593 – Guntram, French King in Burgundy, dies at about 67
1818 – Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 62
1927 – Karl Prohaska, Austrian composer, dies at 57
1941 – Virginia Woolf-Stephen [Adeline], British writer (To Lighthouse), dies from suicide at 59
1979 – Emmett Kelly, American circus clown (Weary Willy), dies at 80
2001 – Moe Koffman, Canadian musician (b. 1928)
2011 – Wenche Foss, Norwegian actress (b. 1917)
2012 – Harry Crews, American writer and actor (Indian Runner), dies from neuropathy at 76
2015 – Gene Saks, American actor and director (One and Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave), dies at 93
2017 – Ahmed “Kathy” Kathrada, South African anti-apartheid activist and politician, dies at 87
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 27th March 2021
710 – Rupert of Salzburg, saint and Bishop of Worms and Salzberg
1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet and translator, dies at 37
1826 – Jakob Haibel, Austrian composer, dies at 63
1989 – May Allison, actress (Youth for Salem Men of Steel), dies
1995 – Rene Allio, film Director, dies at 70
2001 – Anthony Dexter [Walter Fleischmann], Canadian actor (The Phantom Planet, Captain John Smith and Pocahontas), dies at 88
2008 – Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport’s FIA, dies at 86
2010 – Vasily Smyslov, Russian grandmaster (b. 1921)
2016 – Mother Angelica, Catholic American Franciscan nun, dies at 92
2017 – David Storey, British novelist and playwright (This Sporting Life), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 26th March 2021
1566 – Antonio de Cabezon, Spanish composer, dies
1797 – James Hutton, Scottish geologist ‘father of modern geology’ dies at 70
1926 – Georges Vezina, NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies from TB at 39
1934 – Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), dies at 51
1959 – Raymond Chandler, British-American mystery writer novelist and screenwriter (Farewell My Lovely; The Long Goodbye; The Big Sleep), dies at 71
1973 – Noël Coward, English playwright (Hay Fever, Private Lives), director (In Which We Serve-1942 Academy Award), actor and singer, dies of heart failure at 73
2000 – Alex Comfort, English author (The Joy of Sex), dies at 80
2004 – Jan Sterling [Jane Adriance], American actress (Ace in the Hole, The High and the Mighty), dies of diabetes and a stroke at 82
2008 – Heath Benedict, American Football Player (b. 1983)
2008 – Manuel Marulanda Velez aka Tirofijo, founder and lifelong leader of Colombian rebel group FARC-EP (b. 1930)
Famous Deaths for 25th March 2021
1345 – Henry, 3rd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1281)
1558 – Marcos de Niza, French Franciscan explorer (Arizona, Seven Cities of Cibola), dies at 62 or 63
1712 – Nehemiah Grew, English naturalist (b. 1641)
1880 – Joseph Rummel, German composer, dies at 61
1957 – Max Ophüls, German director (The Earrings of Madame de…), dies at 54
1975 – Juan Gaudino, Argentine racing driver (b. 1893)
1978 – Jack Hulbert, British actor (Into the Blue, Bulldog Jack), dies at 85
1987 – Henry R LaBouisse, headed UNICEF (1965-79), dies at 83
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (2000-07), dies at 57
2020 – Peter Kemper, Dutch soccer defender (3 caps; PSV 221 games), dies of heart failure at 77
Famous Deaths for 24th March 2021
1603 – Elizabeth I Tudor [Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, dies at 69
1644 – Archduchess Cecilia Renata of Austria, Queen of Poland, dies at 32
1755 – Theodor Christlieb Reinhold, German composer, dies at 72
1881 – Friedrich Hecker, German revolutionary republican politician, dies at 69
1887 – Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and art critic, dies at 49
1990 – An Wang, Chinese-American computer engineer (Wang Labs, Wang Computers), dies of cancer at 70
2009 – George Kell, American baseball player, dies at 86
2010 – Johnny Maestro, American rock vocalist (Crests – “16 Candles”; Brooklyn Bridge), dies at 70
2015 – Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
2016 – Johan Cruyff, Dutch soccer player and coach (Ajax/Barcelona), dies at 68
Famous Deaths for 23rd March 2021
1237 – Jan of Brienne, King of Jerusalem/Emperor of Constantinople, dies
1618 – James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish politician
1806 – George Pinto [Sanders], English violin prodigy, keyboard virtuoso, and composer, dies of tuberculosis at 20
1819 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist, dies at 57
1955 – Artur da Silva Bernardes, President of Brazil (b. 1875)
1961 – James Edward Murray, (Sen-D-Montana) (1935-61), dies
1978 – Bill Kenny, American singer, dies at 63
1990 – Rene Enriquez, American actor (Hill Street Blues), dies of pancreatic cancer at 56
2004 – Rupert Hamer, Australian politician (b. 1916)
2013 – Virgil Trucks, American MLB pitcher (two-time All Star), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 22nd March 2021
1322 – Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician (b. 1278)
1758 – Richard Leveridge, English bass singer and composer, dies at 87
1838 – Hendrik Fagel, Dutch/English baron, dies at 73
1924 – Robert Nivelle, French military officer, dies at 67
1955 – Ivan Šubašić, Kingdom of Yugoslavia prime minister and last ban of Croatia (b. 1892)
1971 – Martin Bodmer, Swiss Bibliophile and scholar (Bodmer Papyri), dies at 71
1979 – Richard Sykes, British ambassador, assassinated by the IRA in The Hague, Holland
1986 – Charles Starrett, American actor (The Mask of Fu Manchu, Bonanza Town), dies at 82
2008 – Cachao López, Cuban mambo musician (b. 1918)
2010 – James W. Black, Scottish Nobel Prize-winning doctor and medical research scientist (b. 1924)
Famous Deaths for 21st March 2021
1729 – John Law, Scottish economist and author (Money and Trade Considered), dies at about 57
1843 – Robert Southey, English writer (The Story of the Three Bears), Poet Laureate (1813-43) and biographer (Nelson), dies at 68
1891 – Joseph E. Johnston, American military officer (senior officer in Confederate Army and United States Army), dies at 84
1952 – Wilhelm Albrecht, German SD-chief, executed
1954 – Harry Lawrence Freeman, African-American composer, dies at 84
1970 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49
1975 – Joe Medwick, American baseball player, dies at 63
1980 – Gideon Fagan, South African conductor and composer, dies at 75
2007 – Kevin Whitrick, first British man to commit suicide on a live chatroom (b. 1964)
2011 – Ladislav Novák, Czech footballer (b. 1931)
Famous Deaths for 20th March 2021
1351 – Mohammed ibn-Tughluq, sultan of Delhi India, dies
1413 – Henry IV of England, King of England and Lord of Ireland (1399-1413), dies at 45
1746 – Nicolas de Largillière, French painter (b. 1656)
1871 – Antonio Buzzolla, composer, dies at 56
1987 – Norman Harris, guitarist (O’Jays), dies at 39 of heart failure
1989 – Archie Bleyer, American orchestra leader (Arthur Godfrey), dies at 79
1990 – Jev Jasjin, Russian soccer goalie, dies at 60
1992 – Georges Delerue, French film composer (Sword of Gideon, A Little Romance), dies of a heart attack at 67
2010 – Girija Prasad Koirala, Nepalese politician (b. 1925)
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75
Famous Deaths for 19th March 2021
1796 – Stephen Storace, English composer, dies at 33
1869 – Guillaume Nerenburger, Belgian general (Triangulatie of Belgium), dies at 64
1897 – Antoine T. d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 87
1930 – Arthur Balfour, British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1902-05) and Foreign Secretary (Balfour Declaration), dies of unremitting circulatory trouble at 81
1961 – Edric Cundell, composer, dies at 68
1969 – Theodor Schaefer, Czech composer, dies at 65
1979 – Albert “Al” Hodge, American actor (Captain Video, Green Hornet), dies at 65
1991 – Ron Pagano, dies after lengthy illness at 37
1995 – Gerard Tebroke, 5/10 km-dasher, dies at 45
2007 – Calvert DeForest, American comedian (Larry “Bud” Melman), dies at 85