1881 – Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1970 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49
1971 – Nan Wynn [Masha Vatz], American radio and big-band singer (Rudy Vallée; Teddy Wilson), actress (Pardon My Sarong), and singing voice for Rita Hayworth, dies of cancer at 55
1973 – Antoni Szałowski, Polish-French composer (The Resurrection of Lazarus; 2 Pieces for Ondes Martenot), dies of a heart attack at 65
1981 – Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother’s Heart) and screenwriter, dies at 80
1999 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 73
2001 – Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, artist, actress, choreographer and author (Sins of Rome), dies at 79
2011 – Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)
2017 – Chuck Barris, american TV game show producer and host (Gong Show), dies at 87
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 20th March 2023
1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (Comédie-Française) inspiration for 1849 drama “Adrienne Lecouvreur”, dies at 37
1780 – Sir Benjamin Truman – English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet, dies at 76
1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Passion of Jeanne d’Arc), dies at 79
1984 – Stan Coveleski, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1920; AL ERA leader 1923, 25; AL strikeout leader 1920; Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), dies at 94
1999 – Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
2012 – Jim Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, dies from cancer at 45
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75
2020 – Kenny Rogers, American pop and country singer-songwriter (“The Gambler”; “Through the Years”) and entrepreneur (Kenny Rogers Roasters), dies of natural causes at 81
Famous Deaths for 19th March 2023
1263 – Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I, beheaded for plotting against the king at 28
1556 – Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1638 – Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1974 – Anne Klein, American fashion designer (Anne Klein II), dies at 50
1979 – Albert “Al” Hodge, American actor on radio (Green Hornet), and early television (Captain Video), dies of heart failure at 66
1991 – John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
2001 – Charles K. Johnson, American President of the Flat Earth Society, dies at 76
2015 – Peter Katin, British concert pianist, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 18th March 2023
1768 – Lawrence Sterne, Irish writer (Tristram Shandy, Sentimental Journey France and Italy), dies at 54
1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1933 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian navy officer, explorer and mountaineer (Ruwenzori Range, Uganda; Mount Saint Alias, Yukon), dies at 60
1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American baritone tenor (National Symphony), dies at 82
1976 – James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and psychoanalyst (Sane Society), dies at 79
1983 – Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 80
1989 – Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (Theory of Probability) and geophysicist, dies at 97
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and fighter ace, dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 17th March 2023
1272 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1910 – Joaquin Valverde Durán, Spanish composer, dies at 64
1949 – Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1982 – Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1990 – Rick Grech, British musician (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1992 – Grace Stafford Lantz, American actress and cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1993 – Charlotte Hughes, British supercentenarian (lived under the rule of 6 monarchs and 24 British Prime Ministers), dies at 115
1996 – Thomas Enders, American diplomat, dies at 64
2010 – Robert Michael White, American test pilot (X-15), dies at 85
2011 – Michael Gough, English actor (Hammer Horror Films, Search for the Nile), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 16th March 2023
1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276), dies in battle at Boroughbridge
1559 – Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1804 – Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1937 – J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1957 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian French sculptor, dies at 81
1972 – Pie Traynor, American Baseball HOF 3rd baseman (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates) and manager (Pittsburgh Pirates 1934–39), dies at 72
1979 – Jean Monnet, French political economist and diplomat, dies at 90
1987 – Scott McKay [Carl Chester Gose], American actor (Stage Door, Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies of kidney failuyre at 71
1996 – Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet’s bookshop), dies at 104
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
Famous Deaths for 15th March 2023
963 – Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1711 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1889 – Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45
1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1891 – Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67
1905 – Amalie Skram, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
1996 – Bob Pearce, American wrestler (Olympic gold bantamweight freestyle 1932), dies at 88
1997 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter and author (Op Art), dies at 90
2015 – Mike Porcaro, American rock bassist (Toto, 1982-2007 “Stranger In Town”), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
2018 – Michael Getler, American journalist and 1st ombudsman appointed by a US broadcasting network (PBS), dies of bile duct cancer at 82
Famous Deaths for 14th March 2023
840 – Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1559 – Jacques d’Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general during the Revolutionary Wars, dies at 84
1954 – Fred Herd, Scottish golfer (US Open 1898), dies at 80
1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1967 – Paul Faucher, French author and pioneering children’s publisher (Père Castor), dies at 68
1986 – Benno Ammann, Swiss composer (Missa Defensor Pacis) and conductor, dies at 81
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2010 – Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), dies from a heart attack at 83
2018 – Jim Bowen, British TV game show host (Bullseye) and comedian, dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 13th March 2023
1915 – Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, dies at 49
1941 – E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1964 – Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers
1975 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1982 – Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian classical sitar player and composer, dies at 75
2005 – Lyn Collins [Gloria Lavern Collins], American soul singer (Think About It), dies from cardiac arrhythmia at 56
2021 – ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, American boxer (undisputed World Middleweight champion 1980-87; second-longest unified C’ship reign in history), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 12th March 2023
417 – Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
1734 – Antonius Schultingh [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1913 – Josef Bayer, composer, Austrian composer, and music director (Austrian Court Ballet, 1883-1913), dies at 61
1944 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer, dies at 82
1961 – Belinda Lee, English actress (Joseph and his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1991 – Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
2004 – Sylvi Saimo, Finnish kayaker (Olympic gold 1952, 1st female summer Olympic champion), dies at 89
2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American Mathematician (2012 Nobel Prize, Game Theory), dies at 92
2017 – Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 94