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| March 12th, 2008 (March 12 2008) | Death | Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (born in 1897) | |
| March 12th, 2008 (March 12 2008) | Death | Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (born in 1949) | |
| March 12th, 1998 (March 12 1998) | Death | Judge Dread, English musician (born in 1945) | |
| March 12th, 1998 (March 12 1998) | Death | Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (born in 1893) | |
| March 12th, 1998 (March 12 1998) | Death | Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (born in 1924) | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Birth | Masuimi Max, American model | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Birth | Casey Mears, American auto racer | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Birth | Claudio Sanchez, American musician (Coheed and Cambria) | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Birth | Arina Tanemura, Japanese mangaka | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Death | John Cazale, American actor (born in 1935) | |
| March 12th, 1978 (March 12 1978) | Death | Gene Moore, American baseball player (born in 1909) | |
| March 12th, 1968 (March 12 1968) | Event | Mauritius achieves independence. | |
| March 12th, 1968 (March 12 1968) | Birth | Aaron Eckhart, American actor | |
| March 12th, 1948 (March 12 1948) | Birth | James Taylor, American musician | |
| March 12th, 1948 (March 12 1948) | Birth | Kent Conrad, Democratic Senator of North Dakota | |
| March 12th, 1948 (March 12 1948) | Birth | Virginia Bottomley, British politician | |
| March 12th, 1938 (March 12 1938) | Event | Anschluss: German troops occupy Austria; annexation declared the following day. | |
| March 12th, 1938 (March 12 1938) | Birth | Johnny Rutherford, American automobile racer | |
| March 12th, 1928 (March 12 1928) | Event | In California, the St. Francis Dam fails, killing over 600 people. | |
| March 12th, 1928 (March 12 1928) | Birth | Edward Albee, American dramatist | |
| March 12th, 1928 (March 12 1928) | Birth | Therese Lavoie-Roux, Quebec politician and senator | |
| March 12th, 1928 (March 12 1928) | Birth | Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (died in 2007) | |
| March 12th, 1918 (March 12 1918) | Event | Moscow becomes the capital of Russia again after Saint-Petersburg held this status for 215 years. | |
| March 12th, 1918 (March 12 1918) | Birth | Elaine de Kooning, American artist (died in 1989) | |
| March 12th, 1908 (March 12 1908) | Event | The Pan-Macedonian group is formed in Athens to support the Greek Struggle for Macedonia. | |
| March 12th, 1908 (March 12 1908) | Birth | Rita Angus, New Zealand painter (died in 1970) | |
| March 12th, 1908 (March 12 1908) | Birth | David Saul Marshall Singapore s first Chief Minister(died in 1995) | |
| March 12th, 1908 (March 12 1908) | Death | Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children s writer (born in 1846) | |
| March 12th, 1898 (March 12 1898) | Death | Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (born in 1818) | |
| March 12th, 1868 (March 12 1868) | Event | Henry O Farrell attempts to assassinate Prince Alfred, Duke of Edinburgh. | |
| March 12th, 1838 (March 12 1838) | Birth | William Henry Perkin, English chemist (died in 1907) | |
| March 12th, 1718 (March 12 1718) | Birth | Joseph Damer, English politician (died in 1798) | |
| March 12th, 1648 (March 12 1648) | Death | Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (born in 1571) | |
| March 12th, 1628 (March 12 1628) | Death | John Bull, English composer | |
| March 12th, 1608 (March 12 1608) | Death | Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (born in 1530) | |
| March 12th, 1478 (March 12 1478) | Birth | Giuliano di Lorenzo de Medici, ruler of Florence (died in 1516) | |
| March 12th, 0538 (March 12 0538) | Event | Witiges, king of the Ostrogoths ends his siege of Rome and retreats to Ravenna, leaving the city in the hands of the victorious Roman general, Belisarius. | |
