Notable Deaths on March 23

Q: Who died on March 23?

Notable people who died on March 23 include: Agrippina the Younger, Zhou Chi, Zhen Zong, Eudes I, Henry of Grosmont.

Q: What is Halyna Kuzmenko known for?

Halyna Kuzmenko, Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (born 1897)

1978 — Halyna Kuzmenko

Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary (born 1897)

March 23 has seen 113 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 59 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 23 — Wikipedia

Notable Deaths 113 people 59 – 2026

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After moving to southern Ukraine, she became a prominent figure within the ranks of the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement to establish a libertarian communist society

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Following the death of her husband, the outbreak of World War II saw her deportation for forced labour, first by the Nazis and then by the Soviets

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Along with her husband, the anarchist military leader Nestor Makhno, in 1921 she fled into exile from the political repression in Ukraine

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Agafya "Halyna" Andriivna Kuzmenko was a Ukrainian teacher and anarchist revolutionary

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Kuzmenko spearheaded the movement's educational activities, promoted Ukrainization and acted as an outspoken advocate of women's rights

Agrippina the Younger

Roman empress (born 15)

AD 59 (LIX) was a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Apronianus and Capito. The denomination AD 59 for this year has been used since the…

Zhou Chi

Chinese historian and politician (born 793)

Zhou Chi, courtesy name Desheng, formally the Baron of Ru'nan, was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Xuānzong.

851

Zhen Zong

Chinese emperor (born 968)

Emperor Zhenzong of Song, personal name Zhao Heng, was the third emperor of the Song dynasty of China. He reigned from 997 to his death in 1022. His personal name was originally Zhao Dechang, but was changed to Zhao…

1022

Eudes I

duke of Burgundy (born 1058)

Odo I, also known as Eudes, surnamed Borel and called the Red, was duke of Burgundy between 1079 and 1102. Odo was the second son of Henry of Burgundy and grandson of Robert I. He became the duke following the…

1103

Henry of Grosmont

1st Duke of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1310)

Henry of Grosmont, Duke of Lancaster was an English statesman, diplomat, soldier, and Christian writer. The owner of Bolingbroke Castle in Lincolnshire, Grosmont was a member of the House of Plantagenet, which was…

1361

Peter

king of Castile and León (born 1334)

Peter, called Peter the Cruel or the Just, was King of Castile and León from 1350 to 1369. Peter was the last ruler of the main branch of the House of Ivrea. He was excommunicated by Pope Urban V for his persecutions…

1369

Yolande

duchess of Lorraine (born 1428)

Yolande was Duchess of Lorraine (1473) and Bar (1480). She was the daughter of Isabella, Duchess of Lorraine, and René of Anjou. Though she was nominally in control of major territories, she ceded her power and titles…

1483

Itagaki Nobukata

Japanese samurai (born 1489)

Itagaki Nobukata was a retainer of the Takeda family. He was known as one of the "Twenty-Four Generals of Takeda Shingen". His name is also seen with different kanji as 信形. Nobukata served under both Takeda Nobutora…

1548

Julius III

pope of the Catholic Church (born 1487)

Pope Julius III, born Giovanni Maria Ciocchi del Monte, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1550 to his death, in March 1555.

1555

Gelawdewos

Ethiopian emperor (born 1521)

Galawdewos, also known as Claudius in European sources, was Emperor of Ethiopia from 3 September 1540 until his death in 1559, and a member of the Solomonic dynasty. His throne name was Atsnaph Sagad I. A male line…

1559

Henry Unton

English diplomat (born 1557)

Sir Henry Unton was an Elizabethan English diplomat.

1596

Justus Lipsius

Flemish philologist and scholar (born 1547)

Justus Lipsius was a Flemish Catholic philologist, philosopher, and humanist. Lipsius wrote a series of works designed to revive ancient Stoicism in a form that would be compatible with Christianity. The most famous of…

1606

James Hamilton

1st Earl of Abercorn, Scottish police officer and politician (born 1575)

James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn PC (S) (1575–1618), was a Scottish diplomat for James VI and an undertaker in the Plantation of Ulster in the north of Ireland.

1618

Francis Fane

1st Earl of Westmorland, English landowner and politician (born 1580)

Francis Fane, 1st Earl of Westmorland, of Mereworth in Kent and of Apethorpe in Northamptonshire was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1601 and 1624 and then was raised to the…

1629

Anthoni van Noordt

Dutch organist and composer (born 1619)

Anthoni van Noordt was a Dutch composer and organist.

1675

Nicolas Fouquet

French politician (born 1615)

Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux was the Superintendent of Finances in France from 1653 until 1661 under King Louis XIV. He had a glittering career, and acquired enormous wealth. He fell…

1680

Zebi Hirsch Kaidanover

Lithuanian-born rabbi and writer (born c. 1650)

Rabbi Ẓebi Hirsch Kaidanover, a native of Wilna; was the author of Kav ha-Yashar.

1712

Jean-Baptiste Dubos

French historian and author (born 1670)

Jean-Baptiste Dubos, also referred to as l'Abbé Du Bos, was a French author. He was also a diplomat and an art critic.

1742

Claude Alexandre de Bonneval

French general (born 1675)

Claude Alexandre, Count of Bonneval, was a French army officer who later went into the service of the Ottoman Empire, eventually converting to Islam and becoming known as Humbaracı Ahmet Paşa.

1747

Johann Gottfried Walther

German organist and composer (born 1684)

Johann Gottfried Walther was a German music theorist, organist, composer, and lexicographer of the Baroque era.

1748

Johann Jakob Wettstein

Swiss theologian and critic (born 1693)

Johann Jakob Wettstein was a Swiss theologian, best known as a New Testament critic.

1754

Charles Carroll

English barrister and politician (born 1723)

Charles Carroll was an American statesman from Annapolis, Maryland. In 1760, he built the colonial home Mount Clare in Maryland, and a he was named a delegate to the Second Continental Congress in 1776 and 1777, which…

1783

Luís António Verney

Portuguese philosopher and pedagogue (born 1713)

Luís António Verney was a Portuguese philosopher, theologian, and pedagogue. An estrangeirado, Verney is sometimes called the most important figure of the Portuguese Enlightenment.

1792

Paul I

Russian emperor (born 1754)

Paul I was Emperor of Russia from 1796 until his assassination in 1801.

1801

Stendhal

French novelist (born 1783)

Marie-Henri Beyle, better known by his pen name Stendhal, was a French writer. Best known for the novels Le Rouge et le Noir and La Chartreuse de Parme, he is highly regarded for the acute analysis of his characters'…

1842

Manuel Robles Pezuela

Unconstitutional Mexican interim president, 1858–1859 (born 1817)

Manuel Robles Pezuela was a military engineer, military commander, and eventually interim president of Mexico during a civil war, the Reform War, being waged between conservatives and liberals, in which he served as…

1862

Arthur Macalister

Scottish-Australian politician, 2nd Premier of Queensland (born 1818)

Arthur Macalister, was three times Premier of Queensland, Australia.

1883

Henry C. Lord

American businessman (born 1824)

Henry Clark Lord was the fourth president of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway. He was born in Amherst, Massachusetts, the son of Dartmouth College president Nathan Lord.

1884

Nadar

French photographer, journalist, and author (born 1820)

Gaspard-Félix Tournachon, known by the pseudonym Nadar or Félix Nadar, was a French photographer, caricaturist, journalist, novelist and balloonist who was a proponent of heavier-than-air flight. In 1858, he became the…

1910

Rafqa Pietra Choboq Ar-Rayès

Lebanese saint (born 1832)

Rafqa Pietra Chobok, also known as Saint Rafka and Saint Rebecca, was a Lebanese Maronite nun who was canonized by Pope John Paul II on June 10, 2001.

1914

Hovhannes Tumanyan

Armenian poet and author (born 1869)

Hovhannes Tumanyan was an Armenian poet, writer, translator, and literary and public activist. He is the national poet of Armenia.

1923

Paul César Helleu

French painter and etcher (born 1859)

Paul César Helleu was a French oil painter, pastel artist, drypoint etcher, and designer, best known for his numerous portraits of beautiful society women of the Belle Époque. He also conceived the ceiling mural of…

1927

Shivaram Rajguru

Indian activist (born 1908)

Shivaram Hari Rajguru was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary and independence activist. He is best known for his involvement in the 1928 assassination of a British police officer named John P. Saunders. He was an…

1931

Bhagat Singh

Indian activist (born 1907)

Bhagat Singh was an Indian anti-colonial revolutionary who participated in the mistaken murder of a junior British police officer in December 1928 in what was intended to be retaliation for the death of an Indian…

1931

Sukhdev Thapar

Indian activist (born 1907)

Sukhdev Thapar was an Indian freedom fighter who fought against the British government for Indian independence. He was a member of the Hindustan Socialist Republican Association (HSRA), and was executed along with…

1931

Gilbert N. Lewis

American chemist (born 1875)

Gilbert Newton Lewis was an American physical chemist and a dean of the college of chemistry at University of California, Berkeley. Lewis was best known for his discovery of the covalent bond and his concept of electron…

1946

Raoul Dufy

French painter and illustrator (born 1877)

Raoul Dufy was a French painter associated with the Fauvist movement. He gained recognition for his vibrant and decorative style, which became popular in various forms, such as textile designs, and public building…

1953

Oskar Luts

Estonian author and playwright (born 1887)

Oskar Luts was an Estonian writer and playwright.

1953

Artur Bernardes

Brazilian politician, 12th President of Brazil (born 1875)

Artur da Silva Bernardes was a Brazilian lawyer and politician who served as the 12th president of Brazil from 1922 to 1926. Bernades' presidency was marked by the crisis of the First Brazilian Republic and the almost…

1955

Franklin Pierce Adams

American journalist and author (born 1881)

Franklin Pierce Adams was an American columnist known as Franklin P. Adams and by his initials F.P.A. Famed for his wit, he is best known for his newspaper column, "The Conning Tower", and his appearances as a regular…

1960

Said Nursî

Turkish theologian and scholar (born 1878)

Said Nursi, known also as Said-i Kurdî, was a Kurdish scholar of Islam from Turkey who wrote the Risale-i Nur Collection, a body of Qur'anic commentary exceeding six thousand pages. His focus was on a revival of…

1960

Albert Bloch

American painter and educator (born 1882)

Albert Bloch was an American Modernist artist and the only American artist associated with Der Blaue Reiter, a group of early 20th-century European modernists.

1961

Jack Russell

English cricketer (born 1887)

Charles Albert George "Jack" Russell was one of the leading batsmen in county cricket during the period after World War I. Right-handed with both bat and with ball as a medium-slow bowler, Russell's main strength was…

1961

Thoralf Skolem

Norwegian mathematician and logician (born 1887)

Thoralf Albert Skolem was a Norwegian mathematician who worked in mathematical logic, set theory, and number theory.

1963

Peter Lorre

American actor (born 1904)

Peter Lorre was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister…

1964

Mae Murray

American actress, dancer, producer, and screenwriter (born 1885)

Mae Murray was an American actress, dancer, film producer, and screenwriter. Murray rose to fame during the silent film era and was known as "The Girl with the Bee-Stung Lips" and "The Gardenia of the Screen".

1965

Lalla Carlsen

Norwegian singer and actress (born 1889)

Lalla Carlsen was a Norwegian singer and actress. She was a very popular singer in Norway.

1967

Edwin O'Connor

American journalist and author (born 1918)

Edwin Greene O'Connor was an American journalist, novelist, and radio commentator. He won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1962 for his novel The Edge of Sadness (1961). His ancestry was Irish, and his novels concerned…

1968

Cristóbal Balenciaga

Spanish fashion designer, founded Balenciaga (born 1895)

Cristóbal Balenciaga Eizaguirre was a Spanish fashion designer, and the founder of the Balenciaga clothing brand. He had a reputation as a couturier of uncompromising standards and was referred to as "the master of us…

1972

Haim Ernst Wertheimer

Israeli biochemist and academic (born 1893)

Haim Ernst Wertheimer was an Israeli biochemist.

1978

Ted Anderson

English footballer (born 1911)

Edward Walton Anderson was an English footballer, who played at either full-back or wing-half.

1979

Arthur Melvin Okun

American economist and academic (born 1928)

Arthur Melvin "Art" Okun was an American economist.

1980

Beatrice Tinsley

English-New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist (born 1941)

Beatrice Muriel Hill Tinsley was a British-born New Zealand astronomer and cosmologist, and the first female professor of astronomy at Yale University, whose research made fundamental contributions to the astronomical…

1981

Mike Hailwood

English motorcyclist (born 1940)

Stanley Michael Bailey Hailwood was a British racing driver and motorcycle road racer, who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1967, and Formula One between 1963 and 1974. Nicknamed "the Bike",…

1981

Richard Beeching

Baron Beeching, English physicist and engineer (born 1913)

Richard Beeching, Baron Beeching, commonly known as Dr Beeching, was a physicist and engineer who was chairman of British Railways. He became a household name in Britain in the early 1960s for his report The Reshaping…

1985

Peter Charanis

Greek-American scholar and educator (born 1908)

Peter Charanis, born Panagiotis Charanis, was a Greek-born American scholar of Byzantium and the Voorhees Professor of History at Rutgers University. Charanis was long associated with the Dumbarton Oaks research library.

1985

Moshe Feinstein

American Orthodox Rabbi and posek (born 1895)

Moshe Feinstein was a Russian-born American Orthodox Jewish rabbi, scholar, and posek. He has been called the most famous Orthodox Jewish legal authority of the 20th century and his rulings are often referenced in…

1986

Olev Roomet

Estonian singer and violinist (born 1901)

Olev Roomet was an Estonian musician, a violin player, a player of the torupill and a singer in the State Academic Male Choir of Estonia. He became interested in the Estonian bagpipe in his 50s. At the death of…

1987

John Dexter

English director and producer (born 1925)

John Dexter was an English theatre, opera and film director, described in a 100th anniversary tribute as "one of the towering directors in the English-speaking theatre in the second half of the 20th century". He was…

1990

Margaret Atwood Judson

American historian and author (born 1899)

Margaret Atwood Judson was an American historian and writer.

1991

Parkash Singh

Indian soldier, Victoria Cross recipient (born 1913)

Major Parkash Singh VC was a Sikh Indian recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.

1991

Friedrich Hayek

Austrian-German economist, philosopher, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1899)

Friedrich August von Hayek was an Austrian economist and philosopher. He is known for his contributions to political economy, political philosophy and intellectual history. Hayek shared the 1974 Nobel Memorial Prize in…

1992

Ron Lapointe

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1949)

Ron Lapointe was a Canadian ice hockey coach.

1992

Luis Donaldo Colosio

Mexican economist and politician (born 1950)

Luis Donaldo Colosio Murrieta was a Mexican politician, economist, and Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) presidential candidate, who was assassinated at a campaign rally in Tijuana during the presidential campaign…

1994

Giulietta Masina

Italian actress (born 1921)

Giulia Anna "Giulietta" Masina was an Italian film actress best known for her performances as Gelsomina in La Strada (1954) and Cabiria in Nights of Cabiria (1957), for which she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for…

1994

Davie Cooper

Scottish footballer and coach (born 1956)

David Cooper was a Scottish professional footballer who played as a winger.

1995

Luis María Argaña

Paraguayan judge and politician, Vice President of Paraguay (born 1932)

Luis María del Corazón de Jesús Dionisio Argaña Ferraro was a Paraguayan politician and jurist. A prominent and influential member of the Colorado Party, he was a Supreme Court judge, unsuccessfully ran for the Colorado…

1999

Osmond Borradaile

Canadian director and cinematographer (born 1898)

Osmond Hudson Borradaile was a Canadian cameraman, cinematographer, and veteran of World War I and World War II.

1999

Rowland Evans

American journalist (born 1921)

Rowland Evans Jr. was an American journalist. He was known best for his decades-long syndicated column and television partnership with Robert Novak, a partnership that endured, if only by way of a joint subscription…

2001

Margaret Jones

British archaeologist (born 1916)

Margaret Ursula Jones was an English archaeologist, best known for directing major excavations at Mucking, Essex.

2001

Robert Laxalt

American author (born 1923)

Robert Laxalt was an American writer from Nevada.

2001

David McTaggart

Canadian badminton player and environmentalist (born 1932)

David Fraser McTaggart was a Canadian badminton player and an environmentalist who played a central part in the foundation of Greenpeace International.

2001

Eileen Farrell

American soprano (born 1920)

Eileen Farrell was an American soprano who had a nearly 60-year-long career performing both classical and popular music in concerts, theatres, on radio and television, and on disc. NPR noted, "She possessed one of the…

2002

Ben Hollioake

Australian-English cricketer (born 1977)

Benjamin Caine Hollioake was an English cricketer who played for Surrey County Cricket Club and the England cricket team. Born in Australia, Hollioake moved to England where he made his first-class cricketing debut for…

2002

Fritz Spiegl

Austrian-English flute player and journalist (born 1926)

Fritz Spiegl was an Austrian-born English musician, journalist, broadcaster, humorist and collector who lived in Britain from 1939. His works include compiling the Radio 4 UK Theme in 1978.

2003

Rupert Hamer

Australian soldier, lawyer, and politician, 39th Premier of Victoria (born 1916)

Sir Rupert James "Dick" Hamer, was an Australian politician who served as the 39th premier of Victoria from 1972 to 1981, and prior to that, the 18th deputy premier of Victoria from 1971 to 1972. He held office as the…

2004

David B. Bleak

American sergeant, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1932)

David Bruce Bleak was a soldier of the United States Army during the Korean War. Bleak rose to the rank of staff sergeant and was awarded the Medal of Honor, the highest military decoration of the United States, for his…

2006

Desmond Doss

American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient (born 1919)

Desmond Thomas Doss was a United States Army corporal who served as a combat medic with an infantry company in World War II. Due to his religious beliefs, he refused to carry a weapon.

2006

Cindy Walker

American singer-songwriter and dancer (born 1918)

Cindy Walker was an American songwriter, country music singer, and dancer. She wrote many popular and enduring songs recorded by many artists.

2006

Paul Cohen

American mathematician and theorist (born 1934)

Paul Joseph Cohen was an American mathematician, best known for his proofs that the continuum hypothesis and the axiom of choice are independent from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, for which he was awarded a Fields Medal.

2007

Eric Medlen

American race car driver (born 1973)

Eric John Medlen was an American NHRA Fuel Funny Car driver. Medlen drove for John Force Racing in 2004, 2005, and 2006, campaigning in the Castrol Syntec Ford Mustang Fuel Funny Car, and in 2007, campaigning in the…

2007

Vaino Vahing

Estonian psychiatrist, author, and playwright (born 1940)

Vaino Vahing was an Estonian writer, prosaist, psychiatrist and playwright. Starting from 1973, he was a member of the Estonian Writers' Union.

2008

Ghukas Chubaryan

Armenian sculptor (born 1923)

Ghukas Chubaryan was a prominent Armenian sculptor, People's Artist of Armenia. He authored numerous works that later became symbols of the Armenian capital.

2009

Raúl Macías

Mexican boxer and trainer (born 1934)

Raúl Macías Guevara was a Mexican professional boxer, actor and boxing trainer. He took the NBA World Bantamweight Championship on March 9, 1955. Widely known as "Ratón" Macías, or "Mouse" Macías, he won a bronze medal…

2009

Jean Bartik

American computer scientist and engineer (born 1924)

Jean Bartik was an American computer programmer who was one of the original six programmers of the ENIAC computer.

2011

Rosario Morales

Puerto Rican poet and writer (born 1930)

Rosario Morales was a Puerto Rican author and poet. She is best known for her book Getting Home Alive which she co-authored with her daughter Aurora Levins Morales in 1986. She was also significant within the Latina…

2011

Elizabeth Taylor

American-British actress, socialite and humanitarian (born 1932)

Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was a British and American actress. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She then…

2011

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed

Somalian politician, President of Somalia (born 1934)

Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed, was a Somali politician and former military official who served as the first President of Puntland from 1998 to 2004. He also played a key role in establishing the Transitional Federal Government…

2012

Jim Duffy

American animator, director, and producer (born 1937)

Jim Duffy was an American animator whose credits included more than twenty years at Klasky Csupo creating productions for Nickelodeon, as well as earlier stints as an animator for Hanna-Barbera, TVC Animation in London,…

2012

Naji Talib

Iraqi politician, 52nd Prime Minister of Iraq (born 1917)

Naji Talib Arabic: ناجي طالب was the prime minister of Iraq from 1966 to 1967, replacing Abd ar-Rahman al-Bazzaz.

2012

Lonnie Wright

American basketball and football player (born 1945)

Lonnie Wright was an American professional basketball and football player who played in the same season for the Denver Rockets of the American Basketball Association and the Denver Broncos of the American Football…

2012

Boris Berezovsky

Russian-born Soviet-British mathematician and businessman (born 1946)

Boris Abramovich Berezovsky, also known as Platon Elenin, was a Russian business oligarch, government official, engineer and mathematician. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and held the federal state…

2013

Onofre Corpuz

Filipino economist, historian, and academic (born 1926)

Onofre Dizon Corpuz ONS was a Filipino academic, economist, and historian. He served as the Secretary of Education of the Philippines from 1968 to 1971 and was the 13th president of the University of the Philippines…

2013

Virgil Trucks

American baseball player and coach (born 1917)

Virgil Oliver "Fire" Trucks was an American professional baseball pitcher in Major League Baseball with the Detroit Tigers, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox, Kansas City Athletics and New York Yankees between 1941…

2013

Joe Weider

Canadian-American bodybuilder and publisher, co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilding & Fitness (born 1919)

Josef Weider was a Canadian publisher and entrepreneur who co-founded the International Federation of BodyBuilders (IFBB) alongside his brother Ben Weider. He was also the creator of Mr. Olympia, Ms. Olympia, and the…

2013

Dave Brockie

Canadian-American singer-songwriter and bass player (born 1963)

David Murray Brockie was a Canadian-born American singer and musician. He was the lead vocalist of the heavy metal band Gwar, in which he performed as Oderus Urungus, and he was a bassist and lead singer in the bands…

2014

Jaroslav Šerých

Czech painter and illustrator (born 1928)

Jaroslav Šerých was a Czech painter, printmaker and illustrator.

2014

Adolfo Suárez

Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Spain (born 1932)

Adolfo Suárez González, 1st Duke of Suárez was a Spanish lawyer and politician. Suárez was Spain's first democratically elected prime minister since the Second Spanish Republic and a key figure in the country's…

2014

Peter Oakley

English YouTuber (born 1927)

Peter Oakley was an English pensioner and Internet personality, who posted YouTube videos under the Internet pseudonym geriatric1927. With his YouTube debut in August 2006 with Telling it all, a series of…

2014

Gian Vittorio Baldi

Italian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1930)

Gian Vittorio Baldi was an Italian film producer, director and screenwriter.

2015

Lee Kuan Yew

Singaporean lawyer and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Singapore (born 1923)

Lee Kuan Yew, also known as LKY, was a Singaporean politician and barrister who served as the first prime minister of Singapore from 1959 to 1990. A member of the People's Action Party (PAP), his authoritarian…

2015

Bobby Lowther

American basketball player and lieutenant (born 1923)

Robert Carswell Lowther Sr. was an American professional basketball player. He played for the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and then the Waterloo Hawks in the National Basketball League during the 1948–49 season. Lowther…

2015

Lil' Chris

English singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality (born 1990)

Christopher James Hardman, known professionally as Lil' Chris, was an English singer-songwriter, actor, and television personality. He came to prominence in 2006 after appearing on the Channel 4 series Rock School,…

2015

Joe Garagiola

American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1926)

Joseph Henry Garagiola Sr. was an American professional baseball catcher, and later a radio and television personality with a varied career.

2016

Ken Howard

American actor (born 1944)

Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The…

2016

Miroslava Breach

Mexican investigative journalist (born 1962)

Miroslava Breach Velducea was a Mexican investigative journalist for La Jornada and Norte de Juárez in Chihuahua City, Mexico known for her reportage of human rights violations, drug trafficking, and government…

2017

George Segal

American actor (born 1934)

George Segal Jr. was an American actor and musician. He became popular in the 1960s and 1970s for playing both dramatic and comedic roles. After first rising to prominence with roles in acclaimed films such as Ship of…

2021

Julie Pomagalski

French snowboarder (born 1980)

Julie Pomagalski was a French snowboarder.

2021

Madeleine Albright

Czechoslovak-American diplomat, 64th United States Secretary of State (born 1937)

Madeleine Jana Korbel Albright was an American diplomat and political scientist who served as the 64th United States secretary of state under President Bill Clinton from 1997 to 2001. A member of the Democratic Party,…

2022

Mia Love

American politician (born 1975)

Ludmya "Mia" Love was an American political commentator and politician who served as the U.S. representative for Utah's 4th congressional district from 2015 to 2019. A member of the Republican Party, she was the first…

2025

Valerie Perrine

American actress (born 1943)

Valerie Ritchie Perrine was an American actress. She was best known for her portrayal of Honey Bruce in the film Lenny (1974). For the role, she won the BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles and…

2026

Chip Taylor

American singer and songwriter (born 1940)

James Wesley Voight, known professionally as Chip Taylor, was an American songwriter and singer noted for writing "Angel of the Morning" and "Wild Thing".

2026

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Known forAfter moving to southern Ukraine, she became a prominent figure within the ranks of the Makhnovshchina, a mass movement to establish a libertarian communist society

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An Aerospace Force Lockheed C-130 crashes during take-off in Puerto Leguízamo, Columbia, killing 70 people. Wikipedia →

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Israel Defense Forces kill 15 aid workers in the Rafah paramedic massacre. Wikipedia →

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