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Thigpen first gained attention for her role in the 1971 off-Broadway musical Godspell.
Notable Deaths on March 12
2003 — Lynne Thigpen
American actress and singer (born 1948)
March 12 has 65 recorded notable deaths across history, from 417 to 2022. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
65 source records
417 – 2022
Today in history
Major events on March 12
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- 1940 Winter War: Finland signs the Moscow Peace Treaty with the Soviet Union, ceding almost all of Finnish Karelia. Source
- 1967 Suharto takes power from Sukarno when the Provisional People's Consultative Assembly inaugurate him as Acting President of Indonesia. Source
- 2004 President of South Korea, Roh Moo-hyun, is impeached by its National Assembly, the first such impeachment in the nation's history. Source
- 1933 Great Depression: Franklin D. Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States. This is also the first of his "fireside chats". Source
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, first claimed that his parents and four siblings were targeted in a contract killing by the American Mafia before confessing that he had committed the murders.
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Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, 1st Viscount Rochford KG, KB, of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician.
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Gustav Vigeland is most associated with the Vigeland installation (Vigelandsanlegget) in Frogner Park, Oslo.
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Frankie Frisch is tied with Yogi Berra for most World Series doubles at 10 and holds the record for the most World Series hits at 58 for a player who never played for the New York Yankees, exceeded only by Berra and Mickey Mantle.
More major people who died on March 12
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
2021
Ronald DeFeo Jr.
American criminal (born 1951)
On November 13, 1974, six members of the DeFeo family were murdered in their home in Amityville, New York, United States.
1539
Thomas Boleyn
1st Earl of Wiltshire, English diplomat and politician (born 1477)
Thomas Boleyn, 1st Earl of Wiltshire, 1st Earl of Ormond, 1st Viscount Rochford KG, KB, of Hever Castle in Kent, was an English diplomat and politician.
1943
Gustav Vigeland
Norwegian sculptor (born 1869)
Gustav Vigeland, born as Adolf Gustav Thorsen, was a Norwegian sculptor. Gustav Vigeland occupies a special position among Norwegian sculptors, both in the power of his creative imagination and in his productivity.
1973
Frankie Frisch
American baseball player and manager (born 1898)
Frank Francis Frisch, nicknamed "the Fordham Flash" or "the Old Flash", was an American professional baseball second baseman and manager.
417
Innocent I
pope of the Catholic Church
Pope Innocent I was the bishop of Rome from 401 to his death on 12 March 417. From the beginning of his papacy, he was seen as the general arbitrator of ecclesiastical disputes in both the East and the West.
1985
Eugene Ormandy
Hungarian-American violinist and conductor (born 1899)
Eugene Ormandy was a Hungarian-born American conductor and violinist, best known for his association with the Philadelphia Orchestra, as its music director.
2002
Jean-Paul Riopelle
Canadian painter and sculptor (born 1923)
Jean-Paul Riopelle, was a Canadian painter and sculptor from Quebec.
2016
Rafiq Azad
Bangladeshi poet and author (born 1942)
Rafiq Azad was a Bangladeshi poet, editor and writer. He is credited with 45 collections of poetry including Prakriti O Premer Kabita, Asambhaber Paye, Sahasra Sundar, Haturir Nichae Jiban, Khub Beshi Durea Noy,…
1699
Peder Griffenfeld
Danish politician (born 1635)
Count Peder Griffenfeld was a Danish statesman and royal favourite.
2016
Felix Ibru
Nigerian architect and politician, Governor of Delta State (born 1935)
Felix Ovudoroye Ibru was a Nigerian businessman, architect and politician. He was the first democratically elected Governor of Delta State and Senator for Delta Central Senatorial District.
1991
Ragnar Granit
Finnish-Swedish neuroscientist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1900)
Ragnar Arthur Granit was a Finnish and Swedish neurophysiologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1967 along with Haldan Keffer Hartline and George Wald "for their discoveries concerning the…
1022
Symeon the New Theologian (born 949)
Saint Symeon the New Theologian was an Eastern Orthodox monk and poet who was one of the three saints canonized by the Eastern Orthodox Church and given the title of "Theologian".
1998
Beatrice Wood
American painter and potter (born 1893)
Beatrice Wood was an American artist and studio potter involved in the Dada movement in the United States; she founded and edited The Blind Man and Rongwrong magazines in New York City with French artist Marcel Duchamp…
2015
Ada Jafri
Pakistani poet and author (born 1924)
Ada Jafarey, often spelled Ada Jafri, was a Pakistani poet who is regarded as the first major female Urdu poet to be published and has been called "The First Lady of Urdu Poetry".
2016
Lloyd Shapley
American mathematician and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1923)
Lloyd Stowell Shapley was an American mathematician and Nobel Memorial Prize-winning economist. He contributed to the fields of mathematical economics and especially game theory.
1955
Charlie Parker
American saxophonist and composer (born 1920)
Charles Parker Jr., nicknamed "Bird" or "Yardbird", was an American jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
2002
Hartini
former wife of Sukarno (born 1924)
Siti Suhartini, better known as Hartini and also known as Hartini Sukarno, was the fourth wife of President Sukarno of Indonesia.
2010
Miguel Delibes
Spanish journalist and author (born 1920)
Miguel Delibes Setién was a Spanish novelist, journalist and newspaper editor associated with the Generation of '36 movement.
2014
Věra Chytilová
Czech actress, director, and screenwriter (born 1929)
Věra Chytilová was a Czech avant-garde filmmaker. Banned by the Czechoslovak government in the 1960s, she is best known for her 1966 Czech New Wave film Daisies.