Famous Deaths on 7 Mar

Famous Deaths on 7 Mar

1226 - William de Longespee, 3rd Earl of Salisbury, English military leader
1274 - Thomas Aquinas, Philosopher (b. 1225)
1578 - Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox (b. 1515)
161 - Antoninus Pius, Roman Emperor (b. 86)
1625 - Johann Bayer, German astronomer (b. 1572)
1724 - Pope Innocent XIII (b. 1655)
1767 - Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer (b. 1680)
1778 - Charles De Geer, Swedish industrialist (b. 1720)
1810 - Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, British admiral (b. 1750)
1904 - Ferdinand André Fouqué, French geologist (b. 1828)
1913 - Emily Pauline Johnson, Native Canadian poet
1928 - Robert Abbe, American surgeon (b. 1851)
1932 - Aristide Briand, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1938 - Andreas Michalakopoulos, Greek politician, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1876)
1939 - John Jules Barrish, Irish writer (b. 1885)
1949 - Francis Dodd, English artist (b. 1874)
1952 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (b. 1893)
1954 - Otto Diels, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1957 - Wyndham Lewis, British author (b. 1882)
1967 - Alice B. Toklas, American companion to Gertrude Stein (b. 1877)
1974 - Alberto Rabagliati, Italian singer and actor (b. 1906)
1975 - Mikhail Bakhtin, Russian philosopher (b. 1895)
1975 - Ben Blue, Canadian actor (b. 1901)
1976 - Wright Patman, American politician (b. 1893)
1978 - Steve Bilko, American baseball player (b. 1928)
1981 - Kiril Kondrashin, Russian conductor (b. 1914)
1983 - Igor Markevitch, Ukrainian conductor and composer (b. 1912)
1984 - Paul Rotha, English director (b. 1907)
1986 - Jacob Javits, American politician (b. 1904)
1988 - Divine, American actor (b. 1945)
1988 - Robert Livingston, American film actor (b. 1904)
1991 - Cool Papa Bell, American baseball player (b. 1903)
1995 - Paul-Émile Victor, French explorer (b. 1907)
1997 - E. H. Bronner, German-American soap magnate (b. 1908)
1997 - Edward Mills Purcell, Nobel laureate (b. 1912)
1999 - Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official (b. 1918)
1999 - Stanley Kubrick, American film director (b. 1928)
2000 - Pee Wee King, American country music songwriter and musician (b. 1914)
2000 - Charles Gray, British actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Frankie Carle, American pianist and bandleader (b. 1903)
2004 - Paul Winfield, American actor (b. 1941)
2005 - John Box, British film production designer and art director (b. 1920)
2005 - Debra Hill, American screenwriter and film producer (b. 1950)
2006 - Gordon Parks, photographer (b. 1912)
2006 - Ali Farka Touré, Malian musician (b. 1939)
2006 - John Junkin, British performer (b. 1930)
203 - Perpetua and Felicitas, Christian martyrs (perhaps after 209)
308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr
322 BC - Aristotle, Greek philosopher (b. 384 BC)
851 - Nominoe, Duke of Brittany