Died on Wednesday, 25th March – Famous Deaths

25/03/2025

Tapani Kansa, Finnish singer (born 1949)

Aarne Tapani Kansa was a Finnish singer.

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Terry Manning, American musician and recording engineer (born 1947)

Terry Don Manning was an American recording engineer, record producer, musician and photographer. In a career spanning more than 50 years, he worked with Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden, Bryan Adams, ZZ Top, the Tragically Hip, Zeno, Booker T. & the MG's, Shakira, Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Rhino Bucket, Johnny Winter, the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Big Star, Johnny Taylor, Jason and the Scorchers, the Staple Singers, Molly Hatchet, George Thorogood, Al Green, Widespread Panic, Shania Twain, Joe Cocker, Joe Walsh, and Lenny Kravitz, among others.

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25/03/2022

Taylor Hawkins, American drummer and singer (born 1972)

Oliver Taylor Hawkins was an American musician who was the drummer and a vocalist of the rock band Foo Fighters, sharing vocals with Dave Grohl. He joined the band in 1997, and remained the band's drummer until his death in March 2022. He recorded eight studio albums with Foo Fighters between 1999 and 2021. Before joining the band, he was a touring drummer for Sass Jordan and Alanis Morissette, as well as the drummer of the progressive experimental band Sylvia.

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25/03/2021

Beverly Cleary, American author (born 1916)

Beverly Atlee Cleary was an American writer of children's and young adult fiction. One of America's most successful authors, 91 million copies of her books have been sold worldwide since her first book was published in 1950. Some of her best known characters are Ramona Quimby and Beezus Quimby, Henry Huggins and his dog Ribsy, and Ralph S. Mouse.

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25/03/2020

Floyd Cardoz, Indian-born American chef (born 1960)

Floyd Cardoz was an Indian-American chef. He owned the New York City eatery Paowalla and was executive chef at Tabla, as well as victor on Top Chef Masters Season 3 in 2011. His New York restaurants were known for food melding Indian flavours and spices with western cuisine.

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25/03/2019

Barrie Hole, Welsh footballer (born 1942)

Barrington Gerard Hole was a Welsh professional footballer who played as a midfielder. A Wales international, he began his career with Cardiff City and made his professional debut as a teenager.

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25/03/2017

Cuthbert Sebastian, St. Kitts and Nevis politician (born 1921)

Sir Cuthbert Montraville Sebastian was the second governor-general of Saint Kitts and Nevis from 1996 to 2013. He was appointed Governor-General in 1995 and was sworn in on 1 January 1996. While in office, he was the world's oldest serving de facto head of state. His retirement was announced on 25 December 2012 and became effective on 1 January 2013.

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25/03/2016

Shannon Bolin, American actress and singer (born 1917)

Shannon Bolin was an American actress and singer. A March 10, 1941, article in The Mason City Globe-Gazette said that she was "known as 'The Lady with the Dark Blue Voice'".

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25/03/2015

George Fischbeck, American journalist and educator (born 1922)

George Richard Fischbeck was an American television weatherman on KOB-TV in Albuquerque, New Mexico, from the early 1960s to early 1970s. In 1972 he moved to KABC-TV in Los Angeles, replacing Alan Sloane, where he became a staple on the station's Eyewitness News broadcasts. He would retire from KABC-TV in 1992, but returned to television with a brief stint at KCBS-TV from 1994 to 1997.

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25/03/2014

Lorna Arnold, English historian and author (born 1915)

Lorna Margaret Arnold was a British historian who wrote several books connected with the British nuclear weapons programmes.

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Hank Lauricella, American football player and politician (born 1930)

Francis Edward Lauricella, known as Hank Lauricella, was an American real estate developer from suburban New Orleans, Louisiana, a college football player, and a member of both houses of the Louisiana State Legislature.

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Jon Lord, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1956)

Jonathan Joseph Lord was a Canadian politician and member of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from Alberta, Canada.

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Sonny Ruberto, American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1946)

John Edward Ruberto [Sonny] was an American backup catcher and pinch runner in Major League Baseball who played over parts of two seasons for the San Diego Padres (1969) and the Cincinnati Reds (1972). Listed at 5' 11", 175 lb., he batted and threw right handed.

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Jonathan Schell, American journalist and author (born 1943)

Jonathan Edward Schell was an American reporter and writer whose work primarily dealt with American foreign policy from the Vietnam War to the war on terror, as well as the threat posed by nuclear weapons and support for nuclear disarmament.

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Ralph Wilson, American businessman, founded the Buffalo Bills (born 1918)

Ralph Cookerly Wilson Jr. was an American businessman and sports executive. He was best known as the founder and owner of the Buffalo Bills, a team in the National Football League (NFL). He was one of the founding owners of the American Football League (AFL), the league with which the NFL merged in 1970, and was the last of the original AFL owners to own his team. At the time of his death he was the oldest owner in the NFL, at age 95. His 54 years of ownership was the third longest tenure by one owner in league history behind George Halas and Art Rooney. Wilson was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 2009.

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25/03/2013

Léonce Bernard, Canadian politician, 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island (born 1943)

Joseph Gérard Léonce Bernard, was an Acadian-Canadian politician, who was the 26th Lieutenant Governor of Prince Edward Island, the third Island Acadian to hold this position.

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Ben Goldfaden, American basketball player and educator (born 1913)

Benjamin Paul Goldfaden was an American professional basketball player. He played two games in the Basketball Association of America (BAA) as a member of the Washington Capitols during the 1946–47 season. Goldfaden spent most of his professional career playing in the American Basketball League.

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Anthony Lewis, American journalist and academic (born 1927)

Joseph Anthony Lewis was an American public intellectual and journalist. He was a two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was a columnist for The New York Times. He is credited with creating the field of legal journalism in the United States.

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Jean Pickering, English runner and long jumper (born 1929)

Jean Catherine Pickering was a female track and field athlete from Great Britain, who competed mainly in the 80 metres hurdles and long jump.

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Jean-Marc Roberts, French author and screenwriter (born 1954)

Jean-Marc Roberts was a French editor, novelist, and screenwriter.

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John F. Wiley, American lieutenant, football player, and coach (born 1920)

John Franklin "Smiling Jack" Wiley was an American football player and coach. He played professionally a tackle for the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Football League (NFL) from 1946 to 1950. Willey served as the head football coach at his alma mater, Waynesburg College—now known as Waynesburg University—in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, from 1951 to 1954, compiling a record of 22–9–1.

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25/03/2012

Priscilla Buckley, American journalist and author (born 1921)

Priscilla Langford Buckley was an American journalist and author who was the longtime managing editor of National Review.

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Hal E. Chester, American actor, director, and producer (born 1921)

Hal E. Chester was an American film producer, writer, director and actor.

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John Crosfield, English businessman, founded Crosfield Electronics (born 1915)

John Fothergill Crosfield CBE DSc MA was an English inventor and entrepreneur. He was a pioneer in the application of electronics to all aspects of colour printing and the inventor of the acoustic and subsonic mines during the World War II.

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Edd Gould, English animator and voice actor, founded Eddsworld (born 1988)

Edward Duncan Ernest Gould was a British animator, cartoonist, artist, and voice actor. He created Eddsworld, a flash animation and web comic franchise featuring fictionalised versions of himself and longtime collaborators Tom Ridgewell, Matt Hargreaves, Tord Larsson and others.

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Antonio Tabucchi, Italian author and academic (born 1943)

Antonio Tabucchi was an Italian writer and academic who taught Portuguese language and literature at the University of Siena, Italy. Deeply in love with Portugal, he was an expert, critic and translator of the works of Fernando Pessoa from whom he drew the conceptions of saudade, of fiction and of the heteronyms. Tabucchi was first introduced to Pessoa's works in the 1960s when attending the Sorbonne. He was so charmed that when he returned to Italy, he took an introductory course in Portuguese for a better comprehension of the poet.

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25/03/2009

Johnny Blanchard, American baseball player (born 1933)

John Edwin Blanchard was an American professional baseball outfielder and catcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the New York Yankees, Kansas City Athletics, and Milwaukee Braves.

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Kosuke Koyama, Japanese-American theologian and academic (born 1929)

Kosuke Koyama was a Japanese Protestant Christian theologian.

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Dan Seals, American musician (born 1948)

Danny Wayland Seals, also known as England Dan, was an American musician. The younger brother of Seals & Crofts member Jim Seals, he first gained fame as one half of the soft rock duo England Dan & John Ford Coley, who charted nine singles between 1976 and 1980, including the No. 2 Billboard Hot 100 hit "I'd Really Love to See You Tonight".

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Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu, Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey (born 1954)

Muhsin Yazıcıoğlu was a Turkish politician and member of the Parliament of Turkey. He was the leader and founder of the Great Unity Party (BBP), a far-right, nationalist-Islamist political party.

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25/03/2008

Ben Carnevale, American basketball player and coach (born 1915)

Bernard Louis Carnevale was an American basketball coach and college athletic administrator. He served as the head basketball coach at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1944 to 1946 and the United States Naval Academy from 1946 to 1966, compiling a career college basketball coaching record of 309–171. Carnevale was the athletic director at New York University from 1966 to 1972 and the College of William & Mary from 1972 to 1981. He was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1970.

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Thierry Gilardi, French journalist and sportscaster (born 1958)

Thierry Gilardi was a French football commentator.

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Abby Mann, American screenwriter and producer (born 1927)

Abby Mann was an American screenwriter and producer.

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Herb Peterson, American businessman, created the McMuffin (born 1919)

Herbert Ralph Peterson was an American fast food advertising executive and most known for being the inventor of the McDonald's Egg McMuffin in 1972. The breakfast business that he pioneered with this item had grown to an estimated $4–5 billion in annual revenues for the fast food restaurant chain McDonald's by 1993.

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25/03/2007

Andranik Margaryan, Armenian engineer and politician, 10th Prime Minister of Armenia (born 1951)

Andranik Nahapeti Margaryan was an Armenian politician who served as the Prime Minister of Armenia from 12 May 2000, when the President appointed him, until his death on 25 March 2007. He was a member of the Republican Party of Armenia. He succeeded the Sargsyan brothers: Vazgen Sargsyan, who was murdered during the Armenian parliament shooting on 27 October 1999 and Aram Sargsyan, whom the President appointed a week later, but fired on 2 May 2000.

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25/03/2006

Bob Carlos Clarke, Irish photographer (born 1950)

Robert Carlos Clarke was a British-Irish photographer who made erotic images of women as well as documentary, portrait, and commercial photography.

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Rocío Dúrcal, Spanish singer and actress (born 1944)

María de los Ángeles de las Heras Ortiz, better known as Rocío Dúrcal, was a Spanish singer and actress with a career spanning more than four decades. She performed pop music, bolero, mariachi and romantic ballads and is widely regarded as one of the greatest Spanish singers of all time. Popular across Mexico and Latin America, she earned the sobriquet of Reina de las Rancheras.

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Richard Fleischer, American film director (born 1916)

Richard Owen Fleischer was an American film director. His career spanned more than four decades, beginning at the height of the Golden Age of Hollywood and lasting through the American New Wave. He was the son of animation pioneer Max Fleischer, and served as chairman of Fleischer Studios.

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Buck Owens, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1929)

Alvis Edgar "Buck" Owens Jr. was an American musician, singer, and songwriter. He was the frontman for The Buckaroos, which had 21 No. 1 hits on the Billboard country music chart. He pioneered what came to be called the Bakersfield sound, named in honor of Bakersfield, California, Owens's adopted home and the city from which he drew inspiration for what he preferred to call "American music".

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25/03/2005

Paul Henning, American screenwriter and producer (born 1911)

Paul William Henning was an American TV producer and screenwriter. Most famous for creating the television sitcom The Beverly Hillbillies, he was also crucial in developing the "rural" comedies Petticoat Junction (1963–1970) and Green Acres (1965–1971) for CBS.

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25/03/2002

Kenneth Wolstenholme, English journalist and sportscaster (born 1920)

Kenneth Wolstenholme, DFC & Bar was an English football commentator for BBC television in the 1950s and 1960s. He is best remembered for his commentary during the 1966 FIFA World Cup Final; in the closing minutes, Wolstenholme commented on a series of pitch invaders as Geoff Hurst dribbled down the pitch before scoring, saying "some people are on the pitch, they think it's all over!" The phrase has become deeply embedded in British popular culture. As Hurst proceeded to score, Wolstenholme added: 'It is now!'

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25/03/2001

Brian Trubshaw, English cricketer and pilot (born 1924)

Ernest Brian Trubshaw, CBE, MVO was a leading test pilot, and the first British pilot to fly Concorde, in April 1969.

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25/03/2000

Helen Martin, American actress (born 1909)

Helen Dorothy Martin was an American actress of stage and television. Martin's career spanned over 60 years, appearing first on stage and later in film and television. Martin is best known for her roles as Wanda Williams on the CBS sitcom Good Times (1974–1979) and as Pearl Shay on the NBC sitcom 227 (1985–1990).

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25/03/1999

Cal Ripken, Sr., American baseball player, coach, and manager (born 1936)

Calvin Edwin Ripken was an American baseball player, scout, coach and manager who spent 36 years in the Baltimore Orioles organization. He played in the Orioles' farm system beginning in 1957, and later served as coach and manager of the parent club, on which his sons Cal Jr. and Billy played.

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25/03/1998

Max Green, Australian lawyer (born 1952)

Max Paul Green was an English-born lawyer and alleged conman who practised in Australia. During the 1990s, he became the central figure in a major tax-minimisation scheme that was later found to involve large-scale fraud. In 1998, Green was murdered in Cambodia under circumstances that remain unresolved.

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Steven Schiff, American lawyer and politician (born 1947)

Steven Harvey Schiff was an American politician and lawyer. A member of the Republican Party, Schiff served as a U.S. Representative from New Mexico's 1st congressional district from 1989 until his death in 1998.

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25/03/1995

James Samuel Coleman, American sociologist and academic (born 1926)

James Samuel Coleman was an American sociologist, theorist, and empirical researcher, based chiefly at the University of Chicago.

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John Hugenholtz, Dutch engineer (born 1914)

Johannes Bernhardus Theodorus "Hans" Hugenholtz, known in English-speaking countries as John Hugenholtz, was a Dutch designer of race tracks and cars.

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25/03/1994

Angelines Fernández, Spanish-Mexican actress (born 1922)

María de los Ángeles Fernández Abad, known professionally as Angelines Fernández, was a Mexican actress. She is best remembered for playing Doña Clotilde "La Bruja del 71" in the sitcom El Chavo del Ocho. She was an anti-Franco refugee who remained in Mexico from 1947 until the end of her life.

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Bernard Kangro, Estonian poet and journalist (born 1910)

Bernard Kangro was an Estonian writer and poet.

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Max Petitpierre, Swiss jurist and politician (born 1899)

Max Petitpierre was a Swiss politician, jurist and member of the Swiss Federal Council, heading the Political Department (1945-1961).

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25/03/1992

Nancy Walker, American actress, singer, and director (born 1922)

Nancy Walker was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She was also an occasional film and television director. During her five-decade-long career, she had long-running roles as Mildred on McMillan & Wife and as Ida Morgenstern on several episodes of The Mary Tyler Moore Show and on the spinoff series Rhoda as a prominent recurring character.

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25/03/1991

Marcel Lefebvre, French-Swiss archbishop (born 1905)

Marcel François Marie Joseph Lefebvre was a French Catholic prelate who served as Archbishop of Dakar from 1955 to 1962. He was a major influence in modern traditionalist Catholicism, founding in 1970 the Society of Saint Pius X (SSPX) to train traditionalist seminarians. In 1988, Pope John Paul II declared that Lefebvre had been automatically excommunicated for consecrating four bishops that year without permission and despite the pope's express prohibition.

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25/03/1988

Robert Joffrey, American dancer, choreographer, and director, co-founded the Joffrey Ballet (born 1930)

Robert Joffrey was an American dancer, teacher, producer, choreographer, and co-founder of the Joffrey Ballet, known for his highly imaginative modern ballets. He was born Anver Bey Abdullah Jaffa Khan in Seattle, Washington to a Pashtun father from Afghanistan and a mother from Italy.

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25/03/1987

A. W. Mailvaganam, Sri Lankan physicist and academic (born 1906)

Vidya Jyothi Arumugam Wisvalingam Mailvaganam, OBE was a leading Ceylon Tamil physicist, academic and the dean of the Faculty of Science, University of Ceylon.

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25/03/1986

Gloria Blondell, American actress (born 1910)

Gloria Blondell was a stage, film, and television actress who was the younger sister of actress Joan Blondell.

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25/03/1983

Bob Waterfield, American football player and coach (born 1920)

Robert Stanton Waterfield was an American professional football player and coach in the National Football League (NFL). A skilled player, he played in the NFL for eight seasons, primarily as a quarterback, but also as a safety, kicker, punter and sometimes return specialist with the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams. He played college football for the UCLA Bruins. He was inducted into the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1965. His No. 7 jersey was retired by the Rams in 1952. He was also a motion picture actor and producer.

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25/03/1982

Goodman Ace, American comedian and writer (born 1899)

Goodman Ace, born Goodman Aiskowitz, was an American humorist, radio writer and comedian, television writer, and magazine columnist.

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25/03/1980

Milton H. Erickson, American psychiatrist and psychologist (born 1901)

Milton Hyland Erickson was an American psychiatrist and psychologist specializing in medical hypnosis and family therapy. He was the founding president of the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis. He is noted for his approach to the unconscious mind as creative and solution-generating. He is also noted for influencing brief therapy, strategic family therapy, family systems therapy, solution focused brief therapy, and neuro-linguistic programming.

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Walter Susskind, Czech-English conductor and educator (born 1913)

Jan Walter Susskind was a Czech-born British conductor, teacher and pianist. He began his career in his native Prague and travelled to London in March 1939 when Germany invaded Czechoslovakia. He worked for substantial periods in Australia, Canada and the United States, as a conductor and teacher.

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25/03/1979

Robert Madgwick, Australian colonel and academic (born 1905)

Sir Robert Bowden Madgwick was an Australian educationist. He was the first Vice-Chancellor of the University of New England and served two terms as Chairman of the Australian Broadcasting Commission. Madgwick was an influential proponent of adult learning and extension studies in tertiary education. At the University of New England, he directed the development of several degree programs, including rural science, agricultural economics, and educational administration which were the first of their kind in Australia. In recognition of his contributions to education, Madgwick was appointed to the Order of British Empire in 1962 and knighted in 1966.

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Akinoumi Setsuo, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 37th Yokozuna (born 1914)

Akinoumi Setsuo , born Nagata Setsuo , was a Japanese professional sumo wrestler from Hiroshima. He was the sport's 37th yokozuna.

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25/03/1976

Josef Albers, German-American painter and educator (born 1888)

Josef Albers was a German-born American artist and educator who is considered one of the most influential 20th-century art teachers in the United States. Born in 1888 in Bottrop, Westphalia, Germany, into a Roman Catholic family with a background in craftsmanship, Albers received practical training in diverse skills like engraving glass, plumbing, and wiring during his childhood. He later worked as a schoolteacher from 1908 to 1913 and received his first public commission in 1918 and moved to Munich in 1919.

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Benjamin Miessner, American radio engineer and inventor (born 1890)

Benjamin Franklin Miessner was an American radio engineer and inventor. He is most known for his electronic organ, electronic piano, and other musical instruments. He was the inventor of the Cat's whisker detector.

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25/03/1975

Juan Gaudino, Argentinian race car driver (born 1893)

Juan Antonio Gaudino was an Argentine racing driver.

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Faisal of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabian king (born 1906)

Faisal bin Abdulaziz Al Saud was King of Saudi Arabia from 1964 until his assassination in 1975. Before his ascension, he served as Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia from 1953 to 1964, and he was briefly regent to his half-brother King Saud in 1964. He was prime minister from 1954 to 1960 and from 1962 to 1975. Faisal was the third son of King Abdulaziz, the founder of modern Saudi Arabia.

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Deiva Zivarattinam, Indian lawyer and politician (born 1894)

Deiva Zivarattinam was an Indian politician. He represented Pondicherry in the French Constituent Assembly election in 1945.

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25/03/1973

Jakob Sildnik, Estonian photographer and director (born 1883)

Jakob Sildnik was an Estonian photographer and filmmaker, based in Tartu. Together with Fjodor Ljubovski, he directed one of the first Estonian films, the short drama Must Teemant, released in 1923.

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Edward Steichen, Luxembourgian-American photographer, painter, and curator (born 1879)

Edward Jean Steichen was a Luxembourgish American photographer, painter and curator and a pioneer of fashion photography. His gown images for the magazine Art et Décoration in 1911 were the first modern fashion photographs to be published. From 1923 to 1938, Steichen served as chief photographer for the Condé Nast magazines Vogue and Vanity Fair, designating him the “greatest living portrait photographer” even as he turned to painting. Steichen worked for many advertising agencies, including J. Walter Thompson. During these years, Steichen was regarded as the most popular and highest-paid photographer in the world.

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25/03/1969

Billy Cotton, English singer, drummer, and bandleader (born 1899)

William Edward Cotton was an English band leader and entertainer, one of the few whose orchestras survived the British dance band era. Cotton is now mainly remembered as a 1950s and 1960s radio and television personality, but his musical career had begun in the 1920s. In his younger years, Billy Cotton was also an amateur footballer for Brentford, an accomplished racing driver and the owner of a Gipsy Moth, which he piloted himself. His autobiography, I Did It My Way, was published in 1970, a year after his death.

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Max Eastman, American poet and activist (born 1883)

Max Forrester Eastman was an American writer on literature, philosophy, and society, a poet, and a prominent political activist. Moving to New York City for graduate school, Eastman became involved with radical circles in Greenwich Village. He supported socialism and became a leading patron of the Harlem Renaissance and an activist for a number of liberal and radical causes. For several years, he edited The Masses. With his sister Crystal Eastman, he co-founded in 1917 The Liberator, a radical magazine of politics and the arts.

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25/03/1965

Viola Liuzzo, American civil rights activist (born 1925)

Viola Fauver Liuzzo was an American civil rights activist. In March 1965 she drove from her home in Detroit, Michigan to Alabama to support the Selma to Montgomery march for voting rights. On March 25 she was shot dead by three Klan members while driving activists between the cities.

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25/03/1964

Charles Benjamin Howard, Canadian businessman and politician (born 1885)

Charles Benjamin Howard was a Liberal party member of the House of Commons of Canada. He was known for his eloquence in English and French.

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25/03/1958

Tom Brown, American trombonist (born 1888)

Tom P. Brown, sometimes known by the nickname Red Brown, was an American dixieland jazz trombonist. He also played string bass professionally.

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25/03/1956

Lou Moore, American race car driver (born 1904)

Lewis Henry Moore was an American racing driver and team owner. He was most known during his racing career for qualifying on the pole position for the 1932 Indianapolis 500. He was a five-time Indianapolis 500 winning owner, a record which stood until 1987.

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Robert Newton, English actor (born 1905)

Robert Guy Newton was an English actor. Along with Errol Flynn, Newton was one of the more popular actors among the male juvenile audience of the 1940s and early 1950s, especially with British boys. Known for his hard-living life, he was cited as a role model by the actor Oliver Reed and the Who's drummer Keith Moon.

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25/03/1951

Eddie Collins, American baseball player and manager (born 1887)

Edward Trowbridge Collins Sr., nicknamed "Cocky", was an American professional baseball player, manager and executive. He played as a second baseman in Major League Baseball from 1906 to 1930 for the Philadelphia Athletics and Chicago White Sox. A graduate of Columbia University, Collins holds major league career records in several categories and is among the top few players in several other categories. In 1925, Collins became just the sixth person to join the 3,000 hit club – and the last for the next 17 seasons. His 47 career home runs are the fewest of any player with 3,000 hits. Collins is the only non-Yankee to win five or more World Series titles with the same club as a player. He is also the only player to have been a member of all five World Series championships won by the Athletics during the franchise's time in Philadelphia.

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25/03/1942

William Carr, American rower (born 1876)

William John Carr was an American rower who competed in the 1900 Summer Olympics. He was part of the American boat Vesper Boat Club, which won the gold medal in the eights.

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25/03/1932

Harriet Backer, Norwegian painter (born 1845)

Harriet Backer was a Norwegian painter who achieved recognition in her own time and was a pioneer among female artists both in the Nordic countries and in Europe generally. She is best known for her detailed interior scenes, communicated with rich colors and the interplay of light and shadow.

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25/03/1931

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi, Indian journalist and politician (born 1890)

Ganesh Shankar Vidyarthi was an Indian journalist, a leader of the Indian National Congress and an independence movement activist. He was an important figure in the non-cooperation movement and the freedom movement of India, who once translated Victor Hugo's novel Ninety-Three, and is mostly known as the founder-editor of the Hindi language newspaper, Pratap.

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Ida B. Wells, American journalist and activist (born 1862)

Ida Bell Wells-Barnett was an American investigative journalist, sociologist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wells dedicated her career to combating prejudice and violence, and advocating for African-American equality—especially for women.

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25/03/1927

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, Palestinian Roman Catholic nun; later canonized (born 1843)

Marie-Alphonsine Danil Ghattas, OP was a Palestinian Catholic nun who founded the Dominican Sisters of the Most Holy Rosary of Jerusalem, the first Palestinian religious congregation. She was beatified by Archbishop Angelo Amato on behalf of Pope Benedict XVI in 2009. On 6 December 2014, Pope Francis recognized a miracle that had been attributed to her intercession, a requirement for her canonization. The date of her canonization was announced on 14 February 2015, and she was canonized on 17 May 2015.

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25/03/1918

Claude Debussy, French composer (born 1862)

Achille Claude Debussy was a French composer. He is sometimes seen as the first Impressionist composer, although he vigorously rejected the term. He was among the most influential composers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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Peter Martin, Australian footballer and soldier (born 1875)

Peter James Martin was an Australian rules footballer who played for Collingwood during the early years of the Victorian Football League (VFL), and North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFA).

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25/03/1917

Elizabeth Storrs Mead, American academic (born 1832)

Elizabeth Storrs Mead was an American educator who was the 9th President of Mount Holyoke College from 1890 - 1900. She taught at Andover Seminary and Oberlin College, before becoming the first non-alumna president of Mount Holyoke.

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25/03/1914

Frédéric Mistral, French lexicographer and poet, 1904 Nobel Prize laureate (born 1830)

Joseph Étienne Frédéric Mistral was an Occitan writer and lexicographer of the Provençal form of the language. He received the 1904 Nobel Prize in Literature "in recognition of the fresh originality and true inspiration of his poetic production, which faithfully reflects the natural scenery and native spirit of his people, and, in addition, his significant work as a Provençal philologist". Mistral was a founding member of the Félibrige and member of the Académie de Marseille.

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25/03/1908

Durham Stevens, American diplomat (born 1851)

Durham White Stevens was an American diplomat and later an employee of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, working for the Japanese colonial office in Korea, the Resident-General. He was fatally shot by Korean-American activists Jang In-hwan and Jeon Myeong-un in one of the first acts of nationalist rebellion by pro-Korean activists in the United States.

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25/03/1907

Ernst von Bergmann, Latvian-German surgeon and academic (born 1836)

Ernst Gustav Benjamin von Bergmann was a Baltic German surgeon. He was the first physician to introduce heat sterilisation of surgical instruments and is known as a pioneer of aseptic surgery.

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25/03/1873

Wilhelm Marstrand, Danish painter and illustrator (born 1810)

Nicolai Wilhelm Marstrand, painter and illustrator, was born in Copenhagen, Denmark, to Nicolai Jacob Marstrand, instrument maker and inventor, and Petra Othilia Smith. Marstrand is one of the most renowned artists belonging to the Golden Age of Danish Painting.

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25/03/1869

Edward Bates, American politician and lawyer (born 1793)

Edward Bates was an American lawyer, politician and judge. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential Bates family, he was the first US Cabinet appointee from a state west of the Mississippi River.

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25/03/1860

James Braid, Scottish surgeon (born 1795)

James Braid was a Scottish surgeon, natural philosopher, and "gentleman scientist". He was a significant innovator in the treatment of clubfoot, spinal curvature, knock-knees, bandy legs, and squint; a significant pioneer of hypnotism and hypnotherapy, and an important and influential pioneer in the adoption of both hypnotic anaesthesia and chemical anaesthesia.

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25/03/1857

William Colgate, English-American businessman and philanthropist, founded Colgate-Palmolive (born 1783)

William Colgate was an English-American industrialist who in 1806 founded what became the Colgate-Palmolive company.

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25/03/1848

Nicolai Wergeland, Norwegian priest, writer and politician (born 1780)

Nicolai Wergeland was a Norwegian minister, writer and politician, and a member of the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll Manor that wrote the Constitution of Norway on 17 May 1814. He was elected as one of two delegates from Kristiansand to the Eidsvoll Assembly in 1814. He represented the unionist side, and came very well prepared to Eidsvoll, bringing his own constitution draft. Along with him from Kristiansand came wholesaler Ole Clausen Mørch.

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25/03/1818

Caspar Wessel, Norwegian-Danish mathematician and cartographer (born 1745)

Caspar Wessel was a Danish–Norwegian mathematician and cartographer. In 1799, Wessel was the first person to describe the geometrical interpretation of complex numbers as points in the complex plane and vectors.

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25/03/1801

Novalis, German poet and author (born 1772)

Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg, better known by his pen name Novalis, was a German aristocrat and polymath, who was a poet, novelist, philosopher and mystic. He is regarded as an influential figure of Jena Romanticism.

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25/03/1738

Turlough O'Carolan, Irish harp player and composer (born 1670)

Turlough O'Carolan was a blind Celtic harper, composer and singer in Ireland whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition.

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25/03/1736

Nicholas Hawksmoor, English architect, designed Easton Neston and Christ Church (born 1661)

Nicholas Hawksmoor was an English architect. He was a leading figure of the English Baroque style of architecture in the late-seventeenth and early-eighteenth centuries. Hawksmoor worked alongside the principal architects of the time, Christopher Wren and John Vanbrugh, and contributed to the design of some of the most notable buildings of the period, including St Paul's Cathedral, Wren's City of London churches, Greenwich Hospital, Blenheim Palace and Castle Howard. Part of his work has been correctly attributed to him only relatively recently, and his influence has reached several poets and authors of the twentieth century.

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25/03/1732

Lucy Filippini, Italian teacher and saint (born 1672)

Lucy Filippini is venerated as a Catholic saint.

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25/03/1712

Nehemiah Grew, English anatomist and physiologist (born 1641)

Nehemiah Grew was an English plant anatomist and physiologist, known as the "Father of Plant Anatomy".

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25/03/1701

Jean Regnault de Segrais, French poet and novelist (born 1624)

Jean Regnault de Segrais was a French poet and novelist born in Caen. He was elected a member of the Académie française in 1662.

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25/03/1677

Wenceslaus Hollar, Czech-English painter and etcher (born 1607)

Wenceslaus Hollar was a Czech engraver, etcher and painter. He spent much of his life in England. He often created cityscapes and landscapes, including vedutas. He was born in Prague, died in London, and was buried at St Margaret's Church, Westminster.

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25/03/1658

Herman IV, Landgrave of Hesse-Rotenburg, German nobleman (born 1607)

Landgrave Hermann IV of Hesse-Rotenburg, was the first Landgrave of the semi-independent Landgraviate of Hesse-Rotenburg. He was the fourth son of the Landgrave Maurice of Hesse-Kassel and his second wife Juliane of Nassau-Siegen.

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25/03/1625

Giambattista Marino, Italian poet and author (born 1569)

Giambattista Marino was an Italian poet who was born in Naples. He is most famous for his epic L'Adone.

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25/03/1620

Johannes Nucius, German composer and theorist (born 1556)

Johannes Nucius was a German composer and music theorist of the late Renaissance and early Baroque eras. Although isolated from most of the major centers of musical activity, he was a polished composer in the style of Lassus and penned an extremely influential treatise on the rhetorical application of compositional devices.

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25/03/1609

Olaus Martini, Swedish archbishop (born 1557)

Olof Mårtensson, also known by the Latin form Olaus Martini, was Archbishop of Uppsala from 1601 to his death.

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Isabelle de Limeuil, French noble (born 1535)

Isabelle de la Tour, Lady of Limeuil was a French noblewoman and a Maid of Honour to the Queen Mother Catherine de' Medici. She also formed part of Catherine's notorious "flying squadron", a group of beautiful female spies she used for the purpose of forming sexual liaisons with various powerful men at the French court thereby extracting information which would then be passed on to her. In about 1562 at Catherine's instigation, she became the mistress of Louis, Prince of Condé, brother of King Antoine of Navarre and one of the leading Huguenots in France. Two years later when Isabelle created a scandal by giving birth to his son whilst the court was on a royal progress, she was banished to a convent.

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25/03/1603

Ikoma Chikamasa, Japanese daimyō (born 1526)

Ikoma Chikamasa was a Japanese daimyō during the Azuchi-Momoyama and Edo periods around the turn of the 17th century. His father was Ikoma Chikashige. Chikamasa was appointed one of the san-chūrō by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, along with Horio Yoshiharu and Nakamura Kazuuji.

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25/03/1558

Marcos de Niza, French friar and explorer (born 1495)

Marcos de Niza, OFM was a Franciscan friar and missionary from the city of Nice in the Duchy of Savoy. Marcos led the first Spanish expedition to explore what is now the American Southwest. His report of finding a "beautiful city", "more extensive than that of Mexico [City]", induced Viceroy Antonio de Mendoza to organize a large-scale entrada under the leadership of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado. Marcos served as a guide for this expedition but when they failed to find the wealth they expected, Coronado blamed Marcos, called him a liar and sent the friar back to Mexico in disgrace.

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25/03/1458

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquis of Santillana, Spanish poet and politician (born 1398)

Íñigo López de Mendoza, 1st Marquess of Santillana was a Castilian politician and poet who held an important position in society and literature during the reign of John II of Castile.

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25/03/1392

Hosokawa Yoriyuki, Japanese samurai

Hosokawa Yoriyuki was a samurai of the Hosokawa clan, and prominent government minister under the Ashikaga shogunate, serving as Kyoto Kanrei from 1367 to 1379. The first to hold this post, he solidified the power of the shogunate, as well as elements of its administrative organization. He was also Constable (Shugo) of the provinces of Sanuki, Tosa, and Settsu. His childhood name was Yakuro (弥九郎).

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25/03/1351

Kō no Moronao, Japanese samurai

Kō no Moronao was a Japanese samurai of the Nanboku-chō period who was the first to hold the position of Shitsuji. He was appointed by Ashikaga Takauji, the first shōgun of the Ashikaga shogunate. As Deputy, he served not only an administrative governmental function, but also as general of the Shogun's armies. He fought for the Ashikaga against the loyalist forces of the Southern Court during the wars of the Nanboku-chō period and killed its generals Kitabatake Akiie and Kusunoki Masayuki.

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Kō no Moroyasu, Japanese samurai

Kō no Moroyasu was one of the leading generals of Shōgun Ashikaga Takauji during the Nanboku-chō period, along with his brother Moronao and his cousin Morofuyu.

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25/03/1223

Alfonso II, king of Portugal (born 1185)

Afonso II, also called Afonso the Fat and Afonso the Leper, was King of Portugal from 1211 until 1223. Afonso was the third monarch of Portugal.

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25/03/1189

Frederick, duke of Bohemia

Frederick, a member of the Přemyslid dynasty, was Duke of Bohemia from 1172 to 1173 and again from 1178 to his death.

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25/03/1051

Hugh IV, French nobleman

Hugh IV was Count of Maine from 1036 to 1051.

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25/03/1005

Kenneth III, king of Scotland

Cináed mac Duib, anglicised as Kenneth III, and nicknamed An Donn, was King of Alba (Scotland) from 997 to 1005. He was the son of Dub. Many of the Scots sources refer to him as Giric son of Kenneth son of Dub, which is taken to be an error. An alternate explanation is that Kenneth had a son, Giric, who ruled jointly with his father.

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25/03/0990

Nicodemus of Mammola, Italian monk and saint

Saint Nicodemus of Mammola is venerated as a saint in Calabria. His exact place of birth is unknown but has been identified as Ypsicron. Nicodemus’ parents were named Theophanus and Pandia, and they entrusted their son's spiritual education to a priest named Galato (Galatone). Early on, Nicodemus was attracted to the monastic life, and wished to join the ascetics who had established themselves in the zone known as the Mercurion, on the cliffs of the Pollino in Calabria.

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25/03/0940

Taira no Masakado, Japanese samurai

Taira no Masakado was a Heian period provincial magnate (gōzoku) and samurai based in eastern Japan, notable for leading the first recorded uprising against the central government in Kyōto. Along with Sugawara no Michizane and Emperor Sutoku, he is often called one of the "Three Great Onryō of Japan".

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25/03/0908

Li Kening, Chinese general

Li Kening was a younger brother of the late Chinese Tang dynasty warlord Li Keyong, the Prince of Jin. After Li Keyong's death, Li Kening initially served as a key advisor to Li Keyong's son and successor Li Cunxu, but soon was persuaded by his wife Lady Meng to try to take over from Li Cunxu. His plot was discovered, and Li Cunxu put him to death.

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