Died on Tuesday, 3rd March – Famous Deaths

03/03/2023

Kenzaburō Ōe, Japanese novelist, 1994 Nobel Prize laureate in Literature (born 1935)

Kenzaburō Ōe was a Japanese writer and a major figure in contemporary Japanese literature. His novels, short stories and essays, strongly influenced by French and American literature and literary theory, deal with political, social and philosophical issues, including nuclear weapons, nuclear power, social non-conformism, and existentialism. Ōe was awarded the 1994 Nobel Prize in Literature for creating "an imagined world, where life and myth condense to form a disconcerting picture of the human predicament today".

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Tom Sizemore, American actor (born 1961)

Thomas Edward Sizemore Jr. was an American actor. Born in Detroit, he started his career with supporting appearances in Born on the Fourth of July (1989), Lock Up (1989), and Blue Steel (1990). The appearances led to more prominent roles in films like Passenger 57 (1992), True Romance (1993), Striking Distance (1993), Natural Born Killers (1994), Strange Days (1995), Heat (1995), and The Relic (1997).

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03/03/2020

Charles J. Urstadt, American real estate executive and investor (born 1928)

Charles Jordan Urstadt was an American real estate executive and investor. He was an important figure for the development of Battery Park City in Manhattan and for the elimination of rent control in New York.

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03/03/2019

Peter Hurford OBE, British organist and composer (born 1930)

Peter John Hurford OBE was a British organist and composer.

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03/03/2018

Roger Bannister, English middle-distance athlete, first man to run a four-minute mile (born 1929)

Sir Roger Gilbert Bannister was an English neurologist and middle-distance athlete who ran the first sub-4-minute mile.

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Mal Bryce, Australian politician (born 1943)

Malcolm John Bryce was an Australian politician, who served as a Labor Party member of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly from 1971 to 1988, representing the electoral district of Ascot. He was the deputy leader of the Labor Party from 1977 to 1980 and from 1981 to 1988, and served as deputy premier under Brian Burke from 1983 to 1988.

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Vanessa Goodwin, Australian politician (born 1969)

Vanessa Goodwin was an Australian politician. She was the Liberal Party member for the seat of Pembroke in the Tasmanian Legislative Council from the Pembroke by-election on 1 August 2009 until her resignation due to brain cancer on 2 October 2017.

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David Ogden Stiers, American actor, voice actor and musician (born 1942)

David Allen Ogden Stiers was an American actor and conductor. He appeared in numerous productions on Broadway, and originated the role of Feldman in The Magic Show, in 1974.

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03/03/2017

René Préval, Haitian politician (born 1943)

René Garcia Préval was a Haitian politician and agronomist who twice was President of Haiti, from early 1996 to early 2001, and again from mid-2006 to mid-2011. He was also Prime Minister from early to late 1991 under the presidency of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

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03/03/2016

Hayabusa, Japanese wrestler (born 1968)

Eiji Ezaki , better known as Hayabusa , was a Japanese professional wrestler and promoter, stage actor, and musician. He was best known for his time with Frontier Martial-Arts Wrestling (FMW), where he primarily wrestled throughout his career and was the ace of the company between 1995 and 2001.

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Berta Cáceres, Honduran environmentalist (born 1973)

Bertha Isabel Cáceres Flores was a Honduran (Lenca) environmental activist, indigenous leader, co-founder and coordinator of the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH). She won the Goldman Environmental Prize, one of the most prestigious awards for environmental activism, in 2015 for "a grassroots campaign that successfully pressured the world's largest dam builder to pull out of the Agua Zarca Dam" at the Río Gualcarque.

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Martin Crowe, New Zealand cricketer and sportscaster (born 1962)

Martin David Crowe was a New Zealand cricketer, Test and ODI captain as well as a commentator. He played for the New Zealand national cricket team between 1982 and 1995, and is regarded as one of the country's greatest batsmen.

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Thanat Khoman, Thai politician and diplomat, Deputy Prime Minister of Thailand (born 1914)

Thanat Khoman was a Thai diplomat and politician. He was foreign minister from 1959 to 1971, leader of the Democrat Party from 1979 to 1982, and deputy prime minister from 1980 to 1983. He died at the age of 101 on 3 March 2016, a couple of months shy of his 102nd birthday.

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Sarah Tait, Australian Olympic rower (born 1983)

Sarah Anne Tait was an Australian rower - a national and world champion, three-time Olympian and Olympic-medal winner. She was the first mother to represent Australia in rowing at Olympic level, having returned to international competition following the birth of her daughter.

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03/03/2015

Ernest Braun, Austrian-English physicist and academic (born 1925)

Ernst Braun was a British-Austrian scholar in technology policy and technology assessment.

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M. Stanton Evans, American journalist and author (born 1934)

Medford Stanton Evans, better known as M. Stanton Evans, was an American writer, commentator and leader in the conservative movement. He was the author of eight books, including Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America's Enemies (2007).

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03/03/2014

Robert Ashley, American soldier and composer (born 1930)

Robert Reynolds Ashley was an American composer, who was best known for his television operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. His works often involve intertwining narratives and take a surreal multidisciplinary approach to sound, theatrics and writing, and have been continuously performed by various interpreters during and after his life, including Automatic Writing (1979) and Perfect Lives (1983).

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Sherwin B. Nuland, American surgeon, author, and educator (born 1930)

Sherwin Bernard Nuland was an American surgeon and writer who taught bioethics, history of medicine, and medicine at the Yale School of Medicine, and occasionally bioethics and history of medicine at Yale College. His 1994 book How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter was a New York Times Best Seller and won the National Book Award for Nonfiction, as well as being a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

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William R. Pogue, American colonel, pilot, and astronaut (born 1930)

William Reid Pogue was an American astronaut and pilot who served in the United States Air Force (USAF) as a fighter pilot and test pilot, and reached the rank of colonel. He was also a teacher, public speaker and author.

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03/03/2013

Luis Cubilla, Uruguayan footballer and manager (born 1940)

Luis Alberto Cubilla Almeida was a Uruguayan professional footballer and manager. He had a successful playing career winning 16 major titles. He then went on to become one of the most successful managers in South American football with 17 major titles.

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Bobby Rogers, American singer-songwriter (born 1940)

Robert Edward Rogers was an American musician and tenor singer, best known as a founding member of Motown vocal group the Miracles from 1956 until his death. He was inducted, in 2012, as a member of the Miracles to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In addition to singing, he also contributed to writing some of the Miracles' songs. Rogers is the grandfather of R&B singer Brandi Williams from the R&B girl group Blaque and is a cousin of fellow Miracles member Claudette Rogers Robinson.

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James Strong, Qantas CEO from 1993 to 2001 (born 1944)

James Alexander Strong was an Australian businessman and philanthropist.

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03/03/2012

Ralph McQuarrie, American conceptual designer and illustrator (born 1929)

Ralph Angus McQuarrie was an American concept artist who worked in film and television. His career included work on the original Star Wars trilogy, the original Battlestar Galactica television series, the film E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, and the film Cocoon, for which he won an Academy Award.

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Ronnie Montrose, American guitarist, songwriter, and producer (born 1947)

Ronald Douglas Montrose was an American musician and guitarist who founded and led the rock bands Montrose and Gamma. He also performed and did session work with a variety of musicians, including Van Morrison, Herbie Hancock, Beaver & Krause, Boz Scaggs, Edgar Winter, Gary Wright, The Beau Brummels, Dan Hartman, Tony Williams, The Neville Brothers, Marc Bonilla and Sammy Hagar.

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Alex Webster, American football player and coach (born 1931)

Alexander "Red" Webster was an American professional football player who was a fullback and halfback in the Big Four for the Montreal Alouettes and in the National Football League (NFL) for the New York Giants. He was also the head coach of the Giants from 1969 to 1973.

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03/03/2011

May Cutler, Canadian journalist, author, and politician (born 1923)

May Ebbitt Cutler was a Canadian writer, journalist, playwright, and publisher. She founded Tundra Books in her home in 1967, becoming Canada's first female publisher of children's books. She served a four-year term as the first female mayor of Westmount, Quebec from 1987 to 1991. As a writer of "literary works" she used the pseudonym Ebbitt Cutler.

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03/03/2010

Keith Alexander, English footballer and manager (born 1956)

Keith Alexander was a footballer and manager. Born in Nottingham, England, he was the manager of League Two side Macclesfield Town at the time of his death, in a career that included international appearances for Saint Lucia. Alexander played for a large number of lower league football teams. His main success, however, came from football management – managing in both non-league and the Football League. He took League One side Lincoln City to four consecutive play-offs, taking them to two finals at the Millennium Stadium.

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Michael Foot, English journalist and politician, Secretary of State for Employment (born 1913)

Michael Mackintosh Foot was a British politician who was Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition from 1980 to 1983. Foot began his career as a journalist on Tribune and the Evening Standard. He co-wrote the 1940 polemic against appeasement of Adolf Hitler, Guilty Men, under a pseudonym.

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03/03/2009

Gilbert Parent, Canadian educator and politician, 33rd Speaker of the House of Commons of Canada (born 1935)

Gilbert "Gib" Parent was a Canadian member of Parliament. He is best known in his role as speaker of the House of Commons between 1994 and 2001.

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03/03/2008

Giuseppe Di Stefano, Italian tenor and actor (born 1921)

Giuseppe Di Stefano was an Italian operatic tenor who sang professionally from the mid-1940s until the early 1990s. Called "Pippo" by both fans and friends, he was known as the "Golden Voice" or "The Most Beautiful Voice", as the true successor of Beniamino Gigli. Luciano Pavarotti said he modeled himself after Di Stefano. In an interview Pavarotti said "Di Stefano is my idol. There is a solar voice...It was the most incredible, open voice you could hear. The musicality of Di Stefano is as natural and beautiful as the voice is phenomenal". Di Stefano was also the tenor who most inspired José Carreras. He died on 3 March 2008 as a result of injuries from an attack by unknown assailants.

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Norman Smith, English drummer and producer (born 1923)

Norman Smith was an English musician, record producer and engineer. In the 1960s, he notably engineered all of the Beatles' EMI studio recordings up to the end of 1965 and produced three Pink Floyd albums including their first, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). He later had a successful recording career as Hurricane Smith, achieving a transatlantic hit single with "Oh Babe, What Would You Say" in 1972.

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03/03/2007

Osvaldo Cavandoli, Italian cartoonist (born 1920)

Osvaldo Cavandoli, also known by his pen name Cava, was an Italian cartoonist. His most famous work is his series of short animated cartoons, La Linea.

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03/03/2006

Ivor Cutler, Scottish poet and songwriter (born 1923)

Ivor Cutler was a Scottish poet, singer, musician, songwriter, artist and humorist. He became known for his regular performances on BBC radio, and in particular his numerous sessions recorded for John Peel's influential eponymous late-night radio programme, and later for Andy Kershaw's programme. He appeared in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour film in 1967, and on Neil Innes's television programmes. Cutler also wrote books for children and adults, and was a teacher at A. S. Neill's Summerhill School and for 30 years in inner-city schools in London.

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Else Fisher, Australian-Swedish dancer, choreographer, and director (born 1918)

Else Marie Fisher-Bergman was a Swedish choreographer, dancer, theatre director, and writer.

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William Herskovic, Hungarian-American humanitarian (born 1914)

William Herskovic was a Holocaust survivor and humanitarian. His escape from Auschwitz in 1942 and early eyewitness testimony inspired Belgium's opposition to Nazi Germany during World War II, and alerted the Resistance to the atrocities that were taking place in the concentration camps. Because of Herskovic's escape and testimony, hundreds of lives were saved.

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03/03/2005

Max Fisher, American businessman and philanthropist (born 1928)

Max Martin Fisher was an American businessman and philanthropist, and presidential advisor. Fisher founded Aurora Gasoline, an oil company that owned Speedway gas stations. After selling the company, he was chairman of United Brands, now Chiquita, and several other companies and invested in large-scale real estate projects.

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03/03/2003

Horst Buchholz, German actor (born 1933)

Horst Werner Buchholz was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his roles as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), and as Dr. Lessing in Life Is Beautiful (1997).

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Luis Marden, American linguist, photographer, and explorer (born 1913)

Luis Marden was an American photographer, explorer, writer, filmmaker, diver, navigator, and linguist who worked for National Geographic Magazine. He worked as a photographer and reporter before serving as chief of the National Geographic foreign editorial staff. He was a pioneer in the use of color photography, both on land and underwater, and also made many discoveries in the world of science.

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Goffredo Petrassi, Italian composer and conductor (born 1904)

Goffredo Petrassi was an Italian composer of modern classical music, conductor, and teacher. He is considered one of the most influential Italian composers of the twentieth century.

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03/03/2002

G. M. C. Balayogi, Indian lawyer and politician, 12th Speaker of the Lok Sabha (born 1951)

Ganti Mohana Chandra Balayogi was an Indian lawyer and politician.

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03/03/2001

Louis Edmonds, American actor (born 1923)

Louis Stirling Edmonds was an American actor. He was best known for his roles in Dark Shadows and All My Children.

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Maija Isola, Finnish textile designer (born 1927)

Maija Sofia Isola was a Finnish designer of printed textiles, and the creator of over 500 patterns, including Unikko ("Poppy"). The bold, colourful prints she created as the head designer of Marimekko made the Finnish company famous in the 1960s. She also had a successful career as a visual artist.Undisputedly the most famous textile designer... at Marimekko

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Eugene Sledge, American soldier, author, and academic (born 1923)

Eugene Bondurant Sledge was a United States Marine, university professor, and author. His 1981 memoir With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa chronicled his combat experiences during World War II and was used as source material for the Ken Burns PBS documentary The War (2007), as well as the HBO miniseries The Pacific (2010), in which he is portrayed by Joseph Mazzello.

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03/03/2000

Toni Ortelli, Italian composer and conductor (born 1904)

Antonio "Toni" Ortelli was an Italian alpinist, conductor and composer from the Veneto.

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03/03/1999

Gerhard Herzberg, German-Canadian chemist and astronomer, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1904)

Gerhard Heinrich Friedrich Otto Julius Herzberg, was a German-Canadian pioneering physicist and physical chemist, who won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 1971, "for his contributions to the knowledge of electronic structure and geometry of molecules, particularly free radicals". Herzberg's main work concerned atomic and molecular spectroscopy. He is well known for using these techniques that determine the structures of diatomic and polyatomic molecules, including free radicals which are difficult to investigate in any other way, and for the chemical analysis of astronomical objects. Herzberg served as Chancellor of Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada from 1973 to 1980.

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Lee Philips, American actor and director (born 1927)

Lee Philips was an American actor, film director, and television director.

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03/03/1998

Fred W. Friendly, American journalist and broadcaster (born 1915)

Fred W. Friendly was a president of CBS News and the creator, along with Edward R. Murrow, of the documentary television program See It Now. He originated the concept of public-access television cable TV channels.

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03/03/1996

Marguerite Duras, French author and director (born 1914)

Marguerite Germaine Marie Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras, was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her script for the film Hiroshima mon amour (1959) earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.

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John Krol, American cardinal (born 1910)

John Joseph Krol was an American prelate of the Catholic Church. He was Archbishop of Philadelphia from 1961 to 1988, having previously served as an auxiliary bishop of the Diocese of Cleveland (1953–1961), and was elevated to the cardinalate in 1967 by Pope Paul VI.

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03/03/1995

Howard W. Hunter, American religious leader, 14th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (born 1907)

Howard William Hunter was an American lawyer and the 14th president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints from 1994 to 1995. His nine-month presidential tenure is the shortest in the church's history. Hunter was the first president of the LDS Church born in the 20th century and the last to die in it. He was sustained as an LDS apostle at the age of 51, and served as a general authority for over 35 years.

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03/03/1994

John Edward Williams, American author and academic (born 1922)

John Edward Williams was an American author, editor and professor. He was best known for his novels Butcher's Crossing (1960), Stoner (1965), and Augustus (1972), which won a U.S. National Book Award.

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03/03/1993

Mel Bradford, American author and critic (born 1934)

Melvin Eustace Bradford was an American conservative author, political commentator and professor of literature at the University of Dallas.

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Carlos Marcello, Tunisian-American mob boss (born 1910)

Carlos Joseph Marcello was an Italian-American crime boss of the New Orleans crime family from 1947 to 1990.

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Carlos Montoya, Spanish guitarist and composer (born 1903)

Carlos García Montoya was a flamenco guitarist.

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Albert Sabin, Polish-American physician and virologist (born 1906)

Albert Bruce Sabin was a Polish-American medical researcher, best known for developing the oral polio vaccine, which has played a key role in nearly eradicating the disease. In 1969–1972, he served as the president of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel.

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03/03/1991

Arthur Murray, American dancer and educator (born 1895)

Arthur Murray was an American ballroom dancer and businessman, whose name is most often associated with the dance studio chain that bears his name.

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William Penney, Baron Penney, Gibraltar-born English mathematician, physicist, and academic (born 1909)

William George Penney, Baron Penney, was an English mathematician and professor of mathematical physics at the Imperial College London and later the rector of Imperial College London. He had a leading role in the development of High Explosive Research, Britain's clandestine nuclear programme that started in 1942 during the Second World War which produced the first British atomic bomb in 1952.

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03/03/1990

Charlotte Moore Sitterly, American astronomer (born 1898)

Charlotte Emma Moore Sitterly was an American astronomer. She is known for her extensive spectroscopic studies of the Sun and chemical elements. Her data tables are known for their reliability and are still used regularly.

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03/03/1988

Henryk Szeryng, Polish-Mexican violinist and composer (born 1918)

Henryk Bolesław Szeryng was a Polish-Mexican violinist.

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Sewall Wright, American biologist and geneticist (born 1889)

Sewall Green Wright ForMemRS HonFRSE was an American geneticist known for his influential work on evolutionary theory and also for his work on path analysis. He was a founder of population genetics alongside Ronald Fisher and J. B. S. Haldane, which was a major step in the development of the modern synthesis combining genetics with evolution. He discovered the inbreeding coefficient and methods of computing it in pedigree animals. He extended this work to populations, computing the amount of inbreeding between members of populations as a result of random genetic drift, and along with Fisher he pioneered methods for computing the distribution of gene frequencies among populations as a result of the interaction of natural selection, mutation, migration and genetic drift. Wright also made major contributions to mammalian and biochemical genetics.

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03/03/1987

Danny Kaye, American actor, singer, and dancer (born 1911)

Danny Kaye was an American actor, comedian, singer, and dancer. His performances featured physical comedy, idiosyncratic pantomimes, and rapid-fire novelty songs.

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03/03/1983

Hergé, Belgian author and illustrator (born 1907)

Georges Prosper Remi, known by the pen name Hergé, from the French pronunciation of his reversed initials RG, was a Belgian comic strip artist. He is best known for creating The Adventures of Tintin, the series of comic albums that are considered one of the most popular European comics of the 20th century. He was also responsible for two other well-known series, Quick & Flupke (1930–1940) and The Adventures of Jo, Zette and Jocko (1936–1957). His works were executed in his distinctive ligne claire drawing style.

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03/03/1982

Firaq Gorakhpuri, Indian poet and critic (born 1896)

Raghupati Sahay, also known by his pen name Firaq Gorakhpuri, was an Indian writer, critic, and, according to one commentator, one of the most noted contemporary Urdu poets from India. He established himself among peers including Muhammad Iqbal, Yagana Changezi, Jigar Moradabadi and Josh Malihabadi.

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Georges Perec, French author and screenwriter (born 1936)

Georges Perec was a French novelist, filmmaker, documentalist, and essayist. He was a member of the Oulipo group. His father died as a soldier early in the Second World War and his mother was killed in the Holocaust. Many of his works deal with absence, loss, and identity, often through word play.

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03/03/1981

Rebecca Lancefield, American microbiologist and researcher (born 1895)

Rebecca Craighill Lancefield was an American microbiologist. She joined the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York in 1918, and was associated with that institute throughout her career. Her bibliography comprises more than 50 publications published over 60 years.

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03/03/1966

Joseph Fields, American playwright, director, and producer (born 1895)

Joseph Albert Fields was an American playwright, theatre director, screenwriter, and film producer.

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William Frawley, American actor and vaudevillian (born 1887)

William Clement Frawley was an American vaudevillian and actor best known for playing landlord Fred Mertz in the sitcom I Love Lucy. Frawley also played "Bub" O'Casey during the first five seasons of the sitcom My Three Sons and the political advisor to the Hon. Henry X. Harper in the film Miracle on 34th Street.

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Alice Pearce, American actress (born 1917)

Alice Pearce was an American actress. She was brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949). Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several films before being cast as nosy neighbor Gladys Kravitz in the television sitcom Bewitched in 1964. She won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series posthumously after the second season of the series. She died from ovarian cancer in 1966.

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03/03/1961

Azizul Haq, Bengali Islamic scholar (born 1903)

Azizul Haque was an Islamic scholar and social reformer from present-day Bangladesh. He was the founder of Al-Jamiah al-Islamiyyah Patiya and served as its first chancellor.

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Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian-American pianist (born 1887)

Paul Wittgenstein was an Austrian-American concert pianist notable for commissioning new piano concerti for the left hand alone, after his right arm was amputated during World War I. He devised novel techniques, including pedal and hand-movement combinations, that allowed him to play chords previously thought impossible for a five-fingered pianist.

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03/03/1959

Lou Costello, American actor and comedian (born 1906)

Louis Francis Cristillo, better known as Lou Costello, was an American comedian, actor and producer. He was best known for his double act with Bud Abbott and their routine "Who's on First?".

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03/03/1949

Katherine Sleeper Walden, American environmental activist (born 1862)

Katherine Sleeper Walden was an American environmental conservationist and community activist in Wonalancet, New Hampshire. Before moving to New Hampshire in 1890, Katherine was an active community member and among the first female journalists in Massachusetts.

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03/03/1943

George Thompson, English cricketer and umpire (born 1877)

George Joseph Thompson was the mainstay of the Northamptonshire county cricket eleven for a long period encompassing both its days as a minor county and its earliest years in the County Championship.

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03/03/1932

Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-German pianist and composer (born 1864)

Eugen Francis Charles d'Albert was a Scottish-born pianist and composer who immigrated to Germany.

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03/03/1929

Katharine Wright, American educator (born 1874)

Katharine Wright Haskell was an American teacher, suffragist, and the younger sister of aviation pioneers Wilbur and Orville Wright. She pursued a professional career as a high school teacher in Dayton, Ohio and also managed her brothers' bicycle shop during their trips to Kitty Hawk. She acted as their right-hand woman and aide when the brothers demonstrated their airplanes in Europe, assisting with their correspondence, business affairs, and interactions with royals and captains of industry; she became an international celebrity along with them. A significant figure in the early-twentieth-century women's movement, she worked on behalf of woman's suffrage in Ohio and served as the third female trustee of Oberlin College.

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03/03/1927

Mikhail Artsybashev, Ukrainian author and playwright (born 1878)

Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev was a Russian writer and playwright, and a major proponent of the literary style known as naturalism. He was the great-grandson of Tadeusz Kościuszko and father of Boris Artzybasheff, who emigrated to the United States and became famous as an illustrator. Following the Russian Revolution, in 1923 Artsybashev emigrated to Poland, where he died in 1927.

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J. G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh race car driver and engineer (born 1884)

John Godfrey Parry Thomas was a Welsh engineer and motor-racing driver who at one time held the land speed record. He was the first driver to be killed in pursuit of the land speed record.

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03/03/1905

Antonio Annetto Caruana, Maltese archaeologist and author (born 1830)

Antonio Annetto Caruana, also known as A. A. Caruana, was a Maltese archaeologist and author.

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03/03/1901

George Gilman, American businessman, founded The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company (born 1826)

George Francis Gilman was an American businessman. A native of Waterville, Maine, he moved to New York City when he joined his father's leather tanning business. By age 30, he had his own leather business in New York. After his father died, Gilman decided to enter the more respectable tea and coffee business and started what would ultimately become The Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company, better known as A&P.

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03/03/1894

Ned Williamson, American baseball player (born 1857)

Edward Nagle Williamson was an American professional baseball infielder in Major League Baseball. He played for three teams: the Indianapolis Blues of the National League (NL) for one season, the Chicago White Stockings (NL) for 11 seasons, and the Chicago Pirates of the Players' League for one season.

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03/03/1850

Oliver Cowdery, American religious leader (born 1806)

Oliver H. P. Cowdery was an American religious leader who, with Joseph Smith, was an important participant in the formative period of the Latter Day Saint movement in the 1820s and 1830s.

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03/03/1792

Robert Adam, Scottish-English architect and politician, designed the Culzean Castle (born 1728)

Robert Adam was a British neoclassical architect, interior designer and furniture designer. He was the son of William Adam (1689–1748), Scotland's foremost architect of the time, and trained under him. With his older brother John, Robert took on the family business, which included lucrative work for the Board of Ordnance, after William's death.

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03/03/1789

Ghulam Kadir, leader of the Afghan Rohilla

Ghulam Kadir, fully Ghulam Abd al Qadir Ahmed Khan, was a leader of the Afghan Rohilla during the late 18th century in the time of the Mughal Empire. He is particularly known for blinding the Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II and occupying and plundering Delhi for two and a half months in 1788.

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03/03/1768

Nicola Porpora, Italian composer and educator (born 1686)

Nicola Antonio Giacinto Porpora was an Italian composer and teacher of singing of the Baroque era, whose most famous singing students were the castrati Farinelli and Caffarelli. Other students included composers Johann Adolph Hasse, Matteo Capranica and Joseph Haydn.

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03/03/1765

William Stukeley, English archaeologist and historian (born 1687)

William Stukeley was an English antiquarian, physician and Anglican clergyman. A significant influence on the later development of archaeology, he pioneered the scholarly investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury in Wiltshire. He published over twenty books on archaeology and other subjects during his lifetime. Born in Holbeach, Lincolnshire, as the son of a lawyer, Stukeley worked in his father's law business before attending Saint Benet's College, Cambridge. In 1709, he began studying medicine at St Thomas' Hospital, Southwark, before working as a general practitioner in Boston, Lincolnshire.

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03/03/1744

Jean Barbeyrac, French scholar and jurist (born 1674)

Jean Barbeyrac was a French jurist and translator. A French Huguenot, he translated influential works by Hugo Grotius, Samuel von Pufendorf, Richard Cumberland and others into French.

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03/03/1703

Robert Hooke, English architect and philosopher (born 1635)

Robert Hooke was an English polymath who was active as a physicist, astronomer, geologist, meteorologist, and architect. He is credited as one of the first scientists to investigate living things at microscopic scale in 1665, using a compound microscope that he designed. Hooke was an impoverished scientific inquirer in young adulthood who went on to become one of the most important scientists of his time. After the Great Fire of London in 1666, Hooke attained wealth and esteem by performing more than half of the property line surveys and assisting with the city's rapid reconstruction. Often vilified by writers in the centuries after his death, his reputation was restored at the end of the twentieth century and he has been called "England's Leonardo [da Vinci]".

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03/03/1700

Chhatrapati Rajaram, 3rd Chhatrapati of Maratha Empire (born 1670)

Rajaram I, also known as Ram Raaje, was the third king (Chhatrapati) of the Maratha Kingdom, who ruled from 1689 to his death in 1700. He was the second son of Shivaji, the founder of the kingdom, and younger paternal half-brother of Sambhaji, whom he succeeded. His eleven-year reign was marked with a constant struggle against the Mughals. He was succeeded by his infant son Shivaji II under the regentship of his Rajmata Maharani Tarabai.

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03/03/1616

Matthias de l'Obel, Flemish physician and botanist (born 1538)

Mathias de l'Obel, Mathias de Lobel or Matthaeus Lobelius was a Flemish physician and botanist who was born in Lille, Flanders, in what is now Hauts-de-France, France, and died at Highgate, London, England. He studied at the University of Montpellier and practiced medicine in the Low Countries and England, including positions as personal physicians to two monarchs. A member of the sixteenth-century Flemish School of Botany, he wrote a series of major treatises on plants in both Latin and Dutch. He was the first botanist to appreciate the distinction between monocotyledons and dicotyledons. The plant genus Lobelia is named after him, as is Lobel's maple Acer lobelii.

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03/03/1611

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus, Scottish nobleman (born 1552)

William Douglas, 10th Earl of Angus was a Scottish nobleman. He was the son of William Douglas, 9th Earl of Angus (1533–1591).

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03/03/1592

Michael Coxcie, Flemish painter (born 1499)

Michiel Coxie the Elder, Michiel Coxcie the Elder or Michiel van Coxcie, Latinised name Coxius, was a Flemish painter of altarpieces and portraits, a draughtsman and a designer of stained-glass windows, tapestries and prints. He worked for patrons in the principal cities of Flanders. He became the court painter to successively Emperor Charles V and King Philip II of Spain.

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03/03/1588

Henry XI, duke of Legnica (born 1539)

Henry XI of Legnica, was thrice Duke of Legnica: 1551–1556, 1559–1576 and 1580–1581.

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03/03/1578

Sebastiano Venier, doge of Venice (born 1496)

Sebastiano Venier was the 86th Doge of Venice from 11 June 1577 to 3 March 1578. He is best remembered in his role as the Venetian admiral at the Battle of Lepanto.

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Michael Kantakouzenos Şeytanoğlu, Ottoman Greek magnate

Michael Kantakouzenos or Cantacuzenus, nicknamed Şeytanoğlu, was an Ottoman Greek magnate, noted for his immense wealth and political influence. Until his fall from favour and execution in 1578, he dominated the affairs of the Greek Orthodox community (millet) of the Ottoman Empire, being responsible for the rise and fall of bishops and patriarchs.

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03/03/1554

John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (born 1503)

John Frederick I was the Prince-Elector and Arch-Marshal of the Holy Roman Empire (1532–1547) from the Ernestine branch of the Saxon ruling House of Wettin, who initially governed over the Ernestine Electorate of Saxony, centred on Saxe-Wittenberg, until he was deprived of his electoral titles and most domains by the Capitulation of Wittenberg (1547). He was left with the Saxon ducal title, and Ernestine possessions in Thuringia. Previously, he was leading the Schmalkaldic League, a military alliance of Lutheran principalities.

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03/03/1542

Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, illegitimate son of Edward IV

Arthur Plantagenet, 1st Viscount Lisle, KG was an illegitimate son of the English king Edward IV, half-brother-in-law of Henry VII, and an uncle of Henry VIII, at whose court he was a prominent figure and by whom he was appointed Lord Deputy of Calais (1533–40). The survival of a large collection of his correspondence in the Lisle Letters makes his life one of the best documented of his era.

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03/03/1459

Ausiàs March, Catalan knight and poet (born 1397)

Ausiàs March was a Valencian poet and knight from Gandia, Valencia. He is considered one of the most important poets of the "Golden Century" of Valencian literature.

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03/03/1383

Hugh III, Italian nobleman

Hugh III was the eldest son and successor of Marianus IV of Arborea and Timbor of Rocabertí. He succeeded in 1376 as Judge of Arborea and Count of Goceano. In most ways he continued and augmented the policies of his father. He has been praised as a legislator who led a saggio e moderato governo: "wise and moderate government."

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03/03/1323

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, English military leader

Andrew Harclay, 1st Earl of Carlisle, alternatively Andreas de Harcla, was an important English military leader in the borderlands with Scotland during the reign of Edward II. Coming from a knightly family in Westmorland, he was appointed sheriff of Cumberland in 1311. He distinguished himself in the Scottish Wars, and in 1315 repulsed a siege on Carlisle Castle by Robert the Bruce. Shortly after this, he was taken captive by the Scots, and only released after a substantial ransom had been paid. His greatest achievement came in 1322, when he defeated the rebellious baron Thomas of Lancaster at the Battle of Boroughbridge on 16–17 March. For this he was created Earl of Carlisle.

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03/03/1311

Antony Bek, bishop of Durham

Antony Bek was a bishop of Durham and the Patriarch of Jerusalem (1306–1311).

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03/03/1239

Vladimir IV Rurikovich, Grand Prince of Kiev (born 1187)

Vladimir IV Rurikovich was Prince of Pereyaslavl (1206–1213), Smolensk (1213–1219) and Grand Prince of Kiev (1223–1235). He was the second son of Rurik Rostislavich.

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03/03/1195

Hugh de Puiset, bishop of Durham (born c. 1125)

Hugh de Puiset was a medieval Bishop of Durham and Chief Justiciar of England under King Richard I. He was the nephew of King Stephen of England and Henry of Blois, who both assisted Hugh's ecclesiastical career. He held the office of treasurer of York for a number of years, which led him into conflict with Henry Murdac, Archbishop of York. In 1153, Hugh was elected bishop of Durham despite the opposition of Murdac.

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03/03/1009

Abd al-Rahman Sanchuelo, Umayyad chief minister (born 983)

Abd al-Rahman al-Mahdi, nicknamed Sanchol, was the ʿĀmirid hajib of the Caliphate of Córdoba under Caliph Hisham II from October 1008, at a time when actual power in the caliphate was vested in the hajib. The Caliph nominated him as heir a month later, but he was deposed by a coup the following February. He was killed some weeks later during a vain attempt to regain power. Though an unpopular and highly flawed leader, his deposition led to the disintegration of the caliphate.

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03/03/0532

Winwaloe, founder of Landévennec Abbey (born c. 460)

Winwaloe was the founder and first abbot of Landévennec Abbey, also known as the Monastery of Winwaloe. It was just south of Brest in Brittany, now part of France.

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