1641 – Xu Xiake, Chinese adventurer (b. 1587)
1901 – Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1955 – Clémentine, Princess of Belgium, wife of Prince Napoleon Bonaparte V, dies at 82
1975 – George Stevens, American director (Swing Time, Gunga Din), dies at 70
1977 – Henry Hull, American actor (Werewolf of London, Boys Town), dies at 86
1992 – Red Callender, US jazz bassist (Unfinished dream), dies at 76
1993 – Wells Root, American screenwriter (Prisoner of Zenda), dies at 92
2004 – Robert Pastorelli, American actor (b. 1954)
2012 – Leslie Cochran, American peace activist and police critic, dies from head trauma at 60
2014 – William Guarnere, American WWII veteran, dies at 90
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 7th March 2021
1907 – Victor Alphonse Duvernoy, French pianist and composer, dies at 64
1951 – Haj Ali Razmara, 33rd Prime Minister of Iran (1950-51), assassinated at 49
1981 – Kirill Kondrashin, Russian conductor (Bolshoi Theatre, 1943-56; Moscow Philharmonic, 1960-75; Concertgebouw, 1978-81), dies at 67
1983 – Robert Bray, actor (Corey-Lassie, Simon-Stagecoach West), dies at 65
1995 – Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1996 – Aled Eames, Welsh maritime historian, dies at 74
1997 – Geraldine Clinton Little, Irish poet (A Little Bouquet), dies at 73
2004 – Paul Winfield, American actor (Star Trek II, Huckleberry Finn, Mars Attack), dies at 64
2006 – Gordon Parks, American photographer, dies at 83
2017 – Hans Dehmelt, German-born American physicist (Nobel Prize 1989), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 6th March 2021
1531 – Pedrarias Dávila, Spanish conquistador
1796 – Guillaume Thomas François Raynal, French writer, dies at 82
1933 – Anton Cermak, American politician (44th Mayor of Chicago, 1931-33), dies 23 days after being shot in Miami at 59
1951 – Ivor Novello [David Ivor Davies], Welsh composer, writer and actor (Keep the Home Fires Burning, The Truth Game), dies at 58
1986 – Adolph Caesar, actor (Club Paradise, Soldier’s Story), dies
1994 – Moses Rascoe, American blues singer, dies at 77
1995 – Delroy Wilson, Jamaican singer, dies at 46
1997 – Anthony Hopkins, English clinical neurologist and Director of the Research Unit at the Royal College of Physicians, dies at 59
1999 – Isa ibn Salman Al Khalifah, 1st emir of Bahrain (1961-1999), dies of a heart attack at 65
2000 – Chris Balderstone, English cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976), dies at 59
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2021
1790 – Flora MacDonald, Scottish woman who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie escape, buried in the sheet he slept in at 67 or 68
1926 – Clément Ader, French aviation pioneer (b. 1841)
1945 – Lena Baker, American murderer, convicted of capital murder of her employer, Ernest Knight, dies at 44
1992 – Yevgeny Yevstigneev, Russian actor (Welcome Kosta), dies at 65
1994 – Joe Daley, American jazz tenor, clarinet and flute player, dies at 75
2003 – Gerhard Rosenfeld, German opera and film score composer, dies at 72
2013 – Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela, dies from respiratory failure at 58
2014 – Geoff Edwards, American game show host, dies from pneumonia at 83
2017 – Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, dies at 78
2018 – Helmut Maucher, German businessman, CEO of Nestlé (1990-97), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 4th March 2021
1805 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter, dies at 79
1868 – Jesse Chisholm, American pioneer of the Chisholm Trail (b. 1805)
1938 – Jack Taylor, American baseball player (b. 1874)
1944 – Fannie Barrier Williams, American educator and political activist (b. 1855)
1984 – Shalva Mikhailovich Mshvelidze, Russian composer, dies at 79
1993 – Art Hodes, Russ/US jazz/blues pianist/editor (Jazz Record), dies
2001 – Jim Rhodes, Governor of Ohio (b. 1909)
2008 – Semka Sokolovic-Bertok, Yugoslavian-born Croatian actress (b. 1935)
2010 – Nan Martin, American actress (b. 1927)
2017 – Valerie Carter, American folk-rock singer-songwriter, and session vocalist, dies of a heart attack at 64
Famous Deaths for 3rd March 2021
1765 – William Stukeley, English physician and archaeologist (pioneered investigation of Stonehenge and Avebury), dies at 77
1943 – George Thomson, cricketer (all-rounder-6 Tests for Eng 1909-10), dies
1990 – Frans Goedhart, Dutch journalist/founder (Parool), dies at 86
1994 – Ezra Stone [Chaim Feinstone], American director, actor and producer (My Living Doll, Henry Aldrich), dies in a road accident at 76
1996 – Meyer Schapiro, Lithuanian-born American art historian, dies at 91
2001 – Louis Edmonds, American actor (b. 1923)
2002 – Harlan Howard, American country music songwriter, dies at 74
2003 – Peter Smithson, English architect, dies at 79
2006 – Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet (b. 1923)
2018 – David Ogden Stiers, American actor (Winchester-M*A*S*H, Doc), dies of bladder cancer at 75
Famous Deaths for 2nd March 2021
1122 – Floris II, the fat one, count of Holland, dies
1127 – Charles, the Good, Count of Flanders, murdered
1919 – Melchora Aquino, Filipino revolutionary hero (b. 1812)
1937 – Gustav Wohlgemuth, German composer, dies at 73
1957 – Harry E Soref, inventor (padlock), dies at 70
1994 – Donald M. MacKinnon, Scottish philosopher, dies at 80
1996 – Jacobo Majluta Azar, 47th President of the Dominican Republic (1978-82), dies at 61
1998 – Henry Steele Commager, American historian (Atlas of Civil War), dies at 95
2003 – Malcolm Williamson, Australian composer, dies at 71
2015 – Mal Peet, British children’s author, dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 1st March 2021
1797 – Juan Manuel Olivares, Venezuelan composer, dies at 36
1870 – Francisco Solano López, President and Dictator of Paraguay (1862-70), shouts “¡Muero con mi patria!” (I die with my nation) and dies in a struggle with Brazilian soldiers attempting to disarm him at 43
1921 – Nicholas Petrovic Njegos, King of Montenegro (1910-18), dies at 79
1938 – Gabriele D’Annunzio, Italian poet, writer (Il fuoco, Intruder), playwright and military hero as part of the elite Arditi storm troops, dies of a stroke at 74
1965 – Boleslav Vomáček, Czech composer, dies at 77
1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (Addams Family, The Kid, Oliver Twist), dies of a heart attack at 69
1991 – Frank Esler-Smith, English-Australian rock keyboardist (Air Supply), dies at 42
1996 – Margaret McKay, British politician, dies at 85
2011 – John M. Lounge, American engineer and astronaut (STS 51-I, STS 26, STS 35), dies at 64
2016 – Martha Wright, American actress and singer (South Pacific, The Martha Wright Show), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 28th February 2021
1572 – Aegidius Tschudi, Swiss historian (b. 1505)
1781 – Richard Stockton, American attorney and signer of Declaration of Independence, dies at 50
1796 – Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, German violinist and composer, dies at 56
1857 – André Dumont, Belgian geologist, dies at 48
1932 – Guillaume Bigourdan, French astronomer (b. 1851)
1935 – Chiquinha Gonzaga, Brazilian composer (b. 1847).
1968 – Doretta Morrow, American actress (Because You’re Mine), dies from cancer at 41
1994 – Buster Holmes, American chef and New Orleans restaurateur, dies at 88
1999 – Christine Glanville, British Puppeteer (. 1924)
2007 – John Smith, English landowner, financier and Philanthropist (National Trust, Landmark Trust), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 27th February 2021
1706 – John Evelyn, English writer and diarist (Life of Mrs Godolphin), dies at 85
1852 – Joseph Drechsler, Czech composer, dies at 69
1881 – George Colley, British governor of Natal/general, dies in battle at 46
1892 – Louis Vuitton, French founder of the Louis Vuitton brand of leather goods now owned by LVMH, dies at 70
1981 – Jacob H Gilbert, American politician (US Representative 1960-1971), dies at 60
1985 – David Huffman, American actor (FIST, Jane Doe, Firefox, Onion Field), murdered at 39
1993 – Jose Duval, actor (Juan Valdez), dies at 72
1996 – George Ian Murray, 10th Duke of Atholl, dies at 64
2003 – John Lanchbery, English composer (b. 1923)
2008 – Anthony Blond, British publisher (The Publishing Game, Book Book), dies at 79