1314 – Jacques de Molay, French last Grand Master of The Knights Templar, dies burned at the stake aged 70 or 71
1745 – Robert Walpole, 1st British Prime Minister (Whig: 1721-42), dies at 68
1781 – Anne Robert Turgot, French statesman (b. 1727)
1875 – Ferdinand Laub, composer, dies at 43
1913 – George I, king of Greece (1861-1913), assassinated by Schinas at 67
1939 – Henry Lunn, English humanitarian and religious leader, dies at 79
1962 – Walter W. Bacon, Governor of Delaware (b. 1880)
1983 – Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 80
1995 – Frederic Ramsey Jr, folklorist/author, dies at 80
2017 – Trisha Brown, American choreographer and dancer, dies at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 17th March 2021
1425 – Ashikaga Yoshikazu, 5th Japanese shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate, dies at 17
1565 – Alexander Ales [Alesius], Scottish theologian of the school of Augsburg, dies at 64
1649 – Gerardus Johannis Vossius [Gerrit Vos], Dutch regent, dies at 71
1713 – Juraj Jánošík, famous Slovak outlaw [b. 1688)
1946 – Dai Li, Chinese spymaster (b. 1897)
1982 – Hans ter Laag, Dutch sound technician, murdered in El Salvador
1982 – Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1992 – George Lovi, American columnist (Sky and Telescope’s “Ramblings”), dies
1994 – Harold Myers, film journalist, dies at 81
2019 – Barbara Benary, American composer (Gamelon Son Of Lion), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 16th March 2021
455 – Valentinian III, Roman Emperor (425-55), assassinated at 35
1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276) dies in battle at Boroughbridge
1987 – Scott McKay [Carl Chester Gose], American actor (Stage Door, Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies of kidney failuyre at 71
1998 – Esther Bubley, American photographer aged 77
2001 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian voice actress (Casper the Ghost), dies at 79
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
2005 – Ralph Erskine, British architect (Byker Wall) (b. 1914)
2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan, dies at 80
2018 – Buell Neidlinger, American pop, jazz, and classical session cellist and double bassist (Cecil Taylor; Frank Zappa; Duane Eddy), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 15th March 2021
1190 – Isabella of Hainault, Queen of France (1180-90), dies following a complicated childbirth at 19
1711 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1731 – Adolf H van Rechteren, Dutch diplomat/politician, dies at 75
1940 – Alfred Marr, cricketer (Test for Australia 1885, scored 0 and 5), dies
1980 – Gerald Abrahams, English author (Teach Yourself Chess), dies at 72
1990 – Farzad Bazoft, Iranian-born journalist (hanged) (b. 1958)
1996 – Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, American lawyer and diplomat, dies at 89
1997 – Gail Davis, American actress (Annie Oakley), dies at 71
2004 – John Pople, English chemist (Nobel Prize 1998), dies at 78
2015 – Michael “Mike” Porcaro, American rock bassist affiliated with Toto (Stranger In Town), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
Famous Deaths for 14th March 2021
1272 – Re Enzo, Italian poet/son of Emp Frederik II von Hohenstaufen, dies
1573 – Claude II, of Lotharingen, duke of Aumale/murdered adm Coligny, dies
1696 – Jean Domat, French jurist, dies at 70
1757 – John Byng, English admiral executed by firing squad at 52 for neglecting his duty in defence of Minorca, dies at 53
1791 – Johann Salomo Semler, German historian and Bible commentator (b. 1725)
1925 – Walter Camp, American, father of American football, dies at 65
1949 – John Callan O’Laughlin, American political and military figure and journalist (b. 1873)
1954 – Ludomir Michał Rogowski, Polish composer, dies at 72
1995 – Johan W “Jo” van Marle, CEO (KNVB, 1980-93), dies at 70
1996 – Nico Kiasashvii, professor of English Literature, dies at 69
Famous Deaths for 13th March 2021
1569 – Louis, Prince of Condé (1530-69), dies in Battle of Jarnac at 39
1756 – Johann Melchior Conradi, German composer, dies at 81
1778 – Charles le Beau, French historian (b. 1701)
1879 – Adolf Anderssen, German world chess champion (1851-66), dies at 60
1925 – Lucille Ricksen [Ingeborg Ericksen], American silent-film actress, dies of tuberculosis 14
1987 – Gerald Moore, English pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1990 – Bruno Bettelheim, Austrian-American psycho-analyst (Uses of Enchantment), commits suicide at 86
1996 – Brian Hulls, British TV news cameraman, dies at 48
1998 – Hans von Ohain, German-American aerospace engineer, dies at 86
2020 – Breonna Taylor, African American medical technician, shot and killed by police officers in her home at 26
Famous Deaths for 12th March 2021
1790 – Andreas Hadik, Austro-Hungarian general (b. 1710)
1824 – Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1852 – Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1914 – George Westinghouse, American entrepreneur, engineer (Westinghouse Electric) and pioneer of the electrical industry,, dies at 67
1921 – Isabella Caroline Somerset, British philanthropist, temperance leader and campaigner for women’s rights, dies at 69
1974 – George D. Sax, Drive-in bank and instant loan innovator. Owner of the Saxony Hotel. (b. 1904)
1980 – Arthur Charles Dobson, British racing driver (b. 1914)
1992 – Salvo Lima, mayor (Palermo)/MP (chr-dem), murdered
2010 – Miguel Delibes, Spanish novelist (b. 1920)
2013 – Clive Burr, English drummer, dies from complications from multiple sclerosis at 56
Famous Deaths for 11th March 2021
1602 – Emilio de’ Cavalieri, Italian composer
1854 – Willard Richards, American physician and religious leader, dies at 49
1870 – Moshoeshoe I, King of Lesotho (1822-70), dies at about 47
1921 – Sherburne Wesley Burnham, American astronomer (binary stars), dies at 83
1992 – Manuel De Dios Unanue, US anti-drug journalist, murdered at 48
1992 – David Carroll, actor (Grand Hotel), dies of pulmonary embolism at 41
1995 – Frank Fidler, English artist, dies at 84
1999 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
1999 – Stefan Schnabel, German actor (Anna, Dracula’s Widow, Firefox), dies from a heart attack at 87
2012 – Sid Couchey, American comic book artist, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 10th March 2021
1597 – Petrus Forestus, Dutch physician (Willem of Orange), dies
1875 – Joseph Daussoigne-Méhul, French composer, dies at 84
1910 – Karl Lueger, Austrian politician, cofounder and leader of the Austrian Christian Social Party, dies at 65
1940 – Louis de Vries, Dutch actor (Blokkade, Ghetto, Merchant of Venice), dies at 68
1948 – Zelda Fitzgerald [née Sayre], American writer (This Side of Paradise) and wife of writer F. Scott Fitzgerald, dies at 47
1966 – Mari Sandoz, American author (Cheyenne Autumn), dies at 64
1980 – Melville Henry Cane, American lawyer and poet (Making a Poem), dies at 100
1999 – Oswaldo Guayasamín, Ecuadorian master painter and sculptor, dies at 79
2010 – Édgar Valcárcel, Peruvian pianist and composer, dies at 77
2016 – Anita Brookner, English novelist (Hotel du Lac) and art historian, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2021
1202 – King Sverre of Norway (1184-1202), dies
1566 – David Rizzio, Italian secretary of Mary Queen of Scots, murdered by Protestant nobles
1706 – Johann Pachelbel, German organist/composer, dies at 52
1747 – Jacob Campo Weyerman, Dutch painter and writer active during the Dutch Enlightenment, dies at 69
1975 – Shirley Ross [Bernice Maude Gaunt], American actress (Cafe Society, Prison Farm, Waikiki Wedding), dies of cancer at 62
1981 – Max Delbrück, German-American biologist and molecular geneticist (bacteriophage, Nobel Prize 1969), dies at 74
1983 – Ulf von Euler, Swedish physiologist famous for his work on neurotransmitters (Nobel 1970), dies at 78
2000 – Ivo Robić, Croatian singer and songwriter (b. 1923)
2005 – Chris LeDoux, American country singer (Ridin’ for a Fall), dies at 56
2012 – Peter Bergman, American Comedian, dies from leukemia at 72