840 – Eginhard, French nobleman/biographer (Vita Karoli Magni), dies at 69
1559 – Jacques d’Auchy, Walloon baptist merchant, executed
1823 – Charles François Dumouriez, French general during the Revolutionary Wars, dies at 84
1954 – Fred Herd, Scottish golfer (US Open 1898), dies at 80
1957 – Evagoras Pallikarides, Cypriot freedom fighter (b. 1938)
1967 – Paul Faucher, French author and pioneering children’s publisher (Père Castor), dies at 68
1986 – Benno Ammann, Swiss composer (Missa Defensor Pacis) and conductor, dies at 81
2007 – Lucie Aubrac, French history teacher and member of the French Resistance (b. 1912)
2010 – Peter Graves [Aurness], American actor (Mission Impossible, Airplane!, Stalag 17), dies from a heart attack at 83
2018 – Jim Bowen, British TV game show host (Bullseye) and comedian, dies at 80
Category: Famous Deaths
Famous Deaths for 13th March 2023
1915 – Sergei Witte, 1st Prime Minister of Russia (1905-06), dies at 65
1938 – Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin, Russian politician and intellectual, dies at 49
1941 – E Hellendoorn, Dutch resistance fighter, executed
1964 – Catherine “Kitty” Genovese, stabbed to death in Queens; almost 40 witnesses but no rescuers
1975 – Ivo Andric, Yugoslavian novelist (Bridge on Drina, Nobel 1961), dies at 82
1982 – Wilfred Hawker, Suriname sgt-major, executed
2001 – Encarnacion Alzona, Filipino historian (b. 1895)
2004 – Vilayat Khan, Indian classical sitar player and composer, dies at 75
2005 – Lyn Collins [Gloria Lavern Collins], American soul singer (Think About It), dies from cardiac arrhythmia at 56
2021 – ‘Marvelous’ Marvin Hagler, American boxer (undisputed World Middleweight champion 1980-87; second-longest unified C’ship reign in history), dies at 66
Famous Deaths for 12th March 2023
417 – Innocent I, Italian Pope (401-417), dies
1734 – Antonius Schultingh [Schultingius], Dutch lawyer, dies at 74
1894 – Illarion Pryanishnikov, Russian painter (b. 1840)
1913 – Josef Bayer, composer, Austrian composer, and music director (Austrian Court Ballet, 1883-1913), dies at 61
1944 – Artur Gavazzi, Croatian geographer, dies at 82
1961 – Belinda Lee, English actress (Joseph and his Brethren), dies in car crash at 25
1991 – Etienne Decroux, French mime (Voyage, Surprise), dies at 92
2004 – Sylvi Saimo, Finnish kayaker (Olympic gold 1952, 1st female summer Olympic champion), dies at 89
2016 – Lloyd Shapley, American Mathematician (2012 Nobel Prize, Game Theory), dies at 92
2017 – Luigi Barbarito, Italian prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, dies at 94
Famous Deaths for 11th March 2023
1900 – Edmund Peate, cricketer (9 Tests for England 1881-86), dies
1908 – Benjamin Waugh, English social reformer who founded the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, dies at 69
1915 – Thomas Alexander Browne, Australian writer (Robbery Under Arms), dies at 88
1956 – Sergey Nikiforovich Vasilenko, Russian opera composer, dies at 83
1984 – Nakagawa Soen, Zen teacher/poet, dies in Rytutakuji monastery at 76
1989 – Johan Fleerackers, Flemish linguist, dies at 57
1993 – Manuel da Fonseca, Portuguese writer (Cerro Maior), dies at 81
1997 – Lars Ahlin, Swedish writer (My Death is My Own), dies at 81
1999 – Herbert Jasper, Canadian physiologist and neurologist, dies at 92
2019 – Hal Blaine [Harold Belsky], American pop and rock session drummer (The Wrecking Crew), dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 10th March 2023
1510 – Johann Geiler von Kaisersberg, Swiss-born preacher (b. 1445)
1776 – Élie Catherine Fréron, French critic (b. 1719)
1792 – John Stuart, 3rd earl of Bute, Prime Minister of Great Britain (1760-63), dies at 78
1866 – Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, Italian-French composer and music publisher, dies at 87
1913 – Harriet Tubman [Araminta Ross], American abolitionist, former slave and humanitarian (Underground Railroad), dies at about 91 {birth date uncertain]
1988 – William Brocklesby Wordsworth, English composer, dies at 79
1995 – Carel Birnie, Dutch ballet producer, dies at 69
2007 – Ernie Ladd, American football player and professional wrestler (b. 1938)
2012 – Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, dies at 92
2016 – Ken Adam, British film production designer (James Bond sets), dies at 95
Famous Deaths for 9th March 2023
1800 – Dominique Della-Maria, French composer, dies at 30
1969 – Riad, chief of staff (Egyptian army), dies
1994 – Fernando Rey [Arambillet], Spanish actor (The French Connection, Matter of Time), dies of bladder cancer at 76
1994 – Lawrence E. Spivak, American news panelist (Meet the Press), dies at 93
1996 – Elman Ali Ahmed, Somali peace campaigner, dies at 42
2005 – István Nyers, Hungarian footballer, dies at 80
2006 – John Profumo, British cabinet minister (Profumo scandal), dies at 91
2010 – Doris Haddock, American political activist (b. 1910)
2020 – Keith Olsen, American rock record producer and sound engineer (Fleetwood Mac – Fleetwood Mac; Grateful Dead – Terrapin Station; Joe Walsh – The Confessor), dies of cardiac arrest at 74
2021 – James Levine, American conductor (director of the Metropolitan Opera, 1976-2017), dies at 77
Famous Deaths for 8th March 2023
1717 – Abraham Darby I, English ironmaster (1st to smelt iron ore with coke, pivotal figure in Industrial Revolution), dies at about 40
1734 – Carolomannus Pachschmidt, Austrian composer, dies at 33
1862 – Adrien de La Fage, composer, dies at 56
1887 – Pavel Annenkov, Russian literature historian/critic, dies at 73 (b. 1813)
1901 – Peter Benoit, Flemish composer/conductor (High Mass), dies at 66
1945 – Jan Beekes, resistance fighter, executed at 26
1946 – Frederick Lanchester, English Engineer who built the first British petrol automobile (1896), dies at 77
1974 – Willem “Wim” Sonneveld, Dutch singer considered one of the ‘Great Three’ of Dutch cabaret (My Fair Lady), dies from a heart attack at 56
1996 – Jack Churchill, British Army commando, dies at 89
2014 – William Guarnere, American WWII veteran, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 7th March 2023
1578 – Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, niece of Henry VIII and whose son married Mary Queen of Scots, dies at 62
1949 – Bradbury Robinson Jr., American football pioneer who threw first legal forward pass in the history of American football in 1906, dies from complications following routine surgery at 65
1954 – Otto Diels, German organic chemist (1950 Nobel Prize for Chemistry for cyclic organic compounds), dies at 78
1955 – Tom Dugan, Irish actor (Circus Clown, Drag, Skyway), dies at 66
1981 – Hilde Krahwinkel Sperling, German tennis player (Wimbledon 1931, 1936 runner-up), dies at 72
1988 – Divine [Harris Glenn Milstead], American actress, drag queen and international icon of bad taste cinema (Pink Flamingos), dies of natural causes at 42
1995 – Jacques Lefebvre, Belgian air force general, commits suicide at 64
1999 – Lowell Fulson, Choctaw-Cherokee-American blues guitarist and songwriter (“3 O’Clock Blues”; “Reconsider Baby”), dies at 77
2010 – Mary Josephine Ray, Canadian-American supercentenarian, dies at 114
2013 – Peter Banks [Brockbanks], British rock guitarist and singer-songwriter described as “the architect of progressive music” (Yes, the Syn, Flash), dies of heart failure at 65
Famous Deaths for 6th March 2023
1764 – Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke, Lord Chancellor of England, dies at 73
1899 – Victoria Kaiulani, Hawaiian princess (b. 1875)
1924 – Meyer van Beem, Dutch actor (Mottige Janus, Black Venus), dies at 85
1945 – Jan Thijssen, Dutch resistance fighter, executed at Savage Farm
1948 – Ross Lockridge, Jr., American novelist (Raintree County), dies at 33
1962 – Rezső Kókai, Hungarian pianist, composer, musicologist, and pedagogue, dies at 56
1967 – Oscar Shaw, actor (Rhythm on the River, Marianne), dies at 76
1989 – Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Helen of Troy, Hill), dies at 77
1992 – Elvia Allman, actress (Night at Earl Carroll’s), dies of pneumonia
1998 – Adem Jasari, Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) leader, killed
Famous Deaths for 5th March 2023
1611 – Shimazu Yoshihisa, Japanese warlord and samurai (b. 1533)
1815 – Franz Anton Mesmer, Austrian physician and hypnotist (Mesmerism), dies at 80
1893 – Richard Samuel Hughes, Welsh composer, dies at 37
1895 – Nikolai Leskow, writer, dies at 64
1944 – Max Jacob, French poet and writer, dies in nazi concentration camp at 67
1967 – Mohammad Mosaddegh, Prime Minister of Iran (1951-53) who was overthrown in a coup d’état aided by the CIA and the British SIS, dies at 84
1984 – Michael Sklar, American comedian (Laugh-In; Sha Na Na), dies at 39
1997 – Samm Sinclair Baker, American diet author (b. 1909)
2017 – Anthony Beilenson, American politician (Rep-D-California, 1977-97), dies at 84
2018 – Kjerstin Dellert, Swedish opera singer, dies at 92