Famous Deaths on 4 Mar

Famous Deaths on 4 Mar

1172 - Stephen III of Hungary (b. 1147)
1193 - Saladin, Kurdish sultan (b. 1137)
1238 - Joan of England, Queen Consort of Scotland, wife of Alexander II (b. 1210)
1238 - Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 - Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1484 - Saint Casimir, Prince of Poland (b. 1458)
1496 - Sigismund of Austria (b. 1427)
1583 - Bernard Gilpin, English clergyman, "Apostle of the North" (b. 1517)
1604 - Fausto Paolo Sozzini, Italian theologian (b. 1539)
1615 - Hans von Aachen, German painter (b. 1552)
1619 - Anne of Denmark, wife of James I (b. 1574)
1710 - Louis III, Prince of Condé (b. 1668)
1733 - Claude de Forbin, French naval commander (b. 1656)
1744 - John Anstis, Garter King of Arms (b. 1669)
1762 - Johannes Zick, German fresco painter (b. 1702)
1793 - Louis de Bourbon, French admiral (b. 1725)
1795 - John Collins, American politician (b. 1717)
1805 - Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter (b. 1725)
1807 - Abraham Baldwin, American politician (b. 1754)
1821 - Princess Elizabeth of Clarence, daughter of King William IV, granddaughter of King George III (b. 1820)
1832 - Jean-François Champollion, French scholar (b. 1790)
1851 - James Richardson, British explorer (b. 1809)
1852 - Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol, Russian writer (b. 1809)
1853 - Christian Leopold von Buch, German geologist (b. 1774)
1858 - Matthew Perry, U.S. naval officer (b. 1794)
1864 - Thomas Starr King, influential Californian Unitarian minister during the American Civil War (b. 1824)
1866 - Alexander Campbell, Irish founder of the Disciples of Christ (b. 1788)
1868 - Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1872 - Johannes Carsten Hauch, Danish poet (b. 1790)
1883 - Alexander Hamilton Stephens, former Vice President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1812)
1888 - Amos Bronson Alcott, American philosopher (b. 1799)
1903 - Joseph Henry Shorthouse, English novelist (b. 1834)
1906 - John McAllister Schofield, former U.S. Secretary of War and Commanding General of the U.S. Army (b. 1831)
1910 - Knut Ångström, Swedish physicist (b. 1857)
1915 - William Willett, inventor of Daylight Saving Time (b. 1856)
1916 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
1922 - Bert Williams, American entertainer (b. 1874)
1925 - John Montgomery Ward, American baseball player (b. 1860)
1925 - James Ward, English psychologist and philosopher (b. 1843)
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer (b. 1854)
1927 - Ira Remsen American chemist (b. 1846)
1938 - Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1938 - George Foster Peabody, American politician (b. 1852)
1940 - Hamlin Garland, American novelist (b. 1860)
1941 - Ludwig Quidde, German pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1858)
1944 - Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1944 - Louis Buchalter, Jewish American mobster (b.1897) (executed)
1944 - Louis Capone, New York organized crime figure (b. 1896) (executed)
1944 - Emanuel Weiss, American hitman (b. 1906) (executed)
1945 - Lucille La Verne, American actress (b. 1872)
1945 - Mark Sandrich, American film director, writer and producer (b. 1900)
1946 - Bror von Blixen-Finecke, Danish big-game hunter (b. 1886)
1948 - Antonin Artaud, French actor/director (b. 1896)
1950 - Adam Rainer, the only man in recorded human history ever to have been both a dwarf and a giant (b. 1899)
1952 - Charles Scott Sherrington, English scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1857)
1954 - Noel Gay, English composer, (b. 1898)
1959 - Maxey Long, American athlete (b. 1878)
1960 - Herbert O'Conor, 51st Governor of the US State of Maryland (b. 1896)
1960 - Leonard Warren, American baritone (b. 1911)
1962 - George Mogridge, Major League Baseball pitcher (b. 1889)
1963 - William Carlos Williams, American poet (b. 1883)
1967 - Vladan Desnica, Croatian and Serbian writer (b. 1905)
1967 - Michel Plancherel, Swiss mathematician (b. 1885)
1969 - Nicholas Schenck, Russian-born film empresario (b. 1881)
1973 - Samuel Tolansky, British scientist and expert on spectroscopy (b. 1907)
1974 - Adolph Gottlieb, American painter (b. 1903)
1976 - Walter H. Schottky, German physicist (b. 1886)
1977 - Lutz Graf Schwerin von Krosigk, German politician and former Chancellor of Germany (b. 1887)
1977 - Andrés Caicedo, Colombian writer (b. 1951)
1977 - Toma Caragiu, Romanian actor (b. 1925)
1978 - Wesley Bolin, former Governor of the U.S. State of Arizona (b. 1909)
1979 - Willi Unsoeld, American mountain climber (b. 1926)
1981 - Torin Thatcher, Indian actor (b. 1905)
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Ernest Buckler, Canadian novelist (b. 1908)
1984 - Jewel Carmen, American actress (b. 1897)
1984 - Geoffrey Lumsden, British actor (b. 1914)
1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1986 - Richard Manuel, Canadian musician (The Band) (b. 1943)
1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1990 - Hank Gathers, American basketball player (b. 1967)
1992 - Art Babbitt, American animator (b. 1907)
1993 - Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
1994 - John Candy, Canadian comedian (b. 1950)
1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
1996 - Minnie Pearl, American comedian (b. 1912)
1997 - Carey Loftin, American actor/stuntman (b. 1914)
1997 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
1999 - Del Close, American actor (b. 1934)
1999 - Harry Blackmun, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (b. 1908)
1999 - Karel van het Reve, Dutch writer (b. 1921)
2001 - Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2001 - Harold Stassen, American politician (b. 1907)
2001 - Fred Lasswell, American cartoonist (b. 1916)
2001 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2002 - Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2002 - Velibor Vasović, Yugoslavian footballer (b. 1939)
2002 - Claire Davenport, English actress (b. 1933)
2002 - Eric Flynn, British actor/singer (b. 1939)
2003 - Sébastien Japrisot, French author, screenwriter and film director (b. 1931)
2003 - Jaba Ioseliani, Georgian bank robber (b. 1926)
2004 - George Pake, American physicist (b. 1924)
2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2004 - Stephen Sprouse, American fashion designer (b. 1953)
2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2005 - Carlos Sherman, Uruguayan-born writer (b. 1934)
2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2005 - Yuriy Kravchenko, Ukrainian statesman (b. 1951)
2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 - Nicola Calipari, Italian secret service agent (b. 1953)
2006 - Edgar Valter, Estonian illustrator/cartoonist (b. 1929)
2006 - Dave Rose, American artist (b. 1910)
2006 - John Reynolds Gardiner, American engineer (b. 1944)
2006 - Roman Ogaza, Polish footballer (b. 1952)
2007 - Sunil Kumar Mahato, Indian parliamentarian (b. 1966)
2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
2007 - Ian Wooldridge, British sports journalist (b. 1932)
2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 - Bob Hattoy, American activist (b. 1950)
2007 - Thomas Eagleton, American politician (b. 1929)
2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 - Jorge Kolle Cueto, Bolivian politician
2008 - Elena Nathanael, Greek film actress (b. 1941)
2008 - Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2008 - Leonard Rosenman, American film, television and concert composer (b. 1924)
2008 - Gary Gygax, Fantasy author and role-playing games creator. (b. 1938)
2008 - George Walter, former Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda (b. 1928)
251 - Pope Lucius I
480 - Saint Landry, bishop of Sées
561 - Pope Pelagius I