Sunday, March 31, 2013

Famous Deaths on 1 Apr

Famous Deaths on 1 Apr

1085 - Emperor Shenzong of China (b. 1048)
1132 - St-Hugues, Bishop of Grenoble (b. 1053)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, mother of Richard I of England and John of England
1205 - King Amalric II of Jerusalem (b. 1145)
1528 - Francisco de Peñalosa, Spanish composer
1580 - Alonso Mudarra, Spanish composer
1621 - Cristofano Allori, Italian painter (b. 1577)
1637 - Niwa Nagashige, Japanese warlord (b. 1571)
1682 - Franz Egon of Fürstenberg, Bavarian Catholic archbishop (b. 1625)
1787 - Floyer Sydenham, English classical scholar (b. 1710)
1791 - Richard Butler American soldier (b. 1743)
1839 - Benjamin Pierce, American politician (b. 1757)
1865 - Giuditta Pasta, Italian soprano (b. 1797)
1872 - Frederick Maurice, English theologian (b. 1805)
1872 - William Frederick Horry, English convicted murderer (b. 1843)
1878 - John Corry Wilson Daly, Canadian politician (b. 1796)
1890 - David Wilber, American politician (b. 1820)
1914 - Rube Waddell, American baseball player (b. 1876)
1917 - Scott Joplin, American musician and composer (b. 1868)
1922 - Emperor Karl I of Austria (b. 1887)
1930 - Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt and wife of Richard Wagner (b. 1837)
1946 - Noah Beery, American actor (b. 1882)
1947 - King George II of Greece (b. 1890)
1950 - Charles R. Drew, American physician (b. 1904)
1965 - Helena Rubinstein, Polish-born American cosmetics manufacturer (b. 1870)
1966 - Flann O'Brien, Irish humorist (b. 1911)
1968 - Lev Davidovich Landau, Russian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1908)
1976 - Max Ernst, German artist (b. 1891)
1979 - Bruno Coquatrix, French music impresario (b. 1910)
1979 - Barbara Luddy, American actress (b. 1908)
1981 - Eua Sunthornsanan, Thai composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
1984 - Marvin Gaye, American singer (b. 1939)
1985 - Douglass Wallop, American novelist and playwright (b. 1920)
1986 - Erik Bruhn, Danish ballet dancer, choreographer (b. 1928)
1988 - Jim Jordan, American actor (Fibber McGee) (b. 1896)
1991 - Martha Graham, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1894)
1991 - Jaime Guzmán, Chilean politician (b.1946)
1992 - Michael Havers, British barrister and politician (b.1923)
1993 - Alan Kulwicki, American race car driver (b. 1954)
1994 - Robert Doisneau, French photographer (b. 1912)
1995 - Lucy Rie, American potter (b. 1902)
1995 - H. Adams Carter, American Alpine Club President, 10th Mountain Division trainer (b. 1914)
1996 - Florence Buchsbaum, French theater director (b. 1926)
1996 - John McSherry, American baseball umpire (b. 1944)
1997 - Norman Carr, British conservationist (b. 1912)
1998 - Gene Evans, American actor (b. 1922)
1998 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (b. 1963)
1999 - Jesse Stone, American record producer (b. 1901)
2000 - Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish jurist (b. 1924)
2001 - Olivia Barclay, British astrologer (b. 1919)
2001 - Jo-Jo Moore, American baseball player (b. 1908)
2001 - Trinh Cong Son, Vietnamese composer (b. 1939)
2002 - Simo Hayha, Finnish marksman (b. 1905)
2003 - Leslie Cheung, Hong Kong actor and singer (b. 1956)
2004 - Nilo Soruco, Bolivian songwriter (b. 1927)
2004 - Carrie Snodgress, American actress (b. 1946)
2005 - Alexander Brott, Canadian violinist and composer (b. 1915)
2005 - Harald Juhnke, German entertainer (b. 1929)
2005 - Jack Keller, American songwriter (b. 1936)
2005 - Ioannis Kyrastas, Greek footballer and manager (b. 1952)
2005 - Robert Coldwell Wood, American educator (b. 1923)
2006 - In Tam, Cambodian politician (b. 1916)
2007 - Herb Carneal, American sports broadcaster (b. 1923

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Famous Deaths on 31 Mar

Famous Deaths on 31 Mar

1074 - Regency Yorimichi Fujiwara of Japan (b. 992)
1204 - Eleanor of Aquitaine, Queen of France and England (b. 1121)
1340 - Ivan I of Russia, Prince of Moscow (b. 1288)
1547 - Francis I of France (b. 1494)
1567 - Philipp I of Hesse (b. 1504)
1621 - Philip III of Spain (b. 1578)
1631 - John Donne, English writer and prelate (b. 1572)
1671 - Anne Hyde, wife of James II of England (b. 1637)
1703 - Johann Christoph Bach, German composer (b. 1642)
1723 - Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon, British-born American statesman (b. 1661)
1727 - Sir Isaac Newton, English mathematician and physicist (b. 1643)
1741 - Pieter Burmann the Elder, Dutch classical scholar (b. 1668)
1783 - Nikita Ivanovich Panin, Russian statesman (b. 1718)
1837 - John Constable, English painter (b. 1776)
1850 - John C. Calhoun, 7th Vice President of the United States (b. 1782)
1855 - Charlotte Brontë, English author (b. 1816)
1877 - Antoine Augustin Cournot, French mathematician (b. 1801)
1880 - Henryk Wieniawski, Polish composer (b. 1835)
1885 - Franz Wilhelm Abt, German composer (b. 1819)
1913 - John Pierpont Morgan, American financier (b. 1837)
1915 - Wyndham Halswelle, Scottish athlete (b. 1882)
1917 - Emil Adolf von Behring, German physician, Nobel laureate (b. 1854)
1927 - Borisav "Bora" Stanković, Serbian writer (b. 1875)
1931 - Knute Rockne, American football coach (b. 1888)
1944 - Mineichi Koga, Japanese admiral (b. 1885)
1945 - Hans Fischer, German chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1945 - Anne Frank, German-born diarist (b. 1929)
1952 - Wallace H. White, Jr., American politician (b. 1877)
1956 - Ralph DePalma, Italian-American race car driver (b. 1884)
1968 - Grover Lowdermilk, American baseball player (b. 1885)
1972 - Meena Kumari, Indian actress (b. 1932)
1976 - Paul Strand, American photographer (b. 1890)
1978 - Charles Best, Canadian medical scientist (b. 1899)
1980 - Vladimír Holan, Czech poet (b. 1905)
1980 - Jesse Owens, American athlete (b. 1913)
1981 - Enid Bagnold, British playwright (b. 1889)
1983 - Christina Stead, Australian writer (b. 1902)
1984 - Ronald Clark O'Bryan, American murderer (b. 1944)
1985 - Jeanine Deckers, Belgian nun (b. 1933)
1986 - Jerry Paris, American actor (b. 1925)
1986 - O'Kelly Isley, Jr., American singer (The Isley Brothers) (b. 1937)
1988 - William McMahon, 20th Prime Minister of Australia (b. 1908)
1993 - Brandon Lee, American actor (b. 1965)
1993 - Mitchell Parish, American lyricist (b. 1900)
1993 - Chichay, Filipino actress (b. 1918)
1995 - Selena, Mexican-American singer (b. 1971)
1996 - Jeffrey Lee Pierce, American singer, songwriter and guitarist (The Gun Club) (b. 1958)
1998 - Tim Flock, American race car driver (b. 1924)
1998 - Bella Abzug, American politician (b. 1920)
1999 - Yuri Knorozov, Russian linguist (b. 1922)
2001 - Clifford Shull, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1915)
2002 - Barry Took, British comedian (b. 1928)
2003 - H.S.M. Coxeter, English-born geometer (b. 1907)
2003 - Tommy Seebach, Danish singer (b. 1949)
2003 - Anne Gwynne, American film actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Justiniano Montano, Filipino politician (b. 1905)
2005 - Terri Schiavo, American figure in right to die case (b. 1963)
2005 - Frank Perdue, American poultry farmer (b. 1920)
2005 - Stanley J. Korsmeyer, American oncologist (b. 1951)
2006 - Jackie McLean, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1931 or 1932)
2006 - Angela Devi, American adult model (b. 1975)
2007 - Paul Watzlawick, Communications & Constructivism Theorist (b. 1921)
2008 - Jules Dassin, American film director (b .1911)
2008 - Bill Keightley, "Mr. Wildcat." University of Kentucky basketball equipment manger 1962-2008 (b .1926)

Friday, March 29, 2013

Famous Deaths on 30 Mar

Famous Deaths on 30 Mar

1486 - Thomas Bourchier, Archbishop of Canterbury
1526 - Konrad Mutian, German humanist (b. 1471)
1540 - Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German statesman and Archbishop of Salzburg (b. 1469)
1559 - Adam Ries, German mathematician (b. 1492)
1587 - Ralph Sadler, English statesman (b. 1507)
1662 - François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet (b. 1592)
1707 - Vauban, French architect (b. 1633)
1764 - Pietro Locatelli, Italian composer (b. 1695)
1783 - William Hunter, Scottish anatomist (b. 1718)
1804 - Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, Marshal of France (b. 1718)
1840 - Beau Brummell, English celebrity and dandy (b. 1778)
1842 - Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, French painter (b. 1755)
1879 - Thomas Couture, French painter and teacher (b. 1815)
1886 - Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, French Canadian politician (b. 1838)
1896 - Charilaos Trikoupis, seven times prime-minister of Greece (b. 1832)
1912 - Karl May, German author (b. 1842)
1925 - Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher (b. 1861)
1936 - Conchita Supervía, Spanish opera singer (b. 1895)
1943 - Jan Bytnar, Polish activist (b. 1921)
1943 - Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish activist (b. 1920)
1949 - Friedrich Bergius, German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1884)
1950 - Léon Blum, French prime minister (b. 1872)
1959 - Daniil Andreev, Russian writer and mystic (b. 1906)
1959 - Riccardo Zanella, president of Free State of Fiume (b. 1875)
1965 - Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1896)
1966 - Maxfield Parrish, American artist (b. 1870)
1966 - Newbold Morris, American politician (b. 1902)
1967 - Jean Toomer, American writer (b. 1894)
1968 - Bobby Driscoll, American actor (b. 1937)
1970 - Heinrich Brüning, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1885)
1972 - Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (b. 1890)
1977 - Abdel Halim Hafez, Egyptian singer and actor (b. 1929)
1981 - DeWitt Wallace, American publisher (b. 1889)
1984 - Karl Rahner, German theologian (b. 1904)
1985 - Harold Peary, American actor and singer (heart attack) (b. 1908)
1986 - James Cagney, American actor (b. 1899)
1988 - Edgar Faure, French politician (b. 1908)
1992 - Manolis Andronikos, Greek archeologist, professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (b. 1919)
1999 - Gary Morton, American film and television producer (b. 1924)
2002 - Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (b. 1900)
2003 - Michael Jeter, American actor (b. 1952)
2003 - Valentin Pavlov, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (b. 1937)
2004 - Timi Yuro, American singer (b. 1940)
2004 - Michael King, New Zealand historian (b. 1945)
2004 - Hubert Gregg, British broadcaster (b. 1914)
2004 - Alistair Cooke, English-born journalist (b. 1908)
2005 - Derrick Plourde, American drummer (b. 1971)
2005 - O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and cartoonist (b. 1930)
2005 - Fred Korematsu, American civil rights activist (b. 1919)
2005 - Milton Green, American athlete (b. 1913)
2005 - Robert Creeley, American poet (b. 1926)
2005 - Emil Dimitrov, Bulgarian singer (b. 1940)
2006 - Red Hickey, American football coach (b. 1917)
2008 - Dith Pran, The Killing Fields Photographer (b. 1942)
2008 - David Leslie, Touring Car Driver (b. 1953)
2008 - Richard Lloyd, Racing Car Driver (b. 1945)

Thursday, March 28, 2013

Famous Deaths on 29 Mar

Famous Deaths on 29 Mar

1058 - Pope Stephen IX (b. c.1020)
1368 - Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1461 - Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (b. 1421)
1578 - Arthur Champernowne, English admiral (b. 1524)
1578 - Louis I, Cardinal of Guise, French cardinal (b. 1527)
1625 - Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1628 - Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York (b. 1546)
1629 - Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1683 - Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)

Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Famous Deaths on 28 Mar

Famous Deaths on 28 Mar

1072 - Ordulf, Duke of Saxony
1239 - Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (b. 1180)
1285 - Pope Martin IV
1563 - Heinrich Glarean, Swiss music theorist (b. 1488)
1566 - Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian diplomat and historian (b. 1486)
1677 - Václav Hollar, Czech-born actor (b. 1607)
1687 - Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (b. 1596)
1794 - Marquis de Condorcet, French mathematician and philosopher (b. 1743)
1850 - Gerard C. Brandon, American politician (b. 1788)
1866 - Solomon Foot, American politician (b. 1802)
1868 - James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, British military leader (b. 1797)
1870 - George Henry Thomas, American general (b. 1816)
1874 - Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish astronomer (b. 1795)
1881 - Modest Mussorgsky, Russian composer (b. 1839)
1910 - Edouard Judas Colonne, French violinist (b. 1838)
1910 - David Josiah Brewer, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1837)
1929 - Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
193 - Pertinax, Roman Emperor (b. 126)
1939 - Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1941 - Virginia Woolf, English feminist writer (b. 1882)
1942 - Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet, death in prison (b. 1910)
1943 - Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian composer and pianist (b. 1873)
1944 - Stephen Leacock, Canadian humorist (b. 1869)
1946 - Chick Fullis, baseball player (b. 1904)
1947 - Karol Åšwierczewski, Polish general (b. 1897)
1949 - GrigoraÅŸ Dinicu, Romanian composer and violinist (b. 1889)
1953 - Jim Thorpe, American athlete (b. 1887)
1958 - W.C. Handy, American composer (b. 1873)
1962 - Hugo Wast, Argentine writer (b. 1883)
1965 - Clemence Dane, British novelist and playwright (b. 1888)
1965 - Jack Hoxie, American actor and rodeo performer (b. 1885)
1969 - Dwight D. Eisenhower, 34th President of the United States (b. 1890)
1974 - Dorothy Fields, American librettist and lyricist (b. 1905)
1976 - Arthur Crudup, American blues singer and guitarist (b. 1905)
1976 - Richard Arlen, American actor (b. 1898)
1978 - Dino Ciani, Italian pianist (d. 1941)
1979 - Emmett Kelly, American clown (b. 1898)
1980 - Dick Haymes, Argentine-born singer and actor (b. 1918)
1982 - William Giauque, Canadian chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1895)
1984 - Carmen Dragon, American conductor, composer and arranger (b. 1914)
1985 - Marc Chagall, Russian-born painter (b. 1887)
1986 - Virginia Gilmore. American actress (b. 1919)
1987 - Maria von Trapp, Austrian-born singer (b. 1905)
1987 - Patrick Troughton, British actor (b. 1920)
1993 - Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 - Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-born French playwright (b. 1909)
1995 - Hugh O'Connor, American actor (b. 1962)
1999 - Freaky Tah, American rapper (Lost Boyz) (b. 1971)
2000 - Anthony Powell, British novelist (b. 1905)
2001 - Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2003 - Rusty Draper, American country and pop singer (b. 1923)
2004 - Peter Ustinov, British actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2005 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (b. 1916)
2006 - Caspar Weinberger, United States Secretary of Defense (b. 1917)
2006 - Charles Schepens, American ophthalmologist (b. 1912)
2006 - Kevin Pro Hart, Australian artist (b. 1928)
2006 - Proinsias Ã" Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)

Tuesday, March 26, 2013

Famous Deaths on 27 Mar

Famous Deaths on 27 Mar

1191 - Pope Clement III
1350 - King Alfonso XI of Castile (b. 1312)
1378 - Pope Gregory XI
1462 - Vasili II of Russia, Grand Prince of Moscow (b. 1415)
1482 - Mary of Burgundy, daughter of Charles the Bold; wife of Maximilian I (b. 1457)
1555 - William Hunter, Protestant martyr
1572 - Girolamo Maggi, Italian Renaissance man (b. abt. 1523)
1625 - King James I of England and Ireland, James VI of Scotland (b. 1566)
1635 - Robert Naunton, English politician (b. 1563)
1697 - Simon Bradstreet, English colonial magistrate (b. 1603)
1757 - Johann Stamitz, Czech-born composer (b. 1717)
1770 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian artist (b. 1696)
1809 - Joseph-Marie Vien, French painter (b. 1716)
1827 - François Alexandre Frédéric, French social reformer (b. 1747)
1836 - James Fannin, Texas revolutionary (b. 1804)
1843 - Karl Salomo Zachariae von Lingenthal, German jurist (b. 1769)
1849 - Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford (b. 1776)
1850 - Wilhelm Beer, German astronomer (b. 1797)
1864 - Jean-Jacques Ampère, French scholar (b. 1800)
1865 - Petrus Hoffman Peerlkamp, Dutch scholar (b. 1786)
1873 - Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1875 - Edgar Quinet, French historian (b. 1803)
1878 - Sir George Gilbert Scott, English architect (b. 1811)
1889 - John Bright, English statesman (b. 1811)
1897 - Andreas Anagnostakis, Greek physician (b. 1826)
1898 - Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, Indian Muslim intellectual (b. 1817)
1910 - Alexander Emanuel Agassiz, American scientist; son of Louis Agassiz (b. 1835)
1918 - Henry Adams, American historian (b. 1838)
1923 - Sir James Dewar, Scottish chemist (b. 1842)
1924 - Walter Parratt, English composer (b. 1841)
1926 - Georges Vézina, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1887)
1927 - Joe Start, American baseball player (b. 1842)
1931 - Arnold Bennett, British novelist (b. 1867)
1934 - Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (b. 1844)
1940 - Michael Joseph Savage, Prime Minister of New Zealand (b. 1872)
1967 - Jim Thompson, American designer (disappeared) (b. 1906)
1967 - Jaroslav Heyrovský, Czech chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1890)
1968 - Yuri Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1934)
1972 - Sharkey Bonano, American musician (b. 1904)
1972 - M. C. Escher, Dutch artist (b. 1898)
1977 - A. P. Hamann, American politician
1977 - Diana Hyland, American actress (b. 1936)
1981 - Mao Dun, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1988 - Renato Salvatori, Italian actor (b. 1934)
1989 - May Allison, American actress (b. 1890)
1989 - Jack Starrett, American actor and film director (b. 1936)
1991 - Ralph Bates, British actor (b. 1940)
1991 - Aldo Ray, American actor (b. 1926)
1992 - Easley Blackwood, American bridgeplayer (b. 1903)
1993 - Paul László, Hungarian interior designer and architect (b. 1900)
1993 - Clifford Jordan, American saxophonist and bandleader (b. 1931)
1998 - Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile manufacturer (b. 1909)
1998 - David McClelland, American psychologist (b. 1917)
2000 - Ian Dury, English musician (b. 1942)
2002 - Milton Berle, American actor and comedian (b. 1908)
2002 - Dudley Moore, British actor (b. 1935)
2002 - Billy Wilder, American director (b. 1906)
2003 - Ricardo Munguia, Salvadoran aid worker
2003 - Paul Zindel, American writer (b. 1936)
2003 - Daniel Ceccaldi, French actor (b. 1927)
2004 - Adán Sánchez, Mexican-American singer (b. 1984)
2005 - Wilfred Bigelow, Canadian heart surgeon (b. 1913)
2005 - Bob Casey, American baseball announcer (b. 1925)
2005 - Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist (b. 1921)
2006 - Ruari McLean, British typographer (b. 1917)
2006 - Stanisław Lem, Polish writer (b. 1921)
2006 - Ian Hamilton Finlay, Scottish poet, writer, artist and gardener (b. 1925)
2006 - Dan Curtis, American television producer and director (b. 1928)
2006 - Lyn Nofziger, American journalist and political advisor to Ronald Reagan (b. 1924)
2007 - Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
2008 - Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA (b. 1921)
2008 - George Pruteanu, Romanian literary critic and politician (b. 1947)
710 - Rupert of Salzburg
973 - Herman, Duke of Saxony

Monday, March 25, 2013

Famous Deaths on 26 Mar

Famous Deaths on 26 Mar

1130 - King Sigurd I of Norway (b. ca. 1090)
1212 - King Sancho I of Portugal (b. 1154)
1517 - Heinrich Isaac, Flemish composer
1535 - Georg Tannstetter, Austrian scientist (b. 1482)
1546 - Thomas Elyot, English diplomat
1566 - Antonio de Cabezón, Spanish composer (b. 1510)
1649 - John Winthrop, second governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1679 - Johannes Schefferus, Alsatian-born humanist (b. 1621)
1697 - Godfrey McCulloch, Scottish politician and murderer (executed) (b. 1640)
1726 - Sir John Vanbrugh, English dramatist (b. 1664)
1772 - Charles Pinot Duclos, French writer (b. 1704)
1776 - Samuel Ward, American politician (b. 1725)
1780 - Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (b. 1713)
1793 - John Mudge, English physician (b. 1721)
1797 - James Hutton, Scottish geologist (b. 1726)
1814 - Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, namesake of the guillotine (b. 1738)
1827 - Ludwig van Beethoven, German composer (b. 1770)
1858 - John Addison Thomas, American soldier (b. 1811)
1881 - Roman Sanguszko, Polish aristocrat (b. 1800)
1888 - Barghash bin Said, second Sultan of Zanzibar (b. 1837)
1892 - Walt Whitman, American poet (b. 1819)
1902 - Cecil Rhodes, English explorer (b. 1853)
1905 - Maurice Barrymore, actor; patriarch of the Barrymore family (b. 1849)
1910 - An Jung-geun, Korean assassin of Ito Hirobumi (executed) (b. 1879)
1910 - Auguste Charlois, French astronomer (b. 1864)
1920 - William Chester Minor, American surgeon and contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary (b. 1834)
1923 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress (b. 1844)
1926 - Konstantin Fehrenbach, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1852)
1929 - Katharine Lee Bates, American poet (b. 1859)
1933 - Eddie Lang, American musician (b. 1902)
1940 - Spiridon Louis, Greek runner, winner of the first modern Olympics marathon (b. 1873)
1942 - Jimmy Burke, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1945 - David Lloyd George, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1863)
1951 - James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico (d. 1864)
1957 - Édouard Herriot, French politician (b. 1872)
1958 - Phil Mead, English cricketer (b. 1887)
1959 - Raymond Chandler, American-born novelist (b. 1888)
1969 - John Kennedy Toole, American author (b. 1937)
1973 - George Sisler, American baseball player (b. 1893)
1973 - Don Messer, Canadian fiddler (b. 1909)
1973 - Johnny Drake, American football player (b. 1916)
1973 - Noel Coward, English composer and playwright (b. 1899)
1976 - Josef Albers, German artist (b. 1888)
1976 - Lin Yutang, Chinese writer (b. 1895)
1978 - Wilfred Pickles, English actor and broadcaster (b. 1904)
1983 - Anthony Blunt, British art historian and spy (b. 1907)
1984 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (b. 1922)
1987 - Eugen Jochum, German conductor (b. 1902)
1990 - Halston, American fashion designer (b. 1932)
1992 - Barbara Frum, Canadian journalist (b. 1937)
1995 - Eazy-E, American rapper (N.W.A) (b. 1963)
1996 - David Packard, American engineer and businessman (b. 1912)
1996 - Edmund Muskie, American politician (b. 1914)
1997 - Marshall Applewhite, American cult leader (b. 1931)
2000 - Alex Comfort, American author (b. 1920)
2002 - Randy Castillo, American drummer (Ozzy Osbourne, Mötley Crüe) (b. 1950)
2003 - Daniel Patrick Moynihan, U.S. Senator (b. 1927)
2004 - Jan Sterling, American actress (b. 1921)
2004 - Jan Berry, American musician (Jan and Dean) (b. 1941)
2005 - James Callaghan, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1912)
2005 - Gérard Filion, Quebec businessman and journalist (b. 1909)
2005 - Paul Hester, Australian drummer (Split Enz and Crowded House) (b. 1959)
2005 - Marius Russo, American baseball player (b. 1914)
2006 - Anil Biswas, Indian politician (b. 1944)
2006 - Paul Dana, American race car driver (b. 1975)
2006 - Nikki Sudden, British singer/songwriter (b. 1956)
2008 - Wally Phillips, American radio personality (b. 1925)
2008 - Robert Fagles, American translator and professor (b. 1933)
2008 - Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 - Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930)
304 - Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
922 - Al-Hallaj, Persian Sufi teacher and writer

Sunday, March 24, 2013

Famous Deaths on 25 Mar

Famous Deaths on 25 Mar

1223 - Afonso II of Portugal (b. 1185)
1345 - Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1458 - Marqués de Santillana, Spanish poet (b. 1398)
1558 - Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer
1561 - Conrad Lycosthenes, French-born German philosopher and encyclopedist (b. 1518)
1603 - Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese warlord (b. 1526)
1609 - Olaus Martini, Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala (b. 1557)
1620 - Johannes Nucius, German composer
1625 - Giambattista Marini, Italian poet (b. 1569)
1712 - Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1736 - Nicholas Hawksmoor, British architect
1738 - Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1751 - Frederick I of Sweden (b. 1676)
1801 - Novalis, German poet (b. 1772)
1818 - Caspar Wessel, Danish mathematician (b. 1745)
1860 - James Braid, Scottish surgeon (b. 1795)
1873 - Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter (b. 1810)
1908 - Durham Stevens, American diplomat (b. 1851)
1914 - Frédéric Mistral, French poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1830)
1917 - Spyros Samaras, Greek composer (b. 1861)
1917 - Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American educator (b. 1832)
1918 - Claude Debussy, French composer (b. 1862)
1951 - Eddie Collins, American baseball player (b. 1887)
1957 - Max Ophüls, German director and writer (b. 1902)
1958 - Tom Brown, American musician (b. 1888)
1967 - Renato Cellini, Italian conductor (b.c.1913)
1969 - Billy Cotton, British bandleader & entertainer (b. 1889)
1969 - Max Eastman, American writer (b. 1883)
1975 - King Faisal of Saudi Arabia (b. 1906)
1975 - Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1980 - James Wright, American poet (b. 1927)
1980 - Walter Susskind, Czech conductor (b. 1913)
1980 - Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist (b. 1901)
1980 - Roland Barthes, French literary critic and writer (b. 1915)
1983 - Bob Waterfield, American football player (b. 1920)
1988 - Robert Joffrey, American dancer and choreographer (b. 1930)
1991 - Marcel Lefebvre, French Catholic prelate (b. 1905)
1992 - Nancy Walker, American actress (b. 1922)
1994 - Max Petitpierre, Swiss politician and jurist (b. 1899)
1995 - John Hugenholtz, Dutch race track designer (b. 1914)
1995 - Krešimir Ćosić, Croatian basketball player (b. 1948)
1995 - James Coleman, American sociologist (b. 1926)
1996 - John Snagge, British radio personality (b. 1904)
1998 - Max Green, Australian lawyer (b. 1952)
1998 - Steve Schiff, United States Congressman (b. 1947)
1999 - Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball manager (b. 1936)
2000 - Helen Martin, American actress (b. 1909)
2002 - Kenneth Wolstenholme, English football commentator (b. 1920)
2005 - Paul Henning, American TV/film producer and writer (b. 1911)
2006 - Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (b. 1944)
2006 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (b. 1916)
2006 - Buck Owens, American singer and television personality (b. 1929)
2007 - Andranik Margaryan, Armenian politician (b. 1951)
2008 - Rafael Azcona, Spanish screenwriter (b. 1926)
2008 - Ben Carnevale, American basketball coach (b. 1915)
752 - Pope-elect Stephen, Italian priest and elected successor to Pope Zachary

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Famous Deaths on 24 Mar

Famous Deaths on 24 Mar

1284 - King Hugh III of Cyprus
1381 - Saint Catharine of Sweden, Swedish saint
1396 - Walter Hilton, English mystic
1455 - Pope Nicholas V (b. 1397)
1558 - Anna of Egmond, Countess of Egmond and Buren (b. 1533)
1563 - Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese military leader (b. 1514)
1575 - Yosef Karo, Spanish-born rabbi (b. 1488)
1603 - Queen Elizabeth I of England (b. 1533)
1653 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (b. 1587)
1773 - Philip Dormer Stanhope, English statesman (b. 1694)
1776 - John Harrison, English clockmaker (b. 1693)
1869 - Antoine-Henri Jomini, French general (b. 1779)
1881 - Joseph Delesse, French geologist (b. 1817)
1882 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American author (b. 1807)
1887 - Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic (b. 1837)
1888 - Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1905 - Jules Verne, French author (b. 1828)
1909 - John Millington Synge, Irish playwright (b. 1871)
1915 - Karol Olszewski, Polish scientist (b. 1846)
1916 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
1921 - Larry McLean, Canadian baseball player (b. 1881)
1944 - Orde Wingate, British soldier (b. 1903)
1946 - Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (b. 1892)
1948 - Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish modernist painter (b. 1885)
1950 - James Rudolph Garfield, American politician (b. 1865)
1953 - Mary of Teck, queen consort to George V of the United Kingdom (b. 1867)
1962 - Jean Goldkette, Greek-born musician (b. 1899)
1962 - Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (b. 1884)
1968 - Alice Guy-Blaché, American film director (b. 1873)
1976 - Bernard Montgomery, British field marshal (b. 1887)
1980 - Ã"scar Romero, Salvadoran Catholic archbishop (b. 1917)
1984 - Sam Jaffe, American actor (b. 1891)
1990 - Ray Goulding, American comedian (b. 1922)
1990 - An Wang, Chinese-born computer engineer (b. 1920)
1991 - Sir John Kerr, Australian politician (b. 1914)
1993 - John Hersey, American author (b. 1914)
1997 - Martin Caidin, American aviation writer (b. 1927)
1997 - Harold Melvin, American singer (Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes) (b. 1939)
1999 - Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German women's activist (b. 1902)
1999 - Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (b. 1912)
2001 - Muriel Young, English TV entertainer (b. 1928)
2002 - César Milstein, Argentine scientist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1927)
2003 - Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian Catholic archbishop (b. 1919)
2006 - Lynne Perrie, English actress (b. 1931)
2008 - Richard Widmark, American actor (b. 1914)
2008 - Neil Aspinall, British record producer (b. 1941)
2008 - Chalmers "Spanky" Alford‎, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2008 - Hal Riney, American advertising executive (b. 1932)
809 - Harun al-Rashid, Abbasid caliph (b. 763)

Friday, March 22, 2013

Famous Deaths on 23 Mar

Famous Deaths on 23 Mar

1103 - Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1361 - Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster (b. c.1310)
1369 - King Pedro of Castile (b. 1334)
1548 - Itagaki Nobukata, retainer of Takeda Shingen
1555 - Pope Julius III (b. 1487)
1559 - Emperor Gelawdewos of Ethiopia (killed in battle) (b. 1521/1522)
1596 - Henry Unton, English diplomat
1606 - Justus Lipsius, Flemish humanist (b. 1547)
1618 - James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1653 - Johan van Galen, Dutch naval officer (b. 1604)
1680 - Nicolas Fouquet, French statesman (b. 1615)
1742 - Jean-Baptiste Dubos, French writer (b. 1670)
1747 - Claude Alexandre de Bonneval, French soldier (b. 1675)
1748 - Johann Gottfried Walther, German music theorist, organist, and composer (b. 1684)
1754 - Johann Jakob Wettstein, Swiss theologian (b. 1693)
1783 - Charles Caroll, American lawyer and delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1723)
1801 - Tsar Paul of Russia (b. 1754)
1842 - Stendhal, French writer (b. 1783)
1914 - Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès (Saint Rebecca) Lebanese saint (b. 1832)
1927 - Paul César Helleu, French artist (b. 1859)
1931 - Bhagat Singh, Rajguru, Sukhdev Indian freedom fighters
1935 - Florence Moore, American actress (b. 1886)
1947 - Archduchess Luise of Austria, Princess of Tuscany (b. 1870)
1955 - Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1960 - Franklin Pierce Adams, American newspaper columnist (b. 1881)
1964 - Peter Lorre, Hungarian-born actor (b. 1904)
1965 - Mae Murray, American actress (b. 1889)
1968 - Edwin O'Connor, American novelist and Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner (b. 1918)
1970 - Del Lord, Canadian director (b. 1894)
1972 - Cristóbal Balenciaga, Spanish fashion designer (b. 1895)
1979 - Ted Anderson, English footballer (b. 1911)
1980 - Arthur Melvin Okun, American economist (b. 1928)
1982 - Barney Clark, first artificial heart recipient (b. 1921)
1985 - Richard Beeching, chairman of British Railways (b. 1913)
1985 - Peter Charanis, Greek-American scholar and professor (b. 1908)
1990 - John Dexter, English stage and film director
1991 - Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1992 - Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1899)
1994 - Luis Donaldo Colosio, Mexican politician (b. 1950)
1994 - Giulietta Masina, Italian actress (b. 1921)
1994 - Donald_Swann, British composer, musician and entertainer (b. 1923)
1995 - Davie Cooper, Scottish footballer (b. 1956)
1995 - Alan Barton, English musician (Black Lace, Smokie) (b. 1953)
1998 - Gerald Stano, American serial killer (b. 1951)
1999 - Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician (b. ?)
2001 - Rowland Evans, American journalist (b. 1921)
2002 - Eileen Farrell, American soprano (b. 1920)
2002 - Ben Hollioake, English cricketer (b. 1977)
2003 - Fritz Spiegl, Austrian-born journalist (b. 1926)
2004 - Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2006 - David B. Bleak, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1932)
2006 - Desmond Doss, American soldier and first conscientious objector Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1919)
2006 - Cindy Walker, American singer, songwriter and dancer (b. 1918)
2007 - Paul J. Cohen, American mathematician, Fields Medal winner (b. 1934)
2007 - Eric Medlen, American NHRA drag racer (b. 1973)

Thursday, March 21, 2013

Famous Deaths on 22 Mar

Famous Deaths on 22 Mar

1322 - Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1418 - Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 - Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1544 - Johannes Magnus, last Catholic Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1488)
1602 - Agostino Carracci, Italian artist (b. 1557)
1685 - Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (b. 1638)
1687 - Jean Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (b. 1632)
1758 - Jonathan Edwards, American minister (b. 1703)
1758 - Richard Leveridge, English bass and composer (b. 1670)
1772 - John Canton, English physicist (b. 1718)
1820 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (b. 1779)
1832 - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer (b. 1749)
1840 - Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician (b. 1798)
1896 - Thomas Hughes, English novelist (b. 1822)
1913 - Sung Chiao-jen, Chinese Nationalist (b. 1882)
1924 - William Macewen, Scottish surgeon (b. 1848)
1934 - Theophilos Hatzimihail, Greek painter (b. 1870)
1945 - John Hessin Clarke, U.S. Supreme Court Justice (b. 1857)
1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
1952 - Uncle Dave Macon, American musician (b. 1870)
1955 - Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1958 - Mike Todd, American film producer (b. 1909)
1960 - José Antonio Aguirre, Basque politician (b. 1904)
1974 - Peter Revson, American racecar driver (b.1939)
1977 - A.K. Gopalan, Indian communist leader (b. 1904)
1978 - Karl Wallenda, German acrobat (b. 1905)
1981 - James "Jumbo" Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 - Charles Starrett, American actor (b. 1903)
1986 - Mark Dinning, American singer (b. 1933)
1990 - Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer (b. 1928)
1991 - Léon Balcer, French Canadian politician (b. 1917)
1991 - Dave Guard, American folk singer (The Kingston Trio) (b. 1934)
1991 - Gloria Holden, American film actress (b. 1908)
1994 - Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (b. 1900)
1994 - Dan Hartman, American musician, songwriter, and record producer (b. 1950)
1996 - Don Murray, American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
1999 - David Strickland, American actor (b. 1969)
2001 - William Hanna, American animator and studio founder (b. 1910)
2003 - Terry Lloyd, English reporter (b. 1952)
2004 - Ahmed Yassin, Palestinian co-founder of Hamas (b. ca. 1937)
2005 - Kenzo Tange, Japanese architect (b. 1913)
2006 - Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)
2006 - Kurt von Trojan, Australian science fiction author (b. 1937)
2007 - Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2008 - Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Famous Deaths on 21 Mar

Famous Deaths on 21 Mar

1063 - Blessed Richeza of Lotharingia, venerated in Roman Catholicism, wife of King Mieszko II of Poland
1076 - Robert I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1011)
1181 - Taira Kiyomori, Japanese Feudal general (b. 1118)
1306 - Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1248)
1487 - Nicholas of Flue, Swiss hermit and saint (b. 1417)
1556 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury (burned at the stake) (b. 1489)
1617 - Pocahontas, Native American, daughter of Powhatan (b. c. 1595)
1656 - James Ussher, Irish Anglican archbishop (b. 1581)
1676 - Henri Sauval, French historian (b. 1623)
1729 - John Law, Scottish economist (b. 1671)
1734 - Robert Wodrow, Scottish historian (b. 1679)
1751 - Johann Heinrich Zedler, German publisher (b. 1706)
1762 - Nicolas Louis de Lacaille, French astronomer (b. 1713)
1772 - Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, French cartographer (b. 1703)
1795 - Giovanni Arduino, Italian geologist (b. 1714)
1801 - Andrea Luchesi, Italian composer (b. 1741)
1804 - Louis-Antoine-Henri de Bourbon-Condé, duc d'Enghien (executed) (b. 1772)
1843 - Robert Southey, English poet (b. 1774)
1843 - Guadalupe Victoria, first President of Mexico (b. 1786)
1850 - Miguel Pedrorena, American settler
1863 - Edwin Vose Sumner, American Civil War general (b. 1797)
1881 - Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1884 - Ezra Abbot, American bible scholar (b. 1819)
1910 - Nadar, French photographer (b. 1820)
1915 - Frederick Winslow Taylor, American inventor (b. 1856)
1934 - Franz Schreker, Austrian composer (b. 1878)
1936 - Alexander Glazunov, Russian composer (b. 1865)
1945 - Artur Nebe, German SS officer {b. 1894)
1951 - Willem Mengelberg, Dutch conductor (b. 1871)
1958 - Cyril M. Kornbluth, American writer (b. 1923)
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek songwriter and musician (b. 1920)
1975 - Joe Medwick, baseball player (b. 1911)
1980 - Peter Stoner, American mathematician, astronomer and Christian apologist (b. 1888)
1984 - Shauna Grant, American actress (suicide) (b. 1963)
1985 - Sir Michael Redgrave, English actor (b. 1908)
1987 - Robert Preston, American actor (b. 1918)
1987 - Dean Paul Martin, American musician (b. 1951)
1991 - Leo Fender, American guitar manufacturer (b. 1909)
1992 - John Ireland, Canadian film actor and director (b. 1914)
1992 - Natalie Sleeth, American composer (b. 1930)
1994 - Macdonald Carey, American actor (b. 1913)
1994 - Dack Rambo, American actor (b. 1941)
1994 - Lili Damita, French actress (b. 1904)
1997 - W. V. Awdry, English children's writer (b. 1911)
1998 - Galina Ulanova, Russian prima ballerina assoluta (b. 1910)
1999 - Ernie Wise, British comedian (b. 1925)
2001 - Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Anthony Steel, English actor (b. 1920)
2002 - Herman Talmadge, American politician (b. 1913)
2003 - Umar Wirahadikusumah, Fourth Vice President of Indonesia (b. 1924)
2004 - Ludmilla Tchérina, French ballet dancer and actress (b. 1924)
2005 - Barney Martin, American actor (b. 1923)
2005 - Bobby Short, American singer (b. 1924)
2007 - Drew Hayes, American writer & graphic artist (b. 1969)
2007 - Sven O. Høiby, the father of Crown Princess Mette-Marit of Norway (b. 1936)
2007 - Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)

Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Famous Deaths on 20 Mar

Famous Deaths on 20 Mar

1239 - Hermann von Salza, Grand Master of the Teutonic Knights (c. 1179)
1413 - King Henry IV of England (b. 1367)
1549 - Lord High Admiral Thomas Seymour, 4th. husband of Queen Catherine Parr (executed) (b. 1508)
1568 - Duke Albert of Prussia (b. 1490)
1586 - Richard Maitland, Scottish statesman and historian (b. 1496)
1619 - Mathias, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1557)
1673 - Augustyn Kordecki, Polish prior (b. 1603)
1730 - Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (b. 1692)
1732 - Johann Ernst Hanxleden, German philologist (b. 1681)
1746 - Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
1780 - Sir Benjamin Truman - English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1793 - William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, Scottish judge and politician (b. 1705)
1835 - Louis-Leopold Robert, French painter (b. 1794)
1855 - Joseph Aspdin, English mason and inventor (b. 1788)
1865 - Keisuke Yamanami, Japanese samurai (b. 1833)
1874 - Hans Christian Lumbye, Danish composer (b. 1810)
1878 - Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (b. 1814)
1890 - Alexander F. Mozhaiski, aviation pioneer (b. 1825)
1897 - Apollon Maykov, Russian poet (b. 1821)
1899 - Franz Ritter von Hauer, Austrian geologist (b. 1822)
1916 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
1918 - Lewis A. Grant, American Civil War General (b. 1828)
1925 - George Nathaniel Curzon, British statesman (b. 1859)
1929 - Ferdinand Foch, French commander of allied forces in World War I (b. 1851)
1931 - Hermann Müller, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1876)
1934 - Queen Emma of the Netherlands (b. 1858)
1940 - Alfred Ploetz, German physician, biologist, and eugenicist (b. 1860)
1947 - Sigurd Wallén, Swedish actor and filmdirector (b. 1884)
1964 - Brendan Behan, Irish playwright and author (b. 1923)
1969 - Henri Longchambon, French politician (b. 1896)
1970 - Manolis Chiotis, Greek bouzouki virtuoso and song writer (b. 1920)
1972 - Marilyn Maxwell, American actress (b. 1921)
1974 - Chet Huntley, American television journalist (b. 1911)
1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist for Ozzy osbourne and Ex Quiet Riot guitarist (b. 1956)
1983 - Ivan Matveyevich Vinogradov, Russian mathematician (b. 1891)
1990 - Lev Yashin, Soviet footballer (b. 1929)
1991 - Conor Clapton, son of Eric Clapton (b. 1986)
1992 - Georges Delerue, French film composer (b. 1925)
1993 - Polykarp Kusch, German-born American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1994 - Lewis Grizzard, American humorist (b. 1946)
1995 - Big John Studd, American professional wrestler (b. 1948)
1997 - Tony Zale, American boxer (b. 1913)
1998 - George Howard, American jazz saxophone musician
2000 - Gene Eugene, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1961)
2001 - Luis Alvarado, Puerto Rican baseball player (b. 1949)
2003 - Sailor Art Thomas, American professional wrestler (b. 1924)
2004 - Pierre Sévigny, Canadian military officer and politician (b. 1917)
2004 - Queen Juliana of the Netherlands (b. 1909)
2005 - Armand Lohikoski, Finnish film director (b. 1912)
2007 - Hawa Yakubu, Ghanaian politician (b. 1948)
2007 - Gilbert E. Patterson, presiding bishop of COGIC (b. 1939)
2007 - Taha Yassin Ramadan, Iraqi politician (b. 1938)
2008 - Brian Wilde, English actor (b. 1921)
2008 - Shoban Babu, Indian actor (b. 1937)
2008 - Eric Ashton, English rugby league footballer (b. 1935)
2008 - Klaus Dinger, German Musician (b. 1946)
687 - St. Cuthbert, patron saint of Northumbria (b. c. 634).

Monday, March 18, 2013

Famous Deaths on 19 Mar

Famous Deaths on 19 Mar

1238 - Duke Henry I of Poland (b. 1163)
1263 - Hugh of St Cher, French cardinal
1279 - Emperor Bing of Song China (b. 1271)
1286 - King Alexander III of Scotland (b. 1241)
1330 - Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, English politician (b. 1301)
1406 - Ibn Khaldun, Arab historian (b. 1332)
1623 - Uesugi Kagekatsu, Japanese samurai and warlord (b. 1556)
1637 - Péter Pázmány, Hungarian cardinal and statesman (b. 1570)
1649 - Gerhard Johann Vossius, German classical scholar and theologian (b. 1577)
1683 - Thomas Killigrew, English dramatist (b. 1612)
1687 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer (b. 1643)
1697 - Nicolaus Bruhns, German organist and composer (b. 1665)
1711 - Thomas Ken, English bishop and hymn-writer (b. 1637)
1717 - John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1721 - Pope Clement XI (b. 1649)
1796 - Hugh Palliser, British naval officer and administrator (b. 1722)
1816 - Philip Mazzei, Italian physician (b. 1730)
1871 - Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger, Austrian mineralogist (b. 1795)
1897 - Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie, French geographer (b. 1810)
1900 - John Bingham, American politician and lawyer (b. 1815)
1900 - Charles-Louis Hanon, French composer (b. 1819)
1914 - Giuseppe Mercalli, Italian volcanologist (b. 1850)
1916 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
1930 - Arthur Balfour, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1848)
1939 - Lloyd L. Gaines, American civil rights activist
1942 - Clinton Hart Merriam, American zoologist (b. 1855)
1943 - Frank Nitti, American gangster (b. 1883)
1944 - William Hale Thompson, American mayor of Chicago (b. 1869)
1945 - Friedrich Fromm, German Nazi official (b. 1888)
1950 - Edgar Rice Burroughs, American author (b. 1875)
1950 - Walter Haworth, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1883)
1974 - Anne Klein, American fashion designer (b. 1923)
1974 - Edward Platt, American actor (b. 1916)
1976 - Albert Dieudonné, French actor and novelist (b. 1889)
1976 - Paul Kossoff, English guitarist (Free) (b. 1950)
1978 - Gaston Julia, French mathematician (b. 1893)
1979 - Richard Beckinsale, English actor (b. 1947)
1982 - Randy Rhoads, American guitarist (Quiet Riot, Ozzy Osbourne) (b. 1956)
1984 - Garry Winogrand, American photographer (b. 1928)
1987 - Louis, 7th duc de Broglie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1892)
1989 - Alan Civil, English French horn player (b. 1929)
1990 - Andrew Wood, American singer (Mother Love Bone) (b. 1966)
1992 - Cesare Danova, American television and film actor (b. 1926)
1995 - Yasuo Yamada, Japanese voice actor (b. 1932)
1997 - Willem de Kooning, Dutch-born painter (b. 1904)
1999 - Tofilau Eti Alesana, former Prime Minister of Samoa (b. 1924)
1999 - Jaime Sabines, Mexican poet (b. 1926)
2001 - Charles K. Johnson, President of the Flat Earth Society (b. 1924)
2003 - Michael Mathias Prechtl, German illustrator (b. 1926)
2003 - Émile Genest, Canadian actor (b. 1921)
2004 - Mitchell Sharp, Canadian politician (b. 1911)
2005 - John De Lorean, American automobile engineer (b. 1925)
2007 - Calvert DeForest, American actor (b. 1921)
2007 - Luther Ingram, American soul singer and songwriter (b. 1937)
2008 - Sir Arthur C. Clarke, English science fiction author and inventor (b. 1917)
2008 - Raghuvaran, Tamil, Telugu and Malayalam actor (b. 1948)
2008 - Hugo Claus, Belgian writer (b. 1929)

Sunday, March 17, 2013

Famous Deaths on 18 Mar

Famous Deaths on 18 Mar

1227 - Pope Honorius III (b. 1148)
1314 - Jacques DeMolay, Frankish noble, the 23rd Grand Master of the Knights Templar (b.1244)
1583 - King Magnus of Livonia (b. 1540)
1584 - Tsar Ivan IV of Russia (b. 1530)
1675 - Arthur Chichester, 1st Earl of Donegall, Irish soldier (b. 1606)
1689 - John Dixwell, English judge (b. 1607)
1696 - Robert Charnock, English conspirator
1745 - Sir Robert Walpole, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1676)
1746 - Anna Leopoldovna, regent of Russia (b. 1718)
1768 - Laurence Sterne, Irish writer (b. 1713)
1781 - Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1823 - Jean-Baptiste Breval, French composer (b. 1753)
1835 - Christian Gunther von Bernstorff, Danish-Prussian statesman and diplomat (b. 1769)
1871 - Augustus De Morgan, Indian-born British mathematician and logician (b. 1806)
1898 - Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1907 - Marcellin Berthelot, French chemist and politician (b. 1827)
1913 - King George I of Greece (b. 1845)
1936 - Eleftherios Venizelos, Former Prime minister of Greece
1939 - Henry Simpson Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader (b. 1859)
1941 - Henri Cornet, French cyclist (b. 1884)
1945 - William Grover-Williams, British racing driver
1947 - William C. Durant, American automobile pioneer (b. 1861)
1962 - Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1963 - Wanda Hawley, American actress (b. 1895)
1964 - Sigfrid Edström, Swedish sports official (b. 1870)
1965 - King Farouk I of Egypt (b. 1920)
1969 - Barbara Bates, American film actress (b. 1925)
1973 - Lauritz Melchior, Danish-born American opera singer (b. 1890)
1975 - Alain Grandbois, Quebec poet (b. 1900)
1976 - Giuseppe Genco Russo, Sicilian mafioso (b. 1893)
1977 - Marien Ngouabi, President of the Republic of the Congo (b. 1938)
1977 - José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
1978 - Peggy Wood, American actress (b. 1892)
1978 - Leigh Brackett, American author (b. 1915)
1980 - Erich Fromm, German-born psychologist and philosopher (b. 1900)
1983 - King Umberto II of Italy, (b. 1904)
1983 - Kenneth E. Boulding, English economist (b. 1910)
1984 - Charlie Lau, American baseball player (b. 1933)
1986 - Bernard Malamud, American writer (b. 1914)
1988 - Billy Butterfield, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1917)
1990 - Robin Harris, American actor and comedian (b. 1953)
1995 - Robin Jacques, illustrator of children's books (b. 1920)
1996 - Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1911)
1999 - Elizabeth Huckaby, American educator (b. 1905)
2000 - Eberhard Bethge, German theologian (b. 1909)
2001 - John Phillips, American musician (The Mamas and the Papas) (b. 1935)
2002 - Gösta Winbergh, Swedish tenor (b. 1943)
2002 - R.A. Lafferty, American science fiction writer (b. 1914)
2003 - Adam Osborne, British computer pioneer (b. 1939)
2003 - Karl Kling, German race car driver (b. 1910)
2004 - Harrison McCain, Canadian businessman (b. 1927)
2006 - Dan Gibson, musician (b. 1922)
2006 - Bill Beutel, American journalist (b. 1930)
2006 - Michael Attwell, British actor (b. 1943)
2007 - Bob Woolmer, South African cricketer and Pakistan national coach (b. 1948)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, Film Director (b. 1954)
2008 - Andrew Britton, Author (b. 1981)
978 - King Edward the Martyr of England

Saturday, March 16, 2013

Famous Deaths on 17 Mar

Famous Deaths on 17 Mar

1040 - Harold Harefoot, King of England
1058 - King Lulach I of Scotland
1199 - Jocelin, bishop of Glasgow
1272 - Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1425 - Ashikaga Yoshikazu, Japanese shogun (b. 1407)
1516 - Giuliano di Lorenzo de' Medici, ruler of Florence (b. 1478)
1565 - Alexander Ales, Scottish theologian (b. 1500)
1640 - Philip Massinger, English dramatist (b. 1583)
1649 - Gabriel Lallemant, French Jesuit missionary, one of the Canadian Martyrs (b. 1610)
1680 - François de La Rochefoucauld, French writer (b. 1613)
1704 - Menno van Coehoorn, Dutch military engineer (b. 1641)
1713 - Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw [b. 1688)
1715 - Gilbert Burnet, Scottish Bishop of Salisbury (b. 1643)
1741 - Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet (b. 1671)
1764 - George Parker, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, English astronomer
1782 - Daniel Bernoulli, Dutch-born mathematician (b. 1700)
180 - Marcus Aurelius, Roman emperor (b. 121)
1830 - Laurent, Marquis de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, French marshal (b. 1764)
1846 - Friedrich Bessel, German mathematician and astronomer (b. 1784)
1849 - William II of the Netherlands (b. 1792)
1853 - Christian Doppler, Austrian physician and mathematician (b. 1803)
1875 - Ferdinand Laub, Czech violinist (b. 1832)
1893 - Jules Ferry, French statesman (b. 1832)
1912 - Lawrence Oates, English army officer and Antarctic explorer (b. 1880)
1917 - Franz Brentano, German philosopher and psychologist (b. 1838)
1926 - Aleksei Brusilov, Russian general (b. 1853)
1937 - Austen Chamberlain, English statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1863)
1941 - Marguerite Nichols, American actress (b. 1895)
1946 - Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1949 - Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1956 - Irene Joliot-Curie, French physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1897)
1956 - Fred Allen, American actor and comedian (b. 1894)
1957 - Ramon Magsaysay, President of the Philippines (b. 1907)
1961 - Susanna M. Salter, Mayor of Argonia, Kansas (b. 1860)
1965 - Amos Alonzo Stagg, American football coach, player, and innovator (b. 1862)
1974 - Louis Kahn, American architect
1976 - Luchino Visconti, Italian director (b. 1906)
1981 - Paul Dean, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1983 - Haldan Keffer Hartline, American physiologist, Nobel laureate (b. 1903)
1987 - Santo Trafficante, Jr., American gangster (b. 1914)
1988 - Nikolas Asimos, Greek counter-culture composer and singer (b. 1949)
1989 - Merritt Butrick, American actor (b. 1959)
1990 - Ric Grech, British bass player (Blind Faith - Traffic) (b. 1946)
1990 - Capucine, French actress (b. 1931)
1992 - Grace Stafford, American actress (b. 1903)
1993 - Helen Hayes, American actress (b. 1900)
1994 - Mai Zetterling, Swedish actress and director (b. 1925)
1995 - Rick Aviles, American actor (b. 1952)
1995 - Ronnie Kray, British gangster (b. 1933)
1996 - René Clément, French film director and screenwriter (b. 1913)
1996 - Terry Stafford, American singer (b. 1941)
1999 - Rod Hull, British comedian (b. 1936)
1999 - Ernest Gold, Austrian composer (b. 1921)
2002 - Rosetta LeNoire, American actress (b. 1911)
2002 - Pat Weaver, American broadcast executive (b. 1908)
2003 - Su Buqing, Chinese mathematician and educator (b. 1902)
2004 - J. J. Jackson, American television personality (b. 1941)
2005 - George F. Kennan, American Cold War strategist and historian (b. 1904)
2005 - Andre Norton, American writer (b. 1912)
2006 - Oleg Cassini, American fashion designer (b. 1913)
2006 - Ray Meyer, American basketball coach (b. 1913)
2006 - Bob Blue, American singer/songwriter (b. 1948)
2006 - Bob Papenbrook, American voice actor (b. 1955)
2007 - John Backus, American computer scientist (b. 1924)
2007 - Jim Cronin, Animal welfare campaigner and founder of Monkey World in Dorset, England. (b. 1951)
2007 - Roger Bennett, American Southern Gospel performer (b. 1959)
2008 - Roland Arnall, U.S. Ambassador to the Netherlands (b. 1939)
45 BC - Titus Labienus, Roman leader
461 or 493 - Saint Patrick, patron saint of Ireland
659 - Gertrude of Nivelles, Belgian abbess

Friday, March 15, 2013

Famous Deaths on 16 Mar

Famous Deaths on 16 Mar

1021 - Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
1037 - Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
1072 - Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
1322 - Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
1410 - John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
1457 - László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
1485 - Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
1559 - Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1620 - St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing
1649 - St. Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
1679 - John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
1721 - James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
1736 - Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
1737 - Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
1738 - George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
1747 - Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
1888 - Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
1890 - Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
1892 - Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
1898 - Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
1899 - Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
1903 - Roy Bean, American jurist
1914 - Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
1926 - Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
1930 - Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
1935 - John James Richard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
1935 - Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
1936 - Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
1940 - Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
1945 - Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
1955 - Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
1957 - Constantin Brancusi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
1961 - Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
1968 - Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (b. 1907)
1968 - Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
1970 - Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1946)
1971 - Thomas Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
1975 - Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
1975 - T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
1977 - Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
1979 - Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)
1980 - Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
1983 - Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
1983 - Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
1984 - John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
1985 - Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1992 - Roger Lemelin, Quebec novelist and television writer (b. 1919)
1992 - Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
1993 - Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
1996 - Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
1998 - Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
1999 - Gratien Gélinas, Quebec playwright and director (b. 1909)
2000 - Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
2001 - Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
2001 - Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
2003 - Ronald Ferguson, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
2003 - Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
2004 - Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
2005 - Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2005 - Anthony George, American TV actor (b. 1921)
2005 - Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
2005 - Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
2005 - Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
2006 - David Feintuch, American sci-fi author (b. 1944)
2007 - Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
2008 - G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
2008 - Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
2008 - Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
2008 - Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
2008 - John Hewer, Actor famous for portraying Captain Birdseye in British commercials. (b. 1922)
37 - Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
455 - Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (b. 419)

Thursday, March 14, 2013

Famous Deaths on 15 Mar

Famous Deaths on 15 Mar

1145 - Pope Lucius II
1311 - Walter V of Brienne, Duke of Athens
1416 - John, Duke of Berry, son of John II of France (b. 1340)
1536 - Pargalı İbrahim Pasha, Grand Vizer under Suleiman the Magnificent
1575 - Annibale Padovano, Italian composer (b. 1527)
1644 - Louise Juliana of Nassau, Regent of Bohemia (born 1576)
1670 - John Davenport, Connecticut pioneer (b. 1597)
1673 - Salvator Rosa, Italian painter and poet (b. 1615)
1701 - Jean Renaud de Segrais, French writer (b. 1624)
1711 - Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1820 - Clemens Maria Hofbauer, patron saint of Vienna (b. 1751
1842 - Luigi Cherubini, Italian composer (b. 1760)
1849 - Giuseppe Caspar Mezzofanti, Italian cardinal and linguist (b. 1774)
1891 - Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1891 - Théodore de Banville, French writer (b. 1823)
1898 - Henry Bessemer, English metallurgist (b. 1813)
1914 - Jalaleddin Ali Mir Abolfazl Angha, Sufi master (b. 1849)
1937 - H. P. Lovecraft, American writer (b. 1890)
1941 - Alexej von Jawlensky, Russian painter (b. 1864)
1951 - John S. Paraskevopoulos, Greek-born astronomer (b. 1889)
1957 - Ernst Nobs, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1886)
1959 - Lester Young, American musician (b. 1909)
1962 - Arthur Compton, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1966 - Abe Saperstein, American basketball executive (b. 1902)
1970 - Tarjei Vesaas, Norwegian writer (b. 1897)
1971 - Jean-Pierre Monseré, Belgian cyclist (b. 1948)
1972 - Aleksandr Ivanovich Laktionov, Russian painter (b. 1910)
1975 - Aristotle Onassis, Greek shipping magnate (b. 1900)
1977 - Antonino Rocca, Argentine professional wrestler
1977 - Hubert Aquin, Quebec novelist, political activist and editor (b. 1929)
1981 - René Clair, French film director (b. 1898)
1983 - Rebecca West, English writer (b. 1892)
1985 - Radha Krishna Choudhary, Indian historian and writer (b. 1921)
1988 - Dmitri Polyakov, Soviet double-agent (b. 1926)
1989 - Muhammad Jameel Didi, Maldivian poet (b. 1915)
1990 - Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1990 - Tom Harmon, American football player and broadcaster (b. 1919)
1991 - Bud Freeman, American jazz musician (b. 1906)
1997 - Victor Vasarely, Hungarian painter (b. 1906)
1997 - Gail Davis, American actress (b. 1925)
1998 - Benjamin Spock, American pediatrician and writer (b. 1903)
2001 - Ann Sothern, American actress (b. 1909)
2003 - Dame Thora Hird, British actress (b. 1911)
2003 - Paul Stojanovich, Reality TV pioneer (b. 1956)
2004 - John Pople, English chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1925)
2004 - Sir William Pickering, New Zealand-born space scientist (b. 1910)
2005 - Shoji Nishio, Japanese martial artist (b. 1927)
2005 - Bob Bellear, Australian judge (b. 1944)
2006 - George Rallis, Prime Minister of Greece (b. 1918)
2006 - Red Storey, Canadian football player and hockey referee (b. 1918)
2007 - Stuart Rosenberg, American film and television director (b. 1927)
2007 - Bowie Kuhn, American commissioner of baseball (b. 1926)
2007 - Charles Harrelson, American hitman and father of Woody Harrelson (b. 1938)
2008 - Vytautas Kernagis, Lithuanian singer, TV shows announcer (b. 1951)
2008 - Mikey Dread,Jamaican singer (b. 1954)
220 - Cao Cao, King of Wei (b. 155)
44 BC - Julius Caesar (b. 100 BC)
493 - Odoacer, King of Italy (murdered) (b. 435)

Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Famous Deaths on 14 Mar

Famous Deaths on 14 Mar

1457 - Jingtai Emperor of China (b. 1428)
1471 - Sir Thomas Malory, English author (b. 1405)
1647 - Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange (b. 1584)
1648 - Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general (b. 1584)
1680 - René Le Bossu, French critic (b. 1631)
1682 - Jacob Isaakszoon van Ruysdael, Dutch painter (b. 1628)
1696 - Jean Domat, French jurist (b. 1625)
1698 - Claes RÃ¥lamb, Swedish statesman (b. 1622)
1748 - George Wade, British military leader (b. 1673)
1757 - John Byng, British admiral (executed) (b. 1704)
1791 - Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1803 - Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German writer (b. 1724)
1805 - Stanisław Szczęsny Potocki, Russian general (b. 1753)
1811 - Augustus FitzRoy, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1735)
1823 - Charles François Dumouriez, French general (b. 1739)
1883 - Karl Marx, German philosopher and political theorist (b. 1818)
1884 - Quintino Sella, Italian statesman (b. 1827)
1932 - George Eastman, American inventor, and founder of Eastman Kodak (b. 1854)
1933 - Balto, husky dog who brought back the antitoxin in 1925
1946 - Werner von Blomberg, field marshal (b. 1878)
1949 - John Callan O'Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1957 - Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1973 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (b. 1901)
1973 - Rafael Godoy, Colombian composer (b. 1907)
1973 - Howard Aiken, American engineer (b. 1900)
1975 - Susan Hayward, American actress (b. 1917)
1976 - Busby Berkeley, American choreographer and director (b. 1895)
1977 - Fannie Lou Hamer, American civil rights activist (b. 1917)
1980 - Mohammad Hatta, Indonesian politician (b. 1902)
1983 - Maurice Ronet, French film actor (b. 1927)
1989 - Edward Abbey, American author and environmental activist (b. 1927)
1991 - Doc Pomus, American composer (b. 1925)
1991 - Howard Ashman, American lyricist and playwright (b. 1950)
1991 - Margery Sharp, children's author (b. 1905)
1992 - Jean Poiret, French actor, director and screenwriter (b. 1926)
1995 - William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel laureate (b. 1911)
1997 - Fred Zinnemann, Austrian-born director (b. 1907)
1999 - Kirk Alyn, American actor (b. 1910)
2002 - Cherry Wilder, New Zealand-born author (b. 1930)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2003 - Jack Goldstein, Canadian-born artist (b. 1945)
2003 - Jean-Luc Lagardère, French publisher (b. 1928)
2006 - Lennart Meri, former president of Estonia (b. 1929)
2006 - Ann Calvello, Roller Derby Queen (b. 1929)
2007 - Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2007 - Gareth Hunt, English actor (b. 1943)
2008 - Chiara Lubich, Italian Catholic activist and leader and foundress of the Focolare (b. 1920)
2008 - Anthony Minghella, English Oscar winning film director (b. 1954)
752 - Pope Zachary
968 - Matilda of Ringelheim, German Queen (c. 895)

Tuesday, March 12, 2013

Famous Deaths on 13 Mar

Famous Deaths on 13 Mar

1271 - Henry of Almain, English crusader (b. 1235)
1395 - John Barbour, Scottish poet
1516 - King Ladislaus II of Bohemia and Hungary (b. 1456)
1569 - Louis I de Bourbon, Prince de Condé, French Huguenot general (b. 1530)
1573 - Michel de l'Hôpital, French statesman
1604 - Arnaud d'Ossat, French diplomat and writer (b. 1537)
1619 - Richard Burbage, English actor (b. 1567)
1711 - Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, French poet and critic (b. 1636)
1773 - Philibert Commerçon, French naturalist and explorer (b. 1727)
1778 - Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1803 - William Emes, English landscape architect (b. 1729 or 1730)
1808 - King Christian VII of Denmark (b. 1749)
1842 - Henry Shrapnel, British soldier and inventor (b. 1761)
1854 - Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph, comte de Villèle, French statesman (b. 1773)
1879 - Adolf Anderssen, German chess player (b. 1818)
1881 - Tsar Alexander II of Russia (b. 1818)
1884 - Leland Stanford, Jr., son of American railroad magnate, Stanford University named for him (b. 1868)
1901 - Benjamin Harrison, 23rd President of the United States (b. 1833)
1906 - Susan B. Anthony, American women's suffrage activist (b. 1820)
1911 - John J. Toffey, American Civil War Medal of Honor Recipient (b. 1844)
1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1925 - Lucille Ricksen, American actress (b. 1909)
1938 - Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual (b. 1888)
1938 - Clarence Darrow, American attorney (b. 1857)
1941 - Elizabeth Madox Roberts, American poet and novelist (b. 1881)
1943 - Stephen Vincent Benét, American author (b. 1898)
1949 - Henri Giraud, French general (b. 1879)
1955 - King Tribhuvan of Nepal (b. 1906)
1963 - Austin Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1912)
1964 - Kitty Genovese, American murder victim (b. 1935)
1965 - Corrado Gini, Italian statistician (b. 1884)
1965 - Fan S. Noli, Albanian bishop, poet, and politician (b. 1882)
1965 - Vittorio Jano, Italian engineer (b. 1891)
1972 - Tony Ray-Jones, British photographer (b. 1941)
1975 - Ivo Andrić, Serbo-Croatian writer, Nobel laureate
1983 - Louison Bobet, French cyclist (b. 1925)
1988 - John Holmes, American porn star (b. 1944)
1990 - Bruno Bettelheim, American psychiatrist (b. 1903)
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1995 - Leon Day, American baseball player (b. 1916)
1995 - Odette, French-born WWII heroine (b. 1912)
1996 - Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (b. 1941)
1998 - Bill Reid, Canadian artist (b. 1920)
1998 - Hans von Ohain, German engineer (b. 1911)
1999 - Lee Falk, American cartoonist (b. 1911)
1999 - Garson Kanin, American writer and director (b. 1912)
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2001 - Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2002 - Hans-Georg Gadamer, German philosopher (b. 1900)
2004 - Franz König, Austrian Catholic Archbishop of Vienna (b. 1905)
2006 - Jimmy Johnstone, Scottish footballer (b. 1944)
2006 - Maureen Stapleton, American actress (b. 1925)
2006 - Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2007 - Arnold Skaaland, American professional wrestler (b. 1925)

Monday, March 11, 2013

Famous Deaths on 12 Mar

Famous Deaths on 12 Mar

1289 - King Demetre II of Georgia (b. 1259)
1374 - Emperor Go-Kogon of Japan (b. 1336)
1447 - Shah Rukh, ruler of Persia and Transoxonia (b. 1377)
1507 - Cesare Borgia, Italian general and statesman (b. 1475)
1608 - Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1628 - John Bull, English composer
1648 - Tirso de Molina, Spanish writer (b. 1571)
1681 - Frans van Mieris, Sr., Dutch painter (b. 1635)
1699 - Peder Griffenfeld, Danish statesman (b. 1635)
1757 - Giuseppe Galli-Bibiena, Italian architect/painter (b. 1696)
1790 - Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
1832 - Friedrich Kuhlau, German composer (b. 1786)
1872 - Zeng Guofan, Chinese politician and general (b. 1811)
1894 - Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1898 - Zacharias Topelius, Finnish-Swedish writer (b. 1818)
1908 - Edmondo De Amicis, Italian children's writer (b. 1846)
1909 - Joe Petrosino, NYPD lieutenant (b. 1860)
1914 - George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur and engineer (b. 1846)
1916 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
1925 - Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician (b. 1866)
1929 - Asa Griggs Candler, American businessman (b. 1851)
1930 - William George Barker, Canadian fighter ace (b. 1894)
1930 - Alois Jirásek, Czech writer (b. 1851)
1937 - Charles-Marie Widor, French organist and composer (b. 1844)
1937 - JenÅ' Hubay, Hungarian violinist (b. 1858)
1942 - Robert Bosch, German industrialist (b. 1861)
1943 - Gustav Vigeland, Norwegian sculptor (b. 1869)
1944 - Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer (b. 1861)
1946 - Ferenc Szálasi, Hungarian politician (executed) (b. 1897)
1947 - "Winston Churchill the American", American novelist (b. 1871)
1955 - Charlie Parker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1920)
1973 - Frankie Frisch, American baseball player (b. 1898)
1974 - George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
1978 - John Cazale, American actor (b. 1935)
1978 - Gene Moore, American baseball player (b. 1909)
1980 - Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1984 - Arnold Ridley, English playwright and actor (b. 1896)
1985 - Eugene Ormandy, Hungarian conductor (b. 1899)
1987 - Woody Hayes, American football coach (b. 1913)
1989 - Maurice Evans, English-born actor (b. 1901)
1990 - Wallace Breem, British author (b. 1926)
1991 - Ragnar Granit, Finnish neuroscientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
1995 - Juanin Clay, American actress (b. 1949)
1998 - Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
1998 - Jozef Kroner, Slovak actor (b. 1924)
1998 - Judge Dread, English musician (b. 1945)
1999 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (b. 1916)
2001 - Morton Downey, Jr., American television talk show host (b. 1933)
2001 - Robert Ludlum, American author (b. 1927)
2002 - Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2002 - Spyros Kyprianou, Cypriot politician (b. 1932)
2003 - Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2003 - Andrei Kivilev, Kazakh cyclist (b. 1973)
2003 - Howard Fast, American author (b. 1914)
2003 - Zoran ĐinÄ'ić, Prime Minister of Serbia (b. 1952)
2005 - Stavros Koujioumtzis, Greek songwriter (b. 1932)
2005 - Bill Cameron, Canadian journalist (b. 1943)
2006 - Victor Sokolov, Russian dissident journalist and priest (b. 1947)
2008 - Lazare Ponticelli, the last "poilu", French foot soldier of World War One, dies at 110 (b. 1897)
2008 - Jorge Guinzburg, Argentine journalist, producer, humorist, and TV, theater and radio host (b. 1949)
604 - Pope Gregory I

Famous Deaths on 11 Mar

Famous Deaths on 11 Mar

1198 - Marie de Champagne, daughter of Louis VII of France (b. 1145)
1486 - Albert III, Margrave of Brandenburg (b. 1414)
1514 - Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 - Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 - Emilio de' Cavalieri, Italian composer
1607 - Giovanni Maria Nanino, Italian composer
1722 - John Toland, Irish philosopher (b. 1670)
1759 - John Forbes, British general (b. 1710)
1786 - Charles Humphreys, American delegate to the Continental Congress (b. 1714)
1801 - Paul I of Russia, Russian tsar (b. 1754)
1820 - Benjamin West, English-American painter (b. 1738)
1847 - Johnny Appleseed, American pioneer agronomist (b. 1774)
1851 - George McDuffie, Governor of South Carolina (b. 1790)
1854 - Willard Richards, American religious leader (b. 1804)
1856 - James Beatty, Irish railway engineer (b. 1820)
1863 - Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet, English general (b. 1803)
1869 - Vladimir Odoevsky, Russian philosopher (b. 1803)
1870 - King Moshoeshoe I of Lesotho
1874 - Charles Sumner, American politician (b. 1811)
1898 - William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1907 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (b. 1847)
1908 - Revd Benjamin Waugh, American activist (b. 1839)
1920 - Julio Garavito Armero, Colombian astronomer (b. 1865)
1931 - F.W. Murnau, German film director (b. 1888)
1937 - Joseph S. Cullinan, American oil industrialist (b. 1860)
1944 - Hendrik Willem van Loon, Dutch-born American historian (b. 1882)
1952 - Pierre Renoir, French stage and film actor and director (b. 1885)
1955 - Alexander Fleming, Scottish scientist, Nobel laureate (b. 1881)
1955 - Oscar Mayer, Bavarian-born American meat packer (b. 1859)
1957 - Admiral Richard E. Byrd, American explorer (b. 1888)
1958 - Ole Kirk Christiansen, Danish inventor of Legos (b. 1891)
1960 - Roy Chapman Andrews, American explorer and adventurer (b. 1884)
1967 - Geraldine Farrar, American soprano (b. 1882)
1969 - John Wyndham, English author (b. 1903)
1970 - Erle Stanley Gardner, American novelist (b. 1889)
1971 - Whitney Young, American civil rights leader (b. 1921)
1971 - Philo T. Farnsworth, American television pioneer (b. 1906)
1977 - Ulysses S. Grant IV, American geologist (b. 1893)
1977 - Alberto Rodriguez Larreta, Argentine racing driver (b. 1934)
1978 - Claude François, French singer (b. 1939)
1982 - Horace Gregory, American poet (b. 1898)
1982 - Edmund Cooper, English author (b. 1926)
1984 - Kostas Roukounas, Greek rembetiko singer and song writer (b. 1903)
1986 - Sonny Terry, American blues musician (b. 1911)
1987 - Joe Gladwin, English actor (b. 1906)
1989 - James Kee, American politician (b. 1917)
1989 - John J. McCloy, United States Secretary of War (b. 1895)
1990 - Dean Horrix, English footballer (b. 1961)
1992 - Richard Brooks, American film director (b. 1912)
1993 - Dino Bravo, Italian-born professional wrestler (b. 1949)
1996 - Vince Edwards, American film actor and director (b. 1928)
1999 - Camille Laurin, Quebec psychiatrist and politician (b. 1922)
2002 - James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
2003 - Brian Cleeve, Irish author (b. 1921)
2003 - Ivar Hansen, speaker of the Danish Folketing (b. 1938)
2006 - Slobodan Milošević, President of Serbia and of Yugoslavia (b. 1941)
2006 - Bernie "Boom Boom" Geoffrion, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1931)
2007 - Betty Hutton, American actress and singer (b. 1921)
222 - Julia Soaemias, mother of Elagabalus (b. 180)
222 - Elagabalus, Roman Emperor
859 - Eulogius of Cordoba, Spanish Bishop and Christian Martyr

Saturday, March 9, 2013

Famous Deaths on 10 Mar

Famous Deaths on 10 Mar

1291 - Arghun, Persian ruler
1391 - Tvrtko I first king of Bosnia (b. 1338)
1510 - Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1513 - John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford, English commander (b. 1443)
1549 - Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley, English politician and diplomat
1584 - Thomas Norton, English politician and writer (b. 1532)
1585 - Rembert Dodoens, Flemish physician and botanist (b. 1517)
1588 - Theodor Zwinger, Swiss scholar (b. 1533)
1669 - John Denham, English poet (b. 1615)
1670 - Johann Rudolf Glauber, German chemist (b. 1604)
1776 - Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1776 - Niclas Sahlgren, Swedish merchant and philanthropist (b. 1701)
1792 - John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1713)
1832 - Muzio Clementi, Italian composer (b. 1752)
1861 - Taras Shevchenko, Ukrainian poet (b. 1814)
1872 - Giuseppe Mazzini, Italian politician (b. 1805)
1895 - Charles Frederick Worth, English-born couturier (b. 1826)
1910 - Karl Lueger, mayor of Vienna (b. 1844)
1910 - Carl Reinecke, German pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1824)
1913 - Harriet Tubman, American abolitionist (b. 1820)
1937 - Yevgeny Zamyatin, Russian writer (b. 1884)
1940 - Mikhaïl Boulgakov, Russian writer (b. 1891)
1942 - William Henry Bragg, English physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1862)
1948 - Zelda Fitzgerald, American artist, wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald (b. 1900)
1948 - Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia (b. 1886)
1949 - James Rector, American athlete (b. 1884)
1950 - Marguerite De La Motte, American actress (b. 1902)
1951 - Kijūrō Shidehara, Prime minister of Japan (b. 1872)
1966 - Frits Zernike, Dutch physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1888)
1967 - Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
1970 - Vasilis Avlonitis, Greek actor (b. 1904)
1973 - Eugene 'Bull' Connor, American segregationist (b. 1897)
1977 - E. Power Biggs, English-born American organist (b. 1906)
1984 - June Marlowe, American actress (b. 1903)
1985 - Konstantin Chernenko, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (b. 1911)
1985 - Bob Nieman, American baseball player (b. 1927)
1986 - Ray Milland, British actor (b. 1905)
1988 - Andy Gibb, English-born singer (b. 1958)
1992 - Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
1994 - Abdelkader Alloula, Algerian playwright (assassinated) (b. 1929)
1996 - Ross Hunter, American film producer (b. 1920)
1997 - La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
1998 - Lloyd Bridges, American actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Oswaldo Guayasamin, Ecuadorian paintor and sculptor (b. 1919)
2001 - Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)
2003 - Barry Sheene, British motorcycle racer (b. 1950)
2004 - Dave Blood, real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956)
2005 - Dave Allen, Irish comedian (b. 1936)
2005 - Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) (b. 1951)
2006 - Anna Moffo, American soprano (b. 1932)
2007 - Richard Jeni, American comedian (b. 1957)
2007 - Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2008 - Richard Fran Biegenwald, an American serial killer (b. 1940)

Friday, March 8, 2013

Famous Deaths on 9 Mar

Famous Deaths on 9 Mar

1202 - King Sverre of Norway
1422 - Jan Zelivsky, Hussite priest (b. 1380)
1440 - St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1566 - David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary I of Scotland (b. 1533)
1649 - James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman (b. 1606)
1649 - Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland, English soldier (executed) (b. 1590)
1661 - Jules Cardinal Mazarin, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1602)
1709 - Ralph Montagu, 1st Duke of Montagu, English diplomat
1808 - Joseph Bonomi the Elder, architect (b. 1739)
1851 - Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist (b. 1777)
1888 - William I, German Emperor (b. 1797)
1897 - Sondre Norheim, Norwegian skier (b. 1825)
1918 - Frank Wedekind, writer
1937 - Paul Elmer More, American critic and essayist (b. 1864)
1954 - Eva Ahnert-Rohlfs, German astronomer (b. 1912)
1954 - V. Walfrid Ekman, Swedish oceanographer (b. 1874)
1960 - Jack Beattie, Northern Irish politician (b. 1886)
1964 - Paul Erich von Lettow-Vorbeck, German general (b. 1870)
1966 - Pablo Birger, Argentine racing driver (b. 1924)
1971 - Pope Cyril VI of Alexandria, Coptic Orthodox Patriarch (b. 1902)
1974 - Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., American physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1915)
1975 - Gleb W. Derujinsky, Russian-American sculptor (b. 1888)
1983 - Faye Emerson, American actress (b. 1917)
1983 - Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1905)
1989 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American artist (b. 1946)
1991 - Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
1992 - Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1913)
1993 - C. Northcote Parkinson, British historian and writer (b. 1909)
1993 - Bob Crosby, American bandleader and vocalist (b. 1913)
1994 - Charles Bukowski, American writer (b. 1920)
1994 - Fernando Rey, Spanish-born actor (b. 1917)
1994 - Eddie Creatchman, Canadian wrestler manager (b. 1928)
1996 - George Burns, American actor and singer (b. 1896)
1997 - The Notorious B.I.G., American rapper (b. 1972)
1999 - Harry Somers, Canadian composer (b. 1925)
2000 - Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
2003 - Stan Brakhage, American filmmaker (b. 1933)
2003 - Bernard Dowiyogo, President of Nauru (b. 1946)
2004 - Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2004 - Dr. Gerald Deskin, Ph.D., clinical child psychologist (b. 1929)
2004 - Albert Mol, Dutch actor (b. 1917)
2005 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler; aka Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (b. 1924)
2005 - István Nyers, Hungarian footballer (b. 1924)
2005 - Kurt Lotz, German business executive, second postwar CEO of Volkswagen (b. 1912)
2005 - Chris LeDoux, American country singer (b. 1948)
2006 - John Profumo, British cabinet minister (b. 1915)
2006 - Geir Ivarsøy, Norwegian programmer, co-founder of Opera Software ASA (b. 1957)
2007 - Brad Delp, American singer (Boston) (b. 1951)
2007 - Glen Harmon, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1921)
2007 - Jeanne Hopkins Lucas, North Carolina politician (b. unknown)

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Famous Deaths on 8 Mar

Famous Deaths on 8 Mar

1126 - Urraca of Castile (b. 1082)
1144 - Pope Celestine II
1202 - Sverre of Norway
1223 - Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1550 - Saint John of God, a saint (b. 1495)
1641 - Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1674 - Charles Sorel, sieur de Souvigny, French writer (b. 1597)
1702 - William III of England (b. 1650)
1731 - Ferdinand Brokoff, Czech sculptor (b. 1688)
1757 - Thomas Blackwell, Scottish classical scholar (b. 1701)
1771 - Louis August le Clerc, French-born sculptor (b. 1688)
1819 - Benjamin Ruggles Woodbridge, doctor, Massachusetts militia officer, member of the Massachusetts legislature (b. 1739)
1844 - Charles XIV John of Sweden (b. 1763)
1855 - William Poole, Infamous member of New York City's Bowery Boys gang (b. 1821)
1869 - Hector Berlioz, French composer (b. 1803)
1872 - Cornelius Krieghoff, Canadian painter (b. 1815)
1874 - Millard Fillmore, 13th President of the United States (b. 1800)
1887 - Henry Ward Beecher, American clergyman (b. 1813)
1887 - James Buchanan Eads, American engineer (b. 1820)
1889 - John Ericsson, Swedish inventor (b. 1803)
1917 - Ferdinand von Zeppelin, German aircraft manufacturer (b. 1838)
1923 - Krišjānis Barons, Latvian writer (b. 1835)
1923 - Johannes Diderik van der Waals, Dutch Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1837)
1930 - William Howard Taft, 27th President of the United States (b. 1857)
1930 - Edward Terry Sanford, Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court (b. 1865)
1937 - Howie Morenz, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
1941 - Sherwood Anderson, American author (b. 1876)
1942 - José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban chess player (b. 1888)
1961 - Thomas Beecham, English conductor (b. 1879)
1971 - Harold Lloyd, American actor (b. 1893)
1972 - Erich von dem Bach, Nazi official (b. 1899)
1973 - Ron "Pigpen" McKernan, American musician (b. 1945)
1975 - George Stevens, American director (b. 1904)
1976 - Alfons Rebane, Estonian military commander (b. 1908)
1983 - William Walton, English composer (b. 1902)
1985 - Edward Andrews, American actor (b. 1914)
1988 - Henryk Szeryng, Polish-born violinist (b. 1918)
1988 - Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1988 - Amar Singh Chamkila, Punjabi folk singer (b. 1961)
1993 - Billy Eckstine, American musician (b. 1914)
1995 - Ingo Schwichtenberg, German drummer (b. 1965)
1998 - Ray Nitschke, American football player (b. 1936)
1999 - Adolfo Bioy Casares, Argentinean writer (b.1914)
1999 - Joe DiMaggio, American baseball player (b. 1914)
1999 - Peggy Cass, American actress and comedian (b. 1924)
2001 - Edward Winter, American actor (b. 1937)
2003 - Adam Faith, English singer and actor (b. 1940)
2003 - Karen Morley, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Abu Abbas, founder of the Palestine Liberation Front (b. 1948)
2004 - Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2005 - César Lattes, Brazilian physicist (b. 1924)
2005 - Aslan Maskhadov, Chechen leader (b. 1951)
2006 - Brian Barratt-Boyes, New Zealand heart surgeon (b. 1924)
2007 - John Inman, English actor (b. 1935)
2007 - Viky Vanita, Greek actress (b. 1948)
2007 - John Vukovich, American baseball player and coach.. (b. 1947)
2008 - Carol Barnes, former ITV news presenter (b. 1944)

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

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

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Famous Deaths on 6 Mar

Famous Deaths on 6 Mar

1252 - Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1490 - Ivan the Young, Ruler of Tver (b. 1458)
1531 - Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1627 - Krzysztof Zbaraski, Polish statesman (b. 1580)
1754 - Henry Pelham, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (b. 1694)
1758 - Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1764 - Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England (b. 1690)
1796 - Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer (b. 1713)
1836 - Jim Bowie, American pioneer and soldier (b. 1796)
1836 - James Butler Bonham, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1807)
1836 - William Barret Travis, American lawyer from South Carolina and soldier (b. 1809)
1836 - Davy Crockett, American frontiersman (b. 1786)
1842 - Constanze Mozart, wife of W.A. Mozart (b. 1763)
1854 - Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry, British soldier and politician (b. 1778)
1860 - Justus Johann Friedrich Dotzauer, German cellist and composer (b. 1783)
1866 - William Whewell, English scientist, philosopher, and historian of science (b. 1794)
1881 - Horatia Nelson, the illegitimate daughter of Emma Hamilton and Horatio Nelson (b. 1801)
1888 - Louisa May Alcott, American novelist (b. 1832)
1895 - Camilla Collett, Norwegian writer and feminist (b. 1813)
1899 - Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1900 - Gottlieb Daimler, German engineer and industrialist (b. 1834)
1905 - John Henninger Reagan, American Confederate politician (b. 1818)
1932 - John Philip Sousa, American band leader, conductor, and composer (b. 1854)
1933 - Anton Cermak, Mayor of Chicago (b. 1873)
1935 - Fridolf Rhudin Swedish actor and comedian (b. 1895)
1939 - Ferdinand von Lindemann, German mathematician (b. 1852)
1941 - Gutzon Borglum, Danish sculptor (b. 1867)
1948 - Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (b. 1914)
1950 - Albert Lebrun, President of France (b. 1871)
1951 - Ivor Novello, Welsh actor, musician, and composer (b. 1893)
1951 - Volodymyr Vynnychenko, Ukrainian politician and statesman (b. 1880)
1952 - Jürgen Stroop, Nazi SS-leader (executed) (b. 1895)
1961 - George Formby, British comedian and singer (b. 1904)
1964 - King Paul of Greece (b. 1901)
1965 - Margaret Dumont, American actress (b. 1889)
1967 - Zoltán Kodály, Hungarian composer (b. 1882)
1967 - Nelson Eddy, American singer and actor (b. 1901)
1967 - John Haden Badley, English author and educator (b. 1865)
1969 - Nadya Rusheva, Russian painter (b. 1952)
1970 - William Hopper, American actor (b. 1915)
1971 - Thurston Dart, English harpsichordist and conductor (b. 1921)
1973 - Pearl S. Buck, American writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1892)
1976 - Max 'Slapsie Maxie' Rosenbloom, American boxer and actor (b. 1903)
1981 - George Geary, English cricketer (b. 1893)
1982 - Ayn Rand, Russian-American author (b. 1905)
1984 - Henry Wilcoxon, Dominican actor (b. 1905)
1986 - Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist (b. 1887)
1988 - Vol. Mairéad Farrell, Vol. Seán Savage and Vol. Daniel McCann killed within minutes of each other; Irish Republicans.
1994 - Melina Mercouri, Greek actress, political activist, and politician (b. 1920)
1997 - Cheddi Jagan, President of Guyana (b. 1918)
1997 - Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica (b. 1924)
1998 - Frank Barrett, American baseball player (b. 1913)
1999 - Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, emir of Bahrain (b. 1933)
1999 - Dennis Viollet, former footballer (b. 1933)
2000 - John Colicos, Canadian actor (b. 1928)
2001 - Kim Walker, American actress (b. 1968)
2002 - Bryan Fogarty, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1969)
2003 - John Sanford, American author (b. 1904)
2004 - Frances Dee, American actress (b. 1909)
2004 - Ray Fernandez, American professional wrestler (b. 1957)
2005 - Teresa Wright, American actress (b. 1918)
2005 - Danny Gardella, American baseball player (b. 1920)
2005 - Tommy Vance, British radio disc jockey (b. 1943)
2005 - Hans Bethe, German-born physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1906)
2006 - Anne Braden, American civil rights activist (b. 1924)
2006 - King Floyd, American musician (b. 1945)
2006 - Kirby Puckett, American baseball player (b. 1960)
2006 - Dana Reeve, American actress, wife of Christopher Reeve (b. 1961)
2007 - Ernest Gallo, American winemaker (b. 1909)
2007 - Jean Baudrillard, French cultural theorist, philosopher, political commentator and photographer (b. 1929)
2007 - Allen Coage (aka "Bad News Brown", "Bad News Allen"), American professional wrestler and judoka (b. 1943)
2008 - Peter Poreku Cardinal Dery Cardinal Archbishop Emeritus of Tamale, Ghana
766 - Chrodegang of Metz, Frankish bishop of Metz

Monday, March 4, 2013

Famous Deaths on 5 Mar

Famous Deaths on 5 Mar

1534 - Antonio da Correggio, Italian painter (b. 1489)
1539 - Nuno da Cunha, Portuguese governor in India (b. 1487)
1592 - Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (b. 1499)
1611 - Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1622 - Ranuccio I Farnese, Duke of Parma (b. 1569)
1695 - Henry Wharton, English writer (b. 1664)
1726 - Evelyn Pierrepont, 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull, English politician
1770 - Crispus Attucks a free black American
1776 - Yeongjo of Joseon, ruler of Korea (b. 1694)
1778 - Thomas Arne, English composer (b. 1710)
1815 - Franz Mesmer, Austrian developer of hypnotism (b. 1734)
1827 - Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician (b. 1749)
1827 - Alessandro Volta, Italian physicist (b. 1745)
1829 - John Adams, last surviving HMS Bounty mutineer (b. 1766)
1849 - David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1876 - Marie d'Agoult, German-born writer (b. 1805)
1893 - Hippolyte Taine, French historian (b. 1828
1895 - Nikolai Leskov, Russian writer (b. 1831)
1895 - Henry Rawlinson, British soldier and scholar (b. 1810)
1903 - George Francis Robert Henderson, British soldier (b. 1854)
1907 - Friedrich Blass, German classical scholar (b. 1843)
1925 - Johan Jensen, Danish mathematician (b. 1859)
1926 - Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1927 - Franz Mertens, German mathematician (b. 1840)
1929 - David Dunbar Buick, Scottish-born American automobile pioneer (b. 1854)
1931 - Fr. Arthur Tooth SSC, Anglican Clergyman prosecuted and imprisoned for ritualist activities (b. 1839)
1940 - Cai Yuanpei, Chinese educator (b. 1868)
1944 - Max Jacob, French poet and writer (b. 1876)
1945 - Lena Baker, American murderer (b. 1901)
1947 - Alfredo Casella, Italian composer (b. 1883)
1953 - Herman J. Mankiewicz, American screenwriter (b. 1897)
1953 - Joseph Stalin, Georgian leader of the Soviet Union (b. 1879)
1953 - Sergei Prokofiev, Russian composer, (b. 1891)
1955 - Antanas Merkys, President of Lithuania (b. 1888)
1963 - Patsy Cline, American singer (b. 1932)
1963 - Cowboy Copas, American singer (b. 1913)
1963 - Hawkshaw Hawkins, American singer (b. 1921)
1965 - Chen Cheng, Chinese politician (b. 1897)
1965 - Pepper Martin, American baseball player (b. 1904)
1966 - Anna Akhmatova, Russian poet (b. 1889)
1967 - Georges Vanier, Governor General of Canada (b. 1888)
1973 - Michael Jeffery, British music manager (b. 1933)
1974 - Billy De Wolfe, American actor (b. 1907)
1974 - Sol Hurok, Russian-born impresario (b. 1888)
1977 - Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver (b. 1949)
1977 - Jansen Van Vuuren, Dutch volunteer safety marshall at the 1977 South African Grand Prix
1980 - Jay Silverheels, Canadian actor (b. 1912)
1980 - Winifred Wagner, German opera producer (b. 1897)
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1982 - John Belushi, American actor (b. 1949)
1984 - Tito Gobbi, Italian baritone (b. 1915)
1984 - William Powell, American actor (b. 1892)
1988 - Alberto Olmedo, Argentine comedian (b. 1933)
1990 - Gary Merrill, American film actor (b. 1915)
1993 - Cyril Collard, French author and filmmaker (b. 1957)
1995 - Gregg Hansford, Australian motorcycle and touring car racer (b. 1952)
1995 - Vivian Stanshall, English musician (Bonzo Dog Band) (b. 1943)
1996 - Whit Bissell, American actor (b. 1909)
1997 - Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
1999 - Richard Kiley, American actor (b. 1922)
2000 - Lolo Ferrari, French pornographic actress (b. 1962)
2004 - Walt Gorney, American actor (b. 1912)
2006 - Richard Kuklinski, American Mafia hit man (b. 1935)
2008 - Joseph Weizenbaum, German-American professor of computer science (b.1923)