Notable Deaths on March 25

Q: Who died on March 25?

Notable people who died on March 25 include: Li Kening, Taira no Masakado, Nicodemus of Mammola, Kenneth III, Hugh IV.

Q: What is Eddie Collins known for?

Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

121 people 908 – 2026

March 25 has seen 121 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 908 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1951 — Eddie Collins

American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

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In 1925, Collins became just the sixth person to join the 3,000 hit club – and the last for the next 17 seasons

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Collins is the only non-Yankee to win five or more World Series titles with the same club as a player

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He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox

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His 47 career home runs are the fewest of any player with 3,000 hits

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Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive

Li Kening

Chinese general

Li Kening was a younger brother of the late Chinese Tang dynasty warlord Li Keyong, the Prince of Jin. After Li Keyong's death, Li Kening initially served as a key advisor to Li Keyong's son and successor Li Cunxu, but…

908

Taira no Masakado

Japanese samurai

Taira no Masakado was a Heian period provincial magnate (gōzoku) and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded uprising against the central government in Kyōto. Along with Sugawara no…

940

Nicodemus of Mammola

Italian monk and saint

Saint Nicodemus of Mammola is venerated as a saint in Calabria. His exact place of birth is unknown but has been identified as Ypsicron. Nicodemus’ parents were named Theophanus and Pandia, and they entrusted their…

990

Kenneth III

king of Scotland

Cináed mac Duib, anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed An Donn, was King of Alba (Scotland) from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub. Many of the Scots sources refer to him as Giric son of Kenneth son of Dub, which is…

1005

Hugh IV

French nobleman

Hugh IV was Count of Maine from 1036 to 1051.

1051

Frederick

duke of Bohemia

Frederick, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 1172 to 1173 and again from 1178 to his death.

1189

Alfonso II

king of Portugal (born 1185)

Afonso II, also called Afonso the Fat and Afonso the Leper, was King of Portugal from 1211 until 1223. Afonso was the third monarch of Portugal.

1223

Kō no Moronao

Japanese samurai

Kō no Moronao was a Japanese samurai of the Nanboku-chō period who was the first to hold the position of Shitsuji. He was appointed by Ashikaga Takauji, the first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. As Deputy, he served…

1351

Kō no Moroyasu

Japanese samurai

Kō no Moroyasu was one of the leading generals of Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji during the Nanboku-chō period, along with his brother Moronao and his cousin Morofuyu.

1351

Hosokawa Yoriyuki

Japanese samurai

Hosokawa Yoriyuki was a samurai of the Hosokawa clan, and prominent government minister under the Ashikaga shogunate, serving as Kyoto Kanrei from 1367 to 1379. The first to hold this post, he solidified the power of…

1392

Íñigo López de Mendoza

1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (born 1398)

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana was a Castilian politician and poet who held an important position in society and literature during the reign of John II of Castile.

1458

Marcos de Niza

French friar and explorer (born 1495)

Marcos de Niza, OFM was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy. Marcos led the first Spanish expedition to explore what is now the American Southwest. His report of finding a…

1558

Ikoma Chikamasa

Japanese daimyō (born 1526)

Ikoma Chikamasa was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods around the turn of the 17th century. His father was Ikoma Chikashige. Chikamasa was appointed one of the san-chūrō by Toyotomi Hideyoshi,…

1603

Olaus Martini

Swedish archbishop (born 1557)

Olof Mårtensson, also known by the Latin form Olaus Martini, was Archbishop of Uppsala from 1601 to his death.

1609

Isabelle de Limeuil

French noble (born 1535)

Isabelle de la Tour, Lady of Limeuil was a French noblewoman and a Maid of Honour to the Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici. She also formed part of Catherine's notorious "flying squadron", a group of beautiful female…

1609

Johannes Nucius

German composer and theorist (born 1556)

Johannes Nucius was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished composer in the style of…

1620

Giambattista Marino

Italian poet and author (born 1569)

Giambattista Marino was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic L'Adone.

1625

Herman IV

Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, German nobleman (born 1607)

Landgrave Hermann IV of Hesse-Rotenburg, was the first Landgrave of the semi-independent Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg. He was the fourth son of the Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel and his second wife Juliane of…

1658

Wenceslaus Hollar

Czech-English painter and etcher (born 1607)

Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech engraver, etcher and painter. He spent much of his life in England. He often created cityscapes and landscapes, including vedutas. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at…

1677

Jean Regnault de Segrais

French poet and novelist (born 1624)

Jean Regnault de Segrais was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1662.

1701

Nehemiah Grew

English anatomist and physiologist (born 1641)

Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

1712

Lucy Filippini

Italian teacher and saint (born 1672)

Lucy Filippini is venerated as a Catholic saint.

1732

Nicholas Hawksmoor

English architect, designed Easton Neston and Christ Church (born 1661)

Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal…

1736

Turlough O'Carolan

Irish harp player and composer (born 1670)

Turlough O'Carolan was a blind Celtic harper, composer and singer in Ireland whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition.

1738

Novalis

German poet and author (born 1772)

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of…

1801

Caspar Wessel

Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (born 1745)

Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.

1818

Nicolai Wergeland

Norwegian priest, writer and politician (born 1780)

Nicolai Wergeland was a Norwegian minister, writer and politician, and a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll Manor that wrote the Constitution of Norway on 17 May 1814. He was elected as one of two…

1848

William Colgate

English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (born 1783)

William Colgate was an English-American industrialist who in 1806 founded what became the Colgate-Palmolive company.

1857

James Braid

Scottish surgeon (born 1795)

James Braid was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint; a significant…

1860

Edward Bates

American politician and lawyer (born 1793)

Edward Bates was an American lawyer, politician and judge. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential…

1869

Wilhelm Marstrand

Danish painter and illustrator (born 1810)

Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand, painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists…

1873

Ernst von Bergmann

Latvian-German surgeon and academic (born 1836)

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

1907

Durham Stevens

American diplomat (born 1851)

Durham White Stevens was an American diplomat and later an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working for the Japanese colonial office in Korea, the Resident-General. He was fatally shot by Korean-American…

1908

Frédéric Mistral

French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)

Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration…

1914

Elizabeth Storrs Mead

American academic (born 1832)

Elizabeth Storrs Mead was an American educator who was the 9th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 - 1900. She taught at Andover Seminary and Oberlin College, before becoming the first non-alumna president of…

1917

Claude Debussy

French composer (born 1862)

Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early…

1918

Peter Martin

Australian footballer and soldier (born 1875)

Peter James Martin was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood during the early years of the Victorian Football League (VFL), and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFA).

1918

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas

Palestinian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (born 1843)

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, the first Palestinian religious congregation. She was beatified by Archbishop…

1927

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi

Indian journalist and politician (born 1890)

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He was an important figure in the non-cooperation movement and the freedom movement of…

1931

Ida B. Wells

American journalist and activist (born 1862)

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of…

1931

Harriet Backer

Norwegian painter (born 1845)

Harriet Backer was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally. She is best known for her detailed interior…

1932

William Carr

American rower (born 1876)

William John Carr was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.

1942

Lou Moore

American race car driver (born 1904)

Lewis Henry Moore was an American racing driver and team owner. He was most known during his racing career for qualifying on the pole position for the 1932 Indianapolis 500. He was a five-time Indianapolis 500 winning…

1956

Robert Newton

English actor (born 1905)

Robert Guy Newton was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his…

1956

Tom Brown

American trombonist (born 1888)

Tom P. Brown, sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown, was an American dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally.

1958

Charles Benjamin Howard

Canadian businessman and politician (born 1885)

Charles Benjamin Howard was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was known for his eloquence in English and French.

1964

Viola Liuzzo

American civil rights activist (born 1925)

Viola Fauver Liuzzo was an American civil rights activist. In March 1965 she drove from her home in Detroit, Michigan to Alabama to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. On March 25 she was shot dead…

1965

Billy Cotton

English singer, drummer, and bandleader (born 1899)

William Edward Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television…

1969

Max Eastman

American poet and activist (born 1883)

Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles…

1969

Jakob Sildnik

Estonian photographer and director (born 1883)

Jakob Sildnik was an Estonian photographer and filmmaker, based in Tartu. Together with Fjodor Ljubovski, he directed one of the first Estonian films, the short drama Must Teemant, released in 1923.

1973

Edward Steichen

Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879)

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion…

1973

Juan Gaudino

Argentinian race car driver (born 1893)

Juan Antonio Gaudino was an Argentine racing driver.

1975

Faisal of Saudi Arabia

Saudi Arabian king (born 1906)

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964, and he was briefly regent to his…

1975

Deiva Zivarattinam

Indian lawyer and politician (born 1894)

Deiva Zivarattinam was an Indian politician. He represented Pondicherry in the French Constituent Assembly election in 1945.

1975

Josef Albers

German-American painter and educator (born 1888)

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman…

1976

Benjamin Miessner

American radio engineer and inventor (born 1890)

Benjamin Franklin Miessner was an American radio engineer and inventor. He is most known for his electronic organ, electronic piano, and other musical instruments. He was the inventor of the Cat's whisker detector.

1976

Robert Madgwick

Australian colonel and academic (born 1905)

Sir Robert Bowden Madgwick was an Australian educationist. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and served two terms as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Madgwick was an…

1979

Akinoumi Setsuo

Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (born 1914)

Akinoumi Setsuo , born Nagata Setsuo , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Hiroshima. He was the sport's 37th yokozuna.

1979

Milton H. Erickson

American psychiatrist and psychologist (born 1901)

Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He is noted for his…

1980

Walter Susskind

Czech-English conductor and educator (born 1913)

Jan Walter Susskind was a Czech-born British conductor, teacher and pianist. He began his career in his native Prague and travelled to London in March 1939 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. He worked for substantial…

1980

Goodman Ace

American comedian and writer (born 1899)

Goodman Ace, born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humorist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist.

1982

Bob Waterfield

American football player and coach (born 1920)

Robert Stanton Waterfield was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). A skilled player, he played in the NFL for eight seasons, primarily as a quarterback, but also as a…

1983

Gloria Blondell

American actress (born 1910)

Gloria Blondell was a stage, film, and television actress who was the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.

1986

A. W. Mailvaganam

Sri Lankan physicist and academic (born 1906)

Vidya Jyothi Arumugam Wisvalingam Mailvaganam, OBE was a leading Ceylon Tamil physicist, academic and the dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Ceylon.

1987

Robert Joffrey

American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (born 1930)

Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle,…

1988

Marcel Lefebvre

French-Swiss archbishop (born 1905)

Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dakar from 1955 to 1962. He was a major influence in modern traditionalist Catholicism, founding in 1970 the Society of…

1991

Nancy Walker

American actress, singer, and director (born 1922)

Nancy Walker was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also an occasional film and television director. During her five-decade-long career, she had long-running roles as Mildred on McMillan &…

1992

Angelines Fernández

Spanish-Mexican actress (born 1922)

María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad, known professionally as Angelines Fernández, was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. She was an…

1994

Bernard Kangro

Estonian poet and journalist (born 1910)

Bernard Kangro was an Estonian writer and poet.

1994

Max Petitpierre

Swiss jurist and politician (born 1899)

Max Petitpierre was a Swiss politician, jurist and member of the Swiss Federal Council, heading the Political Department (1945-1961).

1994

James Samuel Coleman

American sociologist and academic (born 1926)

James Samuel Coleman was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.

1995

John Hugenholtz

Dutch engineer (born 1914)

Johannes Bernhardus Theodorus "Hans" Hugenholtz, known in English-speaking countries as John Hugenholtz, was a Dutch designer of race tracks and cars.

1995

Max Green

Australian lawyer (born 1952)

Max Paul Green was an English-born lawyer and alleged conman who practised in Australia. During the 1990s, he became the central figure in a major tax-minimisation scheme that was later found to involve large-scale…

1998

Steven Schiff

American lawyer and politician (born 1947)

Steven Harvey Schiff was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Republican Party, Schiff served as a U.S. Representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1989 until his death in 1998.

1998

Cal Ripken

Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)

Calvin Edwin Ripken was an American baseball player, scout, coach and manager who spent 36 years in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He played in the Orioles' farm system beginning in 1957, and later served as coach…

1999

Helen Martin

American actress (born 1909)

Helen Dorothy Martin was an American actress of stage and television. Martin's career spanned over 60 years, appearing first on stage and later in film and television. Martin is best known for her roles as Wanda…

2000

Brian Trubshaw

English cricketer and pilot (born 1924)

Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO was a leading test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969.

2001

Kenneth Wolstenholme

English journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)

Kenneth Wolstenholme, DFC & Bar was an English football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best remembered for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final; in the closing minutes,…

2002

Paul Henning

American screenwriter and producer (born 1911)

Paul William Henning was an American TV producer and screenwriter. Most famous for creating the television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was also crucial in developing the "rural" comedies Petticoat Junction…

2005

Bob Carlos Clarke

Irish photographer (born 1950)

Robert Carlos Clarke was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait, and commercial photography.

2006

Rocío Dúrcal

Spanish singer and actress (born 1944)

María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, better known as Rocío Dúrcal, was a Spanish singer and actress. Her career, which spanned more than four decades, began in the 1960s, when she established herself as an actress…

2006

Richard Fleischer

American film director (born 1916)

Richard Owen Fleischer was an American film director. His career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave. He was the son of…

2006

Buck Owens

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the…

2006

Andranik Margaryan

Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (born 1951)

Andranik Nahapeti Margaryan was an Armenian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 12 May 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on 25 March 2007. He was a member of the Republican…

2007

Ben Carnevale

American basketball player and coach (born 1915)

Bernard Louis Carnevale was an American basketball coach and college athletic administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1944 to 1946 and the United…

2008

Thierry Gilardi

French journalist and sportscaster (born 1958)

Thierry Gilardi was a French football commentator.

2008

Abby Mann

American screenwriter and producer (born 1927)

Abby Mann was an American screenwriter and producer.

2008

Herb Peterson

American businessman, created the McMuffin (born 1919)

Herbert Ralph Peterson was an American fast food advertising executive and most known for being the inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin in 1972. The breakfast business that he pioneered with this item had grown to…

2008

Johnny Blanchard

American baseball player (born 1933)

John Edwin Blanchard was an American professional baseball outfielder and catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, and Milwaukee Braves.

2009

Kosuke Koyama

Japanese-American theologian and academic (born 1929)

Kosuke Koyama was a Japanese Protestant Christian theologian.

2009

Dan Seals

American musician (born 1948)

Danny Wayland Seals, also known as England Dan, was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who…

2009

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu

Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey (born 1954)

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Unity Party (BBP), a far-right, nationalist-Islamist political party.

2009

Priscilla Buckley

American journalist and author (born 1921)

Priscilla Langford Buckley was an American journalist and author who was the longtime managing editor of National Review.

2012

Hal E. Chester

American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)

Hal E. Chester was an American film producer, writer, director and actor.

2012

John Crosfield

English businessman, founded Crosfield Electronics (born 1915)

John Fothergill Crosfield CBE DSc MA was an English inventor and entrepreneur. He was a pioneer in the application of electronics to all aspects of colour printing and the inventor of the acoustic and subsonic mines…

2012

Edd Gould

English animator and voice actor, founded Eddsworld (born 1988)

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was a British animator, cartoonist, artist, and voice actor. He created Eddsworld, a flash animation and web comic franchise featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime…

2012

Antonio Tabucchi

Italian author and academic (born 1943)

Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of…

2012

Léonce Bernard

Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1943)

Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard, was an Acadian-Canadian politician, who was the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, the third Island Acadian to hold this position.

2013

Ben Goldfaden

American basketball player and educator (born 1913)

Benjamin Paul Goldfaden was an American professional basketball player. He played two games in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Washington Capitols during the 1946–47 season. Goldfaden…

2013

Anthony Lewis

American journalist and academic (born 1927)

Joseph Anthony Lewis was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal…

2013

Jean Pickering

English runner and long jumper (born 1929)

Jean Catherine Pickering was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump.

2013

Jean-Marc Roberts

French author and screenwriter (born 1954)

Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.

2013

John F. Wiley

American lieutenant, football player, and coach (born 1920)

John Franklin "Smiling Jack" Wiley was an American football player and coach. He played professionally a tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1950. Willey served as the…

2013

Lorna Arnold

English historian and author (born 1915)

Lorna Margaret Arnold was a British historian who wrote several books connected with the British nuclear weapons programmes.

2014

Hank Lauricella

American football player and politician (born 1930)

Francis Edward Lauricella, known as Hank Lauricella, was an American real estate developer from suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, a college football player, and a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature.

2014

Jon Lord

Canadian businessman and politician (born 1956)

Jonathan Joseph Lord was a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Alberta, Canada.

2014

Sonny Ruberto

American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1946)

John Edward Ruberto [Sonny] was an American backup catcher and pinch runner in Major League Baseball who played over parts of two seasons for the San Diego Padres (1969) and the Cincinnati Reds (1972). Listed at 5' 11",…

2014

Jonathan Schell

American journalist and author (born 1943)

Jonathan Edward Schell was an American reporter and writer whose work primarily dealt with American foreign policy from the Vietnam War to the war on terror, as well as the threat posed by nuclear weapons and support…

2014

Ralph Wilson

American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (born 1918)

Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding…

2014

George Fischbeck

American journalist and educator (born 1922)

George Richard Fischbeck was an American television weatherman on KOB-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the early 1960s to early 1970s. In 1972 he moved to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, replacing Alan Sloane, where he…

2015

Shannon Bolin

American actress and singer (born 1917)

Shannon Bolin was an American actress and singer. A March 10, 1941, article in The Mason City Globe-Gazette said that she was "known as 'The Lady with the Dark Blue Voice'".

2016

Cuthbert Sebastian

St. Kitts and Nevis politician (born 1921)

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was the second governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1996 to 2013. He was appointed Governor-General in 1995 and was sworn in on 1 January 1996. While in office, he was the…

2017

Barrie Hole

Welsh footballer (born 1942)

Barrington Gerard Hole was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A Wales international, he began his career with Cardiff City and made his professional debut as a teenager.

2019

Floyd Cardoz

Indian-born American chef (born 1960)

Floyd Cardoz was an Indian-American chef. He owned the New York City eatery Paowalla and was executive chef at Tabla, as well as victor on Top Chef Masters Season 3 in 2011. His New York restaurants were known for food…

2020

Beverly Cleary

American author (born 1916)

Beverly Atlee Cleary was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. She was one of America's most successful authors: 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was…

2021

Taylor Hawkins

American drummer and singer (born 1972)

Oliver Taylor Hawkins was an American musician who was the drummer and a vocalist of the rock band Foo Fighters, sharing vocals with Dave Grohl. He joined the band in 1997, and remained the band's drummer until his…

2022

Tapani Kansa

Finnish singer (born 1949)

Aarne Tapani Kansa was a Finnish singer.

2025

Terry Manning

American musician and recording engineer (born 1947)

Terry Don Manning was an American recording engineer, record producer, musician and photographer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he worked with Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Bryan Adams, ZZ Top, the Tragically…

2025

Dash Crofts

American musician (born 1938)

Darrell George "Dash" Crofts was an American musician, one half of the soft rock duo Seals & Crofts with Jim Seals.

2026

Alexander Kluge

German author, film director and public intellectual (born 1932)

Alexander Ernst Kluge was a German author, film director, academic and founder of a television production company.

2026

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Who died on March 25?

Eddie Collins — American baseball player (1887–1951)

FeaturedEddie Collins

Death year1951

Known forHe played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox

Deaths on this date121 (908 – 2026)

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Syrian civil war: Following the completion of the Afrin offensive, the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) initiate an insurgency against the Turkish occupation of the Afrin District. Wikipedia →

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1951 — Eddie Collins

In 1925, Collins became just the sixth person to join the 3,000 hit club – and the last for the next 17 seasons

Collins is the only non-Yankee to win five or more World Series titles with the same club as a player

He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox

His 47 career home runs are the fewest of any player with 3,000 hits

Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive

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