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Despite never making more than $350,000 a season during his NBA career, Bridgeman had a net worth of over $1.4 billion, making him one of the wealthiest former athletes in the world.
Notable Deaths on March 11
75 people
222 – 2025
March 11 has seen 75 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 222 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2025 — Junior Bridgeman
American basketball player and businessman (born 1953)
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Following his career, Bridgeman owned hundreds of fast-food restaurants, became a Coca-Cola bottler and distributor, and acquired Ebony and Jet magazines
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Bridgeman played in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the Milwaukee Bucks and Los Angeles Clippers from 1975 until 1987
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was an American professional basketball player and businessman
Roman emperor (born 203)
Marcus Aurelius Antoninus, better known by his posthumous nicknames Elagabalus and Heliogabalus, was Roman emperor from 218 to 222, while he was still a teenager. His short reign was notorious for religious controversy…
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222
Sophronius, called Sophronius the Sophist, was the Greek Patriarch of the city known as Aelia Capitolina and then Jerusalem from 634 until his death. He is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox and Catholic…
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638
Countess of Champagne (born 1145)
Marie of France was a Capetian princess who became Countess of Champagne by her marriage to Henry I of Champagne. She ruled the County of Champagne as regent during Henry I's absence from 1179 to 1181; during the…
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1198
Elector of Brandenburg (born 1414)
Albrecht III was Elector of Brandenburg from 1471 until his death, the third from the House of Hohenzollern. A member of the Order of the Swan, he received the cognomen Achilles because of his knightly qualities and…
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1486
Croatian theologian and reformer (born 1520)
Matthias Flacius Illyricus or Francovich was a Lutheran reformer from Istria, present-day Croatia. He was notable as a theologian, sometimes dissenting strongly with his fellow Lutherans, and as a scholar for his…
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1575
Spanish conquistador (born 1549)
Juan de Salcedo was a Novohispano conquistador. He was the nephew of Spanish general Miguel López de Legazpi, though some records say grandson. Salcedo was one of the soldiers who accompanied the Spanish conquest to the…
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1576
Italian organist and composer (born 1550)
Emilio de' Cavalieri, or Emilio dei Cavalieri, was an Italian composer, producer, organist, diplomat, choreographer and dancer at the end of the Renaissance era. His work, along with that of other composers active in…
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1602
Italian composer and educator (born 1543)
Giovanni Maria Nanino was an Italian composer and teacher of the late Renaissance. He was a member of the Roman School of composers, and was the most influential music teacher in Rome in the late 16th century. He was…
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1607
Maltese landowner and militia member (born c. 1575)
Clemente Tabone was a Maltese landowner and militia member who is known for his reported courage in the Raid on Żejtun, the last major Ottoman attack on Malta, in 1614. He built a tower and a chapel on some of his lands…
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1665
1689
Irish philosopher and theorist (born 1670)
John Toland was an Irish rationalist philosopher and freethinker, and occasional satirist, who wrote numerous books and pamphlets on political philosophy and philosophy of religion, which are early expressions of the…
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1722
Scottish general (born 1707)
Brigadier-General John Forbes was a British Army officer. During the French and Indian War, he commanded the 1758 Forbes Expedition which occupied the French outpost of Fort Duquesne. This required the construction of a…
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1759
American-English painter and academic (born 1738)
Benjamin West was an American-born British painter who specialised in history painting, creating such works as The Death of Nelson, The Death of General Wolfe, the Treaty of Paris, and Benjamin Franklin Drawing…
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1820
Queen of Haiti (born 1778)
Queen Marie Louise Coidavid was the Queen of Haiti from 1811 to 1820 as the spouse of Henri Christophe.
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1851
American lawyer and politician, 55th Governor of South Carolina (born 1790)
George McDuffie was the 55th governor of South Carolina and a member of the United States Senate. Though he began his political career as a partisan of Andrew Jackson, he became one of South Carolina's most outspoken…
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1851
1st Baronet, English general (born 1803)
Lieutenant-General Sir James Outram, 1st Baronet was a British army officer who served in the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
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1863
Russian philosopher and critic (born 1803)
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky was a Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the "Russian Hoffmann" and even the "Russian Faust" on account of his keen interest…
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1869
Moshoeshoe I was the first king of Lesotho. He was the first son of Mokhachane, a minor chief of the Bamokoteli lineage, a branch of the Bakoena (crocodile) clan. In his youth, he helped his father gain power over some…
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1870
American lawyer and politician (born 1811)
Charles Sumner was an American lawyer and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874. Before and during the American Civil War, he was a leading American…
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1874
American general and politician (born 1819)
William Starke Rosecrans was an American inventor, coal-oil company executive, diplomat, politician, and U.S. Army officer. He gained fame for his role as a Union general during the American Civil War. He was the victor…
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1898
French lawyer and politician, 6th President of France (born 1847)
Jean Paul Pierre Casimir-Perier was a French politician who served as President of France from June 1894 to January 1895.
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1907
Italian journalist and author (born 1846)
Edmondo De Amicis was an Italian novelist, journalist, poet, and short-story writer. His best-known book is the children's novel Heart.
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1908
English minister and activist (born 1839)
Benjamin Waugh was a Victorian era social reformer and campaigner who founded and directed the UK charity, the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) in the late 19th century. He was also a…
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1908
English-Australian author (born 1826)
Thomas Alexander Browne was a British-born Australian police magistrate and author. He published many of his works under the pseudonym Rolf Boldrewood. He is best known for his 1882 bushranging novel Robbery Under Arms.…
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1915
German-American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1888)
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau was a German film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of cinema's most influential filmmakers for his work in the silent era.
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1931
American businessman, co-founded Texaco (born 1860)
Joseph Stephen Cullinan was a U.S. oil industrialist. Although he was a native of Pennsylvania, his lifetime business endeavors would help shape the early phase of the oil industry in Texas. He founded The Texas…
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1937
Dutch-American journalist and historian (born 1882)
Hendrik Willem van Loon was a Dutch-American historian, journalist, and children's book author.
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1944
Austrian historian and philosopher of science, linked to the Vienna Circle (born 1891)
Edgar Zilsel was an Austrian-American historian and philosopher of science.
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1944
French general and politician (born 1879)
Henri Honoré Giraud was a French Army general best known for his escape from German captivity in 1942 and subsequently as one of the leaders of the French Resistance and a rival of Charles de Gaulle. He was…
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1949
French actor and director (born 1885)
Pierre Renoir was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play…
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1952
Scottish biologist, pharmacologist, and botanist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1881)
Sir Alexander Fleming was a Scottish physician and microbiologist. He shared the 1945 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Howard Florey and Ernst Chain "for the discovery of penicillin and its curative effect in…
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1955
German-American businessman, founded Oscar Mayer (born 1859)
Oscar Ferdinand Mayer was a German American who founded the processed-meat firm Oscar Mayer that bears his name.
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1955
Finnish poet (born 1883)
Aleksanteri Aava, born Aleksanteri (Santeri) Kuparinen, was a Finnish poet and smallholder.
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1956
American admiral and explorer (born 1888)
Richard Evelyn Byrd Jr. was an American naval officer, and pioneering aviator, polar explorer, and organizer of polar logistics. Aircraft flights in which he served as a navigator and expedition leader crossed the…
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1957
American author (born 1904)
Lester Dent was an American pulp-fiction writer, best known as the creator and main writer of the series of novels about the scientist and adventurer Doc Savage. The 159 Doc Savage novels that Dent wrote over 16 years…
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1959
American paleontologist and explorer (born 1884)
Roy Chapman Andrews was an American explorer, adventurer, and naturalist who became the director of the American Museum of Natural History. He led a series of expeditions through the politically disturbed China of the…
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1960
American soprano and actress (born 1882)
Alice Geraldine Farrar was an American lyric soprano who also frequently sang dramatic roles. She was noted for her beauty, acting ability, and "the intimate timbre of her voice." In the 1910s, she also found success as…
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1967
English author (born 1903)
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John…
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1969
American lawyer and author (born 1889)
Erle Stanley Gardner was an American author and lawyer, best known for the Perry Mason series of legal detective stories. Gardner also wrote numerous other novels and shorter pieces as well as a series of nonfiction…
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1970
American inventor, developer of the first all electronic television system (born 1906)
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor who was granted the first patent for the television by the United States Government. He also invented a video camera tube and the image dissector. He commercially…
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1971
American activist (born 1921)
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. Trained as a social worker, he spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the United States and turning the National Urban League…
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1971
French entertainer (born 1939)
Claude Antoine Marie François, also known by the nickname Cloclo, was a French pop singer, composer, songwriter, record producer, drummer and dancer. François co-wrote the lyrics of "Comme d'habitude", the original…
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1978
English poet and author (born 1926)
Edmund Cooper was an English poet and prolific writer of speculative fiction, romances, technical essays, several detective stories, and a children's book. These were published under his own name and several pen names.
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1982
American poet, translator, and academic (born 1898)
Horace Gregory was a prize-winning American poet, translator of classic poetry, literary critic and college professor. He was awarded the Bollingen Prize in 1965.
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1982
American singer and harmonica player (born 1911)
Saunders Terrell, known as Sonny Terry, was an American Piedmont blues and folk musician, who was known for his energetic blues harmonica style, which frequently included vocal whoops and hollers and occasionally…
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1986
1989
American lawyer and diplomat (born 1895)
John Jay McCloy was an American lawyer, diplomat, and banker. He served as Assistant Secretary of War during World War II under Henry Stimson. In this capacity he dealt with German sabotage and political tensions in the…
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1989
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1912)
Richard Brooks was an American film director, screenwriter, journalist and novelist. He directed 24 feature films between 1950 and 1985, and was known for his portrayals of hard-hitting subject matter,…
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1992
Welsh actress and singer (born 1945)
Myfanwy Talog Williams, known professionally as Myfanwy Talog, was a Welsh actress and the long-term partner of English actor David Jason.
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1995
American actor and director (born 1928)
Vince Edwards was an American actor, director, and singer. He was best known for his TV role as Dr. Ben Casey and as Major Cliff Bricker in the 1968 war film The Devil's Brigade.
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1996
Canadian psychologist, anatomist, and neurologist (born 1906)
Herbert Henri Jasper was a Canadian psychologist, physiologist, neurologist, and epileptologist.
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1999
Canadian psychiatrist and politician (born 1922)
Camille Laurin was a psychiatrist and Parti Québécois (PQ) politician in the Canadian province of Quebec. A MNA member for the riding of Bourget, he is considered the father of Quebec's language law known informally as…
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1999
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
James Tobin was an American economist who served on the Council of Economic Advisers and consulted with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, and taught at Yale University. He contributed to the…
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2002
Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1931)
Joseph André Bernard Geoffrion, nicknamed "Boom Boom", was a Canadian professional ice hockey player and coach. Generally considered one of the innovators of the slapshot, he was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame in…
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2006
Serbian lawyer and politician, 3rd President of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (born 1941)
Slobodan Milošević was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician who was the president of Serbia between 1989 and 1997 and president of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia from 1997 until his overthrow in 2000. Milošević played…
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2006
Dutch politician, Deputy Prime Minister of the Netherlands (born 1931)
Henricus Antonius Franciscus Maria Oliva "Hans" van Mierlo was a Dutch politician and journalist who co-founded Democrats 66 (D66).
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2010
American colonel and pilot (born 1916)
James Bruce Morehead was an American fighter pilot in World War II as a flying ace. He flew combat missions over a three-year span of the war with a total of eight aerial victories. He was awarded two Distinguished…
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2012
German priest and theologian (born 1930)
Martin Adolf Bormann was a German theologian and laicized Catholic priest. He was the eldest of the ten children of Martin Bormann.
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2013
Venezuelan journalist and politician, Minister of Foreign Affairs for Venezuela (born 1927)
Simón Alberto Consalvi was a Venezuelan politician, journalist, diplomat and historian.
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2013
Australian footballer and coach (born 1967)
Dean Bailey was an Australian rules football player and coach. He played for the Essendon Football Club and was the senior coach of the Melbourne Football Club, as well as an assistant coach at Essendon and Port…
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2014
American journalist and academic (born 1952)
Joel Graham Brinkley was an American syndicated columnist. He taught in the journalism program at Stanford University from 2006 until 2013, after a 23-year career with The New York Times.
He won the Pulitzer Prize for…
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2014
German philologist and scholar (born 1931)
Walter Burkert was a German scholar of Greek mythology and cult.
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2015
American singer-songwriter and keyboard player (born 1948)
James Boyd Greenspoon was an American keyboard player and composer, best known as a member of the band Three Dog Night.
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2015
Romanian high jumper (born 1936)
Iolanda Balaș was a Romanian athlete, an Olympic champion and former world record holder in the high jump. She was the first Romanian woman to win an Olympic gold medal and is considered to have been one of the greatest…
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2016
English geographer and political activist (born 1944)
Doreen Barbara Massey was a British social scientist and geographer. She specialized in Marxist geography, feminist geography, and cultural geography, as well as other topics. She was Professor of Geography at the Open…
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2016
2018
German actor (born 1932)
Siegfried Rauch was a German film and television actor. In a career spanning over 60 years, he appeared in several international film productions and had leading roles in numerous German television productions.
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2018
German cardinal (born 1936)
Karl Lehmann was a German prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as Bishop of Mainz from 1983 to 2016, being elevated to the cardinalate in 2001.
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2018
American science fiction and mystery author (born 1952)
Mary Rosenblum was an American science fiction and mystery author.
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2018
2021
Greek composer and songwriter (born 1936)
Takis Mousafiris was a Greek composer, lyricist and songwriter. He collaborated with several notable Greek singers such as Stratos Dionysiou, Dimitris Mitropanos, Rita Sakellariou and Tolis Voskopoulos, among others. He…
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2021
President of Zambia (born 1937)
Rupiah Bwezani Banda was a Zambian politician who served as the fourth president of Zambia from 2008 to 2011, taking over from Levy Mwanawasa. Banda was an active participant in politics from early in the presidency of…
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2022
Polio survivor (born 1946)
Paul Richard Alexander was an American paralytic polio survivor, attorney and author. After contracting polio in 1952 at the age of six, he spent the remainder and vast majority of his life in an iron lung, and is…
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2024
New Zealand actor and singer (born 1930)
Clive Selsby Revill was a New Zealand actor and singer, best known for his performances in musical theatre and the London stage. A veteran of the Royal Shakespeare Company, he also starred in numerous films and…
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2025
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Deaths on this date75 (222 – 2025)
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