Notable Deaths on March 29

Q: Who died on March 29?

Notable people who died on March 29 include: Gwynllyw, Pope Stephen IX (born 1020), Henry Percy, Lionel Welles, Tobias Matthew.

Q: What is Slava Raškaj known for?

Slava Raškaj, Croatian painter (born 1878)

1906 — Slava Raškaj

Croatian painter (born 1878)

March 29 has seen 100 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 500 – 2025. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.

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Notable Deaths 100 people 500 – 2025

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Slava Raškaj was a Croatian painter, considered to be the greatest Croatian watercolorist of the late 19th and early 20th century

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In the 1890s her works were exhibited around Europe, including at the 1900 Expo in Paris

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In her twenties Raškaj was diagnosed with acute depression and was institutionalised for the last three years of her life before dying in 1906 from tuberculosis in Zagreb

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The value of her work was largely overlooked by art historians in the following decades, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s interest in her work was revived.

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Deaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor was the renowned Croatian painter Bela Čikoš Sesija

Gwynllyw

Welsh king and religious figure

Year 500 (D) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Patricius and Hypatius. The denomination 500 for this year has been used since the…

500

Pope Stephen IX (born 1020)

Pope Stephen IX was the Bishop of Rome and ruler of the Papal States from 3 August 1057 to his death on 29 March 1058. He was a member of the Ardenne-Verdun family, who ruled the Duchy of Lorraine, and started his…

1058

Henry Percy

3rd Earl of Northumberland, English politician (born 1421)

Henry Percy, 3rd Earl of Northumberland, was an English magnate.

1461

Lionel Welles

6th Baron Welles (c. 1406)

Lionel de Welles, 6th Baron Welles, KG was an English peer who served as Lord Lieutenant of Ireland and Joint Deputy of Calais. He was slain fighting on the Lancastrian side at the Battle of Towton, and was attainted on…

1461

Tobias Matthew

English archbishop and academic (born 1546)

Tobias Matthew, was an Anglican bishop who was President of St John's College, Oxford, from 1572 to 1576, before being appointed Vice-Chancellor of Oxford University from 1579 to 1583, and Matthew would then become Dean…

1628

Jacob de Gheyn II

Dutch painter and engraver (born 1565)

Jacob de Gheyn II was a Dutch painter and engraver, whose work shows the transition from Northern Mannerism to Dutch realism over the course of his career.

1629

Nicolaus Bruhns

Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer (born 1665)

Nicolaus Bruhns was a Danish-German organist, violinist, and composer. He was one of the most prominent organists and composers of his generation.

1697

George Frederick II

Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach, (born 1678)

George Frederick II, also called George Frederick the Younger, was Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach from 6 October 1692 until his death in 1703. He was the third son of John Frederick, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach by…

1703

Thomas Coram

English captain and philanthropist, founded Foundling Hospital (born 1668)

Captain Thomas Coram was an English sea captain and philanthropist who created the London Foundling Hospital in Lamb's Conduit Fields, Bloomsbury, to look after abandoned children on the streets of London. It is said to…

1751

Emanuel Swedenborg

Swedish astronomer, philosopher, and theologian (born 1688)

Emanuel Swedenborg was a Swedish polymath; a scientist, engineer, astronomer, anatomist, Christian theologian, philosopher, and mystic. He became best known for his book on the afterlife, Heaven and Hell (1758).

1772

Johann Heinrich Pott

Prussian physician and chemist (born 1692)

Johann Heinrich Pott was a Prussian physician, chemist, and a glass and porcelain technologist. He is considered a pioneer of pyrochemistry. He examined the elements bismuth and manganese apart from attempting…

1777

Charles Wesley

English missionary and poet (born 1707)

Charles Wesley was an English Anglican cleric and a principal leader of the Methodist movement. Wesley was a prolific hymnwriter who wrote over 6,500 hymns during his lifetime. His works include "And Can It Be", "O for…

1788

Gustav III

Swedish king (born 1746)

Gustav III, also called Gustavus III, was King of Sweden from 1771 until his assassination in 1792. He was the eldest son of King Adolf Frederick and Queen Louisa Ulrika of Sweden.

1792

François de Charette

French military officer and politician (born 1763)

François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie was a French military officer and politician. He served in the French Navy during the American Revolutionary War and was one of the leaders of the War in the Vendée against…

1796

Marc René

marquis de Montalembert, French general and engineer (born 1714)

Maréchal de camp Marc René, marquis de Montalembert was a French Royal Army officer and writer best known for his work on fortifications and writings on military engineering.

1800

Gottfried van Swieten

Dutch-Austrian librarian and diplomat (born 1733)

Gottfried Freiherr van Swieten was a Dutch-born diplomat, librarian, and government official who served the Holy Roman Empire during the 18th century. He was an enthusiastic amateur musician and is best remembered today…

1803

Johann Wilhelm Hässler

German pianist and composer (born 1747)

Johann Wilhelm Hässler, was a German composer, organist and pianist.

1822

Hans Nielsen Hauge

Norwegian lay minister, social reformer and author (born 1771)

Hans Nielsen Hauge was a 19th-century Norwegian Lutheran lay minister, spiritual leader, business entrepreneur, social reformer and author. He led a noted Pietism revival known as the Haugean movement. Hauge is also…

1824

Johann Heinrich Voss

German poet, translator and academic (born 1751)

Johann Heinrich Voss was a German classicist and poet, known mostly for his translation of Homer's Odyssey (1781) and Iliad (1793) into German.

1826

James Rennell

English geographer, historian and oceanography pioneer (born 1742)

Major James Rennell was an English geographer, historian and a pioneer of oceanography. Rennell produced some of the first accurate maps of Bengal at one inch to five miles as well as accurate outlines of India and…

1830

John Jacob Astor

German-American businessman (born 1763)

John Jacob Astor was a German-born American businessman, merchant, real estate mogul, and investor. Astor made his fortune mainly in a fur trade monopoly, by exporting opium into the Chinese Empire, and by investing in…

1848

John Keble

English priest and poet (born 1792)

John Keble was an English Anglican priest and poet who was one of the leaders of the Oxford Movement. Keble College, Oxford, is named after him.

1866

Charles-Valentin Alkan

French pianist and composer (born 1813)

Charles-Valentin Alkan was a French composer and virtuoso pianist. At the height of his fame in the 1830s and 1840s he was, alongside his friends and colleagues Frédéric Chopin and Franz Liszt, among the leading…

1888

Georges Seurat

French painter (born 1859)

Georges Pierre Seurat was a French post-Impressionist artist. He devised the painting techniques known as chromoluminarism and pointillism and used conté crayon for drawings on paper with a rough surface.

1891

Gustavus Franklin Swift

American business executive (born 1839)

Gustavus Franklin Swift Sr. was an American business executive. He founded a meat-packing empire in the Midwest during the late 19th century, over which he presided until his death. He is credited with the development…

1903

Alexandre Guilmant

French organist and composer (born 1837)

Félix-Alexandre Guilmant was a French organist and composer. He was the organist of La Trinité from 1871 until 1901. A noted pedagogue, performer, and improviser, Guilmant helped found the Schola Cantorum de Paris. He…

1911

Henry Robertson Bowers

Scottish lieutenant and explorer (born 1883)

Henry Robertson Bowers was one of Robert Falcon Scott's polar party on the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition of 1910–1913, all of whom died during their return from the South Pole.

1912

Robert Falcon Scott

English lieutenant and explorer (born 1868)

Captain Robert Falcon Scott was a British Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery expedition of 1901–04 and the Terra Nova expedition of 1910–13.

1912

Edward Adrian Wilson

English physician and explorer (born 1872)

Edward Adrian Wilson was an English polar explorer, ornithologist, natural historian, physician and artist.

1912

William Wallace Denslow

American illustrator and caricaturist (born 1856)

William Wallace Denslow was an American illustrator and caricaturist remembered for his work in collaboration with author L. Frank Baum, especially his illustrations of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Denslow was an…

1915

John Burroughs

American naturalist and nature essayist (born 1837)

John Burroughs was an American naturalist and nature essayist, active in the conservation movement in the United States. The first of his essay collections was Wake-Robin in 1871.

1921

Charles Villiers Stanford

Irish composer and conductor (born 1852)

Sir Charles Villiers Stanford was an Anglo-Irish composer, music teacher, and conductor of the late Romantic era. Born to a well-off and highly musical family in Dublin, Stanford was educated at the University of…

1924

Otto Hermann Kahn

German-American banker and philanthropist (born 1867)

Otto Hermann Kahn was a German-born American investment banker, collector, philanthropist, and patron of the arts. Kahn was a well-known figure, appearing on the cover of Time magazine and was sometimes referred to as…

1934

Karol Szymanowski

Polish pianist and composer (born 1882)

Karol Maciej Szymanowski was a Polish composer, pianist and writer. He was a member of the modernist Young Poland movement that flourished in the late 19th and early 20th century.

1937

Alexander Obolensky

Russian-English rugby player and soldier (born 1916)

Prince Alexander Sergeevich Obolensky was a Rurikid prince of Russian aristocratic descent who became a naturalised Briton, having spent most of his life in England, and who went on to represent England in international…

1940

Harry Price

English parapsychologist and author (born 1881)

Harry Price was a British psychic researcher and author, who gained public prominence for his investigations into psychical phenomena and exposing fraudulent spiritualist mediums. He is best known for his…

1948

Väinö Kivisalo

Finnish politician (born 1882)

Väinö Kivisalo was a Finnish politician and member of the Parliament of Finland, the national legislature of Finland. A member of the Social Democratic Party, he represented Häme Province South between August 1929 and…

1953

Arthur Fields

Jewish-American singer and composer (born 1888)

Arthur Fields was an American baritone and songwriter.

1953

Joyce Cary

Anglo-Irish novelist (born 1888)

Arthur Joyce Lunel Cary, known as Joyce Cary, was an Anglo-Irish novelist and colonial official. His most notable novels include Mister Johnson and The Horse's Mouth.

1957

Barthélemy Boganda

African priest and politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Central African Republic (born 1910)

Barthélemy Boganda was a Central African politician and independence activist. Boganda was active prior to his country's independence, during the period when the area, part of French Equatorial Africa, was administered…

1959

Gaspard Fauteux

Canadian dentist and politician, 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (born 1898)

Gaspard Fauteux, was a Canadian parliamentarian, Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (1945–1949), and the 19th Lieutenant Governor of Quebec (1950–1958).

1963

Frances Jenkins Olcott

American author and librarian (born 1872)

Frances Jenkins Olcott was the first head librarian of the children's department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh in 1898. She also wrote many children's books and books for those in the profession of providing…

1963

Stylianos Gonatas

Greek Army officer and Prime Minister of Greece (born 1876)

Stylianos Gonatas was an officer of the Hellenic Army, Venizelist politician, and Prime Minister of Greece from 1922 to 1924.

1966

Anna Louise Strong

American journalist and author (born 1885)

Anna Louise Strong was an American journalist and activist, best known for her reporting on and support for communist movements in the Soviet Union and the People's Republic of China. She wrote over 30 books and varied…

1970

Dhirendranath Datta

Pakistani lawyer and politician (born 1886)

Dhirendranath Datta was a Bengali lawyer and politician from East Bengal who was a member of the 1st Constituent Assembly of Pakistan. He is best known for proposing Bengali for the national language of Pakistan in the…

1971

J. Arthur Rank

English businessman, founded Rank Organisation (born 1888)

Joseph Arthur Rank, 1st Baron Rank was an English industrialist who was head and founder of The Rank Organisation.

1972

Nikos Petzaropoulos

Greece footballer (born 1927)

Nikos Pentzaropoulos was a Greek footballer, who played as a goalkeeper, mainly for Panionios. He earned the nickname "the Hero of Tampere" (Greek: ο Ήρωας του Τάμπερε), after his performance with the Greek Olympic team…

1979

Eric Williams

Trinidadian historian and politician, 1st Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago (born 1911)

Eric Eustace Williams was a Trinidad and Tobago politician. He has been dubbed the "Father of the Nation", having led the then-British Colony of Trinidad and Tobago to majority rule on 28 October 1956, to independence…

1981

Walter Hallstein

German academic and politician, 1st President of the European Commission (born 1901)

Walter Hallstein was a German academic, diplomat and statesman who was the first president of the Commission of the European Economic Community and one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

1982

Frederick George Mann

British organic chemist (born 1897)

Frederick George Mann was a British organic chemist.

1982

Carl Orff

German composer and educator (born 1895)

Carl Heinrich Maria Orff was a German composer and music educator, who composed the cantata Carmina Burana (1937). The concepts of his Schulwerk were influential for children's music education.

1982

Nathan Farragut Twining

American general (born 1897)

Nathan Farragut Twining was a United States Air Force general. He was the chief of Staff of the United States Air Force from 1953 until 1957, and the third chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff from 1957 to 1960. He was…

1982

Luther Terry

American physician and academic, 9th Surgeon General of the United States (born 1911)

Luther Leonidas Terry was an American physician and public health official. He was appointed the ninth Surgeon General of the United States from 1961 to 1965, and is best known for his warnings against the dangers and…

1985

Janet Watson

British geologist (born 1923)

Janet Vida Watson FRS FGS (1923–1985) was a British geologist. She was a professor of Geology at Imperial College, a rapporteur for the International Geological Correlation Program (IGCP) (1977–1982) and a vice…

1985

Maurice Blackburn

Canadian composer and conductor (born 1914)

Joseph Albert Maurice Blackburn was a Canadian composer, conductor, sound editor for film, and builder of string instruments. He is known for his soundtracks for animated film.

1988

Ted Kluszewski

American baseball player and coach (born 1924)

Theodore Bernard Kluszewski, nicknamed "Big Klu", was an American professional baseball player, best known as a power-hitting first baseman for the Cincinnati Reds teams of the 1950s. He played from 1947 through 1961…

1988

Guy Bourdin

French photographer (born 1928)

Guy Bourdin was a French artist and fashion photographer known for his highly stylized and provocative images. From 1955, Bourdin worked mostly with Vogue as well as other publications including Harper's Bazaar. He shot…

1991

Paul Henreid

American actor (born 1908)

Paul Henreid was an Austrian-American actor, director, producer, and writer. He is best remembered for several film roles during the Second World War, including Capt. Karl Marsen in Night Train to Munich (1940), Victor…

1992

Bill Travers

English actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

William Inglis Lindon Travers was a British actor, screenwriter, director and animal rights activist. Before his show business career, he served in the British Army with Gurkha and special forces units.

1994

Mort Meskin

American illustrator (born 1916)

Morton Meskin was an American comic book artist best known for his work in the 1940s Golden Age of Comic Books, well into the late-1950s and 1960s Silver Age.

1995

Terry Moore

American baseball player and coach (born 1912)

Terry Bluford Moore was an American professional baseball center fielder, manager, and coach. He played 11 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1935 to 1948, and later coached for them…

1995

Bill Goldsworthy

Canadian ice hockey player (born 1944)

William Alfred Goldsworthy was a Canadian professional ice hockey right winger who played for three teams in the National Hockey League for 14 seasons between 1964 and 1978, mostly with the Minnesota North Stars. He…

1996

Norman Pirie

British biochemist and virologist (born 1907)

Norman Wingate Pirie FRS, was a British biochemist and virologist who, along with Frederick Bawden, discovered that a virus can be crystallized by isolating tomato bushy stunt virus in 1936. This was an important…

1997

Joe Williams

American jazz singer (born 1918)

Joe Williams was an American jazz singer. He sang with big bands, such as the Count Basie Orchestra and the Lionel Hampton Orchestra, and with small combos. He sang in two films with the Basie orchestra and sometimes…

1999

Helge Ingstad

Norwegian lawyer, academic, and explorer (born 1899)

Helge Marcus Ingstad was a Norwegian explorer. In 1960, after mapping some Norse settlements, Ingstad and his wife archaeologist Anne Stine Ingstad found remnants of a Viking settlement in L'Anse aux Meadows in the…

2001

John Lewis

American pianist and composer (born 1920)

John Aaron Lewis was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet.

2001

Carlo Urbani

Italian physician and microbiologist (born 1956)

Carlo Urbani was an Italian physician and microbiologist and the first to identify severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) as probably a new and dangerously contagious viral disease, and his early warning to the World…

2003

Lise de Baissac

Mauritian-born SOE agent (born 1905)

Lise Marie Jeanette de Baissac MBE CdeG, code names Odile and Marguerite, was a Mauritian agent in the United Kingdom's clandestine Special Operations Executive (SOE) organization in France during World War II. The…

2004

Joel Feinberg

American philosopher and academic (born 1926)

Joel Feinberg was an American political and legal philosopher. He is known for his work in the fields of ethics, action theory, philosophy of law, and political philosophy as well as individual rights and the authority…

2004

Salvador Elizondo

Mexican author and poet (born 1932)

Salvador Elizondo Alcalde was a Mexican writer of the 60s Generation of Mexican literature.

2006

Larry L'Estrange

English rugby player and soldier (born 1934)

Larry L'Estrange MBE TD was a British paratrooper and rugby player.

2007

Vladimir Fedotov

Russian footballer and manager (born 1943)

Vladimir Grigoryevich Fedotov was a Soviet and Russian football striker and manager who holds the all-time record of caps for CSKA Moscow. He was the son of famous Soviet football and ice hockey player Grigory Fedotov.

2009

Andy Hallett

American actor and singer (born 1975)

Andrew Alcott Hallett was an American actor and singer who became best known for playing the part of Lorne in the television series Angel (2000–2004). He used his singing talents often on the show, and performed two…

2009

Ângelo de Sousa

Portuguese painter and sculptor (born 1938)

Ângelo César Cardoso de Sousa was a Portuguese painter, sculptor, draftsman and professor, better known for continuously experimenting with new techniques in his works. He was seen as a scholar of light and colour who…

2011

Iakovos Kambanellis

Greek author, poet, playwright, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Iakovos Kambanellis was a Greek poet, playwright, screenwriter, lyricist, and novelist.

2011

Pap Cheyassin Secka

Gambian lawyer and politician, 8th Attorney General of the Gambia (born 1942)

Pap Cheyassin Secka or Pap Cheyassin Ousman Secka was a Gambian lawyer and politician. He was the minister of justice and the former Attorney General of the Gambia.

2012

Bill Jenkins

American race car driver and engineer (born 1930)

William Tyler Jenkins, nicknamed "Grumpy" or "The Grump", was an engine builder and drag racer. Between 1965 and 1975, he won a total of thirteen NHRA events. Most of these wins were won with a four-speed manual…

2012

Reginald Gray

Irish-French painter (born 1930)

Reginald Gray was an Irish portrait artist. He studied at The National College of Art (1953) and then moved to London, becoming part of the School of London led by Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach. In…

2013

Brian Huggins

English-Canadian journalist and actor (born 1931)

Brian Edgar Huggins was a British-Canadian journalist and actor.

2013

Ralph Klein

Canadian journalist and politician, 12th Premier of Alberta (born 1942)

Ralph Philip Klein was a Canadian politician and journalist who served as the 12th premier of Alberta and leader of the Progressive Conservative Association of Alberta from 1992 until his retirement in 2006. Klein also…

2013

Art Phillips

Canadian businessman and politician, 32nd Mayor of Vancouver (born 1930)

Arthur Phillips served as the 32nd mayor of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada from 1973 to 1977. Prior to being elected to this post, he founded the Vancouver investment firm of Phillips, Hager & North. Phillips was…

2013

Marc Platt

American actor and dancer (born 1913)

Marcel Emile Gaston LePlat, known professionally as Marc Platt, was an American ballet dancer, musical theatre performer, and actor. He was best known for his portrayal of Daniel Pontipee, one of the seven brothers in…

2014

William Delafield Cook

Australian-English painter (born 1926)

William Delafield Cook AM (1936–2015) was an Australian artist who was known for his photorealistic landscapes. He won a number of awards, including the Order of Australia.

2015

Patty Duke

American actress (born 1946)

Anna Marie Duke, known professionally as Patty Duke, was an American actress. Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a…

2016

Alexei Abrikosov

Russian physicist, 2003 Nobel laureate in Physics (born 1928)

Alexei Alexeyevich Abrikosov was a Soviet, Russian and American theoretical physicist whose main contributions are in the field of condensed matter physics. He was the co-recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Physics,…

2017

Anita Shreve

American author (born 1946)

Anita Hale Shreve was an American writer, chiefly known for her novels. One of her first published stories, Past the Island, Drifting, was awarded an O. Henry Prize in 1976.

2018

Agnès Varda

French film director (born 1928)

Agnès Varda was a Belgian-born French filmmaker, artist, and photographer.

2019

Joe Diffie

American country music singer (born 1958)

Joe Logan Diffie was an American country music singer and songwriter. After working as a demonstration singer in the mid 1980s, he signed with Epic Records' Nashville division in 1990. Between then and 2004, Diffie…

2020

Alan Merrill

American musician (born 1951)

Alan Merrill was an American vocalist, guitarist and songwriter. In the early 1970s, he was one of the few resident foreigners in Japan to achieve pop star status there. He wrote the song "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", and was…

2020

Krzysztof Penderecki

Polish composer and conductor (born 1933)

Krzysztof Eugeniusz Penderecki was a Polish composer and conductor. His best-known works include Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima, Symphony No. 3, his St Luke Passion, Polish Requiem, Anaklasis and Utrenja. His…

2020

Bashkim Fino

Albanian politician, 29th Prime Minister of Albania (born 1962)

Bashkim Fino was an Albanian socialist politician who served as the 29th Prime Minister of Albania from March to July 1997.

2021

Sarah Onyango Obama

Kenyan educator and philanthropist (born 1921)

Sarah Onyango Obama was a Kenyan educator and philanthropist. She was the third wife of Hussein Onyango Obama, the paternal grandfather of U.S. president Barack Obama and helped raise his father, Barack Obama Sr. She…

2021

Charles Jeffrey

British botanist (born 1934)

Charles Jeffrey was a British botanist.

2022

Jennifer Wilson

English actress (born 1932)

Jennifer Wenda Wilson was an English actress. Beginning her on-screen acting career in the 1950s, she played Kate Nickleby in a BBC dramatisation of Nicholas Nickleby in 1957. Wilson's last acting roles were as Mrs.…

2022

John Kerin

Australian politician (born 1937)

John Charles Kerin was an Australian economist and Labor Party politician who served in the House of Representatives from 1972 to 1975 and again from 1978 to 1993. He held a number of senior ministerial roles in both…

2023

Vivan Sundaram

Indian contemporary artist (born 1943)

Vivan Sundaram was an Indian contemporary artist. He worked in many different media, including painting, sculpture, printmaking, photography, installation, and video art, and his work was politically conscious and…

2023

Gerry Conway

English folk and rock drummer/percussionist (born 1947)

Gerald Conway was an English rock drummer and percussionist. He performed with the backing band for Cat Stevens in the 1970s, with Jethro Tull during the 1980s, and was a member of Fairport Convention from 1998 to 2022.…

2024

Louis Gossett Jr.

American actor (born 1936)

Louis Cameron Gossett Jr. was an American actor. He made his stage debut at age 17. Shortly thereafter, Gossett successfully auditioned for the Broadway play Take a Giant Step. He continued acting onstage in critically…

2024

Richard Chamberlain

American actor (born 1934)

George Richard Chamberlain was an American actor and singer whose career on stage and in film and television spanned over 60 years. He was the recipient of many accolades, including three Golden Globe Awards, four…

2025

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Known forDeaf since birth, Raškaj was schooled in Vienna and Zagreb, where her mentor was the renowned Croatian painter Bela Čikoš Sesija

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