Died on Monday, 30th March – Famous Deaths

30/03/2024

Tim McGovern, American visual effects artist (born 1955)

Tim McGovern was an American visual effects artist. He won a Special Achievement Academy Award in the category Best Visual Effects for the film Total Recall.

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Chance Perdomo, British-American actor (born 1996)

Chance Perdomo was an American and British actor. He earned a British Academy Television Award nomination for his performance in the BBC Three film Killed by My Debt (2018). He gained further prominence through his roles as Ambrose Spellman in the Netflix series Chilling Adventures of Sabrina (2018–2020) and Andre Anderson in the first season of the Amazon Prime Video series Gen V (2023). He also appeared in the films After We Fell (2021), After Ever Happy (2022), and After Everything (2023). He died from injuries sustained in a motorcycle accident while travelling to begin filming for Gen V's second season.

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30/03/2023

Doug Mulray, Australian radio and television host (born 1951)

Douglas John Mulray was an Australian comedian, radio, and television presenter. Nicknamed Uncle Doug, he grew up in Dee Why on Sydney's Northern Beaches. Mulray was well-known for his bawdy humor and charismatic larrikinism, with his style of free quips, parodies, and "unbridled naughtiness".

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30/03/2021

G. Gordon Liddy, chief operative in the Watergate scandal (born 1930)

George Gordon Battle Liddy was an American lawyer and FBI agent who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary, and illegal wiretapping for his role in the Watergate scandal during the Nixon administration.

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Myra Frances, British actress (born 1942)

Myra Frances was a British actress known for her role in the drama series Survivors and in Doctor Who.

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30/03/2020

Manolis Glezos, Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and folk hero (born 1922)

Manolis Glezos was a Greek left-wing politician, journalist, author, and guerrilla fighter most famous for his role in the Greek Resistance during World War II. After the end of the war, Glezos became a journalist and edited the left-wing newspapers Rizospastis and I Avgi. As a politician, he was elected to the European Parliament twice and served as a Member of the Greek Parliament (MP) at various points from 1951 to 2014, representing three constituencies. He also published six books.

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Bill Withers, American singer-songwriter (born 1938)

William Harrison Withers Jr. was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter. Born in Slab Fork, West Virginia, and raised in Beckley, West Virginia, he is known for having several hits over a career spanning 18 years, including "Ain't No Sunshine" (1971), "Grandma's Hands" (1971), "Use Me" (1972), "Lean on Me" (1972), "Lovely Day" (1977) and "Just the Two of Us" (1980). Withers won three Grammy Awards out of nine total nominations.

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30/03/2018

Bill Maynard, English actor (born 1928)

Walter Frederick George Williams, better known by his stage name Bill Maynard, was an English comedian and actor. He began working in television in the 1950s, notably starring alongside Terry Scott in Great Scott – It's Maynard! (1955–56). In the 1970s and 1980s, he starred in the successful British sitcoms Oh No It's Selwyn Froggitt and The Gaffer and appeared in five films in the Carry On series. After a hiatus from television work in the late 1980s, Maynard starred as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass in the long-running television series Heartbeat from 1992 to 2000, reprising the character in the spin-off The Royal in 2003.

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30/03/2015

Helmut Dietl, German director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1944)

Helmut Dietl was a German film director and author from Bad Wiessee.

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Roger Slifer, American author, illustrator, screenwriter, and producer (born 1954)

Roger Allen Slifer was an American comic book writer, screenwriter, and television producer who co-created the character Lobo for DC Comics. Among the many comic-book series for which he wrote was DC's Omega Men for a run in the 1980s.

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Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld, Dutch astronomer and academic (born 1921)

Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld was a Dutch astronomer.

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30/03/2014

Kate O'Mara, English actress (born 1939)

Kate O'Mara was an English film, stage and television actress, and writer. O'Mara made her stage debut in a 1963 production of The Merchant of Venice. Her other stage roles included Elvira in Blithe Spirit (1974), Katherina in The Taming of the Shrew, Lady Macbeth in Macbeth (1982), Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra (1982), Goneril in King Lear (1987), and Marlene Dietrich in Lunch with Marlene (2008).

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Alice Raftary, American educator of blind adults (born 1927)

Alice Geisler Raftary was an American educator, based in Detroit, who specialized in education and rehabilitation for newly blind adults.

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30/03/2013

Daniel Hoffman, American poet and academic (born 1923)

Daniel Gerard Hoffman was an American poet, essayist, and academic. He was appointed the twenty-second Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress in 1973.

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Bobby Parks, American basketball player and coach (born 1962)

Bobby Ray Parks Sr. was an American professional basketball player from Grand Junction, Tennessee. He played for Memphis State University from 1980 to 1984 and played internationally in the Philippines, Indonesia and France. As one of the most celebrated "import" players in the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA), Parks became the second American ever inducted into the PBA Hall of Fame in 2009.

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Phil Ramone, South African-American songwriter and producer, co-founded A & R Recording (born 1934)

Philip Rabinowitz, better known as Phil Ramone, was a South African-born American recording engineer, record producer, violinist and composer, and co-founder of A & R recording studio. Its success led to expansion into several studios and a record production company. He was described by Billboard as "legendary", and the BBC as a "CD pioneer".

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Edith Schaeffer, Chinese-Swiss religious leader and author, co-founded L'Abri (born 1914)

Edith Rachel Merritt Schaeffer was a Christian author and co-founder of L'Abri, a Christian organization which hosts guests. She was the wife of Francis Schaeffer, and the mother of Frank Schaeffer and three other children.

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Bob Turley, American baseball player and coach (born 1930)

Robert Lee Turley, known as "Bullet Bob", was an American professional baseball player and financial planner. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a pitcher from 1951 through 1963. After his retirement from baseball, he worked for Primerica Financial Services.

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30/03/2012

Janet Anderson Perkin, Canadian baseball player and curler (born 1921)

Janet Margaret Anderson was a Canadian pitcher and outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League (AAGPBL) during the 1946 season. She batted and threw right handed. Anderson was one of the 68 players born in Canada to join the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League in its twelve years history.

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Aquila Berlas Kiani, Indian-Canadian sociologist and academic (born 1921)

Aquila Berlas Kiani, also known as Aquila Kiani was a Professor of Sociology and an educator in social work. Born in British India, she later worked in Pakistan, the UK and the US. She served as Chairman of the Department of Sociology at the University of Karachi.

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Francesco Mancini, Italian footballer and coach (born 1968)

Francesco Mancini was an Italian football player and coach. A goalkeeper, he spent most of his career with Foggia during the 1990s.

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Granville Semmes, American businessman, founded 1-800-Flowers (born 1928)

Granville Martin Semmes II was an American businessman, entrepreneur and gemcutter. Semmes was the founder of 1-800-Flowers, a floral retailer, gift and distribution company in the United States.

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Leonid Shebarshin, Russian KGB officer (born 1935)

Leonid Vladimirovich Shebarshin was an intelligence officer and spy for the Soviet Union. He served in the First Chief Directorate (FCD), the foreign intelligence arm of the KGB. In January 1989, he was promoted to the head of the FCD when his former boss, Vladimir Kryuchkov, was promoted to KGB chief. Prior to that Shebarshin had served as Kryuchkov's deputy from April 1987.

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30/03/2010

Jaime Escalante, Bolivian-American educator (born 1930)

Jaime Alfonso Escalante Gutiérrez was a Bolivian-American educator known for teaching students calculus from 1974 to 1991 at Garfield High School in East Los Angeles. Escalante was the subject of the 1988 film Stand and Deliver, in which he is portrayed by Edward James Olmos.

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Morris R. Jeppson, American lieutenant and physicist (born 1922)

Morris Richard Jeppson was a Second Lieutenant in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II. He served as assistant weaponeer on the Enola Gay, which dropped the first atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945.

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Martin Sandberger, German SS officer (born 1911)

Martin Sandberger was a German SS functionary during the Nazi era and a convicted Holocaust perpetrator. He was the commander of Sonderkommando 1a of Einsatzgruppe A, as well as of the Sicherheitspolizei and SD at the time of Nazi German occupation of Estonia during World War II. Sandberger perpetrated mass murder of the Jews in German-occupied Latvia and Estonia. As the Gestapo chief in Verona, he was also responsible for the arrest of Jews in Italy, and their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. Sandberger was the second-highest official of the Einsatzgruppe A to be tried and convicted. He was also the last-surviving defendant from the Nuremberg Military Tribunals.

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30/03/2008

Roland Fraïssé, French mathematical logician (born 1920)

Roland Fraïssé was a French mathematical logician.

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David Leslie, Scottish racing driver (born 1953)

David William Leslie was a British racing driver. He was most associated with the British Touring Car Championship, in which he was runner-up in 1999. He was particularly noted for his development skill, helping both Honda and Nissan become BTCC race winners. He was born in Dumfries, Scotland.

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Richard Lloyd, English racing driver (born 1945)

Richard Hugh Lloyd was a British racing car driver and founder of multiple sports car and touring car teams. He drove in multiple championships himself, including the British Saloon Car Championship and the World Endurance Championship.

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Dith Pran, Cambodian-American photographer and journalist (born 1942)

Dith Pran was a Cambodian-American photojournalist. He was a refugee and survivor of the Cambodian genocide and one of the subjects of the Academy Award–winning film The Killing Fields (1984), in which he was portrayed by Haing S. Ngor, a fellow survivor.

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30/03/2007

John Roberts, Canadian political scientist, academic, and politician, 46th Secretary of State for Canada (born 1933)

John Moody Roberts, was a Canadian politician. He was a Liberal Member of Parliament for 13 years interspersed between 1968 and 1984. He was a member of cabinet in the government of Pierre Trudeau.

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30/03/2006

Red Hickey, American football player and coach (born 1917)

Howard Wayne "Red" Hickey was an American professional football player and coach. He played in the National Football League (NFL) with the Pittsburgh Steelers in 1941 and the Cleveland / Los Angeles Rams from 1945 to 1948. Hickey served as head coach for the NFL's San Francisco 49ers from 1959 to 1963.

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John McGahern, Irish author and educator (born 1934)

John McGahern was an Irish writer and novelist.

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30/03/2005

Robert Creeley, American novelist, essayist, and poet (born 1926)

Robert White Creeley was an American poet and author of more than 60 books. He is associated with the Black Mountain poets, although his verse aesthetic diverged from that school. Creeley was close with Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, John Wieners and Ed Dorn.

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Milton Green, American hurdler and soldier (born 1913)

Milton G. Green was a Jewish American track and field athlete who was a world record holder in high hurdles during the 1930s.

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Fred Korematsu, American political activist (born 1919)

Fred Toyosaburo Korematsu was an American civil rights activist who resisted the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Shortly after the Imperial Japanese Navy launched its attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued Executive Order 9066, which authorized the removal of individuals of Japanese ancestry living on the West Coast from their homes and their mandatory imprisonment in incarceration camps. Korematsu challenged the order and became a fugitive.

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Chrysanthos Theodoridis, Greek singer and songwriter (born 1934)

Chrysanthos Theodoridis, or simply Chrysanthos was a Greek singer and songwriter. He was born in Oinoi, Kozani to a Pontic Greek family from Kars and he wrote several songs for the Pontic music. He became a symbol for the people from Pontus worldwide. He died of a heart attack in Greece and his body was placed to accept pilgrimage by hundreds of people. Apart from the songs of Pontus, he also sang artistic songs, while collaborating with Christodoulos Chalaris.

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O. V. Vijayan, Indian author and illustrator (born 1930)

Ottupulackal Velukkuty Vijayan, commonly known as O. V. Vijayan, was an Indian author and cartoonist, who was an important figure in modern Malayalam literature. Best known for his first novel Khasakkinte Itihasam (1969), Vijayan was the author of six novels, nine short-story collections, and nine collections of essays, memoirs and reflections.

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Mitch Hedberg, American stand-up comedian (born 1968)

Mitchell Lee Hedberg was an American stand-up comedian and filmmaker known for his surreal humor and deadpan delivery. His comedy typically featured short, sometimes one-line jokes mixed with absurd elements and non sequiturs.

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30/03/2004

Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist and author (born 1908)

Alistair Cooke, KBE was a British-American writer whose work as a journalist, television personality and radio broadcaster was done primarily in the United States. Outside his journalistic output, which included Letter from America and America: A Personal History of the United States, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS Masterpiece Theatre from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, Cooke retired in 1992, although he continued to present Letter from America until shortly before his death. He is the father of author and folk singer John Byrne Cooke.

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Michael King, New Zealand historian and author (born 1945)

Michael King was a New Zealand historian, author, and biographer. He wrote or edited over 30 books on New Zealand topics, including the best-selling Penguin History of New Zealand, which was the most popular New Zealand book of 2004.

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Timi Yuro, American singer and songwriter (born 1940)

Rosemary Victoria Yuro, known professionally as Timi Yuro, was an American singer. Sometimes called "the little girl with the big voice", she is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era. Yuro possessed a contralto vocal range. According to one critic, "her deep, strident, almost masculine voice, staggered delivery and the occasional sob created a compelling musical presence".

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30/03/2003

Michael Jeter, American actor (born 1952)

Michael Jeter was an American actor. Known for his career on stage and screen, Jeter played diverse characters. He won a Tony Award and a Primetime Emmy Award. He portrayed Herman Stiles on the sitcom Evening Shade from 1990 until 1994.

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Valentin Pavlov, Russian banker and politician, 11th Prime Minister of the Soviet Union (born 1937)

Valentin Sergeyevich Pavlov was a Soviet official who became a Russian banker following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Born in the city of Moscow, then part of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Pavlov began his political career in the Ministry of Finance in 1959. Later, during the Brezhnev Era, he became head of the Financial Department of the State Planning Committee. Pavlov was appointed to the post of Chairman of the State Committee on Prices during the Gorbachev Era, and later became Minister of Finance in Nikolai Ryzhkov's second government. He went on to succeed Ryzhkov as head of government in the newly established post of Prime Minister of the Soviet Union.

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30/03/2002

Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother of the United Kingdom (born 1900)

Elizabeth Angela Marguerite Bowes-Lyon was Queen of the United Kingdom and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from 11 December 1936 to 6 February 1952 as the wife of King George VI. She was also the last Empress of India from 1936 until the British Raj was dissolved on 15 August 1947. After her husband died, she was officially known as Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother to avoid confusion with her daughter Queen Elizabeth II.

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Anand Bakshi, Indian poet and lyricist (born 1930)

Anand Bakshi was an Indian poet and lyricist. He won Filmfare Award for Best Lyricist four times during his career. He wrote more than 6,000 film songs in more than 300 films.

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30/03/2000

Rudolf Kirchschläger, Austrian judge and politician, 8th President of Austria (born 1915)

Rudolf Kirchschläger was an Austrian diplomat, politician and judge. From 1974 to 1986, he served as the president of Austria.

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30/03/1996

Hugh Falkus, English pilot and author (born 1917)

Hugh Falkus was a British writer, filmmaker and presenter, World War II pilot and angler. In an extremely varied career, he is perhaps best known for his seminal books on angling, particularly salmon and sea trout fishing; however, he was also a noted filmmaker and broadcaster for the BBC.

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Ryoei Saito, Japanese businessman (born 1916)

Ryoei Saito was the honorary chairman of Daishowa Paper Manufacturing in Japan.

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30/03/1995

Rozelle Claxton, American pianist (born 1913)

Rozelle Claxton was an American jazz pianist and arranger.

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Tony Lock, English-Australian cricketer and coach (born 1929)

Graham Anthony Richard Lock was an English cricketer, who played primarily as a left-arm spinner. He played in 49 Test matches for England taking 174 wickets.

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Paul A. Rothchild, American record producer (born 1935)

Paul Allen Rothchild was a prominent American record producer of the 1960s and 1970s, widely known for his historic work with the Doors, producing Janis Joplin's final album Pearl and the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's first two albums.

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30/03/1993

S. M. Pandit, Indian painter (born 1916)

Sambanand Monappa Pandit was an Indian painter from Karnataka, popular in the school of Realism in contrast to the contemporaneous net-traditionalist Bengal Renaissance and other Indian modern art movements of his time. Most of his subjects oscillated between events from classical Indian literature including the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, the Puranas, and the contemporary cinema of his times. He infused a rare blend of artistic virtuosity and filmi glamour to his portrayal of romantic characters like Radha-Krishna, Nala-Damayanti, and Viswamitra-Menaka as also the many heroes and heroines of Hindi cinema. In addition to his critically acclaimed masterpieces he also illustrated many popular film posters, film magazines and various other publications in what can collectively be termed as calendar art. His works remain hugely popular even today. His mythological paintings and calendar art have been collected widely. He is also widely celebrated in the Indian calendar industry for his "realistic" depiction of themes from Hindu mythology. In these paintings he emphasised the physical forms of the heroes, heroines, gods and goddesses in marked contrast to traditional and classical styles of Indian painting. In his paintings, Pandit depicted his subjects as handsome, muscular, valorous men and sensuously beautiful, voluptuous women set in surroundings suggestive of cinema settings and sceneries.

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Richard Diebenkorn, American painter (born 1922)

Richard Diebenkorn was an American painter and printmaker. His early work is associated with abstract expressionism and the Bay Area Figurative Movement of the 1950s and 1960s. In the late 1960s, he began his extensive series of geometric, lyrical abstract paintings. Known as the Ocean Park paintings, these paintings were instrumental to his achievement of worldwide acclaim. Art critic Michael Kimmelman described Diebenkorn as "one of the premier American painters of the postwar era, whose deeply lyrical abstractions evoked the shimmering light and wide-open spaces of California, where he spent virtually his entire life."

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30/03/1992

Manolis Andronikos, Greek archaeologist and academic (born 1919)

Manolis Andronikos was a Greek archaeologist and a professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

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30/03/1991

Athanasios Ragazos, Greek long-distance runner (born 1913)

Athanasios Ragazos was a Greek long-distance runner.

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30/03/1990

Harry Bridges, Australian-born American activist and trade union leader (born 1901)

Harry Bridges was an Australian-born American union leader, first with the International Longshoremen's Association (ILA). In 1937, he led several Pacific Coast chapters of the ILA to form a new union, the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), expanding its ranks to include thousands of additional warehouse workers. He served as ILWU president for the next 40 years.

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30/03/1988

Edgar Faure, French historian and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1908)

Edgar Jean Faure was a French politician, lawyer, essayist, historian and memoirist who served as Prime Minister of France in 1952 and again between 1955 and 1956. Prior to his election to the National Assembly for Jura under the Fourth Republic in 1946, he was a member of the French Committee of National Liberation (CFLN) in Algiers (1943–1944). A Radical, Faure was married to writer Lucie Meyer. In 1978, he was elected to the Académie Française.

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30/03/1986

James Cagney, American actor and dancer (born 1899)

James Francis Cagney Jr. was an American actor and dancer. On stage and in film, he was known for his consistently energetic performances, distinctive vocal style, and deadpan comic timing. He won acclaim and major awards for a wide variety of performances.

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John Ciardi, American poet and etymologist (born 1916)

John Anthony Ciardi was an American poet, translator, and etymologist. While primarily known as a poet and translator of Dante's Divine Comedy, he also wrote several volumes of children's poetry, pursued etymology, contributed to the Saturday Review as a columnist and long-time poetry editor, directed the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference in Vermont, and recorded commentaries for National Public Radio.

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30/03/1985

Harold Peary, American actor and singer (born 1908)

Harold "Hal" Peary was an American actor, comedian and singer in radio, films, television, and animation. His most memorable role was as Throckmorton P. Gildersleeve, which began as a supporting character on radio's Fibber McGee and Molly in 1938 before being spun off to star in a successful radio series The Great Gildersleeve, several films and other media adaptations.

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30/03/1984

Karl Rahner, German-Austrian priest and theologian (born 1904)

Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th-century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner, also a Jesuit scholar.

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30/03/1981

DeWitt Wallace, American publisher, co-founded Reader's Digest (born 1889)

William Roy DeWitt Wallace, publishing as DeWitt Wallace, was an American magazine publisher.

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30/03/1979

Airey Neave, English colonel, lawyer, and politician, Shadow Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (born 1916)

Lieutenant Colonel Airey Middleton Sheffield Neave, was a British soldier, lawyer and Member of Parliament (MP) from 1953 until his assassination in 1979.

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Ray Ventura, French pianist and bandleader (born 1908)

Raymond Ventura was a French jazz pianist and bandleader. He helped popularize jazz in France in the 1930s. His nephew was singer Sacha Distel.

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30/03/1978

George Paine, English cricketer and coach (born 1908)

George Alfred Edward Paine was an English cricketer who played in four Test matches in 1934–35.

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Memduh Tağmaç, Turkish general (born 1904)

Memduh Tağmaç was a Turkish general. He was the 14th Chief of the General Staff of Turkey during the 1971 Turkish coup d'état, and previously Commander of the Turkish Army (1968-1969) and Commander of the First Army of Turkey (1966-1968).

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30/03/1977

Levko Revutsky, Ukrainian composer and educator (born 1889)

Levko Mykolaiovych Revutsky was a Soviet and Ukrainian composer, pedagogue, and public figure.

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30/03/1975

Peter Bamm, German journalist and author (born 1897)

Peter Bamm was a German writer.

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30/03/1973

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, Scottish pilot and politician (born 1903)

Air Commodore Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton and 11th Duke of Brandon, was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and aviator. He was the first man to fly over Mount Everest.

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Yves Giraud-Cabantous, French racing driver (born 1904)

Yves Aristide Marius Giraud-Cabantous was a racing driver from France. He drove in Formula One from 1950 to 1953, participating in 13 World Championship Grands Prix, plus numerous non-Championship Formula One and Formula Two races.

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30/03/1972

Mahir Çayan, Turkish politician (born 1946)

Mahir Çayan was a Turkish Marxist–Leninist revolutionary who co-founded and led the People's Liberation Party-Front of Turkey (THKP-C), one of the main armed left-wing organizations in Turkey in the early 1970s.

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Gabriel Heatter, American radio commentator (born 1890)

Gabriel Heatter was an American radio commentator whose World War II-era sign-on, "There's good news tonight," became both his catchphrase and his caricature.

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30/03/1970

Heinrich Brüning, German economist and politician, Chancellor of Germany (born 1885)

Heinrich Aloysius Maria Elisabeth Brüning was a German Centre Party politician and academic, who served as the chancellor of Germany during the Weimar Republic from 1930 to 1932. His use of deflation in an attempt to combat the effects of the Great Depression in Germany increased unemployment and poverty and earned him the nickname of "the hunger chancellor".

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30/03/1969

Lucien Bianchi, Belgian racing driver (born 1934)

Luciano "Lucien" Bianchi was an Italian-born Belgian racing driver who raced for the Cooper, ENB, UDT Laystall and Scuderia Centro Sud teams in Formula One. He entered a total of 19 Formula One World Championship races, scoring six points and had a best finish of third at the 1968 Monaco Grand Prix.

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30/03/1967

Frank Thorpe, Australian public servant (born 1885)

Frank Gordon Thorpe, was a senior Australian public servant. He was Public Service Commissioner between 1936 and 1947.

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Jean Toomer, American poet and novelist (born 1894)

Jean Toomer was an American poet and novelist commonly associated with modernism and the Harlem Renaissance, though he actively resisted the latter association. His reputation stems from his novel Cane (1923), which Toomer wrote during and after a stint as a school principal at a black school in rural Sparta, Georgia. The novel intertwines the stories of six women and includes an apparently autobiographical thread; sociologist Charles S. Johnson called it "the most astonishingly brilliant beginning of any Negro writer of his generation". He resisted being classified as a "Negro" writer and he identified as "American". For more than a decade Toomer was an influential follower and representative of the pioneering spiritual teacher G.I. Gurdjieff.

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30/03/1966

Newbold Morris, American lawyer and politician (born 1902)

Augustus Newbold Morris was an American politician, lawyer, president of the New York City Council, and two-time candidate for mayor of New York City.

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Maxfield Parrish, American painter and illustrator (born 1870)

Maxfield Parrish was an American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. His works featured distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. The National Museum of American Illustration deemed his painting Daybreak (1922) to be the most successful art print of the 20th century.

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Erwin Piscator, German director and producer (born 1893)

Erwin Friedrich Maximilian Piscator was a German theatre director and producer. Along with Bertolt Brecht, he was the foremost exponent of epic theatre, a form that emphasizes the socio-political content of drama, rather than its emotional manipulation of the audience or the production's formal beauty.

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30/03/1965

Philip Showalter Hench, American physician and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1896)

Philip Showalter Hench was an American physician. Hench, along with his Mayo Clinic co-worker Edward Calvin Kendall and Swiss chemist Tadeus Reichstein was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in 1950 for the discovery of the hormone cortisone, and its application for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. The Nobel Committee bestowed the award for the trio's "discoveries relating to the hormones of the adrenal cortex, their structure and biological effects."

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30/03/1964

Nella Larsen, American nurse and author (born 1891)

Nellallitea "Nella" Larsen was an American novelist. Working as a nurse and a librarian, she published two novels, Quicksand (1928) and Passing (1929), and a few short stories. Though her literary output was scant, she earned recognition by her contemporaries.

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30/03/1963

Aleksandr Gauk, Russian conductor and composer (born 1893)

Alexander Vassilievich Gauk was a Soviet conductor and composer.

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30/03/1961

Philibert Jacques Melotte, English astronomer (born 1880)

Philibert Jacques Melotte was a British astronomer.

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30/03/1960

Joseph Haas, German composer and educator (born 1879)

Joseph Haas was a German late romantic composer and music teacher.

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30/03/1959

Daniil Andreyev, Russian mystic and poet (born 1906)

Daniil Leonidovich Andreyev was a Russian writer, poet, and Christian mystic.

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John Auden, English solicitor, deputy coroner and a territorial soldier (born 1894)

John Lorimer Auden MC, was an English solicitor, deputy coroner for Staffordshire and a territorial soldier who served in the First World War. He was a collector of natural history.

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Riccardo Zanella, Italian politician (born 1875)

Riccardo Zanella was a Fiuman politician who was the only elected president of the short-lived Free State of Fiume.

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30/03/1956

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, English author and poet (born 1875)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley, who generally published under the names E. C. Bentley and E. Clerihew Bentley, was an English novelist and humorist and inventor of the clerihew, an irregular form of humorous verse on biographical topics.

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30/03/1955

Harl McDonald, American pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1899)

Harl McDonald was an American composer, conductor, pianist and teacher. McDonald was born in Boulder, Colorado, and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Redlands, and the Leipzig Conservatory. He was appointed a lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania in 1927 and enjoyed other appointments at the University including the Director of the Music Department and Director of the University's Choral Society and the University of Pennsylvania Glee Club. Among his students there was Ann Wyeth McCoy. In addition to his administrative duties with the University, McDonald composed numerous musical works and served on the board of directors of the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. He died in Princeton, New Jersey due to a stroke at the age of 55 while helping to direct the production of a motion picture film on orchestral music.

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30/03/1952

Nikos Beloyannis, Greek resistance leader and politician (born 1915)

Nikos Beloyannis was a Greek resistance leader and leading cadre of the Greek Communist Party.

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Jigme Wangchuck, Bhutanese king (born 1905)

Jigme Wangchuck was King of Bhutan from 26 August 1926 until his death in 1952. He pursued legal and infrastructural reform during his reign. Bhutan continued to maintain almost complete isolation from the outside world during this period; its only foreign relations were with the British Raj in India, under which Bhutan was a protected state. He was succeeded by his son, Jigme Dorji Wangchuck.

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30/03/1950

Léon Blum, French lawyer and politician, Prime Minister of France (born 1872)

André Léon Blum was a French socialist politician and three-time Prime Minister of France. As a Jew, he was heavily influenced by the Dreyfus affair of the late 19th century.

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30/03/1949

Friedrich Bergius, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)

Friedrich Karl Rudolf Bergius was a German chemist known for the Bergius process for producing synthetic fuel from coal, Nobel Prize in Chemistry in recognition of contributions to the invention and development of chemical high-pressure methods. Having worked with IG Farben during World War II, his citizenship came into question following the war, causing him to ultimately flee to Argentina, where he acted as adviser to the Ministry of Industry.

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Dattaram Hindlekar, Indian cricketer (born 1909)

Dattaram Dharmaji Hindlekar was a cricketer who kept wicket for India in Test cricket.

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30/03/1945

Béla Balogh, Hungarian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1885)

Béla Balogh was a Hungarian film director, one of the most prominent of the early 20th century. He was prominent in both silent and voiced productions and is most known for movies like Havi 200 fix, Ópiumkeringő, and Úrilány szobát keres.

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30/03/1943

Jan Bytnar, Polish lieutenant; WWII resistance fighter (born 1921)

Jan Roman Bytnar, nom de guerre "Rudy" (Ginger) was a Polish scoutmaster, a member of Polish scouting anti-Nazi resistance, and a lieutenant in the Home Army during the Second World War.

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Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski, Polish sergeant; WWII resistance fighter (born 1920)

Maciej Aleksy Dawidowski codenames: Alek, Glizda, Kopernicki, Koziorożec was a Polish scoutmaster (podharcmistrz), Polish Scouting resistance activist and Second Lieutenant of the Armia Krajowa during the Second World War. Dawidowski is a main character in the books Kamienie na Szaniec by Aleksander Kamiński, and Rudy, Alek, Zośka by Barbara Wachowicz.

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30/03/1940

Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet Scottish soldier and politician, Secretary of State for Scotland (born 1876)

Lieutenant-Colonel Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet was a Scottish Unionist politician. He notably served as Home Secretary from 1932 to 1935.

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30/03/1936

Conchita Supervía, Spanish soprano and actress (born 1895)

Conchita Supervía was a highly popular Spanish mezzo-soprano singer who appeared in opera in Europe and America and also gave recitals.

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30/03/1935

Romanos Melikian, Armenian composer (born 1883)

Romanos Hovakimi Melikian was an Armenian composer, conductor, and educator. He played a significant role in the developing Armenian classical music and established Armenian musical institutions such as Komitas State Conservatory of Yerevan, Yerevan Opera Theatre, and the Armenian Music Society.

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30/03/1925

Rudolf Steiner, Austrian philosopher and author (born 1861)

Rudolf Joseph Lorenz Steiner was an Austrian New Age guru, philosopher, occultist, social reformer, architect, esotericist, and claimed clairvoyant. Steiner gained initial recognition at the end of the nineteenth century as a literary critic and published works including The Philosophy of Freedom. At the beginning of the twentieth century he founded an esoteric spiritual movement, anthroposophy, with roots in German idealist philosophy and theosophy. His teachings are influenced by (Christian) Gnosticism or neognosticism. Many of his ideas are pseudoscientific. He was also prone to pseudohistory.

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30/03/1912

Karl May, German author (born 1842)

Karl Friedrich May was a German author known for writing often in first-person narrative about travels and adventures, mostly set in the American Old West or the Orient and Middle East, but also in Latin America, China and within Germany. For a time he insisted that he actually had travelled to the West and was called Old Shatterhand there, while in the Ottoman Empire he was called Kara Ben Nemsi, and posed in costumes.

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30/03/1907

Aurora von Qvanten, Swedish writer and artist (born 1816)

Aurora Magdalena von Qvanten was a Swedish writer, translator and artist who used the pseudonym Turdus Merula.

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30/03/1896

Charilaos Trikoupis, Greek politician, 55th Prime Minister of Greece (born 1832)

Charilaos Trikoupis was a Greek politician who served as a Prime Minister of Greece seven times from 1875 until 1895.

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30/03/1886

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, Canadian judge and politician, 6th Premier of Quebec (born 1838)

Joseph-Alfred Mousseau, was a Canadian lawyer and politician, who served in the federal Cabinet and also as the sixth premier of Quebec.

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30/03/1879

Thomas Couture, French painter and educator (born 1815)

Thomas Couture was a French history painter and teacher. He taught many notable contemporary figures of the art world, such as Édouard Manet, Henri Fantin-Latour, John La Farge, Pierre Puvis de Chavannes, John Ward Dunsmore, Karel Javůrek, William Morris Hunt, and Joseph-Noël Sylvestre.

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30/03/1874

Carl Julian (von) Graba, German lawyer and ornithologist who visited and studied the Faroe Islands (born 1799)

Carl Julian (von) Graba was a German lawyer and Royal Danish judicial councillor, and was also a keen ornithologist and one of the first modern researchers to visit and study the Faroe Islands, where he described the local puffin which was subsequently named Fratercula arctica grabae after him. Graba's findings were mentioned in 1872 by Charles Darwin in his book On the Origin of Species.

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30/03/1873

Bénédict Morel, Austrian-French psychiatrist and physician (born 1809)

Bénédict Augustin Morel was a French psychiatrist born in Vienna, Austria. He was an influential figure in the field of degeneration theory during the mid-19th century.

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30/03/1864

Louis Schindelmeisser, German clarinet player, composer, and conductor (born 1811)

Louis (Ludwig) Alexander Balthasar Schindelmeisser was a nineteenth-century German clarinetist, conductor and composer. He was born Königsberg, Prussia, and studied in Berlin and Leipzig. He was an early and enthusiastic partisan of Richard Wagner, arranging his first performances in Wiesbaden and Darmstadt of Tannhäuser, of which he conducted the premiere, Rienzi and Lohengrin.

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30/03/1842

Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, French painter (born 1755)

Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, also known as Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun or simply Madame Le Brun, was a French painter who mostly specialized in portrait painting, in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

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30/03/1840

Beau Brummell, English-French fashion designer (born 1778)

George Bryan "Beau" Brummell was an important figure in Regency England, and for many years he was the arbiter of British men's fashion. At one time, he was a close friend of the Prince Regent, the future King George IV, but after the two quarrelled and Brummell got into debt, he had to take refuge in France. Eventually, he died from complications of neurosyphilis in Caen.

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30/03/1830

Louis I, Grand Duke of Baden (born 1763)

Ludwig I succeeded as Grand Duke of Baden on 8 December 1818. He was the uncle of his predecessor Karl Ludwig Friedrich, and his death marked the end of the Zähringen line of the House of Baden. He was succeeded by his half brother, Leopold.

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30/03/1806

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire (born 1757)

Georgiana Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire, was an English aristocrat, socialite, political organiser, author, and activist. Born into the Spencer family and married into the Cavendish family, she was the first wife of William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire, and the mother of the 6th Duke of Devonshire.

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30/03/1804

Victor-François, 2nd duc de Broglie, French general and politician, French Secretary of State for War (born 1718)

Victor François de Broglie, 2nd Duke of Broglie was an officer of the French Army. He served with his father, François Marie de Broglie, 1st Duke of Broglie, at Parma and Guastalla, and in 1734 obtained a colonelcy.

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30/03/1783

William Hunter, Scottish anatomist and physician (born 1718)

William Hunter was a Scottish anatomist and physician. He was a leading teacher of anatomy, and the outstanding obstetrician of his day. His guidance and training of his equally famous brother, John Hunter, was also of great importance.

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30/03/1764

Pietro Locatelli, Italian violinist and composer (born 1695)

Pietro Antonio Locatelli was an Italian Baroque composer and violinist.

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30/03/1707

Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, French general and engineer (born 1633)

Sébastien Le Prestre, Marquis of Vauban was a French Royal Army officer who served under Louis XIV. One of the most important military engineers in European history, his defensive principles remained in use for nearly 100 years after his death, while aspects of his offensive tactics were employed into the 20th century.

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30/03/1689

Kazimierz Łyszczyński, Polish atheist and philosopher (born 1634)

Kazimierz Łyszczyński, also known in English as Casimir Liszinski, was a Polish nobleman, philosopher, and soldier in the ranks of the Sapieha family, who was accused, tried, and executed for atheism in 1689.

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30/03/1662

François le Métel de Boisrobert, French poet and playwright (born 1592)

François le Métel de Boisrobert was a French poet, playwright, and courtier.

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30/03/1587

Ralph Sadler, English politician, Secretary of State for England (born 1507)

Sir Ralph Sadler or Sadleir PC, Knight banneret was an English statesman, who served Henry VIII as Privy Councillor, Secretary of State and ambassador to Scotland. Sadler went on to serve Edward VI. Having signed the device settling the crown on Jane Grey in 1553, he was obliged to retire to his estates during the reign of Mary I. Sadler was restored to royal favour during the reign of Elizabeth I, serving as a Privy Councillor and once again participating in Anglo-Scottish diplomacy. He was appointed Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster in May 1568.

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30/03/1559

Adam Ries, German mathematician and academic (born 1492)

Adam Ries was a German mathematician. He is also known by the name Adam Riese. He is known as the "father of modern calculating" because of his decisive contribution to the recognition that Roman numerals are unpractical and to their replacement by the considerably more practical Arabic numerals.

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30/03/1540

Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg, German cardinal (born 1469)

Matthäus Lang von Wellenburg was a statesman of the Holy Roman Empire, a Cardinal and Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg from 1519 to 1540.

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30/03/1526

Konrad Mutian, German humanist (born 1471)

Konrad Mutian was a German Renaissance humanist.

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30/03/1486

Thomas Bourchier, English cardinal (born 1404)

Thomas Bourchier was a medieval English cardinal, Archbishop of Canterbury, and Lord Chancellor of England.

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30/03/1472

Amadeus IX, Duke of Savoy (born 1435)

Amadeus IX, nicknamed the Happy, was the Duke of Savoy from 1465 to 1472. Known for his piety, charity, and gentle nature, he is venerated by the Catholic Church with a liturgical feast on 30 March. He was beatified by Pope Innocent XI in 1677.

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30/03/1465

Isabella of Clermont, queen consort of Naples (born c. 1424)

Isabella of Clermont, also known as Isabella of Taranto, was Queen of Naples as the first wife of King Ferdinand I of Naples, and a feudatory of the kingdom as the holder and ruling Princess of the Principality of Taranto in 1463–1465.

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30/03/1202

Joachim of Fiore, Italian mystic and theologian (born 1135)

Joachim of Fiore, also known as Joachim of Flora, was an Italian Christian theologian, a Catholic abbot, and the founder of the monastic order of San Giovanni in Fiore. According to theologian Bernard McGinn, "Joachim of Fiore is the most important apocalyptic thinker of the whole medieval period." The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri is one of the most famous works possibly inspired by his ideas. Later followers, inspired by his works in Christian eschatology and historicist theories, are called Joachimites.

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30/03/1180

Al-Mustadi, Caliph (born 1142)

Abu Muhammad Hasan ibn Yusuf al-Mustanjid usually known by his regnal title al-Mustadi was the Abbasid caliph in Baghdad from 1170 to 1180. He succeeded his father al-Mustanjid.

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30/03/0987

Arnulf II, Count of Flanders (born 960)

Arnulf II was Count of Flanders from 965 until his death.

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30/03/0943

Li Bian, emperor of Southern Tang (born 889)

Li Bian, courtesy name Zhenglun, known as Xu Gao between 937 and 939 and Xu Zhigao before 937, and possibly Li Pengnu during his childhood, also known by his temple name as the Emperor Liezu of Southern Tang, was the founder and first emperor of the Chinese Southern Tang dynasty. In traditional histories, he is also often referred to as the First Lord of Southern Tang (南唐先主). He was an adopted son and successor of the Yang Wu regent Xu Wen who usurped power from the Yang Wu emperor Yang Pu.

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30/03/0365

Ai of Jin, emperor of the Jin Dynasty (born 341)

Year 365 (CCCLXV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known in the West as the Year of the Consulship of Augustus and Valens. The denomination 365 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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30/03/0116

Quirinus of Neuss, Roman martyr and saint

Year 116 (CXVI) was a leap year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year of the Consulship of Lamia and Vetus. The denomination 116 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domini calendar era became the prevalent method in Europe for naming years.

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