1910 – Galen Clark, Canadian-born American naturalist and conservationist (discovered and helped preserve Mariposa’s Grove of giant Sequoia trees), dies at 95
1974 – Doris Deane, dies at 74
1991 – Sir John Kerr, Australian politician and the Governor General who dismissed the Whitlam Government, dies at 76
1993 – John Hersey, American author (Hiroshima, Bell for Adano, Wall), dies at 78
2008 – Chalmers “Spanky” Alford, American guitarist (b. 1955)
2009 – Martin Brozius, Dutch actor (Goede Tijden Slechte Tijden), dies at 67
2010 – Robert Culp, American actor, screenwriter, voice actor, and director (I Spy, Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice), dies at 79
2013 – Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author, dies at 86
2015 – Oleg Bryjak, Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer (Deutsche Oper am Rhein), dies in plane crash at 54
2016 – Garry Shandling, American comedian (It’s Garry Shandling’s Show, Larry Sanders Show), dies at 66
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 23rd March 2023
59 – Agrippina the Younger [Julia Agrippina], Roman Empress (sister of Caligula, wife of Claudius, mother of Nero), dies at 43 (circumstances of her death vary, but suggest she was murdered by her son, the Emperor Nero)
1653 – Johan van Galen, Dutch admiral (commanded Dutch fleet during Battle of Leghorn), dies of wounds from the Battle of Leghorn at about 48
1950 – Douglas Carr, England cricket spin bowler (1 Test, 7 wickets; Kent CCC), dies at 78
1967 – Duncan Macrae, Scottish actor (Casino Royale, The Little Kidnappers), dies at 61
1968 – Lauwrens Voorthuyzen [Lou de Palingboer], Dutch religious sect leader, dies at 70
1981 – Mike Hailwood, MBE GM, British motorcycle road racer (World C’ships: 250cc – 1961, 66, 67; 350cc – 1966, 67; 500cc –1962, 63, 64, 65; 76 Grand Prix wins), dies in a car accident at 40
1996 – J. D. “Jay” Miller, American record producer, dies at 73
2002 – Eileen Farrell, American soprano (I Got A Right To Sing The Blues; Metropolitan Opera, 1960-66) and film voice (Interrupted Melody), dies at 82
2011 – Fred Titmus, English cricket all-rounder (53 Tests, 153 wickets, 10 x 50s; Middlesex), dies at 78
2015 – Roy Douglas, English composer and arranger (Tomorrow We Live – At Dawn We Die), dies at 107
Famous Deaths for 22nd March 2023
1418 – Dietrich of Nieheim, German historian
1421 – Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, second son of Henry IV of England (killed in battle) (b. 1388)
1727 – Francesco Gasparini, Italian baroque composer (Ambleto; Missa Canonica), dies at 59
1758 – Jonathan Edwards, American Christian preacher, philosopher, and theologian (Original Sin), dies at 54
1824 – Johann Melchior Dreyer, German composer, dies at 76
1922 – Louis-Antoine Ranvier, French anatomist and historian, dies at 86
2005 – Rod Price, British rock and blues guitar and slide guitar player (Foghat, 1971-80 – “Slow Ride”), dies of a heart attack at 57
2007 – Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti, Indian philosopher (b. 1918)
2018 – Morgana King, American jazz singer and actress (The Godfather, The Godfather Part II), dies of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at 87
2020 – Eric Weissberg, American singer and musician (Duelling Banjos), dies of Alzheimer’s at 80
Famous Deaths for 21st March 2023
1881 – Samuel Courtauld, American-born textile magnate (b. 1793)
1970 – Marlen Haushofer, Austrian writer (The Wall), dies at 49
1971 – Nan Wynn [Masha Vatz], American radio and big-band singer (Rudy Vallée; Teddy Wilson), actress (Pardon My Sarong), and singing voice for Rita Hayworth, dies of cancer at 55
1973 – Antoni Szałowski, Polish-French composer (The Resurrection of Lazarus; 2 Pieces for Ondes Martenot), dies of a heart attack at 65
1981 – Mark Donskoy, Soviet-Ukrainian film director (Rainbow, A Mother’s Heart) and screenwriter, dies at 80
1999 – Ernie Wise, British comedian (Morecambe and Wise), dies at 73
2001 – Chung Ju-yung, Korean industrialist (b. 1915)
2004 – Ludmilla Tchérina, French prima ballerina, artist, actress, choreographer and author (Sins of Rome), dies at 79
2011 – Pinetop Perkins, Member of the Blues Hall of Fame (b. 1913)
2017 – Chuck Barris, american TV game show producer and host (Gong Show), dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 20th March 2023
1730 – Adrienne Lecouvreur, French actress (Comédie-Française) inspiration for 1849 drama “Adrienne Lecouvreur”, dies at 37
1780 – Sir Benjamin Truman – English brewer (b. 1699/1700)
1878 – Julius Robert von Mayer, German physician and physicist (first law of thermodynamics), dies at 63
1897 – Apollon Maykov, Russian poet, dies at 76
1968 – Carl Theodor Dreyer, Danish film director (Passion of Jeanne d’Arc), dies at 79
1984 – Stan Coveleski, American Baseball HOF pitcher (World Series 1920; AL ERA leader 1923, 25; AL strikeout leader 1920; Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators), dies at 94
1999 – Patrick Heron, British abstract painter, dies at 79
2012 – Jim Stynes, Irish Australian rules footballer, dies from cancer at 45
2018 – Bobby Mitchell, American golfer (US Masters runner-up 1972), dies of a heart attack at 75
2020 – Kenny Rogers, American pop and country singer-songwriter (“The Gambler”; “Through the Years”) and entrepreneur (Kenny Rogers Roasters), dies of natural causes at 81
Famous Deaths for 19th March 2023
1263 – Hugo of St-Cher/a S Caro, French cardinal, dies
1330 – Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent, son of Edward I, beheaded for plotting against the king at 28
1556 – Lieven van der Maude [Ammonius], South Netherlands poet, dies at 70
1638 – Paul Moreelse, Dutch painter/master builder, dies at about 66
1717 – John Campbell, 1st Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, Scottish royalist
1974 – Anne Klein, American fashion designer (Anne Klein II), dies at 50
1979 – Albert “Al” Hodge, American actor on radio (Green Hornet), and early television (Captain Video), dies of heart failure at 66
1991 – John Russell Thomas, NFL general manager (Detroit Lions), dies
2001 – Charles K. Johnson, American President of the Flat Earth Society, dies at 76
2015 – Peter Katin, British concert pianist, dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 18th March 2023
1768 – Lawrence Sterne, Irish writer (Tristram Shandy, Sentimental Journey France and Italy), dies at 54
1898 – Matilda Joslyn Gage, American suffragist (b. 1826)
1933 – Prince Luigi Amedeo, Duke of the Abruzzi, Italian navy officer, explorer and mountaineer (Ruwenzori Range, Uganda; Mount Saint Alias, Yukon), dies at 60
1973 – Lauritz Melchior, Danish-American baritone tenor (National Symphony), dies at 82
1976 – James McCartney, father of Paul McCartney, dies at 73
1977 – José Carlos Pace, Brazilian racing driver (b. 1944)
1980 – Erich Fromm, German psychologist and psychoanalyst (Sane Society), dies at 79
1983 – Franco Giorgetti, Italian cyclist (Olympic gold 1920), dies at 80
1989 – Harold Jeffreys, English mathematician (Theory of Probability) and geophysicist, dies at 97
2013 – Muhammad Mahmood Alam, Pakistani general and fighter ace, dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 17th March 2023
1272 – Emperor Go-Saga of Japan (b. 1220)
1910 – Joaquin Valverde Durán, Spanish composer, dies at 64
1949 – Aleksandra Ekster, Russian painter (b. 1882)
1982 – Joop Willemsen, Dutch cameraman, murdered in El Salvador
1990 – Rick Grech, British musician (Blind Faith, Traffic), dies at 44
1992 – Grace Stafford Lantz, American actress and cartoon voice (Woody Woodpecker), dies at 87
1993 – Charlotte Hughes, British supercentenarian (lived under the rule of 6 monarchs and 24 British Prime Ministers), dies at 115
1996 – Thomas Enders, American diplomat, dies at 64
2010 – Robert Michael White, American test pilot (X-15), dies at 85
2011 – Michael Gough, English actor (Hammer Horror Films, Search for the Nile), dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 16th March 2023
1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276), dies in battle at Boroughbridge
1559 – Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
1804 – Francisco marquis Albergati Capacelli, Italian playwright, dies at 75
1937 – J Austen Chamberlain, English Minister of Foreign Affairs (Nobel), dies at 73
1957 – Constantin Brancusi, Romanian French sculptor, dies at 81
1972 – Pie Traynor, American Baseball HOF 3rd baseman (MLB All-Star 1933, 34; World Series 1925 Pittsburgh Pirates) and manager (Pittsburgh Pirates 1934–39), dies at 72
1979 – Jean Monnet, French political economist and diplomat, dies at 90
1987 – Scott McKay [Carl Chester Gose], American actor (Stage Door, Guest in House, 30 Seconds over Tokyo), dies of kidney failuyre at 71
1996 – Olive Netta Parsons, co-founder (Collet’s bookshop), dies at 104
2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
Famous Deaths for 15th March 2023
963 – Romanus II, Byzantine emperor (959-63), dies at 25
1711 – Eusebio Kino, Italian Catholic missionary (b. 1645)
1889 – Melville Reuben Bissell, American inventor of the carpet sweeper, dies of pneumonia at 45
1891 – Joseph Bazalgette, English civil engineer (b. 1819)
1891 – Théodore de Banville, French writer, dies at 67
1905 – Amalie Skram, Norwegian author (Paa St Jorgen), dies at 58
1996 – Bob Pearce, American wrestler (Olympic gold bantamweight freestyle 1932), dies at 88
1997 – Victor Vasarely, Hungarian-French painter and author (Op Art), dies at 90
2015 – Mike Porcaro, American rock bassist (Toto, 1982-2007 “Stranger In Town”), dies from Lou Gehrig’s disease at 59
2018 – Michael Getler, American journalist and 1st ombudsman appointed by a US broadcasting network (PBS), dies of bile duct cancer at 82