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Notable Deaths on March 7
62 people
161 – 2026
March 7 has seen 62 notable figures pass away throughout recorded history — from 161 – 2026. Below are the most significant names who died on this date.
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1778 — Charles De Geer
Swedish entomologist and archaeologist (born 1720)
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He had a successful civic career, became Marshal of the Court and was elevated to the rank of friherre (baron) in 1773.
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Born in Sweden, he spent most of his childhood and youth in the Dutch Republic
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At the age of 18 he moved back to Sweden and would spend the rest of his life there
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Charles De Geer was an entomologist, industrialist, civil servant and book collector
Roman emperor (born 86)
Titus Aelius Hadrianus Antoninus Pius was Roman emperor from AD 138 to 161. He was the fourth of the Five Good Emperors from the Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
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161
Roman politician and failed usurper
Heraclianus was a provincial governor and a usurper of the Western Roman Empire (412–413) opposed to Emperor Honorius, who had originally brought him to power. Heraclianus helped put down a rebellion by Priscus Attalus.…
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413
851
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…
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1226
Italian priest and philosopher (born 1225)
Thomas Aquinas was an Italian Dominican friar and priest, theologian, and philosopher. He is considered one of the most influential thinkers in the history of Catholic theology and Western philosophy.
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1274
ruler of Mantua
Francesco I Gonzaga was ruler of Mantua from 1382 to 1407. He was also a condottiero.
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1407
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…
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1578
German lawyer and cartographer (born 1572)
Johann Bayer was a German lawyer and uranographer. He was born in Rain in 1572. In 1592, aged 20, he began his study of philosophy and law at the University of Ingolstadt, after which he moved to Augsburg to begin work…
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1625
Pope Innocent XIII, born as Michelangelo dei Conti, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 8 May 1721 to his death in March 1724. He remains the most recent pope to take the pontifical name…
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1724
Sieur de Bienville, Canadian politician, Colonial Governor of Louisiana (born 1680)
Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, also known as Sieur de Bienville, was a French-Canadian colonial administrator in New France. Born in Montreal, he was an early governor of French Louisiana, appointed four separate…
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1767
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. Notable for his successful hydrogen balloon flight…
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1809
1st Baron Collingwood, English admiral (born 1748)
Vice-Admiral Cuthbert Collingwood, 1st Baron Collingwood, was a Royal Navy officer. Collingwood was born in Newcastle upon Tyne and later lived in Morpeth, Northumberland. He entered the Royal Navy at a young age,…
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1810
American spy (born 1753)
Robert Townsend was a member of the Culper Ring during the American Revolution. He operated in New York City with the aliases "Samuel Culper, Jr." and "723" and gathered information as a service to General George…
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1838
African American Abolitionist and author (born 1813)
Harriet Jacobs was an African-American abolitionist and writer whose autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent, is now considered an "American classic".
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1897
Canadian poet and author (born 1861)
Emily Pauline Johnson, also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake, was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief,…
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1913
Estonian lawyer and politician, Estonian Minister of Foreign Affairs (born 1866)
Jaan Poska VR III/1 was a lawyer, politician and the foreign minister of Estonia in 1918–1919.
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1920
American surgeon and radiologist (born 1851)
Robert Abbe was an American surgeon and pioneer radiologist in New York City. He was born in New York City and educated at the College of the City of New York and Columbia University.
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1928
Finnish artist (born 1865)
Akseli Gallen-Kallela was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the Kalevala, the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national identity. He…
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1931
French journalist and politician, Prime Minister of France, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1862)
Aristide Pierre Henri Briand was a French statesman who served eleven terms as Prime Minister of France during the French Third Republic. He is mainly remembered for his focus on international issues and reconciliation…
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1932
American football player, physician, and politician (born 1884)
Bradbury Norton Robinson Jr. was a pioneering American football player, physician, nutritionist, conservationist and local politician. He played college football at the University of Wisconsin in 1903 and at Saint Louis…
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1949
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. The pair was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1950 for…
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1954
English painter and critic (born 1882)
Percy Wyndham Lewis was a Canadian-born British writer, painter and critic. He was a co-founder of the Vorticist movement in art and edited Blast, the literary magazine of the Vorticists.
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1957
American writer (born 1877)
Alice Babette Toklas was an American-born member of the Parisian avant-garde of the early 20th century, and the life partner of American writer Gertrude Stein.
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1967
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. He is known for proposing Montague grammar to formalize the semantics…
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1971
1973
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. His writings, on a variety of subjects, inspired scholars working in a…
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1975
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. He…
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1976
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. One of the 100 founding members of the Syndicate of…
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1981
American astronomer (born 1886)
Ida Barney was an American astronomer, best known for her 22 volumes of astrometric measurements on 150,000 stars. She was educated at Smith College and Yale University and spent most of her career at the Yale…
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1982
Ukrainian conductor and composer (born 1912)
Igor Borisovich Markevitch was a Russian composer and conductor who studied and worked in Paris and became a naturalized Italian and French citizen in 1947 and 1982 respectively. He was commissioned in 1929 for a piano…
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1983
American colonel and politician, New York State Attorney General (born 1904)
Jacob Koppel Javits was an American lawyer and politician from New York. During his time in politics, he served in both chambers of the United States Congress, a member of the United States House of Representatives from…
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1986
Estonian musicologist and academic (born 1902)
Karl Leichter was an Estonian musicologist. In 1929 he graduated in theory and composition, studying under Heino Eller with pupils such as Eduard Tubin, Alfred Karindi, Eduard Oja and Olav Roots. Between 1929 and 1931…
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1987
1988
1988
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. He…
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1991
South African cricketer (born 1916)
Terence Anthony Harris known as Tony Harris, was a South African sportsman who was the last man to be a dual international of both cricket and rugby union for his country. He represented South Africa in five rugby union…
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1993
American musicologist (born 1914)
John Merrill Knapp was an American musicologist and academic. He was considered an authority on the life and works of George Frideric Handel. Born in New York City, Knapp graduated from the Hotchkiss School before…
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1993
Finnish writer (born 1909)
Martti Larni was a Finnish writer. He was the chairman of the Union of Finnish Writers from 1964 to 1967. During his lifetime, Larni was one of Finland's most internationally known writers in the Soviet Union and other…
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1993
American television producer (born 1929)
Eleanor Sanger was a 7-time Emmy-award-winning television writer and producer, who was the first woman Network Sports Producer.
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1993
Austrian economist (born 1912)
Josef Steindl was an Austrian-born post-Keynesian economist.
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1993
American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1912)
Edward Mills Purcell was an American physicist who shared the 1952 Nobel Prize for Physics for his independent discovery of nuclear magnetic resonance in liquids and in solids. Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) has…
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1997
American chemist and theorist (born 1918)
Sidney Gottlieb was an American chemist and spymaster who headed the Central Intelligence Agency's 1950s and 1960s assassination attempts and mind-control program, known as Project MKUltra.
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1999
American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1928)
Stanley Kubrick was an American filmmaker and photographer. A prominent figure of the New Hollywood era, Kubrick is regarded as one of the greatest and most influential filmmakers. His films spanned a number of genres…
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1999
American singer-songwriter (born 1914)
Julius Frank Anthony Kuczynski, known professionally as Pee Wee King, was an American country music songwriter and recording artist best known for co-writing "Tennessee Waltz".
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2000
2005
American screenwriter and producer (born 1950)
Debra Hill was an American film producer and screenwriter, best known for her films co-created with John Carpenter.
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2005
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. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of…
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2006
English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)
Peter William Brockbanks, known professionally as Peter Banks, was an English guitarist. He was the original guitarist in the rock bands Yes, Flash, and Empire; he was also a guitarist for The Syn. Banks has been…
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2013
Italian director and screenwriter (born 1922)
Damiano Damiani was an Italian screenwriter, film director, actor and writer. Poet and director Pier Paolo Pasolini referred to him as "a bitter moralist hungry for old purity", while film critic Paolo Mereghetti said…
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2013
American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1923)
Claude King was an American country music singer and songwriter. He is best known for his 1962 million-selling hit, "Wolverton Mountain".
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2013
American poet and educator (born 1929)
Edward Charles "Ned" O'Gorman was an American poet and educator.
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2014
Indian lawyer and politician (born 1949)
Gopala Pillai Karthikeyan was an Indian politician and former speaker of the Kerala Legislative Assembly. He was a Member of the Legislative Assembly from Aruvikkara constituency, who represented the Indian National…
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2015
Jr., American lawyer and politician, Governor of Vermont (born 1927)
Frank Ray Keyser Jr. was an American lawyer and politician from Vermont. He served as Speaker of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1959 to 1961, and the 72nd governor of Vermont from 1961 to 1963.
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2015
Japanese author and illustrator (born 1935)
Yoshihiro Tatsumi was a Japanese manga artist whose work was first published in his teens, and continued through the rest of his life. He is widely credited with starting the gekiga style of alternative manga in Japan,…
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2015
Irish lawyer and judge (born 1951)
Adrian Hardiman was an Irish judge who served as a Judge of the Supreme Court from 2000 to 2016.
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2016
Bergen-Belsen concentration camp liberator (born 1920)
Lieutenant-Colonel Leonard Berney was a British soldier who was one of the first British officers at the liberation of Bergen-Belsen. He also testified in the Belsen trial.
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2016
American attorney and activist (born 1939)
Lynne Irene Stewart was an American defense attorney who was known for representing controversial, famous defendants. She herself was convicted on charges of conspiracy and providing material support to terrorists in…
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2017
American professional wrestler (born 1930)
Richard John "Dick" Beyer was an American professional wrestler is best known by his ring names, The Destroyer and Doctor X. Among other places, he worked extensively in Japan and in 2017 he was awarded one of the…
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2019
American actor and singer (born 1935)
Steve Lawrence was an American singer, comedian, and actor. He was best known as a member of the pop duo Steve and Eydie, with his wife Eydie Gormé. Lawrence also played the featured role of Maury Sline, the booking…
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2024
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! in 1986 with his younger half…
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2025
Australian actor, radio and television host (born 1950)
James Edward Dunn was an Australian television, radio personality, puppeteer, comedian and voice artist. He began his entertainment career as a drummer and a singer-songwriter, before moving into television and finding…
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2026
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Charles De Geer — Swedish entomologist, industrialist and civil servant (1720–1778)
FeaturedCharles De Geer
Death year1778
Known forHe is sometimes referred to as Charles the Entomologist, to distinguish him from other relatives with the same name
Deaths on this date62 (161 – 2026)
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