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)

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