jul 19th - Steven Anthony Lawrence, American actor
Jul 24th - Evan James Springsteen, LA California, rocker Bruce Springsteen's son
Jul 24th - Daveigh Chase, American actress
Jul 27th - Cheyenne Kimball, American musician
Jul 27th - Nick Hogan, American reality TV star
Jul 27th - Indiana Evans, Australian actress
Jul 28th - Soulja Boy, American rapper
Jul 28th - Shana Swash, English actress
Jul 31st - Olga Galchenko, Russian juggler
Aug 1st - Landry Allbright, actress (Bridget Forrester-Bold & Beautiful)
Aug 2nd - Alice Connor, British actress
Aug 6th - Jon Benet Ramsey, little beauty queen (murdered in 1996)
Aug 9th - Adelaide Kane, Australian actress
Aug 12th - Mario Balotelli, Italian footballer
Aug 14th - Jaydee Bixby, Canadian singer
Aug 17th - Colin Bates, American actor
Aug 17th - Rachel Hurd-Wood, British actress
Aug 20th - Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Dutch swimmer
Aug 26th - Lil' Chris, British singer
Aug 28th - Bojan Krkić, Serbian-Spanish footballer
Aug 29th - Sam Stern, British chef and author
Sep 2nd - Marcus Ericsson, Swedish Racing Driver
Sep 5th - Jeremy Snider, US actor (Eric Jr-Bold & Beautiful)
Sep 5th - Kim Yu-Na, Korean figure skater
Sep 7th - Tanja Kolbe, German ice dancer
Sep 8th - Matt Barkley, American football player
Sep 9th - Melody Klaver, Dutch actress
Sep 19th - Saki Fukuda, Japanese actress
Sep 20th - John Tavares, Canadian ice hockey player
Sep 20th - Marilou, Quebec pop singer
Sep 21st - Allison Scagliotti, American actress
Sep 21st - Christian Serratos, American actress
Sep 25th - Mao Asada, Japanese figure skater

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Famous Weddings

Weddings 1 - 11 of 11

Jan 26th - Boston Red Sox hires Elaine Weddington as asst GM (highest-ranking black female in a major-league front office)
Feb 2nd - Marina Ogilvy (daughter of Engl princess Alexandra) weds Paul Mowatt
Apr 28th - Guns & Roses' Axl marries Erin Everly (annulled same year)
May 5th - "Crocodile Dundee" actors Paul Hogan (50) weds Linda Kozlowski (32) at their newly built $3 million mansion at Faraway Possum Creek in New South Wales, Australia
Jul 17th - PLO-leader Jasser Arrafat marries Soha Tawil in Tunis
Aug 11th - "General Hospital" actor Maurice Benard (27) weds Paula Smith
Sep 16th - 101 year old Sam Ackerman weds 95 year old Eva in New Rochelle NY
Sep 29th - Brook Yeaton weds Traci Lords
Nov 23rd - Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
Dec 15th - Rocker Rod Stewart marries super model Rachel Hunter
Dec 29th - Olympic gymnist Mary Lou Retton weds Shannon Kelley

Famous Divorces

Divorces 1 - 2 of 2

Apr 1st - Guns & Roses' Duff divorces Mandy Brix, lead singer for Lame Flames
Oct 14th - Jeff Goldblum & wife Geena Davis file for divorce

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 100 of 478

Jan 1st - Charles Boost, Dutch film critic, dies at 82
Jan 1st - Joe Hardstaff Jr, cricketer (23 Tests for England, 1636 runs), dies
Jan 1st - Suzuki Sochu, Zen teacher (Rinzai line)/abbot of Ryutakuji, dies
Jan 2nd - Alan Hale Jr, Skipper on Gilligan's Island, dies of cancer at 71
Jan 2nd - Vladimir Alexis Ussachevsky, Manchuria composer (Creation), dies at 78
Jan 3rd - Ken Hill, actor (Cobra, Protocol), dies
Jan 3rd - Arthur Gold, American pianist, half of Gold and Fizdale duo (b. 1917)
Jan 4th - Alberto Lleras Camargo, president of Colombia (1945-46, 58-62), dies
Jan 4th - Robert F Adams, US, sci-fi author (Castaways in Time), dies at 57
Jan 4th - Harold Edgerton, American electrical engineer (b. 1903)
Jan 4th - Sir Henry Bolte, Premier of Victoria 1955-1972 (b. 1908)
Jan 5th - Arthur Kennedy, actor (Air Force), dies of a brain tumor at 76
Jan 5th - Bart LaRue, entertainer, dies
Jan 6th - Hans Jaray, actor (Lydia, Fedora), dies
Jan 6th - Ian Charleson, actor (Gandhi, Chariots of Fire), dies of AIDS at 40
Jan 7th - Bronislau "Bronko" Nagurski, football hall of famer, dies at 81
Jan 7th - Gail Lucas, entertainer, dies
Jan 7th - Horace Stoneham, baseball owner (Giants), dies at 86
Jan 7th - Joseph Robbie, lawyer/NFL owner (Miami Dolphins), dies at 73
Jan 8th - Terry Thomas, Engl comic (Heroes), dies of Parkinson's disease at 78
Jan 9th - Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
Jan 9th - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
Jan 10th - Juliet Berto, screenwriter/actress (Bastienne Bastien), dies at 42
Jan 10th - Yvonne Peattie Marquard, actress (Donovan's Reef), dies
Jan 11th - Mary Jane Carr, actress (Forbidden Trail, Second Wife), dies
Jan 12th - Laurence J Peter, author (Peter Princible), dies of a stroke at 70
Jan 12th - Paul Amadeus Pisk, composer, dies at 96
Jan 14th - David Arkin, actor (I Love You Alice B Toklas), dies
Jan 14th - Mani Madhava Chakyar, Koodiyattam artist and Sanskrit scholar (b. 1899)
Jan 15th - Gordon Jackson, actor (Hamlet), dies after a short illness at 66
Jan 17th - Charles Hernu, French minister of Defense (1981-85), dies
Jan 18th - Melanie Appleby, rocker (Mel & Kim), dies of liver cancer at 23
Jan 18th - Rusty Hamer, American actor (b. 1947)
Jan 19th - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, indian guru, dies at 58
Jan 19th - Herbert Wehner, German ex-communist/chairman (1958-73), dies at 83
Jan 19th - Semprini, English musician (b. 1908)
Jan 20th - Barbara Stanwyck, [Ruby Stevens], actress (Big Valley), dies at 82
Jan 20th - Miloslav Istvan, composer, dies at 61
Jan 20th - Naruhito Higashi-Kuni, Japanese PM (1945), dies
Jan 20th - Hayedeh, Persian singer (b. 1942)
Jan 23rd - Albert Collins, guitarist (Lynyrd Skynyrd), dies of pneumonia at 57
Jan 23rd - Mariano Rumor, Italy's PM (1968-70, 73-1974), dies
Jan 24th - Madge Bellamy, actress (White Zombie), dies at 87
Jan 25th - Alexander Lockwood, actor (Duel), dies
Jan 25th - Ava Gardner, actress (Barefoot Contessa), dies of pneumonia at 67
Jan 25th - Ian Dudley Hardy, entertainer, dies
Jan 26th - FHP "Boy" Trip, Dutch minister, dies
Jan 26th - Lewis Mumford, American historian (b. 1895)
Jan 26th - Bob Gerard, British racing driver (b. 1914)
Jan 27th - Helen Jerome Eddy, actress (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), dies at 92
Jan 31st - Rashad Khalifa, Egyptian-born imam (b. 1935)
Feb 2nd - Joel Fluellen, actor (Man Friday, Burning Cross), dies at 79
Feb 2nd - Joe Erskine, Welsh boxer (b. 1934)
Feb 4th - Whipper Billy Watson, Canadian professional wrestler (b. 1917)
Feb 6th - Jane Novak, silent screen actress (Ghost Town), dies of stroke at 94
Feb 6th - John Merivale, actor (Caltiki), dies
Feb 7th - Dom Heider Camara, nonviolent/human rights Bishop of Brazil, dies
Feb 7th - Jimmy Van Heusen, composer (Call Me Irresponsible), dies at 77
Feb 7th - Nathan Wartels, publisher (Crown), dies at 88 of pneumonia
Feb 7th - Alfredo M. Santos, First Four-star General of the Armed Forces of the Philippines, World War II hero (b. 1905)
Feb 8th - Del Shannon, rock vocalist (Runaway), shoots self at 50
Feb 8th - Del Shannon, American entertainer (suicide) (b. 1934)
Feb 13th - Ken Lynch, actor (Paratroop Command, Legend of Tom Dooley), dies at 79
Feb 14th - Graeme Hole, cricketer (18 Tests for Australia, 789 runs), dies
Feb 14th - Jean Wallace, [Walasek], actress (Big Combo), dies of hemorrhage at 66
Feb 14th - Tony Holiday, German singer
Feb 15th - Henry Brandon, actor (Assault on Precinct 13), dies at 77
Feb 15th - Jack Fletcher, actor (Any Wednesday), dies of heart attack at 68
Feb 16th - Keith Haring, artist/cartoonist (brilliant baby), dies of AIDs at 31
Feb 17th - Erik Rhodes, actor (Top Hat), dies of pneumonia at 84
Feb 17th - Frans Kellendonk, Dutch writer (Good for Nothing), dies at 39
Feb 17th - Keith Haring, US graffiti-artist, dies at 31
Feb 17th - Marc Clement, actor (Career Opportunities, Sluggers Wife), dies
Feb 17th - Hap Day, Canadian ice hockey player and manager (b. 1901)
Feb 18th - Hulk, fictional character in "Death of Incredible Hulk" on NBC, dies
Feb 19th - Michael Powell, Engl director (Life & Death of Col Blimp), dies at 84
Feb 22nd - Stephen Burns, actor (Casey's Shadow), dies
Feb 23rd - Annelien Kappeyne van de Coppello, Dutch MP (Liberal), dies at 53
Feb 23rd - James Gavin, commandant US 82nd Airborn Div (Normandy), dies at 82
Feb 23rd - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president of Salvador (1984-89), dies at 62
Feb 24th - Johnnie Ray, singer (Cry), dies of liver failure at 61
Publisher Malcolm Forbes (Feb 24th) Feb 24th - Malcolm Forbes, CEO (Forbes Publishing), dies of a heart attack at 70
Feb 24th - Sandro Pertini, president of Italy (1978, 85), dies at 93
Feb 24th - Tony Conigliaro, baseball player (Red Sox), dies of pneumonia at 45
Feb 25th - Deborra Hampton, actress (Crossroads, 2 of a Kind), dies at 30
Feb 26th - Cornell Gunther, US musician (Coasters, Poison Ivy), dies at 53
Feb 26th - Leslie Ames, cricketer (47 Tests, 2434 runs 8 centuries), dies
Feb 26th - Maurine Stuart, Zen teacher (head of Cambridge Buddhist Association), dies
Feb 26th - Scott Jarvis, musician (Great Expectationa), dies
Feb 27th - Nahum Norbert Glatzer, Jewish-American scholar (b. 1903)
Feb 28th - Colin Milburn, cricketer (9 Tests for England, 654 runs), dies
Feb 28th - Fabia Drake, actress (Nice Girl Like Me), dies at 86
Feb 28th - Tuppy Owen-Smith, South African cricketer (batsman v England 1929), dies
Mar 1st - Claude Spaak, Belgian dramatist, dies
Mar 3rd - Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
Mar 3rd - Gérard Blitz, Belgian waterpoloist and entrepreneur (b. 1912)
Mar 4th - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
Mar 5th - Gary Merrill, actor (Time Tunnel, Huckleberry Finn), dies at 75
Mar 5th - Gloria Carter Spann, Pres Carter's sister, dies at 63 of cancer
Mar 7th - Max Neuhaus, composer, dies at 50