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March 7th


- Christian Feast Day:
- One of the days dedicated to Vesiovus (Roman Empire)
- Teacher's Day (Albania)

March 7th


- 2007 - British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected.
- 1994 - Copyright Law: The U.S. Supreme Court rules that parodies of an original work are generally covered by the doctrine of fair use.
- 1989 - Iran and the United Kingdom break diplomatic relations after a row over Salman Rushdie and his controversial novel.
- 1986 - Challenger Disaster: Divers from the USS Preserver locate the crew cabin of Challenger on the ocean floor.
- 1985 - The song "We Are the World" had its international release.
- 1971 - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman delivers his historic "This time the struggle is for our freedom" speech at Ramna Race Course, calling upon the Bengali people to prepare for the freedom struggle ahead.
- 1965 - Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are forcefully broken up in Selma, Alabama.
- 1951 - Korean War: Operation Ripper – United Nations troops led by General Matthew Ridgeway begin an assault against Chinese forces.
- 1950 - Cold War: The Soviet Union issues a statement denying that Klaus Fuchs served as a Soviet spy.
- 1945 - World War II: American troops seize the Ludendorff Bridge over the Rhine River at Remagen.
- 1936 - World War II (Prelude to): In violation of the Locarno Pact and the Treaty of Versailles, Germany reoccupies the Rhineland.
- 1914 - Prince William of Wied arrives in Albania to begin his reign.
- 1912 - Roald Amundsen announces that his expedition had reached the South Pole on December 14, .
- 1886 - The City of Lábrea in Amazonas, Brazil was founded. Today, the town is the seat of the Territorial Prelature of Lábrea.
- 1876 - Alexander Graham Bell is granted a patent for an invention he calls the telephone beating Antonio Meucci by four hours.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Union forces defeat Confederate troops at Pea Ridge in northwestern Arkansas.
- 1850 - Senator Daniel Webster gives his "Seventh of March" speech endorsing the Compromise of 1850 in order to prevent a possible civil war.
- 1827 - Brazil marines unsuccessfully attack the temporary naval base of Carmen de Patagones, Argentina.
- 1827 - Shrigley Abduction: Ellen Turner is abducted by Edward Gibbon Wakefield, a future politician in colonial New Zealand.
- 1814 - Emperor Napoleon I of France wins the Battle of Craonne.
- 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte captures Jaffa in Palestine and his troops proceed to kill more than 2,000 Albanian captives.
- 1277 - Stephen Tempier, bishop of Paris, condemns 219 philosophical and theological theses.
- 321 - Emperor Constantine I decrees that the dies Solis Invicti (sun-day) is the day of rest in the Empire.
- 161 - Emperor Antoninus Pius dies and is succeeded by his adoptif sons Marcus Aurelius en Lucius Verus.

March 7th


- 2009 - Prince Umberto of Savoy
- 1992 - Bel Powley, English actress
- 1990 - Choi Jong Hun, South Korean guitarist, leader in F.T. Island
- 1990 - Abigail and Brittany Hensel, American conjoined twins
- 1990 - Lefteris Matsoukas, Greek footballer
- 1989 - Gerald Anderson, Filipino actor and model
- 1988 - Larry Asante, American football player
- 1987 - Niclas Bergfors, Swedish hockey player
- 1987 - Hatem Ben Arfa, French footballer
- 1986 - Ben Griffin, Australian soccer player
- 1986 - George Whitelock, New Zealand All Black rugby player
- 1985 - Thomas Erak, American guitarist
- 1985 - Andre Fluellen, American football player
- 1984 - Mathieu Flamini, French footballer
- 1984 - Brandon T. Jackson, American actor
- 1984 - Rachel Rice, Welsh reality tv star
- 1983 - Taylor Tankersley, American baseball player
- 1983 - Manucho, Angolan footballer
- 1982 - Kate Michael, American beauty queen
- 1982 - Erika Yamakawa, Japanese talent
- 1980 - Éric Godard, Canadian ice hockey player
- 1980 - Laura Prepon, American actress
- 1979 - Rodrigo Braña, Argentine footballer
- 1979 - Amanda Somerville, American singer (Aina) and vocal coach
- 1977 - Gianluca Grava, Italian footballer
- 1977 - Paul Cattermole, British singer, actor and member of pop group S Club
- 1977 - Ronan O'Gara, Irish rugby union footballer
- 1977 - Mitja Zastrow, German-born swimmer
- 1975 - Audrey Marie Anderson, American actress
- 1975 - TJ Thyne, American actor
- 1974 - Larry Bagby, American actor and musician
- 1974 - Jenna Fischer, American actress
- 1974 - Facundo Sava, Argentine footballer
- 1973 - Jason Bright, Australian racing driver
- 1973 - Sébastien Izambard, operatic pop singer (Il Divo)
- 1973 - Ray Parlour, English footballer
- 1972 - Jang Dong-gun, South Korean actor and musician
- 1972 - Maxim Roy, Quebec actress
- 1971 - Peter Sarsgaard, American actor
- 1971 - Matthew Vaughn, British film producer and director
- 1970 - Rachel Weisz, British actress
- 1969 - Warrel Dane, American singer (Nevermore)
- 1969 - Massimo Lotti, Italian footballer
- 1969 - Hideki Noda, Japanese racing driver
- 1969 - Shin Ae Ra, Korean actress and radio DJ
- 1968 - Denis Boucher, Canadian baseball player
- 1968 - Jeff Kent, American baseball player
- 1967 - Ruthie Henshall, English theatre actress and singer
- 1967 - Jean-Pierre Barda, Swedish singer (Army of Lovers)
- 1967 - Ai Yazawa, Japanese mangaka
- 1966 - Joy Tanner, American actress
- 1965 - Jack Armstrong, American baseball player
- 1965 - Steve Beuerlein, American football player
- 1965 - Cameron Daddo, Australian actor
- 1965 - Jesper Parnevik, Swedish golfer
- 1964 - Bret Easton Ellis, American writer
- 1964 - Wanda Sykes, American actress and comedienne
- 1963 - Bill Brochtrup, American actor
- 1963 - Denyce Graves, American singer
- 1962 - Taylor Dayne, American recording artist
- 1962 - Peter Manley, English darts player
- 1960 - Jim Spivey, American track and field athlete
- 1960 - Joe Carter, American baseball player
- 1960 - Ivan Lendl, Czech tennis player
- 1959 - Donna Murphy, American actress
- 1958 - Alan Hale, American astronomer
- 1958 - Rik Mayall, British actor
- 1957 - Robert Harris, English TV reporter and journalist
- 1956 - Bryan Cranston, American actor
- 1955 - Anupam Kher, Indian actor
- 1955 - Tommy Kramer, American football player
- 1952 - Ernie Isley, American musician (The Isley Brothers)
- 1952 - Viv Richards, Antiguan West Indies cricketer
- 1952 - Lynn Swann, American football player
- 1951 - Francis Rocco Prestia, American musician (Tower of Power)
- 1950 - Iris Chacon, Puerto Rican singer and dancer
- 1950 - Billy Joe Dupree, American football player
- 1950 - Franco Harris, American football player
- 1949 - Ghulam Nabi Azad, Indian politician
- 1947 - Richard Lawson, American actor
- 1947 - Walter Röhrl, German race and rally car driver
- 1947 - Helen Eadie, Scottish politician
- 1946 - Matthew Fisher, British musician (Procol Harum)
- 1946 - Daniel Goleman, American author and psychologist
- 1946 - Peter Wolf, American musician (The J. Geils Band)
- 1945 - John Heard, American actor
- 1945 - Bob Herbert, American journalist
- 1945 - Arthur Lee, American musician (Love) (d. 2006)
- 1944 - Sir Ranulph Fiennes, British soldier and explorer
- 1944 - Zhiuli Shartava, Georgian politician and the Head of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Abkhazia (d. 1993)
- 1944 - Stanley Schmidt, American editor
- 1944 - Townes Van Zandt, American musician and songwriter (d. 1997)
- 1943 - Chris White, British musician (The Zombies)
- 1942 - Tammy Faye Bakker, American televangelist (d. 2007)
- 1942 - Michael Eisner, American film studio executive
- 1942 - Charles R. Boutin, American politician
- 1940 - Rudi Dutschke, German student leader (d. 1979)
- 1940 - Daniel J. Travanti, American actor
- 1938 - David Baltimore, American biologist, Nobel laureate
- 1938 - Janet Guthrie, American race car driver
- 1934 - Willard Scott, American television broadcaster
- 1934 - Giorgos Katsaros, Greek musician and composer
- 1933 - Jackie Blanchflower, Northern Irish footballer (d. 1998)
- 1930 - Antony Armstrong-Jones, British aristocrat, Lord Snowdon, former husband of Princess Margaret
- 1927 - James Broderick, American actor (d. 1982)
- 1927 - Jean-Paul Desbiens, Quebec writer and teacher (d. 2006)
- 1927 - Henri Landwirth, Belgian-American hotelier and philanthropist
- 1925 - Rene Gagnon, American Marine shown in photograph of the Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima (d. 1979)
- 1922 - Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya, Russian mathematician (d. 2004)
- 1917 - Lee Young, American jazz drummer and singer (d. 2008)
- 1915 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician (d. 2000)
- 1909 - Léo Malet, French writer (Nestor Burma) (d. 1996)
- 1908 - Anna Magnani, Italian actress (d. 1973)
- 1904 - Ivar Ballangrud, Norwegian speed skater (d. 1969)
- 1904 - Reinhard Heydrich, German Nazi SS senior officer (d. 1942)
- 1902 - Heinz Rühmann, German actor (d. 1994)
- 1893 - Milton Avery, American artist (d. 1965)
- 1888 - Alidius Warmoldus Lambertus Tjarda van Starkenborgh Stachouwer, Dutch lawyer and politician (d. 1978)
- 1887 - Heino Eller, Estonian composer (d. 1970)
- 1878 - Boris Kustodiev, Russian painter (d. 1927)
- 1875 - Maurice Ravel, French composer (d. 1937)
- 1873 - Madame Sul-Te-Wan, American actress (d. 1959)
- 1872 - Piet Mondrian, Dutch painter (d. 1944)
- 1866 - Hans Fruhstorfer, German lepidopterist (d. 1922)
- 1857 - Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Austrian neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (d. 1940)
- 1850 - Champ Clark, American politician (d. 1921)
- 1850 - Tomáš Masaryk, first President of Czechoslovakia (d. 1937)
- 1849 - Luther Burbank, American botanist (d. 1926)
- 1841 - William Rockhill Nelson, American publisher (The Kansas City Star) and patron of Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (d. 1915)
- 1837 - Henry Draper, American physician and astronomer (d. 1882)
- 1792 - John Herschel, English mathematician and astronomer (d. 1871)
- 1788 - Antoine César Becquerel, French physicist (d. 1878)
- 1785 - Alessandro Manzoni, Italian writer (d. 1873)
- 1765 - Nicéphore Niépce, French inventor of photography (d. 1833)
- 1730 - Baron de Breteuil, French statesman (d. 1807)
- 1715 - Ewald Christian von Kleist, German poet (d. 1759)
- 1715 - Ephraim Williams, American philanthropist (d. 1755)
- 1693 - Pope Clement XIII (d. 1769)
- 1687 - Jean Lebeuf, French historian (d. 1760)
- 1678 - Filippo Juvarra, Italian architect (d. 1736)
- 1671 - Robert Roy MacGregor, Scottish folk hero (d. 1734)
- 1556 - Guillaume du Vair, French writer (d. 1621)
- 1481 - Baldassare Peruzzi, Italian architect and painter (d. 1537)
- 189 - Publius Septimius Geta, Roman Emperor (d. 211)