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Notable Deaths on March 16
118 people
37 – 2025
March 16 has seen 118 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 37 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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2025 — Jesse Colin Young
American singer and songwriter (born 1941)
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After their dissolution in 1972, Young embarked on a solo career, releasing a series of albums through Warner Bros
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Records, including Song for Juli (1973), Light Shine (1974), Songbird (1975), and the live album On the Road (1976)
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Young continued to release music in the 1980s with Elektra Records and Cypress Records, before deciding to release music through his personal label, Ridgetop Music, in 1993
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After the Mount Vision Fire in 1995, Young relocated with his family to a coffee plantation in Hawaii, periodically releasing music
37
Roman emperor (assassinated; b. 419)
Valentinian III was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Starting in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by civil wars among powerful generals and the barbarian…
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455
455
842
Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt
Takin al-Khassa Abu Mansur Takin ibn Abdallah al-Harbi al-Khazari was an Abbasid commander of Khazar origin who served thrice as governor of Egypt.
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933
Chinese official and chancellor (born 877)
Pi Guangye, courtesy name Wentong (文通), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wuyue, serving as a chancellor during the reign of its second king Qian Yuanguan.
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943
German archbishop and saint (born 970)
Heribert of Cologne, also known as Saint Heribert, was a German prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the Archbishop of Cologne from 999 until his death. He was chancellor of Italy for Otto III, Holy Roman…
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1021
German archbishop (born 1000)
Adalbert was Archbishop of Bremen from 1043 until his death. Called Vikar des Nordens, he was an important political figure of the Holy Roman Empire, papal legate, and one of the regents for Emperor Henry IV.
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1072
1181
Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185. Baldwin ascended to the throne when he was thirteen despite having leprosy. He launched several attempts to…
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1185
Queen consort of Castile and León (born 1216)
Joan of Dammartin was Queen of Castile and León by marriage to Ferdinand III of Castile. She also ruled as Countess of Ponthieu (1251–1279) and Aumale (1237–1279). Her daughter, the English queen Eleanor of Castile, was…
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1279
Countess of Flanders (born 1350)
Margaret III was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405. She was the last ruler of Flanders of the House of Dampierre.
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1405
1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1373)
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, known as the Marquess of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset from 1397 to 1399, was an English-French nobleman and politician. Beaufort was the second son of John of Gaunt, eldest of the…
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1410
Hungarian politician (born 1433)
László Hunyadi or Ladislaus Hunyadi was a Hungarian nobleman.
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1457
queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)
Anne Neville was Queen of England from 26 June 1483 until her death in 1485 as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne…
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1485
English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1496)
Sir Anthony St Leger, KG, of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle in Kent, was an English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period.
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1559
French-Canadian missionary and saint (born 1593)
Jean de Brébeuf was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633. He…
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1649
English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1616)
John Leverett was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and the penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in England, he migrated to Massachusetts as a teenager. He was a leading merchant in…
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1679
Danish countess, author of Jammers Minde (born 1621)
Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten, was daughter to King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk and wife of the Steward of the Realm, the…
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1698
English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1657)
James Craggs the Elder, of Jermyn Street, Westminster and Charlton, Lewisham, Kent, was an English financier and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 to 1713.
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1721
Italian composer (born 1710)
Giovanni Battista Draghi, usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian…
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1736
American minister and academic (born 1670)
Benjamin Wadsworth was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He was trained at Harvard College. He served as minister of the First Church in Boston; and as president of Harvard from 1725 until his death.
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1737
German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (born 1666)
George Bähr was a German architect.
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1738
Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (born 1690)
Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German prince of the House of Ascania, and the father of Catherine the Great of Russia.
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1747
Finnish professor and historian (born 1739)
Henrik Gabriel Porthan was a professor and rector at the Royal Academy of Turku, Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. He was a scholar sometimes known as The Father of Finnish History. Porthan's legacy…
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1804
American ocean navigator and mathematician (born 1773)
Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first…
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1838
French physicist and psychologist (born 1791)
Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in…
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1841
American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (born 1814)
David Wilmot was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and as a judge of the Court of Claims. He is best known for being the prime sponsor…
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1868
1884
French politician (born 1801)
Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French politician.
He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the
second son of the revolutionary politician and general Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot,…
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1888
American politician (born 1827)
Samuel Franklin Miller was a United States representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.
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1892
English author and illustrator (born 1872)
Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the…
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1898
American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (born 1823)
Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago…
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1899
1903
Irish republican and journalist (born 1830)
John O'Leary was an Irish separatist and a leading Fenian. He studied both law and medicine but did not take a degree and for his involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he was imprisoned for five years in…
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1907
Austrian theater director (born 1854)
Max Eugen Burckhard was director of the Burgtheater, Vienna, from 1890 to 1898.
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1912
French journalist (born 1858)
Gaston Calmette was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose murder was the subject of a notable murder trial.
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1914
Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)
Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician who jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun in 1902 for their leadership of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.
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1914
Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (born 1841)
Sir John Murray was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of modern oceanography.
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1914
German bacteriologist and hygienist (born 1866)
August Paul von Wassermann was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.
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1925
Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)
Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.
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1930
Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
John James Rickard Macleod,, was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his…
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1935
Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)
Aron Nimzowitsch was a Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book…
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1935
French actress, journalist, and activist (born 1864)
Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, and ran for election. She is also known for having a pet lion. The Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was…
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1936
English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)
Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45…
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1937
Estonian orientalist and sinologist (born 1877)
Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein was a Baltic German aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, and Sanskritologist specializing in Buddhist texts.
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1937
Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)
Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In…
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1940
German poet (born 1874)
Börries Albrecht Conon August Heinrich Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German poet and Nazi activist.
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1945
French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)
Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration, and textiles.
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1955
Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)
Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called…
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1957
American baseball player (born 1891)
Leon Joseph Cadore was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1924.
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1958
1961
Czech violinist and conductor (born 1883)
Václav Talich was a Czech conductor, violinist and later a musical pedagogue. He is remembered today as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, the object of countless reissues of his many recordings.
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1961
American author and photographer (born 1874)
Laura Adams Armer was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal. She was also an early photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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1963
German activist (born 1882)
Alice Jeanette Herz was a German feminist, anti-fascist and peace activist. She was the first person in the United States known to have immolated herself in protest of the escalating Vietnam War, following the example…
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1965
Irish poet (born 1893)
Thomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council.
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1967
Italian-American pianist and composer (born 1895)
Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he…
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1968
Swedish poet and translator (born 1907)
Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his…
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1968
American singer (born 1945)
Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, professionally known as Tammi Terrell, was an American singer-songwriter, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer…
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1970
American actress (born 1901)
Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.
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1971
American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (born 1902)
Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 1944 and 1948, losing…
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1971
American baseball player (born 1898)
Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was an American third baseman, manager, scout and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career between 1920 and 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Traynor had a…
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1972
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1910)
Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. In 2018 Rolling Stone…
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1975
Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1917)
Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a Lebanese politician and za'im, who founded the Progressive Socialist Party. He led the National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War. He was a major ally of the Palestine Liberation…
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1977
French economist and politician (born 1888)
Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of the European…
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1979
American actor and television host (born 1903)
Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid-1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, at…
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1983
1983
American composer, critic, and educator (born 1896)
Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally…
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1985
Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1902)
Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League.…
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1985
American baseball player (born 1897)
Arnold John "Jigger" Statz was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. An outfielder, Statz appeared in 683 games played in Major League Baseball, but had a lengthy and notable minor league career,…
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1988
American race car driver (born 1928)
Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson was an American auto racing builder and promoter.
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1988
American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1898)
Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific composer, Bacon wrote over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for…
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1990
American country singer (born 1964)
Christopher Clay Austin was an American country music singer. Austin was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988 and charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His highest-charting single, "Blues…
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1991
Australian artist (born 1908)
Jean Bellette was an Australian artist. Born in Tasmania, she was educated in Hobart and at Julian Ashton's art school in Sydney, where one of her teachers was Thea Proctor. In London she studied under painters Bernard…
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1991
French physicist and engineer (born 1903)
Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.
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1992
1994
English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)
Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.
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1998
American photographer (born 1921)
Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featured in several news…
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1998
Canadian actor, director, and playwright (born 1909)
Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian writer, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film.
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1999
American colonel and pilot (born 1918)
Thomas Wilson Ferebee was the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in 1945.
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2000
Belarusian poet and author (born 1911)
Pavel Ivanovich Prudnikau was a Belarusian writer. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Ales Prudnikau.
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2000
Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (born 1910)
Michael Starr, was a Canadian politician and the first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent, his parents having emigrated from Halychyna (Galicia), then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Western…
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2000
Puerto Rican pitcher (born 1948)
Carlos Quiñones Velázquez [″Carlín″] was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 5' 11", 180 lb., he batted and threw right handed.
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2000
French race car driver (born 1943)
Robert Jean "Bob" Wollek, nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He won a total of 76 races in his career, 71 in Porsche cars, including four editions of the 24 Hours of Daytona and…
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2001
American activist (born 1979)
Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian…
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2003
English captain, polo player, and manager (born 1931)
Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson was a British Army officer and polo manager, initially to the Duke of Edinburgh and later, for many years, to the then Charles, Prince of Wales. His daughter, Sarah Ferguson, is the former…
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2003
Czech conductor and composer (born 1910)
Vilém Tauský CBE was a Czech conductor and composer. From the advent of the Second World War, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, and was one of a significant group of émigré composers and musicians who settled…
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2004
2005
English architect, designed The London Ark (born 1914)
Ralph Erskine ARIBA was a British architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.
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2005
American baseball player (born 1937)
Richard Raymond Radatz was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "The Monster", the 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), 230 lb (100 kg) right-hander had a scorching but short-lived period of dominance for the…
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2005
Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)
Manjural Islam Rana, also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, he was a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He…
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2007
Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1912)
William Alfred Brown, was an Australian cricketer who played 22 Test matches between 1934 and 1948, captaining his country in one Test. A right-handed opening batsman, his partnership with Jack Fingleton in the 1930s is…
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2008
American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)
Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and…
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2008
2008
Serbian singer, dancer and model (born 1977)
Ksenija Pajčin was a Serbian singer, dancer and model popular in Serbia and the other former Yugoslav republics. Sometimes referred to as Xenia or Ksenia.
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2010
American religious leader (born 1931)
Richard Bitner Wirthlin was a prominent American pollster, who is best known as Ronald Reagan's chief strategist, serving as his political consultant and pollster for twenty years, from 1968 through the end of his…
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2011
American colonel and pilot (born 1918)
Donald Edison Hillman was an American World War II flying ace and prisoner of war credited with five enemy aircraft destroyed. He was also the first American pilot, in 1952, to make a deep-penetration overflight of…
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2012
Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1924)
Takaaki Yoshimoto , also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a…
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2012
Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)
Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and…
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2013
Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)
José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine lawyer, businessman, and economist. He was the Minister of Economy of Argentina during the country's last military dictatorship (1976—1983), and shaped the economic policy…
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2013
Cuban pitcher (born 1986)
Yadier Pedroso González, was a right-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Cuban national baseball team and La Habana of the Cuban National Series. Pedroso was part of the Cuban team at the 2006 and…
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2013
American-born teacher and author (born 1914)
Ruchoma Shain (Hebrew: רוחומה שיין; 6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author. She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss (1984), a biography of her…
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2013
Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)
Marina Solodkin was an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Likud and Kadima.
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2013
English actor (born 1921)
Frank Thornton Ball, professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the television sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour and as…
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2013
American race car driver (born 1941)
Gary Bettenhausen was an American racing car driver. He was the winner the 1967 and 1970 Turkey Night Grand Prix, the 1972 Astro Grand Prix, and the 1976 Hut Hundred.
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2014
American chemist and academic (born 1937)
Donald Crothers was a professor of chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He was best known for his
work on nucleic acid structure and function.
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2014
Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (born 1936)
Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy was a Sierra Leonean writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright. Known by his friends and colleagues as Pat Maddy or simply Prof, he had an "immense impact" on theatre in Sierra Leone,…
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2014
2014
Russian economist and politician (born 1958)
Alexander Petrovich Pochinok was a Russian economist and politician. He was the minister of taxes and levies from 1999 to 2000 and minister of labor and social development from 2000 to 2004.
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2014
American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)
Jack Kevin Haley was an American professional basketball player.
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2015
American pianist and composer (born 1922)
Donald Irwin Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, in country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The…
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2015
Russian-American mathematician and poet (born 1924)
Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin was a Russian-American poet and mathematician known for his foundational role in ultrafinitism. Esenin-Volpin was a prominent Soviet dissident and a leader of the Soviet human rights…
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2016
American singer and actor (born 1944)
Francis Wayne Sinatra, known professionally as Frank Sinatra Jr., was an American jazz and big band singer, songwriter, conductor and actor. He was the second child and only son of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his…
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2016
American neurologist (born 1925)
Lewis Phillip "Bud" Rowland was an American neurologist. He served as president of the American Neurological Association (1980–81) and the American Academy of Neurology (1989–91). He was editor of the journal Neurology…
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2017
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (born 1929)
Dorothy Louise Slaughter was an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States representative from New York, serving from 1987 until her death in 2018.
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2018
American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)
Richard Anthony Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The…
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2019
Belgian actress (born 1981)
Émilie Dequenne was a Belgian actress. She first gained recognition for her role in the Dardenne brothers' film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. The film also won the…
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2025
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Jesse Colin Young — American musician (1941–2025)
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Known forHe was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods
Deaths on this date118 (37 – 2025)
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