Notable Deaths on March 26

Q: Who died on March 26?

Notable people who died on March 26 include: Pope-elect Stephen, Ludger, Sugawara no Michizane, Ai, Mansur Al-Hallaj.

Q: What is Phil Mead known for?

Phil Mead, English cricketer and footballer (born 1887)

124 people 752 – 2026

March 26 has seen 124 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 752 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 26 — Wikipedia

1958 — Phil Mead

English cricketer and footballer (born 1887)

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Overlooked by Surrey, he joined Hampshire in 1903 and made his debut for the county in first-class cricket in 1905

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After passing 2,000 runs in a season for the first time in 1911, Mead was chosen as one of five Wisden Cricketers of the Year

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After success in the 1912 season, he toured South Africa, scoring his first Test century during the tour

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Despite the end of his Test career in 1928, Mead continued to play first-class cricket until 1936, when he was released by Hampshire at the age of 49

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Charles Phillip Mead was an English professional cricketer who played in seventeen Test matches for England and had an extensive domestic career with Hampshire in English county cricket, spanning 31 years

Pope-elect Stephen

Pope-elect Stephen, before 1961 previously known as Pope Stephen II, was a Roman cardinal-priest and presbyter selected on 23 March 752 to succeed Pope Zachary. Because he died before his episcopal consecration, Stephen…

752

Ludger

Frisian missionary

Ludger was a missionary among the Frisians and Saxons, founder of Werden Abbey and the first Bishop of Münster in Westphalia. He has been called the "Apostle of Saxony".

809

Sugawara no Michizane

Japanese poet

Sugawara no Michizane , or Kankō , was a scholar, poet, and politician of the Heian period of Japan. He is regarded as an excellent poet, particularly in waka and kanshi poetry, and is today revered in Shinto as the god…

903

emperor of the Tang Dynasty (born 892)

Emperor Ai of Tang, also known as Emperor Zhaoxuan of Tang (唐昭宣帝), born Li Zuo, later known as Li Chu, was the last emperor of the Tang dynasty of China. He reigned—as a puppet ruler—from 904 to 907. Emperor Ai was the…

908

Mansur Al-Hallaj

Persian mystic and poet (born 858)

Mansour al-Hallaj or Mansour Hallaj was a mystic, poet, and teacher of Sufism. He was best known for his saying, "I am the Truth" ("Ana'l-Ḥaqq"), which many saw as a claim to divinity, while others interpreted it as an…

922

Wang Du

Chinese warlord and governor (jiedushi)

Wang Du, born Liu Yunlang, was a Chinese warlord during the early Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period who ruled as the military governor of Yiwu around modern Dingzhou in Hebei. He seized control of Yiwu from his…

929

Guntram ("the Rich")

Frankish nobleman

Guntram the Rich was a count in Breisgau, member of the noble family of the Etichonids, and possibly the progenitor of the House of Habsburg.

973

'Adud al-Dawla

Iranian ruler (born 936)

Fannā (Panāh) Khusraw, better known by his laqab of ʿAḍud al-Dawla was an emir of the Buyid dynasty, ruling from 949 to 983. At the height of his power, he ruled an empire stretching from Makran to Yemen and the shores…

983

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi

Andalusian poet

Wallada bint al-Mustakfi was an Andalusian poet and the daughter of the Umayyad Caliph Muhammad III of Córdoba.

1091

Sigurd the Crusader

Norwegian king (born 1090)

Sigurd the Crusader, also known as Sigurd Magnusson and Sigurd I, was King of Norway from 1103 to 1130. His rule, together with his half-brothers King Øystein and King Olaf, has been regarded by historians as a golden…

1130

Geoffrey of Vendôme

French cardinal and theologian (born 1065)

Geoffrey of Vendôme was a French Benedictine monk, writer and cardinal. He was born and died at Angers.

1132

Sancho I of Portugal (born 1154)

Sancho I also referred to as Sancho the Populator, was King of Portugal from 1185 until his death in 1211. He was the second king of Portugal.

1212

William de Forz

3rd Earl of Albemarle

William de Forz, 3rd Earl of Albemarle was an English nobleman. He is described by William Stubbs as "a feudal adventurer of the worst type".

1242

Marie de Luxembourg

Queen of France (born 1304)

Marie of Luxembourg was Queen of France and Navarre as the second wife of King Charles IV and I.

1324

Alessandra Giliani

anatomist (born c. 1307)

Alessandra Giliani is known as the first woman to be recorded in historical documents as practicing anatomy and pathology. She's reputed to have worked as a prosector, preparing corpses for anatomical study, under the…

1326

Alfonso XI of Castile (born 1312)

Alfonso XI, called the Avenger, was King of Castile and León. He was the son of Ferdinand IV of Castile and Constance of Portugal. Upon his father's death in 1312, several disputes ensued over who would hold regency,…

1350

David Stewart

Duke of Rothesay, heir to the throne of Scotland (born 1378)

David Stewart was the eldest son of Robert III of Scotland and his wife, Annabella Drummond. The heir apparent to the Scottish throne from 1390 until his death, David held the titles of Prince of Scotland, Duke of…

1402

Walter Stewart

Earl of Atholl, Scottish nobleman and regicide

Walter Stewart, Earl of Atholl, Strathearn and Caithness was a Scottish nobleman, the son of Robert II of Scotland. Stewart advocated for the ransom and return to Scotland of the future king in exile, James I, in 1424.…

1437

Heinrich Isaac

Flemish composer (born 1450)

Heinrich Isaac was a Netherlandish composer of south Netherlandish origin during the Renaissance era. He wrote masses, motets, songs, and instrumental music. A significant contemporary of Josquin des Prez, Isaac…

1517

Georg Tannstetter

Austrian mathematician, astronomer, and cartographer (born 1482)

Georg Tannstetter, also called Georgius Collimitius, was a humanist teaching at the University of Vienna. He was a medical doctor, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, and the personal physician of the emperors…

1535

Thomas Elyot

English scholar and diplomat (born 1490)

Sir Thomas Elyot was an English diplomat and scholar. He is best known as one of the first proponents of the use of the English language for literary purposes.

1546

Antonio de Cabezón

Spanish organist and composer (born 1510)

Antonio de Cabezón was a Spanish Renaissance composer and organist. Blind from childhood, he quickly rose to prominence as a performer and was eventually employed by the royal family. He was among the most important…

1566

Giambattista Marini

Italian poet (born 1569)

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

1625

John Winthrop

English lawyer and politician, 2nd Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony

John Winthrop was an English Puritan lawyer and a leading figure in the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the second major settlement in New England following Plymouth Colony. Winthrop led the first large wave…

1649

Johannes Schefferus

Swedish historian and author (born 1621)

Johannes Schefferus was one of the most important Swedish humanists of his time. He was also known as Angelus and is remembered for writing hymns.

1679

Godfrey McCulloch

Scottish politician (born 1640)

Sir Godfrey McCulloch, 2nd Baronet of Myretoun was a Scottish politician who was executed for murder.

1697

John Vanbrugh

English playwright and architect, designed Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard (born 1664)

Sir John Vanbrugh was an English architect, dramatist and herald, perhaps best known as the designer of Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. He wrote two argumentative and outspoken Restoration comedies, The Relapse…

1726

Charles Pinot Duclos

French author and politician (born 1704)

Charles Pinot Duclos was a French writer and contributor to the Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers.

1772

Samuel Ward

American politician, 31st and 33rd Governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (born 1725)

Samuel Ward Sr. was an American farmer, politician, Rhode Island Supreme Court justice, governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and delegate to the Continental Congress where he signed the…

1776

Charles I

Duke of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (born 1713)

Charles, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg, reigned as Prince of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel from 1735 until his death.

1780

John Mudge

English physician and engineer (born 1721)

John Mudge was a British physician and amateur creator of telescope mirrors. He won the Copley Medal in 1777 for a paper on reflecting telescopes.

1793

James Hutton

Scottish geologist and physician (born 1726)

James Hutton was a Scottish geologist, agriculturalist, chemical manufacturer, naturalist and physician. Often referred to as the "Father of Modern Geology," he played a key role in establishing geology as a modern…

1797

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin

French physician and politician (born 1738)

Joseph-Ignace Guillotin was a French physician, politician, and freemason who proposed on 10 October 1789 the use of a device to carry out executions in France, as a less painful method of execution than existing…

1814

Ludwig van Beethoven

German pianist and composer (born 1770)

Ludwig van Beethoven was a German composer and pianist. Mentored during the Classical period, he incorporated more complex structure and emotion in his later works. Beethoven's musical style was a key driver of the…

1827

John Addison Thomas

American lieutenant, engineer, and politician, 3rd United States Assistant Secretary of State (born 1811)

John Addison Thomas was an American engineer and military officer who served in the United States Army, and later served as United States Assistant Secretary of State.

1858

Uriah P. Levy

American commander (born 1792)

Uriah Phillips Levy was a naval officer, real estate investor, and philanthropist. He was a veteran of the War of 1812 and the first Jewish Commodore of the United States Navy. He was instrumental in helping to end the…

1862

Roman Sanguszko

Polish general and activist (born 1800)

Prince Roman Adam Stanisław Sanguszko (1800–1881) was a Polish aristocrat, patriot, political and social activist.

1881

Old Abe

8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment Mascot (born 1861)

Old Abe was a bald eagle who was the mascot of the 8th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment in the American Civil War. Later, his image was adopted as the eagle appearing on a globe in Case Corporation's logo and as…

1881

Anson Stager

American general and businessman, co-founded Western Union (born 1825)

Anson Stager was the co-founder of Western Union, the first president of Western Electric Manufacturing Company and a Union Army officer, where he was head of the Military Telegraph Department during the American Civil…

1885

Barghash bin Said of Zanzibar (born 1837)

Sayyid Barghash bin Said al-Busaidi, an Afro-Omani Sultan and the son of Said bin Sultan, was the second Sultan of Zanzibar. He ruled Zanzibar from 7 October 1870 to 26 March 1888.

1888

Walt Whitman

American poet, essayist, and journalist (born 1819)

Walter Whitman Jr. was an American poet, essayist, and journalist; he also wrote two novels. He is considered one of the most influential poets in American literature and world literature. Whitman incorporated both…

1892

Cecil Rhodes

English-South African colonialist, businessman and politician, 6th Prime Minister of the Cape Colony (born 1853)

Cecil John Rhodes was a British mining magnate and politician in southern Africa who served as Prime Minister of the Cape Colony from 1890 to 1896. He and his British South Africa Company founded the southern African…

1902

Maurice Barrymore

American actor (born 1849)

Herbert Arthur Chamberlayne Blyth, known professionally by his stage name Maurice Barrymore, was an Indian-born British stage actor. He is the patriarch of the Barrymore acting family, and the father of John, Lionel,…

1905

Auguste Charlois

French astronomer (born 1864)

Auguste Honoré Charlois was a French astronomer who discovered 99 asteroids while working at the Nice Observatory in southeastern France.

1910

William Chester Minor

American surgeon and lexicographer (born 1834)

William Chester Minor was an American army surgeon, psychiatric hospital patient, and lexicographical researcher.

1920

Sarah Bernhardt

French actress and screenwriter (born 1844)

Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage actress who starred in some of the most popular French plays of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, including La Dame aux Camélias by Alexandre Dumas fils, Ruy Blas by Victor Hugo,…

1923

Constantin Fehrenbach

German lawyer and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1852)

Constantin Fehrenbach, sometimes erroneously Konstantin Fehrenbach,, was a German politician who was one of the major leaders of the Catholic Centre Party. He served as president of the Reichstag in 1918 and then as…

1926

Joseph Dutton

assisted Father Damien on the island of Molokai for 45 years.

Joseph Dutton was an American Civil War veteran and Union Army lieutenant, who converted to Catholicism and later worked as a missionary with Saint Damien of Molokai. He was a Third Order Secular Franciscan. His cause…

1931

Henry M. Leland

American machinist, inventor, engineer, automotive entrepreneur and founder of Cadillac and Lincoln (born 1843)

Henry Martyn Leland was an American machinist, inventor, engineer, and automotive entrepreneur. He founded the two premier American luxury automotive marques, Cadillac and Lincoln.

1932

John Biller

American jumper and discus thrower (born 1877)

John Arthur Biller was an American athlete who competed mainly in standing jumps.

1934

Wilhelm Anderson

German-Estonian astrophysicist (born 1880)

Wilhelm Robert Karl Anderson was a Russian-Estonian astrophysicist of Baltic German descent who studied the physical structure of the stars.

1940

Spyridon Louis

Greek runner (born 1873)

Spyridon Louis, commonly known as Spyros Louis, was a Greek water carrier who won the first modern-day Olympic marathon at the 1896 Summer Olympics. Following his victory, he was celebrated as a national hero.

1940

Jimmy Burke

American baseball player and manager (born 1874)

James Timothy Burke was an American Major League Baseball third baseman, coach, and manager. He played for the Cleveland Spiders, St. Louis Perfectos, Milwaukee Brewers, Chicago White Stockings, Pittsburgh Pirates, and…

1942

Carolyn Wells

American novelist and poet (born 1862)

Carolyn Wells was an American mystery author, poet, humorist, and children's writer. Over her career, she authored more than 170 books, spanning genres including detective fiction, poetry, humor, and young adult…

1942

David Lloyd George

English-Welsh lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1863)

David Lloyd George, 1st Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1916 to 1922. A Liberal Party politician from Wales, he was known for leading the United Kingdom during the First World…

1945

James F. Hinkle

American banker and politician, 6th Governor of New Mexico (born 1864)

James Fielding Hinkle was an American banker, politician and the sixth governor of New Mexico.

1951

Charles Perrin

French rower (born 1875)

Charles Jean Baptiste Perrin was a French rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1954

Édouard Herriot

French politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1872)

Édouard Marie Herriot was a French Radical politician of the Third Republic who served three times as Prime Minister and twice as President of the Chamber of Deputies. He led the first Cartel des Gauches. Under the…

1957

Max Ophüls

German-American director and screenwriter (born 1902)

Maximillian Oppenheimer, known as Max Ophüls, was a German and French film director, screenwriter and art director. He was known for his opulent and lyrical visual style, with heavy use of tracking shots, and his…

1957

Raymond Chandler

American crime novelist and screenwriter (born 1888)

Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American-British novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at the age of forty-four, Chandler became a detective fiction writer after losing his job as an oil company executive during the…

1959

Alice Herz

German peace activist who self-immolated in protest of U.S. imperialism (born 1882) 1

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

Victor Hochepied

French swimmer (born 1883)

Victor Fernand Hochepied was a French freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics.

1966

Cyril Hume

American novelist and screenwriter (born 1900)

Cyril Hume was an American novelist and screenwriter. Hume was a graduate of Yale University, where he edited campus humor magazine The Yale Record. He was an editor of the collection The Yale Record Book of Verse:…

1966

John Kennedy Toole

American novelist (born 1937)

John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel,…

1969

Noël Coward

English playwright, actor, and composer (born 1899)

Sir Noël Peirce Coward was an English playwright, composer, director, actor, and singer, known for his wit, flamboyance, and what Time called "a sense of personal style, a combination of cheek and chic, pose and poise".

1973

Johnny Drake

American football player (born 1916)

John William "Zero" Drake was an American professional football player who was a running back for the Cleveland Rams of the National Football League (NFL). He played college football for the Purdue Boilermakers. Drake…

1973

Beauford Delaney

American-French painter (born 1901)

Beauford Delaney was an American modernist painter. He is remembered for his work with the Harlem Renaissance in the 1930s and 1940s, as well as his later works in abstract expressionism following his move to Paris in…

1979

Jean Stafford

American author and academic (born 1915)

Jean Stafford was an American short story writer and novelist. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for The Collected Stories of Jean Stafford in 1970.

1979

Roland Barthes

French linguist and critic (born 1915)

Roland Gérard Barthes was a French literary theorist, essayist, philosopher, critic, and semiotician. His work engaged in the analysis of a variety of sign systems, mainly derived from Western popular culture. His ideas…

1980

Anthony Blunt

English historian and spy (born 1907)

Anthony Frederick Blunt, styled Sir Anthony Blunt from 1956 until November 1979, was a leading British art historian and a Soviet spy.

1983

Ahmed Sékou Touré

Guinean politician, 1st President of Guinea (born 1922)

Ahmed Sékou Touré was a Guinean political leader and African statesman who was the first president of Guinea from 1958 until his death in 1984. Touré was among the primary Guinean nationalists involved in gaining…

1984

Eugen Jochum

German conductor (born 1902)

Eugen Jochum was a German conductor, best known for his interpretations of the music of Anton Bruckner and Johannes Brahms, among others. He was principal conductor for the Berlin Radio (1932–1944), Bavarian (1949–1960)…

1987

Walter Abel

American actor (born 1898)

Walter Abel was an American stage, film, and radio actor whose career spanned nearly seven decades.

1987

Halston

American fashion designer (born 1932)

Roy Halston Frowick, known mononymously as Halston, was an American fashion designer. His minimalist, fluid designs helped define the look of 1970s American style. Halston was known for creating a relaxed urban…

1990

Barbara Frum

American-Canadian journalist and radio host (born 1937)

Barbara Frum, OC was an American-born Canadian radio and television journalist, acclaimed for her interviews for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

1992

Louis Falco

American dancer and choreographer (born 1942)

Louis Falco was an American dancer and choreographer.

1993

Eazy-E

American rapper and producer (born 1964)

Eric Lynn Wright, known professionally as Eazy-E, was an American rapper who propelled West Coast rap and gangsta rap by leading the group N.W.A and its label, Ruthless Records. Wright is often referred to as the…

1995

Edmund Muskie

American lieutenant, lawyer, and politician, 58th United States Secretary of State (born 1914)

Edmund Sixtus Muskie was an American statesman and politician who served as the 58th United States Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter from 1980 to 1981. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously…

1996

David Packard

American engineer and businessman, co-founded Hewlett-Packard (born 1912)

David Packard was an American electrical engineer and co-founder, with Bill Hewlett, of Hewlett-Packard (1939), serving as president (1947–64), CEO (1964–68), and chairman of the board of HP. He served as U.S. Deputy…

1996

John Snagge

English journalist (born 1904)

John Derrick Mordaunt Snagge was a British newsreader and commentator on BBC Radio.

1996

Alex Comfort

English physician and author (born 1920)

Alexander Comfort was a British scientist and physician, writer and activist, known best for his nonfiction sex manual, The Joy of Sex (1972). He was a poet and author of both fiction and nonfiction, as well as a…

2000

Randy Castillo

American drummer and songwriter (born 1950)

Randolpho Francisco Castillo was an American musician. He was Ozzy Osbourne's drummer during the mid-1980s to the early 1990s, and he was the drummer for Mötley Crüe, from 1999 to 2000.

2002

Daniel Patrick Moynihan

American sociologist and politician, 12th United States Ambassador to the United Nations (born 1927)

Daniel Patrick Moynihan was an American politician, diplomat and social scientist. A member of the Democratic Party, he represented New York in the United States Senate from 1977 until 2001 after serving as an adviser…

2003

Jan Sterling

American actress (born 1921)

Jan Sterling was an American film, television and stage actress. At her most active in films during the 1950s, Sterling received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in The High and the…

2004

James Callaghan

English lieutenant and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (born 1912)

Leonard James Callaghan, Baron Callaghan of Cardiff, was a British statesman who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1976 to 1979 and Leader of the Labour Party from 1976 to 1980. Callaghan is the only…

2005

Frederick Rotimi Williams

Nigerian lawyer and politician (born 1920)

Chief Frederick Rotimi Alade Williams, QC, SAN was a prominent Nigerian lawyer who was the first Nigerian to become a Senior Advocate of Nigeria. In the 1950s, he was a member of the Action Group and subsequently became…

2005

Anil Biswas

Indian journalist and politician (born 1944)

Anil Biswas, often referred to as Keru, was an Indian communist politician. He was the secretary of the West Bengal State Committee of Communist Party of India (Marxist) and member of the party's politburo beginning in…

2006

Paul Dana

American racing driver (born 1975)

Paul Frederick Dana was an American racing driver who competed in the IndyCar Series.

2006

Nikki Sudden

English singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)

Adrian Nicholas Godfrey, known professionally as Nikki Sudden, was a prolific English singer-songwriter and guitarist. He co-founded the post-punk band Swell Maps with his brother, Epic Soundtracks, while attending…

2006

Robert Fagles

American poet and academic (born 1933)

Robert Fagles was an American translator, poet, and academic. He was best known for his many translations of ancient Greek and Roman classics, especially his acclaimed translations of the epic poems of Homer and Virgil.…

2008

Manuel Marulanda

Colombian rebel leader (born 1930)

Pedro Antonio Marín Marín, known by his "nom de guerre" Manuel Marulanda Vélez, was the founder and main leader of the Marxist–Leninist FARC-EP. Marulanda was born in a coffee-growing region of west-central Colombia in…

2008

Shane McConkey

Canadian skier and BASE jumper (born 1969)

Shane McConkey was a professional skier and BASE jumper. He was born in Vancouver, British Columbia and eventually based himself in Olympic Valley, California. Due to an itinerant childhood, he never identified with a…

2009

Arne Bendiksen

Norwegian singer and composer (born 1926)

Arne Joachim Bendiksen was a Norwegian singer, composer, and producer, described as "the father of pop music" in Norway. He represented Norway in the Eurovision Song Contest 1964.

2009

Charles Ryskamp

American art collector and curator (born 1928)

Charles Ryskamp was an American art director. He headed both the Frick Collection and the Pierpont Morgan Library, was a longtime professor at Princeton University, and collected drawings and prints. He was born in East…

2010

Roger Abbott

English-Canadian actor, producer, and screenwriter (born 1946)

Roger Abbott was an English-born Canadian sketch comedian who was a founding member of the long-lived Canadian comedy troupe Royal Canadian Air Farce, and remained one of its stars and writers until his death.

2011

Geraldine Ferraro

American lawyer and politician (born 1935)

Geraldine Anne Ferraro was an American politician, diplomat, and attorney who served in the United States House of Representatives, representing New York's 9th congressional district from 1979 to 1985. She was the…

2011

Diana Wynne Jones

English author (born 1934)

Diana Wynne Jones was a British novelist, poet, academic, literary critic, and short story writer. She principally wrote fantasy and speculative fiction novels for children and young adults. Although usually described…

2011

Sisto Averno

American football player (born 1925)

Sisto Joseph "Joe" Averno was an American professional football guard and linebacker who played in the National Football League (NFL) for the original Baltimore Colts (1950) and the franchises which succeeded it,…

2012

Michael Begley

Irish carpenter and politician (born 1932)

Michael Begley was an Irish Fine Gael politician who served as Minister of State at the Department of Trade, Commerce and Tourism from 1981 to 1982, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance from 1975 to 1977…

2012

Thomas M. Cover

American theorist and academic (born 1938)

Thomas M. Cover was an American information theorist and professor jointly in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Statistics at Stanford University. He devoted almost his entire career to developing the…

2012

David Craighead

American organist and educator (born 1924)

David Craighead was a noted American organist.

2012

Manik Godghate

Indian poet and educator (born 1937)

Manik Godghate, popularly known by his pen name Grace, was a Marathi prose writer and poet. He is most popular as lyricist of the Marathi song "Bhaya Ithale Sampat Nahi", which was sung by Lata Mangeshkar as the title…

2012

Helmer Ringgren

Swedish theologian and academic (born 1917)

Karl Vilhelm Helmer Ringgren, was a Swedish theologian.

2012

Tom Boerwinkle

American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1945)

Thomas F. Boerwinkle was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) center who spent his entire career with the Chicago Bulls.

2013

Krzysztof Kozłowski

Polish journalist and politician, Polish Minister of Interior (born 1931)

Krzysztof Jan Kozlowski was a Polish journalist and politician. He served as Poland's Minister of the former Interior and Administration with the Cabinet of Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki from 1990 until 1991..…

2013

Dave Leggett

American football player (born 1933)

William David Leggett was a National Football League (NFL) quarterback. He played collegiately at Ohio State University from 1952–1954. In 1954, he led Ohio State to an undefeated 10–0 season and a berth in the Rose…

2013

Don Payne

American screenwriter and producer (born 1964)

William Donald Payne was an American writer and producer. He wrote several episodes of The Simpsons after 2000, many of these with John Frink, whom he met while studying at the University of California, Los Angeles. The…

2013

Roger Birkman

American psychologist and author (born 1919)

Roger Winfred Birkman was an American organizational psychologist. He was the creator of The Birkman Method, a workplace psychological assessment. Birkman received his Ph.D. in psychology in 1961 from the University of…

2014

Dick Guidry

American businessman and politician (born 1929)

Richard P. Guidry, known as Dick Guidry was an American politician and businessman, who served as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives.

2014

Marcus Kimball

Baron Kimball, English politician (born 1928)

Marcus Richard Kimball, Baron Kimball was a British Conservative politician.

2014

Dinkha IV

Iraqi patriarch (born 1935)

Mar Dinkha IV, born Dinkha Khanania was an Eastern Christian prelate who served as the 120th Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East. He was born in the village of Darbandokeh (Derbendoki), Iraq, and led…

2015

Friedrich L. Bauer

German mathematician, computer scientist, and academic (born 1924)

Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich.

2015

Tomas Tranströmer

Swedish poet, translator, and psychologist Nobel Prize laureate (born 1931)

Tomas Gösta Tranströmer was a Swedish poet, psychologist and translator. His poems captured the long winters in Sweden, the rhythm of the seasons and the palpable, atmospheric beauty of nature. Tranströmer's work is…

2015

Jim Harrison

American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1937)

James Harrison was an American poet, novelist, and essayist. He was a prolific and versatile writer publishing over three dozen books in several genres including poetry, fiction, nonfiction, children's literature, and…

2016

Fabrizio Frizzi

Italian television presenter (born 1958)

Fabrizio Frizzi was an Italian television presenter and voice actor. He often presented a mixture of variety shows, talent shows and game shows across Italy and he was also known as the Italian voice of Woody from the…

2018

María Kodama

Argentine writer and translator (born 1937)

María Kodama Schweizer was an Argentine writer and translator. The widow of author Jorge Luis Borges, she was the sole owner of his estate after his death in 1986. Borges had bequeathed to Kodama his rights as author in…

2023

Innocent Vareed Thekkethala

Indian actor and politician (born 1948)

Innocent Vareed Thekkethala, known mononymously as Innocent, was an Indian actor, film producer, writer and politician, who in a career spanning almost five decades has appeared in over 700 films predominantly in…

2023

Jacob Ziv

Israeli electrical engineer, developed the LZ family of compression algorithms (born 1931)

Jacob Ziv was an Israeli electrical engineer and information theorist who developed the LZ family of lossless data compression algorithms alongside Abraham Lempel. He is also a namesake of the Ziv–Zakai bound in…

2023

Esther Coopersmith

American diplomat, UNESCO goodwill ambassador (born 1930)

Esther Lipsen Coopersmith was an American diplomat, philanthropist, political lobbyist, and a champion for women's equality. For over 70 years, she organized gatherings, from small dinners to grand formal ones, across…

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Noelia Castillo

Spanish woman who died after receiving euthanasia (born 2000)

Noelia Castillo Ramos was a Spanish woman who died after receiving euthanasia. Her request for euthanasia became a landmark case in Spain on the application of the Organic Law Regulating Euthanasia in the country. At…

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Mary Rand

English sprinter and long jumper (born 1940)

Mary Denise Rand was an English athlete who excelled at jumping, hurdles and the pentathlon. She won the long jump at the 1964 Summer Olympics by breaking the world record, the first British female to win an Olympic…

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Epeli Nailatikau

Fijian chief, President of Fiji (born 1941)

Brigadier-General Ratu Epeli Nailatikau,, often referred to as Na Turaga Mai Naisogolaca, was a Fijian chief who was President of Fiji from 2009 to 2015. He had a long career in the Military, diplomatic service, and…

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James Tolkan

American actor (born 1931)

James Stewart Tolkan was an American character actor. He was best known for portraying the strict high school vice‑principal Mr. Strickland in Back to the Future (1985) and Back to the Future Part II (1989), and the…

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Phil Mead — English cricketer (1887–1958)

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Death year1958

Known forMead was born in Battersea

Deaths on this date124 (752 – 2026)

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The Francis Scott Key Bridge collapses following a collision between the MV Dali container ship and one of the bridge's support pillars, killing six people. Wikipedia →

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Russia-wide anti-corruption protests in 99 cities. The Levada Center survey showed that 38% of surveyed Russians supported protests and that 67 percent held Putin personally responsible for high-level corruption. Wikipedia →

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The South Korean Navy corvette Cheonan is torpedoed, killing 46 sailors. After an international investigation, the President of the United Nations Security Council blames North Korea. Wikipedia →

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