Notable Deaths on March 22

Q: Who died on March 22?

Notable people who died on March 22 include: Severus Alexander, Carloman of Bavaria, William of Norwich, Thomas, Dietrich of Nieheim.

Q: What is Robert F. Overmyer known for?

Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1936)

1996 — Robert F. Overmyer

American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1936)

March 22 has seen 101 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 235 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 22 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 101 people 235 – 2026

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Upon cancellation of the program in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served support crew duties for the Apollo program, Skylab program, and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project

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Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966

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In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985

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He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year

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A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft.

Severus Alexander

Roman emperor (born 208)

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and, at the age of 13, became the youngest sole emperor of the…

235

Carloman of Bavaria

Frankish king

Carloman was a Frankish king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was the eldest son of Louis the German, king of East Francia, and Hemma, daughter of a Bavarian count. His father appointed him governor of Carantania in 856,…

880

William of Norwich

child murder victim

William of Norwich was an apprentice who lived in the English city of Norwich, and who was murdered during Easter 1144. The city's French-speaking Jewish community was blamed by some for his death, but the crime was…

1144

Thomas

2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1278)

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the royal Plantagenet dynasty. He held the titles of Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 until his…

1322

Dietrich of Nieheim

German bishop and historian (born 1345)

Dietrich of Nieheim was a medieval German historian.

1418

Thomas of Lancaster

1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1388)

Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence was a medieval English prince and soldier, the second son of Henry IV of England, brother of Henry V, and heir to the throne in the event of his brother's death. He acted as…

1421

John Kemp

Archbishop of Canterbury

John Kemp was a medieval English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England.

1454

George of Poděbrady (born 1420)

George of Kunštát and Poděbrady, also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad, was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. His…

1471

Johannes Magnus

Swedish archbishop and theologian (born 1488)

Johannes Magnus was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.

1544

Agostino Carracci

Italian painter and educator (born 1557)

Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli…

1602

Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (born 1638)

Nagahito , posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Sai , also known as Emperor Go-Saiin , was the 111th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

1685

Jean-Baptiste Lully

Italian-French composer and conductor (born 1632)

Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of…

1687

Jonathan Edwards

English minister, theologian, and philosopher (born 1703)

Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards's…

1758

Stephen Decatur

American commander (born 1779)

Stephen Decatur Jr. was a United States Navy officer. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in Worcester County. His father, Stephen Decatur Sr., was a commodore in the Continental Navy during the American…

1820

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1749)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and…

1832

Étienne Bobillier

French mathematician and academic (born 1798)

Étienne Bobillier was a French mathematician.

1840

Konstanty Kalinowski

writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (born 1838)

Konstanty Kalinowski, or Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, was a Polish–Lithuanian noble and one of the leaders of the 1863 January Uprising within the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is a national hero for…

1864

Samuel Courtauld

English businessman (born 1793)

Samuel Courtauld was an American-born British industrialist who developed his family firm, Courtaulds, to become eventually the world's largest textile company.

1881

Thomas Hughes

English lawyer and politician (born 1822)

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a…

1896

Song Jiaoren

Chinese educator and politician (born 1882)

Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election. He based his appeal on…

1913

Ruggero Oddi

Italian physiologist and anatomist (born 1864)

Ruggero Oddi was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He is most well known for the sphincter of Oddi, which was named after him.

1913

William Macewen

Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (born 1848)

Sir William Macewen was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and…

1924

James Campbell

1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1851)

James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy,, was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British Parliament and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. He was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

1931

Frederick Cuming

English cricketer (born 1875)

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

1942

William Donne

English captain and cricketer (born 1875)

William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union, and was a member of the cricket team that won a gold medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1942

María Collazo

Uruguayan journalist and activist (born 1884)

María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907.

1942

D. S. Senanayake

1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1883)

Don Stephen Senanayake was a Ceylonese statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, having emerged as the leader of the Sri Lankan independence movement that led to the establishment of self-rule in Ceylon. He…

1952

Ivan Šubašić

Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1892)

Ivan Šubašić was a Croat politician, best known as the last Ban of Croatia and Prime Minister of the royalist Yugoslav Government in exile during the Second World War.

1955

Mike Todd

American film producer (born 1909)

Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third…

1958

José Antonio Aguirre

Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (born 1904)

José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during…

1960

John Harlin

American mountaineer and pilot (born 1935)

John Elvis Harlin II was an American alpinist and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger at age 30.

1966

Johannes Villemson

Estonian-American runner (born 1893)

Johannes Leopold Villemson was an Estonian runner who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the first round of the 800 m and 1500 m events.

1971

Nella Walker

American actress and vaudevillian (born 1886)

Nella Walker was an American actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s.

1971

Peter Revson

American race car driver (born 1939)

Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1964 and 1974. Revson won two Formula One Grands Prix across five seasons.

1974

Orazio Satta Puliga

Italian automobile designer (born 1910)

Orazio Satta Puliga was an Italian automobile designer of Sardinian ancestry known for several Alfa Romeo designs.

1974

John Dwyer McLaughlin

American painter (born 1898)

John Dwyer McLaughlin was an American abstract painter. Based primarily in California, he was a pioneer in minimalism and hard-edge painting. Considered one of the most significant Californian postwar artists,…

1976

A. K. Gopalan

Indian educator and politician (born 1904)

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of sixteen Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952, and later…

1977

Karl Wallenda

German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (born 1905)

Karl Wallenda was a German-American high wire artist. He was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, a daredevil circus troupe whose members performed dangerous stunts far above the ground, often without a safety net.

1978

Ben Lyon

American actor and studio executive (born 1901)

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.

1979

James Elliott

American runner and coach (born 1915)

James F. "Jumbo" Elliott was an American track and field coach, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. His achievements include producing five Olympic gold medal winners between 1956 and 1968.

1981

Gil Puyat

Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1907)

Gil Juco Puyat Sr. was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1951 until 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos shut Congress down and declared Martial Law, and as Senate…

1981

Raoul Ubac

French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (born 1910)

Raoul Ubac was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.

1985

Spyros Vassiliou

Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1903)

Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient…

1985

Olive Deering

American actress (born 1918)

Olive Deering was an American actress of film, television, and stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.

1986

Odysseas Angelis

Greek general and politician (born 1912)

Odysseas Angelis was a Greek artillery officer. He reached the rank of four star General and served as Chief of the Greek Armed Forces and Vice President of the Hellenic Republic. He supported the military regime that…

1987

Peta Taylor

English cricketer (born 1912)

Mary Isabella "Peta" Taylor, married name Mary Jager, was an English cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937, including the first ever…

1989

Gerald Bull

Canadian engineer and academic (born 1928)

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. Bull moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed…

1990

Léon Balcer

Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1917)

Léon Balcer, was a Canadian politician.

1991

Paul Engle

American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (born 1908)

Paul Hamilton Engle, was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International…

1991

Dave Guard

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)

Donald David Guard was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio.

1991

Gloria Holden

English-American actress (born 1908)

Gloria Anna Holden was an English-born American actress, active in films from the 1930s through the 1950s. She often portrayed cold society women, but was best known for her portrayal of the title character in the…

1991

Steve Olin

American baseball player (born 1965)

Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. Olin was a right-handed submarining relief pitcher for the…

1993

Dan Hartman

American singer-songwriter, and producer (born 1950)

Daniel Earl Hartman was an American pop rock musician. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About…

1994

Walter Lantz

American animator, director, and producer (born 1899)

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

1994

Don Murray

American drummer (born 1945)

Donald Ray Murray was an American drummer and Hanna-Barbera animator, best known for his work with the Turtles. After leaving the group, Murray played with Paul Williams's psychedelic folk group the Holy Mackerel. In…

1996

Billy Williamson

American guitarist (born 1925)

William F. Williamson was the American steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen, and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1963.

1996

Max Beloff

Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (born 1913)

Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.

1999

David Strickland

American actor (born 1969)

David Gordon Strickland, Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for playing the boyish rock music reporter Todd Stites in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.

1999

Carlo Parola

Italian footballer and manager (born 1921)

Carlo Parola, was an Italian football player and coach who played as a defender. Throughout his career, he won domestic titles with Italian club Juventus, both as a player and as a manager. At international level, he…

2000

Stepas Butautas

Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1925)

Stepas Butautas was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas. He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic…

2001

Sabiha Gökçen

Turkish soldier and pilot (born 1913)

Sabiha Gökçen was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot, at age 23. As an…

2001

William Hanna

American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1910)

William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the…

2001

Robert Fletcher Shaw

Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (born 1910)

Robert Fletcher Shaw was a Canadian businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967.

2001

Rudolf Baumgartner

Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1917)

Rudolf Baumgartner was a Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.

2002

Terry Lloyd

English journalist (born 1952)

Terence Ellis "Terry" Lloyd was an English television journalist who reported extensively from the Middle East. He was killed by the U.S. military while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN. An inquest jury in the…

2003

Janet Akyüz Mattei

Turkish-American astronomer and academic (born 1943)

Janet Hanula Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.

2004

Ahmed Yassin

Co-founded Hamas (born 1937)

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, an Islamist political and military organization. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto…

2004

V. M. Tarkunde

Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1909)

Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde was a prominent Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader and has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India and a former judge of the Bombay High…

2004

Rod Price

English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)

Roderick Michael Price was an English guitarist best known for his work with the rock band Foghat. He was known as 'The Magician of Slide', 'The Bottle', and 'Slide King of Rock and Roll', due to his proficiency on…

2005

Gemini Ganesan

Indian film actor (born 1920)

Ramasamy Ganesan, better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred as Kaadhal Mannan for his romantic roles in films. Ganesan was one of the "three…

2005

Kenzō Tange

Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (born 1913)

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He…

2005

Pierre Clostermann

French soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1921)

Pierre-Henri Clostermann was a World War II French ace fighter pilot.

2006

Pío Leyva

Cuban singer and author (born 1917)

Pío Leiva was a Cuban singer and the author of the guaracha El Mentiroso. Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba's best known standards.

2006

Kurt von Trojan

Austrian-Australian journalist and author (born 1937)

Kurt von Trojan was an Australian journalist and science fiction author. He also worked as a psychiatric nurse and a cinema projectionist.

2006

U. G. Krishnamurti

Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (born 1918)

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was an Indian "anti-guru" who questioned the search for enlightenment. Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. clarified that he had experienced a…

2007

Cachao López

Cuban-American bassist and composer (born 1918)

Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and…

2008

James Black

Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational…

2010

Özhan Canaydın

Turkish basketball player and businessman (born 1943)

Özhan Canaydın was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.

2010

Artur Agostinho

Portuguese journalist (born 1920)

Artur Fernandes Agostinho was a Portuguese journalist, radio host, actor, publicist and writer, recipient of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.

2011

Victor Bouchard

Canadian pianist and composer (born 1926)

Victor Bouchard OC CQ was a Canadian pianist and composer.

2011

Joe Blanchard

American football player and wrestler (born 1928)

Joseph Edgar Blanchard was an American football player, professional wrestler, and professional wrestling promoter. From 1978 to 1985, he operated the Southwest Championship Wrestling promotion in San Antonio, Texas.

2012

David Waltz

American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)

David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively…

2012

Neil L. Whitehead

English anthropologist and author (born 1956)

Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the…

2012

Vladimír Čech

Czech actor and politician (born 1951)

Vladimír Čech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.

2013

Bebo Valdés

Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band…

2013

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal

Indian author (born 1928)

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer. G. S. Amur said: "His short stories, many of them were outstanding, and came with his distinct touch.The kind of experimentation he did with language, style and…

2014

Mickey Duff

Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)

Mickey Duff, was a Polish-born British boxer, matchmaker, manager and promoter.

2014

Thor Listau

Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)

Thor Listau was a Norwegian military technician and politician for the Conservative Party. He was a three-term MP and served as Minister of Fisheries from 1981 to 1985. Later he served as director of Statkorn from 1991…

2014

Tasos Mitsopoulos

Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)

Tasos Mitsopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 until 2013 for Democratic Rally. He then joined the cabinet of Nicos Anastasiades as Minister of…

2014

Arkady Arkanov

Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)

Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov was a Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian.

2015

Horst Buhtz

German footballer and manager (born 1923)

Horst Buhtz was a German football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder.

2015

Norman Scribner

American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

Norman Orville Scribner was an American conductor, composer, pianist, and organist. He was most widely known as the founder of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, where he served as artistic director for over…

2015

Rob Ford

Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)

Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor; first being elected to Toronto City…

2016

Rita Gam

American actress (born 1927)

Rita Gam was an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

2016

Johan van Hulst

Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)

Johan Willem van Hulst was a Dutch school director, university professor, author, politician, chess player and centenarian. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of…

2018

Scott Walker

British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Noel Scott Engel, better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic…

2019

Laurent de Brunhoff

French author and illustrator (born 1925)

Laurent de Brunhoff was a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books that was created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.

2024

Jessica Aber

American lawyer (born 1981)

Jessica Diane Aber was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) from 2021 to 2025. She was known for prosecuting high-profile cases involving organized…

2025

Andy Peebles

English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)

Robert Andrew Peebles was an English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator.

2025

Lionel Jospin

French civil servant and politician, 165th Prime Minister of France (born 1937)

Lionel Robert Jospin was a French politician who served as Prime Minister of France from 1997 to 2002.

2026

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Air Canada Express Flight 8646, a Bombardier CRJ-900 operated by Jazz Aviation, collided with a fire truck while landing at LaGuardia Airport in New York City. Two fatalities were reported, both being the captain and the co-pilot. This marked the first fatal accident involving a CRJ-900. Wikipedia →

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At least 145 people are killed and 551 injured in a bombing and mass shooting at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, Russia. Wikipedia →

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Ten people are killed in a mass shooting in Boulder, Colorado. Wikipedia →

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