Notable people who died on March 1 include: Felix III, David, Leo VIII, Rudesind, En'yū.

Notable Deaths on March 1

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Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1450)

78 people 492 – 2025

March 1 has seen 78 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 492 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1510 — Francisco de Almeida

Portuguese soldier and explorer (born 1450)

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In 1505 he was appointed as the first governor and viceroy of the Portuguese State of India

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His only son Lourenço de Almeida had previously been killed in the Battle of Chaul.

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He distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492

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Almeida is credited with establishing Portuguese hegemony in the Indian Ocean with his victory at the naval Battle of Diu in 1509

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Before Almeida returned to Portugal he lost his life in a conflict with indigenous people at the Cape of Good Hope in 1510

Felix III

pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Felix III was the bishop of Rome from 13 March 483 to his death on 1 March 492. His repudiation of the Henotikon is considered the beginning of the Acacian schism. He is commemorated on March 1.

492

David

Welsh bishop and saint

David was a Welsh Christian prelate who served as Bishop of Mynyw during the 6th century. He is the patron saint of Wales.

589

Leo VIII

pope of the Catholic Church

Pope Leo VIII was a Roman prelate who claimed the Holy See from 963 until 964 in opposition to John XII and Benedict V and again from 23 June 964 to his death. Today, he is considered by the Catholic Church to have been…

965

Rudesind

Galician bishop (born 907)

Saint Rudesind was a Galician bishop and abbot. He was also a regional administrator and military leader under his kinsmen, the Kings of León.

977

En'yū

Japanese emperor (born 959)

Emperor En'yū was the 64th Emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

991

Ermesinde of Carcassonne

countess and regent of Barcelona (born 972)

Ermesinde of Carcassonne was Countess consort of Barcelona, Girona and Osona by marriage to Ramon Borrell, Count of Barcelona. She served as regent in these counties during the minority of her son Berenguer Ramon from…

1058

Stephen II

king of Hungary and Croatia (born 1101)

Stephen II, King of Hungary and Croatia, ruled from 1116 until 1131. His father, King Coloman, had him crowned as a child, thus denying the crown to his uncle Álmos. In the first year of his reign, Venice occupied…

1131

Thomas

count of Savoy (born 1178)

Thomas Ι was Count of Savoy from 1189 to 1233. He is sometimes numbered "Thomas I" to distinguish him from his son of the same name. His long reign marked a decisive period in the history of Savoy.

1233

Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr

Welsh noble, son of Llywelyn the Great (born 1200)

Gruffudd ap Llywelyn ab Iorwerth was a Welsh prince, and the first-born son of Llywelyn ab Iorwerth.

1244

Ayurbarwada Buyantu Khan

Chinese emperor (born 1286)

Buyantu Khan, born Ayurbarwada, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Renzong of Yuan, was the fourth emperor of the Yuan dynasty. In addition to being the Emperor of China, he is regarded as the eighth Great…

1320

Amadeus VI

count of Savoy (born 1334)

Amadeus VI, nicknamed the Green Count was Count of Savoy from 1343 to 1383. He was the eldest son of Aymon, Count of Savoy and Yolande Palaeologina of Montferrat. Though he began his rule under a regency, Amadeus…

1383

George Wishart

Scottish minister and martyr (born 1513)

George Wishart was a Scottish Protestant Reformer and one of the early Protestant martyrs burned at the stake as a heretic.

1546

Thomas Campion

English poet and composer (born 1567)

Thomas Campion was an English composer, poet, and physician. He was born in London, educated at Cambridge, and studied law in Gray's Inn. He wrote over a hundred lute songs, masques for dancing, and an authoritative…

1620

George Herbert

English poet and orator (born 1593)

George Herbert was an English poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. His poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognised as "one of the foremost British devotional…

1633

Girolamo Frescobaldi

Italian keyboardist and composer (born 1583)

Girolamo Alessandro Frescobaldi was an Italian composer and virtuoso keyboard player. Born in the Duchy of Ferrara, he was one of the most important composers of keyboard music in the late Renaissance and early Baroque…

1643

Richard Zouch

English judge and politician (born 1590)

Richard Zouch was an English judge and a Member of Parliament from 1621 to 1624. He was elected Member of Parliament for Hythe in 1621 and later became principal of St. Alban Hall, Oxford. During the English Civil War,…

1661

Francesco Redi

Italian physician and poet (born 1626)

Francesco Redi was an Italian physician, naturalist, biologist, and poet. He is referred to as the "founder of experimental biology", and as the "father of modern parasitology". He was the first person to challenge the…

1697

Roger North

English lawyer and author (born 1653)

Roger North was an English lawyer, biographer, and amateur musician.

1734

Hermann Samuel Reimarus

German philosopher and author (born 1694)

Hermann Samuel Reimarus, was a German philosopher and writer of the Enlightenment who is remembered for his Deism, the doctrine that human reason can arrive at a knowledge of God and ethics from a study of nature and…

1768

Luigi Vanvitelli

Italian architect, designed the Palace of Caserta (born 1700)

Luigi Vanvitelli, was an Italian architect and painter. The most prominent 18th-century architect of Italy, he practised a sober classicising academic Late Baroque style that made an easy transition to Neoclassicism.

1773

Leopold II

Holy Roman Emperor (born 1747)

Leopold II was the penultimate Holy Roman Emperor, as well as King of Hungary, Croatia and Bohemia, and Archduke of Austria from 1790 to 1792, and Grand Duke of Tuscany from 1765 to 1790. He was a son of Empress Maria…

1792

Angelo Emo

Venetian admiral and statesman (born 1731)

Angelo Emo was a Venetian naval officer. He is notable for his reforms of the Venetian navy and his naval campaigns, being regarded as the last great admiral of the Venetian Republic.

1792

Claude Victor-Perrin

Duc de Belluno, French general and politician, French Minister of Defence (born 1764)

Claude-Victor Perrin, Duke of Belluno was a French military commander who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was made a Marshal of the Empire in 1807 by Emperor Napoleon I.

1841

Peter Barlow

English mathematician and physicist (born 1776)

Peter Barlow was an English mathematician and physicist.

1862

Tristan Corbière

French poet and educator (born 1845)

Tristan Corbière, born Édouard-Joachim Corbière, was a French poet born in Coat-Congar, Ploujean in Brittany, where he lived most of his life before dying of tuberculosis at the age of 29. He was a French poet, close to…

1875

Theodor Kullak

German pianist, composer, and educator (born 1818)

Theodor Kullak was a German pianist, composer and teacher.

1882

Isaac Todhunter

English mathematician and academic (born 1820)

Isaac Todhunter FRS, was an English mathematician who is best known today for the books he wrote on mathematics and its history.

1884

William Henry Monk

English organist and composer (born 1823)

William Henry Monk was an English organist, Anglican church musician, and music editor who composed popular hymn tunes, including "Eventide", used for the hymn "Abide with Me", and "All Things Bright and Beautiful". He…

1889

Rafael Campo

President of El Salvador from 1856 to 1858 (born 1813)

Rafael Juan Campo y Pomar was a Salvadoran politician, businessman, and journalist who served as the 8th President of El Salvador from 1856 to 1858. He also served as the president of the Constituent Assembly in 1871.

1890

José María de Pereda

Spanish author (born 1833)

José María de Pereda y Sánchez de Porrúa was a Spanish novelist, and a Member of the Royal Spanish Academy.

1906

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

Dutch-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1852)

Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff Jr. was a Dutch physical chemist. A highly influential theoretical chemist, in 1901 Van 't Hoff won the first Nobel Prize in Chemistry "[for his] discovery of the laws of chemical dynamics…

1911

Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound

4th Earl of Minto, English soldier and politician, 8th Governor General of Canada (born 1845)

Gilbert John Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto, known as Viscount Melgund by courtesy from 1859 to 1891, was a British peer and politician who served as Governor General of Canada from 1898 to 1904, and…

1914

John H. Bankhead

American lawyer and politician (born 1842)

John Hollis Bankhead was an American politician and Confederate Army soldier. A member of the Democratic Party, Bankhead served as U.S. Senator from the state of Alabama from 1907 until his death in 1920. Bankhead had…

1920

Pichichi

Spanish footballer (born 1892)

Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, known as Pichichi, was a Spanish footballer who played as a forward. He is known for the Pichichi Trophy named in his honour.

1922

Homer Plessy

American political activist (born 1862 or 1863)

Homer Adolph Plessy was an American shoemaker and activist who was the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson. He staged an act of civil disobedience to challenge one of Louisiana's…

1925

Frank Teschemacher

American Jazz musician (born 1906)

Frank Teschemacher was an American jazz clarinetist and alto-saxophonist, associated with the "Austin High" gang.

1932

Mikhail Kuzmin

Russian author and poet (born 1871)

Mikhail Alekseevich Kuzmin was a Russian poet, musician and novelist, as well as a prominent contributor to the Silver Age of Russian Poetry.

1936

Gabriele D'Annunzio

Italian journalist and politician (born 1863)

General Gabriele D'Annunzio, Prince of Montenevoso, sometimes written d'Annunzio as he used to sign himself, was an Italian poet, playwright, orator, journalist, aristocrat, and Royal Italian Army officer during World…

1938

A. H. Tammsaare

Estonian author (born 1878)

Anton Hansen, better known by his pseudonym A. H. Tammsaare and its variants, was an Estonian writer whose pentalogy Truth and Justice is considered one of the major works of Estonian literature and "The Estonian Novel".

1940

George S. Rentz

American commander (born 1882)

George Snavely Rentz was a United States Navy chaplain who served during World War I and World War II. For selfless heroism following the loss of USS Houston (CA-30) in the Battle of Sunda Strait, he was posthumously…

1942

Alexandre Yersin

Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist (born 1863)

Alexandre Émile John Yersin was a Swiss-French physician and bacteriologist. He is remembered for his work as a pioneer in microbiology and immunology. Yersin is the co-discoverer of both the Diphtheria and Tetanus…

1943

Mariano Azuela

Mexican physician and author (born 1873)

Mariano Azuela González was a Mexican writer and medical doctor, best known for his fictional stories of the Mexican Revolution of 1910. He wrote novels, works for theatre and literary criticism. He is the first of the…

1952

Fritz Houtermans

Polish-German physicist and academic (born 1903)

Friedrich Georg "Fritz" Houtermans was a Dutch-Austrian-German atomic and nuclear physicist and Communist born in Zoppot near Danzig, West Prussia to a Dutch father, who was a wealthy banker. He was brought up in…

1966

Bobby Timmons

American pianist and composer (born 1935)

Robert Henry Timmons was an American jazz pianist and composer. He was a sideman in Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for two periods, between which he was part of Cannonball Adderley's band. Several of Timmons' compositions…

1974

Jean Martinon

French conductor and composer (born 1910)

Jean Francisque-Étienne Martinon was a French conductor and composer.

1976

Paul Scott

English author, poet, and playwright (born 1920)

Paul Mark Scott was an English novelist best known for his tetralogy The Raj Quartet. In the last years of his life, his novel Staying On won the Booker Prize (1977). The series of books was dramatised by Granada…

1978

Mustafa Barzani

Iraqi-Kurdistan politician (born 1903)

Mustafa Barzani, also known as Mullah Mustafa, was a Kurdish nationalist leader and one of the most prominent political figures in modern Kurdish politics.

1979

Wilhelmina Cooper

Dutch-American model and businesswoman, founded Wilhelmina Models (born 1940)

Wilhelmina Gertrud Frieda Cooper was a Dutch-American model who began with Ford Models, and at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.

1980

Dixie Dean

English footballer (born 1907)

William Ralph "Dixie" Dean was an English footballer who played as a centre forward. Dean holds the record for the most goals scored in a single season in top-flight English football, with 60. He is regarded as one of…

1980

Arthur Koestler

Hungarian-English journalist and author (born 1905)

Arthur Koestler was an Austro-Hungarian-born author and journalist. Koestler was born in Budapest, and was educated in Austria, apart from his early school years. In 1931, Koestler joined the Communist Party of Germany…

1983

Jackie Coogan

American actor (born 1914)

John Leslie Coogan was an American actor and comedian who began his film career as a child actor in silent films. Coogan's title role in Charlie Chaplin's film The Kid (1921) made him one of the first child stars in the…

1984

Joe Besser

American comedian and actor (born 1907)

Joe Besser was an American actor and comedian known for his impish humor and wimpy characters. He is best known for his brief stint as a member of The Three Stooges in movie short subjects of 1957–1959. He is also…

1988

Vasantdada Patil

Indian politician, 5th Chief Minister of Maharashtra (born 1917)

Vasantrao Banduji Patil was an Indian politician from Sangli, Maharashtra. He was known as the first modern Maratha strongman and first mass leader in Maharashtrian politics.

1989

Edwin H. Land

American scientist and businessman, co-founded the Polaroid Corporation (born 1909)

Edwin Herbert Land, ForMemRS, FRPS, Hon.MRI was an American scientist and inventor, best known as the co-founder of the Polaroid Corporation. He invented inexpensive filters for polarizing light, a practical system of…

1991

Joseph Christopher

American schizophrenic serial killer (born 1955)

Joseph Gerard Christopher, also known as the Midtown Slasher and the .22 Caliber Killer, was an American serial killer who committed a series of stabbings and shootings against African American men and boys, killing…

1993

César Rodríguez Álvarez

Spanish footballer and manager (born 1920)

César Rodríguez Álvarez, sometimes known as just César, was a Spanish football forward and manager.

1995

Georges J. F. Köhler

German biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1946)

Georges Jean Franz Köhler was a German biologist.

1995

Archie Goodwin

American author and illustrator (born 1937)

Archie Goodwin was an American comic book writer, editor, and artist. He worked on a number of comic strips in addition to comic books, and is known for his Warren and Marvel Comics work. For Warren he was chief writer…

1998

Mian Ghulam Jilani

Pakistani general (born 1914)

Mian Ghulam Jilani also known as Kaka, Speen Dada, and Jilly, was a politician, businessman, and former two-star general in the Pakistan Army. As a British Indian Army officer during World War II, he survived a Japanese…

2004

Peter Osgood

English footballer (born 1947)

Peter Leslie Osgood was an English footballer who was active during the 1960s and 1970s. He is best remembered for representing Chelsea and Southampton as a forward at club level, winning the FA Cup with each, and was…

2006

Jack Wild

English actor (born 1952)

Jack Wild was an English actor and singer. He is best known for his role as the Artful Dodger in the film Oliver! (1968), for which he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor at the age of 16. As…

2006

Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi

Singaporean rape and murder victim (born 2003)

Nurasyura binte Mohamed Fauzi was a two-year-old Malay girl from Singapore who was raped and murdered. Nurasyura, better known as Nonoi, had gone missing on 1 March 2006, and a highly publicized search ensued; three…

2006

Kristian Digby

English television host and director (born 1977)

Scott Kristian Edwin Digby was an English television presenter and director best known for presenting To Buy or Not to Buy on BBC One. On 1 March 2010 he was found dead in what police said were "unexplained…

2010

Andrew Breitbart

American journalist and publisher (born 1969)

Andrew James Breitbart was an American conservative journalist and political commentator who was the founder of Breitbart News and a co-founder of HuffPost.

2012

Germano Mosconi

Italian journalist (born 1932)

Germano Mosconi was an Italian sportswriter, news presenter and a television personality.

2012

Bonnie Franklin

American actress, dancer, and singer (born 1944)

Bonnie Gail Franklin was an American actress. She is best known for her leading role as Ann Romano in the television series One Day at a Time (1975–1984). She was nominated for Emmy, Tony, and Golden Globe Awards.

2013

Alain Resnais

French director, cinematographer, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Alain Resnais was a French film director and screenwriter whose career extended over more than six decades. His films frequently explore the relationship between consciousness, memory, and the imagination, and he was…

2014

Minnie Miñoso

Cuban-American baseball player and coach (born 1922)

Saturnino Orestes "Minnie" Armas Arrieta Miñoso, nicknamed "the Cuban Comet," was a Cuban professional baseball player. He began his baseball career in the Negro leagues in 1946 and became an All-Star third baseman with…

2015

Carole Achache

French writer, photographer and actress (born 1952)

Carole Hélène Marthe Andrée Achache was a French writer, photographer and actress. She was the daughter of French writer Monique Lange and the mother of French-Moroccan film director Mona Achache. She appeared in films…

2016

María Rubio

Mexican television, film and stage actress (born 1934)

María Rubio was a Mexican actress. She worked with Televisa on many telenovelas. She appeared as the villain Catalina Creel in the 1986–87 telenovela, Cuna de lobos.

2018

Mike Willesee

Australian journalist and producer (born 1942)

Michael Robert Willesee, was an Australian award-winning news and current affairs television journalist, interviewer and presenter. Willesee worked at the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC), before moving to…

2019

Just Fontaine

French footballer (born 1933)

Just Louis Fontaine was a French professional footballer who played as a striker. He scored the most goals ever in a single edition of the FIFA World Cup, with thirteen in six matches in the 1958 tournament. In March…

2023

Iris Apfel

American businesswoman, interior designer, and philanthropist (born 1921)

Iris Apfel was an American businesswoman, interior designer, and fashion designer, known for her flamboyant style, outspoken personality and oversized eyeglasses. In business with her husband, Carl, from 1950 to 1992,…

2024

Akira Toriyama

Japanese manga artist (born 1955)

Akira Toriyama was a Japanese manga artist and character designer. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential authors in the history of manga and created numerous highly influential and popular series,…

2024

Pat Ingoldsby

Irish poet and television presenter (born 1942)

Patrick Ingoldsby was an Irish poet and television presenter. He hosted children's television shows, wrote plays for the stage and for radio, published books of short stories and was a newspaper columnist. From the…

2025

Joey Molland

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1947)

Joseph Charles Molland II was an English singer-songwriter and guitarist whose recording career spanned five decades. He was best known as a member of Badfinger, the most successful of the acts he performed with.…

2025

Angie Stone

American singer, songwriter, and actress (born 1961)

Angela Laverne Stone was an American singer-songwriter, rapper, actress, and record producer. With a career spanning more than four decades, she has been credited with revolutionizing the sound of hip-hop and neo soul.

2025

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Known forHe distinguished himself as a counsellor to King John II of Portugal and later in the wars against the Moors and in the conquest of Granada in 1492

Deaths on this date78 (492 – 2025)

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