Notable Deaths on March 27

Q: Who died on March 27?

Notable people who died on March 27 include: Rupert of Salzburg, Haymo of Halberstadt, Du Xiao, Zhang empress of Later Liang, Alduin I.

Q: What is Dudley Moore known for?

Dudley Moore, English actor (born 1935)

139 people 710 – 2026

March 27 has seen 139 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 710 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

By thisDay.info Editorial Team · March 27 — Wikipedia

2002 — Dudley Moore

English actor (born 1935)

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He first came to prominence in the UK as a leading figure in the British satire boom of the 1960s

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With another member of that team, Peter Cook, Moore collaborated on the BBC television series Not Only..

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He was one of the four writer-performers in the groundbreaking satirical comedy revue Beyond the Fringe from 1960 to 1964

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Moore and Cook ceased working together regularly after 1978, by which time Moore had settled in Los Angeles, California, to concentrate on his film career.

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Dudley Stuart John Moore was an English actor, comedian, musician and composer

Rupert of Salzburg

Austrian bishop and saint (born 660)

Rupert of Salzburg was Bishop of Worms as well as the first Bishop of Salzburg and abbot of St. Peter's Abbey in Salzburg. He was a contemporary of the Frankish king Childebert III. Rupert is venerated as a saint in the…

710

Haymo of Halberstadt

German bishop and author (born 778)

Haymo was a German Benedictine monk who served as bishop of Halberstadt, and was a noted author.

853

Du Xiao

chancellor of Later Liang

Du Xiao (杜曉), courtesy name Mingyuan (明遠), was an official of the Chinese Tang dynasty and Later Liang, serving as a chancellor during Later Liang.

913

Zhang empress of Later Liang

Empress Zhang was the wife and empress of Zhu Yougui, who reigned briefly as the emperor of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period state Later Liang.

913

Alduin I

Frankish nobleman

Alduin I was the Count of Angoulême from 886.

916

Arnulf I

Count of Flanders (born c. 890)

Arnulf I, called "the Great", was the first Count of Flanders.

965

Hermann Billung

Frankish lieutenant (born 900)

Hermann Billung was a prominent German noble from Saxony in the East Frankish Kingdom, who was a notable military commander and count, serving as royal governor of the Duchy of Saxony during the reign of king and…

973

Ali ibn Ahmad al-Jarjara'i

Fatimid vizier

Abu’l-Qāsim ʿAlī ibn Aḥmad al-Jarjarāʾī was a Fatimid official of Iraqi origin, who served as the Fatimid vizier from 1027 until his death on 27 March 1045.

1045

Giorgi III

King of Georgia

George III, of the Bagrationi dynasty, was the 8th King (mepe) of Georgia from 1156 to 1184. He became king when his father, Demetrius I, died in 1156, which was preceded by his brother's revolt against their father in…

1184

Maud Marshal

English countess (born 1192)

Maud Marshal, Countess of Norfolk, Countess of Surrey was an Anglo-Norman noblewoman and a wealthy co-heiress of her father William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke, and her mother Isabel de Clare suo jure 4th Countess of…

1248

Pope Gregory XI (born 1336)

Pope Gregory XI was head of the Catholic Church from 30 December 1370 to his death, in March 1378. He was the seventh and last Avignon pope and the most recent French pope. In 1377, Gregory XI returned the papal court…

1378

Vasily II of Moscow (born 1415)

Vasily II Vasilyevich, nicknamed the Blind or the Dark, was Grand Prince of Moscow from 1425 until his death in 1462.

1462

Janus Pannonius

Hungarian bishop and poet (born 1434)

Janus Pannonius was an influential intellectual in the Kingdom of Hungary, a Latinist, poet, diplomat and Bishop of Pécs. He was the most significant poet of the Renaissance in the Kingdom of Hungary and one of the…

1472

Mary of Burgundy

Sovereign Duchess regnant of Burgundy, married to Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor (born 1457)

Mary of Burgundy, nicknamed the Rich, was a member of the House of Valois-Burgundy, and ruler in her own right over much of the Valois-Burgundian lands, from 1477 to 1482. Her effective rule extended over major part of…

1482

Lütfi Pasha

Turkish historian and politician, Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire (born 1488)

Lütfi Pasha was an Ottoman-Albanian statesman, general, and Grand Vizier of the Ottoman Empire under Suleiman the Magnificent from 1539 to 1541. He wrote 21 works mainly on religious topics and history, 13 of them…

1564

Girolamo Maggi

Italian polymath (born c. 1523)

Girolamo Maggi, also known by his Latin name Hieronymus Magius, was an Italian scholar, jurist, poet, military engineer, urban planner, philologist, archaeologist, mathematician, and naturalist who studied at Bologna…

1572

Theodor de Bry

Belgian-German engraver, goldsmith, and publisher (born 1528)

Theodor de Bry was a Walloon engraver, goldsmith, editor and publisher, famous for his depictions of early European expeditions to the Americas. The Spanish Inquisition forced de Bry, a Protestant, to flee his native,…

1598

Sigismund Báthory (born 1573)

Sigismund Báthory was Prince of Transylvania several times between 1586 and 1602, and Duke of Racibórz and Opole in Silesia in 1598. His father, Christopher Báthory, ruled Transylvania as voivode of the absent prince,…

1613

Margaret of Valois (born 1553)

Margaret of Valois, popularly known as Queen Margot, was Queen of Navarre from 1572 to 1599 and Queen of France from 1589 to 1599 as the consort of Henry IV of France and III of Navarre.

1615

Benedetto Giustiniani

Italian cardinal (born 1554)

Benedetto Giustiniani was an Italian clergyman who was made a cardinal in the consistory of 16 November 1586 by Pope Sixtus V.

1621

Ulrik of Denmark

Danish prince-bishop (born 1578)

Prince Ulrik John of Denmark, was a son of King Frederick II of Denmark and his consort, Sophie of Mecklenburg-Güstrow. As the second-born son he bore the merely titular rank of Duke of Holstein and Schleswig, Stormarn…

1624

James VI and I of the United Kingdom (born 1566)

James VI and I was King of Scotland as James VI from 24 July 1567, and King of England and Ireland as James I from the union of the Scottish and English crowns on 24 March 1603, until his death in 1625. Though he long…

1625

Robert Naunton

English politician (born 1563)

Sir Robert Naunton was an English writer and politician who sat in the House of Commons at various times between 1606 and 1626.

1635

Bernardino de Rebolledo

Spanish poet, soldier, and diplomat (born 1597)

Bernardino de Rebolledo y Villamizar, Earl of Rebolledo and Graf (Count) of the Holy Roman Empire was a Spanish poet, soldier and diplomat. He was a descendant of the 1st Count of Rebolledo, don Rodrigo, who received…

1676

Abraham Mignon

Dutch painter (born 1640)

Abraham Mignon or Minjon was a Dutch still life painter. He is known for his flower pieces, still lifes with fruit, still lifes in forests or grottoes, still lifes of game and fish as well as his garland paintings. His…

1679

Simon Bradstreet

English businessman and politician, 20th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1603)

Simon Bradstreet was a New England merchant, politician and colonial administrator who served as the last governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Arriving in Massachusetts on the Winthrop Fleet in 1630, Bradstreet was…

1697

Leopold

Duke of Lorraine (born 1679)

Leopold the Good was Duke of Lorraine and Bar from 1690 to his death. Through his son Francis Stephen, he is the direct male ancestor of all rulers of the Habsburg-Lorraine dynasty, including all Emperors of Austria.

1729

Johann Stamitz

Czech violinist and composer (born 1717)

Johann Wenzel Anton Stamitz was a Czech composer and violinist. Stamitz is considered the founding father of the Mannheim school, a composition style that his two surviving sons, Carl and Anton Stamitz, continued. His…

1757

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Italian painter (born 1696)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century…

1770

Gabriel Bibron

French zoologist and herpetologist (born 1805)

Gabriel Bibron was a French zoologist and herpetologist. He was born in Paris. The son of an employee of the Museum national d'histoire naturelle, he had a good foundation in natural history and was hired to collect…

1848

Archibald Acheson

2nd Earl of Gosford, Irish-Canadian politician, 35th Governor General of Canada (born 1776)

Archibald Acheson, 2nd Earl of Gosford,, styled The Honourable Archibald Acheson from 1790 to 1806 and Lord Acheson from 1806 to 1807, was a British politician who served as Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada and…

1849

Wilhelm Beer

Prussian astronomer and banker (born 1797)

Wilhelm Wolff Beer was a banker and astronomer from Berlin, Prussia, and the brother of Giacomo Meyerbeer.

1850

Jean-Jacques Ampère

French philologist and academic (born 1800)

Jean-Jacques Ampère was a French philologist and man of letters.

1864

James Harper

American publisher and politician, 65th Mayor of New York City (born 1795)

James Harper was an American publisher and politician. Along with his brother John, Harper formed publishing company J. & J. Harper in 1817. He incorporated his brothers Joseph and Fletcher into the company in 1825,…

1869

Juan Crisóstomo Torrico

Peruvian soldier and politician, President of Peru (born 1808)

Juan Crisóstomo Torrico Vargas served as the 16th President of Peru during a brief period in 1842. At age 34, he was Peru's youngest President ever.

1875

Edgar Quinet

French historian and academic (born 1803)

Edgar Quinet was a French historian and intellectual.

1875

George Gilbert Scott

English architect, designed the Albert Memorial and St Mary's Cathedral (born 1811)

Sir George Gilbert Scott, largely known as Sir Gilbert Scott, was a prolific English Gothic Revival architect, chiefly associated with the design, building and renovation of churches and cathedrals, although he started…

1878

Henry Taylor

English poet and playwright (born 1800)

Sir Henry Taylor was an English dramatist and poet and Colonial Office official.

1886

John Bright

English politician, Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (born 1811)

John Bright was a British Radical and Liberal statesman, one of the greatest orators of his generation and a promoter of free trade policies.

1889

Carl Jacob Löwig

German chemist and academic (born 1803)

Carl Jacob Löwig was a German chemist and discovered bromine independently of Antoine Jérôme Balard.

1890

Andreas Anagnostakis

Greek ophthalmologist, physician, and educator (born 1826)

Andreas Anagnostakis was a Greek ophthalmologist, physician, and educator. He is best known for inventing the ophthalmoscope, a handheld tool used in diagnostics and still relevant today. He is credited as the first…

1897

Syed Ahmad Khan

Indian philosopher and activist (born 1817)

Sir Syed Ahmad Khan, also spelled Sayyid Ahmad Khan, was an Indian Muslim reformer, philosopher, and educationist in nineteenth-century British Raj.

1898

Joseph A. Campbell

American businessman, founded the Campbell Soup Company (born 1817)

Joseph Albert Campbell was an American businessman who is best known for founding Campbell Soup Company in 1869 when he partnered with Abraham Anderson.

1900

Alexander Emanuel Agassiz

Swiss-American ichthyologist, zoologist, and engineer (born 1835)

Alexander Emmanuel Rodolphe Agassiz, was an American scientist and engineer. He was the son of Louis Agassiz and stepson of Elizabeth Cabot Agassiz.

1910

Richard Montgomery Gano

American minister, physician, and general (born 1830)

Richard Montgomery Gano was a physician, Protestant minister, and brigadier general in the army of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.

1913

Henry Adams

American journalist, historian, and author (born 1838)

Henry Brooks Adams was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. presidents. As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams,…

1918

Martin Sheridan

Irish-American discus thrower and jumper (born 1881)

Martin John Sheridan was an Irish-American athlete and three time Olympic Games gold medallist in discus throw.

1918

Harry Barron

English general and politician, 16th Governor of Western Australia (born 1847)

Major-General Sir Harry Barron, was a British Army officer who served as Governor of Tasmania from 1909 to 1913, and Governor of Western Australia from 1913 to 1917.

1921

Nikolay Sokolov

Russian composer and educator (born 1859)

Nikolay Alexandrovich Sokolov was a Russian composer of classical music and a member of the circle that grew around the publisher Mitrofan Belyayev.

1922

James Dewar

Scottish chemist and physicist (born 1842)

Sir James Dewar was a Scottish chemist and physicist. He is best known for his invention of the vacuum flask, which he used in conjunction for his research into the liquefaction of gases. He also studied atomic and…

1923

Carl Neumann

German mathematician and academic (born 1832)

Carl Gottfried Neumann was a German mathematical physicist and professor at several German universities. His work focused on applications of potential theory to physics and mathematics. He contributed to the…

1925

Kick Kelly

American baseball player, manager, and umpire (born 1856)

John O. "Kick" Kelly, also nicknamed "Honest John" and "Diamond John", was an American catcher, manager and umpire in Major League Baseball who went on to become a boxing referee and to run gambling houses in his native…

1926

Georges Vézina

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1887)

Joseph Georges Gonzague Vézina was a Canadian professional ice hockey player. A goaltender, he played seven seasons in the National Hockey Association (NHA) and nine in the National Hockey League (NHL), all with the…

1926

Joe Start

American baseball player and manager (born 1842)

Joseph Start, nicknamed "Old Reliable", was one of the most durable regulars of baseball's earliest era, and one of the top first basemen of his time. He began his playing career in 1859, before the formation of…

1927

Klaus Berntsen

Danish politician, Prime Minister of Denmark (born 1844)

Klaus Berntsen was a Danish politician, representing the Liberal party, Venstre. He was Council President of Denmark from 1910 to 1913. He served as minister of defence from 1910 to 1913 and again from 1920 to 1922. He…

1927

Leslie Stuart

English organist and composer (born 1863)

Leslie Stuart born Thomas Augustine Barrett was an English composer of Edwardian musical comedy, best known for the hit show Florodora (1899) and many popular songs.

1928

Arnold Bennett

English author and playwright (born 1867)

Enoch Arnold Bennett was an English author, best known as a novelist, who wrote prolifically. Between the 1890s and the 1930s he completed 34 novels, seven volumes of short stories, 13 plays, and a daily journal…

1931

Francis William Reitz

South African lawyer and politician, 5th State President of the Orange Free State (born 1844)

Francis William Reitz Jr. was a South African lawyer, politician, statesman, publicist, and poet who was a member of parliament of the Cape Colony, Chief Justice and fifth State President of the Orange Free State, State…

1934

William Stern

German-American psychologist and philosopher (born 1871)

Louis William Stern was a German American psychologist and philosopher who originated personalistic psychology, which placed emphasis on the individual by examining measurable personality traits as well as the…

1938

Michael Joseph Savage

Australian-New Zealand politician, 23rd Prime Minister of New Zealand (born 1872)

Michael Joseph Savage was an Australian-born New Zealand politician who served as the 23rd prime minister of New Zealand, heading the First Labour Government from 1935 until his death in 1940.

1940

Dan Kolov

Bulgarian professional wrestler (born 1892)

Doncho Kolev Danev, better known by the ring name Dan Kolov, was a Bulgarian professional wrestler born in Sennik, Bulgaria who was the first European freestyle wrestling champion from Bulgaria. He is also famously…

1940

Julio González

Catalan sculptor and painter (born 1876)

Julio González i Pellicer, born in Barcelona, was a Spanish sculptor and painter who developed the expressive use of iron as a medium for modern sculpture. Known as "the father of all iron sculpture of this century", he…

1942

George Monckton-Arundell

8th Viscount Galway, English politician, 5th Governor-General of New Zealand (born 1882)

George Vere Arundell Monckton-Arundell, 8th Viscount Galway, was a British politician. He served as the fifth Governor-General of New Zealand from 1935 to 1941.

1943

Vincent Hugo Bendix

American engineer and businessman, founded Bendix Corporation (born 1881)

Vincent Hugo Bendix was an American inventor and industrialist. Vincent Bendix was a pioneer and leader in both the automotive and aviation industries during the 1920s and 1930s.

1945

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil

Turkish author, poet, and playwright (born 1866)

Halid Ziya Uşaklıgil was a Turkish author, poet, and playwright. A part of the Edebiyat-ı Cedide movement of the late Ottoman Empire, he was the founder of and contributor to many literary movements and institutions,…

1945

Karl Groos

German psychologist and philosopher (born 1861)

Karl Groos was a German philosopher and psychologist who proposed an evolutionary instrumentalist theory of play. His 1898 book on The Play of Animals suggested that play is a preparation for later life.

1946

Elisheva Bikhovski

Israeli-Russian poet (born 1888)

Elisheva Bikhovski was a Russian and Israeli poet, writer, literary critic and translator, often known simply by her adopted Biblical Hebrew name "Elishéva". Her Russian Orthodox father, Ivan Zhirkov, was a village…

1949

Kiichiro Toyoda

Japanese businessman, founded Toyota (born 1894)

Kiichiro Toyoda was a Japanese engineer and businessman, and the son of Toyoda Loom Works founder Sakichi Toyoda. His decision to change Toyoda's focus from automatic loom manufacture into automobile manufacturing…

1952

Évariste Lévi-Provençal

French orientalist and historian (born 1894)

Évariste Lévi-Provençal was a French medievalist, orientalist, Arabist, and historian of Islam.

1956

Leon C. Phillips

American lawyer and politician, 11th Governor of Oklahoma (born 1890)

Leon Chase "Red" Phillips was an American attorney, a state legislator and the 11th governor of Oklahoma from 1939 to 1943. As Speaker of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, Phillips made a name for himself as an…

1958

Gregorio Marañón

Spanish physician, philosopher, and author (born 1887)

Gregorio Marañón y Posadillo, OWL was a Spanish physician, scientist, historian, writer and philosopher. He married Dolores Moya in 1911, and they had four children.

1960

Jaroslav Heyrovský

Czech chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1890)

Jaroslav Heyrovský was a Czech chemist and inventor who received the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1959 for his invention of polarography.

1967

Yuri Gagarin

Russian colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1934)

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who, aboard the first successful crewed spaceflight, became the first person to journey into outer space. Travelling on Vostok 1, Gagarin completed one orbit of…

1968

Vladimir Seryogin

Russian soldier and pilot (born 1922)

Vladimir Sergeyevich Seryogin was a Soviet test pilot.

1968

Lorenzo Wright

American athlete (born 1926)

Lorenzo Christopher Wright was an American athlete. A Detroit native, he started at Miller High School and Wayne State University; Wright is renowned for his noteworthy track and field accomplishments.

1972

Mikhail Kalatozov

Georgian-Russian director, screenwriter, and cinematographer (born 1903)

Mikhail Konstantinovich Kalatozov, born Mikheil Kalatozishvili, was a Soviet film director of Georgian origin who contributed to both Georgian and Russian cinema. He is known for his films The Cranes Are Flying and I Am…

1973

Eduardo Santos

Colombian journalist, lawyer, and politician, 15th President of Colombia (born 1888)

Eduardo Santos Montejo was a Colombian publisher and politician who was President of Colombia from 1938 to 1942.

1974

Arthur Bliss

English conductor and composer (born 1891)

Sir Arthur Edward Drummond Bliss was British composer and conductor. Bliss's musical training was cut short by the First World War, in which he served with distinction in the army. In the post-war years he quickly…

1975

Georg August Zinn

German lawyer and politician, Minister President of Hesse (born 1901)

Georg August Zinn was a German lawyer and a politician of the SPD. He was a member of the Bundestag from 1949 to 1951 representing Kassel, the 2nd Minister-President of Hesse from 1950 to 1969 and served as the 5th and…

1976

Shirley Graham Du Bois

American author, playwright, and composer (born 1896)

Shirley Graham Du Bois was an American-Ghanaian writer, playwright, composer, and activist for African-American causes, among others. She won the Messner and the Anisfield-Wolf prizes for her works. She was also the…

1977

Diana Hyland

American actress (born 1936)

Diana Hyland was an American stage, film, and television actress.

1977

Jacob Veldhuyzen van Zanten

Dutch airline pilot (born 1927)

Jacob Louis "Jaap" Veldhuyzen van Zanten was a Dutch aircraft captain and flight instructor. He was the captain of the KLM plane involved in the Tenerife airport disaster and died in the collision, which is the…

1977

Nat Bailey

Canadian businessman, founded the White Spot (born 1902)

Nathaniel Ryal Bailey, better known as Nat Bailey, was an American-born Canadian restaurateur, and the founder of White Spot restaurants. He is known for building the first drive-in restaurant in Canada, in 1928, and…

1978

Kunwar Digvijay Singh

Indian field hockey (born 1922)

Kunwar Digvijay Singh, popularly known as "Babu", was an Indian field hockey player. He was born in Barabanki, Uttar Pradesh. He is widely known for his passing ability and is considered by many to be the greatest…

1978

Sverre Farstad

Norwegian speed skater (born 1920)

Sverre Farstad was a Norwegian speed skater representing Sportsklubben Falken, Trondheim, as part of the Falken Trio also including Henry Wahl and Hjalmar Andersen. Farstad won one Olympic gold medal and one European…

1978

Steve Fisher

American author and screenwriter (born 1912)

Stephen Gould Fisher was an American author best known for his pulp stories, novels and screenplays. He is one of the few pulp authors to go on to enjoy success as both an author in "slick" magazines, such as the…

1980

Jakob Ackeret

Swiss engineer and academic (born 1898)

Jakob Ackeret, FRAeS was a Swiss aeronautical engineer. He is widely viewed as one of the foremost aeronautics experts of the 20th century.

1981

Fazlur Khan

Bangladeshi-American engineer and architect, designed the John Hancock Center and Willis Tower (born 1929)

Fazlur Rahman Khan was a Bangladeshi-American structural engineer and architect, who initiated important structural systems for skyscrapers. Considered the "father of tubular designs" for high-rises, Khan was also a…

1982

William Bowers

American journalist and screenwriter (born 1916)

William Bowers was an American reporter, playwright, and screenwriter. He worked as a reporter in Long Beach, California and for Life magazine, and specialized in writing comedy-westerns. He also turned out several…

1987

Charles Willeford

American author, poet, and critic (born 1919)

Charles Ray Willeford III was an American writer. An author of fiction, poetry, autobiography and literary criticism, Willeford wrote a series of novels featuring hardboiled detective Hoke Moseley. Willeford published…

1988

May Allison

American actress (born 1890)

May Allison was an American actress whose greatest success was achieved in the early part of the 20th century in silent films, although she also appeared on stage.

1989

Malcolm Cowley

American novelist, poet, and literary critic (born 1898)

Malcolm Cowley was an American writer, editor, historian, poet, and literary critic. His best known works include his first book of poetry, Blue Juniata (1929), and his memoir, Exile's Return, written as a chronicler…

1989

Percy Beard

American hurdler and coach (born 1908)

Percy Morris Beard was an American college and international track and field athlete who specialized in the high hurdles event, and won an Olympic silver medal. Beard later became a nationally prominent college track…

1990

Aldo Ray

American actor (born 1926)

Aldo Ray was an American actor of film and television. He began his career as a contract player for Columbia Pictures before achieving stardom through his roles in The Marrying Kind, Pat and Mike, Let's Do It Again, and…

1991

Colin Gibson

English footballer (born 1923)

Colin Haywood Gibson was an English footballer who scored 57 goals from 288 appearances in the Football League playing for Cardiff City, Newcastle United, Aston Villa and Lincoln City. He played as an outside right or…

1992

Lang Hancock

Australian businessman (born 1909)

Langley Frederick George Hancock was an Australian iron ore magnate from Western Australia who maintained a high profile in the spheres of business and politics. Famous initially for discovering the world's largest iron…

1992

James E. Webb

American colonel and politician, 16th Under Secretary of State (born 1906)

James Edwin Webb was an American government official who served as Undersecretary of State from 1949 to 1952. He was the second administrator of NASA from February 14, 1961, to October 7, 1968. Webb led NASA from the…

1992

Kamal Hassan Ali

Egyptian general and politician, Prime Minister of Egypt (born 1921)

General Kamal Hassan Ali was an Egyptian politician and military hero.

1993

Paul László

Hungarian-American architect and interior designer (born 1900)

Paul László was a Hungarian-born architect and interior designer. He was known as a designer in Europe before 1936, and in the United States afterwards. He built his reputation designing interiors for houses, but in the…

1993

Elisabeth Schmid

German archaeologist and osteologist (born 1912)

Elisabeth Schmid was a German archaeologist and osteologist. She is best known for her work concerning the prehistoric ivory statue, the lion-man, and for her book, Atlas of Animal Bones. Schmid was the first woman to…

1994

Lawrence Wetherby

American lawyer and politician, 48th Governor of Kentucky (born 1908)

Lawrence Winchester Wetherby was an American politician who served as 40th lieutenant governor and the 48th governor of Kentucky. He was the first of only two Kentucky governors born in Jefferson County, despite the…

1994

René Allio

French director and screenwriter (born 1924)

René Allio was a French film and theater director.

1995

Lane Dwinell

American businessman and politician, 69th Governor of New Hampshire (born 1906)

Seymour Lane Dwinell was an American manufacturer and Republican politician from Lebanon, New Hampshire. Born in 1906 in Newport, Vermont, he served in and led both houses of the New Hampshire legislature before his…

1997

Ella Maillart

Swiss skier, sailor, field hockey player, and photographer (born 1903)

Ella Maillart was a Swiss adventurer, travel writer and photographer, as well as a sportswoman.

1997

David McClelland

American psychologist and academic (born 1917)

David Clarence McClelland was an American psychologist, noted for his work on motivation need theory. He published a number of works between the 1950s and the 1990s and developed new scoring systems for the Thematic…

1998

Michael Aris

Cuban-English author and academic (born 1946)

Michael Vaillancourt Aris was a British historian who wrote and lectured on Bhutanese, Tibetan, and Himalayan culture and history. He was the husband of Aung San Suu Kyi, who would later become State Counsellor of…

1999

George Allen

Canadian ice hockey player and coach (born 1914)

George Trenholm Allen was a Canadian professional ice hockey player who played Left wing in the National Hockey League, mostly for the Chicago Black Hawks, between 1938 and 1947. Allen was born in Bayfield, New…

2000

Ian Dury

English singer-songwriter and actor (born 1942)

Ian Robins Dury was an English singer, songwriter and actor best remembered as the frontman of Ian Dury and the Blockheads. Described by The Guardian as "one of few true originals of the English music scene", Dury drew…

2000

Milton Berle

American comedian and actor (born 1908)

Milton Berle was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's…

2002

Billy Wilder

Austrian-born American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1906)

Billy Wilder was a Polish-American filmmaker and screenwriter. Born in Sucha Beskidzka, at the time in Austria-Hungary, Wilder's career in Hollywood spanned five decades, and he is regarded as one of the most versatile…

2002

Edwin Carr

New Zealand composer and educator (born 1926)

Edwin James Nairn Carr was a composer of classical music from New Zealand.

2003

Robert Merle

French author (born 1909)

Robert Merle was a French novelist.

2004

Wilfred Gordon Bigelow

Canadian soldier and surgeon (born 1913)

Wilfred Gordon "Bill" Bigelow was a Canadian heart surgeon known for his role in developing the artificial pacemaker and the use of hypothermia in open heart surgery.

2005

Dan Curtis

American director and producer (born 1928)

Daniel Mayer Cherkoss, known by his pen name Dan Curtis, was an American television and film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was best known as the creator of the gothic soap opera Dark Shadows (1966–71), and…

2006

Stanisław Lem

Ukrainian-Polish author (born 1921)

Stanisław Herman Lem was a Polish writer. He was the author of many novels, short stories, and essays on various subjects, including philosophy, futurology, and literary criticism. Many of his science fiction stories…

2006

Rudolf Vrba

Czech Holocaust survivor and educator (born 1924)

Rudolf Vrba was a Slovak-Jewish biochemist who, as a teenager in 1942, was deported to the Auschwitz concentration camp in German-occupied Poland. He escaped from the camp in April 1944, at the height of the Holocaust,…

2006

Neil Williams

English cricketer (born 1962)

Neil Fitzgerald Williams was an England cricketer, who played first-class cricket for both Middlesex and Essex. In a first-class career spanning over seventeen years, he took 675 wickets and scored 4,457 runs.

2006

Nancy Adams

New Zealand botanist and illustrator (born 1926)

Jacqueline Nancy Mary Adams was a New Zealand botanical illustrator, botanical collector, phycologist and museum curator. Throughout her career (1943–1987), she worked at DSIR and later at the Dominion Museum in…

2007

Paul Lauterbur

American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1929)

Paul Christian Lauterbur was an American chemist who shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2003 with Peter Mansfield for his work which made the development of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) possible.

2007

Jean-Marie Balestre

French businessman (born 1921)

Jean-Marie Balestre was a French motorsport administrator and journalist. From 1978 to 1991, Balestre served as president of the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA); from 1985 to 1993, he also served as…

2008

Irving R. Levine

American journalist and author (born 1922)

Irving Raskin Levine was an American journalist and longtime correspondent for NBC News. During his 45-year career, Levine reported from more than two dozen countries. He was the first American television correspondent…

2009

Dick Giordano

American illustrator (born 1932)

Richard Joseph Giordano was an American comics artist and editor whose career included introducing Charlton Comics' "Action Heroes" stable of superheroes and serving as executive editor of DC Comics.

2010

Clement Arrindell

Nevisian judge and politician, 1st Governor-General of Saint Kitts and Nevis (born 1931)

Sir Clement Athelston Arrindell was the first governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis, serving from 1983 to 1995, and also served as the country's final colonial governor, from 1981 to 1983.

2011

Farley Granger

American actor (born 1925)

Farley Earle Granger Jr. was an American actor. Granger was first noticed in a small stage production in Hollywood by a Goldwyn casting director, and given a significant role in The North Star (1943), a controversial…

2011

Adrienne Rich

American poet, essayist and feminist (born 1929)

Adrienne Cecile Rich was an American poet, essayist and feminist. She was called "one of the most widely read and influential poets of the second half of the 20th century", and was credited with bringing "the oppression…

2012

Hjalmar Andersen

Norwegian speed skater (born 1923)

Hjalmar "Hjallis" Johan Andersen was a speed skater from Norway who won three gold medals at the 1952 Winter Olympic Games of Oslo, Norway. He was the only triple gold medalist at the 1952 Winter Olympics, and as such,…

2013

Yvonne Brill

Canadian-American scientist and engineer (born 1924)

Yvonne Madelaine Brill was a Canadian American rocket and jet propulsion engineer. She is responsible for inventing the Electrothermal Hydrazine Thruster (EHT/Resistojet), a fuel-efficient rocket thruster that keeps…

2013

Fay Kanin

American screenwriter and producer (born 1917)

Fay Kanin was an American screenwriter, playwright and producer. Kanin was president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1979 to 1983.

2013

Richard N. Frye

American scholar and academic (born 1920)

Richard Nelson Frye was an American intelligence agent and scholar of Iranian and Central Asian studies, and Aga Khan Professor Emeritus of Iranian Studies at Harvard University. His professional areas of interest were…

2014

James R. Schlesinger

American economist and politician, 12th United States Secretary of Defense and first United States Secretary of Energy (born 1929)

James Rodney Schlesinger was an American economist and statesman who was best known for serving as Secretary of Defense from 1973 to 1975 under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. Prior to becoming Secretary of…

2014

Johnny Helms

American trumpet player, bandleader, and educator (born 1935)

John Newton "Johnny" Helms was an American jazz trumpet player, bandleader, and music educator from Columbia, South Carolina. He performed with Chris Potter, Tommy Newsom, Bill Watrous, Red Rodney, Woody Herman, Sam…

2015

T. Sailo

Indian soldier and politician, 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram (born 1922)

Brigadier Ṭhenphunga Sailo, AVSM was an Indian military officer and politician who served as the 2nd Chief Minister of Mizoram. He founded the Mizoram People's Conference, one of the major political parties in Mizoram.…

2015

Mother Angelica

American Roman Catholic religious leader and media personality (born 1923)

Mary Angelica of the Annunciation, commonly referred to as "Mother Angelica", was an American Catholic nun of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration.

2016

Bert Nievera

Filipino-American singer (born 1936)

Roberto Jose Dela Cruz Nievera was a Filipino-American singer and businessman. He rose to prominence in 1959 after winning the "Search for Johnny Mathis of the Philippines", a singing contest on the television variety…

2018

Daniel Kahneman

Israeli-American author, psychologist and economist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1934)

Daniel Kahneman was an Israeli-American psychologist best known for his work on the psychology of judgment and decision-making as well as behavioral economics, for which he was awarded the 2002 Nobel Memorial Prize in…

2024

Joe Lieberman

American politician and lawyer (born 1942)

Joseph Isadore Lieberman was an American politician and lawyer who served as a United States senator from Connecticut from 1989 to 2013. Originally a member of the Democratic Party, he was the party's vice presidential…

2024

Christina McKelvie

Scottish politician (born 1968)

Christina McKelvie was a Scottish politician and social worker who served as the Member of the Scottish Parliament (MSP) for Hamilton, Larkhall and Stonehouse from 2011 until her death in 2025. A member of the Scottish…

2025

Henry Lee

Chinese-American forensic scientist (born 1938)

Henry Chang-Yu Lee was a Chinese-American forensic scientist and biochemist.

2026

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Dudley Moore — English actor, comedian and musician (1935–2002)

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