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Notable Deaths on March 13
76 people
1202 – 2025
March 13 has seen 76 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 1202 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2021 — Marvelous Marvin Hagler
American professional boxer (born 1954)
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Nicknamed "The Marv" and annoyed that network announcers often did not refer to him as "Marvelous", Hagler legally changed his name to "Marvelous Marvin Hagler" in 1982.
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He reigned as the undisputed champion of the middleweight division from 1980 to 1987, making twelve successful title defenses, all but one by knockout
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Hagler also holds the highest knockout percentage of all undisputed middleweight champions at 78 percent
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His undisputed middleweight championship reign of six years and seven months is the second-longest active reign of the 20th century
king of Poland (born c. 1121)
Mieszko III, sometimes called Mieszko the Old, was Duke of Greater Poland from 1138 and High Duke of Poland, with interruptions, from 1173 until his death. He was the fourth and second surviving son of Duke Bolesław III…
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1202
English knight (born 1235)
Henry of Almain, also called Henry of Cornwall, was the eldest son of Richard, Earl of Cornwall, afterwards King of the Romans, by his first wife Isabel Marshal. His surname is derived from a vowel shift in…
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1271
Crown Prince of Ava (born 1391)
Minye Kyawswa was crown prince of Ava from 1406 to 1415, and commander-in-chief of Ava's military from 1410 to 1415. He is best remembered in Burmese history as the courageous general who waged the fiercest battles of…
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1415
1447
French politician (born 1507)
Michel de l'Hôpital was a French lawyer, diplomat and chancellor during the latter Italian Wars and the early French Wars of Religion. The son of a doctor in the service of Constable Bourbon he spent his early life…
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1573
Politician (born 1563)
Sir Henry Cuffe was an English writer and politician, executed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England, for treason.
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1601
English actor (born 1567)
Richard Burbage was a stage actor widely considered to have been one of the most famous individuals of the Globe Theatre and of his time. In addition to stage acting, he was also a theatre entrepreneur. He was the…
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1619
French poet and critic (born 1636)
Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, often known simply as Boileau, was a French poet and critic. He did much to reform the prevailing form of French poetry, in the same way that Blaise Pascal did to reform the prose. He was…
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1711
German chemist and potter (born 1682)
Johann Friedrich Böttger was a German alchemist. Böttger was born in Schleiz and died in Dresden. He is normally credited with being the first European to discover the secret of the creation of hard-paste porcelain in…
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1719
Indian minister and politician (born 1742)
Nana Fadnavis, born Balaji Janardan Bhanu, was a Maratha minister and statesman during the Peshwa administration in Pune, India. James Grant Duff states that he was called "the Maratha Machiavelli" by the Europeans.
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1800
Christian VII was King of Denmark and Norway and Duke of Schleswig and Holstein from 1766 until his death in 1808. He was affected by mental illness and was only nominally king for most of his reign. His royal advisers…
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1808
1st Earl of St Vincent, English admiral and politician (born 1735)
Admiral of the Fleet John Jervis, 1st Earl of St Vincent was a Royal Navy officer and politician. Jervis served throughout the latter half of the 18th century and into the 19th, and was an active commander during the…
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1823
English lieutenant and cartographer (born 1757)
William Bradley was a British naval officer and cartographer who was one of the officers who participated in the First Fleet to Australia. During this expedition, Bradley undertook extensive surveys and became one of…
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1833
English general (born 1761)
Lieutenant-General Henry Scrope Shrapnel was a British Army officer who served in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. He invented the shrapnel shell, which was named after him.
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1842
French politician, 6th Prime Minister of France (born 1773)
Jean-Baptiste Guillaume Joseph Marie Anne Séraphin, 1st Count of Villèle, better known simply as Joseph de Villèle, was a French statesman who served as the Prime Minister of France from 1821 to 1828. He was a leader of…
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1854
American physician, lawyer, and businessman (born 1808)
David Swinson "Doc" Maynard was an American doctor and businessman. He was one of Seattle's primary founders. Maynard was Seattle's first doctor, merchant prince, second lawyer, Sub-Indian Agent, Justice of the Peace,…
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1873
German mathematician and chess player (born 1818)
Karl Ernst Adolf Anderssen was a German chess master. He won the great international tournaments of 1851 and 1862, but lost matches to Paul Morphy in 1858, and to Wilhelm Steinitz in 1866. Accordingly, he is generally…
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1879
Alexander II was Emperor of Russia, King of Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 2 March 1855 until his assassination on 13 March 1881. He is also known as Alexander the Liberator because of his historic Edict of…
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1881
American son of Leland Stanford (born 1868)
Leland Stanford Jr. was the only child of American industrialist and politician Leland Stanford and his wife, Jane. Following his death from typhoid at age 15, Stanford became the namesake of Stanford University, which…
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1884
Maltese politician (born 1795)
Giorgio Mitrovich was a Maltese patriot and politician known for his role in the struggle for freedom of the press in Malta. He was one of the founders of the Comitato Generale Maltese, and he co-authored a petition in…
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1885
American general and politician, 23rd President of the United States (born 1833)
Benjamin Harrison was the 23rd president of the United States, serving from 1889 to 1893. He was a member of the Harrison family of Virginia—a grandson of the ninth president, William Henry Harrison, and a…
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1901
American activist (born 1820)
Susan B. Anthony was an American social reformer and women's rights activist who played a pivotal role in the women's suffrage movement. Born into a Quaker family committed to social equality, she collected anti-slavery…
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1906
Canadian engineer and architect, designed the Parliament Building (born 1836)
Eugène-Étienne Taché, ISO was a French Canadian surveyor, civil engineer, illustrator and architect. He devised Quebec's provincial coat-of-arms and motto Je me souviens.
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1912
American opera singer and educator (born 1835)
Jane Elizabeth Kempton was an American contralto opera solo singer who had an active career spanning over fifty years starting in 1850. She sang in hundreds of performances across the United States and Europe during her…
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1921
American real estate entrepreneur (born 1856)
Josephine Napoleon Leary (1856–1923) was an American businesswoman and real estate entrepreneur from Edenton, North Carolina. The J. N. Leary building, a large commercial property in Edenton built in 1894, features her…
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1923
New Zealand lawyer and politician, 20th Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1851)
Sir Francis Henry Dillon Bell was a New Zealand lawyer and politician who served as the 20th prime minister of New Zealand from 14 to 30 May 1925. He was the first New Zealand-born prime minister, holding office in a…
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1936
American lawyer and author (born 1857)
Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and politician who became famous in the 19th century for high-profile representations of trade union causes, and in the 20th century for several criminal matters, including…
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1938
American poet, short story writer, and novelist (born 1898)
Stephen Vincent Benét was an American poet, short story writer, and novelist. He wrote a book-length narrative poem of the American Civil War, John Brown's Body, published in 1928, for which he received the Pulitzer…
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1943
German field marshal (born 1878)
Werner Eduard Fritz von Blomberg was a German field marshal and politician who served as the first Minister of War in Nazi Germany from 1933 to 1938. Blomberg had served as Chief of the Truppenamt, equivalent to the…
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1946
Estonian anti-communist, freedom fighter and forest brother (born 1917)
Ants Kaljurand popularly known as Terrifying Ants,, was an Estonian anti-communist, and forest brother during and after World War II.
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1951
Estonian general and statesman (born 1884)
Johan Laidoner was an Estonian general and statesman. He served as Commander‑in‑Chief of the Estonian Armed Forces during the Estonian War of Independence and was among the most influential people in the Estonian…
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1953
Norwegian journalist and war correspondent (born 1905)
Lise Lindbæk was a Norwegian freelance journalist and foreign correspondent, and writer of several books. She is commonly regarded as Norway's first female war correspondent.
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1961
Irish sculptor (born 1882)
Anne Crawford Acheson was a British-Irish sculptor. She and Elinor Hallé invented plaster casts for soldier's broken limbs. Acheson exhibited at the Royal Academy and internationally. She was awarded the CBE in 1919.…
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1962
Italian engineer (born 1891)
Vittorio Jano was an Italian automobile designer of Hungarian descent, active in European racing car engine design from the 1920s through 1960s.
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1965
Albanian-American bishop and politician, 14th Prime Minister of Albania (born 1882)
Theofan Stilian Noli, known as Fan Noli, was an Albanian-American writer, scholar, diplomat, politician, historian, orator, bishop, and founder of the Albanian Orthodox Church and the Albanian Orthodox Archdiocese in…
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1965
American painter and illustrator (born 1882)
Rockwell Kent was an American painter, printmaker, illustrator, writer, sailor, adventurer and voyager.
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1971
1972
Yugoslav novelist, poet, and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1892)
Ivo Andrić was a Yugoslav novelist, poet and short story writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1961. His writings dealt mainly with life in his native Bosnia under Ottoman rule.
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1975
American sports executive (born 1900)
Oluf Roy Haugsrud was an American sports executive. Haugsrud was born in Superior, Wisconsin.
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1976
German-Dutch illustrator and educator (born 1896)
Roelof Paul Citroen was a German-born Dutch artist, art educator and co-founder of the New Art Academy in Amsterdam. Among his best-known works are the photo-montage Metropolis and the 1949 Dutch postage stamps.
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1983
Austrian-American psychologist and author (born 1903)
Bruno Bettelheim was an Austrian-born American psychologist, scholar, public intellectual and writer who spent most of his academic and clinical career in the United States. An early writer on autism, Bettelheim's work…
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1990
French nurse and spy (born 1912)
Odette Marie Léonie Céline Hallowes,, also known as Odette Churchill and Odette Sansom, code named Lise, was an agent for the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) in France during the Second…
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1995
Polish director and screenwriter (born 1941)
Krzysztof Kieślowski was a Polish film director and screenwriter. He is known internationally for Dekalog (1989), The Double Life of Veronique (1991), and the Three Colours trilogy (1993–1994).
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1996
English singer-songwriter (born 1945)
Alexander Minto Hughes, better known as Judge Dread, was an English reggae and ska musician. He was the first white recording artist to have a reggae hit in Jamaica, and the BBC has banned more of his songs from radio…
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1998
German-American physicist and engineer (born 1911)
Hans Joachim Pabst von Ohain was a German physicist, engineer, and the designer of the first aircraft to use a turbojet engine.
Together with Frank Whittle and Anselm Franz, he has been described as the co-inventor of…
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1998
1999
American director and screenwriter (born 1912)
Garson Kanin was an American writer, director, actor and musician. He wrote and directed a number of plays and films and was nominated for three Academy Awards and three Tony Awards for his work.
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1999
American actor and cinematographer (born 1934)
John Ayala Alonzo, ASC was an American cinematographer, television director, and actor.
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2001
Filipino historian and educator (born 1895)
Encarnación Amoranto Alzona was a pioneering Filipino historian, educator and suffragist. The first Filipino woman to obtain a Ph.D., she was conferred in 1985 the rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines.
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2001
German philosopher and scholar (born 1900)
Hans-Georg Gadamer was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics Truth and Method.
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2002
Austrian cardinal (born 1905)
Franz König was an Austrian Cardinal of the Catholic Church. He served as archbishop of Vienna from 1956 to 1985, and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1958. The last surviving cardinal elevated by Pope John XXIII, he…
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2004
American businessman, invented the chicken nugget (born 1921)
Robert Carl Baker was an American food science professor. He invented the chicken nugget as well as many other poultry-related inventions. For his contributions to poultry sciences, he was inducted into the American…
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2006
Scottish footballer (born 1944)
James Connolly Johnstone was a Scottish footballer who played as an outside right. Known as "Jinky" for his elusive dribbling style, Johnstone played for Celtic for 13 years and was one of the Lisbon Lions, the team…
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2006
American actress (born 1925)
Lois Maureen Stapleton was an American actress. She received numerous accolades, becoming one of the few actors to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting, winning an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award and two Tony…
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2006
American television personality, game show host (born 1942)
Peter David Tomarken was an American television personality primarily known as the host of the game show Press Your Luck.
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2006
American wrestler and manager (born 1925)
Arnold Skaaland was an American professional wrestler and professional wrestling manager.
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2007
American actress (born 1923)
Betsy Blair was an American actress of film and stage, long based in London.
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2009
American businessman (born 1917)
Alan Wendell Livingston was an American businessman best known for his tenures at Capitol Records, first as a writer/producer who created Bozo the Clown for a series of record-album and illustrative read-along…
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2009
French singer-songwriter (born 1930)
Jean Ferrat was a French singer-songwriter and poet. He specialized in singing poetry, particularly that of Louis Aragon.
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2010
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1951)
Richard Lionel Martin was a Canadian professional ice hockey winger who played in the NHL with the Buffalo Sabres and Los Angeles Kings for 11 seasons between 1971 and 1982. He featured in the 1975 Stanley Cup Finals…
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2011
English drummer and songwriter (born 1957)
Clive Ronald Burr was an English musician. He was the drummer of the heavy metal band Iron Maiden from 1979 to 1982. Together with fellow Iron Maiden member Dennis Stratton, he joined Praying Mantis for the recording of…
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2013
American sergeant, lawyer, and politician, 37th Governor of Florida (born 1928)
Reubin O'Donovan Askew was an American politician, who served as the 37th governor of Florida from 1971 to 1979. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as the 7th U.S. trade representative from 1979 to 1980 under…
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2014
Baron Ballyedmond, Irish businessman and politician (born 1944)
Edward Enda Haughey, Baron Ballyedmond, OBE, FRCVS, was an Irish-British entrepreneur and politician.
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2014
Sierra Leonean economist, lawyer, and politician, 3rd President of Sierra Leone (born 1932)
Alhaji Ahmad Tejan Kabbah was a Sierra Leonean politician who served as the third President of Sierra Leone from 1996 to 1997 and from 1998 to 2007. An economist and attorney by profession, Kabbah spent many years…
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2014
Lithuanian-Israeli author and screenwriter (born 1934)
Icchokas Meras was a Lithuanian writer.
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2014
2015
American philosopher, mathematician, and computer scientist (born 1926)
Hilary Whitehall Putnam was an American philosopher, mathematician, computer scientist, and figure in analytic philosophy in the second half of the 20th century. He contributed to the studies of philosophy of mind,…
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2016
American author (born 1965)
Amy Krouse Rosenthal was an American author of both adult and children's books, a short film maker, and radio show host. She is best known for her memoir Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life, her children's picture books,…
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2017
Lebanese writer and women's rights activist. (born 1931)
Emily Daoud Nasrallah was a Lebanese writer and women's rights activist.
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2018
English motorsport commentator and journalist (born 1923)
Graeme Murray Walker was an English motorsport commentator and journalist. He provided television commentary of live Formula One coverage for the BBC between 1976 and 1996, and for ITV between 1997 and 2001.
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2021
American actor (born 1950)
William McChord Hurt was an American actor. Known for his performances on stage and screen, he received various accolades including an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award, and a Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor, in…
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2022
French admiral (born 1921)
Philippe Henri Xavier Antoine de Gaulle was a French admiral and senator. He was the eldest and last surviving child of General Charles de Gaulle, the first president of the French Fifth Republic, and of his wife,…
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2024
American sportswriter and commentator (born 1956)
John Feinstein was an American sportswriter, author, and sports commentator. A long-time sports reporter at the Washington Post, he also wrote numerous books and was particularly known for A Season on the Brink,…
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2025
United States representative from Arizona (born 1948)
Raúl Manuel Grijalva was an American politician and activist who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from Arizona from 2003 until his death in 2025. As member of the Democratic Party,…
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2025
Russian-German pianist and composer (born 1931)
Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina was a Soviet and Russian composer of modernist sacred music. She was highly prolific, producing numerous chamber, orchestral and choral works. Her output has been described as exploring the…
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2025
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Marvelous Marvin Hagler — American boxer (1954–2021)
FeaturedMarvelous Marvin Hagler
Death year2021
Known forHe reigned as the undisputed champion of the middleweight division from 1980 to 1987, making twelve successful title defenses, all but one by knockout
Deaths on this date76 (1202 – 2025)
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