1578 – Juan de Escobedo, sec of Spanish land guardian Don Juan, murdered
1944 – Mineichi Koga, admiral of Japanese fleet, dies
1957 – Gene Lockhart, American actor (Going My Way), dies at 65
1971 – Liselotte Liselot Beekmeyer, Dutch actress (Child Crying), dies at 31
1993 – Chichay [Amparo Robles Custodio], Filipino comedienne and actress (Bilangguang puso, Ngitngit ng pitong whistle bomb), dies at 75
1993 – Jose Maria Lemus, president of El Salvador (1956-60), dies
1998 – Tim Flock, American auto racer (Winston Cup 1952, 55), dies of liver and throat cancer at 73
2020 – Pape Diouf, Senegalese journalist and football agent (president Olympique de Marseille 2005-09; first black president in Europe’s top 6 leagues), dies from COVID-19 at 68
2021 – Ron Greene, American college basketball coach (Uni of New Orleans, Mississippi State, Murray State, Indiana State), dies at 82
2022 – Fred Johnson, American doo-wop bass vocalist (The Marcels – “Blue Moon”), dies at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 30th March 2024
988 – Arnulf II, count of Flanders (965-988), dies
1953 – Roderich Mojsisovics-Mojsvar, Austrian composer, dies at 75
1961 – Philibert Melotte, British astronomer (discovered Jupiter’s 8th satellite Pasiphae), dies at 81
1968 – Bobby Driscoll, American Academy Juvenile Award-winning actor (Song Of The South; The Window), dies of heart failure at 31 [date reflects discovery of his body in a deserted NYC tenement]
1976 – Jacqueline Royaards-Sandberg, Dutch actress (Hostage Rights), dies at 99
1995 – Tony Lock, English cricket spin bowler (49 Tests, 174 wickets, BB 7/35, 2 x 50; Surrey CCC, Western Australia, Leicestershire CCC), dies from cancer at 65
1996 – Ryoei Saito, Japanese businessman (Daishowa Paper Manufacturing), dies at 79
1998 – Ramsay Ames [Phillips], American actress, model and dancer (The Mummy’s Ghost; Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves), dies of lung cancer at 79
2020 – Frank Maloney, American football coach (Syracuse University 1974-1980), dies from brain cancer at 79
2020 – Manolis Glezos, Greek politician, writer and resistance hero (took down Nazi flag from Acropolis), dies at 97
Famous Deaths for 29th March 2024
1368 – Emperor Go-Murakami, Emperor of Japan (b. 1328)
1625 – Antonio de Herrera y Tordesillas, Spanish historian (b. 1549)
1683 – Yaoya Oshichi, a young girl burned at the stake for arson in 17th Century Japan (b. 1667)
1878 – Mark Hopkins, American business tycoon and railroad executive (Central Pacific Railroad), dies at 64
1930 – Anton Bettelheim, Austrian writer, dies at 78
1948 – Olev Siinmaa, Estonian ‘Functionalist’ architect (Pärnu Beach Hotel), dies at 66
1953 – Arthur Fields [Abraham Finkelstein], American singer-songwriter (Aba Daba Honeymoon), dies in a fire at his nursing home residence at 68
1955 – Everard Verachtert, Flemish linguist (I Can Speak Nicely pamphlet), dies at 81
1980 – Annunzio Mantovani, Italian orchestra leader (Mantovani), dies at 74
2020 – Krzysztof Penderecki, Polish composer (“Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima”), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 28th March 2024
1880 – Achille Peri, composer, dies at 67
1910 – William Paul Roberts, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 68
1914 – Hanus Trnecek, composer, dies at 55
1929 – Lomer Gouin, Quebec politician (b. 1861)
1943 – Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian-American piano virtuoso, conductor, and composer (Aleko; Piano Concerto No. 3), dies at 69
1993 – Scott Cunningham, Occult author (b. 1956)
1994 – Eugene Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright (Rhinoceros, Bald Soprano), dies at 84
2004 – Art James, American game show host (b. 1929)
2004 – Peter Ustinov, British actor, author, journalist, comedian and broadcaster (Death on the Nile: Logan’s Run: Billy Budd), dies of heart failure at 82
2014 – Jeremiah Denton, American politician (Senator-R-Alabama, 1981-86), dies at 89
Famous Deaths for 27th March 2024
1472 – Janus Pannonius, Hungarian poet and translator, dies at 37
1809 – Joseph-Marie Vien, French court painter, dies at 92
1873 – Amedée Simon Dominique Thierry, French journalist and historian (b. 1797)
1934 – Francis William Reitz, 5th State President of the Orange Free State, dies at 89
1986 – Cass Canfield, US publisher, dies at 88
1991 – Elinor Remick Warren, American concert pianist and composer, dies at 91
1994 – Dennis Hartas, flier, dies at 69
1995 – Chet Gierlach, American music publisher, jazz and popular song composer ((The Funniest Bird I’ve Heard of) The Kiwi (Kee Wee) Bird), dies at 75
2000 – Ian Dury, English rock musician (The Blockheads) and actor (Judge Dredd), dies at 57
2007 – Paul Lauterbur, American chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1929)
Famous Deaths for 26th March 2024
304 – Saint Emmanuel, Christian martyr killed under Diocletian
1880 – Mariano Soriano Fuertes y Piqueras, Spanish composer, dies at 62
1926 – Georges Vezina, Canadian NHL Hall of Fame goalie (Canadiens), dies from TB at 39
1932 – Jean Cartan, French composer, dies at 25
1934 – Grete Gulbransson, Austrian writer and poet (Geliebte Schatten), dies at 51
1943 – Lillien Jane Martin, American psychologist who founded the world’s 1st gerontology clinic in San Francisco, dies at 91
1973 – Don Messer, Canadian folk fiddler, and television host (Jubilee, 1959-73), dies of a heart attack at 63
1988 – Musa Kaleem [Orlando Wright], American jazz saxophonist, dies at 67
2002 – (Randolpho) Randy Castillo, American rock and mariachi drummer (Ozzy Osbourne; Mötley Crüe; Azul), dies of cancer at 51
2016 – Jim Harrison, American poet and novelist (Legends of the Fall), dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 25th March 2024
1738 – Turlough O’Carolan, Irish harper and composer (b. 1670)
1931 – Ida B. Wells (-Barnett), American journalist, civil rights activist, and co-founder of the NAACP, dies at 68
1933 – Eric Jan Hanussen [Hermann Steinschneider], Austrian astrologist, clairvoyant, illusionist, and speaking tutor to Hitler, murdered at 43
1937 – John Drinkwater, English poet and playwright (Bird in Hand), dies at 54
1958 – Tom Brown, American dixieland jazz trombonist, dies at 69
1969 – Norman Gallichan, New Zealand cricket all-rounder (1 Test, HS 30, 3 wickets; Manawatu, Wellington), dies at 62
1996 – John Snagge, British newsreader and commentator for the BBC (Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race), dies at 91
1999 – Cal Ripken Sr, American baseball manager (Baltimore Orioles 1987-88; World Series 1983 [coach]), dies of lung cancer at 63
2007 – Andranik Margaryan, 14th Prime Minister of Armenia (2000-07), dies at 57
2023 – Pavel Krotov, Russian freestyle skier (World C’ship gold mixed team aerials 2021), dies at 30
Famous Deaths for 24th March 2024
1603 – Elizabeth I Tudor [Virgin Queen], Queen of England and Ireland (1558-1603) and daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, dies at 69
1877 – Walter Bagehot, English journalist and economist (founded National Review), dies at 51
1882 – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet (Song of Hiawatha), dies at 75
1888 – Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (b. 1855)
1899 – Billy Barnes, English cricket all-rounder (21 Tests, 1 x 100, HS 134, 51 wickets, BB 6/28; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 46
1910 – Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa’s Grove of giant Sequoia trees), dies at 95
1968 – Lauwrens Voorthuyzen, Dutch sect leader, dies at 70
1977 – Saburō Moroi, Japanese composer and educator, dies at 73
2010 – Jules van Neerven, Dutch economist, journalist, and editor (Limbourg Daily), dies at 80
2020 – Albert Uderzo, French cartoonist and script writer (Asterix comic books), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 23rd March 2024
1361 – Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster, richest peer in England, dies at 50 or 51
1653 – Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (commanded Dutch fleet during Battle of Leghorn), dies of wounds from the Battle of Leghorn at about 48
1748 – Johann Gottfried Walther, German composer and musicologist, dies at 63
1786 – Patience Wright, 1st US woman pro artist, dies (birth date unknown)
1819 – August von Kotzebue, German dramatist, dies at 57
1987 – Adriaan Pitlo, Dutch lawyer, dies at 85
1991 – Parkash Singh, Indian soldier, recipient of the Victoria Cross (b. 1913)
1995 – Russell Reading Braddon, Australian author, dies at 74
2000 – Dick van Niehoff, Dutch pop vocalist (Fouryo), dies at 62
2006 – Sarah Caldwell, American conductor/opera director (Flagstaff), dies at 82
Famous Deaths for 22nd March 2024
1661 – Hendrick Uylenburgh, Dutch art dealer who launched Rembrandt and others, buried at about 73
1687 – Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-born French composer (Miserere Suites de Symphonies et Trios), dies at 54
1867 – Ferdinando Giorgetti, Italian composer, dies at 70
1975 – Paul Verhoeven, German actor and director (Das kleine Hofkonzert), dies at 73
1981 – James “Jumbo” Elliott, American track coach (b. 1915)
1986 – Harriette Arnow, American novelist and historian (Dollmaker), dies at 77
1990 – Alexander Chugayev, Soviet Russian composer, dies at 66
1994 – Walter Lantz, American cartoonist (Woody Woodpecker’s creator), dies at 93
1996 – Claude Mauriac, French writer (Le Temps immobile), dies at 81
2006 – Pierre Clostermann, French World War II pilot (b. 1921)