Biography

Health

• Zika virus outbreak
• Flint water crisis

Law

• FBI–Apple encryption dispute

Political

• War in Afghanistan
• Boko Haram insurgency
• Brazil protests
• Burundian unrest
• Iraqi Civil War
  • Military intervention against ISIL
    • American-led
    • Iranian
• Israeli–Palestinian conflict
• Lebanese political deadlock
• Moldova protests
• Nagorno-Karabakh conflict
  • Armenian–Azeri border conflict
• Nepal blockade
• PKK rebellion
• Yemeni Civil War
  • Saudi Arabian-led intervention
• Second Libyan Civil War
• Sinai insurgency
• South China Sea disputes
• Syrian Civil War
  • American-led intervention
  • Russian military intervention
• Venezuelan protests
• War in Donbass
  • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

More details on ongoing conflicts below

Sports

• 2015–16 UEFA Champions League
• 2015–16 La Liga season
• 2015–16 NBA season
• 2015–16 NHL season
• 2015–16 Premier League season
• 2016 ATP World Tour
• 2016 ICC World Twenty20
• 2016 WTA Tour
• 2016 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament

March

• 31: Ronnie Corbett
• 31: Zaha Hadid
• 31: Imre Kertész
• 30: Shirley Hufstedler
• 30: John King
• 29: Patty Duke
• 29: Nil Hilevich
• 29: Jean Lapierre
• 29: Steven Sample
• 27: Mother Angelica
• 27: Vic Peters
• 26: Jim Harrison
• 25: Abu Ala al-Afri
• 25: Shannon Bolin
• 25: Lester Thurow
• 24: Johan Cruyff
• 24: Garry Shandling
• 23: Phife Dawg
• 22: Rob Ford
• 21: Andrew Grove
• 21: Joseph Mercieca
• 21: Ricardo Larraín
• 20: Anker Jørgensen
• 19: Roger Agnelli
• 18: Guido Westerwelle
• 17: Paul Daniels
• 16: Sylvia Anderson
• 16: Better Loosen Up (death announced on this day)
• 16: Alexander Esenin-Volpin
• 16: Ali Ahmed Hussain Khan
• 16: Cliff Michelmore
• 16: Frank Sinatra, Jr.
• 15: Asa Briggs
• 15: Richard Burke
• 15: Tamara Grigsby
• 15: Seru Rabeni
• 14: Peter Maxwell Davies
• 14: Suranimala Rajapaksha
• 14: Davy Walsh (death announced on this day)
• 13: Adrienne Corri
• 13: Hilary Putnam
• 13: Martin Olav Sabo
• 13: József Verebes
• 12: Annastasia Batikis
• 12: Felix Ibru
• 12: Lloyd Shapley
• 11: Ben Bagdikian
• 11: Iolanda Balaș
• 11: Rómulo Macció
• 10: Ken Adam
• 10: Ernestine Anderson
• 10: Anita Brookner
• 10: Keith Emerson
• 10: Gogi Grant
• 10: Mohammed Irfan
• 10: Gary Jeter
• 10: Jovito Salonga
• 9: Jon English
• 9: John Gutfreund
• 9: Richard Horton
• 9: Ralph S. Larsen
• 9: Clyde Lovellette
• 8: Ross Hannaford
• 8: George Martin
• 7: Adrian Hardiman
• 7: Steve Kraly
• 7: Michael White
• 7: Quentin Young
• 6: Elizabeth Garrett
• 6: Kalabhavan Mani
• 6: Francis Pasion
• 6: Nancy Reagan
• 6: Harold H. Saunders
• 5: Hassan al-Turabi
• 5: Antoni Asunción
• 5: Paul Couch
• 5: Nikolaus Harnoncourt
• 5: Robert Redbird
• 5: Ray Tomlinson
• 5: Panayiotis Tetsis
• 5: Al Wistert
• 4: John Brooks
• 4: Bud Collins
• 4: Pat Conroy
• 4: Joey Feek
• 4: P. A. Sangma
• 4: Abbas Vaez-Tabasi
• 4: Zhou Xiaoyan
• 3: Ralph Baruch
• 3: Berta Cáceres
• 3: Martin Crowe
• 3: Thanat Khoman
• 3: Sarah Tait
• 2: Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern
• 2: Aubrey McClendon
• 2: James Barrett McNulty
• 1: Jim Kimsey
• 1: Tony Warren
• 1: Martha Wright

Africa

• Algeria, Tunisia and Niger
  • Maghreb insurgency

• Central African Republic
  • Civil war

• Democratic Republic of the Congo
  • Kivu conflict
  • ADF insurgency
  • Katanga insurgency
  • Ituri conflict
  • Lord's Resistance Army insurgency

• Libya
  • Civil war

• Mali
  • Northern Mali conflict

• Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad, and Niger
  • Boko Haram insurgency

• Somalia
  • Civil war

• South Sudan
  • South Sudanese Civil War

• Sudan
  • War in Darfur
  • South Kordofan conflict

Americas

• Colombian conflict
• Internal conflict in Peru
• Mexican War on Drugs

Asia

• Afghanistan War

• China
  • Xinjiang conflict

• India
  • Naxalite–Maoist insurgency
  • Insurgency in Northeast India

• India and Pakistan
  • Kashmir conflict

• Pakistan
  • War in North-West Pakistan
  • Balochistan conflict

• Philippines
  • CPP-NPA-NDF rebellion
  • Moro conflict
    • Cross border attacks in Sabah

• Southeast Asia
  • Internal conflict in Burma
  • Papua conflict
  • South Thailand insurgency

Europe

• European Migrant Crisis

• Georgia
  • Abkhaz–Georgian conflict
  • Georgian–Ossetian conflict

• Chechen–Russian conflict
  • North Caucasus insurgency
  • War in Ingushetia

• Nagorno-Karabakh Republic
  • Nagorno-Karabakh conflict

• Ukraine
  • War in Donbass
    • Russian military intervention in Ukraine

Middle East

• Arab–Israeli conflict
  • Gaza–Israel conflict
  • Israeli–Lebanese conflict
  • Israeli–Palestinian conflict

• Egypt
  • Sinai insurgency

• Iran
  • Iran–PJAK conflict

• Iraqi civil war
  • American-led intervention in Iraq
  • Iranian intervention in Iraq

• Syrian Civil War
  • American-led intervention in Syria
  • Syrian Civil War spillover in Lebanon

• Turkey
  • Turkey–PKK conflict
  • Turkey–ISIL conflict

• Yemeni crisis
  • Houthi rebellion
  • Al-Qaeda insurgency
  • South Yemen insurgency

Recent

• February
  • 28: Switzerland, Referendums
• March
  • 4: Samoa, Fono
  • 5: Slovakia, National Council
  • 6: Benin, President (1st round)
  • 9: Kiribati, President
  • 20: Benin, President (2nd round)
  • 20: Cape Verde, National Assembly
  • 20: Republic of the Congo, President
  • 20: Kazakhstan, Majilis
  • 20: Niger, President (2nd round)
  • 20: Senegal, Constitutional referendum

Upcoming

• April
  • 6: Netherlands, EU referendum
  • 8: Djibouti, President (1st round)
  • 10: Chad, President (1st round)
  • 10: Comoros, President (2nd round)
  • 10: Peru, President, Congress
  • 13: South Korea, National Assembly
  • 13: Syria, People's Council
  • 17: Italy, Oil drilling referendum
  • 24: Austria, President
  • 24: Serbia, National Assembly

Recently concluded

• Australia: Brett Peter Cowan, Craig Thomson, Robert Hughes
• Brazil: Mensalão scandal
• Canada: Luka Magnotta
• China: Ji Jianye, Li Chuncheng, Jiang Jiemin, Liao Shaohua, Ni Fake, Chen Baihuai, Zhou Yongkang, Gu Junshan
• Croatia: Ivo Sanader
• Egypt: Hosni Mubarak, Peter Greste, Mohamed Morsi
• Germany: Bernie Ecclestone, Uli Hoeness, Christian Wulff
• Iran: Mohammad Reza Rahimi
• Israel: Hussam Qawasmeh
• Jordan: Abu Qatada
• Philippines: Joseph Scott Pemberton
• Romania: Liviu Dragnea, Dan Diaconescu
• Russia: Leonid Khabarov, Eston Kohver, Vladimir Kvachkov
• South Africa: Shrien Dewani, Oscar Pistorius
• Turkey: Kenan Evren, Tahsin Şahinkaya
• United Kingdom: Michael Adebolajo and Michael Adebowale, Kweku Adoboli, Tony McCluskie, Kevin Hutchinson-Foster, Chris Huhne, Nicola Edgington, Vicky Pryce, Derek Rose, Mick Philpott, Mairead Philpott, Paul Mosley, Stuart Hazell, Mark Bridger, Andrew Lancel, Dale Cregan, Ray Wilkins, Liam Adams, R v Grillo and Grillo, Ian Watkins, William Roache, Dave Lee Travis, Nicholas Jacobs, Nigel Evans, Max Clifford, Stuart Hall, Dappy, Rebekah Brooks, Andy Coulson, Rolf Harris, Tulisa Contostavlos, Chris Denning, Ray Teret, Gary Glitter, Fred Talbot, Adam Johnson
• United States: Abu Hamza al-Masri, Michael Grimm, Jesse Jackson Jr., Bob McDonnell, Vilma Bautista, Jared Lee Loughner, Lauryn Hill, Kermit Gosnell, George Zimmerman, Chelsea Manning, Ariel Castro, Whitey Bulger, Robert Bales, Nidal Malik Hasan, Jodi Arias, Anas al-Libi, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, James Eagan Holmes, Sheldon Silver
• International
  • ECCC: Nuon Chea, Khieu Samphan
  • ICC: Germain Katanga
  • ICTY: Momčilo Perišić, Mladen Markač, Ante Gotovina, Zdravko Tolimir, Radovan Karadžić

Ongoing

• China: Yao Mugen, Guo Youming, Zhu Zuoli
• Germany: Beate Zschäpe
• Iran: Babak Zanjani
• Netherlands: Geert Wilders
• Philippines: Andal Ampatuan Jr., Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, Janet Lim-Napoles, Jovito Palparan
• Romania: Darius Vâlcov, Dan Șova, Elena Udrea, Radu Mazăre, Gheorghe Nichita, Marian Vanghelie, Cătălin Voicu, Relu Fenechiu, Gheorghe Ștefan, Gabriel Sandu, Dorin Cocoş, Dumitru Nicolae
• Russia: Alexei Navalny
• South Korea: MV Sewol crew members
• United Kingdom: Rolf Harris
• United States: Dean Skelos
• International
  • ICTY: Ratko Mladić
  • PCA: China

Upcoming

• China: Wu Changshun, Ling Jihua
• Estonia: Edgar Savisaar
• Libya: Saif al-Islam Gaddafi
• Spain: Lionel Messi
• United Kingdom: Max Clifford
• United States: Paul Anthony Ciancia, Javaris Crittenton, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Dylan Quick, Aaron Hernandez, Graham Spanier, Tim Curley, Gary Schultz, Justin Bieber, Chris Brown, Rick Perry
• International
  • ICC: Laurent Gbagbo