March 16 - Deaths

Deaths

  • 37 – Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, Roman Emperor (b. 46 BC)
  • 455 – Valentinian III, Western Roman Emperor (b. 419)
  • 455 – Heraclius, Western Roman courtier
  • 1021 – Heribert of Cologne, Archbishop of Cologne and Chancellor of Emperor Otto III
  • 1037 – Robert I, Archbishop of Rouen
  • 1072 – Adalbert of Hamburg, German archbishop
  • 1322 – Humphrey de Bohun, 4th Earl of Hereford, English soldier (b. 1276)
  • 1410 – John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset (b. 1373)
  • 1457 – László Hunyadi, Hungarian statesman and warrior (b. 1433)
  • 1485 – Anne Neville, queen of Richard III of England (b. 1456)
  • 1559 – Anthony St. Leger, Lord Deputy of Ireland (b. 1496)
  • 1649 – Saint Jean de Brébeuf, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1593)
  • 1620 – St. John Sarkander, Moravian priest, died of injuries caused by torturing (b. 1576)
  • 1679 – John Leverett, Governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (b. 1616)
  • 1721 – James Craggs the Elder, English politician (b. 1657)
  • 1736 – Giovanni Battista Pergolesi, Italian composer (b. 1710)
  • 1737 – Benjamin Wadsworth, President of Harvard University (b. 1670)
  • 1738 – George Bähr, German architect (b. 1666)
  • 1747 – Christian Augustus of Anhalt-Zerbst, father of Catherine II of Russia (b. 1690)
  • 1838 – Nathaniel Bowditch, American mathematician (b. 1773)
  • 1888 – Hippolyte Carnot, French statesman (b. 1801)
  • 1890 – Zorka of Montenegro, Princess of Serbia (b. 1864)
  • 1892 – Samuel F. Miller, American politician (b. 1827)
  • 1898 – Aubrey Beardsley, British artist (b. 1872)
  • 1899 – Joseph Medill, mayor of Chicago (b. 1823)
  • 1903 – Roy Bean, American jurist
  • 1914 – Charles Albert Gobat, Swiss politician, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (b. 1843)
  • 1926 – Sergeant Stubby, decorated World War I dog
  • 1927 – Edward William Exshaw, British sailor (b. 1866)
  • 1930 – Miguel Primo de Rivera, Spanish dictator (b. 1870)
  • 1935 – John James Rickard Macleod, Scottish-born physician and physiologist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1876)
  • 1935 – Aron Nimzowitsch, Latvian-born chess player (b. 1886)
  • 1936 – Marguerite Durand, French journalist and feminist (b. 1864)
  • 1940 – Selma Lagerlöf, Swedish writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1858)
  • 1945 – Börries von Münchhausen, German poet (b. 1874)
  • 1945 – Simeon Price, American golfer (b. 1882)
  • 1955 – Nicolas de Staël, French-Russian painter (b. 1914)
  • 1957 – Constantin Brâncuşi, Romanian sculptor (b. 1876)
  • 1961 – Chen Geng, Chinese military leader (b. 1903)
  • 1968 – Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Italian composer (b. 1895)
  • 1968 – Gunnar Ekelöf, Swedish poet and writer (b. 1907)
  • 1970 – Tammi Terrell, American singer (b. 1946)
  • 1971 – Thomas E. Dewey, American presidential candidate (b. 1902)
  • 1975 – Richard W. DeKorte, American politician (b. 1936)
  • 1975 – T-Bone Walker, American musician (b. 1910)
  • 1977 – Kamal Jumblatt, leader of the Lebanese Druze (b. 1917)
  • 1979 – Jean-Guy Cardinal, Canadian politician (b. 1925)
  • 1979 – Lucien Démanet, French gymnast (b. 1874)
  • 1979 – Jean Monnet, French politician (b. 1888)
  • 1980 – Tamara de Lempicka, Polish-born painter (b. 1898)
  • 1983 – Arthur Godfrey, American actor and television host (b. 1903)
  • 1983 – Fred Rose, Canadian politician (b. 1907)
  • 1984 – John Hoagland, American photographer (b. 1947)
  • 1985 – Eddie Shore, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1902)
  • 1992 – Roger Lemelin, Canadian novelist and television writer (b. 1919)
  • 1992 – Yves Rocard, French physicist (b. 1903)
  • 1993 – Johnny Cymbal, American singer and producer (b. 1945)
  • 1996 – Charlie Barnett, American actor (b. 1954)
  • 1998 – Derek Harold Richard Barton, British chemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1918)
  • 1999 – Gratien Gélinas, Canadian playwright and director (b. 1909)
  • 2000 – Thomas Ferebee, Hiroshima bombardier (b. 1918)
  • 2000 – Michael Starr, Canadian politician (b. 1910)
  • 2001 – Norma MacMillan, Canadian actress (b. 1921)
  • 2001 – Bob Wollek, French race car driver (b. 1943)
  • 2003 – Rachel Corrie, American political activist (b. 1979)
  • 2003 – Ronald Ferguson, British mayor and polo manager, father of Sarah, Duchess of York (b. 1931)
  • 2004 – Vilém Tauský, Czech conductor and composer (b. 1910)
  • 2005 – Todd Bell, American football player (b. 1958)
  • 2005 – Ralph Erskine, British architect (b. 1914)
  • 2005 – Anthony George, American actor (b. 1921)
  • 2005 – Allan Hendrickse, South African politician (b. 1927)
  • 2005 – Dick Radatz, American baseball player (b. 1937)
  • 2006 – David Feintuch, American author (b. 1944)
  • 2006 – Minnie Pwerle, Australian Aboriginal artist
  • 2007 – Manjural Islam, Bangladeshi cricketer (b. 1984)
  • 2008 – Bill Brown, Australian cricketer (b. 1912)
  • 2008 – Ola Brunkert, Swedish session drummer for ABBA (b. 1946)
  • 2008 – Ivan Dixon, American actor and director (b. 1931)
  • 2008 – Gary Hart, American professional wrestling manager and wrestler (b. 1942)
  • 2008 – John Hewer, English actor (b. 1922)
  • 2008 – G. David Low, American astronaut (b. 1956)
  • 2008 – Daniel MacMaster, Canadian singer (Bonham) (b. 1968)
  • 2009 – Marvin Sutton, American criminal (b. 1946)
  • 2011 – Richard Wirthlin, American political strategist for Ronald Reagan (b. 1931)

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Famous quotes containing the word deaths:

    There is the guilt all soldiers feel for having broken the taboo against killing, a guilt as old as war itself. Add to this the soldier’s sense of shame for having fought in actions that resulted, indirectly or directly, in the deaths of civilians. Then pile on top of that an attitude of social opprobrium, an attitude that made the fighting man feel personally morally responsible for the war, and you get your proverbial walking time bomb.
    Philip Caputo (b. 1941)

    I sang of death but had I known
    The many deaths one must have died
    Before he came to meet his own!
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Death is too much for men to bear, whereas women, who are practiced in bearing the deaths of men before their own and who are also practiced in bearing life, take death almost in stride. They go to meet death—that is, they attempt suicide—twice as often as men, though men are more “successful” because they use surer weapons, like guns.
    Roger Rosenblatt (b. 1940)