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Lawrence and Gormé first appeared together as regulars on Tonight Starring Steve Allen in 1954 and continued performing as a duo until Gormé's retirement in 2009.
Notable Deaths on March 7
2024 — Steve Lawrence
American actor and singer (born 1935)
March 7 has 63 recorded notable deaths across history, from 161 to 2026. This focused page highlights 20 people with the strongest available profile context.
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Notable Deaths
63 source records
161 – 2026
Today in history
Major events on March 7
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- 2007 Reform of the House of Lords: The British House of Commons votes to make the upper chamber, the House of Lords, 100% elected. Source
- 1573 A peace treaty is signed between the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Venice, ending the Ottoman–Venetian War and leaving Cyprus in Ottoman hands. Source
- 1965 Bloody Sunday: A group of 600 civil rights marchers are brutally attacked by state and local police in Selma, Alabama. Source
- 2009 Massereene Barracks shooting: The Real Irish Republican Army kills two British soldiers and injures two other soldiers and two civilians at Massereene Barracks, the first British military deaths in Northern Ireland since the end of The Troubles. Source
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A member of the Republican Party, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1947 to 1954 and a member of the United States Senate from 1957 to 1981.
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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.
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Although Bakhtin was active in the debates on aesthetics and literature that took place in the Soviet Union in the 1920s, his distinctive position did not become well known until he was rediscovered by Russian scholars in the 1960s.
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Cuthbert Collingwood took part in several key naval battles of the time, including the Glorious First of June and the Battle of Cape St.
More major people who died on March 7
Notable people are ranked by substantive profile depth and public notability.
1986
Jacob K. Javits
American colonel and politician, New York State Attorney General (born 1904)
Jacob Koppel Javits was an American lawyer and politician from the U.S. state of New York.
2006
Gordon Parks
American photographer, director, and composer (born 1912)
Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and filmmaker, who became prominent in U.S.
1975
Mikhail Bakhtin
Russian philosopher and critic (born 1895)
Mikhail Mikhailovich Bakhtin was a Russian philosopher and literary critic who worked on the philosophy of language, ethics, and literary theory.
1810
Cuthbert Collingwood
1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (born 1748)
Vice-Admiral of the Red Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood was a Royal Navy officer who served in the American War of Independence and French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.
2017
Lynne Stewart
American attorney and activist (born 1939)
Lynne Irene Stewart was an American defense attorney who was known for representing controversial, famous defendants.
1949
Bradbury Robinson
American football player, physician, and politician (born 1884)
Bradbury Norton Robinson Jr. was a pioneering American football player, physician, nutritionist, conservationist and local politician.
1778
Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (born 1720)
Charles De Geer was an entomologist, industrialist, civil servant and book collector. He is sometimes referred to as Charles the Entomologist, to distinguish him from other relatives with the same name.
1954
Otto Diels
German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)
Otto Paul Hermann Diels was a German chemist. His most notable work was done with Kurt Alder on the Diels–Alder reaction, a method for cyclohexene synthesis.
1981
Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir
Egyptian journalist and writer (born 1906)
Muhammad Zaki Abd al-Qadir was an Egyptian journalist and multi-topic writer. Although he graduated from Cairo University in law in 1928, he turned to journalism.
1809
Jean-Pierre Blanchard
French inventor, best known as a pioneer in balloon flight (born 1753)
Jean-Pierre François Blanchard was a French inventor, best known as a pioneer of gas balloon flight, who distinguished himself in the conquest of the air in a balloon.
1971
Richard Montague
American mathematician and philosopher (born 1930)
Richard Merritt Montague was an American mathematician and philosopher who made contributions to mathematical logic and the philosophy of language.
1991
Cool Papa Bell
American baseball player (born 1903)
James Thomas "Cool Papa" Bell was an American center fielder and pitcher in Negro league baseball and the Mexican League from 1922 to 1946. He is considered to have been one of the fastest men ever to play the game.
2005
John Box
English production designer and art director (born 1920)
John Allan Hyatt Box OBE was a British film production designer and art director. He won the Academy Award for Best Art Direction on four occasions and won the equivalent BAFTA three times, a record for both awards.
1838
Robert Townsend
American spy (born 1753)
Robert Townsend was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution.
2025
D'Wayne Wiggins
American musical artist (born 1961)
D'Wayne Patrice Wiggins was an American singer, songwriter, guitarist and record producer best known as a founding member of the R&B/soul band Tony! Toni! Toné!. He formed Tony! Toni! Toné!
1226
William Longespée
3rd Earl of Salisbury, English commander
William Longespée, 3rd Earl of Salisbury was an Anglo-Norman nobleman, primarily remembered for his command of the English forces at the Battle of Damme and for remaining loyal to his half-brother, King John, until…
1997
Edward Mills Purcell
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize in Physics with Felix Bloch for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in liquids and in solids.
1578
Margaret Douglas
English noblewoman, daughter of Margaret Tudor and Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus (born 1515)
Margaret Douglas, Countess of Lennox, born Lady Margaret Douglas, was the daughter of the Scottish queen dowager Margaret Tudor and her second husband Archibald Douglas, 6th Earl of Angus, and thus the granddaughter of…
1976
Wright Patman
American politician (born 1893)
John William Wright Patman was an American politician. First elected in 1928, Patman served 24 consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives for Texas's 1st congressional district from 1929 to 1976.