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