1840 – Simon-Antoine-Jean Lhuillier, Swiss mathematician, dies at 89
1927 – Karl Prohaska, Austrian composer, dies at 57
1939 – Francis Matthew John Baker, Australian politician (b. 1903)
1948 – Princess Henriette, Duchess of Vendôme and Alençon, dies at 77
1957 – Christopher Morley, American author (Kitty Foil), dies at 66
1992 – Wendell Mayes, writer, dies of cancer at 72
1996 – Simon Harcourt Nowell-Smith, British bibliophile, dies at 87
2015 – Douglas Leedy, American electronic and classical music composer (Entropical Paradise; Chorale For Harpsichord in Just Tuning), dies at 77
2017 – Janine Sutto, French Canadian actress and comedian (Guide de la petite vengeance), dies of natural causes at 95
2020 – Azam Khan, Pakistani squash player (British Open 1959-62), dies from COVID-19 at 95
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 27th March 2025
1668 – Clemens Thieme, German Baroque composer, dies at 36
1848 – John Burke, Irish genealogist (Burke’s Peerage), dies at 61
1889 – Moritz Fürstenau, German composer, dies at 64
1910 – David Duffle Wood, American blind composer (organist and choir master at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church), dies at 72
1916 – Susan Blow, American educator who pioneered kindergarten education and was known as the “Mother of the Kindergarten”, dies at 72
1991 – Ralph Bates, British actor (Persecution, Graveyard), dies at 50
1998 – Ferry Porsche, Austrian automobile pioneer (Porsche AG), dies at 88
2001 – Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), dies at 88
2009 – Irving R. Levine, American journalist (NBC News), dies at 86
2016 – Mother Angelica, Catholic American Franciscan nun, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 26th March 2025
1780 – Charles I, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, dies at 66
1918 – Caesar A. Cui, Lithuanian fort builder and composer, dies at 83
1940 – Spyridon Louis, Greek athlete who won the 1st modern Olympics marathon in 1896, dies at 67
1945 – Isaack Stouten, Dutch resistance fighter, shot to death at 29
1951 – James F. Hinkle, American politician, sixth Governor of New Mexico, dies at 86
1962 – Marjorie Colton, American inventor of wax paper, dies at 64
1990 – Halston, American fashion designer (1972 Hall of Fame), dies of AIDS at 68
2004 – Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
2005 – James Callaghan, British Prime Minister (Labour: 1976-79), dies of lobar pneumonia, cardiac failure and kidney failure at 92
2022 – Joe Williams, American men’s college basketball coach (Jacksonville Uni 1964-70; Furman Uni 1970-78; Florida State Uni 1978-86), dies at 88
Famous Deaths for 14th March 2025
1647 – Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange and stadtholder of Holland, Zeeland, Utrecht, Guelders, and Overijssel (1625-47), dies at 63
1648 – Ferdinando Fairfax, 2nd Lord Fairfax of Cameron, English general, dies at 63
1908 – Lester A. Pelton, American inventor (water wheel for hydroelectricity), dies at 78
1967 – Paul Faucher, French author and pioneering children’s publisher (Père Castor), dies at 68
1976 – Busby Berkeley [Enos], American film choreographer (42nd Street) and director (Strike Up The Band: They Made Me A Criminal), dies at 80
1986 – Edith Atwater, American actress (Phyllis-Love on a Rooftop), dies at 74
1995 – John Peters Humphrey, Canadian jurist and human rights advocate (Universal Declaration on Human Rights), dies at 89
2006 – Ann Calvello, American roller derby queen, dies at 76
2006 – Lennart Meri, Estonian politician, writer and director (President of Estonia 1992-2001), dies at 76
2023 – Jim Ferree, American golfer (1 x PGA Tour win; 2 x Senior PGA Tour wins), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 13th March 2025
1839 – Robert Gallenberg, Austrian composer, dies at 55
1903 – Nicolas Beets [Hildebrand], Dutch writer (Camera Obscura) and theologian, dies at 88
1955 – Tribhuwan Bir Bikram Shah, King of Nepal (1911-55), dies under mysterious circumstances at 48
1965 – Vittorio Jano, Italian automobile designer, dies at 73
1975 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1987 – Bernhard Grzimek, German zoologist (West Germany), dies at 77
1996 – Krzysztof Kieślowski, Polish film director (The Double Life of Veronique), dies of a heart attack at 54
2006 – Peter Tomarken, American game show host (Press Your Luck) (b. 1942)
2012 – Jock Hobbs, New Zealand rugby union flanker and captain (21 Tests; Canterbury RU; Chairman NZRFU 2002-10), dies from leukemia at 52
2024 – Dan Wakefield, American novelist (Going All The Way; New York In The Fifties), journalist (The Atlantic, 1968-81), and screenwriter, dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 12th March 2025
1608 – Koriki Kiyonaga, Japanese warlord (b. 1530)
1868 – Ernest Doudart de Lagrée, French naval officer and entomologist (led the Mekong River expedition 1866-68), dies during the Mekong Expedition at 44
1944 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer, dies at 82
1955 – Theodor Plievier, German writer (Des Kaisers Kulis [The Kaiser’s Coolies]; Stalingrad), dies at 63
1958 – Princess Ingeborg of Sweden, wife of Prince Carl, Duke of Västergötland, dies at 79
1989 – Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes; Bewitched), dies at 87
1992 – Salvatore “Salvo” Lima, Italian politician (Mayor of Palermo, 1958-63 and 65-66; Member of European Parliament, 1979-92) assassinated by the Mafia at 64
1993 – Michael Kanin, American director, writer and actor (Woman of the Year, Teacher’s Pet), dies at 83
2010 – Lesley Duncan (Cox), British session singer (Pink Floyd; Jesus Christ Superstar), and singer-songwriter (“Love Song”; “Sing Children Sing”), dies of cerebrovascular disease at 66
2011 – Joe Morello, American jazz drummer (Dave Brubeck Quartet – “Blue Rondo à la Turk”), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2025
1440 – St Frances of Rome, Italian nun (b. 1384)
1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman, dies at 42
1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German composer and organist (Canon in D), dies at 52
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1825 – Anna Laetitia Barbauld, English poet and writer of hymns (Life! I Know Not What Thou Art), dies at 81
1870 – Theodore Labarre, French composer and harpist, dies at 65
1974 – Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr, American pharmacologist (Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1971 for discovering mechanisms of the action of hormones), dies at 58
1983 – Faye Emerson, American actress (I’ve Got a Secret), dies of cancer at 65
2004 – Rust Epique, former Crazy Town guitarist (b. 1968)
2015 – James Molyneaux [Baron Molyneaux of Killead], MP (Ulster unionist), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 1st March 2025
1734 – Roger North, English biographer, dies at 82
1879 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician, dies at 54
1979 – Mustafa al-Barzani, Kurdish leader (KDP), dies at 75
1979 – Dolores Costello, American actress (Noah’s Ark, Expensive Women), dies at 73
1980 – John Jacob Niles, American composer and singer, dies at 87
1995 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian journalist, murdered at 38
1995 – Earl Blackwell, American society impresario (Celebrity Register), dies at 85
2017 – Paula Fox, American writer (The Slave Dancer), dies at 92
2020 – Jack Welch, American businessman and CEO of General Electric (GE), dies of renal failure at 84
2022 – Warner Mark [McPherson], American country music singer-songwriter (Sittin’ on a Rock (Cryin’ in a Creek)); Talkin’ to the Wall), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 28th February 2025
1786 – John Gwynn, English architect and engineer (b. 1713)
1876 – Charles Edward Horsley, English composer, dies at 53
1891 – George Hearst, American businessman and politician (U.S. Senator from California), dies at 70
1963 – Eppa Rixey Jr., American Baseball HOF pitcher (NL wins leader 1922; 266 career wins; Philadelphia Phillies, Cincinnati Reds), dies at 71
1993 – Joyce Carey, British actress (Brief Encounter, The Cedar Tree), dies at 94
1993 – Ishirō Honda, Japanese film director and producer (Godzilla), dies at 81
2003 – Roger Michael Needham, British cryptographer (b. 1935)
2004 – Carmen Laforet, Spanish author, dies at 82
2004 – Daniel J. Boorstin, American historian, Librarian of Congress (1975-87) and author (“The Americans: The Democratic Experience” – 1974 Pulitzer Prize), dies at 89
2020 – Johnny Antonelli, American baseball pitcher (6 × MLB All-Star; World Series, NL ERA leader 1954; NY Giants), dies from colon cancer at 89
Famous Deaths for 27th February 2025
1779 – Jan Nepveu, Dutch governor of Suriname (1769-79), dies at 59
1844 – Nicholas Biddle, US lawyer/diplomat/statesman/financier, dies at 85
1942 – Martha McChesney Berry, American educator who founded Berry School for Children, dies at 75
1950 – Ivan Goll, French-German writer (the Landless John), dies at 58
1968 – Johannes Tralow, German writer (Ottoman tetralogy), dies at 85
1985 – David Huffman, American actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), murdered at 39
1996 – Francois Chaumette, French actor (Le Bossu, They Never Slept, Christine), dies at 72
1996 – Sylvia Williams, American museum director and curator (National Museum of African Art at the Smithsonian Institution), dies from the effects of a brain aneurysm at 60
2007 – Bernd von Freytag-Loringhoven, German soldier (b. 1914)
2015 – Leonard Nimoy, American actor (Star Trek – “Spock”‘; Mission Impossible, 1969-71), and director (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; Three Men and a Baby), dies of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at 83