Died on Sunday, 22nd March – Famous Deaths

22/03/2025

Jessica Aber, American lawyer (born 1981)

Jessica Diane Aber was an American attorney who served as the United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia (EDVA) from 2021 to 2025. She was known for prosecuting high-profile cases involving organized crime and national security.

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Andy Peebles, English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator (born 1948)

Robert Andrew Peebles was an English radio DJ, television presenter and cricket commentator.

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22/03/2024

Laurent de Brunhoff, French author and illustrator (born 1925)

Laurent de Brunhoff was a French author and illustrator, known primarily for continuing the Babar the Elephant series of children's books that was created by his father, Jean de Brunhoff.

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22/03/2019

Scott Walker, British-American singer-songwriter (born 1943)

Noel Scott Engel, better known by his stage name Scott Walker, was an American-British singer-songwriter and record producer who resided in England. Walker was known for his emotive voice and his unorthodox stylistic path which took him from being a teen pop icon in the 1960s to an avant-garde musician from the 1990s to his death. Walker's success was largely in the United Kingdom, where he achieved fame as a member of pop trio the Walker Brothers, who scored several hit singles, including two number ones, during the mid-1960s, while his first four solo albums reached the top ten during the later part of the decade, with the second, Scott 2, reaching number one in 1968. He lived in the UK from 1965 onward and became a UK citizen in 1970.

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22/03/2018

Johan van Hulst, Dutch politician, academic and author, Yad Vashem recipient (born 1911)

Johan Willem van Hulst was a Dutch school director, university professor, author, politician, chess player and centenarian. In 1943, with the help of the Dutch resistance and students of the nearby University of Amsterdam, he was instrumental in saving over 600 Jewish children from the nursery of the Hollandsche Schouwburg who were destined for deportation to Nazi concentration camps. For his humanitarian actions he received the Yad Vashem distinction Righteous Among the Nations from the State of Israel in 1973.

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22/03/2016

Rob Ford, Canadian businessman and politician, 64th Mayor of Toronto (born 1969)

Robert Bruce Ford was a Canadian politician and businessman who served as the 64th mayor of Toronto from 2010 to 2014. Before and after his term as mayor, Ford was a city councillor; first being elected to Toronto City Council in the 2000 municipal election, before being re-elected to his council seat twice.

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Rita Gam, American actress (born 1927)

Rita Gam was an American film and television actress and documentary filmmaker. She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

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22/03/2015

Arkady Arkanov, Ukrainian-Russian actor and playwright (born 1933)

Arkady Mikhailovich Arkanov was a Russian writer, doctor, playwright and stand-up comedian.

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Horst Buhtz, German footballer and manager (born 1923)

Horst Buhtz was a German football manager and former football player who played as a midfielder.

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Norman Scribner, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1936)

Norman Orville Scribner was an American conductor, composer, pianist, and organist. He was most widely known as the founder of the Choral Arts Society of Washington, where he served as artistic director for over forty-five years.

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22/03/2014

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal, Indian author (born 1928)

Yashwant Vithoba Chittal was a Kannada fiction writer. G. S. Amur said: "His short stories, many of them were outstanding, and came with his distinct touch.The kind of experimentation he did with language, style and narrative is unparalleled."

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Mickey Duff, Polish-English boxer and manager (born 1929)

Mickey Duff, was a Polish-born British boxer, matchmaker, manager and promoter.

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Thor Listau, Norwegian soldier and politician (born 1938)

Thor Listau was a Norwegian military technician and politician for the Conservative Party. He was a three-term MP and served as Minister of Fisheries from 1981 to 1985. Later he served as director of Statkorn from 1991 to 1995.

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Tasos Mitsopoulos, Cypriot politician, Cypriot Minister of Defence (born 1965)

Tasos Mitsopoulos was a Cypriot politician. He served as a member of the House of Representatives from 2006 until 2013 for Democratic Rally. He then joined the cabinet of Nicos Anastasiades as Minister of Communications. In a cabinet reshuffle on 14 March 2014 he was appointed Minister of Defence.

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22/03/2013

Vladimír Čech, Czech actor and politician (born 1951)

Vladimír Čech was a Czech actor, presenter and politician.

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Bebo Valdés, Cuban-Swedish pianist and composer (born 1918)

Dionisio Ramón Emilio Valdés Amaro, better known as Bebo Valdés, was a Cuban pianist, bandleader, composer and arranger. He was a central figure in the golden age of Cuban music, especially due to his big band arrangements and compositions of mambo, chachachá and batanga, a genre he created in 1952.

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22/03/2012

Joe Blanchard, American football player and wrestler (born 1928)

Joseph Edgar Blanchard was an American football player, professional wrestler, and professional wrestling promoter. From 1978 to 1985, he operated the Southwest Championship Wrestling promotion in San Antonio, Texas.

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David Waltz, American computer scientist and academic (born 1943)

David Leigh Waltz was a computer scientist who made significant contributions in several areas of artificial intelligence, including constraint satisfaction, case-based reasoning and the application of massively parallel computation to AI problems. He held positions in academia and industry and at the time of his death, was a professor of Computer Science at Columbia University where he directed the Center for Computational Learning Systems.

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Neil L. Whitehead, English anthropologist and author (born 1956)

Neil L. Whitehead was an English anthropologist, who is best known for his work on the anthropology of violence, dark shamanism, post-human anthropology and the historical anthropology of South America and the Caribbean. From 1997 to 2007 he was the editor of Ethnohistory, Journal of the American Society for Ethnohistory.

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22/03/2011

Artur Agostinho, Portuguese journalist (born 1920)

Artur Fernandes Agostinho was a Portuguese journalist, radio host, actor, publicist and writer, recipient of the Military Order of Saint James of the Sword.

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Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer (born 1926)

Victor Bouchard OC CQ was a Canadian pianist and composer.

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22/03/2010

James Black, Scottish biologist and pharmacologist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1924)

Sir James Whyte Black was a Scottish physician and pharmacologist. Together with Gertrude B. Elion and George H. Hitchings, he shared the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1988 for pioneering strategies for rational drug-design, which, in his case, led to the development of propranolol and cimetidine. Black established a Veterinary Physiology department at the University of Glasgow, where he became interested in the effects of adrenaline on the human heart. He went to work for ICI Pharmaceuticals in 1958 and, while there, developed propranolol, a beta blocker used for the treatment of heart disease. Black was also responsible for the development of cimetidine, an H2 receptor antagonist, a drug used to treat stomach ulcers.

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Özhan Canaydın, Turkish basketball player and businessman (born 1943)

Özhan Canaydın was a businessman, basketballer and former chairman of the Turkish sports club Galatasaray.

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22/03/2008

Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer (born 1918)

Israel López Valdés, better known as Cachao, was a Cuban double bassist and composer. Cachao is widely known as the co-creator of the mambo and a master of the descarga. Throughout his career he also performed and recorded in a variety of music styles ranging from classical music to salsa. An exile in the United States since the 1960s, he only achieved international fame following a career revival in the 1990s.

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22/03/2007

U. G. Krishnamurti, Indian-Italian philosopher and educator (born 1918)

Uppaluri Gopala Krishnamurti was an Indian "anti-guru" who questioned the search for enlightenment. Having pursued a religious path in his youth and eventually rejecting it, U.G. clarified that he had experienced a devastating biological transformation on his 49th birthday, an event he referred to as "the calamity". He emphasized that this transformation back to "the natural state" is a rare, acausal, biological occurrence with no religious context. Because of this, he discouraged people from pursuing the "natural state" as a spiritual goal.

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22/03/2006

Pierre Clostermann, French soldier, pilot, and politician (born 1921)

Pierre-Henri Clostermann was a World War II French ace fighter pilot.

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Pío Leyva, Cuban singer and author (born 1917)

Pío Leiva was a Cuban singer and the author of the guaracha El Mentiroso. Leyva was part of the Buena Vista Social Club, and composed some of Cuba's best known standards.

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Kurt von Trojan, Austrian-Australian journalist and author (born 1937)

Kurt von Trojan was an Australian journalist and science fiction author. He also worked as a psychiatric nurse and a cinema projectionist.

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22/03/2005

Rod Price, English guitarist and songwriter (born 1947)

Roderick Michael Price was an English guitarist best known for his work with the rock band Foghat. He was known as 'The Magician of Slide', 'The Bottle', and 'Slide King of Rock and Roll', due to his proficiency on slide guitar.

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Gemini Ganesan, Indian film actor (born 1920)

Ramasamy Ganesan, better known by his stage name Gemini Ganesan, was an Indian actor who worked mainly in Tamil cinema. He was referred as Kaadhal Mannan for his romantic roles in films. Ganesan was one of the "three biggest names of Tamil cinema", the other two being M. G. Ramachandran and Sivaji Ganesan. While Sivaji Ganesan excelled in dramatic films and M. G. Ramachandran was popular as an action hero, Gemini Ganesan was known for his romantic films. A recipient of the Padma Shri in 1971, he had also won several other awards including the Kalaimamani, the MGR Gold Medal, and the Screen Lifetime Achievement Award. He was one of the few college graduates to enter the film industry then.

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Kenzō Tange, Japanese architect, designed the Yoyogi National Gymnasium and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum (born 1913)

Kenzō Tange was a Japanese architect. Born in Sakai and raised in China and southern Japan, Tange was inspired from an early age by the work of Le Corbusier and designed his first buildings under Imperial Japan. He first achieved recognition for his projects to reconstruct the destroyed cities of postwar Japan, particularly Hiroshima, where he designed the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park. His engagement with the Congres Internationaux d'Architecture Moderne in the 1950s made him one of the first Japanese architects to achieve international recognition.

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22/03/2004

Janet Akyüz Mattei, Turkish-American astronomer and academic (born 1943)

Janet Hanula Mattei was a Turkish-American astronomer who was the director of the American Association of Variable Star Observers (AAVSO) from 1973 to 2004.

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Ahmed Yassin, Co-founded Hamas (born 1937)

Sheikh Ahmed Ismail Hassan Yassin was a Palestinian politician and imam who founded Hamas, an Islamist political and military organization. He also served as the first chairman of the Hamas Shura Council and de facto leader of Hamas since its inception from December 1987 until his assassination in March 2004.

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V. M. Tarkunde, Indian lawyer and civil rights activist (born 1909)

Vithal Mahadeo Tarkunde was a prominent Indian lawyer, civil rights activist, and humanist leader and has been referred to as the "Father of the Civil Liberties movement" in India and a former judge of the Bombay High Court The Supreme Court of India also praised him as "undoubtedly the most distinguished judge of the post-Chagla 1957 period" in the Bombay High Court.

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22/03/2003

Terry Lloyd, English journalist (born 1952)

Terence Ellis "Terry" Lloyd was an English television journalist who reported extensively from the Middle East. He was killed by the U.S. military while covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN. An inquest jury in the United Kingdom before Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker returned a verdict of unlawful killing on 13 October 2006 following an eight-day hearing.

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22/03/2002

Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor (born 1917)

Rudolf Baumgartner was a Swiss conductor, violinist and music educator. In 1956 he founded the Lucerne Festival Strings chamber orchestra together with Wolfgang Schneiderhan.

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22/03/2001

Stepas Butautas, Lithuanian basketball player and coach (born 1925)

Stepas Butautas was a Soviet and Lithuanian professional basketball player and coach. He trained at the VSS Žalgiris, in Kaunas. He played with the Soviet Union men's national basketball team at the 1952 Summer Olympic Games, where he won a silver medal. During the tournament, he played in all eight games.

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Sabiha Gökçen, Turkish soldier and pilot (born 1913)

Sabiha Gökçen was a Turkish aviator. During her flight career, she flew around 8,000 hours and participated in 32 different military operations. She became the world's first female fighter pilot, at age 23. As an orphan, she was one of the nine children adopted by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.

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William Hanna, American animator, director, producer, and voice actor, co-founded Hanna-Barbera (born 1910)

William Denby Hanna was an American animator, voice actor, and musician. Hanna and Joseph Barbera co-created Tom and Jerry and founded the animation studio and production company Hanna-Barbera, with Hanna providing the vocal effects for Tom and Jerry's title characters.

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Robert Fletcher Shaw, Canadian businessman, academic, and civil servant (born 1910)

Robert Fletcher Shaw was a Canadian businessman, academic, civil servant and deputy commissioner general of the Universal and International Exhibition of 1967.

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22/03/2000

Carlo Parola, Italian footballer and manager (born 1921)

Carlo Parola, was an Italian football player and coach who played as a defender. Throughout his career, he won domestic titles with Italian club Juventus, both as a player and as a manager. At international level, he took part at the 1950 FIFA World Cup with the Italy national team.

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22/03/1999

Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, English historian and academic (born 1913)

Max Beloff, Baron Beloff, was a British historian and Conservative peer. From 1974 to 1979 he was principal of the University College of Buckingham, now the University of Buckingham.

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David Strickland, American actor (born 1969)

David Gordon Strickland, Jr. was an American actor. He was best known for playing the boyish rock music reporter Todd Stites in the NBC sitcom Suddenly Susan.

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22/03/1996

Don Murray, American drummer (born 1945)

Donald Ray Murray was an American drummer and Hanna-Barbera animator, best known for his work with the Turtles. After leaving the group, Murray played with Paul Williams's psychedelic folk group the Holy Mackerel. In the 1980s he went on to perform with the newly formed Surfaris.

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Robert F. Overmyer, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1936)

Robert Franklyn Overmyer was an American test pilot, naval aviator, aeronautical engineer, physicist, United States Marine Corps officer, and USAF/NASA astronaut. Overmyer was selected by the Air Force as an astronaut for its Manned Orbiting Laboratory in 1966. Upon cancellation of the program in 1969, he became a NASA astronaut and served support crew duties for the Apollo program, Skylab program, and Apollo–Soyuz Test Project. In 1976, he was assigned to the Space Shuttle program and flew as pilot on STS-5 in 1982 and as commander on STS-51-B in 1985. He was selected as a lead investigator into the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster in 1986, retiring from NASA that same year. A decade later, Overmyer died while testing the Cirrus VK-30 homebuilt aircraft.

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Billy Williamson, American guitarist (born 1925)

William F. Williamson was the American steel guitar player for Bill Haley and His Saddlemen, and its successor group Bill Haley & His Comets, from 1949 to 1963.

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22/03/1994

Dan Hartman, American singer-songwriter, and producer (born 1950)

Daniel Earl Hartman was an American pop rock musician. Among songs he wrote and recorded were "Free Ride" as a member of the Edgar Winter Group, and the solo hits "Relight My Fire", "Instant Replay", "I Can Dream About You", "We Are the Young" and "Second Nature". "I Can Dream About You", his most successful US hit, reached No. 6 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1984. The James Brown song "Living in America", which Hartman co-wrote and produced, reached No. 4 on March 1, 1986.

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Walter Lantz, American animator, director, and producer (born 1899)

Walter Benjamin Lantz was an American cartoonist, animator, producer and director best known for founding Walter Lantz Productions and creating Woody Woodpecker.

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22/03/1993

Steve Olin, American baseball player (born 1965)

Steven Robert Olin was an American right-handed pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for four seasons in the American League with the Cleveland Indians. Olin was a right-handed submarining relief pitcher for the Cleveland Indians from 1988 to 1992. Olin died, along with teammate and fellow reliever Tim Crews, in a 1993 boating accident.

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22/03/1991

Léon Balcer, Canadian lawyer and politician, 19th Solicitor General of Canada (born 1917)

Léon Balcer, was a Canadian politician.

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Paul Engle, American novelist, poet, playwright, and critic (born 1908)

Paul Hamilton Engle, was an American poet, editor, teacher, literary critic, novelist, and playwright. He is remembered as the long-time director of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and as co-founder of the International Writing Program (IWP), both at the University of Iowa.

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Dave Guard, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1934)

Donald David Guard was an American folk singer, songwriter, arranger and recording artist. Along with Nick Reynolds and Bob Shane, he was one of the founding members of the Kingston Trio.

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Gloria Holden, English-American actress (born 1908)

Gloria Anna Holden was an American film actress, best known for her role as Dracula's Daughter. She often portrayed cold society women.

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22/03/1990

Gerald Bull, Canadian engineer and academic (born 1928)

Gerald Vincent Bull was a Canadian engineer who developed long-range artillery. He moved from project to project in his quest to economically launch a satellite using a huge artillery piece, to which end he designed the Project Babylon "supergun" for Saddam Hussein's government in Iraq.

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22/03/1989

Peta Taylor, English cricketer (born 1912)

Mary Isabella "Peta" Taylor, married name Mary Jager, was an English cricketer who played as a right-arm medium bowler. She appeared in seven Test matches for England between 1934 and 1937, including the first ever women's Test match. She played domestic cricket for various composite XIs, as well as South Women.

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22/03/1987

Odysseas Angelis, Greek general and politician (born 1912)

Odysseas Angelis was a Greek artillery officer. He reached the rank of four star General and served as Chief of the Greek Armed Forces and Vice President of the Hellenic Republic. He supported the military regime that was established on April 21, 1967.

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22/03/1986

Olive Deering, American actress (born 1918)

Olive Deering was an American actress of film, television, and stage, active from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s. She was a life member of The Actors Studio, as was her elder brother, Alfred Ryder.

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22/03/1985

Raoul Ubac, French painter, sculptor, photographer, and engraver (born 1910)

Raoul Ubac was a French painter, sculptor, photographer and engraver.

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Spyros Vassiliou, Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer (born 1903)

Spyros Vassiliou was a Greek painter, printmaker, illustrator, and stage designer. He became widely recognized for his work starting in the 1930s, when he received the Benaki Prize from the Athens Academy. The recipient of a Guggenheim Prize for Greece, Spyros Vassiliou's works have been exhibited in galleries throughout Europe, in the United States, and Canada.

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22/03/1981

James Elliott, American runner and coach (born 1915)

James F. "Jumbo" Elliott was an American track and field coach, often considered to be one of the greatest of all time. His achievements include producing five Olympic gold medal winners between 1956 and 1968.

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Gil Puyat, Filipino businessman and politician, 13th President of the Senate of the Philippines (born 1907)

Gil Juco Puyat Sr. was a Filipino politician and businessman who served as a Senator of the Philippines from 1951 until 1972, when President Ferdinand Marcos shut Congress down and declared Martial Law, and as Senate President from 1967 to 1972, usurping the seat of Arturo Tolentino.

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22/03/1979

Ben Lyon, American actor and studio executive (born 1901)

Ben Lyon was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV.

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22/03/1978

Karl Wallenda, German-American acrobat and tightrope walker, founded The Flying Wallendas (born 1905)

Karl Wallenda was a German-American high wire artist. He was the founder of The Flying Wallendas, a daredevil circus troupe whose members performed dangerous stunts far above the ground, often without a safety net.

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22/03/1977

A. K. Gopalan, Indian educator and politician (born 1904)

Ayillyath Kuttiari Gopalan Nambiar, popularly known as A. K. Gopalan or AKG, was an Indian communist politician. He was one of 16 Communist Party of India members elected to the first Lok Sabha in 1952. Later he became one of the founding members of the Communist Party of India (Marxist).

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22/03/1976

John Dwyer McLaughlin, American painter (born 1898)

John Dwyer McLaughlin was an American abstract painter. Based primarily in California, he was a pioneer in minimalism and hard-edge painting. Considered one of the most significant Californian postwar artists, McLaughlin painted a focused body of geometric works that are completely devoid of any connection to everyday experience and objects, inspired by the Japanese notion of the void. He aimed to create paintings devoid of any object hood including but not limited to a gestures, representations and figuration. This led him to the rectangle. Leveraging a technique of layering rectangular bars on adjacent planes, McLaughlin creates works that provoke introspection and, consequently, a greater understanding of one's relationship to nature.

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22/03/1974

Peter Revson, American race car driver (born 1939)

Peter Jeffrey Revlon Revson was an American racing driver, who competed in Formula One between 1964 and 1974. Revson won two Formula One Grands Prix across five seasons.

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Orazio Satta Puliga, Italian automobile designer (born 1910)

Orazio Satta Puliga was an Italian automobile designer of Sardinian ancestry known for several Alfa Romeo designs.

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22/03/1971

Johannes Villemson, Estonian-American runner (born 1893)

Johannes Leopold Villemson was an Estonian runner who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was eliminated in the first round of the 800 m and 1500 m events.

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Nella Walker, American actress and vaudevillian (born 1886)

Nella Walker was an American actress and vaudeville performer of the 1920s through the 1950s.

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22/03/1966

John Harlin, American mountaineer and pilot (born 1935)

John Elvis Harlin II was an American alpinist and US Air Force pilot who was killed while making an ascent of the north face of the Eiger at age 30.

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22/03/1960

José Antonio Aguirre, Spanish lawyer and politician, 1st President of the Basque Country (born 1904)

José Antonio Aguirre y Lecube was a Basque politician and activist in the Basque Nationalist Party. He was the first president of the Provisional Government of the Basque Country and the executive defense advisor during the Spanish Civil War. Under his mandate, the Provisional Government formed the Basque Army and fought for the Second Spanish Republic.

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22/03/1958

Mike Todd, American film producer (born 1909)

Michael Todd was an American theater and film producer, celebrated for his 1956 Around the World in 80 Days, which won an Academy Award for Best Picture. Actress Elizabeth Taylor was his third wife. Todd was the third of Taylor's seven husbands, and the only one Taylor did not divorce. He died in a private plane accident a year after they married. He was the driving force behind the development of the eponymous Todd-AO widescreen film format.

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22/03/1955

Ivan Šubašić, Croatian lawyer and politician, 23rd Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (born 1892)

Ivan Šubašić was a Croat politician, best known as the last Ban of Croatia and Prime Minister of the royalist Yugoslav Government in exile during the Second World War.

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22/03/1952

D. S. Senanayake, 1st Prime Minister of Sri Lanka (born 1883)

Don Stephen Senanayake was a Ceylonese statesman. He was the first Prime Minister of Ceylon, having emerged as the leader of the Sri Lankan independence movement that led to the establishment of self-rule in Ceylon. He is considered as the "Father of the Nation".

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22/03/1942

Frederick Cuming, English cricketer (born 1875)

A cricket match was played as part of the 1900 Summer Olympics, which took place on 19–20 August at the Vélodrome de Vincennes between teams representing Great Britain and France.

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William Donne, English captain and cricketer (born 1875)

William Stephens Donne was an English cricket player, and former president of the Rugby Football Union, and was a member of the cricket team that won a gold medal at the 1900 Summer Olympics.

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María Collazo, Uruguayan journalist and activist (born 1884)

María Collazo was a Uruguayan educator and journalist. She was active in Buenos Aires and she was repatriated to Uruguay in 1907.

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22/03/1931

James Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy, Irish lawyer and politician (born 1851)

James Henry Mussen Campbell, 1st Baron Glenavy,, was an Irish lawyer, politician in the British Parliament and later in the Oireachtas of the Irish Free State. He was also Lord Chancellor of Ireland.

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22/03/1924

William Macewen, Scottish surgeon and neuroscientist (born 1848)

Sir William Macewen was a Scottish surgeon. He was a pioneer in modern brain surgery, considered the father of neurosurgery and contributed to the development of bone graft surgery, the surgical treatment of hernia and of pneumonectomy.

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22/03/1913

Song Jiaoren, Chinese educator and politician (born 1882)

Song Jiaoren was a Chinese republican revolutionary, political leader and a founder of the Kuomintang (KMT). Song Jiaoren led the KMT to electoral victories in China's first democratic election. He based his appeal on the upper class gentry, landowners, and merchants. Historians have concluded that provisional president Yuan Shikai was responsible for his assassination on 22 March 1913.

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Ruggero Oddi, Italian physiologist and anatomist (born 1864)

Ruggero Oddi was an Italian physiologist and anatomist who was a native of Perugia. He is most well known for the sphincter of Oddi, which was named after him.

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22/03/1896

Thomas Hughes, English lawyer and politician (born 1822)

Thomas Hughes was an English lawyer, judge, politician and author. He is most famous for his novel Tom Brown's School Days (1857), a semi-autobiographical work set at Rugby School, which Hughes had attended. It had a lesser-known sequel, Tom Brown at Oxford (1861).

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22/03/1881

Samuel Courtauld, English businessman (born 1793)

Samuel Courtauld was an American-born British industrialist who developed his family firm, Courtaulds, to become eventually the world's largest textile company.

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22/03/1864

Konstanty Kalinowski, writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary (born 1838)

Konstanty Kalinowski, or Wincenty Konstanty Kalinowski, was a Polish writer, journalist, lawyer and revolutionary. He was one of the leaders of the 1863 January Uprising on the lands of the former Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth. He is considered a national hero in Poland, Lithuania and Belarus. Particularly in Belarus, Kalinowski is revered as Father of the Nation and icon of Belarusian nationalism.

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22/03/1840

Étienne Bobillier, French mathematician and academic (born 1798)

Étienne Bobillier was a French mathematician.

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22/03/1832

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, German novelist, poet, playwright, and diplomat (born 1749)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German polymath who is widely regarded as the most influential writer in the German language. His work has had a wide-ranging influence on literary, political, Christian views, and philosophical thought in the Western world from the late 18th century to the present. A poet, playwright, novelist, scientist, statesman, theatre-director, and critic, Goethe wrote a wide range of works, including plays, poetry and aesthetic criticism, as well as treatises on botany, anatomy, and colour.

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22/03/1820

Stephen Decatur, American commander (born 1779)

Stephen Decatur Jr. was a United States Navy officer. He was born on the eastern shore of Maryland in Worcester County. His father, Stephen Decatur Sr., was a commodore in the Continental Navy during the American Revolutionary War; he brought the younger Stephen into the world of ships and sailing early on. Shortly after attending college, Decatur followed in his father's footsteps and joined the U.S. Navy at age 19 as a midshipman.

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22/03/1758

Jonathan Edwards, English minister, theologian, and philosopher (born 1703)

Jonathan Edwards was an American revivalist preacher, philosopher, and Congregationalist theologian. Edwards is widely regarded as one of America's most important and original philosophical theologians. Edwards's theological work is broad in scope but rooted in the Puritan heritage as exemplified in the Westminster and Savoy Confessions of Faith. Recent studies have emphasized how thoroughly Edwards grounded his life's work on conceptions of beauty, harmony, and ethical aptness, and how central the Age of Enlightenment was to his mindset. Edwards played a critical role in shaping the First Great Awakening and oversaw some of the first revivals in 1733–35 at his church in Northampton, Massachusetts. His work gave rise to a doctrine known as New England theology.

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22/03/1687

Jean-Baptiste Lully, Italian-French composer and conductor (born 1632)

Jean-Baptiste Lully was an Italian-French composer, dancer and instrumentalist, who is considered a master of the French Baroque music style. Best known for his operas, he spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV and became a French subject in 1661. He was a close friend of the playwright Molière, with whom he collaborated on numerous comédie-ballets, including L'Amour médecin, George Dandin ou le Mari confondu, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac, Psyché and his best known work, Le Bourgeois gentilhomme.

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22/03/1685

Emperor Go-Sai of Japan (born 1638)

Nagahito , posthumously honored as Emperor Go-Sai , also known as Emperor Go-Saiin , was the 111th emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession.

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22/03/1602

Agostino Carracci, Italian painter and educator (born 1557)

Agostino Carracci was an Italian painter, printmaker, tapestry designer, and art teacher. He was, together with his brother, Annibale Carracci, and cousin, Ludovico Carracci, one of the founders of the Accademia degli Incamminati in Bologna. Intended to devise alternatives to the Mannerist style favoured in the preceding decades, this teaching academy helped propel painters of the School of Bologna to prominence.

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22/03/1544

Johannes Magnus, Swedish archbishop and theologian (born 1488)

Johannes Magnus was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.

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22/03/1471

George of Poděbrady (born 1420)

George of Kunštát and Poděbrady, also known as Poděbrad or Podiebrad, was the sixteenth King of Bohemia, who ruled in 1458–1471. He was a leader of the Hussites, but moderate and tolerant toward the Catholic faith. His rule was marked by great efforts to preserve peace and tolerance between the Hussites and Catholics in the religiously divided Crown of Bohemia – hence his contemporary nicknames: "King of two peoples" and "Friend of peace".

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22/03/1454

John Kemp, Archbishop of Canterbury

John Kemp was a medieval English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England.

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22/03/1421

Thomas of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Clarence, English soldier and politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1388)

Thomas of Lancaster, Duke of Clarence was a medieval English prince and soldier, the second son of Henry IV of England, brother of Henry V, and heir to the throne in the event of his brother's death. He acted as counselor and aide to both.

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22/03/1418

Dietrich of Nieheim, German bishop and historian (born 1345)

Dietrich of Nieheim, medieval historian, was born at Nieheim, a small town subject to the see of Paderborn.

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22/03/1322

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster, English politician, Lord High Steward of England (born 1278)

Thomas, 2nd Earl of Lancaster was an English nobleman of the first House of Lancaster, a cadet branch of the royal Plantagenet dynasty. He held the titles of Earl of Lancaster, Leicester, and Derby from 1296 until his death in 1322, and also those of Earl of Lincoln and Salisbury jure uxoris from 1311 to 1322. As one of the most powerful barons in England, Thomas became a leading figure in the baronial opposition to his first cousin, King Edward II.

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22/03/1144

William of Norwich, child murder victim

William of Norwich was an apprentice who lived in the English city of Norwich, and who was murdered during Easter 1144. The city's French-speaking Jewish community was blamed by some for his death, but the crime was never solved. William's case is the first known example of a medieval blood libel.

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22/03/0880

Carloman of Bavaria, Frankish king

Carloman was a Frankish king of the Carolingian dynasty. He was the eldest son of Louis the German, king of East Francia, and Hemma, daughter of a Bavarian count. His father appointed him governor of Carantania in 856, and commander of southeastern frontier marches in 864. Upon his father's death in 876 he became king of Bavaria. He was appointed by King Louis II of Italy as his successor, but the Kingdom of Italy was taken by his uncle Charles the Bald in 875. Carloman only conquered it in 877. In 879 he was incapacitated, perhaps by a stroke, and abdicated his domains in favour of his younger brothers: Bavaria to Louis the Younger and Italy to Charles the Fat.

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22/03/0235

Severus Alexander, Roman emperor (born 208)

Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander, also known as Alexander Severus, was Roman emperor from 222 until 235. He was the last emperor from the Severan dynasty and was the youngest sole emperor of the united Roman Empire.

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