March 1 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 317 – Valerius Valens, Roman Emperor
  • 986 – King Lothair of France (b. 941)
  • 1131 – King Stephen II of Hungary (b. 1101)
  • 1233 – Count Thomas I of Savoy (b. 1178)
  • 1244 – Gruffydd ap Llywelyn Fawr, son of Llywelyn the Great (b. 1200)
  • 1320 – Buyantu Khagan, Emperor of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty (b. 1286)
  • 1383 – Amadeus VI of Savoy (b. 1334)
  • 1510 – Francisco de Almeida, Portuguese soldier and explorer
  • 1536 – Bernardo Accolti, Italian poet (b. 1465)
  • 1546 – George Wishart, Scottish religious reformer (martyred) (b. 1513)
  • 1620 – Thomas Campion, English poet and composer (b. 1567)
  • 1633 – George Herbert, English poet and orator (b. 1593)
  • 1643 – Girolamo Frescobaldi, Italian composer (b. 1583)
  • 1661 – Richard Zouch, English jurist (b. 1590)
  • 1697 – Francesco Redi, Italian physician (b. 1626)
  • 1706 – Heino Heinrich Graf von Flemming, German field marshal and Governor of Berlin (b. 1632)
  • 1734 – Roger North, English biographer (b. 1653)
  • 1757 – Edward Moore, English writer (b. 1712)
  • 1768 – Hermann Samuel Reimarus, German philosopher and writer (b. 1694)
  • 1773 – Luigi Vanvitelli, Italian architect (b. 1700)
  • 1777 – Georg Christoph Wagenseil, Austrian composer (b. 1715)
  • 1792 – Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (b. 1747)
  • 1817 – Giacomo Quarenghi, Italian architect (b. 1744)
  • 1825 – John Haggin, "Indian fighter" and one of the earliest settlers of Kentucky (b. 1753)
  • 1841 – Claude Victor-Perrin, duc de Belluno, French marshal (b. 1764)
  • 1862 – Peter Barlow, English mathematician (b. 1776)
  • 1875 – Tristan Corbière, French poet (b. 1845)
  • 1879 – Joachim Heer, Swiss politician (b. 1825)
  • 1882 – Theodor Kullak, German pianist, composer, teacher (b. 1818)
  • 1884 – Isaac Todhunter, English mathematician (b. 1820)
  • 1895 – Pauline Musters, shortest woman ever (b. 1876)
  • 1898 – George Bruce Malleson, English officer in India, author (b. 1825)
  • 1906 – José María de Pereda, Spanish novelist (b. 1833)
  • 1911 – Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff, Dutch chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1852)
  • 1912 – George Grossmith, English actor and comic writer (b. 1847)
  • 1914 – Gilbert Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound, 4th Earl of Minto (b. 1845)
  • 1920 – John H. Bankhead, U.S. Senator (b. 1842)
  • 1920 – Joseph Trumpeldor, Russian Zionist (b. 1880)
  • 1922 – Rafael Moreno Aranzadi, Spanish footballer (b. 1892)
  • 1924 – Louis Perrée, French fencer (b. 1871)
  • 1929 – Royal H. Weller, American politician (b. 1881)
  • 1932 – Frank Teschemacher, American jazz clarinetist (b. 1906)
  • 1933 – Uładzimir Zylka, Belarusian poet (b. 1900)
  • 1936 – Mikhail Kuzmin, Russian writer (b. 1871)
  • 1938 – Gabriele D'Annunzio, Italian writer, war hero, and politician (b. 1863)
  • 1940 – Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Estonian author (b. 1878)
  • 1941 – Lucien Mérignac, French fencer (b. 1873)
  • 1942 – George S. Rentz, Navy chaplain (b. 1882)
  • 1943 – Alexandre Yersin, Swiss physician (b. 1863)
  • 1952 – Mariano Azuela, Mexican novelist (b. 1873)
  • 1963 – Jorge Daponte, Argentine racing driver (b. 1923)
  • 1963 – Irish Meusel, American baseball player (b. 1893)
  • 1965 – Joseph-Eugène Limoges, Canadian bishop (b. 1879)
  • 1966 – Fritz Houtermans, German physicist (b. 1903)
  • 1970 – Lucille Hegamin, American singer and entertainer (b. 1894)
  • 1974 – Bobby Timmons, American jazz pianist (The Jazz Messengers) (b. 1935)
  • 1976 – Jean Martinon, French conductor and composer (b. 1910)
  • 1979 – Mustafa Barzani, Kurdish politician (b. 1903)
  • 1980 – Wilhelmina, Dutch-American model (b. 1940)
  • 1980 – Dixie Dean, English footballer (b. 1907)
  • 1982 – Frank Sargeson, New Zealand writer (b. 1903)
  • 1983 – Arthur Koestler, Hungarian-British writer (b. 1905)
  • 1984 – Jackie Coogan, American actor (b. 1914)
  • 1984 – Roland Culver, British actor (b. 1900)
  • 1988 – Joe Besser, American comedian and actor (b. 1907)
  • 1989 – Vasantdada Patil, Indian politician (b. 1917)
  • 1991 – Edwin H. Land, American scientist and inventor (Polaroid Corporation) (b. 1909)
  • 1995 – Georges J.F. Kohler, German biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1946)
  • 1995 – Vladislav Listyev, Russian television journalist (b. 1956)
  • 2001 – Henry Wade, American lawyer (b. 1914)
  • 2002 – C. Farris Bryant, 34th Governor of Florida (b. 1914)
  • 2004 – Mian Ghulam Jilani, Pakistani general (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Peter Malkin, Israeli secret agent (b. 1927)
  • 2006 – Harry Browne, American politician and author (b. 1933)
  • 2006 – Johnny Jackson, American musician (The Jackson 5) (b. 1951)
  • 2006 – Peter Osgood, English footballer (b. 1947)
  • 2006 – Jack Wild, British actor (b. 1952)
  • 2008 – Raul Reyes, second-in-command of FARC guerrilla (b. 1948)
  • 2010 – Kristian Digby, British television presenter and director (b. 1977)
  • 2012 – Andrew Breitbart, American publisher and conservative political commentator (b. 1969)
  • 2012 – Lucio Dalla, Italian singer (b. 1943)

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