What day of the week was March 16, 1940?

The day of the week March 16th, 1940 fell on was a Saturday. There were 8 days until Easter Sunday.

Bernardo Bertolucci the Italian director and screenwriter was born on 16 March in 1940. As was Vagif Mustafazadeh the Azerbaijani pianist and composer (d. 1979) , Jan Pronk the Dutch politician , Keith Rowe the English guitarist (AMM and M.I.M.E.O.) .

Selma Lagerlöf the Swedish author, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858) died on this day in 1940.

First person killed in a German bombing raid on the UK in World War II during a raid on Scapa Flow in the Orkney Islands the James Isbister.