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)

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