1629 – Jacob de Gheyn II, Dutch artist (b. 1565)
1788 – Charles Wesley, British Methodist leader (brother of John Wesley) and hymn writer (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing), dies at 80
1792 – Gustav III, King of Sweden (1771-92), dies of septicemia at 46 after being shot by an assassin thirteen days earlier
1945 – Ferenc Csik, Hungarian swimmer (Olympics gold medal 100m freestyle 1936), dies of war wounds at 31
1956 – Infante Alfonso of Spain, younger brother of King Juan Carlos, dies from an accidental gunshot at 14
1959 – Sara Wennerberg-Reuter, Swedish composer, dies at 84
1979 – Ray Ventura, French jazz pianist and big band bandleader (“Tout va très bien, Madame la Marquise”), dies at 69
1994 – Bill Travers [William Inge Lindon-Travers], British actor, director, officer and animal rights activist (Born Free, Gorgo), dies at 72
2003 – Carlo Urbani, Italian physician (SARS) (b. 1956)
2014 – Hobart “Hobie” Alter, American surf and sailing entrepreneur (created the Hobie Cat catamaran), dies of cancer at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 28th March 2026
1701 – Domenico Guidi, Italian sculptor, dies at 75
1799 – Bendix Friedrich Zinck, Danish organist and composer, dies at 83
1891 – Dick Pilling, English cricket wicketkeeper (8 Tests, 14 dismissals; Lancashire CCC), dies of tuberculosis at 35
1931 – Ban Johnson, American Baseball HOF executive (founder and president of MLB American League, 1900-27), dies after a long illness at 67
1947 – Karol Świerczewski, Polish general who served the Soviet Union and Republican Spain, assassinated at 50
1975 – Renzo Massarani, Italian composer, dies at 77
1979 – Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
1994 – Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
2006 – Proinsias Ó Maonaigh, Irish musician (b. 1922)
2015 – Miroslav Ondříček, Czech BAFTA and Academy Award winning cinematographer (Amadeus; Ragtime), dies at 80
Famous Deaths for 27th March 2026
1769 – Josef Antonin Gurecky, composer, dies at 60
1923 – James Dewar, Scottish chemist and physicist (Dewarfles/cordiet), dies at 80
1938 – William Stern, German-American philosopher (Intelligence of Children), dies at 66
1943 – Grigori Yakovlevich Bakhchivangi, Russian test pilot (world speed record in BI-1 rocket plane), but killed in its crash at 35
1972 – Sharkey Bonano, American jazz musician, dies at 67
2000 – Ian Dury, English rock musician (The Blockheads) and actor (Judge Dredd), dies at 57
2003 – Paul Zindel, American playwright and novelist (The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-theMoon Marigolds), dies from lung cancer at 66
2014 – James Schlesinger, American economist and public servant (US Secretary of Energy, 1977-79; US Secretary of Defense, 1973-75; Chair of Atomic Energy Commission, 1973-75), dies at 85
2018 – Stephane Audran, French actress (Just Before Nightfall, Babette’s Feast), dies at 85
2023 – Jocelyn Morlock, Canadian contemporary and post-modern classical composer (My Name is Amanda Todd; Bird in the Tangled Sky), and music educator, dies at 53
Famous Deaths for 26th March 2026
304 – Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist and father of modern geology, dies at 70
1831 – Richard Allen, 1st African American ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church, dies at 71
1865 – Thomas Hancock, English pioneer of the rubber industry (Stoke Newington), dies at 79
1892 – Anton Wallerstein, German composer, dies at 78
1986 – Bartlett Robinson, American actor (Wendy and Me, Mona McCluskey), dies at 73
1991 – Paul Gayten American RandB pianist, songwriter, bandleader, producer (Clarence “Frogman” Henry, Chuck Berry), and record company executive (Chess Records), dies at 71
1994 – Constantine Koukouchkine, Russian diplomat, murdered in Algeria at 41
2019 – Heinz Winbeck, German composer, conductor and teacher, dies at 73
2020 – Jimmy Wynn, American baseball outfielder (MLB All Star 1967, 74, 75; Houston Colt 45s/Astros, LA Dodgers), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 25th March 2026
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1799 – Constantin Reindl, German composer, dies at 60
1818 – Caspar Wessel, Danish-Norwegian mathematician, dies at 72
1877 – Elkanah Brackin Greer, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 51
1924 – John Reedman, cricketer (Test for Aust 1894, 17 and 4, 1 for 24), dies
1987 – Henry Richardson LaBouisse, American diplomat (headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
1996 – John Snagge, British newsreader and commentator for the BBC (Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race), dies at 91
2021 – Stan Albeck, American basketball coach (Cleveland Cavaliers, San Antonio Spurs, New Jersey Nets, Chicago Bulls), dies from a stroke at 89
2022 – Kathryn Hays [Kay Piper], American actress (Kim Hughes in “As the World Turns”, 1972-2010), dies at 87
2025 – J. Bennett Johnston, American politician (Sen-D-LA, 1972-97), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 24th March 2026
1284 – Hugh III of Cyprus, King of Cyprus and Jerusalem (b 1235)
1921 – James Cardinal Gibbons, Archbishop of Baltimore, dies at 86
1930 – Henry Faulds, British surgeon, fingerprinting pioneer, and founder of the Tokyo Institute for the Blind, dies at 86
1960 – Paul Joostens, Belgian avant-garde artist, dies at 70
1976 – Nelson Case, American TV host (Trash or Treasure), dies at 66
1990 – Ray Goulding, American comedian (Bob and Ray), dies of kidney failure at 68
2009 – Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
2010 – Johnny Maestro, American rock vocalist (Crests – “16 Candles”; Brooklyn Bridge), dies at 70
2020 – John Davies, Australian swimmer (Olympic gold 200m breaststroke 1952; WR 200m breaststroke 2:34.4 1952), dies at 90
2020 – Bill Rieflin, American rock drummer (Nine Inch Nails; R.E.M.; King Crimson. 2013-20), dies of cancer at 59
Famous Deaths for 23rd March 2026
1103 – Eudes I, Duke of Burgundy (b. 1058)
1555 – Julius III [Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte], Counter-Reformation Pope (1550-55), dies at 67
1862 – Karl Robert von Nesselrode, German-Russian chancellor, dies at 81
1952 – Klaas Schilder, Dutch vicar and theologist (Reformed Churches in the Netherlands (liberated)), dies at 61
1977 – Bennie Green, American swing jazz and soul trombonist (Earl Hines), dies at 53
1994 – Alvara del Portillo, Spanish Opus Dei bishop, dies at 80
1995 – Alan Barton, English singer (Smokie, Black Lace), dies in a bus crash at 41
1995 – Davie Cooper, Scottish soccer winger (22 caps; Clydebank, Rangers 376 games, Motherwell), dies of a subarachnoid haemorrhage at 39
1999 – Luis María Argaña, Paraguayan politician and high court judge, Vice President of Paraguay, assassinated by armed gunmen at 66
2015 – Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live – At Dawn We Die), dies at 107
Famous Deaths for 22nd March 2026
1832 – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German writer and social philosopher (Faust), dies at 82
1840 – Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician, dies at 41
1871 – Johnny Cuzens, Australian aboriginal cricketer (1st Australian indigenous tour to UK 1868), dies
1913 – Song Jiaoran, Chinese Nationalist and revolutionary (Leader of Kuomintang party 1912-13), assassinated at 30
1937 – Mary Russell, Duchess of Bedford, English aviator and ornithologist, dies at 71
1963 – Cilly Aussem, German tennis player (French C’ships, Wimbledon 1931), dies of liver failure at 54
1969 – Ernst Deutsch [Dorian], Jewish-Austrian actor (3rd Man, Golem), dies at 78
1986 – Mark Dinning, American singer (“Teen Angel”), dies of a heart attack at 52
2007 – ]Uppaluri Gopala] U.G. Krishnamurti, Indian philosophe and lecturer, dies of injuries after a fall at 88
2013 – Pietro Mennea, Italian sprinter (200m world record), dies from cancer at 60
Famous Deaths for 21st March 2026
1801 – Andrea Lucchesi, Italian organist, composer, and Kapellmeister for the Court of Bonn (1774-94), dies at 59
1917 – Alfred Einhorn, German chemist (created Novocain), dies at 61
1934 – Lilyan Tashman, American actress (Millie; Bulldog Drummond), dies following cancer surgery at 34
1941 – Robert Liefmann, German economist (Kartelle und Trusts), dies at 67
1975 – Joe Medwick, American Baseball HOF left fielder (World Series 1934, Triple Crown and NL MVP 1937 St. Louis Cardinals; 10 x MLB All Star), dies at 63
1989 – Milton Frome, actor (Family Jewels), dies
1995 – Etienne Martin, French sculptor, dies at 82
1996 – Frank Murray, Northern Ireland police officer and superintendent (RUC Special Branch), known as the “Bionic Man”, dies at 51
2008 – Patti Bown, American jazz pianist and composer (Gene Ammons, Quincy Jones), dies at 77
2016 – Robert McNeill Alexander, British zoologist (estimated speed of dinosaurs), dies at 81
Famous Deaths for 20th March 2026
1501 – Jean Carondelet, lawyer/chancellor of Burgundy (1480-96), dies at 72
1848 – Abraham des Amorie van der Hoeven, Dutch theologist/poet, dies at 27
1873 – Adolphe Fétis, Belgian-French pianist and composer, dies at 52
1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
1953 – Graciliano Ramos, Brazilian author (Vidas Secas), dies at 60
1987 – Rita Streich, Russian-German soprano, dies at 66
1993 – Polykarp Kusch, American nuclear physicist (1955 Nobel Prize for Physics – for determining the magnetic moment of the electron), dies at 82
1997 – V. S. Pritchett, British literary critic and writer (Myth Makers), dies at 96
2016 – Anker Jørgensen, Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (1972-3, 75-82), dies at 93
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75