Famous Deaths on 1 Mar

Famous Deaths on 1 Mar

1131 - King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
1233 - Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
1244 - Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
1383 - Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)
1510 - Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
1536 - Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
1546 - George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b 1513)
1620 - Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
1633 - George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
1643 - Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
1661 - Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
1697 - Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
1706 - Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
1734 - Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
1757 - Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
1768 - Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
1773 - Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
1777 - Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
1792 - Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
1841 - Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
1862 - Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
1875 - Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
1879 - Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
1884 - Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
1898 - George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
1906 - José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
1911 - Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
1912 - George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
1914 - Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
1920 - John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
1920 - Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
1922 - Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
1929 - Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
1932 - Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinettist (b. 1906)
1933 - UÅ‚adzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
1936 - Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
1938 - Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
1940 - Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
1942 - George S. Rentz, Navy Chaplain (b. 1882)
1943 - Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
1952 - Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
1963 - Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
1963 - Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1966 - Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
1970 - Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
1974 - Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (b. 1935)
1979 - Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
1980 - Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
1980 - Wilhelmina, high-fashion model and owner of model agency (b. 1940)
1984 - Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
1991 - Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
1995 - Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
1995 - Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
2000 - Dennis Danell, American guitarist (Social Distortion) (b. 1961)
2005 - Peter Malkin Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
2006 - Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
2006 - Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
2006 - Johnny Jackson, American musician (b. 1951)
589 - Saint David, Patron Saint of Wales (b. 500)
986 - King Lothair of France (b. 941)