604 – Pope Gregory I, Bishop of Rome (590–604), dies at 64
1989 – Maurice Evans, British actor (Planet of the Apes, Bewitched), dies at 87
1993 – Michael Kanin, American director, writer and actor (Woman of the Year, Teacher’s Pet), dies at 83
1995 – Juanin Clay, American actress (The Legend of the Lone Ranger), dies at 45
1998 – Judge Dread [Alexander Hughes] English reggae musician, dies from a heart attack at 52
1998 – Beatrice Wood, American artist and ceramist (b. 1893)
2002 – Jean-Paul Riopelle, Quebec painter and sculptor (b. 1923)
2003 – Lynne Thigpen, American actress (b. 1948)
2008 – Alun Hoddinott, Welsh composer (Floriture), dies at 78
2021 – Ivo Trumbić, Croatian water polo player (Olympic gold 1968 Yugoslavia) and coach (Olympic bronze Netherlands 1976), dies at 85
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 11th March 2022
1514 – Donato Bramante, Italian architect (b. 1444)
1575 – Matthias Flacius, Croatian Protestant reformer (b. 1520)
1602 – Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Italian composer
1854 – Willard Richards, American physician and religious leader, dies at 49
1898 – William Rosecrans, American Civil War Union general (b. 1819)
1907 – Jean Casimir-Périer, French politician (President of France 1894-95), dies at 59
1947 – Victor Hely-Hutchinson, British composer (Carol Symphony), dies of pneumonia at 45
1979 – Victor Kilian, American actor (Gentleman’s Agreement), dies at 88
1996 – Charles William Oatley, electrical engineer, dies at 92
2002 – James Tobin, American economist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
Famous Deaths for 10th March 2022
1700 – Diogo Dias Melgaz, Portuguese composer, dies at 61
1819 – Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi, German philosopher and writer, dies at 76
1951 – Kijūrō Shidehara, Japanese politician and diplomat, Prime minister of Japan (1945-46), dies at 78
1968 – Helen Walker, American actress (Brewster’s Million, Lucky Jordan), dies of cancer at 47
1984 – June Marlowe, American actress (Pardon US), dies at 81
1988 – Andy Gibb, British singer-songwriter, performer and teen idol (Bee Gees-I Just Want to Be Your Everything), dies of myocarditis at 30
1993 – C. Northcote Parkinson, English historian (Pursuit of Progress) and author (Parkinson’s Law), dies at 83
2005 – Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) dies of pneumonia at 53
2008 – Charles “Chuck” and “Bing” Day, American session guitarist, bassist and blues performer dies at 65
2021 – Stephen Scott, American composer (Bowed Piano Ensemble; Vikings of Sunrise), and educator (Colorado College), dies from complications of dementia at 76
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2022
1202 – King Sverre of Norway (1184-1202), dies
1649 – James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton, Scottish statesman, dies at 42
1883 – Arnold Toynbee, English economic historian and social reformer, dies at 30
1971 – Jean-Pierre Guézec, French composer (Colorful Architectures), dies of a heart attack at 36
1991 – Jim Hardin, former Baltimore Orioles, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves pitcher (b. 1943)
1992 – Felipe Turich, actor (Lawless), dies
1995 – Edward Bernays, Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, dies at 103
2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), dies at 91
2017 – Howard Hodgkin, British abstract painter, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 8th March 2022
1223 – Wincenty Kadłubek, Polish chronicler (b. 1161)
1887 – James Buchanan Eads, American engineer and inventor (Eads Bridge-St Louis), dies at 66
1923 – Johannes van der Waals, Dutch physicist (Nobel 1910), dies at 85
1945 – H J Jamin, Dutch resistance fighter, dies in Buchenwald
1974 – Christian van Geel, Dutch poet/sculptor (Spinroc), dies at 56
1988 – Werner Hartmann, German physicist (b. 1912)
1996 – Paul Harrhy, actor and opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
1998 – Ray Nitschke, American football player, dies of a heart attack at 61
2004 – Abu Abbas [Muhammad Zaidan], Palestinian founder of the Palestine Liberation Front, dies in American custody of allegedly natural causes at 55
2018 – Sir Wilson Harris, Guyanese author (Palace of the Peacock, Jonestown, The Ghost of Memory), dies of natural causes at 96
Famous Deaths for 7th March 2022
1305 – Gwijde van Dampierre, count of Flanders/count of Namur, dies at 78
1926 – Heinrich Kàan-Albest, Bohemian pianist and composer, dies at 73
1932 – Aristide Briand, 11 time Prime Minister of France (1909-22) and 1926 Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 69
1955 – Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1961 – Max Hymans, French WW II resistance fighter and Head of Air France, dies at 60
1986 – Jacob K Javits, American politician (Sen-R-NY), dies in Palm Beach, Florida at 81
1999 – Sidney Gottlieb, American CIA official, dies at 80
2000 – Pee Wee King [Julius Frank Kuczynski], American country singer, accordionist, and songwriter (“Tennesee Waltz”; “Slow Poke”), dies of a heart attack at 84
2007 – Frigyes Hidas, Hungarian composer, dies at 78
2017 – Lynne Stewart, American defense attorney (known for representing controversial, poor, and often unpopular defendants), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 6th March 2022
1252 – Saint Rose of Viterbo, Italian saint (b. 1235)
1616 – Francis Beaumont, Elizabethan playwright, dies (birth date unknown)
1758 – Henry Vane, 1st Earl of Darlington, English politician (b. 1705)
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1933 – Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at 59
1935 – Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr, US 59th Supreme Court justice (1902-32), dies of pneumonia at 93
1954 – Jan Kalf, Dutch literature/art historian, dies at 80
1959 – Fred Stone, renowned American circus performer and broadway actor (Alice Adams), dies at 85
2018 – Lucie Brock-Broido, American poet and academic (Noctuary), dies at 61
2020 – Henri Richard, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame center (record 11 Stanley Cups; 9 x NHL All Star; Montreal Canadiens), dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 84
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2022
254 – St Lucius I, Pope and Bishop of Rome (253-54), dies
1849 – David Scott, Scottish painter (b. 1806)
1893 – Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
1950 – Roman Shukhevych, Ukrainian nationalist and military leader, dies at 42
1966 – Enrique E Ecker, Curacaos/US bacteriologist, dies at 79
1977 – Tom Pryce, Welsh Formula One driver, dies at 27
1994 – Joe Daley, American jazz tenor, clarinet and flute player, dies at 75
1995 – Peter John Norton, naval diplomat/artist, dies at 82
1996 – Whitner “Whit” Bissell, American actor (Time Machine, Soylent Green, The Magnificent Seven), dies at 86
2000 – Lolo Ferrari [Eve Valois], French adult actress and dancer, dies from an overdose of prescription drugs at 37
Famous Deaths for 4th March 2022
1238 – Yuri II, Grand Prince of Vladimir (b. 1189)
1303 – Daniel of Moscow, Russian Saint, Grand Prince of Muscovy (b. 1261)
1617 – Arcangelo Crivelli, Italian composer, dies at 70
1831 – Georg Michael Telemann, German composer, dies at 82
1916 – Franz Marc, German painter/co-founder (Blaue Reiter), killed at 36
1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1996 – Minnie Pearl [Sarah Ophelia Colley], American country comedienne (Grand Ole Opry, Hee-Haw), dies at 84
1997 – Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (b. 1916)
2002 – Elyne Mitchell, Australian author (b. 1913)
2008 – Gary Gygax, American fantasy author and role-playing games creator (Dungeons and Dragons), dies at 69
Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2022
1703 – Robert Hooke, English scientific genius (Micrographia), dies at 67
1850 – Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (Later Day Saint apostle), dies at 43
1935 – Neville Knox, cricketer (bowled in 2 Tests for England 1907), dies
1945 – Arthur Vanderpoorten, Flemish Internal minister (1940), dies at 61
1985 – Sarah Blanding, 1st US fem college head (Vassar 1946-64), dies at 86
1991 – Arthur Murray [Moses Teichman], American ballroom dancer and businessman (Arthur Murray Dance Party), dies at 95 of pneumonia
1991 – Johnny Revolta, American golfer (PGA C’ship 1935; 18 PGA Tour titles), dies at 79
1993 – Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-born gangster (b. 1910)
2008 – Norman O’Neill, Australian cricket batsman (42 Tests @ 45.55, 6 x 100s; NSW CA), dies at 71
2017 – Tommy Page, American pop singer (“I’ll Be Your Everything”), found dead of apparent suicide at 46