Died on Saturday, 28th March – Famous Deaths

28/03/2024

Larry Lloyd, English professional football player and coach (born 1948)

Laurence Valentine Lloyd was an English professional football player and coach.

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Mark Spiro, American songwriter, record producer and recording artist (born 1957)

Mark Spiro was an American songwriter, record producer and recording artist.

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28/03/2023

Paul O'Grady, English comedian, actor and drag queen (born 1955)

Paul James O'Grady was an English drag queen, comedian, broadcaster, actor, and writer. He achieved notability in the London gay scene during the 1980s with his drag persona Lily Savage, through which he gained wider popularity in the 1990s. O'Grady subsequently dropped the character and in the 2000s became the presenter of various television and radio shows, including The Paul O'Grady Show.

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Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese composer, record producer, and actor (born 1952)

Ryuichi Sakamoto was a Japanese musician, composer, keyboardist, record producer, singer and actor. He pursued a diverse range of styles as a solo artist and as a member of the synth-based band Yellow Magic Orchestra (YMO). With his YMO bandmates Haruomi Hosono and Yukihiro Takahashi, Sakamoto influenced and pioneered a number of electronic music genres. As a film score composer, Sakamoto won an Academy Award (Oscar), BAFTA, Grammy and two Golden Globe Awards.

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28/03/2021

Didier Ratsiraka, Malagasy politician and naval officer (born 1936)

Didier Ignace Ratsiraka was a Malagasy politician and naval officer who was the third president of Madagascar from 1975 to 1993 and the fifth from 1997 to 2002. At the time of his death, he was the longest-serving president of Madagascar.

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Joseph Edward Duncan, American serial killer (born 1963)

Joseph Edward Duncan III was an American convicted serial killer and child molester who was on death row in federal prison following the 2005 kidnappings and murders of members of the Groene family of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. He was also serving 11 consecutive sentences of life without parole for the 1997 murder of Anthony Martinez of Beaumont, California. Additionally, Duncan confessed to — but had not been charged with — the 1996 murder of two girls, Sammiejo White and Carmen Cubias, in Seattle, Washington. At the time of the attack on the Groene family, Duncan was on the run from a child molestation charge in Minnesota.

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28/03/2016

James Noble, American actor (born 1922)

James Wilkes Noble was an American actor, best known for his portrayal of sweet-natured, dense, naive Governor Eugene X. Gatling on ABC's 1979–1986 sitcom Benson.

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28/03/2015

Chuck Brayton, American baseball player and coach (born 1925)

Frederick Charles Brayton, usually known as Chuck Brayton or Bobo Brayton, was an American college baseball head coach; he led the Washington State Cougars for 33 seasons, from 1962 to 1994. He is the winningest coach in school history, with a record of 1,162 wins, 523 losses and eight ties—the fourth-best total in NCAA history at the time he retired.

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Joseph Cassidy, Canadian-English priest and academic (born 1954)

Joseph Patrick Michael Cassidy FRSA was a Canadian-born priest in the Church of England, theologian and academic. He was formerly a Roman Catholic priest and Jesuit. He was Principal of St Chad's College at Durham University, England and a member of the university's theology department. He was also a non-residentiary canon of Durham Cathedral.

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Miroslav Ondříček, Czech cinematographer (born 1934)

Miroslav Ondříček was a Czech cinematographer. He worked on over 40 films, including Amadeus, Ragtime and If.....

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Gene Saks, American actor and director (born 1921)

Gene Saks was an American director and actor. An inductee of the American Theater Hall of Fame, his acting career began with a Broadway debut in 1949. As a director, he was nominated for seven Tony Awards, winning three for his direction of I Love My Wife, Brighton Beach Memoirs and Biloxi Blues. He also directed a number of films during his career. He was married to Bea Arthur from 1950 until 1978, and subsequently to Keren Saks from 1980 to his death in 2015.

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28/03/2014

Jeremiah Denton, American admiral and politician (born 1924)

Jeremiah Andrew Denton Jr. was an American politician and United States Navy two-star admiral who served as a U.S. senator representing Alabama from 1981 to 1987. He was the first Republican to be popularly elected to a Senate seat in Alabama.

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Lorenzo Semple, Jr., American screenwriter and producer (born 1923)

Lorenzo Elliott Semple III, known professionally as Lorenzo Semple Jr., was an American writer. He is best known for his work on the television series Batman, as well as political thriller films The Parallax View (1974) and Three Days of the Condor (1975).

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28/03/2013

George E. P. Box, English-American statistician and educator (born 1919)

George Edward Pelham Box was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". His quote "All models are wrong but some are useful" has been widely discussed.

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Richard Griffiths, English actor (born 1947)

Richard Thomas Griffiths was an English actor. He was known for his portrayals of Vernon Dursley in the Harry Potter films (2001–2011), Uncle Monty in Withnail and I (1987), and Henry Crabbe in Pie in the Sky (1994–1997). He received numerous accolades in his career and was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008.

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Hugh McCracken, American guitarist, harmonica player, and producer (born 1942)

Hugh Carmine McCracken was an American rock guitarist and session musician based in New York City, primarily known for his performance on guitar and also as a harmonica player. McCracken was additionally an arranger and record producer.

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Bob Teague, American college football star and television news-reporter (born 1929)

Robert Lewis Teague was an African-American college football star and television news reporter.

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Gus Triandos, American baseball player and scout (born 1930)

Gus Triandos was an American professional baseball player and scout. He played in Major League Baseball as a catcher and a first baseman, most prominently as a member of the Baltimore Orioles where he was a four-time All-Star player. He also played for the New York Yankees and the Detroit Tigers of the American League (AL) and the Philadelphia Phillies and Houston Astros of the National League (NL). In 1981, he was inducted into the Baltimore Orioles Hall of Fame. Triandos is notable for being the first catcher in MLB history to catch a no-hitter in both the American League and the National League, catching a no-hitter by Hoyt Wilhelm in 1958 while on the Orioles in the AL and Jim Bunning's perfect game while on the Phillies in the NL.

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28/03/2012

John Arden, English author and playwright (born 1930)

John Arden was an English playwright who at his death was lauded as "one of the most significant British playwrights of the late 1950s and early 60s".

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Ioannis Banias, Greek politician (born 1939)

Ioannis (Yannis) Banias was a Greek politician, and former member of the Hellenic Parliament for the Coalition of Radical Left (2007–2009).

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Harry Crews, American novelist (born 1935)

Harry Eugene Crews was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He often made use of violent, grotesque characters and set them in regions of the Deep South.

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Addie L. Wyatt, African American labor leader (born 1924)

Addie L. Wyatt was a leader in the United States Labor movement and a civil rights activist. Wyatt is known for being the first African-American woman elected international vice president of a major labor union, the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union. Wyatt began her career in the union in the early 1950s and advanced in leadership. In 1975, with the politician Barbara Jordan, she was the first African-American woman named by Time magazine as Person of the Year.

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28/03/2010

June Havoc, American actress, dancer, and director (born 1912)

June Havoc was a Canadian-born American actress, dancer, stage director and memoirist.

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28/03/2009

Maurice Jarre, French-American composer and conductor (born 1924)

Maurice-Alexis Jarre was a French composer and conductor, mainly of film scores. He was particularly known for his collaborations with film director David Lean, composing the scores to all of his films from 1962 to 1984. He received numerous accolades over the course of his career, including three Academy Awards, three BAFTA Awards, four Golden Globes, and a Grammy Award.

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Janet Jagan, 6th President of Guyana (born 1920)

Janet Rosenberg Jagan was an American-born Guyanese politician who served as the 6th President of Guyana from 1997 to 1999. She was the first female president of Guyana, and the first American-born woman to serve as a head of state. She previously served as the first female Prime Minister of Guyana from 17 March 1997 to 19 December 1997. The wife of Cheddi Jagan, whom she succeeded as president, she was awarded Guyana's highest national award, the Order of Excellence, in 1993, and the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Gold Medal for Women's Rights in 1998.

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28/03/2006

Pro Hart, Australian painter (born 1928)

Kevin Charles "Pro" Hart, MBE, was an Australian artist, born in Broken Hill, New South Wales, who was considered the father of the Australian Outback painting movement and his works are widely admired for capturing the true spirit of the outback. He grew up on his family's sheep farm in Menindee and was nicknamed "Professor" during his younger days, when he was known as an inventor.

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Charles Schepens, Belgian-American ophthalmologist and author (born 1912)

Charles Louis Schepens was a Belgian and American ophthalmologist, regarded by many in the profession as "the father of modern retinal surgery", and member of the French Resistance.

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Caspar Weinberger, American captain, lawyer, and politician, 15th United States Secretary of Defense (born 1917)

Caspar Willard Weinberger was an American politician and businessman who served in a variety of state and federal positions for three decades as a Republican, most notably as Secretary of Defense under President Ronald Reagan from 1981 to 1987. During the Iran–Contra investigation, he was indicted on charges of lying to Congress and obstructing government investigations but was pardoned by President George H. W. Bush before facing trial.

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28/03/2005

Moura Lympany, English-Monacan pianist (born 1916)

Dame Moura Lympany DBE was an English concert pianist.

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Robin Spry, Canadian director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1939)

Robin Spry was a Canadian film director, producer and writer. He was perhaps best known for his documentary films Action: The October Crisis of 1970 and Reaction: A Portrait of a Society in Crisis about Quebec's October Crisis. His 1969 film Prologue won the BAFTA Award for Best Documentary.

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28/03/2004

Peter Ustinov, English-Swiss actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1921)

Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov was a British actor and humanitarian. An internationally known raconteur, he was a fixture on television talk shows and lecture circuits for much of his career. Ustinov received numerous accolades including two Academy Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a Silver Bear, and a Grammy Award as well as was nominated for three BAFTA Awards, two Tony Awards, and two Laurence Olivier Awards. In 1992, Ustinov was awarded with the British Academy Britannia Award.

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28/03/2000

Anthony Powell, English soldier and author (born 1905)

Anthony Dymoke Powell was an English novelist best known for his 12-volume work A Dance to the Music of Time, published between 1951 and 1975. It is on the list of longest novels in English.

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28/03/1996

Shin Kanemaru, Japanese politician, Deputy Prime Minister of Japan (born 1914)

Shin Kanemaru was a Japanese politician who was a significant figure in the political arena of Japan from the 1970s to the early 1990s. He was also Director General of the Japan Defense Agency from 1977 to 1978.

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28/03/1994

Eugène Ionesco, Romanian-French playwright and critic (born 1909)

Eugène Ionesco was a Romanian-French playwright who wrote mostly in French, and was one of the foremost figures of the French avant-garde theatre in the 20th century. Ionesco instigated a revolution in ideas and techniques of drama, beginning with his "anti play", The Bald Soprano which contributed to the beginnings of what is known as the Theatre of the Absurd, which includes a number of plays that, following the ideas of the philosopher Albert Camus, explore concepts of absurdism and surrealism. He was made a member of the Académie française in 1970, and was awarded the 1970 Austrian State Prize for European Literature, and the 1973 Jerusalem Prize.

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28/03/1992

Nikolaos Platon, Greek archaeologist (born 1909)

Nikolaos Platon was a Greek archaeologist. He discovered the Minoan palace of Zakros on Crete. In 1936, after excavations near Staphylos village in Skopelos Greece, he also discovered a Minoan pit tomb which proved that it belonged to king Staphylus. This finding is considered one of the most important art specimens in the Mycenaean and Minoan period.

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28/03/1987

Maria von Trapp, Austrian-American singer (born 1905)

Maria Augusta von Trapp DHS, often styled as "Baroness", was the stepmother and matriarch of the Trapp Family. She wrote the memoir The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, which was published in 1949 and was the inspiration for the 1956 West German film The Trapp Family, which in turn inspired the 1959 Broadway musical The Sound of Music and its 1965 film version.

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28/03/1986

Virginia Gilmore. American actress (born 1919)

Virginia Gilmore was an American film, stage, and television actress.

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28/03/1985

Marc Chagall, Russian-French painter (born 1887)

Marc Chagall was a Russian and French artist of Jewish ancestry. An early modernist, he was associated with the École de Paris, as well as several major artistic styles and created works in a wide range of artistic formats, including painting, drawings, book illustrations, stained glass, stage sets, ceramics, tapestries and fine art prints.

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28/03/1982

William Giauque, Canadian chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1895)

William Francis Giauque was a Canadian-born American chemist and Nobel laureate. He was recognized in 1949, for his studies in the properties of matter, at temperatures close to absolute zero. He spent virtually all of his educational and professional career at the University of California, Berkeley.

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28/03/1980

Dick Haymes, Argentinian-American actor and singer (born 1918)

Richard Benjamin Haymes was an Argentine singer, songwriter and actor. He was one of the most popular male vocalists of the 1940s and early 1950s. He was the older brother of Bob Haymes, an actor, television host, and songwriter.

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28/03/1979

Emmett Kelly, American clown and actor (born 1898)

Emmett Leo Kelly was an American circus performer who created the clown character "Weary Willie", based on the hobos of the Great Depression in the 1930s.

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28/03/1977

Eric Shipton, English mountaineer and explorer (born 1907)

Eric Earle Shipton, CBE, was an English Himalayan mountaineer.

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28/03/1976

Richard Arlen, American actor (born 1899)

Richard Arlen was an American actor of film and television.

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28/03/1974

Arthur Crudup, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1905)

Arthur William "Big Boy" Crudup was an American Delta blues singer, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known, outside blues circles, for his songs "That's All Right" (1946), "My Baby Left Me" and "So Glad You're Mine", later recorded by Elvis Presley and other artists.

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Dorothy Fields, American songwriter (born 1905)

Dorothy Fields was an American librettist and lyricist. She wrote more than 400 songs for Broadway musicals and films. Her best-known pieces include "The Way You Look Tonight" (1936), "A Fine Romance" (1936), "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (1930), "Don't Blame Me" (1948), "Pick Yourself Up" (1936), "I'm in the Mood for Love" (1935), "You Couldn't Be Cuter" (1938) and "Big Spender" (1966). Throughout her career, she collaborated with various influential figures in the American musical theater, including Jerome Kern, Cy Coleman, Irving Berlin, Arthur Schwartz, and Jimmy McHugh. Along with Ann Ronell, Dana Suesse, Bernice Petkere, and Kay Swift, she was one of the first successful Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood female songwriters.

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Françoise Rosay, French actress (born 1891)

Françoise Rosay was a French opera singer, diseuse, and actress who enjoyed a film career of over sixty years and who became a legendary figure in French cinema. She went on to appear in over 100 movies in her career.

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28/03/1972

Donie Bush, American baseball player, manager, and team owner (born 1887)

Owen Joseph "Donie" Bush was an American professional baseball player, manager, team owner, and scout. He was active in professional baseball from 1905 until his death in 1972. He was 84 years old.

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28/03/1969

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American general and politician, 34th President of the United States (born 1890)

Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was the 34th president of the United States, serving from 1953 to 1961. Earlier, during World War II, he became a General of the Army, and was Supreme Commander of the Allied Expeditionary Force in Europe. Eisenhower planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns of the War: Operation Torch in the North Africa campaign in 1942–1943 and the invasion of Normandy in 1944.

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28/03/1965

Clemence Dane, English author and playwright (born 1888)

Winifred Ashton CBE, better known by the pseudonym Clemence Dane, was an English novelist and playwright.

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28/03/1963

Antonius Bouwens, Dutch target shooter (born 1876)

Antonius Hubertus Maria "Antoine" Bouwens was a Dutch sport shooter who competed in the early 20th century in pistol shooting. He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a bronze medal with the Dutch pistol team. He also competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics.

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28/03/1962

Hugo Wast, Argentinian author (born 1883)

Gustavo Adolfo Martínez Zuviría, best known under his pseudonym Hugo Wast, was a renowned Argentine novelist and script writer.

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28/03/1958

W. C. Handy, American trumpet player and composer (born 1873)

William Christopher Handy was an American composer and musician who referred to himself as the Father of the Blues. He was one of the most influential songwriters in the United States. One of many musicians who played the distinctively American blues music, Handy did not create the blues genre but was one of the first to publish music in the blues form, thereby taking the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to a new level of popularity.

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28/03/1957

Stylianos Lenas, Greek-Cypriot member of the National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters (EOKA) against the British rule (born 1931)

Stylianos Lenas was a member of EOKA, and one of the Cypriots who were wounded in battle against British soldiers.

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28/03/1953

Jim Thorpe, American football player and Olympic gold medalist (born 1887)

James Francis Thorpe was an American athlete who won Olympic gold medals and played professional football, baseball, and basketball. A citizen of the Sac and Fox Nation, he was the first Native American to win a gold medal for the United States in the Olympics. Considered one of the most versatile athletes of modern sports, Thorpe won two Olympic gold medals in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

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28/03/1947

Karol Świerczewski, Polish general (born 1897)

Karol Wacław Świerczewski was a Polish and Soviet Red Army general and statesman. He was a Bolshevik Party member and served in the Soviet Red Army during the Russian Civil War and participated in the wars against the Polish and Ukrainian Republics. He also participated alongside the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. At the start of World War II In 1939, he participated in the Soviet invasion of Poland. At the end of the war he was installed as one of leaders of the Soviet-sponsored Polish Provisional Government of National Unity. Soon later, Świerczewski died in a country-road ambush shot by the militants from OUN-UPA. He was an icon of communist propaganda for the following several decades.

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28/03/1944

Stephen Leacock, English-Canadian political scientist and author (born 1869)

Stephen Butler Leacock was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humourist. From 1915 to 1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humourist in the world.

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28/03/1943

Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1873)

Sergei Vasilyevich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, virtuoso pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music. Early influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, and other Russian composers gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom notable for its song-like melodicism, expressiveness, dense contrapuntal textures, and rich orchestral colours. The piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoff's compositional output and he used his skills as a performer to fully explore the expressive and technical possibilities of the instrument.

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28/03/1942

Miguel Hernández, Spanish poet and playwright (born 1910)

Miguel Hernández Gilabert was a 20th-century Spanish-language poet and playwright associated with the Generation of '27 and the Generation of '36 movements. Born and raised in a family of low resources, he was self-taught in what refers to literature, and struggled against an unfavourable environment to build up his intellectual education, such as a father who physically abused him for spending time with books instead of working, and who took him out of school as soon as he finished his primary education. At school, he became a friend of Ramón Sijé, a well-educated boy who lent and recommended books to Hernández, and whose death would inspire his most famous poem, Elegy.

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28/03/1941

Marcus Hurley, American basketball player and cyclist (born 1883)

Marcus Latimer Hurley was an American cyclist who competed in the early twentieth century. He specialized in sprint cycling and won 4 gold medals in Cycling at the 1904 Summer Olympics and a bronze medal in the 2 mile race.

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Virginia Woolf, English writer (born 1882)

Adeline Virginia Woolf was an English writer and one of the most influential 20th-century modernist authors. She helped to pioneer the use of stream of consciousness narration as a literary device.

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28/03/1934

Mahmoud Mokhtar, Egyptian sculptor and educator (born 1891)

Mahmoud Mukhtar was an Egyptian sculptor. He attended the College of Fine Arts in Cairo upon its opening in 1908 by Prince Yusuf Kamal, and was part of the original "Pioneers" of the Egyptian Art movement. Despite his early death, he greatly impacted the realization and formation of contemporary Egyptian art. His work is credited with signaling the beginning of the Egyptian modernist movement, and he is often referred to as the father of modern Egyptian sculpture.

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28/03/1929

Katharine Lee Bates, American poet and songwriter (born 1859)

Katharine Lee Bates was an American author and poet, chiefly remembered for her anthem "America the Beautiful", but also for her many books and articles on social reform, on which she was a noted speaker.

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Lomer Gouin, Canadian lawyer and politician, Premier of Quebec (born 1861)

Sir Jean Lomer Gouin was a Canadian politician. He served as 13th premier of Quebec, as a Cabinet minister in the federal government of Canada, and as the 15th lieutenant governor of Quebec.

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28/03/1923

Charles Hubbard, American archer (born 1849)

Charles Randolph Hubbard was an American archer who competed in the 1904 Summer Olympics. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and died in Hamilton, Ohio. Hubbard won the silver medal in the team competition. In the Double American round he finished 11th.

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28/03/1917

Albert Pinkham Ryder, American painter (born 1847)

Albert Pinkham Ryder was an American painter best known for his poetic and moody allegorical works and seascapes, as well as his eccentric personality. While his art shared an emphasis on subtle variations of color with tonalist works of the time, it was unique for accentuating form in a way that some art historians regard as a precursor to modernism.

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28/03/1916

James Strachan-Davidson, English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author (born 1843)

James Leigh Strachan-Davidson was an English classical scholar, academic administrator, translator, and author of books on Roman history. He was Master of Balliol College, Oxford, from 1907 until his death in 1916.

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28/03/1910

Édouard Colonne, French violinist and conductor (born 1838)

Édouard Juda Colonne was a French conductor and violinist, and a champion of the music of Berlioz and other eminent 19th-century composers.

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28/03/1903

Magdalene Thoresen, Danish writer (born 1819)

Anna Magdalene Thoresen, née Kragh was a Danish-Norwegian poet, novelist, short story writer and playwright. She is said to have inspired a number of other writers to model characters after her. Her stepdaughter, Suzannah Ibsen, was married to Henrik Ibsen. A selection of her letters has been published as Breve fra Magdalene Thoresen 1855-1901. After the death of her Norwegian husband, she moved back to Denmark.

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28/03/1900

Piet Joubert, South African soldier and politician (born c. 1831)

Petrus Jacobus Joubert, better known as Piet Joubert, was a South African politician who served as the commandant–general of the South African Republic from 1880 to 1900. He also served as Vice-President to Paul Kruger from May 1883 to October 1884 and from May 1896 until his death. He served in First Boer War, Second Boer War, and the Malaboch War.

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28/03/1893

Edmund Kirby Smith, American general (born 1824)

Edmund Kirby Smith was a Confederate States Army general, who oversaw the Trans-Mississippi Department from 1863 to 1865. Before the American Civil War, Smith served as an officer of the United States Army.

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28/03/1884

Georgios Zariphis, Greek banker and financier (born 1810)

Georgios Y. Zariphis, also known as Yorgo Zarifi, was a prominent Ottoman Greek banker and financier. He was also well known as a prominent benefactor of his time. Zariphis met Sultan Abdul Hamid II when the latter was a shahzade with a low expectation of ascending to the throne. The prince, having financial troubles, called on the expertise of Zariphis to manage his personal wealth. After Abdul Hamid II became sultan, he continued to utilize Zarifi's advisory services during the First Constitutional Era.

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28/03/1881

Modest Mussorgsky, Russian pianist and composer (born 1839)

Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as "The Five." He was an innovator of Russian music in the Romantic period and strove to achieve a uniquely Russian musical identity, often in deliberate defiance of the established conventions of Western music.

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28/03/1874

Peter Andreas Hansen, Danish-German astronomer and mathematician (born 1795)

Peter Andreas Hansen was a Danish-born German astronomer.

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28/03/1870

George Henry Thomas, American general (born 1816)

George Henry Thomas was an American general in the Union Army during the American Civil War and one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater. Thomas served in the Mexican–American War, and despite being a Virginian whose home state would join the Confederate States of America during the Civil War, he was a Southern Unionist who chose to remain in the U.S. Army.

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28/03/1868

James Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, English lieutenant and politician (born 1797)

Lieutenant-General James Thomas Brudenell, 7th Earl of Cardigan, was a British Army officer who commanded the Light Brigade during the Crimean War, leading its disastrous charge at the Battle of Balaclava. Throughout his life in politics and his long military career, Cardigan characterised the arrogant and extravagant aristocrat of the period. His progression through the British army was marked by many episodes of extraordinary incompetence, but also by generosity to the men under his command and genuine bravery. As a member of the aristocracy, he had actively and steadfastly opposed any political reform in Britain but, in the last year of his life, he relented and came to acknowledge that such reform would bring benefit to all classes of society.

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28/03/1822

Angelis Govios, leader of the Greek War of Independence (born 1780)

Angelis Govios or Govginas was a leader of the Greek War of Independence. He is known for the reorganization of the Struggle against the Ottomans in Euboea. A statue in his honour has been erected near the Euboean town of Psachna.

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28/03/1818

Antonio Capuzzi, Italian violinist and composer (born 1755)

Giuseppe Antonio Capuzzi was an Italian violinist and composer.

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28/03/1718

Thomas Micklethwaite, Lord Commissioner of the Treasury (born 1678)

Thomas Micklethwaite was a British MP who served as the Lord Commissioner of the Treasury from 1717 to 1718.

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28/03/1690

Emmanuel Tzanes, Greek Renaissance painter (born 1610)

Emmanuel Tzanes, also known as Bounialis, Emmanuel Tzane-Bounialis, Emmanuel Zane, or Emmanuel Tzane, was a Greek Renaissance iconographer, author, clergyman, and educator. He spent the latter half of his life in Venice, where he was parish priest of the church of San Giorgio dei Greci and a member of the Flanginian School run by the city's Greek Confraternity. Tzanes painted icons in the style of the Cretan school, influenced by contemporary trends in Venetian painting. His known extant works, over 130 in number, can be found in public foundations, private collections, churches and monasteries in Greece. The most popular of these is The Holy Towel, finished in 1659. Tzanes was a collaborator with Philotheos Skoufos, and brothers with the painter Konstantinos Tzanes and the poet Marinos Tzanes.

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28/03/1687

Constantijn Huygens, Dutch poet and composer (born 1596)

Sir Constantijn Huygens, Lord of Zuilichem, was a Dutch Golden Age poet and composer. He was also secretary to two Princes of Orange: Frederick Henry and William II, and the father of the scientist Christiaan Huygens.

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28/03/1584

Ivan the Terrible, Russian king (born 1530)

Ivan IV Vasilyevich, commonly known as Ivan the Terrible, was Grand Prince of Moscow and all Russia from 1533 to 1547, and the first Tsar and Grand Prince of all Russia from 1547 until his death in 1584. Ivan's reign was characterised by Russia's transformation from a medieval state to a fledgling empire, but at an immense cost to its people and long-term economy.

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28/03/1566

Sigismund von Herberstein, Austrian historian and diplomat (born 1486)

Siegmund (Sigismund) Freiherr von Herberstein was a Carniolan diplomat, writer, historian and member of the Holy Roman Empire Imperial Council. He was most noted for his extensive writing on the geography, history and customs of Russia, and contributed greatly to early Western European knowledge of that area.

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28/03/1563

Heinrich Glarean, Swiss poet and theorist (born 1488)

Heinrich Glarean also styled Henricus Glareanus was a Swiss music theorist, poet, humanist, philosopher and cartographer. He was born in Mollis and died in Freiburg im Breisgau.

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28/03/1346

Venturino of Bergamo, Dominican preacher (born 1304)

Venturino of Bergamo was an Italian Dominican preacher. His cause for beatification is only within preliminary stages.

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28/03/1285

Pope Martin IV

Pope Martin IV, was the head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 22 February 1281 until his death on 22 March 1285. He was the last French pope to hold his court in Rome before the papacy moved to Avignon.

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28/03/1241

Valdemar II of Denmark (born 1170)

Valdemar II Valdemarsen, later remembered as Valdemar the Victorious and Valdemar the Conqueror, was King of Denmark from 1202 until his death in 1241.

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28/03/1239

Emperor Go-Toba of Japan (born 1180)

Emperor Go-Toba was the 82nd emperor of Japan, according to the traditional order of succession. His reign spanned the years from 1183 through 1198.

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28/03/1134

Stephen Harding, founder of the Cistercian order

Stephen Harding was an English-born monk and abbot, who was one of the founders of the Cistercian Order. He is honoured as a saint in the Roman Catholic Church.

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28/03/1072

Ordulf, Duke of Saxony

Ordulf was the duke of Saxony from 1059, when he succeeded his father Bernard II, until his death. He was a member of the Billung family.

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28/03/0966

Flodoard, Frankish canon and chronicler

Flodoard of Reims was a Frankish chronicler and priest of the cathedral church of Reims in the West Frankish kingdom during the decades following the dissolution of the Carolingian Empire. His historical writings are major sources for the history of Western Europe, especially France, in the early and mid-tenth century.

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28/03/0592

Guntram, French king (born 532)

Saint Gontrand, also called Gontran, Gontram, Guntram, Gunthram, Gunthchramn, and Guntramnus, was the king of the Kingdom of Orléans from AD 561 to AD 592. He was the third-eldest and second-eldest-surviving son of Chlothar I and Ingunda. On his father's death in 561, he became king of a fourth of the Kingdom of the Franks, and made his capital at Orléans. The name "Gontrand" denotes "War Raven".

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28/03/0193

Pertinax, Roman emperor (born 126)

Publius Helvius Pertinax was Roman emperor for the first three months of 193, succeeding Commodus and becoming the first ruler of the turbulent Year of the Five Emperors.

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