March 21 is the 80th day of the year (81st in leap years) according to the Gregorian calendar. There are 285 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

1590 – Ferhat Pasha Treaty was signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Safavid Empire.
1779 – The Aynalıkavak Treaty was signed between the Ottoman Empire and Russia.
1788 – The city of New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, was completely burned in a fire.
1851 - Emperor Tu Duc of Vietnam orders all Christian priests to be killed.
1857 – In the earthquake that struck Tokyo, more than 100.000 people died.
1871 - Otto von Bismarck assumes the title of Prince.
1914 – The journal titled "Woman's", of which Nigar Hanım was the editor-in-chief, began to be published weekly.
1918 – The liberation of Tortum from enemy occupation.
1919 - The Hungarian Soviet Republic is established.
1921 – The activities of the Military Police Organization were terminated.
1928 - Charles Lindbergh is awarded the Medal of Honor for making the first trans-Atlantic flight.
1935 – Shah Reza Pahlavi, addressing the international community; He wanted his country to be called Iran, which means "land of the Aryans", not "Persia".
1937 – The Dersim Rebellion started in Tunceli.
1938 – Noel Cobb, US-born English philosopher, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2015)
1941 – Ankara Radio started broadcasting in Greek again.
1952 – The 950 gross tonnage Galatasaray freighter sank off the coast of Kefken in the Black Sea, no survivors from the crew of 15.
1960 – Apartheid; Sharpeville Massacre: In South Africa, police opened fire on a group of unarmed black demonstrators; 69 blacks were killed and 180 injured.
1963 - Alkatraz Prison was closed.
1964 – Turkish pianist İdil Biret won the Boulanger Music Award.
1965 - Ranger 9 was launched to probe the Moon.
1965 – Martin Luther King, with a group of 3200 people, sets out from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, Alabama for a march for human rights.
1978 – White rule ends in Rhodesia, three black ministers take office.
1978 – Ankara Belediyespor was founded.
1979 – Athens High Court with its decision, Turkey's intervention in Cyprus, the Treaty of Zurich IV. confirmed that it is legal according to the article.
1980 – Jimmy Carter announced that the United States was protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and would not participate in the 1980 Summer Olympics held in Moscow.
1980 – The Process Leading to the 12 September 1980 Coup in Turkey (1979 - 12 September 1980): 8 people were killed across the country.
1990 – Multi-party political life started in Mongolia.
1990 - Namibia declared its independence from South Africa.
1991 – Vedat Dalokay, one of the former mayors of Ankara, architect and writer, and his wife died in a traffic accident.
1991 – Events broke out in many cities and towns during the Nevruz celebrations.
1992 – 38 people died in the events that broke out during the Nevruz celebrations in Van, Şırnak, Cizre and Adana.
1993 – Nowruz celebrations passed without incident.
1993 – President Turgut Özal and Prime Minister Süleyman Demirel also attended the Turkish Congress celebrations held in Antalya.
2008 – İlhan Selçuk, Doğu Perinçek and Kemal Alemdaroğlu were detained on charges of Ergenekon Gang.
2009 – TRT Avaz went on the air.

Births

927 – Taizu, founder and first emperor of China's Song Dynasty (d. 976)
1226 – Carlo I, King of France VIII. Louis' youngest son (d. 1285)
1522 – Mihrimah Sultan, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1578)
1626 – Pedro de Betancur, Christian saint and missionary (d. 1667)
1685 – Johann Sebastian Bach, German composer (d. 1750)
1752 – Mary Dixon Kies, American inventor (d. 1837)
1768 – Jean-Baptiste Joseph Fourier, French mathematician and physicist (d. 1830)
1806 – Benito Juárez, Mexican lawyer and politician (d. 1872)
1837 – Theodore Gill, American ichthyologist, mammologist, and librarian (d. 1914)
1839 – Modest Musorgski, Russian composer (d. 1881)
1854 – Léo Taxil, French journalist and author (d. 1907)
1866 – Wakatsuki Reijirō, 15th Prime Minister of Japan (d. 1949)
1867 – İsmail Safa, Turkish poet and writer (d. 1901)
1870 – Cenap Şahabettin, Turkish poet and writer (Poet of Servet-i Fünûn period) (d. 1934)
1873 – Esma Sultan, daughter of Abdulaziz (d. 1899)
1881 – Henri Grégoire, Belgian historian (d. 1964)
1884 – George David Birkhoff, American mathematician (d. 1944)
1887 – Manabendra Nath Roy, Indian revolutionary, theorist, and activist (d. 1954)
1889 Bernard Freyberg, British general (d. 1963)
1893 – Walter Schreiber, German Schutzstaffel officer (d. 1970)
1896 – Friedrich Waismann, Austrian philosopher, mathematician, and linguist (d. 1959)
1905 – Nusret Suman, Turkish sculptor and painter (d. 1978)
1906 – Emin Türk Elinç, Turkish teacher and writer (d. 1966)
1906 – Samed Vurgun, Azerbaijani poet (d. 1956)
1915 – Cahit Irgat, Turkish cinema and theater actor (d. 1971)
1923 – Abbas Sayar, Turkish novelist (d. 1999)
1925 – Beatriz Aguirre, Mexican actress and voice actor (d. 2019)
1925 – Peter Brook, English actor and director
1927 – Hans-Dietrich Genscher, German politician (d. 2016)
1929 – Gallieno Ferri, Italian comics artist and illustrator (d. 2016)
1930 – Pauline Stroud, English actress (d. 2022)
1931 – William Shatner, Canadian filmmaker, director, and actor
1932 - Walter Gilbert, American physicist, biologist, and Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry
1934 – Buta Singh, Indian politician (d. 2021)
1935 – Brian Clough, English football player (d. 2004)
1938 – Luigi Tenco, Italian musician (d. 1967)
1938 – Noel Cobb, American-British philosopher, psychiatrist, and author (d. 2015)
1942 – Ali Abdullah Saleh, Yemeni soldier, politician, and President of the Republic of Yemen (d. 2017)
1942 – Fradique de Menezes, politician and President of São Tomé and Príncipe
1942 – Françoise Dorléac, French actress (sister to Catherine Deneuve) (d. 1967)
1946 – Timothy Dalton, English actor
1949 – Muammer Güler, Turkish bureaucrat and politician
1949 – Slavoj Žižek, Slovenian philosopher
1955 – Philippe Troussier (Omar Tourssier), French football coach
1958 - Gary Oldman, English actor, director and winner of the Academy Award for Best Actor
1959 – Murat Ülker, Turkish industrialist and businessman
1960 – Ayrton Senna, Brazilian Formula 1 driver (d. 1994)
1961 – Lothar Matthaus, German football player
1962 – Matthew Broderick, American actor
1963 – Ronald Koeman, Dutch football player
1963 – Yekta Saraç, Turkish academician
1968 Dalian Atkinson, English football player (d. 2016)
1968 – Jaye Davidson, American film actress
1968 – Tolunay Kafkas, Turkish football player and coach
1969 – Ali Dayi, Iranian football player and manager
1970 – Cenk Uygur, Turkish-American journalist, political commentator, businessman and politician
1972 – Chris Candido, American professional wrestler (d. 2005)
1972 – Large Professor is an American producer, DJ and rapper.
1972 – Derartu Tulu, Ethiopian athlete
1973 – Hozan Bashir, Kurdish artist
1974 – Babek Zanjani, Iranian businessman
1975 – Fabricio Oberto, Argentine basketball player
1976 – Bedirhan Gökçe, Turkish poet
1980 – Marit Bjørgen, Norwegian athlete
1980 – Ronaldinho, Brazilian football player
1981 – Germano Borovicz Cardoso Schweger, Brazilian football player
1982 – Maria Elena Camerin, Italian tennis player
1984 – Guillermo Daniel Rodríguez, Uruguayan football player
1986 – Scott Eastwood, American actor and model
1986 – Michu is a Spanish football player.
1986 – Bahar Saygılı, Turkish triathlete
1987 – İrem Derici, Turkish singer
1989 - Jordi Alba is a Spanish football player.
1989 – Nicolás Lodeiro, Uruguayan international football player
1991 – Antoine Griezmann, French football player
1997 – Martina Stoessel, Argentine actress, singer and dancer
2000 – Jace Norman, he is an american actor

Deaths

547 – Benedict of Nursia, a cleric who lived in Italy and is considered a saint by both Orthodox and Catholic sects (b. 480)
642 – Cyrus of Alexandria, Melkani patriarch of Alexandria (b. ?)
867 – Ælla, Anglo-Saxon king of Northumbria in England (b. ?)
1237 – Jean de Brienne, French aristocrat who ruled the Latin Empire (b. 1170)
1617 – Pocahontas, Algonkin Indian (b. 1596)
1653 – Tarhuncu Sarı Ahmed Pasha, Ottoman statesman (b. ?)
1729 – John Law, Scottish economist and author (b. 1671)
1762 – Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1795 – Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 – Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1843 – Guadalupe Victoria, Mexican politician, soldier, and lawyer (b. 1786)
1864 – Luke Howard, English chemist and meteorologist (b. 1772)
1892 – Annibale de Gasparis, Italian astronomer (b. 1819)
1892 – Anthon van Rappard, Dutch painter (b. 1858)
1892 – Ferdinand Barbedienne, French sculptor, engineer, and entrepreneur (b. 1810)
1896 – William Quan Judge, American theosophist (b. 1851)
1910 – Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
1914 – Franz Fredrik Wathén, Finnish speed skater (b. 1878)
1915 – Frederick Winslow Taylor, American engineer (b. 1856)
1936 – Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
1939 – Ali Hikmet Ayerdem, Turkish soldier (b. 1877)
1942 – Hüseyin Suat Yalçın, Turkish poet and playwright (b. 1867)
1956 – Satı Çırpan, Turkish politician and one of the first female MPs (b. 1890)
1958 – Ferdi Tayfur, Turkish dubbing artist (b. 1904)
1973 – Aşık Veysel, Turkish folk poet (b. 1894)
1975 – Lore Alford Rogers, American bacteriologist and dairy scientist (b. 1875)
1985 – Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (Vanessa Redgrave's father) (b. 1908)
1991 – Vedat Dalokay Turkish architect and politician (b. 1927)
1998 – Galina Ulanova, Russian ballerina (b. 1910)
2001 – Chung Ju-yung or Jung Joo-young, South Korean entrepreneur, businessperson, and founder of all Hyundai South Korea Groups (b. 1915)
2008 – Shusha Guppy, Iranian writer, editor and singer (b. 1935)
2011 – Loleatta Holloway, American singer-songwriter (b. 1946)
2013 – Chinua Achebe, Nigerian writer (b. 1930)
2013 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter and politician (b. 1952)
2014 – Jack Fleck, American golfer (b. 1921)
2014 – James Rebhorn, American actor (b. 1948)
2015 – Pedro Aguayo Ramírez, Mexican professional wrestler (b. 1979)
2015 – Jørgen Ingmann, Danish singer (b. 1925)
2015 – Faith Susan Alberta Watson, Canadian television and film actress (b. 1955)
2016 – Andrew Grove, Hungarian-born American engineer, businessman, and author (b. 1936)
2017 – Norman Colin Dexter, English novelist (b. 1930)
2017 – Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
2017 – Tayfun Talipoğlu, Turkish journalist (b.1962)
2017 – Henri Emmanuelli, French politician (b. 1945)
2018 – Deniz Bölükbaşı, Turkish diplomat and politician (b. 1949)
2018 – Anna-Lisa, American actress (b. 1930)
2019 – Marcel Detienne, Belgian academic (b. 1935)
2019 – Francis Quinn, American Roman Catholic bishop (b. 1921)
2020 – Marguerite Aucouturier, Czech-French psychoanalyst, translator and writer (b. 1932)
2020 – Aileen Baviera, Filipino political scientist, academic, and sinologist (b. 1959)
2020 – Vicente Capdevila, Spanish mayor and politician (b. 1936)
2020 – Mariko Miyagi, Japanese actress, singer, and human rights activist (b. 1927)
2020 – Jacques Oudin, French politician (b. 1939)
2020 – Piotr Pawlukiewicz, Polish Roman Catholic priest, doctor of theology, preacher, and author (b. 1960)
2020 – Jean-Jacques Razafindranazy, Madagascar-born doctor (b. 1952)
2020 – Lorenzo Sanz, Spanish businessman and sports executive (b. 1943)
2020 – William Stern, English businessman (b. 1935)
2020 – Pierre Truche, French judge (b. 1929)
2020 – Levent Ünsal, Turkish actor, presenter and voice actor (b. 1965)
2021 – Nawal al-Saadawi, Egyptian feminist writer, activist, and psychiatrist (b. 1931)
2022 – Soumeylou Boubèye Maïga, Malian politician (b. 1954)
2022 – Eva Ingeborg Scholz, German actress (b. 1928)
2022 – Fevzi Zemzem, Turkish former national football player, coach (b. 1941)

Holidays and special occasions

World Day Against Racial Discrimination
Nevruz Feast
Storm: 1st of Üçdoklar
Withdrawal of Russian and Armenian troops from Tortum district of Erzurum (1918)