1900 – Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1908 – Benjamin Waugh, English social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, dies at 69
1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
1956 – Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1984 – Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1989 – Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1993 – Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1997 – Lars Ahlin, Swedish writer (My Death is My Own), dies at 81
1999 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
2019 – Hal Blaine [Harold Belsky], American pop and rock session drummer (The Wrecking Crew), dies at 90
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 10th March 2023
1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), dies at 78
1866 – Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, Italian-French composer and music publisher, dies at 87
1913 – Harriet Tubman [Araminta Ross], American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian (Underground Railroad), dies at about 91 {birth date uncertain]
1988 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English composer, dies at 79
1995 – Carel Birnie, Dutch ballet producer, dies at 69
2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2012 – Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, dies at 92
2016 – Ken Adam, British film production designer (James Bond sets), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2023
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1969 – Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1994 – Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
1994 – Lawrence E. Spivak, American news panelist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1996 – Elman Ali Ahmed, Somali peace campaigner, dies at 42
2005 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer, dies at 80
2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), dies at 91
2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2020 – Keith Olsen, American rock record producer and sound engineer (Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station; Joe Walsh – The Confessor), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
2021 – James Levine, American conductor (director of the Metropolitan Opera, 1976-2017), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 8th March 2023
1717 – Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
1734 – Carolomannus Pachschmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 33
1862 – Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1887 – Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 (b. 1813)
1901 – Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1945 – Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1946 – Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), dies at 77
1974 – Willem “Wim” Sonneveld, Dutch singer considered one of the ‘Great Three’ of Dutch cabaret (My Fair Lady), dies from a heart attack at 56
1996 – Jack Churchill, British Army commando, dies at 89
2014 – William Guarnere, American WWII veteran, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 7th March 2023
1578 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, niece of Henry VIII and whose son married Mary Queen of Scots, dies at 62
1949 – Bradbury Robinson Jr., American football pioneer who threw first legal forward pass in the history of American football in 1906, dies from complications following routine surgery at 65
1954 – Otto Diels, German organic chemist (1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for cyclic organic compounds), dies at 78
1955 – Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1981 – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1931, 1936 runner-up), dies at 72
1988 – Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
1995 – Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1999 – Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian, dies at 114
2013 – Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as “the architect of progressive music” (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65
Famous Deaths for 6th March 2023
1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1924 – Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
1945 – Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1967 – Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1989 – Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 – Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll’s), dies of pneumonia
1998 – Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2023
1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism), dies at 80
1893 – Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
1895 – Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d’état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, dies at 84
1984 – Michael Sklar, American comedian (Laugh-In; Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
2017 – Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), dies at 84
2018 – Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 4th March 2023
561 – Pelagius I, Italian Pope (556-61), dies
1825 – Raphaelle Peale, American painter (After the Rain, 1823), dies at 51
1936 – Ruben Liljefors, Swedish composer, dies at 64
1984 – Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian composer, dies at 79
1993 – Richard Sale, American pulp writer and director (Oscar, Torpedo Run), dies at 80
1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
2007 – Thomas Eagleton, American politician (38th Lieutenant Governor of Missouri), dies at 77
2009 – John Cephas, American Piedmont blues guitarist (b. 1930)
2011 – Johnny Preston, American pop singer (Running Bear), dies at 71
2022 – Maryan Wisniewski, French soccer striker (33 caps; Lens, Sampdoria, Saint-Étienne, Sochaux, Grenoble), dies at 85
Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2023
1792 – Robert Adam, Scottish architect and designer (Adelphi Terrace, London), dies at 63
1822 – Franz Adam Veichtner, German violinist and composer, dies at 81
1928 – Jan [Jean] T Toorop, Dutch graphic artist (3 Brides), dies at 69
1934 – Norman O’Neill, English theatrical composer (Mary Rose) and conductor, dies from injuries sustained after being struck by a package delivery tricycle at 58
1974 – Frank Wilcox, American actor (Beverly Hillbillies), dies from a heart attack at 66
1977 – Percy Marmont, British actor (Secret Agent, Lisbon, Captain Apache), dies at 93
1993 – Carlos Montoya, American flamenco guitarist (Suite Flamenco 1966), dies at 89
1994 – Karel Kryl, Czechoslovak folk singer, dies at 49
1995 – Howard Hunter, US leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1994-95), dies at 87
2022 – Tim Considine, American actor (Spin and Marty; My Three Sons, 1960-65 – “Mike”), and photographer, dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 2nd March 2023
855 – Lothair, King of the Franks and Holy Roman Emperor (b. 795)
1758 – Johann Baptist Zimmermann, German painter and stucco worker, buried at 78
1868 – Carl Eberwein, German composer and violinist, dies at 81
1887 – Wilhelm Troszel, Polish operatic bass, composer, and voice teacher, dies at 63
1942 – Charlie Christian, American jazz and swing guitarist (Benny Goodman Sextet), dies of tuberculosis at 25
1950 – Rosli Dhobi, pro-Indonesian Malay student, hanged in Kuching for the assassination of Duncan Stewart, British Governor of Sarawak
1981 – Tony Gulotta, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500 1927 3rd), dies at 78
1995 – Hugo Cole, British composer and critic, dies at 77
2007 – Thomas S. Kleppe, U.S. politician (b. 1919)
2015 – Bettina Graziani [Simone Bodin] French model, one of the first supermodels, Givenchy muse, dies at 89