Died on Monday, 16th March – Famous Deaths

16/03/2025

Émilie Dequenne, Belgian actress (born 1981)

Émilie Dequenne was a Belgian actress. She first gained recognition for her role in the Dardenne brothers' film Rosetta (1999), which earned her the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress. The film also won the Palme d'Or at the festival.

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Jesse Colin Young, American singer and songwriter (born 1941)

Perry Miller, known professionally as Jesse Colin Young, was an American singer and songwriter. He was a founding member and lead singer of the 1960s group the Youngbloods. After their dissolution in 1972, Young embarked on a solo career, releasing a series of albums through Warner Bros. Records, including Song for Juli (1973), Light Shine (1974), Songbird (1975), and the live album On the Road (1976). Young continued to release music in the 1980s with Elektra Records and Cypress Records, before deciding to release music through his personal label, Ridgetop Music, in 1993. After the Mount Vision Fire in 1995, Young relocated with his family to a coffee plantation in Hawaii, periodically releasing music. Young was diagnosed with chronic Lyme disease in 2012, and decided to retire from music. He began performing again in 2016 with his son Tristan, releasing a new album Dreamers in 2019 through BMG.

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16/03/2019

Dick Dale, American surf-rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter (born 1937)

Richard Anthony Monsour, known professionally as Dick Dale, was an American rock guitarist. He was a pioneer of surf music, drawing on Middle Eastern music scales and experimenting with reverb. Dale was known as "The King of the Surf Guitar," which was also the title of his second studio album.

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16/03/2018

Louise Slaughter, Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York (born 1929)

Dorothy Louise Slaughter was an American politician elected to 16 terms as a United States representative from New York, serving from 1987 until her death in 2018.

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16/03/2017

Lewis Rowland, American neurologist (born 1925)

Lewis Phillip "Bud" Rowland was an American neurologist. He served as president of the American Neurological Association (1980–81) and the American Academy of Neurology (1989–91). He was editor of the journal Neurology from 1977 to 1987 and of the newspaper Neurology Today from 2000 to 2009. He authored over 500 scientific articles, with a research emphasis on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and muscular dystrophy. He was chair of the neurology department at Columbia University for 25 years, where he established the H. Houston Merritt Clinical Research Center for Muscular Dystrophy and Related Diseases as well as the Eleanor and Lou Gehrig ALS Center.

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16/03/2016

Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Russian-American mathematician and poet (born 1924)

Alexander Sergeyevich Esenin-Volpin was a Russian-American poet and mathematician known for his foundational role in ultrafinitism. Esenin-Volpin was a prominent Soviet dissident and a leader of the Soviet human rights movement during the 1960s.

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Frank Sinatra Jr., American singer and actor (born 1944)

Francis Wayne Sinatra, known professionally as Frank Sinatra Jr., was an American jazz and big band singer, songwriter, and conductor. He was the second child and only son of singer and actor Frank Sinatra and his first wife, Nancy Barbato Sinatra, the younger brother of singer and actress Nancy Sinatra, and the older brother of television producer Tina Sinatra.

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16/03/2015

Jack Haley, American basketball player and sportscaster (born 1964)

Jack Kevin Haley was an American professional basketball player.

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Don Robertson, American pianist and composer (born 1922)

Donald Irwin Robertson was an American songwriter and pianist, in country and popular music genres. He was inducted into the Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame in 1972. As a performer, he hit the US Top 10 with "The Happy Whistler" in 1956. The track reached No. 8 in the UK Singles Chart the same year. It sold more than one million copies, and was awarded a gold disc.

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16/03/2014

Gary Bettenhausen, American race car driver (born 1941)

Gary Bettenhausen was an American racing car driver. He was the winner the 1967 and 1970 Turkey Night Grand Prix, the 1972 Astro Grand Prix, and the 1976 Hut Hundred.

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Donald Crothers, American chemist and academic (born 1937)

Donald Crothers was a professor of chemistry at Yale University in the United States. He was best known for his work on nucleic acid structure and function.

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Yulisa Pat Amadu Maddy, Sierra Leonean author, poet, and playwright (born 1936)

Yulisa Amadu Pat Maddy was a Sierra Leonean writer, poet, actor, dancer, director and playwright. Known by his friends and colleagues as Pat Maddy or simply Prof, he had an "immense impact" on theatre in Sierra Leone, Nigeria and Zambia.

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Steve Moore, English author and illustrator (born 1949)

Steve Moore was a British comics writer.

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Alexander Pochinok, Russian economist and politician (born 1958)

Alexander Petrovich Pochinok was a Russian economist and politician. He was the minister of taxes and levies from 1999 to 2000 and minister of labor and social development from 2000 to 2004.

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16/03/2013

Jamal Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi physicist and cosmologist (born 1939)

Jamal Nazrul Islam FRAS was a Bangladeshi mathematical physicist and cosmologist. He was a professor at University of Chittagong, served as a member of the advisory board at Shahjalal University of Science and Technology and member of the syndicate at Chittagong University of Engineering & Technology until his death. He also served as the director of the Research Center for Mathematical and Physical Sciences (RCMPS) at the University of Chittagong. He was awarded Ekushey Padak in 2000 by the Government of Bangladesh.

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José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz, Argentinian economist and politician, Minister of Economy of Argentina (born 1925)

José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz was an Argentine lawyer, businessman, and economist. He was the Minister of Economy of Argentina during the country's last military dictatorship (1976—1983), and shaped the economic policy of the dictatorship until its end.

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Yadier Pedroso, Cuban pitcher (born 1986)

Yadier Pedroso González, was a right-handed professional baseball pitcher. He played for the Cuban national baseball team and La Habana of the Cuban National Series. Pedroso was part of the Cuban team at the 2006 and 2013 World Baseball Classics.

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Ruchoma Shain, American-born teacher and author (born 1914)

Ruchoma Shain (Hebrew: רוחומה שיין; 6 December 1914 – 16 March 2013) was an American-born rebbetzin, English teacher, and author. She is best known for her first book, All for the Boss (1984), a biography of her father, Yaakov Yosef Herman, which she wrote in her late sixties. In detailing her father's life, she also describes Orthodox Jewish life in America in the early 1900s. All for the Boss became one of the all-time best-sellers for Feldheim Publishers, and Shain's stories and observations are quoted by numerous authors.

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Marina Solodkin, Russian-Israeli academic and politician (born 1952)

Marina Solodkin was an Israeli politician and member of the Knesset for Yisrael BaAliyah, Likud and Kadima.

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Frank Thornton, English actor (born 1921)

Frank Thornton Ball, professionally known as Frank Thornton, was an English actor. He was best known for playing Captain Peacock in the television sitcom Are You Being Served? and its sequel Grace & Favour and as Herbert "Truly" Truelove in television sitcom Last of the Summer Wine.

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16/03/2012

Donald E. Hillman, American colonel and pilot (born 1918)

Donald Edison Hillman was an American World War II flying ace and prisoner of war credited with five enemy aircraft destroyed. He was also the first American pilot, in 1952, to make a deep-penetration overflight of Soviet territory for the purpose of aerial reconnaissance.

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Takaaki Yoshimoto, Japanese poet, philosopher, and critic (born 1924)

Takaaki Yoshimoto , also known as Ryūmei Yoshimoto, was a Japanese poet, philosopher, and literary critic. As a philosopher, he is remembered as a founding figure in the emergence of the New Left in Japan, and as a critic, he was at the forefront of a movement to force writers to confront their responsibility as wartime collaborators.

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16/03/2011

Richard Wirthlin, American religious leader (born 1931)

Richard Bitner Wirthlin was a prominent American pollster, who is best known as Ronald Reagan's chief strategist, serving as his political consultant and pollster for twenty years, from 1968 through the end of his presidency. He became a senior adviser and member of Reagan's inner circle and is known to have helped him shape his political message and strategies, both in presidential campaigns and in the White House. Wirthlin also was a general authority of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and a member of its Second Quorum of the Seventy from 1996 to 2001.

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16/03/2010

Ksenija Pajčin, Serbian singer, dancer and model (born 1977)

Ksenija Pajčin was a Serbian singer, dancer and model popular in Serbia and the other former Yugoslav republics. Sometimes referred to as Xenia or Ksenia.

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16/03/2008

Bill Brown, Australian cricketer and soldier (born 1912)

William Alfred Brown, was an Australian cricketer who played 22 Test matches between 1934 and 1948, captaining his country in one Test. A right-handed opening batsman, his partnership with Jack Fingleton in the 1930s is regarded as one of the finest in Australian Test history. After the interruption of World War II, Brown was a member of the team dubbed "The Invincibles", who toured England in 1948 without defeat under the leadership of Don Bradman. In a match in November 1947, Brown was the unwitting victim of the first instance of "Mankading".

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Ivan Dixon, American actor, director, and producer (born 1931)

Ivan Nathaniel Dixon III was an American actor, director, and producer best known for his series role in the 1960s sitcom Hogan's Heroes, and for his starring roles in the 1964 independent drama Nothing But a Man and the 1967 television film The Final War of Olly Winter. In addition, he directed many episodes of television series.

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Gary Hart, American wrestler and manager (born 1942)

Gary Richard Williams was an American professional wrestling manager, as well as a professional wrestler in his early career, best known by his ring name Gary Hart. Hart was one of the pivotal driving forces behind what is considered to be World Class Championship Wrestling's "golden years" in the early 1980s.

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16/03/2007

Manjural Islam Rana, Bangladeshi cricketer (born 1984)

Manjural Islam Rana, also known as Qazi Manjural Islam, was a Bangladeshi cricketer who played six Tests and 25 One Day Internationals for Bangladesh. Born in Khulna, he was a slow left-arm orthodox spin bowler. He played for Khulna Division at domestic level and made his One Day International (ODI) debut in November 2003 against England. Three months later, Rana played his first Test against Zimbabwe. On 16 March 2007, he died of severe head injuries sustained in a road accident in Khulna at the age of 22.

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16/03/2005

Todd Bell, American football player (born 1958)

Todd Anthony Bell was an American professional football player who was a safety for the Chicago Bears of the National Football League (NFL) during the early 1980s. He played college football for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

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Ralph Erskine, English architect, designed The London Ark (born 1914)

Ralph Erskine ARIBA was a British architect and planner who lived and worked in Sweden for most of his life.

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Dick Radatz, American baseball player (born 1937)

Richard Raymond Radatz was an American relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Nicknamed "The Monster", the 6 ft 6 in (1.98 m), 230 lb (100 kg) right-hander had a scorching but short-lived period of dominance for the Boston Red Sox in the early 1960s. Radatz is reported to have gotten his nickname during a game against the New York Yankees in Boston in 1963 in which he came in to pitch with the bases loaded and no one out. He consecutively struck out Mickey Mantle, Roger Maris, and Elston Howard, after which Mantle grumbled about Radatz being "that monster". Over his career, Radatz struck out Hall of Famer Mantle 44 times in 63 at-bats.

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16/03/2004

Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (born 1910)

Vilém Tauský CBE was a Czech conductor and composer. From the advent of the Second World War, he lived and worked in the United Kingdom, and was one of a significant group of émigré composers and musicians who settled there.

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16/03/2003

Rachel Corrie, American activist (born 1979)

Rachel Aliene Corrie was an American nonviolence activist and diarist. She was a member of the pro-Palestinian International Solidarity Movement (ISM), and was active throughout the Israeli-occupied Palestinian territories. In 2003, she was in Rafah, a city in the Gaza Strip then under Israeli occupation, where the demolishment of Palestinian houses by Israeli forces was taking place at the height of the Second Intifada. While protesting the demolitions as they were being carried out, she was killed by an Israeli armored bulldozer that crushed her.

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Ronald Ferguson, English captain, polo player, and manager (born 1931)

Major Ronald Ivor Ferguson, OStJ was a British Army officer and polo manager, initially to the Duke of Edinburgh and later, for many years, to the then Charles, Prince of Wales. His daughter, Sarah Ferguson, is the former wife of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, formerly The Prince Andrew, Duke of York. He was the maternal grandfather of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie.

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16/03/2001

Bob Wollek, French race car driver (born 1943)

Robert Jean "Bob" Wollek, nicknamed "Brilliant Bob", was a race car driver from Strasbourg, France. He won a total of 76 races in his career, 71 in Porsche cars, including four editions of the 24 Hours of Daytona and one edition of the 12 Hours of Sebring. He died in a road accident in Florida while riding a bicycle back to his accommodation after the day's practice sessions for the following day's race, the 12 Hours of Sebring.

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16/03/2000

Thomas Ferebee, American colonel and pilot (born 1918)

Thomas Wilson Ferebee was the bombardier aboard the B-29 Superfortress, Enola Gay, which dropped the atomic bomb "Little Boy" on Hiroshima in 1945.

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Pavel Prudnikau, Belarusian poet and author (born 1911)

Pavel Ivanovich Prudnikau was a Belarusian writer. He was a cousin of another Belarusian writer, Ales Prudnikau.

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Michael Starr, Canadian judge and politician, 16th Canadian Minister of Labour (born 1910)

Michael Starr, was a Canadian politician and the first Canadian cabinet minister of Ukrainian descent, his parents having emigrated from Halychyna (Galicia), then a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and is now Western Ukraine.

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Carlos Velázquez, Puerto Rican pitcher (born 1948)

Carlos Quiñones Velázquez [″Carlín″] was a relief pitcher in Major League Baseball. Listed at 5' 11", 180 lb., he batted and threw right handed.

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16/03/1999

Gratien Gélinas, Canadian actor, director, and playwright (born 1909)

Gratien Gélinas, was a Canadian writer, playwright, actor, director, producer and administrator who is considered one of the founders of modern Canadian theatre and film.

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16/03/1998

Derek Barton, English-American chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1918)

Sir Derek Harold Richard Barton was an English organic chemist and Nobel Prize laureate for 1969.

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Esther Bubley, American photographer (born 1921)

Esther Bubley was an American photographer who specialized in expressive photos of ordinary people in everyday lives. She worked for several agencies of the American government and her work also featured in several news and photographic magazines.

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16/03/1994

Eric Show, American baseball player (born 1956)

Eric Vaughn Show was an American professional baseball player who was a pitcher in Major League Baseball (MLB). He spent most of his career with the San Diego Padres and holds the team record for most career wins (100). Show was a member of the first Padres team to play in the World Series in 1984. On September 11, 1985, he surrendered Pete Rose's record-breaking 4,192nd career hit.

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16/03/1992

Yves Rocard, French physicist and engineer (born 1903)

Yves-André Rocard was a French physicist who helped develop the atomic bomb for France.

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16/03/1991

Chris Austin, American country singer (born 1964)

Christopher Clay Austin was an American country music singer. Austin was signed to Warner Bros. Records in 1988 and charted three singles on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. His highest-charting single, "Blues Stay Away from Me," was included on the 1989 compilation album New Tradition Sings the Old Tradition. Austin also co-wrote Ricky Skaggs' 1991 single "Same Ol' Love."

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Jean Bellette, Australian artist (born 1908)

Jean Bellette was an Australian artist. Born in Tasmania, she was educated in Hobart and at Julian Ashton's art school in Sydney, where one of her teachers was Thea Proctor. In London she studied under painters Bernard Meninsky and Mark Gertler.

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16/03/1990

Ernst Bacon, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1898)

Ernst Lecher Bacon was an American composer, pianist, and conductor. A prolific composer, Bacon wrote over 250 songs over his career. He was awarded three Guggenheim Fellowships and a Pulitzer Scholarship in 1932 for his Second Symphony.

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16/03/1988

Jigger Statz, American baseball player (born 1897)

Arnold John "Jigger" Statz was an American professional baseball player, manager and scout. An outfielder, Statz appeared in 683 games played in Major League Baseball, but had a lengthy and notable minor league career, playing in almost 2,800 games. He is one of only nine players known to have amassed at least 4,000 combined hits in the major and minor leagues. The native of Waukegan, Illinois, threw and batted right-handed, and was listed as 5 feet 7 inches (1.70 m) tall and 150 pounds (68 kg).

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Mickey Thompson, American race car driver (born 1928)

Marion Lee "Mickey" Thompson was an American auto racing builder and promoter.

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16/03/1985

Roger Sessions, American composer, critic, and educator (born 1896)

Roger Huntington Sessions was an American composer, teacher, and writer on music. He had started his career writing in a neoclassical style, but gradually moved towards complex harmonies and postromanticism, and finally the twelve-tone serialism of the Second Viennese School. Sessions's friendship with Arnold Schoenberg influenced him, but he modified his technique to a unique style involving rows to supply melodic themes, while composing subsidiary parts freely.

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Eddie Shore, Canadian-American ice hockey player (born 1902)

Edward William Shore was a Canadian professional ice hockey defenceman, principally for the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League, and the longtime owner of the Springfield Indians of the American Hockey League. Iconic for his aggressiveness, toughness and defensive skill, he was called both "Old Blood and Guts" and "the Edmonton Express." In 2017, Shore was named one of the '100 Greatest NHL Players' in history.

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16/03/1983

Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (born 1903)

Arthur Morton Godfrey was an American radio and television broadcaster and entertainer. At the peak of his success, in the early to mid-1950s, Godfrey was heard on radio and seen on television up to six days a week, at times for as many as nine separate broadcasts for CBS. His programs included Arthur Godfrey Time, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Arthur Godfrey and His Friends, The Arthur Godfrey Digest and King Arthur Godfrey and His Round Table.

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Fred Rose, Polish-Canadian politician (born 1907)

Fred Rose was a Polish-Canadian politician and trade union organizer, best known for being the only member of the Canadian Parliament to ever be convicted of a charge related to spying for a foreign country. A member of the Communist Party of Canada and Labor-Progressive Party, he served as the MP for Cartier from 1943 to 1947. He was expelled from his seat after being found guilty of conspiring to steal weapons research for the Soviet Union.

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16/03/1979

Jean Monnet, French economist and politician (born 1888)

Jean Omer Marie Gabriel Monnet was a French civil servant, entrepreneur, diplomat, financier, and administrator. An influential supporter of European unity, he is considered one of the founding fathers of the European Union.

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16/03/1977

Kamal Jumblatt, Lebanese lawyer and politician (born 1917)

Kamal Fouad Jumblatt was a Lebanese politician and za'im, who founded the Progressive Socialist Party. He led the National Movement during the Lebanese Civil War. He was a major ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization until his assassination in 1977. He authored more than 40 books centred on various political, philosophical, literary, religious, medical, social, and economic topics. In September 1972, Kamal Jumblatt received the International Lenin Peace Prize. He is the father of the Lebanese Druze leader Walid Jumblatt and the son-in-law of the Arab writer and politician Shakib Arslan.

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16/03/1975

T-Bone Walker, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1910)

Aaron Thibeaux "T-Bone" Walker was an American blues musician, composer, songwriter and bandleader, who was a pioneer and innovator of the jump blues, West Coast blues, and electric blues sounds. In 2018 Rolling Stone magazine ranked him number 67 on its list of "The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time".

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16/03/1972

Pie Traynor, American baseball player (born 1898)

Harold Joseph "Pie" Traynor was an American third baseman, manager, scout and radio broadcaster in Major League Baseball (MLB) who played his entire career between 1920 and 1937 for the Pittsburgh Pirates. Traynor had a .320 career batting average, batting over .300 ten times with seven seasons with over 100 runs batted in (RBI). With home runs limited by playing in Forbes Field, the most difficult park for power hitting in the National League (NL), he compensated by reaching double digits in triples eleven times, leading the league in 1923. He batted .346 in the 1925 World Series to help the Pirates take their first championship in 16 years.

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16/03/1971

Bebe Daniels, American actress (born 1901)

Phyllis Virginia "Bebe" Daniels was an American actress, singer, dancer, writer, and producer.

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Thomas E. Dewey, American lawyer and politician, 47th Governor of New York (born 1902)

Thomas Edmund Dewey was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 47th governor of New York from 1943 to 1954. He was the Republican Party's nominee for president of the United States in 1944 and 1948, losing the former election to Franklin D. Roosevelt and the latter election to Harry S. Truman in a major upset.

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16/03/1970

Tammi Terrell, American singer (born 1945)

Thomasina Winifred Montgomery, professionally known as Tammi Terrell, was an American singer-songwriter, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.

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16/03/1968

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian-American pianist and composer (born 1895)

Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco was an Italian composer, pianist and writer. He was known as one of the foremost guitar composers in the twentieth century with almost one hundred compositions for that instrument. In 1939 he emigrated to the United States and became a film composer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for some 200 Hollywood movies for the next fifteen years. He also wrote concertos for Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky.

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Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and translator (born 1907)

Bengt Gunnar Ekelöf was a Swedish poet and writer. He was a member of the Swedish Academy from 1958 and was awarded an honorary doctorate in philosophy by Uppsala University in 1958. He won a number of prizes for his poetry.

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16/03/1967

Thomas MacGreevy, Irish poet (born 1893)

Thomas MacGreevy was a pivotal figure in the history of Irish literary modernism. A poet, he was also director of the National Gallery of Ireland from 1950 to 1963 and served on the first Irish Arts Council.

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16/03/1965

Alice Herz, German activist (born 1882)

Alice Jeanette Herz was a German feminist, anti-fascist and peace activist. She was the first person in the United States known to have immolated herself in protest of the escalating Vietnam War, following the example of Buddhist monk Thích Quảng Đức who immolated himself in protest of the oppression of Buddhists under the South Vietnamese government of Catholic President Ngo Dinh Diem.

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16/03/1963

Laura Adams Armer, American author and photographer (born 1874)

Laura Adams Armer was an American artist and writer. In 1932, her novel Waterless Mountain won the Newbery Medal. She was also an early photographer in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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16/03/1961

Chen Geng, Chinese general and politician (born 1903)

Geng Chen was a Chinese military officer who served as a senior general in the People's Liberation Army. Enlisting in a warlord's army at the age of 13, Geng Chen joined the Chinese Communist Party in 1922 and was accepted into Whampoa Military Academy in 1924. He approached Chiang Kai-shek and even saved his life by preventing him from committing suicide. He served as a Communist spy in the National Revolutionary Army for 6 years. After being discovered, he joined the Communist base in Jiangxi and participated in the Long March. He fought the Imperial Japanese Army during the Second Sino-Japanese War and then the Nationalists during the Chinese Civil War. Once victory was obtained, he went to Vietnam to help Hồ Chí Minh against the French during the First Indochina War and then participated in the Korean War with the People's Volunteer Army. He became a senior general in 1955. He then founded an academy of military technologies but died before finalizing the ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programs.

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Václav Talich, Czech violinist and conductor (born 1883)

Václav Talich was a Czech conductor, violinist and later a musical pedagogue. He is remembered today as one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century, the object of countless reissues of his many recordings.

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16/03/1958

Leon Cadore, American baseball player (born 1891)

Leon Joseph Cadore was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball from 1915 to 1924.

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16/03/1957

Constantin Brâncuși, Romanian-French sculptor, painter, and photographer (born 1876)

Constantin Brâncuși was a Romanian sculptor, painter, and photographer who made his career in France. Considered one of the most influential sculptors of the 20th century and a pioneer of modernism, Brâncuși is called the patriarch of modern sculpture. As a child, he displayed an aptitude for carving wooden farm tools. Formal studies took him first to Bucharest, then to Munich, then to the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris from 1905 to 1907. His art emphasizes clean geometrical lines that balance forms inherent in his materials with the symbolic allusions of representational art. Brâncuși sought inspiration in non-European cultures as a source of primitive exoticism, as did Paul Gauguin, Pablo Picasso, André Derain, and others. However, other influences emerge from Romanian folk art traceable through Byzantine and Dionysian traditions.

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16/03/1955

Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter and illustrator (born 1914)

Nicolas de Staël was a French painter of Russian origin known for his use of a thick impasto and his highly abstract landscape painting. He also worked with collage, illustration, and textiles.

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16/03/1945

Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (born 1874)

Börries Albrecht Conon August Heinrich Freiherr von Münchhausen was a German poet and Nazi activist.

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16/03/1940

Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish author and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1858)

Selma Ottilia Lovisa Lagerlöf was a Swedish writer. She published her first novel, Gösta Berling's Saga, at the age of 33. She was the first woman to win the Nobel Prize in Literature, which she was awarded in 1909. In 1914, she was the first woman to be granted a membership of the Swedish Academy.

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16/03/1937

Austen Chamberlain, English politician, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1863)

Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain was a British statesman, Nobel Peace Prize winner, son of Joseph Chamberlain and older half-brother of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. He served as a Member of Parliament (MP) for 45 years, as Chancellor of the Exchequer (twice) and was briefly Conservative Party leader before serving as Foreign Secretary.

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Alexander von Staël-Holstein, Estonian orientalist and sinologist (born 1877)

Alexander Wilhelm Freiherr Staël von Holstein was a Baltic German aristocrat, Russian and Estonian orientalist, sinologist, and Sanskritologist specializing in Buddhist texts.

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16/03/1936

Marguerite Durand, French actress, journalist, and activist (born 1864)

Marguerite Durand was a French stage actress, journalist, and a leading suffragette. She founded her own newspaper, and ran for election. She is also known for having a pet lion. The Bibliothèque Marguerite Durand was named in her honour for her contributions to the women's suffrage movement in France.

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16/03/1935

John Macleod, Scottish physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1876)

John James Rickard Macleod,, was a Scottish biochemist and physiologist. He devoted his career to diverse topics in physiology and biochemistry, but was chiefly interested in carbohydrate metabolism. He is noted for his role in the discovery and isolation of insulin during his tenure as a lecturer at the University of Toronto, for which he and Frederick Banting received the 1923 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine. Awarding the prize to Macleod was controversial at the time, because according to Banting's version of events, Macleod's role in the discovery was negligible. It was not until decades after the events that an independent review acknowledged a far greater role than was attributed to him at first.

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Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-Danish chess player (born 1886)

Aron Nimzowitsch was a Danish chess player and writer. In the late 1920s, Nimzowitsch was one of the best chess players in the world. He was the foremost figure amongst the hypermoderns and wrote a very influential book on chess theory: My System (1925–1927). Nimzowitsch's seminal work Chess Praxis, originally published in Germany, in 1929, was purchased by a pre-teen and future World Champion Tigran Petrosian and was to have a great influence on his development as a chess player.

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16/03/1930

Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish general and politician, Prime Minister of Spain (born 1870)

Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, 2nd Marquis of Estella, GE, was a Spanish dictator and military officer who ruled as prime minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930 during the last years of the Bourbon Restoration.

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16/03/1925

August von Wassermann, German bacteriologist and hygienist (born 1866)

August Paul von Wassermann was a German bacteriologist and hygienist.

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16/03/1914

Gaston Calmette, French journalist (born 1858)

Gaston Calmette was a French journalist and newspaper editor, whose murder was the subject of a notable murder trial.

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Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss lawyer and politician, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1843)

Charles Albert Gobat was a Swiss lawyer, educational administrator, and politician who jointly received the Nobel Peace Prize with Élie Ducommun in 1902 for their leadership of the Permanent International Peace Bureau.

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John Murray, Scottish oceanographer, biologist, and limnologist (born 1841)

Sir John Murray was a pioneering Canadian-born British oceanographer, marine biologist and limnologist. He is considered to be the father of modern oceanography.

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16/03/1912

Max Burckhard, Austrian theater director (born 1854)

Max Eugen Burckhard was director of the Burgtheater, Vienna, from 1890 to 1898.

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16/03/1907

John O'Leary, Irish republican and journalist (born 1830)

John O'Leary was an Irish separatist and a leading Fenian. He studied both law and medicine but did not take a degree and for his involvement in the Irish Republican Brotherhood, he was imprisoned for five years in England during the nineteenth century.

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16/03/1903

Roy Bean, American justice of the peace (born 1825)

Phantly Roy Bean Jr. was an American saloon-keeper and Justice of the Peace in Val Verde County, Texas, who called himself "The Only Law West of the Pecos." He held court in his saloon along the Rio Grande in a desolate stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert. Legend records his jurisprudence as thoroughly abnormal and in many instances comical. Although remembered as a hanging judge who said "hang 'em first and try 'em later," he never had anyone hanged.

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16/03/1899

Joseph Medill, American journalist and politician, 26th Mayor of Chicago (born 1823)

Joseph Medill was a Canadian-American newspaper editor, publisher, and Republican Party politician. He was co-owner and managing editor of the Chicago Tribune, and he was Mayor of Chicago from after the Great Chicago Fire of 1871 until 1873.

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16/03/1898

Aubrey Beardsley, English author and illustrator (born 1872)

Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was an English illustrator and author. His black ink drawings were influenced by Japanese woodcuts, and depicted the grotesque, the decadent, and the erotic. He was a leading figure in the aesthetic movement, which also included Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler. Beardsley's contribution to the development of the Art Nouveau and poster styles was significant despite his early death from tuberculosis. He is one of the important Modern Style figures.

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16/03/1892

Samuel F. Miller, American politician (born 1827)

Samuel Franklin Miller was a United States representative from New York during the latter half of the American Civil War.

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16/03/1888

Hippolyte Carnot, French politician (born 1801)

Lazare Hippolyte Carnot was a French politician. He was the younger brother of the founder of thermodynamics Sadi Carnot and the second son of the revolutionary politician and general Lazare Nicolas Marguerite Carnot, who also served in the government of Napoleon, as well as the father of French president Marie François Sadi Carnot.

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16/03/1884

Art Croft, American baseball player (born 1855)

Arthur F. Croft was an American Major League Baseball player. He played for three teams during three-year professional and Major League career.

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16/03/1868

David Wilmot, American politician, sponsor of Wilmot Proviso (born 1814)

David Wilmot was an American politician and judge from Pennsylvania who served in the U.S. House of Representatives and U.S. Senate, and as a judge of the Court of Claims. He is best known for being the prime sponsor and eponym of the Wilmot Proviso, a failed legislative proposal to ban the expansion of slavery into western territories gained in the Mexican Cession. A northern Democrat when he introduced and supported the Proviso, he subsequently became a notable member of the anti-slavery Free Soil Party. Later, Wilmot was instrumental in establishing the Pennsylvania Republican Party.

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16/03/1841

Félix Savart, French physicist and psychologist (born 1791)

Félix Savart was a French physicist and mathematician who is primarily known for the Biot–Savart law of electromagnetism, which he discovered together with his colleague Jean-Baptiste Biot. His main interest was in acoustics and the study of vibrating bodies. A particular interest in the violin led him to create an experimental trapezoidal model. He gave his name to the savart, a unit of measurement for musical intervals, and to Savart's wheel—a device he used while investigating the range of human hearing.

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16/03/1838

Nathaniel Bowditch, American ocean navigator and mathematician (born 1773)

Nathaniel Bowditch was an early American mathematician remembered for his work on ocean navigation. He is often credited as the founder of modern maritime navigation; his book The New American Practical Navigator, first published in 1802, is still carried on board every commissioned U.S. Naval vessel.

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16/03/1804

Henrik Gabriel Porthan, Finnish professor and historian (born 1739)

Henrik Gabriel Porthan was a professor and rector at the Royal Academy of Turku, Finland, which was then part of the Kingdom of Sweden. He was a scholar sometimes known as The Father of Finnish History. Porthan's legacy greatly influenced the rise of the Finnish national culture and romanticism of the early 19th century.

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16/03/1747

Christian August, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst (born 1690)

Christian Augustus, Prince of Anhalt-Zerbst was a German prince of the House of Ascania, and the father of Catherine the Great of Russia.

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16/03/1738

George Bähr, German architect, designed the Dresden Frauenkirche (born 1666)

George Bähr was a German architect.

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16/03/1737

Benjamin Wadsworth, American minister and academic (born 1670)

Benjamin Wadsworth was an American Congregational clergyman and educator. He was trained at Harvard College. He served as minister of the First Church in Boston; and as president of Harvard from 1725 until his death.

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16/03/1736

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (born 1710)

Giovanni Battista Draghi, usually referred to as Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, was an Italian Baroque composer, violinist, and organist, leading exponent of the Baroque; he is considered one of the greatest Italian musicians of the first half of the 18th century and one of the most important representatives of the Neapolitan school.

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16/03/1721

James Craggs the Elder, English politician, Postmaster General of the United Kingdom (born 1657)

James Craggs the Elder, of Jermyn Street, Westminster and Charlton, Lewisham, Kent, was an English financier and Whig politician who sat in the English and British House of Commons from 1702 to 1713.

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16/03/1698

Leonora Christina Ulfeldt, Danish countess, author of Jammers Minde (born 1621)

Leonora Christina, Countess Ulfeldt, born "Countess Leonora Christina Christiansdatter" til Slesvig og Holsten, was daughter to King Christian IV of Denmark and Kirsten Munk and wife of the Steward of the Realm, the traitor Count Corfitz Ulfeldt. Renowned in Denmark since the 19th century for her posthumously published autobiography Jammers Minde, written secretly during two decades of solitary confinement in a royal dungeon, her intimate version of the major events she witnessed in Europe's history, interwoven with ruminations on her woes as a political prisoner, still commands popular interest and scholarly respect, and has virtually become the stuff of legend as retold and enlivened in Danish literature and art.

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16/03/1679

John Leverett, English general and politician, 19th Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (born 1616)

John Leverett was an English colonial magistrate, merchant, soldier and the penultimate governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Born in England, he migrated to Massachusetts as a teenager. He was a leading merchant in the colony, and served in its military. In the 1640s he went back to England to fight in the English Civil War.

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16/03/1649

Jean de Brébeuf, French-Canadian missionary and saint (born 1593)

Jean de Brébeuf was a French Jesuit missionary who travelled to New France (Canada) in 1625. There he worked primarily with the Huron for the rest of his life, except for a few years in France from 1629 to 1633. He learned their language and customs, writing extensively about each to aid other missionaries.

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16/03/1559

Anthony St. Leger, English-Irish politician Lord Deputy of Ireland (born 1496)

Sir Anthony St Leger, KG, of Ulcombe and Leeds Castle in Kent, was an English politician and Lord Deputy of Ireland during the Tudor period.

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16/03/1485

Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (born 1456)

Anne Neville was Queen of England from 26 June 1483 until her death in 1485 as the wife of King Richard III. She was the younger of the two daughters and co-heiresses of Richard Neville, 16th Earl of Warwick, and Anne de Beauchamp. Before her marriage to Richard, she had been Princess of Wales as the wife of Edward of Westminster, Prince of Wales, the only son and heir apparent of King Henry VI.

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16/03/1457

Ladislaus Hunyadi, Hungarian politician (born 1433)

László Hunyadi or Ladislaus Hunyadi was a Hungarian nobleman.

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16/03/1410

John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, French-English admiral and politician, Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports (born 1373)

John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset, known as the Marquess of Somerset and Marquess of Dorset from 1397 to 1399, was an English-French nobleman and politician. Beaufort was the second son of John of Gaunt, eldest of the four children by his mistress Katherine Swynford, whom he later married in 1396.

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16/03/1405

Margaret III, Countess of Flanders (born 1350)

Margaret III was a ruling Countess of Flanders, Countess of Artois, and Countess of Auvergne and Boulogne between 1384 and 1405. She was the last ruler of Flanders of the House of Dampierre.

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16/03/1279

Jeanne of Dammartin, Queen consort of Castile and León (born 1216)

Joan of Dammartin was Queen of Castile and León by marriage to Ferdinand III of Castile. She also ruled as Countess of Ponthieu (1251–1279) and Aumale (1237–1279). Her daughter, the English queen Eleanor of Castile, was her successor in Ponthieu. Ferdinand II, Count of Aumale, her son and co-ruler in Aumale, predeceased her, thus she was succeeded by her grandson John I, Count of Aumale.

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16/03/1185

Baldwin IV of Jerusalem (born 1161)

Baldwin IV (1161–1185), known as the Leper King, was the king of Jerusalem from 1174 until his death in 1185. Baldwin ascended to the throne when he was thirteen despite having leprosy. He launched several attempts to curb the increasing power of the Muslim ruler Saladin, though much of his life was marked by infighting amongst the kingdom's nobles. Throughout his reign, and especially at the end of his life, he was troubled by his succession, working to select a suitable heir and prevent a succession crisis. Choosing competent advisers, Baldwin ruled a thriving crusader state, protecting it from Saladin.

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16/03/1181

Henry I, Count of Champagne

Henry I, known as the Liberal, was count of Champagne from 1152 to 1181. He was the eldest son of Count Theobald II of Champagne, who was also count of Blois, and his wife, Matilda of Carinthia.

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16/03/1072

Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop (born 1000)

Adalbert was Archbishop of Bremen from 1043 until his death. Called Vikar des Nordens, he was an important political figure of the Holy Roman Empire, papal legate, and one of the regents for Emperor Henry IV.

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16/03/1021

Heribert of Cologne, German archbishop and saint (born 970)

Heribert of Cologne, also known as Saint Heribert, was a German Roman Catholic prelate who served as the Archbishop of Cologne from 999 until his death. He also served as the Chancellor for the Emperor Otto III since 994. He also collaborated with Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor with whom relations were strained though were strengthened over time.

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16/03/0943

Pi Guangye, Chinese official and chancellor (born 877)

Pi Guangye, courtesy name Wentong (文通), was an official of the Chinese Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period state Wuyue, serving as a chancellor during the reign of its second king Qian Yuanguan.

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16/03/0933

Takin al-Khazari, Egyptian commander and politician, Abbasid Governor of Egypt

Takin al-Khassa Abu Mansur Takin ibn Abdallah al-Harbi al-Khazari was an Abbasid commander of Khazar origin who served thrice as governor of Egypt.

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16/03/0842

Xiao Mian, chancellor of the Tang dynasty

Xiao Mian, courtesy name Siqian (思謙), noble title Duke of Xu (徐公), was a Chinese politician of the Tang dynasty, serving as a chancellor during the reign of Emperor Muzong. In traditional histories, he was praised for his integrity but blamed for faulty decisions that led to the imperial government's loss of control over the circuits north of the Yellow River.

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16/03/0455

Valentinian III, Roman emperor (assassinated; b. 419)

Valentinian III was Roman emperor in the West from 425 to 455. Starting in childhood, his reign over the Roman Empire was one of the longest, but was dominated by civil wars among powerful generals and the barbarian invasions. He was the youngest sole emperor in the Western Roman Empire.

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Heraclius, Roman courtier (primicerius sacri cubiculi )

Heraclius was an influential eunuch of the Western Roman Emperor Valentinian III.

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16/03/0037

Tiberius, Roman emperor (born 42 BC)

AD 37 (XXXVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Proculus and Pontius. The denomination AD 37 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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