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)