Died on Tuesday, 24th March – Famous Deaths

24/03/2025

Dick Carlson, American journalist and diplomat (born 1941)

Richard Warner Carlson was an American journalist, diplomat and lobbyist who was the director of the Voice of America from 1986 to 1991. Carlson also was a newspaper and wire service reporter, magazine writer, documentary filmmaker, and television/radio correspondent. He was the father of conservative political commentator Tucker Carlson.

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24/03/2024

Lou Whittaker, American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman (born 1929)

Louis Winslow Whittaker was an American mountaineer, mountain guide, and businessman. He and his twin brother, Jim Whittaker, also a renowned mountaineer and guide, were born and raised in Seattle.

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24/03/2023

Gordon Moore, American businessman, engineer and co-founder of Intel Corporation (born 1929)

Gordon Earle Moore was an American businessman, scientist, engineer, and the co-founder and emeritus chairman of Intel Corporation. He proposed Moore's law, which makes the observation that the number of transistors in an integrated circuit (IC) doubles about every two years.

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Pradeep Sarkar, Indian writer and director (born 1955)

Pradeep Sarkar was an Indian director and screenwriter, best known for directing Parineeta (2005). He was a recipient of the Abby Award, Rapa Award, and the National Film Award. His body of work spans movies, music videos, feature film songs, and over 1000 commercials.

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24/03/2022

Dagny Carlsson, Swedish blogger and influencer (born 1912)

Dagny Valborg Carlsson was a Swedish blogger and influencer.

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24/03/2021

Jessica Walter, American actress and voice artist (born 1941)

Jessica Ann Walter was an American actress who appeared in more than 170 film, stage, and television productions.

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24/03/2020

Albert Uderzo, French comic book artist (born 1927)

Alberto Aleandro Uderzo, better known as Albert Uderzo, was a French comic book artist and scriptwriter. He is best known as the co-creator and illustrator of the Astérix series in collaboration with René Goscinny. He also drew other comics such as Oumpah-pah, again with Goscinny. Uderzo retired in September 2011.

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Manu Dibango, Cameroonian musician and songwriter (born 1933)

Emmanuel N'Djoké "Manu" Dibango was a Cameroonian musician and songwriter who played saxophone and vibraphone. He developed a musical style fusing jazz, funk, and traditional Cameroonian music. His father was a member of the Yabassi ethnic group, while his mother was a Duala. He was best known for his 1972 single "Soul Makossa". The song has been referred to as the most sampled African song in addition Dibango, himself, as the most sampled African musician in history. He died from COVID-19 on 24 March 2020.

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24/03/2019

Joseph Pilato, American film and voice actor (born 1949)

Joseph Pilato was an American film and voice actor. He was perhaps best known for his performance as Captain Henry Rhodes in the 1985 film Day of the Dead.

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24/03/2018

Lys Assia, Swiss singer and First Winner of the Eurovision Song Contest (born 1924)

Rosa Mina Schärer, known by her stage name Lys Assia, was a Swiss singer who won the first Eurovision Song Contest in 1956. Assia was born in Rupperswil, Aargau, and began her stage career as a dancer, but changed to singing in 1940 where she met her first musical success in 1950 with "O mein Papa".

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Rim Banna, Palestinian singer, composer, arranger and activist (born 1966)

Rim Banna was a Palestinian singer and composer who was most known for her modern interpretations of traditional Palestinian songs and poetry. Banna was born in Nazareth, where she graduated from Nazareth Baptist School. She lived in Nazareth with her three children. She met her husband, Ukrainian guitarist Leonid Alexeyenko, while studying music together at the Higher Music Conservatory in Moscow and they married in 1991, and got divorced in 2010.

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24/03/2016

Johan Cruyff, Dutch footballer (born 1947)

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff, known as Johan Cruyff, was a Dutch professional football player and manager. Regarded as one of the greatest players in history and as the greatest Dutch footballer ever, he won the Ballon d'Or three times, in 1971, 1973, and 1974. Cruyff was a proponent of the football philosophy known as Total Football developed by Rinus Michels, which Cruyff also employed as a manager. Because of the far-reaching impact of his playing style and his coaching ideas, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern football, and he is also regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time.

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Garry Shandling, American comedian, actor, and screenwriter (born 1949)

Garry Emmanuel Shandling was an American actor, comedian, writer, director, and producer.

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24/03/2015

Yehuda Avner, English-Israeli diplomat (born 1928)

Yehuda Avner was an Israeli prime ministerial advisor, diplomat, and author. He served as Speechwriter and Secretary to Israeli Prime Ministers Golda Meir and Levi Eshkol, and as Advisor to Israeli Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin, Menachem Begin, and Shimon Peres. Avner served in diplomatic positions at the Israeli Consulate in New York, and the Israeli Embassy to the US in Washington, D.C., and as Israel's Ambassador to Britain, Ireland and Australia. In 2010, he turned his insider stories about Israeli politics and diplomacy into a bestselling book, The Prime Ministers, which subsequently became the basis for a two-part documentary movie. In 2015, his novel, The Ambassador, which Avner co-authored with thriller writer Matt Rees, was posthumously published.

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notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:

Oleg Bryjak was a Kazakhstani-German bass-baritone opera singer. Born in Jezkazgan, Kazakh SSR, into an ethnic Ukrainian family, he moved to Germany in 1991 to join the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. From 1996 until his death, he was a soloist with the Deutsche Oper am Rhein in Düsseldorf.

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notable deaths of the Germanwings Flight 9525 crash:

Maria Friderike Radner was a German contralto who performed internationally in opera and in concerts. She studied at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf. She was described as an "extremely talented interpreter of Wagner's music" by Stern magazine and Abendzeitung. Possessing the "rare pitch of a true alto", she frequently appeared as Erda in Wagner's Der Ring des Nibelungen at the Leipzig Opera, Schwertleite in Die Walküre at the Teatro Comunale di Firenze with Zubin Mehta, and in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 (Resurrection) conducted by Antonio Pappano in Rome and Milan. Her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in 2012 in Götterdämmerung was part of that company's documentary Wagner's Dream.

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24/03/2014

Oleksandr Muzychko, Ukrainian activist (born 1962)

Oleksandr Ivanovych Muzychko was a Ukrainian political activist, a member of UNA-UNSO and coordinator of Right Sector in Western Ukraine.

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John Rowe Townsend, English author and scholar (born 1922)

John Rowe Townsend was a British children's writer and children's literature scholar. His best-known children's novel is The Intruder, which won a 1971 Edgar Award. His best-known academic work is a reference series, Written for Children: An Outline of English Children's Literature (1965), the definitive work of its time on the subject. It was greatly expanded for the first revised edition as Written for Children: An Outline of English-language Children's Literature (1974) and updated for its 2nd to 4th revised editions in 1983, 1987, and 1990 – the last, "A survey of imaginative writing, including poetry and picture books, accompanied by a bibliography of works on children's literature and illustrations from many of the classics of children's literature through 1989.".

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David A. Trampier, American illustrator (born 1954)

David A. Trampier was an artist and writer whose artwork for TSR, Inc. illustrated some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game. Many of his illustrations, such as the cover of the original Player's Handbook, became iconic. Trampier was also the creator of the Wormy comic strip that ran in Dragon magazine for several years.

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24/03/2013

Barbara Anderson, New Zealand author (born 1926)

Barbara Lillias Romaine Anderson, Lady Anderson was a New Zealand fiction writer who became internationally recognised and a best-selling author after her first book was published in her sixties.

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Inge Lønning, Norwegian theologian, academic, and politician (born 1938)

Inge Johan Lønning was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian and politician for the Conservative Party of Norway. As an academic, he was Professor of Theology and Rector of the University of Oslo during the term 1985–1992. As a politician, he served as President of the European Movement in Norway, as a Member of Parliament, as Vice President of the Parliament, as Vice President of the Conservative Party, and as President of the Nordic Council.

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Gury Marchuk, Russian physicist, mathematician, and academic (born 1925)

Gury Ivanovich Marchuk was a Soviet and Russian scientist in the fields of computational mathematics, and physics of atmosphere. Academician ; the President of the USSR Academy of Sciences in 1986–1991. Among his notable prizes are the USSR State Prize (1979), Demidov Prize (2004), Lomonosov Gold Medal (2004).

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Paolo Ponzo, Italian footballer (born 1972)

Paolo Ponzo was an Italian footballer who last played as a midfielder for Liguria club Imperia.

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Mohamed Yousri Salama, Egyptian dentist and politician (born 1974)

Mohamed Yousri Salama was an Egyptian politician, writer and activist.

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Francis Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, English diplomat (born 1912)

Francis Edward Hovell-Thurlow-Cumming-Bruce, 8th Baron Thurlow, was a British diplomat. He was the last surviving former British colonial governor of The Bahamas.

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24/03/2012

Paul Callaghan, New Zealand physicist and academic (born 1947)

Sir Paul Terence Callaghan was a New Zealand physicist who, as the founding director of the MacDiarmid Institute for Advanced Materials and Nanotechnology at Victoria University of Wellington, held the position of Alan MacDiarmid Professor of Physical Sciences and was President of the International Society of Magnetic Resonance.

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Nick Noble, American singer-songwriter (born 1926)

Nick Noble was an American pop singer, who was best known for his recordings of "The Tip of My Fingers" and "Moonlight Swim".

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24/03/2010

Robert Culp, American actor (born 1930)

Robert Martin Culp was an American actor and screenwriter widely known for his work in television. Culp earned an international reputation for his role as Kelly Robinson on I Spy (1965–1968), the espionage television series in which he and co-star Bill Cosby played secret agents. Before this, he starred in the CBS/Four Star Western series Trackdown as Texas Ranger Hoby Gilman in 71 episodes from 1957 to 1959. The 1980s brought him back to television as FBI Agent Bill Maxwell on The Greatest American Hero. Later, he had a recurring role as Warren Whelan on Everybody Loves Raymond, and was a voice actor for various computer games, including Half-Life 2. Culp gave hundreds of performances in a career spanning more than 50 years.

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Jim Marshall, American photographer (born 1936)

James Joseph Marshall was an American photographer and photojournalist who photographed musicians of the 1960s and 1970s. Earning the trust of his subjects, he had extended access to them both on and off-stage. Marshall was the official photographer for the Beatles' final concert in San Francisco's Candlestick Park, and he was head photographer at Woodstock.

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24/03/2009

George Kell, American baseball player and sportscaster (born 1922)

George Clyde Kell was an American professional baseball player and television sports commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a third baseman from 1943 to 1957, most prominently as a member of the Detroit Tigers, where he became a perennial All-Star player and won the American League (AL) batting championship in 1949.

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Hans Klenk, German racing driver (born 1919)

Hans Klenk was a racing driver from Germany. He participated in one World Championship Grand Prix on 3 August 1952 and did not score any championship points. Klenk won the 1952 edition of La Carrera Panamericana in a Mercedes Benz W194, along with Karl Kling.

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Gábor Ocskay, Hungarian ice hockey player (born 1975)

Gábor Ocskay Jr. was a Hungarian ice hockey player. As the center of the first line, he played a huge part in his national team's promotion to the 2009 World Championship. He died of a heart attack weeks before the start of the 2009 Championships. Ocskay was posthumously awarded the Torriani Award by the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF) in 2016, and was inducted into the IIHF Hall of Fame.

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24/03/2008

Chalmers Alford, American guitarist (born 1955)

Chalmers Edward "Spanky" Alford was an American gospel, jazz, and neo-soul guitarist. Alford was born in Philadelphia. He was well known for his playing style, utilizing chord embellishments. He had an illustrious career as a gospel quartet guitar player in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s with groups such as the Mighty Clouds of Joy. His most notable contributions are to the D'Angelo album Voodoo, and his contributions to music from other popular artists including Tupac Shakur, Roy Hargrove, and The Roots.

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Neil Aspinall, Welsh-English record producer and manager (born 1941)

Neil Stanley Aspinall was a British music industry executive. A school friend of Paul McCartney and George Harrison, he went on to head the Beatles' company Apple Corps.

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Rafael Azcona, Spanish author and screenwriter (born 1926)

Rafael Azcona Fernández was a Spanish screenwriter and novelist who worked with some of the best Spanish and international filmmakers. Azcona won five Goya Awards during his career, including a lifetime achievement award in 1998.

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Richard Widmark, American actor (born 1914)

Richard Weedt Widmark was an American actor and film producer. For his debut film role as the villainous Tommy Udo in the film noir Kiss of Death (1947), he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the inaugural Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Newcomer.

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Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (born 1939)

Boris Dvornik was a Croatian actor.

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24/03/2007

Shripad Narayan Pendse, Indian Marathi novelist (born 1913)[citation needed]

Shripad Narayan Pendse was a Marathi writer.

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24/03/2006

Rudra Rajasingham, Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat (born 1926)

Rudra Srichandra Rajasingham was a Sri Lankan police officer and diplomat. He was the Inspector General of Police and Sri Lankan Ambassador to Indonesia.

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24/03/2003

Hans Hermann Groër, Austrian cardinal (born 1919)

Hans Hermann Wilhelm Groër, OSB was an Austrian Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Vienna from 1986 to 1995 and became a cardinal in 1988. Pope John Paul II replaced him as archbishop after he became the subject of multiple allegations of child sexual abuse. At John Paul's request, Groër relinquished all ecclesiastical duties and privileges as an archbishop and cardinal on 14 April 1998.

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24/03/2002

César Milstein, Argentinian-English biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1927)

César Milstein, CH, FRS was an Argentine biochemist in the field of antibody research. Milstein shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1984 with Niels Kaj Jerne and Georges J. F. Köhler for developing the hybridoma technique for the production of monoclonal antibodies.

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Bob Said, American race car driver and bobsledder (born 1932)

Boris Robert Said Jr., better known as Bob Said, was an American racing driver from the United States. The son of a Syrian father and a Russian mother, he grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, and attended Deerfield Academy and Princeton. He discovered sports car racing during his first year at Princeton.

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24/03/2001

Muriel Young, English television host and producer (born 1928)

Muriel Young was an English television continuity announcer, presenter, producer and actress.

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24/03/1999

Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, German politician (born 1902)

Gertrud Emma Scholtz-Klink, born Treusch, later known under the alias Maria Stuckebrock, was a German official and member of the Nazi Party best known as the leader of the National Socialist Women's League, a position she was appointed to by Adolf Hitler in 1934. She headed numerous other Party and government organizations for women and was the highest ranking female official in Nazi Germany. She was known in Britain as "the perfect Nazi Woman"”. Following the end of the Second World War, she underwent denazification proceedings and was adjudged a "major offender". An unrepentant Nazi, she lived another half-century and published a book in which she professed her continued belief in Nazi ideology.

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Birdie Tebbetts, American baseball player and manager (born 1912)

George Robert "Birdie" Tebbetts was an American professional baseball player, manager, scout and front office executive. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a catcher for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox and the Cleveland Indians from 1936 to 1952. Tebbetts was regarded as the best catcher in the American League in the late 1940s.

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24/03/1995

Joseph Needham, English historian and academic (born 1900)

Noel Joseph Terence Montgomery Needham was a British biochemist, historian of science and sinologist known for his scientific research and writing on the history of Chinese science and technology, initiating publication of the multivolume Science and Civilisation in China. He called attention to what has come to be known as the Needham Question, of why and how China had ceded its leadership in science and technology to Western countries.

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24/03/1993

Albert Arlen, Australian pianist, composer, actor, and playwright (born 1905)

Albert Arlen AM was a Turkish Australian pianist, composer, actor and playwright. He is best known for his musical The Sentimental Bloke, the "Alamein Concerto", and his setting of Banjo Paterson's Clancy of the Overflow.

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John Hersey, American journalist and author (born 1914)

John Richard Hersey was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. In 1999, Hiroshima, Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department.

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24/03/1991

John Kerr, Australian lawyer and politician, 18th governor-general of Australia (born 1914)

Sir John Robert Kerr was an Australian barrister and judge who served as the 18th governor-general of Australia, in office from 1974 to 1977. He is primarily known for his involvement in the 1975 constitutional crisis, which culminated in the dismissal of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam and the appointment of Malcolm Fraser as caretaker prime minister.

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24/03/1990

Ray Goulding, American comedian and radio host (born 1922)

Raymond Walter Goulding was an American comedian, who, together with Bob Elliott formed the comedy duo of Bob and Ray.

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24/03/1988

Turhan Feyzioğlu, Turkish academic and politician, 27th deputy prime minister of Turkey (born 1922)

Turhan Feyzioğlu was a Turkish academic and a politician.

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24/03/1984

Sam Jaffe, American actor (born 1891)

Shalom "Sam" Jaffe was an American actor, teacher, musician, and engineer. In 1951, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Asphalt Jungle (1950). He also appeared in The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Ben-Hur (1959), and is additionally known for his roles as the titular character in Gunga Din (1939) and as the "High Lama" in Lost Horizon (1937).

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24/03/1980

Óscar Romero, Salvadoran archbishop (born 1917)

Óscar Arnulfo Romero y Galdámez was a prelate of the Catholic Church in El Salvador. He served as Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of San Salvador, the Titular Bishop of Tambeae, as Bishop of Santiago de María, and finally as the fourth Archbishop of San Salvador. As archbishop, Romero spoke out against social injustice and violence amid the escalating conflict between the military government and left-wing insurgents that led to the Salvadoran Civil War. In 1980, Romero was fatally shot by an assassin while celebrating Mass. Though no one was ever convicted for the crime, investigations by the UN-created Truth Commission for El Salvador concluded that Major Roberto D'Aubuisson, a death squad leader and later founder of the right-wing Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) political party, had ordered the killing.

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24/03/1978

Park Mok-wol, influential Korean poet and academic (born 1916)

Pak Mok-wol was an influential Korean poet and academic.

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24/03/1976

Bernard Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein, English field marshal (born 1887)

Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, 1st Viscount Montgomery of Alamein,, nicknamed "Monty", was a senior British Army officer who served in the First World War, the Irish War of Independence and the Second World War.

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24/03/1973

Bertram Stevens, Australian accountant and politician, 25th premier of New South Wales (born 1889)

Sir Bertram Sydney Barnsdale Stevens, also referred to as B. S. B. Stevens, was an Australian politician who served as the 25th Premier of New South Wales, in office from 1932 to 1939 as leader of the United Australia Party (UAP).

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24/03/1971

Arne Jacobsen, Danish architect, designed the Radisson Blu Royal Hotel and Aarhus City Hall (born 1902)

Arne Emil Jacobsen, Hon. FAIA was a Danish architect and furniture designer. He is remembered for his contribution to architectural functionalism and for the worldwide success he enjoyed with simple well-designed chairs.

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Arthur Metcalfe, Australian public servant (born 1895)

Arthur John Metcalfe was a senior Australian public servant, best known for his time as Director-General of the Department of Health.

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24/03/1968

Alice Guy-Blaché, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1873)

Alice Ida Antoinette Guy-Blaché was a French pioneer film director. She was one of the first filmmakers to make a narrative fiction film, as well as the first woman to direct a film. From 1896 to 1906, she was probably the only female filmmaker in the world. She experimented with Gaumont's Chronophone sync-sound system, and with color-tinting, interracial casting, and special effects.

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24/03/1962

Jean Goldkette, French-American pianist and bandleader (born 1899)

John Jean Goldkette was a jazz pianist and bandleader.

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Auguste Piccard, Swiss physicist and explorer (born 1884)

Auguste Antoine Piccard was a Swiss physicist, inventor and explorer known for his record-breaking hydrogen balloon flights, with which he studied the Earth's upper atmosphere and became the first person to enter the stratosphere. Piccard was also known for his invention of the first bathyscaphe, FNRS-2, with which he made a number of unmanned dives in 1948 to explore the ocean's depths.

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24/03/1956

E. T. Whittaker, British mathematician and physicist (born 1873)

Sir Edmund Taylor Whittaker was a British mathematician, physicist, and historian of science. Whittaker was a leading mathematical scholar of the early 20th century who contributed widely to applied mathematics and was renowned for his research in mathematical physics and numerical analysis, including the theory of special functions, along with his contributions to astronomy, celestial mechanics, the history of physics, and digital signal processing.

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24/03/1953

Mary of Teck, Queen of the United Kingdom (born 1867)

Mary of Teck was Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Empress of India, from 6 May 1910 until 20 January 1936 as the wife of King George V.

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24/03/1951

Lorna Hodgkinson, Australian educator and educational psychologist (born 1887)

Lorna Myrtle Hodgkinson was an Australian educator and educational psychologist who worked with intellectually disabled children. She was the first woman to receive a Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University. She called out the poor system in Australia and her reputation was ruined by the minister responsible.

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24/03/1950

James Rudolph Garfield, American lawyer and politician, 23rd United States Secretary of the Interior (born 1865)

James Rudolph Garfield was an American lawyer and politician. Garfield was a son of President James A. Garfield and First Lady Lucretia Garfield. He served as Secretary of the Interior during President Theodore Roosevelt's administration.

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24/03/1948

Sigrid Hjertén, Swedish painter and illustrator (born 1885)

Sigrid Maria Hjertén was a Swedish modernist painter. Hjertén is considered a major figure in Swedish modernism. Periodically she was highly productive and participated in 106 exhibitions. She worked as an artist for thirty years before dying of complications from a lobotomy, after having been diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1932.

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24/03/1946

Alexander Alekhine, Russian chess player (born 1892)

Alexander Aleksandrovich Alekhine was a Russian and French chess player and the fourth World Chess Champion, a title he held for two reigns.

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Carl Schuhmann, German gymnast, shot putter, and jumper (born 1869)

Carl August Berthold Schuhmann was a German athlete who won four Olympic titles in gymnastics and wrestling at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens, becoming the most successful athlete at the inaugural Olympics of the modern era. He also competed in weightlifting.

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24/03/1944

Orde Wingate, Indian-English general (born 1903)

Major-General Orde Charles Wingate, was a senior British Army officer known for his creation of the Chindit deep-penetration missions in Japanese-held territory during the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.

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24/03/1940

Édouard Branly, French physicist and academic (born 1844)

Édouard Eugène Désiré Branly was a French physicist and inventor known for his early involvement in wireless telegraphy and his invention of the coherer in 1890.

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24/03/1938

Yondonwangchug, Mongolian politician (born 1870)

Yondonwangchug was an Inner Mongolian nobleman of Ulanqab League and politician under the Qing Dynasty, Republic of China and Mengjiang governments.

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24/03/1932

Frantz Reichel, French rugby player and hurdler (born 1871)

François Étienne "Frantz" Reichel was a French sports administrator, athlete, cyclist and journalist. He competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens as a runner and at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris as a rugby union player. He co-founded the International Sports Press Association (AIPS), and served as its first president in 1924–1932.

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24/03/1926

Phan Châu Trinh, Vietnamese activist (born 1872)

Phan Châu Trinh, courtesy name Tử Cán (梓幹), pen name Tây Hồ (西湖) or Hi Mã (希馬), was an early 20th-century Vietnamese nationalist and reformer. He sought to end France's colonial occupation of Vietnam. His method of ending French colonial rule over Vietnam had opposed both violence and turning to other countries for support, and instead believed in attaining Vietnamese liberation by educating the population and by appealing to French democratic principles.

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24/03/1916

Enrique Granados, Spanish pianist and composer (born 1867)

Enric Granados i Campiña, born Pantaleón Enrique Joaquín Granados Campiña was a Spanish and Catalan composer and pianist. Along with Isaac Albéniz, Joaquin Malats and other pianists, he was part of the modern Catalan school of piano, initiated by Pere Tintorer.

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24/03/1915

Margaret Lindsay Huggins, Anglo-Irish astronomer (born 1848)

Margaret Lindsay, Lady Huggins was an Irish-English scientific investigator and astronomer. With her husband William Huggins she was a pioneer in the field of spectroscopy and co-wrote the Atlas of Representative Stellar Spectra (1897).

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Karol Olszewski, Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist (born 1846)

Karol Stanisław Olszewski was a Polish chemist, mathematician, and physicist. Together with Zygmunt Wróblewski, in 1883 he was the first scientist in the world to liquify oxygen and nitrogen.

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24/03/1909

John Millington Synge, Irish playwright and poet (born 1871)

Edmund John Millington Synge, popularly known as J. M. Synge, was an Irish playwright, poet, writer, and collector of folklores. As a key figure of the Irish Literary Revival during the early 20th century, he is widely regarded by critics and scholars as one of the most influential dramatists of the Edwardian era, and by several of his peers, among them William Butler Yeats, as the most prolific playwright in Irish literature.

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24/03/1905

Jules Verne, French novelist, poet, and playwright (born 1828)

Jules Gabriel Verne was a French novelist, poet, and playwright.

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24/03/1888

Vsevolod Garshin, Russian author (born 1855)

Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.

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24/03/1887

Ivan Kramskoi, Russian painter and critic (born 1837)

Ivan Nikolayevich Kramskoi was a Russian Realist painter and art critic. One of the most prominent artisans during Tsar Alexander II's reign, he is remembered as co-founding member and public frontman of the Peredvizhniki movement.

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24/03/1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, American poet and educator (born 1807)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.

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24/03/1881

Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse, French geologist and mineralogist (born 1817)

Achille Ernest Oscar Joseph Delesse was a French geologist and mineralogist. He is credited for inventing the Delesse principle in stereology.

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24/03/1869

Antoine-Henri Jomini, French-Russian general (born 1779)

Baron Antoine-Henri Jomini was a Swiss-French military officer who served as a general in French and later in Russian service, and one of the most celebrated writers on the Napoleonic art of war. Jomini was largely self-taught in military strategy, and his ideas are a staple at military academies, the United States Military Academy at West Point being a prominent example; his theories were thought to have affected many officers who later served in the American Civil War. He may have coined the term logistics in his Summary of the Art of War (1838).

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24/03/1866

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily, Queen of France (born 1782)

Maria Amalia of Naples and Sicily was Queen of the French by marriage to Louis Philippe I, King of the French. She was the last Queen of the French.

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24/03/1838

Abraham Hume, English floriculturist and Tory politician (born 1748/49)

Sir Abraham Hume, 2nd Baronet was a British floriculturist and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1774 and 1818.

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24/03/1824

Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux, French lawyer (born 1753)

Louis Marie de La Révellière-Lépeaux was a deputy to the National Convention during the French Revolution. He later served as a prominent leader of the French Directory.

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24/03/1776

John Harrison, English carpenter and clockmaker, invented the Marine chronometer (born 1693)

John Harrison was an English carpenter and clockmaker who invented the marine chronometer, a long-sought-after device for solving the problem of how to calculate longitude while at sea.

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24/03/1773

Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, English politician, Captain of the Yeomen of the Guard (born 1694)

Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield was a British politician, diplomat and writer.

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24/03/1684

Pieter de Hooch, Dutch painter (born 1629)

Pieter Hendricksz. de Hooch, was a Dutch Golden Age painter famous for his genre works of quiet domestic scenes with an open doorway. He was a contemporary, in the Delft Guild of St. Luke, of Jan Vermeer with whom his work shares themes and style. De Hooch was first recorded in Delft on 5 August 1652, when he and another painter, Hendrick van der Burgh witnessed the signing of a will. He was last documented in 1679, but his date of death is unknown.

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Elizabeth Ridgeway, English woman convicted of poisoning her husband

Elizabeth Ridgeway was an English woman convicted of poisoning her husband. While awaiting execution by burning at the stake, she confessed to previously poisoning her mother, a fellow servant, and a lover.

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24/03/1653

Samuel Scheidt, German organist and composer (born 1587)

Samuel Scheidt was a German composer, organist and teacher of the early Baroque era.

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24/03/1603

Elizabeth I of England (born 1533)

Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last and longest reigning monarch of the House of Tudor. Her eventful reign, and its effect on history and culture, gave name to the Elizabethan era.

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24/03/1575

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, Spanish-Portuguese rabbi and author (born 1488)

Joseph ben Ephraim Karo, also spelled Yosef Caro, or Qaro, was a prominent Sephardic Jewish rabbi renowned as the author of the last great codification of Jewish law, the Beit Yosef, and its popular analogue, the Shulhan Arukh. Karo is regarded as the preeminent halakhic authority of his time, and is often referred to by the honorific titles HaMechaber and Maran.

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24/03/1563

Hosokawa Harumoto, Japanese daimyō (born 1514)[citation needed]

Hosokawa Harumoto was a Japanese daimyō of the Muromachi and Sengoku periods, and the head of the Hosokawa clan. Harumoto's childhood name was Sōmei-maru (聡明丸). He was born to Hosokawa Sumimoto, another renowned samurai of the Muromachi era.

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24/03/1499

Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire, English nobleman (born 1470)

Edward Stafford, 2nd Earl of Wiltshire KB was an English nobleman.

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24/03/1455

Pope Nicholas V (born 1397)

Pope Nicholas V, born Tommaso Parentucelli, was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 6 March 1447 until his death in March 1455. Pope Eugene IV made him a cardinal in 1446 after successful trips to Italy and Germany, and when Eugene died the next year, Parentucelli was elected in his place. He took his name Nicholas in memory of his obligations to Niccolò Albergati. He remains the most recent pope to take the pontifical name "Nicholas".

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24/03/1443

James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas (born 1371)

James Douglas, 7th Earl of Douglas, 1st Earl of Avondale, latterly known as James the Gross, and prior to his ennoblement as James of Balvenie, was a late mediaeval Scottish magnate. He was the second son of Archibald Douglas, 3rd Earl of Douglas, and Joan Moray of Bothwell and Drumsargard, d. after 1408.

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24/03/1399

Margaret, Duchess of Norfolk (bornc. 1320)

Margaret of Norfolk or Margaret of Brotherton, Duchess of Norfolk in her own right, was an English peer, the daughter and eventual sole heir of Thomas of Brotherton, eldest son of King Edward I of England by his second marriage. In 1338, she succeeded to the earldom of Norfolk and the office of Earl Marshal. In 1397, she was created Duchess of Norfolk for life.

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24/03/1396

Walter Hilton, English mystic and saint (born 1340)

Walter Hilton, Can. Reg. was an English Augustinian mystic, whose works gained influence in 15th-century England and Wales. He is commemorated by the Church of England and by the Episcopal Church in the United States.

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24/03/1381

Catherine of Vadstena, Swedish saint (born 1332)

Catherine of Sweden, Katarina av Vadstena, Catherine of Vadstena or Katarina Ulfsdotter was a Swedish noblewoman. She is venerated as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Her father was Ulf Gudmarsson, Lord of Ulvåsa, and her mother was Saint Bridget of Sweden.

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24/03/1296

Odon de Pins, Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller

Odo de Pins, also known as Eudes de Pin or Odon de Pins, was the twenty-third Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, serving from 1294 until his death in 1296, succeeding Jean de Villiers. He moved the headquarters of the Order to Limasso in modern-day Cyprus. Upon his death, he was succeeded by Guillaume de Villaret.

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24/03/1284

Hugh III of Cyprus (born 1235)

Hugh III, also called Hugh of Antioch-Lusignan and the Great, was the king of Cyprus from 1267 and king of Jerusalem from 1268. Born into the family of the princes of Antioch, he effectively ruled as regent for underage kings Hugh II of Cyprus and Conrad III of Jerusalem for several years. Prevailing over the claims of his cousin Hugh of Brienne, he succeeded both young monarchs upon their deaths and appeared poised to be an effective political and military leader.

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24/03/0832

Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury

Wulfred was an Anglo-Saxon Archbishop of Canterbury in medieval England. Nothing is known of his life prior to 803, when he attended a church council, but he was probably a nobleman from Middlesex. He was elected archbishop in 805 and spent his time in office reforming the clergy of his cathedral. He also quarrelled with two consecutive Mercian kings – Coenwulf and Ceolwulf – over whether laymen or clergy should control monasteries. At one point, Wulfred travelled to Rome to consult with the papacy and was deposed from office for a number of years over the issue. After Coenwulf's death, relations were somewhat better with the new king Ceolwulf, but improved much more after Ceolwulf's subsequent deposition. The dispute about control of the monasteries was not fully settled until 838, after Wulfred's death. Wulfred was the first archbishop to place his portrait on the coinage he struck.

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24/03/0809

Harun al-Rashid, Arab caliph (born 763)

Abū Jaʿfar Hārūn ibn Muḥammad ar-Rashīd, or simply Hārūn ibn al-Mahdī, famously known as Hārūn al-Rashīd, was the fifth Abbasid caliph of the Abbasid Caliphate, reigning from September 786 until his death in March 809. His reign is traditionally regarded to be the beginning of the Islamic Golden Age. His epithet al-Rashid translates to "the Just", "the Upright", or "the Rightly-Guided".

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