Notable Deaths on March 16

Q: Who died on March 16?

Notable people who died on March 16 include: Tiberius, Valentinian III, Heraclius, Xiao Mian, Takin al-Khazari.

Q: What is Jesse Colin Young known for?

Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (born 1941)

2025 — Jesse Colin Young

American singer and songwriter (born 1941)

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.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 16 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 118 people 37 – 2025

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He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods

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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

Tiberius

Roman emperor (born 42 BC)

AD 37 (XXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Pontius. The denomination AD 37 for this year has been used since the…

Valentinian III

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…

455

Heraclius

Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )

Heraclius was an influential eunuch of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III.

455

Xiao Mian

chancellor of the Tang dynasty

Xiao Mian, courtesy name Siqian (思謙), noble title Duke of Xu (徐公), was a Chinese politician of the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Muzong. In traditional histories, he was praised for…

842

Takin al-Khazari

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.

933

Pi Guangye

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.

943

Heribert of Cologne

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…

1021

Adalbert of Hamburg

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.

1072

Henry I

Count of Champagne

Henry I, known as the Liberal, was count of Champagne from 1152 to 1181. He was the eldest son of Count Theobald II of Champagne, who was also count of Blois, and his wife, Matilda of Carinthia.

1181

Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)

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…

1185

Jeanne of Dammartin

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…

1279

Margaret III

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.

1405

John Beaufort

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…

1410

Ladislaus Hunyadi

Hungarian politician (born 1433)

László Hunyadi or Ladislaus Hunyadi was a Hungarian nobleman.

1457

Anne Neville

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…

1485

Anthony St. Leger

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.

1559

Jean de Brébeuf

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…

1649

John Leverett

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…

1679

Leonora Christina Ulfeldt

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…

1698

James Craggs the Elder

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.

1721

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

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…

1736

Benjamin Wadsworth

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.

1737

George Bähr

German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (born 1666)

George Bähr was a German architect.

1738

Christian August

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.

1747

Henrik Gabriel Porthan

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…

1804

Nathaniel Bowditch

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…

1838

Félix Savart

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…

1841

David Wilmot

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…

1868

Art Croft

American baseball player (born 1855)

Arthur F. Croft was an American Major League Baseball player. He played for three teams during three-year professional and Major League career.

1884

Hippolyte Carnot

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,…

1888

Samuel F. Miller

American politician (born 1827)

Samuel Franklin Miller was a United States representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.

1892

Aubrey Beardsley

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…

1898

Joseph Medill

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…

1899

Roy Bean

American justice of the peace (born 1825)

Phantly Roy Bean Jr. was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos." He held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate…

1903

John O'Leary

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…

1907

Max Burckhard

Austrian theater director (born 1854)

Max Eugen Burckhard was director of the Burgtheater, Vienna, from 1890 to 1898.

1912

Gaston Calmette

French journalist (born 1858)

Gaston Calmette was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose murder was the subject of a notable murder trial.

1914

Charles Albert Gobat

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.

1914

John Murray

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.

1914

August von Wassermann

German bacteriologist and hygienist (born 1866)

August Paul von Wassermann was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.

1925

Miguel Primo de Rivera

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.

1930

John Macleod

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…

1935

Aron Nimzowitsch

Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)

Aron Nimzowitsch was a Russian-born 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…

1935

Marguerite Durand

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…

1936

Austen Chamberlain

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…

1937

Alexander von Staël-Holstein

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.

1937

Selma Lagerlöf

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…

1940

Börries von Münchhausen

German poet (born 1874)

Börries Albrecht Conon August Heinrich Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German poet and Nazi activist.

1945

Nicolas de Staël

French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)

Nicolas de Staël, born Baron Nikolai Vladimirovich Staël von Holstein, was a French painter of Russian origin widely regarded as one of the most important artists of the post-war period. In a career spanning just…

1955

Constantin Brâncuși

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…

1957

Leon Cadore

American baseball player (born 1891)

Leon Joseph Cadore was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1924.

1958

Chen Geng

Chinese general and politician (born 1903)

Chen Geng was a Chinese military officer who served as a senior general in the People's Liberation Army. Enlisting in a warlord's army at the age of 13, Chen Geng joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1922 and was…

1961

Václav Talich

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.

1961

Laura Adams Armer

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.

1963

Alice Herz

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…

1965

Thomas MacGreevy

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.

1967

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco

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…

1968

Gunnar Ekelöf

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…

1968

Tammi Terrell

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…

1970

Bebe Daniels

American actress (born 1901)

Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

1971

Thomas E. Dewey

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,…

1971

Pie Traynor

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…

1972

T-Bone Walker

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…

1975

Kamal Jumblatt

Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1917)

Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a prominent Lebanese politician, intellectual, and traditional za'im of the Lebanese Druze community. He was the founder of the Progressive Socialist Party (PSP) and served as the executive…

1977

Jean Monnet

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…

1979

Arthur Godfrey

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…

1983

Fred Rose

Polish-Canadian politician (born 1907)

Fred Rose was a Polish-Canadian politician and trade union organizer, best known for being the only member of the Canadian Parliament to ever be convicted of a charge related to spying for a foreign country. A member of…

1983

Roger Sessions

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…

1985

Eddie Shore

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.…

1985

Jigger Statz

American baseball player (born 1897)

Arnold John "Jigger" Statz was an American professional baseball outfielder, manager and scout. He threw and batted right-handed and was listed as 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall and 150 pounds (68 kg).

1988

Mickey Thompson

American race car driver (born 1928)

Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson was an American auto racing builder and promoter.

1988

Ernst Bacon

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…

1990

Chris Austin

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…

1991

Jean Bellette

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…

1991

Yves Rocard

French physicist and engineer (born 1903)

Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.

1992

Eric Show

American baseball player (born 1956)

Eric Vaughn Show was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent most of his career with the San Diego Padres and holds the team record for most career wins (100).…

1994

Derek Barton

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.

1998

Esther Bubley

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…

1998

Gratien Gélinas

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.

1999

Thomas Ferebee

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.

2000

Pavel Prudnikau

Belarusian poet and author (born 1911)

Pavel Ivanovich Prudnikau was a Belarusian writer. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Ales Prudnikau.

2000

Michael Starr

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…

2000

Carlos Velázquez

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.

2000

Bob Wollek

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…

2001

Rachel Corrie

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…

2003

Ronald Ferguson

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…

2003

Vilém Tauský

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…

2004

Todd Bell

American football player (born 1958)

Todd Anthony Bell was an American professional football player who was a safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) during the early 1980s. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

2005

Ralph Erskine

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.

2005

Dick Radatz

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…

2005

Manjural Islam Rana

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…

2007

Bill Brown

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…

2008

Ivan Dixon

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…

2008

Gary Hart

American wrestler and manager (born 1942)

Gary Richard Williams was an American professional wrestling manager, as well as a professional wrestler in his early career, best known by his ring name Gary Hart. Hart was one of the pivotal driving forces behind what…

2008

Ksenija Pajčin

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.

2010

Richard Wirthlin

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…

2011

Donald E. Hillman

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…

2012

Takaaki Yoshimoto

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…

2012

Jamal Nazrul Islam

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…

2013

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz

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…

2013

Yadier Pedroso

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…

2013

Ruchoma Shain

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…

2013

Marina Solodkin

Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)

Marina Solodkin was an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Likud and Kadima.

2013

Frank Thornton

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…

2013

Gary Bettenhausen

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.

2014

Donald Crothers

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.

2014

Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy

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,…

2014

Steve Moore

English author and illustrator (born 1949)

Steve Moore was a British comics writer.

2014

Alexander Pochinok

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.

2014

Jack Haley

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)

Jack Kevin Haley was an American professional basketball player.

2015

Don Robertson

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…

2015

Alexander Esenin-Volpin

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…

2016

Frank Sinatra Jr.

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…

2016

Lewis Rowland

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…

2017

Louise Slaughter

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.

2018

Dick Dale

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…

2019

Émilie Dequenne

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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My Lai Massacre — March 16, 1968

500 Vietnamese civilians killed in My Lai, Vietnam in 1968, exposing a dark atrocity that would change the course of the war completely

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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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A series of Boko Haram bombings leave 26 dead and 146 injured in Maiduguri, Nigeria. Wikipedia →

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A fire breaks out in a nightclub in Kočani, North Macedonia, killing at least 59 people and injuring 155 others. Wikipedia →

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A 7.4-magnitude earthquake occurs off the coast of Fukushima, Japan, killing 4 people and injuring 225. Wikipedia →

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