Notable Deaths on March 28

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Notable people who died on March 28 include: Pertinax, Guntram, Flodoard, Ordulf, Stephen Harding.

Q: What is Emmanuel Tzanes known for?

Emmanuel Tzanes, Greek Renaissance painter (born 1610)

95 people 193 – 2026

March 28 has seen 95 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 193 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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1690 — Emmanuel Tzanes

Greek Renaissance painter (born 1610)

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The most popular of these is The Holy Towel, finished in 1659

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His known extant works, over 130 in number, can be found in public foundations, private collections, churches and monasteries in Greece

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Emmanuel Tzanes, also known as Bounialis, Emmanuel Tzane-Bounialis, Emmanuel Zane, or Emmanuel Tzane, was a Greek Renaissance iconographer, author, clergyman, and educator

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Tzanes painted icons in the style of the Cretan school, influenced by contemporary trends in Venetian painting

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Tzanes was a collaborator with Philotheos Skoufos, and brothers with the painter Konstantinos Tzanes and the poet Marinos Tzanes.

Pertinax

Roman emperor (born 126)

Publius Helvius Pertinax was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193, succeeding Commodus and becoming the first ruler of the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors.

193

Guntram

French king (born 532)

Saint Gontrand, also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of…

592

Flodoard

Frankish canon and chronicler

Flodoard of Reims was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are…

966

Ordulf

Duke of Saxony

Ordulf was the duke of Saxony from 1059, when he succeeded his father Bernard II, until his death. He was a member of the Billung family.

1072

Stephen Harding

founder of the Cistercian order

Stephen Harding was an English-born monk and abbot, who was one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. He is honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

1134

Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (born 1180)

Emperor Go-Toba was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.

1239

Valdemar II of Denmark (born 1170)

Valdemar II Valdemarsen, later remembered as Valdemar the Victorious and Valdemar the Conqueror, was King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241.

1241

Pope Martin IV

Pope Martin IV, was the head of the Catholic Church and leader of the Papal States from 22 February 1281 until his death on 22 March 1285. He was the last French pope to hold his court in Rome before the papacy moved to…

1285

Venturino of Bergamo

Dominican preacher (born 1304)

Venturino of Bergamo was an Italian Dominican preacher. His cause for beatification is only within preliminary stages.

1346

Heinrich Glarean

Swiss poet and theorist (born 1488)

Heinrich Glarean also styled Henricus Glareanus was a Swiss music theorist, poet, humanist, philosopher and cartographer. He was born in Mollis and died in Freiburg im Breisgau.

1563

Sigismund von Herberstein

Austrian historian and diplomat (born 1486)

Siegmund (Sigismund) Freiherr von Herberstein was a Carniolan diplomat, writer, historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council. He was most noted for his extensive writing on the geography, history and…

1566

Ivan the Terrible

Russian king (born 1530)

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. Ivan's reign…

1584

Constantijn Huygens

Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.

1687

Thomas Micklethwaite

Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (born 1678)

Thomas Micklethwaite was a British MP who served as the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1717 to 1718.

1718

Antonio Capuzzi

Italian violinist and composer (born 1755)

Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi was an Italian violinist and composer.

1818

Angelis Govios

leader of the Greek War of Independence (born 1780)

Angelis Govios or Govginas was a leader of the Greek War of Independence. He is known for the reorganization of the Struggle against the Ottomans in Euboea. A statue in his honour has been erected near the Euboean town…

1822

James Brudenell

7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (born 1797)

Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, was a British Army officer who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its disastrous charge at the Battle of Balaclava. Throughout…

1868

George Henry Thomas

American general (born 1816)

George Henry Thomas was an American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. Thomas served in the Mexican–American War, and despite being a…

1870

Peter Andreas Hansen

Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (born 1795)

Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish-born German astronomer.

1874

Modest Mussorgsky

Russian pianist and composer (born 1839)

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in…

1881

Georgios Zariphis

Greek banker and financier (born 1810)

Georgios Y. Zariphis, also known as Yorgo Zarifi, was a prominent Ottoman Greek banker and financier. He was also well known as a prominent benefactor of his time. Zariphis met Sultan Abdul Hamid II when the latter was…

1884

Edmund Kirby Smith

American general (born 1824)

Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.

1893

Piet Joubert

South African soldier and politician (born c. 1831)

Petrus Jacobus Joubert(20 January 1831 – 28 March 1900), better known as Piet Joubert, was a South African politician who served as the commandant–general of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. He also served…

1900

Magdalene Thoresen

Danish writer (born 1819)

Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh was a Danish-Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said to have inspired a number of other writers to model characters after her. Her stepdaughter,…

1903

Édouard Colonne

French violinist and conductor (born 1838)

Édouard Juda Colonne was a French conductor and violinist, and a champion of the music of Berlioz and other eminent 19th-century composers.

1910

James Strachan-Davidson

English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (born 1843)

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author of books on Roman history. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1907 until his death in 1916.

1916

Albert Pinkham Ryder

American painter (born 1847)

Albert Pinkham Ryder was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with…

1917

Charles Hubbard

American archer (born 1849)

Charles Randolph Hubbard was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and died in Hamilton, Ohio. Hubbard won the silver medal in the team competition. In the Double…

1923

Katharine Lee Bates

American poet and songwriter (born 1859)

Katharine Lee Bates was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.

1929

Lomer Gouin

Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (born 1861)

Sir Jean Lomer Gouin was a Canadian politician. He served as 13th premier of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th lieutenant governor of Quebec.

1929

Mahmoud Mokhtar

Egyptian sculptor and educator (born 1891)

Mahmoud Mukhtar was an Egyptian sculptor. He attended the College of Fine Arts in Cairo upon its opening in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal, and was part of the original "Pioneers" of the Egyptian Art movement. Despite his…

1934

Marcus Hurley

American basketball player and cyclist (born 1883)

Marcus Latimer Hurley was an American cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in sprint cycling and won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2 mile…

1941

Virginia Woolf

English writer (born 1882)

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

1941

Miguel Hernández

Spanish poet and playwright (born 1910)

Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was…

1942

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1873)

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives…

1943

Stephen Leacock

English-Canadian political scientist and author (born 1869)

Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.

1944

Karol Świerczewski

Polish general (born 1897)

Karol Wacław Świerczewski was a Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman. He was a Bolshevik Party member and served in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War and participated in the wars against the…

1947

Jim Thorpe

American football player and Olympic gold medalist (born 1887)

James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was the first Native American to win a gold…

1953

Stylianos Lenas

Greek-Cypriot member of the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) against the British rule (born 1931)

Stylianos Lenas was a member of EOKA, and one of the Cypriots who were wounded in battle against British soldiers.

1957

W. C. Handy

American trumpet player and composer (born 1873)

William Christopher Handy was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played…

1958

Hugo Wast

Argentinian author (born 1883)

Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría, best known under his pseudonym Hugo Wast, was a renowned Argentine novelist and script writer.

1962

Antonius Bouwens

Dutch target shooter (born 1876)

Antonius Hubertus Maria "Antoine" Bouwens was a Dutch sport shooter who competed in the early 20th century in pistol shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a bronze medal with…

1963

Clemence Dane

English author and playwright (born 1888)

Winifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane, was an English novelist and playwright.

1965

Dwight D. Eisenhower

American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (born 1890)

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. A General of the Army, Eisenhower was the supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force. His successful…

1969

Donie Bush

American baseball player, manager, and team owner (born 1887)

Owen Joseph "Donie" Bush was an American professional baseball player, manager, team owner, and scout. He was active in professional baseball from 1905 until his death in 1972. He was 84 years old.

1972

Arthur Crudup

American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1905)

Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs "That's All Right" (1946), "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're…

1974

Dorothy Fields

American songwriter (born 1905)

Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the…

1974

Françoise Rosay

French actress (born 1891)

Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.

1974

Richard Arlen

American actor (born 1899)

Richard Arlen was an American actor of film and television.

1976

Eric Shipton

English mountaineer and explorer (born 1907)

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE, was an English Himalayan mountaineer.

1977

Emmett Kelly

American clown and actor (born 1898)

Emmett Leo Kelly was an American circus performer who created the clown character "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

1979

Dick Haymes

Argentinian-American actor and singer (born 1918)

Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, an actor, television host, and…

1980

William Giauque

Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)

William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to absolute zero. He spent virtually all of…

1982

Marc Chagall

Russian-French painter (born 1887)

Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic…

1985

Virginia Gilmore. American actress (born 1919)

Virginia Gilmore was an American film, stage, and television actress.

1986

Maria von Trapp

Austrian-American singer (born 1905)

Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS, often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family. She wrote the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the…

1987

Nikolaos Platon

Greek archaeologist (born 1909)

Nikolaos Platon was a Greek archaeologist. He discovered the Minoan palace of Zakros on Crete. In 1936, after excavations near Staphylos village in Skopelos Greece, he also discovered a Minoan pit tomb which proved that…

1992

Eugène Ionesco

Romanian-French playwright and critic (born 1909)

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and…

1994

Shin Kanemaru

Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (born 1914)

Shin Kanemaru was a Japanese politician who was a significant figure in the political arena of Japan from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He was also Director General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1977 to 1978.

1996

Anthony Powell

English soldier and author (born 1905)

Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.

2000

Peter Ustinov

English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov was a British actor and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received numerous…

2004

Moura Lympany

English-Monacan pianist (born 1916)

Dame Moura Lympany was an English concert pianist.

2005

Robin Spry

Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

Robin Spry was a Canadian film director, producer and writer. He was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis about Quebec's October…

2005

Pro Hart

Australian painter (born 1928)

Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE, was an Australian artist, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, who was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the…

2006

Charles Schepens

Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (born 1912)

Charles Louis Schepens was a Belgian and American ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance.

2006

Caspar Weinberger

American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1917)

Caspar Willard Weinberger was an American politician and businessman who served in a variety of state and federal positions for three decades as a Republican, most notably as Secretary of Defense under President Ronald…

2006

Maurice Jarre

French-American composer and conductor (born 1924)

Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to…

2009

Janet Jagan

6th President of Guyana (born 1920)

Janet Rosenberg Jagan was an American-born Guyanese politician who served as the 6th President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female president of Guyana, and the first American-born woman to serve as a…

2009

June Havoc

American actress, dancer, and director (born 1912)

June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.

2010

John Arden

English author and playwright (born 1930)

John Arden was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".

2012

Ioannis Banias

Greek politician (born 1939)

Ioannis (Yannis) Banias was a Greek politician, and former member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Coalition of Radical Left (2007–2009).

2012

Harry Crews

American novelist (born 1935)

Harry Eugene Crews was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South.

2012

Addie L. Wyatt

African American labor leader (born 1924)

Addie L. Wyatt was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the…

2012

George E. P. Box

English-American statistician and educator (born 1919)

George Edward Pelham Box was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical…

2013

Richard Griffiths

English actor (born 1947)

Richard Thomas Griffiths was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky…

2013

Hugh McCracken

American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (born 1942)

Hugh Carmine McCracken was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally an arranger and…

2013

Bob Teague

American college football star and television news-reporter (born 1929)

Robert Lewis Teague was an African-American college football star and television news reporter.

2013

Gus Triandos

American baseball player and scout (born 1930)

Gus Triandos was an American professional baseball player and scout. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher and a first baseman, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles where he was a four-time…

2013

Jeremiah Denton

American admiral and politician (born 1924)

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was an American politician and United States Navy two-star admiral who served as a U.S. senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to a…

2014

Lorenzo Semple

Jr., American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)

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2014

Chuck Brayton

American baseball player and coach (born 1925)

Frederick Charles Brayton, usually known as Chuck Brayton or Bobo Brayton, was an American college baseball head coach; he led the Washington State Cougars for 33 seasons, from 1962 to 1994. He is the winningest coach…

2015

Joseph Cassidy

Canadian-English priest and academic (born 1954)

Joseph Patrick Michael Cassidy FRSA was a Canadian-born priest in the Church of England, theologian and academic. He was formerly a Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit. He was Principal of St Chad's College at Durham…

2015

Miroslav Ondříček

Czech cinematographer (born 1934)

Miroslav Ondříček was a Czech cinematographer. He worked on over 40 films, including Amadeus, Ragtime and If.....

2015

Gene Saks

American actor and director (born 1921)

Gene Saks was an American director and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career began with a Broadway debut in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three…

2015

James Noble

American actor (born 1922)

James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, dense, naive Governor Eugene X. Gatling on ABC's 1979–1986 sitcom Benson.

2016

Didier Ratsiraka

Malagasy politician and naval officer (born 1936)

Didier Ignace Ratsiraka was a Malagasy politician and naval officer who was the third president of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and the fifth from 1997 to 2002. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving…

2021

Joseph Edward Duncan

American serial killer (born 1963)

Joseph Edward Duncan III was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene,…

2021

Paul O'Grady

English comedian, actor and drag queen (born 1955)

Paul James O'Grady was an English drag queen, comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag persona Lily Savage, through which he gained wider…

2023

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Japanese composer, record producer, and actor (born 1952)

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra…

2023

Larry Lloyd

English professional football player and coach (born 1948)

Laurence Valentine Lloyd was an English professional football player and coach.

2024

Mark Spiro

American songwriter, record producer and recording artist (born 1957)

Mark Spiro was an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist.

2024

Marinella

Greek singer (born 1938)

Kyriaki Papadopoulou, known by her stage name Marinella, was a Greek folk singer whose career spanned several decades. Marinella was well regarded due to her impressive vocal range. Since the beginning of her…

2026

Mary Beth Hurt

American actress (born 1946)

Mary Beth Hurt was an American actress of stage and screen. She was a three-time Tony Award-nominated actress, as well as a BAFTA Award and Independent Spirit Award nominee. Hurt was also the recipient of an Obie Award…

2026

Liamine Zéroual

Algerian politician, 6th President of Algeria (born 1941)

Liamine Zéroual was an Algerian politician who served as the sixth President of Algeria from 31 January 1994 to 27 April 1999.

2026

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Emmanuel Tzanes — Greek Renaissance painter (1610–1690)

FeaturedEmmanuel Tzanes

Death year1690

Known forHe spent the latter half of his life in Venice, where he was parish priest of the church of San Giorgio dei Greci and a member of the Flanginian School run by the city's Greek Confraternity

Deaths on this date95 (193 – 2026)

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