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Notable Deaths on March 10
63 people
483 – 2025
March 10 has seen 63 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 483 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1985 — Bob Nieman
American baseball player (born 1927)
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Louis Cardinals (1960–61), Cleveland Indians (1961–62) and San Francisco Giants (1962)
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He also played one season in Japan for the Chunichi Dragons (1963)
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He threw and batted right-handed, stood 5 feet 11 inches (1.80 m) tall and weighed 195 pounds (88 kg).
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Robert Charles Nieman was an American professional baseball player and scout
Pope Simplicius was the bishop of Rome from 468 to his death on 10 March 483. He combated the Eutychian heresy, ended the practice of consecrating bishops only in December, and sought to offset the effects of Germanic…
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483
Shatuo founder of the Later Han dynasty (born 895)
Liu Zhiyuan, later changed to Liu Gao (劉暠), also known by his temple name as the Emperor Gaozu of Later Han (後漢高祖), was the founding emperor of the Shatuo-led Chinese Later Han dynasty, the fourth of the Five Dynasties…
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948
1291
Austrian mystic
Agnes Blannbekin was an Austrian Beguine and Christian mystic. She was also referred to as Saint Agnes Blannbekin or the Venerable Agnes Blannbekin, though never beatified or canonized by the Roman Catholic Church. Her…
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1315
13th Earl of Oxford, English commander and politician, Lord High Constable of England (born 1442)
John de Vere, 13th Earl of Oxford,, the second son of John de Vere, 12th Earl of Oxford, and Elizabeth Howard, a first cousin of John Howard, 1st Duke of Norfolk, was one of the principal Lancastrian commanders during…
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1513
German/Moravian Anabaptist leader
Balthasar Hubmaier was an influential German Anabaptist leader. He was one of the most well-known and respected Anabaptist theologians of the Reformation.
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1528
1st Marquess of Winchester
William Paulet, 1st Marquess of Winchester, styled Lord St John between 1539 and 1550 and Earl of Wiltshire between 1550 and 1551, was an English Lord High Treasurer, Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, and statesman.
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1572
Flemish physician and botanist (born 1517)
Rembert Dodoens was a Flemish physician and botanist, also known under his Latinized name Rembertus Dodonaeus. He has been called the father of botany. The standard author abbreviation Dodoens is used to indicate this…
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1585
Dutch painter and etcher (born 1628)
Jacob Isaackszoon van Ruisdael was a Dutch painter, draughtsman, and etcher. He is generally considered the pre-eminent landscape painter of the Dutch Golden Age, a period of great wealth and cultural achievement when…
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1682
Swedish chemist, geologist, and physician (born 1641)
Urban Hjärne was a Swedish chemist, geologist, physician and writer.
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1724
French author and critic (born 1718)
Élie Catherine Fréron was a French literary critic and controversialist whose career focused on countering the influence of the philosophes of the French Enlightenment, partly through his vehicle, the Année littéraire.…
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1776
3rd Earl of Bute, Scottish politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1713)
John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute, styled Lord Mount Stuart between 1713 and 1723, was a British Tory statesman who served as the Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762 to 1763 under George III. He became the first Tory…
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1792
Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist and historian (born 1758)
John Pinkerton was a Scottish antiquarian, cartographer, author, numismatist, historian, and early advocate of Germanic racial supremacy theory.
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1826
Italian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1752)
Muzio Filippo Vincenzo Francesco Saverio Clementi was an Italian composer, virtuoso pianist, pedagogue, conductor, music publisher, editor, and piano manufacturer who was mostly active in England.
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1832
Ukrainian poet, playwright, and ethnographer (born 1814)
Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist, and ethnographer. He wrote poetry in Ukrainian and prose in Russian.
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1861
Italian journalist and politician (born 1805)
Giuseppe Mazzini was an Italian politician, lawyer, journalist, philosopher, and political activist who worked for the unification of Italy (Risorgimento) and was a major leader of the Italian revolutionary movement.…
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1872
German-French saddler and anarchist (born 1832)
Jacob Mahler was a German-French saddler and anarchist.
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1894
English-French fashion designer (born 1825)
Charles Frederick Worth was an English fashion designer who founded the House of Worth, one of the foremost fashion houses of the 19th and early 20th centuries. He is considered by many fashion historians to be the…
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1895
Indian poet and activist (born 1831)
Savitribai Phule was an Indian educator, social reformer, and poet, widely regarded as the first female teacher of modern India. Along with her husband, Jyotiba Phule, she played a pivotal role in advancing women's…
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1897
French nun and saint, founded the Religious of the Assumption (born 1817)
Marie-Eugénie de Jésus was a French Catholic nun who founded the Religious of the Assumption and is a Catholic saint.
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1898
Austrian lawyer and politician Mayor of Vienna (born 1844)
Karl Lueger was an Austrian lawyer and politician who served as Mayor of Vienna from 1897 until his death in 1910. He is credited with the transformation of Vienna into a modern city at the turn of the 20th century,…
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1910
German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1824)
Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke was a German composer, conductor, and pianist in the mid-Romantic era.
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1910
American nurse and activist (born c. 1820)
Harriet Tubman was an American abolitionist and social activist. After escaping slavery, Tubman made some 13 missions to rescue approximately 70 enslaved people, including her family and friends, using the network of…
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1913
Catalan anarcho-syndicalist leader (born 1887)
Salvador Seguí i Rubinat, known as El noi del sucre for his habit of eating the sugar cubes served him with his coffee, was a Catalan anarcho-syndicalist in the Confederación Nacional del Trabajo (CNT), a Spanish…
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1923
Polish-American jumper (born 1878)
Myer Prinstein was a Poland-born American track and field athlete who held the world record for the long jump in 1900 and won four gold medals in three Olympic Games for the long jump and triple jump. He was a member of…
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1925
Russian journalist and author (born 1884)
Yevgeny Ivanovich Zamyatin, sometimes anglicized as Eugene Zamiatin, was a Russian author of science fiction, philosophy, literary criticism, and political satire.
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1937
Russian novelist and playwright (born 1891)
Mikhail Afanasyevich Bulgakov was a Russian and Soviet novelist and playwright. His novel The Master and Margarita, published posthumously, has been called one of the masterpieces of the 20th century. He also wrote the…
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1940
American pharmacist and chemist (born 1865)
Wilbur Lincoln Scoville was an American pharmacist best known for his creation of the "Scoville Organoleptic Test", standardized as the Scoville scale. He devised the test and scale in 1912 while working at the…
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1942
American author, visual artist, and ballet dancer (born 1900)
Zelda Fitzgerald was an American novelist, painter, writer, and socialite. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, to a wealthy Southern family, she became locally famous for her beauty and high spirits. In 1920, she married…
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1948
Czech soldier and politician (born 1886)
Jan Garrigue Masaryk was a Czech diplomat and politician who served as the Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia from 1940 to 1948. American journalist John Gunther described Masaryk as "a brave, honest, turbulent, and…
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1948
Japanese lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of Japan (born 1872)
Baron Kijūrō Shidehara , was a Japanese diplomat and politician who served as prime minister of Japan from 1945 to 1946. He was a leading proponent of pacifism in Japan before and after World War II.
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1951
Dutch physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
Frits Zernike was a Dutch physicist who received the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1953 for his invention of the phase-contrast microscope.
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1966
Irish short story writer, novelist, and poet (born 1903)
Frank O'Connor was an Irish author and translator. He wrote poetry, dramatic works, memoirs, journalistic columns and features on aspects of Irish culture and history, criticism, long and short fiction, biography, and…
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1966
American artist active in Alaska.
Muriel Hannah was an American artist. Born in England, she spent much of her life in Alaska. She was known for her portraits of Native Alaskans and an illustrated map of Alaska that she painted while in the employ of…
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1969
1st Baron Howick of Glendale (1960 – 1973), Governor of Kenya (1952 – 1959), High Commissioner for Southern Africa (1944 – 1951), Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1942 – 1944) (born 1903)
Evelyn Baring, 1st Baron Howick of Glendale, was Governor of Southern Rhodesia from 1942 to 1944, High Commissioner for Southern Africa from 1944 to 1951, and Governor of Kenya from 1952 to 1959. Baring played an…
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1973
Chinese lieutenant general and anti-communist, Taiwanese nationalist (born 1902)
Li Mi was a high-ranking Nationalist general who participated in the anti-Communist Encirclement Campaigns, Second Sino-Japanese War and Chinese Civil War. He was one of the few Kuomintang commanders to achieve notable…
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1973
British politician, assassinated Governor of Bermuda (born 1916)
Sir Richard Christopher Sharples, was a British politician. He served as a Governor of Bermuda in 1972 until his assassination in 1973 by assailants who were linked to a small militant Bermudian Black Power group called…
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1973
English-American organist and composer (born 1906)
Edward George Power Biggs was a British-born American concert organist and recording artist.
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1977
Russian soldier and politician, Head of State of The Soviet Union (born 1911)
Konstantin Ustinovich Chernenko was a Soviet politician who served as the de jure leader of the Soviet Union from February 1984 until his death in March 1985.
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1985
Welsh-American actor and director (born 1907)
Ray Milland was a Welsh-American actor and film director. He is often remembered for his portrayal of an alcoholic writer in Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend (1945), which won him Best Actor at Cannes, a Golden Globe…
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1986
1988
Greek bouzouki player and composer (born 1925)
Giorgos Zampetas was a Greek bouzouki musician. He was born in Athens, where he also died, but his origins were from the island of Kythnos.
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1992
American film producer (born 1926)
Ross Hunter was an American film and television producer and actor. He is best known for producing light comedies such as Pillow Talk (1959), and the glamorous melodramas Magnificent Obsession (1954), Imitation of Life…
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1996
American singer and actress (born 1929)
Delores LaVern Baker was an American rhythm and blues singer who had several hit records on the pop charts in the 1950s and early 1960s. Her most successful records were "Tweedle Dee" (1955), "Jim Dandy" (1956), and "I…
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1997
American actor and director (born 1913)
Lloyd Vernet Bridges Jr. was an American film, stage and television actor who starred in a number of television series and appeared in more than 150 feature films. He was the father of four children, including the…
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1998
Ecuadorian painter and sculptor (born 1919)
Oswaldo Guayasamín Calero was an Ecuadorian painter and sculptor of Kichwa and Mestizo heritage.
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1999
Irish-English comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1936)
David Tynan O'Mahony, known professionally as Dave Allen, was an Irish comedian, satirist, and actor. He was best known for his observational comedy. Allen regularly provoked indignation by highlighting political…
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2005
American football player and wrestler (born 1938)
Ernest L. Ladd, nicknamed "the Big Cat", was an American professional football defensive tackle and professional wrestler. A standout athlete in high school, Ladd attended Grambling State University on a basketball…
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2007
Egyptian scholar and academic (born 1928)
Muhammad Sayyid Tantawi was an Egyptian Islamic scholar who served as the grand mufti of Egypt from 1986 to 1996 and then as grand imam of al-Azhar from 1996 until his death in 2010.
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2010
Canadian actor (born 1971)
Corey Ian Haim was a Canadian actor who rose to fame in the 1980s as a teen heartthrob. He starred in Silver Bullet (1985), Murphy's Romance (1985), Lucas (1986), License to Drive (1988) and Dream a Little Dream (1989).…
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2010
American author and illustrator (born 1926)
William Elsworth Blackbeard, better known as Bill Blackbeard, was a writer-editor and the founder-director of the San Francisco Academy of Comic Art, a comprehensive collection of comic strips and cartoon art from…
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2011
French author and illustrator (born 1938)
Jean Henri Gaston Giraud was a French artist, cartoonist, and writer who worked in the Franco-Belgian bandes dessinées (BD) tradition. Giraud garnered worldwide acclaim predominantly under the pseudonym Mœbius for his…
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2012
American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)
Frank Sherwood "Sherry" Rowland was an American Nobel laureate and a professor of chemistry at the University of California, Irvine. His research was on atmospheric chemistry and chemical kinetics. His best-known work…
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2012
Duchess of Halland, British born Swedish Princess (born 1915)
Princess Lilian, Duchess of Halland, was a British socialite who became a princess of Sweden through her 1976 marriage to Prince Bertil, Duke of Halland (1912–1997). As such, she was an aunt of King Carl XVI Gustaf of…
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2013
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1952)
Richard Glatzer was an American writer and director.
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2015
2016
Argentinian footballer and sportscaster (born 1942)
Roberto Alfredo Perfumo was an Argentine footballer and sports commentator. Nicknamed El Mariscal, Perfumo is considered one of the best Argentine defenders ever. At club level, Perfumo played for Racing, River Plate…
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2016
Filipino lawyer and politician, 14th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1920)
Jovito Reyes Salonga, KGCR also called "Ka Jovy," was a Filipino lawyer and politician, as well as a leading opposition leader during the regime of Ferdinand Marcos from the declaration of martial law in 1972 until the…
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2016
English novelist and art historian (born 1928)
Anita Brookner was an English novelist and art historian. She was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Cambridge from 1967 to 1968 and was the first woman to hold this visiting professorship. She was awarded…
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2016
English historian and academic (born 1930)
Sir John Huxtable Elliott was a British historian and Hispanist who was Regius Professor at the University of Oxford and honorary fellow of Oriel College, Oxford, and Trinity College, Cambridge. He published under the…
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2022
American film producer and director (born 1940)
Stanley Richard Jaffe was an American film producer. His producing credits included Fatal Attraction, The Accused and Kramer vs. Kramer, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture.
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2025
Swedish businessman and activist (born 1960)
Carl Ulf Sture Lundström was a Swedish businessman and political activist. He founded Rix Telecom, which provided services and equipment to torrent tracker The Pirate Bay from 2003 to 2005. Lundström was one of the…
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2025
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Bob Nieman — American baseball player and scout (1927–1985)
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Death year1985
Known forAn outfielder, he spent all or parts of a dozen Major League Baseball seasons with the St
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2026
Bam Adebayo of the Miami Heat recorded the second-highest scoring game in NBA history with 83 Points. Wikipedia →
2024
2024 Portuguese legislative election: Elections are held in Portugal for all 230 seats in the Assembly of the Republic. The Partido Socialista loses its absolute majority to the Partido Social Democrata, winning 77 and 79 seats respectively. Wikipedia →
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Silicon Valley Bank collapses due to a run on its deposits, in the second largest bank failure in US history. Its operations are taken over by the FDIC. Wikipedia →
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